NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16424, 7 May 1924, Page 8

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

FATAL' AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. LONDON. March 26.—Corporal .1. B. Shelly, of the R.A.F., stationed at Nctlicravon, was burned to death in an aeroplane accident, at- Farnbolougli last night. He bail gone from Netberavon to Fari'i'huroiigli on a test (light, avid after delivering a. despatch ascended for the return journey. Ho' bad not- been long in the air when bis machine, side-slipped, crashed to earth, and burst into- flames. FIFTEEN MILES OF ROAD. A novelty in omnibuses will be seen at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. A licet of 200 rapid electric ’buses, designed on the same lines as the electric luggage carriers at some of our railway stations, have been built to take passengers to all parts of the exhibition. They will run wherever there are roads. There are tiften miles of roads in ti e exhibition. ENGLISH BY WIRELESS. LESSONS BROADCAST IN GERMANY. RERUN. March 26. —Wireless enthusiasts in Berlin and throughout. Germany are learning the. English language by wireless. A concern called "The Cllstein Service" is "broadcasting” a lesson in English twice a week. Special leatlets aig being issued to “radio fans'’ to enable pupils to perfect ilieir knowledge. “A thousand English words you must know” is the slogan. POLICE RADIO GAIL Scotland Yard, slides “Electrician,'’ has designed and built a special ear from which communication can be established ■with headquarters, when it is travelling at speed up lo forty miles per hour. The primary object is to establish a means of movable communication for the control of traffic. By means of this new wireless vehicle, which will easily be able to get to and fro on roads and fields, Scot hind Yard hopes to get into touch with any real congestion, and' by means of prompt communication with headquarters, remedy it. GIRL SHOT AT CHURCH DOOR, SPANISH STUDENT'S JEALOUSY. MADRID, March 26. —Senorita. Para Gonzalez, grand-daughter of Don Yenancio Gonzalez and daughter of Don Alfonso Gonzalez, who has been a Minister under King. Alfonso XIII., lias been shot, dead by a student of architecture, who wanted to become tier fiance. Senorita Gonzalez was n. very beautiful girl, 18 years of age, and in flic month of July next was to have married an army doctor. The' assassination took place at the door of the church where the unfortunate girl had just beard Moss. SECRET DRUG TRAFFIC. EXPORTS FROM SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, .March 26. —The Swiss Government have opened an inquiry regarding a. clandestine export from Switzerland of morphine of a. total weight of between -0001 b and 12001 b, wniseii lias been seized at New: York and the destination of which was Montreal. It appears that the matter was brought to the notice of the Swissi authorities’by the Canadian Government, and the goods were skipped from Rotterdam, they having, it is til leged. been sent, from Switzerland under a false declaration as incandescent lamps. PROHIBITION FAILURE. RESULT OF SCOTTISH POLLS. EDINBURGH. .March 26.—Details were issued on Eridav of the polls taken during 1923 under the Temperance (Scotland) Act, 1913. The area in which polls were taken numbered 257. rn 208 of these N'o Change was carried, Limitation was adopted in two, but No Licence tailed to receive sufficient support to be carried in any area. Continuance of Limitation was in the majority in sixteen areas, but was repealed in six areas. No Licence w.as continued in eighteen areas and repealed in four. Further Limitation was carried in three areas. The number of electors entitled to vote was 1,296,949, and the number of votes recorded was 805,133, or 62.1 per cent. The cost of the polls was £18,821 16s 2d. SHIPPING WAR. THREAT. NEW YORK, March 26.—Shipping men interviewed here declare that the action of the Inter-State Commerce'Commission in granting a, preferential rate to goods, except grain, sliippgd in American bottoms is a move towards a shipping war. Foreign ships will not be excluded from the trade, but must make a rate by adding the American domestic railway rale to t-ljeir ocean rate. Assuming that American ships get outward cargo, authorities say that the preference to American ships must excite retaliatory measures. Great Britain and other countries will naturally favor their own tonnage and send American vessels home lightly laden. There will lie no profits to either side, it is argued, if the traffic becomes unbalanced by full freights only in one direction, a, fad which may induce reconsideration before the order becomes effective on May 20. ABERDEEN HERD ROY’S RISE. EDINBURGH, March 26.-Mr. John Ylilne Meimie, an Aberdeenshire herd hoy in the Methlick district, has died at Auckland, New Zealand, leaving a fortune of close on £IOO,OOO, from which lie has directed bequests to be made to Hie extent of some. £54.000. chiefly to charitable institutions in New Zealand. Intimation was received recently, however. that £SOOO of the “herd loon's” wealth has been bequeathed to the parish Council of Turriff, Aberdeenslvire, for behoof of the deserving poor of the parish. At the ago of nine, Mr Meimie was a cattle herd hoy in his native Aberdeenshire. Later he became a baker, and in' 1868 went lo New Zealand, where lip built up a prosperous business in Auckland. ,