The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1026, 5 August 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Referring to the intention of the Government to make Kapiti Island a popular holiday resort for the people of Wellington, the Eyttelton Times comments thus ; “The Minister states that dogs and guns will not be taken to the island and that there will be ‘no interference’ with the native birds, but it is not easy to share his confidence on these points. The casual holidaymaker is possessed of neither reason nor conscience where the beauties pf nature are concerned. Unless a small army of rangers is going to be employed on Kapiti Island the bush will be ravaged, nests will be taken, and the birds will be very seriously disturbed. These evils might be faced it the necessities of Wellington were pressing, but as a matter of fact the cities of New Zealand are very well provided with holiday resorts, and we have heard of no public demand for the violation of the Dominion’s most important bird sanctuary.”

Mr W. A. Redmond, M.P., on behalf of the Irish Knvoys prior to leaving New Zealand, sent the following letter to the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways:— “ I desire, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, to personally tender you our most grateful thanks for the kindness and thoughtfulness which prompted you to grant us free passes over your railways. I can assure you that we thoroughly appreciate the compliment. If we might venture an opinion on the management | and conduct of your State rail-,

ways we would at once be compelled to state that the whole system reflects the greatest credit on the management. We have experienced at the hands ot the officials ot your department nothing but the most extreme kindness and courtesy. We should be obliged if you would lender our congratulations to Mr T. Ronayne, the general manager. I may add that one of the best reforms we hope to bring about under Home Rule will be the nationalisation of the Irish railways. With every good wish for the future prosperity ot your department and of your country. —Believe me, very truly yours, W. A. Redmond.”

About two years ago Mr W. H. Judkins, of Melbourne, was operated upon for an internal complaint. Cancer, the cause of the original trouble, has again manifested itself. An examination by Drs G. A. Syme and McColl showed that the cancer was in a very malignant form, and that there was no hope of affecting an improvement by surgical interference. Loth to let a valuable life pass away, the practitioners have decided on one more effort to stem the encroachment of the insidious disease, and to this end have adopted a method of treatment probably never before attempted in this part of the globe. Some time ago it was discovered on the Continent that patients suffering from cancer, and who got a concurrent attack of erysipelas recovered from the cancer which, to use the expression of an eminent physician, ‘‘melted away like snow before the morning sun.” Physicians considered the treatment worthy of further investigation, and cultures have been made of the erysipelas germ for use in cases of inoperable cancer. The germ, striptococcu, is cultivated for ten days. At the expiration of that time another germ, bacillus prodigious, is added, and both are then cultivated together for ten days, with the result that the erysipelas germ is braught to its most malignant form. The germ is then subjected to a high temperature and killed, after which it is injected periodically into the cancer. The treatment covers a period of from six weeks to three months, and on Mr Judkins it was started about the middle of last month. The treatment is still only in its experimental stages, but Dr Coby, of London, states he has personal knowledge of fiftytwo successes, and is aware of at least twice that number in the hands ot others. Mr Judkins has been made aware ot the seriousness of his condition, and he accepts the position with a calm fortitude that evokes the admiration and sympathy of all who come in contact with him.”