NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

THEY DON’T KNOW. EMPIRE GOODS NEED ADVERTISING. LONDON, December 22. That Empire trade could be much developed is illustrated, writes a correspondent, by the following incidents. A few days ago f asked a shopkeeper in Norbury for New Zealand honey. “I have never heard of it,” was the reply, “ but here, (bolding up an American product) is an excellent kind.” 1 told him how much we are paying America every year for war debts. I suggested that it would be patriotic to sell and to push Dominion products. On the same day, in two chemists shops, I asked for a well-known British tooth-paste. I was asked to purchase American goods. “ l cannot explain the financial situation to every customer,” said the chemist-. " Why do not British firms advertise more and create a demand f” In another shop 1 asked for razor blade* and refused to take the proffered American makes. 1 explained why. “ Very interesting,” said the shopkeeper, “ but I have no time to expound polities to customers: I should lose custom. 1 miisjt stock American blades because they arc demanded.”

MILLIONAIRE SURPRISE

LONDON, December 32,

Mr John Reddioiigli, of John Rcddiough, Ltd., wool merchants, combers, and topmnkers, of Bradford, who died at Southport in October last, lias left estate valued for probate at £1,(553,301, with net personality of •01,506,155. He was 83 vears of ago.

He began business in a small way always lived in very modest fashion and to the end preferred to walk rath er than use a motor-ear.

Duties payable on the estate a.mount to £537,030.

He bequeathed to bis widow the furniture at li.is residence, Beech Mount, Baildon, and the use of the resilience during tier life, with 11 si annuity. After legacies to his nephew and nieces and two of his servants, he gave the residue for the benefit of bis three sons and their children.

Mr Reddiough took no part in the public life of Bradford. In the village where he lived it was his custom to call occasionally at local shops, and if he found a poor woman buying small quantities of food or clothing, lie would increase the order and pay the difference himself.

OCEAN TALKS TO HOMES. LONDON, December 23

With the help of the German Government, German steamship compatibles are to make an effort to gain more Atlantic passenger trade by keeping all passengers who desire it in continuous touch with their homes. • linforni'.itjpm lias , uoaelietif- English and American companies that all tho newest and largest German liners are being fitted with the finest arc transmitters, and with broadcasting apparatus that will enable passengers on board to have two-way conversation with anyone with-in arm s reach ol a telephone. Broadcast messages from the ships will be received at points on the German mainland, which will be linked with German central telephone exchanges by land lines. From the exranges telephone subscriber.- can lie rung up and connected at oine to anvone who lias called them from mid-ocean. '1 be telephone-broad-cast rates will be. it is believed, beW! rii Ids. and £1 a minute, according to Llie distance tcoin the ship to the mainland.

As the Germans will probably apply for Government permission to link up with Britain and the I lined Stales ill the same way. steamship companies m those two countries are discussing uhclhcr they shall make a prior claim for the facilities from the British Government.

The United States Government lias already given such facilities to. tho Kniti-ii States liner Leviathan, which has broadcast to its own land telephone exchange at Deal Reach, 10 miles from New York, and connected passengers iu the. ship and relatiies in their homes.

EXPLOITING A GRAND DI-CHESS NEW YORK, December 22.

The visit to the United States of the Grand Duchess Victoria Fcodorovua. wife of the Grand Duke Cyril, the sellproclaimed Czar ol Russia, is being described to-day as the most ambitious “stunt” in the history of American ad vertisisijj;.

This follows the admission of Airs Henry Loomis, who arranged the visit, that a steamship line, hotels in Washington, Philadelphia, and New A ork, and a motor company furnished passage and accommodation and vehicles without a penny of remuneration. Nlrs Loomis, who extended the invitation of llie Grand Duchess in Paris last summer, immediately she received acceptance outlined to various business men the advantages of having royal patronage. Consequently they went out of their way to serve the Grand Duchess.

Mrs Loomis said: “A French line courteously provided a passage to and fro. A noted New York hotel very courteously offered its royal suite, and so did hotels at Philadelphia, and Washington. A (famous motor-ear company placed motor-cars at the disposal of the Grnad Duchess and her party.” Hundreds of persons, alter being approved by the sponsors of the visit, were permitted to contribute £2 2s. om !i for the benefit of Russian Relief Work and, in exchange, received the privilege of meeting the Grand Duchess socially.

BRIDE'S YATN AY A IT. LONDON, dan. 2. After a ride at Muckamorc, County Antrim, had waited some time for the bridegroom to come to her home and take her to the church for their wedding, as arranged, messengers were sent in search of him. lie was found asleep in bed, and said he had changed hi* mind about getting married. lie refused to get up, and the messengers had to take the news to the bride waiting in her wedding dress and flic clergyman waiting at the church. FLAME IN WATER. DOUBLE FUEL VALUE CLAIMED. LONDON. Jamtarv 2(1.

The invention of a new type of steam boiler by Mr Oscar Brimler, of 48, Elgin-crescent, AY., lias led to the discovery that there lies in fuel a hidden power hitherto unsuspected.

Oil fuel is earhuretted with air and the mixture is gently forced through a I valve into a steel container holding water. Here it is ignited and an intensely hot flame, nearly 4.000 degrees Fahrenheit, burns inside the water, converting it into steam. The mixture . of air is so regulated that pure carbonic acid gas alone is generated as the 1 product of combustion, and this, with j the steam passe? into a simple boiler. or reservoir which supplies the steam! engine. | The boiler costs half the price of an j ordinary boiler, it is stated, and uses 1 only half the amount of fuel for the same quantity of steam produced. j By regulating the amount of air burned in the flame, it is possible to produce nitric acid, and calcium pi- ,

trate lias been produced on a works scale for agricultural fertilisers in this way. -Most of the nitrogen trapped from the air at present is obtained with huge electric arc Haines, Mr Brunler’s flame furnace lias been submitted to thorough practical tests by well-known engineering firms. It has been found, ns a result of his experiments, that a given quantity of fuel gives out more heat units than the fuel contains! This points to the fact that the calorific value of fuels may be greater than that calculated by present day methods if they are burned and utilised in the new way. Further work is expected to show that we may have to revise our methods of fuel testing. DOWN AND OUT. LONDON, January 2f>. “ I want locking up,” said a man who presented himself at the Spalding (Lines) Police Station. “I have stolen a pair of boots. I have had pneumonia, am on the road, ami cannot sloe]) out this weather.” The man. Matthew ll.ood, of no fixed abode, susbequenlly appeared before the. magistrates and was ordered to take his trial at the Lincoln Assi’ses. A doctor was called in, hut Hood died in his cell from bronchitis during the week-end.