BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

HARRY FURNESS, THE ARTIST. (TIrIUTGUS TeI.KGUAMS.] (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) I.ONDON, .January 15. Obituary.—Tlie artist, Harry FurJiiss. TRADE DISPUTE. I.ONDON, .January 15. Representatives of several Canadian motor manufacturers cabled the Canadian Government in reference to the ban of exihibiting at the British Empire Exhibition; imposed by Society of .Motor Manufacturers and ttades who announced yesterday that members exhibiting at Wembley would bo forbidden to exhibit at the annual show at Olympia. The Canadian Government in reply cabled Canadian Exhibition Commissioner, he being instructed to officially protest against interference with would he exhibitors by a trade organisation, adding that if a satisfactory solution was 'not found, as a last resort, they will withdraw participation at W embley. HOBBS COMMITTED. I.ONDON. Jan. 15.

In closing the case at Row St., the prosecution submitted there were tin • eo charges against Hobbs, cabled 1 on Dec. 29th., namely conspiracy to cheat and defraud Sir llari Singh; stealing by means of menaces and jeoeiving two bankers’ cheques lor L'G>o.000, knowing them to have been stolen abroad. Hobbs was committed tor trail, bail being refused. Hobbs made a statement describing Newton’s evidence as a tissue of Ins. and asserting his inncoeiice. In serving his defence lie declared he mid had no opportunity of conducting ms defence, as he had been unwell. ‘‘l uni under a terrible disadvantage, and I would not send a dog to prison, cu remand,” lie remarked. THE MISSING TYPIST. l Hkuteiis Trlkgua.ms.] (Received tliis day at 11.25 a.m.) I.ONDON, Jan. 15. Detectives including members of Scotland Yard stall' have been busy in the Sussex village of Crow borough, and in T.omlon, investigating the mystery ol the disappearance of Elsie Cameron, a young typiste, from her home at Kcnsalrise, cabled on sth. Oec. She ostensibly left to visit her fiancee, Norman Tho’ 1 , who keeps a poultry mrrn at Crowborough. Thorn has been the object of much attention by Crowborough residents, and London pressmen, statements of his being published expressing deep grief at the disappentance of his fiancee ami agony at her silence. Thorn was requested to visit Crown bo rough • police station last evening where he was interrogated and detained. Meanwhile the police starteii to dig at the poultry farm, continuing tlieir'operatioiis all night long m heavy rain. The search resulted m the discovery of an attache ease ol clothing and a pair of spectacles. II EM AN BODY FOUND. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 15. A human body has been louml in three sections and buried on Thorns farm at Crowborough. LONDON, .January 16. The body was found at eleven o’clock in a state of decomposition at a depth of a lew feet close to where the suitcase was discovered. 'I wo portions were contained in a sack and the third in a. box.