NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

CENSUS SECRETS. LONDON, Aug. 2T. What nit'ti tail do. women tan—in Warwickshire, at any rate. Shakespeare's comity, according to the specially analysed 19:21 census returns just puhlished. can boast of women as: Gas inspectors, aviators (one), shunters. ticket collectors, van "boys.” grooms, stonemasons (two), painters am 1 decorators, 'piano-tuners (one), bargees, brokers, safentakers (one), itinerant preachers, show “men,” bookmakers (six), undertakers (eight), dentists, architects, brewers (two), distillers (three), and cellar “men.” Immigrants front Wales to the Midlands outnumber those from Ireland and Scotland proportinately in relation to the populations of the three countries. G DAYS OX A RAFT. SHANGHAI, Aug. 23. The coastal steamer Sin Kiaitg lias Picked up on a raft at sea a young Chinese assistant steward who was critically ill from thirst and hunger. He is I relieved to he the sole survivor of the British steamer Mvlie. which foundered in the recent Hong-kong typhoon. The Sin Kiang had previously picked up in a boat the body of the chief engineer, whose name is given as Harvey Green. The steward had lived for six days on the raft and saw five of his companions perish one by one. The Mvlie, 2,189 tons was hound from Chin Wang-tao for Shanghai. She has been found sunk near the Saddle Islands, anti until now there lias l>een no trace of her crew, numbering (X). WOODEN 1 .EG BEQUEST. LONDON. Sept. IS. Mr William Isaac Cannon, a nurseryman, of Hanworth, Middlesex, who died in King Edward's Hospital, Windsor, aged 53. directed that his wooden leg should he left at the hospital for the next man who might need one. and that a collection box for the institution should he placed in a local tilth of which lie was secretary. When a child of 8 he lost a log as a result of a level-crossing accident.