BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] MAN IN GLASS CASE. BERLIN, June 12. llow a girl fell in love with a fasting man in a glass case is disclosed by the announcement of the engagement of Edith Small, an actress, and George Lindereck, a journalist. Day after day Edith went to see Lindereck, so he sent a message to her. The couple became engaged on tlie forty-ninth day of’Lindereck’s fast, which lasted fifty days. ARCHAIC SKULL. PARIS, June 12. News from Gibraltar states that Miss Garrod, a student of the Institute Palcontologie Humanie, of Paris, has discovered the frontal bone and other portions of a human skull, belonging to a youth, embedded in the hardest tufa, with typical Mousterian implements. 'jr The find was lying under twelve feet of a deposit containing similar implements. , The skull is of the same ago and type as the Gibraltar skull, which was discovered in the Forbes Quarry in the year IS4O. It is estimated to be not less than 20,000 years old. THE ROYAL VISIT. LONDON, June 11. H is authoritatively stated that the Duke and Duchess of York are definitely proceeding to Australia in a warship J probably in March next. LLOYD GEORGE AND LABOUR. LONDON, June 12. Liberal Parliamentary candidates, alter hearing Mr Lloyd George, appointed a deputation to wait on Lord Oxford and Asquith, and to convey to him their strong desire for the restoration of a complete unity within the Party under his leadership. A letter was read from Air Philip Snowden (Labourite) denying that Air Lloyd George had made any approaches to the Labour Party. LONDON, June 13. The Re-election of A 1 blisters’ Bill, removing tlie necessity for Ministers submitting themselves to re-election oil accepting or changing offices, was read a third time in the House of Commons by 183 to 88. RUSSIAN SUPPORT. AIOSCOAV, June 12. The Soviet Trades Unions have so far contributed 3.626,000 roubles to the A 1 biers’ Federation in Britain. SOVIET GOVERNAIENT. LONDON, June 12. The Acting Charge d’Affairs at the Soviet Embassy here lias issued a state- i meat denying the Home Secretary, Sir AV. Joynson Hicks’s declaration in the House of Commons that the Soviet Government had sent money to Britain to support a general strike.

WEALTHY BACHELOR. LONDON, June 12. The story of a wealthy bachelor as prince bountiful is related by the “Daily Express,” which discloses that the late Thompson Jewett, steel manufacturer of Sheffield, left a fortune of seven hundred thousand sterling. After making provision for his aged mother and for tho death duties, ho leaves the residue to sixty four beneficiaries, who are mostly the children > of his friends, who will receive about six thousand sterling each. Jowctt, for years, was one of the most popular bachelors ill London, who began life in humble beginnings, and worked up his business from the i:niest affair. He lived for many years in a magnificent suite of rooms at Savoy Court. There he entertained h>s friends in a most lavish fashion, ing nothing of bringing a continental chef specially to prepare a single rare dish for his guests. Yet lie was himself a vegetarian, living in the simplest manner. DAMAGES AWARDED. LONDON, June 11. \ Alary the Dowager Comitecs of Seafield, has been awarded by the King’s Bench, £IOOO damages for. libel, and her ti'.iughter, Nina, Countecs of Seafield has been awarded £SOO damages against ALr George Wilbeforce Grant, as the result of a letter which the defendant wroter to the editor of tho “Strathspey Herald,” alleging that Nina is not the daughter of the Dowager, and that the latter was guilty of gross imposture in putting Nina forward as the Countess. The matter 'arose out of a claim in tho Scottish Courts by Alexander Grant that Hie eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh Earls of Seufield had no title to the Earldom, hut that Alexander Grant ought to he the eighth Earl. Counsel explained that the eleventh Earl of Seatield had married Mabel Townsend, of New Zealand, in 1808, but, no child was born to them till 1906.

Counsel for the defendant said that the defendant apologised for repeating the tittle-tattle of a lady’s tea-party. The defendant, who was a retired civil servant, had done a foolish thing, and he would Rive to suffer for it.

VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON, June 11

The offering for the Victorian loan totalled forty one millions sterling. Applicants were allotted seven per cent.

A BRITISH PROTEST. LONDON, June !1

It is understood the British Government have sent the Soviet Government a note protesting agpinst the Soviet Government offering the Trade Union Congress- money during a general strike which is regarded as an unjustifiable interference with the internal affairs of Britain.