GENERAL CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1927, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BURMESE SACRIFICES.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.)

CALCUTTA, May 13.

• The Indian Government’s Burma expedition to the Naga hilly country, to secure the abandonment of slavery, was successful in securing the abandonment of human sacrifices. Many large tribes and 500 chiefs -attended the conference, at which it was decided to sacrifice animals only in future. The chiefs gave the expedition officers 150 skulls of former victims, as an evidence of their good intention.

SUPER-MICROSCOPE.

LONDON, May 12.

A wonderful new miscroscope was shown at the Royal Society by Mr .1E. Barnard, whose studies with Dr Gye on the filter-passing cancer virus, astonished the world last year. The new instrument will give a magnifying power of 3500, and will show the interior organs of the microbe. “Germany and America have nothing to compare with this microscope,” said Mr Barnard. . “We are advancing so rapidly, after being stack for thirty years, that even this instrument may be out of date in a year or two.”

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

LONDON, May 12.

Baron Stanley, of Alderley, in the House of Lords, urged a wider use of the Imperial Institute for scientific research. .He recommended the wool trade to follow the example of the cotton spinners, and make a levy for research. Lord Balfour defended the sufficiency of the present research bodies. He mentioned the saving of a loss of £250,000 yearly by a discovery that Australian apples on shipboard were virtually dying of suffocation for want of oxygen to replace the carbon dioxide which they were inhaling. This had been discovered as the result of the Food Council’s investigation. FRENCH TARIFFS. PARIS, May 13. The Chamber of Deputies has begun the debate on a new Customs tariff, which is arousing fierce controversy in view of its possible effect on the already high cost of living. The Bill greatly increases the tariffs against British boots, shoes, textiles, tools, machinery and chemicals. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. GENEVA, May 13. The Economic Conference’s Commerce sub-Commission adopted recommendations as follow :—That all Governments shall refrain "from further subsidising commercial and industrial transportation, and that they shall favour the limitation of dumping. MOTORISTS’ TRIP. LONDON, May 13. Ellis and Birtles left Baghdad for Persia on May 10. SCOTTISH HOME RULE. LONDON, May 13. The House of Commons talked out the Government of Scotland Bill.

STOCK EXCHANGE MEMBERSHIP

NEW YORK, May 13. A stock exchange seat was sold at a new record of 210,000 dollars.