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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION

GREAT RADIUM DISCOVERY. .Received this Jay at !? 25 a.in.) LONDON, March 26

A scientific discovery of a far reaching character in connection with the radium treatment of cancer and other disease lias been made hv the .Middlesex Hospital. It consists of capturing the emanations from radium, and purifying, condensing and bottling them .in small glass tubes whose interior is as thick ns a human hair. Each tube is sufficient for one (lose. This radium gas is called radon and it makes it posiblo to multiply by thousands the curative value of any given quantity of radium.

Hitherto the Middlesex Hospital was thought to he the largest holder of radium than any hospital in the world. I,ut it has now been forced to husband its stock, and is inviting applications from other hospitals as radon tubes are valuable for the extcr.aul treatment in all eases where radium itself is used. OXFORD’S NEW BOAT. (Received this dav at 0.25 a.in.) LONDON, March 2d. The epidemic of sore throats necessitates several reshuffles in the Oxford crew and in later training spins the four principal members were absent. Both crews average 170 pounds. Cambridge, unhampered by illness, have had the advantage of rowing the lull courses.

Oxford’s new boat is based on Dr. Bourne’s parafolio design and measures fifty-nine feet against the normal sixty-three. The boat lias increased stability, eliminating wobble and other vibrations. LONDON, March 20. In tho Deiniistoun case, judgment was reserved. BUM-RUNNING TEST CASE. SAN FRANCISCO. March 20. A test case affecting the whole of the rum-running situation between Canada and the United States was completed when littv-lour officers and the crew of the British steamer Quadra were found guilty ami remanded ini sentence. The ship and her cargo worth €300.000 will he confiscated. The Quadra had a huge cargo for Mexico when she left Canada, hub en route lay hull down ofl the (.olden Gate, selling the liquor to American launches which conveyed the cargo ashore. The Quadra’s captain claimed the vessel was on the high seas, but the Court ruled that it was within the twelve mile limit. Owing to heavy seizures by the Oov- (-■ i-iinit * t agents the ruin-running trade from Western Canadian ports is almost at a standstill.

CONVERSION STOCK. LONDON. March 20.

The Government is inviting tenders for thirty million 3] per cent, conversion stock at the maximum price of o;i%. The stock will at present rank pari pju-sii, with tho existing conversion stock.

empire parliamentary assn . LONDON, March 27.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association in the House of Commons Mr Baldwin warmly commended an interchange ol visits 'between the Homeland and Dominions, declaring the prosperity 01, each unit of the Empire depended on the prosperity at Home. Alluding to the success of the South African visit. Mr Baldwin said he hoped to arrange a list of delegations yet to go to Australia and New Zealand in -1 f I —l>- H'' foreshadowed a rearrangement of Parliamentary business to enable mem'hers to have a long Vacation from August to January, lie also hoped to make arrangements enabling the Colonial Secretary to visit the Dominions during his term of office. Mr Clync-s declared Labour had regard for the prosperity of all parts of the Empire. Real Labour looked to some less populated parts of the Env pire for material assistance in dealing with' the problem of unemployment. On the motion of Mr Ormsby Gore, seconded by Sir J. Greig. the constitution was amended to enable hranees of Associating to he established m southern Rhodesia and Malta; also local legislatures like Australia and affiliation of branches in the colonies under representative governments. LONDON, March 26.

The Empire Parliamentary Association has decided to oiler a Speaker s chair for Canberra. Air Baldwin announced Unit tin i was a likelihood of a representative delegation of the Association . visiting Australia and New Zealand m 1920. LONDON, -March 20.

Air Baldwin in the course ot his speech at the Empire Parliamentary Association meeting heartily welcomed the spirit in which South Africa had entered upon last year’s parliamentary visit especially her most generous appropriation. - “We shall have to seriouslv consider,” said Mr Baldwin, “making a similar appropriation because it is of the utmost importance that everv facility possible should he given to those who, otherwise, might he unable to participate.” A .MOVING -MOUNTAIN. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m-1 NFAV YORK, -March 20. Meekers Peak, in the Colormlo mountains, a thousand leet high, moving eastward at two feet for hou.. Scientists who examined the phenomenon declared gravitation and und.i - i„g mud has caused the motion wind, has totalled one hundred yards m the past week. The progress of motion is ilearlv discernible, waves ol earth bein,, roiteil twelve to twenty leet high.

\USTRAKIAN IMMIGRATION ACRBEMKNT. (Received this dnv at l- 3(> p m 'l LONDON, Atnroll Negotiations for .... Australian migration agreement are so advanced that the signing is considered a m.i ei davs. The Overseas Settlement Committee will then announce its details throughout Britain. V COPYRIGHT C ASK. LONDON. March ‘2(Mr Justice Homo.' in the Chancery Court heard a novel copyright ease Llovd Osbourne seeking to restiai. Oei its fro,,, publishing Stevenson? Kidnapped " and “ treasure Island i„ one volume with the payment of . rovftltj • iMr .Justice Rower refused the application on the ground that the Copyright Act did not expressly prohibit pic issuing of more than one work in a single volume. ... the king and QC fa-n . T.ONDON. March 20._ King George and Queen Alary visited Pompeii. MINISTERS IN the air. PORT rch Hon L C. AT. S. Aniery (Colonial Secretarv) and Sir Samuel Honre (Air Secretary) arrived here and continue., t peir journey to Baghdad in an aeroplane. _

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