NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

THIRD EVEREST EXPEDITION

LONDON, Dee. B.—The third expedi

tion to Mount Eveiresti arranged by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club will leave England early next year. Several members of last year's party will go oUt 4 and the lendei will again be BrigndieV-Gcnera] the Hon. G. C. Bruce. At. a meeting of this Glamorgan'Territorial Association, of which General Bruce is secretary, it was stated that, the General would his starting for

India in February. It may be recalled that last year Everest was ascended to within I,Booft. of its summit.

FIRST AEROPLANE. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. WORK OF WRIGHT BROTHERS. LONDON", Dec. 17.—1 t is recalled by the Westminster Gazette that to-day if the 20th anniversary of the first controlled flight by Mr. O. Wright and his late brother, Wilbur, in a mechanically propelled aeroplane. The paper says: "Though a flight to Paris for lunch is now not regarded as a reckless adven-

hire, it is only 20 years since the news of the first flight was received with unbelieving ridicule."

PRECEPTS FOR SUCCESS

LORD INCHCAPE'S DICTA

LONDON, Dec. 13.—The following striking passages are taken from Lord [nchcap'e's speech aV the annual meeting of the P. and 01 Company yesterday : "The precepts which I read in Balzai /ears ago still hold tho field in business. "Don't beat tho bush for others. "Trust no one. further than you can see him.

"Never say'"what you do. but always a what vou say.

"Keep your hands to yourself; the same with your purse. "Sell your jewels for more than they cost you. "The first four we carry out, but therr is at present difficulty about the fifth. There is an idea, that shipowners made money out of the war. Ne greater fallacy ever took possession of the human mind.

"I''imagine any leader who again raises the protection issue will he taken charge of by his followers and locked up."

WORLD'S GREATEST BARRAGE,

SUKKER SCHEME BEGUN.

BOMBAY, Nov. I.—The Daccan irri

gation woi"ks have accustomed the Bombay public to tho immense magnitude of modern undertakings in this Presidency. Even so, it is difficult to appro eiate the significance of last Thursdays' ceremony at Sukkur, where the fouhda> lion was laid of the barrage scheme. which will irrigate five hundred thousand more acres than the total cultivated area in Egypt. Aasuan furnishes an inadequate comparison, and new standards-

of comparison have bocome necessary. The Sukkur barrage, the largest in the world, will cany two bridges across the Indus, each more than five times the length of London Bridge. Three of the 'Seven canals to bo constructed will beVwider than the Suaz Canal, the largest being 205 miles long ; the central rice canal will have, a discharge equal to that of l.lje Thames. The) excavation work on tho canals involves the moving of leu thousand million cubic feet, of earth, 'equivalent to four Suez Canals or one hundred Ovcai

Pyramids, The irrigated lands will pro dueei an annual crop of two million tons

of grain and cotton. The total estimated cost, of the scheme is over £12,000,000 Sir George Lloyd, the retiring - Governor of Bombay, deserves" the greatest credit for the 'zeal and determination with which ho forced the solution of a

problem, involving the future prosperity of Sind, which had baffled two genera

lions. The barrage will fittingly bear Sir George Lloyd's name.