NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1927, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

BURGLARS KILL DOG. LONDON, Dec. 0. Killing a young bull terrier, “Rags,” who apparently attempted to bar their progress, burglars who broke into the Central AA’and.sworth Ex-Scrvico Alen’s Social Club, Garratt-lano, S.W., stole money Intended for a war orphans’ Christmas party and a quantity of other goods. Entrance to tho premises is believed to have been effected early yesterday morning through a window leading to the bar. Hero they found “Rags” waiting them, and apparently gave :the dog a blow on tho head with a jemmy. Tho men had supper in the bar of bread and cheese and beer, and collecting box containing money to entertain 400 children, all war orphans, was stolen. AVhisky, beer, and tobacco, to the total value of nearly £5 was also taken. It is believed the men must have used a van to remove the goods. A SLEEP-AVALKER. STRASBOURG. Dee. 6._ AVhen an express train from Frankfort arrived at Hamburg railway employees found lying on the roof of one of the coaches a girl of 18. She had been travelling at. night with her mother, who suddenly awoko to find that her daughter had disappeared. The girl, who was an inveterate sleepwnlkerT had got out of the compartment during the night and had climbed on to the roof of the railway coach. She was still in a state of catalepsy when the railway employees went to wake her at Hamburg. ARTIFICIAL LEG STOLEN. LONDON, Dec. 6. ; An artificial leg, wrapped in brown pp.per and packed in a cardboard box. was returned to Hunter-street Police Station. AA T .C., yesterday afternoon by a man who said lie had found it on the pavement in the West End. The leg had been stolen from a barrister’s motor-car which had been left unattended for only a minute or so in Great Russell-streef, W.C., on Thursday, and the finder of the box having • read an account of the theft in. the evening papers yesterday, at once took the leg to the police, i The leg was a spare one and belonged to the barrister who had lost' a limb in the war.

LION RUN OVER BY TRAIN. BUtAAVAYO, Dec. 0. AVhilo stalking a railway gang at work a large lion was run over and killed by a mail train near Ndola, beyond Victoria Falls. The passengers loft the train to examine the corpse, hut dashed back to sSfety when they heard a second lion growling in the bush. Lions have been terrorising the natives in this district. They besieged a white ganger’s cottage on several nights and ate a native woman. One dragged a railway guard’s blankets out of his Van. DUKE’S ELOPING DAUGHTER. PARIS, December 0. A Ille. Beatrix Clermont-Tonnerre, whose action in suing her parents lor a maintenance allowance has revealed a society scandal, to-day obtained judgment awarding her £24 a month, onehalf of which is to lie paid by her father, the Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre, and the other half by her mother, the Duchess of Grnmont, his divorced wife. The duke is one of the richest landowners in France and owns a town house in Paris, two castles in the country. and extensive lands in Tunisia. His daughter married her father’s secretary, hut a divorce followed shortly afterwards, and later she fell in love with a young man whom she liad met at a society gathering and- eloped with him. Her parents begged her to give up her lover and return either to her mother’s or her father’s roof, hut she refused to give up her sweetheart and ’ sued her parents for £4B a month maintenance.