A statement relating to the Federal Government supervision in Australia of company promotion and the increase of capital by existing companies was issued by the Prime Minister's Department on April 20.
The Government of Nicaragua has promulgated a new land law, by which native Nicaraguan heads of families may acquire free homesteads and other persons may purchase lands at very low prices.
The United States Supreme Court has ordered to be reargued the antitrust suits against the United States Steel Corporation, the International Harvester, the United Shoe Machinery Company, and the Lehigh Valley and Reading Railroads and their affiliated coal companies.
With a view to the obtaining of electrical power for the operation of the Swiss Federal railways, the authorities have already acquired a number of waterworks, and are endeavoring to obtain other concessions.
The Leather and Paper Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture, advising on the care of leather shoes, says: "Shoes should be oiled or greased whenever the leather begins to get hard or dry.
The New York State Barge Canal, which will be opened to navigation between Buffalo and Albany this month, is one of the world's great engineering feats.
Material from the New York subway excavations may be utilized in the construction of artificial fishing banks a few miles off the coast of Long Island, between Rockaway Point and Far Rockaway.
The engineering problem of constructing a railway through the Hindu Kush Mountains from Turkestan to India, in the opinion of Russian engineers who have made surveys, will find a comparatively easy solution by boring a tunnel under the divide separating the headwaters of the Kundus, flowing toward the Oxus River and Turkestan, from the headwaters of the Kabul River, flowing east to join the Indus River, which drains all northwestern India.
