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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1924, Page 4

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SHIPBUILDING OUTPUT. GLASGOW, December 12. While there is a definite improvement in the outlook for the shipbuilding and enigneering industries on the Clyde, there arc still 42,000 shipbuilders tt.-.d more than 16,000 engineers for whom work is not yet available. The output for 1923 will he one of the lowest in the history of shipbuilding on the Clyde. During Xovemboi onlv eight vessels of 5.031 tons weie launched'— the lowest monthly total since 1887. Fortunately orders are becoming more numerous. Messrs Hnrlaiul and Wolff have launched from their yard at ( ovan two of the 21 large motor slops ') icb tfiev are building to the order of the Bank Line. Five months’ work for a considerable number ol men is guaranteed at the Dalmuir yard of Messrs William Beardnune and Co., wtio are to overhaul and lit with oilinui ing apparatus the C.IML liner Em pres:,s of France. 1 lie Greenock Lokynrd Company are to build an oiltank steamer for American owners. Tf is expected that operations will lie lesumcd upon 15 large vessels upon v. rich building was held up in eoime(ut nee of the hoilerinnkei s dispute. 1 lie Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engi■ll i ring Company have received instructions to proceed with the construction of the Am-lior-Doiiald.soir liner Lettin. which has been suspended for two md i half years. This will' provide 15 m mills' work. Messrs Yairou and Co., hate decided t.t leofen their extrusive yard at Scidstouii which was '-loseil down at the cud of 1921 following a series of di.sI'llllS. Cl! A B-I.IKF. MOTOH GAR. LONDON', December 13. A motor-car with many novel lea lures was put through a series oi tests yosf, ■ ,;.iv on the steepest slopes of Box Hill, near Dorking, Surrey, and its oxi i nordiiuM v evolutions astonished even the oldest- motoTi.sts present. ■| lie revolutionary leatures ol the etn , nr- the invention of Mr Alt> Hollo, r i- etoi engineer, who has been assistei ly |Yofos'or Low and other- It has . <lri\e to ail four wheels in place of tlu i„ (funny "live” axle, als.i four-whee , stei ring, and four wheel brakes. "it! . -leering applied to the hack wheel: a.s well as the flout the ear can hi steered diagonally across a road. I hi: , si Mild ho li-ofui when starting Iron , the kerbside or for manoeuvring in ; crowded garage.

In the test the ear was made to di all kinds of freak turns, it took road ,ide ditches at a speed ol 20 mile.- ai hour climbed glassy slopes villi a om in three gradient, and circled room tree- on the hillside with a erah-liki nation. It travelled broadside alum pcs which would ecrtamlly have up set the conventional f.v|'e ot ehasis. For the four-wheel drive and steer ing it is claimed that skidding is alums iinl'os-ilde while cornels can he takei at acute angle-—a nig asset with eai that have a long wheel ba.-o

