LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

’PLANUS SAILING. MODERN HOXEYMOONERS. LONDON, July 11. Honeymoons by anything so commonplace as train or snip are now “frightfully old-fashioned,” says the “Daily Mail.” Journeys to Paris by air are the only fitting beginning 'to a modern wedding tour. The latest couple to depart by air are the Earl of Ava and his bride, formerly Miss Maureen Guinness. They chartered a special ’plane from Croydon. Two members of the London Aeroplane Club, who will be married next week, will depart in secret on a. flight through Europe, the bridegroom piloting a two-seater Moth. A Croydon official says that honeymooners are departing and arriving almost daily. Brides arrive from the church still in wedding gowns and veils, blushing as they are pelted with confetti,, while boarding the ‘Plane, which usually is decorated with flowers, but nobody lias yet attempted to tie a lucky old shoe to the tailskid.

LIPTON’S QUEST. “THAT ELUSIVE OLD MUG.” LONDON, July 10. The Prince.of Wales, presiding at a luncheon of master mariners, in honour of Sir Thomas Lipton, wished him success in his fifth attempt to win the America Chip, adding: “All we ask for is a turn of luck, and I believe it will be as popular in America as in Britain, if Sir Thomas Lipton, at 80, recovers the Cup, won from Britain when I was a year old.” Sir Thomas, replying, said he appreciated the stimulus of such gpod wishes for the effort to 'bring back the “elusive old fling.” NAILLESS ? ■ ~ 1. ■ i FRIGHT FOR PARISIENNES. PARIS, July 11. The fashion of tinting the fingernails gold and silver has received a rude shock in the shape of .a warning from the medical profession that, if it is persisted in, it means a loss of the nails owing to the use of chemical on the stick of paint. SCIENTIST’S PLAN. TEN MILES INTO SPACE. LONDON, July 10. Hermetically closed in the cabin of a giant balloon, 97 feet in diameter, Professor Piccard, of Brussels, and several companions, propose to brave the terrors of the great cold ten miles above the earth, in order to study the mystery of the cosmic rays. The problem of the air supply at this height is being solved by means of an apparatus similar to those used in submarines, by which the air is dosed with oxygen, and the carbonic acid gas is absorbed. The temperature is calculated to be 60 degrees below zero, and the atmospheric pressure very low. ■ The cosmic rays are believed to be far stronger in the upper air, and apparently penetrate through the,, universe. According to . one theory, they are given off by disintegrating atoms in space. Professor Piccard believes also that air travel in the future may largely be at heights aibove 50,000 feet, where aeroplanes could go thrice as fast, without extra cost of energy. The balloon is being built at Augsburg. Professor Piccard hopes to ascend in the autumn.