NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16768, 29 June 1925, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

JAPANESE IT/BOAT CAN OR CBS OCEAN AND RETURN. TOKIO, May 16.—Japan’s largest submarine, capable of cruising across the Pacific and return without difficulty, has been completed and' will be delivered officially to navv authorities immediately.

FLAM MAR I ON'S HEART

BEQUEST TO BIRTHPLACE

LONDON, .Tube 16.—According to a message from Paris, the late if. Camille Flainmnrion, the noted astronomer, bequeathed his heart to , bis birthplace, Moutigny-le-roi.

BIRD WOO I) ON WINNING PEACE. LONDON, Juno 14.—Field-Marshal Sid Win, Bird Wood, ■Commander-in-Ohief in India, remarked in rt speech: “We have still to Win the peace, and shall do it. If our industrial leaders can combine' With' the mail behind the , gun ift civil life it will see us through.’’'

ATTEMPT TO KILL AGED SEXTON. TOROTO, May B.—lh the aSsizes a. jury found Thomas R. Notlev, 21, and George It. Talley, 19, guilty of a charge of breaking into .St. Barnabas Church and attempting to murder the aged sexton, CoPrtney Hackaday. justice J/pgie sentenced Notlev to 15 years in Portsmouth penitentiary and Tut lev to 10 years penal servitude. ELEVEN DIE AS EXPRESS fllfS AUTO. BERLIN, May 11.—Eleven persons were reported filled and lour, seriously injured when the Frankfort-Basle express train to-day ran info nfi automobile carrying twenty-five' persons at- a grade crossing at Rothmelson. The accident Was attributed to the negligence of a crossing guard, who was listening to an orchestra and forgot to lower the gates. After the crash the guard fled to a near-by forest , -but be was capWtred and arrested.

CONCRETE BUILDINGS WRECKED BY QUAKES.

- MANILA, May 8. Earthquake shocks, which began on the islands of Negros, Panay artd! Mindanao on Tuesday, aro reported as continuing With deefeased intensity. Tho population is said to be pafiic stricken and fearful of moife severe shocks and living in the public square a open spaces. No casualties have been reported. Concrete buildings at Rais, in Oriental Negros, have been completely wrecked. Two deep chasms opened in the earth and are spouting black mud/ BOYS MAKE/ SCHOOLROOM A SHAMBLES. BERLIN, May 7.—Because they were not alloWed to participate in a school exarninaion.three boy pupils of the. High School at Vilha, Poland, burst into the examination room and poured a fusillade of revolver shots at. ifm? teachers. One- bov, haying emptied his revolver, started to hurl a bomb. Tho bombs, however, slipped from his .hand and exploded, and blew him ahd two. other boys to pieces. It also seriously wounded ten more boys, who were taking the examination. The revolver shots fatally wounded one teacher and slightly injured tho high school principal/

NEW BRITISH LAW MAY FREE

HUSBAND ERO'M WIFE’S ACTS

LONDON, May B.—ln the House of Lords on Wednesday the Lord Chancellor amiounced! it, Was the Government’s intention to introduce legislation to modify the law- which makes a husband liable" for his wife’s acts, under Which a civil Action may be brought against the husband.

The Lordl Chancellor said the existing law based on the doctrine that husband .ahd wife are one person and: that the entire reason for this doctrine had noW disappeared with the law securing to a Wife her own property.

CRUISER CONTRACTS.

HELPING BRITISH INDUSTRY,

LONDON, June s—ln a statement to tho Times in connection with tho Australian cruikor and submarine contracts placed in Britain, the Australian High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cook) said Australia was, determined to bear her fair share of the burden of Imperial uefefice oh the principle that the primary responsibility of each Dominion was to provide,its own local .defence, which could bo best maintained behind a screen of combined Empire, fleets. It was fortunate, that the contracts were placed in Britain at a tiff; e when the British shipbuilding „ industry was Suffering so ..severely from, foreign competition. This indicated Australia's desire to Support British industry. "ELI7ING BUNGALOW.” CHICAGO, June 11.—A “flying bungalow” accommodating a pilot, rneyhanie, cwk, and six passengers, has been ordered by the Standard Oil pany. The aeroplane will be of metal with a wing span of 60ft. The tr.r.elage will bp 45ft. long'. Besides sleeping compartments, there Will be a living room, containing writing desks and typewriters, a kitchen with an electric 1 stove arid refrigeration system.

There Will be storage space for Oil And ga&oliho for five hoiifs* flying at ICR miles an hour.

This “sky cottage” will be used for the speedy transportation of officials of the company between the vunous cities.

WINE OF OPORTO.

TREATY ABOUT TO EMPIRE

AUSTRALIA’S OPPORTUNITY

LONDON, June 17.—The treaty between Britain and! Portugal under which sales of port wine Hie prohibited in Britain unles* the articles has been produced in Portugal will expire in September.

Representations on behalf of South Australian wine interests have been made to the Secretary for'; the- Dominions, Mr L. 0. M. S. Amery< it being urged that the treaty should not be renewed This would enable Australian viticulturists, to use the word “jjprt’’ as a trade- term, whereas at the. present time wirVes of the port ccui-ldi liot be sold in Britain under the name of “Australian port.”,