NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1922, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

INDIAN OCEAN*\RO M A NCE. LONDON, Jan. U. A romantic story of the rescue of a shipwrecked crew, through their own efforts in transhipping the wireless apparatus of their vessel to the shore, is told in the Signal, the official organ ol the Association of Wireless and Cable Telegraphists. The motor-vessel Elmaren was stranded off Six Island, Chagos Archipelago (.in the middle of the Indian Ocean), some months ago, and it was decided to abandon the vessel. The crew landed on the lie Sud Est, one of the islands of the archipelago, taking ashore the vessel’s receiver and spare aerial. The latter was hung between a coconut palm and a signal mast already on the island, and later the whole of the ship’s installation was dismantled and taken ashore. A hatch cover which had floated ashore served as a bed for the engine and the generator and coconut shells were used as fuel. Signals from vessels more than 2,000 sea miles away were heard quite well, and eventually ‘a message was sent via the Dutch steamer Tosari. As a result the motor vessel Tisnaren, homeward bound from Australia, was ordered to put in at lie Sud Est to rescue the ciiew. Later signals were exchanged with the Tisnaren, 650 miles south-east of Six Island, and this ship was advised of the crew’s exact position. All arrangements for the embarkation were also made by wireless.

£185,000 FOR WIFE AND BABY

NEW YORK, Jan. 14

Mr Charles Garland, the young farmer and former undergraduate of Harvard, who after a year’s reflection and the birth of a baby has decided to accept his father’s legacy of £250,000, will receive the money only to give it away. He will settle three-quarters of the fortune on his wife arid child. He thus reveals the fact that his wife, who at first enthusiastically supported his views regarding the right of men to possess large fortunes, changed her mind after spending a winter in a cold and barely furnished farmhouse. Several months ago she returned to her parents, leaving her husband to pursue bis ideal of a poor but happy farmer living in perfect contentment with nature and a few books. Mr Garland announced that he will 'retain £IOO for himself and divide the residue of the quarter of the legacy among ten friends whom he can trust to utilise money for the Benefit of the community.

THE SPORtING Bit AIN. PARIS, Jan 3. “The brain works better when exercise is taken by the body,” says Mile. Delapierre. are new secretary of the Frenoh Women’s Sports Association. And her words have weight in France because besides being last year’s champion hurdler she is a graduate in philosophy. She says she is disappointed that m French universities indulgence in sport by the students has not the general support it should have. Too many pastyfatoed youths do not play and they laugh at any attempt of the women to take part in open-air athletics, she declares, but though the campaign may last 20 years she and her fellow enthusiasts intend to work for the introduction of compulsory games in universities.