NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, July 4.—Foot an<] mouth disease among cattle has broken ,out again in England. The scene pf thelatest outbreak is Ottinghan), Yorkshire, where sixteen head of .qiftla. havo been slaughtered. Official notification to.this effect has been given.*'-, T

FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING merchant. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 11-Floyd Hall. San Quentin convict slayer, was found guilty of the murder of Joe Lite* berg/ local merchant, by a jury 'here which deliberated twenty-two hours. */. The jury was unable to agree oh. the ; punishment,*but under the terms of the law Hall must hang, according to Judge Chas. 0. Bussick, who tried the case. . “FOURTH” FATALITIES.' NEW YORK, July 6.—At least 117 celebrants of the Fourth of July are dead and many hundreds injured. Restrictions on old-fashioned ways of celebrating held deaths by fireworks to "twelve, but motor accidents killed thirty-four, while forty-four are . known, tp . have perished when a Boston ■ building col- - lapsed upon more, than *IOO dancers in, a cabaret. . , . Twenty-five were drowned. Airplane crashes killed two, and about" 145 of the ' injured were automobilists. ' •’*’ AIRSHIP’S 1300 JULES ATTEMPT, MONTREAL, April 16.—The first direct trans-Canadian flight will ’be attempted in the early autumn, when the airship Viking will leave Vancouver* early one morning and try to reach ' ■-Montreal, about 1300 miles distant, .at about noon the following day. y • The flight will follow a summer's gold-., prospecting expedition in northern Brit-, isli Columbia. During daylight the airship will flyfrom Vancouver to Calgary, and frian. there to Winnipeg. The journey fipnl Winnipeg to Fori William and then to Sudbury will be made at night, and the trip from Sudbury to Montreal the following day. It is understood that Colonel J. S. Williams will pilot the Viking on its trans-Canadian flight. NO MORE SCURVY. ■ \ . . NEW YORK, July 7.—A new vitamin '■ called “Vitamin C.’’ which is claimed tobe an absolute cure-and preventive of scurvy, has just been discovered by- a French biochemist'. lie obtained‘"'the", vitamin in ‘crystalline foim from; :cabbages. It* is not a startling discovery s'nco efficacious remedies for soui-vy have jong been known. The disease teahyiio prevented or cured by an abundant diet, of fresh vegetables or fruit or the juices of the latter such as lime juice. But flu* • thief value of the new remedy is that it- .1 . is very potent even when taken in-min-ute doses. The eft'icroy of “viiamin O" ’is vouched for by the Washington Science Service, which takes great care to satisfy itself as to the claims of new curative agents before it sets the* seal of its approval upon them! CLERGY ON SUNDAY: FARMERS ON OTHER DAYS. • LONDON, July 8. —The church assembly has given general approval of the new disciplinary measure against members of the clergy who, while guiltless of flagrant evil, bring disgrace iupon the church and their order by negligence or incompetence. In the discussion,- Sir Lewis Dickson, vicar general of the province of Canterbuy, said thSt some clergymen ivere farmers more than parsons. A clergyman might be away from his parish from .Monday morning till Saturday night and might lead . the life, of-a farmer more than a parson, Sir Lewis said, and there ivere instances of this.. A clergyman, taking his sheep or cattle to market on Saturday evening, 'drii'mgj thorn him Self through nis parish, thereby creating scandal, Was not a' supposititious', Sir Lewis stated, but an actual . occurrence. • . : . : • PLAIN TRUTHS BY A UNION. LEADER. LONDON,'June B.—Mr. C. T. Cramp, industrial secretary of the National Union of Raihvaymen, speaking at, a'-l-ailwaymen’s meeting at JJovercourt said : \ ■'' “I do not depreciate the strike weapon, but it is useless to blind our eyes , to the fact that conditions are so complex and involved ' that the. rough and. ready method of strike will not meet: the situation. ■ L-, “You cannot make th e foreigner buy, more of your coal .by the biggest strike you ever had. “You cannot force your shipping and produce on other, countries merely by. moans of a strike. As a nation wo--live by our exports, and we are too pjone as trade unionists to think that the business begins and ends as between employers and ourselves.”

CHEAP GOAL-MINING

NEW MACHINE TO SAVE TL'S! - £1LC,003,000 YEARLY.

At the American Mining. Congress, 'which is meeting this week at Oiqpinnati, the prediction was made that the coal bill to the United States will be reduced., in the near future by £100,000,000.' W This. it. was explained, had been 1 rendered possible by the perfection of” new devices for mining coal. All*. Ed wilt'd J. G f Tod!e, the general superintendent of; the United States Coal and Coke Company, of West Virginia, and Kentucky, stated that his company had just mined® 115.CC0 tons by the new process, -He added : Tit's' machine makes tlie use ..of explosives in a. mine unnecessary and reduces accidents. It- undercuts coal. ; by ■ chewing it with steel teeth.' Tlien.'tl'C coal automatically falls down upon a selfleader. We expect, this machine to cat down the cost of mining by half. ' . '

U.S. NEARg END OF OIL OUTPUT;

PASSED ULTIMATE} PEAK TWO YEARS AGO. NEW YORK. July 9.—Asserting that the oil fields of the United States probably passed their ultimate peak of-.pro-duction in 1923,' the' Mining and Metallurgical Soioety of America, in a special survey made public to-day, .declared the country must look to increased oil importations and theft to the development and use of substitutes for oil;pr,o,-■ ducts. . "... . jV

Petroleum products apparently have entered upon a final phase of slow • and gradual decline, with consumption increasing more rapidly, than supply, said a 'report by a committee of geologists and mining engineers, to H. Mb Catjin. president of the society. Only two oil pools in the .United States ' are now over _ 100,000 barrels a day, the Long Teach iritCalit'ornia and the Smackover in Arkansas, the engineers found. Not till-the big pools in the country.’ have been .discovered, ho explained, but the probability is that the record output of 1923 will not be exceeded unless several large undiscovered pools or new producing sands in old. districts are brought jtr peak production .within a single year.'