NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

— : ♦ GOVERNOR’S “WASTE" ANE. CONSTERNATION AMONG OFFICIALS. NEW YORE, ' Jan. 8. —War to the death against-waste and wasters in the State of New York-was declared by the new Governor, Judge Miller. In an inaugural address the Governor proclaimed the revolutionary/principle that Governmental expenditure must be regulated -according ’to income, not income according to expenditure. Wielding the economical axe ruthlessly, he announced the wholesale consolidation of State boards born of the war and the reduction of estimated expenditures by £15,000,000, declaring ‘the estimated revenue of £35,000,000 a dead lino beyond which legislature must not go. All votes beyond that figure, liesaid, he would veto. The Governor’s address, which brought consternation to an army of officials and wasters, dealt in the utmost detail with State finances, showing where drastic economies could and should be made. He further announced his intention ’of investigating waste and crime in the municipalities oE the State, particularly New York City. PREMIERSHIP LEFT HIM A POORER MAN. - LONDON, Jan. 13.—Evidence by former Premier Asquith ns to the inadequacy of £SOOO per year to discharge the socal obligations of a Prime Minister, appears in the report of a select committee on remuneration of Ministers. The recommendations of the committee already have been . published. ! Mr. Asquith, wlio was continuously in office for eleven years, nine of them as Prime Minister, told the committee that, he was a much poorer man when he leff office'than when he entered it. The office of Prime Minister could not be properly discharged on £SOOO yearly, unless the holder had private means, he said. ■There was much entertaining to be done of all sorts .of people, both at Home and abroad, and this had to be conducted entirely at the Prime Minister’s own expense. Mr. Asquith said that .occupation of No. 10 Downing street free from rent, lyites, and taxes was by no means an unmixed advantage. It was a very expensive and very inconvenient house, requiring a large staff. He was not in favor cf giving pensions to ex-Premiers. 1 CANADA’S SIN, TOO MUCH EX-. TRAVAGANCE. TORONTO,' Jan. 12.—A call for sanity of action to meet the exceptional and not encouraging outlook of the coming year, was sounded by, Sir 'Edmund Walker, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, at the annual meeting of that institution Monday. .Sir Edmund, after a detailed review of trade and industrial conditions, summed up his address with the following: “Among the lights and shadows of the world at the moment,' there are too many shadows to warrant anything but anxious care. You have heard from the general manager' the results of the best year the hank * ever, has had and thss far we have not. had much evidence of the decline in the spending habits of our people or the hard times that are ahead of us. We- know, however, th.it here, as elsewhere, all prices, whether' of commodities or of labor, must he reduced to a more, reashnable basis and the effect, of the world’s Tower nrices on farm products is already in Jain view. * “When this readjustment has reached the retail shop and a new basis of values- generally accepted, a genuine prosperity will arise throughout the world, in which we will have a large share. We shall merit, and we shall secure that prosperity in proportion to our good sense in realising, however, that our particular sin is extravagant expenditure, and willingness to incur debt.” Sir Edmund spared none in his address. He pointed out the immediate necessity of correcting our trade and 'laved, certain existing taxation. NIEMEYER. SUICIDfe OF THE MOST BRUTAL OF HUNS. The Daily. Express understands that Captain Niemeyer, the notorious ex-com-mandanb of tho'prisoriers’ camp at Holzniinden, who earned a sinister reputation during the war on account of his ferocious treatment, of British officers raptured by the'Germans, has committed suicide. Ho lias been so harassed, recently by the inhabitants of Hanover, where he has lived since the revolution, that he has blown out his brains v The German people applauded file harshness of Niemeyer and his associatesduring the war, but after the .armistice they began to change their tune. They have realised that it. is mainly due to such men as Niemeyer that the Germans are in such had odor throughout' the world at the present time. Feeling in Hanover against Niemeyer ran very high, and he was jeered at whenever he appeared in the streets. Niemeyer was .in America when the. war broke, out. He crossed over to ; Europe in .1915, and on the plea that he was over military age, was allowed to land at Liverpool. lie passed through England and reached Germany, by way of Holland. His brutal work in prison camps began within a few weeks of ( his arrival in the Fatherland. Captain Niemeyer and his brother Karl were 'bot h* on the list, of war criminals presented by the Allies to Germany with a demand for their trial. Karl Niemeyer, whose reputation for brutality was only second to that of his brother, was in command of the Clausthal camp during the w T ar. , BONUSES FOR BABIES. . PARIS, Jan. 1. —ln order to encourage the birth-rate the County Council of the Seine has decided to create a bonus for babies. From January 1 a bonus of 300 francs will he paid to parents in respect of the third child horn. For every child born afterwards the sum will be increased until the . tenth baby arrives, bringing the premium up to 650 francs. The. average of the bonus will bo calculated on the number of children living at, the time? of the birth of a baby having a right to the allowance. ' One hundred and fifty francs will be paid a month after the j advent, of the third child, and the remainder when it has attained its • first, birthday. The bonuses will be paid, to any family that claims them, notwithstanding its financial position, and t.o natural children who .ire recognised and whose parents have resided in the Department of the Seine for three years. The cost of this innovation will he 7,500,000 francs, and the question as to how the money can be, raised has arisen. By, the Finance Law of 1920 the Slate owes a subvention of 2,500,000 francs,'the other 5,000,000 francs will mean a considerable addition, to a Budget; already heavily charged. The Report of the Budget of the Department of’ the Seine has suggested that bachelors, and childless parents should be taxed, and this suggestion has been adopted. Bv the last State Budget the incomes oi bachelors and spiristers are specially taxed. They cried out against the impost, hut the bachelors will shout more lopdly now that a local ns well as a national tax is to lie levied, and the hope is expressed today that many of them will aim at securing the bonus rather than- pay a double tax which makes single blessedness in Franco very dear.

