GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

CAPTAIN COOK. •lUnited Tress Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Roceivod this day at 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sopt. 17. Direct descendants of Captain Cook, John Kealey, residing at Middlesborough, with his son, daughter, and grandson, attended the Australian ceremony of placing a wreath on Captain Cook’s statue at the Admiralty Arch. Kealey said lie was descended from Cook through his mother, who often visited the explorer’s widow at London House, at Clnpham, when/ Cook lived after his return from his voyages. The house still stands and contains the corridor of Cook’s quarter-deck in which he paced, thinking out his problems/

DEAN INGE. /Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. Dean Inge, in a Presidential address at the Modern Churchman’s Conference, Cambridge, said: “ We are immortal spirits on probation. IVe have millions of years in which to work out our salvation as species. The notion that civilised man is a very new experiment in nature, has hardly yet sunk into our minds.” Incidentally, Dean Inge avowed that falsified history, perhaps, had had more influence than true. He asked them to consider the mythical saints of the Ciiurch of Rome, with its bogus miracles and patriotic figments, upon which children of all nations had been brought' up. Historians might decide whether St. George killed dragons or was a dishonest army contractor, who poisoned Roman soldiery with bad beef or whether St. Joan of Arc was all for French patriotism, as Bernard Shaw declared, or whether she was a baimaid who became a regimental mascot.