NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1927, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

THE NEW ANGORA. ANGORA, June 9. The new Turkish capital here is springing up with lightning rapidity A water system for 120,000 inhabitants has been put in, gangs work, ing on it day and night. Sincp March five furlongs have been pierced of the 45 miles “ Grand Boulevard

Ghazi“ running out past the new town towards Tebankaya, where the President and Ministers, legations, and embassis are. It is a fine double highway forty yards wide with trees planted down the centre, and even on Friday, the day of rest, work is pushed on along it. A quarter of a milliou trees have been planted to provide the new districts with much-needed shade from the fierce summer sun and the recurrent dust storms.

Nearly 1,000 residential villas, each with its square of ground, have been built, partly by the Prefecture and partly by private persons. Huge buildings to bouse the Agricultural Bank, the Ottoman Bank, the Ministries of Justice and Health and the Customs Direction are almost ready to be handed over.

£3,000,000 PROGRAMME. Cheap and continuous one-decker motor-omnibus services link up all parts of the new town. The hotels are improving fast and even a number of night cabarets have Leen opened. An automatic telephone system has been installed, and a 3,000 kilowatt electric light station is being erected to augment the present snpply. A gas concession has been granted.

There is a continnal influx of representatives of foreign business groups, the principal ones missing at present being British. Nearly every other European uation has obtained some important work.

About three million sterling is to be spent on a ten-year town-planning programme. The improvements at present being made so fast have to be executed on a budget of about £IOO,OOO a year.

WIPE’S SECRET “ RITE.”

BRUSSELS. May 31.

Late one night a Berlin shopman heard his wife talking to herself, in her bedroom. Listening at the closed door, he heard, her repeating the words: “He will be true. He will be trns,” with Coue-like persistence. His conscience smote him as he listened, and went into the room with the intention of vowing that his wife’s prayer should be fulfilled. He changed liis mind wheu he saw her feeding the flames with one of his waistcoats. Upon his expostulating, she confesseb that her conduct was due to directions given her by Anna Kuhn, a fortuneteller, who had assured her that she could secure her husband’s fidelity by burning one of his garments while repeating the “ incantation.” Her husband told her not to be a fool, but failed to convince her that she was one. Possiblv she was again given cause to doubt his fidelity; but, however that may be, a few weeks later he caught her burning his trousers, and decided that drastic action was necessary. He obtained a summons against Frau Kulin,and to-day she appeared before the Berlin magistrate, whom she assured that, her method of ensuring marital fidelity had in many cases Succeeded. She was acquitted on a technical point and her client is now convinced of lisr infallibility.

WIFE’S RETURN AFTER 19 YEARS.

MAN’S NEW FAMILY OF 10. LONDON, June IS. After an interval of 19 years, during which time they had not seen one another , husband and wife met at Southampton Police Court yesterday. The husband, John Carter, of Bedfordplace, Southampton, was charged on a warreut with bigamonsly marrying Fanny Kate Puddick in January 1921. It was stated that Carter married liis wife in Preston in 1897. Iu 1909 she went to the Unifed States and her husband was to follow, but lie did not do so.

Miss Puddick said she met Carter in 1907 in Southampton and they had six children before he “married” her. Then he told her that he had heard his wife was dead. They had 10 children and she had been very happy. Carter had been a wonderful father.

The mayor, Alderman Bowyer, in dismissing the case, said the Bench were of the opinion that no jury that would convict. “Go back to your home and be as happy in the future as in the past with the mother of your 10 children,” he said to Carter.

WOMAN DOCTOR KILLS HERSELF. MEN COLLEAGUES’ JEALOUSL Y ViENNA. June 18, A brilliant woman doctor’ Frau Janisch ‘Lindner, aged 30, was found unconscious and dying late last night on a Rontgen table at the Rothschild Hospital here, where she was employed as an X-rays specialist. The discovery was made after the locked door of the room had been burst open. The woman had swallowed enongh cyanide of potassium to kill twenty people, and she died at midnight. She married an Austrian, after graduating, to acquire Austrian nationality because her parents were foreigners. Her husband disappeared and the woman’s life became embittered by the jealously of young Austrian male doctors who resented the holding by a foreiguborn woman of the important position of assistant to Professor Robinson. The woman doctor continued living with her parents in Vienna after the marriage, five years ago, and she recently sought employment in Palestine to escape annoyance. She, however, failed to obtain the appointment.