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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 11

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Lord Beauchamp, who is en route to Australia, arrived at Montreal on Saturday. states an Ottawa cable.

Mr. H. Laurence Glover, formerly of the National Bank, New Plymouth, who is in England, has been accepted as a trainee for the Royal Air Force. Mr. A. Ibbobtson, general manager of the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co., Ltd., Dunedin, left for the south on Saturday morning after spending ten days in Taranaki. Lord Birkenhead had another restleas night, but there was no extension of bronchial pneumonia reported tho British official wireless on Saturday. His strength was maintained. At the recent New Plymouth examinations in musical ornaments and harmony for the L.A.8., conducted by the Royal Academy of Music, London, Miss Vinnie Rees secured 124 marks and Mr. Colin Campbell 140 marks out of a possible 150. Both were coached by Mrs. P. Fredric. Although it is almost three weeks since the prisoner from Mount Eden Gaol, Francis Gomez, escaped from the Auckland Hospital, no trace of his whereabouts has been ■ found by tho Auckland police, states the New Zealand Herald. The motor-ear, owned i>y Mr. G. E. Hunter, of Great South Road, Ellerslie, in which it is thought Gomez left Auckland, has not been recovered. Tho death of Captain Cecil - Foster, hero of the Trevesa exploit in June, 1923, is reported from London.- Trevesa sent out a S.O.S. on June 1, 1923, when about 2000 miles from Fremantle but searching vessels' found no trace of her. On June 27 the captain, chief engineer and a crew of 16 landed, on Rodrique Island, 400 miles east of Mauritius, after a voyage of 1600 miles, which is one of .the great boat journeys' in tho history of the sea. (