NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1925, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

SIR JOHN A DYE’S MEMOIRS. LONDON. March 17. “Soldiers and others I have known,” hv M.ij.-Gcti. Sir John Adye, are excellent ami amusing reminiscences by a wcll-kno" n soldier, with a. number of coloured sketches \\ 1 1 i<■ 1 1 could scarcely he bettered. They cover a period of fifty years and go hack to tin- days of the old Duke of (Tunbridge and General Gordon, Tho duke on ..tie oecasion expressed approval ol a pork chop. with the tin li.ippv result for the poor man that ever after lie was ulfercd pork chops at- every me.ss in the British Army. Gordon was appointed private secretary to the Viceroy in India. Lord Ripott. and this was the verdict on him of Lord Hipon's son. “Most, extraordinary fellow thttl my ialher is taking io India as his private secretary. lie should he dining, at Marlborough House io-nighl. hut- indent! of that he is sitting in flic housekeeper's room at Ripott House with a plate of cold meat before him. deep in Indian Blue Rooks. Sir John Adye was in So.ntli Africa in the Rod- War with Kitchener and criticises the badness ol Ihe <-'u!t work under that great soldier. Bui h,. says: ‘ I never found him the least petty or ill-tempered, and he could he extreinely genial and pleasant "hen he wished, lie would tell you sir,light out if he thought differently from you mid might even get- you io understand that he thought you a Cool, hut he did so openly and " ith-

Wo are given the late Sir Henry Wilson’s opinion on onr polilieians. a< they revealed themselves in the Morocco crisis of 1011 : "Of all the ~,,.inhere lot the Cabinet two. and two only, had stood up for what the soldiers wanted, and had shown real backbone and courage and a just soiiso of the pel'll we were in from our iiliieadim-ss. These two were Air Lloyd George and Air Winston Churchill, whom Wilson described as ‘■darlings” or “angels.”

lil’ITISI! MtiToii-CAI! IiIIVCOTT. |>KI? I*l N. February •-’(>. (o'l'inany rout Mini's to elierk the imporlation of British motor-ears and In tavoiir tin* import ol A merman enr.s. The KritUh mamifaeturer is not permit Lfl to so ml more than t<>ur cais amonth to Cerinany. yet a license has hoe,' given to the agent of olle AelUliian maimlael urer to import seventy ear- a mouth. Sim e then two new cases ol special lavour have come under notice. A license was given to one ol the miimi coiioenis of the Stiimes family to import (ill cars of another American make. It is stated that the profit on the sale■ of these ears will he put into the Aga motor-car works which still has need of capital.

This is the first case. 'I he second is equally had. The agent of General .Motors, the Amorean company, has heeii given a licence to import oO motor-lorries.

An applicant! to import British motor-lorries has been of no avail. Ihe rule.that no British manufacturer may export to Cerinany more than lour motor-ears mid ton motor-bicycles a month is. in spite of a large demand for them, strictly maintaintd.

With these eases it becomes evident that a definite policy of discrimination against Croat Britain exists. In Berlin so many Aiuervan ears are to he seen in the streets that one is Solved to conclude that the three exception- of special favour to American car-, referred to above are by no menus the oiilv ones.

Iff.fififl ONS C ABI. F. LONDON. February -I. All- Xewcombe Carlton, president ot the Western Fnion Telegraph Company. who arrived at .Southampton yesterday, in the Olympic, from New Vork. said the number of tables 1 •etwee u Great Britain and North America were now regarded as obsolete owing to the efficiency of the cable between North American and the Azores which had a word capacity eight, times greater that that of the old-style cable.

The lirst length ol I In' new fill'll* hehvren IN ■ n y.;i ih•> * and Newfoundland would Ilf laid llii- your, and this cable would weigh approximately HI.OOO lulls. "I regard this as l In* first nival development sinif lli«' inaugural ion «d i■ a 1 1 1 1 sin 1 SOS," said .Mr Carlton. "The lirsi part of this cable will co.-1 three million dollars ( L'llllO.llOll), and next v,. ;u - a !,-nn'.h of raWr to tie laid t'roiu .Newfoundland to Now A ork will oust an extra two million dollars tl'Ill.IHl.) , COLD MAT OF :M'iO H.C. CA I no. March Id. It lias liooit decided to close the now !v discovered ionih at Oizeli. noar the I’vrnmids- believed io be that of Kino Snofru fwho reigned about h.i A. the lirsi of the Fourth Dynasty or one of his family—until Or Reisner. the bead of the l!oston-llarvard expedition, who i- now in America. returns to Egypt. An inscription on the wold tnat entering the sarcophagus lids has now been deciphered, and it lias been ascertained that it contained only the names and titles of Snofru, constituting probably a legacy or present by the Kinsr. Further details supplied by the.mission show that to the south n! the tomh were found the foundations of a small stone pyramid. This tomb-shaft and it - stairway, as well as the temple which originally stood between them and'the pyramid, seem to have tunned m complete whole, as the mortuari chamber extends some distance under the temple mouth ot the tomb-shaft. Fast of Cheops’ pyramid are three small pyramids used as a sepulchre lot the members of the monarch's tamily. The temple of one of them had been built- on the ruins of that of the newly discovered vault, and is consequently of a more recent, date. The new tomb is therefore anterior to Cheops it the theory that the mortuary chamber, the temple and the pyramid form one complete whole is confirmed.