A FORTUNTE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

Taihape Daily Times, 9 January 1919, Page 5

A FORTUNTE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

» LONDON, January 7. Obituary-Baron Michelham. It is estimated he is worth twenty millions. His so!n married on Saturday. Baron Michelham gave the bride, Beatrice Capel, one million sterling. MACKENSEN INTERNED. NEW YORK, Jan. 7. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent says: Despaches from Geneva state that von Mackensen was interned in Hungary by the French forces occupying Buda Pest. BRITISH POLITICS. THE NEW CABINET?" LONDON, Jan. 7. Newspapers state that Mr Churchill has accepted the portfolio of Minister of War, and Mr Chamberlain that of Chancellor of the Exchequer. BIG REPAIRING CONTRACT, ' * _____ ROTTERDAM, Jan. 7. Three Dutch companies are undertaking to repair sixty British vessels which were damaged during he war period. ROOSEVELT’S DEATH. TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN NEW YORK, Jan. 7. New York newspapers declare that one of Roosevelt’s most important achievements was the, reformation, forced on “Big Business” during his administration. They praise the vigorous part he played in arousing the conscience of the American people to the moral issues involved i!n the war. All agree that he was a great figure in history, besides being a great American.