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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

GERMAN RICHES.

LONDON, March 1. Addressing the Southampton Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Sir William Joynsoii-llickx, Secretary of the Overseas Department of the Board of Trade, predicted an enormous entrepot! trade in the future for the Port if Southampton. There was no limit to its possibilities. Til 1013 Germany was our most serious -competitor in shipping. She was the second greatest maritime Power, with about 5,000,(100 tons afloat. By the Treaty of Versailles she was reduced to 400,000 toils of shipping. .Shhad already got 2,500,000 tons, and by the end of the present year the figure would probably be 3,00().tli!(l tons. People did not realise that Germany was not the poor country (lint some people were apt to imagine. Germany would soon be a very serious competitor in the shipping of tlv world. Referring to the Ruhr, he said:— “I should like to plead for just a little thought of what the position i- : in France in regard to Germany. V. e must not forget that. France suffered in an entirely different manner front that in v.hieh we suffered. France nalmalk- wants to make her position secure.” TRADE REVIVAL. There was no doubt, he went on. from the figures that he had Ittul today that tho revival of trade wa showing signs of continuing. Ate wanted, as far as possible, to bunt together, from a trade point of view our great Dominions with tho Mother Country. He concluded: “I am able to tell you that tbc- revival which began in the autumn v ti)22 is slowly and steadily progressing. and there are indications of a eon tii’.uanee of that revival, and we shall -how this year a considerable improvement upon the figures for 1P22.” HOTEL-KEEPERS HOAXED. LONDON, March 3. A man with several aliases, a very persuasive manner, and a good memory is wanted by the police lor a series of ingenious frauds on hotel proprietors and their guests in various (nun tie.-, lie obtains sums oi money by bogus negotiations for the sale and pureha-e of hotels, houses, and furniture, and has hoaxed scores ol trade--

Wearing a smart dark brown over coal, black bools and bonier hat. th, man. v. lm 1- about Aft Oil) in height claim:- to have been an umpire at lie Oval lor mere that! 11 year.-. Vesterda-, be visited Teddittglon and told a story oi having bought the "best bo ref or the t-*v. n for a mere sang. That- was the tide lie told to one hotel prop: n i.u- T oni u Ivin In- obtained a loan nl -.-rr.-;'l p mud-. Ih- went In auo! Iwt hotel here he repeated the story and a Hied tlm-e with whom he eunfe.h'd the infnrination not to say anything about it until Thursday a"the prnprh tur does not want 100 Ui.-iv.v couple to know about il." IK- ih-iU'd a furniture dealer in * i'.. town, mid on the strength of hi.- ■ lory of having bought tin- Imiel selected C'-On worth of furniture, incidentally borrowing several pounds, lie told another man his car had broken down and was at a local garage, lie said he had not enough to pay the cost of and would like to borrow t'> -o I tini lie would not have to run up I , ."hr at.mug the tradespeople. .i ■■ a ''Mr Too Stagg" bo trek one !■'■ a! is sidenl l > a kiilema and rein -. •••! ! i.u of hi- wallet, and a- "Mr I'M iiiil. Wide ye” he tib-d l„ sell wine to auo! her hntol-keopvr and to coax I"-i" uiuncv from him and his gue-t-'. Si plausible i- Hie man’- slory o' having "liiingin an hotel" I hut it i - said persons hale been on the verge ! starling ■ tibserip!inns I 1 give Hie lepnrlilig piopiielors a fureiiell gift I j

: A NKAV EOI’K*AND. ■_ j LONDON. March 23 I, t'zeeho-.S'lovit l\ia. which years ago h sent ns a great "ojirano in Emmy Deslinn, has lepeate*! the gift in tho I, new singer. Mine. Krisiyna Morfova, s of the Rrague Opera, wlio was heard !a-l night at .Eolian Hall, W.. and al i nine in.ule her name. ! ’this splendiil voice was displayed in . a i ry brief p’-n-.-.mmiee. too mixed to be < f real inu-ical inlere-l, but sutli- | cient to .-how oil’ its paces in several ] ways—as a draniatio soiuoino in \Yi-!i--r* - “Or eon" aria, as a coloratura in . tho second of Moxnrt’s “(liiccu of Night’’ songs, and in lyric pieces by , tie (Net'll cotiipiisers. Smetana ami i Dvorak. Mme. Morfova i-, above all, tm opera . Huger. The voice was (no powerful for lb" .'Eolian Hall; there seemed no , bottom to its resources. I’eiliapUii'i.ttgli ucrvoii-ucss there was a metallic suspicion at first, Inti in the ’’N lll s.:i - song" ironi Dvorak’s "Rus- : Ika” the ear wa- nlisolutel;, won by her sumpi.uuus am! appealing tones. It v.a- remarkable that this dramatic Soprano could also skip with easy agility in the light-soprano passages of rlic \ erdt and M.oxarl pieces, s-be was aceomp.uped in distinguished fashion by Aline. Ludmila Proknjiova. [

