NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17078, 6 July 1926, Page 10

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

isrmivH i/jss iiiYKN as jm0,000,000. LONDON”, May 14.—Financial experts figure Britu’ip’s direct loss by lire strike at £20,(100,000 in the loss of borne and foreign trade, and another £2Q,000,00U in emergency expenditure. FIVE SISTERS BURN TO DEATH. WILKKSBARIiE (Pa.), May 13. Five young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ignat/, Sbedlowski'were burned to death in their bogie at Plymouth following an explosion of a still. Two other children and the mother were rescued by firemen. BRITISH INCOME TAX HIGHEST IN WORLD. LONDON, May 8.--Britishers are assessed on one of the highest- income tax scheduled in the world. A married man with one child earning £4OO pays £9 annually; at £6OO he would pay £2-5; and if lie made £IOOO the Government would take £9O. PEACE, PIPES SENT TO BALDWIN. LONDON, May 26. - Peace pipes galore, gifts from anient admirers of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, aro flooding 10, Downing street. Mr. Baldwin, who always is photographed. smoking a- briar pipe-, is forced to announce that he will receive no further gifts. ONE BULLET WOUNDS SIX MEN. SAN JUAN (Porto Rica), April 9. — Six men were wounded by a single bullet on the target range of the’“Sixth Fifty’’ Infantry here when a rifle which was being cleaned by a soldier was accidentally discharged. The bullet wounded one private in the abdomen, struck anotliei on the right knee, and deflected from a rifle and hit a third in the neck, then struck a captain and a lieutenant in turn, and finally lodged in the hip of a fourth private.

SEEING AND HEARING. LONDON, May 3.—ln a, demonstya(ion of the “Televisor,” the) invention of Mr. John Baird, the: image of a person at one end of tiro telephone was transmitted arid made visible to a person at the receiving end. It is claimed that by means of the instrument it will be possible to combine sight and sound and convey them any distance. STATE LIQUOR SALES PROFIT. MONTREAL, May 2.—The Quebec Liquor Commission, which regulates the sale of hour in taverns, wines and beer in hotels, and spirits at Government shops, will have been in existence five years on Friday, each year showing a profit of close ohi PI.COOiOCO. The Commission’s report will show incretised sales of wines and a diminished consumption of spirits. . As wine sales increase the prices are reduced to keep thfl profits about the average. WORLD BROADCASTING. NEW YORK, May 2. In connection with an International Rotary Convention fo bo- held at Denver, an elfort is to bo made to effect around-tlie-world broadcasting for the first time on record. Greetings will be sent to lloinrians by /representatives of the principal Powers, speaking in their ' native tongues, on the evening of May 26 (the morning of May 27, Greenwich time). MACHINE-GUN MURDERS. NEW YORK, May 2. Air. McSwiggin, the Prosecutor of Cook County, who had obtained more hangings than any previous holder of the otKce, was murdered near Chicago by a gang in a motor car, who opened fire at him with a machine-gun at dose range. They also killed Mr Janies Doherty, a, well-known “bootlegger,” who was in Mr McSwiggiu's motor car, and may have been assisting the Prosecutor. •STATUE BURIED BY PEASANTS. ' ZABLOTOW, Poland, May B—Ordered by Polish authorities to junk a statue of tho late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary as a “treasonable relic of Austrian nationalism,'’ the peasants of Zahiotow, formerly a part of Austria, buried it with ail the pomp and religions ceremony accorded a national boro. From‘its pedestal in the public squaw tho statue was placed m a coffin hanked high with flowers. The band played a dirge, thousands of peasants, many of them weeping and wailing, followed the, hearse to the cemetery. I The coffin was lowered into a grave, which will be marked with another monument. A fund is being gathered by popular subscription to ensure per- ■ petual care of the grave. j Polish officials say that probably a majority of flie peasants did not know ■ that flic oarjsh of Zahiotow had been ceded to Poland. :