25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Record Aeroplane Flight From “The Dominion” of October 29, 1907. M. Farman’s aeroplane flew 771 metres (about 843 yards) at Paris in 53 seconds, beating M. Santos-Dumont s record of 220 metres. ' *- * • The warship Challenger has been ordered to leave Wellington for Fiji on Saturday to pick up the High Commissioner of the Pacific, Sir Everard Im Thurn, who will proceed to the NewHebrides to take part in the ceremony of reading the proclamation under the Anglo-French Convention. The French warship Restraint has been ordered to go from Noumea (New Caledonia) for a similar purpose. » * * A post-mortem examination on a man who died in Greentown Hospital, Tasmania, from natural causes, revealed the fact that all the single organs were reversed from the normal order. The heart was on the right side, the liver on the left, the stomach was completely reversed, and the large blood vessels ran down the opposite side to that ou which they were always found.

The French Naval Council has decided to build battleships much more powerful than the Dreadnought. France has reminded Russia of her obligations to maintain troops on the Russo-German frontier, which obligation lias not been fulfilled since the Japanese war. Russia, wishes, as a pledge of universal peace, to lessen the stringency of her military convention with France.

Despite unfavourable circumstances, the self denial month just concluded by the Salvation Army in New Zealand has again achieved a record success. The amount collected in the two islands was £10,824/9/3, as against £lO,388 in 1906. The North Island has contributed £5730/10/- as against £5500 for the preceding year, and the South Island £5093/19/3, as against £4BlB.