GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

SOLOMON’S FAVOURITE WIFE.

WHOLE STORY FICTITIOUS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, Jan. 24

The “Daily Telegraph’s ’’ Jerusalem correspondent records an outburst of amusement as the result of a telegram from London announcing that a promiment newspapers is featuring the alleged discovery of the burial place of a favourite mummy of King Solomon’s favourite wife at Temple Mount. The whole story is fictitious. The truth is that the report has, for its foundation, the short story of a Jerusalem journalist; published as fiction in a Palestine weekly journal:— ■ The “Daily Mail” published a long dispatch from its Cairo correspondent stating that the journal “Ef Mokattam” announced the discovery, on Temple Moupnt, of The mummy ot Moti Maris, Solomon’s favourite wife, in a burial chamber exceeding in magnificence that of Tutankhamen. A Hebrew parchment was said to reveal the circumstances in which Moti died to save her lord and master.

ACTOR’S LAMENT.

OYER THE JAZZ AGE

LONDON, January 26

“ I am tired of the. shingled hair, the sports girl, the telephone, modern dancing, and jazz music,” said the famous actor. Sir Gerald Du Maurier, at a city luncheon. “I’d like to go back to the time when your daughter did not beat you at golf and tennis; when you sat with your family round the fire at home, instead of at a restaurant, dancing with a girl or a boy—you never know what they are these days! I’d like to hear the clop-clop of horses and hansoms in the streets instead of the motorist’s “ hoot, hoot!” I would like to return to the days when you didn’t have to dance to tunes played on tongs and coal scuttles. I would like to be back in the Bond Street in which you were not allowed to walk without a top hat and a frock coat. I propose that we form a syndicate to find an inventor to enable us to go backwards through the lovely ages, instead of going through things of the future.” DOUBLE LIFE. T" aU LONDON, January 26. Remarkable 'facts of a Manchester fish salesman’s double life were revealed in a will dispute in the Chancery Division. The deceased left a total estate of £856 to “my wife, Eliza Ann Smalley,” whom he married in 1924. His real wife, whom he' married in 1899, claimed the property. Mr Justice Eve remarked that it was an extraordinary feature that this man : lived with both of the women to the time of his death in 1928. Counsel.for the second wife: “And .lie seems to have visited a third! ” Mr Justice Eve said that he was an "amorous gentleman,” and his Honour decided, though lie had bigamously married the second woman, and had divided his life between the two, yet when he left the whole ot his possessions to his wife, it must be held to mean his real wife. A HOTEL TRAGEDY. LONDON. January 26. A visitor to the Bonnington Hotel, Bloomsbury, who described himself as an Australian, and was middle aged, fell from a fifth-floor window, and died ill the hospital to-night. He Lett a letter addressed to “My Friends.” At present it is unopened. He signed the register as “A. Markham,” other reports give his name as John Maxton. SXO WBO UNO TRAY ELLERS RESCUED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BUCHAREST, Jan. 26. The snowbound passengers at Tur.numagurele have been recalled.