NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1922, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

CHANCERY WARD’S ROMANCE*

LONDON, November 14

While the entering of caveat in all the London register offices warning registrars to withhold 1 a license: for marriage, should 1 one he. applied- for, of a young couple, the story of a young inan’s love for a beautiful ward in ’Chuneepy is rdriMedi Tile couple on Wednesday made a -midnight journey in a fast limousine motor-car from a Lancashire town to London to'get married secretly. At a register office on Thursday morning ttiey applied for a license, only to find' that it is necessary for one of them to have at leafct To days’ residence in the district in which they wish to be ■married 1 .

Knowing that they would be pursued when tlieir l flight was discovered, they frankly told the registrar that they had run away from home and asked if there was any possible way of getting married quickly. Telling them that unless they could qualify uv residence it was impossible, the registrar sent them on to the register office in the district which included tlie hotel iii which one of them was staying.

RAJAH’S WHITE BRIDE

CALCUTTA, Nov. 14

All flie grown-ups of the South Indian State of. Pudukota are abouti to sign a long memorial to their Raja 1 * and Ranee begging them, to return from Europe with their little son. and live among their subjects.

The Rajah married a beautiful Australian, Miss Molly Frink, in 1915, and tbe couple made a state entry into their capital amid a fairy tale picture book setting of jewelled elephants in gold and silver, cavalry in green, and infantry in scarlet. The Rajah and his bridq sat in a state landau drawn by four horses decked in silver, and gold, followed by retainers carrying swords. The same evening riautch girls entertained them, and the women of the palace establishment paid homage to the new Ranoa.

5 A- few days later the Rajah and Ranee went to Europe on their honey'moon, arid with the exception of the Rajah’s return to Madras last year to ,welcome the Duke of Connaught, the people of Pudukota have never since seen their ruler, who lias spent much of his time in London and at his villanear Cannes.

Money is being collected to send' a deputation of his subjects to Europe to wait on the Rajah and implore him to return with-his Renee.

Here again an application was made and again refused, the registrar telling them that if they could wait the 15 days he would marry them.

Disappointed, the would-ldei bridegroom said they would go back to Lancashire and left the office.

Yesterday morning a caveat was applied for and issued by the RegistrarGeneral for any license to be with-held_ The girl’s fiance is 25 and handsome and a successful business man in the north. He told the registrar that his fiancee is over 21—she is 22—but still a ward in Chancery. She is a beautiful dark Irish girl. SUBMARINE ON FIRE. NEW YORK, November 14. A fight for life in a burning submarine 60 feet under the water is deecribad by the crew of the L 6. which arrived at tlie sumbarine base as Los Angeles, California, yesterday afterjioon with smoke and (ianU's pouring from tli* conning-tower. The vessel’ was undergoing a' 68-hours fulhpower trial between San Diego and Los Angeles. In the 49th. hour, while the submarine was submerged, the forward batteries burst into flames, filling the interior of the vessel with choking acid fumes. The men at the controls were overcome almost inunodinffoly. Other members of the crew of 22 got to the controls and succeeded in closing the door of the battery coihparthierlt and bringing the submarine to the surface, blit by this tiihe nearly the whble of the ship’s complement ’were overcome.

Tlie accident occurred 1 16 miles from Los Angeles and 1 the vessel raced at full speed’ to the port, where firemen in' smoke helmets jilit out the flames. Three liiembers of the crew including the officer in command, were in a serious condition.

’The I class of submarine served in European waters during tile war. They iite 166 foot long, with a lveam of 14-J feet, ad have a radius of actibn of about 4,500 miles on the surface and 150 miles (at a speed' of 5 knots) when subriierged. The L 6 was built in 1916.

THE FALSE DESERTER, NEW YORK, Nov 10. Haley, tlie British ex-soldi©r, who, to repay an American comrade who saved his life’ on the battlefield, impersonated Abe latter arid' uriderwent a sentence of imprisonment as a deserter, is in distress at Leavenworth, Kansas, where lie was released yesterday. According to despatches to New York newspapers his clothing consists cheap thin suit furnished to prisoners on their discharge and he is facing unusually cold weather without an overcoat. Penniless, he was denied a railway .ticket to his home, which is usually furnished to prisoners, because he falsely confessed to a charge of which le was innocent, the despatches say. His mother and sister live in New York. 1,500 miles a.wav. He has appealed to the local Red Cross for lodging and food .hoping to find work at his trade as an electrician to enable him to earn money to join them, as they are unable to give him money.