BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association

MARRIAGES. LONDON, January 11 A romantic marriage followed

meeting on board ship cn route from Australia between,a son of Rev. Jacksou of Oswertry, who after a university course engaged in sheep-farming in Australia and a revue actress. -Maisie O’Connor, daughter of J. O’Connor, of Auckland.

Lord Stanley’s nineteen-year-oh daughter .Mary, has married Lord Ave luirv’s son. .Maurice Ltiddoek.

MADAME MELBA. LONDON. January 10. , Madame Melba in an interview said when she returned she intended to live in Paris. BALKAN SECURITY I’ACT. ATHENS. .Tan. 0. The Jugo-Slavinn Minister has informed the Greek Foreign Minister that Jugo-Slavin i.s prepared to agree to the conclusion of a Balkan Security Pact and arbitration on tlie lines of the Locarno Agreement, but in order to insure the .success of the Pact it will be necessary, first, to clear up all outstanding Graeeo-Jugo-Slnvian questions.

RUSSIAN MONARCHAL PLOT

LONDON, Jan. 10

The Riga correspondent of the “limes” states it i.s reported from Moscow Hint tlie Soviet Government lias discovered a Monarchist plot in the t kraine. engineered by agents working on behalf of the Grand Duke Nicholas and General AVmngel. -with whom they maintained communication through Tsarist generals sojourning in Roumania.

AEFUAL Si’llVFV. LONDON. .Tim. If). ■ It has now been decided that the second aerial survey party representing the Air Ministry and Imperial Airways. consolidating the work of the expedition which recently returned, shall start forthwith along the CairoKarachi air line, which it is proposed to operate with triple engined aeroplanes. The party will investigate from the ground sites for alightin' and refuelling stations selected from the air by the previous expedition. EMPIRE AIRWAYS. LONDON, January 11. ■Simultaneously with the new aerial survey, the Imperial airways evil! investigate the means of linking up Loudon and Cairo with the ultima id object of flying beyond India to Australia. connecting at Port Darwin with toe Australian airway system, WEALTHV INDIANS’ DEATHS. AI.LEiEI) .MURDER BV WHITES NEW YORK, Jan. 11. A message from Guthrie, Oklahoma, States the mysterious death of nine wealthy Osago Indians, prompted a Federal inquiry, Lo which 100 witnesses ■were called, involving their alleged murdering, reputedly by influential whites holding insurance policies on the Indians’ lives. The Osage Indians are Government wards, who receive largo royalties for oil removed from their tribal lands, each member of the tribe, which numners 2,200 having received at least I 12,0.10 dollars in royalty lor nil up to the first of July. 102.5.

-daily Osages dissipate their income immetliatey alter receipt after which they borrow heavily from the whites, who, as security, accept insurance policies on the Indians' lives in which the whites are named as beneficiaries.

The latest alleged murder involves the death of Harry Roan, a rich Osage, whose bullet-pierced body was found several days alter lie bad disappeared. The jury in investigating ins death indicted two whites, one of whom was a beneficiary to the extent ol twentylive thousand dollars under Roan’s policy. Tiie same man was previously indicted for the murder of \\ . IS. Smith, a wealthy Indian, who died with his wife and housekeeper when Ids house was blown up in 1923. FARMERS HAVE THEIR SAY. .MADRID, Jan. 11. A Government edict prohibiting tlie use of two wheeled carts unless the tyres are of a certain width, in order to prevent the cutting up of the roads, which is interfering with motoring led to serious rioting in the province of Albacete, when the Civil Guards, while attempting to enforce the new regulations were attacked by crowds ol farmers, who killed a corporal and four guards, clubbing them to death. Tlie casualties-among tlie farmers are unknown. The Government lias since issued an edict exempting the farmers Irani the scope of the new regulations.

RANK HELD UP AT MIDDAY. LONDON. Jan. LI. <Six armed men stuck up the staff of the Omagh Rank at midday, milsacked the safes and secured £BOO m notes. They escaped in a motor car to the Sperrin Mountains.

ACTRESS ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. BERLIN, Jan. 9. Ti Ila Dtirieux the wife of Cassierer. took an overdose of veronal, but the doctors saved her life. [A message from Berlin on Friday stated that Paul Cassierer. a wellknown art dealer and publisher, committed suicide, following on unhappy domestic relations with his wife, who is an actress, Tilla Dtirieux, who achieved an unchallenged position at the head of her profession a.s an impersonator of volcanic temperaments, including Oscar Wilde’s characters. A dissolution suit was lodged after nineteen years of married life, the parties meeting in the presence of lawyers to arrange financial matters, after which Cassierer went to an adjoining room and aimed a revolver at his heart. He died a few hours later.]