NEWS By CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 2

NEWS By CABLE AND MAIL.

EXTRACTING INSULIN FROM FISII. LONDON, Fob. 3lt has been discovered that insulin can he. extracted from fish, paid an official of the Fisheries Board. The British Medical Research Council, who were, finding some difficult} ;n obtaining it. from the abattoirs are iiop.ng to take advantage of the discovery.

MOST SOBER TOWN. A report presented to Bristol Licensing Bench by tho chief constable showed that tho most sober of all the big towns of England last year was Sheffield, where the number proceeded against for drunkenness per 1000 of the population was .47. The most drunken town, according to the same list, was Middlesbrough, where the number proceeded against per 1000 of the population was 10.

£27,750,000 A-BEGGING. TRADE FACILITIES GRANT NOT YET COMPLETED. LONDON, Jan. 11.—A further £27,759,000 may still be guaranteed to firms under the Trade Facilities Act, says a statement issued by an advisory committee. y The object is to supply firms with money on the best possible terms as an inducement for them to carry out work wh eh would otherwise be delayed. The absorption of a large number of unemployed is aimed at.

RAILWAY STORES. LARGE CONTRACTS TO' BE PLACED LONDON, .Jan. 23.—1 tis assumed that the payment of £"0,000,000 by the Government to the railway groups in discharge of tho arrears of maintenance will be followed by the placing of large contracts for stores of various kinds. Many branches of homo industry arc directly interested in tho allocation of tin's fund. Railway companies are very large purchasers of a. wide range o; materials, and the value of the storeheld by the railways of Great Britain, according to the best railway returns, was £32,845,769.

FRENCH PROVE OIL BURNING CAR SUPERIOR, PARIS, Feb. 3.—An official test of an oil-burning motor which sometime ago made a successful run to Bordeaux anc return lias just been carried out by the control of the Automobile Club ol France. Two automobiles identical in all details, except the engines, one consum ing gasol.ne, and the. other burning oil. wore built for the experiment. Both cars were sent a distance of 331 kilometres over the same route at a speei of fifty kilometres an hour. The test was carried out without incidents, but the gasoline motor consumed fifteen liters of fuel per bun died kilometres at n cost of 21 francs, while the oil-burning motor consumed fourteen liters of fuel per hundred kilometres at a cost of five francs 40 centimes.

In its official report the Automobile Club described the experiment as generally satisfactory

REFUGEE. SHIP SUNK IN TERRIFIC STORM. MANILA, P. 1., Jan. 31—With the arrival here of the steamship Paris, a belated member of the fleet of Russian refugees, it was learned that her sister ship the Ajax had been sunk off Formosa with the loss of 17 lives. Seven others who clung to the funnel for four hours were rescued by the Paris. The Paris and Ajax collided in a furious storm. The bow of the Paris was stove in by the collision but tiie injury was above the water line and she was able to proceed to Manila. Tho Paris slipped into Manila alone on Tuesday, evading the destroyer which was lying outside the harbor watching for the missing Russian ships. She steamed almost -to the Manila breakwater before she was turned back and convoyed to Mariveles quarantine station, where she is held. The Paris had left Formosa with 31 aboard, but arrived with 52, a child having been born en route. Tho other three belated vessels of Admiral Stark’s Vladivostock exiles have arrived at Bolinao Cove, 200 miles north of Manila,

