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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13021, 3 April 1913, Page 3

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— SUMMARY OF WORLD HAPPENINGS. LONDON, Feb. 22. A young American was killed while tobagganing on the famous Cresta run at St. Moritz. The French steamer Oleron, of St. Malo, was wrecked during Tuesday night off Cette, and eight persons ,weie drowned. Caruso, the famous tenor, who Avill shortly reappear at Convent Garden, will receive £500 a. night for his performance. France is preparing to spend another £23,000,000 m order to meet Germany's new plans for increased armaments. Tho sale of cigarettes m Vidalia, Georgie, has been, limited by State law to fifteen minutes a day. A special notice issued by the Oakley (Bucks) Hunt requests that "ladies and gentlemen ,will not follow the hounds m motor-cars." Secret plans are being made at golf courses m and around London to deal with the mad suffragists who are damaging the greens. Asbestos pockets for the accommodation of lighted pipes and cigars m tram-,, cars have been invented by a Philadelphian tailor. The Edinburgh Corporation has purchased an estate of twenty-seven « nit's for the establishment of the Scottish 'Zoolcyrical Gardens. As a schooner was changing h*r berth m dock at Dover yesterday her bowspri:. came across the railway and n*as car'ied away by a passing train. An American inventor has patented a combined airship and .aeroplane wh'ch, it is claimed, will be the pioneer, of Trans-Atlantic flight. A small picture "Le Billet Doux" ly F. Boucher, showing a young girl kissiny a. dove which she is despatching with a love-letter, realised £1732 10s at Christie's. The treasurer of the Society for liomoting Christian Knowledge acknowledge a. gift of £10,000 from "A Friend," ,v ho desires to remain anonymous. The first sentence .. of penal servitude on a, motorist was passed on Sydney Stubbs, who ' was convicted pf manslaughter. Th© War Office has discovered that it has for many years been paying two pensions granted m 1814, although the x persons have been dead for a generation. Mr Nakamura Ryoshu, a Japanese judgo m Korea., committed suicide by hara-kari to vindicate his character, which had been assailed by officials whom he had dismissed. Despatches from Toulon report that three men have been killed and two injured through the explosion of a 75mm. gun on board the French battleship. Danton during gun practice off the Salins d'Hyeres. A collision between two Dundee steamers, the Edinburgh and the London, occurred on the North Sea, and, as a result, four men are missing. The accident happened during a fog. The Imperial Choir, numbering 2000 voices, wii-h Dr. Harris as the conductor, are to vifit the Ghent Exhibition at the end of May, and give two concerts of British music. Of 325 Rhodes scholars who left Oxford during the six years 1906-11, 123 entered the teaching profession, according to an official statement published recently. , Germany, m addition to the immense increase of the army^Which is proposed, will next year spend £1,000,000 on military dirigibles and aeroplanes. One hundred and fifty aeroplanes wiT also be built from the "fund raised by national subscription. / There are over 10D cases of measles of a mild type at Osborne (Iste of Wi^ht) Naval College. It is stated that the infection was taken to the college by a cadet returning from home after leave. A white marble monument just erected - by a widower to his wife's memory m Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, consists of a replica of the porch of their house. On the ftep is the figure, almost lifesize, <)f the dead wife m an attitude of welcoming someone into the house. President Taf t has vetoed the Immigration Bill excluding illiterates from the United States. The literaVv ' test proposed m the Bill has met with'opposition from many Americans, and foreign Governments have lodged protests against the provisions of the measure. Mr Miller j the Canadian merchant who refused to give the House of Commons at Ottawa the name of a -man to whom he paid £8200 to secure Government contracts, has been taken to prison after being ke/pt for some days m the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the* House. A protective serum against whooping cough is claimed to have been found by Dr. Nicolls. director at the Pa.'