NEWS JOTTINGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17158, 7 October 1926, Page 2

NEWS JOTTINGS

LONDON, August 26. Canada now has one motor-ear to every 13 persons. Durbar 11., winner of the Derby in 1914, has been sold in America for £5400. . , The Belgian Athletic League has decided to resume relations with German athletic associations. The airship Norge, in winch Amundsen recently flew over the North loiar basin., has'been sold to the Italian Government for £II,OOO. V Furs worth nunc than £200,000 were brought to Edmonton in one train from Northern Canada, recently. The hill thrown up by the recent volcanic eruption on Kamri Island, Burma, is three miles long and one mile wide. About 2CO acres under cultivation have been destroyed. The "sunburn silhouette" is the latest fashionable craze at l)eauvil)c. Designs are cut, like a stencil, in the hacks of bathing costumes, and the sun's rays burn the designs on the Hearers' skins. Mr. Albert Mercer, a trapper, reports the discovery in "Western Canada, of a gorge from 12 to 15 miles long and nearly 4.000 ft. deep, and resembling the Grand Cam-on in Arizona, I'.S.A. Chinese guhinen have been carrying out gang rdbberies on a large scale in Singapore and use firearms and daggers without provocation. A poli.ee agept has been killed and three constables wounded. • Going ashore in a fog at Barry Island. |-the Italian steamer Valsesia (6606 tons), carrying 9000 tons of foreign coal for Barry" "broke her back when the tide receded. ' . Between Calais and Flushing a lokker monoplane from Croyden to. Rotterdam, flew at 160 miles an hour. The driver of a Lille-Paris express train was decapitated through leaning out of his cabin while, passing underneath a bridge. Five physicians attending the Queen of Sweden have issued a bulletin that the Queen's state of health is still serious and that it will not permit her to stand the cold season in Sweden. An aeroplane from which two Spanish officers. Capt. Kojas and Lieut. Marquiy, were bombing enemv communications in Morocco, crashed from a great height and both airmen were killed. Investment of United Slates capital in Canadian industrial enterprises la increasing at the rale of £40,000,000 a rear. At the beginning of this year American financial interests had £5°5.000,000 invested in the Dominion. British investment has remained at a standstill. ~ , , Work has just- begun on the development of a hydro-electric power plant at Bridle' River (British Columbia), to cost £6,000,000. The preliminary plans include a boring through the base of one of the Province's largest mountains and a road &i miles long. • Alter nearly half a century the Foord Pit at Stellarton, Nova Scotia, where 49 colliers were entombed after an explosion in 1880, has given up. its dead. The old workings have been penetrated and bones, tattered clothing, leather belts, and boots nave been recovered. There are 3000 places in New York where intoxicating liquor can be obtained, according to Major Chester Mills the Federal Prohibition Administrator, -who says that many of these places, called " speak-easies," sell virtually in the open. . The Citv of London's night population is now on'lv 13.340. Fifty years ago it exceeded 112,000. The day population. \igi.456.000. and over 1,000,000 persons and vehicles enter and leave the city onlv. The birth-rate was 7.5 and Jhe death-rate 11.7. . The Italian steamer Valsesia (&SU) tens), of Genoa, laden with coal from America, ran aground at Friars Point, Barry Island, in a. thick fog. The. weight of her 'cargo broke her back yesterday before low water, and the vessel will probably be a total -wreck. So pleased was General Chang, commander of a local garrison in China, at the unusual visit of a newspaper correspondent that .he • ordered out three condemned criminals and w.as about to lop off their heads by way of celebration, when the visitor hastily intervened and explained that lie didn't require that form of entertainment.' As part of its policy of restriction and economies, the Belgian Cabinet has decided that " night life " in the Belgian cities must cease, and that cafes and other public places must close half an hour after midnight. Dancing must stop at midnight. Heavy fines and imprisonment will be incurred by anyonewho keeps a cabaret open after 12.30 a.m. Torquay Town Council has adopted a £120,000 scheme for developing tho sea front..' A block of old buildings will be demolished, and an arcade and an up-to-date hotel built. Roads round the harbor will be widened, and a covered parking place provided. It is claimed that Tevenue will easily cover loan charges. " I felt nearly ready to jazz in the cathedral," said the Dean of Lincoln, . Dr. T. O. Fry, when he announced a gift of £7450 towards the Lincoln Cathedral fund by an American. Altogether £66,000 of the £86,000 required has been subscribed, and it is hoped to complete the work in time to hold a great thanksgiving and reopening service early in 1928. A remarkable archaeological discovery of a lost city in Italy has been made by Professor Guiseppe Moretti, superintendent of antiquities at Ancona. The lost city flourished more than four centuries before Christ. It is pentagonal in plan and included great temples and palaces. Its high state of civilisation is indicated by the rich mosaics which have been found. Rain does not stop cricket matches in China because there is no cricket in China, but it sometimes interfere.? with the only comparable, outdoor sport—public beheading. A heavy downpour recently caused officials in Pekin to decide that neither participants nor spectators of the execution should be subjected to undue inconvenience. It is stated that the forage needed by the fox-hunting horses of Britain costs £4,150,000 per annum. One hundred new superheater locomotives are being built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway to handle , fast goods traffic and' heavy excursion trains. The Irish Free State's adverse balance of trade for the 12 months ended June 30 was £18.320.000. The first ship to he built in the Free State—a tug for New Zealand—was launched from the Dublin yard of Messrs. Viclers (Ireland), Ltd.' A new design for postage stamps is to be introduced in Portugal owing to ex-

tensive forgeries of the present design