NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1927, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

HEIRESS TO BE PRINCESS. BIARRITZ. Nov. 20. The Grand Duke Dimitri, a member of the Russian royal house of Romanoff. will to-morrow marry Aliss Emery, an American heiress ot Now A °rk and Biarritz. The civil ceremony will take place at the town hall hern.’anil in the evening a dinner party will be given m honour of the young couple at the Hotel du Palais, when there will be 100 guests. The wedding at the Russian Church on Sunday will be fol owed by a large reception at the Villa la Rochefoeauld. Despite the fact that the Romanoffs no longer reign in Russia, tradition will he maintained, and the bride, it is understood, will not l>ear the title of Grand Duchess but of Princess ilinskaia. CASINO AYASHED AWAY. PARIS. Nov. 20 The casino at Ault, a bathing resort on the coast near the mouth of the Somme about 20 miles from Abbe Mlle. has been washed away l.y the heavy seas running in the Channel. Nearly 200 yards of the esplanade were also carried away. , Floods are reported from the soutn and the east of France. Troops are striving to repair the washed-out io.uL in the Alpes Maritime* department (near the Italian frontier). I lie toad which leads from France to Italy through the Valley of the Roya has been demolished by the floods and a new road will have to he blasted a ong the face of the rock before communication across the Alps in that region of the Rhone the flood waters have begun to invade the lowlying quarters of Avignon. U.S. OIL CASE. WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. The prosecution in the Doheny-hall case, who have completed their opening argument, apparently base the indictment on the contention that ex-Senator Fall corruptly accepted £20.000 from Air Policin' two days after the latter proposed that his company should receive an immensely valuable lease of Government oil reserve lands. Mr Doheny’s counsel. Air Frank Homan, admitted the loan, but insisted that it was a purely personal one and emphasised that the defendants were patriots. Air Hogan alleged that the Navy Department initiated at Pearl Harbour a project described at a secret conference at the Navy Department, over which the secretary of the Navy, Mr Denby,

presided, and at which the conferees were informed that Japan was mobilising vessels for an attack on the-Ameri-c-an coast and Phillipiues. They heard information, Air Hogan continued, of the greatest imminence for the United Stales, and formed it plan to store naval oil at Pearl llaiImr for the purpose of protecting the United States coasts. The plan, he said, was not founded in corruption, but from purest patriotic motives.— Exchange.