NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 November 1924, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

PRINCE WINS _£l2B ON RACE. SYOSSET, N.Y., Sept. 16. Accompanied bv his equerry, Brig.General G. F. Trotter, the Prince of Males, spent Monday evening at a dinner and dance at the Home of Rodhian Wahamiiker at Oyster Bay. The Prince won £l2B on a horse race on Monday. He hacked Duettiste, Joseph E. Wideners twelve-year-old, which won £2099 .in the Brook handicap steeplechase at Belmont Park. Standing hv the owner of Duettiste, the Prince eagerly watched the race, his excitement increasing ns his horse gained on the entire field find led by fifteen lengths at the finislx After , the race the Prince personally collected his winnings. SHIPMENTS OF MEAT. FROM SOUTH AMERICA. : The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received' a cable from its representative at Buenos .Aires, South Ameficii, ridvisihg the following shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended, November 1, 1924. from Argentine aiid Uruguayl72,77s quarters chiiled beef, 11,224 quarters frozen beef, 24,146 carcases frozen mutton, 33,877 carcases frozen lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period . totalled:—6o,ssß quarters frozen beef, 12,108 carcases fro'zen Mutton. MASCAGNI’S PRODUCTION. * MAKES HIM BANKRUPT. BERLIN, Sept. 13. Pietro Mascagni, the composer of “Cavalleria Rustieana,” who came to Berlin to present a monumental and spectacular performance of “Aida,” with' more than a thousand participants, has hauled down his.‘ colours, the iiiterprise going bankrupt after two performances. The Mascagni ensemble *hrst visited Vienna and presented the opera as an outdoor performance. There his capital was washed away under steady rains, and . thfe last of it was exhausted in staging the Berlin production. TK6 promoters here hired a big arifoMblnlp, exposition hall in the suburbs, a building with the proportions and acoustics of a- vast 'sewer pipe. Mascagni’s . fame as. a composer and conductor, though hacked hv a number of metropolitan stars, did not suffice to attract audiences several miles from the centre of the city to see ah opera under stick unfovourahle auspices. ‘ ‘FARTHEST NORTH. ” FIRST CROSSING. OF NORTH-EAST LAND. LONDON, Sei>. 20. The Oxford University Arctic expedi fcion has. <6nded with . what its leader, George Biuney, describes as thoroughly satisfactory results. Its outstanding success has been the fiifst ctossing of North-east Land. The last. time,.this was attempted was in 1812, by Germans, who lost their lives in the endeavour. Th© Only other previous attempt was made in 1873 By Bjvedes. who were only partly su'cceaefdl. The expedition took & seaplane; orisembled it, and the pilot flew a total bf 400 miles; reaching latitude’ 80;15, which is the farthest point hrirth in thb histßry of riyiitiori. VTHb Best. WAy tb explore the Norfl Pole by air/’ taid Biriney, “would involve the use of one large seaplane, capable of transporting dogs, sledges, arid all other gear for the land journey. This then should fly hear the Pole, be abandoned there, and the return be made by sledge. It should be noSpitzbergen to Alaska to the Pole, bul Spitzbergen to the Pole direct.” The expedition derived the greatest comfort from itts wireless and devoted many lonely nights listening to broadcasting programmes 2000 miles a Way. The baggage on the return includes crates Of fossils, birds’ eggs, slabs, arid cinematograph films, some of which were taken in flight within 690 mile? of the Pole. YORK SHOPS. ' RECOGNISED, BUT ESCAPES. . . SYOSSET, Sep! 13. . The heir to the British throne yester. day tested his ability to travel in public in New York- City incognito. He did not succeed. Riding in a subway, stopping to do some shopping on Fifth Avenue, and leaving the Wool worth Building after a trip to its pinnacle, he wag recognised in the latter two places by crowds so large that he swerved from hig intended course to avoid being surrounded. In the subway, which in the middle of the afternoon was able to provide a seat for the Prince, Capt. Lascellca, his secretary, and Major Solbert, who were his only companions, two girls gazed hard ait the young man, hut did not seem quit© sure that they recognised him. On Fifth Avenue, where he stopped his car to buy gome tobicco, a crowd gathered before he had time to alight and the Prince told hi» chauffeur to drive on

The Syosset fire department feels sure of the success of its campaign for funds to buy a new engine, since the Prince has offered an autographed photograph of himself to be disposed of by the department. The picture, in a green and gold frame, is in the window of a plumbing shop. The Prince seldom gives autographs or pictures of himself, but when Joseph Robinson, superintendent of the James A. Burden estate, which the Prince occupies, told him of the difficulty the firemen faced in raising £2BOO for a new piece apparatus, he promptly offered to helD.