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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1931, Page 3

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fiendish crime. CHILD LOCKED* dN CELLAR. BUCHAREST, July 16. The discovery' 'of a demented, pale,.. 12 year-oid girl rushing aoout trie streets ol Jassy, .aid regarding her surrdundiiigs with a strange terrified air', led to' t'iie disclosure of a story of remarkable" firindishness. The mother died when the girl wa’s born, and her*farther, a peasant nam ii Yaslle Coritin’escUj determined to inherit the whole of his wife’s property." He therefore condCaled the existence of the child, who, during - the whole df her life,-was kept in an uiilighted cell. She had never seen daylight 1 until lfer escape owing- to her father omitting to lock the door. . The girl wandered into trie street, and became terror-stricken by the un--familiar sights of normal life. Peasants and police surrounded lief as if she were a wild b'east. Contiiiescu confessed everything. WOMEN RULED OUT. NEVER PLAY REAL CRICKET. .; - *- U" • LONDON, July 17. A. M. Crawley, the English cricketer iiifter watching'll women’s Test rii'atcb, •South v: The Rest, is rip of firnily ooiivinced’thriTi ever that woirieiV will never play real cricket. ’ ; " r * ’’ “I could not wish,” be writes" iri the, “Daily Mail,” “to’see ’a keener game-, but no bowler nor hatswynia ii looked 'natural. All their moyements. wcre> awkward’. ' Whine if are pliysica’lly in-, capable of "playing “ the ganie as. it should 'be'played. J, wish f corild saysomething in favour pf womenl.s.crick-" et, init this inaicb has fii'ed. out any 1 sucli possibility’.” A week ago Mr Crawley was taken to | task by Mrs H. Smith, a forrn<’r worn- J an cricketer, who claimed to have howl- 1 ed W. G. Grace, for the expression of j similar vieivs. WOMAN’S FOES. ... .. | MAN ANT) OLD AGE,;, , . " RICHMOND- (Va.), July 06. . American biisimlss 'ami Women assembled : iti convf iitiofi ! " here ’ launched an attack "'on ’tlieii'" deadliest, ■ enemies—man and’ bid age. - '-Man—r. charged With’ 1 women in all 'kinds ol"' jobs--w.ill' lie d.ip,-., •poped...rif by .the' report which' if ” eom.urt'ee -of live will make to the 1933 convention. < • : . "1 he girls’ of To-day arc hungry and. looking for jobs,” declared the presid- lit. Martha Connole, Die, noted woman law-, or. "who- adder vehemently :. ‘Mt’s.a ii.l'e t.liiiig 4 must say, to have woifiari turn against woman. The first to agree to the dismissal of married women lram : qbs‘.’are single" \yonieii. (t with the men,Which is tefrible." • ; Old age; presented tougher difficulties.. Women in tlieii; eij,ily fifties are warned, against “syiitlietic yduth."'' Coyness only. di»<vy attention to age". These”'" were amotig trie co'iiiiiients’,<>f lead ing spriakers. “fiook out that Vl'dn’t get ” dH’tkto’-jal and bossy round "ahoiit 50! said one 'lady—dictatorially.’