GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

■ (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.', NOCTOY I’SION TEST. LONDON, Sept. 2. Sitting in a darkened room, a journalist in London saw a colleague in Leeds, while conversing with him on X the telephone. ITe watched his lips form the words, and he saw his colleague laugh, put out his tongue, and move the instrument. His features and expression wore perfectly clear.

It was a. demonstration of noctovision, which was invented hy Mr J. L. Baird, it wits oiie of the sensations of this year’s British Association meeting. Both offices were in darkness, and transmission was carried out with infrared rays. It is claimed that the same results can ho secured with wireless. FLOOD DAMAGE. WARSAW, Sept. 3. Seven towns and 347 villages in Galicia are flooded. The Dniester, which here is normally eighteen yards wide Is now a raging four milos torrent. Isolation prevents details of losses, but the death ml! is estimated at some hundreds. The deluge continues. BORDEAUX EXPRESS ACCIDENT. PARIS, Sept. 2. The railway accident was due to a deliberate attempt to wreck the Bordeaux Express, the rails being loosened from the sleepers. The engine-driver was killed, being pinned underneath the engine.

ULTRA VIOLET RAYS. LONDON, Sept. 3. The imliseriniiiate use by the public of the Ultra-violet rays must Iks deprecated, says Sir George Newman, in a Ministry of health report. The best results in using the rays for healing. were obtained in cases of lupus, certain skin conditions, rickets, superficial lesions, Surgical cases and tuberculosis. The results were unfavourable in the treatment of pulmonary tulierculosis, and the early employment of the Ultra-violet rays for tulierculosis and laryngitis. The report says:—“The - general conclusions are that ultra-violet rays are not a general specific for all diseases. hut are useful as a thereapeutic accessory, they are best used in combination with well tried methods, and should only lie carried out in properly staffed hospitals and clinics, and only given in cases of definite diseases. The fact is that we know too little about both the immediate and the remote effects of the rays. We do not accept the opinion that everybody will benefit from exposure to the violet rays. Already we have some people, especially children, so constituted as to be unfitted for this treatment, and who suffer from it.

A SCIENTIST’S THEORY, LONDON, September 2. At the Ssienee Congress, Sir William Dawkins took a.s the subject of his address: “Man—A Little Higher than the ape: A Little Lower than the Angels.” Sir William Dawkins said: “When one looks back over tbe long period which man has taken to ascend from his early beginning to his present place in tlie universe, it. may confidently lie expected that, owing to recent rapid development, including the conquest of the air, he will progress until he has almost completed the cycle from the ape to the angel. The tree of life lias grown with its roots in the Eocene Period, and it branches in the present. Modern man may be likened to the sweetest, the latest fruits of that tree.”

Sir William Dawkins emphasised that there has been hut little change in the appearance of the modern man, when he is compared with his “promagnon” forbears.