NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

CAPTURE OF BRITISH YACHT

WITH .MUNITIONS FOR MOORS. LONDON. March 13.—Ac-cording to the Daily Telegraph's Gibraltar correspondent, the Spaniards have captured .and taken to Ceuta, a British private yacht reported to ho carrying munitions for the Moroccan rebels. MILLION DOLLARS GIFT. OTTAWA, March 23.-According to a statement of the Trusts Corporation. the executors of the will of the late Mr I']. 0. Whitney, Canadian lumberman and philanthropist, the bequests which will eventually be received by the University of Toronto and Wyclift'e College, Toronto, will be respective'lv 300,000 and 400.000 dollars. PLAN BRIDGE AND TUBE ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO BAY. SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.—Plans for the construction of a. bridge and tube connecting San Francisco and Oakland, were outlined by «u eastern syndicate to the Chamber of Commerce here. Discovery of a- new route across (he deep channel of the San, Francisco Bay by sponsors of the plan, has been the incentive to develop I lie project, thev say. An expenditure of £12,000,000 would be necessary to finance the work. FRANCE TRAINS BIG BERTHAS ON ENGLISH TOWNS. Lo'jidon, March 8. —The correspondent of the Westminster Gazette telegraphs that the French have planted "big Bentlha" gulns at two paints on the English' Channel comma tiding important English towns, and, plum to place another at. Certeret, (near Cherbourg. The newspaper declares that these fatts lie behind tilie •references in Premier MaoDoTiaild's recent letter's to Premier Potnca're iregarding British anxiety about Fiench armaments "in Western France."

IRISH WORKERS IN SCOTLAND IN MAJORITY IN 50 YEARS.

LONDON, March 14.—Within fifty years the working class, population m industrial Scotland will be predominantly Irish if present conditions continue, said Rev. Duncan'Ca.meron at a meeting of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and, Racial Progress recently. At the present time, he said, there are between 600,000 and 700,000 Irish people in the industrial belt of Scotland, while the native population showed a tendency to decreavse. SOUND WAVES BEATEN. _ LONDON, March 23.-The broadcasting of Big Ben's chimes has shown that the sounds are carried, by wireless much quicker than they travel in the ordinary way. People listening to the chimes on their wireless sets in a high l block of flats near Hampstead Heath find that they hear the notes about 18 seconds earlier than those listening at the open window. When the wind is blowing from Big Ben towards the heath, the difference is sometimes reduced : to 12 to 14 seconds. POPULARITY OF WIRELESS. LONDON. March 13.—A written reply by the Postmaster-General to a Parliamentary question shows the extent to which broadcasting has been taken up by the people. On .January 31 about' 636.000 wireless receiving licenses were in force. The total amount acfcU* ally paid to the British Broadcasting Co. by the. Post Office to date is £71,450; but subject to Parliamentary sanction, and to their obligation to return, any ultimate surplus, as provided', in their last agreement with th e Post Office, the total amount the company will be entitled to receive in respect of the fees on these licenses will be about £348,000. A BIRD~LABORATORY. There is no spot in England' where wild bird life abounds to such an extent as at Blakeney Point, Norfolk, where gramophone records of bird calls are to be taken with the help of the workers at the Nature Reserve, points out the London Post. This Nature Reserve is really a laboratory where experts of the Sociey for the Prevention of Wild Birds are making investigations into the causes of diseases which make such disastrous inroads into numbers of the denizens of the air. By careful probing into these mysteries it is the object of the workers to discover how to check the wastage of life among British birds. JAP FISHERMEN RESCUED O!FF ALASKA. CORDOVA, Alaska, March 10.—The Norwegian steamer Thordis, bound from Yokohama to Portland and San Francisco, has rescued 1 four Japanese fishermen from a disabled junk in the North Pacific according to radio advices received here. The upper works of the junk had all been burned of! to make signal fires at night. The junk was out of Hakodate, Japan, and the rescue was effected in latitude 42.35 north and longtitude 164.54 west, about 700 miles from Hakodate. The fishermen were said to be all in good health and are to be landed in San Francisco. JAPAN IMPLORES HER GODS TO SPARE HER MORE DISASTERS. TOKIO, March 21.—Japan to-day turned to her gods, with supplications that the nation be spared another disaster like the great earthquake of last September. Throughout the length of the Empire the people observed the spring equinox week with visits to their temples chapels and shrines—each of the nation's religions making the same prayer only in a different way. In Tokio the Buddhists feathered; to dedicate a great image of Kwannon, their goddess of mercy—built from the bones of those who lost their lives in th 0 September disaster. Those of Shinto faitj}. made pilgrimages to their shrines, praying to the spirits of their ancestors. Christians gathered in their churches —one of the largest having been erected on the site of the old military clothing depot, where the earthquake and fire took 32,000 lives last fall. Every temple in Japan was crowded. The murmur of prayer permeated' Tokio, while the streets were perfumed with i license. SEARCH FOR FOSSIL DINOSAURS. EXPEDITION TO EAST AFRICA. During the years that part of East Africa was under the jurisdiction of the Germans, a large, number of specimens of a gigantic dinosaur were raised and transported to Berlin, but, despite what they did, it is almost certain that a very promising led of research has scarcely been touched. For the past four or five years the trustees of the British Museum have had under consideration the proposal to ! lj . s^:

