BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[UY TELECUVI'U- -I’Elt I’HESS ASSOCIATION.] gold coast governor. RUGBY. April 20. Sir Alexander Hansford Slater, Governor and Commander-in-chief ot Sierra Leone, has been appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief ot the Gold Coast, in succession to Briga-dier-General Sir Frederick Guggisberg, whose term of office is about to expire.

Brigadier-General Sir Joseph Aloysins Byrue, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Seyelieles, has been appointed Governor and Commander-in-v hief of Sierra Leone. PEER’S DEATH. LONDON. April 2. Lord Cowdray is dead. He was in poor health for several months, suffering from heart trouble but he was well enough to travel to Aberdeen in order to receive the freedom of the city, along with Lady Cowdray. the eeiemony being fixed for Tuesday. It was a unique thing for a husband and wife to he thus honoured simultaneously but jointly they had given one honored thousand pounds to hospitals, university and other local objects. The day indeed the very hour, of the intended honour will now be the time of the funeral. Lord Cowdray died in Ins sleep. TO OUTLAW MONEYLENDERS. ROME, May 2. By Signor Mussolini's Order, tho moneylenders are now being classed as enemies of the country. Special Courts have been established to deal tlieiewith. Many moneylenders have been convicted, and sonic have been sentenced to deportation. TALKING MACHINE. PARIS, May 2. The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the talking machine is being celebrated in France, where it is officially claimed that Charles Cros a Parisian, anticipated Thomas Edison in patenting his phonograph. C’ros deposted a scaled description of his mechanism six months helore Edison, Crus was a man of Bohemian disposition. and he died in poverty ten years later. RICH GOLD FIND. PERTH, May 1. ' A rich strike of gold is reported at - WesLonia, in the Southern- Cross dis- ’ trict. A quantity of stone, 111 tons " from the lode, which ranged from six ■’ to twelve foot in width, has yielded Ll2 ounces of gold. II *-■ DESTROYED by FIRE. LONDON, May 1. Isaac Walton’s cottage home at Shallow ford was destroyed hv fire. The museum relics were saved.