OUR MAIL BUDGET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13063, 1 May 1913, Page 4

OUR MAIL BUDGET.

♦ SUM^rARY OF WORLD HAPPEiMNGS LONDON, March 26. '.l.'hfs .'late Air E. H. Harriman, the famous American railway magnate, left £14,000,000. A raihyay train m Tennessee was bknvn v! ftoin fhe Vails And -WWtirmed. West Ham Guardians have received 1620 applications foV the post of ga-te-porter iit' the'\vorkho«se. i "■ JJi edging m the > Thames below Sonning Lock workmen brought up huge specimens of stags' antlers, apparently belonging to a. pfehistoric species. The prohibition of petroleum spirit hair-washes is recommended by the Departmental Committee on Petroleum, m their final report. A resilient spring button, which relieves the strain on the trousers, the buttons, and the braces, has just been patented, says Men's Wear. . The Maclaine of Lochbuie, who owns 35.C00 acres m the L--le of Mull, is going to America to appear on the vaudeville Stage. A woman shot her husband dead m Paris on Sunday night after a. dispute over politics. The pair had been married forty years. Baron Henri de Rothschild has written a play entitled "Oroesus," the theme of which is tha£ money always stands m the way of- love. The play will be produced m London. The German Government is stated to have decided to tax thd funds of the trade unions and working men's leagues, jis well as large -fortunes, to provide the £50,000,000 Army increase. A Bill before the Ohio Legislature provides that the State institutions can be supplied with oleomargarine instead of butter. The cheaper, grade of "smear" will save the -.tate 35,000d01. annually. Dublin, .Corporation, adopted, by '28 votes to five, a. resolution m favor of building a municipal art gallery to house a collection of pictures, worth between £40,000 and £50,000, presented to the city by Sir Hugh Lane. i A. correspondent of the British Medical. Journal reports that an overseer at a timber mill m Lagos was caught by his coat-tails m a fly-wheel and swung round for an hour and a half. He was ■then alive, but died three hours later. i Mr Balfour is writing a book on political economy, which will follow the main line of country traversed by "The Foundations of Belief," m so far as it will be a sceptical examination of many of .the .established theories and methods of the science. f ZEPPELINS TO BE ARMED. ; Qwing to the success of the firing experiments /conducted with the machine a;un installed oh the jiew' German Zeppelin, it has Been decided that all future Zeppelins shall be supplied with machine ;uns. :, > ' BREAKDOWN itf TRAMWAYS. Last week from 200 to 300 tramcars n South London stopped running 1 , the stoppage being due to a breakdown at the generating station at Greenwich, jauseu oy ,a short circuit ,at the : back )f the •._. switchboard. . The contractors r or the machinery are working day and light -until' the thing is put rights It j may be eight or ten days before the repairs, are effected. , WEALTH jftlOM EMIGRANTS. ' Tlie aunlial report of the Emigrants' Information Office states that the numjer of immigrants entering Canada, increased from 550,374 m 1911 to 395,804 m 1912. Of the latter, 145,859 were jßritjsh. ' i ' j The' American' arrivals numbered of whom 34 per cent, were .of the .farming ; class, r iartd they brought over. £4.800.000 into, the country. Ij ■■■■•PAbdENGEBS PIiIRISHED. . I; Word was received at the general pffices of ari^eas't'e'rn railroad, St. Louis 1 , ph March 26, that a train on the Cnipago and Eastern Illinois Railroad went through a bridge over the Wabash River near iMontezums, Ind. i-Jvery passenger is reported di'owned. j AMERICA'S. CUP. . The London Yachting World to-day proposes that the deed .of gift -under which the New York Yacht Club holds the America's Cup as trustee,, be submitted to arbitration. ■ The Journal pays : "Tt is an untenable position that the xNew Yoi-k Yacht Club is the. only body capable of interpreting the deed of gift." ■-■'..■' ■ • CHEQUE FOR A telephone messagd' ! from Paris says that a carriage cleaner found on the Express - a . s-atchel containing a cheque" for : i/3C0,000 mavks (about £600,000), drawn by a Berlin bank on of Italy "at. Rome, and also a passport m the name of Commander Arrizd Rossi. T"he cheque remains xuiclaimed. It is m the hands of the police. ■ i ti.j- ; ,eiRGJt(E! OF: •STDNEHENGE'. ' ; Though the Stonelienge estate, the property of Sir Edward Antrobus, is to be sold, it is unlikely that the famous historical circle of the Druids will be removed to decorate some American estate, . Sir Edward has .issued a state 7 jneiit that the . estate .^ll not be sold unless the Driiids' circle is exempted from the purchase, the owner, being desirous of - preserving it for the nation*. SAVE THE BABIES. ' ''Save the babies," will be 1 the motto of the organisations affiliated ■ m the coming campaign for a. "spring cleanlip" of New York City. Societies conductiiv> ■•■■ ■•rftfilfc stations", day nurseries, baby hospitals and other institutions, and" movements working for infant 1 wel? fare are to take part m the preliminary, campaign of .education, now starting, it was amiouncqd, layirig .special emphasis pn the need of clean homes and surronndiiigs.aH a prime requisite., for promoting the health of babies. DUKE TOi BECOME A FARMER, ' The Duke- of • Merlborough, continuing his open letter to *Mr Winston ■ Ohitrchill on the jan'd' que'stlion, explains his Scheme- for growing foodstuffs- m Blenheim Park, thus starting a movement to restore 'to England her former agricultural prosperity. He' says': '1 mean to make the effort to 1 show, m my locality. that.it is possible to grow corn stuffs and vegetables suitable for the markets. The park where a brigade of yeomanry has been trained will no longer lie offered as a training ground for military purposes,* but employed for producing foods, fov the national food j supply. A thousand acres or more will 1 be under the plough and a greater number of laborers employed.". | ; THROUGH THE BILLOWS. I "There was one little paragraph m this week's papers which escaped the attention of • moat people, but • which I *ma',ke bold to say has been conned; most carefully m the Chancelleries, of. Europe. The home fleeV •came d'owb "from the Irish cbasf to Poffclalifl. Fearfully heavy i weather' 'wfes "encountered, and most of the battleships' wew frequently awash from stqm tp s*tern. Qne^of jthem,. )tha St. Vincent, just turned out of the dockyards, dipped "hei r nose so ni'uch m the boilincr surf, that tlie Admiral m chr.rge flagged her to slow down and proceed tinder easy ttenm, while most of them" . shipped' huge, quantities of water, and .had- boats and runnine geav damaged. 'Yet the division ,mnde ,lhe jtrip m record time. That is a point th-t' will stick m the' minds 6f the naval experts of the 'Continent: who believe that the British Navy has done -.itsg'.dasfo > ' '■ .* '•' £6000 AWAP»|). ; ~Sh- Justice Bnvgrnve Peane. and Trinity Mistfra heard a claim by' the [bwnerV of ' the 'steamer' (Vcnlbchy' fov ! fcrthvigc ■fe'nimiprati'ori m respect, of scrVices rendered to the steamer Rt'nv of A»st.ral'a.. Thft latter, vnlusd. At £270,000 with her car.?o and freiorht. was on a voyage from Austrnlia m October last whi>n' she became disabled n<T ■ Aden. Th 0 co v it «-,vml»d .^^COO. n\w v - ! ed as follows?—^£4^oo to the owners of ithe Glenlochy, £400 to the. master, and '£1000 to r.he crow, tho '^irf "fn-." 11 to • have £100 m addition to his other share W the- £1000. ! 260 TONS OV fIOGS. ' Some striking results have her" n bi.Mned by th^t 'nioneer 1-o'flv the Fn-.v lihgliam (Suffolk) Co-operative' Society. ,The members." now 643. ntul Iho ti'?rV. ! How £29,036 <?rown evrw :vear : and this year the P-inpliers' :if ecrgs received '■% bonus of £?00 nvA above the hicrh price, at «thi"H tho f"^ I■h^d1 ■h^d be.pn sold for them. Th^ -ori^ty ! desipatched as many as 260 ton-=< of egss. It is reckoned that the society has earn!ed' for producers Rpvera- thousand pounds 1 m better .prices.