send a small expedition to East Africa, with the view of exploring the fossil remains that occur there, especially these large dinosaurs, as it would bo of the greatest .scientific interest to correlate them with the similar kind of remains which have been known for many years from the Jurassic rocks of Wyoming, in th e United' States. The trustees have secured the services of Mr. W. E. Cutler, of the University of Manitoba, to head the expedition, and have arranged for Mr. L. S. 15. Leakey, of St. John's College, Cambridge, to accompany him. The party has now sailed. FIFTEEN KILLED BY FALLING HOUSE. LISBON, March 'JO.— Fifteen persons were killed when a four-storey house collapsed here. Thirty persons were buried under the ruins. FIRST SILVER COINS SINCE WAR MINTED IN GERMANY. BERLIN, Much 20.—The first silver coins to be minted in Germany since the war are in course of preparation. The currency will be in denominations of one, two, three and five-mark pieces. The Government plans to issue 300,000.000 marks, an average of five marks far every inhabitant, of the Republic. WORKMEN ESCAPE FROM TUNNEL AS WATER RUSHES IN. NEW YORK, April :!.—Twenty-live men working in the vehicular tunnel being built under the Hudson River lied for their lives when n compressed air explosion blew a hole in the tunnel roof and let in the river. Everyone escaped amd engineers commenced forcing the water from the workings. Work can not be resumed for three days. MUNITIONS FOR THE RIFFS. BRITISH YACHT CAPTURED. GIBRALTAR, March 26.-A British' private l yacht, reported to be carrying munitions for the Riffs, has been captured by the Spanish and taken to Ceuta. A man named Arnall, described'as a Labor candidate at former elections, who had been residing on a farm fifteen miles from Tangier and, was once a prisoner of the Riffs, has been found dead. There are rumors of foul play. 44 PIRATES TO DIE. j PENALTY FOR CHINESE RIVER CRIME. HONGKONG, March 3.-The Civil Governor of Canton has informed the British Consul here that 44 pirates have been sentenced to be shot, and two women have been sent to prison for ten years for their share in an act of piracy in the Hongkong launch Kwongtak. A Chinese revenue' launch sank the pirate launch, after ai light and handed over 44 prisoners to the Chinese authorities. A ROMANTIC GARDEN. 1 Despite the archaeologists, on> whose advice the Round Tower moat at Windsor Castle has been restored to its mediaeval character, there will be many people (writes a correspondent to the London Post) to regret the' passing of the old-world 1 garden that had flourished there for so many centuries. In this very garden the poetic James the First, of Scotland, from his l prison in the Round To\>;or, caught first glimpse of Lady Jane Beaufort, a romantic attachment ending in marriage. This was the very "garden faire" described by the Royal poet in the "King's Quair." CHARGE, WHICH MEANT CHRIST'S DOOM. ORIGINAL OF ANCIENT ROMAN DOCUMENT. DISCOVERED IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA. LONDON, March 11.—A despatch from Paris reports the discovery in Southern Tunisia, of the Roman document' Under which' Jesus Christ was tried. The document reads:— . "To all colonial governors of the Roman Empire, in Palestine and near and further Asia: "Prophets and religious revolutionists have arisen among the people. These are not to be interfered with under Roman law except when their teachings are of such a nature as to cause! disturbance among the.people, but in such eases they are to be effectively suppressed. It is particularly desirable that prophets be not) allowed to interfere with the collection of taxes or any other political affairs." The edict is signed by Augustus Caesar. ' COST OF LOCUST INVASION. DEVOURING A SURPLUS. CAPETOWN, Feb. 24.—The Hon. Henry Burton, Minister of Finance. h-Jf been within an ace of netting that Treasury rara avis, a surplus, out the locists devoured it. How it came about he related in the House to-day. Faced towards the close of last session <"ith a. threatenedl deficit on the curren'.. year's finances of £200,000, he resolved to meet it by still further economies, an I was so successful that not only did the deficit disappear, but altogether no less than £365,000 was saved. In addition revenue actually exceeded expectations by £IO,OOO. But then came the unprecedented locust invasion. It entailed an outlay of £240,0C0 over the provision made to combat the menace. The other items brought the additional expenditure to £352,000, so that the sum total of the improvement effected in the country's financial position, after all Mr Burton's efforts, was. as he admitted to-day, represented' by £13,000. A few weeks still remain before the Minister finally titMs ibis 1923-24 accounts, «'ihd he oxpresses himself sanguine that by that time be may 'have pulled the deficit djcnra to the neighborhood of £loo.ooo far more satisfactory, of course, than the original estimate' of £2C0,000 deficit, but decidedly disappointing for the Minister, who, as he said, would l ha.ve bad a substantial surplus to his credit but for the disastrous locust invasion.

STEAMER CRASHES INTO RAIL ROAD BRIDGE.

MARSHFIELD, Ore., March B.—One entire span of the railroad bridge across Coos Bay went smashing into the bay shortly after midnight when the steamer Martha Mttehner became uncontrollable while going through the draw and knocked the truss from the piers. The steamer then ploughed on into the wreckage. SANCTUARY FOR BIRDS. LONDON, March 26.—Gosforth Park Lake, Newcastle-on-Tyne, extending to over 30 acres, and the adjoining woodfeuid v cM*e being dedicated to wild birds. The shooting rights have been relinquished, simd the present occupier, a member of the Northumberland and Durham National History Society is rigidly excluding the man with the gun. Wild fow] habitues include golden plover, heron, shoveller, garganey, widgeon, pochard, tufted duck, scaup, golden-eye, little grebe, curlew, fintail, and wallaii'd. The lake is surrounded by wood?, fringed with giant reeds, and is' studded by! well-clothed islands.