GENERAL CABLE-NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE-NEWS.

(BTTitEOBAra— pnsss-^ssocitiioß—eoMnioßT.l ITALIAN-AUSTRALASIAN- SERVICE. ' (Rec,. Augjstr.l2, 8.50 p.m.) London, August 12. The> establishment of a regular steamship service between Italy and Australasia, for cargo andS-emigrants, is contemplated. . A* DANISH STRIKE. • Copenhagen, August 11. AU-.theinewspapers in Denmark except the Socialist organs have stopped' ' publication, owing to a strike. . The masters threaten a lockout in allied'trades., ' "RAGGING" PUNISHED. London, August 11. Two subalterns of the Second Battalionof the Buffs (East Kent Regiment).havo been cashiered, and three others, have been sentenced to the loss of a year's seniority, for ragging a new officer. FATAL EXPLOSION IN A MINE. Berlin, August 11. An explosion of fire-damp in tho - Dudeveiler coal mine, at Saarbrucken, in tho ' south of Rhenish Prussia,, killed, thirteen persons , and injured thirteen, other's'.'' Eight of the injured men are in aseriouß condition. • DORANDO'S HOMECOMING.' Rome, August 11. Dorando, the Italian competitor at the Olympic Games in London (who came in first in the Marathon raco, but was disqualified for being assisted), was given; an ovation on his return to Turin. He was' almost smothered by embraces and kisses. '■■■ ART TREASURES STOLEN. London,. August 11. A swell mobsman made a successful burglary of Lord Wimborne's residence; Templeton House, at Barnes, Surrey, securing two thousand poiinds' worth of art treasures. MURDER ON A STATION.' Perth, August. 12.. , Mr. Fettel, the station manager, and Dfcivis, the cook, have been found murdered in bed at Turkey Creek. The crime is believed to be the work of' black's.' : WEST AUSTRALIAN"PARLLiMENT. Perth, August 12. The session has practically collapsed, owing partly to the reporters' strike and partly to tho approach of the general elections. The prorogation takes place to-day, and tho elections are fixed for September 11. BERI BERI CURE, -4 - VALUABLE MEDICAL DISCOVERY REPORTED. In an interesting address on Juno 29 at the Commemoration Day proceedings of Livingstone College, Leyton, Sir Patrick Mauson, F.R.S., reviewed-.the progress made ,in the knowledge of tropical medicine during tho last thirty years. He said that the 1 West Indies was gradually -being robbod of one of its greatest scourges, yellow fever, and tho Panama Canal had become possible—indeed, the Panama Canal route >vas now more healthy tlian New York. (Cheers.) The missionary trained in Livingstone College to-day was more capablo of grappling with its problems ■ than tlio. physician of thirty years ago. (Cheers.) They knew now how to recognise tho germ causes of most tropical diseases, the way the germs were transmitted, how to prevent transmission, arid to eradicate the germs. Sir Patrick mentioned in review a large number of tropical diseases, such as malaria, plague, sleeping sickness, and the like. Speaking of beri-beri, he mado the important announcement that ho had received a letter from a friend intimating that he thought the way in which this disease could be recognised had been demonstrated. Ho was not at liberty to describe the facts, hut tho conclusions, if correct,, indicated that another disease could be prevented arid cured. (Cheers.) ' .' ' ' Livingstone Collego, as its Principal, Dr. Harford, had pointed out, exists to give missionaries a certain amount of medical training, and its. work was highly commended by Sir Patrick Manson and also by the Bishoy of St. Albans and' Bishop' Molony, of Mid-China, who was formerly a student of tho college. Bishop Tugwell, of Western Equatorial Africa, said, that for eighteen years ho had never spent a guinea on a doc-, tor, a fact which he attributed to being a total abstainer—(cheers)—and to a little knowledge of how to treat simple cases. 'A number of bishops, attending tho PanAnglican Congress wero, present.