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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1930, Page 5

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FLAT TRAGEDY. YOUNG ACTRESS SHOT. LONDON, July 6. A young man and his wife were found dead on Sunday afternoon in a Hampsted fiat. There was a six-eham- ' bered revolver near the bodies. They j were Eardley Cotterill, aged 24 years, j engineer, and his wife, Margery, aged I 22 years, who was the daughter of Mr J Gerald Lawrence, the actor, and Miss Fay Davis, the actress. Mr and Mrs Cotterill were married only a year ago. Mrs Cotterill had recently returned from the Continent, and she had been living at her parents’ borne while beginning a stage career. Cottrill, meanwhile had been engaged on a job abroad. He returned to London on Sunday. Two hours later Air and Airs Lawrence were horrified to hear revolver shots. 1 They rushed into a room and found their daughter dead and Cotterill almost dead.’ The tragedy was utterly.unexpected. The pair were passionately attached, and Airs Cotterill was apparently on the eve' of a .stage career as promising as her mother’s. ENGINEERING -MERGER. TWO BIG BRITISH FIRAIS. LONDON, July 12. An important working arrangement concluded between two great engineering firms, Rustem and Hornsby L+tLand R. A. Lifter and Co., Ltd., Joes not involve the merging of financial interests. I The essence of the plan i;s to secure j efficient co-ordination in the design, j production, and sale of the products of I the two firms, which control, subsi- : diary associated companies in Australia, Canada, the United States, France Belgium, Germany, and the Argentine. The combined resources will be devoted to obtaining a substantially greater share of the overseas trade for British engineering products. The, firms combined assets exceed £6,000,000. IMPULSIVE NAVY MAN. JUMPED ON PRINCE’S CAR LONDON, July 3. T A huge crowd lining the route when the Prince of Wales was driving towards the shipyards at Sunderland received a thrill when a man,- despite the shouts of officials, leaped on to the running-hoard of' the Prince’s oar; Before the. Prince realised it the man had been seized and pulled off the car. He stated that he'was on hoard the Renown when the .Prince voyaged to Aus-. tralia. and he had impulsively jumped? on the car in order to meet his Royal ’Highness again. He . added t “I only wanted to.hear the Prince say, “Hello, Smith.” • .... ■; i The story was found to he true, and the man was released.