NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

THREE- SEAMEN KILLED. NORFOLK. Va., Oct. 6 Three members of the crew of the Shipping Board steamer Hvbevt were killed when the! rigging at one end of a lifeboat in which they were sitting gav>-v.-ay beneath them, in the yard ot the Goilooa Shipyard Inc. INDIA AIR TRIP. LONDON. Oct. 3. \ Ladv Hoare. wife of Sir Samuel Hoare. secretary of the State tor air. "’ !1 aecoiniJanv her liusband on an an nign from London to India late tins .year. The trip will he the first flight fiver the new Egvpi-India route planned by Imperial Air Ways Limited. IMMIGRANTS FOR. AMERICA. ROALE, Oct. .12. ' The Italian commissariat of emigration has published a notice saying that 16 000 Italian women are now entitled to'enter the United States. They the wifes of . men who have resided in America for at least four ytnw Tl’e notice adds that these women ...I'absorb the of .emigrants assigned to Italy for ai least eight years. OPEN VERDICT IN AIR CRASH. PENSHURST: Eng.. Oct. 6. The inniK’ai bore threw ihi ical light on the cause of the destruction of the French Air ’Union airplane by tire a few miles from- its destination from Paris to Urovdon on Saturday when hve English passengers and the French pilot and medumic lost their lives. Ihe only , cug.rcstion as to tlte possible cause of the burning of the plane was that lubricating oil. not petrol, created the! fire. UA MPA KIN AGAINST T.B. 'ROME. September 28. Supertaxes to aid in the fight against tuberculosis are planned, by the Governor of Rome. The Governor requires 10,000.fCSl'lhe (£100.000) more, annually for this purpose, and lie proposes to levy 10 per cent, on theatre tickets and la p e v cent, on families occupying more than 10 rooms. Automobile owners will be asked to make annual contributions of 'co lire (10s). , - DEOGH AX' DORIS ” IN DECLINE. LONDON, September 28. Owing to the decrease in whisky drinking, many Scotch distilleries are closing down, according to a report from Edinburgh. The Highland farmers, who have just harvested one of the finest barley crops on record for whisky distillers, are hard hit. One Highland distiller said that there was already too much whisky on the market, and that the, stocks have been accumulating in warehouses. STAMPEDE INJURES COWBOYS. HOLLYWOOD (Cal.), Oct. 2. Twelve film cowboys were injured, four of them seriously, on Friday night, during the shooting of a spectacular scene in a western picture at the Universal studios, near here. The accident occurred when cne of 50 horses became unmanageable, ran wild, throwing its rider, and the other horses, blinded bv the lights, stampeded, and several riders were thrown and trampled. v .FIGHT FJtAi HUSTLE. LONDON, Sept. 26 Films of the Dempsey-Tunney tight, are being shown in London to-night, thanks to an extraordinary hustle. The negatives were shipped aboard the Berengnrki, which was met 23 miles off Cornwall by a tug. A box containing the films, to which a light, had been attached, was thrown overboard and picked up by the tugy and the latter then raced to Falmouth, where an aeroplane was in readiness to complete the transport to London. ABRAHAM’S CITY FOUND. LONDON, September 23. Ruins of the first Hebrew settlement iu Palestine, after the parting of Abraham and Lot, have been discovered near Nablus—the Schechem of the Old Testament —by fhe international archaeological expedition, headed by Professor Ernest Zellin, of Berlin University, says a despatch to the Daily Express from Jerusalem.

The excavations revealed, among other things, the walls, gates and towers of the city where Abraham built the altar to sacrifice Isaac, and where Jacob buried bis idols and where,. according to tradition, Joseph was buried. There also wore found the remains of a Canaanislt temple and images. .1 OR])AM HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME. LONDON, September 28. The Marquis of Reading, former "Viceroy of India, has become actively iden lifted with the Zionist development work in Palestine, it was . learned Monday, lie has accepted a place on the board of'directors of the Palestine Electric Corporation, which was organised three years ago for the electrification of Palestine.

The capital for carrying out the scheme along the Jordan river for hydroelectric development, has been obtained, and a largo part paid up. Thc« total capital, including that expended on the works of Jaffa, Haifa and Tiberius, totals about £950,000. Ground will be broken for the Jordan works early next year. About 15C0 men will be employed.

THE SKY RAYS. A FRENCH ANNOUNCEMENT. LONDON, Oct. a—What he describes as “one of the most important discoveries of recent years” is announced by Charles Nordihann, one of the leading meteorologists of France, This discovery, which is said to have been made bv a number of scientists independently, is that X rays of extraordinary penetrative power are being received on the earth without intermission from celestial space. The origin of the rays is at present a subject for speculation. The one thing certain is that they are as intense by night as by day and therefore do not originate in the sun.

Nordmann puts the wave length of the sky rays fit a million times smaller than the light rays. These rays, lie says, are reaching us every instant without cessation from heavenly space and traversing our homes and bodies, and it can scarcely be doubted that they must act on our health and the state of the atmossphere.

- THE BYBONIC .SHIRT. NEW FRENCH FASHION. PARIS, Oct. 3. —Eccentricities in masculine dress in France are not rare, but a collar has hitherto been regarded as a badge of gentility, and even in the present emancipated state of masculine attire, the presence in a

Paris street of a young man from the South of France with Bvronie shirt flung open at the neck is apt to occasion a certain amount of comment. The collarless fashion lias, lioWJor. certainly made timid steps, if not strides, in sunny Provence, and threatens to invade the more meticulous north to such an extent that an anti-collar league has been formed. It is true that the founders are all men of letters, who may be suspected of inherent accentricity. At a firstmeeting of the Anti-Collar League, the president made a speech, in which he declared that it was only for the past 80 years that men had imprisoned their necks in starched atrocities, and he demanded that, shirtmakers should lie approached with a view to the creation of a shirt a la mode.