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AUSTRALIAN PASSENGERS FOR , VANCOUVER. Sydney, April 25. As a result of the Now Zealand quarautino restrictions, the Union Steam Ship Company has decided to send passengers for Vancouver direct it) Suva, whoro thoy will connect with the Vancouver steamer, —Press Assn.
A. correspondent of the London "Times" writes:—Tlia discovery mado on the Kingswood estate, Buckfastleigh, formerly the property of Lord Macclesfield, of pitchblende, the oro of radium, is important both commercially and scientifically. After over a year's patient mining the present landowner, Mr. F. Sykes, '"prospecting" on his own account. has discovered a very fine lode. Dr. Henry Terry, of University College, London, has analysed a representative sample of the pitchblende, which shows a uranium oxido content of over 26 ■ per cent.—over 13 times as rich us the American ore of riwliuin now Ijeing imported into England. Preparations are beintr made for working the lode on a large scale.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 181, 26 April 1919, Page 8
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150JNFLUENZA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 181, 26 April 1919, Page 8
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