MRS TROTSKY. BEAUTY WHOSE HATS ARE A DREAM. MOSCOW, Feb. I.—Lenin, the chief Bolshevik, is ending his stormy days in an unexpected manner; ho has become an irritable, loquacious, and devastating bore. This terrible man whose dream was world-revolution and! to whom the explosion of bombs and the burning of cities were as tho breath of life, has been reduced 1 by the irony of fate to a permanent invalid, lie has become unfit for work through incurable nervous debility. It is thought here that, as iic cannot go to Cairo or to Hamburg, 1923 .will see the end' of him. His wife, whom he married when both were political prisoners in Sibaria, still addresses Communist meetings, mostly on educational questions. She always locks, thin, haggard, and 1 worn, and never pays attention to her appearance. Trotsky, the War Commissary, is luckier. He has put aside his Jewish wife, who was a frenzied 1 and' loquacious revolutionist, and replaced her by a plump -young Russian Christian who knowg nothing about, politics and is not a Bolshevick. Natalia Ivanova, as the second Mrs. Trotsky is called, is the daughter of a Czarist general, and is an accomplished woman-of great persona) beauty. She dresses well and her hats are the despair even of tho wives of foreign diplomats. Who is a. reposeful young person ; - hence Trotsky’s fresh ness under a load of work quite as great as that borne by Lenin. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN U.S. From the American Consul a review of economic conditions in the United States in 1922 is to hand. The survey, which is made by Air. J. Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com mcrce, states, inter alia, that the yeai was one leading from a state of depres sion to one bordering on prosperity. The revival was caused mainly by three factors; the enormous amount of building; the large amount of road building by the States; and the enormous demand for automobiles. There were three fac tors, too, which remained unfavorable, and it was difficult to see how a real state of prosperity could be experienced whilst • those factors remained as they wore. The position of the farmer, al - though much improved in recent months, was far from satisfactory. It was csti mated that tho farmer represented two fifths of the buying power of the nation, and until his produots returned him a greater percentage of profit it was unlikely (hat he would be a heavy buyer oF manufactured goods. The second factor was the chaotic state of economic affairs in Europe. Although foreign trade was increasing satisfactorily, the serious economic situation in Europe remained a great handicap to development in the U.S. Tho factor which might become most important during the; coming year, was the labor shortage. If industry continued to revive as it had revived, during the last few months, competition for labor might become a serious problem. During the last several months there had been a rather general ; recovery of profit-making ability among industrial companies. That was a hopeful development, and prospects for tho next few months appeared favorable.

WHOLESALE SHOOTINGS OF SOVIET OFFICIALS. MOSCOW, Feb- 3.—The Soviet Government- has launched n nation-wide campaign to stamp out the corruption of public officials, with death penalty for flagrant offenders. r . Five men, including the, chairman of the village revolutionary have been' tried and shot at Igbrioffsk in the Ryzan district, for accepting bribes. At Orenburg fourteen officials, inchub ing the. president of the village Soviet, are on trial on charges of arresting peasants for the purpose of confiscating their stock as well as accepting bribes. In Moscow itself last week three officials of the railway administration were ordered to be shot for corruption in office.

“FOR BREAKING UP HOME,” STRANGE REASON FOR LEGACY. LONDON, March 19.—“ For invaluable assistance in breaking up my home,” was Hie strange reason explaining a clausa in the will of Brook Taylor, a late gentleman usher to the King, leaving Jt,25 to a friend. “The clause actually means what it says,” the latter told the Weekly Despatch. “When Tftiylor’s wife died I helped' him to break up his home and to distribute a great many papers and other effects.” Taylor left, the residue of liis estate, valued 1 at £9625, to be held in trust for the maintenance of the pots of his late wife. These include an aged) sheep-dog and 1 several cats.

JIERM OF INFLUENZA FOUND AND ISOLATED. SCHENECTADY, N.Y., Feb. 3. Hopes of thousands of sufferers from epidemic influenza for a cure or prevention of the disease, were raised to-da\ jy the announcement of the discovery oi the cause and the isolation of the germ. The "announcement, is made by Dr. Simon W. Elcxncr, director of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, who attributed the discover} to Dr. Peter Olitsky and Dr. Frederick T. Gates, also of the institute. The isolation will permit experiments with antidotes and antitoxins. 8( small is the germ that it must be magnified 1000 times before it can be roen distinctly under the microscope. The germ lodges in the nose and throat during the first thirty-six hours of influenza infection, then attacks the lungs in such a way as to make them susceptible to other germs in the nose and throat, notably those of pneumonia and bronchitis-

KRUPPS AND STINNES BUY WAR MATERIALS. BERLIN,, Feb. 3.—Both Ivrupp and Stinnos have made far-reaching contracts for enormous quantities of tin and copper with the largest concerns in the Netherlands. Quantities of those metals are being shipped regularly from Rotterdam to Russia via Danzig, for making munitions. So anxious is Stinnes to obtain large quantities of these metals, with all possible expedition, that be even has contracted for cargoes still on the high seas. As already known. Stinnes has established factories in Russia, where he is turning out large quantities of munitions.

