"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

| Cabled News From Abroad. j (Sydney iSun.) | THE TWOPENNY TIMES, j LONDON, May o. I The reduction in the price of the Times from 3d to 2d lias caused a large increase in the demand for advertising space. The. pressure on the space in today's issue wins .so great that it was found necessary to excludo a large 'lumber of advertisements. RE.STOJU NO ANIMATI OS. Some experiments recently conducted at the John Hopkin's University in Haltimnre, I'.iS.A., lend interest to the theory that it might have been possible, if proper means ii.'ul boon employed, to resuscitate Captain Scatt and his comrades after their I'ro/.en bodies had been discovered. The tests carried out at the university showed that aniniu j (ion which had been suspended for thirty days had been revived at tin •rid of that, time by means of liquid air. Ki'ogs, rats, snails, and Hsb Here placed in jars and frozen i/i liquid air, and when thawi»d out after a lapse of several weeks were found to be apparently as well as ever. In smile eases the animals' intestines wore removed before th< freezing process was begun, but notwithstanding this they were all revived. CONSTANT! \K'S T>AUGHTER. Queen iSophiw'i. of Greece, who has just, eonie to the throne, has given birth to a. daughter at Athens. PKTURK FILM PIRACY. American and English picture diow producers have decided upon i concerted action in an endeavour to | stop the extensive piracy of films that now goes on. A test case is shortly to come before the American courts. There will also be. an attempt to obtain a revision of the copyright law. of which there has been a wholesale, infringement for •.onie time past. FREE LIVING. A woman, aged 35 years, was sentenced yesterday to three months' imprisonment for defrauding boardinghouse keepers. It. was proved that she had been living for nothing for eight \ears by stopping at boardinghouses and protending that she was the maid of the wife of an American millionaire. By this means die obtained credit, and then loft without paying. IN A RAINSTORM. Aecompann<l by a lady passenger, Mr Gustave Hamel. the British air•lan, yesterday flew from Hendon to Windsor and back, a distance of 58 miles, without a stop. During the journey a heavy rainMorm wijis met with at. a height'of 7000 ft. •STARVATION". Kvidcnce given at an inquest on ihe death ol an old woman who was i pensioner under the Insurance Act showed that she had died of ■darvvition. The woman was a wid-

>w. ,ti yc;"irs of age, and lived hv 'icrself. Site was missed by fi«r 'eighhours. and when nothing hsid iccn st'Oi; of her for several days a

I •earch was made. She whs found I 'i! liit room, delirious with hunger. ! he police surgeon who attended her '"■tore her 'lentil, and who gave evilenoe at the inquest, said that while rho [«>n.sion was helped whon friendcassistance to the old people. it. ' !,s useless by itseli to maintain h was letter that they •hmilcl be sent to workhouses. To '.\pect persons to live on ris a, woek v »* criminal. Tho Inu- needed altering. ARSTRALfA TO PARTS. Xe\> premises for the Australian '-onmionwcnlth wore opened in Par- "" yesterday. They \vill h© bhared • y the Commonwealth and the Rri--isr Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Captain Collins, secretary to the \ustralian High Commissioner's >>fiico, -.wis pre.sen! at (ho opening • •eremony. Australian products v ill he exlii bii-o-fl in the "building » itli t3ie object of advertising fromeat in particular.