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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1924, Page 1

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20-11. P. 'PLANE'S 245 MILES. PARIS, Dee. 28. An aeroplane piloted by the JJelgian airman Rapailier, fitted with a 20-li.p. motor, lias covered the distance between Rotterdam and Paris, 245 miles in shr lOmin. including landings. M. Raparlier intends to fly to London and return to Rotterdam. LAWYERS’ WET SHIP. NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The action of the American (Bar Association in chartering the Cunard steamship Berengaria for the prospective trip of its members to London next year was denounced to-day in the Senate. Senator Jones, tlio author of a Shipping Bill designed to discriminate against foreign shipping, attempted to secure the consent of the Senate to investigate the association’s act ion. Senator Dial, of South Carolina, declared that at a time when desperate efforts were being made to build up the American Merchant- Marine, it if became the Bar Association to charter a IL-itish instead of an American ship. The Bar Association a few days ago addressed a circular to its 20,000 members. calling attention to the conveniences offered by tlip Berengaria. The Law Journal explains the choice of the Berengaria by stating that tlio regular sailings of other steamers failed to coincide with the arrangements of the association. Officers of the Bar Association declare that tlio fact that liquor may he sold aboard the Berengaria did not: influence their decision. MARRIED TO HER BROTHER-IN-LAW. LONDON, Dee. 23. A story of a woman’s second marriage to a man who afterwards revealed that he was her first husband’s brother, was tokl at Sheffield yesterday, when Airs Lily Lee applied for a maintenance order against her husband.

Her solicitor said her first husband Janies Lee, was killed in the war in 1911, leaving her with six children. In IDEs she married at Sheffield a man going under the name of Hugh McGill, on leave from the Canadian forces, lie afterwards deserted her, and when application for a maintenance order was made against him he produced a birth certificate showing that his name was Samuel Lee, and that lie was Mrs Lee’s brother-in-law. As the marriage was not then legal she had no claim against him for desertion, but the passing of ihe Deceased Brother’s Widow's .Marriage Act in 1921 legalised the marriage, and their child automatical!v hi-eatne legitimate.

The magistrates decided that Mrs Lee ntilsi first prove there Jiiid heel! eoTial'iiialioii and dismissed the en.se. She whs advised to npjily for n decree of restilutioii of conjugal lights. MFIMI'M HXPOSF.D. PARIS, Dec. 27. Five French scientists, including M. Langevin, professor ot physiology at the College of France, and M. Ridiaud. professor of biology at the SorTionne l'iiivcO'-j{v. Paris, who have been conducting a series of experiments into the alleged psychic powers of the wellknown medium Gu/.ik, have issued a report, according to •which all the phenomena of levitation (lifting) produced Guzik were done hv movenicuis of the medium’s legs and arms. Tlie scientists conducted a number of experiments under different conditions, and they stale in the report, which is published this morning in the Matin, that when a certain amount of liberty was left to Gu/.ik, the phenomena were produced. The observers were tapped on the shoulder and body, and heavy objects, Mich as tables and chairs, were moved. In each ease one of the professors was able under the same conditions to reproduce the same phenomena, but when stops were taken to secure a scientific and automatic control of the medium’s limbs there were no psychic manifestations of any kind. The medium, the investigators declare. produced his effects by using his elbow to tap the observers, and, by swinging one of bis legs, be was able to displace objects. ANTI-GOLD VACCTXK. LONDON, Dec. 2i Vaccination against colds is now being practised by many doctors, probably- tlie majority, oil themselves. A London physician said yesterday to a reporter that at the beginning of everv winter lie l vaccinates liimseli and his family, with excellent results. It was impossible to guarantee in any particular ease that the vaccine would prevent a cold, but in the majority of taxes it was very successful. Golds may he caused l>v six or seven different species of microbes. Th« anti-cold vaccines are therefore made of a mixture of all the microbes concerned in eohU. bronchitis and pneumonia. St. Mary's Hospital inoeouhition department at: Gambridge-plaeo. \Y., is very busy vaccinating people against colds and other complaints for which vaccination is recommended. Front 7n to SO patients are inoculated every day. Some attend regularly every winter and spring.