CANADA’S E.E.D. . OTTAWA, Dec. 23.—The cancellation of the luxury taxes has already lifta *a reviving effect, and business is showing signs of improvement. It is expected now that the worst phase of unemployment will be over by the end of January- . . ' " A*'Strong pressure is being exerted, in favor of the removal of the business profits tax, Canada’s E.P.D., which is retarding business development,, and the Government, will probably either abolish or thoroughly revise the tax. 2500 DIVORCEi CASES. HEAVY LIST OF UNDEFENDED ACTIONS. LONDON, Jan. B.—Heavy divorce business will mark the new legal term at the Law. Courts, which begins on I'uesday, the number of cases being.considerably higher than that of last year. A summary of the Divorce List shows that 2551 cases will he heard, as compared wilh 1631 in January, 1920.- Of this; number 2103 cases are undefended. . The total number of cases in the King's Bench list- is 1325, as against 1089 last .January. SACRIFICE BY A GIRL. LONDON, Dec. 28—The war between Sinn Fein and the forces cf the Crown continued during the holiday. - The death toll is sixteen. Constable Richardson, a member of the R.I.C: ‘ at Limerick, was walking , .with Miss Elizabeth Scales on Sunday night when he was attacked by four men, who seized his revolved. Miss Scales strove hard to Protect her companion and rushed between him and . his assailants. At that moment one -of the attackers, who had become possessed of the weapon, poioto 1 it in the direction of the constable. Miss Scales received the bullet and fell dead, shot through the heart. ‘ TWO WIVES EACH. U.s. FARMER’S PLAN TO GET MORE “HELP.” NEW YORK, Jan. . 2—A startling suggestion for ameliorating t]ie lot of .American farmers is . made .by Mr.George Smith, a Colorado farmer, who, to solve the problem of the shortage of domestic farm labor, proposed that , i farmers should be allowed two wives. “I am certain that- the farmer cannot- get any help unless it .is horn and raised on a farm,” writes Mr. Smith to the Governor of Colorado. ‘‘Let• the city dwellers have one wife and the farmers two. Then the farmer could raise boys to work on the farm and-not have to hire help at high wages.” CATERPLLLARS~TO HELP IN FIGHTING DISEASE. PARIS, Dec. 27.—Professor Metnlinikoff, of the Pasteur Institute, lifts for some years been experimenting with caterpillars as a cure .fir. tubercuEVis. The basis of his experiments. is the existence of a substance -in ' iro. caterpillar’s system which renders the most dangerous microbes 'innocuous. **. Even the bacilli of plague, 'diphtheria, lockjaw, hydrophobia, and tubercu.oris. are apparently unable to injure caterpillars, which, when inoculated wvn consumption bacilli, eliminated them , in two or three days. The professor used a thousand caterpillars for his experiments, and in his report he ' states that .he intends to continue Iris work, hoping to apply the results to the human, svstepi. - '■ :> £285,000 AIR PRTZE. ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE TO BE FLOWN BY ‘DEGREES. PARIS, Dec. 23.—The Aero Club of France has just sent to the Aero Club of America the rules for the “around the world” air race. The total prize'money will be £855,000 and the first prize £285,000. The rules fixed the period of the contest between July 1, 1921, and January - 1, ,1922. During this time contestants tna\- stai;t. any dav from‘any place, but, will he allowed only 100 days to establish their, record. . Thh winner will be determined not by the mileage he covers, but by the number of degrees of longitude he flies in the shortest time.' No entrant who does not fly at least 180 deg., or half round the globe, will be eligible for the first prize. Control stations will be established at convenient points-y-approxiiriatelv -every' 800 miles. ....