GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

UNIQUE AMERICAN TRIALS. CLEVELAND (Ohio), June If

For tin* first time in the uiiunls ul the U.S. criminal court.'-, a woman, charged with the murder ot another woman, is being prosecuted and defended by women lawyers.

The trial opened with Alls Joseph Clazer. aged ft. facing the modern Portia, the Assistant County Prosecutor. Aliss Livelyn Cohen. The prisoner was defended by All's Sarah Hedrick, a noted woman attorney.

The charge against Airs Glnzer is the deliberate slaying of her husband’s second wife, aged 20, a few weeks after the marriage in April. The latter’s body was found, revolver in band, with a. note saying: “ Your first wife haunts me. [ have ended it ail.” A verdict of suicide was reversed when the husband narrowly escaped a buli'et from a woman in man’s attire, believed to be the prisoner. Handwriting "experts are among the chid witnesses.

BITE FROM BRITISH BFLLDOG LONDON. June 17.

The “ Daily .Mail’s ” correspondent reports that a Riga newspaper, commenting on -Moscow’s campaign of hate against England, says: “From the bite which the healthy British bulldog gave it, the Soviet seems to have developed rabies.”

JAZZING ALLIGATORS. LONDON. June 1(5. Alligators at the Zoo here objected to leaving their old home for the new reptile house. They resisted all the blandishments of keepers, and finally bad to be forcibly crated by twelve men with poi'es and steel hoops. George, the giant centenarian, emitted blood-curdling hisses, but when tackled proved a windbag, and allowed himself to he nosed and crated like a tame cow.

Horace, a distant relative of George, was more fractions. He smashed a rock with a swish of his tail, and made a noise like a saxophone, but was finally jazzed into a crate.

HOSPITAL CONTROL. LONDON. .Tune 28

In a speech at the Hospitals’ Association on Victorian charities. Inspector Love declared State aided voluntary hospitals did not mean State interference. Hospitals greatly benelitted thereby. “For Heaven’s sake don't allow your hospitals to be nationalised, ft, would make your blind run cold to see bow New Zealand hospital costs have mounted .since the money came in automatically.”

LORDS MOTION CARRIED. LONDON, June 28,

To tlio House of Lords. Lord Arran’s amendment to Lord Fitzalan's motion was negatived by 208 to 5-1 votes. Lard Fitzalan’s motion was carried.

REFUSAL TO TAKE OATH. LONDON, June 28

Do Valeraites refused to take the oath of allegiance in the Dai I Eireaiin and were denied admittance.

CAPETOWN, Juno 28. After four days debate, tho third reading of the Flag Bill was carried. ZEPP. RAIDS RECALLED. LONDON, June llr. • The sudden veering of the wind wjhen tho flames of a blazing timber yard in the centre of a thickly-popu-lated district at Southampton were within ten feet of three huge tanks, each containing 100,000 gallons of petrol, averted an explosion, which it was feared would raze- the whole neighbourhood. Scenes reminiscent of the Zeppelin raids* wero witnessed following a minor explosion of two lorry tanks, which was believed to be the prelude to the detonation of the huge stores.

Women, carrying children, rushed screaming from their beds and whole streets were evacuated, while tlio police burst picture theatres open to accommodate the sparsely-cad refugees.

Despite the danger, hundreds volunteered to assist the firemen and police to keep the flames from the tanks.

BARONESS INVESTS IN ’PLANE. LONDON, Juno 17. Romance has certainly come into the life of Margery Roan, a girl of Perth, AY.A., where the Bonus have the largest store in the city. In 1919 she married the Baron Athunniey, and became the lady of his old Irish mansion, Somerville, Balrnth, Meath. This week she took another romantic step, Missing from the house at 9 o’clock one morning, she was not seen again until just before the household, puzzled by her absence, was about to sit down to dine. Her explanation was simple—the dinner party can vouch for the effectiveness of the wave—that Margery, Baroness Athlumney, has decided to add an aeroplane to her toilet requisites.