NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 40

NEWS BY CABLE.

CURE OF WHOOPING COUGH. Professor Carriere, of the Faculty of Medicine, Lille, France, claims to have cured 500 cases of whooping cough in a minimum of 10 days in a few cases to a maximum of three' weeks by the use of eucalyptus oil. The patients were isolated in beds surrounded by a tent-shaped linen cloth soaked in a solution of eucalyptus. An injection of cil was given to the patients daily. This and inhalation, Prolessor Carriere states, speedily arrest the coughing and vomiting ceases. LATE SIR HENRY WILSON. At. the unveling of a portrait of Fieldmarshal ,--ir Henry Wilson at Belfast, Sir James Craig declared that Sir Ilenry Wilton was totally unconnected with the policy of the Northern Government. Sir Henry Wilson had no feelings of haired towards the South and the West of Ireland. He was a great Irishman, who desired to tee peace and prosperity in Ireland. Sir Henry Wilson recently was asked to help to make provision to protect Ulster’s boundaries. His disposition of the special constabulary constituted a defence which c-ould not be broken down. SIR JOHN PENDER HONOURED. ’Hie Exiles’ Club presented Sir John Pender with an illuminated address to mark the jubilee of the Eastern Extension and Allied Cable Companies. The address contained 8000 signatures, including those of the members of the staffs of the associated companies. The insignia of the orders held by >Sir John Pender was worked out in diamonds and platinum. The proceedings also included the inauguration of a bed in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, which is endowed as a memorial to llie late Lady Pender. SOUTH AFRICAN COINAGE. In the South African Assembly, in introducing ;h > Coinage Bill, the Minister of Finance stated that for the present gold would not be coined. When it, was coined it would be tlie British sovereign with the , South African mint mark. The same coinage would be adopted as at present, except that the crown and the farthing would be dropped. There was no intention of adopting decimal coinage. COLLIERY DISASTER IN SCOTLAND. Twelve men were killed and five injured by an explosion of firedamp in Bleen colliery, Stirlingshire. The pit was worked partly with safety-lamps. The cause of the explosion is unknown. PRINCE’S TOUR. Mr Lloyd George entertained the Prince of Wales' at dinner at Downing street. The Prime Minister said that every report from India spoke in thrilling terms of the beneficient effect of the Prince’s tour upon even the most troubled provinces. The Prince, replying, said that he left India an optimist. The new legislatures were facing their tasks with energy, patience, and courage. FA TH E R I) E L <»R M E. The Quebec- Provincial Cabinet has ordered Father Delorme to be interned in the Bcauport Asylum until such time r. s tile I.ieutouanl-Governor is advised that ho is to be tried for murder. LEGALISING BIGAMY. An attempt is being made to legalise bigamy as a remedy for the housing difficulty " J wo Bills are now before Parliament! One Bill proposes that every male over 50 years shall not only be permitted to have a plurality of wives, but shall be compelled to marry more than one woman. SHIPBUILDING RETURNS. Lloyd’s Register's quarterly shipbuilding returns, deducting 481,000 tons on which work was suspended amount to 1.439,000 tons which is 316,000 tons below the March quarter, and 451 COO tons below the prewar average. The tonnage building abroad, excluding approximately 545.000 tons in Germany, is 128.000 tons below that of last quarter. The chief decreases are m Italy, *rar.ee, and Holland. MOSQUE ROHE COLLAPSES. M-clf.mt were attending morning pruver in the famous KO-y. ar-old Alicia mosque, in ihe heart of Cairo, the ro- f fell i’ourteen persons were crashed death - and many were injured. I.OW-NF.i RED DRESSES. Cardinal Marini, in Rome, refused to administer the Sacrament to 20 girls belonging to the Children of Mary, who presented themselves for communion, because the necks of their dresses were cut too low and the sleeves were too short. Only two of the girls were allowed to communicate. The Bishop, on the instruction of the Cardinal, admonished the other girls in regard to their attire. INVESTIGATING SFI RITUALISM. French scientists. .Tier exhaustive investigations to ascertain whether cctop ...a. „,ith • 'pupated from a medium, reported in ihe negative. A well-kno n {spiritualist had prov ion sly insisted that he had seen a living. moving fttl-t in-'-e emanate from the body of a medium tunic- human f< rm, and then vanish. FRENCH RAILWAY ACCIDENT. A train which was passing over a viaduct at Pi "t la Charelle, near Paris, unaccountably divided and proceeded on separate lines. One section struck the iron column,

supporting the viaduct, and the carriages »ere telescoped, four persons being killed and 50 injured.

