NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

GIRL’S DIARY OF PASSION. NEW YORK, December 4. A passionate story of a scorned and heartbroken women is contained in the diary of Clara Smith, niece of a. prominent Oklahoma politician, Jake L. Hamon, who it is alleged, has confessed to the murder of her uncle which occurred a fortnight ago in Chicago. Since then Afiss Smith has been in flight from the police, and is now believed to have crossed the border into Mexico. A chaffeur who drove her in a, wild ride across the Texas plains a few days ago informed the police that she told him she shot Hamon, with whom she had lived since she was seven

Further light on her association with the wealthy politician is furnished hv a diary found ina trunk she left in Kansas City in bur flight. From this it appears she shot Hamon because he refused to divorce his wife and instead told her he had become reconciled to Mrs Hamon. On May 12th Miss Smith wrote: “Before another day passes 1 want to give this warning to any other woman who may be ready to embark on the sea of companionship with a man.” “Let my poor, sad, broken heart, crushed hopes, and blighted lile he a warning. Know your man before you give him your soul. AY lien I say “Know him, I mean not only know- his sugar-coated side, but know the side the world never sees. “Know thu side that comes to life only in the presence of four walls and you. Know him at his worst before you sell your soul and become ever afterwards his slave. “A woman only has power once with a mail— that is when he is madly in love and wants all she has got to give. Once given, the charm is broken—for him the battle is won.”

DRUGGED IN TRAIN STORY

PARIS, ,I)ec 15

The mystery of the disappearance of a Paris banker ,M. Antonin Erqzouls, managing director of the Credit International at, Colonial and a former Governor of French Guiana, has been partly solved. The hanker, who had been missing since last month and who, it was feared, had met with an accident or been the victim of foul play, has written to the police and to his co-directors. He informs the police that he received a payment of £20,000 at Melon near Paris, where he had gone before he vanished, but was drugged and robed in the train oil his return journey. £30,000,000 DAM. LONDON, Dec To. Sir Eric Geddes’s £30,000,000 scheme to secure electricity by harnessing the River Severn is indicated as being prematura by the Board ol Trade Water Power Resources Committee. On present information the Committee are not in a position to recommend as a practical proposition a scheme to generate electricity by damming tho River Severn.

Thu Committee in their report add that the scheme cannot be dismissed as impracticable. Preliminary estimates indicate that if the Seven tides were W’d about 1,000,000,000 Hoard of Trade units of electricity a year could be generated, with the saving of 1,250,000 lo 2,500.000 tons of coal a year. They propose that the Board of Trade in'consultation with the _ Minister of Transport should appoint a technical and scientific Commission of inquiry into the matter. j

CHIUSTIAN SCIENCE SPLIT. NEW YORK, Dec 15

A further development in the dispute between the trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Company and the directors of the mother-church in Boston is revealed in a statement by Mr Campbell MacCullmigh, a prominent New Y ork Christian Scientist, who alleges’that the board of directors of the mother-church, angered at their failure to maintain autocratic control over the whole affairs of the Church, decided to wreck the world-wide organisation founded bv Mrs Eddy, They have entered into a conspiracy, he alleges, to have the Christian Science Church declared a public charitable trust, with its income used for the benefit of the public at large. There is now pending in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts an application filed by the Attorney-General of the State to secure a declaration to this effect. CAR CKO SINGING AGAIN. NEW' YORK, Dec. 15. The voice of Signor Caruso, the tenor, is undamaged as the result ot the bursting of a blood-vessel in his throat on Saturday evening when he was singing in “Elisir (P A more” at Brooklyn, New York’s suburb. 11a will fulfill his engagement to appear to-night at the' Metropolitan Opera House, The doctor was able to entirely reassure him. The ruptured vessel is a very small vein situated at the base of the tongue above the larynx. The doctor’s theory is that it was cut by a fish-bone, Signor Caruso having eaten of sole before the performance.

One result of Signor Caruso’s accident, is the revelation of the fact that lie is not insured for a single penny. His secretary stated yesterday that so far as lie was aware Signor Caruso had never protected himself against the his singing powers.

SERBO-I)UTCH QUARREL. AMSTERDAM, Dee 15. Relations between South Slavic and Holland have been practically ruptured. According to an official Dutch announce menfc, the Netherlands has recalled the Dutch Minister of Belgrade, and, in view of the unfriendly way in which he has been treated it has also informed M Miloyevitch ,tho Serbian Minister at the Hague .that his presence is no longer desirable. GOLDEN BEETLE DRESS. PARIS, Dec 15. Like n glittering golden beetle, holdin, r itself gracefully to the lines of the tigm-e and ending in ft dazzling Court train, an evening gown of remarkable dosi.ni has just been made for tlio Sultan Melek of Egypt by Captain Molyneux ,the English dress designer ut Paris.

The dross which is cut very low front and aek ,hangs from the shoulders by gold cord and is made of shimmering sequins, mounted on a foundation of delicate net. The cost of the materials was £SOO.