NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15871, 10 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

AVIATION IN SIAM

• .; ;Siam is holding a million ileal lotto y 1 (£100,000) in aid of her air service. Uiity thousand pounds will be distributed in r, V torize-mon'bv and the air service will ■benefit bv 'the same amount. lhe nrst | pme'Hvill be £IO,OOO. § ..JSfam's air force consists of 110 aeroS planes and a staff of 650. Ihere are m five- aerodromes and twenty-five prepared ■landing-places in the country.

ENGLISHMEN'S WAISTS

AUSTRALIAN GIRL'S PKAISI

m LONDON, June 26. "Englishmen ■ ■have better waists than Englishwomen, -'declares <Miss Maisie Maxwell, an Aus- ' -tr'alian journalist, in an interview given .'•"to rthe London Evening News ■■••' "When I fiist .saw Englishmen 1 ; . ;: stopped and admired them thev were *o ? Veil dressed and so carefully finished Vf 1 was', amazed by the number oi S shops catering exclusively for men.

'■> ; WIRELESS STATION BURNED

IRISH REBELS' OUTRAGE.

.■-LONDON, May 19.-Thc British ''naval wireless station at Biinbcg, on | the Donegal coast, has been destroyed bv fire by Irregular troops. ■'"Until recently the station was occupied by British naval coastguards, • Severe ordered out by I.R.A mutineers, and on Thursday night they set . fire to 'the buildings and left in com-. . mandcorcd motor-cars. f

• , ROSSi SMITH'S BOOK. LONDON,' • JuiSe 25.-The London newspapers 'glowingly review Sir Ross Smith's book on his world flight. • The Westminster Gazette says: Ine book will always have an honored place in the literature of aviation. The Manchester Guardian says : ine book shows him as a pilot worthy to make a great adventure."' The Daily News- says that ' it proves 'that "danger haunted every mile of his wonderful'journey!" ';'' . The" Dairy "Telegraph. says : If ever a human being followed the maxim 'Live'" dangerously' it was this gallant Australian."- _'..'.

Mcdonald a gold mine

NELSON CLUB'S FINANCES,

LONDON, June 25.—The Nelson CluV'saction in giving E. A. McDonald (the Australian? £2O- a week- has proved' a greivt commercial success. It he hasn't done all that was expected of him on the cricket field, he has been a gold mine, for Nelson's income last year ™is £1352, while this year the first.five matches have, yielded ;.£1127. These are stupendous figures. The Evening Standard says that "Frank O'Kcefe makes no secret of the | fact that ; he has a grievance against Australian cricket. Though born in Sydney M was 'consistently overlooked in his native' city; when showing proviso in: his'batting. He then went to. Melbourne; ahd made good, and showed the Australian Eleven what he could do.

'"HOURLY AIR EXPRESSES TO • ':; PARIS.

LONDON, May 13.—Air traffic records ' between -London and the Continent are being broken -daily. On -Monday,- when two new air service's begin, the number of aeroplanes flying to and from -the London Air Station will be unprecedented. 1 The first: express leaves for Pans at 5 a ; m i, and from then until dusk there will be a constant stream of big 100mUes T an-hour craft passing in and out of the-station. From. Monday, when the new services to. Amsterdam and Brussels begin, there • will be no fewer, than 30 expresses daily a'scendihg from aiid alighting at Croydon. ' - . . ■ ■ The.bulk of the air expresses fly between-London and 'Paris, the daily total between these places being 24, ■which means that a machine leaves for Paris almost every hour between 5 a.m. ? ands'p;m,-' - „. EX-CHANCELLOR. |; TOKIO, May 13.—The visit to Japan of Dr.'Michaelis, the former Imperial German Chancellor,.is being made the oceasiori of unofficial gatherings • of at Osaka and Tokio of Japanese interested in German trade and .science. He arrived' at Tokio last evening, and was welcomed at the station by medical and other professors and' by students from the German school; Speaking at Osaka, he advanced' tho customary German plea that Germany is "unable to meet the •reparation demands of the Allies. •""'The Germans are rapidly recovering their former'position in regard to "trade with Japan. Imports to Yokohama for tho first four months of this year have aggregated half the value of those during the corresponding periled of 1913. These imports are chiefly dyes, chemicals, and machinery, and arc valued at £1,500,000.

©BEAT DOCK SCHEME.

RECLAIMING 640 ACRES OF MUD ?T« ,: AT SOUTHAMPTON.

'LONDON, May 17. The London and South-Western Railway have submitted to Southampton Corporation plans'.of a T>ig scheme of dock construction andextension to make Southampton one of the finest pOTts m the world. ' '' ' ~ ."■'. : They propose to build a line ot piers (as in New York) and one or two dry docks on the town side of the river Test from a point off the Royal Pior towards Millbrbok, a distance of about two miles. To'carry out the scheme, which* it :'is estimated will take several years to complete, cost several million pounds, and provide work for "thousands of men, it will be necessary to reclaim (340 acres of mud land which will mainly bo available for business and residential purposes. The dry dock will be capable of accommodating the largest vessels afloat.