WIHr-KY AND THK BABY. N K\Y YORK. Do ember 12. Kffoi't.- of tin: Rroliobition authorities to dam the inflow ol Ciiri.-imas liquor • cartooned daily ill the ( nited Slates Dress. At the same time, the il.-t-r Fliips hovering 12 mileoff the short', most of tlu-m ilwiiig the i ritish Hag. ha- int-it-ased to 22. 'I hoy are - iid lo have Leverage- worth more thin £1,009.099 aboard anil to he waiting for a fogey night to land them. Lilt the general belie! is that the bull-, of their cargoes has already been t ransuni ted by motor-hunts, and then lollies to the great inland cities. Fast night the New .kr.cy State j idii e t-t. oli-ealed a motor-i ar driven by a woman. It euntained whisky worth h:-50. Newspapers quote the polite as -a-. it«g thru a- it -- - a ’vow m ! It* ' reil ..tiled 1 1 mn at rest mg hot. One 111 the i levele. t li pioi smuggler;has made a fortune by i neat tick He engaged two motor-cars, one oi v Inch laden v.-ith bottles vi-iLL- tm-ough it., windows, drove slow!/ cvei the mo-t li qiiouted loads from Canada, Prohibition officers invariably halted it. "While they examined it- contents, v Itich proved to consist of only lemonade and ginger ale. a second ear. with a woman and a baby dramatically visible and behind them an iuvi Dole cargo of whisky, j risked the busily occupied i Hit-ei's, at high speed ant' leached its f.est inatiou uumole-tetl. Ihe trick was repeated several times sue cssl'ullv, but it failed yesterday, when the cunning “bootlegger” lost whisky worth L'3,000. PLANK TO KILL- INSECTS. LONDON. January 10. The boll-weevil, an insect- which, if was calculated, caused j£ J 0,900,000 destruction to the cotton crop in the Cnitcd Stales in one recent year, is to lie fought by aeroplanes, writes the Air Correspondent. 'The insect survives attack from the ground and ereeii- insidiously into new districts, travelling at the rate of from 50 to lot! miles a year. Gnited States war-planes will “tire” a chemical powder upon the insectravaged crops from a special steel-con-tainer carried in the aeroplanes, the rush of air from the propeller being utilised to force the poison from the tank, and cause it to spread out and settle down in clouds upon the plants below. One aeroplane—experiments have proved—in four hour- can do work that requires -10 hours to accomplish from the ground, and can also scatter the powder in a much more effective way. STAINLESS KNIFE FINE. LONDON, January 10. At Sheffield yesterday Thomas Bayne and Son, Ltd., cutlery manufacturers, were fined £6O. and Mr Thomas Bayne Jim., £lO, for selling table knives and blades with false sale description, “Firth’s stainless steel.” It was. stated to be the first ease of the kind. For Firth and Sons, Ltd., who prosecuted. it was stated that their name on stainless steel was a guarantee of quality which enabled it to command a higher price. Large numbers of knives were, being sold by Messrs Bayne, which on analysis were found not to he made of Firth’s steel.

The magistrates, in addition to the lines stated, ordered a quantity of knives confiscated to he forfeited to the Crown and the remainder to be returned to .Messrs Bayne after the word Firth had been removed. LAND OF VEILED MEN. LONDON. Jan. IS. A city built of crystal salt in the middle of the Sahara, impregnable to desert warfare methods, where the streets are only a yard wide, the houses like the dens of wild beasts, and the men walk about veiled while the women are unveiled, will be shown in the film of Captain Angus Buchanan’s 3,500-miles journey across the Sahara at the Palace Theatre. Shaftes-bury-avenue, on Monday. Fachi is its name. Many new species of animals were discovered. Specimens have found a home in Lord Rothschild’s natural history museum at Tring, and at the first presentation of the film Lord Rothschild will speak of the scientific value of the discoveries. Among the specimens is a tvild cat,

with head and paws so modified that it can burrow in the ground like a rabbit. The collection of which it forms part has been insured for £20,000. The men and women of the middle Sahara have most delicately shaped hands and feet, said Cnpt. Buchanan last night. Some of the women have complexions almost as lair as Euiopeans, and the younger girls would he considered pretty oven in London. They are cpiite domesticated; in fact, it might he said that they do all the work while the men look on. The “veil’’ worn by the men consists i.f a strip of thin black cloth about 3 yards long and 9 inches wide. This is wound round the head, covering the mouth, nose, and ears, leaving only a narrow slit tor the eyes. •MFUDKIIKP' MAN 1! KIT HNS NKW YORK, dan. 27 A murder confession which the Chicago police describe as one of tlm most remarkable in the history ol crime has, it is alleged, been made by Warren J. Lincoln, do, a distant kinsman of the famous President. Lincoln is a lawyer and horticulturist of Aurora, Illinois, who last April disappeared mysteriously from home. For a long time it was supposed that lie had been murdered by his wife and brother-in-law, who were also missing. A pool of blood and the imprint of a woman’s shoe near one of the greenhouses added to the mystery.

