NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16542, 9 January 1928, Page 10

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

SIX-YEAR-OLD KING HEADS ASSOCIATION Bp CHARES’!’, Dec. 13. King Michael was elected president of tho Rumanian National Geographic Society to-day in spite of being only 6 years'old. His undo Prince- Nicholas, was chosen vice president. CEYLON GOES DRY IN NORTHERN DISTRICTS COLOMBO (Ceylon). Nov. 22. The Legislative Council adopted a resolution for immediate prohibition in tho northern provinces and ordered the colonial secretary .to introduce a scheme for enforcement'before January 1. NORWAY AND THE BOER WAR. OSLO, Nov. 10. I" memory of the Scandinavians who were killed ‘in the Boer Wa r two great tombstones are to be unveiled on the Plain of Magcvsfontcin on December 16. The cercmonv will be performed by General Smuts. All the money lms been collected from private subscriptions. STR ATFORD’S THE AT RK. LONDON. Nov. 10. Restoration and endowment of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Strat-ford-on-Avon are now within sight of being secured. A munificent donation q 1 £IOO,OOO from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., has left no doubt of the relatively small balance required being in the hands of the promoters at an early date. MEAT PLANT BURNT KANSAS CUTY, (Mo.), Dec. 8. Damage to the Armour and Go._ packing plant at Kansas City, Kansas, amounted to nearly £21)0,000 to-day when flames, which had smouldered throughout the night, broke out again and spread to two additional buildings. Altogether four buildings have been destroyed. Those burned to-day adjoined two others razed last night. HUSBAND AND WIFE PLEAD AS BARRISTERS LONDON, Deo. 10. For the first time in English jurisprudence a husband and wife, William Sheppard Morrison and Lclith Jane Morrison, both of them barristers, appeared together in the High Court, on behalf of a litigant who was involved in a taxi-cab. collision. They acted as junior counsel in the case. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison were called to the liar at the samo time in 1923. EX-PAGE BOY' PAYS £62,000 FOR. SEAT ON STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Dec. 13. William J. Barroni, former stock market. pago boy, was revealed as tho purchaser of a'seat on tho stock exchange at tho record prico of £62,000. Barroni, y\ ho is about 35, began his Wall street career as a uniformed page jn 1907. and 10 years later joined the staff of Carlisle, Mollick add Co,, one of tho largest odd-lot brokerage houses. Ho will represent this firm, which already controls more than 30 exchange memberships. CONFESSION OF GOVERNORGENERAL. A OTTAWA, Nov. 10. Speaking a.t a club luncheon here, Lord Willingdon emphasised how careful the Governor-General must, be to avoid .controversial yiolitical subjects when speaking in public. “Before I made my last, speech at the Canadian Club,” tie said. “1 went over it very carefully and decided that,' there word no politics in it. Nevertheless, the speech was cabled to England and India, and I got into serious trouble with the Secretary of State for India and the Secretary for the Dominions.' The address in question was one which referred to Indian affairs. FAMOUS BETTING CLUB TO CLOSE. LONDON, Nov. 10. Tho Beaufort Club, Soho Square, for 60 years one of the best-known racing and betting clubs in London, is to close at the end of the year, when the company owning it will bo wound up.. Air. Charles Martin,, one of the directors, said yesterday : “I can remember*' the time when business amounting to thousands of pounds was transacted at a single call-over. On sonic occasions recently there has been, no use for a, call-over, for fl|pvo has been virtually no business.’’ During the' peak of its popularity the, club had a membership of 600. To day members are comparatively few. “GUNPOWDER, PLOT” SERMON. LONDON, Dee. 6. Instituted over 300 years ago by the Drapers’ Company; the annual “Gunpowder Plot” sermon was delivered yesterday afternoon at Hie church of Mary-]e-Bow, Clieapside, 'by the rector, the Rev. Gordon Ponsonbv. Before the sermon the prayer for the King was read; and it was explained by the rector that 321 years ago Parliament, enacted that there should he prayers for the King and thanksgiving for his deliverance' on November 5 throughout the ages. Those in authority had thought wise to ordain otherwise in the hist century, and the “Gunpowder Plot” service was removed' from the Prayer Book some time ago. HONEYMOONERS AVOID KILLAENEY LAKE REGION LONDON, Nov. 119. Honeymoon couples'cannot be persuaded to include Killanicy’s lakes in their trip, owing to, superstition, it was revealed at a conference’of travel agents here recently. . . A centuries old legend exists to the effect that a honeymoon couple were so enchanted with the beauty of the famous Irish beauty spot that they fell into Lough Leane, the lower lake, and were drowned. , The president of tho conterencc added that travel agents had much for which to thank the late, Rudolph Valentino. American tourists now have a tiemendous desire to. journey into the desert on a, moonlight night hunting for goodlooking sheiks, aud firms are finding it profitable to run six-wheel automobile cars for, this business.

