NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

STREET QF SHOPS' ON-A SHIP

The giatlt Ciittafcter to be built.to rtn COvßr the -At] untie i-nyurd, (JuptUrfiti by ttermaily will hitte it ((isplii.cnninnt Of about 70,0dd toils; aild will be designed lor a speod of more than; 3d knots. •! i , v.

She will be driven by tlie latest pattern steam tiirbinos, . which. at.. full speed will develop..: nearly 200,000-h.p. This (says the- "Daily Mail”) is considerably greater than that 01, any ship afloat, and f'ronV 80,000 to 00,000 niox-e than the of the tibi'innn liner Tlremeh, whicli.-.wi'esleil tlie Atlantic: feiiord ffoin life Ciihaider Ma'ui-etania-,' and. then lost 4t : to her sister-ship tlie lsifr'opa; “ - Desx>ite 'her great • size ami -power,' the new' Ciihardei Will be free from vibration, and will. establish u ' new standard of ’safety at sea. The -hull will be split-up into two -water-tigli't compartiuents, so that even if she received ex.tohsiv'e damage below the wulei-line ; khis coulcl st'iU keep afloat.’ , There wiß' be accommodation for more' th'aji 4,000 passengers, and' there will probably be only, first-dess and third-class tourist' cabin accommodation. She will"li aye am overall length of mole Ilian l’.doo feet. Tlie average length of modern -liners is about GOO feet. V'-v ■- - '

New standards of luxury ' will be established by her equipment. .Lounges and dining saloons in period designs, 'a • whole street of, shops, a theatre, a Talking film installiiUoif, swimmingv baths, and in'fact all (lie .umenitfes that- are to bo found in the most modern centres of- eniertainmont will be 'available for passengers. -'.

S E r.r-BXTINGL'IBIII NO

GIGARETTE

A ‘self-extinguishing- cigarette anil, fireproof match are now on tlie horizon of science. , ...

At the Bureau of- Standards (Mas.->a-ehuselts) li • six-month, test, of nine popular brands lias evolved a .‘‘sai ety cigavetle.’' Its Jire-prolcctibn factor lies- in an inch-long cork, tip, .lined with water-glass, air-excluding sodium silicate. ■ ■ 1 Theic 1 interest increan'ing as (he work • progressed, the scientists also have produced a fireproof Hiafch.- coaled -with water-glass • within a halt-inch of its head; : . •

Tossed aside as a fag-end, the sell'--extinguishing eigarotte (says (lie .Washington correspondent ol .the Associated Press) was found in lests- (o go out quickly enough to j-oduee tiie fire hazard, some' 90 per cent, as compared with the untreated. cigarette. Possibility of accidental fires was reduced approximately one-third by I lie fireproofed matches, - - -" • : Recognising ’liumoa• habits as an important ''factoi;, fchyi' experts- gfiulied discarded' cigarette -stubs in highways by-ways,, ami building t corridors. B,v sr-ienlifie measurements they learned that a one and one-quarter inch cigaiolle. stub is the one most frequently discarded valid that two-thirds ul the smokers will toss, aside a stub between one and one and a halt., inches long. The long cigarette is .seldom discarded except at entrances of buildings. where ..it hits the pavement: and floes no damage. .. .; Two thousand matches, including all varieties in common, usd, ..were ignited in the tests. It-was.-learned ...that five seconds' .is - life time most, frequently taken for lighting', .cigarettes, 10 seconds for cigars ail’d pipes. The scientists then computed the percentage of water-glass with the greatest, safely factor while retaining (he fiery usefulness of the match.

,\ KING IN ALABiI.INGTON’S

FA MI’LT

t'ormor-P-resident' Goolidge run iiuce liis ancestry back to the earlier exponent ul' the protective tariff, Charlemagne! according' to "Your Family Tieo,” by David Stan- Jordan and Baralr Louise' Kim bait,, which lias been reviewed in tlie '-'New • A ork Times.” The book explores the lineage of .several Presidents"of the United States and other well-known figures, and directs attention' to the' fact that. it. ‘•'affords practically every one of English descent opportunity, of tracing back their'families-to. such names as Alfred -the Great. AVilnani the Conqueror; Charlemagne, and Robert Bruce.’’

John D. Rockefeller and George AYdslimgton coine gracefully tlown from Henry J., Iviiig of- France. Thomas JelfeEsdi), William Howard Taft, and J. P. Morgan all Nvere descendants 1 of David L: King of Scotland. Sir Henry de Greene, when lie was- beheaded in tlie fourteenth century, left three sons. Jefferson’s ancestor was John, and-Air Taft’s Thomas.' Presidents Garfield and Grant are traced’to William the Conqueror-, and Janies'Buchanan and most of tlie present-day' kings and queens to Rob-' ert Bruce, King of Scotland. The best the authors of “Your Family Tree’’' are 'able to do for Air. Charles Gates Dawes, the popular-United-States ambassador >’ to'Giea F-Britain, is .to place a member of hik family aboard the Alayflower.' But that in' itself is said to be quite an Honour.''

THE RIGHT THING. AT.THI . AYPiONG TIM'D

Air-Commodore Samson, in his book,. ‘‘.Flights and -Flights,3 lias an- amusing story to -, tell 61 one of his own more blood-curdling experiences, in which tlie present Secretary for India played a part. ' lie was Pn' a bombing flight on the Gallipoli.- front during the war with .Captain Wedgwood Bonn who was •iindb'v his'seommand at the timeh So difficult were the atmospheric" conditions that; his:. machine was “wallowing about' all tlie time.” . I n (ho middle';'of-'one bail. spasm (lie writes), when, as- tho saying goes, “allhands man the'- pump,” Bean leant-, over me and shoved -a.' bit of . paper, into my ■ mouth. - -Thinking lie had seen•• somethiiig highly importani. . T lot go of the / Wheel with one band, mid alter- some struggle -managed; lo spread out the- paper and decipher, what ho had written. . It. read as follows: “.Aren’t the shadows' on the moulVtaifis lovcly-l” I'never felt, nearer killing anyone .in .any life, and when we got back- to . the water I hadn’t cooled down. . :