THE WIDE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16768, 29 June 1925, Page 3

THE WIDE WORLD.

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

MBIT FOR £IO,OOO,

SYDNEY, June 13. —A writ lias been issued out of tlio Supremo. Court on behalf of tlio City Mutual Lifo Assurance Society. Ltd., against tlio Australian Mutual Provident Society, claiming £IO,OOO damages for alleged defamation.

JUDGE TO WORK IN MILL.

LONDON, June 11.—Judge Mossop, im reserving his decision in a- workmen’s compensation case, at tlio Halifax County Court, said that lie would himself work in a weaving mill in order to test the truth of the applicant's evidence.

COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.

LONDON. June 12.—Now Fellows of tin* Royal College of Surgeons are: —Dr. O. C, Coghlan, Dr. M. Geaney, Dr. J. A. James, and Dr. P. Susman (Sydney), and Dr, G. M, Barnet, I)r. H. K. Christie and Dr. W, M. Cotter (New Zealand).

AERIAL TRAINING

LONDON, June 15.—Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for Air. speaking at the Constitutional Club, said lie hoped! in the near future to have two- air squadrons in Oxford and Cambridge Universities, to train a number of undergraduates in the technical side of aviation.

ORONSAY CHARTERED

LONDON, Juno 12.—The Oronsay has been chartered by an American tourist agency. / The vessel will leave for New York to-morrow, where she will pick up a party of tourists, including many million,aries for a, Mediterranean cruise. The Oronsav will, resume- her run on the Australian route in September.

TIED TO COW’S TAIL.

MELBOURNE, June 17.—Reginald Grigg, 10. of Bendogo, tied himself to the tail of a cow yesterday, and the animal, becoming frightened, bolted/ The boy was dragged along the ground and through a creek. When released, the boy was found to have severe abrasions on the head. He is now in hospital.

BURNED T 0! DEATH

LITTLE GIRL’S FAT I

MUDGEE (N.S.W.), June 16. A little girl named) Annie Lawrence was burned to death, at Coolali. She was standing in front of an open fire when her dress caught alight. Hearing screams, her mother rushed to the room and threw a, rug around her, extinguishing the flames, but not before they had inflicted fatal injuries.

SCHOOL CURRICULUM

LONDON, Juno 15.—Mr E, Craddock, assistant'master of a school at Dagenham, Essex, has won the third prize of £l5O in connection with the Daily Mail’s competition for a curriculum best suited for the sound education of British children in public elementary schools.

Mr Craddock, who is a B.A. of Sydney University, taught it) numerous schools, in Now South Wales, and also in Blackfriars Training College, Sydney, 1

APPLICATONS CLOSED

FOR MANNING THE' DIOMEDE

LONDON, May 18.—Tho Admiralty announco that no further officers are required to volunteer for appointment to H.M.S. Diomede for service in the New Zealand Division of'the Royal Navy; sufficient applications from all branches have been received, and no more are to be forwarded. _ A separate invitation was issued for about 300 lower deck ratings. The Diomede, now in China, arrives in England about September 2 to fit out for service in New Zealand, recommissioning on October 1.

MISSING JEWELS,

VERDICT FOR £45,000.

LONDON, Juno .11.—A ten days’ lawsuit was concluded to-day, which was the outcome of the loss of jewels worth £45,000 at an hotel at Harrowgate in September, 1923. Mrs Pincus, a jewel merchant, sued Lloyd’s underwriters, who alleged that Samuel Pincus, plaintiff’s husband, conspired with, one Natensolm to lose the jewels. Natensolm was, however, acquitted in 1923. A High Court jury has decided that Mrs Pincus is entitled to £45,000.

■POLICEMAN ATTACKED,

BY DRUNKEN BLACKS

PORT KEMBLA, June- 16. Policesergeant Somerville was the victim of a brutal assault by three drunken aborigines at 5 o’clock, to-night in the presence of over 100 men who had just left work, hut did not offer him any assistance.

The sergeant went to arrest one of the men when, the three set upon him and punched him’several times* on the face andi body, knocking him down. They then ran away. The sergeant gave chase and caught one man. who was handcuffed and placed in the lockup.

FOOTBALL AND GUN.

STRANGE TRAGEDY

ORANGE (N.S.W.). June 15. Arnold Harcourt Morris, aged 21, son of Mr John Morris, of Cadia. road, met his death in an extraordinary manner yesterday afternoon. He and several others were kicking a football about. A gun, which Morris thought was unloaded, was lying near, and he picked it up and hit the ball with tliet butt.

