NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 23 July 1910, Page 10

NEWS BY MAIL.

INDIAN OFFICER WINS £32,000 FOR A 14s TICKET. AMAZING LUCK IN A DERBY SWEEP. ~v

j —••■•■ London, June 2. I A fortune of £32,000 was won on an j outlay of less than a pound by one man | who siW Leff ber g win tne Derby yester, I day afternoon. I The lucky sportsnlau was Captain [{. j T. Rohan, of the Indian Army, now in England on a year's leave, who drew the winner in a Calcutta sweep. "No. !)3y21'1" was the winning ticket, purchased by Captain Raban, who is a stepson of the Rev. C. E. Chard, rector of Hatchßeauchamp, in Somerset. Captain Raban, who is an assistant military accountant of the first-class in the Indian Army Accounts Department, has been staying with his relatives in Somerset since his return to England on leave.

He bought two other tickets for members of his family, in addition to that which has now hrought him the greai prize. The Calcutta Sweep is the largest of its kind in the world, nearly half a million tickets being sold in all parts of India and the East, as well as in England.

When Captain Raban learned that he had drawn Lemberg he sold half his ticket for £7500, retaining his right to the other half of the prize, which is worth nearly £60,000 as a whole. Captain Raban, who is a member of the Isthmian Club, came up from Taunton to London yesterday morning. The history of the Calcutta Sweep has many romances. It was started by the Calcutta Turf Club as a comparatively small affair, but it has yearly grown in popularity, until now nearly every sporting man in the East and the colonies takes one or more tickets.

The tickets, which cost ten rupees, or, roughly, 14s each, are keenly competed for, and syndicates buy up large numbers a»d pool the result. Even to draw a starter in the race means a large cash prize, and the second and third horses draw amounts in proportion to the first prize. One year the prize of £30,000 was won by the six-year-old daughter of a native signalman on an Indian railway, and the family was instantly lifted into prosperity. A windfall from the Derby Sweep last year fell to a valet at a West End club, who sold half his ticket for £6OOO and retired on the proceeds.

JEALOUS HUSBAND AND A PRETTY

HAPPY ENDING TO A TRAGIC EPISODE.

Paris, May 29.

Gaston Berger is twenty-five and very jealous; Mme. Berger is twenty, and very pretty. They married two years ago, and have been happy, with quarrels at intervals whenever Gaston Berger's jealousy found anything to feed on. Yesterday Mme, Berger smiled and waved her hand from their sitting-room window to her *ster, who was passing in the street. Her husband came into the room and saw her, and demanded to know what man she was talking to out of the window. When his wife laughed at him he drew a revolver and fired two shots at her. Fortunately his aim was bad. Neighbors came rushing upstairs, and Gaston, thinking he had killed his wife, who had fainted from fright, threw himself out of the window into the street. Although the Bergers live on the third floor, the only damage the jealous husband did to himself was to break u wrist.

And all's well that encte. well, for Mme. Berger was so touched by her jealous husband's wish to kill himself that she has pardoned him for trying to kill her.

TERROR AT A BULL FIGHT. FORTY PERSONS TOSSED AND , TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT. Lisbon, May 27. . A fierce bull of great size and strength leaped over a barrier during a bull fight at Santarem, and dashed amid the crowds of spectators. Men, women and children were tossed, and the guards we»e *nable to shoot the animal through the compact masses of the panic-stricken populace. The bull finally made for the principal exit, whence it escaped into the open country. More than forty persons were severely injured, nurny of them having been trampled under foot.

CHLOROFORMED BY A BURGLAR. RElfitf OF TEROR IN BLACKPOOL. London, May 28. Arthur Leigh was found chloroformed at his lodgings in Lune Grove, Central Drive, Blackpool, on Thursday night. He stated yesterday that a man called at -the house while he was alone. The man said that there was a letter on the sideboard which had been left for him, and he requested Leigh to get it. iLeigh went into the kitchen, and after looking about for the letter, was in the act of turning round, when a wet handkerchief was thrown over his face. He struggled, but was overcome, and lost consciousness. The daughter of the tenants—Mr. and | Mrs. Brierly—returned home from the 1 theatre, anil, discovering Leigh on the floor apparently dead, ran for a neighbor, who lifted Leigh on the sofa, where he eventually recovered. The house had been ransacked and things scattered all over the floor. It is supposed that the burglar or burglars were disturbed by Miss Brierley, for the back door was wide open, and only a few small silver were missing, gold watches belonging to Mr. and Mrs. ! Brierley having been left behind. I Many of the residents in the district bolted their doors yesterday, and refused to open them except to persons known to them.

