BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] BABOON CAUSES SUN SAT I OX. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) CONDON, Sept. 23. A young, dog-faced baboon, “Jenny ’ travelling from a naturalists’ shop, in Charing Cross, to a menagerie in Crystal Palace was the centre of a sensational escapade at the high level station at Crystal Palace. Growing restive, she overturned the cage. Porters, ticket collectors, and passengers, seeing a strange beast, fled and “Jenny established herself in the booking office and playfully scattered the tickets and overturned bowls of money, the ticket clerk quickly retiring. An unsuspecting passenger in a hurry ran up to the window and demanded a ticket. He was horrified, to see a black-faced creature showing its teeth angrily peering out of the window. Passengers after that were advised to get into their trains without tickets and pay at the other end. “Jenny s 1 keeper was finally found- and he secured her after a wil'd ten minutes, by throwing a sac’ over her head.

TRAIN SMASH. ' (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) PARIS, September 23. A remarkable railway disaster occurred at Fontaine Bleau. The express from Lyons ran into stationary catriagos which 'had broken away from an earlier train on the same line. Six persons were killed and twelve seriously injured. The driver and stoker of the express are still pinned beneath the wreckage whereon water was pumped to prevent them being scalded by the escaping steam. The strangest feature of tlhe accident was the driver of the first train only noticed the loss of several coaches from the rear of the train half an hour after and a detachment went back to search for them and found the wreckage due to the collision. GOLDEN WEDDING. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, September 23. Newspapers are giving prominence to the Golden Wedding of Sir Henry Dickens, son of the novelist, who is holding a big reception at Wliyde Park Hotel ,on Saturday at which the child guests will be. entertained at a cinema and the older ones at dancing, while Dickens and his wife propose to amuse themselves watching the youngsteis enjoying themselves. With the exception of the youngC/t son who was killed at the war, all seven children will be present, bringing sixteen grandchildren. Lady Dickons said as a result of half a century together we came to the conclusion that the best remedy for old age is plenty ol children and grandchildren. GREEK POLITICS. ATHENS, Se-pt. 23. Kondylis in a message to the nation says, although he came into power as head of a Political Party, lie is retiring from politics completely. Hie requests his political friends to join other Republican parties or stand for elections as independents. The Government "ill continue as a service Cabinet, and hold the elections on the proportional representation system. ECONOMICAL VESSELS NEEDED LONDON, Sept. 23. Because of the recent reduction in freight rates the Shaw Savill Coy. find it necessary to construct more economical vessels. The Company states- it lias cancelled the construction of a rweutv thousand ton motor liner at Tyn-iside, and is substituting three motor cargo ships. It will probably replace the similar Clydeside order by three other motor freighters, enabling the Company ultimately to place six eleven thousand tenners in the New Zealand trade. BROOKLANDS GRANDSTAND BURNT. LONDON. Sept. 23. Burning like matchwood soaked in petrol, the recently completed grandstand at Brooklands was destroyed in half an hour. An eye witness asserts that the fire seemed to break out in a dozen places simultaneously. Numbers of valuable racing motors were Inst In the adjoining workshops.