HITING STRAIGHT OUT

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1920, Page 5

HITING STRAIGHT OUT

CANADA AND THE TREATY.

DOMINION’S FIRM STAND.

AGAINST U.S.A. PROPOSALS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Received this day at 1.30 p.m OTTAWA, Feb. 19.

Mr Arthur Meagiieu, Minister of the Interior, is generally regarded as a probable successor to Mv Borden for the Premiership. In a speech referring to the United States Senate’s claim that America was not bound by the decisions of the League of Nations Mr Meagiieu declared the membership of the League, without being bound by the decisions, was a mere sham. Consequently the Senate’s proposed reservations would mean that either Canada or the United States would have to step from the League. The Canadian Government had taken an unequivocal, determined stand that Canadian representation was essential if her right of nationhood was not to be abrogated - Cauada demanded and insisted on her rights and could recognise no League where Canada’s vote and representation were not conceded. ENGINEERS’ STRIKE MEN TO RESUME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 1 p.ra. SYDNEY, This Day. The marine stewards have decided not to resume work until their demands are granted. Meeting’s of engineers at Brisbane and Adelaide decided to hand the control of the strike over to the Executive. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Eederal Government suspended the Coastal Provision of Navigation Act till the end of Tune. The Victorian branch of the Engineers formally adopted the Shipping Coniroller’s offer and have decided to resume work. THE TURKS’ FUTURE FRENCH FEARS. BIUTISiI OBJECTIONS. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association.) Received this day at 11.15 a.in. LONDON, February 23. The Daily Telegraph’s Pans correspondent states that English protests against allowing the Turks to retain Constantinople are causing fears in France lest the conference decision may be reversed. A deputation of the French Foreign Affairs Commission of iho Chamber of Deputies ■ visited 31. Millcrand (Premier) to urge him to resist any attempt to alter the decision. MICELLANEOUS. THE PACIFIC PROBLEM. THE: MISSIONARIES VIEWS. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received this day at 11.30 a.in. SYDNEY, February 23._ The Reverend- Piper, a Fijian Missionary, in an address, said the Native races of the Pacific were passing slowly, but surely, off the stage. In twenty years the Fijians would he out-numbered by the Indians in Fiji, and in sixty to a hundred yea is there would be a small India in the Pacific. The Indians sent to Fiji were swan dwellers, who had lost caste, distinction, and all the old ideas. They were divorced from religion and morality. The Indian problem was testing the best Christian efforts in the Pacific, The Islands of the Pacific would never be white men's islands, but it was for the whites to see that their oriental!sation proceeded on the best lines.

EYE CHANGES COLOUR. TOOTH EXTRACTION SEQUEm 7 f Speaking at Bristol, a well-known local dentist, air. R. V. R. Aci<uw, declared : “1 know a woman who nact eyes of different colour, one grey, and »tlie other brown, but two momJis ar„er a front tooth with an abscess beneath it was extracted one eye was changed to the same colour as the other.” The case was the most interesting in his 30 years’ experience, the dentist added. Inflammation caused by tne abscess affected the delicate nerves of the eye and created discolouration ox the pupil, which had a brown anti muddy appearance although its natural colour was grey. ivledicai men differ widely as to 'the possibility of such an occurrence. ■‘People’s eyes,” remarked an eminent London doctor, “are occasionally of different colours, but I have never known the eyes of an adult to change.” Another doctor was inclined to accept the popular belief that there was a close association between the ‘‘eye teeth” and the eyes. . ‘Tt is conceivable,” he observed, “that an abscess beneath either of these teeth could interfere with the blood, supply of one cf the eygs and so affect the colour of the iris. The removal of the abscess might then be followed by a restoration of the eye to its normal colour.”