NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

CHAIN ZOO WORKERS AND STEAL

£4200.

CINCINNATI, July 6.—Seven bandits chained five employees, blew the safe with five charges of nitro-giycerine and escaped from Cincinnati’s Zoo Clubhouse with £4200 of loot. Club officials said £3600 of the loot * was cash, receipts of two of the biggest days in the club’s history.

RACING BOAT SINKS AND SIX ARE DROWNED.

LISBON, Portgual, July 6.-—A, boat car,eying fifteen, men, who had taken, part.'ini a boat rape op, the. 'fagus. riyer, near Lisbon, overturned to-day, and six of t*hs mpn. were, dfownpd, despitevaliant efforts to rescue them. The race was organised by, the Ljsbgn, Naval. Association.

THREE-STOREY BUILDING CAVES

BUENOS AYR®S, July B.—While diners were, peacefully enjoying t.hpii: evening meal in the famous restaurant, El Tropezon, the three-storey building caved, in, burying several beneath, its debris. \ Six victims were taken gut- severely injured.

PRINCE INSPECTED RUINS OF “KING SpLOGON’S MINUS.” ZIMBABWE, South Africa, July ■{—The Prince of Wales visited the one remaining relic, of: a period of South African history, still shrouded in 1 mystery when, lie viewed the ZimIvadwe ruins. He inspected the, cliptical Temple, the Acropolis and the Valley of Ruins, all of which are said to have inspired Haggard’s ‘-‘King. Solomon’s Mines.” The Prince visited Victoria for a short, time.

SIX DTE AS OAR IS SWEPT INTO CANYON.

ROCK. SPRINGS, Wyo.., July 4-,-Six persons, five of them members of one family, were drowned at Hay Junction, ten miles north of here, late on Friday, when flood waters from a cloudburst swept their motor-car into a canyon. All the bodies have been recovered. They include a man, two women, and three children. ... Reports reaching Rock iSpnngs said a twelve-inch rain, fell at Hay Junction in forty minutes. The identities of those drowned have not been learned;

ROCKEFELLER GIVES LARGE CARILLON IN MOTHER'S HONOR. NEW YOK, July. 4.—John D- Rockefeller Jnr., is presenting the, largest and; heaviest carillon in the world, to the Park Avenue Baptist Church in memory of hie mother. . The carillon comprises fifty-thr.ee bells, which run four and. one-half chromatic octaves. The great mass of, bell metal weighs more than fifty tons, and when completely installed, the, steel work and fittings, will -bring; the groqs weight % cliurli tower must support to more than 100 tons.-

ABSORPTION MUCH WORSE THAN ANNEXATION.

I 'MONTREAL, July 6.-Tliq, everyday penetration of U-nited States gojL oft .United States influence and United States sentiment is leading Canada to absorption, Hon, E. L. Cojiservative member of the Quebec Legislature, asserted in a. speech < n.b Lachine, Quebec. , . . He assarted that Canada, was, being, robbed, of manpower, waterpower, and natural resources by the United States. Ho urged actiye resistance by all Canadians to “American, absorption, which was far worse than annexation, could ever be.” ,

THE MOTOR GRAND PRIX *OF

EUROPE

BRUSSELS, June 29.—Ascari, driving nn Alfa-Romeo car (Italy), won the motor race for the Grand Prix of Europfe, which was run, oyer the triangular course, Frnncorchamps-Mal-medy-Stavelot, not far. from Spa- Phift circuit, about 9j miles, had to he eovered 54 times during the race. Ihe last Grand Prix race, over the Lyons circuit last year, was won by an AlfaRomeo (Italy), driyeu by Oaig[Uin., The first pyizq in the present competition is £IOOO, There were, seven starters■: four Delage. cars, driven by Divo, R. Benoist, Thomas, and Torchy, and three Alfa Romeo cars, driven by Ascari, Campap, and Brill),-Peri.

’PLANE®- FLY FROM HEART OF PARiIS TO CENTRE OF LONDON.

LONDON, July 3—The Seine and the Thames were lin'ked on Tuesday by an experimental flight of a French ’planp from the heart of Paris to London. The trip took three and l a half hours, and' the purpose was to find out if it was practicable to eliminate the airdromes at either end, thereby saving an hour’s time-, and considerable expense. The experiment was successful and may soon result in regular service. _ The ’plane left Paris at 5.55- a.m. and came spipotlily down : to, the surface of the Thames at Fulham at 9.30 a.m., after descending at Lympne. for Customs. It was a French air union machine, and carried, three, passengers.

