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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

STORM MYSTERY. LONDON, October 7. The dead body of Mrs Davids Jane Army Lockhart, of West .Moors, near Wimborne, Dorset, who vanished in Tuesday night’.s storm at Weymouth, was yesterday discovered, partly covered by seaweed, near the old coastguard station at Preston, a mile and a half away from the spot where she disappeared. “ We were out for a walk when the rain came on and took .shelter in tlie doorway of a house.” her husband stated. " Afterwards ire walked along the esplanade. “Suddenly I discovered that my wife was not with me. f .searched for her. but it was very dark owing to the mist and the rain, ic being impossible to see a hundred yards ahead.” Mr Lockhart reported his wife’s disappearance to the police, who searched the esplanade and beach in vatu. Last night .Mr Lockhart refused to make anv further statement regarding the matter, contenting himself with the remark. “Women are very frail

creatures.” Ask if it wa.s true that his wife bad 6200 in her possession when she disappeared, lie said, “ f cannot say anything about it.” 27 HOURS ADR IET. TORONTO, October 6. After 27 hours’ exposure to the biting winds, an almost freezing temperature, ami the high seas in a light canoe, Mrs Cork, her two-years-old baby, Phyllis, and Miss Kathleen Conroy. ageil 12, were rescued in the middle of Lake Ontario. IS miles from the .shore, by a search party. Mrs Cork bad intended to spend only a few minutes in the canoe, but it was caught by a strong gale. Her absence wa.s discovered on the return of her husband to bis summer residence on the lake shore many hours later. Although it was considered almost impossible that the trio could have survived the storm, lifeboats and aeroplanes started a search. When discovered, Mrs Cork was still paddling, hut she callapsed. as did the girl. The baby, however, laughed. IRISH .lOHS FOR FOREIGNERS LABOUR UNREST. DUBLIN, September 25.

Irish contracts granted to Continental firms promise to involve the Free State in serious labour disputes. Dublin’s public services—water supply, electric light, cleansing of sewers and mian drainage—are to cease at 1 p.m. on Saturday as a result of a strike of the Irish Municipal Employees’ Union, 1 with 1.800 members, if the Dublin Commissioners persist in their determination to sign a contract with a French firm to cleanse Dublin’s streets at a cost of £134,000 a year for ten years. [The dispute has since been settled by the Dublin Corporation guaranteeing work to the men to he dismissed for one year.] Tiiis contract will mean the dismissal, say th.e- union, of 208 members, “ whose livelihood will be handed over to foreigners,” They term it a struggle

to “maintain Irishmen at home.” The union have to-day appealed tor support to. among others, the Amalgamated Society of the transport workers, local Government officials, the ire brigades’ trade union, and the Irish Trades Union Congress and l.abnir Party. This is not the only foreign contract to incur Labour's displeasure. Af Limerick the Shannon electric power contract for 65,000.00'), granted to Messrs Siemens and Sehuekert. the German firm is held lit • because the Transport and General Workers’ l nioii supported by ex-Sorvice men, refuse to accept the wage of 32s a week offered for unskilled labour. 'This foreign penetration is disturbing and puzzling many folk here, and a waggish cynic rattled ofl the doggerel : AVith a dustbin from Paris, A house from the Rhine, And sugar the Belgian will shortly refine: German light from the Shannon To light up your hall, Sure isn't Ould Ireland the place for ’em all? [.EG LEFT BEHIND. LONDON. Oct. 7. Regarded l>v officials at King’s Cross Station as the supreme example of forgetfulness. there remains in the Lost Propertv Department of the station an artificial leg left by a passenger in a main line train some months ago. The leg is of the type issued to soldiers, and the aid til the Ministry of Pensions was sought, with the lostilt that they have traced the owner by the number on the leg, and are endeavouring to communicate with him.