NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1927, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

£200,000 A YEAR JOB. NEW YORK, Sept. 2,1

The passing of the first amazement over the appointment of Mr Dwight Morrow as United States Ambassador to Mexico lias left the country speculating over how the Senate, which must ajjprove the appointment, will treat tho partner in J. P. Morgan and Co.

Senator Borah indicated in the Foreign Committee, of which he is chairman, that lie might summon Mr Morrow to appear and give satisfaction that he had completely severed relations with the banking firm.

It was announced at the White House that Mr Morrow lias saerfieed his |iai'tnershi|) to serve his friend President Coolidge. It is tlie first time anyone has resigned a partnership in the Morgan Company, estimated to he worth £200,000 a year to the fortunate few who hold them.

A THIEF’S It USE. BEK UN. Sept. 24. Serna was a pearl, as Herman mistresses say—in other words, a treasure —and, after four years, the Berlin family which employed her did not know what they would do without her. Then came the time when Serna’s character changed. She stayed out late at night, neglected them, and her tantrums were unbearable. Her employers endured the pearl’s conduct until their patience was at an end, and last A larch they dismissed her. A few days ago her former mistress was' showing her diamonds to some relatives who were visiting her, and they expressed the opinion that the stones had lust the lustre.

When the relatives were gone she thought over what they had said and began to wonder whether after all some of the fire had not gone out of the stones. She sent for a jeweller. “ Glass ” was his laconic verdict.

Was it possible that Serna had had anything to do with transferring stones of the purest water into cut glass? The police said it was possible and arrested Serna.

She had a dismal tale to tell. She at a dance-hall, and had fallen in love with him. She brought him to the house when her employers were away and showed him the hiding place of the jewels. The money for the diamonds would provide them with a comfortable married life. So' he had taken the diamonds and substituted glass for them. But then he had disappeared and she had never seen him again.