"By Independent"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 November 1913, Page 4

"By Independent"

Cabled from Abroad,

(Special to Sydney Sun)

THE HOLIDAY SCHEME

London, November 1. Mr Winston Churchill's suggestion for a naval Holiday was warmly welcomed in the House of Representatives at Washington yesterday. The Speaker, Mr Champ Clark, requested the president to use his influence to bring about an agreement. DOG'S FUNERAL COSTS £40. Vancouver, November 1. Mrs N. M. Watson, a wealthy society lady of Ashevillo, North Carolina, has changed her niedical man because the family physician refused to attend her pet collie, which was dying. The dog was buried with much ceremony, a child's coffin being used. The funeral cost £40. ABLAZE IN THE ATLANTIC. News has reached" Hamburg by wireless that the Hamburg-Amer-ica liner Kronprincessin Cecilie has rescued 22 out of; 25 of the crew of the French barque Patrie which she found burning in midAtlantic. GUNS PROTECT TELLERS. New York, November 1. About 84 tons of gold, which lies in the United States SubTreasury in Wall-street, is being counted by nine officials sent from the Treasury, ■Washington. Between 25,000 and 80,000 tons of silver is as well, together with several millions of dollars in bill form and a few tons of nickels and bronze coins. The task started on Tuesday, and will keep the nine men busy for nine days. The Sub-Treasury is guarded night and day by a small army of watehnieii, who have a battory of machine guns under their charge. A LEGLESS LOVER.

San Francisco, Nov. ti. Charles Gasky, alias Cassidy, of Oakland, California, has performed an apparently impossible feat He has no legs, and onlv one hand. Yet he ran away witli a young woman named Dolly Lloyd, aged 21. ' The police are looking for him. MAD ON HATS.

Vancouver, Nov. S. When Ilia wife arrived home a little while ago with 17 hats, Harold Forrist. a Seattle man, made such strong objections to the wholesale spending of his cash in this way that there was a row. The matter ended yesterday, when Foi-risfc obtained a divorce." • He told the court that his wife was mad on hats, and that she had 50 of them in her wardrobe. Some of these she had never worn. She was so taken up with her railJincry that he had had to prepare his own meals and make the lied. SCANDAL IN EIGII LIFE. ; , London, Nov. S. lhe fiussiaii Imperial Family is , greatly concerned over the behavlous of (he Grand DuoJiuss'Marie I ; avlovna, a daughter Grand puke Paul Alexandrovifch. ~"Shc is the wife of Prince William of Sweden, and recently slie ran away from her husband. It seems that the latter objected to her friendship for M. Savins- , ky. the Itussian Minister at Stockholm. A stormy scene followed, i the Prince finally striking his wik. She tied to her father in Paris, declaring that no power on earth would induce her to return to her husband.

The Grand.Duke supports his daughter in her action, but the Empress of Austria and the Queen of Sweden arc doing their utmost to elfcct a reconciliation. RESPONSIVE ArtfSS. . New York, Nov. 8. Eliwood Cooper, a wealthy fruit grower, whose farm is near Chicago, has married Mrs Addie Fleming. As the bridegroom was 84 and the bride 00 the event has aroused a great deal of interest Mrs Fleming said that directly she met Cooper she knew slio was the one. She declares that everyone has an aura which entends (href feet from the body on either side, and when the aiirns of two people become, positive they will marry. Galvinism makes this certain, and it is what happened to her and Eliwood, she adds* The tlieoryis also true of plants, says the bride. °

Cooper is said to have kepf young by drinking oxirnordinnry

amounts of olive oil, and lie declares fhat he will )iy,o for 20 more years.