NEWS BY MAIL. TANGO AT 84.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL. TANGO AT 84.

LONDON, Sept. 28. At a Bond-street dancing academy a man of 84 is at present learning to dance the new French tango. lie is one of many elderly men and women who aro being taught the few simple steps of the new dance. One daneo teacher in Knsington has among her tango pupils a peer who is over "0, and also a General over 70. Most people can learn the new tango in 3 lessons. “If you can walk, you can tango, is a saying prompted by tlie simplicity of the dance. , lined. LUXUIIY. LONDON, Sept. 28. 1 Air A. F. Henderson, managing director of the Anchor Line, speaking at a luncheon yesterday in connection i with the trial trip of the new liner Caledonia on the Clyde, said that the i ship, in her fittings and appointments. I both in cabins and public rooms ap- • proached the luxurious. It was often • said in shipping circles that the public I demanded luxury, but he dill not believe it. , He lielieved the race lor luxury was between the shipowners themselves, • and he would like, without depli'ing the public of any convenience, to see • a stop put to tlie serious race in costs caused by adding luxury to luxury m every succeeding ship. Times were bad. and lie thought. , further, that the Hoard of Trade, m their restrictions, might iairly be more human.

4 GOO MILES TO CEDE DOG-BITE. LONDON. Sept. 28. As the result of being bitten by a mad dog, two British officers, Captain Nieholl and Lieutenant Cartwright, have made a dash front Calabar (Southern Nigeria) to London, a distance ol about 4,1)00 miles, to obtain special treatment for rabies. The officers were bitten in Calabar nearly a month ago. and arrived in London last night from Plymouth, to which port they had travelled m the West African liner Abinsi. A friend wlm accompanied them told a. 'reporter: “The dog was suffering from rabies when it went mad at taptain Nielioll’s home and hit him severely. On Lieutenant Cartwright coming to his assistance, the dug turned upon | him and he was also bitten. “Babies set in and the two officers were ordered to London at once.” The officers had to motor 500 miles over terrible ground from Calabar to Lagos to catch the boat. They started on a Monday morning, followed by a lorrv containing their baggage, and ill charge of two native servants. Lagos was not reached until Friday morning. When 100 miles from Lagos the Ing- • digc-lorrv plunged into the Bi'ei Niger and the two servants were drowned. It was thought that the officers would have to go to Paris for Bas'eny treatment, but the Ministry ol health have arrangements lor treatment 111 London.

\(1EI) COOK’S CHOICE. LONDON. Sept. 28. "1 have enjoyed my life* and would he a domestic servant, il I had to li\'-‘ it, over again,” was said to he the statement of Charlotte llamsbaw. aged 78. a cook in the employ of Mrs Louisa Cooper of Twickenham, just- before her deal h in the West Middlesex Hospital. On August 4. when going to the front dour, she"fell and fractured her thigh. Pneumonia developed. A verdict °f accidental death was recorded at Hie impicst yesterday, when it was staled that, the woman was exceptionally active for her age and did not believe in doctors.

\ M \YOU AND NCBSECAVELL PATHS, Sept. 2G. According to the lutransigonnt, the Mavor ol l.e Cntesol. the 1 liter nation ti list.' M. Paul paurc, has ordered the Hue Edith Cavell in l.e Creusot. to be re-named and the inscription describing the manner in which she met her doatli to ho effaced. The I ntransiyeant says this action is “hateful, stupid, and cowardly.” and remarks that- even those who arc not actuated by patriotism hut who claim tlu-y are working lor the bet torment of immunity should impress on Inture generations the useless horror of such mi -n t a- v.lie execution of Nurse Cavell.