CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2808, 27 January 1888, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

I, Pasteur and the Rabbits. Paris, January 24. M. Pasteur has decided to send two of his assistants to Australia, to conduct the experiments for the extermination of the rabbits, and he intimates that he will bo a competitor for the valuable reward offered by the New South Wales Government for the most effective means of extermination. Melbourne, January 20. Mr Back, the head of the Rabbit Department, is of opinion that the chicken cholera, proposed to be introduced by M. Pasteur, for the extermination of rabbits, will , prove dangerous to other animals, and also to birds. He recommends that experts should be sent to Paris to consult with M. Pasteur.

A Wonderful Experiment, Telephoning 15,000 Miles. London, January 24, A remarkable telephonic experiment has just beeii tried. Mr Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, held a conversation with the representative despatched on a tour round the world on behalf of that paper from Vancouver. The circuit was 15,000 miles, the longest ever worked, and the experiment lasted for three hours, the longest interval being four minutes,

The Crown Prince, More Learned Opinions, Berlin, January 24. It is reported that Dr Virehow Imb declared that the symptoms of cancer which appeared in the throat of the Crown Prince in November last were merely the remains of preserved fruit, and that the recent symptoms indicate pericarditis,