LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

WEDDING RING. ONLY ONE TO BE BLESSED. LONDON, November 19. Of two wedding rings, only one can bo blessed, was the dictum Of the Dean of St. Alban’s Cathedral. )Vhen a Harley Street, physician, Dr. Copembn, produced one ring of. platinum and one of gold, both of which the bride, Mi»» Helen Bourne, asked that the Dean should bless; tlie # Dean insisted on adhering to the Church’s custom of blessing only thb gold ring. ROYAL PRESENTS. QUEEN GOES SHOPPING. LONDON, November 19. The. Queen, buying presents for her grandchildren’s Christmas stockings, chose a fibre rattle for Princess Margaret and an embroidered pink frock with scarlet slippers for Princess Elizabeth, all the 'work of women of the Seychelles Islands. ARABIAN NIGHTS. WIRELESS ENTERTAINMENT. LONDON, November 19. It is hoped that the Moslem world will soon be able to receive broadcasts from Mecca, where ft wireless station is to be built, says Hafiz Wahba, Ambassador of the King of the Hejnz. “King Jbn gaud believes in making the fullest possible use of such inventions to assist in building up the new Arabia,” he Bays, The representative of the militant ruler of the Wahabis, who has united almost all of Arabia except Yemen, resembles a brownish Pickwick in lUncy dress. Stout, round-faced, with cleanshaven cheeks and a thin beard, he beams benevolently through spectacles. He wears flowing robes and the Arab headcloth, bound with a head-rope like that worn in Ur of the Chaldees. He speaks good, but slow and careful English. : CONVICT BROADCASTS. TALES OF PRISON LIFE. LONDON, November 19. Away back in February, the British Broadcasting Corporation starred a novel turn—a discourse by an ex-cou-vict, Harold Hogan, on his experiences in, prison, the means by which prison penalties co'uld he improved, an l his suggestions of helping ex-convicts to lead the better life.

Hogan is returning to prison, haung been convicted of converting to his own use £5 entrusted to him V' Lady Whitehead, who employed him as s chef.

Hogan pleaded that his downfall was due,to a woman who exposed his firmer eonviction, < The judge, saying he believed Ergan had really attempted to iof man, but had been prevented by the woman’s revelation, did not sentence him to i trial servitude, but merely to 18 mnoths’ imprisonment.

BRITAIN’S REPLY.

HUGE FLYING BOAT BUILT

LONDON, November 19

The huge flying boat which the Vickers Super-marine works are building, is described by the “News-Chronicle” ns Britain’s challenge to the German Dornier Do.X. The paper says it will be used in the trans-Atlantic AngloAmerican mail service, which Mr Glover, an American -postal official; announces lias been settled.

•The hull of the machine is 18 feet high, and 100 feet long, and it has accommodation for 40 passengers. Tt has five cabins and 20 sleeping berths. There are six Rolls-Royce engines, with a horse-power of 3700. It is' estimated that it will attain a speed of more than 150 miles an hour.

WOMEN SMOKERS.

PRONE TO EXCESS

LONDON, November 19

“Women usually smoke the' coarsest and crudest cigarettes, because they lack such refined senses of taste and smell as men,” said Dr. Ernest Griffin, of the London College of Physiology. “Women are prone to excess when they undertake smoking, and are at it fast and furiously night and day. Some smoke because it helps to cover their nervousness. Others consider that everything that is man’s prerogative is something Godlike and to be imitated.”

SPRUCER CLERGY. FORMER BISHOP’S REMARKS. LONDON, November 19. “A little more care in their dress on the part of the clergy would he a good thing for the ministry,” said Bishop Frodsham, formerly Bishop of North Queensland and chaplain to the Australian military forces. “Young men going to work neat and dapper look a little askance at the distinctly unconventional garb of many of our junior and some of our senior priests.” Dr. Frodsham was discussing the generally lowered conception of the office and work of the ministry at the

Convocation of York. He also urged closer co-operation between clergy and doctors.