MISCELLAMEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1921, Page 1

MISCELLAMEOUS ITEMS.

\L\STKA LI AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GIRL WHO LOST HER MEMORY. LONDON, October Id. Alls Pamela Beckett told a cottager’s wife who succoured her: "I lelt just fed ii)i with everything—uilh clothes, money and things. 1 was tired of the whole life. A sudden impulse came over me to leave it all. I had no plans when I left Orosvcnor Street. I wanted to join the gipsi's. Meaning a pearl necklet and fur-. I " ndered for two days. I had no food, but lam'lit a newspaper to see the result of the Ccsarewith. as I had been talk-

ing with lather about that race. One night two men in a. motor ear stopped me. They said that I must not stop, out all night. They took me home. . Tlie wife of one offered me a bed. When all of them were asleep. I ran awav. When 1 retrrued home, my first words to father were: ”| am so sorry”, and to Mummy '‘Will you forgive me:-” attempted swindling. 1 .PARIS, October Id. The Nice Court lined Leon Lafarge dOO francs for assuming spurious titles, and imposed live months’ imprisonment for attempted swindling. 1-el'argo is a native of Norinanhy. He assumed the title of Prince de A itanval. and had himself ■.•rowin',| as King of Transcaucasia. Hi) notified the Groat Powers ot his accession and applied for the admission of his Kingdom to the League of Nations. He gave French shopkeepers orders totalling three million francs, including orders for a gold crown. sceptre, and ermine robes for himself and his Queen. When arrested lie possessed a tew Iraics and explained that the lack of cash was due to the financial stringency f i*o m which the whole world was suffering.