SEVERED NOiSE RESTORED. How a severed nose-tip /was speedily restored to its plaoe"*is related by the. Munich Medical .Monthly. A student, it is stated, hud th^ tip ." hi; .y^^ slashed off m a duel. The wounded man .coolly picked up the piece of flesh, and,' placing it m his inbuth, hurried to the hospital. There he was complimented by tlie surgeons, who declared that the patient's procedure was scientifically corTect, for the warmth of the mouth had prevented the cellular death of the severed organ. The nose-tip was duly washed, and there . and then sewn on the student's facfe. and he departed smiling. ' ' "DOPED" ATHLETES. .-:.- --•At the racent skating competitions at Helsingfors, Finland, a Kussian cdnipetitor surprised everyone by his'swiftness m the long-distance races. > The Chri3tiania Slcatin,^ Club's representative ■at the. competitions, Mr J. Schwartz, himself a. fast skater, m an interview, stated that tha victory was partly due to the Russian taking doses of strychnine shortly before the races. It is well-Known, ,Mr Schwartz said, that the Russian skaters take, such stimulants. In short races these drugs have little effect, but for long distances they sharpen the will-power to an unnatural degree." "REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.' 7 . Under the heading, "Heaping the Whirlwind," the New York World comments m drastic terms on "the failure of the German 'Government for the first time m its history to float a Government loan." The World •■ sa-ys : "»So closely are the modern nations linked that that ■vvicked fellow Germany, makes the whole worl^j suffer.. Is, .there not m Germany, the home of culjbiwe and progress, boough courat??.. common sense, and political conscience to end this course of provocation before it ruins humanity?" London correspondents of the New York newspapers point out that the restriction of industry which the enormous, military expenditures involved m Germany's' action will entail will tnrmsn 'America with a vna^mtic.eiit opportunity.