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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1923, Page 2

BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A GRUESOME FIND. PARIS, March 17. The discovery of 30 skeletons in a vault during excavations, near Pans, has proved of great arciinelogical interest, in asmuch as they are believed to be those of the martyrs of the religious wars in the time of Henry the I' our *ijJo The victims were evidently burned alive, for the walls show marks of finger nails pointing to a terrible struggle to escape doom. The victims are of all ages, the bones of an intnnt’s leg being included. BRITISH BANKER’S VISIT. LONDON, March IS Mr Norman, Governor of the Rank of England, is visiting Berlin. I TO GO WHALING. 1 LONDON, March 15 An agent for the Crown Colonies has purchased Captain Scott’s Antarctic vessel “Discovery.” She will ho utilised by a Colonial Office Kxpedi%iit to study the habits of whales in tho vicinity of the Falkland Islands. Tho vessel is being refitted, and starts towards the end of the year. CHINESE EGGS. LONDON, March 18. Mr Prettynuui. in moving the second reading of a Bill for marking eggs, said, as illustrating the need for marking eggs, that a Nottingham lady ; bought so-called new-laid eggs, put ! them under a hen, and in due course, she hatched out four lizards. These were Chinese eggs. CATHOLIC HOME BURNED. OTTAWA, March 16. At Montreal, the Catholic Home for Incurables has been destroyed by fire. , The lire’s origin is yet undetermined. It : caused the loss of one million dollars. One octogenarian woman patient died ! from the shock of removal, but tho nuns and attendants rescued two hun--1 dred inmates. This is the fourteenth t Catholic institution that has been destroyed. j The combined losses total five million ! dollars, not counting the irreplaeable treasures. ! A HUSBAND’S CRIME, j LONDON, March 17 i A telegram from Geneva states Louis Borrat, a Frenchman, hearing his divorced wife was about to re-marry, visited her flat, bound and gagged her, and cut off her hair close to the scalp. I Then he cut a cross on her chest. She was removed to a hospital. Borrat ; was arrested while endeavouring to cross the French frontier, after a sevvre struggle with the police. Ho 1 stated that he wanted to destroy _ his wife’s fatal beauty, which had ruined him. GOLD COINAGE. LONDON. March Ufw The treasury authorities and are discussing the advisability of permuting a certain quantity of gold coin- ' age being eireuhitcd. The only drawback is tlie unsettled condition of Europe. ! MR HIT AGE OF FINE WOOL. \ LONDON. March 1(5. ' The Chairman of William Hollins Companv (hosiery spinners) speaking at the annual meeting at Nottingham, said there was a world shortage of fine wool. I He thought a famine might be exper- ! ienced liefore the end of 1923, unless i the present rate of consumption was j considerably reduced. 1 HOUSING HELP.

rousing help. IiONRON, March 16. I it is officially reported that Mr NoI villi* Chamberlain at a conference between municipalities and Ministry ° i Health ,announced that Government ! had decided to assist municipalities to build houses for workers, by firnnting sis pounds per house yearly lor twenty ! .-ears The Conference considered tills won id enable buildings to he pressed ' forward vigorously. LEAGUE OF NAIIONS. LONDON. March 10.

Tlie Council of the League of Nations Union .on the motion <d cjvnes Murray, after addresses by MrCh • and Lord Robert Cecil. adopUflTa T( ‘ solution reaffirming the necessity of I - ". g reparations and international sihle with the assistance of German and United States and urging to do their utmost to strengthen the h i,ids of Parliament and the government in this directionWHEAT MARKET. LONDON, March 17. The wheat market preserved a firm tone and quotations are threepence and sixpence above last level. Business » checked by the high prices asked. 1 ar-c-els opened firmly in sympathy with 'American cables and closed quietly threepence below the days best.

HUSBAND POISONERS. LONDON. March 17. V„ amazing murder case terminated ;n Berlin wherein Mrs Klein and Mrs Roblie, aged 23 and 2-5, were convicted of murdering and attempting to murder their husbands respectively to enable the widows to live together. Mrs Klein, owing to extenuating circumstances, was sentenced to four years, and Mrs Roblie to 18 months. Mrs Klein bought arsenic on the pretence that the house was infested with rats. Her husband died shortly afterwards. Telling the doctors that her husband was ail habitual drunkard, she induced them to certify to his death as from alcoholic poisoning. When her house wa s searched. .500 love letters from] Rebbe were found, disclosing the women’s agreement to kill their husbands.

The women’s letters were written in the most extravagant terms, showing the women’s devotion was of the craziest description. Such phrase as “darling of my heart,” “my only beloved,” - and “my pet” were common. Once i Mrs Klein wrote to Mrs Rebbe:—“lt is night. Klein is wandering up and down the room in a fever of pain, so that he would like to climb the wall. That will not save him. I shall not loose ray clutches. He will never escape my fingers. I wont let him get well.” '

Again it was stated at the trial that both men were of brutal character, and of debased instincts and drove wives to the verge of insanity by illtreatment. Mrs Rebbo’s mother, a white-haired woman, was acquitted on a charge of collaboration. WIFE’S EXTRAVAGANCE. LONDON, March 17. Judgment was given lor Captain Nash' in the case firm sued him for the cost of'.%i’e dresses supplied to Mrs Nash, who aimed to bo the best dressed woman in London^

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