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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. KDHAT OUTLAW CAPTURED. DELHI, June 20. Kaltt, one of the most desperate of the Kolint outlaws was captured after a desperate fight. His normal occupation was the raiding of the military convoys. A number of murders are attributed to him, iufluling five police officers. TEA SALES. CALCUTTA, June 20. At the tea sales tho quality of the offerings showed an improvement and bidding was brisker. The prices ranged from thirteen annas to fifteen annas three pices, showing advances of from 7* one to throe pices. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. [Reuters Telegrams.] LONDON, Juno 20. The Council of the Tennis Assooiatioiijhas decided to confer with the Dominions regarding participation in the Olympic Games, the Association’s view being that relationship with ex enemy countries should not yet be resumed. SOCIALIST MOTION REJECTED. PARIS, June 20. The Senate, when debating on the Budget, rejected the Socialist motion aiming at the withdrawal of the French Embassy at' tho Vatican. M. Poincare said the Embassy had proved of great advantage to France, who had never sacrificed any of her principles for it. LIFE WITH KATSER. BERLIN, June 20. The ex-Kaiser’s wife, in thanking a company of German students for their visit to Doom, remarked:—Spiritually, one goes to ruin here. Please come often! We have so little chance of hearing anything of real value.” The students were very deeply impressed by the luxury of the rooms allotted to them. Tho Kaiser dressed in sitnplo mufti, but preserved an autocratic demeanour. lie gave them a lecture on literature, stating that lie always wanted the stage; to be first, blit lie could liot obtain the right actors. He told the students that lie passed his time in historical, nrcliaelogieal. and genealogical studies and said: “Better tinies will come, because Germany is tho home of heroism !’’ AVIATORS IN RAREFIED AIR. LONDON, June 21. Three well-known aviators underwent a curious experience at Paris to test the ell’ect of rarefied air on persons climbing Mount Everest and other high mountains. They .submitted to being enclosed in a cylinder, fifteen feet by nine, in which the air was gradually rarefied, while doctors watching the effects upon the inmates through windows in the cylinder, until the conditions reached the equivalent of an altitude of 27.898 feet. The pilots were dressed in skins, like the Eskimos. When the indicator registered 15.000 ft. their noses reddened, alul they stamped their feet to get warmth. The doctors judged that it was undesirable to allow tlie indicator to go beyond 27,898 ft. as their earlier experiments bad shown that men lost 1 ensoiousness at a height of 26,000 ft. The whole test occupied 35 minutes.

LINER’S SEALED SUPPLIES. LONDON, June 20. The liner Olympic lias sailed for New York. She is carrying in a special chamber, under British customs and excise seals, a. moderate supply of liquor for the passengers’ use 011 the homeward voyage. WIN FOR CARR. STOCKHOLM. June 20. Carr won a sixty metres rate at Christiania in G 4-5 sees. Hutton has arrived well. NURSE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. LONDON, June 20. A year ago, Winifred Neal, a Canadian nurse found her earthly possessions totalled £I2OO. She then determined to spend the money upon seeing the world. She had the time of her life, until only 10s remained. To-day while aboard tho steamer Biarritz, Miss Neal jumped into the water, when tho vessel was steaming at 20 knots, but the steamer was put about smartly, and a. boat was lowered, and Miss Neal saved. She is now being charged with attempted suicide and lias been remanded. BATHS FOR WORKERS. . LONDON, June 20. A conference of the Royal Sanitary Institute cV.sens.'tcd the question of baths in working men’s homes. Colonel Fremantle M.P., contrasted the cleanness of the Japanese with the so-call-ed “sweet smell” of the western workpeople, and he attributed the superiority of the Japanese peasants to their having a wooden pillar filled with the hottest, water in every home. He said that this vertical hath had a tonic effect, was very (deansing, and required much less hot water. Therefore, it was more economical than the western typo. Doctor Watts stated that the belief is prevalent among tbc Lancashire coal miners that, if they bad a hath, it is not wise for them to wash their backs. There was. lie said, a deep-root-ed impression that washing weakened the hack. Professor Collis incidentally leferred to the English climate, and lie said: ‘‘English jieople complain that our weather is often rotten. Act this weather lias made the Britons what they are. If we had llic weather we prayed for, we would be degenerates and a third-class power.” AN IMPORTANT DECISION. LONDON, June 21. Mr Justice McCardie delivered an important judgment in the King’s Bench division, declaring a tenant is justified in leaving a furnished houso immediately that he learns that, there lias been a consumptive patient there during the previous month. This judgment is the outcome of a claim by a tenant for the return of an advance instalment of rent. Mr Justice McCardie said that lie doubted whether the terrible prevalence of consumption in England was fully realised. One person in every seven died from this disease. It- was the largest single cause of death between the ages of thirtyfive and forty-five. He was convinced that the tenant in this instance had acted wisely in vacating the house, which was more than likely infected with consumptive germs. EXPLOSION IN SCHOOL. LONDON, .Tune 20. Mr Cohen, assistant master in Stepney Council School, was giving a demonstration before a science class of fifty boys, when a flask of sulphuric acid exploded, injuring Cohen and nineteen of the boys. Though half mad. with pain, tho boys’ disaipline was splendid. SMART FLYING. LONDON, June 20. Barnard Instone, air pilot, flew front Croydon to Cologne and back tho same day, the actual flying time being 392 minutes. Ho took five passengers going and six returning.