NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16378, 11 March 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

U.S APPROPRIATES OVER £2,000- • 000 TO ENFORCE VOL STEAD ACT. c- WASHINGTON. Fob. 6.—The, House -. has approved a section of the treasury t- appropriation bill which would provide s £2.000.000 for prohibition enforcement -. in the United States during I lie coming i- fiscal year. f PROBE GASOLINE PRICES UNDER e ANTI-TRUST LAW. e LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. s.—Following - a conference , with Attorney-General 1 Spillman- to-dav Governor Charles Bryan - announced that- telegrams would be sent - to- President Coolidge and Attorney- • S General Daugherty calling upon them 3 1 to proceed immediately under the Sher- ’ man Anti-Trust Law against, the gasoline l industry. • BANKERS HEADY T 0» LEND SUP- J ' PORT TO LABOR ITES. LONDON, .lan. 24. —Col. Gnlwyn. ehaimian of the Laneashire and York I shire Bank, declared dial, llio bankers f-l ! Greai- Britain would', do all in their power to render assistance lo the new , Government, no matter what- personal or political views they hold. Lord t’ol- , wvn iu.'hTo this declaration at the annual , meeting of the bank. PREMIER- TASOHKREAU ROBBED OF £240. MONTREAL. Feb. 4.—Thieves broke into the room of Hon. L. A. Tasehere.au. Premier of Quebec, while ho was a guest at the Pinco Vigor, Hotel on Saturday evening and stole £240 from his clothes. It is thought ihai entrance to tho Premier's room was obtained through skeleton keys while he was in another part of 11 io hotel. BABY WEEK TN TNDIA. DELHI. India. .lan. 30.—Judins latest novelty is a. series nj_ 309 hahv shows, including sixty under native auspice.-. Lady Reading, wife of the Viceroy, opened the show in Delhi with impressive ceremony. She said the national baby week was- the firs:- step in the. campaign to combat- suffering in India. Lord Reading expressed the hope that- the baby week would become an annual affair. COOLIDGE ORDERS PROBE OF 130 PER- CENT. RISE, IN GASOLINE'. WASHINGTON* Feb. ,7.—President Coolidge has directed the Federal Trade ' Commission and the Department of Justice to make a- thorough investigation immediately of tile charges that the Stan- j davd Oil Company has raised the price of gasoline at the refineries 130 per cent. The charges were'made in ,a- telegram sent the President by Governor MeAlasters, of South Dakota. LABOR CABINET LIKELY TO/ POOL ALL PAY CHEQUES. LONDON, Feb. s.—Tim Daily Express says it- hears that, the Labor Cabinet is planning to institute “flat rate ; salaries for all Ministers,” abolishing ‘ “gross inequalities which are illogical , and merely historical.'’ fl They arc said to lie seriously considering the question of adopting a system of pooling their salaries, such as was done by the Cabinet. Ministers during the war. NEARLY 10.CCO NORWEGIAN SETTLERS FOR. CANADA. QUEBEC, Fell. 6.—Tim Dominion of I Canada, will secure between eight and ten thousand Norwegian immigrants during the coming season of navigation, if the reports of fivci prominent Nor- c wegian shipping men. who arrived in the city to-day from 'Scandinavia- via Halifax, arc received with favor by the interested parties in . this . country. They have come to Canada to study farming, so they may present an intel- - ligenl: report upon their return lo Norway. BRITAIN SHIPPING GOLD TO U.S. . TO MEET WAR DEBT. > NEW YORK, Feb. R—Preparations for meeting the next debt payment to the United States arc under way by Great Britain with a. shipment- of £2,- , 200,000 gold, due to arrive here within 1 the next few days. Small amounts of British gold have been arriving steadily for the past several weeks. Part of it has been used to meet interest payments on the Government bonds, hut- the greater hulk of it lias gone towards building up a balance to meet Great i Britain's war debt.

NO MAN’S LAND FOR QUEBEC BORDERLINE. QUEBEC, Jan. 26..—A “No-man’s 'and” 120 feet- wide will he established jn the United Stairs-Quebec border to gop the opera! ions in contraband liquor in .premises which are hir.lt across the border line. The Canadian •ml of the legislation necessary is ■;rovided for in a bill to be introduced it. Ibis session of the Quebec Legislature Tlie banned area will be sixty feet, of Canadian territory and sixty few 'f United States territory. It- will lie illegal for anybody to have liquor in this neutral zone. CATTLE FOR BRITAIN. There is a. strong flavor of irony in the situation which forces the British farmers to appeal for .the admission of Canadian breeding cattle to replenish herds decimated by the foot and "mouth disease. It is ot’ily a few years since these same farmers were protesting violently against- the admission of Canadian store cattle, alleging that they were a menace to the stock-raising industry. Canadian cattle, are now,,.described as clean and-healthy, and 1 the further lifting of. the embargo so as to admit dairy heifers is urged as in keeping with the agreement with the. Dominion. OPULENT GERMANS. LONDON, Feb. I.—-A feature, too, of the cell ires of fashionable sport on tlto Continent, are the masses of opulent German visitors, who demand and get tho best of everything. One. gapes at them-.in wonder with the growing conviction that the “spoils of war’’ arc undoubtedly for the conquered ; race. Apropos of this,' from well-authenticated sources : -io-Germany ono hears the- 1 same story—be., - that plac es' of amusement have never' been.. so popular and so full. The very rich and the working class patronise them, and, of course, there is tin? same sad story as regards tho middle classes. They probably -> am the real burden-hearers there as here. : MILLIONS LOST WHEN SOVIET BREAKS WORD. LONDON, Feb. 7. Alacny millions of capital ‘is menaced by the decision.'.of the Supreme Economic lAiunuiJ in Russia to organise a Soviet- syndicate to operate the mines involved in a.'concession lepre' sentec! by Mr. Leslie UrquhaLt, us head of the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Company, with a capital of twelve millions sterling, and • including-' Irkutsk. "Kysli fun. tliisso-Canacli'in mid' Tamilyk corporations. Mr. Urquliarl, has already filed a claim with the British foreign ollicei fm fifty-six liillion pounds compensation for the confiscation of (lie corporation’s machinery, plant and valuable slock of metals.

BUGS AND BEETLES BY THE BILLION. It is computed that there are five times as many kinds of insects as there are species of all other living things pul together. Seventy years ago, the number of species arid insects preserved- in collections was about 170,000. To-day it is estimated that there arc 750,000 sorts, and that without counting the parasitic creatures. In Europe alone there arc 350,000 species. Most inserts live on trees or plants. There are known to be 450 sorts which make I heir home in oak trees, and about 200 in the pine. Of bostles alone itlie) varieties exceedl 100,000. The colonies of social inserts contain enormous populatipns, those of ants and termites being the largest.