NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

PATIENT BOILED. VIENNA, May 28. Fraulein Ottilio Sara, a 26-years-old nurse of a big Vienna general nospital byiLed a patient alive this week through carelessness, and after being severely reprimanded flung herself bfoben-hearted, Before a train at a suburban station. She was instantly killed. The patient,, a youth of 21 was lym& in a water-bed. The nurse considered the waiter too cold and turned on the hot stream. Distracted by the screaming of a patient in the next room, she went to pacify him and appairenltly fodgotf the running stream of almost boiling water. When she returned she found the patient in the water-bed scalded to death. : The doctors were naturally sever' in their condemnation, but the girl sister-nurses recognising ber contrition tried to comfort her. Directly she was left alone, the nurse bed from tin : hospitalwent to a level crossing three miles away, and leapt before the iirst train that passed.

DOG RESCUER. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 28. Hour American women engaged in Near East relief work have just had "ml adventurous escape from drowning in the Bosphorus. They were out for a row in the twilight in midstream when the boat sprang a leak and sank some distance from the shore. Only two of the women knew how t« swim. Miss Cushman sank holding |,er retriever by the collar, but tlu* dog got to the surface and dragged her along with it. Miss Aslers, who had never swam before, swam ashore. Airs Uhls swam clutching the note with which she intended to pay the boatman, and ultimately paid him with it. Ihe other member of the party was Miss Caldwell.

PAGEANT OP FASHION. PARIS, May 3

Hundreds of dancers in magnificent frocks of a hundred hues jazzing an fox it rotting unddr the glow of an artificial subset of orange and red, was the spectacle to be seen m the Theatre des Champs Elysees to-night on the occasion of the “Sunset Ball arranged by tho Marquise do Palignae, for the charities of Rheims. The British Ambassador, Lord HartU inge. together with the Spanish. Italia n and Japanese Ambassadors, sat m th o ' lower boxes of the enormous theatre.

The lighting effects were very remarkable and artistic and the balustrades of the great staircases and the halls- of the LxPutifbl saloons were hung with red and orange bunting. t„ harmonise with tho scheme of sunset colouring. The great attraction of the evening was a parade of about 50 mannequins from the loading Paris houses, wearing Ike latest and most splendid evening frocks.

Such n pageant of fashion has never been seen or, a dancing floor in Paris before

EXECUTION COURTESIES. PARIS, May 28.

Boulnikin, who used to be a Bolshevist Commissary on the Eastern front, says a, Roval message to the Agency East 'Europe found that a. former colleague was in charge of the firing party which was recently to execute him in Moscow. The commander), recognising Boulnikin addressed him thus:

“I hope you will forgive my men it they miss you .the first time. You ,s;re (with an apologetic shrug) they are not used to shooting people.” “All right,” aiaicl Boulnilcin. “Excuse ,no if I do not fall the first time. You see I am not used to being shot.”

Tito order to fire being given, Bonlnildn fell dead.

UNIVERSITY CRIBBING. NEW YORK. May 28. A stir has been caused at Yale University by an announcement that 8 Second-year under gradnateis have been expelled and 18 suspended for cheating or conniving at dishonesty, in examinations. The eight youths sent down wore actually detected “cribbing.” The remainder although they knew their companions were so doing, failed to report the fact as required by their “honour system.”