NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16710, 21 April 1925, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

£575,000 IN GOLD BY AIR

LONDON, Feb. 28.—Three French air liners carrying £375,000 in gold flew from London to Paris yesterday. A fourth aeroplane, with a further consignment of gold, was -unable to leave owing to engine trouble. A number of passengers travelled in the air liners with the gold.

£2OOO-A-YEAR M.P.s.

£4CO INCREASE PROPOSED IN U.S,

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The Senate yesterday voted unanimously in favor of a Bill to increase the salaries of members of both Houses of Congress from £I6OO to £2OOO a year.

If the Bill is finally approved the nenv scale of pay will come into force on March 4..

Members of the Cabinet, the VicePresident, and the Speaker of the House, according to the Bill, are to receive £3OOO instead of £2400 a year.

“PITCH AND TOSS” INCOME,

£IOOO TAX

ASSESSMENT.

LONDON, Feb. 23, —A contention that the profits of any calling, no matter ho-w illegal it might be, are subject to assessment for the purposes of incometax was upheld yesterday at Leeds by the Income Tax Commissioners, who maintained an assessment of £IOOO a year upon a professional player of pitch and togs. The appellant had been described by the officials as a “tosser.” This description he admitted, bub lie denied his profits were as much as stated. *

DEATH AT THE WHEEL,

LADY’S TRAGIC FATE,

Lady Haward, wife of Sir Harry Haward, was seized with illness while motoring from her homo at Beaconsfield to Uxbridge. She turned the car, intending apparently, to return home, but the vehicle ran along the hank for 140 yards, crossed the road and stopped. Lady Haward was found dead at the wheel.

Medical evidence at the inquest was to the effect that death was probably caused by a clot of blood. A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded.

A MAN’S PLAY,

NOT A SINGLE ACTRESS IN NEW DRAMA.

FLORENCE, Feb. 23.—The first performance here of “Brutus,” the new historic tragedy of the Tuscan dramatist, Signor Federico Valerio Ratti, the author of “.Judas,” took place yesterday evening at the Pergola Theatre. 4 The work is entirely a man’s play. There are no female characters. The interest is purely political, yet Signor Ratti manages to hold the audience through five dramatic acts, from the murder of Caesar to the suicide of Brutus at Pliilippi.

Actuality is given to the subject by Its application to the Fascist theory that national discipline and grandeur, as represented by Julius Caesar, are preferable to the Utopian liberty of Brutus.

DEATH FROM HATPIN.

FATE OF MATRON AND LABOR OFFICIAL.

CAPETOWN, Feb. 10— Schoemanavillefi, a village about 20 miles from Pe toria, has been the scene of a double tragedy involving the death if Miss Shirley Wilson, /matron of the English Nursing Home at Delagoa Bay, and Mr R. N. Whiteside, the Delagoa Bay agent of the Rand Native Labor Association. Mrs Whiteside was on a visit to England, When a messenger went to a room ip an hotel late in the afternoon he found Mr Whiteside dead on a bed* and Miss Wilson on the floor with a severe wound under the heart, said to have been inflicted by a fruit-knife. She had other wounds and bruises. She was taken to Pretoria, where she died the same night.

A post-mortem examination revealed that Mr Whiteside died as a result of a wound in the heart, caused apparently by a hatpin. The woman would have recovered if . she had received medical assistance earlier.

COSSACK ADVENTURER.

SEMENOFF RETURNING TO RUSSIA.

SHANGHAI, April 4.—According to the Shanghai Times, Ataman (the title given to a headman* of Russian Cossacks) Gregory Semcnoff, the famous Cossack leader, has reached an agreement with the Soviet under which ho is to return to Russia. He is to take the Russian steamer Mengugai, with 150 white soldiers who have severed their connection with the “diehard” monarchists, to Vladivostock.

The paper interprets the movement as the disintegration of the Russian monarchist groups in the Far East, and adds that the Soviet is taking no’* chances, as it is holding Semcnoff’s family as hostages. The Mongugai sailed this morning.

The Siberian adventurer Semcnoff—son of a Mongolian noblewoman and a Muscovite father—acted in Siberia during the closing stages of the war as one of Admiral Koltchak’s principal lieutenants in the campaign against Bolshevism'and as a friend of (he .Allies. Ho turned hostile, howover, and for somo time harried the Allied lines of communication. On the conclusion of the war lie led an army against the Chita “Reds,” andl tried to conquer Mongolia for himself. His attempt failed, and ho escaped from Urga bv aeroplaho in October, IJ-0, taking refuge under the Japanese. After that he was concerned in various intrigues for the overthrow oi the Far Eastern Republic in Siberia. He was next heard of in New York, where he was arrested on a charge of having stolen in Siberia furs and other valuables the propcrt-v of American citiKons, worth 475,000 del. ((£95 0001. He was released on bail for 25,000 del. (£5000), but no decision was arrived at, as Semcnoff left for Japan.