GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

CHAMBERLAIN’S TOOK. . United Press Association. —By Electric Telograph,—Copyright.) HAMILTON- (Bermuda), Sept. 12. Sir Austen Chamberlain walked unaided down the,' gang plank of tho Orcoma in drizzling rain yesterday, with his wife aiitl children. They hoarded a launch (with Colonel E. I!. Leigh, acting-Goveronr and went ashore for a brief stay. Members ol his party stated Sir Austen Chamberlain is showing a steady improvement. The steamer sailed’ later for the canal.

STORY DISCHARGED. LONDON, Sep. 12. Storey was discharged. RADIO MANUFACTURERS. LONDON, September 12. The Radio Manufacturers’ Association passed a resolution in favour of applying to Marconis. for tlio same terms as the Brownie Company, and operating thereon, pending the application. It is officially stated the manufacturers will reduce the value of the holder of royalties immediately. A PROFESSOR’S SUGGESTION. (Received this da-# at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Setpember 12. A large audience at the British Association meeting was enthralled by J. G. Dorman, Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at a University College in London, when ho suggested the long-sought link between living and dead matter may have been discovered as bacterplmge—a minute organism, the nature of which is being investigated. ,If life sprang from nonliving, tho earliest forms of bacteria must have been of the most minute character, invisible through the finest microscopes and passing easily through the pores of a porcelain filter. Theso must he sought in filterable viruses. If we established continuity of dimensions between tho living and non-living it would not he difficult to indicate tho point at which it could bo said: “ Hero is life, there,- there is none.” Professor Dorman said tlie researches by Professor Hill, of London University, indicated he was on the eve of an astounding discovery at the gate of life and death and was bringing nearer the day when scientists would be able to make a living coll. Professor Cathcart, of Glasgow, commenting on the foregoing, states: “ You can go on for a thousand years improving tlie delicacy and exactness of the measurement of life’s apparatus without coming nearer to a solution of the central problem, namely: 1 Wliat is life? ’ ”