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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1925, Page 4

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| -o~ I VAN I >EH 151 LT WEDDING. NEW Vi IKK. -) ul.v I 111 the nil -t IY-hionable wedding 1,1 tin summer. Me-' M mu'! Aamlcihilt. •tinlighter ol .Mr ami -Mrs William K. Vanderbilt. yesterday h.-i nine the l.ride ~l .Mr Frederick ('. Church. jun. ' ( i Boston. an insurance broker and : II; eml rr nl a family la prominent in I .Mu--a' IniM'il ,in i- 1 1io \'atulerhilL la- : l,lily in Xi’a York.

! Tin' cliiol' intort'.'-1 in I lie wedding j v.jo- |lie quest icn undecided nnlil the |jt>L immiolit whether a Unman Catholic or Protestant clergyman would oflii iati'.

In spite ol all the pressure brought hear upon him. Mr Church reiiumi- ( true to l ie- Fpi-’ opal faith. and two Episcopal clergymen ollieiated. I’j) In the hour of the wedding everything was in readiness lor the pa-tor ot a Boman Catholic church at. Newport to -top in and pronounce the couple man ami wife if Mr Church relented.

Tile bride, whose mother i-- a Boman Catholic ha-, been roared a- a Boman Catholic hut in re out years she has attended fashionable Episcopal elmnhor She left t lie question out irely in t In- bridegroom.

Ihe « eretinmy and ibe subsequent ) rccepi ion at the .Xewpori (Bliode T , land) villa which Mrs Vanderbilt and J hoi daughter have occupied lor ih“ | season were attended bv repre-enia i 'ires ot the most wealthy and pro- ! miuent families ol this loui.try and j i,l,r ' ,<Ul ‘ FOE TO Fh.AMFN. LONDON. July 20. j At. a five-fighting deinoustrat ion at j I'dstree. Herts, yesterday, the latest method of dealing with burning oil or , petrol was shown. Foam is created in : a cylinder, lo w hich a supply id' water is (ari'ied from I lie hydrant, and the Ic.nm is'played in a. eontimanis stream on the fuming oil. By linking three cylinders: in -•eries, two cm lie used "Idle the third is being recharged.

esterilitv's chief lest was tin- extinction of a lire in a tank containing odd gallons of crude oil and petrol. The foam hoses were turned on. and within 90 seconds the. flames had disapeared. Covered I y a layer of foam ah.nit an inch thick, the oil was in no wa.v damaged. Subsequently L2o')|bs. of wax residue and 50 gallons of far were poured on a pile of timber, which was soi alight, and in less than 1.) minutes front the apt'lieatioii ol the foam there was pot a flame to he seen.

I TELMAN' PILLARS Of,- TU'II.DTNCS. 1 TOKTO, Aug. r. I Workmen engaged in restoration J work on the old watch-towers and walls I stiiToiir.ding tlie main Imperial Palace here have unearthed a number of I .skeletons below the old foundations of one of the tint in towers, erected some j 300 years ago. They ate the bones of the --human pillars” of the watch-tower. Eutil not so very long ago it was the belief in .lapitti that important structures could l.e made safe and permanent if. within the foundations, there could be buried alive a certain number of strong, healthy human beings. It is believed that the skeletons now discovered are the remains of vassals of Masatoshi Inouye. a noble of the Tokugawa Court, who built the tower in the 17th century. The skeletons show that they had keen buried standing upright, with outstretched arms, palms upwards, in each palm and on top of each head lieing found an ancient coin. It is explained that these humans—qlio skeletons are of both men and women—were not sacrificed but were volunteers, who gave their lives in this dreadful fashion to benefit their lord. Even to-dav such voluntary offers ..| death are made. When eeriain important work in'.' ■being done a few year- ago in the harbour construction of Osaka, a patriotic townsman volunteered to allow his living body to bo built into one of the concrete breakwaters, to enure the permanency ol the .structure. 1 l.e ofier was declined with thanks. Prat tically every important lit of river conservation work in Japan carried out 200 years or more ago has one or more human pillars built in to appease tin' River Cods. ‘-INDECENT MUSIC.” NEW YORK. Aug. 4. Afoukeyville's discovery that mamfeatures of evolution are "indecent” has its sequnl to-day in the exhumation by tils' Washington police of a regulation forbidding indecent music.