ITALIAN'S BIG FAMILY. ROME, Nov. 12. A working woman named Crcstim, residing at Ponte Mincio, near Verona, who had already homo 15 children, of whom 14 are boys, gave birth two days ago to triplet Wys. All her former children are living ami healthy. PACKING FACTORY COLLAPSE. MADRID, Nov. 26 Whilst 40 workpeople were engaged in packing tomatoes in a, factory at Arm aga (Canary Islands), the building collapsed.'six people being killed and five injured. LOSE 1C9,C00 DAYS IN AWAITING SIGNAL 111 CROSS STREETS NEW YORK, Dee. 7. Time lost by pedestrians waiting for traffic signals at crossings oil Fortysecond street, one of tho busiest thoroughfares in New York, is equivalent to 100,000 days a year. This was estimated by Hie Merchants’ Association and property owners on the street. They want an underground passage between Times Square and the Grand Central stations to relieve congestion. TRANSATLANTIC AIR MAIL PARIS. Dec. 12. Credits for an air mail delivery from Paris to Buenos Aires, via Dakar, West Africa, were voted 409 to 125 in Parliament on Saturday. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce, informed the Chamber the mail would begin operations in January or February. ACTOR GRAVELY HURT IN FALL WITH TIGER BERLIN, Dec. 5. The tiger was not hurt, but- Harry Pi el, Germany’s popular comedian, was taken to a hospital after he and the tiger had fallen 15ft. off a staircase. At a rehearsal at Neu-Babelsburg, near Potsdam, at which Piel and the tiger embraced, they pressed so tightly against (he stair banister that it gave way. Both fell to the floor below. The actor suffered internal injuries. The tiger docilely allowed himself to be caged. LANDS PLANE ON STREET. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30. To demonstrate “the practicability of the airplane.” a subject which he subsequently discussed at a luncheon, Harry Brooks dropped down on the pavement of Woodward avenue, Detroit’s main street, in a fliver plane yesterday. The landing was made in an outlying district and but one . motorist was within the vicinity. He swerved sharply to one side of the pavement when _he noticed the plane, and drove rapidly away. “1 made the landing,” Brooks said, “as part of the campaign to educate the people to the use of the plane.” TWO-WEEK VACATION FOR OVERWORKED HEART IS URGED. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 30. Two weeks’ vacation for the hearts of persons having high blood pressure is suggested by Dr. Franklin R. Nizum of Santa Babara > The heart vacation simply consists-of going fo bed for that period and staying there, the physician told the convention of the Southern California .Medical Association here. Ho also suggested giving the heart a half-hour rest after each meal, and a week-end rest after every week. Tension of modern life is increasing the deaths duo to high blood pressure, lie said. FATAL FIGHT WITH ROBBERS. PARIS, Nov. 12. A strange story of a jewel robbery followed by a tragic fight with the robbers, is reported from Casablanca. A motor car which makes the passenger service from Casablanca to Tangier, left this town with three travellers, but instead of going to' Casablanca it went to Tetuan. During the night tho three travellers robbed a jeweller’s shop, the value of their booty being put at 1,500,000 francs. The Spanish police went in pursuit of thieves in two armoured motor-cars belonging to the army, and succeeded in overtaking them near the French frontier zone. The burglars were armed and immediately attacked tho police, three of whom wore killed and four wounded. Sauvcr, thoj Italian driver of the car, and one of the burglars were wounded, add tho other'two bandits surrended to the 'Spanish police, who ■ took thorn to Tetuan. The jewels stolen wen? found under the seats of the motor carl and in the spare wheel. LONDON RAILWAY BUILDS BIGGEST CRANE IN WORLD LONDON, Dec. 10. An immense crane now being erected in connection with the , Metropolitan Railway’s new £750,000 building, is the largest of its kind in the world and differs entirely from the three-legged type now familiar to Londoners. It comprises a single “leg” nearly 150 ft. in height, and is surrounded by a steel Lattice-work jil), 100 ft. long, while protruding from and running down the centre of the ‘Teg’’ is a great steel pivot which enables the crane to revolve in a complete circle without difficulty. A feature of particular interest in connection with the crane is that it is so constructed that when,left at night unattended it will automatically rotate, in the manner of a weather vane, and so adjust itself to any adverse wind pressure that may arise. The area covered by the crane is more than 30,000 square feet. It is of English construction throughout and is electrically operated by one man.