LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1920, Page 4

LATE MAIL NEWS.

£3,000 UNDER DOG KENNEL. LONDON, March 20

Aswering the Offcial Receiver at her examination in bankruptcy yesterday, MreHelen Hunt, widow, of Lee Bankroad, Birmingham, said she did not keep a banking account. “Where did you keep your money ( “In a safe place, outside the house, with a faithiil friend.”

“Who was the friend?” “The dog,”.said Mrs Hunt. ‘‘l l| sed to put the money in a cash-box undei the kennel, and nobody dared go near the kennel.” ■ “Nearly £3,000 under a dog’s ken-

nel?” ; . , “Yes,” said Mrs Hunt. She did not think a bank was siifer.

STURDEE ON VON SPEE. LONDON, March 20.

Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee was yes. terday presented by the Corporation of Lloyd’s with a massive silver-gilt vase to commemorate his victory off tic Falklands. \

“I have a great regard for my opponent, Admiral Von Spee,” said Sii Doveton. “He was a German, he was an enemy, but he was a gentleman, and he spoke nicely after the affair of CSoronel, about our Admiral and the British Navy. I think we ought to remember that, because we do not always think the Germans' truthful. “He gkve me and our squadron a chance by coming to call the day after I arrived. He came‘ at a very convenient hour, because I had just about finished dressing, and was able to give orders to raise steam at fujl speed and go down and have a very good breakfast.” (Laughter.) • The whole of . Von Spee’s fiect was sunk.’

DANCER’S LOVE LETTERS. BRUSSELS, March 20

The “Eventail” prints the following story:— I The now notorious Prince Joachim .Albert, when a major in the German Army, saw a Brussels dancer at the Winter Palace in Berlin. She is a vreat Her dresses and jewels Were much talked of. The prince asked’ to lie introduced to her, and followed her on tour. Finally lie asked her to marry him. . , The family heard of this and decided to buy her "off. She was persuaded to yield up compromising love letters and signed promises of marriage in return' for some notes of hand. These were pro tested and she got nothing. CROWD HELD BY BANDITS. NEW YORK, March 20. A band of robbers daringly held up . two jewellery stores in Broadway last evening while the thoroughfare was crowded and stole thousands of dollars worth of diamonds., Three bandits held the crowd at bay with revolvers while they emptied several trays of jewels into a bag, and then escaped, shooting one pedestrian who attempted to interfere. A few minutes later three bandits threw pepper in the eves of a jeweller’s clerk, grabbed trays of jewellery, and ran away. Whether it was the same band in both cases is unknown. Two men suspected of complicity in the second robbery have been captured.

BARER BACKS. LONDON, March 22. Bare-backed evening dresses seen at a dress parade in London yesteiday were 'more extreme than ever. They wore designed with beads and beaded effects. _ ' . One graceful mannequin displayed the new chained corsage, cut high and square in front and leaving the back uncovered to the waist, with a support of chains starting from the crown of the shoulders and extending to the skirt. In another case a string of curiously shaped pearls was brought from tlio back of the frock and attached to the left wrist, forming, according to desire, a bracelet, or if worn oil the finger, a delicate little ring. Beads abound. A sumptuous evening cloak, glinting with gold, silver, and richly coloured beads, displays no fabric whatever, except here and there, ovals of old-world brocade, t RUNAWAY MATCH. LONDON, March 22. A romance, that began in a Dublin ball-room, led to an elopement, and developed into a marriage came to light in London yesterday.

The bride was .Miss May Ryan, the pretty daughter of a Dublin barrister who died some years ago, and the bridegroom, Sergt Pitcliford, of the Royal Air Force, son of a Government mines inspector, of Doncaster. Yesterday they were to be seen, radiantly unrepentant, in a certain West End hotel. To-day they are going back to Dublin to face the music.

It was a case of love at first sight, but social distinctions are tightly drawn in Dublin, and there were many difficulties. Not the least of them was that khaki is not a favourite colour by the Ljffey. “We could not part; we were agreed on that,” Sergeant Pitchford, said yesterday. So they resolved on a runaway marriage when Miss Ryan reached her 21st birthday. They stayed at different .hotels when they reached London, awaiting the special license, but 48 hours only had elapsed when the knot was tied at a register office. After the ceremony the sergeant telegraphed to iys mother-in-law. He is 25 and expects to be demobilised lySURPRISE BETROTHAL. BRUSSELS, March 23. Countess Anne-Louise de Merode, daughter of the late Senator Comte Werner de Merode, of a Belgian family which rendered splendid and loyal service to the Allied cause in the war, lias amazed Belgian society by the announcement of her intended marriage to her cousin Prince Everard d’Arenberg, who served in the war as an officer in a German submarine. Prince Everard belongs to the German branch of the d’Arenberg family, and'is a son of tho lafeo Prince Jean d’Arenberg, who was a major of cavalry in the Prussian Army. He is. 28. His fiancee is in her 26th year. Pirnce Everard d’Arenberg was captured by tho French in the war. So strong are the protests against it that the marriage -will probably have to be celebrated outside Belgium.