GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2024, 4 September 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Welshmen consider that (heir country ought lo be represented on the Royal Standard, and that England should give up one quarter for this purpose. A representative Welsh deputation is to bo appointed to wait upon the Prime Minister and the Lord President of the' Council to urge its claim. It is stated'that the leek and daffodil are outside consideration. If Wales is to he • represented on the Royal Standard the Red Dragon will be the emblem. The elephants in the Addo Bush, near Port Elizabeth (Cape Colony), are about to be destroyed under Government direction. The shooting of the animals will take over six months. For generations this preserve has been an obstacle to farming, and a number of people have been killed by the beasts. .The young elephants will be captured to train for log-hauling in the Cape forests. The meat of the adults will he consumed'by the natives. The rounding-up involves the erect ion of loflY observation towers. Perfect day, without an end, was viewed at Dawson, Alaska, on the longest day of (ho year, dune 21st, when Carrie Jacobs Bujid, author if “The End of a Perfect Day,’’ arrived there with lot) oilier excursionists who travelled from all parts of the American continent - to view'-the wonders of a nightless day.' They witnessed (he midnight sun complete its marathon of the Arctic Circle at Fort Yukon. New dress restrictions have been made, on Hie recommendation of the Economy Committee, by the beadmaster of Clou College. Silk scarves and coxing-caps are abolished and the wearing of fur gloves prohibited. Fancy waislcoals wore forbidden on June -lib.

Deputies M. Bor,neon mid 11. IJ;i--moil will support in the French Chamber a 'proposal to decree a day of national mourning on November lOtli of each future year for the purpose of honouring those killed in the war. All entertainments will he closed, and patriotic societies will decorate the cemeteries.

Charged with iravelling at a vale of 30 miles per hour along a country road in England, a young woman motor driver of (he Royal Air Force said to the policeman who stopped her; “I am glad I can do so much; I am-supposed to be (lie slowcst'driver ia the force.” Her faeetiousness cost her thirlv shillings.

Representalives of Soviet Russia, having headquarters in New York, have notified the Stale Department that a suit is to he brought in United Slates courts to establish rights of possession in approximately £30,000,0(10 of property 'belonging to Russians in the United States, and having relation also to an additional £30,000,000 of expenditure or hanking accounts of Russians in the United States. The defendants in the suit will be the Bahmetieff group, who came to America in August, 1917, as agents of the Kerensky Government of Russia. The entire £00,000,000 involved consisted of credits etxemled by the United States Government to the Kerensky Government to hoi]) Russia keep up the war of democracy against Germany. The Yates Thompson collection of illuminatedjmumiscripls and books realised a total of £52,000 in one hours sale at Sotheby’s. A fourteen century “Book of Hours,” by Jeanne 11., Queen "of Navarre, fell to Messrs Qnaritch, for £ll,BO0 — the highest price ever given for n hook.

Firemen were pouring water on blazing chemicals at a Ramsgate lire wbcn f they found that dangerous gases were given off. The lower portions of Harbour Slreet were soon filled with fumes, and (he police had to force crowds of onlookers to the safety zone, while the firemen attacked the llamos in gas mask's. Captain Johnson, who was recently awarded the King’s medal for bravery at fires, wore a heavy smoke helmet, into which air was pumped, as he was lowered into the cellar where the fire originated,

At Scarborough __ recently Mrs Josephine Fox, whose income was stated to be £I,OOO a year, was fined £2O for shoplifting. It was alleged that after making a purchase she concealed in her handbag a bat and needle-case of the value of: 1-Is 9d. For the defence it was pleaded that Mrs Fox had devoted 12 months to ceaseless attention to her husband, who was dying from a painful disease, and that the incessant strain had unnerved her and resulted in temporary aberration. Captain W. E. Bean, who recent-

ly. visited Anzae, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, on behalf of the Australian Government, told an audienee of soldiers that, owing to the short-

age -of wood, the Turkish garrison had burned every cross (hey could lay their hands on. The whole of the old battlefield Avtts nmv covered with long grass. Out of the 5,500 known graves tit Gallipoli, 4,700 had been located and marked, and arrangements would probably be made for relatives to visit this consecrated ground. 1 With new methods of dealing with the by-products of the dairying industry, such as the manufacture of casein and the consequent utilisation of skimmed milk, a problem that Ims arisen is the rearing of calves in the future in the face of the shortage of their natural food, which the new order of things will bring about. ■ Questioned on this matter, a local dairyman said he was certain of one thing, and that was that the new industries would send dairy stock still further up in price. As regards call-rearing, he did not think good calves could he raised without milk, though some good calf foods were now being placed on (lie’market. He thought a payable proposition might be made of ealf-rearing farms in future, and be bad no doubt that with careful feeding with a proportion of milk, satisfactory results would he obtained. Another dairyman said ho had seen excellent pedigree calves raised 1 in Taranaki on calf foods, and the youngsters lacked nothing in constitution and vigour. Of: course, they had to have a fortnight’s feeding on milk, hut after that they thrived and did well. —Levin Chronic* 10.