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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11856, 21 May 1909, Page 2

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SUMMARY OF WORLD HAPPENINGS. LONDON, April 10. Mr Patten,, the Chicago wheat king, will make £640,000 if he sells his wheat at the present market price. Germany is constructing a chain of .shelters throughout the country in which her aerial war vessels can take refuge. ■■ > Tiie total number of signatures at-' taehed to the women's anti-suffrage petition was 264,662. A storm has been raging for the past two cjays in the Black .Sea, and the loss of several Turkish sailing ships with a, number of lives 5s reported. Eighty-eight Alpinists were killed Jast year. In the previous year the number was seventy-two, and in 1906 it was only fifty-nine. During fourteen days 46,574 women with 27,999 ■children visited public houses in Dublin, says a Government return. . x Mr Barber, an Oxford grocer, his wife, and their two children, were found with their throats cut in their house in the Cowley road. Empire Day, May 24, will be celebrated in the schools of the London County Council by a half-holiday. . The Czar has contributed £4000 from his Privy Purs© for . the relief of the peasantry in South and South-West Russia ruined by the severity of the winter. , Two thousand workmen are employed renovating the buildings at Shepherd's Bush for the opening of the Imperial Industrial Exhibition next* month. The town of St. Blazey,- Cornwall, is terrorised by an armed lunatic, who has shoty four people and barricaded himself in his house. It is estimated that the beatification in Borne of Joan of Arc, which has been fixed for April 18, will' be attended by. 30,000 French pilgrims, who will travel in twenty-one "special trains. A highwayman andi his victim, a Customs official, -were found clasped together in the River Inn, near Innsbruck, into which they had fallen during a struggle. . > A fiie destroyed property worth £1,000,000, including over. 100 residences, four churches, and two schools, at Fortwprth, Texas. T Special agents andi detectives of the American Treasury Department are coming to Europe to investigate an. extensive plot to smuggle expensive dresses into ih& United States; The British steamship. Oak: Branch, has foundered in the Straits of Magellan and the captain* and twenty. person^ are missing. , ' , The French War' Minister has decided,, says the PaVis Matin,vtp oTganise a competition for aerial cruisers capable of. a speed 1 of over thirty miles an hour. Austria will have at sea in 1912 not three, but four Dreadnoughts, thus giving herself and Geiinany combined an acfual superiority over Great Britain of oiie Dreadnought. Following on a boiler explosion the new Brazilian steamer Richard Paul, built at Kiel, sank in fine weather and ii calm sea off the Breton coast, the crew being saved by, a pilot boat. ' Orange River Colony has appointed a Boer artilleryman to the eommissioner.ship.of police, Major Capell, D.5.0., .ttie former, commissioner, being dismissed, because the "colony wished 1 to get rid of the soldier element." 2n a lectiure before the Royal Society of Arts Mr John Ferguson, Q.M.G., proprietor of the Ceylon Observeiv estimated that the teq, harvest of Oeylon would reach 36,008,000 tons in 1914. In answer to the charge that women cannot tliink of Imperial questions',, Mr Fqrbes-Roberteon, speaking' at Newcastle yesterday, said that if there had not been women voters in New Zealand we might not have had the off er of a Dread-; nought. The recommendations as to the use of the natural voice/ at divine service,' which were mede,.by thev Bishop of Birmingham to his' rural deans, have aroused great interest, and it is probable that they will* be largely adopted by the clergy/ , '. V . ' The . number of persons in receipt of poor law relief ~is ikfndpn on March 27 was 129,934, an increase of 3852 compared with the corresponding date last year, and 1 equal to n. rate of 27.1 per 1000 of the population, By converting milk into a hard, bony material a new industry has been created in Hamburg. The substance is galled "galaith," and is odorlesß, not inflammable, and will take any cqloi* and a high polish. = . x German business men are staggered by the annual report of the North Lloyd, which shows that .the* great steamship line's business in 1908 was conducted with, the enormous loss of £892,---600, necessitating the wiping out of the entire reserve and "renewal" funds. « THE CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM. The convict lease system in Georgia, the abuses of . wh ich have been mercilessly exposed by a committee -of the Legislature, has been abolished. The convicts are being transferred from private stockades to the counties in which the crimes i were committed, and : will work on public roads. The convicts] in the camps hailed the change with song and prayer. 