NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 9

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

. OCEAN “EXPRESS.” NEW LINER. TO HONOLULU. SAN FRAN CISCO, Oct. 26.—The Matson Steamship Company is calling for tenders for the building of an “express'' iiner for Honolulu. Possibly, lhe now vessel's route; will lie continued to Sydney. It will cost £1,000,000'. WOLVES! PACE! MOTOR-CAR, STRANGE, HUNT IN CANADA. FORT WILLIAM (Ontario), Oct. 30.—Two people who' were driving in a mol or-ear into the country saw a. pair of wolves running ahead. The animals kept in front of the car for half a- mile, when one of them turned into the woods. The other zig-zagged with the car on its heels, but finally stumbled, and the wheel crushed it to death. FEW PAUPERS TN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Another indication of American prosperity is given by the latest figures, showing that there ale fewer paupers in Hie almshouses of this country to-day than for twenty years. O'n January 1 this year, according to the Census Bureau, the. United States, with a, population exceeding 110,. 000.000, contained only 78,000 known paupers, which is a, reduction of about 6COO since 1910, when the population was about <12,000,000.

FAIRYLAND GOLF

AMBER, RED AND WHITE

NIGHT PLAY EXPERIMENT,

NEW YORK, Oct. 28. —Gene Sarazen, the famous American champion, drove off the first- ball to-night in a great night golf experiment.

Splendid searchlights illumine the Briar Ciifie grounds, while electric glares, with a- total power of 200,000 watts, hang from the trees. Amber, red and other colored lights mark the holes.

DEAR LIVING IN FIUKCF

BIG REDUCTION IN DUTIES

PARTS, Sept. 23.—The Cabinet to-day decided to reduce the present import duties oil a certain number of essential foodstuffs, as under Cooked pork.—6o per cent. Condensed milk.—66 per cent. Cheese. —50 per cent. Bui ter. —60 per cent. Tinned and bottled vegetables.—so per cent. ( Barley and rice.—so per cent.

BONFIRE OF WOODEN SHIPS.

U.S. VESSELS THAT COST £47.000,000.

NORFOLK (Virginia), Sept. 11. —-The greatest bonfire ever seen in American waters will be set alight in a few days, when a salvage concern that has paid £52,400 for a licet of 218 wooden vessels belonging to the United States Government will tow the largest of them to a point off the coast of Virginia and hum them.

The vessels cost £47,000,000 when the; were built during the war.

KILL OR CURE,

ANOTHER T.B, REMEDY

GOLDEN WAY TO HEALTH?

LONDON, Get. 30.—Professor Molgaard, according to a Copenhagen report., claims to have discovered a treatment for tuberculosis by injecting a gold solution, coupled with the injecting of a serum counteracting the poisonous effects7of the gold. . H,e asserts that 300 patients, including chronic consumptives, have been cured, but he admits that, the treatment may possibly hasten death in desperate eases.

SUGAR FROM THE FENS

NEW FACTORY TO COMPETE WITH THE CONTINENT.

LONDON, Sept, 23.—The largest and most up-to-date sugar-beef factory in tha British Isles is to be erected immediately at. Wissii.gton, near Downham Market. It will be controlled entirely by British capital. Farmers are to have the opportunity of taking any shares they may desire, and will. W able to appoint one or more directors. The Fen farmers can grow beet equal to if not better than our Continental neighbors.

OIL-TANK DISASTER,

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

MONTEREY (California,), Sept. 23. Lightning last night struck ft tank containing 55,000 barrels’ of crude oil, and started a, conflagration which cost the lives of four soldiers who took part in fighting the flames.' It is _ estimated that the damage will amount to 3,000,CCO dollars. Efforts are. now directed to saving the old town of Monterey, which is in the path of the. fire. Monterey is the historic site of the first Government of California., and i.s beloved by writers and artists.

WRECKING CHINESE STORE

DRUNKEN SAILOR’S ACT,

SUVA, Oct. 24. —The sensation caused at Lautoka in August last when a seaman named Thomas Charlie Withers, of H.M.S. Dunedin, took charge of a Chinese store and wreeged the establishment, was recalled lost week when the Chief Justice passed sentence on the festive sailer. His Honor strongly commented on tiie action of the shipmates of the accused, who had stood alongside the store and watched Withers wreck the place without moving to stop him. He characterised the whole affair as a most wanton action and sentenced Withers to ten months’ imprisonment. The Chinese lost over £l5O try the action of the man, who was under the influence of liquor at the time. “ENOUGH OF THIS!” LAW LORDS AND MARIE STOPES. LONDON, Oet. 30.—The law lords’ drisks were loaded with bundles of Dr. Marie Stopes’ books at the bearing of Dr. Holliday Sutherland’s appeal against, last year’s verdict (that, be bad libelled Dr. Stopes in bis book, “Birth Control’’). Dr. Stopes entered a cross-appeal asking for a nwv trial. When Dr. Sutherland’s, counsel was reading passages from “Married Love,” explaining that bo wanted to. show the emotional sex appeal in it. Lord Carson pushed the book aside, and asked if it. was necessary to read such matter. Lord Cave emphatically shut, up the book.

“I’ve had enough of this.” ho said The hearing was adjourned.

Dr. Marie Stopes originally sued Dr. Sutherland and his puhliisliers in Feb* ruary, 1923, alleging libel in a book criticising her methods. It was stated in the book that the poor were the “v.etims of experiments,” that Dr. Stopes method of contraception was dangerous, ancl that. “Rradlaugh was sent to gaol for a looser crime.”

The jury found that the words complained of wore defamatory and constituted unfair criticism, though in substance thev were true. Dr. Stopes was awarded £IOO damages. There was an appeal in July, 1923, and the jury’s verdict was confirmed.

JEWELLERY THIEVES’ LOOT £434

868 IN TI.X. THIS YEAR

NEW YORK, Sept. 29. —-Robbers aml burglars, conducting their holdups .with a daring such as they have never shown at- any time before, caused losses of £434.868 to jewellers of the United States during the- first- eight months of this year, according to a report made public by the. .lewpliers Security Alliance. A WALL STREET FAILURE. NEW YORK, Sept. -23.*-The failure! of the old-established New York Stock Exchange firm, Messrs Hay and Heaton, has revealed the disappearance of one of tlici partners of the (inn, George Christian. who is alleged to hare, absconded with over £JOO,OOO of the firm’s funds. Mr. Christian began as an office boy employed by (lie firm twenty-eight years ago. The firm’s assets are placed al about £200.000, willi liabilities about £350.000. COD-LIVER. OIL BOOM. ST. JOHNS. Sept. 25. —American medical scientists who are conducting experiments here claim that, oil obtained from the livers of codfish in Newfoundland waters exceeds in therapeutic value any other in the world. They also claim for it special value in the curing of rickets and ophthalmia. If is expected that, as a result, flie volume and value of the export of Newfoundland cod-liver oil wi’.il be greatly increased. CAPTAIN COOK’S SHIP. ■ “The. Discovery, in which, accompanied by the Resolution. Captain Cook made bis last voyage, and which, after li:s death. February 14, 1779, at Owyhee, arrived at Sheerness, September 1, 1780, is now the convict ship at Deptford. The interior has undergone considerable alterations t.o adapt it for the purpose, hut the bull and exterior remain, in a. state of perfect soundness, in their original state.”—From the Kentish Gazette and Times of September 2, 1924.