NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

BAY IN THE Ail MY. LON BUN, August if. The Admiralty is adopting the wrong, method ol ci Jimmy if it intends to reduce ollieers’ pay and nroi s commit, says tin* “Daily f lironicle,” which adds: “Naval efficiency depends in til.* human element. Although the personnel has been reduced by oiic-i bird since the outbreak of war, the eiiie stall' has been increased hv fit) tier cent. “It is absurd that the administrative stall" should he increased and nursed at the expense of the ligthiug force.” It is oHieinlly annottiired that the navy nay is not to he reduced.

WAKES BKOIII BITED. LONDON. August IS. Eight mourners, alter attending a wake ai Dreenm !:, ioutrtu tod typhus. This rmultfd in lit* discovery that tin deceased had died of typhus, noL of meningitis, as at first supposed. 'Hie authorities have now prohibited wakes.

AM A/,I NO SKAXC'K. KXI F !•: AND FI UK HKFTKD. I.OXDOX, Aup 11s l 10. Circa t interest has Icon amused. says the Iktris iv:jTi.T:|>mitlom <il the “Times.” liy 1 In* seances el’ a fakir, Tallin Key. who claims to possess oxceplinnal powers of auto-suggestion. Ifo gave an exhibition in the presence of an audience of 2000 people and a jury of nine doctors. The fakir threw himself info the cataleptic state, and was laid on two scvliic blades—one under his neck, the oilier under his ankles. A stone weighing a. hiindivdwoiphi was then placed on his. stomach and smashed with a sledge hammer. His body did not show the slightest marl; of the blades. Ta’'ra- [ley was then placed on a had studded with sharp nails, and a man sal hi his chest. The fakir again was uninjured. When he emerged from the tranee he stabbed himself with a dagger, hut tl-e blood did not flow until he himselt allowed it. Then lie himself stopped it when a doctor ordered him to do so. The fakir next burned himself with a torch, and showed no signs ol pain. He permit,tod himself to he linriod in sand, inside a coflin and did not breathe for 20 minutes. Finally he oll'ered to allow the do;, tors to perform an operation to remove. his appendix without using an anaesthetic. The doctors had prepared for the operation, when one of thorn remembered that it would be illegal.

STATESMEN OFF CHAIN. LONDON. August 1 !. Members f the Mouse of Commons, breaking no iVr 14 weeks’ bolidav, were as happy as schoolboys. The Piimo Minister. .Mr Baldwin, who is tired. is to spend several restful weeks at hi. Worcestershire home, ami then coes to Aix-les-Bains (France). Tb.o Secretary of the dominions. Mr Ameiy. is to visit Ireland and Switzerland. The Foreign Minister. Mr Austen Chamberlain is awaiting M. BriamTs visit to London, after which lie will have a holiday in France and Switzerland. The Secrtonry ot Air. Sir Samuel lloare. is going to Norway, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Churchill, will stay at home, spending his recess in his garden and playing trilo. . Mr Ramsay .MacDonald is to viv.t France, anti twelve meml-ers of the House of Commons are proceeding to Newfoundland as guests of the Government. The exodus from London, which has been going on during the week, reached its climax last: night, when thousands of sleeping berths were booked.

Twenty expresses left Kuston, St. Pam ms and King’s Cross stations. The declared intention of Mr D. Kirkwood, the Scottish extr'-mist M. 8.. to remain seated during the singing of the National Anthem, has resulted in his withdrawal from the Commoners’ Canadian tour. A Newfoundland cable stated that lie would not be welcome there. OBITC’AK Y. LONDON. August 21. The death has taken place of Si' Montagu Ommnnnoy. formerly Liuiei Secretary of State for the Colonics.