BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

'■ Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) A PRAYER. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LODON, Oct. 17. The cricketer, Rev. Gillingham, preaching at Christchurch, East Sheen, quoted a prayer, a copy of which hangs in the private rooms of Sandringham. He said His Majesty recently expressed the opinion it might well be placed in the hands of every public school boy. The prayer runs:— “Teach me to be obedient to the rules of the game. Teach mo neither to. cry for the moon nor over spilt mil*. Help me to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, cleaving to one and despising tho other. Help me neither to proffer nor to receive cheap praise. If lam called upon to suffer, let me be liko a well-bred boast, who goes away and suffers in silence. Teach me to win when I may, if I may win, then above all, I pray, make me a good loser.”

FLYING BOATS DEPARTURE. (Received this dnv at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. True naval precision marked the flying boats’ departure. On the very stroke of nine, they swept forward, each with a might furrow of white foam, and left the water together in perfect formation. Guns from the ship’s escorts boomed in measured time. So brief and smooth was the start of the historic and significant enterprise, that it might have been nothing more than an electric train moving from a station. The boats looked spick and span, white hulls and wings all identical, save for the distinguishing ring forward. The flagship is minus a ring. The others bear one two and three rings respectively. Each machine is fitted with standard LionNapier engine, and is capable of eightyfive miles hourly without wind, and has a new type of pump to allow refuelling from lyxvrels, at the rate of three hundred gallons hourly.

THE NEXT WAT?. (Received this dnv at 1.30 p.m.l LONDON, Oct. 17. “The next great world war will start on 28th May, 1928, and will continue until 16th September, 1936,” stated Basil Stewart, at the annual meeting of the British Israelites. Lord Gisborough presided and other prominent citizens were present. Iho date was foretol’d exactly as August 4th, 1914 was, through the symbolism of the Great Pyramid, which gave a chronological chart of history, though it is not specified what will bo the actual event. The presen symbols are identical with the last, and England and the Dominions will be eventually victorious and Russia will be wiped out.