MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

AUSTItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PROPOSED AIR LINERS. (Roceivod this day at 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. Burney airships wiil he employed in services to India and Australia. Hugo machines of a new pattern capable of carrying one hundred am! fifty passengers at an average speed of eighty miles, will he able to make a continuous flight of more than live days. The first should lie built within eight months. The first, stage will he to India, bringing it within sixty-eight hours of London and shortening the delivery of Australian mails by ten days. Egypt will be reached in fhiity-one hours. The machines will have capacity of five million cubic feet and length of 7501 t. Single berth sleeping cabins for alll passengers, each with a separate entrance from the keel gangway. The saloon will accommodate sixty and the dining room half the complefement.

TELEGRAMS FOR PERSIA. (Received this dav at, 9.45 a.m.) DELHI, July 22. R is understood the Indo-European Telegraph Coy. has arranged with Germany for the resumption of telegraph service via Teheran, by the usual route. It is hoped to resume working within ten day s. 900 KILLED. DELHI, July 22. An investigation of the recent earthquake at Übatihaitlra shows f.'OO were killed.

SIR PERCY SCOTT. [“The Times” Service.] .‘Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. Sir Percy Scott remains impenitent in his denunciation of Singapore base, hut replying to critics ho incidentally gives hi' opinion regarding Japanese) naval activity. He says it is quite true the British cannot send a battle-fleet to the Ear East, hut it would he truer in the future*, because Japan since the Washington conference has strengthened her fleet in vessels to an unlimited extent. She is building tip the first air force in the world, and establishing aviation and submarine bases throughout her possessions, and therein England, as a friendly nation is assisting. Scott infers that Singapore would he defended by submarines and aeroplanes.

riUN'CK AND POLO. (Received tills day at 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, duly 22. Tlie Prince of Wales recognising the necessity for the long preparation of animals, has. in leply to 11 urlinghnm Polo Committee’s appeal for polo ponies for 1923 test matches against America, offered his whole stud without reserve, on condition, lie suggests, that they should be put into the common stock entirely at the disposal of Jlurlingham committee.