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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1923, Page 4

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£85,000 TO GO TO HOSPITALS. LONDON. April 25 Air Harry Kaye, of Rayleigh, South Croydon, Surrey, the City metal merchant, who shot his wife and sleeping child and then himself on the verandah of their home on September Hi last, left css. 127. ||c left one month's u ages to each ill his servants for each year of service up to two years. Owing to the death oi hi' wile and son before himself, the res due oi hi-: properly deceive.- to his trustees for division among such hospitals in lac City and (minty of London as they may select. Air Kaye directed that his body should he cremated and the ashes ground to powder and then thrown to the four winds of heaven, adding that he desired no outward sign oi mourning to lie worn. ft was stated at the inquest on Air Kaye that he was worried by heavy losses in business, reducing his estate by 1(1 to 5(1 per cent. CONFIDENCE 'i'll l< IvS. LONDON. April 25 Sir William llorw, ml, the Chief Com- | nos-iom-r in the l.niidon .Metropolitan I Police, left London for New Aoi l; on Sal ill.lav ini’ I lie 11111' I::' ol attendin': a c oniereiice of ihe polit e chi.': - ul Hr Wol Id. An iiuin.iiic of the attempt l > coordinate the deiei-iive services of the’ world hr.s licet! apparent for some time. Only a few weeks ago Norwegian detectives who had been uiulergoiiig a course of iusl incl ion in the methods of Scotland A’anl left for home, and members of the Ulster Constabulary have also been studying under the London poliee. One of the greatest dilliculties that the conference annually attempts to solve is how to deal with the confidence trickster. In cvciy country in the world he prospers. Thi- is mainly lic-eaii-e of the shyness of victims in coining forward to make public the stories ol how simple they were in handing their money over lo e iiiijdete Klniligcr<. Another reason is Hial victims ere generally “birds of passage" m the towns or cities where they are swindled. DYING WIFE’S. KISs. CAPETOWN. April 21 I'.! 1 "lid Van Renshurg. 23, and Ellen • mrdeii I "111itin. Id. have been -"ii lein-ed Lo death el !’ jd ugl ■ ill. Rei-liua nilbind, i r poi-oiiing Ann Reo-liui'g’s wile with s 1 rye!inine. The girl nasi I'niigly n e oniiieinh'd m men v. (In her dmiihh.il Mi . Van Ren-iiill'g asked her her I::i.-I.*aml in I i-- her and I hen 'cii■-• :! him of j -oiling her.

A coloured man testified that Van Renshurg asked him for something with which to poison his wife, but Renshurg maintained that all he asked from the coloured man, who is credited with magical powers, was something which would drive his wife mad, or influence her to commit adultery so that he might obtain a divorce. OS A lAN DJGXA. LONDON, April 21. Air Thomas Johnston, the Labour member for Stirling and Clackmannan, is to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on Monday if Osman Digna (ihe Arab chieftain has been a dose prisoner for over 22 years, if he is now over 100 years old. and, if so, will the Under-Secretary advise tlie cancellation ol sentence and Osman's release, s > that the old man may bo taken care of by his tribe and end Ids davs in peace. Osman Digna’s name was prominent JO years ago. He was one of the chiefs who commanded the dervishes o! ihe Eastern Sudan under the Afahdi in Hie days of Gordon. There is no accurate information a- to the date of his birth hut he i- undoubtedly of great age. Uiu.'l 1 -.-2 be was a slave dealer at Suakin, Inn in that year he went to Koi'dofan and joined the Alahdi. With a force of dervishes he attacked the Egyptian troops and gained roper,ted viciorii". over them, routing !/)()(> at El Tel>, near Suakiu,. in 188-1, killing 2.375. though tho Egyptians were eonminndcd by Raker Rasba. a British oHicer of 'great experience. In I s'S: i. in'an engagement with an Aiiglotnßir.il tone at Tamai, lie broke inlo the British square and indicted heavy 10.-.. '1 iici'eetor’.'. r I'd. lor many uioiiihs. lie ! har:!--ed Hie <:ai'i'iso;i of Eiiakin. Rut | in 1.-! I he was severely deleate I by the }?fil i-h and oriven into Hie .Sudan. il<- narr-ovlv . eair-l deaih at Omdui'iiian ami alter the fall of Kluii'ium in 1 St.’S he tied inlo the hill country Heir Sii:ikin, where he was captured in Rudd, having been lietrayed by a member of bis family. Soon aiier b’- ciipttnv lie became insane. Old and white-boarded, he took to proclaiming that the English were now ihe prophets of Islam. I’A IT A POLICKAIKN. LONDON, April 25. Tlie lengili to which the Papuan's ! ideas of courtesy will take hint were re'aled by Air .1. 11. P. .Murray. LientGovcnioi' of Raima. New Guinea, in a paper lie fore the Royal ( oloiiial iii-fi-tnte yesterday. \ Papuan, lie -aid, would soUK-tinics idea,! guiliy lo a (barge , f wlib-h !;c wis innocent he- ause he thought Hull i ho judge or the magistrate would like him to do -ii. The same .-lory might In j 101 l iwo or i lii'ee times lo a Patman, | but Ii" ttioild Hugh in-i a- heart'lv or "Xjiress iit-t iho •nine a.-t onislntien t lie I lasi as the first. | "!!" '■ a aie:l in" :oca iry him a.< I lb,- i;i'( r." said a prisoner who was charged with mill' leriiig a not her native, j "Li;! lie look,' I very heavy. Of course j 1 : mdd not be s'.i rude a - lo refuse jo j ' aerv him. ! 1 l,ougi,l that 1 lie lies!