OPUNAKE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 304, 16 May 1913, Page 2

OPUNAKE NEWS.

RAILWAY FIREMEN". IMPORTANT AMERICAN AWARD. London, M:iy 3. An important arbitration award lias ■been made in the United States, under which railway firemen have secured an increase of from ten to twelve per cent, in their present rates of pa)'. CAN'T LIVE OX 22 SHILLINGS. DOCKERS' MINIMUM WAGE. London, May 5. The dockers at Portland are asking for a minimum wage of 28s a week, alleging that it is impossible for married men to live on 22s a week, owing to higher rates and rents. The Admiralty have promised to consider the demand. FREE LIVING. BOARDINGHOUSES EXPLOITED. London, May 5. A woman, aged 35 years, was sentenced yesterday to three mouths' imprisonment for defrauding boarding-house-keepers. It was proved that slie had been living for nothing for eight years by stopping at boardinghouses and pretending that she was the maid of the wife of an American millionaire. By this means she obtained credit, and then left without paying. COMMONWEALTH OIL CORPORATION. PRIOR LIEN DEBENTURES APPROVED. London, May 5. The debenture holders of the Commonwealth Oil Corporation have approved of the issue of (i per cent, prior lien debentures, amounting to .€350,000. MELBA AND KLT.ELIK. ALBERT HALL CONCERT. London, May 5. Mine Melba and Kubelik gave a concert at the Albert Hall to-day before a tremendous audience. The diva was in excellent voice. RESTORING ANIMATIONWONDERS OF LIQUID GAS. New York, May 4. Some experiments recently conducted at the ilohn Hopkins' University in Bal- ■ tiinorc lend interest to the theory that it might have been passible, if proper means had been employed, to resuscitate Captain Scott and his comrades after their frozen bodies had been discovered. The tests carried out at the university showed that animation which had been suspended for thirty days had been revived at the end of that time by means of liquid air. ' Frogs, rats, snails and fish were placed in jars and frozen in liquid air, and when thawed out after a lapse of several weeks were found to be apparently as well as ever. In some cases the animals' intestines were removed before the freezing process was begun, but notwiihsUnJ.:"| '.las :ii?v ',v_;rt ill uvived. (Jll