LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

RUSSIAN INDUSTRY, new lamps for old. MOSCOW, April 23. Two foreign experts in the electrical works here, who will probably he known to posterity as tlie ‘‘A Lid in off brothers.” have invented a method of reconditioning broken light bulbsThey will supply during the next lour months 100,000 new lamps for old lamps at three-fifths the price of freedr ones. All the. Soviet, cities are adopting the process, which will increase tig. output by one-bird.

CRAB’S LONG CRAWL. 100 MILES IN 29 YEARS. LONDON, April 23. It takes a crab 29 years to crawl through the Suez Canal, from the Red Sea, a distance of 100 miles, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” This has been revealed by Professor Gruevil, while studying the movements of se-a fish and crustaceans between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

One of the number of crabs specially marked in the Red Sea in 1902 still had its identity disc on arrival at Port Said.

AUSTRALIAN HELD. SUSPECTED IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 23. Gerald Kirk Ashworth, 23, who claims to be an Australian and a graduate in Arts of Sydney University, is being held under a suspended sentence for burglary while the police verify his statements. He says that he was educated in a Brisbane College, and came to England in November, having searched fruitlessly for employment ever since.

A man who was arrested with him was sentenced to one year’s gaol, hut the Magistrate was inclined to be lenient, to Ashworth.

KING’S COMPANION. DEATH OF FAVOURITE DOG. LONDON, April 24. Believed to have been chocked by a feather while chasing pigeons in the Palace Gardens, the King’s pet cream Cairn terrier. “Snip” is dead, and has been buried in a secluded corner of the Sandringham Gardens among other Roval nets.

“Snip” was a birthday gift from Princess Alary. Unusually sagacious and lovable he was the King’-s constant companion for seven years, even nccom paining him on train arid motor journeys.

UNIQUE MUSEUM, PRESERVING FAMOUS BRAINS LONDON, April 24. A Professor of Economy has been appointed curator of a unique museum at Vienna in which the brains of famous artists, scientists, writers, and others will be preserved under glass. An appeal is being made to leading men of intellect to enrich the collection. There is sufficient speae to exhibit the brains of 1090 persons, who are asked to will them to rlie museum. The snapes and weight of the brains and sKufls of men of genius will he thoroughly studied. The brain of Hermann Siulerimiim the playwright bequeathed by Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Berlin, has been examined microscopically, and a full analytical description of Suderinami’s qualities as a writer is Denig prepared parallel to the anatomical research.

GR.KAT SWINDLE. BIG FIRMS DUPED. LONDON'. April 24. Declaring him«elf a member of an Imperial Conference sub-committee, formed to purchase £60.000,000 worth of tractors, Bryiuir James Owen, aged 35, an engineer, according to the Public Prosecutor, obtained £30,000 from the International Harvesters Company of Great Britain and £35.000 from the Ford Company. When Owen was charged at Bow Street with forgery and false pretences. the prosecutor said he formerly was connected with the Ministry of Agriculture and became director of the Institute of Agricultural Research at Oxford, He approached the Harvester and Ford companies and showed letters purporting to be from Treasury officials regarding tractors. and secured loans from the companies on the grounds that the institute needed finance, in order to carry out its scheme. After that tl> money was transferred to bis °wi account. ..i i r

d'lie prosecutor pointed out that * Imperial Conference had not considered a tractor scheme, while a Treasury official gave evidence that there vno trace of a letter to Owen, and that the letter-headings shown in Cour* were not official paper. Owen was remanded.

BUYING A BABY. STARTLING ENGLISH CASE. LONDON, April 23. Evidence in the Chichester Court, when Henry and Mary Bidwell were sentenced to 2B days for exposing a child so as to cause suffering, disclosed the remarkable adventures of an 18-months baby. The Bid wells acquired it from an

inmrtte of a Guildford lodging house, win. bought it for two shillings from a' person unknown, and kept it in a perambulator with a gramophone in order to excite sympathy n<s peripateticminstrels. The Bid wells were previously convicted on a similar- charge, regarding their own daughter, which, like the infant in. the present case, was handed over to the authorities