RAILWAY SPEED-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1923, Page 3

RAILWAY SPEED-UP.

FASTER summer trains

, 0 milks an HOUR EXPRESSES.

LONDON, June H

S’est month wilt see a general speed-ing-up of British railways to cope with the holiday traffic. . During the summer service period expresses generally "ill develop speeds of about SO miles an hour; and present records will he eclipsed. Uroin July 9 the fastest train in the British Lies will 1,0 the Croat Western Company s afternoon straight run between Swindon and Paddington. The oi miles will occupy 13 minutes. The fastest running without a stop is now made on the Croat Western Railway between Paddington and Bath miles an hour ; and on the London and North-Eastern route between Darlington and York—ll miles at 01 miles an hour. The" London and North-Eastern Railway are speeding up their services, and the Scottish expresses are to be due in Edinburgh and Glasgow from 15 minutes to 72 minutes in advance of the present timings. Trians irom King s Cross to Leeds. Bradford and the West Hiding will lie accelerated from 15 to 35 minutes: and the 11.59 a.in. lor Scarborough "ill run the IKS miles to York without a stop. The alterations in the train services generally will be so numerous that the different companies’ time-tabes should he carefully studied before making a journey on and after July 9.

NECKLACE .MYSTERY. LONDON, Juno 7

A clever and mysterious robbery of a pearl necklace of the vnhto of £20,000 was reported to New Scotland Yard detectives yesterday. The necklage is the property of .Mrs C'ory. a wealthy woman who occupies a. suite at the Carlton Hotel. On .Monday night Alts Cory arrived tn London from Paris and took a taxicab to the Carlton Hotel, where she had engaged a suite. She brought with tier jewels of very considerable value. On Tuesday nigot Airs C'ory was anxious to wear the necklace, but her maid could not find it in its usual place among the other jewels. Airs C’ory and the maid searched the whole of the luggage. Yesterday Mrs Cory tame to the conclusion that thieves had somehow gained possession of the necklace and sought the aid of Scotland Yard detectives. The police are puzzled by the mystery, as tbeio is no indication that the ease containing the gems has been tampered with, and the theory is that the rol>oer.v was committed either in Paris or on the journey from Pan’s to London.

AIEN AND AYOAIEN DOCTORS. LONDON, April 11. “For the first time since women were admitted to the medical profession the male practitioner is now beginning to show antagonism,” said Dr. Winifred C nil is, Professor of Physiology, University of London, at a meeting of the .Six Point Group, a women's organisation. at 92. Victoria-street, S.W. last night. “It is due, 1. think, to the fact that most women doctors make good and there is a. fear that they may crowd out male practitioners.”

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