NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16497, 1 August 1924, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

-- • ORJENT’S. TURN NOW. ‘•PUSSYFOOT” OX. WARPATH. NEW YORK. July 21.-“Pnssyfoot” Johnson has left for Cairo to-initiate a prohibition campaign in tlie Orient. FANCIED HIS LTJCK. LONDON. July 21.—1 t is disclosed by the “People” that Walter Hagen won £3500 on himself when he sank the win ning’.. five-yard putt in the open golf ■championship at Hovlakc, yet lie didn’t turn V hair. PROHIBITION ABANDONED. STATE SALES IN CANADA. OTTAWA. July 24.—Five Canadian provinces have abandoned prohibition and adopted Government sales of liquor. The provinces are Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. SMOKERS, REJOICE! DOCTOR, SAYS A NICE WORD. LONDON, July 23.—Dr.. Mary Stewart Deacon told the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress that smoking acted as a preventive of teeth decay. Smokers' teeth, while badly discolored, were more sound throughout than those of non-smokers. Women's teeth, generally, need more attention than men’s. INQUEST UNNECESSARY. SIR, W. HERDMAN’S DEATH. DECISION OF THE CORONER. LONDON, July 23.—The coroner has decided that an inquest into the death of Sir William Hevdman, who died suddenly in a restaurant in the Ehston district after coming from Liverpool to attend his daughter’s wedding, is unnecessary. ROOF-GARDEN RAID. NEW YORK,’July 17.—'Three officials of the Ritz Carlton Hotel have been arrested as a first step in criminal proceedings for alleged liquor selling. The prohibition authorities are considering whether to close not only the roof garden where the raid was made, but the entire hotel. . Sucli a move is unprecedented. The hotel proprietors intimated that they would fight a long legal battle if necessary. > “TERROR! OF GALWA’Y.’’ TWENTY YEARS TN GAOL. PRISONER INSULTS' JUDGE. LONDON, July 21. —General Keogh, described as the “terror of Galway,” who was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 10 years’ imprisonment for wounding two men, shouted defiantly to the judge, “I hope it keeps fine for you. You will be doing my sentence when I am released bv the Republic.” The judge immediately made the sentence cumulative. • i “TEA! PER ANCE DISPLACED. ’ ’ NEW YORK, July 22,-The New York Times, discussing the adoption of Government control and sale of liquor in Saskatchewan, states: “We observe that the saloon has gone, under the Canadian system, but it has not gone as it has here, into a thousand other places, many of them without name or sign. Temperance has been discarded by America for prohibition.” The Times thinks that the result of the vote follows the financial suqcees of Government control in other Canadian provinces. j « ' » - ' POTATO TRAGEPY. THREAT TO ENTENTE. . HERRIOT’S COOK ANXIOUS LONDON, July 22.—C'aesarine, M. Harriot's buxom cook, is perturbed about the French Prime Minister’s digestion. “They eat many potatoes in London,” she says, “and potatoes disagree with monsieur! He cannot speak English. .Tliery are making him eat anything.” Caesarine cannot understand how the conference can succeed'when the delegates are being fed on English dishes. A member of M. Herriot’s suite says that the French Prime Minister approves of English cooking. He eschews boiled potatoes, .but eats them fried. A FEMALE SERPENT. FEARS FOR, AVIATORS. U N NECESSARY H EAD-SHAKING. TOKIO, Juiv 22. —Many of the Japanese people were, shaking their heads at the likely fate; of the British world fliers, who had sheltered on Marsh Lake, Unvpp Island. It is the home of a mythological female serpent, which has never been known to allow anyone attempting to cross the marsh to escape. A later cablegram, stated that Captain A. S. Ma.cLaren and bis party of British airmen had arrived at Petropnvlovsk, Siberia. The party, which landed at Urupp Island in.a dense* fog about a fortnight ago, was weatherbound there for some days. “THEY MUST HANG.” CHICAGO MURDER. CASE. MILLIONAIRES’ GUILTY SONS. CHICAGO, July 22.-“ Leopold, and Loeb are sane. They are guilty. They must, hang, and they shall hang,” declared the District Attorney, Mr. Crowe, who; with the greatest vehemence urged Judge Gaverlev to impose the extreme penalty in the case in which Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb,' the millionaires’ sons, are charged with the murder of the schoolboy, Robert Franks. “Anything but death,” is the plea, of Mr. Darrow, counsel for the defence, who said: “I told their parents there was no hope, that their sons could not and should not go free; and they have thrown themselves on the mercy of the Court. Whether they get 14 years ot life imprisonment is a small matter.” WOMEN’S TASKS. TRADITIONS OF EMPIRE. . 'MESSAGE FROM QUEEN MARY. LONDON, July 21.—Queen Mary, in n message to the delegates for- the Women’s Week at Wembley, says:—“l desire to assure the women from the various Dominions that l shall follow their proceedings with deep interest. The Visits made by the King and myself to various parts of the Empire enable me partly to appreciate the special problems of home life with which women are faced. I hope the conferences will assist to solve therm -The variety and importance of the programme show l that you are alive to the fact that, although' women’s responsibilities first centre in the home, they do not end there. I hope you will obtain a dearer realisation of the great work are doing. With you mainly rests ’ the duty of handing on to the rising generation all over the Empire the great traditions and ideals on which our unique commonwealth of nations has been built up, and also of impressing on to-day’s

