NEWS AND NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2516, 20 December 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Another New South Wales 400 coal miners in the Northern coalfields have been dismissed, the reason given being slackness of trade.

A terrific thunder storm* was experienced at Hobart on Monday. A number of houses were flooded to a depth of four feet and the services of the fire brigade had to be requisitioned to pump the water out. There were several narrow escapes from death.

The Victoria cricketer, W. H. Ponsford, beat his previous world’s record batting total by knocking up 437 runs against Queensland on Friday and Saturday.

You can get a La Gloria Gramophone and £3 worth of records for 6s per week at Miles’ Music Store. Phone 221. Call and get particulars. 11l

The United States submarine S 4 was rammed and sunk yesterday in a collision with the destroyer Paulding, of the anti-rum running patrol.

Thirty-six lives are known to have been lost in a fire which destroyed a boys’ boarding school at Quebec. Two hundred inmates were rescued.

The German Reichsrat has adopted a motion to cancel the first instalment of the proposed battleship. It is pointed out that it is not likely that the second instalment will be raised by 1929, and it is expected that delays will make the battleship obsolete before it is completed.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says the President, Mr. Calvin Coolidge approves the naval programme, which has been sent to the House of Representatives. An outrage resulting in the murder of a British officer and the massacre of several natives has occurred in the Sudan.

Latest records and music; we repair Gramophones. -Miles’ Music Store Phone 221, Rora Street. 11

British Board of Trade’s review cable says there is plenty of money in London for the Dominions, and cheaper rates may be expected eaily in New Year.

The countryside in Britain is frost--bound and snow-bound. There is skating and toboganning in many places Greyhound racing has been suspended. The meteorological office forecasts a continuance of the severe conditions.

An Indian weather expert, Mr Ramdas, of Karachi, has come forward with a suggestion that the thin film of oil spread on the surface of oceans by- ships that burn oil is sufficient to retard the evaporation of ocean water, which, is the chief source of rain. It is a fact that the world’s average rainfall has decreased about one per cent in the last half century. The expert has nothing to say about New Zealand’s rainfall for the present year.

While a great deal is written and said'about poverty and _ distress m England, not so much is heard of the brighter side of the pictfare—'the national savings. The National Savings Committee just before the commencement of the general strike in May, 1926, held £475,000,000 on behalf of depositors, accumulated in less than 10 months. Eighteen months later the total was £501,000,000, and this year over a million certificates a week have been sold. That in a time of such exceptional stress the savings of the people should have gone up is a fact without parallel in the history of any country.