GENERAL ITEMS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10889, 17 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS

FROM MANY PARTS. Decision was reserved by the. Court, oi Appeal in a patent case in which tlie appellants were Roland Moore Maunder and Frederick George Reaver, and the respondents were the Wanganui Sash and Dear Factory and Timber W-, Ltd. It wall take' 500 man three months tO' repair the 30-fcot hole in the hull of Ft.M.S. Dauntless. Ernest Heap, aged 8. pleaded not guilty to digamy. He reserved Ins defence and was committed for trial. —Auckland wire. Captain Malcolm Campbell, tho famous racing motorist, after- searching along the .British Coasts and on the const of Denmark lor a suitable place tor attempting to break the world’s land .speed record, lias decided to make the attempt in the Syrian Desert in the autumn. The assistance rendered by the Navy to the Australian Commonwealth liner Jervis Ray last month was tlie subject of further questions in Parliament. Asked a.s to the cost or such assistance the-First Lord of the Admiralty, Air W. C. Bridgchian, sard that in the absence of details, it was estimated ‘at £SOO. but, until tlie full circumstances were known, lie could not say whether this expense would be charged to the owners of the vessel.

The Upper House of Convocation placed on record its deep .sens© of the loss it would suffer in the approaching retirement of the. Archbishop of Canterbury, who. is 80 years of age and has presided over the Convocation for 25 years. Lieutenant Lyon and Mr Warner arrived, receiving a tumultuous greeting from a committee headed by the Mayor, Mr. Rolph, which received them at the dock.—’Frisco message.

It is understood that Cabinet as the result of Mr Winston Churchill’s advocacy, has decided to take, up the unfinished Totalisator Bill and make it law during the present session.

Tlie Daily’s Mail’s correspondent states that Professor del Bret, one of the most prominent French surgeons, told the Academy of Medicine that cancer was preventable, if not curable, b.y the simplest, easiest, and cheapest means. He. suggests it can practically be stamped out by taking eight grains daily of magnesium chloride, which he. says is far more important to tlie bc.dy than , (million salt.

An announcement that lie would not introduce liis Gaming Bill this year was made by Sir George Hunter (Waipawa). Fie said hi,s decision was based on the fact that there was little chance of getting so. contentious: a measure through Parliament in its last session before tho election.

Flon. G. W. Russell announced liis candidature for the Mid-Canterbury seats as a Liberal. Joyce Cheshire, aged 10, residing with her parents at 31 Calder Avenue, Northeast Valley, was knocked down by a. motor car a-* Northeast Valley, Dunedin, and suffered a fractured leg, which necessitated her removal ter hospital. The Oxford and Cambridge Universities’ cricket match resulted in a draw.

Ir. the international cricket match, Ireland v. Scotland, Ireland in their lirst innings made 246. The match was drawn. At the wool sales 11.067 bales were offered, c.f which 6663 were A ustralian and 3689 New Zealand. New Zealand clips : 'Eclipse top price 26d, average 25-Jd. The New Zealand bowlers were beaten by Dundee 118—112.

Thirteen lawyers and five physicians have been named members of a “ring” that employs men and women to fake falls over manhole covers and sidewalk obstructions in an elaborate scheme which costs insurance companies £600,000 annually. The scheme was for one man called a “flapper” to find a defect in a. sidewalk, trip over it. then file a false claim for injury, and the physician associated with the “ring” would furnish a false medical certifi-cate.-—New York cable. COLOMBO. July 7.

All accused for the Mali arc, outrage were: found guilty and sentenced to. six months’ imprisonment for being members of an unlawful assembly and mischief, and seven years for attempting to commit culpable homicide.

