NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

FORGETFUL LOVER. LONDON, April 13. "No doubt, this girl was disappointed at her lover not taking her out ns fie promised, and she took her life during a temporary fit of depression,’' said Mr Hanford Thomas, the coroner, at a City of London inquest yesterdav on Dorothy Stevens, 22, a linen maid, of West-square, St. George sroad, Southwark. S.E., who was found drowned in the Thames. Walter Patch, :i printer’s assistant, said he was engaged to the girl and lliev wove contemplating marriage very soon. On Saturday, March 31, when he came home, he promised to take her to the pictures. He went out, intending to be absent only a few minutes, but forgot about the pictures and went to bis sister-in-law s paitv in celebration of her husband's birthday. While he was at the party Aliss Stevens came in and said, "Aon did not come hack.” He apologised, and later, when she said she must go, be offered to go with her, hut she said she would run across ihe square by herself. He did not sec her again. It was stated that she disappeared tin' same evening. CHEAT TOBACCO KIBE. LONDON. April 1G Six thousand tons of tobacco was destroyed by tire in London on Saturday at the Port of London Authority's bonded warehouse on the north quay of the Victoria Docks. The bulk of the tohaico belonged to the Imperial Tobacco Company.

At 15 a,m. policemen on duty tn the neighbourhood smelt tobacco tutnes and found that the stocks in the wnre-lioii-e were smouldering. Apparently fire had broken out late the previous night. By 3 a.in. the 5(10 feet by 65 feet building was emitting fumes that almost choked people in a wide area surrounding. 3 lie wind eafried ihe fumes three or four miles when the lire was at its worst.

When the dock firemen and neighbouring In igades arrived it was ioimd Ibai lhe tobacco was burning furiously. Blinding walls of smoke inllamed Hie eves of all the workers, and several Pott of London officials, police, and firemen were rendered unconscious.

Roon after 3 a.in. the roof collapsed. Hv 7 a.m. the ilames had been extinguished. but tile tobacco was steadily smouldering to an ash. The lire cannot cause an immediate scarcity bec-ati-e large stocks are held of tobacco more nearly ready for ihe market. Six thousand tons represents 215,010,000 ounces of tobacco. Supposing that there arc S.mtO.OOO men in this country -looking on an average 2 ounces a week, this quantity would last more than three months. MONTE CARLO HEAD RESIGNS. PARIS, April 16 M. Camille Rhine has resigned the presidency of the Monte Carlo syndicate owing to his si ate ol health. He has recently closed down his racing stable for the same reason. The syndicate of which M. Blanc was president is the Society de.s Bains do Mer el dll Cercle des Elrnngers (Sea Bathing and Foreigners’ Club Company), which has been responsible for the am arcing development of Monte Carlo from a small seaside place to the greatest: Cosmopolitan gambling resort in the world. The syndicate controls the casino, the concerts, opera performances, and the other attractions of the place. PONY’S DEATH AGONY. LONDON. April (>.

A correspondent, who witnessed an accident in the City of Luton on Ihu.--day afternoon, in which the off fore hoof of a pony was "shorn away ” writes that the owner wished it to Indestroyed immediately, and a mat' standing by with chloroform and lint was willing to carry out his wish, but the police insisted on awaiting the arrival of a. veterinary surgeon. This caused a delay of more than hall an hour. Eventually some of the bystanders intervened and chlorotormed the suffering animal. \t the City Police headquarters yesterday it was stated that it was the dutv of the police to send for a •irv Simmon. They could not tn,-.. the responsibility of allowing any onlooker to destroy the animal, because he might not be competent to do it and ii hr bungled the suffering- ot me nm.mil might ho increased. ■C 10,000 RANK TRICK. PARIS, April 0. Two Marseilles bank clerks were robbed of £IO,OOO hv n clover ruse yesterday. They wore paving in the money a the Rank of France, one man ma.ving out the paying-in slip, while the other watched the package of money, which ho had placed cm the counter. A stranger spoke to the latter, and pointin'' to two 50-frane notes on the floor, said. "Do these belong to yon?" The clerk, thinking be must have dropped them, heat down to pm it up the notes. At the same moment the stranger substituted for the package of money on the counter a pa, c>-| which, when it was opened, v.as found to contain old newspapers. By that time the obliging stranger had vanished-