FINE FURNITURE MEN MORE THAN £50,000.

THIRD GROUP FORFEITS £37,600-

CHICAGO, July IF. —Fines ranging ■ Lorn £2OO to £IOOO each and aggregating £37,600, were imposed on Friday ot) eighty-three furniture manufacturers, who pleaded guilty in Federal Court to indictments charging of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The firms are members of the National Alliance of Pur nibare NJfi.nilfac turc;. , The.iota!.'number of fines is the largest ever’collected in.pnecase, federal officials say. The original indictments named 269 furniture manufacturers. Fifty o' a group of chair manufacturers pleaded guilty some times- ago, and wgre ; . finqd £33,6C0. They were), followed by refrigerator manufacturers, sixteen of whom pleaded guilty and were fined £313.600). The latest, group'is P art of 192 firms and’ members ’ manufacturing bedroom, dining-roorfi. and living-room furniture. Fines collected thus fyr aggregate, upward of £84,000.

MANCHESTER. VOTES AGAINST .sending r ail order To u.s. LQNipONyJuly 3,—The recent- appeal broadcast throughout Britain to patronise home industries has been answered by the Manchester City Council, which voted, not to buy a portion of. an order fox’) the tramway rails in America as originally intended. By a majority of sixty, the council decided to retain the, entire order in Britain, although the American offer would have resulted in, saving nearly £3OO. ' However, it was shown acceptance of the Axperion offer would Uqy.e deprived the country of. between £2OOO and £3OOC) in wages, The also opposed the order being given to America on the ground of unemployment.

A strong representation was made to the council thait it was not right to give orders to America when work is so badly needed here, and that by keeping orders at home., even though the Aiperi : can prices are'lower, a considerable saving would be made by keeping men off the list.*

PENSIONED TOO LATE. PRAGUE, July 4. A sad story of officialdom comes Rom Bratislava. A general qI 79, who. served, in the old army, hap- j.ust died in. extreme poverty. It,"appeari that lie could not get lijs pension because- exact •‘natiooajf ? position, was not ‘ c.earedt_ up.” Two cl-hcys his burial, 100,OA Czech, /kronen, k»62®)> ajli the, back money for- six- years, which, was due to him, was sent to "him. But it was too late.

FIVE GENERATIONS OF ENGLISH FAMILY LIVING.

, LONDON, July 4.—Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, of payne Dill faini, ■S’a-’dfeurn, Yorkshire, to whom a. son lias * just been born, belong to a family which : flow has five genera-tions. living. Mrs. , Thacker, aged 94, of Spilsby, Lmccui’shire is the oldest survivor of. the hunilv. Her four sons and cl aught ersirylaw recently, celebrated their gold.en weddings. The baby lias four grandparents, two great-grandparents, and one great-great-grandmother still alive.

£500,000; AERODROME -SCHEME;. ’ COLCHESJEIt, Juno 20.—The Air Miniptay afft" considering, a proposal, to erect, an aerodrome in the Bereehurcrli district, south of Colchester barracks at a cost of about £500,000.

Alderman Blaxhill informed the town council to-day that the Air Ministry desire-. ai present only to. ascertain; whether the council would be sympathetic to such a proposal. It would; mean an establishment of about SCO men. and Colchester is likely to. receive the scheme with favor. BIG PROHIBITION HAUL, MOBILE (Alabama), July 2.—Wlmt is said; to be the largest haul: by a single prohibition, vessel was made on the 241 li June off tlio Louisiana coast, when the cujtter Sauk.ee captured, the ninety-nine ton Lunenburg schooner Marie Adams andi six smaller- craft, and brought them in here yesterday. Cargoes consisting of six thousand capes of alcohol and assorted. vrliipkeys wcr.c. also taken, most of which, to the. captors, were carried by the schooner. Twenty-three prisoners who w;ei;e taken have been arraigned for preliminary examination.

OXFORD AND LLOYD GEORG! BURY THE HATCHET.