youth the responsibilities of Empire citizenship, alike to the Empire ns a/whole and to the world.” THE, DUKE OF YORK. A LIKELY GOVERNOR-GENERAL. PREFERENCE FOR. AUSTRALIA. LONDON, July 22.—The appointment of the next Governor-General for Australia has not been officially discussed yet. The special representative of the Sun understands that the Duke of York has been always anxious to visit Australia. If the King, with the Commonwealth Government’s approval, invited him, lie would undoubtedly accept. Officials in the closest touch with the Court believe that the Duke of York is destined to become the Governor-General of one of the Dominions. If his own wishes were consulted it w'ould be Australia. The: Duke and Duchess are at present on a visit to Ulster. ATTACKED BY EAGLE. TALONS IN MAN’S BACK. An exciting story of an attack hv an Australian pagle on a. party in the Burra gorang Valley, New South Wales, was told eentlv by Mr. Bush, of Hnrstville. He saidheTiad just returned from a holiday on a. farm in the valley. One day last week he was busy with friends releasing king parrots from a net in which they had been trapped. A large eagle swept down on the party suddenly and drove its talons into one man’s bath. Fortunately, be was wearing a heavy jersey, which protected him from injury. Before the bird could make its escape Mr. Bush secured a, hold on it, after covering his arms with a corn sack as protection. Despite its strenuous,.struggle, lie sustained no greater injury than a, slight scratch on the wrist. Hie eagle, which measured about 6ft. from wing tip to wing tip, was probably attracted to the men by the, screeching of the captive parrots. Air. Bush intends offering his prize to the Taronga Park Trust, to be kept at the Sydney Zoo.

BOUNDARIES IN IRELAND. A BENCH OF JUDGES.* LONDON. July 22.—Lord Dunedin and Lord Blanesburgh, Sir Lawrence Jenkins (Chief Justice of the High Court of Bengal from 1909 to 1915), Air. Justice Duff (Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada), and Sir Adrian Knox (Chief Justice of Australia), sat to-day in the Privy Council Court, to hear a reference to determine the following questions arising from the refusal of the Northern Ireland Government to appoint a, member to the Irish Boundary Commission : Can the commission be set up or competent ? Can the Crown instruct the GovernorGeneral of Northern Ireland to appoint a commissioner, or can the Crown make the appointment? If not. is there any' constitutional way of setting up the commission? Sir Patrick Hastings. K.C.. appearing for the Crown, added the questions:— If the commission is constituted of two persons and they disagree, will the chairman have the casting vote? Tf it consists of three will the vote of the majority prevail. Many American lawyers visiting England with the Bar Association were present.

On the failure of the London Conference between representatives of the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland and the British Government, the Government decided to form a commission to settle the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. At rbe same time il was decided lo form a judicial committee to advise the British Government on its legal and constitutional powers to form such n commission. For this purpose the aid of the Dominion judges was secured, Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of Australia, representing the Commonwealth.