According to All- Hart, the corporation counsel, the regulation applies specifically to music without words. He declares words arc unnecessary in music that is to he banned by law. "What the law is designed to abolish,' ho says, ‘‘is I hat hnotehv-kootchy soi l ol intonation. ”

The police department’s psycnopnthic expert. Sergeant Phillips expresses the opinion that, while much ol' the music now played is ‘'crazy.” it would lie dilfnult in prove that it is indecent: Hut .Mrs .Mina Van Kiukle. head o\ the policewomen in Washington, disagrees with him. She says tinregulation should he .strictly eifiurced. adding: ‘‘lt refers to that tom-tommy sort of oriental music that makes men forget their home and their babies." ANTI-WASTE RIOT. ROME. Aug. I. As a result of popular indignation at the alleged extravagance el the municipality and their tailurc to eliect a reduction in local taxaiion, a crowd of 2.0011 to-day attacked the municipal offices in the little town of San Giovanni in Fiore. near Ceseuxa, throwing stones and firing shot.-. Carabineers attempted to stop the excited crowd and tired blank eu:lridees. but they were surrounded and roughly handled. filially they wen' obliged to t(heir arms, with the result that I per: nis were killed, including 5 women, and 15 wounded, some seriously. Order was later restored. PROBLEM OF GROWTH. LONDON. Aug. 11. 11l the hio-ehemisl ry laboratory ol lhe I' ni versity of C'amhi'idge olloris are being made to solve tue mvslerini,problem of the growth of animal tissue, tli<‘ tissues ti.-cd in the experiment!* being taken from the embroyo of rats am I chickens (i.e.. the lllibm creatures.)

The solution of the problem may throw much lighl_ on the develo]nnent of tumours, such as cam-er, and the work at Cambridge has been undcrtakeii with a view to determining i!" chemical ehanges which oeeiir in growl li. It i-. being carried out under the direel ion ol Sir Frederick l.owlaud Hopkins. Professor ol 15it .*-( bmuistry al the I'niveisity.

Mrs Holmes, who is engaged in the investigation with Mr MeCa.nee. sant to a reporter : It is no longer a question of merely keeping the tissue alive outside the hotly, lint of finding the factors which keep it nine and make it grow. Pieces of tissue are placed in a lla.sk immersed in an embryonic lluid. when lias been found by Dr. Strangowavs, Director of the Cambridge Rescareli Hospital, and others to he the ued nutritive medium. The investigation is cue of tl’.e greatest delicacy. For instance, we devote a special chamber lor the pn pa rat ioo of the llasks and pieces ol tissue so that there may he no disturlanec or contamination from outside. Alter two days the chemical changes in |he fluid in which the tissues are immersed are estimated. Ihe investigation of the factors concerned is 'till in ils infancy, hut we are at the first stage in the solution ol the problem.

BLIND ROY AT WEMBLEY. LONDON. Aug. 11. years-old Arthur Stolen, a London si bool hoy. who is blind, has written an essay on what lie "saw” during a recent visit to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. IB" 'ay’file first country we visited was New Zealand. There we saw a cow being milked by machinery. Then we saw some nursery rhymes and a cow and calf made of baiter. Then we saw a hot spring. Beside il was a cold st ream. Ihe penp.e call h t re. lit ill the cold st roam and m"k them in the hot spring. After this we went to Malava. firs! we came to the rubber. There wash,el of nil I,cl and crepe rubber which ,S made into -ales of si After we saw a tin mine and a dredger. Next we saw an iaulaliou coco-nut tlec. There were seme lovely cane baskets and chairs. The next place to which we went was Australia. First we -aw some gold and some oxiiieridium. which is eight times as valuable as gold. Then we saw some asbestos which is lirepinol and i- covered with hairs. Me saw a coin-nut sprouting: then we had an Australian apple. Next we had our dinner. After dinner we h ard the bailie el Zebniggc and a I ridge was blown up. KMI’IHE COTTON FOB .lAPAN. I ON DON. Aug. 11. Owing to the present lack ot ship ping facilities to England, a large proportion of the cotton grown in Fganda is going to Bombay and Japan. Ibis statement i- made by Colonel 0. X. Fiench. a-'isiaul director ol the Empire Col ton-growing Corpol al.ion, in a report I nitblislied by the e n'poral eiu at Is :M.) on the cot ion-glow iug industry in I gamla. Kenya, and the Mwain/..i di-rici ol Tanganyika. Fganda. says Colonel French, liewon a secure po.-iiion in t lie colt.ongrow mg areas ol the world. I lie Proteelorale is prodming nearly *JiiO.Otlt* l-ales of good rollon ill a year, and could produce considerably more. Japan, he denial.i- demanding "a fteadjly increasing amount ol good quality cation, and while the Japanese market and prices ale good, cotton will certainly go there. SEVER ED HAND BIDDLE. PARIS. Aug. 10. When early risers were era-sing lhe Crenelle Bridge on their way to work this morning they were horrified lo s--e a man jump over the balustrade and throw himself into the Seine. One of the passerx-hy jumped into l,he river to his rescue and dragged him ashore in the nick ol time. It as then seen (hat the man’s rigid ha ml had been recent ly cut oil. At the hospital the man was identified as a Bussian named Serguis PowIJ isky. .11- declares (fiat lie had fallen asleep on the lailwa.v line near the Invalides St.nlinn and that a train had cut off his riglii f: 1 " 1 !. lie then decided to throw himself into ilm Seine, as life without a right band would not be worth living. The police are puzzled, because they cannot understand how the man managed to walk nearly half a mile from the railway line to the river leaving no bloodstains on the way.