Some months later a cryptic advei,iseu.cnt signed “ Lina,” the name of Lincoln’s wife, appeared in the Chicago newspapers. This was followed In letters ostensibly written by Mrs Lincoln to her relatives at Mount Pulaski Illinois, stating that her brother, By ron Slump, had met with a motor-car accident, and was in the hospital and that money was needed. To the address given money was aont. But when a second letter arrived with a request for more money the relatives communicated with the police, who. two .lays ago, found the man whose murder last April bad created so profound a stir, occupying rooms in Drexcl Boulevard, Chicago, where ho posed as a landscape artist employed by the Commissioner of Parks. They arrested him on a charge ol obtaining money under false pretences. Alter a night in prison, Lincoln, it it alleged, made the following statement : My wife, tried to poi-uti me after I had discovered evidence of her infidelity. I:viol! Slump joined ill the rjuarref Mr «if,, seized a gun and shot him in 'the head. He fell dead, and I in self-defence, struck my wife down with a poker. i dismembered the bodies and bull'(m{ j)i111 in tj>t» jurnncc. 1 then disappeared, leaving behind me evidence designed to mislead the polio*. 1 into supposing that il was I who had been murdered. Lincoln said that not until his moil rv v.as exhausted did he imitate his wife's hatitlwriling in the letters to her

As a voting man Lincoln inherited a comfortable fortune from his lather, ulni was a second cousin of Ahraliam Lincoln. His first wife died several wars ago in peculiar circumstances. His explanation, which was accepted by the authorities, was that she had tafn-ii an overdose of headache tablets. TWINS A OKI) 91. LONDON, Jan. P?. Mr .Matthew and .Mr .Mark Omni, of 111 igliton, said to be the oldest twins in the country, will lie 91 to-morrow. .Matthew, the senior by hall an hour, always had the last word m their friendly discussions until about a rear ago, when he fell and broke a le.i. After lie had been several months in bed Mark told him that il lie did not. get up he. would spend the rest of his days oil his hack. So lie got up ami i- now almost as active as his brother, with whom he walks for three m jour hours ‘ * day Mark lives v ith Ins eldt - L son. v. ho i. nearly ,2. bill .still prclei.- hi* brother's advice. Yesterday he said: ••We have never disagreed on anything and have always been each other’s best friend. People shook their heads when we arrived and said we were sure of an early grave. So we slink together and pulled through. 1 1 was a hard struggle in our family „f 1;{. We have never done anything without consulting each other as to the proper thing to do. A h le ot moderation lias helped us. ABOLISH POLYGAMY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 19. Four hundred Turkish women of the educated class held a meeting here yesterday to discuss women s rights in family life, a subject concerning which new statutes are being drawn up by ihe Angora Assembly.

A general desire to suppress polygamy was manifested, one speaker saving. "Polygamy, which is authorised hv our present laws, is a vestige of post ages. We must break with this 1 radii inn, which, in any event, has not been practised for more than 20 years.”

Laws regulating marriage, divorce, ami polygamy on modern lines were demanded. A committee was appointed to ilrfat the reforms desired by Turkish women and the men who support their claims.

A Turkish Parliamentary Commission recently reported in favour of Hie abolition of polygamy, and il their decisions become law, a Turk will he legally entitled to only one wife.

DON’T NEGLECT. A Common Case of Tiles. It -May Lead to Serious Results. When people generally understand “hat all such fatal diseases as Fistula, Ulcer of the Rectum, Fissure, etc., almost invariably begin a simple case of Piles, they will learn the wisdom of taking prompt treatment for the first appearance of this trouble. Doan’s Ointment is unequalled for every form of Piles—Bleeding, litehing, Protruding and Blind Piles, and hundreds of lives have been saved by using this cheap, but effective remedy, right at the start, because at such times a single pot has often effected a cure, while ill the old, deep-seated chronic cases, several pots arc sometimes necessary. Here is a case— Mrs T. Collins, Blakeiowii, Greymouth, says: ”J have proved that Doan’s Ointment is a splendid remedy for Piles, and have much pleasure in recommending if to sufferers. lor some time 1 suffered agony from Itching and Protruding Piles and could get nothing to give me relief until I applied Doan’s Ointment. After using this ointmeiit for a few days the pain and irritation eased somewhat and as I continued with the treatment the improvement was maintained, and before long I was completely cured. It is twelve months since I used Doan s Ointment, and I am delighted to say 1 have had no return of Piles during that time, so my cure is a permanent one.” Two years later, Mrs Collins says: “I have been free from Piles since Doan’s Ointment cured me three years ago. Doan’s Ointment is sold by all chemists and storekWpe.‘h at 3s per pol. or will he posted on receipt of price by Foster-McClellan Co., Id Hamilton Street, Sydney. But, lie sure you get DOAN’S.