NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

I.iiNDON-l'-S. All? MAIL. LONDON, May 17 It is understood that the promoters of an Air Mail Service between London and New \ork proptj.se to catty mu ait experimental trip at their own expense to show the pracl ieahility of their proposals. Ih-loft- asking for Government aid they intend proving t hat they can make the journey by a -cries <d aeroplanes ol dilb rent powers for dillereltt stages. Dor instance, a higlier-powei niiichiiie would he required for the trip from the A/.ores to Halifax than from Halifax to New York.

LOOK I NO U’TKR L'lt'N,ooo,ooo. LONDON. May 17. Tlu> repori ni' ill*' Public Trusti'i' for the year to .March hi last, slates that the result- of the year's working was a surplus of (No,-100, eoniparcil with a cleiieit of £-11,20.3 for the previous year ami of WlS.oh; for 1020-21. Tliis result was flue, says Mr Simpkin, the Trustee, not so milch to increase in the revenue a- to reduction of expenditure. Till' aggregate value of now business, including accretions to old trusts, during the year was £ 1 .3.332,30!), as compared with till.!)11.220 for the previous year, when, however, the aggregate was swollen by one estate of unusually large value. The number of new cases accepted during the year was 00.3. as compared with 1,130 for the previous year. The number of eases under administration at the end of the year was 1-3,(500, having an estimated value of a pp ro x i in a t elv € 1 OS, GOO, Of It). The gross proceeds of the realisation of enemy property amounted at the end of the year to about £(50.000,-' 000. PANIC AT A TSFLL-FIOHT. MARSEILLES, May 23 An extraordinary chapter of acoi-

dents took place at l.unel l.lcrault during a hull fight ill tlie Ercnch style, in which the toreadors, instead of killing the bull, use imlcs for jimipinc: on to ibe animal’s 1-aek. The points of the animal’s horns are of course padded.

Jn jumping at the second bull, a toreador named Alassett glanced off the animal's horns and had a had fall. Another toreador. Dussaud, was still more unfortunate. Ite tripped on the hull's head and was thrown to the ground attd trampled underfoot. The pad came oil' one of the horns, and lie was badly gored in the abdomen. The third and fourth hulls also got the heller of the toreadors, who were knocked down and trampled on.

While the victims were being carried off a panic took place among the crowd, someone having shouted that a hull was loose. A stampede followed. About I 111 l people tonic refuge in a merry-go-round which collapsed under their Height. Several persons were injured, hut not seriously.

SCHOOLBOYS' ENTENTE. DOEI.OtINE, May 23. The 30D British schoolboys who are at present uniting Era nee visited today in groups the towns or villages which have been adopted hv their own towns. At. orandcouri hoys coining from Stourbridge gave the inhabitants presents of linen which they had brought with them from England. A party of Blackburn schoolboys who visited Permute wore each accompanied by a Etench schoolboy who acted a- a guide throughout the day. THE GOLDEN ROSE. MADRID, May 22. The insignia of the distinction of the G.d-.h-u Bose, which lias been bestowed by the Rope on the Queen of Spain, was handed to the Queen yesterday by the Papal Nuncio. Mgr. Tedeseliini. Tin* Ministers and members of i lie Diplomatic C orps were among tho.-o who were present at the ceremony. The Golden Rose dates front the lit!' century, since when one such ornament has la oil blessed by the Pope every year, being then conferred ttpott n famous church or upon a. distinguished Catholic. It consists of a branch of a rise tree hearing twelve roses and seven hud- standing in a jar of the Renaissance period. Within the petals of one of the roses is a small phial of hal-nm musk which has been blessed by the Pope, as a symbol of the Resurrection. •SOVIET ‘.rrSTICE.”

LONDON, May 22 "Jl anyone feels like being ‘bolshie.' let hint go and live in Russia for a , few months ; he will be glad to get bark to British conditions and British rule." said Skipper Nielsen, of the trawler dames Johnson, who arrived at Hull yesterday after having been imprisoned hv the Russians for alleged illegal fishing off the Murmansk coast. Describing what passes for a trial under Soviet rule. Skipper Nielsen said the crew were brought into court three weeks after arrest. ‘‘They took us into a large hut, and, after a good deal of ‘parleying’ we did not understand, we were told we were guilty of fishing in illegal waters and would be detained. "The judge who told tn this was previously a ship’s donkeyniau.”