NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

PRINCESS'S HUSBAND AS A OLE SEAMAN. NEW YORK. April 2H. Mr William S. Leeds. husband of Princess Xenia. daughter of the Grand Duke George Nlikliailovich. is working his way n.s able seaman on board the Ellormaii cargo steamer Marengo (G,302 tons), which left Hoboken, New Jersey, a week ago for Hull. It is stated that ho embarked as the result of a bet of £2.000. Ill's wife and valet, who went abend of him, are said by Mrs Henderson Green Leeds, his aunt, to have arranged to meet ldm at Hull. Mr Leeds is the son of Princess Anastasia of Greece, the widow ot Mr William ]!. Leeds, who married Prince Christopher of Greece at Yoyoy in Switzerland in 1921 b Mr V, i 11 inm S. f.oc-iL is now 21. He married Princess Xenia n Pari-, in October 1921. Hifather was an American metal millionaire. WOMAN TO HE HANGED. OTTAWA, April 20. The lirst woman to be hanged m Canadr in 21 years will go to the scaffold at Lethbridge. Alberta, on Wednesday. The Governor-General in Council has refused to commute the sentence of Florence Lessandra. who. with Emilio Picr.rello. was found guilty of shooting a constable named Steve Lnw- . , n ..j ('.,i,. Alberta. A strenuous (i.dit was mad" i > save the woman, an PUPea! am:in-' the -entei.ee being made I,vice, linallv bef-u'e the Supreme Court ~f 1,.. Air.-, l.assuudra is Kalian i,v birth. Pi;-arclle.. her accomplice, wa-; a notorious liouor smuggler ol the rv : -,‘, Nc-1 Pn-s district. The slicot- ( ~,0 ~ I;, s he autumn. HUl.Sil F.Y i K G RAIN. TORN FROM THE STARVING TO RAISE MONEY. PERI.IN. April 19. In spite of the famine in Russia, the Hulshoviks are determined to continue the export of grain. A Moscow despati h states that Kray. : in in the course of an interview said chat the Government is determined to u-t very large quantities ol corn during: the present year. He declar-M that the export of corn was a matter , f the greatest importance because it would lead to the stabilisation pi the rouble, and wa- a serious argument in favour -of the recognition ol the Soviet Government. , The truth is. of course, that the lml1] s j„ (lire need of money, and have* nothing to sell except corn, which t hi'V j»r« i idling Ifjnn tlic iuo’U.?s i!ha hi m rvinp:. That Kra-sin's words about il.-; sinb.l.„f the rouble are rubb.d. may |„- jedg 'd from the olli; ml U>u'la.mn ~i [!c,* £ sterling <>u the AP January 27',h. the exchange_ for £1 wa- it-, t.t::' j[ ■ opuVKI.OTh and on •': 111 1 , :>:t I.: !'K I.; W >. l’oforo the v>yir a ~|,u | .|.- was wort 1 ' a little over 2s. nol'E!, CHAPELS. NEW YORK. Aui'd Id. M-..uv of the leading, American bo;v. hicb :t.-r to alnm-l every conccivablc biiman need, arc being cq.upp -.l will-, chap I- lor prayer and mcdui-(irdc-rs have already bvcii i*L"“ '> with a uroininciii him ol atvliiicc t s to dosi-ni suitable idm - ol worship tor i . !P!i more. Commodore, and IL-V !l: , ill holds in New York, and for the gi-,.::i chain of hole!- known a.- the IJi,-. 1 . lean group at 1.0- Angeles. Atlanta. Havana and oilier cities. Me John M 1 E. E iwman, who is res p: 111 - i I -1 - tor iliis innovation, to-dav pro:.., | the conviction that bis oxample \ ill be sure HI •• imitated by all Amcrii t>.si hoc! proprietors. 11 - adds tt hi- hotel chapels will In: l-a-pl open day and night as a per-

petiml invitation to those of Lis patrons and employees who desire to mediate and pray. Each will have a stain-si-glass window, an altar dt.-.-orat-ed with fresh flowers, en :1k drill chairs, and L’pnntpriule lighting. WOEM-OF-PR I'.y. WOND ER FT I. "GFN” OF A NEW ZOO ARRIVAL. LONDON, April 17. A most extraordinary “worm” lias just- arrived rt the London Zoological Gardens from... Trio hind—the peripatus. U is now in th- ( aird Insect House. The peripatus is a queer link between tin-, s-corpi-m and the ordinary worm. Its back is cho.■date-coloured, while underneath it is coral-pink. This worni-of-ptvy is about 3in. long and possesses both jaws and legs. Its strangest characteristic is that it limits flics and oilier small in-ects with the help cf a kind of gnu! (:awi!ng up to its prey on (roughly) ;jq pairs of legs, it suddenly shoots out a pellet of intensely Micky stuff, which irjiifs it' victim motionless until the peripa.ut.s ambles up rtul devours its meal. ’l'll,, .niff is .trci'; enough to stick a man's thumb and linger together, end it needs quite an < Ifoid to separate them. The ammitn.iion cf the poripaltts does ii,■ t, her.over, sties to the creature’s ov n skin. At the Zoo the ‘'gun" has already 1 icved itself to have a range of at least fill.