MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, April 30. The Scottish Universities election resulted : Air John Buchan (Conservative) 1G,963 Air Hugh Guthrie (Labour) ... 2,378 Air Guthrie loses liis deposit. SPANISH DECIAIATE AIOORS. MADRID, April 30. Extensive operations have begun against the recent revolting Moroccan tribesmen, whose encampments on three sectors have been obliterated while many villages in tho Beniaissi Valley have been wiped out. SOVIET GOING TO GENEVA. LONDON, April 30. The “Daily News’s” Atoscow correspondent says: It is officially announced that the Soviet is sending a delegation to the Economic Conference at Geneva on March 4th. SPAH LI NO Ell’S SILENCE. LONDON, April 29. The “Daily Express” says: Every effort made to communicate with 31. Spalilinger m connection with the offer of £IO,OOO, as cabled on Thursday, lias been rcsultless. Telegrams and personal calls at his London hotel requesting an interview were unavailing, GERMAN AIRMAN’S GLIDER FEAT BERLIN, April 30. Tho German ace, Udet, carried out a thrilling glider flight from the peak Zug Spitae, nine thousand feet high. After a. flight of twenty-five minutes, ho alighted on a meadow without mishap.

GERMAN I!AIIAVAY EXPERTS IX BRITAIN. LONDON. April 30. Ninety-eight- German railway experts have arrived here in the last ten days j to investigate the railway conditions, l’rom which they state the expert can | learn much. ST-1 AVS MANNED PICTURE. LONDON, April 30. The paper Tailor and Cutter” has decided that Mr Bernard Shaw’s por-. trait was probably banned by the Academy because of the atrocious clothes •which painters seem to introduce into all pictures nowadays.” Thereupon it, proceeds to bemoan the creases and contortions in clothes which make the judicious mourn.” Taking the subjects one by one, it discovers buttonholes not corresponding with buttons, also monstrous collars and appalling ties. For example it says: “John Fleming wears buckskin strappings in his riding breeches. On the right leg strapping is placed correctly. Incredible to relate, the left leg strapping ts outside. Horrors! Tt is the worst mistake ever seen in the Academy. Take Lord Greenway: there is small advantage in being a peer if one is not allowed buttonholes in one’s clothes! ”

GIANT PLANES. LONDON, April 30. “Whisky, sir?” said an angile steward in a spic-and-span white jacket and white peaked cap, standing on the blue pile-carpeted corridor of a giant plane, balancing a salver containing bottles, glasses and a syphon, while London, four thousand feet below, was bathed in spring sunshine. It was the "City of Glasgow,’’one of four new triple-engined “silver wing ' air liners, engaged in the first of after noon-tea pleasure trips over London under the auspices of the Imperial Air ways.

The aerial waiter had thoxmraghly

mastered his air-legs, and walked briskly up and down the gangway, ministering to the needs of the passengers. It is a striking commentary on tho vast strides of civil flying.