LOST RADIUM. LONDON, Dec 23
A €40,3 tube of radium, part of a supply worth €2OOll presented to Hull Infirmary by Mr T. K. Pereas, is missing. It was used on Tuesday on a baby m the out-patients’ department, ancl it is suggested that the small tube might have lodged in the baby’s clothing and dropped in the street. In 11)13 about £-10 worth of radium was missed from the medical officer of health’s department at Hull and was never found.
20.000 MILE VOYAGE. LONDON. Dec. 23
News which has just been received in Dublin that Mr Conor O’Brien, in hi? 20-tons ketch, the Saorise. has reached Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Mr O'Brien, who fought with distinction as a ‘naval officer in the war, left Kingstown in June last year to sail round the world with a crew of two. Stormv weather in the Atlantic forced him to put into Pernambuco, Brazil, for repairs. He reached Capetown in October 1023 and Melbourne, Australia, last February. He then went to Auckland. New Zealand, and from there carried mails to the Friendly Islands, 1.030 miles distant. Yesterday his sister received a telegram announcing that be had rounded Cane Horn, South America, and reached Port Stanley. The ketch is 42 feet long. . Mr O’Brien has so far sailed move tlinn ?O.OQQ miles,
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