THE WIDE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 9

THE WIDE WORLD.

! NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE. ; ‘ £40,000 GAIIAOE FIRE. LONDON, August 11. Fort v motor-cars a nil charabancs were dost roved in a tiro which firemen fought , for six hours at a, Rhyl (Flintshire) i garage. j The interior of the building Was also ! destroyed, tho damage being estimated at between £3O,OCX) and £40,000. VOLCANO THROW'S CP HILL, RANGOON, August 0. A message from Afcyab reports a, volcanic eruption on Rnmri Island, Lower Burma, near the township of Kyau.kpy aA bill about. 600 feet, high was thrown up. covering 50 acres of agricultural land. The heat, destroyed the plants . over mi area of 150 acres. No lives 1 were. lost . PLANE FALLS ON STAND FIVE PERSONS KILLED. BERLIN, August 7. At Ueidenhem, Wurtemberg. to-day, km aeroplane crashed on a stand crowded with spectators. The stand collapsed. burying the occupants, five being killed* The pilot was only slightly injured. bit NESS IN*THE BACK YARDS. BULAWAYO, August, 11. At Bwanamkubwa copper mine, Northern Rhodesia, a lioness lias been annoying the community by prowling round back yards. It carried off sixteen dogs. Two Europeans and a number of natives set tire to its lair and a magnificent specimen emerged carrying a dog in its mouth. The lioness was shot and Bwanamkubwa is now restful. ACCIDENT AT DOCKS. EXPLOSION IN A SHIP. LONDON, Aug. 10. An explosion occurred on Saturday ! on tlio steamer Umvoti, which is loadi ing mt Middlesbrough preparatory to ’ sailing for Durban and Beira. Four Lascars were injured and one killed. A fire ensued and caused a further series of minor explosions yesterday. Firemen arc working continuously in relays in an endeavor to extinguish the outbreak. SAVED FOR THE “WAKES” , OLDH AM ’S ANN UAL HOLIDAY I LONDON, Aug. 2. S An average of £l2 per household has ! been saved at Roys ton, near Oldham. ! for the annual “wakes” holidays, be- ! ginning to-day. Despite a great, deal [ of short-time working in the local cotj toil trade during the year, tin? total j savings amount to £2(5,000, which is j only £OOOO less than the amount saved l in tlie cotton trade boom of the year i 1020. I PREMIER’S BIRTHDAY. RECmLEOTIONS OF -START IN LIFE. ! LONDON, August 1. On Tuesday the Prime Minister cele- ! hrat.es bis fifty-ninth birthday. Mr. Baldwin has described in a speech the. rpiaint ceremonial that was observed just after his birth. “On the day that I was born.” ho said, “ our cook, who was a Bewdley woman, wrapped me in a blanket, and! to ensure I should rise in lifo sho did the proper thing—she carried me up some stairs. But she wanted my life to be a considerable one, so she tramped up fo the top of tho house, and when she got there she put, a chair on tho middle of one of the attic rooms, got on it with me in her • arms, and then held me up.” MURDER AT REVIVAL MEETING. BOOTLEGGERS A RRESTEI). NEW YORK, August 5. In Morgantown, Kentucky,' two members of a bootlegging gang havo been arrested in connection with tho sensational double murder on Monday night of tlie Rev. William Moss, an Evangelist, and Airs. Jerome Johnson, a revival vocalist. 'Hie congregation in the village sehoolhouse were singing “ When the roll is called up yonder I’ll bo there/’ when three shots wore fired in muck succession, with the result that! Air. Moss and Mrs. Johnson fell dead, '■’Red bv the same bullet, a third person being wounded. Tlie prisoners were trailed by bloodhounds, and captured in the woods’. Both, it- is aliened, belong fo a bootlegging gang •’•hioh obipots to revival services as bad "or business. , £20,000 ART HAUL THIEVES CARRY OFF GOBELIN TAPESTRY NEW YORK, Aug. 7. I Within a. stone’s throw of the residences of Air. J. I). Rockefeller t jun. I I and other wealthy New Y T orkers rob- • hers last night entered the art gnllery of Air. P. Jackson. Higgs and stole art objects valued at £20,000. The robbers apparently climbed over the roofs of four buildings to effect an entrance, and were evidently disturbed , in their work by the crashing of a : huge plate-glass show-case, for they i omitted to take with them an obsidian • j (vitreous rock) Egyptian bronze head ( 1 valued at £17,000, as well as a bronze . horse of Vnroccliio valued at, £7OOO. ' They overlooked also a Van Dyck portrait of a nobleman estimated to be worth £25,000. They escaped, however, with two tapestries—Gobelin and Oudcnarde —and a large number of bronzes and Chinese objects which they must have carried, away in a. motor-car. .... i ; EU ROPE’S FIRST * HOUSES. DWELLERS OF 7000 YEARS AGO. SWISS DISCOVERY.' GENEVA, August 3; . Workmen excavating war Lake Zurich unearthed the remains of lake - dwellings, which date back to the Stone Ago, more than 7000 your ago. Stone axes, spears, and domestic uten- ® sils aro among tho objects found, which will join tho large collection of prehistoric finds in the museum (it Berne. f The Swiss lake dwellings wore reveal ed to the world in 1853 by a, great drought, when the waters in the lakes and' rivers of the country fell many feet below normal level, and so far as is known they aro unique of their kind ini Europe. Tlie structures which supported the wooden platforms on which the dwellings were built are made of strong piles of tree • trimks driven into the bottom of tlie lake. A" combination of clay and wood was used in the construction of these hike St huts, and tlm floors of the lulls which it were above tier wafer line wore made of large slabs cif stoiie bearing inscrip-- ~ tions of the Stone Age in hieroglyphs.