MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1932.
YACHTING
RESULT OF FIRST CORINTHIAN RACE.
The following wore the full results of the First Corinthian (No) Yacht Buoys) Race sailed yesterday over the following course: - (1) North Fairway Buoy (8), (2) Rumsey Shoal (s), a distance of 7.5 miles.
Results in full:-
"H" Class (Started at 2.25 p.m.).
TIMES
Yacht Finished Corrected P'tion Norena... 4.14.50
{
"I" & "Y" Claas (Started at 2.30 p.m.).
4.14.50
1
Sigkin
4.17.44
4.12.44
Diana
4.20.02
4.19.47
2
Argulla It
4.27.06.
4.18.21
J
Suiled by Capt. Krogh Moe. Mr. A. V. Harvey. Major W. Bingham. Mr. H. J. Pearce.
Dorothea
1.22.47
4.14.02 3
Mr. B. Naess.
Colleen
4.27.32 4.13.47 6
Mr. S. Odland.
TIMES
Yacht Daphne
Finished Corrected Ption
Sailed by
4.40.31 4.40.31
4.35.35 Allan
2 ...... 4.35.35
4.39.44 Why Wonder 4.40.21
{ Bluejacket 4.34.02 4.33.25 1
4.46.20 Boojum
4.46.48 Speedwell 4.28,01 4.37.24 # Adanac
4.45.28 4.44.61
5
Miss Stokes.
Capt. Lochner.
Capt. Fowkes,
7
Mr. H. S. Rouse. Mr. G. Pickering,
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Major Stewart,
Cdr. A. H. Walker, R.N.
"G" Class (Started at 2.35 p.m.).
TIMES
Yacht
Finished Corrected Ption
Sailed by
Zephyr Lola
5.08.22 5.08.22
a
Mr. F. E. Skinner.
4.48.22 4.45.52
1
Mr. R. Grieve.
4.57.15 4,56.00 2 Mr. I. de Ville.
CRUISER RACE.
Wendy
The fifth croiser championship race was sailed yesterday, the course being Cheung Chau (P.), a distance of 25 miles. The race started at 10.05 u.m., and resulted as follows:-
Sailed by
Mr. H. Dreyer.
TIMES
Yacht
Azuma
La Cigale
Isis
Norseman
4.57.04
U. and I.
Monsoon
Curlew
Total Finished Corrected P'tion Pts. 4.00.34 3.48.43 1. 58 4.03.59 4.03.59 4 57 6.42.58 4.37.56 8 58
4.04.12
37 4.19.07 3.56.03 2 5.47.00 4.37.42 7 21 5.04.47 4.01.49 3 55 4.20.31 4.16.46 6 56
Mr. N. Croucher.
Major Tosh.
Mr. F. Baker.
Wanderer
Lt. A. M. Anstruther? Mr. E. Goulborn. Mr. H. S. Rouse. Lt. Tothill.
POPE RECEIVES MUSSOLINI.
Duce's First Visit to Vatican.
PRIVATE AUDIENCE.
THE
Rome, January 10. Premier Mussolini will be receiv- ed in audience by the Portill to- morrow, according to an official. statement issued to-day, confirming the long-current rumeurs that the conciliation between the Fascist State and the Catholic Church was to be outwardly demonstrated by a meeting between their heads.
This will be the first time, since the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty, that Il Duce will enter the Vatican and, furthermore, the first time that he will bend over the hand of a successor of St. Peter,
On this occasion, Signor Musso- lini will thank the Pontiff for hav-
ing bestowed upon him the Order of the Golden Spur, founded by Pius X, which, as a rule, is awarded only to reigning sovereigna. Though the audience will have a private character, the Papal ceremonies will be rigidly observed throughout,
CHINA MAIL.
PRINCESS KILLS HER PRINCE GEORGE AND
RICH LOVER.
Seven Shots As He Refused to Wed Her.
PRINTERS.
Speech at Charity Festival.
Accused of having shot dead her JUSTICE EVE ON NEWSPAPERS. fiance, a 24-year-old princess has been arrested at Warsaw
She is Princess
Lived Together, The couple, who lived in the same apartment, were unable to marry because Mr. Boye had not obtained a divorce from his wife.
M. BRIAND'S HEALTH
PARIS CONCERNED OVER RUMOURS.
