LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1919, Page 4

LATE MAIL NEWS.

SHOT FOR HELPING BRITISH ANTWERP, March 26. A detachment of Liverpool Scottish took part in a memorial service at Antweip Cathedral to-day for 20 Belgians who were shot by the Germans for helping Allied prisoners to escape and for secret service work. Over 1,000 wreaths were sent, including two from the British Army. Cardinal Mercier officiated.

ADMIRAL KEYES. LONDON, March 26. Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, who has been in command at Dover since January of last year, loft Dover yesterday for Scapa 1* low to take charge of the surrendered German battleships. It is understood that he will command the Battle-cruiser Squadron. Rear-Admiral Daiupicr succeeds him in command at Dover.

561 b POTS OF JAM. Asked yesterday “Why are the very fine jams' from Tasmania being given to German prisoners and people in lunatic asylums and the general public have to eat rhubarb jam, marrow jam, and other rubbish?” Mr. McCurdy replied: "lhe Tasmanian jam is put up in 561 b pots—daughter)—and the breakfast table oi the ordinary British villa is not substantial enough to hold a pot of those dimensions.” •

THE DECAY OF THE CIRCUS. LONDON, March 26

“I have lived every minute of my life,” chuckles “Professor” Bure, the old circus clown with whom the Prince of Wales chatted when he visited his London tenants on the Duchy of Cornwall estate the other day. Mr. Bure laments the decay of the circus. “It was a fine healthy life, and there were the traditions, which are mostly lost now. Books of gags and business are no longer handed down from generation to generation of clowns. I destroyed mine the other day because I had no one to pass them on to. “Circuses have not gone out of fashion because, as some people say, children arc too old for them nowadays,” said Mr Bure. “Children are just as fond of them as ever, ;but they can see most of the familiar features at the music-halls. The good old circus has been willed by the music hall.”