BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tu"' 'Ciaies” Service.] EARL OF YPRE3 ESTATE. LONDON, August 12. Lord Ypres left £25,100, all to Ed- -y----wind Cox, a solicitor of Westminister and a lifelong friend, without reservaiou of any kind. The will contained eight lines only. The Earl of Ypres family are unable to explain the will, especially its his soil is succeeding to the title. Lady Ypres, however, belongs to the well-to-do Selby Lowndes family and is a residuary legatee to -J 1 the eighty thousand estate of the Countess of Cliarlemont. -SIR CUN LI FEE-LISTER- RESIGNS. ‘ - LONDON, August 12. Sir Cunlill'e-Lister has handed to Baldwin his resignation as Prdesident if the Board of Trade because his wife is a big shareholder in the "Yorkshire Collieries. Sir C imlifle-Lister lea-red this fact might embarrass the Government in connection with the recent coal settlement. Mr Baldwin has not yet accepted the resignation, but is inquiring into tho legal aspects of the matter. A SUICIDE. LONDON, August 12. ■Colonel MaeKonzie, a civil engineer, aged thirty seven, with a brilliant war record, he winning the D.S.O. and .Military Cross, committed suicide in a flat in Albermarle Street after see- j. ing Maughan’s play “Ruin.” Colonel .Muclvenzie lost a €2.500 a year position with Armstrongs owing to his drinking habits. He was also divorced in April and had come to the end of his financial resources, but was engaged to he married in October. His fiancee gave evidence that the play was most distressing. She tried to cheer the deceased up but next morning he refused to greet- her with affection. Instead, he went out of the room and shot himself. The coroner pointed out that Colonel was affected by the play which turned upon suieido and immorality. A verdict of suicide .w while of unsound mind was returned. The coroner said it was a case of a brilliant man, who lost honour, wife, children and money. A CAT ARTIST. LONDON, August 12. An appeal has been inaugurated to raise €'looo sterling for the famous cat artist Louis Wain. He commenced to draw in 1880 and lias drawn 150 thousand cats. Despite lii.s past prosperity lie sold the copyright of pictures and is now a pauper in a luna- ! tic asylum. CREMATION ADVOCATED. LONDON, Aug. 10. A writer in the British Medical Journal advocates the cremation of all persons dying from cancer. He argues that, as cancer is caused by a germ which passes through a porcelain filter, it would surely pass through any soil, and percolate downwards until deep water is contaminated. STRIKERS FIRED ON. PEKIN, August 12 Chinese police and military were compelled to fire on striking mill workers at Tientsin, wounding eight. THE CHINESE STRIKE. (Received this day at 10.25 a.nt.) * PEKING, Aug. 13. The Japanese Consul-General and C hinese -Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. on liehalf of the mill owners and strikers have signed an agreement providing for the resumption of work in the Japanese cotton mills, involving nine companies who own forty factories and employing over fifty thousand people. The Naigaiwata mill, at which the riots started, offered the relatives of the wounded and dead ten thousand dollars, which the Japanese ConsulGeneral is retaining until the trouble is completely settled. The majority of the wharf coolies struck again after a one day resumption of work.