CABLES IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17133, 8 September 1926, Page 11

CABLES IN BRIEF

£1250 DAMAGES FOR NURSE. BCNDABEHG (Q.), Aug. 19.—Tlie icase in which Nurse MeVicar claimed £SOOO from a farmer for damages, including the loss of a 'leg. in a street accident, was settled out of ■court, the plaintiff receiving £l2ou. A 34 MILES GLIDE. LONDON, August 16. During a thunderstorm Max Kegel, chief of the air section of the Cassel police, glided 34 miles in a straight line, thus establishing a world's record, reports the Berlin correspondent of the Times. MISS ORGAINLST FOR 58 YEABS. lIOBART, Aug. 19.—Who ican beat the record of Miss .lane Reichenberg? Her 58th year as organist 2of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church has just ended. WHAT A FEAST! MELBOURNE. Aug. 13.—Two bundled waitresses and 20 waiters served 200 turkeys, 2,5.0 loaves on bread, 200 quarts of ice-cream, 15001 b of ham. 12' sucking pigs, 400 spatchcock, and 10,000 oysters and other delicatcies to 3000 guests at the Lord Mayor's ball lastnight. 1000 LIVES A DAY. EPIDEMIC IN ORIENT. TERRIBLE HAVOC. SHANGHAI, August 6. It is unofficially estimated thatChinese are dying daily from cholera and the excessive licat. With the epidemic at its peak, to-day was the hot-te>-.l day here in thirty years. The temperature reached 102.2. Few foreigners are affected. At Canton, the army is suffering from the disease.

UiUtCH TItEASURY LOOTED Ki X (J' 8 GI FT WOJ Mil £IO,OOO TAKEN. PARIS, August 26. The historic church of Notre Dame de Clery, near Orleans, where countless tourists have been shown the skull of ■Louis XI., and have visited the tomb, in which he lies by the side of his second wife, Charlotte of Savoy, has been visited bv burglars, who have stolen gold ami jewels worth at least 2,0C0,CC0 francs from its treasury. The missing objects were kept in a great oaken cupboard in the sacristy, but yesterday morning the sexton on going to open the church found the door of the treasury cupboard broken open. Numerous vessels and ornaments, gifts of the Kings of France, are missing from the treasury.

All the missing articles are those of gold and silver sol ivii.li precious stones, bo that the police are convinced that the theft was committed by people .who had no idea of the artistic or historical value ol' their booty. Two brazen crowns of beautiful workmanship presented to the church by Pope Pius IX., and vestments covered with priceless embroidery were cast aside by the pillagers.