CABLES IN BRIEF.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 2

CABLES IN BRIEF.

YACHT MISSING

Destroyers are searching- the Irish Sea- for‘ the vaeht Altair, which has been missing since August lf>. D is handled by a woman skipper, and participated in* a rape at Cowes. EDUCATION IN INDIA.

The Bengal Council lias passed a resolution in favor of iree. compuKoiy primary education throughout the presidency. airway to All) SHIPPING An air\vav between Southampton and Cherbourg 'will he established in 1827 in connection with the trans-Atlantic liner sailings. It wilt save a day oil The inward anti outward journos s. A Meet of 32-seater flying boats is being constructed. Provision is being made for passengers to smoke. BULL-FIGHT IN FRANCE.

-V toreador was hissed from the arena at 'the lirst bull-light held at Frejus, m the south of France. Half the audience u i 10 000 were comprised of women and children. When the S.P.C.A. had previously urged the cancellation oi the fixture, the president of the committee laughed, find said, “ 1 his is not- England RUSH ON STEEL SHADES. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed on the Berlin Stock Exchange when the shares of the new steel trust were first quoted. Berlin applications amounted to £200,000.000. Police protected brokers’ oil ices from the rush of ) rivestors. MEXICAN TROUBLE NEARLY OYEREconomic pressure is said to be forcing a compromise between the Mexican Government and the Catholics, and an early settlement- of the controversy is expected, with a resumption of services in Roman Catholic churches within a fortnight. GIRL BURGLAR GETS AWAY. A living squadron of Scotland Yard officers* was hot on the trail of a pretty Eton-cropped girl burglar, who \vas operating m Uhertsey, St.. Albans, Cla}gate. Ilford, and Leatherhcud, but she escaped in a motor car with membets of the notorious “Forty Elephants gang of women thieves. Ihe booty consisted mainly of jewellery and dresses.

JEWEL ROBBERY IN TRAIN. Colonel Charles Leslie Rome, who was A.D.C. to loot’d Dudley when ihe latter was Governor-General of Australia, was travelling with his wife from York to Southampton by train, and placed a jewel-case containing jewels worth £SCO on the rack, covering it with his overcoat, when he went to the dining car. When ho returned his ieliow passenger and the jewels had disappeared. PAWN BROKER'S BEQUEST. Frederick Atton, a pawnbroker, of Stamford. (Lincolnshire), directed m his will that the residue of hrs estate ot £57.000. after providing _ for his relatives should accumulate for the longest period the law allowed, but not later than 2‘-aa) A.D., and thereafter be dh-ided between the Bible Society and four leading hospitals. DEATH-BED HGKOR. Almost while deLisle. the ill-fated pilot of the French air liner that- crashed in Kent. \h* breathing bis last, the French Government appointed bun a knight of the Legion of Honor in appreciation of bis services to aviation. He won the Croix do Guerre during the war. PARACHUTE FOR AEROPLANE. A huge safety parachute at San Francisco brought undamaged to land a naval aeroplane. At a height, of 2MIO feet the engine was silenced, and 90 seconds later, while thousands ot people watch* ed. the 'plane landed three miles away. The aviator was not hart. •• STUDENTS OF NATURE.” Twentv young German of both sexes, calling themselves “students of nature,” caused a, scandal by bathing naked in the River Maggia, near Locarno, and by wandering unclothed on the shore. They were expelled by the police, after the'local youths had chastised the males. HIPPO BABY. LONDON, August 20. A hippopotamus has been born at the London Zoo for the first time since 1872. The baby is 3ft- long and weighs lewt; the father two and a half tons and the mother two tons. THE .MENACE OF THE BIRTH RATE. LONDON, August 26. Of somewhat startling significance is that fact that the British birth rate is approaching that of France, where it .is one of the lowest, if not- the lowest, in the world. For the quarter ended on June 30, the birth rate in England and Wales was 18.7 per thousand of the population, the lowest recorded for any similar period, with the exception of the years 1917 to 1919, when the war and the conditions immediately following it were no doubt considered a sufficient explanation. The birth rale for the April-June quarter was onlyequal to the rate in France for last year.

FRENZIED HUSBAND’S ACT. BRUSSELS, August 24. .When a motor car knocked down and seriously wounded a. woman at Bcuvignes, her husband rushed from his house and fired! a ritie at the driver. He killed a passenger in the car. WOMEN IN THE AIR. LONDON. Aug. 19.—A match is being arranged for the end of September between Mrs. Elliott Lynn and Mile. Holland, to decide the “air-women’s world supremacy,” says a message from Paris. Mile. Holland has flown for 2000 hours during seven years, and Mrs. EliottLynn 200 in a year. The match will he decided near Paris, the tests including acrobatics, landing on a mark, and cross-countrv engineless flights. ADVENTUROUS ELEPHANT'S FATE. SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. Passengers bv the night mail train from Singapore‘to the Malay States had an unpleasant- experience when the train clashed into two elephants on the track. One of the animals was killed and the other escaped into the jungle. 1 lie front of the engine was slightly damaged, lnit after a short delay tin* train was able to proceed on its journey. MOSQUE FOR PARIS. PARIS. Aug. 16. A magnificent mosque, which is to serve as a centre of serial and spiritual • work among Mohammedans in France, was inaugurated in Paris to-day by the .Sultan of Morocco. The mosque, which cost 8,000,000 francs, raised by the subscriptions of followers of the Prophet living under French protection, stands in the Plaice du Puits des l’Ermite. on a site presented by the city.