NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1920, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

"SHEFFIELD MAKE” FROM GERMANY. LONDON, May 14. German firms have resumed their prewar custom of putting on the market as Sheffield goods cutlery that was made in Germany. One instance cited gives the surprising experience of a Sheffield merchant, head of one of the largest cutlery houses. While looking in a London shop window he saw displayed there a number of razors bearing the registered mark of his own firm. Upon inquiring into the matter he learned that these razors were really German-made manufacture. They were part of a consignment that had been shipped to England in payment for meat exported from this country. In yet another instance eight cases of German cutlery were landed hero. .Some ot this cutlery was stamped Sheffield make,” and bore no other mark ol origin. Additional evidence of the adoption of this reprehensible practice is supplied by Canada. Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, has been informed by Canadian merchants that German cutlery bearing no trade mark is being sold in the Dominion as " Sheffield made.”

TRAGEDY JEWELS FOR SALE. PARIS, -May 14. Tragic memories will be present tomorrow when the jewels of Mile. Lantlielme will be put up for sale at the Paris Central Auction Rooms. Mile. Lnnthelme, a beautiful actress, was drowned in the Rhine nine years ago. Her body was bedecked with the jewels she loved and brought to Paris, and buried in a monumental vault in the cemetery of Pere Laehaisc. It was not to rest for long, for some ghoulish thieves having heard that the actress’s jewels—especially a valuable necklace of black pearls—were in the coffin, broke into the vault, FINED FOR TAtKING TOO LONG. LONDON, May 15. For harbouring a police inspector on his licensed premises, Patrick Connolly, licensee of the Earl Russell beerhouse, Wick Road, Hackney, was lined £5 ss, with £7 7s costs at North London Police Court yesterday. It was not suggested that the police officer was supplied with any drink, and it was admitted that he might have been genuinely on the premises for the purpose of receiving a complaint as to the want of police protection in tho neighbourhood, but Inspector Curtis said that he listened outside and the conversation was on other Subjects for at least IS minutes. Mr Graham-Cainpbell said Connolly had kept the officer in tho bouse for an unnecessary time, and there must bo a conviction.