HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 258, 30 November 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

POSSIBILITIES OF RADIUM. LONDON, Nov. 27. Professor Ramsay announces that radium throws oft' infinitely small particles, which lose their radio-ac-tivity, and then give spectrum of helium, the radium slowly changing into helium. He states that the life of radium is two million years. Pro--fessor Ramsay further states that the transformation of radium into helium looked like a solution of the problem of changing baser metals into gold.

AN OUTSPOKEN MEMBER. Mr Winston Churchill, replying to a demand to resign his seat, told his constituents that it would be easier for Oldham to change the candidates at the general election than for him to change his principles. SITUATION IN THIBET. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27. The newspaper Novoe Vremya declares that if the projects in regard to Thibet are executed, British prestige in the eyes of five hundred millions of Buddhists will be completely restored. The way to help Thibetans would be to exercise a little pressure elsewhere, creating a diversion disagreeaible to British politicians. CATTLE FOR THE TRANSVAAL. Received 29, 10.8 a.m. CAPETOWN, Nov. 27. The Transvaal Government has purchased 10,000 Texan cattle. said to be immune from the red-wa-ter disease, which the. Canadian breeds are not.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. LONDON, Nov. 27. A case was heard hi the King's Bench Division wherein thirty underwriters oi: Lloyds claimed damages on the ground of fraudulent misrepresentation. It was alleged that R. T. Smith, acting for A. M. and U. C. Jay, induced the plaintiffs to assign claims in the Gullewa goldl- - to another syndicate in consideration of worthless Phoenix Gold Company shares. A verdict was given for the plaintiffs with £6400 damages, and the imputations against the Jays were withdrawn. GUARDING A PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, Nov. 27. Five hundred police are guarding President Roosevelt, who is attend-: ing his uncle's funeral in New York. These extraordinary precautions are attributed to the receipt of two threatening letters, the writers of which are. supposed to be insane. LORD KITCHENER. Received 29, 10.18 a.m. BOMBAY, Nov. 28. Lord Kitchener is making excellent progress towards recovery from his recent accident. YOUTHFUL HKKI'KKA IKIES. Rec. 30, 1.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. The police discovered near Millers' station, on the Pittsburg-Chieago line, a stronghold belonging to a gang of boy bandits. Two of these Rolcks and Reidcmeir (?) ai-e now charged with seven murders in Chicago. Both were captured after two desperate fights, wherein the guard of a goods train and a detective were killed and another detective wounded.