NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

“1 FORGIVE HIM.”

LONDON, November 28

At an inquest at Camberwell yesterday on Florence Maud Ada liorlev, 21. a servant, who took poison, it was stated that she left her situation to marry an overseer at the General Post Office. They stayed together at a houso in Milbrook-road, Loughborough, S.E. The man was not seen at the house on Tuesday or Wednesday, and on the following day she ran out of her room, saying, “ I’ve taken poison.” A note found in her room ran: Sweetheart, don’t go. 1 love you; wait love, for me. T know what you have done and 1 am not cross, just worried to death. If you love me, wait. I cannot live without you. come what may.

In a letter to her parents she wrote ; Victor Kent or William Stepcns are both the name of the man I love. My frocks and costumes have all been sold to keep the apartments going. Vie promised to marry me any moment his money arrived, and now 1 find lie is already married and left his wife and two children to get on the best, way they can.

He has gone and left me with nothing but bills and debts to pay. Not one lie but hundreds I have heard from Vie; but should anyone see him let him. know that I forgive him and wish him to return to his home.

The coroner. Air Cnwburn, told a juror who suggested that the man ought to tie censured, that he had gone bnt they were trying to find him. The inquiry was adjourned. GERMAN TRADE ADVANTAGE. LONDON. November 28. •• Foreign manufacturers, not only those of British nationality, who have visited Germany during the past year and have looked into matters themselves, are one and all amazed not at the amount of German competition which they are experiencing but at the fact that it is not greater.” This is an extinct from, the official report on the economic and financial conditions in Germany just issued by tlie Department of Over-seas Trade. The report is full of information about the strenuous efforts Germany is making to capture the trade of the world.

The report stales that Germany, with a population of 3-1,000.000. is taxed to produce £311.000.000. and that England, with a population of I•’>.()( 10.000. is taxed to produce £(180.702.000. representing £ls per head, compared with £fi per head in Germany.

German production is fostered by reduced railway rates on raw materials, and export is promoted by preferential rates between inland, stations mid the ports. Mr J. W. F. Thelwall, commercial secretary to the British Embassy in Berlin, who lias prepared the report, says : The vital factor which differentiates English from German cost of production is labour. The German workman receives considerably less than the pay of his English colleague, and often works a longer day; further, he works unremittingly. . . unhampered by any trade union restrictions as lo the quantity of his output. Unless solin' adjustment is made the effect of this difference will make itself increasingly fell, as the disadvantages from which Germany at present suffers, particularly the financial olio, disappear.