Krupp has now taken over the Putiluff factories in Petrograd arid is also making quantities of munitions. It is not known whether the output of these factories is destined for the Soviets or for Germany, but there is no longer any doubt that Germany is relying on Russia for assistance in the matter of munitions 11,000 MINERS QUIT PITS TO' HUNT BABY. CARDIFF, Wales, Feb. 7.—Two-year old Merwyn llodges played about the door of his father’s cottage in Aberman to-day unmindful that for two days practically no coal in the great Aberdare Valley field bad been mined because the miners who should have been at work were searching for him. Merwyn, a miner's son, disappeared last Saturday from his father's house. Ilis friends, young and old, looked in vain for him all that day and Sunday. When Monday brought no tidings oi the youngster, six thousand miners in the community decided upon a baby hunt, and instead of going to the pits they combed the countryside thoroughly, dragging tho ponds until dark, but they did not find Merwyn. On Tuesday morning five thousand more miners joined in the search. After many fruitless hours, a man passing a closed freight car that stood on a col liery siding heard a faint cry. He opened the door and found Merwyn, tearful, but unhurt. The youngster could only say that “a man” had taken him for a ride in an .automobile. It is supposed that the child was kidnapped and that his captors placed him in tho car when they saw the furore his disappearance Trad caused. REAL SHIP THAT FLIES. NEW AIR WONDERS. LONDON, Jan. 24.—The authorities are having built in a British factory a machine of unique design to cope with perils which may come by sea or air, writes an air correspondent. One might take this machine for a slim-built, purely marine craft. It has a bow suggestive of speed and potyer,.', with tapering lines, while stern wards i. finishes with a sea-rudder. It has an engine and water-screw for moving-along the surface of the sea. Internally, the machine has comforl able living and sleeping quarters for iti crew of five men. On the top of its hull is a chart-room and water-endow-ed! compartment from which flic craft is steered* and controlled.

Now here is the wonder. This machine with its sea-going hull, armed with machine guns and torpedoes, can move across the water till it is alongside a great aircraft mother-ship ; whereupon, down from aloft, on a big crane, comes a large, light, complete structure embodying three tiers of lifting-planes. Tho-c, by means of attachments, arc fit ted across the hull. After which, operating aero-motors developing a total o' r 18C0 horse-power and whirling round aerial propellers or screws, the monster of the sea. climbs high into the air. Calculations omen up fascinating prospects. Data show, for example, the' certain tv pcs of surface naval craft should have sufficient power in their engine-rooms, if this were diverted to air-screws and they were fitted with 'argo enough wings, (o transform them f rom seacraft into-machines-which fly. ■ We stand to-dhv at the threshold of a new era —the era of “Britannia in the air.” ' - - • - MADRID, -tan. >2l. A Madrid engineer, Renor To Cierva °on of the CVo’rW MinHcr, is exnevimentin.g with a helicopter fa machine which can fly straight up and down'. ailed the “ Ado"Iro.”. which has no wings hut 304 shovel-likc propellers.

A New Chinese linn of steamers from Hongkong to Australia, will bo inaugurated by the steamer Ling Nam, which is en route from Hongkong to Sydney. WILSON’S WISDOM-ISMS. THE WOMAN WHO NEGLECTS HERSELF. Self-sacrifice is inbred ' n *^ H ' average woman. Gets, wrapped’up in her home and children, and neglcts herself. Great mistake. Bloom and beauty of youth vanish all too soon. Begins to age while her husband is still young and sprightly, Not fair to herself. Should keep her youth, beauty, strength and vitality hv taking “Maltcxo (Wilson’s Malt Extract). Wonderful natural tonic food. Brings back roses fo pale cheeks, banishes drawn, worn faces, puts brightness and sparkle into dull eyes. Let “Maltcxo” restore tho beauty that only radiant health can give. 1 and 21b. jars: 71b. tins for family use.