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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1929, Page 8

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£1 BET ON TRIGO. LONDON, June 13. John George BiucKshaw aged 42 a bookmaker of Liverpool-roau Islington N., and Thomas Biackshaw, 38, his clerk, of Maygood-slreet, Barnsbury, N,, were charged at Epson yesterday with stealing by trick on the racecourse. Mr John Paul Harris, an Australian farmer on holiday in this country, said that he made a bet of £1 on Irigo with Jolin Biackshaw at 40 to 1. After the horse had won the Dkwiby lie went to collect his winnings, but the men asserted that he had backed an unplaced horse. Mr Hilda Nelson, of Grenville-man-sions, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square W.C., said she saw Mr Harris make his bet on Trigo. The bookmaker afterwards wiped out the odds of 40 on his board and substituted 20. She got--50 to 1 on Trigo from another bookmaker and was paid out. Unfortunately, added Mrs Nelson, she did not have more than 2s 6d on. (Laughter.) j John Biackshaw said he did not take any bets on Trigo, as he had “a bit of a tip” about that liorsq when going down in the. train. John Biackshaw was fined £SO or three months 5 imprisonment and Thomas Biackshaw £5 or 14 days. BATTLE WITH SHARKS. TEN LANDED BY ONE FISHING BOAT. , . NETS AND CATCHES LOST. LONDON. June 11. Deal fishermen returning home yesterday reported that swarms of sharks in the English Channel provided thorn with considerable excitement during the night. The sharks had followed a shoal of mackerel. • The crew of one fishing boat which landed 10 sharks declare they spent tlie night repelling their attacks and were themselves nearly driven overhoard in landing them. “We saw them glide by our boat on the calm surface just like ghosts” said the fishermen. “They waited until the mackerel entered tlie nets and then attacked the fish in a body, literally dragging the nets down and pulling our boat with thorn. They played hnv oc with the fish and the nets, tearing huge holes in them and .rolling themselves up in the torn parts. AVhon. we hauled them in they nearly dirove i overboard.” Other fishermen report similar encounters and all are complaining of the loss of their catches and thfe damage to their nets. MARRIAGE STOPPED. LONDON, May 29 Police officers stopped a marriage which was to have taken place at Mkldleshoruogli register office yesterday. Miss Alice Butcher, aged 20, of Eglinton-rond, Grangetown, was greeted by the husband when she arrivea j for the ceremony. A few seconds later the police intervened and questioned the man who was to be married in the name of Robert Lister, a Post Office mail driver, of Grange-road, Middlesborough. He had declared himself a bachelor, hut he admitted to the police, it is alleged, that his proper name was Rober Lister Matthews and that lie had been married at Halifax. Miss Butcher almost collnnsod. and was led from the register office by her friends. Tlie two had known each other for jo months. Miss Butcher is a stewardess at a local club. NEW DIVORCE SUIT. NEW YORK, June 10. An echo of one of the most sensational cases in the annals of American justice was heard to-day in a report from Nevada that Mr Leonard Kip Rhinelander, the 25-years-old heir tr the Rhinelander fortune of £20,000,000, is seeking in that State a divorce from his wife Alice. In 1925, Mr Rhinelander took proceedings for the annulment of his marriage on the ground that his wife had deceived him by not revealing that she was of Negro descent. Hundreds <J passionate love letters were read at tlie trial, which lasted for weeks. The suit was eventually dismissed. Mr Rhinelander has now been found living at Las Vegas, his identity hidden by a moustache, and an added weight of 25 pounds. He explained that lie had been establishing six months’ residence before asking for a divorce on tlie grounds of cruelty sustained by him through the humiliation inclined by his wife’s actions.