MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(United Press Association. —By Electric SPEEDING TRAGEDY. LONDON, June 23. Hundreds of onlookers Were horrorstricken when Miss May Cunliffe, the famous racing motorist, whose betrohal was recently "announced, on the track took a hairpin bend too finely while fighting for first place, after covering sixty-six miles in a one-hundred mile race at Southport Sands, in a Sunbeam car, which overturned, and three times somersaulted.

Miss Cunliffe, and her-father, who was a passenger, were extricated from beneath the car, the father. being killed, with a severed throat artery. Miss Cunliffe-proved to have a broken arm and a cut face. She is progress-

ing in a nursing home. Another car somersaulted earlier in the race, and it was wrecked. The occupants were only slightly injured. Malcolm Campbell was also a com petitor, but lie retired from the race through axle trouble.

PURSUIT OF PEACE. NEW YORK, June 22. At Minneapolis, Sir Donald Maclean

the former British Liberal politician, read the following message to the International Rotary Convention from Mr J. Ramsay MacDonald (British Labour Leader) To-day we are striving, as never hitherto, to find a way to peace. Whether wo succeed will depend very largely upon America and ourselves. We stand conspicuously for democracy in government. The results of war will never justify its cost. A complete understanding between America and ourselves —a frank, continued exchange of ideas, in pursuit of a laige world-policy—would make the greater part of tlie world’s problems disappear.”

PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, June 23. The thirty-fourth birthday of the Prince of Wales on Saturday finds him agojn *n prominence in the British press. “ Our Bachelor Prince ” is the title of the “Daily Express’s” cliie: editorial article, in which there is this striking sentence, viz.: “Only in om very important domestic relationship of life lias the Prince of Wales thus fai abstained from giving Ids juniors an example, and this, of all others, is of the steadiest character, and one which adds sweetness to the existence for the Heir to tiie Throne. To reach thirtyfour years of age unmarried has. more than anything else in the Prince s career, been the subject of veiled, judici ous comment. It can, however, be said that the bachelor Prince at thirtyfour, is the most popular and outstanding figure in Eprope.” SWIM FAILS. LONDON, June 24. Gleitz’s attempt to swim the Irish Channel from Donachadee, County Down, to Port Patrick, Scotland, was abandoned, after swimming twenty-two miles in six hours. THE FR ANC. PARIS, June 24. The Finance Commission adopted the Stabilisation Bill by, 32l to 8. It is semiofficially announced thefranc “Will be G 5.5 milligramme gold, Hine-^f''l“ s fine, corresponding id sterling l>f in .L 124,21,