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Evening Star, Issue 17036, 6 May 1919, Page 4

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A London cable announces that the estate of the late Lord Miehelhani has been sworn at £2,000,000. Lord Michelham was a son of the late Baron Hermann de Stern, of Portugal, and was the senior partner in the London firm of Herbert Stern and Co. Word has been received that Sergeant A. K. Campbell, M.M., Port Molyneux, is returning on the Kia Ora. .Sergeant Campbell went away with the First Battalion, Rifle Brigade, nearly five years ago, and won his honor at Messines. "The Moderator of the General Assembly (the Right Rev. W. Gray Dixon) will leave to-morrow morning on a two months' official tour in the North. He opens Queen Margaret College, Wellington, next clay, ai'd then roceeds to Wanganui and Auckland. In an article on Sir Ernest Rutherford's appointment as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge University, a writer in "the Sydney ' Sun,' who signs himself "P.J.N.," recognisable as the initials of a former sub-editor of the Christchurch 'Press.' says: "Twenty-five years ago, in Canterbury College, New Zealand, a struggling student burned the midnight oil when prosecuting, in a laboratory only insufficiently equipped, his early studies in the fields of chemistry and physics. To-day this .student, Ernest Rutherford, has won fame as one of the leading authorities of the- world on the subject of radio - activity. . . . Rutherford's has been a life »{ hard 1 work, and at the same time of dazzling achievement. So hampered was! ho in the beginning of his science studies in New Zealand by the want of suitable apparatus for research purposes that ho and Professor Bickerton—who was then directing his studies—were obliged to fit up a den of their own in order to amplify their investigations. Yet this very handicap may have acted as a, stimulus to Rutherford's originality and resourcefulness** It was in these days of stress that he prepared the brilliant paper on Hertzian waves which "won him the reSearch scholarship in science offered periodically to the New Zealand University by the commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition." The Olutha ' Free Press' records the death of Mr Thomas Lochhead*, in his eightieth year. Mr Lochhead was a native of Airdrie (near Glasgow), and came to New Zealand in the snip Nelson in 1862. He was attracted to this country primarily by the lure of the goldfields.' After a few years spent in the search for the precious metal on Otago fields he decided to follow his natural bent and go on the land, and purchased some 300 or 400 acres at Te Houka. This he farmed with a largo j amount of success until two vears ago, when he went to reside at Kosebank, Balclutha. During the 50 years he spent in the Te Houka district he acquired the reputation of being a shrewd judge of stock and a thoroughly straight man, whose word was his bond. He was fond of good horses, and raised some fine specimens that were successful in the show ring.