DELAYED CABLES.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 October 1919, Page 1

DELAYED CABLES.

, RiEGLUSE'S UNSIGNED WILL. 0 London, October 10. > Nearly tliree weeics after death, the Ptbody of CDr. Duncan Marquis, aged sixty-five, was found in -a small room in Upper Chariton Street, Marylefoone, w'n-ero he had lived the life of a recluse. In the (room were found £470 in Treasury Noted, goldi coins, jewellery, and silver articles, title d eeds of property in Scotland, and an unsigned will showing that he had relatives in New Zealand. The dootor's death was due to the rupture of an aneurism, and at the inquest a verdict of "death from natural causes" was returned. COST OF~AE.MY INIRELAND. London, Oct. 12. The Daily Mail states t hat the Irish military occupation is costing £900,(XX) monthly. VOICE)"OF DEAD SON. London, Oct, 6. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, in a' speech at Wimbledon, stated that he recently heard the voice of his dead son. "I was in a darkened room," he said "with my w.ife and five men, and an amateur medium, whom we had bound in six places with string. "My wife gave a little ory, and my son said, 'Father.' I replied: 'Yes, my boy.' He said 'Forgive me. 1 He referred to his non-belief in spiritualism which was the only difference we had during* his lifetime. When reassured,. he saidl 'I am so happy, and (his voice ! faded away. Those who doubt this story must think that I am most blasphemous liar." DISAPPOINTED WOMEN. New York, Oct. 20. .The announcement 'by the British Foreign Office that tihe Pnnce of Wales will be the guest of President Wilson art the White House while in Washington, and will live in. a British warship in the iHtunson River when he oomes to New York, has taken a great weight of from the minds of American diplomatists, who have been swamped with demands, pleas, applications from every part of the country for the heir to the British throne to be the guest of various soci&l IwidiCTfl To achieve this, wires within wires have been pulled, cablegrams sent to Queen -Mary, and every resource known to ambitious, powerful, and wealthy society leaders exhausted. PRJOfFTTEER PELTED. Paris, Oct. 10. Riotous scenes occurred in Montmartre yesterday when an enraged crowd wrecked the shop of a profiteering grocer. There was a tanrr line of housewives of the quarter Waiting to do their shopping. The grocer had a notice outside his shop stating that ho was selling rabbits ?vt 3s lid per lb. Owing probably to the unexpected large number of 'buyers, the grocer chainged the notice, increasing the price 2!d per lb. . Within a very few minutes a, cii*>wp estimated at- 1,500 peoplj© Appeared. They armed themselves with potatoes, tomatoes, peaches, ajrtichokes, ana. bunches of frrapes—all wares lof the shopman—amd began a furious 'bombardment of the eh<op mirrors, finishing up by pelting the grocer, who had to appeal for police protection. His shop was closed.