MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16495, 4 August 1921, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The British Postmaster-General announces that mails for Egypt and India and Australia, dispatched on Friday by air to Paris, overtook the ordinary mails which wore dispatched on Thursday, and caught the mail ships. A Chicago jury acquitted fifteen hall players and alleged go-betweens who were tried in connection .with fixing ’’ the 1013 world series of baseball competitions. A new invention, called a methanometer, capable of automatically recording a fractional percentage of fire-damp in mines, has passed the final Home Office tests. ft’s use is expected to reduce the risk of mine explosions to a minimum. The Brussels correspondent of “ The Times ” reports that. the Rhineland High Commission expelled from the occupied area the German general von Tessmar, on the grounds that his presence was a danger to the occupying troops, as his name figures on the. Belgian list of war criminals. The Belgian Chamber adopted a Bill enabling women to become burgomasters, aldermen and rate collectors. Married women must? obtain their husbands’ permission before accepting posts. The Bill excludes women from the police service.