Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 68, 22 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

.VARJ0US HAPPENINGS CABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Billjards In Sydney, Lindrum lias scored 22.521 and McConachy 21,714. The latter is now holding liis opponent. The best breaks on Saturdav were : Lindrum, 311,447 ; MeConachv, 230,410. Oil Burners Quicker. Tlie convcrsion of the Peninsula!' branch liners into oil-burners is jiroving distietly succcssl'ul. Tlie Baradiue. 011 hcr maiden voyage after convcrsion . reaclied Malta a day aliead of schedule. Jockey Killed. j Jockey Aldridgc, recently acquitted at Adelaide of killing a constable with his motor car, was liiuiself killed on iSaturday wlien tlirown from a liorse he was taking to the Victoria Park raeeeourse. French Airmen's Feat. The Frencli airmen Brilly and Regi-i.-nsi have arrived at 3.e Bourget, completing to journey to Saigon and back, 15,000 niiles. Tlie tinie of tlie outward journey was ten days and homeward under nine, which is a record. _ The actual fiynig time on the return journey was 160 hours. Chinese Murdered, A Chinese storekeeper named Charlie Hong was murdered at Barcaldine (Queensland) with great I'erocity. Iiis lieucl was sraa.shed. A woman customer saw nien liurrying awav irom llong's store. Sho discovered Hong in a slioeking eondition 011 the fioor and inl'ormed the police. High Official's Death. Sir Herbert Austin, cderk of tlie Central Criminal Court, whose knowledge of criminal law is uiirivalled, was fomul sliot dead in his oflice at the Olcl Bailev with a revolver nearhv. He occupied his accustomed seat in court 011 Fridav. He had spent forty years at tlie ()id Bailev in an atmospliere of drania and tragedy. Helping Children. Senntor Couzens has donated 10,000,000 dollars for tlie creation of a trust fund "to be used to promote tlie health, welfare. happiness and" deyelopment of the children of Micliigan and elsewhere in the world." The fund tvill he administered by Dr. Freund, wlio is tlie senator's personal physician. A clause 111 the trust instrument stipulates that tlie ]iriiK;ipal and inoome must he distributed entirely inside of 25 years. New Anierican Battleships. Authority to oonstruct two great battleships of 35.000 tons will be asked from Congress this year. Tliis is announced by Admiral Hughes, cliief of naval operations. Theso will replace tlie Wypming, Florida and Utali under tho provisions of the Wasliington Treatv, which provides for the scraping of tliese sliips at die eiul of 1934. The new sliips will exeeed 21 knots and have the usual deck armour protection against aircraft bombers. The Sniall-Pox Outbreak. A conference of British and French authorities at Calais f'ailed to agree, a_s the British delegates were not empowered to aecept the French propcsals. Tlie regulations as applied to Calais will be unchanged. The Mayor's decree was applied for the first time day to Le Havre wlien the Hantonia arrived. There were 110 protest and no incident, but there were only 39 passengers instead of the normal 150 or 2001 Sixteen unvaccinated persons submitted to treatment. Those not vaccinated among the crew wero not ullowed to land.