ONLY WEAKNESS,
Paris, January 5,
However, there is noticeable an In spite of official denials at the unusual animation at M. Briand's A total of £23,165 was raised in
Quai d'Orsay, Woronecka, a all of the funds of the Printers' throughout Faria to-day that M. d'Orsay,
reports persisted; private apartments at the Qual member of a very old Polish family, Pension, Almahouse, and Orphan Aristide Briand, the veteran French one of her ancestors having been Asylum Corporation at its festival Foreign Minister and President of
Three Score Years and Ten. Mr. Briand is now 70 years of King of Poland in the seventeenth dinner, held at Connaught Rooms the League of Nations Council, is age. He has worked under intense. century,
under the presidency of Princeleritically ill. Her fiance was Mr. W. Boye, aged George.
pressure for the past two decades It is admitted at the Quai d'Orsay and especially during the last ten 40, a wealthy rubber manufacturer. Before the dinner the Prince was that M. Briand is not well. But an years. During the recent Paris dis- After the tragedy, Princess invested by Mr. C. H. St. J. Hornby official statement insists that his cussions of the Council of the Woronecka telephoned to Mr. Boye's with the presidential chain pre-condition is not critical. The state- League of Nations on the Sino- office and said to his secretary: "I sented to the corporation by Sirment says M. Briand is suffering Japanese conflict in Manchuria It have shot your chiof dead."
Gomer Berry.
from fatigue as the result of treat was noted that Prince George, proposing a toast ment for an
occasionally M. ailment which has Briand, evidently weary, dozed in to the Corporation, said that when caused him. discomfort for Bome his chair. A serious illness at this masters and men united as they time. had done, to
time for M. Briand would definitely secure the comfort
In spite of the official denials by influence and well-being of the aged and in M. Briand's associates the reports such as those involving the dispute important negotiations firm, and to care for the orphans of persist throughout Paris that the between China and Japan. Also, their workers who fell in the Great famous "Apostle of Foace" suffered the world disarmament conference War, it was
not only a proof of a heart stroke on Monday and an opens under the auspices of the kindly feeling, but it was also recognition that a great trade like insist that M. Briand's condition is than a month and it had been ex- other on Tuesday. The reports League of Nations at Geneva in less theirs depended for its effeiency now critical. and progress in a special degree
M. Leger, the Chief of M. Briand's upon its craftsmen.
Cabinet, insists that the Foreign That festival was probably unique Minister is suffering merely a tem- in the history of British industryporary weakness caused by a Here was a Corporation, supported diet to which his physicians have milk by every grade, from the newspaper limited him recently. proprietor to the humblest worker,
A quarrel occurred, it is stated, when Mr. Boye said that his brother was coming to Warsaw from Ger- many, and that she would have to leave the apartment, as he was Afraid his brother would object to her presence there.
The Princess then fired at her lover seven times, four bullets tak
She is said to have told the police that she asked her fiance five times if he would marry her, and each time he said "No."
After the Premier, the Pontiff will receive the Italian Foreigning effect. Minister, Dr. D. Grandi, to whom he had awarded the Great Cross of the Order, of Pius. Trans-Ocean Kuomin
AUTHOR CRICKETERS.
1 suppose Mr. J. C. Squire is prouder of having founded the Invalids C.C. than of any other achievement in his not very long life, says a paragraphiat in a Londop daily.
A GERMAN HOROSCOPE FOR 1932.
Germany has her Old Moore-a scientific and very Teutonic Old Moore who clothes his prophecies with a mantle of pacudo-profundity, I have been reading his prognostica- tions for 1932. They are refresh- The members form a literary ingly optimistic, saya à writer in
a London daily. the usual attribute of authors, they 1932 will be the year of which are very far from being invalids, { future generations will say: "This
pected that M. Briand's influence In behalf of peace would be needed there.
Further announcements at the
dition Quai d'Orsay as to M. Briand's con--
are anxiously awafted throughout Paris-United Press.
IF A PILOT IS NERVY.
The "Wobblemeter" Will Waru Him.
Another new gadget for the use of airmen has just made its appear meter," and it will show a pilot, if ance. It is called the "wobble- he steps on it for a minute before taking off, whether or not his nerves are in fit condition to fly an aero- plane.
and managed by a council almost as skill of the compositor. (Hear, representative as its subscription hear). list, demonstrating, in a most strik-
When they realised the great ing way, the art and desire of work-amount of work which was done day ing together.
after day, night after night, under Mr. C. W.. Iveson, responding, the relentless pressure of time, in aaid they endeavoured to administer producing the Press, they must be the funds of the institution with alive to the merit which character sympathy and consideraton. Ofised the newspapers and the great its kind it was one of the largest, industry through which they were if not quite the largest, institution prenared, published, and circulated. in the country.
