NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 November 1924, Page 8

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

EIFFEL TOWER SILENT

FRENCH GOVERNMENT BANS WIRELESS CONCERTS.

PARIS, Sept. 1. The Eiffel Tower is no longer to be used for disseminating wireless entertainments, and the 200,000 listeners-in who sat _ with their headpieces firmly fixed waiting for their customary concert last night were disappointed In future the Eiffel Tower will’only be used for broadcasting official statements and propaganda intended primarily for foreign ears. It will, in short, 'be a Government service.NEW ORIENT LINER. ORAMA SAILS NOVEMBER 15. LONDON, Oct. 25- ; The new Crient liner Orama will begin her maiden trip to Australia, calling at Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne,; Sydney and Brisbane, on November 15.' The Orama is the first of the new 1 Orient boats. The vessel was built at Vickers’ works at -Barrow, and is of 20, 1 00 tons. The Orama was launched on May 20, being christened bv Miss Winifred Cook, daughter of the High Commissioner, Sir Joseph Cook. Captain :Staunton will be- in charge.

CROWS AND HAWKS

STRANGE FOSTER MOTHERS

HAY (N.S.W.), Oct 28. Air. Sam Proctor, of Gre Gre, who last season successfully experimented in hatching chickens with the aid of crows, and hawks, has been trying his experiments this year, and has in- his .possession over 50 chickens hatched with crows and hawks as foster-moth-ers.

■He no longer camouflages the eggs with paint to resemble those of. the newly-found mothers. He shins up a tree, heaves out the original eggs, and substitutes the hen eggs. Mr. Proctor states that a crow can be persuaded to work overtime by placing a second setting in the nest. Flushed .with the success'he ventured the imposition on a magpie, hut the bud promptly cast the hens’ eggs overboard

BAN PLACED ON KISSING IN RUSSIA.

SOVIET FORBIDS EVEN HAND-

SHAKING.

MOSCOW; Oct. 3. -Dr. Alexander Zemashko, ..Soviet Commissioner of Health, has issued an edict against kissing, which he contends is one of the most potent means of spreading disease. The new order, if observed, will fall hard upon the Russian peasantry, who are in the habit of kissing one another, not only on the lips, .but three times on each cheek in salutation. Dr. Zemashko is also opposed to kissing of ladies’. hands by men, a- national custom in Russia. Not only is this unhygienic, he says, but it is a practice .of the bourgeoisie, which, has. no place in a proletarian republic.

•Handshaking has been prohibited in many departments of the. Government, and signs are appearing warning employees .that the practice frequently results in' communication of , disease. The conventional / salute, hand from ,’foreliead, is suggested as a safer greeting. .As a further health measure. Dr. Ejiinashko advocates a ban on smoking, -urging tobacco .users to substitute cgndy and salt meats. NEW ROSE OF RICH FRAGRANCE. DEEPEST RED. LONDON, Sept 12. Exquisite blooms ; from the Nbrth of Ireland carried the honors at the Autumn :Rose Show of the National Rose bociety, which opened at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Regent’s Pai'k, N.W., yesterday. Messrs Samuel McGredy and Son, of Portadown, 25 miles from Belfast, were awarded the first prize for the best representative group of, cut roses The same firm, won two gold medals for newseedlings. One, “Mabel Rynas,” was of deepest red, "with so rich a fragz*ance that it could almost .be tasted- iThe other, Norman Rambert, haßnetals of apricot, which deepened at the tips to the : hue of a ripe peach. .This rose, w hich was the centre of an admirino- - the, day, had but- little little scent Explaining how- the blooms were so fresh although they ; had come across ,the -Irish Sea, Mr. .-Samuel McGredv told a. Daily Mail-reporter that immediately. on being, cut 'they .were, put into rain-water with the, chill taken, off. 'Many, of the; roses from ..places near r .ondon were not so' fresh, in Appearancc as the blooms from North Ireland. THEATRE BOOM. LONDON, Sept. 20. •tile theatres are doing extraordinary good business owing to the uncertaiii weather and. the large number ot visitors in London. A w-ell-.knovn manager said that the present, month has been the best for the theatres in the last twenty years, and the .number of house-full’ boards which can be seen ■hitside the theatres at most performances recall the days, of the war, when every theatre was filled to over-flow-ing. This. .week has been better than a good Boxing Dav week,” says the Post. LARGEST, LIFEBOAT.

The ■'world!s largest lifeboat has been launched at New Brighton, on the Mersey. The latest type of motor lifeboat built- by the Royal National ■ Lifeboat Institution. is the first in a fleet of more than 40 to denend solely on motor: power

She* has two SO h.p. engines, each in a separate water-tight engine-room, two cabins where the shipwrecked can be given hot refreshments, accommodation in all for ’about 150 people, and as many water-tight compartments as a. battle-cruiser. THROUGH AFRICA BY MOTOR-CAR BRITISH EXPEDITION IN CAPETOWN. CAPETOWN, Sept. : 15. Major and Mrs. Court .Treatt, who intend to travel from Capetown to Cairo by motor-car,; landed -to-dav from the liner Wahner-Castle. They were welcomed by Mr. Featherston, British Trade Conunissioner. It is expected that everything will be in readiness for the-expedition to start northward on Thursday. ■ Before . they ; leave the municipality will give them a civic farewell. Caper town is keenly interested in the expeclii tion. and the newspapers to-morrow are publishing lengthy accounts of the coming adventure and interviews with all the. members of the party.