BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

fiRY TELEGRAM—I>ER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] A BEQUEST. LONDON, March 13. Rees Thomas, of Port Albert, left £18,048. He bequeathed £IOO to the Wesleyan Chapel at Temuka, N.Z. NEW CRICKET BALL. LONDON. March 13. British cricket ball manufacturers are busy making smaller balls. There are considerable stocks of nine hull balls, the present minimum, which becomes th? maximum under the new rule. Supplies of the new minimum S 13-16, much favoured by Australians have to he made. AIRMAN'S TRIP. LISBON, March 13. De Bcires was forced to land on an island 30 miles from Bolann, owing to defective light. Jfc did not succeed in taking off from Bolann till the eighteenth attempt, after spending hours jettisoning fuel to liglrtbii the seaplane. He will shortly make another attempt to fly to Brazil.

A DUPLICATE PERSONALITY. ROAIE, March 14. A few week ago a man was discharged from an asylum in Turin who bed forgotten his identity. He was identified by bis wife, brother, children, cousins and the parish priest as Professor Canella. who disappeared when fighting in Macedonia in 1916. The man had not long lteen restored to his family life in Podua when A Lull me Hruneri, wife of a compositor in Turin, claimed him as her husband who had deserted her for seven years. The police have arrested and gaoled a man at Turin who Allidame Canella, Candle's brother and a priest emphatically reasserted it was the professor. The physical and facial similarity of the two men is amazing. Both li.id a rib removed, cacli had a son of fifteen, even the finger prints are identical. The police are hopelessly confused. Madame Canella is determined to fight- file case in the l,iw courts to retain her restored husband. CHINESE MEMORIAL SERVICE. LONDON, March. 13. A jpmnrkablo memorial service on the second anniversary of Sunyatsen’s death Was 'held in stately rooms of the Chinese Legation in Portland Place, the same building where Lord Salisbury in 1899 secured Sunyatscn’s release, when a prisoner and ordered he bo deported to China. It was the first service of the kind in London and was organised ibv members of the Chinese Kuoniintung in Britain. The Chinese Alinister did not attend.

FOOTBALL FATALITY. PARIS. March 14. In a suburban soccer match the goalkeeper Lebiuois, falling with the ball was fatally kicked in the neck by a centre forward, who broke his leg. A FEMALE FIEND. LONDON, March 13. The Daily New’s Paris correspondent states: “The police have arrested Julienne Le lTuire. a widow, aged 40 years, on a charge of writing one thousand anonymous letters during the last four years and so terrorising the village of Consignat. Her letters have wrecked homes, prevented marriages, sundered friendships and caused m'Jiiy to emigrate. The woman’s letters were found daily 011 window sills, on church benches, in horse troughs, and under hushes, or pushed under the doors at dusk. One farmer was threatened unless lie deposited one thousand francs at the base of an oak tree. He refused, after which his farmhouse was burned down. Another farmer was warned to leave the village. He refused after which his children received poisoned sweets. Later on, his oittle. sheep and poultry were poisoned. The farmer finally bolted.

The plague of letters then increased and more farms were burned, and more stock were poisoned. Since the woman’s arrest the letters have ceased.

PARIS SENSATION. PARIS. March 13. Sensational revelations are promised in connection with the arrest of a man named Rochette, who is alleged to be the leader of a group of shady financiers. owning a number of small financial papers, which published fictitious quotations, residing in upward of 3000 investors parting with State securities valued at forty million francs, in exchange for worthless shares. PARIS, Alaroh 14. Rochette, who began his career, as a Waiter, developed a genius for finance. The accused’s latest frauds are recalling those which he engineered with such astonishing success fifteen years ago. Two other men associated with him named Tliorel and Alexando. have wlso been arrested. They were acting as editors of the tinaneal papers, which boosted shares in which Rochette was interested. AVhen the readers of the papers showed an interest, or wrote 'asking for information, one of Roehette’s canvassers called at their house. j AVFSTRALIAN lAIMIGRATION. LONDON, March 13. The AX’est Country is dismayed to learn that the Overseas Settlement Committee has come to a decision to recommend the cessation of tlie Government’s contribution to the Devon lind Cornwall Aligration Committee, which recruits immigrants for Western Australia. STREET ACCIDENTS. LONDON, Alarch 13. Tlie Ministry of Transport lias convened a Street Accident’s Commission. He says that the fatalities in London last year totalled 1.020, thus for the first time exceeding one thousand. The people injured numliered 47,213. RUSSO-TURKISH TREATY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Alarch 13. A llusso-Turkish commercial agreement has been signed.