Though their contents might not always be as piquant as the contents Mr. Justice Eve, submitting "The bills led them to suppose, yet in
said no one was insensible to the reports of meetings und societies to benefits and advantages gained from suppress everything and everybody Herbert Germany will come to an economic the art of printing. Without its-(laughter)-the Navy and all bling a weighing machine, in thei
services, literature, art, science, and other means of defence and offence, dozens of other things would still the episcopacy, horse-racing, bet- be unexplored territory to the ting, gaming, gambling, all kinds of rational and enjoyable engagements majority of men.
(laughter).
P. M. HORNIBROOK DAN DRYSDALE NOW galaxy, but though modesty is not
RETIRES.
Disagreement with An Official.
IMPRESSIVE RECORD.
IN MALAYA.
Joins Dunlop Rubber Company.
CAREER IN BRIEF.
Boon to Eyesight..
If his reading is more than 50
ter stay on the ground.
either on the cricket field or at the was the real end of world war Newspaper and Printing Industry," their pages they would find adequate per cent,, above normal he had bet
differences involving cricket dinner. These dinners are After serious always amusing functions. Then changes of government, France and may you see Mr. A. P.
agreement.
I seriously talking politics, or hear Mr. Johnny Morton sing a French ballad. Mr. Ralph Strauss talks Following a disagreement with an D. ("Dan") Drysdale, the Scot-jericket or psycho-analysis with Mr. And Jack Squire official of the State Selection Com-tish Rugby international full-back Hilaire Belloc.
from 1923-29 has arrived in beams benignantly on those whom mittee. P. M. Hornibrook, the
Malacca to join the Dunlop Rubber he rules like a tyrant in the cricket Queensland left-arm bowler, has Co. Drysdale has played full-back field. announced his retirement from firal- for Scotland class cricket.
Hornibrook was not included in the Queensland team that met the South Africans.
A member of the Australian team! that toured England and regained
on 21 occasions--
Newspapers Responsibility. Sir Edward Iliffe, responding,
A flat, aquare apparatus, resem Wobblemeter" registers the pilot's nervous condition and state of fat- gue. It consists of a movable plat form balanced above two metres one registering lateral motion and the other fore and aft motion.
Question of Balance.
The Bolshevist regime will col- lapse because of its financial dificul- ties. Austria will have a Putsch. Bungary will become a monarchy.
The extent to which the eyesight Gandhi will fall ill; India will have of people had been protected by the serious internal troubles. Trade, printer's art was noteworthy. He however, will recover. Last, but had practised at the Bar and on the submitted that, just as the country
The better the subject balances not least, Germany's international Bench for fifty years, often working got the Government it deserved, so himself on the platform, the lower five times each against England. A Siamese cat has spent the last football team will conquer
the very late in the perusal of docuit got the Press it deserved. We the reading. And, theoretically at
ments, and he attributed the pre- had now got a better Government, Ireland and Wales and six times fortnight walking the thirty miles | world! against
hoped, a better Press. France. His last inter- from Ross to Pontypool, to return
Intact of his eyesight and, he I confess that this last statement servation national match was against France to its old home.
shakes my confidence in the whole. until he was 76 years of age to the (Hear, hear). The main function of the newspapers was to record in 1929. Mr. Drysdale is a B.Sc.l
news in as unbiased a manner as (Agric.) and M.A. and B. Com. of
possible. Criticism of public men Edinburgh University and later went on to Oxford University where
and policy should be secondary, and only indulged in if the necessity obtained further scholastic
the Ashes in 1930, Hornibrook provhe
Company four or five years ago.
ed a big succces. Altogether he honours. He joined the Duntop; captured 96 wickets at an average of 18.77-only Grimmett had better figures-taking 13 wickets at an average of 36.23 in the Tests.
"Dan" Drysdale was schooled at Heriot's where he was in the XV and later in the Heritonians XV with G. W. Sommerville, the State' It will be remembered that Horni- Selangor right-wing-threequarter. Ati brook howled very effectively in the school Drysdale played at stand-off | Final Test at the Oval, taking half and centre-thresquarter. On! wickets for 02 in. the 2nd innings and helping Australia to triumph by an innings and regain the "Ashes."
leaving school he took up the full back position and soon earned inter- national honours.
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The "Wobblemeter" was develop ed originally for use by motor-car manufacturers.in testing the riding qualities of their car.
husband by striking him on the head with a chopper.
The husband said that his wife had assaulted him before and he wanted a separation.
"You cannot have that," replied Mr. Pope. "It is only the woman who have these joys and privileges? Husbands have to take it as comes. It would be interesting to have a table, drawn up of matters in which the female sex are ahead of
The inequality of marriage laws as applied to husbands was the sub- ject of comment by Mr. Pope, the | magistrate at Clerkenwell Police Court, when a Woman was bound over on a charge of assaulting her! us."
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