SAMOAN ADMINISTRATOR
VISIT TO SAVAII ■ i Special to Press Association. (By Radio.) APIA (Samoa), June 25. (Received June 25, at 11.47 p.m.) The Administrator (Brigadier-general H. E. Hart) has returned from his annual visit to Savaii. He was well received in all the villages. The weather was exceptionally fine, and he had a very successful and enjoyable trip. Accompanying the Administrator were Mr W. M’Bride (secretary for Native Affairs), Mr T. Robson (Resident Commissioner' •at Savaii) aiid High Chief Tal;*'ou. 0.8. E.
The blood of St. Januarius, preserved in a phial in the Cathedral of Naples, liquefied on April 24 jvvithin a few minutes of being exhibited to a large party of French pilgrims after Pontifical Mass, celebrated, by Cardinal Ascalesi. The relic ts normally withdrawn from the cathedral treasury only three times, a year—on feast days connected with the patron saint of Naples, who was thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheatre at Pozznoli. His blood was v preserved by a piems widow. This being Holy Year, it is also shown at important pilgrimages to Naples. The time taken to liquefy varies from a few seconds to several hours, but a rapid performance of the miracle is always-taken by the people of Naples as a good omen for the city.
Strange as it may seem, the Assyrians, of whose cruel deeds one learns so much from the Bible, worshipped a god of writing and literature.. Nabu by name. When King Sargon the Second built the city of Khorsabad about 2600 years, ago, ha erected a temple to Nabu and in it deposited the records of his nation’s long history. Dr H, Frankfort, of Chicago, has been excavating this temple and has discovered a tablet on which, is recorded a list of the kings of Assyria for about 2000 years, together with historical notes from 2000 B.c. This complete list fills up the gaps in the knowledge the world has previously obtained from Nineveh and Assur and proves how thoroughly the priestly scholars of King Sargon did their work. ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21989, 26 June 1933, Page 8
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