IN THE PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3138, 9 October 1922, Page 2

IN THE PAPERS.

The Duke o\' Leinster, whose dash by motor for a £3OOO wager from London to Aberdeen in 15 hours caused comment in Parliament, states that he has the second and completing stage of the bet to accomplish, and he intends very soon to cross the Atlantic m a ketch. He adds that the reward is not money, but something of much greater value. He has accepted a challenge to sail from some point in the United Kingdom to the United States of America. The boat is one of 12 tons, lightly rigged, and fitted with an internal combustion engine. 'The vessel was built in Devonshire. The father of Sir Robert Morne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, was parish minister of Slamanan, a mining village in Stirlingshire (Scotland). On the occasion of a, congregational soiree, the conduct of a few young men was treatening to disturb the peace and comfort of the gathering. As the Minister rose to speak, there took place one of these noisy interruptions. Without saying a word, Mr Home made straight for the gallery, where the offenders were, and, taking two of them by the back of the neck, marched them downstairs and thrust them out of the building. Then, returning to the platform, he remarked: "I cannot work miracles, but 1 can cast' out devils." Sir Robert Baden-Powell is beginning an addition to the Scout movement, and calling it the Rover Brotherhood. It is for youths of 17 years old and over. It is a brotherhood of the open air and of service to others. Miss Violet Drummond, daughter of the Hon. Mrs Drummond, on Megginch Castle. Forfarshire (Scotland), having finished her apprenticeship as an engineer; in Dundee, has accepted an ap-» pointment on the engineering staff of one of the Holt Line steamers trading between Liverpool and Australia. She is the first woman thus to qualify. Noticing several women in the public seats at the Sussex Assize Courts, at Lewes, knitting, Mr Justice Horriidgc called the police superintendent, and said, "/Just ask those ladies not to knit in court, please." The judge's wishes were conveyed' to the women, who at once stopped knitting. Dublin letters now coming to hand bear on the postmark an injunction to "Learn Irish." The obliterating stamp also includes an announcement of the "Tailieann Games, Aug. 5-14." It is erroneous to suppose that the first syllable has any reference to the national pastime of tail-coat treading. Nor is it a new name for the guerilla warfare now in progress. It is merely an advertisement of what in Scotland; are called "Highland games," and in England more prosaically, "Athletic sports." Dublin is stamped as "Bade Atha Cliath."

On her latest Atlantic voyage the Canard lines Saxonia was really a floating university. Lectures were given daily in the lounge and the library, the audience consisting of 460 passengers travelling under the auspices of the Institute of the International Education, There were classes in French and Italian, lectures on history, art. architecture, culture, and industries. Each group of students is under the leadership of experienced educators. There are chaperons, professors, and trained nurses. Among the passengers were American girl graduates, teachers and instructors, representing over 100 universities and colleges from San Francisco to Maine. A blackhoaded albatross foflowed a, steamship across the North Pacific for .'SOOO miles without once furling its wings. It started from a small island near Japan, and when the ship was 1900 miles from the nearest Alaskan port it turned abruptly and flew toward' the west.

London has a dog ambulance. A motor cycle with a sidecar is padded with straw and blankets, in which the animal is placed. The ambulance is ready at all times of day or night, and maybe Called by telephone. A' veterrinary accompanies the ambulance. If the case is hopeless be kills the dog. If the case is curable the dog is rushed to flic operating table of the hospital.

Austria's drink bill for 1921 amounted to about (5,220.000,000 dollars according to an official statement issued recently. This is equal to the total currency circulation, and is three times tin' national coal bill.

A Nebraska (U.S.A.) man has been married by cable message to a girl- n Paris. The judge who married them went with the g'rooni to the telegraph office, where the Court asked the groom the usual 1 questions, receiving affirmative answers. The judge then sent a cable message to the bride in Paris, 'u which he asked the questions of the marriage ceremony. Seven hours' later the answering cable message was received, and the Court declared the two man and wife, and sent the bride a cable message to that effect. An hotel which will have a church on the premises, and in which dancing and card-playing will be forbidden, is about to be built in New York. The owners state that the new establishment is intended to cater primarily for church and chapel members of all denominations. The building, whicS will be 17 storeys, will contain a banqueting hall, and other facilities for entertainments, but all these, as 1 well as the lists of guests invited to them, wild be "strictly censored." There will be con-ally strict supervision of those actually staying in the hotel "to assure the maintenance of a high moral tone."

A bronze medial offered in New York for the best patriotic essay has been won by an essay on George Washington, written by a Polish immigrant. who knew no English when he arrived in America a year ago. It is estimated that there are now 12.5^8.9-19 motor vehicles' in operation in the world, and of these over 10,500.000 are in the United States. For 22 years a member of Parliament has sat at Westminster, and d'u-r----ing all that time his voice has not once been beard in the House of Commons. His name is Hope.

The Mauritania, the Ou'naird liner, when she arrived at Southampton on July 24 last, completed! the fastest passaga from New York since the war. The regulairity of the time taken by the \'es.sel in steaming the Atlantic is remarkable. There has not heen more than five, minutes' difference in the last three trips. The times taken from New York are:—July 18. 5 djays 8 hours 9 minutes, average speed, 25.26 knots; Juwei 27. 5 days 8 houra 11 minutes, average sliced. 25.29 knots; Jumc 6, 5 d'avs 8 hours 14 minutes, a«re<rage speed. 25.29 knots. The pre-war record for the Atlantic is held by the Mauretainia. which, in Sentembor. 1910. sailed the "short course," from Daunt Rock to; New York, in 4 days 10 foourfc 48 minutes.