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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

BOY SAVES TWO LIVES. LONDON. A ur. 7. Two brothers. Jack ami Will Harris, aged 10 and 12. were playing bv the River Lea at Enfield Lock. Middlesex, yesterday afternoon when one fell into the water, and the other in trying to reach him. fell in also. Cries for help attracted 1-eon a I'd Griggs, aged 11. of Easttield-road, Enfield Highway, who ran to the spot, taking off his clothes as he did so. and jumped into the water. He rescued the younger boy and then went back and saved the other.

Charles Toop. 14. an errand-boy, of Bath, rescued a five-vears-old boy named Albert Everett from the Avon on Wednesday night. loop cut bis knee on the rocks as lie dived in. hut lit ought the lmv to the hank. Walter Stewart, 11. of Bristel-road. Forest Cate’, H.. a shop assistant at Kltliani. lost his life at Woolwich yesterday in an effort to save a three-years-old child named Stamford Areher. of Eppcr Harden-street. Charlton. 5.E... who had fallen into the Thames.

Stewart got into difficulties as soon as lie was in the water, and was drowned before he could reach the child, who was. however, saved by Arthur Grouch. 41, of Brookliill-road, Woolwich.

MAN'S ST HA NOE DEATH. LONDON. Aug. 7. The aid of Sir Bernard Spilsbnry. hon. consulting pathologist to the Home Office, is to ho called in to investigate the mystery of the sudden death of Mr Walter Horace Gates, ■!•>. proprietor <d‘ l’ynes Stores. Ep; mg. At the inquest yesterday the widow said that alter a, light supper he went t„ hod at 11 on Tuesday. He seemed in good health. At 12.t0 she was awakened hv a noi'c of choking. A\ lien this stopped she found that her husband was dead. He had complained of a sore throat M ueek before. Alter gargling for two davs with a teaspoon 1 ill o! disinfectant in a pint of witter prepared by herself this disappeared. A post-mortem examination shewed the organs to be normal and healthy. The coroner adjourned the inquest lor further investigation. THE ANTI-FELONS. LONDON, Aug. 7. it ... t iu:t fir the prosecution . 10t..-, fol mol in IsvKi, still exists in iiMtnur.v, Oxfordshire, ii ha-, tu-d.e. lIP paving m.embers, ail of whom have properly in the district. Years ago damage to property was frequent, ami the police laded 1,1 leu to apprehend 111..- AcOl.. On I.cloilt of their numbers the a-- ■- , lalcHi pro.-ceuti -s and pays ail legal tics, h also co-o.'. rates with the |u> li e. I’UUH 1.11 10 ANTE. LONDON, Aug. 7. A substantial advance has been made in the new procedure for facilitating legal actions by poor persons. the Law Society ill Loudon and the provim ial Law Societies ill the rounity are to appoint cummittees In imjilire into tiie means of the pour litigant. 11l all cases where it is justified nv circumstance;,. free legal aid will he lorlh-

llrait rules drawn iiji hv the Hul Committee of the Supreme Court am tabled 111 both lS'iu-cs ul l’a.liaiia o pro', id.c : - • - Tha; a poor | .cl's, a is one v. ho.-ns-els cs liisive ,-l clothing and tom is 1.-ss than ion (i,|- in spe ial eirctmi stames of i'll 111) and v, hose usual in come from all sources is not more tlia, !/2 a week (or in sjacial cip. umstancc £ I a v.cvk) ; that the ; nor person mi.s have rcatsi lialile grounds for taking o defending the case, and that the liMn and address must 1,-e given of the soli film who ha- consc iPod to condue the case. No fees are to lie, (barged to poo persons either in respect of the filin of the certili ate or in the court, ir f solicitors or counsel, mir shall they b liable to pay or receive any (lists. in a matrimonial cause the La 1 ."society may require a deposit of no mure than ill) against out of poekt expenses. BUNGALOW FIRED BY LIGHTNING. LONDON, Aug. 7.

During a violent thunderstorm over Devon early yesterday morning more than an inch of rain fell at Plymouth and Torquay, At Eulbnrtiin. a village near Plymouth. a thati'le'd bungalow was fired and completely destroyed. The lire brigade In-Li up by ll sided roads. A terrible storm visited Guudiiunxt. ui'ar Tunbridge Wells, yesterday afternoun, u lien eight workmen, extending a. chapel on the hoys’ training farm were struck by lightning. Several of them were ihrov,n from a scaffold, and ore had a saw wrenched from his hand and carried AOi'l. One was thrown inti mortar and amuliei landed i:i a dit'-li. One mail temporarily |es( tlic use iii In- hands and legs and another Ids feet, while still another had his face .scorohed. E.S. FILM EXPORTS. NEW YORK. An/, fi. The amazing' growth of the kinemu industry in the End"! States in the last decade is revealed by IP * e\lniri figures |Vr the fiscal year iialing .line :;i. 1 heso sllow exports (luring that pi. rii ii I of £1,70(1. QUO north of films, -if which U) tier cent, went to the llritisli Empire. These figures compare with TMoll.Od!) worth espurtej in Bll.'l. Such returns represent only a small part of Ihe trcmcndoiis reventies arcniing to Americini film producers. The I'uitcd States Census Bureau give the value of films produced in i lie l nited states in B)2:l at .017.25:t,fi:.‘0- figures easily -mpa-sod last year.