GENERAL NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8813, 15 May 1907, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS

In the course of coal-boring operations on Lord Guildford’s Wa'chrshare estate, between Dover and Sandwich, a seam of coal sft 2in was struck at a depth of 2732 feet, A Dairsh engineer, after several years of experiment, has evolved an invention for eoncentra'ing beer in a hard substanci which, dissolved in water, giv s a good beverage. One and a half kilos contain eighteen litres after dissolution. This beer remains sound for sis months. The inventor has succeeded in producing with success different sorts of beer, including ale and stout. ; The Danish Minister of Agriculture, Ole Hansen, is one of the most popu’ar an.l democ»tic of the publ c men of hia country. His daughter, desbiog to learn practical housekeeping, decided, with herJathtr’s consent, to start at the bottonrof the ladder. Therefore, she went to Berlin and took a position as cook at a modest stipend at the Lome of a small Government employee. Her employer for a long time had no suspicion that her cook was a daughter of a Minister of State.

Prom France’s festive metropolis comes the announcement of the impending celebration there of the 600th anniversary of the “ invention” of the table fork, alleged to have been first used on the banks of the Seine by Duke John of Brittany in 1307. A number of elaborate banquets, attended by members of the Government, are to lo givenin honor of the occasion, and it seems particularly fitting that the principal observance of the solemnity should take place in Paris, the city renowned above all others in the world for its cult of the art of gastronomy, Miss Violet G arke, daughter of Sir George Sydenham Clarke (a former Governor of Victoria), has joined the D’Oyley Carte Company, which is very successfully reproducing the whole of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas at the Savoy Theatre, London.

Tho Central London Railway lost a million passengers last year and £7,000 in receipts owing to the competition of the motor omnibuses, of which hundreds are now running in Loudon. Such successful competition against a popular new railway service affords evidence that the motor ’bus has become a solid and permanent factor in the everyday life of Londoners. ■ Gone for ever is the splendid isoli tion of the Atlantic voyage. The Ounarder Lucania is reported during her recent trip between New lork and Liverpool to have spoken no fewer than 82 steamers, and with 24 of them she held wireless communication. It is a condition of things which seems a little weird, but it is exceedingly useful, all the seme. When in mid-Atlantic the Luqania was in communication by wireless telegraphy with Polchu, in Camwall, and with Cape Codj m the 'United States.