MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

A BIG ESTATE. [Reuters Telegrams. J (Deceived this day at 1.3(1 p.ni.) LONDON. Februasy 27. Joseph Trueman Mills. Lord of the Manor of Leighton Buzzaid, left over four millions .sterling. He had estates in Norfolk, Bedfordshire, and many interests in the city.

EASILY GAIN ED—O FILE L.Y LOST. TWO FOB TUN ES LOST. LONDON. Feb. 2(3. The 10.-> of a forum.' of £140.000 inherited in 1010. was disclosed in the Bankruptcy Court at the examination of Constantine Searmniiga Balli, author, and formerly a banker. His indebtedness now a mount > to eighteen thousand.

Oil receiving a bu.pn-i from an aunt. Vaili wa> attracted 'o polities, ami be successfully contested the Die of Wight seat. This venture c-0.-t sixteen thousand. Other l.is-es included forty thousand on the realisation of securities and household expenses, tiltt thousand on advances to guarantee on behalf of of hers.

In the sain** Court the -dory au- told of tile iitfaii's ot Marcel, and ( mude Yaripatl. who bud amas-ed wal hotlines amounting io a huud'od thousand. in grain and culiou dealings. They then retired and Marcel took up race-horse hreeding. fie re-entered business in 1020 and losr a bundled thousand as the .result of a collapse of tin? market.

Claude made similar 10-se>. and tin pair’s liabilities are. now £135.000.

DIVORCE AND T)AMA<IES. LONDON. Feb. 20

Guv Hope Caldwell. a well-to-do farmer, of Ludlow, obtained a decree nisi against lii.s wife on the ground of her misconduct with Francis Rowland Eustace, son of Major-General Sir Francis Eustace. The eo-respomlent was ordered to pay £2.500 damages. Tho suit was undefended. The parties were married in 1012. They were ideally happy, and bad four children, including twins born in 1018. Coldwell, during bis war service in Italy met the correspondent, who was married, and be invited bint to stay with the Cold wells. Then he became suspicious oil finding his wife wearing only a dressing gown in Eustace's dress-ing-room. The respondent later took the two younger children and joined Eustace in Ireland. The respondent, in 1022. was persuaded to return to her husband for the sake of the children. but in 1023 the co-respondent renewed bis attentions, and the wife again joined him ill Ireland. While there, some armed robbers attacked the respondent, and co-respondent. They stripped them of everything they possessed, and they warned them that if they did not leave Ireland Eustace would be shot.

DAFDET murder. I'AIUS. February 27. The Da tide I sensation of December 2. which lias remained an inexplicable mystery, has been revised by an article in ‘‘Action Francs jse,” wherein M. [,•><• n Baudot declares; —“I accuse Marhet (Director of the BuJitical Police) mid his assistants, Cannes and Dehinges, formally of having knowingly had my son LTiillippe killed, by representing him as a dangerous anuri hist, determined to tom mi t a crime.

M. Daudet alleges that Mai Tier told fen subordinates that they had to find an armed anarchist, aged twenty, v.no intended attempting the life of M. MiHerand or M. Poincare, and that if lie made any sign of resistance, they must shoot him. The- youth’s father a “ruts that Msr-“ lif.r a«are- of tire bey's identity before tending a i";': r detachment to the shop of M. Flaoulter, a bookseller, and tlio police were informed that l’liillippe Daudet called there, and that he was murdered, the body thereafter being placed in a taxi-cab in which it wa. found the driver whereof was told to say: “Tt is a ease of suicide.” Meantime, it has been disclosed that Mai Tier handed a document to the examining magistrate dealing with the moral characteristics of l’hillippe Dandot and his father. A Member of the Chamber of Deputies has given notice of an interpellation. asking what measures the Government intends to take to prevent 'the police from launching odious accusa lions- against citizens on the pretext of defending themselves.

ARMY MEAT TENDERS. LONDON, February 27. It is officially announced that the lowest Dominion canned meat tender was AT per cent, above the Argentine tender. Viscount C'urzon in the House of Commons, quoted contracts for a million sterling’s worth of goods placed abroad by British municipalities during tne ]iast nine months, contrasted this with Australia's acceptance of British against lower Continental coders for ten graph wire. He sought a commission inquiry into the reasons of foinigii undercutting of British industries.

Alt Sydney Webb" (President of the Board of Trade) thought such tin innriry would serve no useful purpose. I 1 e cases mentioned were small in comparison with the British manufacturers’ total output. In connection with the South African contract placed ahrotr.l he said that if the British engineers could not come nearer than thirty per cent above the foreigners, the industry would he open to serious criticism Mr Renner asked was not the cutting out of Britishers due to lower wages abroad and foreign exchanges. RAILWAY DISASTER. DELHI. February 26. A goods train was derailed on the North-west railway. Twenty-nine loaded cal's toppled over the bridge, two spans of which were destroyed. Seven were killed and 11 injured, all being railway employees, including some of the engineering gang working on the bridge.

STOCK RISE AS 1

LONDON. February 20. Foot and mouth disease has broken out on the farm of Sir .John Robinson, ill*' breeder of Papyrus. Seventeen valuable pedigree cattle have .Lecn slaughtered there.