BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[RuuTuns Tkluchams.T A WIFE FOOLED. BUCHAREST Dee. 2. A man named (luirgi. who was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1017, shared a ptisan cell for several years with M’ysider. a Roumanian soldier. While in prison, (luirgi expatiated perpetually to his cell mate about his wife's charms and about bis courtship and marriage. About two years ago Myxidor was liberated. He first went to Klausoiilittrg and there he announced himself as the woman's missing husband!. She- was most sceptical at first, declaring that no man could have so altered, but M.vsider'x quotations of incidents during her courtship and in her early married life, which lie bad learned in the prison (ell. convinced her that lie was her real husband, who had ( hanged by severe hardships. The couple then lived together for 18 months when (luirgi himself appeared. M.vsidei' then lied to the country, (luirgi. liowctcr. refused to forgive his credulous wife, and he sought a divorce. The Court exonerated the woman, and refused the petition.

BANK CHARGES. LONDON. December 2. The latest Associated Australasian Banks, Loudon, selling rates on New Zealand drafts are: -Mail transfers, 17:. lid per cent premium, cable translei". TOs. They bale reduced the tales I'm- purchasing documents and bills to live per cent. Discount at sight, Ids Sd ; thirty days. 27s (id; sixty days •IDs. IN MEMORY OF A FA I THE EL HORSE. LONDON. December 2. “In memory of Bill of the Sixth Light Horse. HR 1-21, aged 21. One of I lie best." This is the epitaph engraved on a headstone surmounting a lonelv grave under the shadow of Walker’s Ridge on Gallipoli. Bill was the horse which left Australia with the original Sixth and after the armistice was shipped to the Peninsular where lie became the special property ol Colonel Hughes and his Australian associates on the stall', of the War Graves Commission. Bill faithfully saw the job through to the end, and then died. Colonel Hughes, who has arrived in London, states the graves work on Gallipolli is practically completed and uulv few headstones are now to be erected. The whole of the forty-four cemeteries are in splendid condition. AEROPLANE NOISE ELIMINATED. LONDON, December 2.

The " Daily Express ” says that British experiments aiming at the elimination of the noise of aeroplanes resulted in the problem being prntically solved. The new device permits the noiseless escape of the exhaust gases without interfering with lilting power or speed, while an arrangement of the gears attached to the engine avoids the propeller's whirr. SEOEF.L TO DARING COHP. LONDON. 1 Ire. 2. Muriel llrown and Phyllis Shaw were -cute’iced to two years in the Borstal I list i: ut". while Rene Agar was hound o- r to keep the peace as the result of ibcir coup 111 the l.eods Rescue Home, which was cabled on 22nd. Sept. n'l.e HU'S -age referred to iilkivo siat- : ed that tbe ibr.'e girl- carried .out a | daring coup, they gagging and binding I tli • mat roll hand and loot. I hey also lucked two Other inmates in a liedroom, and gagged a dog with a dish-cloth. The gills lilt the telephone wires to prevent an alarm and then escaped in a t.'i'i. inking with them small sums of money.] CII-VNG GOES TO TIENTSIN. PEKIN. Dee. 2. ChangLsolin. accompanied by ChangInisiisbliang and Y.ong.vuting. chiefs of -tali’. Wuehou hang. Governor of Heilungkiang. and other members of bis staff and b idy-guai d.- left Pekin for Tientsin by train. Trains are lioing prepared to convey tbe remainder of tli" I’etigtieli troops to Tientsin.