BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

ELYING RECORD. PARIS, Oct. 2d. The aviator Einat, accompanied by passenger, established a world's distance light plane record. lie Hew a forty horsepower plane 2!J times round a circuit from Le Bourget, covering 1.1 It; kilometres in lit hours on 100 litres of petrol, nearly doubling the previous record of 000 kilometres held l>v Czccho-Siovakia.

LAW OF .MURDER. LONDON, Oct. 2d. With reference to Justice Bramston’ remarks on the law of murder (cabled yesterday) the case was heard before ft jury including three women. The prosecuting counsel said- Davis was the victim of most tragic misfortunes. He enlisted in 1910 at the ago ol sixteen bv giving a lalse age. lie was demobilised in 1919. married in 1920. and had several children in quick succession. Mis wife was invalided and Davis sold the furniture and took over the housework and care ol the children, to whom he was deeply devoted. His wife developed tuberculosis and became permanently bedridden. She died at childbirth and the child developed septic pneumonia and a gangrene lace, following measles. Davis relused a neighbour's assistance and nursed the child all through the night. Finally he placed the child in a hath and went to the police station, and said: “I have drowned my hahv. She is better oil*. I could not hear to sec her sulfer-

Tlie medical evidence showed the child would have died in a lew days at most. GREYHOUND RACING SEASON. LONDON, Oct. 2J. Greyhound racing season ended on Saturday. There were 80,000 present at White City and 20.000 at most of the provincial meets. The new sport has live million followers in Britain. It contributed ten thousand weekly in betting tax. SINGAPORE DOCK. LONDON. Oct. 21.

The “ Sunday Times ” says the Admiralty has asked Sir Lindsay Parkinson and Company and three other firms for a tender for Singapore docks liarhours. The cost is approximately nine millions sterling. TECHNICAL FILMS. LONDON. Oct. 23. Delegates to the Imperial Agricultural Conference on their way hack to London, after an 800-mile tour of -England and Scotland, witnessed technical films in the guard’s van. They included the growth of nasturtiums at a speed 20,000 limes greater than the actual rate.

THEFT CHARGE. LONDON. Oct. 211. The police have taken into custody Joseph Foster, who arrived by the Ruahine, on a charge of stealing a mail bug containing 010.000, between Cardill' and London. AMERICAN OUTLOOK. NEW YORK. Oct. 21. A message from Houston, Texas, states hankers attending the annual convention of the American Bankers’ Association declared the business outlook in the United States was good for the immediate future, the foremost reason being the increase in agricultural purchasing power. Bankers assented the farmers’ financial position had improved. The price level of larm commodities had mounted and business generally was free from all inflated inventories. They also declared the hanks were sound, government finance was handled sanely and there was evidence of expanding trade. Delegates stated, however, that the marketing of worthless securities was growing steadily. Americans lost a billion dollars vearlv. Swindlers wore highly organised attended schools and exchanged lists of victims. Unscrupulous prompters are said to he psychologists of the first water. REMANDED. LONDON, Oct. 21. Foster (cabled yesterday) when charged at Marylebonc appeared faultlessly dressed with his head bandaged. Ho was remanded in custody till Friday.