1,200 DIVORCE SUITS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1924, Page 3

1,200 DIVORCE SUITS.

LONDON'. Sept. .‘ill. The divorce list for the Michaelmas term, whirl, hefiins mi Oetoher 13th. closed at Somerset. House yesterday. There are more than del oil (led and undefended eases down lor heating. i„ addition to several eases put Intel; from last term’s list—-a record for the corresponding terms during the past three years.

More than 603 ol" the cases are undefended, and the list contains several well-known names.

RED ‘LOAN’ ON THE FILM. MOSCOW, Sept. 20.

An Odessa kineniatograph concern is beginning the creaion of a film to he entitled “The Anglo-Soivet Negotiations.” The scene is in England, and various incidents are -staged at the Foreign Office, in Mr Ramsay MacDonald s room in Downing-street. in the editorial rooms of London newspapers, and in the throne-room of Buckingham Palace.

SILENT SHUNTING ENGINE. LONDON. Sept. 20

A self-contained electric locomotive using oil for fuel, which requires no third rail or overhead wires, lias been introduced for shunting work the Central Railroads yards in New Aork. The new engine neither smokes, grunts, nor puffs, and a “muffler icdmos the noise of the engine exhaust. The possibility- of eliminating the noise of shunting operations will appeal strongly to those who live lieni Railway stations and goods * traffic yards.