CABLES IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 11

CABLES IN BRIEF

£60,C00 FOR, CHARITY. LONDON, August 22. Mr. Henry James Hornby, excricketer and member of the -M.C.C., left £97,704. of which £60,000 is bequeathed to charity. DAIRYING DECREE. LONDON. August 22. England's youngest university, Heading University, has established a _ degree of Bachelor of Science (Dairying). This is believed to ho the first- <■! its kind m the Empire. STATE PUBLIC-HOUSES. LONDON, Aug. 25. Tile Exchequer has received a sum of over £95,000 from the profits of the liquor trade made in the State-managed districts of Carlisle, Gretna, and Cromarty Eirtli during tile year ended March 31 last. '.Tn the previous year the balance handed over was 007,305. ITALY'S £10.000.000 SURPLUS. j ROME, Aug. 13. 1 Count Volpi, ilia Ilalian Finance .Minister, stated in an interview that Italy s . financial year lias ended with a Budget! surplus of £10,000,000, and tHat war debt j payments had been settled by means ot the payment of the reparations from Germany to Italy’s creditors. ALPINISTS FROZEN TO DEATH. GENEVA, Aug. 19. Three Tyrolese Alpinists from the viliage of*Alirntal were caught in a..violent snowstorm yesterday while crossing the Gohcntaurn Pass. They lost their way and all werj frozen to death. 351 MEN ON THE FRENCH DOLE. PARIS, Aug. 19. The Minister of Labor reported to the Cabinet this morning that there were only 351 unemployed persons receiving State aid in I ranee on August 12, ol whom forty-seven were in Paris. It was pointed out that France had &I,OCO unemployed in March, 1921. NEWSPAPER STRIKE. HONGKONG. Aug. 21. Owing to a strike of journalists, printers assistants, and delivery boys to the number of over 6000, Canton is without newspapers with tlici exception of the three official Government organs. Proprietors are excluded from their own offices b v the printers., who have taken possession of the premises. WEATHER. FORECAST RESEARCH. JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 26. ]) ( , Abbott, of the Smithsonian .Institution/ Washington, announces the forthcoming erection at Mount J’.nikkards, 60'miles from Kectmanshoup, South-West Africa, of an observatory to undertake solar research work m relation to weather forecasts. Observations will begin before the end of the year. ALPINE TRAGEDY. VIENNA, Aug. 24. Herr Schattauer, president of the, Gorman Austrian Alpiml Association, me his death yesterday win e climbing Muttwitzkees Glacier in| the I.U'L JIl had roped himself to Ins wo children, ! and the latter foil into a deep crevasse, dragging their father down after them. Strange!v enough, both children weie rescued ‘uninjured, but Ilerr ' bchaUauci was killed. STRIKE EFFECT ON RAILWAY'S. LONDON, Aug. 21. j Interesting figures showing the ofleet I of tile general strike and the coal stoppage on railway Traffic in May are published The number of passenger journeys at 52.352.539 show a decrease of as compared with May fast JC 'J'here was a decrease of £2,721,073 jn receipts from passenger, parcels ami miscellaneous traffic, and the total tonnage of freight conveyed was 0,893,810, a drop of 20,919,457. ‘ AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH. LONDON, Aug. 25. Interesting facts concerning the future of living are contained in the report ol the Aeronautical Research Committee. 'The autogyro, it is stated, may an r important possibilities i” 10 \ x } flights made with a tailless light aeroplane show that the machine possesses remarkable properties ot -stability an control. With the advent of those L typos the conventional design ol me aeroplane will no longer provide tnc only successful kind of lieavier-lhnu-nir ciatt. HARNESSING THE DOURO. MADRID, Aug. 25. Thu Spanish Cabinet has granted a con cession for an electric scheme which wi.l entail the harnessing ot the waters of the River Douro. , , , »„„ .i,„ The scheme, whicli has been befoie the •Spanish ’ and Portuguese Governments for some years, proposes, amongst other matters, in furnish clcclnc current Ini consumption abroad, and to make Hie River Douro navigable from Portugal fm a certain distance into Spam. GERMAN BALLOON CRASH. COLOGNE, August 27. A new balloon which recently left- the Zeppelin Company’s works at. Iriedrichsliaven with three, passengers was taught in a fierce thunderstorm when at a height of EOCOft. The balloon was forced down at a rapid rate, and although the pilot- threw out, every sera)) of ballast- he could not arrest the downward rush. The balloon was dashed to earth on a farm at Landsberg. The three occupants were Hung out against some trees and sustained appalling injuries, one ol them lioing fatally hull. GREAT NEW 110.' D. LONDON. Aug. 27. At an estimated cost of £3,000,000, n great new arterial road between Liverpool and Salford is to he constructed, the Treasury having agreed to contribute £2.250 COO towards the outlay, the l.ialniKv of 25 per cent, to he found by the local authorities. When complete the thoroughfare will Ibe 2&i miles in length. His part of a project which involves the future extension of the road into the West Riding of Yorkshire on one hand, and the linking up at the Liverpool end with the Mersey limne! approach into Cheshire.