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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1924, Page 4

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GA.MIiLING IN ( D'l TON. NEW YORK, is--, is. (hi tla- i 1 1ton markai 10-tlay values jumped sett, a i ioiia.ily in the la-: holli. Klimt - in hulls u> replace long lines liiei with heavy compel iumi from trade iuteivsl.s and -hints. sjt.it markets added impetus, and the market closed si roll!.;, 95 to II- |miiiLs higher. A joint commit He repiv-on ..hr; all sections ol the eo.nni trade hi Manchester will meet this afternoon to discii.-.-: gtimltlittg in nuton I lit it re ■ with a view to taking action to .- lop a pi-in. lice, which.. ;e one prominent eoiti.ti merchant -aid yesterday "mal.es genuine trading almost impossible." No coni-iele selieir.e has been prepared by the Master Cotton S|)iitn:-rs' Kedoralion, hut eertaln proposals will lie put forward for discussion, and tie's.' in the Irado hope that they will pave the way for international action. It i, realised that it would he no good stopping speculation in future in Liverpool if the gamblers in New York and other American centres wore alMr .Icsse Thorpe, president of ihe Mauciiester Cotton Association, said last night tiie.l one suggestion he had

heard was that futures should bo dotio away with altogether, as they were during the war. BRIDEGROOM LATE. LONDON, Dee. 27. A bride’s declaration to the registrar that she would wait no longer for any man, not even for her fiance, and the bridegroom's mistake as to the time of the ceremony were features of a marriage comedy at a North London register office yesterday. The ceremony had boon fixed for noon and a few minutes after that hour the bride, Miss Grace Thompson, living at an hotel at Netting Hill. \V.. arrived with her mother. Her fiance had not arrived. After waiting nearly half tin hour the bride declared that she would wait no longer. Ifer mother trial to persuade her to remain but .-he per-dslcd and with her mother left

Ten minute- later the bridegroom! Miinr.ilitit breathless, entered the efifii... He was told of what had hapi, mad mi ! said. ‘•Rut I am convinced that ! made the appointment fur 1 .1 .it'-.; ic'f. r.vdv a few minute's past now " f, vras s’io.v. o the appointmeni book and lie had to admit lii« mistake. Telling the registrar that he would probably ho married later in the day lm hurried away. He relurned to make -in appointment for (lie afterneon. This time he was waiting for his lit ale and the marriage tool; place wit!."”’, further bifcli. AN At'ST RIAN'S AN E. LONDON. Dec. IS. At Reignt.-. Surrey, yesterday Alfred Mu her, an Ac..lrian, living in Woodland.-road, fiedloll. v.a commitI ■ 1 lor trial oi: a chi i ;..-e • j \ minding Ethel Slump wife <>, Ernest frank Hohicy S'.oite, a .-eaiimn. v.ho lived iu roams in a imu-e routed by Muller. Vest crony morning .Mr Since dosed the I'ruiit d »:r. u hi'h .Midler opened, ami it uas alleged that Mrs .Muller t In-0 said: "1 am not going to have tlii. dofo .shut by the dirty Knglisli.” .Mr, St me said .Muller attacked her husband uiili an axe. Striking him over i lie head and face. She went to her husband's help and shouted, "Run ! Run 1“ Muller hit her over the head with the axe. and she was covered with blood. Her husband threw her into a hedge out of the reach of Muller, and with his ii-d knocked Midler to the ground senseless. Muller dollied that he used the axe as described by Mm Slone and said Stone was the aggressor.