NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

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

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

INSURED AGAINST RAIN. CLUB’S NOVEL PRECAUTION. MELBOURNE, April 24.—The Yanawonga Tennis Chib lias adopted the novel precaution of insuring against rain. In it.s current tournament, as it turned out, the scheme paid the club well. WARRANT FOR BANKER, PARIS, March 20. —Numerous complaints having been lodged at the Police Court, the examining magistrate has issued a> warrant for the arrest- of M. Simon, a Paris banker, who disappeared last Saturday. The liabilities are said to reach from 15,000,0C0 to 20,000.000 francs. MAN WHO FORESAW. WHEN GERMANY PLANNED WAR. LONDON, April 24.—The death is announced of Colonel Mulliner, a former director of the Coventry Ordnance Works. He took a very active part, in the prewar controversy as to whether Germany was preparing for war. Colonel -Midline)’ secured private information in 1906 that Germany was secretly building battleships and armaments. He revealed bis knowledge to the British Government, which at first was incredulous, but finally was convinced, and laid down four battleships to meet the menace at sea. £60.000 FOR A THEORY. ROME, March 20.—The police, have denounced to the Public Prosecutor a certain Agostino Trucco, founder and president of what ho, described as a new school of economic thought- which would revolutionise the finances and economics of the world. According to the charge, Trucco collected from the public about £60,000 with promises of fabulous dividends on the day on which his theories were accepted and applied. The money had mostly been spent on advertisement. Two well-known members of the Roman aristocracy contributed £IO,OOO each. NEW SPANISH COINS. MINT TO WORK AGAIN AFTER .14 "YEARS. MADRID, March 20.—For many years Spain, has bad; the largest silver and copper coins in the world, and they circulated so freely as to make one’s pockets uncomfortably bulky. It has now been decided to substitute nickel coins for the id, Id, and 3d pieces. It- is 14 years since the Spanish Mint made coins. New machinery has been installed and special workmen have been engaged to make the new coins. PROHIBITION FIGHT. £IOO,OOO OFFERED FOR A MEDICAL JOURNAL. LONDON, March) 20.—The Daily Mail is informed by the Practitioner, the medical journal, that- for the second time an offer of more than, £IOO,OOO for that journal lias been refused. In some quarters, says the journal, it is believed that- the, ultimate result- concerning prohibition rests to a- very large extent with the medical profession, and anli-prohibitionists have been endeavoring to obtain control of a medical paper for propaganda purposes among the profession. SPANISH WOMEN. VOTES AND CANDIDATES AT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. MADRID, March 20.—The -Military Directory publishes a decree to-day giving municipal votes to women who are heads of families. Those of 23 and over will be entitled to vote and they will also be» eligible to stand as candidates. Another decree gives fuller local power to municipalities and diminishes the importance and privileges of prefects. Mayors will not-, as formerly, he appointed by prefects and other high officials ; they will be elected by the municipality. “NOT A DROP TO DRINK.” CITY’S GOLD FISH POPULATION WIPED OUT. NEW* YORK, March 20.—Though it is situated on the shores of a great Jake of fresh water, Cleveland, with, a total population of a million, has been suffering for four days from a drinking water famine. Its reservoirs are all tainted owing to the- warm weather, which, suddenly breaking up the ice, carried immense quantities of phenol dumped from -steel mills down a river into the lake near the intake pipes of the city water plants. _ Though! doctors declare- that the taint is not poisonous, the inhabitants have existed since the beginning of the; weekoil fruit juices, “soft” drinks, milk, and liquid extracts of tomato. l'n addition to the suffering caused, especially to children, all the gold fish in the city have died. BROADCAST STRIKE. A U.S. THREAT. NEW YORK, May 20.—A wireless strike is threatened jit the United Slates as the result of numerous obstacles placed in the way of broadcasters. The threat- is the result partly of suits for alleged' infringement of patent rights brought against several companies engaged in broadcast, and party of the demand, made by publishers for royalties on all copyrighted music used in wireless concerts, “One million dollars from radio,” is alleged by broadcasters to be'the watchword issued by music publishers. Broadcasters declare that owing to this attitude they are unable to vary their programmes sufficiently, and they argue that the only way to arouse public opinion in favor of the clarification by the Government of the broadcasting situation is to organise a strike or temporary cessation of broadcasting. A FORD RAILWAY. MOTOR-CARS TO RUN ON COUNTRY LINE. CHICHESTER, March 26.—The “Clickity Click” or the “Bumpity Bump,” as the old-fashioned tramway between Chichester and Selsey lias been described, is, if its proprietors have their way, to blossom forth as the West Sussex Railway, dropping its title of “The Hundred of Manhood and! Selsey Tramway.” The officials have successfully experimented with a new type of railway carriage, the übiquitous Ford car, provided with wheels to run on rails.

Orders hfive been placed for additional carriages. It is really a hedgerow railway, for the promoters had to place their line whereever the farmers would permit, and they were driven to the sides of the meadows through which they wished to pass.

This railway of eight miles has eight stations hut only two staationmasters. one at each end. The other six stations look after themselves.

“We do the eight miles in 39 minutes, and with our new motor vehicles expect to do it in nine minutes less.”