NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16781, 14 July 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

P'JTuS) ARK BECOMING SCARCER- IN I RERAN]). DUBLIN, Juno 10.—Bigs, long known as one o[ the Emerald Isle’s principal products, are becoming scarcer. Statistics show that last year the porcine population was only 937.814. as against 1.147,005 in 1923. Extensive imports of bacon are. shown, principally from America. INCIDENT AT GOLF. LONDON, July I.—During the • golt v championship at Prestwick, a farcical incident occurred. A Pekinese lapdog, escaping from its fashionably-dressed mistress, waddled on to a. green, seized the ball, which Duncan’s partner. Stedman. was about to putt..and raced off with it. The. owner, policemen, and caddies pursued the dog and caught it in a bunker. ENGLISHMAN IX A DUEL. ROUE. April 20.—A duel with swords was fought between Mr. Arthur Acton, a prominent British member of Florentine society, and Count ..Mario Kovello in Florence. The cause of the duel is unknown, but it was the resull of a. discussion at: a club. Count Kovello was wounded in the hand, and the seconds stopped the duel. A reconciliation took place afterwards. HUSTLED TO THE GRAVE. DIF EASE THAT KILLS 250,000 A MERIC’ANS YEARLY. NEW YORK, May 2.—“ Amerieanitis,” or the disease of hurry and hustle, leads to a quarter of a, million deaths each year in the United States, according to a statement, by Dr. William Sadler, of Chicago. Dr. Sadler issues a warning that Americans must slow down, calm their nerves, and forgot some of their notorious hustle if they would survive the dangerous ngo between forty and fifty. lie groups heart, disease, apoplexy, and high, blood pressure under ‘ ‘ Amerieanitis. ’ ’ MEXICAN PRISONERS SENT TO COLONY. PREFER BEING SHOT. MEXICO CITY, .Tunc 9.—Two hundred and ten of the worst criminals in Mexico were shipped under guard of 300 regular soldiers to Las Marias Islands’ penal colony, off the coast of Manzanillo, on Monday. This is the third shipment of criminals in the past six months, totalling nearly 700. Between two lines of regulars, the prisoners passed from the penitentiary to the trains, where several of the most desperate refused to enter the box cars, saying they preferred being shot to going to the penal colony. Eight had lo be forced in by the military. FIVE NEW CRUISERS MAY BE BUILT BY GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON, -Tune 12. —The Daily News prints an article by Licut.-Com-mauder .T. M. •Kenwortby, Liberal ALP.. Central Hull, asserting that the Die-hard Tories will demand that ten new .10,000-ton cruisers shall be built and that the Baldwin Government probably will decide to lay' down live such cruisers at a cost of £.8,000,000.

'flic newspaper says Iho Admiralty lias become one of the most wasteful departments of 1 lie Government, and it, still exercises such mysterious authority over the administration that it is able to get, its*own way with iniquitous ease in defiance of public necessities. MARRIAGE PERMIT GIVEN BY CABLE. LONDON, May 16. —Marriage authority by means of cable has been officially approved! by the British Government. It. was announced recently that the foreign office, upon payment of the, cable charges, will authorise marriage officers resident abroad to marry couples whose banns have been published for the requisite three weeks in a British registry office. A. bride who recently was forced to leave England to join her fiance in South America before the three weeks elapsed, applied to the foreign office, which met her wishes and upon her arrival in South America she foupd the necessary authority awaiting her there. i * BODIES OF AVIATORS FOUND IN SAHARA. CAIRO, June 9.—The search for four men who have been missing since they ilew over the Ttnlo-Kgpytiau frontier in a giant Italian airplane early in March ended to-day with the discovery rfi four bodies in the deshft between Solium and Siwa oases. The War Ministry lias delegated a commission of officers and doctors to be accompanied by two Italian officers, to iproced to the spot where the bodies were found and -definitely estabTfsb Die cause of the deaths, which were apparently due to starvation. The airplane used for the flight over the frontier country between Egypt and Eritrea was found on March 15 by search, parties sixty miles due south of Bir Rnbia in the western deserts, miles away from caravan routes. CURES INFECTED . BONE WITHOUT THE KNIFE. CHICAGO, June 12.—Ambitious to lessen the importance of the surgeon’s knife in medical science, Dr. Max Tliorck, a master of flic knife himself, and surgeon-in-chief of the American Hospital of Chicago, has discovered a remedy which ho- believes will obviate the necessity of operations iii cases of hone infection. The discovery of the remedy, which is expected to he of incalculable benefit to mankind, was reported hv Dr. Tliorck to the Chicago Medical Society. It is a combination of aluminium and potassium nitrate, and is applied in wot compress form. Dr. Tliorck reported that in 75 per cent, of the eases treated the remedy lias proven a success. BIG FRAUD CHARGES. NEW YORK LAWYER HELD AS ‘ ‘ MASTER MIND. ’ ’ NEW YORK. June 12. — Israel Brinkman, n New York lawyer, described by District- Attorney Job Banlon as illo “most astute master mind in present-day criminal life,’’ was indicted late on Thursday on charges of swindles which Ban ton declared had netted him more than £(500,000. “This man is the successor to Nicky A rust (»i n as the leader of a hand of robbers and swindlers,’’ Ban ton charged, “andfis lo ho charged with the responsibility for practically all .the great Wall Street thefts of the past year.” Charges against Brinkman range from operations of a “money manufacturing” machine to the swindling of Edward S. Rothschild, president of the Chelsea. Exchange Bank.