NEWS BY-MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1924, Page 3

NEWS BY-MAIL.

FIVE SKELETONS FOEND. LONDON. June U. A workman digging tlm I'oumlatiun* of a new building in I'pper l.ilfc.vstreet. Dublin, on Saturday unearthed a thigh bone and a few minutes later hi- companion discovered auothci human hone. Wile'll the digging was resumed under police supervision the complete hones of five skeletons were found. It is helicvod that the bodies had been 111 Ihe ground at iea-t eight years.

1 1 is stated tliiil the remains may In- tliiisi' ul mi'll -lint during I In' rebrilimi nl With Some hundreds of persoiis win) disappeared at llmt lime were iu'Vit traced. LONDON’S; COWBOY CBITICS. THINK -SIIK’S KINK." LONDON, .hum !'. I,nMillin'- most eager sightseers mill keenest critics during tlm week-end |i;i vc lit'.'ii tlm i'n" liny- llllil cowgirls i win* have I'nuii' to Wembley In match I their shill against bucking bronchos mn! wild -leers, in I liodeo wliieli | opens m the Simlinm next Saturdayj mul eont iiiue.s for n fortnight. "Shady" Winnl-, who liml hi- right j hmnl hillell oil' by what lie calls "e. I liK iiii. outlaw horse." mnl i- known j n- "Captain Hook." inr. like that lain j mi- eharaeter. a hook serve- him lor a hmnl. said to a reporter yesterday: "| had a look at your town yesterday. and I ean't forget her. Sure. I think she'- line --lie look- real '.toed I j Ami your nil I- here! I "'d -: |v they J«' j line lookers." , Tile niv. girl- have al-o ha*l a tool j roiiinl town" during the week-end, mid j I hey have keen euehaiiied and liol a j little awed. 1 ••Mv." -aid one of them, "how yon j people in London gel around I .-mei don't know! Win. the motnr-oinni- i kn-e- look as big as hoil-es. and when j I Mm I hem ITo -eared si ill they II j topple over! They have been easting <«vetons eyes at the ilu's-e- in We-l Kud shops, and have registered vows to "do a j round of the store- when the hoys are I not looking.” .Mo-! ol I hem are determined to take lark to America with them oiimthing j in style." They have already sue- j numbed to the Kpmiish—hawd la-hinu. j which they -ay i- "fair ea t riling." ] Owing lo lie- Hooded rendition ol j the Tlm Hit—. the pi opo-ed -v.miming | race of mounted row hoy- nero.-s tlm, river at Is. " Bridge to day has been j indefinitely postponed. Kpeeia tor he linden contest-| will hear many -I range expressions | Used by the eowho.V-. Horse- are relerred to by dillmviU i name- aeeordiug to the work they do. ; \ ■ l.roimho" I- an uidnoken hor-e. a j "eirele-hor-e" i- a half-broken animal j il-ed lor rounding up rattle, ami a J •Vllltu.n her- e" I- the eowllo.V S l.e-t *r | nioiiitt. j \ eowhov who wi-lies to he tilde to, anyone rail- him a "eoyele." ’1 he j long leather or sheepskin coveringwitli which cowboy- encase tlmir egs ",!,ap-" and tlm bridle to which the lasso i- attached is known as a "hi DZ'dl. Stcer-wre-tlii'g. width will Inrui of the most exciting features ol .tie' liodeo is known as "hull-dogging m the West and "milling" reins to

wliicii run round in 'ir.'lo>. ••|)'!()\VNINC" KOI! IMMM'TI. j LONDON. .Imu; !>• i Liliiliiv-nniLcrs at 14i i-!iU.n yost.-r- j ,| nv a littlu cuniu.ly <>n 1

\ , man 10-t his balance ,m ono ,l„. oroynes ami fell into tin* |„ :1 „ instant another man plnn-ml m. fullv dressed. to tin* rescue. j The “drowning" man s 'nos < , In’ll. ,nl. hlv alt raoted a .-rowel, w W-, ~ 11 ,inl '-.-an talking »•»*«»; I Is nl tin- plucky action <>l tinHo nta.lo an appeal for »*"f ~t, ° from the crowd and had started to net kr a eolleetion in his rap. "hen a l .....l the rnlleetof policeman appealed amt | onirklv vanished. j The police took the mimes ot tho two Other •‘principal-** in the -dratna ««<' lh ; ,y l"" d Sr"w' crowd h was only then that tin realised that the water was only •< > , t Vet deep at the spot and that 1,-;/ svero performin, for tho.r own hi»noiit. ■■■mm