MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

('Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] AMAZING CAREER. LONDON, Fob. IT. When Wilfred .Macartney, aged 28, with manacles ,m was charged ;il Old Hailey with breaking and entering a West End store, he told the story ol an amazing career, lie was sentenced to nine months. Macartney related how lie fought in France at the age ot sixteen and became a commissioned oliicer in the Royal Scots in 1915. Later he was Governor of Zea Island in the A yean Sea. Then lie was a King’s .Messenger between Cortu and Rome, lie was decorated by M. Yriiizelus (Greek j’reuii *r) lor quelling a mutiny. He rejoined I lie Royal Sco! and was wounded and i.ikeu prisoner at Cam--I,,mi. He escaped by jumping from a train and made his way to England, lie was then sent io Lonstantniopic where lie served until 19)9. Then he took up his father’s interest the Malta trainways. increasing i Is- Holdings to £03.1100. MARKETING SOCIAL POSITIONS. I.ONDON, Feb. 17. Piquant sidelights on liow social | ositions nutv be marketed with considerable profit" wen- siiou n in the bankruptcy examination of .James Durham, a former diplomat, who married Lady Agnes Townsend, the sister ol General" Townsend. Durham gave evidence that he was the unpaid attache to the British Berlin Embassy lor ■three Years belore the \\ai. IR I " ,t inherited nothing. He admitted that Sir Laurence Phillipps who was awarded a baronetcy in 1919 advanced him V’Sim for social and other assistance. and he received similar _ commissions from oilier society aspnants. TIIK CREEK DICTA’I OR>l 11 P. ATHENS, February 18. AI. Papannstussio’s paper " Demon-t-rniia," which has criticised Hie Pan,oilos Government, lias been suspended recently. The editor was arrested for violation of the press regulations. An official communique vaguely says that I In* elimination of arrested person , from Athens is considered necessary in order to dispose of disquieting rumours current for some days past.