GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3592, 3 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

According to the last issue to hand of the Xord Australisohe Zeitung, a novel strike has occurred in the town of Win ton, central Queensland. The hotelkeepers in the town decided to raise the price of the various drinks in whidi they are legally entitled to traffic, and as" a consequence, the whole town has “put the peg in” and refused to purchase. Watchers have neen posted round every hotel to prevein, anyone ' 'black-legging.” A Chinaman found in on? hot-el drinking was promptlv seized and treated to a hath. Tli? strike has been on fourteen days, and the paragraph adds that it, was as far off reaching a settlement as on the first day.

A large casein factory at Warrnambool, Victoria, has been closed down, owing to a fell in the price of casein. Tiro proprietor spates that prior to the fall ho had shipped sixteen tons to France, for which he expected to receive £l2 uer ton. Ho had thought it- impossible to overstock th? market, and never for a moment entertained th? idea that the value would conic down. In April he was advised that th? prio had dropped, owing to 11,000 tuns of casein (SfiO'J from Denmark and 3000 from th? Argentine, being put : u the Loudon market.

The electrical device invented by Ur. A. IL Angus, of Sydney, for the prevention of railway collisions, had its efficacy strikingly demonstrated' in Soiner.srtshic? last week (says a cablegram in the Sydney “Sun’’). The test to which this remarkable invention was put was witnessed by the chief representatives of both tli-e English and the French, railways, and the perfect sue css with which it was worked, greatly impressed these who saw it. Two trains without drivers were placed on the same line. At a given signal they were sent off on their journey, each careering along towards the other at a high rate of speed. As the trains approached each other the shrill blasts of their whistles coukl be heard. The spectators felt that there must- be an awfulsmash, but just when the collision appeared inevitable, the device with which the engines were fitted was automatically put into operation, and th? trains simultaneously stopped soma distance from each other.

.In-ording to the London ‘'Standard' ’ and Grimsby newspapers arrangements are being made at Grimsby for an enormous extension of the trawl fisheries, by which it is honed to organise steam trawling in South Africa. Now Zealand, and Newfoundland, in addition to the waters of British Columbia, now being developed under the auspices of Sir George Doughty, M.P. South Africa and New Zealand are immediately no no dealt with, and representatives of thu organisers were to leave Grimsby last month to prepare the way for the formation of companies, so that British strain trawlers can be sent out to establish markets at the principal coast towns to ensure regular deliveries from the trawing areas, .a series of experime-- -5 having proved the existence of profitable grounds for operations. Grirnsbv trawlers are also to be so nr to Newfoundland to use the trawi m>.v on the famous banks. The experiments of two vessels last year, though meeting with great opposition from American interests, avctc so sue essful that many beats will cross the Atlantic to apply Grimsby methods at Newfoundland, and also to carry out investigations on other likely trawling areas.

President Taft lias shown liimsolf o. voluble speaker during his term of office. An American writer with a taste for statistics calculates that during the past four years the President has uttered nearly 2,000,000 words in ]iis .public addresses. A stenographer always accompanies him to'take down In's sp O'-lies exactly as they are delivered. This stenographer afterwards transcribes his notes and ties the typewritten conies away. 'When onon eh has accumulated* to make a 400page volume they are hound at the Government- Printing Office. If” to now th" President has effise on 30 of these volumes to Iris credit.

What is stated to he a world’s record for shooting has been'established at the .prize meeting of, the National Rifle Club of Scotland' by Ar.mororfferwnnt J. T f J. Martin. Highland Jag] it Infantry. Glasgow. His remarkaggregate of 222 of a possible of 225 was compiled in a competition for Vi..' best aggregate of 90 shot?. At POO yards Martin scored,’ 74, i ; unhiding nine'central hulls, and dropped a. ]>oiiTt with his thirteenth shot, but made amends at the 1,000 yards by registering a string of 15 bulls, including tliree centrals. At 1,100 yards he scored 73.