NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

WOODCriTKi; BOX Kit.

BA 11 IS, June 7. . In I* roue'll sporting circles a comparatively newcomer to boxing, a Basque nani 'il Panlmn, i- regarded a- olio ol I the tut ill'.* great heavy weights.

A magnificent specimen of uiniiliond, ho was discovered six months ago in a '•'null village in ike Spanish Pyrenees, "hero ho had earned the title ol the \\ o .(lent tor |>, mg. Paoi.'ei Kxc'.tdun Ii- iull Maine- recently met and knocked out Arthur Tciwnley in a few seconds, at the Static Biilfalo, in Baris, \c—lerday I’aolin.i gave an exhibition ol his -kill at woodcutting and

iraictiiig. lie look an axe, and -landing ini a log with a ciroiinilcrence ol ah..lit t |: i.|. feet, he ••at it ill two ■.i I minute gb! L’-.‘> seconds.

Ills trainers cun-ider him as Dempsey’- only .serious rival. 11 is nma-urc-ments tire cxtraoidinary. Willi- armmilsiretched from lip !.• ci |> he measures 7S incite-.

Dempsey’- reach i- 71 inches

MINT roll Ml VsSA. LONDON, June !'. A curious inter-linking of primitive and modern methods has occurred in c o 'tioi tioii with the' supply ol plain I'll 1 a mint to be set up in l.lia-sa, the sacred city ol Tibet.

Power-driven machinery, equal to tiiat in t;-o in the London .Mini. ibeing supplied by Messrs Taylor ami Clmllru. Ltd., engineers, ol Birmingham. A pri'.-s lor .-.tamping was landed near ( alciiila, and at a point where tlm hill country became cliflimtlt was unbelted ini:• sec tion- end i- being carried through I lie Himalayan passes, partly on mule- ami parti.' o" pole's borne mi eoolic-' shoulder-.