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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1988.

"INSANITY" DIVORCES SLOW UP

THE COURTS

Three Suits In Day

London, June 15.

first

Douglas Timins, aged sixty, detective story-writer and St. Marylebone borough councillor, yesterday secured the decree nisi of divorce granted in the English courts on grounds of incurable insanity.

His case, brought under the new Matrimonial Causes Act sponsored by Mr. A. P. Herbert, took two hours to decide.

Undefended divorce cases usunity tukke only a few minutes. Of the four insanity cases in the list yes- terday, one was still unfinished at the end of the day.

EMPIRE NEWS

the

Two diflculties face judges in this TABLE BAY WORKS

new type of divorce case.

Doctors are reluctant to give evi- INAUGURATED

dence that a person is incurably In- sane. Yesterday

when

asked the

question they unually replied: "There is no known cure at the moment,"

The other difficulty is that persons: alleged to be insane must have their interests rafeguarded by a represen- tative of the official solicitor.

Mr. Timing, tall, military-looking lives in Great Titchfield-street, Lon- don, W. He was married in Septem- ber 1800,

He said: "I was married when I was twenty-four. This law is n great blessing.

"My wife has been so terribly that I have not been allowed by doctors to see her for years."

'IRRECOVERABLE "

Mr. S. Karminski, for Mr. Timins, said: "The words used in the Act are 'incurable insanity' The word in curable' as applied to insanity Is one which does not find

favour much among those who specialise in the treatment of mental diseases.

word Irrecoverable." Whether that is the same as in- curable is for the judge to decide."

Cape Town,

The waters of Table Day presented n spectacular sight when nearly three miles of coloured electric lights were switched on by General Hertzog, the Prime Minister, Innugurating the

£6,000,000 scheme.

harbour

thus

Government's development

The lights were installed to out- line the contours of the new berthing basin, which will be 4,000ft long and. 2,000 wide.

General Hertzog also started the dredger which will work continuous- ly for four years. The scheme pro- vides for reclamation of 363 acres of ground from the bay. On the re- jélalased lund a large addition to the

City of Cape Town will be built.

Chain of Cinemas.Following the "Medien witheses will probably decision of Twentieth Century Fox LISC the

Films Corporation to establish its own distribution offices in South Africa, is announced that an ex-. tensive chain of cinemas costing over #750,000, will be bull! throughout the country.

INDIA

Polar Station In Submarine

Three Years Underneath Arctic Ice

Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian explorer, has arrived in Moscow to report to Prof. Schmidt, the Soviet explorer and scientist, on his search for the Russion Polar aviators who avere lost in the Arcile last year.

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ATTACK ON BRITISH MAJOR

Bombay.

Major F. T. Gass, 10th Gurkha Rifles, Miltary Secretary to the Governor uf Sind, Str Lancelot Graham, WIS stabbed recently in Government House Krounds ot Karachi, and is now in the civil hos- pita! in a precarious condition.

While passing Uwough Oslo Sir Major Gass was asleep in his bun- Hubert gave a detailed account of Enlow at Government House when his plan to use a submarine as a he was attacked by on Intruder. His weather observation post directly struggles awoke Mrs. Goss, who says under the North Pole.

in the dim light the assailant ap- naked. Major Gass Was of weather peared

A satisfactory system

ports in the Arctic, he said would stabbed in five places.

require the establishment

permanent base at the

1 . A broken kitchen knife was found

Pole. Since in the room, and later the alleged

the ice is constantly drifting no sur- ussailant, a discharged Palhim ser-

face stallon is adequate.

Sir Hubert therefore proposes to

Find

build a submarine of stainless

steel

vant, was arrested.

Telegraph Lines Down-Calcutta

to navigate it to the Pole under was praetenlly

Isolated telegraphi-

the lee. He says it would be pos- cally for two days by serious dislo- sible for the craft to stay there for three years.

TRANSPOLAR ROUTE

of Hines following cyclente cation storms. More than 1,000 miles of overhead cable were affected. Mes- sages from Bombay were delayed 21 hours.

With Ice drills operated from in- side the submarine he will make ₤1 Honours Bau-Bihar Assembly hole to the surface, thus enabling his passed the resolution of the Prime | men to go up to make their observa- Minister, Mr. Sinha, for the discon- tions and to renew the air in the nuance of titles and honours on the submarine.

grounds that they escouraged a Such an expedition," sutd Sic slave mentality and jealousy. The Hubert, "would be safter than one by resolution recommends the abolition plane

or by airship. The sea tem-of hundreds of minor Indian titles ⚫perature under the fee is about 32 conferred annually In addition to

degrees Fahrenheit.

gerie honours,

"Supplies could be delivered by

Vnter.

before the beginning of each | AUSTRALIA

"I have

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STRIKE OVER

now collected £30,000 NEW SOUTH WALES needed. The submarine will cost £25,000, and I shall want £5,000 for equipment, provisions

and wages of seven compantons for unc year.

it was

At a mass meeting of employees of Lysaght's galvanised iron works at Newcastle, New South Wales, "Such a station Would be in- valuable to any Transpolar air route. greed to resume work after a strike yearly cost would not excred The strikers sought to obtain con- The

which has Insted since January 23. £5,000,"

cessions in wages and conditiona In 1031 Sir Hubert Wilkins made

through the State Industrial Com- an abortive attempt to reach the

obsolete United mission. The decision to resume North Pole in on "States, navy submarine, the Nautilus. Work was only carried by 307 to 228

All Graduates Placed

Cleveland. Dean Torald Sellman, of the Western Reserve University school medicine, has announced that all members of the school's graduating class have been appointed to intern ships in various hospitals, in Cleve land and other elties, in advance of graduation.

votes,

The long stélite has caused, much intonvenience and has resulted in increased iron imports.. Mr. Lyons, the Federal Prime Minister, some time ago appealed for a resumption of work in the interests of defence.

Broadcasts of Racing-The New

South Wales Government is propos ing to follow Queensland's example and to prohibit broadcasting of all racing information before the race. The bill does not prevent broadcast- Ing a description of the races as run, Alr Mull Charges. Though the Post Omco made a handsome sur- |plus, it is nnnounced that during the Salina, N. Y. Ten ples, two cows, aix goats, two early stages of the Anglo-Australian rabbits and a horse were burned toying-bent mail service there will be a charge of bd a half ounce. for

Goat Rivals O'Leary Cow

death in a fire started when a goat letters to England. Letters will only kicked over a lighted lantern in barn on Leo Smith's farm' near here, cost 11⁄2d from England to Australia. Smith was forced to leap 14 feet from NEW ZEALAND

hnyloft to escape.

Garlic Crop Weaker

San Jose, Cal.

TWO DEAD IN MAIL

PLANE CRASH

Auckland.

The Wellington—a Lockheed

Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose attended in their guides" uniform an inspection of Girl Guides by the Queen at Windsor Castle recently. While waiting, the King quietly alipped Princess Elizabeth's knife out of its sheath on her belt.

But the Princosa soon quessed that her father was the culprit. Returning the knife, the King said: "Its no good carrying a knife if you can't feel when it's taken away.”

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