CABLES IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17152, 30 September 1926, Page 7

CABLES IN BRIEF

WORLD'B LONGEST LINER The Star announces that a British shipping linn has planned to build a liner 1000 feet long, which will bo the longest in the world. II proposes to allot the contract to a Clyde yard if the vessel can be launched there. CLAIMS FOR DOLK Out or 603,000 dole claims referred to the chief officer last year, 412,000 were disallowed. Despite the servant problem. 340,000 domestics were registered as unemployed. The average weekly number of unemployed was 977,000. The unemployed received £45,81-1,000 in doles. CHEAPER AIR PACKS Imperial Airways Lid will reduce the single faro from London to Paris to £.'i os, as compared with £(1 (is at ; present. GROWTH OF INDUSTRY I Sir James Connolly, a former Agent.tteneral lor Western Australia, states that the outstanding impression gained during his recent visit to Australia was .of the evidence everywhere of the ' phenomenal growth of industry. BUTLER CHARGED WITH MURDER , Charles Houghton, the butler who was charged with the murder of his employers, two elderly wealthy spinsters, named Woodhouse, was committed for trial. The prosecution said he • had been dismissed because recently ho had become addicted to drink. LIGHT 'PLANE'S HEAVY LOAD A light aeroplane's remarkable per- : I'ormance was a feature of the preliminary trials in The Daily Mail's £SOOO competition for light 'planes over a 2000-mile course. Beit Hinkler, t the Australian, piloted an Avro woighi lag 6701 b. from Southampton to , Lympne with a load ecpiivalent to five j persons, weighing 8401 b. SERIOUS TO ESSEX Essex County cricket is again in danger of extinction unless there is a better response to the appeal for subscriptions to purchase the Leyton ground, tho option on which expires on September 30. j AIR SERVICE ACROSS RUROPE J The Italian A.ero Lloyd is planning an air service between Rome and Munich, thus connecting Scandinavian, Near Eastern, and African traffic. j BRITISH FILMS FOR INDIA I Six Indian princes, including the ■ IVlaharajuhs of Alwar and Fatiala, and the Aga Khan, are associated, in a £1,000,000 scheme for the erection in India of 300 cinemas that; will show i only British films. GERMAN BACON FOR BRITAIN A company called the Berlin Bacon Trust, with a capital of £2,000,000, has i been formed at Berlin to export to Britain bacon prepared in accordance with British regulations. JUMPED WITHOUT PARACHUTE. Mrs. Cain, aged 25, who volunteered to make a parachute descent at Leicester, climbed on to the wing of the aeroplane and jumped off, but without the j parachute,' and was killed in the prosj once of a crowd of 20,000, including ■ her husband. The parachute was found in the aeroplane. j C.S. WEALTH FOR CANADA i Canadian Pacific Railway officials re--1 port that United States citizens settling ia Canada in the past twelve vears brought with them in cash and , effects ilie sum of tGM,47o.fi{i3 dollars 1 irmighlv, £.12,700,000). The biggest year was 1012-1", when the farmer i'movement was al it? peak, .when 1 settlers front the United States brought 2."),7i)").-l.'< dollars into the Dominion. i Ir.'the last fiscal year the amount so , jaddod to the Dominion wealth was 0,227,122 dollars. ' GAOL FOR NECKLACE THEFT 1 Edward Russell Watts was sentenced ' at, the Old Bailey to 18 months' im- ! prisonment for stealing a pearl neckLace, valued at £14,000, Prom a Regent > street jeweller. I mmmmmmmnmmmmm e