NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1924, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

—* ■ AVOMISN M.l'.’.S IN BLACK. FASHIONS AT OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. DON DON, January I. l.» the. eight women M. P.’s Lady Torringtun, the Liberal member lor Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was the first to appear in the House of Commons yesterday. She obtained a seat on one of the Liberal hack benches. She wore a dainty black dross with a rather low-cut neck, white gloves, and a black hat with a fairly full brim., which was trimmed with a white oinajnent that stood out in bold contrast. Once or twice she raised her tortoiseshell lorgnette and surveyed the galleries.

Airs AVintl'ingham. the Libera! mcmh.*r for Louth, Lincolnshire, who sat in the last Parliament and was also in black, had lost her corner seat aiming the Socialists and sat beside Lady Terringtori. Miss Margaret Bnndfiolcl, the Socialist member for Northampton, president, of the Trades Union Congress.. war hatless. She took a seat in a side gallery. She wore a plain brown costume.

In the opposite gallery were her two women colleagues in the Socialist Party —Miss Susan Lawrence (East. Ham X.L grot-Imired and .spectacled, and Miss Dorothy Jewson (Norwich), who was conspicuous for the vivid colours ol tin* wide woollen scarf she wore. Mrs Philipson. tlu* only woman Conservative .ALL’., who was noted, entered later daintily attired in a black eosti me with flowing lines. SUICIDE BY SUGGESTION. LONDON. January •!. A conversation on suicide by a youth who was afterwards found dead on the railway line was described at the inquest at Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday mi Frederick James Austin, 18. He was a friend of two other youths under 20 who had been found (lead within the last three weeks ut the same spot. Emily AVhite, a lodger at his home, said Austin spent all the previous evening talking to her about suicide. He referred to the eases of his Iriends and an old schoolmaster, who committed suicide on the line, and asked her if British ■engines had guards in front of them as in America.

From Austin’s injuries, it was stated, ho must have stood up in front ot the train to meet his death. Returning a verdict of Suicide while of Unsound Mind, the coroner, Air hJ. Nightingale, said he did not know what evil influence was at work to cause youtrs to take their lives in this way. It seemed to be suicide by suggestion, and he hoped that it would he counter-acted by some means or other.

TROUSSEAU QUEST. ~PARIS, Dec. 28. “I wanted to get enough money to (my my trousseau” was the explanation given by Mile. Juliette Chaumeil, who was arrested just as she was opening the door of a Paris flat with a set of false keys. police inquiries showed that tin* statement of the girl, a pretty blonde of 22, was correct. She was to be married next month. The owners of the flat have asked that she should be dealt with lenient-