NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16719, 2 May 1925, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

-7- — MR LARKIN OPTIMISTIC. LONDON, April 21.—Mr H. B. G. Larkin, chairman of the Australian Com. monwealth Shipping Board, has arrived. v He is quite optimistic that a reasonable offer will be forthcoming for tie Commonwealth ships. He anticipates remaining in England' for two months. LEAPT 10.CC0 FEET. ~ THE USE OFPARACHUTES. , WILLIAMSPORT (Penn.), April 12Lient. .1. T. Johnson, of the U.S. Army Air Service, jumped 10,OCO feefc hanging to his parachute, descending on an 1 apple tree safely. His machine .stalled over the Alleghan Mountains, and there was no heip for it. His machine was found four mfjles away a wreck. \ TOO MUCH ENGLISH NOW SPOKEN IN SCOTLAND! Regreat was expressed by Miss Anna Buchan, the novelist, in a lecture at Peebles, tlia*t the Scots vernacular was disappearing from use in Scotland. Now nearly everyone spoke English, she. remarked. It was a deplorable thing >that some persons regarded 1 the Scots longue as something to be ashamed l of. They called it common, and thought it vulgar, but if once they forgot the old Scots tongue they lost'the biggest and best of their chances in literature. DEMOCRATIC GOLF. ENGLISH AMATEUR TITLE. ’ PLAYERS HOLD UP GAME. LONDON, April 21. Exasperating tediousness by the first, couple, Hardman nn<l Sturrock, who spent five minutes studying putts at nearly every green, infuriated! the remaining 160 entrants in England’s first, amateur close championship at Hoylake, several of whom finished in the dusk. An Eton schoolmaster, Montmorency, i heat a Liverpool policeman, Silcock, 4 and/3. Tolley defeated Farrar, 6 and 4, and also Hassall 2 and 1. With Hayward, the Air Force champion, Noel Layton, and Bernard Darwin, Tolley entered the third round. Neither Wetnered nor Holderness is competing. John Ball, aged 62, eight tithes trainer of the amateur championship, Was successful in- the initial stages. Sherland, a tramway driver, boat Walker, who is expected! to assist England against America, but subsequently succumbed to an artisan, Sutton. RACING RUM SHIP A MASS OF .;-Y- ' FLAMES., CREW LEAP OVERBOARD. SAN FRANCISCO, April S.-Ablsm from stem to stprp, the fiftv-foot fishing Launch 16-W3247, out of San Pedro, Cal., was taken as a liquor smuggler by the. coastguard cutter Tolmora after an exciting chase .shoreward from a position off Pigeon Point, forty-five miles south of here, early to-day, but sank while she was being towed into port by the Government craft. The Tamora first sighted the launch .about midnight. , Heedless of the order to stop, the launch turned shoreward and the cutter followed. Soon the launch burst into flames and came to a stop, and her crew of two leaped overboard. They swam to the cutter and gave the names of Fred Sundt and Robert, Henderson. They warned the cutter not to approach closer to the blazing launch, as there were 500 gallons of gasolene on board. However. Captain Charles M. Lucas drew alongside and sent two towing parties on to the 'launch, one to remove liquor and the other to fight the fire. After about "ICO eases bad been removed tfie burning launch settled into the water, dousing the flames. Surnlt and Henderson were placed under arrest mi a Volstead Act charge. ■Sundt- said that' the launch was hut a few" days out of Sa'ti ‘Pedro, but he ,' f refused to divulge the oigin c f the bquor cargo. 4