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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1931, Page 5

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A ROUGH.NIGHT. AUTHOR; OF “ALU QUIET.” ■ 'LONDON, July 16. Erich. Maria Remarque, author, of “All Quiet on the ’Western Front,” collided with and snapped a lamp-post while motoring at Leyden. The police refused a proffered £lO, hut accepted a promise of Remarque's books fol* the 61 Mf* fib vary, KING IN SCOTLAND, DINNER TO EX-SERVICEMEN. LONDON, July 16. Fo. ty-sne.i Scottish toilers and sailors, blinded in the Great War, were the guests of the King at mid-day dinner at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh. The King arranged this unique function to enable him to meet his guests in person. Ihe King is displaying amazing strength during his visit to Scotland. In addition to the social functions at the castle, he went down to Clyde, accompanied by the Queen, and opened a. new dock at Glasgow, which cost £2,000,000. That the British race would reap the reward of the foresight of those whohau faith in its future was the conviction expressed bv the King in a speech when he declared the dock epen. NEW MATSON -LINERS. •NEW YORK, July lb. The Matson Company's new £1,600,000 liner Mariposa-, is to be launched at Quincy (Mass.), Mrs Wallace Alexander performing the christening ceremony. The Mariposa will enter the CaliforniaiSvdnev service about the middle of January. j Luxuriously appointed, she will accommodate 800 passengers. Sister ships, j the Monterey and the ‘LuiT.ne, will be; ready next year. GREECE’S STRONG MAN. LONDON, July 17. S'uwas Papageorgioti, a young Greek, demonstrated his strength at a ' West Eng club by bending an iron bar three-eights of am inch thick with his teeth. He then placed a long bar ! three-quarters of an inch and 2fin. wide on his head, while.five heavy men swung from the ends and bent the bar. In respense to a question whether his ] strength was of any use, Papageorgiou admitted with a smile that on one occasion when he was motoring over a mount-in in Cyprus the brakes of tbe’ car failed on the edge of a precipice. He jumped out, held the car, and prevented disaster.