NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

2000 MADE HOMELESS BY TYPHOON. MANILA, July 10. —More than two thousand persons have boen made homeless by a. typhoon which wrecked hundreds of small houses in Camarines Province. ROBBERS GET £4OOO IN GEMS IN 1 NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 11. —Two men held '.up the office of Burnett, Robinson and 1 , ' Company, on Fifth avenue, and escaped with diamonds and other gems valued at , j £4OOO. Police believe the robbers wore I j the men who shot and killed a jeweller j in tho same building several years ago. ■ ! BRITAIN TO CALL EMPIRE TO HER AID. J LONDON, July B.—Call in the Empire to redress the trade balance! i This i« thd new slogan to remedy the trade depression in Britain, which the i Government intends to carry into effect , with some practical proposals later on, t It is likely that the Government will consult the Dominions, and officials are studying tho question. j FIFTEEN SCHOONERS LOST IN j GALE. ’ ST. JOHN’S N.F.), June 25.-Ever since Wednesday a terrible gale bus bean 1 sweeping the, Newfoundland coast. It is ( reported that fifteen schooners have been lost between Quifpon and Cape Norman. Tho destruction to property generally is immense*, The captain of a coastal 1 steamer says it is the worst storm he lias ever-known in Newfoundland waters. ; —, I i ST. BERNARD MONKS TO RUN i I HOTEL. , | ST. BERNARD, Switzerland, July 4. — l The monks of the convent of St. I Bernard are to enter tho hotel business, i Their hospitality, which lias been proverbial for centuries, hag been taken ad- \ vantage of to such an extent that it be. • came impossible to accommodate all who wished to bo their guests. 1 The monks, therefore, decided to build a hotel near the convent where travellers

might bo put up for the might. Their 1 original plan wag to let the hotel concession t(> some restaurateur. Now they liavo decided that they might as well conduct the place themselves and obtain ( lie revenue for their order. MORE MARn’IxTI'ROUBLES. LONDON, July 7.-Tho family difacultiee of Sir Thomas Reocham, son of the late Sir Joseph Beoehajn, the pill manufacturer, and Rady Bcechani, daughter of Charles S, Welles, of New York, were reviewed jp the newspapors to-day when'Lady Beecbam failed in her court petition to keep her husband from cancelling the authority lie had given her to pledge his credit with London storekeepers. Sir Thomas and his wife have not lived together for many years. STOLE CArFanT COLLECTED INSURANCE. PHILADELPHIA, July 7. Norman J. Whitaker, former international chess player and patent attorney, who was convicted in the Californian courts on the charge of conspiracy to steal motor cars and collect insurance, surrendered hove to the Federal authorities, Whitaker appealed his cage and hearing his appeal had failed, gave himself UP- . His arrest and indictment in Los Angeles followed a confession of a man ill that city, who admitted ho was a member of a syndicate that stole motor cars and burned them for insurance. honor, for'"a TREE. QUAINT CEREMONY IN A FRENCH CITY. A plane tree, standing in the Avenue Oamhetta, Rouen, said to be the oldest tree in France, was recently honored by Urn city. Many of the townspeople witnessed ! the ceremony of fixing to the tree a small plate, on which' was written : “Oriental plane tree; planted in the winter of 1776-1777; circumference 3

■ yards 2 feet, one yard from, the ground; circumference' at base 14 feet; height 105 feet.” “The oldest tree in England,” said a botanist to a Daily Express representative, “is a vast oak standing in Sherwood Forest, which is said to have been the mooting place of Robin Hood and his band, in the twelfth century. 1 "“Why should hot we in England pay' a similar honor to this tree?” RHEUMATISM NO LONGER . FASHIONABLE. TORONTO. July A-Dr. Robert fL Nichols, of Boston, told the American Osteopathic Association, in convention here, that rheumatism was no longer fashionable. The cause of the “rheumatic twinges” is a parasite that may fadg.c* at tlm roof of the tooth oy in decayed tonsils, ho said. Dr. Nichols also declared' that such troubles as appendicitis, nephritis, etc., wore also caused by .the same germ ufc certain points of tbo body. Dr. Rollout Demery, of Los Angeles, in am address, sought to show that cancer was mot a germ disease. Ho thought cancer was prevontible in youth by proper food and' exercise. HELLO, CENTRAL! AUSTRALIA, PLEASE. LONDON, July 11. —Telephoning by wireless to Australia will be as easy as to" Brighton within a year if the projects of wireless engineers are realised. A business man will ask for an Australian number through tbo receiver of tbo ordinary instrument lie now uses, and within a few minutes will speak direct to Australia, just as lie now makes an ordinary call. Transmission and reception of the message from the home end will ho done at Rugby, where tbo new wireless ■ station, one of the largest in the world, is now being erected. There the existiing land lines will be connected to the wireless instrument which will send out and receivo the messages. The same

procedure will fake place at the Australian end. When tiro Rugby station is opened, long-distance wireless telephone communication will first be established with' 1 America. This has already been done by wireless engineers, but Rugby will make it available for the general public, AMERICANyACHT BLOWN UP. KINGSTON (Ontario), June 29.-A 1000-ton pleasufe yacht blew up herb yosterday, hurling, Uyerity-fi've passengers into the river, 1 and'-injuring fifteen. The explosion was -caused by the engine.backfiring. Several Windows in. a?) adjacent. village were slinttorod, arid the passengers were rescued while burning petrol floated on tluv,water surface.' The yacht was owned hy Captain Howes, of New York. ‘ 'A!' ‘ HER 33 lvD SUIT FURoS^ARAWON. Wife sttltv At.law> after '2o YEARS. '• ’ PARIS, June 21.—Mrs Mary Murphy, appeared' in the*.';!;New York Supreme Court yesterday do begin heri thirty-tfiffd' suit for separation from Jier husband Patrick. She made a variety of charges against her husbaridV.Avhp thpa’far, shebitterlv complained, liabsuc'ceededi in foiling her freedom. The oouplo were married in 1800, and the first separation suit was filed; by the wife in 1905. FIRM FAILS OWING £7,000,000. . NEW YORK, July 3.—The failure of the New York Stock Exehango firm of Dean Opatavia and Co., was announced by the. president of the 'exchange. Liabilities of’ the insolvent house were estimated at slightly more than £7,000,000,'' with assets’ of between £6.000.000 and. £7.000,000, in a statement issued' by Goljrfan and Unger, New York counsel for .the firm- “ The dilEcultiesy; aypse,” eaidi ..(ho. la wyers, “from. the fabt that in th§ account of customers, Dean Onatavia and Co. were carrying 45,000 shares of stock of a company "Milph * a suMdiary of the grain' malkbtihg dorporafipn of. Chicago, kjthelAhaa Reap quoted and cai'WfldyifeyAwlhublw: avottnd £lO a share. . ___ |