LO!4 v P,ON, J,u) ]V 4,— \ final declaration of peace between Lord Oxford and Asquith, aild, Uloyd George Mats. made, at a dinner in the famous Eighty Club, which is comprised of the strictest Asquithia.ns in the Liberal party and was bgrri amidst the troubles that threatened! to divorce Lloyd Georgians from the older Liberals some time ago. The leaders referred to each other in very complimentary terms. After this handsome hatchet-bury-ing, both Libera) leaders pass.edi on to discussing, the prospects of a revival of Liberalism.

'JjFiWSANDS OF PHONOGRAPH

RECORDS IN COPPER

: LONDOtX, July 4,—-Probably the. largest library of. sound in the world, and certainly one. of the. most interesting, is possessed, by Prof. W- Doegen, of ■ Berlin, who. has come to Englnndi to lecture on phonetics. It consists of 20CJ “volumes,” arid qontain,s records of the languages of 250 nations, of parrots and monkeys, and of nightingales. The soug of the- last-named bird is o'so. represented, by notes made by gvpsy imitators, which can he compared with the rqal thing. The professor, says that the records which are, reprorfyicqcl in qoppqr.ai’e practically exerla§ting. i ' SPCIAL TO ALMOST £400,000,000 SPENT EACH YEAR. bO'YDOfL July 4^—The qost of social services in England is about i}1,000,000 a day, said William Graham, financial secretary to the Treasury in the Labor Government, addressing a meeting of local fToveriiment officers. Iseferring, to- the iinaticial position of local authorities in relationship to .State finance, ho said £160,000,000 was raised amjually from local; taxes, which was double the ajnount raised in 1914. In addition £200,000,000 of the taxpayers’ mopey, out of a budget of £8,000,000,OCO was .handed over to local authorities for social services.

SHALE OU, LICENSEE

QUEENSLAND DISCOVERY,

The Queensland Minister for Mines, referring to the recently,-reported find, of oil; sh.alfi at Clermont, stated, that the warden hajtl granted four, applications for., licenses to prospect for mineral, or shale oil. This, ,of course, was distinct froiu, petroliferous oils. Oil) was obtained from, shale, by a. procos? of distillation. Specimens of the ssbalp had been received, by the Mines Uppartmcnt from Clerxnqi|t atul were now being analysed. The best shale oil deposit so far known in Quqoiis: land was in the Carnarvon ranges boyoijd Roma, This deposit assayed 40 to (10 gallons to the ton.

HAIL STORM KILLS 31 AND RUINS CROPS.

stones, beat down PEOPLE

VIENNA, July 10;—'Thirty-one perand; hundreds of domestic animals perished during the most severe hailstorms ever, experienced in Transylvania and Bessarabia. The- death list may lengthen. The storms swopt. across a great area on Tuesday, destroying millions of dollars’ worth, of crops, and devastating the countryside. Twenty-four persons were killed, in Baticeanu, where the governor’s palace collapsed during the icy barrage. Three girls were drownedi and the others were beaten to. death by huge hail stones which came hurtling out of the sky, pjling toi a depth of two feet in places. ■ lleayy stones also occurred’ in Southern, Hugaiy and; Npfthem. Jugo-Slayia, Line? of communication lyentdoivn under the, icy load, bottling the area up with its misery until Thursday,

GERMAN PRINCELING SUES. TO GET BACK HIS, PRINCIPALITY. BERLIN, Jujy 4,—What may l;>e the ■first of a series of endeavors by the German princelings, toppled off their pleasant little thrones by the German revolution in 1918. to get hack their forfeited properties bobbed up in Hanover when the former, ruler of the diminutive principality of Lippe brought suit to recover the valuable domains formerly belonging to liim, These were ceded by him to’ the, German Republican authorities succeeding him in the principality of Lippe. But. now the prince, who used to he called-Leopold 1.Y(.. claims a technical qrror in the document whereby lie relinquished, his holdings, and lie wants them all bank. 'ljhei case is arousing great- interest among German lawyers, since it, may establish a, precedent for future similar cases. If Prince Leopold wins the suit, the, lawyers lipre point out, that other dethroned and dispossessed princelings will undoubtedly also allege flaws in the documents, whereby they relinquished their possessions when badly frightened in the hectic days of 1918, and clamor for the return of the properties they forfeited,