NEWS BY MAIL

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14536, 7 December 1920, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL

FROM THE ENGLISH PAPERS. The following items nave been taken from English newspapers received by a recent mail:—■ NEARLY GORED TO DEATH. Attacked by an infuriated bull, an Oswestry farmer was saved from what seemed certain death by his faithful dog. Mr Beck Boyle, of Babbin's Wood, went to remove the bull from one Held to another, when the animal attacked him, knocked him clown, tore his trousers and shirt off, and gored him in the head. Mr Boyle's brother and another farmer went to his assistance, but though they beat the mad bull they could not drive him away from the prostrate man-.' At this juncture a farm dog arrived on the scene, sad at once attacked the bull, biting his legs and .tail.. The'bull turned his attention to ■the dog, and, profiting by this development, the friends of Mr Boyle conveyed him to safely, badly knocked about, but lucgy in his escape. The plucgy-dog had to be carried off for treatment.

s SHOOTS HIMSELF ON HOLIDAYS. Remarkable letters were written by Cecil Francis Eardley Machon, 22, a Bristol bank accountant, and an exofficer of the Gloucestershire Regt., ' who shot himself in the temple in bed at a Southend hotel while spending a fortnight's holiday. To his brother, Captain Machon, of Bristol, he wrote: •'Please forgive me, for I am better out of this world. I am a born thief and a liar. Good-bye." Another letter left by him read: — sorry for troubling you, but I am absolutely wrong and bad mentally." Captain Machon stated at the inquest that his brother had no financial difficulties, but was, in faot, the holder of a considerable amount of War Loan. He was wounded at Cuinchy in 1916, and while walking back to .the dressing station was twice blown up by shells. His arm had been useless ever since, and he had been in hospital, for three years suffering from shell-shock and fits of depression. A verdict of "Suicide during temporary Insanity" was returned. HUGE SHIPPING PROFITS. AisfJJfew York correspondent telegraphs that what is descrHted as the biggest seizure yet made by the L'nited States Government, under the excess profits" tax law, is said to have been made by Federal agents. 'At the Chase National Bank in New Y&'rk-they took possession of 4,900,.O.OA- .dollars (nominally £980,000) ..that, had just been paid to two British subjects, H. Farqubarson Kerr "and Alfred E. Clegg. The latter were .the organisers four years ago of the Kerr Navigation Company, which' operated with 11 .vessels, formerly Austrian and German, in Belgian and Allied ports and. Scandinavia, and of which they are. respectively president and vice-president. The money reported to have been seized had been | paid to them for 49,000 shares of the company stock by the American Ship and Commerce Company, which re- ■ cently purchased them. It is said that the stock cost Kerr and Clegg 10 dollars a share, and that tlieir' y proflt, therefore, is 90 dollars a share; also that the Government took possession of the purchase money, as .a precaution to ensure full payment of the tax being made, Messrs Kerr arid Clegg being about to make a business trip abroad.