NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1081, 6 February 1918, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Ten thousand war substitutes, including 7000 food substitutes, are now in _tuse m Germany, according - to official statistics. A Xorthfleet woman has died in Kent County Asylum, which she entered in r869. She cost, the ratepayers £2OOO (says the Times). In the Transvaal Provincial Council _ a motion asking the Union Government for power to (stablish State lotteries lias been , .opted by 22 votes to 20. At an inquest at Islington on the body of a boy aged two, it ivn, stated that the average" number of operations for the removal of tonsils at the London Children’s Hospital was seven a day. That, however, was the. first death for four years. In sentencing a man with several previous convictions to four y. ai- pi iia! servitude for stealing luggage from a radv, station, Judge Reuioul at the Central Criminal Court (London) said that he had probably cost the. country £IOOO for expenses for his trials. THL TENTH PART. Mr J. J. llissey, in his l>ook, “The Road to the Inn,’’jells the following story: A parson was quietly seated in his study when one of ids male parishioners was shown in to him carrying a baby. “Parson,” tie. says, “as the laws tells 1 must give you one-tenth of all I produce, here’s my tenth child)” and without another word tire man placed the. baby on the astonished man ■- kueo and departed. HEAVY SENTENCE ON A SWISS. For circulating statements against the King mid being in a prohibited area, Johann. Emil Koin, a Swiss, arrested at an aerodrome, was sentenced to four months hard labour, fined £25, and recommended for deportation. Kein had said: “I am glad tlie Germans broke the Italian line. The British swine have done nothing so far. British airmen killed 150 of my people at Baden." He has been suspected of signalling. CHIVALRY IN THE PIT. Over 4000 employees of a Blaenavoii (Monmouthshire) firm struck work as a pro. tost against officials who were alleged to have used certain expressions to a' woman munition worker. A inas, meeting of the strikers was attended by a miners’ leader and a representative of tlie Munition'; Ministry. A resolution was carried to resume work pending an investigation within six days by an impartial tribunal (o bo set up by the Munitions Ministry. SWISS MERCANTILE MARINE. » It. has long - been a European joke to speak of the “Swiss Navy,” hut the Republic is now seriously thinking of establishing its own mercantile marine. German papers report. I hat the Government Transport Office has just asked the Federal Council to buy ships to carry various commodities oversea to a port within rail reach of Switzerland, in order, that the contitrv may more readily secure its own food and coat supplies, corps art* already being taken to make a census of the Swiss army to find out how many sailors there arc for an eventual State mercantile marine.

DYES AFTER THE WAR. Early last year Germany's great chemical factories, which before the war enjoyed praet ica.iy a monopoly in the. production of dyes, formed a. huge combine for the avowed purpose of being in a, stronger position to recover their old markets after the war. It is now announced that five of the leading concerns in the aniline dye trade, including the well known Friedrich Bayer Company, the Baden Aniline and Soda Factories, Lid., and the Borlm-Trep-tow Aniline Dye Manufacturing Company, have decided upon an enormous increase of till ir various capitals. The p'.ojcc't affects five companies altogether, and will give them an additional £1,700,000 capital, raising their aggregate funds to £12,290,000.