.teur Institute at Tunis, says the Petit Parisien. Practically every case m which vaccination with* the ssrum has taken place is saidl to have been eurrd. , ARCTIC EXPEDITION. It ifi understood that the Canadian Government will grant Mr Stefansson the sum of £15,000 towards his expedition into unexplored territory north of the Canadian mainland. He wHI take with him Canadian students with scientific knowledge, and tho expedition, will be directly under the Canadian Geologic cal Survey. Stefansson expects to beabsent three winters and four summers. MAKING SUREJames Schrum, who was convicted of double murder at Iron Mountain, Missouri, w«0 sentenced to ninety- nine years' imprisonment fpr the first crime and condemned to be hanged fpr the second.. MORE. ANTI-TRUST LAW SENTENCES. Heavy sentences, including imprisonment have been inflicted on the president and 27 other officials of the National Cash Register Company for violations of tbe Sherman Anti-Trust Law. The President, Mr. John Patterson, was sentenced to a fine of SOOOdol. and a year m gaol. Appealshavp been entered," EIGHT-MILE PROMENADE, The Southend Town Council decided on Tuesday to complete the Western Esplanade scheme at a cost of £30,000.. The promenade portion will be ready by the summer of 1914/ but the three acres of gardens adjacent to the pier will take about three years to finish. The entire promenade will be eight miles long, and it is claimed that it wi!} be tbe finest and widest m England. ADOPTED IN MIDDLE-AGE-A petition to adopt a "child about 45 years old" has beep presented tp the Chicago Superior Court, The applicant sets forth that she desired to adopt a woman who has lived with her for AQ years, to make her the legal heir to a Large estate. LESS WORK FOR. HUSBANDS. A Bill to prohibit women from wearing dresses that button up the baok, unless the buttons are as large >as a silver dollar, has been introduced m the Legislature of Missouri/ The Bill provide fpr fines from 5s to 15s, and imprisonment for a third offence. ' ■ ■■ s £8,000,000 RAILWAY, A syndicate has been fprmed for the purpose of building a railway between Egypt ahd Tripoli, at a cost of about £B,OQOSOO. The syndicate will, it is said, agree to complete the railway within four years. Capital for the undertaking will* be raised m Egypt and IJaly. BONES FOR BABIES. "Bones should be given to little chil dren to gnaw as soon as they have teeth," says Dr. William Brady, a New York practitioner. "They 'also ought to crack nuts like othe? little animals. Tooth brushes never won any battles. We aye unduly fond of machinermasfei cated, pre-digested, denaturised food We devote too much time to brushing "our teeth— too little to exercising them.' CLERGYMAN DIES WHILE PREACHING. The Rev. E. T. Griffiths, M.A., vicai pf Cam and rural dean of Dursley, diec Suddenly while preaching m Cam Parisl • Church on Sunday night. The rev. gentleman had referred to the death oi Captain Scott and his party at the posl of duty, when his voice failed, and ht fell down the pulpit steps dead. Mi Griffiths had visited a doctor last weel for heart affection, FOREIGNERS IN ADRIANQPLE. The foreigners m Adrianople, were un derßtood to number 150, and on thai basis an arrangement was made to lei ttfeem pas 9 out of the beaeiged city. Bul the,, Jit't of foreign residents drawn ut >j>y $? £o»wJs includes MOO names

I The Bulgarians are ready to let them ! all pas.--, but Shukri Pasha, the Turkish commandant, will not let them ,<;<>. £29,903,543 FOR TOBACCO. ; Mr Robert P. Moncrieti", of Xewcastle- | on-Tyno. has compiled his "National Tobacco Biil" for 1912. A sum of £29.- ; 903,543 was spent m the United Kingdom m 1912 on tobacco, pipes, etc. This works out at over 13s Id a head, or £2 18s 9d ii family — the highest figure on record. GOLF LINKS INSURANCE. Underwriters at Lloyd's are open to insure golf links against damage by Suffragettes. The premium is equivalent to 2 per cent. The rate quoted is , for all eighteen holes of a course at £1 each for twelve months, underwriters to • pay any claims for damage to each green up to £50. The annual premium, therefore, is £18 and the limit of liability for underwriters will be £900. 