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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 August 1924, Page 7

About the “wonderful performance” of Bishop Selwyn, who is alleged to have studied Maori so ardently on the passage to Ne?v Zealand from England that he was able to preach a fervent mission sermon to the astonished Maoris as soon as he landed, a. romantic glow hovers, says a writer in the current issue of the Christchurch Church News.” It is, he continues, a priceless anecdote that every historian has swallowed whole. Archdeacon Ensor has souHessly destroyed it by narrating how the venerable Maori, Hemi Matenga, rose up in the Nelson Synod of ’BB to say that he was the last of the Maoris present on that great occasion. Unfor. tunately Selwyn’s Maori was incomprehensible, hut the chiefs, with the inherent politeness of the race, tapu’d the sermon and forbade the least reference to it in conversation, lest the Bishop’s mana be hurt. Matenga broke the tapu because being the last of the hearers, he felt he ought to bury that perfectly good lie! A new mechanical device, technically termed “the epidiascope” was demonstrated before medical men at the Princess Mary Hospital, Auckland. The epidiascope is worked in much the same wav as the ordinary magic lantern, and combines the principles of the stereoscope, mirrorscope and microscope. It is a senes of mirrors, lenses and prisms, which project on co a screen the image ordinarily obtained from looking through a very powerful microscope. Its advantage is that whereas only one person would he able to see the magnified image in the ordinary way, the same object can bo viewed hv a roomful of people when the epidiascope is the medium of magnification. While worked on the same principle as a high-power magic lantern, its scope of usefulness is very much wider, for it will take not only ordinary lantern slides, but microscopic slides, X-rav films, printed illustrations and solid objects, and will oven throw a reflection of actual external injuries or diseases.