NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

HOSPITAL comfort*. LONDON, .luno 2-?. 1!.,, l.atlcci. suggests to all hospitals that they should allow trait to be brought to patients liy tlu'ir friends, limit r mmln-al -upc rvision. 'i'll,. paper scut a quest ionaitv to a roiad.tr large lio'.lii ial ■• a ltd received 1> ivplie-. All these IS hospitals allow butivr and eggs to la' brought tit pafieittsi, subject to the discretion of the sister of the ward. Sixteen permit fruit: hut 2 forbid its introduction. Woven allow sweets. SLASH OR F BAPTISM. LONDON, .1 nno 23. About a score of people, mainly middle-aged women, but including one v. Oman ot ill. and a man of S.t, wete publielv baptised in Belfast Lough as members ol a scut called the "( ooiieyites.” The candidates each put on a black i-ohe and, after making it prolessioit ol faith, aas baptised by an elder standmo jo i Ik- ..on in the presence oi a crowd of spectators. Alter each baptism the older elders gathered at the mice of the water singing a *ong ot triumph, and dancing. The "C oiuioyites” otherwise known a- the 1 Tramp Preachers/' take their mime from Mr Edward Cooney, one ot ihoir earlv leaders, the son of a Fermanagh merchant. They renounce all worldly possessions, go about in the poorest of clothing, and rely ou the charit able lor lend and slietter.

RROTFtTOI! OK KINDS. PARIS. July 3. ,M. Xavier Paoli. who watched over so maiiv kings ami princes when in I'Tvtnce, and was the most decorated police ollii er in the world, died \esterday ill his tilsi year. For 2b years M. Paoli had been entrusted hv th(> French Ooverninent with safeguarding visiting Sovereigns. Christened the ■•Protector ot Sovereigns" hv King Leopold o! the Belgians. Paoli was discovered by Queen Victoria in Is-. when she was staying at Aix-les-Baitts. Thereatter she refused to cross French territory mile's he was in attendance and always referred to hint as **ee lion Paoli. A man of medium height, rigidly erect, and leokiu i not more than otl when lie v. as nea idv 77. Paoli retired ill 1909. At that time his ihn in Paris was a nitisetiin of gifts hum emperors and empresses, kings and princes—gemstudded cigarette c.i-es. gold sear! pins, di coral ion- in diamonds. each with history.

iJiiO* *ll Virt«>ri;l \v;i> so loinl ol him t j,jn >},*. jr*u'o hint n jil.no nmonp: tho i- M inri’S :tm{ (listini'itishod envoys ?»t liei- Johihe. Her utfedion tut- equalled hv tbat of King lv.lward. When the life of King Fdwartl then Prince of Wales) was attempted bv Sipido at the Care dll ..Nord. Brussels, in 1899. h,. eyelaimed : "Had only Paoli been there, it would never have happened.’’