1 SHOCK RESTORES SPEECH AND HEARING. » An' Ashford (Kent) correspondent records the case of a young woman, Lily Curl, of 7 Hardinge road, Ashford, who, having been deaf and dumb for 21 years, is now recovering both speech and hearing. The young woman's brother drowned himself m the Stour, and the vhock of his tragic end is regarded as responsible for the miraculous recovery his sister is making In a letter written just prior to his death, the brother said he had "prayed to God for five years that Lily's ppeech and hearing miirlit -ie restored." BLIND SCIENT^ir AT WORK. M. Gustaf Dalen, the young Swedish engineer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics last year, is now totally blind as the resuilt of an explosion while he was making an experiment last Septemoer. M. Dalen, however, returned to work yesterday, and as a thank-offering for his escape with his life he gave his workmen an extra week's wa.ges, amounting to auout £330. •HUGE —^LWAY SCHEME FOR INDIA. Tlie Morning Post announces that details will shortly be published of an important and far-reaching scheme of rail- , way electrification m India. The scueme now drawn up will represent the most ambitious, most important, and j costliest projects of railway ' electrification yet decided on m. any country, not '• excluding the United States. It will be of enormous importance to the British engineering industry m view of the fact that practically the whole of the equipment will have to be ordered outside India, and that the contracts may well i be the largest of their kind ever awarded. i KING ADDS TO HIS ESTATES. ' The Sandringham correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states: — It is believed to be. a fact that the King has pur- j chased the Ken Hill estate, Snettisham. near Sandringham. For a long time past it has been known m Norfolk that the accommodation at York Cottage was insufficient for the use of their. Majesties and the guests whom, from time to time, they entertain there. Snettisham affords some excellent duck shooting on its marshes, and it is not unlikely that this has weighed with the Kin*4 when deciding to make this acquisition to his Norfolk estates. / ( NEW UNIONIST WHD7. ' Lord' Fidmund Talbot has. been appointed Chief Unionist whip. That his name was not mentioned m connection with the vacancy when it occurred was due to the belief that, though by right of seniority he was entitled to succeed, he had no desire to assume the heavy duties. of the office. It was a-'.so suggested that his being a Roman Catholic would . make him unacceptable to Irish Union i«ts.. The contrary is the case. Lord Edmund Talbot has been a memhor of the House of Commons fOr nearly 20 years. i ERROR ON STAMPS. ' Over 20.000,000 stamps ordered' by the United States Government to commemorate the opening of the Panama Canal have been withdrawn owing to an error, we are informed by Mr W. S- Lincoln. Instead of a view pf the Gotun Locks, tho picture when printed was found to be that of the San Pedro Miguel Locks, with the name of the Gatun Locks printed below. A new with the picture unaltered but with the new words "Panama Cabal" has been issued. GERMAN .WEALTH. The German newspapers publish stntis t,ir* showing that German armn.m?nts m .19)2 cost 21s per head of population, as compared With 32s m England and 27& m France. Germany's estimated "national fortune" of £i3",5G0.000.0C0 is said to exceed that of France by £5,000,000,OCO. and to be only slightly below that of Great Britain and Ireland,- which is estimated at £13.C00,<300,'0C6 to £15,000, -' C^O.QOO. The German national' debt is' said. to. amount to only £15 10* per head, compared 'with £16 *10s m the United . Kingdom, and 33s 6s 8d m France. .CHILD WEDDINGS? IN INDIA. , Four hundred weddings were cele brntad' simultaneously on February 16 at Rn cat among mem iiere of the Lcwa Kumbi caste. None of the brides were over 12 years of age, the majority being from 1 to 7 years old, while the bridegrooms varied from 3to 9. Most'of the contracting parties sat or lay on tho laps of their parents during the ceremony, and were given sweets to keep th?m quiet. The caste only celebrates weddings every 10 or 12 years.