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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 128, 23 October 1914, Page 8

The sight of a young girl, mounted on a well-bred, racehorse, and leading another, on tho usual training walks around Randwick and Coogce, has set the racing fraternity wondering, and the question as to who she is, and what horses has she charge of, is being freely asked (says a Sydney exchange). The girl is .Marie Davies, a"l7-ycar-old daughter of Mr William Davies, a well-known New Zealand trainer, who has now taken up his residence in Sydney. The horses under her care are Sonite, War Queen, and Defend, each of which is soon to make an appearance on the metropolitan courses. Hiss Davies does not yet hold a trainer's license, but intends to make application to the A.i.C. for the necessary authority to permit her talking up the calling. She is assured of good support, if she can get a license, and there is every chance of her taking over the wholo of her father's horses. Tho ladytrainer has not had a gallop on Sydney courses, but has ridden some good performers on tho training tracks at Wellington (New Zea'and). She is confident Of being ab'e to hold, her own wjtlj the. best of the Sydney jockeys, anil k looking forward to the time when she will sieet some of them in a trial spin. On the authority of refugee* from Aarschot, tho newspapers print a categorical story of the German savagery ■there. According to it the Burgomaster there, M. Thicmans, and 'his ton were "hot at tho door of their own hou.se, and before the eyes of Madajne Thielmans. Tho unhappy lady struggled to overcome her grief, had a ina'Wrcsa brought to "the door, placed tho bodies reverently upon it, and then burst into uncontrollable fears. One journal ■talcs that t[le uiurdereav ha.d natqj tt? 'burgomaster's 'bread and salt la the night an officer committed suicide. On tho morrow the burgomaster was ao•ueed of ttlJeaMi, and, according to this story, tMßjßencc of all the notables •f the place, Wiy bound and thrown on bis knees on the. ground. All the stories agree that the unfortunate man w.-.s shot ib.fore the eye* of his wife.

The fact that coal had b.en found hj: the Antarctic was ili«-u#s,. ( | b- Sir JDougla* linvrnou in an, interview on Saturday. The scientist and explorer remarked'that the presence of coal tJieav nvouglit up a y, ry interesting problem as to chmalic dhan.g.s. The. ms'ierial his expedition broug'lit back indicated lli.it vllfre !ii«l befti f, Jar;e growth of trees in -ths Farthest "Boiith. If? icyM not explain this in any other wav UUu .thai there muit have been daylight iu til* wintmr. Goal could he go;/ from Siberia and Alaska, but it wan - c f a ma,tv or mossy origin, whereas there had Seen forest Irees in Antartic:i. The on 1 other place 'he knew of whe.iv tiimiiar •oal to that his .oartv had dUcoTfred was foi-ming was in 'the lower per' of thi Amazon, where the feber after falling had ae.ciimural.rct beneath the water of the marshes.