NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 5

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

£1,585 FOR "LONDON CRIES.” BERLIN, April 4. A very complete sc,t ot Wheatleys “Cries of London” was put up at Heurici’s yesterday, and knocked down to the dealer. Herr Paul Graupe, for 31,7CO marks (£1,585). STRAWBERRIES 2s 4d EACH. THE HAGUE, March 21. Local-grown strawberries were offered for sale at the Utrecht Wholesale Fruit Market this week. They realised 2s 4d per berry. LOCK OF BEETHOVEN’S HAIR SOLD FOR £2OOO VIENNA, April 5.—A lock of Beethoven’s hair has been sold by the Fiinfkirchoii Museum to Mr. John Morlev, an art collector, of New York, for £2OOO. KILLED IN FIRE ENGINE SPEED TEST MONTREAL, April 2.—While attempting to break the previous speed record, a fire engine carrying five lire* men swerved into a street standard, with the result that one fireman was killed and four others were injured, one seriously. SCOTTISH ROLL OF HONOR LONDON, April 4 It is announced that the King and Queen have intimated their intention of providing for the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle a wrought steel casket to contain the rolls of honor of the Scots, to the number of over 100,000, who fell in the war. FLOWERS BY THE TON LONDON, April 2.—The Seilly Islands spring flower harvest is now in full swing. About 100 lons a week of narcissi and other blooms are being brought to Penzance and despatched to London and other markets. On one day there was a record consignment of nearly •Hi tons. ONE MAN FOR WORK OF 60 BERLIN, April 2—One hundred and fifty thousand electric glow lamps a day will be turned out by three machines in the new Osrain works in Kiemensladt, on the outskirts of Ber lin. One machine, which needs only one man to mind, can do in a day work which had previously required 60 men to do. 10 MONTHS IN THE AIR LONDON, April 4.—-To have piloted 10,000 passengers in British and Dutch air liners and to have spent 7500 hours, or over 10 months, in the air, is the record of Captain J. P. Olley, an Imperial Airways pilot. Captain Olley, who began flying in 1915 and has been on cross-Channel routes since 1919, carried his 10,000 th passenger yesterday in a flight from London to Paris. STATUE FOR CHEESE PARIS, April 3. —A statue is to be erected to Mine. • Mario Marel, a farmer’s wife, who invented Oamembert cheese. The monument will bo unveiled on April 1(5 at Vimouticrs, the village of Normandy where she was born in 17(51. Mine. Marel actually discovered the famous recipe at Yimoutiers, near Ljsieux, but she sold her first cheese at Camembert, the village a mile and a half away, from which it. took its name. CLEANING UP A TOWN. BORGER. April 11. One city official has resigned and rumors are current that others will lotlow immediately as Texas Rangers went about cleaning up Borger, the nearfrontier town, which has been declared a badland bv Governor Dan Moody. The “clean-up’’ ordered by the Governor, following three fatal shootings a week ago, had tamed the oneo viciousness of the town. Wholesale raids on gambling places, alleged saloons and underworld rendezvous have been conducted the past week. Move than 100 persons have been forced to leave the city since the rangers took control. BERNARD SHAW’S LAWSUIT. NEW YORK, April 2. Mr. Bernard Shaw has won the first skirmish in his fight to prevent tho publication of four letters which the dramatist wrote to Mr. William Pago j about 25 years ago regarding the production of some of his plays in Now York. The court which is hearing the ! case, granted a temporary injunction forbidding Mr. Page to issue tho book in which the letters appear. Tho ques- ! tions of making this injunction per- ! manent and of granting monetary damages to Mr. Shaw, who is claiming £20,000, have still to be argued. EURASIAN RACE LINK INDICATED BY SKULLS. LONDON, April 2. Skulls of a race supposed to he, the connecting link between Asia and j Europe were exhibited here recently by ! Sir Arthur Keith during a lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons. The skulls had been discovered in an ancient cemetery in the Taklamnkan Desert, Central Asia. Duo to atmospheric conditions the skulls were well presetted. The features could be distinguished and the hair had retained its natural color. Sir Arthur asserted the features were similar to those of Europeans, while the essential characteristics were Mongolian. WOMEN’S INSURANCE LONDON, April (L—Sir Walter Killncar, Controller of llte Insurance Department. of the Ministry of Health, speaking at the Facility of Insurance idinner, said that the duration of sick- ( ness benefit among married women | averaged the very high figure of S:| weeks per annum. At a period when the, health of the general community was steadily improving they had need to ask themselves whether the apparent deterioration in the health of insured women, as reflected in the sickness claims, was not to some extent accounted for by a certain degree of laxity in the administration of the Act. WHOLESALE BURGLAR’S SENTENCE STUTTGART, April 7.—ln tho sum* ■ mer of 1925 the Stuttgart police succeeded in capturing a waiter named 1 Arthur Johan Spiess, who was wanted ■, by practically every policc-forco in Germany on charges of burglary total--1 ling altogether 236. Since then ho has boon put on trial in Stuttgart, Leipzig, i Frankfort, and Munich. So far his . -sentences total 07 years 11 months i penal servitude, and lift has still to be tried in Cassel, Hanover, Breslau and

•Berlin, so that lie, is likely to score his “century” before the judicial authorities are finished with him.

LONDON, April 7.—During the quarter ended September 30 last ,1,724,507 motor vehicles bore licenses. Of the 686,232 motor-cars, .174,940 were 12 li.p., 76,554 were 14 h.p., and 45,469 were 11 h.p.