47 MILES AN HOUR BY MOTOR . /-, ■■-. BOAT. -^a// /■'- '•■ At the mpt^rr , boat regatta at Monte Carlo, tha competition. for "racers," without restriction, over a course of 60 fcilometres (3H mil«s) resulted!: WolseleySiddeley 11. , 40minsv 4-ssec, 1 j Panhard^ Levassor, 49niins; 14 S-ssec, 2; Dixie 11., 3. The Brjnz "Heinrich fQundered making, trials; before the race. .All on "board were saved; i SLEEPING SICKNESS. A, Catholic missionary: father, whV had contracted sleeping sickness during the course of his labors in Central Africa, was seized witfli a fresh attack in the Luxembourg Gardens a 'few days ago, and has succumbed to the disease at the Pasteur. Institute. There are now 14 patients in various stages of the sickness, undergoing treatment at the institute. NEW YORK'S 810 'BRIDGE. ■/ The Queensborough bridge, extending from East 59thi street, 'Manhatjtan, to Long Island, over the East river and BlacjtwelTs Island, was opened' last week by Sir MfcOleilan, who drove across in a motor car. ' There )vas no speech-making, .singe ' that is teserted . tor the official celebration .on June 12. The bridge was begun ins ' 1903, and has cost pearly £4,000,000, It is 7636ft. long, and contains , four tramway lines, two, v elevated railway tracks, a .toadway- Ktf tv.wlde, and two footways, -each' 16ft "wi^ife. It has two floors. .Its height at. h^^h, water is 135ft, and, with its •'cantilever s construction of five spans, it is reckoned next, in size to the Firtft of,Forth4 bridge. £lOiOOO BAIL # FOR MOTORIST. Mr William ,'Jolliffe, of ■ Mount ■ ;. Alyn, Roasett^ Denbighsllirß, w»s brought 1 before the Chester magistrates yesterday on , a bharge of 1 maiislaughter, :and remanded 1 . He was adhiitted iio bail, himself in £5000, and two, sureties oFifi«soo each. Mr Jolliffe was arrested after jthe inquest on the previous evening oil Mary Emily Roberts,, a cook, who. was killed by the motor carr which Mr JolliffeioWas driving while she' was/ crossing a' "sweet in diestier on SaturUay night. Several witnesses * said 1 .that the car was being driven at a terrific speed, . and was sWerVing all over the rood'. It was suggested that Mr Jolliffe; was nob sober, but this was denied' by Dir Jephcott. PROGRESS IN AERONAUTICS. In Germany the Zeppelin airsliip has just completed a voyage of nearly 300 miles without accident in spite of the most adverse circumstances. Another Zeppelin js completing. The Gross and Parseyal airships, as well as a Zeppelin, will, it is stated, take part in the August army manoeuvres. In : Juljr an exhibition of aeroplanes and airships will take place in. Frankfort, and four airships will, makje daily excursion trips with passen-' gers. In France the leading aeroplanists^ ate -continuing, their . experimeAts, and though less attention is. paid- to the dirigible balloon, that branch is-, not^ neglected. In Italy a great aeroplane meeting, with prizes worth £4000,. Will be held at Bfesfcia in August. Mr Wilbur Wiriilit will rsnortly make demonstrations inT Ronte. The Russian Government is ; reported: t^ have. : purchased a. Wright aeroplane, and in 'actively fostering neronautiwi. '

JAMATUAX" KF.MEF FUNDS. No fewer than 4690 Jamaican tradesmen have been. granted loans to enable! them to re-establish businesses ruined by the earthquake of 1907, says a report of the administration of the relief funds received .by the •' Lord Mayor of London. The toted of the funds raised was £236,637. For the immediate needs of the destitute £7878 was voted, while £37,300 was devoted to aged persons, widows, orphans, and cripples, annuities being bought in most cases. For the restoration of the houses of the poor, £149,314 was spent.