CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 9

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

TIBET AND NEPAL. (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) DELHI, February 15. Strained relations recently existed between Nepal and Tibet as a sequel to the death of Gyalpo, who was a Nepalese subject, in a Tibetan prison. It is now stated that Gyalpo infringed the Tibetan law and was imprisoned twelve months. He eventually escaped and fled to the Nepalese Legation in Lhasa, wherein a party of Tibetan police forcibly entered and re-arrested Gyalpo, who later died. The Nepal Premier demanded an apology tyhich is believed to have been despatched to Katmandu. POISONER SENTENCED. BUDAPEST, February 15. Lidia Szuz has been condemned to death at Szolick for poisoning her father and mother by putting a drug in their tea, in order to inherit their vineyard. The only reply that the prisoner gave to every question was “I did not poison their tea.” IMMODEST FASHIONS. LONDON, February 15. “The Times’s” correspondent at Rome says: The new Papal instruction regarding women’s dress contains orders for the Diocesan Bishops to insist with the utmost rigour upon women observing greater decency and modesty. It lays down a series of rules which the Bishops must enforce, including the forbidding .of girls and women “who put on indecent clothing” from entering the church. It also urges the parents to discourage their daughters from participating in public exercises and gymnastic contests. FREE STATE WIRELESS. LONDON, February 15. The Irish Free State is to have its own high power 'Station for radio broadcasting, from which programmes will be broadcasted. Plans have been. submitted by the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs for the erection of the transmitter, which will probably cost £70,000, and these plans have now been officially passed. Although the actual site has not been definitely decided upon, it is considered likely that the new station will be built near Atholne. VIOLET-RAY~SaFEGUARD. NEW YORK, February 14. The Westinghouse Company displayed its newest invention, an ultra-violet ray, harmless and invisible, which will protect vaults, or harbours in war time. Jewellers can place the rays at various angles in a strong room, so the intruder interrupting it casts an unseen shadow, which will ring an alarm or release a tear-gas barrage. NEW RAILWAY SERVICE. CONSTANTINOPLE, -February 15. The first party of travellers used the new rail route linking up England and India. The new Taurus express received them from Simplon, and the express went on to Karachi via Aleppo, Mosul, Cagdad. The rail journey from London to Karachi now takes eleven days. WOMAN SENATOR. VANCOUVER. February 15. Mrs Norman F. Wilson, of Ottawa, the wife of a former member of the Canadian House of Commons, and a daughter of the late Senator Robert McKay, of Montreal, is the first woman to be appointed to the Canadian Senate, under a Privy Council ruling that Canada has the right to appoint women to the Upper Chamber. She will be the Canadian delegate to the Conference on the codification of interna--tional law at The Hague. LATER— After accepting the first Canadian woman senatorship, Mrs Norman F. Wilson, on reconsideration, has declined, declaring that her first duty is to her home. U.S.A. WHEAT REPORT AV ASHINGTON, February 15., ■ The Department of Agriculture’s survev indicates that favoured by a decline of about 40 million bushels in the visible supply since the peak of last October, an improvement in wheat prices from the recent market decline appears likely in the next few weeks. The total of visible supply is still larger by 37 million bushels than in 1929. The prices for wheat would remain on the average for January due to the decline in market prices. The price that month averaged 107.5 cents. Market prices declined from 126 to 118 during the month. The world wheat situation is reported unchanged, with foreign demand for American (remaining “disappointingly weak”. No attempt is made to forecast the 1930 wheat crop but “the condition of the winter sown crop must be watched closely for the remainder of the season”.

PEER’S-SON AS BARBER. LONDON, February 16. Frederick Cripps, son of Lord Parmoor, has broken every record in aristocratic trading by purchasing a hairdressing business in Mayfair, which entitles him to be nicknamed “the barber of Bond Street.” His wife, who is a former duchess, will be a co-director in the business.