MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SOUVENIR KUNTERS. (Received this day at 11.80 a.m.) r.ONDON, February 6th. A Luxor correspondent says while sentimental iin crest in the historical treasures is unabated twentieth century commercial interest-is commencing to he assorted. Lord Carnarvon and MiCarter ate inundated with telegrams and letters from all over the world, from glovomakers, requesting the child’s glove or photographs; from

Seedsmen desiring seeds from the tomb; fiom textile manufacturers asking for designs for use in weaving: from provision dealers asking for parcels of mummied foods which they apparently expect to he tinned; shoemakers want the design of the royal slip- | ers; cinema film photographers imj urtune for special concessions. A number of communications requested a souvenir, such as beads, grain, seed or a leaf from the funeral bouquets. EGYPTIAN CRISIS. 'Received this dav at 10.90 a.m A CAIRO. Eeb. 7. The “Liberate,” a ministerial newspaper explaining the .Ministry’s resignation says the British demands were made in a manner incompatible with diplomatic usages. The reply to the Ministry’s explanatory note on Soudan, was addressed in the King instead of the Premier. This innova-

tion was deemed a deliberate -light to the Ministry which was unwilling ie let the precedent pass without protest. The Ministry realised that by resigning before the closing of of the incidenl. it risked placing the King in a delicate position. It therefore devoted itself to finding a formula acceptable to Britain. This attained, it felt free to tender its resignation w hich is still not accepted. 1 1 is understood that two Ministers insist on resigning. AIR POSSIBILITIES. (Received this dav .it 11.80 a m.) LONDON. Eeh. 7. At the Air Conference, Mr Bruckner added that aircraft living at an altitude of thirty thousand feet at n speed of 800 miles per hour would iring New York within twelve hours of London This was among the possibilities of future. Navigation through clouds and storms will be a-. easy as navigation at sea to-dav. All aircraft will be provided with a navigator in addition to a pilot, the navigator being captain of the ship, timing hist year there were only tlnee fatiil accidents to British craft and no passenger was killed on the Brin.-h regular air routes. AA'e have five groups of pilots thinking out bow to fly round the world. It it cannot be done in 1928 it will lie done in 1921. London as the terminus for aeroplanes will he possible, bin it will cost at least lour million sterling. Burney argued that sixteen airships could be built as cheaply as one battleship, able to carry thirty-two torpedo carrying planes and eighteen fighting plane-. I| su( h a toi". attacked ' battleship It 1 , gi ) ►!.;) hie til'- battle hip (Vnlrtd succumb. • In searching an area »t a llnnisand square mile- al sea, an airship could do flic work lor twentyfive shillings per square mile, whereas the cost by a light cruiser would be C 77 sterling. A licet of nine airshipcould do as much work- as sixiv ei tilers, the sating :11 capital cost being lift v-otie million sterling. ' A VALUABLE INVENTION. CAPETOWN. February 7. ' A test of an automatic (hill sharpening furnace invented by a Hand engineer proved so success! i: 1. that it is estimated the saving in -teal and increase in efficiency will redie-e the working costs by nine pence to eightoenpeneo per ten. enabling mines to work profitably huge quantities of ore which hitherto has been unpayal le. Experts regard the invention as the most important since the discovery ef the cyanide process of extracting gold.