NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16495, 30 July 1924, Page 11

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

MILLION FEET OF 'FI I ONE WIRES AROUND HALL.

NEW YORK, June 21.—Over a million feet of telephone wire has been strung about Madison Square Garden in preparation for the Democratic Convention next week. A special system has been established in order to lead about 6CO telephone lines in the ball. Besides this, there is a network of special wires leading out of New York as far west as Kansas City to handle the broadcasting of convention activities.

WOMAN TO WOMAN

JTjTxOR opens stund for an ACQUITTED MOTHER,

LEICESTER. June 16.—When n woman accused of killing her baby was found “not guilty’’ at Leicester Assizes to-day, a woman juror asked tbe judge’s permission to give lier a pound note. The judge assented, and tbe clerk of assize took the note-.

Other members of the jury and a woman on the Bench handed notes and silver to the clerk, the total reaching a considerable sum.

£4OOO TRAIN ROBBERY. LONDON, June 17. the train from Tuani to Athenry, County Galway, stopped at Ballyglunin Station, a. remote rural one. three armen men entered a compartment in which Mr. Vernon, an offidial of the Bank of Ireland at Tuam, was travelling, and having taken between £4OOO and £SOOO from him escaped in a motor car.

Mr. Vernon was on his way to open the Athenry branch for the convenience of cattle dealers attending the monthly fair.

ASIA’S RICHEST MAN

DEATH OF CHINESE SUGAR KING

■SINGAPORE, June. 6.—Oei Tiungham, the sugar king, known as iho richest. man in Asia, died at his, residence here to-day. He was estimated to be, worth at least £7,000,000. His holdings in Singapore alone were £3,000,000 in mortgages. He had huge pianations, and eight refineries in Java, and great business interests in China, the United States, and Europe, where he was well known. He had large interests in shipping and freightage.

BRITAIN* TRYING TO FIND FUTURE QUEEN.

LONDON, June 30. .Rumors that lho Prince of Wales informed members of the royal family dial, having passed his thirtieth birthday, he will begin looking about for a •bride, already have caused a hurried arrangement, of an unusual number of social affairs to which the Prince has been invited. With the arrival of his birthday the newspapers reiterated their anxiety because the royal heir has not yet given the country a princess. Those supposed to he well informed say that the Prince personally has little desire to try matrimony and has alread defeated the attempts of many of his relatives and friends to. introduce him to the “right girl.” But it has always been believed he would think seriously on the subject when he approached (he age of 30. There is no princess in sight.

MEXICO DEVELOPMENT,

NEW FIELDS FOB BRITISH TRADE.

LONDON, June .I.l. —For the next 2f> years »f least Mexico will offer to British business men the finest, opportunities for industrial development, says Colonel H, D. Lindsay, first president of the American Legion,, who.lias arrived in London from Mexico City, where lie studied industrial and politico! conditions. '

To a reporter Colonel Lindsay gave the opinion that the day of political revolutions, the great hindrance to Mexican industrial development, was over. “After the July elections, ” lie- said, “constitutional government in Mexico '"'ill be found more' soundly grounded than over before.” Mexico has all the factors necessary for greater development. She is rich in gold, silver, and other minerals, timber and agricultural produce, cotton, sugar, and coffoe; land and labor are cheap and, plentiful, and her railways compare favorably with those in the United States.

NEW FURTHEST NORTH ! ' EXPEDITION.

DEPARTURE: OP THE OXFORD

PARTY

NEWCASTLE, June 15.—With, the idea of setting up a new Furthest North record, in actual navigation, the Oxford University -Arctic Expeditionary Party will leave the Tyne in the Norwegian motor whaler, Tiie Polarbjorn, on Monday morning. The vessel should have started to-day, but lias been delayed bv Die. non-arrival from Southampton of the Avro seaplane, which the Air Ministry is loaning the expedition and for which it is 'furnishing the pilot. For a. sturdy three-hundred-tonuer the Polarbjorn is sufficiently novel to attract lively attention from ail the Tyne mariners. To-day stores of every conceivable variety, from gramophone records to chocolate, were being stowed away, and the party of thirty-eight Army, aerial, and medical men—were obviously keen in getting to sea in such glorious weather. Colonel Tennant, a nephew of Mrs. Asquith, was sanguine in conversation of valuable research work being accomlis.bed in North Eastland, hitherto a real No Man’s Land, as lie termed it, so far as scientific observation is concerned, mentioning that, he will be in charge of the inland, sledging parties. Colonel Tennant explained that the sledges would be in communication with the powerful wireless installation, of the Polarbjorn, and they were hopeful of being abie to communicate with places in Norway, and thus provide a gunning record of the work and progress of the explorers. .

After leaving the Tyne the party will take up the .skipper, Captain Isaacsen, at Trondhjeni, and then make to Spitsbergen. The * latest* photographic and scientific appliances ai'e. on board. A small sailing sloop and a motor boat are accompanying the Polarbjorn tit North Kustlandi, and i( ct Imped to' assemble the seaplane at Green Harbor, where the dog teams will he collected. Captain droves has been loaned from the Air Force to Hy the first seaplane north of the Arctic Circle, and valuable assistance in financial and' other ways, has been accorded to the expedition by the Air Ministry, the Hova.l Geographical Society, and the War (jfficri. Mr Howard Binnqy is the leader, and lip and other officers tins evening enjoyed the hospitality of the Lord Mayor of Newcastle at (lie Mansion House, 'll is hoped to sppnd all July and August north of Spitsbergen and accomplish valuable survey work ere the ice closes in.