MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cablo Association.] THE “ CAT ” BURGLAR. TWO MACS GAOLED. LONDON. February 17. MaeCartney was sentenced to nine montl>- in the second division. During I lie -hearing of the ease reference was made to his association.- with the famous “eat burglar." .jimmy MaeCraigh. who was sentenced yesterday to nine month- for being- a rogue and a vagabond. MaeCraigh. v.ho was reported to be the son of a Ta-mauian cattle dealer, had the gift of being able to climb drain nipes like a monkey. He was thus able to make a noiseless entry into the top Hours id houses. AlncCartney’s iimnsel explained tluit MneC'nrt ney met MaeCraigh during war service, but bad not joined him in his criminal ventures.

The Recorder said he could not but admire MaeCartney’- magnificent war record, but be could not disregard the fact that his education and position Humid have frustrated temptation fo indulge in crime.

It was revealed that MaeCartney had squandered £170.111)0 which had been supplied hv his father since tie war.

THE. MODERN CHILD. LONDON. February 17. Doctor Russell, a West Mud neurologist, lei tilling before the Institute of Hvgiene said the modern child was out of hand. The present-day tendency was to study the chilli's whims and pander to Ihcm. thus allowing the children to do pinch as they pleased, which wa- res’iousihle lor much harm. The hvgiene ol the hndy ami mind was greatly needed when children were permitted to read baneful literature at will and spend hours in kinomas. It would he better to return to the si riel discipline of the Victorian era rather than remain as at present.

Dr Russell deplored the disappear- | aimc of t|-.e ibaoerou which was responsible for long night hours in cabarets. Girls .could only keep up wiili the assistance of al: oho! and drugs and before they were twenty years of age they developed the lined laces of the m.iddlc-iiged woman. As mothers they would produce only miserable neuroties. EGYPT TO INDIA BY AIR. LONDON. Feh. 17. Coinmunder Konwortliy (Liberal) asked Sir Samuel Home (Air .Minister) ii lq. would consider the linking up of Egypt and India by an air service in order to make a continuous air mail line from London to Btirmn -. also the possibility of extending the air service to Australia. Sir Samuel 1 Inure replied that a fortnightly sorvire from Egypt to India was already timed to tonne: t with the mail steamers. He hoped that it would ultimately he linked up with the European air mails. The extension to Australia was being continuously investigated. NEW HEBRIDES CONDOMINTOX. LONDON. Feh. 17. In the llou.se of Commons, asked whether he was in a position to say whether steps would he taken in conjunction with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand for the pur-

pose of instituting negotiations regarding. tlq, situation in the New Hebrides. Sir Austen Chamberlain (Foreign .Secretary) replied that the Marquess of Crew, the Ambassador at Paris, was communicating with the French Government on the .subject of “our action taken in consultation with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.”

IU'RIED UNDER- SNOWFALL. NEW YORK. I'Yb. 18.

News from Salt Lake City states that 15 Indies have been taken from several buildings that were buried beneath a snow slide on Wednesday at Sup Guleh, eighteen miles south west of the city. There is little hope for the rescue alive ot between fifty and one hundred persons believed to ht trapped and crushed in the buildingsseme of which arc ablaze.