NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 36

NEWS BY CABLE.

REMARKABLE 1X MENTION. J he invention of a young Russian, Adrian bemoiloff, lias been tested at the London Hippodrome. By means of coloured rays die application of the spectruifi} principle changes scenery, furniture, and costumes Til full view of the audience. The p-er-efuimers wear the weird- st costumes of many colours, neutralised by powerful lights. Hippodrome audiences gasped in a.uazeuc. ut to see Arabs, dancing in an Eastern s-ttmg. changed to an Engiisli countryside in evening dress. INVESTORS LEFT LAMENTING. A man named Flail, alias James, a seifsty led landowner, was charged with fraud ;u Cardiff involving £4O,©CO. ft is alleged j that Hail ran a turf syndicate, promising | investors 12 per cent, interest weekly. Ine ’ money p.railed in in thousand-'. t lients tv- ! ooited jiitciest for two months, and then I Dull disappeared after withdrawing T.L.CCr i Ju nows. Hall's typist said that the Clients - include clergymen, solicitors, business men, ami police uliic-ors. due hail to destroy ail correspondence daily. Hall lias been committed for trial. TRAFFICKING IN TOMBS. 1 he Daily Express Rome correspondent say - it is customary to bury ti.e dead ill a Roman district in brick vaults belonging to the municipaliiy. Owing to tho building crisis there is now a serious shortage of vaults, and a business has sprung up to provide so-called boarding-houses for the dead. Speculators secure the lights to use large existing tombs capable of holding io to 20 bodies, and, hearing of a death, they bargain with the relatives, offering a place in the tomb foL £3O to £4O. The relatives generally pay rather than have the body tying for months in a mortuary chapel until the .municipality builds more vaults. MAYOR AND COUNCIL ON ’TRIAL, For allowing games of darts, “get-rich quick, ’ “hoopla,” and “cokcrnut enies” at race meetings and charity fuiici ions, the Mayor and the Corporation of Brighton have been committed for trial on 12 counts of illegal gaming under tho Betting Act. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY. Two hundred delegates are attending the first World’s C 'ongress of Poultry-men ;it Ihe Hague. Only the late enemy countries are not represented. .Resolutions were adopted urging' Government co-operation in poultry and egg-producing. Professor Brown, president of the International Association of Poultry Investigators, pointed out that Great Britain’s production in 1920 was valued at 1,600,000,000 francs, exceeding the value of the wheat crop. In the l nited Thues the production was valued at 6,000,©G0,C00 francs. A NOISELESS RIFLE. A Swiss lieutenant has- invented a noiseless rifle, which has passed the Swiss miii tary tests, lie expects io apply his invention to cannon. A FATAL EXPLOSION. The saltpetre works at Klein, Lauenburg, Germany, exploded and several persons were killed. Heavy damage was done. SOUTH AFRICAN FINANCE. A South African loan of £5,000,000, bearing interest at 6 per cent., and issued at 96, has been underwritten. It is understood that the fact that South Africa, is issuing j a. loan does not imply tho withdrawal of the embargo on the issue of trustee stocks. An exception is made in favour of South Africa, which will have £7.000,000 worth of Treasury bills maturing shortly. GENERAL ITEMS. The Prince of Wales was the most: successful exhibitor at Bristol Shorthorn Show. Grimbsy lias sent 600,000 ea-es ut lie: rings to Germany—the first shipment since the war. Prince V’irginio Orsiiii, Italy, has been privately married to Mrs Waterman, an American millionairess. Ihe Peter Walker and Robert Craino breweries are amalgamating. It is believed that £7,000,000 is involved. Official: The Spanish forces recaptured N'ulor. The Moors fled precipitately, leaving numerous dead and several guns. /The Ambassadors’ Council has sent an ultimatum to Hungary giving the latter 10 days to evacuate the western districts. < olonel Park, formerly managing director of the Allan Line of steamers, has bequeathed £1,219,908, death duties claiming £366,000. Ihe 1 Limburg Arnerikos Bayern, the firstof a series of standard 9000-ton steamers, carrying freight- and third-class passengers, has commenced Jter maiden trip to New York. An occupant of the gallery in the National Assembly at Budapest fired five shots from a revolver at Deputy Radovsky, fff. f°rmer President. Nobody was injured. The assailant was arrested. During the League of Nations’ discussion of a typhus campaign. Sir James Allen an nouncod that New Zealand’s contributions to “The Save the Children” fund amounted to nearly £60,000. fhe Paris -Matin states that an influential miller is forming a combine of the principal French flour mills with others which he, owns abroad, with the help of British capital, in order to fight foreign competitors in the French market. There is a probability of an Engliali company being formed in connection with Hammond’s visible petrol measure for Brierly’s meter, which was the first machine to receive the Board of Trade’s approval and stamp. Signor Caruso’s heirs have settled the estate, which is valued at 600.000d01. Fifty per cent, will go to his brother Giovanni, and the remaining half will be equally divided between his widow and daughter and two natural sons. A London corporation lias concluded an apneement with ihe Czooho-fMovakipn Government, under which it will obtain a monopoly of the output of radium from Czechoslovakia, which is Ihe only European country producing radium. The steamer To Koa, which was built- for ihe New Zealand meat trade, has been launched. She collided with the upper west middle lightship in the Humber, and turned the lightship completely over. Mr Darling, who died on May 17, left £38,603. IJe directed that his body bo conveyed to the grave on one of his firm’s waggons, painted yellow and picked out in black, to be pulled by two of his best cart horses, and led by two of his oldest carters.

