NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

WOMEN TELEPHONE GOSSIPS. PARIS. Aug. 4. Women must not use the telephone between 10 a.m. and 4 pan. is the notice which rolauiants near 'the Bourse, frequented almost exclusively by Paris stockbrokers, have been compelled to pul up. f ] he proprietor.- declare that w oiiien monopolise the telephone by gossiping with their friend' to such an extent that, business men who are snatiliing a hurried luncheon are unable to keep in touch with their offices. CHEAPER FURS. LONDON, August. 6. Furs of most kinds will, il is expected, b... considerably cheaper during the coming season than they wore last year. " There has been a gradual but continued decline in market prices through out. Hie last few .sales." the principal of one of the biggest London linns ot w hulsnlo furriers told a reporter yesterday. " and retail prices in the autumn should certainly reflect this

" Very large supplies "f grey squirrel. white and red fox. and kolinsky, are coming Irom Siberia, and the new season’s supplies of pelts irom America and Australia will, il is estimated, be exceptionally good.”

The demand ill tile l nited States lor squirrel, lie added, lias been enormous recently, and German buyers bad been clamouring for Persian lamb lor coats. •‘This year." he explained, "skunk will he the most popular fur in Loudon, while Paris will favour dark mink. The manufacturers create the Lishions by

sending large supplies ol a particular kind of fur to a capital, and causing a great display to he made."

SEASIDE GIRLS. LONDON. August f

W riting in the August number of bis parish magazine on a holiday spent at Bognor, the Rev. A. Wellesley Orr. vicar of St. R.itd's. Kingston Hill. Surrey, says: ()n arrival you mat imagine yourselves in the "Garden of Eden." since F\'e goes about naked and unashamed. The presence of an extraordinary number of a ppni'eiit ly Oxlord trousers will change this impression to one ot "Paradise Lost.” especially when accent and vocabulary reveal that the wearers, as well as the trousers, had their education and trimming only in ()xford-st reel. Paradise is regained on realising that the fair sex at the sea have to a woman discarded powder ami paint. Mv general impression compels me to admit that, as tar a> the seaside samples go. the women of our race are finer specimens of Immunity, physically and mentally, than the men. CANNIBALS SCARED. LONDON. August 7. ('apt. G. li. Wilkins, louder ol the British .Museum expedition, which has been two wears in Australia, lias tei uriied to London. He told a reporter hist evening how he was able to gain the confidence ol cannibal native's in Northern-Eastern Territory who had always been hostile to white men. ( aptain Wilkins slated that when a party of natives attacked his cam], one night lie went out carrying a bright light, and the attackers, airaid to tiirow their spears disappeared into the Intsh. His own native helpers were afraid to go to sleep, and they spent the. night tolling hint of their exploits. In the morning they realised that they had confessed to a great nuniL'r of crimes, and they no doubt considered • hat the only way to secure his silence was to tell him other and more dreaded things and take bint completely into their confidence. Front these people, he said, he learned a great deal of native loro and customs and this enabled him later to approach the even more aggressive natives of Groote F.yland. who had never before allowed any white man to visit their camp. Thousands of specimens collected by the expedition will eventually be shown in the British Museum.