GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 144, 15 July 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

s' * I FOUNDLING HOSPITALS. f By Telegraph.—-Press Association. e Auckland, Last Night. r. \ At to-night's meeting of the Auck- j land branch of the Libera) and Labor federation, a resolution, moved by Mr. f f ircsliain, City Coroner, was carried that c sii view of the abandonment and putting j away of nmvly-iborn infants, which at b present prevails in the Dominion, the a <>orcrniuent be urged to establish foundling hospitals, such institutions tending to discourage infanticide, t OPIUM SEIZURE. 1 Taihape, Last Night. i '" the Magistrate's Court to-day Ah t :i ■•■■{, was fined £2 and costs for fceep-:i-.j an opium den. A considerable quan- 1 tit.V of the drag was found in a dog c Ikcnsel and was seized by the police. J i :. .RADIUM EMANATIONS. i

! Christchurch, July 14. ])r. Coleridge Farr f lecturer 'to ths Canterbury Philosophical Institute, last night explained the method l>y which the radium emanating from the dirfeient artesian wells in Christchurcb had

lieen arrived at generally. It had occurred to the investigators to see if x tko emanation had an effect on fish. The experiments had been tried with eighteen trout at the museum well, and it was found that some of the fish died nnd that others showed symptoms of disease.' Specimens of affected fish were 1 shown to Save the disease contracted I by fish known as the Popey disease. It had been attributed by American observers to an excess of gas in water. Dr. Farr doubts this. He gave the •results of his experiments at the Ac•cltmatisation Society's gardens with the ."ggs of wild trout. A COMPENSATION CASE. Invercargill, July 14. Judgment was delivered by the ArbitrMacm Court in the case William Robert Turnbull v. National Mortgage Company, a claim for .-£3OO compensation in Tespect of a strained heart caused while lumping. The Court was satisfied that plaintiff's heart was affected, and -the respondents had not suggested any /. * -theery to account for it other than the theory put forward by the claimant. "> 'The compensation awarded was at the >V--. rate of £1 10s per week, from Decern■Cj- 1 "ber last, llurmg the term of incapacity.