Immediately there was an explosion and ho fell to the ground fatally injured,tile full charge having entered his chest.

A DOUBLE K.O,

CONSTABLE AND UTS PRISONER

AFFAIR. IN WATCH-HOUSI

.MELBOURNE, June 15.—A constable and his prisoner were found lying side by side unconscious at the Brunswick police station last night-. Shortly before 11 o’clock Constable Johnston, who is the watchhouse-keeper, arrested two men in Breese street, outside the station. (hie of the men wrenched himself free and escaped. Inside the court house the other man struck the constable on- the jaw. He retaliated and felled bis prisoner. Sinne time later another policeman arrived, and was surprised to find both lying unconscious.

MOTORING FEAT

LONG AFRICAN TRIP.

CAPETOWN, June 13.—A remarkable feat has been accomplished bv Captain Delingette, of the French army. Tlio captain, his wife, and a mechanic left the terminus of the Algerian railway in November last, and travelled in a Renault car via the Sahara, Lake Cliadi. Elizabetliville, and Victoria Falls, and arrived at Bulawayo (Rhodesia) yesterday. The car was titled with six disc wheels and balloon tyres, and _ crossed Hie Riiwenzori Range at an altitude of 9000 feet.

The car is coming to Capetown, and it is proposed to return via Nairobi and Khartoum.

MELBOURNE’S BEER.

SUPPLY THEATENED

MALSTERS MAY STRIKE.

MELBOURNE, June 16. Melbourne’s beer supply is threatened. Two hundred maltsters hold a. stopwork meeting at the Trades Hall this morning to protest against the employers’ refusal to consider claims for increased wages and better conditions. It was decided that, unless any definite steps were taken in the meantime, the men would give a week’s notice to cense work on Wednesday week.

Should the-position develop, the whole of the liquor trade will be involved. A cessation of work in tho malt houses would almost immediately cut off the supplies to the breweries, and would result, in a curtailment of tho supplies of beer to tho public.

PRICE WAR THREAT

CANADIAN DANNERS,

MELBOURNE, .June 1(1—Tho bounty question is likely to be revived in connection with canned fruit, production, as the Californian packers huvo threatened a price war on the English market. The effect of this may be that Australian cannors will have to appeal to the Federal Government for a bounty. The new season’s fruit from Canada will be reaching London in a little over a month from nova Advance quotes, according to advices received here, aro on a basis that would compel Australian canned to sell at a price that would return a bare (5s a dozen in Australia.

NO REGRETS,

LABOR LEADER’S PHILOSOPHY. WASHINGTON, June 13.—“1 tried to break tho temperature record but could not, my highest being lOS 5-8 degrees,” wrote Warren Stouc (one of America’s greatest Labor leaders, who died yesterday) after his recent illness.

"After you pass 104' degrees you don’t know the, difference,” _ added Stone, who had a premonition of death.

He wrote this for a magazine: "I want to keep on as long as I can be useful. If not, it’s all. right. Anyway, I am way ahead of tho game and-have not a single regret, because I have lived every minute of my life to tho full. I have practised the gospel and I preach the gospel of the Great Eternal now. ’’

SEN ANTAGONISM. NOT WANTED

MRS LYONS BRINGS NEW MESSAGE.

MELBOURNE. June 16.—Mrs Lyons, wife of tho Premier of Tasmania, brings tins new message to women in public life: “No concentration on purely women’s question, no emphasis on sex antagonism, but a. whole-hearted cooperation with men in solving national questions. “Every national question is a woman s question’,” she said, in an interview yesterday. . “Until women show the electors that they are' capable of dealing with all national questions they will fail. While women will be expected to throw a light on matters in their own special field, they must co-operate with men, in the solution of all national questions. “Interdependence, mot independence, between the sexes is wanted. Public opinion' does not favor women supporting purely women’s affairs.”

AIR PILOTS.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO HAVE

A CHANCE.

MELBOURNE, June 13.—A scheme lnts been drawn up to allow University students in Melbourne and Sydney to qualify as air pilots. The Air Board has decided that suitable applicants, who will undergo a strict medical test, will serve, a continuous course of four months’ training. and later will be placed as pilots in the Citizen Forces or the Air Reserve. The course will commence at the beginning of the University vacation, which is sufficiently long to. enable a thorough training to bo given. Uniform and quarters will bo provided, and the cadets will receive 12s 9d a day. The first training schools will bo established at Point Cook (Victoria) and Randwick (Sydney) in November.

