NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL.

GIRL’S AIR RECORD. PARIS, Aug. 8. A French girl flyer, Mile. Maryse Bastie, has wrested from the American girl, Miss Elinor Smith, the woman’s nying endurance record by remaining in tne air in a light aeroplane for 26 Hours 46 minutes. Hie previous record, held by Aliss Smith, was 26 hours 2-i minutes. Aide. Bastie’s performance is all the more remarkable as she met with very adverse weather conditions. Last night she dropped over Le Bourget Aerodrome a message that she. was beginning to be violently tossed about by guests of wind of almost cyclonic force. She flew all night through a heavy rainstorm, and mis morning was enveloped in a heavy mist. She continued flying until lack of fuel compelled her to land.

COCAINE CLUE. NICE, Aug. 8. Detectives who had come specially from Paris to-day arrested a tramway employee named Dalbara, in whose possession was found 21b. of cocaine. It is said that the arrest is connected with the recent case in which £6,000 worth of drugs-were found in the diploatic bag addressed to the former Afghan Minister in Paris at .the Legation mere. TWINS SWEPT AAVAY. CARLISLE, August 8. Eric and Geraldine Howard, aged 12 the twin children of the late Hon. Alicheal Howard, and cousins of the Earl of Carlisle, saved themselves by tneir presence of mind when they were carried away by the tide in the aolway Firth. They were bathing at Port Carlisle and were caught by the tide’s sudden inrush. They allowed themselves to be carried with the current for more than a mile, and eventually were caught by some fishing nets near Annan, on the opposite side of the Firth. Fishermen saw the children’s peril and rescured them unharmed by their adventure.

HAREAI INTRIGUE. . TOKIO, Aug. 8. A former “War Lord” and the 17th. son of a Chinese prince are the leading figures in what is said to be a triangle drama of Japan, with China interested. Alarshal Chang Chung-chang, former War Lord of Shantung, who fled when the Chinese Nationalists overran his province, took refuge in a town in Kiushiu, where' he met other refugees, including Prince Su, uncle of the deposed Chinese boy-Emperor. Prince Su lias a large family, aild Hsien Kaisu is his 17tll, son. Hien-Kai-su was found suffering from a gunshot wound yesterday, and it was stated that Marshal Chang Chungchang fired the shot, but accidentally. The police, however, have “received information” that Hsien Kai-su had made the acquaintance of one of the members of the Marshal’s harem, and that this was the cause of the trouble.

ENGLISH GIRL WITH £388,000 DOWRY. BERLIN, August 8, A .beautiful young Englishwoman with a fortune of £388,000 must-have a German husband. That is the remarkable statement made by Frau Use von Riesenthal in one column of that most respectable family newspaper tlie “Berliner Tageblatt,” and by Frau Olga Hilgenfelde in another column. Frau von Riesenthal states that the Englishwoman is 23 and picturebeautiful. Frau Hilgenfelde says that she is 22 and very lovely. Both of them agree that she is a blonde and that she has been left a fortune of £388,000 on condition that she marries a German. Frau Hilgenfelde is a little more explicit than the picture-beautiful Englishwoman’s other agent and says that the money has been left .by an uncle, a German who settled in Ireland, on condition that a German husband manages the property, She holds out the hope that the man who proves to he suitable for this treasure is to be presented to her in London or in one of the more fashionable German resorts. Being an Englishman, and therefore ineligible, I have ventured to ask Frau Hilgenfelde a few questions about the young person. She assured me that the offer is perfectly genuine, but' the only information which she was willing to give beyond that in the advertisement was that the heiress is by religion a Roman Catholic.