NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1924, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

THE REST DANCERS. NEW YORK, August IJ. I.onthni is the premier dancin'' city of the world, according to Albs Hilda Hanker, a dancing teat her, of Sail Diego, California. Aliss Hanker was sent to Europe on behalf of the International Association of Dancing .Masters to study (laming. She made her repoit last night at their annual convention in New A’crk. She (ie: hired that the best dancing in tin* world is to lie seen in London. While Paris, the reputed city of festive nights, dames liy.slei icnlly without style or beauty, in London, she said, every .second dance is a tango, and the Rritisli have taken up darning so .seriously that they do most coni| Heated steps perfectly.

WOAIAN IN FLAMES. ■LONDON, August IJ. A middle-aged woimin, Aliss Alice Gild s. ) roprietres.s <:£ a tobacco and conics tionery busines.; in Dyke-road, Riightoii, was severely burnt in a gas explosion yesterday. Entering her sitting-room behind tli« shop she noticed a’ strong mess of gas and lit a match to discover the cause. Distantly there was u burst of llames and a loud explosion which tineu - Aliss Gibbs across the shop, through the trout door, which was blown out. on to the lavement, a distance of I .{ft., with her clothing burning fiercely.

A neiphbour tore off her hurninp elothinp and assisted her into an juljoininp shop, where Alius Gibbs Pepped the helpers not to bother about her hut to put out the lire. v. Inch was done with chemical extinpuishers. She was taken to the Sussex County Hospital in a serious condition.

AIERDKIt IN A TRAIN. PARIS, August 12. “Two dark men stabbed me.” gasped At. Armaml Du Cov, an engineer, as he was carried last night from a train at Versailles Station. He had been stabbed seven times in the chest, and the weapon, a great bradawl was lotiml in cue of the wounds, lie did not sav another word, ami died half an hour later. It was apparent on investigation that robbery had been the motive for the ( rime. Tim two murderers had climbed into bis carriage while the train was in motion letwvcn Alonl] nriin*"o Staiioii ill Paris amt Vi l'.saillcs. The liniidi ;v.| mail’s pockets had been lillcd ami iiis watch and jewellery stolen. KARTTIQI'AKe and hot springs. RIGA. August IJ. An earthquake which followed a landdide destroyed I’rem. a Lithuanian riling..' on the hank of the Niemeii River. A bivge hill near the village is re] oi led to be .subsiding, while a number i ! boiling hot .springs have tip. peared near Prcm’s former site. lathminiaii s. ieiuists o ! ! -erring the phenomenon believe it to be illle to vo'canie a I ivity. hitherto iinkcntd ol in Ibis s's 1 1 >ii of Euro; e. 11l .MAN HAIR l'A> II |o\.

I.t i.\ lit i.\. August |j, 11 'lllia it hair is ton being use I by one women to decorate their cent coirs, culls ami even their blouses. One woman, .seen in | iecadillv vester-

day morninp, weie a lonp Ida |; (oat "hi h lui I the eilpes of the eillar trimmed witli auburn hair. 'Pile i nil's "'ere similarly adorned, while mure li ll 111.' ■ i hail 1 11111 p from the eihie of the Iroul ol her ereaiii-eelotired hlou.se.

.Monkey fur. which has lieeu the rape r a time, has apparently found a rival iionp tlnr a "hose tresses have In en ldicd or sbinpled.

PASSPORT NITSANCK. VIENNA. Aug. f. Acting mi strong ronr"Moilalioiis from ill'.* Coil roller fur the League t.f Nations. the 11 iniga iin n lloiiie OHic lias ra IP ell ••» I I Ii" el I'er rei| (I iring all |':-r s ms arriving t roni abroad l<> rep o I to Pi" police r.itb llieii pas. .ports v.itiiin I hours. Passengers arriving in Vienna from 11 linen ry have to line up for the inspection . f their nassoorts before they leave tie terminus, which often mean.-. Jfi miiiule.'i’ delav.

i.i FRA FD. I’ARIS, Aug. 7. A clever swindler has secured £o,(!'KI worth of diamonds from AT. AW-in-gait, a Paris jeweller. lie gave his mime as Al. Delahaye and lir.sl bought a. valuable bracelet, for which he paid, lie asked Al. AYeingart- to bring some diamonds to his olliee in the Rue Auber, saying’ he wished to make a present to bis w i-e. The jeweller found .Al. D.-lall.'iye 111 a imignliieenl. olliee with a porter in uniform al the door uiul two private .-eeretaries busy taking down loiters. Al. Relalmye cliose tlii> lines! stones, kept them, and handed over a eheiple on a British hank in Paris. Al. AYeingart went to east., the eheipeo. hut after a few minutes was told il was worthless. Rushing hack to the Rue Aher. he found Al. Delaliaye had disappeared and that 1 Inporter and secretaries had In-ell newly engaged, while the olliee had lieeu rented for only a month.

r< i-:a i> i)i; t'x k . J!KR UN. Aug. 7. I),nine' a festival held on Friday ab Brrsladt. in ilc.s.-v, a young man drank so imodinaely that be Inst consciousness. The following morning the local authorities issued a certificate ol death. While* llie sorrowing parents were making the iiua.l arrangements for itro funeral the man arrived home on a bicycle and explained that lie was li >c dead but that he had been un-l My dead it .at) k.

S’IOLK U:‘) BURSES LONDON. Aug. 7

I’cggy lleeter. ‘Jo. was -eut to pri soil ly the Manchester stipe!.dun' yestenlav for nine months lor steal ng weraea's pulses. D a-"live Gilmour said that when he arrcsied Thuiver she admitted that sin' h ; ,d “worked ’ at the host shops ‘ oil her own.’ and ibiimed that she had stolen more than UK) purses.

In two portmanteaux in her bedroom tin- police found (id purse clips, apparent! v cut I run st ileu purses.

SCENT AS MURDER CURT ROME, Aug.

Investigations into the murder of Matu-otti. tin Socialist A1.1’., now hinge on a i|ni'Stion of scouts. Signa Cervnti. a leading peifitmer of Rome, has been asked to decide whether the perfume oe a handkerchief found mi Rake Vico, where Mattcotti’.s body is believed to have been thrown, is identical with the perfume on the handkerchiefs t.f lVumini. who is alleged to have killed him: :iku whether the per--1 ume in: a handkerchief believed to have belonged to Matteotti found in Dumini's handhag is identical with the perfume Matteotti used.

MEDICINE BOTTLE HABIT. BRADFORD. -Inly Jfi

Sneaking at the medical sociology section of 'the British Medical Association to-day. Dr A. E. Barnes. Sheffield University, -aid serious modern tendencies are the increasing use of drugs, the fostering of the bottle of medicine habit, which has become an idol, and the increase of neurosis. “Keen a dog constantly chained and he will get neurosis.' The same thing applies to a vonng man chained vto a monotonous machine." AA'hen the millionaire breaks down, and retires to a nursing home it is nut down to business worries. AA hen the working limn goes into hospital lie is called a malingerer. The cause is the same.