DELAYED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9625, 27 September 1911, Page 2

DELAYED CABLES.

A NEW CALENDAR. SIR HENRY DALZIELL'S BILL. LONDON, Sept. 13. A good deal of discussion has been taking place over Sir Henry -Dalziell's Bill to provide foria fixed calendar. If the measure commands Parliamentary approval, each month will begin on Sunday and end on Saturday. The first day in every year will, therefore, be a day suitable to be set apart for tlio framing of good resolutions. January and February will each havo 28 days, and March 35. The months of each quarter will be similarly arranged. In leap year a day will he interposed, making an eight-day week between the end of June and the beginning of July. - ' In, order to meet Labour conditions and remuneration. New Year's Day and Leap Day will conform nearly to Sundays. Both days will be bank holidays. Provision has been made for comings of age and other events which might be affected by the change in the calendar.

The proposed new calendar will apply to all the Dominions, but will be inoperative until it receives international concurrence, STORMING A HOSPITAL. TO RESCUE CHOLERA PATIENTS. LONDON, Sept. 12. Messages from Chiasso, Switzerland, report that the Italian town of Gioadelcolle, in the province of Bari-delle-Puglie, has been the scene of savage excesses in consequence of the cholera epidemic now raging tliore. The authorities issued orders that all persons iiifected were to be taken to the hospital, and that all "contacts" were to be detained in isolation wards. The people became incensed at this order, convinced as they were that it was the intention of the authorities to kill all the cholera victims. Several thousand of the inhabitants, therefore, gathered together with the object of storming the hospital, and thus securing the release of their relatives and friends. When they reached the hospital a small force of carabineers and a few police attempted to overawe them. This force, however, was utterly inadequate to cope with ,the situation, and the hospital authorities, realising the hopelessness of tho position, and to avoid further trouble, threw open the doors. The crowd then rushed in, and, taking all the cholera patients out of their beds, bore them away in a ghastly procession through the town.

CATCHING THE MASHER. OFFICIAL FLIRTS IN AMERICA. CHICAGO, Sept. 11. A month or two ago the authorities at Los Angeles made a new and singular departure in connection with the maintenance of the peace of the city, They appointed women policemen, and i invested them with all the authority of ordinary officers of the law. Tlio experiment, it is said, has worked successfully up to the present, and now the idea has been elaborated, and female officials of another and still more extraordinary type have been created. The official "flirt" is the latest Yankee notion. In the United States it is a misdemeanour for a stranger to rtaro into the face of a passing female, but notwithstanding that fact, women arc frequently annoyed by the insolent admiration of would-be "mashers," In order to try to put down the practice the official "flirt" has been introduced, and it seems that it is her duty to lookout for offenders against the law of public propriety. Tho idea has been adopted bv the Chicago Police Department, and it is said to have proved eminently successful. On the first day the official "flirt" went on duty the patrol wagon responding to her whistle gathered in 15 prisoners. After a night in durance the police chief heard the excuses of tho accused, and then ordered tlio lady officer to appear.

He scanned her ostrich plumes and gaily-coloured stockings, and decided that sho was altogether too "fetching." "You're fired," said tho chief. Chicago's second flirt tempered justice with mercy. On the theory that a. singed rat will drive away all its kin, she allowed three victims to bo released. But the officials denied liberty to one from New York, who was wealthy, and just the type of offender the law was looking for. His protests availed nothing. The first flirt met with poor success. She went out in tho afternoon, when tlie men were too busy to flirt. Denver is reversing the procedure. The authorities there are seeking a male flirt. There arc no end .of applicants who consider themselves endowed with the advertised qualifications—"tall, handsome, 'with magnetic personality."

LOVERS' SUICIDE. TOKIO, Sept. 10. Upon the arrival of a traiii at the Akayu station to-day the fireman, while oiling the engine, discovered a woman's leg■ hanging between the blood-bespattered wheels. It was subsequently found that a young Japanese' couple had been run over and both lulled several miles away. It is thought t-lwt they were lovers, and that they must have deliberately thrown themselves', -in. front of the train.

CENTURIES OLD. HIDDEN TREASUREUN VAULTS. SENSATIONAL FIND INPORTUGAL. LISBON, Sept. 11. , Tho Government agents who' l , are taking- an inventory of church prof/orfy in Oporto discovered,- hidden away l in the vaults of tho cAthodral, a considerable quantity of the treasure that had'>en gathered by tho ancient friars. iho accumulation dates hack centuries, to the timo when Portugal was \a rich colonial Power; Chests werounoarthed that wero found to bo filled with gold ingots and plates,' gold ornaments studded with enormous rubies, and altar furniture of puro gold The discovery' has caused a great sensation. It is presumed that the treasure will revert to tho State under tho Separaion Law. MADEMOISELLE INSULTED. COULD FIGHT IP SHE COULD NOT CHARM. "PARIS, Sept. 10. Tlie people of Touloise have been getting a good deal of fun out of a controversy between M. Louis Cazale, a local journalist, and Mdlle. Ly, well known as a lecturer on woman's rights. M. Cazale published a Jeading article in his paper in which Jie said some unkind tilings about Mademoiselle Ly.) The remark, however, that annoyed the lady most was one to the effect' that her advocacy of single blessed-1 ness and her praise of old maid's in-!

dependence were probably due to her having no charmer. Mcllle. Ly was furious upon reading this "outrageous attack" called it, and lost no time in challenging tho author of the aspersion to a duel. The idea of meeting a woman in mortal combat, however, was so repungent to M. Cazale that he promptly declined the challenge, and the militant adv.K'ate of woman's rights is now brar. iing the unfortunate journalist as a coward. POPFS HEALTH. "MOST SATISFACTORY." ROME, Sept 14. ' The meeting of tho Popo and his elder brother Angclo yesterday was marked by ono or two touching little incidents, Signor Angelo Sarto had brought th" Pope's nephew to the* Vatican for confirmation, and. was about to kneol to kit: the Pontiff's hand, when his Ilolinc; dispensed with the necessity for this cu: tomary act of homage by taking hi. brother and tenderly embracing him, Th • brothers romained together for mi hour. When seen subsequently by a Press representative Signor Sarto said that he found tho Pope's health most satisfactory. He added, _ "We are both fast becoming octogenarians."