GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) VALUABLE PICTURE DONATION. LONDON, July 19. joeph Duveen o re ored the National Gallery a choice of any picture from the Benson collection (cabled on July 11th). The Gallery selected Carre gnia’s charming early work “Christ Taking Leave of His Alothcr.” FUTURE OF MEDICINE. LONDON, July 20. “I foresee a time when the bottled preparations of to-day will figure ns the crude relies of dark ages in antiquarian museums,” enid Sir Hebert Phillips, in his Presidential address at the meeting of the British Aledical Association in Edinburgh. “The final triumph of medicine will consist, not in the exclusion of disease, but in the restoration of man to perfect form and natural function. Medicine' has ceased to he merely a healing art. The doctor must more and more regard hintself as a preventive agent. Health is horn, and disease is. for the most part, made. I am prepared to believe that thirty years hence tuberculosis will he largely a memory of the past:. The time will come when hospitals for advan<*cd disease and settlements for tuberculosis wrecks will he regarded as anachronisms.’’ He finally urged everybody to undergo systematic examination, and ask--1 ed why should not private contracts he arranged on the Oriental princijffe of payment for being kept well.

LIVERPOOL DOCKS. LONDON. July 19. The King and Queen, at Liverpool opened the Gladstone Docks system, which has cost seven and a-half millions sterling. The total length of the quays at which vessels can now he moored is three miles. The entrance lock is a triumph of engineering, making the docks accessible to the largest ships afloat at any state of the tide. The quayside sheds provide sixty and a-half acres of floor space. The King was dressed as Admiral of the Fleet. He stood at the salute on Hie bridge of the steamer Galatea, as the vessel cut the silk ribbon into the entrance lock in the presence of tens of thousands of cheering spectators. Their Majesties afterwards returned to London. SCHNEIDER CUP CHALLENGERS. LONDON, July 19. Exports are promised the opportunity shortly of seeing in flight three Highspeed aeroplanes, the Crusader, the Gloster and the super-marine eightyfive, with which the Air Ministry hopes to wrest from Italy the coveted Schneider Cup. It is hoped that the swiftest machine Wnihave a maximum speed of three hundred miles per hour. SOVIET SENTENCE. MOSCOAV, July 19. A Soviet communique states—Piskunuff, who (commanded the White Guards’ death waggon in Siberia in 1919, and who committed mass executions and tortured prisoners, has been sentenced to death.