CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17525, 30 April 1925, Page 6

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. Another early settler, in the person of .Mr Alfred Taylor, who came out to .Yew Zealand, by the ship Joseph Fletcher in 1800. passed a.way at his resid- [ cnee. Dcrbv Street. St Albans, on Tues- ! day. The late Mr Taylor leaves a widow and five children, including Mr | A. S. Taylor, a member of the Trami Mrs Bell, an English sportsmwoman, has returned to Mount Somers from the back country ranges without having any luck beyond sighting a few deer. Mrs Bell has secured 100 deer altogether. forty of them last season in Scotland, but they were not to be compared with the Y'ew Zealand heads. It is all the more to be regretted that, she did not secure a single specimen of the chase. In maintaining the efficiency of the telephone system, the officials have to combat many strange elements. There are to l»e seen in the office of the engineering branch of the Telegraph Department several examples of unusual damage to telephone cables, among them being a piece of lead armouring taken from an underground cable which has a hole in it 3in long, chewed by rats. Another piece of armouring, from an overhead cable, has a small hole in it caused by a .22 rifle bullet, which penetrated the inside of the wires. The J weather also takes toll of the outer coverings of the cables, and the process known as electrolysis sometimes sets in. causing a hole to be budrnt through the armour. j In view of the announcement by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer , that the resumption of the gold standard takes effect iu Britain as from Tuesday, Sir Francis Dillon Bell, acting Minister of Finance, speaking of the intentions of the Y'ew Zealand Government, said that English control over gold export would have lapsed next December. Y’ew Zealand had extended its prohibition of gold export until the end of 1925. but gold could lie freely exported under license. Remarking on the heavy demand from India for gold and a well sustained demand *lsu from Australia. Sir Francis said he would not enter into a discussion ol" the genera! situation, but the Government had retained ist power to slop export in any case deemed to be justifiable.