MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

; <•. :yy. v!*^ (By Telegraph-—Per Pre3s Association.) BROADCASTING. OF RACING. CHRiSTCHURCH, August 4. . New Zealand Radio, Broadcasting has intimated to secretaries,of the Racing and Trotting Conference that it proposes to .broadcast for the benefit of listeners such racing information as it has a legal right to broadcast, and that it will broadcast results as soon as they are available. This is in reply to a letter from the Conference authorities making plain, their intention to prohibit entirely the broadcasting of results during the afternoon. A BIGAMIST, i AUCKLAND, Aug. 3. A plea of guilty to a charge of bigamy, and to one of making a false statement, was made in the Supreme Court yesterday, l>y Ernest Heap, 43, He was remanded until Monday for sentence. The evidence in the Magistrate\s Court was that Heap went through a form of marriage in May, 1919, at Wliakatane, there being three children the union. A certificate was produced of prisoner’s. marriage to Amy Ogden, at Lancaster, England, in 1804. In a statement to the police, Heap said that after living in England for some time lie left his wife and child and came to New Zealand. His wife followed in 1910, but had disliked the country;, and returned to England in 1913, without bis knowledge. Since then he had heard nothing from her. SYDNEY LADIES’. CONTESTS. SYDNEY, Aug. 3.

The second round of the women's golf championship to-day produced a sensation, Miss Monal McLeod (Victoria) doing the, course in 77, thus equalling Miss Kay, tiro New Zealander's, record of yesterday. The latter could not reproduce her yesterday’s form, and she took 87 to get round. She was the only New Zealander to qualify for the match play, starting on Tuesday. The leaders for the championship are: Miss McLeod 159, Miss Kay 161, Mrs Gatehouse (Victoria) 165. Mrs Barton (New South Wales) 167, Miss Tolhurst (Victoirn) 167. The other New .Zealand scores were: Misses Payton 185, Stevens 185, and Snodgrass 192. EXONERATED. f.;g (Received this day at, 9.30 a.m). SYDNEY, Aug. 4. The Executive of the Australian Labour Party, exonerated Theodore and Coleman from graft or corruption, which was alleged before the Royal Commission into Lambert’s charges. LATEST FLYING BOAT. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3. Thousands are daily visiting the flying boat Calcutta in the Thames at Westminster. Constructionally tbe machine is most interesting. Besides passenger and luggage accommodation there is a stewards galley which includes a stove and ice-chest, lavatory and cabins ventilated by hot and cool air, seats fitted with air cushions which are instantly removable and usable is lifebelts. Smoking is permitted as petrol is not kept in l lie hull. Ti e all-metal construction ensures water tightness and speed. The Marconi installation ranges 400 miles, while the petrol capacity is a thousand miles at an average speed of one hundred nines. Short, the builder, declared it would run to Marseilles and Egypt, and may eventually run to Colombo and Darwin, bringing Australia within 17 days o f England. >