NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 October 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

MR ASQUITH’S HEALTH. IMPROVEMENT REPORTED. e LONDON, Sept. 28. Mr Asquith’s health has improve .1. and it is unlikely that he Avili retire from the House of Commons. - GOVERNMENT SWEEPS. PERTH, Oct. 3. The Government is introducing a Dill to legalise a State sweep oil the hues of the Golden Casket sweep ill Queensland, for the purpose of financing the existing hospitals, and providing additional facilities. WEALTHY BACHELOR. DEATH. IN POOR QUARTER. LONDON, Oct. 2. James Parr, an octogenarian bachelor, living in a humble cottage in the poorest district of Manchester, created a surprise by leaving £112,000 to charities. TYPISTES’ FASHIONS. BRIGHTENING THE OFFICE. LARGE PUSSY-CAT BOWS. LONDON, Sept. 29. The latest typistes’ fashions, calculated to brighten business offices, is a pussy-cat bow, a foot wide, worn on the neck. The most prominent feature of the ’new morning models is the red and green leather Peter Pan collar tied with ribbon. “Jackie Coogan” blouses, with wide baby collars, and enormous buttons, will also be popular. WONDERS OF WIRELESS. AUSTRALIAN’S INVENTION. SENDING OF COLOUR PICTURES. LONDON. Oct. 1. Mr George A. Tavlcv, of Sydney, lecturing at Australia House on radio development, exhibited an improved pattern of his machine for wirelessly transmitting pictures in three colours*, which’was first- shown at the Pan-Paci-fic Congress in Sydney. Aided by British experts, he succeeded in speeding up transmission, and the experiments are beiim continued. .Mr Tayl or, demonstrating his invention for transmitting colourpictures bv wireless, said that already •t was possible to transmit reproductions of a written signature from London to Australia. Newspapers, he said shortly would print colour pictures of events happening almost simultaneously elsewhere. FATAL AERIAL JOY-RIDE. NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Mr Charles Nodiirg and his 11-year-' old son crashed to death from an antiquated Curtiss aeroplane in an accident at Long Island, and William Sharpe, the pilot, was also killed. The machine was used to lure dollars from adventurous excursionists, and the real owner’s name has not been revealed. With marvellous presence of mind Mr Coding, sen., just before the ’plane struck the earth, seized his son and tossed him clear, but the attempt to. save the boy’s life failed. His skull was shattered by impact with the earth. When the aeroplane struck the ground a strand of wire snapped and decapitated the pilot and the remaining passenger. .Mr Charles Noding had not paid for the trip, but had accepted an invitation from the pilot to take a pleasure flight, “paying just what they thought reasonable on their return.’’ % WESTWARD HO! IN DANGER. ,WESTWARD HO! (Eng.), Sept. 4. “We are afraid our famous golflinks will become part of Bideford Bay,’’ said the chairman of Northam Council, discussing the effects of coast erosion at Westward Ho! which is in Northam district. The Pebble Ridge, which Kingsley helped to make famous in “Westward Ho! ” has been pushed inland bit by bit for years. So far the Government have declined to grant any assistance to protect the coast, but Northam Council hopes to raise a loan of £6OOO. Captain Prideaux Brune, representing the Ro.val North Devon Golf Club, said that £40,000 is needed for any effective scheme of defence. It is urged that coast, protection should be made a national charge. BUMPER WINE YEAR. PARIS, Aug. 12. This year’s vintage promises to be the best France has had since 1914, both as regards bulk and quality. Reports from the wine-growing districts point to an unprecedented boom. ONLY ONCE IN THEATRE. MELBOURNE. Sept. 27. Mrs Emma Thomas, of Church street, Richmond, died to-day at the age of 102. She was born on November 21, 1821, and sailed from England in 1852. Mrs Thomas had lived in the same house for more than 70 years. Her recipe for long life was “plenty of work,’’ and she disapproved of girls gadding about. She was always happy and contented in her own home, and took pride in her pot plants and ferns. She had been only once to the theatre, she declared recently, and her opinion of the movies was not favourable. AMERICAN FILMS IN EUROPE. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 2. European film producers have been invited to a conference in London in .October to consider and devise plans ror co-operation to bar American films from European theatres as long as European pictures are barred by the American film trusts. The Stinnes Film Corporations have already built up a big Continental bloc to combat the American picture interests in Europe, and it i 6 understood that the film interests in Scandinavia are contemplating joining the Stinnes group. Scandinavia last year spent over £■1,000,000 sterling in importing American films. TRAGEDY IN HOTEL. NEWCASTLE, Oct. 3. Eileen O’Kane, a barmaid,-employed at the George Hotel, was found dead in a room at the hotel this .morning. The bedrooms in the employees’ quarters were in the hands of funiigators, and a Avarning Avas issued that they were not to be entered. It Avas Mi Sr, O’Kane’s afternoon off yesterday, ;f!ni it was usual for her to leave her hat in the room in which her body Avas discovers!. If wris surmised that she avms rosing in another apartment until the seals of 11 c door of her room Avere found to have been broken.

QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS. BRISBANE, Oct. 3. The Railway Department has accepted the tender of the Clyde Engineering Company, Granville, New South Wales, for the manufacture of thirty “B” class locomotives and tenders, aV£5564, or a total of £166,920. BLASTS SHAKE TOWN. CESSNOCK, Oct. 1. Residents of South Cessnoek often hear the dull rumble of the blasting operations of miners firing their shots in the colliery working under this portion of the tOAvn and feel the vibration after the coal has been blasted from the solid face. A feAv Aveeks ago, only a short, distance from the Cessnoek-Kurri Road, the ground surface collapsed and sank into the A\mrkings beloAv, a matter of about 20 feet. There have been other small falls of a similar nature in the vicinity, but this is one of considerable size, and lias left an enormous hole in the surface. Residents living near the scene are alarmed at the incident, and as the distance from the surface to the coal is a matter of only 60 to 70 feet, in some parts, it is Only reasonable to expect falls and creeps to occur sooner or later.