CARE OF HIS HOUSES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1927, Page 3

CARE OF HIS HOUSES.

LONDON, A tig. 22. Henry Buffer (Director of the Royal Insurance Coy.) lett £70,989. He forbade the sale o,f his. riding and carriage horses, and directed a sum be set aside for at least 21 years, to enable them to lie maintained on a farm with two good feeds of corn daily, ample grazing and tw'o examinations of their teeth yearly. AD.VENT'DROUS BOV. ' PARTS, Aug. 22. Bored by home life, a boy of 14 set out in a rowboat front a fishing village near Nantese. A ship picked hint tip 80 miles away and tewed hint back. He again fled next day putting to sea during a storm in a small sailing boat. Friends pursued hut were forced hack by a high gale. A telegram since received states the boat was wrecked at Sion, 70 miles distant, but the l:ov is safe.

SOVIET TRIAL. LONDON, Aug. 22. The “Times” Riga correspondent reports after nineteen days’ trial of five customs’ officials and traders charged with passing parcels through the Customs by means of false declarations and bribery, they were found guilty by Minsk revolutionary tribunal and sentenced to death. TO CLIMB EVEREST. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.rn.) LONDON, Aug. The “Times’s” Milan correspondent says preparations for the attack on Mount Everest, proceeding since the Rritish failure, are now almost completed. Rellonc, president of fhe Alpine Club, is now approaching the Government to authorise the expedition and its financing. Italian alpinists believe Mallory's and Irvine’s deaths are no proof of the impracticability of sealing Everest, hut a more judicious placing of base camps is necessary. If Thibet authorities persist in the recent attitude of not allowing whites to proceed to Everest owing to Thibetian veneration for the peak, the expedition will' nttack Godwin Austen, 28,250 feet, and thus bent Mallory's record.

ITALIAN ACTION. LONDON, Aug. 22

The “Times” Rome correspondent says further restrictions upon migration are being enforced on September Ist. These include the production by a migrant of a contract from a foreign employer or reasons for joining relatives, before a passport can be obtained The purpose is stimulation of internal migration.

TUG FOUNDERS. STOCKHOLM. Aug. 22. A tug foundered in the gulf of Bothnia during a violent storm. W reckage was washed ashore. Six of the crew escaped in a small boat. A Woman cook asVeep below was drowned.

GUARDING MUSSOLINI(Received this dav nt 10.15 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 22. Tho “Daily News” Paris correspondent states Mussolini announces that neither himself nor his colleagues can take a summer holiday because they are too busy creating a. new Itaiy.

The increasing popular discontent is duo to the Fascist failure to win tho economic battle, has led to the strengthening of precautions for the safety of Mussolini, whose villa is lit up with searchlights and reflectors * every night, and strongly guarded by police and detectives.