BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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(41 LUCAN TO EASE UP. LONDON, -May 29

(lilligan plays against Surrey at the Oval and against .Middlesex at Lords in order not to disappoint the London crowds. He then does not play for a month, hut he is expressly furhidden to bowl again this season. The specialist found the condition of In. heart aggravated hv strenuous work in Australia. The- damage is not serious, but could easily become «> if care is not taken. Thus far (lilligan is not howling at anything like his usual pace and lie confesses that he is feeling thoroughly tired and worn out. A LUCKY .MAX. LONDON’, May 2G. Air C-arew, a partner in a Uvcrp.a firm of ships cleaners has drawn Manna in the Calcutta sweep. He sold a quarter share for two thousand, and is trying to sell another fourth. He has cancelled his visit to the Derby saying that lie could not stand the strain ol seeing the race run. STOWAWAYS SENTENCED. .Received this day at 9.45 a.m.l LONDON, May 20. John Leslie Robertson, aged thirty, from Lerwick, and William Charles I'ohjov, aged twenty-one, from Wellington, were sentenced to 23 days hard labour for stowing away on the lonic. Evidence was given that utter the ship left Wellington three stowaways were found in a small boat. One jumped over-board at Colon. Robertson and pobjoy also remained at Colon and reported themselves us passengers v.I: missed the boat. They were brought t.i England on the Oraua- and

were hand'd over to the police. .Robertson and I’objoy, pleading guilty, declared that when they hoarded the hmie and mixed with the passengers nobody asked for a passport. ERlflT DOTIES. (Received this day at 9.25 a.r.a.> LONDON. -May 29. In the Commons the lion. Winston Churchill autumn,od that he could not act ode to the request from Air Bruce for the acceleration of the fruit duties. THE DEATH PENALTY. SOFIA. .May 2b. A eourtmartial sentenced to death three members oi illegal Communist organisations, and imposed sentences ranging from two to eight years upon twenty others. Two were acquitted. Thu pursuit bus been successfully continued of bauds ol brigands endeavouring to reach the- mountains. Home hands were wiped out. aioroccan ayah. PARIS May 25. The French forces have evacuated six outposts, in the Tuownnt— Aloulayiiiu district, owing to the difficulty of revictunlling them, due to daily incursion ol the ltifls.