OBITUARY. The death is announced of Rear-Admiral Baynes, who commanded the Mildura at the annexation of the Cook Islands, and hoisted the flag at Rarotonga. The death is also announced of Lieut. - General Sir James Bevan Edwards, mo nerved in both the Indian Mutiny and the Crimean war. From 1885 to 1888 he was commandant of the School of Military Engineering, and he commanded the troops hi China in ISB9-1890. From 18S5-1899 he ■vca.s A!. P. for Hythe. and waa chairman 01 the Royal Colonial Institute from 1909-1915. The death is announced of Sir George Walter Rotheroe, editor of the Quarterly Review, previously lecturer on history at Cambridge, and subsequently professor in history at Edinburgh. He published, a number of books and edited quite a number of works published by the Cambridge Press. He was knighted in 1920. The death is announced of Sir Thomas Glen Glen-Coats, head of the cotton firm of J. and P. Coats, and for some time M.P. for West Renfrewshire. Admiral John Moresby, a well-known Polynesian navigator, is dead. He discovered the harbour new known as Port Moresby, the finest in New Guinea. He also discovered about 25 inhabited islands and explored 600 miles of coast line previously unknown. He was the author of “Two Admirals" and Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea. ” GENERAL ITEMS. The Overseas Club tendered a reception to Sir James Allen and Lady Allen. The British Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider the fabric gloves problem. Mr H. G. Wells has agreed to stand as the Parliamentary Labour candidate for London University. It is reported that 50 men were killed by an explosion in a mine magazine at Cuxhaven, Germany. The railway was damaged. From the 14th inst. the London Associated Australasian Banks’ selling rate for cable transfers to Australia and New Zealand will be 12? 6d premium. The London County Council has decided to permit boating on the lakes and games in the parks on Sundays. Lord Birkenhead has been appointed to the committee investigating procedure at criminal trials at which insanity is pleaded. Mr Pilkington, a West Australian, has been invited to address the Dundee Independent Liberals with a view to contesting the seat against Mr Churchill. The sentence of death for espionage on Arrnand Jeannes, the betrayer of Miss Edith Cavell, has been commuted to penal servitude. It is announced that Lord Northcliffe's health continues unsatisfactory. His heart is weaker, asd an obscure toxic process lias not subsided. Mr Lloyd George announced that in view of the financial condition of the country the Government has no intention of considering the construction, of the Channel tunnel. In connection with the explosion at Port Tipton factory in which 50 gills were employed removing the contents of 160 tons of cartridges without any precautions being taken for the safety of the girls, the floor being strewn with powder. Knowles, the husband of the owner of the factory, has been sentenced to imprisonment for five years. Chadwick, the manager, who was also arrested, was discharged. The Divorce Court, in an endeavour to deal with 650 cases before the end of July, secured the assistance of Lord Buckmaster, ex-Lord Chancellor, who hitherto has never occupied the bench, having gone straight from the Bar to the Woolsack. The Empire Press Union’s annual report, without making an announcement regarding the venue of the Imperial Press Conference of 1325. expresses the hope that it will be possible to accept the invitation from Australia. The Distillers’ Company, Ltd. (Edinburgh). has absorbed the Distillers’ Finance Corporation (Belfast). The price was just under £3.000,000. Filadelfo C'astio, Mayor of Lentini, in Sicily, is undergoing trial on a charge of manufacturing bombs which blew up the courthouse. Following his arrest, armed Communists attacked Italian troops, but they were repulsed after a prolonged fight., in which four Communists were killed and a number wounded. Mr Havelock Wil son (secretary of the English Seamen’s Union) has cabled to Mr Walsh (secretary of the Australian Union) as follows:—“I have received r.o letter from you up to date. World you be good enough to cable whether >o:i intend replying?” The Daily Express states that a British Mission will proceed to the United States to discuss the debt question. Sir Robert Horne will probably accompany the mission. Trains were wrecked iti a collision in the station at Paredes de Nava. Spain. Forty people are known to bo killed and ICO injured. A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters and a manuscript of his juvenile play, “Monmouth,” have been sold at Christie’s for £782. Of this amount the play realised £250. All were purchased on balialf of an American collector, with the exception cf one letter. It is just learned from Vigo that, the Portuguese hail to suppress an important monarchist plot in Lisbon. A whole regiment s upported the insurrection. W'hen it was found that the other troops did not follow their example the men returned to their barracks. One hundred men were arrested. Three Moplah rebels were sentenced to death arid three were transported for the murder of a police inspect of, whose head was displayed on a pole.