ROUND THE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROUND THE WORLD.

More vehicles cross the Rush street bridge, Chicago, than the famous London bridge, the record for each, being slightly under I'o,ooo'iri 12 hours.

Italy's state, lottery is a source of considerable profit. The Government received nearly eight million dollars last vear as its share of the proceeds.

On the prairie lands in the western provinces of Canada upward of a million Americans, have settled,' and it is conservatively estimated that they form about one-third of the entire population.

There are „500 ( miles of automobile roads on Vancouver ', Island, British Coiurribia. ' The gbver'nmerit has built a 75-mile trunk road from Victoria to Alberni, and a 60- mile scenic drive, along the Saanich. peninsula. •.. - „ # *■ ' • * : * • •

.The famous LutiAe bell, ■wrtiich is always"'rui^g at Lloyds to ball attention' to ; the announcement of an overdue •or missing ship, was recovered by divers, from the wreck of the British ship Lu-. tine, which, went down 112 years ago. ■'* * : ' " " * * '

In Dublin on October 1 a monument to Charles Stewart 'Parnell was unveiled! in tlie presence of a larger multitude ] than had gathered in Ireland since the. day of t'.io great Nationalist leade'**s funeral. John Redmond made the address and paid a glowing" tribute toj Pai-nell's work and to his character. ! . « » • ' • ■ ■ • Fishing methods are being revolution? ! ised in tlie seas around,, the islands of J Japan by' the introduction of English steam trawlers. ' The' "Vessels on trial haAQ resulted in the discovery of new I and valuable fishing banks which could not have been fished by the native craft. ■ ■ « ■*'■'•"'*•' ♦ Aquiri'aldo, once a power in the Philippines aa leader' 6f the in'surrecto forces, 'is nOw a .peaceful .farmer, in Gaivte, | across the bay . from Manila.^ He has a | productive^ place, br , ; several hundred acres' and 'devotes Wis time to improving it along tribdern liries. He rarely visits Manila and apparently has lost all political opinion; . <

As a transportation factor, tlie mighty Amazon, including its tributarie*"*, .oners not less thsn' 12,000 miles' suitable for steanishi-g! navigation. Mari'absr a prosperous - conimunity, "situated 1000 miles from the mouth of the river, in one year cleared more than 3000 ships. . >

Outside the harbor of Sfax, Tunisia, in the shallow water of the clear Mediterranean, is situated a biological laboratory for the study of sponges." It is one of the most unique in the world, and affords opportunity for observing the development of the sponge'from tiipy larva, so small that it can only be studied under a microscope, until five years later, it has developed into a perfect sponge.

Delicacies from the flesh of whales aro now being put oft tlie market by enterprising Newfoundland .whalers. Among them are sausages, meat extract, canned steaks arid tongue's. 'They are also seeking to utilise the intestines of the leviathans. as substitutes for leather jn various arts and industries. It is claimed tliat the flesh of whales looks and tastes much like beef, and can be sold for halfpenny a pouhd.- --# »''"*''* .' » *"*• Revelations of "Lou vie mismanagement: continue to amaze the world. A Paris art expert now says that 323 .pictures: liave been taken from tins galleries, and tliat most of them may be found in Government offices arid doing a decorative work that could be performed just as well by chromos. Any Government official who wishes to ornament the walls of. his office may step over' to, th,p Louvre and take a Rttbens, Corot, 'David or Reynolds. Tlie story- seems an incredible one, but is anything incredible of a democratic bureaucracy.-

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is at least a man of courage., After many years of persistent resistance to Home Rule, after fighting two parliamentary elections on an anti-Irish platform,' he now announces that he has changed his mind and will s,tand henceforth in line with the Government forces. Such a sudden change of heart has naturally aroused both, exultation and consternation. Home Rulers see in it a further presage of victory, while Conservatives, are loud' in denunciation of ..what they c>llin .in--consistency. '"It may he noted 'tliat cori-i sistency is usually a' virtue df* shiall minds, .and of those .who never.. change their minds becaue thoy'havo very little' mind to change.- !

* * . « '**"""' . ; ' . The < knotty problems that depehd!upoii the administration' of 'law i_* Tfidia are wellillttst'-rated 'by'^a 'caSo -that -has just been "decided; by . tbjj Tfconrt; of^Jßenares.! Govind,,Pas was. c 6x v co_nmnnipated .fromhis caste becausg "be. nad dined 'with cer-l tain'fiihaus who liad^crossed the ocean i'ri'oi'der to" visit-Europe: So'^oViridTDas brought an action for defamation' of cliaraeter,, upon :^he, gtoiind th^t, while a .Hindu, forfeits his paste, by a .sea voyage lie] does' riot communicate that disability to tli'osb who hap'ftfeiv to dine" with 'him on his return; Fortunately , the; jijdge was aw: authority upon the.suh^e laws of Indiaii .ca§te, and after, a patient hearing Ho 'decided that Govirid Das still beloitged. -to" : his or*i'giri'al lank and was entitled- to damages from any One who ventured to assert, the contrary.

