25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 18, 16 October 1933, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Roads for Modern Traffic (From “The Dominion,” October 15, 1908.) An important congress has opened iu Paris, in which representatives of 20 governments are participating. The Congress will study the best means of adapting roads to the conditions of modern traffic. • • • Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Christabel Pankhurst, and Mrs. Drummond, suffragist leaders, ignored a summons to appear at the Bow Street Police Court, on a charge of trying to provoke a breach of the peacein connection with the proposed rushing of the House of Commons on the re-' assembling of Parliament to-day. Warrants for their arrest have been issued. * * * A thousand unemployed, at a gathering on the Thames Embankment, fiercely denounced Mr. John Burns (president of the Local Government Board), as a traitor. Some leaders urged the men to arm. Others advised a united attempt to over-crowd the workhouses. • ♦ * Among the passengers from Sydney by the Maheno yesterday was Mr. Alfred Linley, of the Royal Picture Syndicate, who has been to Sydney in connection with matters kinematographic. Mr. Linley states that the kinematograph business is booming in Sydney, where permanent shows have been established at the Lyceum Theatre, the Palace Theatre, and the Glasiarum. One night whilst he was there, the Governor-General, Lord Dudley, and suite attended Mr. Spencer’s show at the Lyceum, where is now being exhibited the latest marvel, the Chronoinegnphone. This is the long looked for combination of the kinematograph with the phonograph. By an ingenious electrical contrivance, the phonograph works in harmony with the picture. By this means Mr. Linley saw and heard Harry Lander sing several of his Scotch “comics.” It is understood (hat the ehronomegaphone will be exhibited in "Wellington in about a week’s time.