NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

LA HOli.V! OF V LIGHTNING. NEW YORE, i)une 7. | la-l.e- of arlilicial lightning jump id a gap b'd'i wide in the laboratory of the General Electric Company at PittsI Held. .Mas.a,'bus 'tts, to-day. *j ;.■ V represented a pressure ot :>,iu;i,u!)ii volts. The experiment. are laang collduited in (irdar to improve iiigh-leiisnui t r.nnstnisshni lines and to study the action and effects of lightning in the lope of iiulhlying iis desl ructiveness. 1,,-n the artificial lightning struck , ■ wooden blocks, part ol the wood tils sppeared. indicating, in the eptnion ol ilii' engineers, the possibility that ji bad L, on l ran.fornied into a gaseous .•li'ii ein. To make the lightning three huge I rnU'b.Tiiii'rs, wound with miles of wire. i,oiin!i,l in a tank ruin-lining id .1.-,-1!,Im of oil, were used to 1 ;.: 1 11i| Iv an original current of -d'10!) volts 1 .litld limes. 'IDE lIAPSIURO JEWELS. PARIS, June 7. i’lreti Steiner de Valmont, a member of ibo household of the late Kmb r.o- ' hailes ni Austria, has hen iiTesi* d 1 1 -. ii-e Ereiieh police upon a u e rru ii : i --ao.l by I !.e L'ame < unit, befo: i • wide!, lie accuse,l is to be t rid rn e ■ cargo of misappropriation in 11: . i ton v. i:!i Ibe mi ie of I lie 11 ttps11 1 l'e i "Ac'-. IMhe. 1 aiTo-t s in thi. connection are bid: ", ,1 in I ;- imminent. Toe 1.-.ir .ii i . e.'.ciged with stealing 01.'.e; LRl.nilil r.i: -I l;y tin- sale ol the i •:•. ids. a! VST Ell IDES D’AXX FNZiO. ROME, .June 7. Mystery surrounds the reasons which preventeil , Signor d’Anntmz'o, the piiet-pnlil ieian-ai niuin, Imm making Ins promised visit to Paris last week. In a letter addressed to Colonel Rie-t'-ie.i ti Garibaldi he justilie. his failure by saying that he received a telegram atiiioutioi'ig lie visit of an inipntatil b a'son:' o', but who thi. per.image is is also unknown. 'ib-fe is much .peeulalioii as to the.' purport of d Annmizio'.s tietion. j