NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

Al.lYli IN A COh'h’lN. LONDON, October lift. Taken from a coll'iu in which it was on the point of being buried alive on Wednesday, 'the infant, girl of .Mrs. ( itshian, of Cwmeaneol-street. Dowlais, South Wales, was still living yesterday' but is weakly, and its condition is causing anxiety. The child was born on Wednesday morning alter a doctor who lmd seen the mother had left. Its lifeless appearance led the nurse and others to believe that it was dead. The father —an ex-soldior and now an unemployed steelworker—took the child in a cardboard coffin to Pant Cemetery! where lie had not the four shillings to pay for the burial fee. lie left the box with the sexton and later obtained it again for interment. A gravedigger was placing the box in a grave when a faint cry was heard . Tile box was opened and the child found to be living* WINTKK CHDISKS. LONDON. October i’J. During the winter seven of the finest vessels of the Cunard-Anclinr fleet will lie cruising for periods varying from one to four and a half months. They will cover a total distance of 110.000 miles and accommodate about 4,000 people. Passengers are already booking in large numbers for the cruises, ami although during past years —certainly from 1000 or 1910—passenger* have in the majority been Americans, there is every sign this year that more English people than ever are taking part in them, hopeful of finding the sun that they have missed during the recent unseasonable summer.

SCGCESTIYE MEDICINE. LONDON, October 2.". At the Lincoln Diocesan Conference yesterday the Kev. 11. Anson, of London formerly a vicar in New /calami—said that after 20 years’ study be believed that the forms of animal magnetism possessed by some people weie not spiritual healing. Doctors still wallowed in magic; out of every lot) hollies of medicine only two or three had more than a suggestive value. He deprecated healing missions as producing only one or two per cent, of cures. Dr Burnett line sakl he saw no limit t„ the Dossil, ilities of the movement if rightly handled. The conference passed a resolution, I hat the healing of the hotly was an mlim’tul part of thi’ commission ot Christ to His (‘hurt'll.