NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1922, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

RECORD COAL EXPORT. LONDON, Aug. 22. Approximate figures given yesterday show that the United States has bought 2,000,000 tons of South Wales coal as a result of the miners’ strike in the United States. Last week the export of coal to foreign destinations from Soutli Wales amounted to 599,099 tons, which is a record for the year; 146,148 tons went to the United States.

■ TWICE STRICKEN DUMB. LONDON, Aug. 22. -\n uncommon case of sleepy sickness was described at Mitcham, Surrey, yesterday at the inquest on Mrs Edith Mary Coffee, 40, of Morden, Surrey. It was stated that Mrs Coffee had lately felt occasional numbness in the right side but had given it little thought. A week ago she found herself unable to speak. Sh econsiiltod a doctor next day, although the curious symptom had passed. Ihe doctor could find nothing wrong with her. On the Wednesday her sjjeeeh again failed. She died next day.

The jKist mortem, it "as staled, showed that the parts of the brain controlling speech, and also movement and feeling-on the right side were softened. Death was due to encephalitis 1 thargica (sleepy sickness). Death from Natural Causes was the verdict. ijg,; EXTINCT INSECTS. NEW YORK, Aug 21. The bodies of millions of prehistoric insects of a kind which became extinct thousands of years ago have been found by Government scientists frozen into an ancient glacier high in the mountains of Yeiltowstone Park, ail area of 3,348 square milos in Wyoming set aside as a national park in 1572. The glacier was discovered in 1889. since when it has been known ns the Grasshopper Glacier, owing to the number of supposed insects which could lie seen through tho face of the ioo wall 200 ft. high forming the foot of the- glacier. Early this summer, Dr William Clinton Aldon. an expert in glacier geology. led a party of scientists there from Washington. They now report that tho insects are not grasshoppers, but below to no known species. The insects are perfectly preserved, and it is possible to study every detail of their a not only. It is stated that except for the finding of mastodons in the Ice "Cape. Northern Siberia, this is tlie only known case of the actual flesh of prehistoric creatures being preserved.

RUSSIAN TRADE REVIYAI

LONDON, Aug. 22

The latest official news from Russia regarding the lainine is satisfactory. It is definitely minced in area and gravity. Hut the prospects of a good corn harvest are small, and not only is tlte area of cultivation seriously tediteed but also the corn grown turns out to be very inferior in quality. In those circumstances the extra vacant promises of certain Russian officials that there would he corn to spare for export are misleading. At the very best the peasants' will, have just enough to avoid starvation in the current year and no more. Trade, on the other hand, seems to lie reviving m the towns, wheio, thanks to the legal revival of private property, commerce has a chance, to prosper. Many German (inns hope, by employing Russian workmen and paving them in roubles, to produce goods abnormally cheap for the exploitation of the European market.

WEST ENT) STREET SHOTS. LONDON, Aug. 22. A mysterious shooting affray which occurred at 10 o’clock last night at Wriglit’s-lane, Kensington, resulted m the death of one man and the wounding of another. Wright’s-lano runs off High-street, Kensington, and the street was praetieallv deserted "lien four shots rang out. People rushed to the spot from High-street, and found a man of dark complexion lying dead in the street outside. Messrs Routing’s establishment. He had a revolver in Ins hand ami a motor-cycle standing near by is believed to have been bis property. Later a voting man, Gilbert \\ illiam E. Doughty, reached his home, about TIO yards away, at No. 1. Falkland House, Morloes-road, where he lived with Mr and Mrs Elliott Clark, and as he entered he sank down iukl collapsed. Tie was taken to the Kensington Infirmary across the road, where he was found to he suffering from bullet wounds, and was stated late last night to lie in a very critical condition. The origin of the shooting is a mystery. . Father Dillon Doyle, who was dining with some friends at Iverna-court, opposite the scene of the shooting, told a Daily Mail reporter that when be

looked from the balcony he saw a civilian walking rapidly along Jvernacourt towards Iverna gardens, which leads into Marloes-road, and lie now presumed that the man was Doughty, who must have walked the distance before he collapsed. “Across the road,” said Father Dillon Tfoyle, “I saw another man lying on the ground, and the only other people in the street were three soldiers who were taking shelter from the firing. They afterwards ran after the wounded man. I looked at the dead man, and he appeared to me to be a mulatto. Apparently the dead mail fired three shots before turning the weapon on himself, hut although the police searched for traces of any bullets on the road and walls of any ot the adjoining buildings none was found.”

The name of the man who is stated to have fired the shots at Doughty and to have committed suicide afterwards is IT. R. Young, of Mitcham-lane, Streatham. The two men were understood to have met hy appointment last night, and the shooting followed a short conversation.

FALL AT NIAGARA. NEW YORK, Sept, ¥ Seated in a. runaway motor car,, a Cleveland, Ohio woman, Mrs Agatha Miller, was carried yesterday over the cliffs of the gorge above Niagara Falls and killed on the rooks 200 ft below. Mrs Miller had driven to the Falls from Buffalo with her husband and friends. The car was left near, the bridge spanning the gorge while the party explored. Mrs Miller returned before tho others and climbed into the car. Immediately it began to move iown the slopo towards the precipice. Two men ran after the vehicle and tried to stop it hy clutching at the mud guards.