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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1926, Page 3

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[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] CANADIAN’ POLITICS. OTTAWA, .March 8. Mr J. C. Elliot. Liberal .Member of Commons for West Middlesex, lias been apointed Minister of Labour in Premier McKenzie Kino’s Cabinet. I'.S.A. MINE 'DISASTERS. NEW YORK, March 8. A telegram from Blue field. West Virginia states that out. ol t be 08 miners entombed in Mine Eire and Mine Six in Raleigh Country, two were killed, forty were rescued alive, and 26 are entombed. A blast occurred in Mine I‘ivo and spread to Mine Six, trapping forty others, I’.S.A. AND WORLD CO CRT. WASH I NOTON, March 8. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain an attempted legal challenge to the Doited Status's participation in the World Court. NEW SCIKXTIEfC DISCOVERY. NEW YORK. March 9. After six years research in the Laboratory of the University of Illinois, a chemical element, known as speitrum lane, was discovered h.v the use of the x-ray spectroscope and identified as element sixty-one, for which scientists have been searching for years, ft is not believed to be radio active, but nil addition to the eigbtv-five known elements. The di.seovery was made by Doctor Hopkins, of the [ niveisity of Illinois, and J. Allah Harris, a roworkcr and a graduate ol the t. niverfiitv of British Columbia.