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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1924, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION HEALING KAYS. LONDON, April 9. A plant is being installed at Margaret street Consumptive’s Hosp/tal by which it is believed patients can be treated with heat and light rays identical with the sun’s. The hospital lieiiotherapist believes he has discovered an arrangement of arc lights which beat the sun’s light’. He hopes ultimately to be able to prescribe light baths, indicating the precise amount and quality of the various rays, like in ordinary drug prescriptions. Jt is believed the new light baths will be most valuable for tuberculosis, rheumatism, rickets and anaemia. 11 may be possible to use ultra-violet rays to counteract the effects of X-rays. TANGLED FINANCES. ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), April 8. The disposition of more than 200,009 dollars, of which accounts in. the Controller’s Department is short, will he the subject of Government investigation. according to the “Evening Advocate,” the organ of the \\ siren Government. The “Advocate” intimates that the Department of Justice has decided to prosecute all implicated by the report of Mr T .Hollis Walker, K.C., the Royal Commissioner.

This is taken here to mean the prosecution of Sir Richard Squires (exRriine Minister) on the basis of the Commission’s finding against him.

BONNY BABIES. LONDON, April 8. The National Baby Week Council is offering £2OO for the Empire’s bonniest baby. Other prizes are offered for babies aged from three to nine months, from nine to 24 months, and from two to V five years. Competitors must be. born of British parents. Entries arc invited from the Dominions and the results will bo auliou need at the Imperial Baby _ Week in connexion with the Empire Exhibition at the end of July. KURSO-ROUMANIA N TROUBLE. LONDON. April 10. The Soviet delegates to the AngloRussiau conference have arrived for ... the discussion of the terms of the pro- -*Ht posed convention which will open next week. The “Daily Herald” alluding to the visit, scoffs at the idea of the Soviet refusal to discuss the future of Bessarabia. The “Daily Express’s” Paris correspondent, however reports from Bucharest, describing the Soviet war preparations on the frontier. MAIL CONTRACTS. DOMINION ADVERTISES IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 9. ' The New Zealand Government is ■ advertising, for the first time in .England, for tenders for mail contracts. It is hoped to find a company to undertake a fortnightly mail service via Panama. REG IM ENT DISBANDED. LONDON, April 9. It is announced in Army orders that the King, with great regret, has approved the disbandment of the King Edward Horse. AVAR CLOUD. RUSSIA V. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, April 9. Russia is threatening EouTiuuiila . with war over the question of the Bossarabidu frontier. AIR FATALITIES. LONDON, April 8. Within the last twenty-four hours, Pilot Officer Goldsmid and an Air ■ (.'raftsman Nicholls, were killed in an aeroplane crash at Old Saruin, and Pilot Officer Moss met with a similar fate at Earn ho rough. j~ BOTTOM LEY’S THREE-PENNY CHEQUES. LONDON, April 9. So many of Horatio Bottomley’s 3d cheques, which were paid to holders of £1 shares in the Victory Club, have been uncaslied. that the receiver has issued a warning that they will lie invalid after June 30. The receiver is of the opinion that* many who received these cheques do r.nt think- they are worth cashing, while others are keeping them as souvenirs of an unfortunate speculation.

! DETECTIVE STORIES. yt ! LEAD TO CRIME. ! LONDON, April 10. : George Westcotl, and William Price, both aged 18, confessed at the Derby Assizes, that the reading of detective stotics combined with the love of ex- ■ citemcnt led them to commit twentytwo burglaries at Buxton, in which they stole £.79 in money and £IOO worth of • jewellery. They wore .hound over, their Sunday School Superintendent standing .security. ' JOCKEY’S WHIP AUCTIONED. LONDON, April 10. A jockey's mounted whip, used by R. L. Goodman, who rode .Running Vein, "inner of the Derby in 1811. was auctioned to-day, and realised £l3. He recalls a famous turf fraud, Running Vein being disqualified on being discovered to be the four-year old Afaeen baeils, disguised by hair dye. DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION. 4«t LONDON April 19. The “Copce” conference passed a lesolution eiiiioisiug the abolition of tile death penalty. One speaker cited the diminution of serious crime in Queensland since murderers were reprieved. BRITISH ENGINEERS’ DEAIAND. LONDON, April 10. The “Daily Herald” says six big engineering unions have lodged an application for an advance of 20s weekly. “The Herald” adds that a skilled engineer in London, for a full pay for a week only earns 60s, which is only 30 per cent, above pro war rates. PLAGUE,IN PUNJAB. Pxtc-c-Mvou tliis dav at 8 a.m.) DELHI, April 10. There is a severe outbreak of plague in the Punjab and the mortality in March was twenty-five to the thousand. being tenfold above normal.