GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

POLO PONY’S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press As&i. —Copyright. London, July 19. Mr. Milburn’s famous polo pony Ten* by died while on the voyage back to America. OUTRAGES IN SOUTHERN STATES. New York, July 18. Two extraordinary tar and feathering episodes occurred during the week-end in the Southern States. Mrs. Beulah Johnson was taken from an hotel porch at Tenaha, Texas, by a dozen men in Klu Klux Klan robes, who motored her several miles into the country. Stripped her, and coated her body -with tar and feathers. Later she was arrested on a charge of bigamy. The other case occurred at Maimi. Florida. Rev. Philip Irwin, a BriUsl, subject and Archdeacon of the Eng l -; 1, Episcopal Church, doing church work among the negroes, was seized by masked men, carried to a wood, tarred and feathered. He was then put into a vehicle and brought back to town. Irwin told the police that the men said he was preaching social equality of negroes and advocating iirter-marrtairo. They threatened to lynch him unle-s he left Miami in 48 hours. DENIAL OF A CONTRACT. London, July 8. Guest, Keen and Nettlefords, Ltd., inform the Australian Press Association that there is no truth whatever in the report that they had secured a contract, for 13,500 tons of steel rails for India at £lO 2s 6d a ton. They admit that, though, the report appeared in practically the whole of the London press, they had hitherto not contra,dieted it, and were, still considering thequestion of issuing a denial to the press. TO STIMULATE PLANT GROWTH. London, July 18. The Berlin correspondent of the Westminster Gazette states, that German scientists arc working oh.the problem of making two blades of grass glow instead of one by the ( application of car9>onic acid gas. Experiments in utilising the ground near blast furnaces for glass houses and sown fields have been so .successful that special nurseries have been established in connection with i terr Hugo Stinncs* smelting works at I-lorst. Plant substance is increased by th° .as from 50 to 300 per cent, in some a.-cs. From I<oo tons of coke there

sufficient carbonic acid to produce 4000 tons of edible, plant matter but, as a vast equipment of , distributing tubes are necessary, the experiments see immediate practical use. only jn fertilising certain root and food plants of high value in small areas.