RADIUM WATERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 18 August 1910, Page 8

RADIUM WATERS.

FRENCH RAILWAY ACCIDENT. [press association.] PARIS, August 17. • The pointsman at Saugon admits thai ho signalled "line clear" without waiting his chief's instructions, in defiance of the rules. JAPAN AS WARSHIP BUILDER. KOBE, August 17. Japan is constructing two gunboats for the Chinese navy. , | i

(Received August 18, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, August 17. New radium waters a,t Carlsbad have cwred many chronic patients of rheumatism, gout, and neuralgia, but have proved ineffective against senile weakness. Out of 209 patients 169 have benefited. DEATH OF CHILIAN PRESIDENT. BERLIN, August 17. Pedro Montt, the Chilian President, arrived at Bremen, where he died of heart failure. He witnessed the shooting of Mr Gaynor at New York. CHINA'S SLOW AWAKENING. LONDON, August 17. A Reuter telegram states that th r sweeping changes contemplated by t> c Chinese Government indicate that tlio Regent realises the failure of the policy of the last 18 months towards foreigners, and that the Chinese are at last favorably*impressed by the advantages to be derived from adopting Western institutions.