VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1922, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

BANK FAILURE

OFFICIALS TO BE PROSECUTED

VANCOUVER, March 24

Under the instructions of Mr W. L. Mackenzie King (Prime Minister oi Canada), two of Canada’s leading bunkers will be prosecuted (according to a message from Ottawa), for making false returns to the Government regarding the assets of the defunct Merchants’ Rank, whose recent failure cost the shareholders 9,000,000 dollars. The men charged are Sir Montagu Allen and Mr Duncan Macarrow, formerly the president and general manager respectively. The bank ‘‘busted” when it became known that it bad lent 5,000,000 dollars to a Montreal “buc-ket-shop,” which collapsed.

HAPPY CAPTIVES

WILD BEASTS IN ZOO

LONDON, March 24

“Many people wanted the Zoo abolished,” said the chairman of the Select Committee of the House ol Commons inquiring into the allegations of cruelty to performing animals, to Professor Chalmers Mitchell (secretary to the Zoological Society), when the latter was examined.

Professor Mitchell replied that much advantage was derived by the animals from their captivity, because it saved them from the constant fear and anxiety associated with their normal existence.

He did not think that performance necessarily involved cruelty, ami ex pressed t lie opinion ilia I wild animal* had a higher capacity for training tiuu domestic.

He narrated the case of a her. whose trainer was. imprisoned for cruel tv. The beast was kept at the Zoo hut sulked and whined till its trainc was released. When the latter enterei the cage the hear was delighted am lie keel his face.

LAYOURED OL LORTUNE

A MILK BOY’S LUCK

LONDON, March 26

When Glanley won the Lincolnshire on Wednesday lie caused a flutter among the actresses engaged by Daly’s 'liicatro. The horse is owned by Mr James White, win: is also chairman of the company which owns the theatre. To the male members of the* east Mr White gave the' advice that they should “put their shirts’’ on Glanelv, while the ladies were also urged to back it. The consequence was that many of ihetn won nice amounts. Mr "White’s barber won £IOOO.

Fortune lias smiled on Charlie Mitchell. a Liverpool milkboy. as the result ol the victory ol M nsic Hall in the Grand National Steeplechase. He won £5(100 in a sweep with a ticket which was presented to him by a regular customer of a restaurant at which he delivered milk.

A linotype operator employed by a Liverpool newspaper won £3009 in the Cotton Association’s sweep.

NO “IDLE RICH” NOW

POVERTY OF UNIVERSITIES

LONDON, March 24. That the Oxford and Cambridge l diversities. are threatened with extinction unless the Government comes to the rosette, is the burden of the Royal Commission’s report recommending an annua! State grant of CIIO.OOO each as the minimum necessary to prevent an immediate decline, but utterly insufficient for future development.

The parlous state of the universities is mainly due to the change in money values.

The report adds: “The ‘idle-rich idea can no longer be associated with the universities. The undergraduates for the most .part, are hard-working and serious-minded, with a large proportion of poor men.” The commission recommends higher pav for the professors and more scholarship grants for the women’s colleges.