NEWS BIT CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15638, 4 October 1921, Page 3

NEWS BIT CABLE AND MAIL.

PARIS BROOKLANDS. PARIS, August 3.—With a circumference of five miles, a motor-racing track like that of Brooklands is shortly to be erected 'in the Paris suburbs near the Port de Versailles. It will be a mile and a half long, and it will be possible to do the "flying kilometre"' in a straight line. It is thought that the track may be ready for use next summer. MAGTCIAN INCLUDES TIGER AMONG BANKRUPT ASSETS. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—One tiger, valued at £IOO, and a box of tricks worth the same amount, are listed amoncr the assets of Horace Goldin, .. theatrical magician, in a bankruptcy petition filed in United States Court here. Mr. Goldin said the tiger and the tricks had helped him accumulate debts of £7777 in the last two years. MOTOR POWER DOUBLED. PARIS, August 13.—A new device for increasing the cylinder pressure in motor-car engines has been introduced by the German firm of Mercedes, according to a message from Berlin to the Paris Auto. Under the control of the driver, the power of - the engine can thus be increased, it is stated, by 50 per cent, to 100 per cent. The Mercedes car which took part in the Targa Florio race in Italy was provided with the new device.' ADVERTISING TO STOP DECAY. At the Ancient Order of Foresters' H'tjh Court at Leeds, Mr. D. Bertram said that if friendly societies were not to sink into a musty, condition of financial decay. they must advertise. *.. ;^ An occasional half-column in any of the great provincial organs that reached .the working man would be a more pro- " fitable investment than any the Order ever made in redeemable stock. MOTOR-CAR SHOW FOR CHINA. A Shanghai message states that re : . ' presentatives of the motor-car and allied industries have decided to hold an international exhibition during the. autumn. The necessity for British manufacturers being adequately represented is emphasised since China presents an unrivalled field in this industry, and the demand is ever increasing. Cheapness is the chief factor. MISSING HUSBAND.^ WIFE SUSPECTED OF BURNING aP^'rii PARIS, August I.—Suspected of murdering her husband and. burning the • body, Mme. DuTae') of Chez Grollier, near Angouleme.'fled after being visited by a police inspector. • Just over a month ago the -husband disappeared, and shortly afterwards an anonymous letter reached the police hinting that he had been murdered by his wife in order that she might be free to marry again. On searching the house the police found bones, believed to be human, hidden up the chimney. MOTOR CAR WRECKED BY BURST FLYIWHEEL. i LONDON,- August 3.—An unusual motoring accident is reported at Bridgwater. ,/ , . - :

A motor-car belonging to Mr*S.' Harrison, of. Bishopston, Bristol, was onj the way .to Ilfracombe with six occa-l > pants when a stop was made at Bridg-v water for petrol. <' While the engine was running the fly-wheel burst, smashing the mechanical parts completely and wrecking almost the whole of the front portion of the vehicle. ' ' ' , ~ One huge piece of casting broke- the; plate-glass window of a chemist's shop, and other pieces were hurled 30 yards. The occupants of the car had a won- ! derful escape. ACTRESS TO ADDRESS THE 1 CHURCH CONGRESS. MISS LENA ASHWELL TO SPEAK TO THE CLERGY ON DANCING. LONDON, August 9.—Miss Lena Ashwell, the actress, is one of several women who wil.l address the Church Congress, which meets afc Birmingham in October. •, '.'.'* ; She is to speak on dancing when, modern tendencies in Recreation are discussed. ,'; . Mrs Paget is to speak on Position in the Ministry of the Church,", Miss J. E. Hegson wifi give an address on "Adolescence," and Miss G. Tuck-* well, president of the Women's TradeUnion League, has been invited' to speak" at a special meeting for women, only. * ' Lord Robert Cecil and Lord Hugli Cecil are among the prominent laymeir who will address the Congress. »,

2,000-YEARS-OLD LOVE-LETTERS.-. NAPLES.' August 9.—-Among the re« markable discoveries in the new excavai tions at Pompeii are several love-letters' of patrician girls- to successful gladiators!' They were found -near the. newly un-;; earthed wineship' ih'\,thb'.Street of'. Abundance, which has ; almost "been re-" stored to its appearance "at ifc was-5,000 years ago. The letters *are on iyon* tablets, and one is addressed to ' a < gladiator named Strax, who, in -the opinion of Professor-Vittoria Spinnaj zzola, director of the'"Museum Here, was probably a "barbarian" from Britain.' The letter reads: "Art thou Phoebus Apollo in of Herculesf In- ; deed thou art a god to me. Thy beauty and strength have plotted from my eyes. all other men. I am young and the suitors I I will await" thee, "beloved one, near the Temple of Irist Inscriptions on the walls under ' drawings- bf' gladiators show that G'hloe, Lydia, and Cornelia were in love with them. Other tablets have been found perfectly preserved in a great chest, once the property of an old money-lender, who seemed to have been the banker of Pompoii. Sufficient • evidence has been deduced from these tablets to prove that many of the young "bloods" of Pompeii paid frequent visits to the old man, on account of .the high cost of feasting and jewels. FASHION'S"NEXT COLOR? BLACK AND "TAN WAVE IN T -.iv j AMERICA. ! LONDON. August 9.—What is going to be woman's next fashionable colbr? According to the "New ■ Republic" a "wave, of black" is sweeping- over <the. United States sartorial • salons, ■ and everyone, both rich and poor,' is assum-; ing either black or dark colored garW Varied reasons are given for this portent, the most obvious' one being that it is an economy reaction. ' What will happen in England after the disappearance of the riotous cretonne and chintz patterns which have'made this sunny summer the most igaudy' season in the century?" asks a Chronicle correspondent. ' ; ' ' •' i Yellow is officially declared to be the most fashionable color this, season, though the mixture of colors that onehas seen everywhere (the "big noise colors;" as one critic put it) has been most marked. ' i *• . i Cretonne effects having left the mere male beholder rather breathless,' it* will be interesting to observe what will'arrive next. - ■ - In the trade there seems a general'belief that some plain and quieter tones will prevair next cant that there has not been such a color "splash" in Paris this year as in English seaside resorts.