CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 2

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian ami N.Z. Cable A&*cX’iation. H.M.fcs. Lupia. lias been ordered to sink the burning liner Ayrshire. The tire is spreading and towage is impossible. The Ayrshire caugnt lire near Colombo. Thomas Hawthorne, who was committed lor trial on the charge of murdering Mrs Cox and Mrs Galetta. at ITskineville, N.S.W., has been declared insane and ordered to be detained in a criminal lunatic asylum until mentally fit to stand his trial. As a. result of a collision RXX) feet above Malmslaet airdrome, Sweden,, (me airplane crashed, and the pilot was killed. The other landed, the pilot being slightly injured. The West Australian motor-ship Koolinda sails on December 24th. She will, load at Glasgow, but is not taking passengers, as her accommodation will be completed in Australia. Allen Upward, the well-known author, who was found shot in his ryoms. in Wimborno, Dorset, left all lie possessed to Mr Stephen Graham, the author. The amount is not stated. Tho will added a desire to he buried in unconscernted ground, in perfert silence, and forbade am* memorial. Upward committed suicide believing Llmt he had I C'-ome a lit'-racv f dlure. and refused to believe evidence to the contrary*