AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ACBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. PR E V HR UNCH QUESTION. OTTAWA, October 1.1. .Mr R. 11, Oreliard, of Australia, addressing the Export Club at .Montreal, said: “ Since Britain has rejected plans of the Dominions for Imperial preference, the Dominions must plan for themselves it system of such preterenccs of which the Canadian-Australian agreements Wits a beginning. Ihe Acting-Minister of Finance, Mr Robb, said Canada started the idea, of preferential trade within the Empire. He added: “We have waited twentyfive years for other dominions to join with us, and I am glad that, alter many efforts, Australia has come in though the arrangement is not, perhaps, as wise as I might have hoped for.”

NEWTON v. EINSTEIN. VANCOUVER, October HI. Captain T. J. bee. Professor _ of .Mathematics in the United States Navy and Government Astronomer at Ala re Island, California, declared in an address before the California Academy of Sciences at San Francisco, that lie has made a series of discoveries indicating the complete triumph of the Newtonian theory of universal gravitation over the Einstein theory of relativity. Captain Lee asserted that he is aide to explain, under the Newtonian hypothesis, the deflection of starlight passing near the sun at the time of a star eclipse, as observed by the British Expedition to Brazil on the 29th. of May, 19]9, and by the Crocker Expedition of Lick Observatory to Australia in 1922, by his discovery. Captain "Lee is said to have a correct method for calculating the bending of light by the sun’s gravitational attraction.

ILL-FATED STBFAXSSON PARTY

FROZEN TO DEATH. ("Sydney Sun” Cables). fßeceivcd this day at 11.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, October IL. The names of the four members of Stefansson’s party whose bodies were found on Herald Island are:—lames Murray; Doctor Allistor Muckay. a British scientist; Henry Beauchat, a French Scientist, and Stanley .Morris a Canadian Sailor. The remnants of their camp include canned food, indicating that all were frozen to death. They bad left the other survivors crossing the pack ice for the mainland, and had reached Herald Island fifty miles north-east of Wrangel Island. All trace of them has been lost for ten years. The Karluk sailed from Victoria in. January in 1913, with the largest number of scientists of any polar expodidition. Stefnnsson was not on the Karluk when she was wrecked. ANOTHER. FORD STUNT. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. A feature of the Prince of Wales’ visit on Tuesday was the inspection of the Ford plant in Detroit, tinder the guidance of Mr Henry Ford, when the multi-millionaire mechanic assembled, as the Prince looked a sm-eia! automobile. The start and finish <>f the work was completed in less than Pminutes, rendv for the Prince to drive. The car is named the Prince of Males Special. ft glittered with a special enamelling polisii and goes to London ivilb the Prince.