The death is announced of Sir Ernest Cassel. A foonnan found fsir Ernest Cassel sitting at las writing' desk dead, with Ins head on the table. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time. llis heiress is his pretly 20-year-old granddaughter, Ed.vina, probably the richest woman in Great Britain. I'D- Ernest Cassel was born at Cologne in I 1852. lie was a son of Jacob Cassel, j banker. in 1873 he married in England a I dangler of Mr U. T. Maxwell. lie was one j ol King Edward Y Ill's pels-and friends, I mid was a great financier. He endowed, m liis Majesty s name, a sanatorium for con-umplives at a • ,>t of £200,G0. lie made a gift, of a similar amount for the bens lit ol poor Germans in England and for poor English in Germany. i it" International Trade Exhibitions Ltd.) ha- organised a Nation's food Exhibition a' s'Jympia, to be held frt m dept ember o jto 26, 1522. It will include dairy produce, , fruit, cereals, and all food-stubs. 'fhe j sigauits General lias promised to assist. | ine Lommunist Early has expelled Miss , Sylvia I’anklmrst owing to her refusal io allow its executive to control the journal, the Workers Dreadn ug it, which she founded and edited. She was forced io c- use publi ation owing to financial difficult ies. Cving to die ee.lapse in the prices of commodities and the reduction of trade, the E inlon Co-cpa rail . e W holesale Soviet v s I report shows a net 10-- of £3.451.620 for the i half-year, which lias been charged to the I reserve funds. )ue total sales were j £42,080, 0h (J a decrease of £3,8 j.Lv-0 com- | pared with the corresponding period of 1920. | A special train, which was rettiming with | gin sis from the opridug < <>re.uo:iy in conj noction with Norway’s new trunk railway I from Bergen to Xroiidlijeni, was passing | through die Xidareids Tunnel when it crashed into a Christiania train. Six persens were killed and many injured. It is announced that recent events in India has in no way affected the programme for the Erinco of Wales’s tour. '1 he Beuown s stores will include 195,000 cigarettes for the officers, 2000 do/ n h tiles of wine, and 9000 cigars tin addition lo 5000 cigars for the Prince of Wales himself), 5860 gal of j rum, 4000 gal of limejuice for the men, and 11 black cats for luck. A great crowd tried to storm the Vienna Stock Exchange. They assaulted the brokers and beat their customers, demanding the closing of the exchange, 'ihe demonstrators said that the rising cost of living was due to the wild speculation going on at the exchange. The police cleared the I streets. j 'ihe Morning Post’s Amsterdam correspondent states that the anti-militarists are ' demanding the liberation of Greemendal, I who w-as imprisoned owing to hia refusal to perform military service. They demonstrated prior to and during the opening of Parliament, shouting their demand as the Queen ascended the throne to deliver ner address. The police removed the demonstrators, who were mostly women. The speech foreshadowed the strengthening of the navy to protect the. East Indies. A considerable revolution in steamship travel is expected if the forthcoming trials of tile first motor passenger liner built prove successful. These trials will be made in a _ few days with a Teasel named the Domala, which was constructed on the Clyde for the British India Line, to piy between London and Calcutta. Her gross tonnage is 9COO. The combined horse-power is 4660, and her spe d 13 knots, the fuel consumption being 16 tons of oil daily. Lt is estimated that there will be a siiKuuiitbil saving in running costs compared with coal. A hot-headed “boots’’ at the Albert Hotel in Xotingharn has been charged with doing damage amounting to £4OO. Having a grievance against the landlady he entered the cellar, locked the door, smashed whisky bottles and let the beer barrels run to waste. When the police burst in the doors the “boots ’ was ankle deep in wine and spirits.