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DEATH OF AN AUTHORESS.
LONDON, April 19th. The inquest on the authoress and poetesa, Rosalind Hyndun, widow of the Socialist, Mr. H. M. Hyndman, who was found deadl in bed at her residence in Harapstead, was adjourned for a mouth to enable certai organs to be analysed, after evidence had been given of the discovery on the ivy out side her bedroom window of white powder which the Home Office pathologist said was cyanide. Evidence was also given that the deceased took sleeping draughts.
ECHO OF PERAMBULATOR RACE,
LOROSS FUROPE IN 24 HOURS
PARIS, April 13th. As a result of the collaboration of the railways and the Franco-Roumanian Aerial Navigation Company it is hoped that it will be possible to travel across. Europe in 26 hours next month, namely, by train from Paris to Strasbourg and thence by aeroplane
Bukharest.
SETTLEMENT IN VICTORIA.
LONDON, April 14th. Better class settlers will be attracted under the agreement signed by the Victorian Agent General in London for the migration of 10,000 immigrants in the next five years under a paternal scheme under Government supervision costing the State £3,000,000. Each settler will require «, capital of £300,
THE FUNCTION OF “THE TIMES,”
Lesvos, April 13th, ed by Lord Astor, in the course of a speech The destiny of the Tinter was foreshadow- at the Times Dinner, when he said that the influence is the most powerful and paper's
used
LONDON, April 19th. The Magistrates at the Brighton Police Court granted the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children summonses against Mr. A. 1. Edwards, of Manchester, the organisor of the perstubulator race from London to Brighton, and also one of the competitors. Counsel said that. Edward's voice is worldwide, and they should be four-months' baby was fourteen hours on yoad the
in national interests and should be bas power of any industrial use for the road, and when examined at Brighton was found to be exhausted, cold and dirty,
He personal
peda
regarded the Times 168 national
institution and was as far as pos-- LONDON, April 23rd. sible taking steps in conjunction with Mr. Edwards did not reply to the summonses worthy ends, and maintain it as an indepen Walter to put it beyond the reach of un at the Brighton Police Court, and a warrant will be issued if he fails to appear det, fearless and truthful voice in England. on May 5th.
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WELL-KNOWN BANKER TO RETIRE,
LONDON, April 13th.
PROGRESS OF TELEPHOTOGRAPHY.
After forty years in harness, Sir William Carruthers, Director and General Manager of Barclay's Bank, announces that he isal retiring in September in order to "give
others a chanca."
A
"PRINCE OF KURDISTAN."'*
LONDON, April 10th.
Loxnes, April 17th. The Times Paris correspondent wires: The Post Office has contracted with the Berlin inventor of Telephotography for experiment- use of the system on the Paris-Lyons and Paris-Strasburg lines. Original tele-
will be written within the grams
aquare. on the prescribed form with special ink, and the telegram as delivered to the addressee will to a photograph, the charge for which will be 10 francs for each square. The possibilities are enormous Foreign langu- ages, short-hand and oven artisic drawinga transmissible. It is suggested that the usual letter confirming the telegrams will nut be necessary.
MOGRIGOR'S BÁNK.
A remarkable story of an impestor's hotel Frauds was told at the London Sessions in the course of the trial of Yendenchene Moof bailding, plans and other designs are hamid Saide Kakelo, who described himself as a prince of Kurdistan, on a charge of incurring debts by means of fraud, and ob taining money under false pretences. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, in the Second Division, and
and recommended for deportation. The Prosecuting Counsel said that the prisoner arrived at the Savoy Hotel from Paris on March
11th. He had no luggage, but asked for the best suite in the hotel. So impressed was the clerk that he was given a suite at six guineas a day When the bill was presented the next day he said he had no money, and transferred to a cheaper room. He told the
Loyoos, April 18th. This Trustee of McGrigor's Bank announces a second dividend to creditors at £87,131. All ready available assets have been collected. The second dividend will practically exhaust the cat in the bands. of the Trustee, for the remaining assets are almost entirely all book debts. In the nature of things, a considerable time is
his signature, was good for manager that likely to lapse before the estate can
He then went to the Hyde Park Hotel, and stayed there for two days, while he borrowed £20 from the manager for the hire of motor-car for eleven days, without Paying for it.
prisoner gave ovidence that bis an- cestors were Pharaohs and that he was on A special mission to the British Govern- ment. He claimed that he had had interviews with Lord Curzon's secretary about a scheme for the revival of the monarchy of Kurdistan...
BISHOP BUDKIEWICZ'S LAST HOURS.
LONDON, April 13th. The Rigs correspondent of the Time says:Faller details of the last hours of Bishop Budkiewicz, who was executed on the 3rd instant, show that after the sentence, Archbishop Ciepak and Bishop Budkiewicz were conducted to isolated cells in the Cheka Prison. Both requested permission lo see the other condemned Priests before death The Commandaus said that the sentences would probably be commuted aid be therefore refused permission. When
finally wound up. The Trustee adds that the final dividend so far as can be judged is likely to be small.
