NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1208, 14 February 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Health Department has under consideration the making of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) a notifiable disease under the Act, with a view of ascertaining the prevalence of the disease and allaying apprehension. The Royal Infirmaiy at Liverpool used raidum worth £IOOO on a patient’s face. When the dressings were removed the radium was missing. An expert with an electroscope detected it in a dust cart. The professors emptied the rubbish from the cart bucket by bucket and recovered the radium. Smuggling is not as romantic as it used to be, but it has growu more ingenious. A Canadian now in London tells me (a writer in the Express says) how bis Government is being outwitted by astute persons over the border in the United States. The Canadian Government has a duty of per cent, on mineral waters, which the manufacturers ot Connecticut heartily dislike. So, when they make their soda water, they freeze it, and send it into Canada in bulk described as “ice.” There is no duty on ice. The Labourite, mostly of the large-toothed Socialist type, is yelling himself hoarse in Australia and England “agin the Gov’mint” in England and South

Africa because ten hot-air mis-chief-makers were exported out of S’Africa. Yet just before last Christmas the citizens of Calumet, Michigan, took hold upon Charlie Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, beat him, put a bullet into his back, and then hustled him on to a train and shipped him out of the State, with a warning not to come back. That was deportation with a vengeance, under the Stars and Stripes, in the Land of the Free, where Liberty is the shiboleth. Ye’ we have not heard of the whole of U.S.A, threatening to annihilate Calumet, despite the fact that Charlie Moyer is the head of a very strong body of workers. The fact is, a stupid strike has been on in Calumet for months, and the miners, misled by Moyer and other annoyers, would not listen to reason. So the disturbing element was forcibly ejected. There is nothing like a public rising to squelch the public nuisance. And public opinion was behind Premier Botha’s No. 10 boot when he kicked the ten terrors out of his territory.