GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

■ . >«3BOgV"< (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WOMEN PASSENGERS. RUGBY, May 10.

All fourteen passengers on a Hand-lcy-Page air liner, which arrived at Croydon from Paris to-day were women . It is stated that more than 50 per cent, of the travellers on Imperial Airways are women. MTSB NEW ZEALAND. SUVA. May 17. Miss New Zealand (Dale Austen, Dunedin) was a passenger' on the Aorangi which arrived hero to-day, and later sailed for Auckland.

SIR A. KEITH’S VIEW. LONDON, May IS

A new problem concerning Life after Death has been raised by a correspondent in the “ Daily Telegraph.” He asks what happens in the cases of resuscitated patients. Sir Arthur Keith, whose'lecture on Alav 10th (denying life after death) is still the subject of controversy, in answering the correspondent, says: —• “ Actually, life departs gradually, and parts of tho body may be alive for two days after a man is himself dead ; hut people need not he afraid of being buried alive, because the brain cannot survive more than ten minutes if deprived of oxygen. If the brain be dead, though the rest of the body he living tissue, that is death as we know it. There arc many people who have undergone an operation for heart massage. Hundreds of apparently drowned people have been brought back to life. All who have passed into unconsciousness agree that they had no feeling. A man loses consciousness, and then all the rest is blank. The idea of the spirit hovering in space, as mentioned by the correspondent, is very primitive. That is exactly what the Australian native thinks, believing that when a. man is asleep, his soul tieparts. and that it returns when be awakes. I thought that we had advanced beyond that. We are at present cutting little bits out of a rabbit, or a human being, and are cultivating these panicles of flesh, which will grow and live. You can divide an animal

into a million parts, and every part may die at different times, so that death is prend over two or three days. The flesh may live, hut the brain dies.”

DTVORCED ARISTOCRATS. LONDON. May 17. A unique ball was given at Brook Street- Mansion to-night, when the millionaire Duke of Westminster stood beside the former Duchess, who divorced hint, and together they received the guests to celebrate the comingout of their daughter. Lady Mary Grosvenor. There were four hundred guests, who included the leading families in England.

STORM DELAYS STEAMER. (Received this day at 5.50 a.m.) LONDON. May 18. A north-westerly storm along the French Coast delayed the Hobson Bay four hours, consequently the welcomes to the Australian Scots at Plymouth, Exeter and Salisbury, have been curtailed. Alec Lauder wearing a kilt arrived at Plymouth bearing a load of white heather as Sir Harry Lauder’s gift. OBITUARY. BERLIN, May 17. Herr Rudolf Heinze, the Leader of the German People’s Party in Saxony, has succumbed to heart .failure, after an election campaign.