NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1927, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

BOMB find IN COURT. NEW YORK, Nov. 1

An infernal machine powerful enough to destroy the municipal offices and the City Hall was found this morning in the County Court House, New A’ork.

At an hour when judges, litigants, witnesses, and hundreds of workers wer assembling for the day’s work a clerk noticed a large suit case resting on the window-sill just below the Supreme Court chambers which occupy the same building as the county court. He opened the window and pulled the ease inside.

Several policemen made efforts to break the leek and finally they slit open the end of the suit-case. It contained a. wooden box with elaborate mechanism and enough dynamite to produce an explosion as great as that which in 1920 killed two score of people in 'Wall-street.

When the discovery became known the courts were suspended and dense crowds poured out of the surrounding buildings. They remained out until it was announced that the Bureau of Explosives had rendered the infernal machine innocuous.

FASHION’S NEW SHADES. LONDON, November 1

The dance floors are filling up, and as midnight approaches London s impromptu fashion parades ot the foyers begin to show the tendencies of the autumn and the winter.

Colours, line, trimming, and even the aids of make-up all reveal changes since last season; while the saxophone, with its new tunes, animates a scene subtly different from last year’s.

Colours of the new dance I rocks reveal the changing moods. Now colours, more assertive, more arresting, like the new dance music, are superseding pastel shades. For inspiration Fashion has turned to—Mine. Though the wine rods, from deepest burgundy to lightest claret, emerge first out or the autumn dance scene, a wine-colour now has a wider span. MOSELLE. Beautiful wines: beatiful colours. One of the newest and most exclusive of all shades this autumn is moselle, a shade slightly paler than hock, hut it has the strange, almost transparent glitter of champagne. Its hue. indeed, might he best described as transparent. Dancing is, if anything, more strenuous, It is not surprising, therefore, to find on the fringe of the dance floor itself a revival of the scarf or wrap which can he slipped over the shoulders between a dance. These scarves are as bright as butterflies and as colourful. The other night a Frenchwoman had hung negligently over her shoulder, even as she danced, a- wrap made of latticed ostrich feather fronds shaded from cream to a bloodred crimson.