NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

NEW GERMAN OIL WELL MAY HELP PAY REPARATIONS. HANOVER, Germany, March-- -14. Germany is enjoying a new thrill in the opening, near here, of an oil gusher which, according to optimis.ts, may help grease the wheels of reparations.. The . well is said. to be pouring out 600,000 pounds of oil daily, which is consider- „ ; ably more than the yield of nil - the other wells in the country. • ■ • HEBRIDEANS MIGRATE., b MONTREAL, March 18.-A. party ,of at least 500 Hebrideans will sail from Barra and Sojith Uist on March 28/for Canada, and' will arrive early in April. Like the group that made the voyage a year ago, tins party will settjenear Red Deer, Alta., where their Father A. Mac Donnell, has for the building of a hundred cottages,To’ receive the settlers. LOW BUSINESS STANDARD&I NEW YORK, March 19.—Speaking on “The Shame of the Republic;’’ ' Dr Stephen S. Wise, noted rabbi, on Sunday declared that low business standards were responsible for the oil scandals now before the nation. “I consider this one of the, f most critical days in American sfi/idl Wise, deploring “business in th® government.” . .7: “Apparently the bigger the business the lower the standards,” “This is responsible for the shamstjqf the republic.” CALIFORNIA FA CEB SERIOUS’ DROUGHT. Jjiriiv SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.-With a long succession _ of cloudless days 1 ah the only answer to its somewhat jftnicSy hopes for rain, California is facing'one of the most serious draught situations in its history, according to a stafOrient to-day by G. H. Willson, official government forecaster. , J California lias seen dryer winter seasons than the present, but the . demand on, water reserves was not nearly so great as it will be during the coming spring and summer. The movement of cattle out of Southern California; to Northern pasture lands is already under way, while the northern .part. of . the state itself is on the ragged edge, ac-; cording to Willson. '- ‘.U'v; 77 r 71 PNEUMONIA SERUM. : SUCCESSES' CLAIM ED FOR NEW - / TREATMENT. 7 ./••;. VEVEY, March 3.—According td- the Berne newspapers excellent, resultajare being obtained from the treatmentr’jofpnenmonia by a serum discovered % . > young Swiss, Dr. Tomarkin. ' The doctor first used the serum 'wrUr success in the case of the Duke of -Ajdrtftj who was seriously ill last December. [pf- ''"l It is claimed 1 that while the mortality,, is 40 per cent, in cases of pnenjmoni.a treated by ordinary methods, ,onlyJJLp®T • cent, prove fatal when Dr. serum is used. * j Dr. Tomarkin has been invited by scientific bodies of several countries' tq demonstrate his method. r -7 KING GEORGE ENTHUSIASTIC. .. RAD lON., / GLORIOUS NOTES OF NIGHT-. 7 . IN GALE TO BE, BRO ADCASTED. LONDON, March 21.—King George . , has joined the radio fans, and has had installed in Buckingham Palace a receiving set said to.be unique. ■ No aerial or ground connections • are used, their places being taken by copper, ;Vve plates set into the top and base of the cabinet. This obviates Die frame loop. The set has six tubes, using two steps of radio and three of audio-frequency ftpipliV, ; 7 tication. , s*l-v The British Broadcasting Company, is planning an attempt in the spring to ,7 radio the song of thei nightingale in its , , native haunts. A microphone and/ ft ”.;] small transmitting set will be placed in ' a gi’ove frequented l by the feathered- * songsters ;, /AU CHOOSING A CLERK. STEPNEY REDS RAISE CAM A .£•■;.§ LONDON,, March 21.—Wild scenes occuiwed when the Council of Stepney, V one of the East End London borough* 3' ' which possesses an advanced Labor element, attempted; to appoint a town- / clerk! One of the councillors constantly sounded a motor horn to drown the discussion; another member -of the council declared that he was a Bolshevik’ and was proud! of it. The candidate for the clerkship who eventually obtained a majority of . the , votes, declined to accept the office under such conditions, His action Was ~ approved! of by other candidates for Die position, who were in attendance at ‘ the council meeting. / ' The council adjourned without making an appointment to the clerkship. /S'ftvi The cause of the trouble is said Jo have been due to the absence of £hp ( name of one of the members Or the present staff of the town clerk’s office from the list of candidates, he being/the | choice of the advanced Labor members. * - SOMETHING NEW IN STAMPS. 7. MOURNING FOR LENIN.7f.V ; - j SOVIET POSTAL 7/ LONDON, March 18.—The philatelist.;! gjj on the look-out for a novelty to add'.to /■ his collection will certainly wish to ' r obtain something new just out of Rys’ ; sia—a, set of four “Lenin mourning 7/7 stamps” issued by the Russian Goveijn-*, ' 7 nijpnt. They bear 'the portrait.of; ‘; 3 Lenin, surrounded by an inner fijainp ' of black and an outer border oUjCotn-j munist, red, and will be in compiO'sbriV , use in the Russian republics for ‘ goime time. The portrait, in its silhouette, effect of black find white, is a reniaritably good one. • • •' ' / It is said that dealing in, Russian postage stamps is a monopoly of- a special department of the Soviet Govern- k ment, which markets them in fi|d of.-. various famine and! child welfare; iup'dsj, .• punctuating the ordinary issues .of Russia by special “charity” sets, apl.d/at! high prices, and bearing such./ -inscripiions as “Philately Helps the, -’’H; Children.” Famine stamps from 'j, districts bear witness to the internal; ; condition of Russia during the lasC.tWO . ■ or three years. . . . ——'/ ”.. 7' After the revolution, payipent't)U.pO?te> age was abolished in Russia,' 'but 1 disorganisation consequent on this chfipge ■ was so widespread! that free postage WjfiS , 7 dropped after a not very extended trial.' 7 | Then appeared some curious stamps . . sympolic of art —’Labor Socialism a slaying the Capitalist dragon, * and slmilfit* 7/v devices, the nominal values of the 3 stamps being in ever-increasing -figures,' i up to ICO,OOO roubles. Then there .yrfiß ' > a sudden drop when “1922 roubles’lliM'eW' X introduced, each worth 10,000 of theuld roubles. _ .> In 1923 small stamps bearing fearsome portraits of “Red” workers and soldiers were introduced, which are not thfe' beet’ possible advertisement of the charms ;dt Soviet rule. These, with Tsarist stamps; overprinted with Bolshevik devicesfi served during 1923, when they placed by similar stamps with values ■ expressed in gold kopeks. , 'f 7 '