WOMAN SCIENTIST. LONDON, Aug. 11. Of the 108.1153 -‘experiment? of the nature of simple inoculations and the like, performed without anaesthetics.” recorded in a Home Office return showing the number of experiments on living animals during 1921. no fewer than 21.-131 were performed by a woman. She is Miss If. Painbridge. 11.5 c., of the Wcllrnnie Physiological Re-ettrch Laboratories, Langley Court. fJecketiham. and the inoculation- were for the purpose of standardisation of drugs. The total number of experiments performed with anaesthetics was 9.1(13. In no instance ha- a certificate dispensing with the use of anaesthetics been “ut.v|OAu| 11101111.10(1x0 ini .tot p.vwojp: a serious operation. .C"oit A WEE IC. LONDON. August 17. Mr Henry Ainlcy. the actor, who is generally quite serious when he is playini'. but trequenily not -o serious when he is not, said, in an address to the City of London Teachers' Vacation Course, that in the days of the Roman Empire ‘‘one Roscius made as m.ui'h a- t‘3l a performance, which is more than l or Owen Nitres get to-day.” It would he an tltut>mi 1 engagement in which an actor or actress was paid -o much a per'onuatn e ; the u.-ual arrangement is a Meekly -alary, presumed to be based upon tDo ” box-office worth" ol the individual concerned. A lug star in musical lomedv or revue i- sometimes guaranteed -o much money per week, plus perceiitage of the gross receipts. Mr George Rohev is probably the highest-paid artist in this country. When he last appeared at the London Hippodrome he was reputed to he drawing C7OO a week for twelve performances a week—nearly L'l'-O tor each performance. Dan L-eno (who always insisted on being paid in Bank of England notes.) never got more than £‘2so a week. ,

Theatrical earnings are never stable, for they cannot lie estimated on a ;12 weeks per annum basis, but fortunes have been made by a number of actors and actresses. David Garrick left €120,000, Mrs Siddons 00"),000, Charles Kean f.'.'jo,oo<'. Sir George Alexander COO.OOO, John 1.. Toole 070,000, Sir Herbert Beerboim Tree 011,000, and k’divnrd Terry a like amount. I’RJNCKSs .MARY'S WABDROBK. LOXDOX. Aug. 11. A. porter, waiter, market gardener, and larin labourer are belping to make one of the most wonderful pieces of furniture produced during this generation— a cream lac<|Uored bedroom suite ordered by Lord I.ascelles for Princess Maiv Viscountess I.ascelles. Yesterday a reporter saw ilie mns-iw suite growing in the hands ni the disabled •Milkers of the 1.-ord Roberts

Memorial Workshops. !■ uiiiam-ruad. S. \Y.. not one of whom had had any knowledge before the war. in which ho was wounded, <■! the trade he is now pract i'i i :g. .Men with either only one leg or one arm and one who has lost two limbfinished mo-1 of tiro woodwork of the lift wardrobe—-many people with liioIx; riem.es . | the fi;rni-!iit:g trade have h o'er .-ecu one so long ■ and the dressing table, uasli—laud, two bedside tables, and oilier articleill the seven-piece suite will soon be ready for the bu.picr. Tie- foreman Iniqiieror was before tb-e war a market. gardener. There are more titan a deg. n big panels to be treat cl. ami much of it u ill fall ; i the brush of rn ex-wailer. win is the most remarkable man ill Uio department. ‘•About a year ago be came t i uI’or a job," said an oflicial. '‘lie wa 4 .1:1 cent disabled, and v.o fulloweu our usual course of living him in every depart uieii! until we could find ninetiling that sailed.

"lie seemed In be failing and id 1,1.1 | said. ‘Can you draw;’ lie send bo had never tried but was Milling 1 do ,1. So we banded him over In mil artists, who first, made him do pothooks until be was nearly dizzy and lh. n per-overed with him until he icue of tla hi -t paint'-rs i.-f bn:;' or ii l.ondou SIGHT OK 77 I‘KAKS. LOXDOX. A ng. lb Tin' imlical ■ r recently erected on flu summit of Hen Macdhui, I.2im ft. high uas unveiled in dry. hul intensely cob weather oil Saturday by Mrs Garih-n v.-il''. ~f Mr William Garden, presiden of the Cairngorm Club.

[Vn Macdhui. apart ITom Hen Xevr-. i!.'.' ] j 1«* 1« - i Jiinun i;i < n in I * f*i!: ii m . i The material u.-ed in building the | Cairn Was ion vexed on the. b;r k i j Hi •. bla 11 1 fnni.'s that are ■ex' ert bill- j 'limbers. A slab • i J 1 ni-elaiti on toe t ain, directs one where to look lor i • j mountain peak'. The partV of lld peopli elimbed lb U j Mit< ciltl l i from Hraemar. th." total 'la- I i,m,• v, ailed to and front the summit j “A II :: 0, till w lid Harness.'’ ~a - |ho I ,mu n;oii, of i,no o| tbe mountain: or.- : . ‘‘.Xotliing mi the summit but stones ! era-.- to he seen : itllill hull a mil-' 111 | [hi. Cairn. Wc did not see or liear a bird or all annual.