BRITISH & FOREIGN MEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN MEWS

Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

WOMEN MUFFIN SELLERS. LONDON. October IS. A curious new autumn type in l.ou!oii streets is women muffin sellers, ,!m have largely replaced men. ’I he ;i rls carry I heir bushels in their arms ustead of the familiar tray balanced n a man’s head.

The " Daily Express ” comments that man’s sphere is being more and more invaded by women. It recalls the Lord Chief Justice's car G now driven hy a woman, while there have ju.mM c nt MM.'jj.ts in f women lo tbo directorates of city firms.

PRISONERS’ ESCAPE. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. October 19. Following a daylight c-eapr ->1 (wi prisoners at Peiit'iui ilb-. less Ilian fortnight age. while painting tin- roof of the prison hospital, one of whom is still uncaptured, a sensation lias been created in London nl the news of the daring escape of two ticket-or-leave men, Arthur Bacon and Sidney .Marks from Pentonville. The men occupied adjoining cells on the lourlh Ilnur, each possessing a pair of scissors for the purpose of work. Apparently they removed bricks Irom the walls, crawled through the hole, tied sheets to portions of clothing, and perilously dropped to the ground in the darkness. They climbed a twenty-foot wall and escaped.

NEW AIR DISCOVERY. (Received this dnv at l.fil) p.m.) HON DON. Oct. 19. Sir S. ITonre. Tenehard. Salmond and many air force specialists were keenly interested spectators ol further tests of tin- autogyro plane at Earnbo rough this morning. The inventor has not yet devised a starter for tho windmill vanes, which were wound up. and spun like a top when the signal to take off was given. During the demonstrations Courteney sTiYiwed the machine's remarkable stability. Finally be shut off power and let tin- plane fall vertically four hundred feet, with the vanes revolving iust as if crashing, hut it alighted with only a slight hump, which did no damage. Courteney told the journalists that such a amaehiiie was infinitely safer than the ordinary aeroplane, because the vanes give stability.

11.M.5. DIOMEDE. LONDON. Oct. 19. Tin* New Zealand ilag will be hoisted aboard t lie cruiser Diomede on I rnfalgnr Day, and the ship will sail for the Dominion about 1 Ith. November. VODKA SALES RESUMED. PARIS, Oct. 17. Reports from Moscow state that tlu Soviet’s decision to permit the sale of Vodka, which was prohibited during and since the war, resulted in scenes of debauchery, many intoxicated pen pie requiring treatment in hospitals.