WEST END LOVE TRAGEDY.
LONDON, April 18th."
A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest at Fulham on Miss Beryl Western, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a retired Colonel. John Sutton Edward Western.. She was found shot dead on Monday in her bedroom at Earl's Court..
Her father gave evidence that is daughter's health was good, but that she sudered from nerves owing to a great Borrow. She had been engaged to a Naval Officer who died a year ago in the disaster to Submarino H. 42, which was sunk by a destro destroyer at Gibraltar, no lives being. saved. The anniversary of the disaster, March 23rd, upset her very much. She often had sleepless nights, and cried a great deal, and said that life was not worth living. She had a small automatic pistol which hor fiancé gave her, before he went on Atlantic cruise, for self-protection.
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VICE-CHANCELLOR
LONDON, April 19th. Dr. Farnell, who achieved publicity last week by banning a rag regatta in aid of charity, is again in the limelight in connec tion, with a new theatre housed in the Big- game Museum, of which Mr. James Fagan
was commuted, he inquired about Bishop A MARTINET Badkiewicz's
The Chekists rough Late. told him to
to mind his own business. Commandant next told Bishop Badkiewicz that his sentence was confirmed. Bishop Padkiewicz" asked for permission to a Archbishop Cieplak and to receive the Sacra- mont. The Commandant arranged a meet- ing for the next morning, but the Chekists has secured a seven years lense for the per- appeared the same evening and
that their
formance of classical plays. This is a non- scheme and is supported inter gave Bishop Budkiewicz ten alia by mediately and minutes solitude. They then took him to the collar, warned him that if he raised his voice, the other priests would be shot. Bishop Badkiewicz crossed himself and whis. pered prayers on the way to the place of
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orders were to execute the sentence improfit as Hardy, John Masefield, and i
execution.
Bernard Shaw.
The Magistrates granted licences to the theatre for six weeks, and a series of plays by Oxford players was arranged, when Dr. Farnell banned the project and declared that, as a
a Magistrate, he ought to have been consulted. Thereupon, Mr. Fagan wrote Dulevoning to secure bir permission, but Farnell is adamant, declaring that Ox- ford is primarily a University City and that The craze fur continuous dancing which the University exists for the purpose of fuas recently bittea certain circles In Eng-study.
NON-STOP DANCING ORAZE.
LONDON, April 15th.
laud has reached extraordinary heights in The Oxford Magistrates have written to America. A New York telegram speaks of the Vice-Chancellor's solicitors contesting
sweeping
Dr. Farnell's right to sit as a Magistrate.
LONDON, April 21st.
Bir
a wave of "Marathon
dancing of tired over the United States, and exhausted couples staggering over the The agitation following the Vice-Chan ball-room floors of many cities attempting to cellor's ban against classical plays at Oxford make a new world's record for continuous 31r. Arthur Bourchier, Dr. Bridges, Mr. is developing. An appeal by Lord Curzon, dancing.
Hardy It is reported that a woman at Baltimore John Galsworthy, Mr. Thomas danced her partner into a state of tem- Arthur Pinero and Mr. Bernard Shaw has porary insanity after 45 hours and he had been sent to Dr. Farnell. Thus, the amaz- to be taken to the hospital. Seven couples ing position has been created of the at Houston, Texas, have been dancing for Chancellor of the University, Lord Curzon, over 45 hour. When the police attempted questioning an act of the Vice Chancellor. to stop the performance, the spectators throatened a riot, and the daucers were allowed to continue. A number of men
colinpeed, and in the evening one man added a new touch to the exhibition by lathering and shaving himself to the tane of a fox trot,
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LONDON, April 19th. Justice McCardis decided in the King's A dancing record of 2 hours 11 mina, cheque prior to the
Bench to-day that betting lossos paid by |--- has been established by a woman who has Act of 1923 can be recovered under the Act of the Gaming passing not yet recovered from the feat. Since the of 1835 even if setion has been begun after start of the Miler competition, nearly every the operation of the Act of 1993, because the dancing hall in Cleveland has been ed Eaged and mazy couples have been whirlinger has not destroyed existing rights. since Saturday morning
His Lordship dwelt on the vast incresse exhaustion. The police
fight against in betting in recent years, and said that the in New York and whole subject required a clear expression elsewhere are considering means of curbing of opinion by the Legislature. He was un able to get any clear view of policy from the Act of 1929,
the menace.
LONDON, April 18th. New York-Miss Magdalene Williams, of Houston, Texas, dlanced continuously from Thursday evening yesterday even- ing, remaining on her foot for 65 hours. She then went for a Turkish bath, with aching feet and swollen limbɛ.
Meanwhile, several New York couples are
BIG EXODUB OF SCOTSKER.
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