CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 30 April 1930, Page 11

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

PRESENTATION OF OLD BOOK. (Received April 29th, 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 28. Sir Hubert Wilkins to-morrow will attend the presentation at the American Museum of Natural History to the American Interplanetary Society of the book. of a New World." a discourse tending to prove that there may be a habitable world in the moon and concerning the possibilities of n oasiage thither Tt waji written in 1640 by the explorer's ancestor. John Wilkins. Bishop of Chester several of whose ideas on Antarctic meteorology Sir Hubert Wilkinu had worked' out from the Bishop's manuscripts. IMPORTATION OF PARROTS PROHIBITED. LONDON, April 28. Owing to the prevalence of parrot disease the Ministrv of Health has prohibited the importation of all birds of the parrot species after May 20th. JAPANESE PRINCE ON TOUR. SHANGHAI, April 28. Prince Takamatsu, brother of the Japanese Emperor, accompanied by Princess Kikuko, have reached here en route to England for the purpose of returning the recent visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Japan.

THE WRONG COOK. LONDON, April 28. The authorities of the Auckland Museum are apparently trie victims of a deception. They possess an etching of a house in Leigh-on-Sea reputed to have been occupied by Captain Cook. The original certainly stands m High street of the old town, near the waterfront, but the only Cook who ever oocupied it was a doctor, whoso spiritualistic tendencies scared the fisher-folk of the old days'.

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