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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

NEW EAR “SURGERY.” LONDON, June 29. Dr Curtice 11. Munice, the New York aui'ist. i- passing through London on his way to Paris, where he will use his system of "constructive linger surgery,” by which he claims to cure deafness, in an effort to restore the hearing of the King of Spain's second son, Don Jaime, who has been deaf since birth. He said yesterday that his system is not surgery in the ordinary sense, as no instruments are used, and that he relies entirely upon the delicate touch of his lingers to reconstruct the Eustachian tube. "Most deafness,” he added, “is due to a deformity or derangement of tin's tube, which is the passage that lends from the hack of the nose to the middle ear. Although 1 have dealt with many | hundreds of eases in America, this is the first time that, construetive finger surgery will have been demonstrated in Europe.”

PARIS CRINOLINES. PAR IS, June 29. Tlie leading fashion houses are receiving large orders for crinolines which are worn chiefly at the races, garden parties, and fashionable social functions. The corsage of the new crinoline is worn light about the waist, and the re-t is an arrangement of flowing draperies, which do not, however, touch the ground, hut fall short at Hie ankle-.

FREE BEER. ALL ROUND. NEW YORK. June 29 By order of the captain of the Cunarder Aqiiitania. which docked today, the British Customs seal on the liquor supplies intended for iho return voyage were broken at sea, and beer and whisky were distributed among the passengers. All that remained lincoiisumcd at the three-miles limit was included in her medical stores. Other happy passenger.- to arrive today were those aboard the Italian liner Presidonto H ilson. Two days from New York her captain received a wireless message notifying hint that beer had been excluded from the list of “medicinal" liquors under the Prohibition regulations.

I le replied “We are doing the best we can. A thousand passengers are drinking beer a- last as the can, hut their capacity is unequal in the supply and so wo iiiv throwing overboard 2‘) barrel-.

HORSE'S TREE I) Li AI H. LONDON. June 29. Laden, a valuable horse and a winHer in recent cavalry point-to-point races, was lound dead near the Aidershot rat •(■course ycslo: day with its head wedged in the huk ot an overhanging branch nf a tree. Banco belonged to Lieut. I). O'lt. E. 11. Blake, ot the 13-18 Hus-ars. Sonic days ago lie managed to get away from his st.ililes, and he strayed a distance of three miles to the spot where hibodv was lound. The position of his nndy suggests that In- was rearing up to crop the leaves on tile higher branches nf the live wln>M Ids neck was caught in the lock and he was unable to release hinisell. Ihe trampled ground at the font ot the t:ee shows how terrible must have keen his struggles to escape. ANGER AT “DRY" SEA LAW. NEW YORK. June 20. 1 attended last night a kinema performance at which pictures were exhibited showing the Customs and Health authorities ~f New York in the net of seizing tiipior a heard British liners. The effect on the spectators was elect plying. A s the film disclosed cases of v hi-k.v being lilted out of the hold of a giant liner, several “dry" <nt lnisiasts began in applaud. Their applause was at iMice drowned by a tornado el hissing from the “wets", who renewed their demonstrations wlien a picture of Mr Canfield. Director of Prohibition in New York, was thrown on the screen. Five thousand bottles of beer were seized by the authorities from the Adriatic at Boston. Tile sight so enraged a well-known British capitalist who was aboard, that he instantly despatched instruct ions by cablegram to England eancelling £IIIO.OLD worth of machinery which were to have been placed in the United States.

AIR AY If,SON’S DAI OUTER. NFAY YORK. June 29. .Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of ex-1 Te-ident Wilson, started a new career yesterday ns an advertising agent. She tins become a partner in a national agency, with headquarters in New York. To reporters and photographers who trooped to her sumptuous offices site said site bad always been interested in com oiefeta 1 undertakings ami •* vear ago decided to enter btisitte-s. Tile “advertising game.” sin* said, particularly appealed to her. Site prepared herself for it by 12 months’ intensive study. Aftss AYilsoti starts work at 0 in the morning takes ball tilt hour for luncheon and remains at work until She succeeded, a lew hours alter starting business, in obtaining a large eonti act. b.S. AFT HOB'S OFFER. NEW YORK, .lone 2‘.b A prize of L2O.C : is olfered to-day 1.. Mr Eduard W. link, the well-known author and journalist, to tin* American who conceives tile most practicable ~|; , n for t la* co-operat ion ct the l nited States with other nations for the establishment and preservation ot v.i.rhi 1 The prize is christened “The .;mot*can Peace Award." It is lo be divided into two equal parts, the hist to be paid for the idea itself ; the_ second to l,e .riven when the practicability ol the ido;7 is demonstrated, either through its adoption by the United Slates Senate or"because it is endorsed by a still,dent popular response. The precise conditions el the contest are to be announced in a l«’W after a jury of award shad have been selected by a pohey commute,* o un - known Americans which has bun appointed by Air Bok. Air Rnk in announcing the .ompe.ition. states that its purpose is (o give the American peopu* as a " 111 " ; h-utee m express itself on ptoUlf.it fir Which V.e have not been able to hmi answer through political annuls 1.. through the .‘(forts ol interested special groups.

BELGIAN SCHOOL SCANDAL

BRUSSELS. June 29

three rooms. Tlie Wcstby children wero forced to Hard menial work. DEATH OF STABBED PROFESSOR. ROME, dune Professor M. Pietravalle. Vice-Presi-dent of the Italian (_ number of Deputies, died at Naples Hospital this afternoon from peritonitis caused by a knifot.irust received on Thursday. The police are still in the dark con- I corning the motive for tne attack and j the identity of his assailant. j