VIENNESE BALLET. VIENNA, March 21. Though Vienna is Ihe birthplace n the waltz—and it is a tradition tha all 1 iennesr- waltz perfectly from child hood—tiie majority of Viennese men at any rate, waltz badly nowadays. in conclude the classical pmgrammi which is being presented by the Open to.ps de Ballet in the Eedoutensaal oi the Hofburg two evenings a week about 20 of the principal dancers an giving a beautiful display of Viennese “Mixing brought up to dale. The men wear knee breeches of satin, the women powdered wigs and wonderful ball dresses. I<> world-famous Johann Strauss melodies they show what modern waltzing ought to he. without any specially difficult or fantastic steps, but. with sufficient variation anil change of direction to make giddiness or undue fatigue impossible. Arrangements are being made to >ako the entire corps de ballet to Lonuc.n tFii' year. The director of the Vienna Opera says that, if pns>ible. the performances will start in London at the beginning of June.

GIANT TELESCOPE. LONDON, March Id. Intended lor Nikolaies Ob-ervatory on. the Black Sea, in Russia, and ordered together with other mammoth seiemiiie instruments bv the Soviet Government, what will lie one of the most wonderful telescopes in the world is nearing completion at the work' at St Albans, Hertfordshire, of Sir Howard Grubb and Sons, Ltd. The revolving turret, made of steel in which the telescope will bo fitted is taller than the factory which made it. It will have an inside diameter of toft. The d2!n. refracting telescope will he the largest in the world adapted to photography. It will be supported on a concrete pillar, and the telescope alone will weigh about nine tons.

The whole of the nine tons can be swung about by electricity as delicately as if one were adjusting an apparatus weighing an ounce or so. Without leaving his chair, the observer will be able to move the telescope or the turret by the pressure of a button, so that he can turn the

telescope on to any part of the heavens. For another Ihissmn observatory, Simien Observatory, in the Crimea, a tOin reflecting telescope is being made at these works. Its turret of .‘32ft Internal ilia meter is already completed. A Klin reflecting (mirror) telescope is much less wonderful than a 32in. retracting (object-glass) telescope. it takes about three years to make an observatory telescope, and no two have ever been made alike. The first telescopes of post-war designs, embodying all the improvements since 19LI. arc only j n.-t approaching complctvjii SI.INC INC TIIK EGO. LONDON, .March 13 Thi-- kind of advertisement is suggested h.v the recent re-disco very of a method of cooking eggs by rapiuly whirling them in slings, attributed in the Babylonians. it Las been made by Mr Leslie A. Harris, a demonstrator and research worker in the laboratories at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who confessed yesterday that he had not utIcinpod to coolc eggs himself this wav, but had made experiments showing that egg-white under mechanical strain such as vigorous shaking toagulalos or thickens. A reporter v. ho tried the sline metho I of cookery, writes: A person who tries tins method must nave some physical endurance, for t -e whirling of a sling for a protraried period is mil a task to he lightly undertaken. .Slings such as the Babylonians used are not to tie found in every household, and the use of a sdl; stocking as a substitute will not commend itself to it thrifty housewife, nariieuinrly in view of possilde mishaps such as befell mv experiment. 1 placed the egg in the corner of a stocking and whirled ii vigoiou.-dy r e.r five minutes. In some wav the -kb caused the egg-shell in break. TV contents sea tiered in all directions bid it had heed whirled long i notigdi to can e an aherntinn in (heir do--tmy. ns a colleague who intercepted some of them is prepared to testify.