MONTREAL, July 7. Already enjoying unparalleled development and prosperity Western Australia is out for a more purely British population and is planning for the setting up 32,000,000 acres of fine wheat; and sheep land. This statement was m,ade ,by the Western Australian Minister of Public Works, the Hon. Alexander M’Callum, who is returning from a visit to England, where he emphasised the hope that the needed immigration wr.s forthcoming through the latest Empire migration scheme. Mr M’Callum prophesied increased inurligratino for Australia under the Empire, scheme BRISBANE, July .8. At League football, England beat Toowoomba by 17 points to 12, after a great game. TOKIO, July 7. At Osaka, the- largest commercial city in the Empire, air defence manoeuvres on the. completed scale wore witnessed by the Princes Kanin and Kay a. These included a night, attack by aeroplanes to- determine the sufficiency of protection. A naval dirigible crashed during the night work practice at Yokosuka and four were drowned. LONDON, .July 7 German reparations payments to Australia for the year just ended totalled £619,814. Thirty English school boys: arrived at Auckland by the Arawa from England, they will be placed on farms under the Church of England scheme. LONDON. July 10. T! le House of Lords defeated the Government Rabbits’ B ll by 63 votes to 55. The Earl of Wemygg moved its rejection describing as a ridiculous Bill, opposed to all the recommendations of the select committee, who had not desired to exterminate rabbits hut to placate the Farmers’ Union. Lord Darling sad that the best way to reduce rabbits was to

maintain a supply of foxes who were more humane killers than steel traps. Earl Russell said the Bill would produce endless friction among landowners. If they sent poachers to exterminate the pest they would store information for future use. If they sent- an inspector they would be unable to shoot, straight. Lord Clinton said that all interested in forestry would support the Bill. The Marquess of Salisbury said let it not be said that the Lords who know more abcu,t land than any assembly in the world would refuse to remove rabbits’ depredations. Nevertheless the Bill was beaten. A wool conference is being held at Bradford. A big U.S. pool has been formed for stabilisation of prices. A bank merger is to take place of big Canadian bankers. The German Amnesty Bill will free hundreds of soldiers and others. There is a Labour split in South Africa, but a political crises 'it not likely. At the Delaware AA'atergap (Pennsylvania) Compston playing brliliaut golf captured the Eastern Open Championship with total of 287. Compston was severely censured by the committee and onlookers for causing a needless two-h-our delay of the finals. In the firm I tie of the European zone of the Davis Cup preliminaries, between Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, results were: —Baron de Morpurgo (Italy) beat Macenauer (Czechoslovakia) B—3,8 —3, 6 —3, 6 —4. Kozelun (Czecho-Clovnkia))beat Gaslini (Italy) 6 —l, 9 —7, 3 —6, 6 —4. Kozelun and Macenauer (Czecho-Slovakia) beat de Morpurgo and Gaslini B—6,8 —6, 4—6 , 6—4, 6—4. Montreal message states that the estimated wheat acreage in 1928, for the Prair© Provinces is over 23,500,000 acres against 21, 500,000 acres in 1927. This breaks all previous records. BUENOS AIRES, July 14. A Boundary Conference at Buenos Aii-es between Bolivia and Paraguay' ended without result Settlement of century-old disputes over the Chaco Boreal problem reverts to the respective Foreign Offices. A't bowls, New Zealand 112 were beaten by' LanarkslKr© 121. On no account shall children be fired at, say's a new police decree issued by tiie Prussian Ministry of the Interior, pointing out that the police revolvers somewhat recklessly. The Federal treasurer announced that the revenue for the year ended 30th June totals £60,289,000, or £l- - below the estimate. A message from Rosario, Argentina, states states, that tramways and business houses closed protesting against lack of police protection alter a fortnilht of labour troubles. At Eltham, H. 11. Henderson and J. H. Adam, late of Newton King’s have been committed for trial on charges of embezzlement.. Timaru has been celebrating its 60th anniversary. Dealing, at the Racing Conference in Christchurch with the question ot a club racing away from, its own course, the chairman (Mr AY. E. Bidwell) said that the continual taking of country meetings to the city' courses was likely to arouse a strong feeling against racing generally'. The conference later resolved that when granting permission to a club other than a hunt club, district committees should be directed to grant such permission only under exceptional cercumskances, and with a condition that the club must race /on the coujrse nearest its oidn course. David Thomas Borsockie pleaded guilty' in the Magi strafe’s Court at Christchurch lately to attempting to commit suicide. Borcoskie, who was homeless, had been given a night’s lodging by a farmer on July 4. and next morning was found with his throat cat, but not dangerously.. He was convicted and ordered to come lip for sentence if called on in six months.