NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

GIRL WHO Said “I SHAN’T.” ELLESMERE POltT (Cheshire) May 20. The Ellesmere Port bride who on Saturday said: ‘‘l shan’t” when asked at the altar to take the vow at her wedding, to-day, appeared at the local ( parish church and said, “I will.” She is Miss Mary Elizabeth Paxon, aged 21, of PlriostfUeld-road, 'Ellesmere Port, and she was married to Mr Arthur Attwood, aged 29 of Heath-field-road the bridegroom with whom she went to the altar on Saturday. After the service the couple signed the register in the vestry and remained in eonsultatian with the vicar, the .Rev. A. B. Sleight. As they left the church they were pelted with confetti despite attempts to keep the wedding secret. The bride said to me. ‘‘l do no) know what made me say “I shan’t at the altar last, Saturday unless it was nervousnoss. Since the week-end I have thought things over and decided the wedding should take place today.”

BOY SEWN UP IN SACK. GENEVA, May 25. Because their little boy of four broke some crockery, a Geneva couple named Patru sewed him up in a sack and tied it to a plank every morning before going out to work. Their inhuman conduct was revealed when a school official made inquiries as to the boy’s non-attendance at a creche. Patru had recently bought a motnr car. but in answer to the official's questions said he could not afford sixpence a day to send the child to the institution. When tho magistrate sentenced the pair to 10 months’ hard labour they collapsed in tho dock and had to be taken from the court by a secret exit to escape the fury of the crowd.

LE TOUQUET RUSH

LE TOUQUET, .May 25.

Le Touquet has become to-day an English town. Whitsuntide is responsible for this. English visitors by hundreds during the last 24 hours have been pouring into this pretty pleasure resort of brightly coloured toy villas, many of which are set in the peaceful forest around the gay casino. En-'llsh cars and English dresses and English faces are to be seen everywhere, wbiie the English tongue is heard almost as much as French. 1 >th the golf club and the casino are making great efforts to accommodate the demands upon them. During the winter and early spring 180 now villas and nearly 50 shops have been erected in the town. On Sunday and'Monday there will he racing at the Le Touquet golf course, which will bo attended not only by the English visitors, but also by a large number of people from Paris.

TRAP FOR WOMAN THIEF. PARTS, May 25. A < -vn was successfully used yesterday by a newsagent named Raoul Lafonr to discover the author of a series of petty thefts. l.afnur was in the habit of placing his tckitvrs on the chinineypieco of his roam, and every day ho found that money had been taken from it. Yesterdnv ha hid a camera which was so placed that the approach of anybody to the chimney piece would open the shutter automatically. When lie returned in the evening he developed tho plate and found the image of a woman. Mine. Normandy, who lived in the next flat to him. She was shown taking the money. Mine. Normandy was shown the picture by the police and confessed her guilt. MORE IRAQ OIL. TEHERAN, May 25. Another big addition to the world’s

oil output' is reported from the Iraq sector of the Nafl Khaneh Helds, where two further wells producing respectively 140,009 and 300,000 gallons a day have been brought in by tho Khnnaqin Oil Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Both wells are under control. This news of the additional sources is confirmed in authoritative quarters in London, hut the yields are put respectively at 200,000 and 300,000 gallons a day. * A well was already in operation in the Iraq sector of the Naft Khaneh oilfields, and these additions are the jresult of* ordinary development operations.

An important extension of production was also reported only a month ago in the Persian sector of these fields, where a big well with an estimated output of 500,000 gallons a day was reported to have been brought in.

ALL NIGHT GAMBLING. LE TOUQUET, May 25. Never lias the season at Le Touqtiet begun so brilliantly as it has under the dazzling sunshine of this glorious Whitsuntide says, a report from the French .resort. Every hotel is packed. In the new luxury hotel on the front every room is taken. Although the number of villas, hotels, and shops in the town lias been considerably increased since last summer the accommodation is still insufficient. Smiling hotel proprietors, shopkeepers, and Casino officials said this evening that never had so many wealthy visitors spent Whitsuntide at Le Touquet. In tho restaurants and cafes, the dance rooms and the promenades, at the baccarat tables and the terraces of the large hotels, are to be seen some of the most beautifully dressed women of the world to-day. HALO HATS.' The green lawns of the racecourse ibis afternoon were like flower gardens. Many of the women wore summer frocks of light material decorated with intricate patterns. Gaily coloured silk scarves like huge handkerchiefs knotted below the throat- and hanging over the shoulders at tho back are worn by many of the women. In several cases these handkerchiefs were decorated with large squares or oblongs of different hues. For the most part the women wore small close-fitting “halo” hats with a stiff brim about two or three inches wide. Although a new baccara room with 12 tables has been built in the Casino dc la Foret since Easter, every table was crowded last night. There was heavy gambling, and play continued till half past seven this morning. One of the most enthusiastic players was the Maharanee of Coocli Boliar, who was a picturesque figure as she«sat at the baccarat table in her brightly lined native dress. One Englishwoman is said to have won £BO,OOO in the last three days and was gambling very heavily last night.