MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. BOGUS PRINCE. BERLIN. July 12. Harry Doniila, the former OoalheaVer (who at the beginning ot the year created a sensation by impersonating a Prince of the German ex-Royal Family) underwent trial at Cologne for his exploit. He finally was sentenced to seven months’- imprisonment. Hilarity prevailed throughout the trial. Even the Judges were unable to suppress their mirth when the eoalheaver related his adventures. Doniila described how, despite his own objections, everybody, including the poi'iee officers, had addressed him as “Your Royal Highness,” and then bowed and stood at attention when he arrived.

HON A.M ERY’S VISIT

LONDON, July 11. lion. Amery and Mrs Amery leave England on July 22ud and Capetown 2,'lrd. September Australian visit lasts from Kith October to Nov. 17th; New Zealand 22nd. New to 20th. December, arriving in Canada on sth. Jan. The stall' aisi includes G. Whiskard, assistant secretary of the Dominion Office.

Mr Brass, accompanies Hon Amery on his colonial lour as Parliamentary Secretary. He is privately interested in migration and aviation. Huxley, grandson of the famous /scientist, will investigate the producers’ problems.

STORM DAMAGE. LONDON. July 12

The storm caused awful suffering in Lancashire. Thirty families are homeless at Muss head owing to the bursting of a resorvior Thousands ol pounds damage was caused to many cotton mills The river Trk overflowed at Middleton and a hundred families aro homeless. Young: men fully dressed swam with ropes to houses to rescue the inmates- Herbert Hanley, twenty-two. rescued twenty women and children and then collapsed.

MURDERER GRANTED REPRIEVE. GIBRALTAR. July 12. Lieutenant Driffield, who was sentenced to death, as cab'ed on June 17th, for shooting his superior. Colonel Fitzgerald, commanding the Second Battalion of the East Surreys, at: Gibraltar, lias been granted a reprieve. TRAIN RECORD. LONDON, July 12. A new world’s record for a non-stop railway run has been achieved between ICing's Cross and Nowcaslle-on-Tyne, a distance of 268 miles, which was covered in 269 minutes. The Lord Mayor of London and a huge crowd welcomed the train and the driver. It was a 150-ton engine. The driver was Albert Pibworth, aged 63. years. The train arrived a minute alicad of time.