NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 November 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

- : ——9 MR CYRIL MAUDE TO RETIRE. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4. “I shall be retiring after this tour in America.” Thus Mr Cyril Maude casually announced, in conversation on board the White Sta*r liner Olympic today, news that will take every playgoer by surprise. ‘‘Another year, or eighteen months, will gee the end of my acting career” he said. “I do not want to hang on long after the time has come for me to disappear. Besides I want a quiet life. I shall retire to a little place in Devonshire, and hunt and fish there while there is still life in my old bones.” . Mr Maude lias gone back to America to resume his part in “Aren’t We All!” by Mr Frederick Lonsdale,, the dramatist, who lias five plays running in England and America at the present time. - Mr Maude had to leave the play hurriedly last December owing to the. illness of his wife, Miss Winifred Emery, which ended with her death last July. FATAL FOOTBALL. LONDON, Oct. 19. At-Woking .a cup. tie was abruptly terminated by the sudden - death of Blake, the referee. His wife and daughter wjere among the spectators. At Byfleet, a .junior match had to lie abandoned owing to a player named Judge dropping dead on the field. Bonaparte Kay, a spectator at a match at Bury, collapsed and was carried off. He died subsequently. FAMOUS BEAUTY SPOT. ROME, Sept. 22. The famous Cascades of Tivoli have been purchased by a large industrial concern for the purpose of utilising them f Of .electrical energy. There is great indignation against the authorities for allowing this beauty spot to be used for commercial enterprise, and the Artists’ Society of Rome has sent an* energetic protest to the Minister of Instruction. The citizens of Tivoli are also much concerned, as the cascades are the rendezvous of all. tourists visiting this part of Italy. ON THE ICE. FREIGHT CHARGES TOO HIGH. MEAT IMPORTERS MOVE. LONDON, Oct. 23. Growing restive at the high freights charged for cargo carried in refrigerating chambers,' importers of Australian meat have decided to interview’ London shippers on .October 29, and ask for reductions in these freights at least equalling the concessions which the New Zealand lines have given to exporters. The representatives will be accompanied at the interview’ by the Australian High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cook) and the Agent-General for Victoria (Mr George Fairburn). POOR PROSPECTUSES. LONDON TIMES’ COMMENT.

ADVICE TO BORROWERS

LONDON, Oct. 23. Calling attention to what he describes as the growing tendency of colonial borrowers to provide less and less information in their prospectuses, the city editor of The Times says;that there are bright exceptions, but the genera] rule is either to give the minimum amount, which tells the investor really as little as possible. ' Mentioning particularly the case of a recent Queensland prospectus, he says: “It is not a wise practice which has been growing up among colonial borrowers. It is contrary to the best interests of the borrower, as well as of the lender, that prospectuses should omit all information regarding the fina.n~es of the former. It is very unbusinesslike, and the suppression "of information is not only a bad example to set borrowers less distinguished and less privileged than the Dominions or the colonies, but it must inevitably lead investors to discriminate between those borrowers who give full information and those who do not.”