LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1931, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

MUTINY TROPHY.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,

LONDON, June 18

The famous “.Canning” jewell, the# property of laird Harewood, husband of Princess Mary, will be sold by auction, at Messrs Sotheby’s rooms. The jewel was found in the treasury of Oudh/ at the capture, of Delhi during the Indian mutiny. It consists of a superb gold pendant iff the form of a Triton (sea god) studded with diamonds rubies, and pearls.' It is attributed to the Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini. Lord Harewood inherited it from the second Marquis of Clanricarde, whose family name was canning. Benvenuto Cellini, goldsmith, sculptor, and engraver, was born in 1500, and died in 1571. As an engraver in gold he had, in liis day, ■ no superior. Canning .was the family name -of the Marquisate of Clanricarde, now extinct. Charles John Canning, youngest son of the George Canning who became a great figure in British politics, was Governor-General of India - during the mutiny,, for his conduct in which lie earned the sobriquet of “Clemency Canning.” He was given an earldom, but ag he died without issue this immediately became extinct. .

A DESERT ROMANCE.

SENUSSI GIRD AND CHAUFFEUR. CAIRO, June 19. A native romance was the sequel to the rescue last month by Mr M. P. A. Clayton, of a party of Bedouins stranded in the Libyan. Desert,; a beautiful senussi girl having wedded the Egyp- i tian chauffeur who drove her and her starving companions from Oweinat oasis to Wadi Haifa. " The chauffeur, immediately after the ceremony; conveyed the joyous news: Mr Clayton through, a bazaar . letter writer, who thus put the message into English: “I was married yesterday, ||J and have now become double.” . ■ '

OVER 40 ENTRANTS. . ; LONDON, June 23. The 41 entrants for the King’s Cup ;air race on July 25 include six women. They are Missek Winifred. Brown, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Peggy Salam&n, and Diana Guest, and Mrs C. W.' Slack and the Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce.

Other entrants include Lord Stonehaven, former 'Governor-General; of Australia; Captain Guest. Miss Diana Guest’s father; Flight-Lieutenant i Stainforth, a member of the British Schneider Trophy team, and Mr J. R. Chaplin. - ■ > • A j

FILM OTAR’S ORDEALS.

GETTING THE ATMOSPHERE.

LONDON, June 28.

To secure the atmosphere :of terror necessary to her role in ® drama, entitled “Death Takes Holiday,” Miss Rosalinde Fuller, an actress; visiter 1 an asylum where a, woman is confined who is frightened of death.

Miss Fuller said that the woman’s shrieks vver.e merely depressing. After that, she said, she let a professional knife thrower fling knives tjl she was surrounded by quivering steel. “If I had not been tied to the board I would have . killed myself ir trying to escape,” said Miss Fuller. “1 was quaking with fright, but I got the atmosphere.”