ALL the World Over.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1911, Page 4

ALL the World Over.

C'o.saiv Cnttaiico, the Italian waller who. with the aid of his wife, robbed Min Daniel Racon of New York, a sister-in-law of Sir Gilbert Parker, of jewellery and money worth 'L-->OOO in a St. Moritz hotel liu-t Aimust. was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, with _ banishment rrom Switzerland for life. His wife received eighteen months' imprisonment and ten years' banishment. All (be jewellery they stole was found hidden in a forest at Vi.-hy. Two men were at work recently in chalk pil in the historic ->ormawly village of Yvetot wnen the ground fell in and they were burled. They can be conunuiiicated with and supplied with food from above, but it will take at least a fortnight to get them out, and there is, of course, constant danger that during the excavations the chalk nvay fall in on them. The population of the villago is working in relays at the rescue day and night, and the last news of the two men is that t'ney arc ner' fectly well, unhurt and cheerful. Mine. Lebrcton, one of the last of the French cantinieres, died recently at Lc Vesinet. France, at theage of eighty-one. She was cantiniere to the First Zouaves, and had been awarded the French equivalent of the Victoria Cross for rescuing three wounded soldiers under fire. -xer grandmother and her mother wore cautinieres before her, and she was the daughter of a soldier named Bcrnadoite. who was. he used to say, a relative of the King of Sweden. Mine. Lebrcton married when, she was fifteen. She went through the Crimean, the Italian ,_ and the Mexican campaigns, and was wounded and made prisoner in the FrancoGerman war. She was wounded acrain quite recently at Cnsabhuien, whither she insisted on going, in spite of her great age, and she died in poverty.