GENERAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14772, 11 October 1921, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

The London Daily Mail's corrcsponI dent at Runic says that Tolu, the largest African elephant in the local zoo, savagely killed Dr Ganezza, who was operating on it for an abscess. Dr Ganezza previously hud operated upon a big uurang-oulang, which seemed to realise that the operation was bcnclleial. It quietly submitted, and lay motionless on the table. Dr Ganezza fully expected the elephant to display similar intelligence, but the attendants held Tolo’s head in chains. At ihe third incision it Jerked its head free. It dashed Dr Ganezza to the ground, and trampled upon him, breaking every rib. The elephant then lifted the body in its trunk, ami beat it against ihe bars of its cage. Referring to on experiment that the Victorian Railway Commissioners intend to make with pulverised coal as a find for locomotives, Mr Robert J. Ackins, chief clerk of the New Zealand railways, who is on a visit to Melbourne, said that coal in this form had been burned with entire success in the New Zealand locomotives for some time. The plan for grinding the coal and the apparatus for feeding it into the locomotive furnaces was designed by the chief draughtsman at the head office, Wellington. Mr Aekins said that owdng to the very high price that had to be paid for railway coal, it was important that there should be no waste, and the experiment of pulverising was undertaken with a view to finding out whether a quantity of small coal that was on hand and that was useless as fuel for firing in the ordirary way could not be burned if it was first reduced to a powder, and then fed into the furnace by mechanical means. The fact that it could be done, Mr Aekins said, had made it possible to effect considerable economics, though he was not able to give the figures showing the fuel consumption, with pulverised coal, of the locomotives. There is no topic more generally discussed to-day than the gift by Mr Hugh R. Denison of quarters and income for the New South Wales branch of the Royal Golonial Institute (writes the Sydney correspondent of ihe Melbourne Argus). Not only has Mr Denison handed over a six-storey house in Rligh Street, hut he will furnish it and nut in a lift. Mis idea is that I shall he a "Loyally House." and Ihe loyalist organisations that arc now put to expense in holding business meetings will he provided with

rooms. Kven then there will he sufficient. accommodation available to lot, out. so that, enough revenue will lio derived I• i maintain the branch ?flcr (ho stylo of tho headquarters in Xorlliumherlaml Avenue. London. The gift house is situated opposite llio Union Ulnb, and in elose proximity In llio It.dot Molropnlo. The total vabio of llio irift will approximate £'J t ,000. Jl, is only about, a yoar ago that Mr Denison gave £20,000 towards Hie cost of additions to Die London building. tie emulates (lie open-handed-uoss of bis uncle, Pic Hugh Denison, who. though not bestowing such large sums, had. over a long period of

years, given away amounts aggregating a |,o Ia 1 that, would surprise the man in Die street. The fortunes from which this munificence springs originated in t.obaceo.