MORE THAN £700,000,

FOR PASSAGES ACROSS THE

ATLANTIC.

New York, May 29.

June is the harvest time of the transAtlantic steamship companies, according to the present bookings, which show that the number of travellers to .Europe will be greater by 5000 perhaps than any month ever recorded. It is estimated that at least $3,500,000 will be spent for accommodation in first cabins and half as much for second cabins. Already 17.500 first-cabin passengers have been booked. This does not include several thousand who will go to the Mediterranean by the French, Austrian and Italian lines. The grand total will be about 20,000. Tn all. 50 steamships will depart over the northern route and 2.5 go to the Mediterranean during June. ... - „

FATHER ARRESTS HIS SOX,

DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER WTTH A CRIMINAL. Paris, June 2. A dramatic scene occurred at Carmaux yesterday when a workman named Anitraygues arrested his son Aladin, a danserous criminal, and handed him to the police, who were held in check by the vounsr bandit's revolver. Aladin, who was "wanted" for several robberies with violence, was seen by a policeman drinking in a eafe. The criminal sought refuge in the kitchen, and, drawing a revolver, threatened to shoot if he were touched. A woman who had been at the same table with him tried to sieze the revolver, but he fired at her and struck her " severe blow on the nu-e

with his fist, sending her senseless to tie ground. Another policeman came to the assistance of the first, hut neither of them dared to grapple with Aladin. Among the crowd that gathered jui the elder Antraygues, an honest, hardworking laborer. Stung (;q |ury by h<; ion's >xe, j ms J[ed forward' and lnarelied straight up to the criminal.

"Stand back, father, or I shoot!" exclaimed Aladki.

His father's only reply was to hurl I hiuiseji at tile boy/and, knocking up the I revolver with one arm, so that the bulj let went harmlessly into the ceiling, he felled him to the ground. Then, falling | on him, he held him down while the police handcuffed him. ROYAL TRADESMEN. Berlin, May 30. A new trust is in sight, a combination of extensive commercial, industrial and financial enterprises controlled by three semi-royal magnates of the highest Germa nobility, the Kaiser's best friend, Prince Max Egon Euerstenberg, Prince Christian Hohenlohe, and Prince Donnersmark, with Germany's leading financial institution, the Deutsce Bank, as their active ally. The projected new trust would be an enlargement of the powerful combination already in existence and known as the Hohenlohe Concern, Which comprises all the numerous enterprises of various kinds controlled by Prince Christian Hohenlohe and Prince Max Egon Euerstenberg.

The Hohenlohe Trust embraces mines and factories, breweries and agricultural estates, hotels, theatres and shops, banks and steamship lines, and many other business concerns of all sorts and conditions, among which may be mentioned the German Levant Steamship Line, the German Palestine Bank, the great universal providing stores of W. Wertheim, Ltd., in Berlin, the New Playhouse in Berlin, the Hotel Esplanade and Hotel Excelsior in Berlin, and the Hotel Esplanade at Hamburg.

TOO REALISTIC.

Paris, May 26.

Too much realism in the rehearsals of a scene in the new play, "Banco," caused a police raid at a small theatre here yesterday.

The band had been advertised for some time, but the rehearsals dragged on slowly and every evening seemed to be devoted to Act 11. The scene of this act was laid in a gambling saloon, and M. Duponnois, a police commissary, who happened to call at the theatre, was struck by this fact. A question to the manager brought the reply—"lt is most important that the facial play of all the actors in this scene should be exact. They are all supposed to beJ keen gamblers. We must get the byplay, as real as possible." At the end of another fortnight, however, the facial play did not seem to have improved much,, as Act 11. was still rehearsed at great length each evening.

•Discreet enquiry showed that the rehearsals were a blind, that the play "Banco"' had never been written, and that all the "actors" were hardened gamblers. The Magistrate rang the curtain down for tlii! ia*t time last night by raiding the theatre..