DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 11 June 1935, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

FATALITIES. DUNEDIN, June 8. Charles Morse Powell, aged 23. a stable-hand at Wingatui, '\vho was admitted to hospital on Tuesday sutTcring from a rifle shot wound in the stomach, died to-day, ’ CHRISTCHURCH, June 7. Marie Whitta, 14, daughter of 11. B. Whitta, the Canterbury cricket selector, was killed in Deans Avenue yesterday when knocked, olt a bicycle by motor car, driven by Miss Helen Buchanan, of Fendalton Road. \'-sibilily was bad at the time, through snow. SEARCHER FOR OPALS. WELLINGTON. June 10. An arrival, at Wellington, by the Makura to-day from Sydney was Mr Prosper Ralston, of Canada, who, for some months, has been combing the Australian opal fields in search of beautiful gems with which tn construct (he most beautiful harp in the world. He was in New Zealand some months ago investigating the commercial possibilities of greenstone and paua shells, and has returned with a view to obtaining a certain variety of greenstone beautifully hued and more or less transparent, for inlaid work on the harp. He believes the finished harp will be worth £30,000. While in Australia, he covered 3500 miles by air, visiting opal mining fields. £90.000 ESTATE. INVERCARGILL, June 10. The will of Mr William Handyside, of Invercargill, has been sworn for prol ate at £90,000. Bequests of £5OO each are left to the Nightcaps Presbyterian Church choir fund. St. John’s Church, Invercargill, Dr. Barnado’s Home, London and the New Zealand brancili of Fillip ire Cancer Re search Society. CANCER CAMPAIGN. WELLKNGTON June 10. Professor and Mrs BeJh of Otago University, returned by the Makura to-day from Sydney. Professor Bell has’ been Home with rhe object of studying the latest developments in surgery and the advances in teaching methods. He says that the cancer organisation has reached a high standard of efficiency, and the main hospital.-’ al’ -'ave cancer clinics, with a special medical officer in charge. Dealing with the advances in theranv. he «ai<l thrtf spvera.l hosuitals

a ere trying out cheap low-voltage X-rav apparatus for the treatment of superficial cancer cases. Thii-J form had been used in Germany with success, and might be used as a substitute for radium when radium was not readily available. Groat interest attached to the treatment of cases of malignant disease with beam tiberapv, involving the use of the radium bomb, but the cases treated with it necessarily require observation over a period of years before any final con--1 lusioiv* couild be drawn. BOY FROM U.S.A. AUCKLAND June 10. A boy of nine, who has travelled alone from Jersey City, U.S.A., arrived at Auckland by the Niagara, today. His mother died in October, and the father decided to send him to an uncle living near Wellington to be brought up in a New Zealand family. The bov is a typical American child, self-possessed and unconcerned at the thought of the new life in a s’trange country. SPORTSMAN S SUICIDE. MASTER TON. June 10. A verdict that th? deceased oime by his death on Sunday, by a mortal wound. se.C inflicted, v.hilsc mentally dppn.ssed, './as returned bv Coroner E. J. Eaton, at the inquest on Robert Cooper,, well-known farmer and sports man. The evidence showed thn’ Cooper had been in bad health.