AFRICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1925, Page 3

AFRICAN ITEMS.

ns l kalian AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION BABY FARMER. NEW YdRK. May IK 'file Iu . iity-l bird inmate oi the baby farm, conducted hy Mrs Helen Geiseiit oil,. a lornicr :t■ ■ r 1 1• :tii Red (r ss nurse, ami widi.w el a I’rus-i.iii Army iTiic r, died from nmluin i ll ion mi Fi iilav. IT;e woman is held on a (barge o: giving a strange child lo a lather who called for his own mi Tuesday. The latter i- .-lill missing, while hall'-a----(h II eidi!: e:i 1 , main i 1 the hospital i;11 i ■!. lit lhad. TWO I’d'HlE-; RFt 'BY Hi! ED. NEW YORK. .'Jay l a Two ho,lie- of the tv,only-two drowned when the Norman esp-ia-d in one of the -will,‘si si retches of l!:e Lower M i--i —ippi. were recovered on Saturday. Fite of the crew woie drowned, 'fhc re- 1 are inemliers of the engineers’ coin ,-iit ion hei'e. Divers will attempt to release the bodies. I bough: to be imprisoned in the submerged vessel. S'l EA.MEIt DISASTER. NEW YORK, May 10. Retails ot the h -- of the Norman slum tlm soiiety ol civil engineers of the Southern Stales completed llieir coavi'iit hli at I ■do' \'i"W. Mississippi, and cud, I'Ll (I .Il a pleasure jaunt aloard two old lime Mississippi .steamers. ((specially refitted for the oecas!,..i. They .stepped for supper in a cotton field and had just re-embarked

and swung, into the stream when the Norman struck a. snag and overturned alim -t immediately. Fifty passenger-: and the crew "ere precipitated into the water. The lost, include .John Coleman (President, ol the Aniercan Society of Ciiil Engineers), Waller Rer na rd (Editor, Engineering News Record). A SIMPLE WEDDING. NEW YORK, May 10. Simile ity marked the wedding ill the Abbey of the daughter of Koekleller .Junior to David Milton, a childhood sweoi heart. The In kle announced she would do her own work in a six room llat and live within her husband's modest income. MEXICO AND .1A RAN. MEXICO CITY, May 10. Fuller the new treaty announced. Mexico treats Japan as a favoured nation, dapaucse are to he encouraged to come "ith their iamilies as well as to inter marry as they are already doing, and engage in nil kinds of industrial. agricultural and proto,ssional pursuits. Special encouragement -in

gven Jana nose insurance companies. It is significant in view ol the I act that powerful American companies withdrew from Mexi o ten years ago, because conditions were bad. Japan- (.,.(. are exempted from military service and are assured rights ot port entry and duties similar to these conceded i., guuds aboard .Mexican boats.