NEWS JOTTINGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 4

NEWS JOTTINGS

LONDON, October 6. The London County Council proposes to acquire Beckenham l’alacc Park as an open space. Morecambe’s horse tramway-cars, among the last of their kind in England, have ceased running, and the service will lie continued by a tieet of motor-omni-buses. Alderman Cedric Olivers lias been chosen Mayor of Bath for the fourth time. 11 is Mayoress is Mine. Sarah Grand, the famous novelist. The entire village of Grand Naves, ou one of the outlying peaks of Mont Blanc, has been obliterated by a fire caused by lightning. General Smuts’ book, “Holism and Evolution,” lias been published in London.

An anonymous gilt of £IO,COO lias been made to the Roman Catholic Church by the diocese of Southwark for a new church at Cliftonville, Margate. The American-Dutch expedition Into Dutch New Guinea, has found n race of pygmies. An international freemason’s conference—tlie second in 44 years—will he held shortly at Lugano to discuss the question of peace and liberty. The Laura Spclman Rockefeller Memorial has presented 1)30,COO for the establishment, of a chair of political science at Cambridge University.

A sonnet written by Mussolini when 18 years old, in praise of a doctor who had cured his friend, has been published in Rome. A Mexican named Juan Mac-ana, of Santa Ana, California, who lias reached the age of 101, is suing for divorce from his seventh wife.

The Italian General Steamship Co., of Cenoa, has decided to add three 00-COO-ton liners to its fleet, and also to construct one motor-ship of 3000 tons and another ol‘ 1000 tons.

“Revival of a barbarous practice is the term used by the Vegetarian Society in a protest they have sent to the Lord Mayor of Manchester against the proposal to roast an ox during civic week. Mrs. Markham, who inherited -.her husband’s fortune, has presented Ringwood, Hall, Chesterfield, a gift worth £20,000, to the Staveley Co., as a country dub for workers. No rain has fallen for two years in the l’rieska district in the north-west of Cape Colony. .Stock are able to exist, as water is still obtainable from boreholes, but ewes have very little milk for their lambs.

There were many thrilling incidents at a lire which occurred at the famous Cocoa Tree Club in St. James’ street, Ticeadilly, where seven people asleep on the upper lloors had exciting escapes. The club is said to be the second oldest in London—-White's being (he senior. A python, 1411. long, which had escaped from another vessel during a transhipment at Colombo, was found coiled up in (lie hold of the British steamer Crewe Hall at Calcutta. Police armed with shot guns were called in and despatched it. G. I l ’, van Damme, of tlie Belgihn Army, by the simple expedient of placing a tank of petrol well below the fuselage on an airplane, has flown upside down for wliaf is claimed to he tho record time of two minutes and 27 seconds. One woman was burned to death and six girls were more or less badly burned at a silk and lampshade factory in Plymouth-grove, Manchester. The cause of the outbreak is said to be the explosion of a barrel of petrol in a pet<rol store on the premises. A new marine parade and park were opened at Blackpool by (lie Earl of Derby, in whose honor the parke lias been named Stanley Park. The scheme as a whole, also comprises a new seawall and tramways extension, and has. involved a total expenditure of ££(70.000 laisses of Liverpool cotton merchants due to defaulting creditors have become so great —more than £2,000,000 during the past 12 months—that an organisation. the Cotton Trade Bureau, Ltd., has been formed to enable merchants to pool their information. In the will of Mr. Nainby Fletcher Dean, draper, of Prenton, Cheshire, whose estate was of the gross value of £59,675, a year’s salary was left to each employee who had been in liis service 20 years, nine months’ salary to those who had served 15 years, and three months’ salary to others of shorter service.

Two houses at Market Deeping, near Stamford (Lues.), were destroyed by tire during a thunderstorm. One was struck by a, thunderbolt and wrecked, it being hi flames from top to bottom within five minutes. Mis. Exton. one of the occupa.nls, anil) her twin children had narrow escapes. Three hundred British manufacturers, employing 12.000 workpeople, have co operated in the annual cycle and motorcycle show, which was opened at Olympia hv Mr. L. C. M. S. Am cry* M.P., Secretary for the Dominions, who spoke of the immense development of the industry, and what it meant in the life of the nation.