CABLES IN BRIEF.

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

CABLES IN BRIEF.

(.■unit'll TO COST £1.000,000. MONTREAL, August 2. The R.edemptorist Fathers in charge of tin! shrine of St. Anno do Benupre announce that a new church (o replace the one burned three years ago will be built at a cost of £1,000,000. Funds will he collected throughout the world. CATTLE TRADE WITH BRITAIN. BULAWAYO. August 5. The average price per head of the second Rhodesian cattle shipment to Birkenhead, England, was £24. A third shipment is being organised as exporters are satisfied with the results. FIRM PAYS £279.000 BONUS. NEW YORK, August. 5. The Conceal Electric Co., has paid to 30.780 employees at various plants and offices' whom they have employed for more than live years’ supplementary compensation aggregating £279,000, representing 5 per cent, of their earnings for tho six months ended .June 30. The payments were made in H per cent, bonds or in cash as employees tiesired. DIR Iff IDLE DOWN : TWO DEAD ROME, August 3. The Italian dirigible No. 2, while returning from escorting the new Transatlantic liner Biancamano, was forced by engine trouble to come down on the sea in the Gulf of Gaotn, between Rome and Naples. Two of the crew, Major Fezy and the chief engineer, Signor Rossi, fell into the sea and were drowned. Warships took the dirigible in tow. NINE GIRLS KILLED. BERLIN, August 10. An appaling fa to overtook a merry party of girls' who were returning from a danco near Rothenburg, in Bavaria. The driver of a six-seater car, in which 12 girls were crammed. discovered that the brakes would not work. He asked the occupants to jump out, but the car swerved and somersaulted down a steep railway embankment. A locomotive dashed into the wreck, and nine girls were killed and three seriously injured. WOLVES RAVAGE SHEEP FOLDS. MONTREAL, August 5. Wolves are ravaging the sheen-folds in Athabasca County, 40 miles southwest- of the city of Quebec. On one farm 20 sheep wero devoured. A litter of wolf cubs has been dis covered in an abandoned tannery. Wolf hunts are being organised. INCREASED GOLD OUTPUT MONTREAL, Aug. 1. Canada is producing more gold than ever. In 1923 the output was .1,735,73.! line ounces, worth £7.000,009. This was an increase of 210,333 lino ounces over the 192-t production. Of platinum Canada produced in 1925 a total of SI 198 tine ounces, worth £200,000. KILLED BY A LEOPARD JOHANNESBURG. Aug. 9. While one of a party hunting in the 'Kruger National Park, a retired magistrate was attacked by a leopard and fatally mauled after he had tired at. the animal and missed it. The leopard was killed by a. companion. Lions are giving trouble m parts of the Northern Transvaal. A railway ganger on a hand trolly was rounding a bead in the ii'tio and came face to face with a big lion. Fortunately he killed it witli his first shot. •J3-FOOT HOLE IN A LINER PARTS, Aug. 9. The French liner Paris, 33,309 tons, after leaving dry dock at Cherbourg yesterday, was in collision with the bieakwater at Havre. The liner's plates above the waterline were ripped open, and a hole fortyfive feet long and lifteen feet wide was made. ft. is expected that in ,eonsequence of the damage the Paris will be laid up till September. a PASTRIES BANNED. ITALIAN CABINET'S ECONOMY. ROME, Aug. 23. Tlie Cabinet, has instituted one type of bread, prohibiting the manufacture of pastries and luxury breads in the interests of national economy. Violations of the law will be punished very severely.