MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

MARADDING PANTHER. CALCUTTA, June 20. Messrs K. Bathgate and Probett, officials of the East Indian railway at Dhanbad, bearing that a panther was terrorising villages 12 miles away, went in pursuit. Meeting the panther, Mr Probett fired, wounding it. The animal charged and knocked him down. Air Bathgate was ready, and his shot killed the panther in the nick of time. ACCOUNTANT ARRESTED. CALCUTTA, Juno 26. Llewellyn Evans, chief accountant of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at Bombov, was proceeding to England on leave, when be was arrested at Aden on a charge of falsification of accounts to the extent of £36,000. He has been remanded for two weeks.

THE LOST COLONIES. INTENSE HATRED OF FRANCE. LONDON. June 28. “The most intensive propaganda r being carried on throughout Germany for the return of her colonies,” declares Colonel R. P. Sands, of Sydney. “The plates in the cafes and beer gardens are inscribed: ‘Germany must have colonies, without which Germany must remain a secondary nation.’ “German business men. are welcoming British, American, and Australian visitors, and are expressing to them the most intense hatred of France, against whom, they declare, the next war is inevitable. “The Royalist plebiscite is declared to have lvecn a- fiasco, tho majority of fair-minded people abstaining from voting because there was no pvovLi for partial compensation of the former rulers, who were threatened with the loss of their property. Nevertheless, the Monarchist movement, it is considered will never recapture its old power.”

BILLIARD PLAYER’S DEBTS. THE EFFECT. OF ILLNESS. LONDON, June 28. The estate of Melbourne Inman’, the famous billiards player, is in tlie hands of tho official receiver. It is stated that bo laid earned a comfortable living until 1921, but that liis income lately had been considerably reduced owing to illness and also to bis 'lability to an unsuccessful Piccadilly club. Inman’s total liabilities are £IOOO of which £3OO is due for income tax. ‘A LUCKY AVIATOR. DEATH TWICE EVADED. SENSATIONAL DESCENTS. ! : LONDON, June 30. Falling backwards from an uncontrollable upside-down spinning aeroplane in tho vicinity of Brooklands, Captain Schofield owes his life to the parachute, by means of which he dropped 409 ft and landed unharmed, wbjle the machine crashed. Captain Schofield had a wonderful e.sqrpo last week, when half his propeller became detached and broke off portions of the engine and he ’planed down 11,000 ft. IOXHAITSTED AIRMEN. FLYING FOR. OYER 26 HOURS. A STRAIGHT FLIGHT RECORD. LONDON, June 28. Captain Arrachat and his brother, who left Paris yesterday to attempt u non-stop flight to rndia, came '.own at Basra, on the Persian Cult, alter flying 2714 miles in 26) hours. The aeroplane carried sufficient nie for another 14 hours’ flying, but the pilots were compelled to descend owing to extreme exhaustion. l h ey could not keep awake. They broke the “straight, flight” record by <44 miles.

ALEXANDRA ROSE DAY. LONDON, June 30. Dame Mary Cook organised eighty English and Australian sellers m the vicinity of Australia House and Lady Allen 32 in the vicinity of the New Zealand High Commissioner’s office, for Alexandra Rose Day. The Australian sales realised £123. The Queen sent a bunch of roses from Windsor which was sold by auction at Christie’s'for £lfiOO. A CLERGYMAN’S OPINION. NEW YORK. June 28. The Rev. Bernard Bell told students of the Episcopal Summer School at Albany, New York, that it was not a sin to drink liquor in violation of the law. „ ■ . Air Bell declared that God s law was not limited by geography, and that if it was not sinful to drink in Britain it was not sinful to drink in America.