THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7987, 16 March 1906, Page 7

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

FOR A BRITISH FLYING MACHINE. Sir David Salomons baa offered the Aero Club a valuable prize for the first mechanically propelled aeroplane which flies a given distance and returns to the point of departure. The rulea and conditions of the award, which stipulate that the machine shall be constructed in England, are now being settled by the oommittee. OPERA STRIKE SETTLED. The chorus strike at the Metropolitan Opera House. N,ew York, Is over, and the amateur performers have gloomily doffod their costumea and put aside their vaulting ambition. Herr Conried says the chorus surrendered. The chorus say the manager yielded. Anyway, the right to belong to a union is granted to the ohorus, and their salary-is raised from £3 to £4 a week. JBut the union, as a body, will not be recognised by Herr Conried.

BRIDGE AS TEMPERANCE AGENT. Hotbl proprietors on the Riviera are complaining of the losa they are sustaining by the popularity of bridge.' The owner of a first-olass house says that he haa sold thirty per cent, leas wines and liqueurs during the last twelve months than in previous years. "Visitors clay bridge day and night," he said, "and generally for money, so they have to keep a clear head and touch no aloohol in any form. Tea, ooffee, and mineral waters seem to be the favourite drinks. The game is a more powerful advocate of temperance than a dozen crusades among the middle and upper classes, and we are the sufferers." AERIAL BICYCL.E INVENTED. Mr John P. Holland, inventor of the submarine adopted by the American navy, says he will attempt to fly from his office in New York to his residence iu Newark, New Jersey, in March, in the new machine for aerial locomotion, wtiioh he has designed. Mr Holland predicts that within twelve months everybody will be able to fiy. His invention consists of four silk wings, twenty inches long and eighteen inches wide at the tips, worked by foot pedals in much the same way as a bioycle. The inventor claims that a speed of forty miles an hour can easily be secured by an active man, and that a man walking at the rate of three miles an hour on land will be able to move fifteen miles an hour through the air with no more t exertion.

ACTRESS' ARM BROKEN ON IHiS STAGE. Mme. Maria Jassay, Hungary's leading tragedienne, broke her arm while playing Gertrude in "Bank ban," recently, but gave no sign to either audience or players of her pain. In the last act Gertrude is stabbed and falls, and it was in falling that the accident ocourred. The audienoe was in a state of nervous tension, and Mme. Jassay says she. felt that a scream from her might start a panic, so she lay for several minutes wibhout a movement and when the curtain ultimately fell was only just able to tell the others what had happened fcefore she fainted. The right arm is badly broken and it will be some weeks before Mme. Jassay i& atle to play again.

MILLIONAIRE'S SHIP.

Three hundred wealthy New Yorkers sailed on the Caronia, recently, for the Mediterranean, it being the first trip of the now Cunarder in this service. The majority of the passengers were millionaires. The first touch of real winter, delayed until yesterday, sont the residents of Fifth Avenue flying south, to Florida, and the West Indies, and, also, resulted in additional bookings to the Riviera, via tho Oaronia. To-day the "millionaires' balf-mile" in Upper Fifth Avenue has many absentees. An enormous crowd assembled at tho Ounard nier to witness the departure of the "millionaires' ship." The cabins were filled with costly flowers. A group of joyous millionaires on tho upper deck threw silver balf-doilara on tbe pier head forscrarabing newsboys, and, according to a "wireless" message, an expensive poker game was in full blast before tho pilot was dropped off Sandy Hook. The Caionia will touch at Gibralter and Genoa, and will land her passengers at Fiuine.