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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1250, 13 February 1896, Page 27

Croquet is in great vogue this season at th» Hutt, and quite a number of private lawns have been formed. A tournament in which great interest is taken has been in progress for the last three weeks. With reference to Routgen’s discovery in photography, described in a recent cable message as enabling pictures to be secured through opaque substances, a London correspondent of a New York paper says “ The noise of war alarms should not distract attention fi*om the marvellous triumph of science which is reported from Vienna. It is announced that Professor Routgen, of Wurzburg University, has discovered a light which for purposes of photography will pene- . trate wood, flesh, or most any other organic substances. The professor has succeeded in photographing metal weights which were enclosed in a wooden case, and also has made a photograph of a man’s hand which shows only the bones, the flesh being invisible. The correspondent says :—‘ He takes a so-called crooked pipe, namely, vacuum glass pipe with an induction current going through it, and by means of the rays which the pipe emits, photographs on. ordinary photograph plates. These raya penetrate organic matter and other opaque substances just as ordinary rays penetrate glass.’ He has also succeeded in photographing hidden metals with a cloth thrown over the camera. The rays penetrated not only a wooden case containing metals, but the fabric in front of the negative. The professor is already using his discovery to photograph broken limbs and bullets in human bodies.” - The appointment of Mr Charles Bray, jun.„ as inspector of abattoirs and slaughterhouses within the Kiwitea County! is gazetted. The London Chamber of Commerce has_ issued notices for another Congress of “British Chambers of Commerce, to be held in London in June, 1896. A communication haß been received inviting the Wellington Chamber to send a delegate, or delegates, to represent it at the Congress, and giving a list of the subjects which it is proposed to con- ! sider. Mr E. Pearce, who is about to pay zb visit to England, is- to be asked to represen; the Wellington Chamber. The scholars and teachers of the School held their annual picnic at Day’s / last week, . . .-v s i