Advertisements of second-hand, aeroplanes.aye now qu'te common pi. English newspapers. Some of them are surprisingly cheap, so cheap indeed" as to suggest unpleasant adventures in the past. One of these announcements reads "offers warited for full-size monoplane, without engine; nearest £5." AnEdinbur'gh- ex-aviator : advertises, ' 'Monoplane for sale, fitted with 30-h.p. 3-cylinder engine jv £"lso, • or,, exchange, ,lp*c. • motorbar.'' ' Tlie willingriess to exchange for a jiiotor'-car'ls bo'tVuriMnd and suggestive, but another advertiser is still more candid. "He. advertises., a. ."Monoplane, first-class condition, \yjjtji pr, .wit'iput; 30jli,p. water-cooled, rnbtbrj'tob expensive for owi-Wr^no' reasonable otter fused,' Or exchange' -for gobd motor-car." Another "thoroughly well-built', monoplane" is offered. a*fc £}5 ; but. t without engine, ana_ ah, aerojplano cpmpanv .is already in th"d' field Hvith: ail offerip'buv ■ 'se'cond-li'and^a.na' damaged' a6fd*pl&!nes." Tliere should' bo ho scarcity^of ; the latter' article, nor -pf the second-hand and dam-' aged aviators. * ' . ..'...,..

* * * '-.*-. !■,■*.-.- The. BnUs-.li Govopimen't ..lias -found itself .sei-ipiily-.,erii"bara'ssed r 'by' the 'scheme Tor ' the -jbaymeiYt 'of members'*of'"'Pivliariient.' The proposal would IfeiVe •been! ceil ainly' defeated, but; fpr the .excitement! caused , by tho tores'. Bill and the sub-,-equent' rail I bad "stri^p. "The' first pav-! ment has just"" noon made,' with tlio /e-j suit that acbiigfiderable nitmber bf riiem- : beis havo returned their checks to thei' treasury .departments; with, peremptorv instructions' tliat no fur.ther "payments be ; riia de 'to 'them. Others have conteniptu-! ously handed over th'e money to public charities, Tlio m en)be.rs of. Parliament should he divided into two classes, those who have returned tlieir salaries and those who havo retained tliehij is i of course highly ' undesirable. Those' whajl will be candidates-': for.-' re-election hayej up clesire to.be asked publicly.. "What did you dp, with your; salary'?" arid so there is a general disposition to resent ar payment that makes sucli a ijiiestioh possible. Mr. ' Arthur . Leo, iri returning his salary to the treasury says-.th^t.he objects to becoming a professional ;p'oli-; tician, and , there is a .'general feeling: tliat the' status of v niem.beva has been: lowered by tho intrusion of financial; considerations.. Therefore it s-eems likely tliat tho plan will be dropped, and' this can bo done easily as it was not. cnibodicd 'in a ' bill. 'It was merely an item in the budget expenditure and can therefore be abrogated by the simple expedient of ..omitting, .it -.. from future budgets. At the saine time it' is probably safe to attribute "''the "opposition to political spite rather than to a sensp. of' wounded honor. If the king as well as his cabinet ministers may receive salaries, it 'is hard' to. see. why members"'' of Parliament should be so punctilious.

It seems safe to predict that a massacre of Russian Jews is imminent. All tlio pprtent of previous holocausts are now being repeated, and on a largerscale than ever before. At the time of his assassination Stolypin was perfecting a measure to filch from the Jews the remnants of liberty, till remaining to> them, and governmental action of this kind has always been translated by •the mob into acts of brutal 'violence. B\at. | the most sinister sign is the; activity of the monk Heliodorus, who is now. -on ''a., fcrusade thrbugh ,'thV. ■ Volg-a districts openly preach ( ing ( the «xter_unatio"ri''of J ewiy . No one 'dares to molest Helio- ' drus. He is known to be a ;pet..,of the Czar, and the. ignorant: j>easantry. : hear him as though he were the Czar- himself, iho fa vorite theories oi" Helibdbrus ar© well calculated to. arouse the frenzy of tho people. Not only does he ' assert that the Jews intend to depose, the Czar and to place one, of their own people-tin ,his steady hut he revives all the. horrible superstitions that attribute to tKe Jewa the practice" bf sacrificing Christian children, for the. celebration of the. Passover.. .Stories pf repressive enactments . gre now copiing from all' parts of the co_htry. Jewish soldiers wounded irt' the Japanese war have been -expelled ftjOnt the hospitals for no other reason than t!>.r.t the hospitals were within the, proIhibitcd areas. Large numbers of. Jewish*. J soldier's were forbidden to return totheir . homes en the conclusion of the -war, their exemplary military record _ having .no weight i-i it li the authorities. All these j things are haying .their inoyit'ah'le effect I upon ?.• populace that' is peculiarly prone to gusts of cruel 'rage. And when the trouble comes we shall be told,: as yvt# .have been told so often before,7 that the I authorities are straining every, nerve to (protect the Jews and the paternal heart jof the Czar ' reflects" every ! pang bf > his suffering' ' Israelitish children. .