LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1929, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

* \ i; PRICE OF A RECORD. THE MAURETANIA’S RUN. LONDON Aug. 30. When the Cunard liner Mauretania steamed from New York to Plymouth (3J98 miles) in four days, 17 hours 49 minutes on Tuesday, heating her own record by four hours but failing to beat the record of the new German liner Bremen by two hours, the extra fuel cost £6OOO. For every mile of the 3089 mile journey therefore the extra cost to the company was £1 18s Bd. It has announced that the 22-year-old liner will not attempt to boat her own record. - x DOUBLE DEATH DUEL. FATHER AND LOVER DEAD. GLOVER (Georgia), Aug. 30. Pat Huddleston** (53) and Marcus Brown (49) killed each other with shotguns when the older man objected to Brown’s attention to his 20-year-old daughter. Brown, who is the father of eight children, had eloped with Huddleston's daughter, hut had been brought back and served a term in gaol. Huddle- ] ston caught Brown arranging another ’ tryst with the girl, and ordered him away. 1 Later, before a crowd which had 1 gathered in the principal street, Brown i suddenly came upon Huddleston and ; emptied a charge of buckshot into his ual improvement, the results- could shot which went through' Brown’s I heart. Both were dead within a min- I ute. <

RADIO NUiSANCE. PASSENGER STOPS TRAIN. LONDON Aug. 30. Consternation reigned last night in a London-Southend train which came to a standstill because the communication cord had been pulled. The alarmed guard ran from coach to coach to ascertain the reason. He heard a torrent of angry words. “Yes,” said an indignant passenger, “I pulled tho' : cord. I object to this man having a-'portable wireless set on when I want to read/ It is a danger to my nerves.”

A railway official said that the cause of the stoppage was unprecedented. It is impossible to state : yet what action if any, will follow.

REDUCE FIRE RISKS. STEEL FURNITURE NOW. LONDON, Aug. 30. It is asserted, says the “Evening News,” that steel will shortly replace wood for all household furniture. A Midland manufacturer points out that steel enters largely into the composition of office furniture, and must logically be extended to domestic furniture.

The new furniture will be artistic, as wood articles, being painted to resemble mahogany, oak or walnut. It will be all-British, and will reduce fire risks.

FIJI PIONEER PASSES

BLIND FOR. 22 YEARS

SUVA, Aug. 23

At four o’clock this morning, William Coxon died, at the great age of practically 91 years, for his birthday was in two months’ time. Bnrn in England and educated partly in Germany, and partlv near Portsmouth, he met when a lad the erreat Dickens, and was introduced to Wood, then a young middy and later Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C. He came, to Fiji from England in his uncle’s vessel, the Circassian, of 180 tons, in 1858. In those days pirates and cannibals were common, and young Coxon had many

exciting experiences with both, varieties.' He was appointed secretarygeneral and generalissimo for King Cakabau, and was rewarded with a grant of 640 acres of land and the gift of ten men to plant the area. Later he was a successful planter, and after, losing his land, traded and owned an hotel at Levuka. About 19U> he had to retire to Suva owing to failing eyesight. He has been blind for the last 22 years. He leaves no relatives in the colony. He was a well read man and continued to take an active part in world affairs up to the end.