MAIL NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 25 August 1919, Page 5

MAIL NEWS

NEW AUTO RECOHD FOR TEN-

MILE I<UN

NEW YORK. June 16. A new record for 10 miies in automobile track racing was established o a Saturday by Tom Milton m the first heat of ihe 10-miie international sweepstakes contest at the Sheepshead ■Bay speedaway. Milton's time was 5 minutes 20 1-d seconds, which i s 3 3-5 f« conds than that made by Kalpn d e Palma on the same track on August 27 last.

lialph Mulford finished second and Dario Resta third. Only a few feet separated the drivers at "the finish.

SIX MILLION POUND BATTLESHIP.

Tenders just been sent in for the last two of the ten battleships authorised ±1. • Gon Sress m 1916 haverather staggered the American public. lh 6 Newport New s Company are asking £4,380,000 and the Bethlehem Corporation £4,500,000, exclusive of th» cost of armor and armament, which is expected to be about £2,000,000 per ship. Newport News offers delivery in 45 months, and Bethlehem" in 40 months.

CANADIAN SENATE

TORONTO, June 28. A demand for the abolition of th» L-anaclian Senate is arising as a result of recent actions of that yenerable^ body The act that has given offence to the greatest number of people was the throwing out of the Government's Prohibition Act. extending for one year atter the signing of peace the bone dry measure which has been in effect und«r/'ar time Orders in Council. The effect of the Senate's action will not be to restore the saloons in provinces which have legislated against them, but it will have the important effect of permitting manufacture importation and. most important of all, of permitting dnter-provincial traffic, so that thirsty souls in a dry provincowill be able to import from the wet province, Quebec, by express or otherwise, as much liquid refreshment asr necessary, thus knocking a big hole in "bone dry" legislation.

EARTHQUAKE DEATH ROLL.

ROME, June 30. beveral thousand persons were injured in the towns and villages damaged by the earthquake on Sunday in the district about Florence. The hoB--pitals of Florence are reported filled with injured. One hundred and 20 persons are estimated to have been, killed in and near Viechio, the centre of the earth movement on Sunday in the Florence district, according to the Tempo. The> town of Viechio was reduced to a heap of ruins, and a number of villages were destroyed.

Last evening's earthquake, which was mainly felt in the region of Florence, was perceptible as far away as Venice. It is reported that there were some- victims at Borgo San Xiorenzo, 15 miles north-east of Florence, and at Dicomano. near the latter town. The region of Regello (20 miles south-east of Florence) hasbeen isolated. A number of houses in. various places are reported destroyed.