GENERAL ITEMS.

Mataura Ensign, 12 January 1920, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES. HUSBAND HEIR TO PATTI ESTATE. LO-NDUX, November 25. Adelina Patti, famous prima donna, who died September 27 at. her castle in Wales, loft a. fortune valued at, .1)16-1,514. She bequeathed her entire properly to Baron Boll' E'edec.sirom. hei hj ie-ba nd, with the ■ except ion' <d special bequests of jewellery to .All’ied de both-child. Ailiria-n - no Eisslor, (‘lura Eis-sier and Mabel VVbodfurd, and a Pope l.eo N.IEL stoic to-Her-bert \ ar.ghan, a nephew of Father Bernard Vaughan. AUTOS. MAY OUST ENGLISH RAILWAYS. WASHLNUTt >\. November 21. England is destine'] within a few yeas,■tobecome "a nation veil hunt railways. nc with railways supplementing a idghlv developed system ni motor tran.-poi talion," according to a special report made on .Saturday by Brigadier-! hmeral ( liaries B. Drake. rhiel u! tin; araiv motor transport vorps. The int can be made ‘‘with reason,’’ after a study of the recent rui.v. ay tie up in England, the report says. ZION GOES DRY. ZItJN CITY (HI.). November 21. . From a. platform six feet high. 138,997 butties of 2£ per cent, beer ; to-day were emptied into a specially built trough that ran to au open sewer. .Mayor W. H. C.’lendenin poured the first buttle and Chief of Police Theodore Becker and his uids finished the operation. The empty bottles were sold to a junk dealer for 214S dollars. The beer was ordered to be destroyed by Judge Chine K. Edwards alter it had been eoiifuv.ited when seized from smugglers from Wi-ionsin. Tho time chosen to begin the ceremony was 9 o'clock, when Zion's bi,g bell is tol'.cd and every citizen kneels at his work and oilers a short prayer. At I’3 o ! clock- Wilber (1 ienn Volira. head of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Chinvly. joinei! the beer pourors. Me worked for several lipurs. FRANCE IS TRYING TO FIND COAL SUBSTITUTE. 1 PARIS. November 20. Practical experiments to determine the possibility of tlie utilisation of tidal power j to make good fur the coal shortage under I which France is expected to suffer will be ; earried out muler Uoveniment auspices in j St. Briar Bay. on the north coast of Brit- j (any. The committee for the study ol I hydvo-eloetitfe power will undertake it. Experiments are also being conducted to , determine the possibility ot replacing coal on the railways in gas, water and power plants, and for dome--tie purposes. tin- j “Petit Pamun” states that, the use of j gasoline in the chief gas. water and power j plants of the public service is contemplated, and that the measure may make pus-sil-le a daily saving ot 4000 tons of coal | for domestic uses. If would require 60.000 | tons of gasoline a month, possibly import- ; ed from the Ended -Slates. .Pending an , adaptation of the plants to gasoline power. \ coal moistened with naphtha may he used,; in the public service plants this winter, j MUSTAFA KEMAL CREATING TROUBLE. t)NST ANTI NOPEE, November 20. Not content with seizing wheat and barlev stores in warehouses; tram the public : debt administration in various provincial j towns, and thus provoking a protest Iron . the above adminisl ration to Ihe Turkish Ho ; \ ci'ii i iien t. M nsl atu Iv'mal, (he Nationali-d loader, is makin,; b-\ies for his i: regular- : .old imposing an exemption lax ot ■' 1 ; Turkish pounds on all who refuse b> wrw , ib.' lias* further i-.saed a -proclamation ! which the Allied and Turkish eensms re | fused to permit the pres.-; io publish, in which de a censes tin* Kuieute Powers of ! wishing to divide Turkey belon* (he Peace ‘ ('onferem-e. and announces Ids intentam of ottering armed resist a nee to any mo! attempt. While expressing the hope that . the peace (,'oufemiee may yet adopt a less ; sew-re pt.Jiev toward Turkey (ban is pro- ; scuth indicated. Meanwhile Hm ( Vntral t.lo\t.rirnieiit anil many politicians, untd j recently supporter;; of the Nationalisl i pPuveminent, are growing distinctly mil’s • ! cue. and beginning to ask themselves tvhal ; he will do next,