LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

NEW YACHT SHAMROCK

AMERICA CUP CHALLENGER

LONDON, Oct, 30

'1 lie keel of Sir Thomas Lipton's new aclit, Shamrock V. was laid this morning in Camper Nicholson’s yard, at Gosport, in the presence of Mr Charles Nicholson, the designer.

'1 he vessel will be built with a length of 76ft. in accordance with the rule of the New York Yacht Chili, and it lias been mutually arranged that it shall be fitted with Bermudian rig instead oi the older type of gag mainsail, and jock-yarder. It: is lonsidereci that the similarity in rig will ensure a sporting contest.

PROPOSED AIR LINERS

CALIFORNIA TO HONOLULU

NEW YORK. Oct. 30

The National City Bank and two associated concerns have- purchased 75 per cent, of the shaves in the proposed line of dirigibles to fly between San Francisco and Honolulu, The Goodyear Zeppelin Company is retaining 25 per cent, of the stock. Actual operation is expected in 1932. Two BCoft. dirigibles, costing £1,003,000 each, with equipment for a speed of 65 knots, will be used.. They willcomplete the round trip in a week.

DESERTED CHILDREN

LEFT ALONE IN HOLLAND

LONDON, Oct. 30

When an English soldier named Osborne married a Dutch girl in Holland, and after becoming the father of two children basely deserted them, little did he think lie would create an international problem that would have to be solved by the British authorities.

Charrel, aged 9, and John Berne, aged 10, could only speak Dutch when their mother died, and they , were left stranded.

The Dutch authorities, rather than shoulder the .responsibility, dumped them on a cargo boat, and they were landed at Gravesend. They knew not a whrd of English, and aroused a feeling of pity until they disappeared behind the walls of a workhouse. During a storm, they disappeared, and were found seven and' a-half miles away, rain-soaked and mud-covered.

They are back again in the workhouse prattling a word or two of English, and it is intended to educate them in an orphanage and turn them out far better Englishmen than their father.

CHILDREN CAUSE. RIOT,

MAGIC LANTERN DISLIKED

BERLIN, October 28.

Two hundred school boys and girls, who resented the display of old-fash-ioned magic lantern slides when they expected an up-to-date film, caused a riot in a kinema.

They used the legs off chairs and other furniture to demolish the decorations, threw bottles and glasses at the theatre employees, and drove from the platform a lecturer who wanted to tell them how coal is obtained.

The police drove out the youthful rioters, and arrested a lad of 14.

A similar disturbance occurred in another theatre, where angry youngsters stormed the stage and brought about the abrupt stoppage of a marionette show.