NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

BRITISH FASCISTL LONDON. November 10. Nearly ten thousand people attended an impressive demonstration held in I raialgar-sr|ii;ire yesterday by members el the British Fascist! who all wore their Fascist! black and silver badges. The Easeisti came from all parts -of the

country. It was- to ensure that the red Hag would be banned Iroui I ralalgar-squaro on Armistice Sunday that the sanction of the authorities for the use of the site was sought by the organisers, who determined that the Union Jack should bold sway on such a day. They bad learned, the organising secretarv, Afr A. Kirby Hewlett, explained, that the Communists are now conducting an ixtensive propaganda campaign in connection with the seventh anniversary ot the Russian revolution. Brigadier-General Blakeney. president of the British Fasei.sti. said it was a great danger that aliens should be allowed to settle in this land, overcrowding the towns and taking employment from the workers. ‘‘ It is they.’’ lie said, ‘‘who mostly preach Communism. which is neither the English nor workman’s creed. (Cheers.) The people at the hack of Communism want to see mir Empire destroyed and to seize our possessions. They preach pacifism ami disarmament to ns while tliev are organising for civil war. What can this be!” The only interruption came from a short, thick-sot man who, shouting “ Long Live the Bed Flag!” tried to wrest a Union Jack from the Fascists who was holding, it. The people around him showed such indignation, however, that he abandoned the attempt and took to his heels. The Easeisti then marched to the Cenotaph. where they deposited a wreath and stood to attention with hared heads.

A PRINCE'S BABY. PARIS, November 7. Political and artistic views of the late Prince Borthier de Vagram, a descendant of one cf Napoleon's most famous marshals, are being adduced as evidence in a will case which is occupying the attention of the Paris Appeal Court. The Prince was killed at the head of Sits company near the Ch.cmin Ocs Dames during the war. 11 is will, drawn up on llie day ol mobilisation, left his estate estimated at about CBOO.OOO. to he divided between lii.s two sisters Princess de la Tour d'Au-ivergiK'-LniiM'agua.'s ai"? 'die Princess Jacques do Broglie, with instructions that £120.090 should he given to Ids natural daughter, Monique .Salivas. Horn four months previously. In 1919 the mother, producing letters written by the Prime during the war, obtained a judicial decree legitimising the child. It is now argued on behalf of the child that slm is entitled by law net only to the bequest, hut also to her proper share / I flic estate as the Prince’s -civ child. The e\e< ute 1 -. I'cllall .! 1 !>• ot bn members of tln- family, argue that ii til/' child ilil f its loth the spci ia! bequest and her normal share the family mansion and the heirlooms of the Vagram family would have to lie sold. and that. l!u' Prince as the hearer of an historic name would never have approved of it. To this it is replied that the Prince set no store by tradition; that lie was an advanced Radical: and that lie was one of the prill-

cipnJ shareholders of a prominent French Radical newspaper. He even disposed, it is stated, cf his family pictures and had them replaced by Impressionist works. MR COOL! DOE’S DESCENT. NEW YORK. November 10. When William the Conqueror set sail from Normandy for IVvense.v Bay. he little thought that, among his knights was a man destined to lie the ancestor of a future President of the United .States of America. Yet, according to the Republican National Committee, this was actually the ease. The American public, during the :ocent campaign has dwelt loudly on the fact that President Calvin Coolidge is the son of a simple New England farmer. To-day it learns that the Coolidge family is of Norman stock. The National Committee publishes the genealogy of the President prepared by one of his relatives. Mr Ouy Coolidge, P.rolessor ot 1-reach at, Hobart College, who, after twelve years’ investigation, says:

The Coolidge family of Cambridgeshire. England, from which the Americmi conn?, is very mu icut origin, settling in England Irani t l ’? city of Avranches in Normandy during the century after the invasion of William the Conqueror. I visited Avrnnclies this summer and saw the vestiges uf the old feudal castle and the fortifications. The professor traces the evolution of the name of Coolidge from the reign of Edward the First, when William do Coulinge appeals on the rolls as a land-holder in Cambridgeshire. He explains luiw the family name underwent a succession of orthographic changes, appearing .successively as DoCol vn go. Couling. Cullinge. Cullidge. Coledge. Cowledge, ar.tl Coolede. windin up as Coolidge. Finally he dsecril.es how a descendant of Thomas do Cnlynge. Lord of the Manor of Arrington. John Coolidge was baptised at Cottenham on September 16. 1604. how he sailed for New England with his wife and one child i„ 1630. settling in Watertown, Massachusetts,

ROMANCE OF A CANOE. LONDON. November IV A canoe of 21 tons which 20 years ago made a voyage of 40.000 miles in :{\ years is now almost derelict at a place called Rugby’s Hole. on lhe shore of the Thames near East Greenwich. The vsesel is the Tilikum (or ••Friend”!, formerly the war canoe ol an Alaskan Indian chief, who hewed it from a tree trunk. In May 1901 JL was fitted with three masts by a Canadian, Capt. John C. Voss, who foi a bet of Cl,ooo, sailed from Y ancouer British Columbia, acre-' i the Pacific Ocean to Australia am. New Zealand. then to the Cape, across the Atlantic to Pernambuco. Brazil, and hack bv Azores to Margate. The canoe held only two men, but U people sailed with him during different stages of the journey. Captain Voss exhibited it in England and lee tured on his voyage. Eight years ago, 3 brothers named

Byford and a man named W. Beghie, amateur yachtsmen, bought the i dikum. hut found it unsuitable for river work and laid it up at Canve.v Island, Essex. A few days ago they dug the canoe out of 3ft. of mud there and took it to the headquarters of the Thames Sailing Club, to which they belong. The canoe is 30ft. long and draws only 2thn. of water.