NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 January 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

SHIP SUNK BY EXPLOSION. 25 MEN BELIEVED DROWNED. HELSINGFORS, Nov. 16. This evening the boiler o:t' a steamer with about 6U workmen aboard who were returning to their homes exploded. The shin sank immediately. Twenty-two persons were severely injured. while 25 are missing, being probably drowned. ANCIENT EGGS. LONDON, Nov. 2. At the Ayrshire Agricultural Association’s Dairy Show at Kilmarnock a large number of the exhibits in the classes l'or fresh eggs were disqualified for ‘‘old age.” Some of the eggs were recognised as having been exhibited at previous shows for years past and as having frequently won prizes as fresh eggs. ROMAN FORUM FOUND. HEREFORD, Nov. 2. Excavations at the village at Kenohester, once the site of the Roman town of Magna, have resulted in the discovery of what is believed to be the foundations of a Roman forum (market hall, town hall or law courts). The site is on a farm. EATING THE LION’S TAIL. PARIS, Nov. 16.

The lion of a menagerie, visiting .Montmartre lay with his tail dangling through tl|e bars of a cage containing hyenas, which made a quick meal of it. M. Roillard, who is not only a veterinary surgeon,' but a member of the Municipal Council, came to cauterise the wound. After a great deal of trouble the delicate operation was performed. INCOME TAX SECRETS. NEW~ YORK, Oct. 28. Mr Stone, the Attorney-General, ruled this afternoon that the publication of income tax returns by the newspapers is illegal. He will prepare a test case for decision by the Supreme Court. Under a new law income tax payments were thrown open to spection last week. Publication of the figures in the newspapers was strongly resented by business men, who complain that financial secrets were revealed. GREAT NEW YORK TUNNEL. NEW YORK. Oct. 29. A tunnel for vehicles under the 1 ' Hudson, claimed to be the longest under-water passage in the world, will lie completed at 9 o’clock to-night by President Coolidge pressing a button at Washington. The pressure of the button will cause the final explosion, which is calculated to blow away tho/last few tons of rock where the borings meet in the tunnel. The tunnel connects New York with New Jersey, and has a capacity of 46,000 vehicles daily. CUTTING A WARSHIP IN TWO. JARROW, Nov. 16. ■ The hull of the famous battle-cruiser Lion, which was Beatty’s flagshii) during the war, and is now'being broken up, was Stowed to Messrs Palmer’s dock at Hebburn to-day to be cut' in two by electric burners.

This operation, which wdll last a week, is necessary because the hull is too large to be taken up the Tyne to the breaking-up yard. One half of the hull will he towed to Derwenthaugh, above Newcastle, and the other to Blvth.

230 MILES AN HOUR. Secret military trials at Villacoublay. near Paris, are stated to have produced the fastest air-fighter in the world. With its single wings and streamlined hull, it appears like a gleaming, winged projectile. It is said to reach 230 miles an hour—4o miles an hour faster than the previous highest speed by a French air-fighter. Britain is building aeroplanes carrying one gun ami a small fuel load which will exceed 200 miles an hour.

Races for two-seater light aeroplanes will bo held for tlie first time on October 4 at Lympne, Kent, over a distance of 100 miles.