NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

(; If FETING TO NEW MAYOR. CALCUTTA, April 3. Pandeinouniunj reigned at the -Mayoral elections, marking the end of the Swarajists' long doinimttion of the e trporat ion. The new Mayor was struck hy an inkpot. Plant ictilly all the engineering shops in Calcutta are on strike in support cl the railway men tit Lilloah.

WORK OR. NO DRINK. TORONTO. April 3. The laetory employers of (Jeneral Ahitofs. Ltd., who went on strike on 'I linrsday. will not he aide to get liipior while they are not working. The Ontario Government liquor store at Oshawtt. where the works are located. litis keen ordered to close until the strike ends.

AAMDOAAT.R ON AYKDDING DAY. PARIS. April 3. Jacques Laviud. who was it bridegroom and it widower in one day, is < laiming £B6O tltitnages before the Assizes Court for the loss of his bride.

After they were quarried, lie said, he and his bride went to the Bo is tie Boulogne, where she tried to open the gate of the Paris Zoo. As she did so a dog harked, and the nightwatchman. Relieving robbers were about, fired killing Mine Laviud.

POSED AS WOMAN. T.OS A.NOEf-F.S, (Cal.). April 3. Successfully posing for 30 years its a woman, and once known as the world i hampion woman billiard player. I'ranees Anderson committed suicide in an Oklahoma town, disclosing for the first time in reality he wax a man. A letter found in a full-lengt.h stocking indicated that Anderson's only dread was the realisation that death would reveal the secret lie had so long held an inverted personality. AY T A nil. lvD ON PR'OETTS. LONDON, April 3. The All-England Tennis Club’s profits from the 1927 Wimbledon carnival amounted to £29.217. of which the Lawn Tennis Association received 097)20.