K.K.Iv. FARCEURS

COLUMBUS -STATUE DEPOSED. RICHMOND (Virginia), June 2.—Tho Ku Klnx Klan carried, its campaign to extreme lengths when it. objected to the erection of a statue to Colmnlms on the city’s boulevard. The objectors contended that boulevard statues should be confined to “100 per cent. Americans.” One speaker opposed the erection of the statue because Columbus was a foreigner. The city authorities finally granted the Italian-American citizens permission to erect the statue.

The -Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an Oregon law compelling all parents to send their children to public schools.

The Supreme (Yurt’s decision reverses a law, the passing of which, it was reported, was due to Ku Klux Klan influence, i The Xian's campaign for the. law was aimed against the Catholic schools.

COUNTESS OF JERSEY,

A SECRET MARRIAGE

YOUTHFUL EX-OFFICER

LONDON, June 8. —Cynthia, Countess of Jersey, was married to William Slessor, aged 24 years, an ex-army officer, today. The wedding took place secretly at, the celebrated Cassinton Parish Church.

Tho Countess left home without informing the servants where she was go-, ing. The scene of the honeymoon is also being kept a close secret. The Countess is a daughter of the third Earl of Kilmorey. She married the eighth Earl of Jersey in 1908. He died, in 1923. The Countess is a, daughter-in-law of the Earl of Jersey, who was Governor of New South Wales.

Slessor is now employed at the public ity department at Wembley.

CHAPLIN’S AMBITION.

FAME BEFORE FAMILY,

WIFE HOME WITH MOTHER.

LOS ANGELES, June 13.—Cliarlio Chaplin announces that he is going to England on a business trip. It had been reported that he intended to spend a belated honeymoon with his girl-wife, but a definite announcement has been made that these plans have been abandoned,' and that Lila (Airs. Chaplin) is living again in seclusion with her mother, apart from the Chaplin household. Charlie has been nearly two years completing what lio calls his masterpiece. During that time he has been a. virtual recluse. Now he. intends making a sensational bid for return to public favor.

NO TEST TRIAL

“AN ASTOUNDING BLUNDER.”

LONDON. June B.—“An astounding blunder, which ought to be rectified immediately,’’ is how the Times cricket expert deplores the decision of the anil i rilies not to arrange a preliminary trial for England's Eleven in 1926. He why the precaution should be considered ’ advisable against the South Africans and considered unnecessary when England is faced' with an immeasurably harder task. It, is understood-, be- says, that the advisory county -committee is entirely to blame. Marylebotie ought to interfere to save the situation. A trial match would have incalculable advantages, especially in enabling the wicket-keeper to accustom himself to strange bowlers. The writer says lie understands there is no prospect of the minor counties combining in a. match aginst the Australians. Minor matches may bo farcical and ludicrous, but they mean big gales for needy counties.

UNION OFFICIAL AND MONEY,

BIG SUM MENTIONED

SYDNEY, June 16.—1 t. is stated that a warrant lias -been issued for the arrest on a charge of embezzlement, of a prominent official of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the lie-ail office of which is at the Trades Hall.

Detectives from police headquarters are searching for the man, and it is Ballagcd that the sum that is mining is in the vicinity of £ISOO. Tho money is said to have been paid as- union fees, and has been missing for a long period.

PEER OBTAINS DIVORCE.

DECREE FOR VISCOUNT GOUT.

WIFE’S COUNSEL WITHDRAWS. LONDON, Jane 13.—Viscount Govt hais been granted! a divorce from bis wife on the ground of the latter’s misconduct with Senor Luis de Silva, formerly third secretary at. the Spanish Legation in London.

De Silva., claiming diplomatic privilege, was struck out of the case. Tho evidence disclosed that de Silva constantly visited Lady Gort during her husband's absence. Respondent’s’ counsel said that she would not enter the witness-box and* therefore he would- not take any further part in the case.

John Standish S. P. Vcreker, V.C.. D,S.(>. (with two bars), M.C., sixth Viscount Gort., was born in 1886, and succeeded to his father’s title in 1902. In 1911 lie married! his cousin, Miss Corinno Kathcririo Verekcr. There are a. son and daughter. Tho Viscount has had a. very distinguished military career. . . .