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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 3

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[Reuters Telegrams.] 310ROCCAX FIGHTJXG. LONDON, Jan. 29. The “Times’’ Tangier’s correspondent states that hostilities between ti e adherents of Raisuli and Abdel Krim were followed by the surrender of the former to Abdel Krim, whose contingents entered Tazrut. TH EATRfCA i. 31AXACER'S FALL. LONDON, Jan. 29. The public examination of the bankrupt Cochran, has concluded. His statement of affairs showed :—U use filled creditors €90,552; assets £2310. Bankrupt said he was making a profit of fifteen hundred weekly at the New Oxford Theatre when he fell ill. He was away five months and during this period there were industrial and transport strikes. This was the worst time the theatre experienced. Everything went wrong. He estimated bis total loss at the New Oxford Theatre at €98,000. He also lost considerably by hotel exhibition dances, and the, French theatrical season. His insolvency was due to the heavy depreciation in the value of the shares and debentures of his theatrical and other companies, and the loss of money advanced.

TRAIN WRECKERS ARRESTED. DELHI, Jan. 29. Seven men have been arrested in connection witli the train wrecking on 25th January. A number of those arrested, include dismissed railway employees. IMPERIAL CHALLENGE SHIELD LONDON, Jan. 29. In the Imperial Challenge Shield competition the average score of the winning New Plymouth team was 88.99. Winnipeg beaded the honours’ list for the host fifty organisations in which the No. 89 Company (New Plymouth) v a.s fifth. Scots’ College (Wellington) was 41th, TVliaiigarei 49th., and Gore High School 50th. The best hundred units included ten Australian and eighteen New Zealand. DRIVER 3CO FITTED. EDINBURGH. Jan. 29. The jury acquitted James Shaw, the engine-driver, oil a charge of failing to obey the danger signal in connection with the collision on 28th. July List. The crowd in the Court applauded the verdict. I.U TAKES SHANGIIAL PEKIN, January 29. Fifteen thousand of Lu Yunghsiaiig’s troops have arrived at Shanghai and they completely control the city. Everything is quiet.

ANOTHER MYSTERY. LONDON, January 29. At the inquest on Florence Harrold, the nurse, whose death was cabled yesterday, the Coroner said that a post mortem would have to he held. The girl’s father stated that Florence left home some weeks ago, saying that she was going to meet a man whom she named. His daughter later wrote frequently from Aldershot. The inquest was adjourned.

CROWBOROUGI! 31URDKR. LONDON, January 29. Prior to his arrest on a charge of murdering Elsie Cameron, a London tvpiste, to whom lie was engaged, Thorne gave to the representative of the “Star’’ an amazing letter for publication. It read: “My Dear Elsie,—lf you are alive no matter where n'nd no matter what has happened, ] lease write iust one line to remove the dreadful suspense and intolerable agony. Don’t lie afraid to tell me anything. I want to know all, mid am willing to lorgivc anything and everything. You must realise, dear, that it was love for you that sent me from a crowded, liappv Txindon to seek a. Inline and fortune by poultryfanning at Crowboroiigh. “It was love that sustained me in the wilderness and isolated country existence. How many .young, healthy and strong men would have done as much? Often I have been nearly driven mad with the loneliness of living in a little wooden hut, at the cud of a narrow lane,'with only fowls’, dogs’, and cats’ companionship. T have been a. ‘Robinson Crusoe’ in England. “Cheerfully I have continued the poultryVlarniing enterprise, always working and striving to get a home worthy of you, and now this has happened. Here I am alone, but everybody is thinking me the worst of all. “Dear, I know wliat they are thinking. They come down the lane stealthily, and peer through the gate as though the hut was occupied hy some vile outcast. There is a look of morbid curiosity on their faces. Mont you save me from this tortuie, E sie, dear?—Yours, Norman.”

TRIBAL STRIFE. 31 ADR ID, Jan. 29. It is announced that Ahd El. Kim has captured Raisuli, who is an ally ol

" i The followers of both chiefs are non at war. fr , Thus far, Raisuli’s men suffered a defeat. This is a tribal war. which u the result of a new* Spanish policy of handing over the western part ol tlio Spanish zone of Raisuli. LONDON ELECTRICAL STRIKE. LONDON, January 29. Negotiations completely broke down between the officials and the representatives of the men employed as electricians, liftmen and stokers in varum, Government buildings, who are striking owing to the employment of a nonunionist. , . _ The position will he discussed at a mass meeting of the men to-morrow.