LATE MAIL SEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1920, Page 1

LATE MAIL SEWS.

HE CO HD PETROLEUM OUTxJT

NEW YORK February 17

Oil production in. tne United States during I'Ji'J was 305,255,(511 barrels, an increase of • more than 24,000,000 barrels over the previous year, according to the annual review of the Oil City Derrick. The 1019, report is a new high record in the annual petroleum output of the United States according to the review. \ ... ... __ . . , \ WAR ON IMMODEST FASHION. LONDON, February 17. War has been declared on . the “gladneck”. by the Irish women, and a League of. St. Brigid has been established with the warm approval of the authority ofs the Catholic Church to combat immodest fashions. The convents and boarding schools are to be constituted area headquarters for the new league, and thousands of young women missionaries are annually to carry on the light in their home districts. All members of the new league will be required to sign the following pledge: “For the glory of God and the honor of Erin, I promise to avoid in my own person all impropriety in the matter of dress, and to maintain and hand down the traditional proverbial purity and modesty of Irish womanhood.’ ’

preference TO EMPIRE LONDON, February 17. , The scheme proposed by Canadian tanners for the administration of a preference of •> 15 per cent granted on hides exported from India to bo, tanned within the Empire, lias been accepted by the India Office. An exception has been made, and that is that the tanner, and .not the merchant must give a certificate that the hides arc fort the purpose referred to. This plan wjll be adopted for the whole Empire. Vigorous protests arc being made to ihe Foreign Office by the French and American tanners, who secure enormous supplies of hides from India, against the preference. I am informed that a number of American tanning firms will transfer their factories to Canada in order to secure the advantage of the 15 per cent rebate in export duty.

35,000,000 WIPED OUT. GENEVA, Feb. 15. 'According to a statement received by. the Polish. Bureau j at Lusanno from Warsaw, Professor Osad, the former chief of the Statistical Department, declares Russia has lost 35,000,000 since 1914 by war, famine and pestilence. The Russian population before the war in-' creased by four births per minute, while under the Bolshevist, regime the deaths number between 11 and 12 per minute. BUTTONLESS FROCKS! LONDON, Feb. 17. Eastenless frocks are predicted m Eng land for the spring, in view of the pro-, spoetive dearth of buttons hooks, and pins. It will he recalled that the British manufacturers of these accessories, .hitherto, considered indispensable, have declared that the prices of the’ raw material are soaring to such an extent that the trade will become impossible The chief sources of the, material are the Welsh tinplate makers, who arc now forcing up prices by a.combine, and Japan, which has' forbidden the export of camphor, from which celluloid is made. Ingenious minds are busy devising new frocks that will hold together without fasteners and at the same time be pretty and smart. Dress reformers feel that the coming buttonless era will be their opportunity.

VISION OF THE, VIRGIN. PARIS, Fob. 17. | Noveant, a. small township on the I M osi-Ue is achieving notoriety by _ the circulation of reports of the apparition of the "Virgin which the inhabitants assort makes its appearance among the trees in the neighbourhood of a church. According to some who claim to have soon the phenomenon, the image of the Virgin wore a golden crown and a lon o ldnc cloak studded with stars, h rom the signs made by the imago the inhabi tants believe the Virgin is expressing a desire that a. chapel should he erected t ohr memory. Others declare she wishes to make known that they should honour her by a shrine, dedicated to Our Lady of Reconstruction, m order to encourage work in the liberated regions. The credence placed in the reports is so great that recently hells m the neighbouring village of Corny summoned the inhabitants to assemble and thev marched in procession to Noveant They said that they had nil witnessed the singular apparition.

MORMON TEMPLE WONDERS. WINNIPEG, Feh. 17. The Mormons of Southern Alberta will soon dedicate their, new temple, which for five years they have been building at Cardston, , Alberta. The temple will cost £200,000. Its length is 235 ft. and the, height 110 ft. It is surrounded by an outer court, and the whole will form the centre of a square in which will he designed lawns,, flower beds, lagoons, fish ponds, fountains and walks* ~

FEAR OF LOSING'HIS KILT. LONDON, Feb. 17. Suspicion that one of the coming army reforms is the abolition of the kilt lias caused Scottish territorial associations to protest vigorously to the War Office that this course will be very prejudicial to recruiting, especially in the North of Scotland.

1000 ARRESTS IN FIRST DRY , MONTH. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Wore than 1000 arrests marked the first month of constitutional prohibition ; Federal Prohibition Commissioner Kramer estimated to-day. With approximately 1500 agents in the service, the national prohibiton enforcement agency now is almost completely organised, according to Kramer.

CANADIAN IRON PIPING. LONDON, Feb. 12. A now and revolutionary process for the manufacture of iron piping lias been discovered in Canada and will be put into practice in Brit*jn. After months of negotiation a Canadian syndicate have disposed of the patent rights for the British Empire to the Stauntion Iron Works Company of Nottingham.

PROPHECY FROM THE; GRAVR MONTREAL, Feb. 15. An address prophesying Canada’s future was read at the last meeting of the Canadian Club in Montreal. It was by the late Major Talbot Papineau, the first Canadian to win the Military Cross, and it was read by one of his former comrades in arms. It created a strong impression.

“In the presence of her victorious armies,” the dead man wrote: ‘Canada will never again fear absorption by the United States. She will n ish to play her part in the politics of the world and will develop a strong spirit of Canadian nationality. There will be a powerful current of what we call “imperial patriotism,” combined with a desire for union and solidarity with other parts of the Empire.” Major Papineau went on to suggest that Canada and the United States together should police the whoTe American continent, acting upon an enlarged form of Monroe doctrine.

The address was signed by many officers who served with its writer before he was killed in action.