BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7448, 30 September 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Press Association— Electric Telegraph— Copyright, LONDON, Sept. 29. One-sixth of the stolen silver has been recovered, another ingot having been found in Cannon street. The Dublin Independent denounces the Chicago Convention, and asserts that no leaders of the Irish people are present. PARIS, Sept. 29. Obituary : M. Pasteur, from paralysis. [Louis Pasteur was born at D6le,. Jura, in 1822, and was educated at the University of Jena in 1840. taking his doctor's degree in 1847. In 1848 he was appointed Professor of Physic at the Faculty of Strasburg, and subsequently held other appointments; His researches on the polarisation of light gained him the Rumford medal in 1856. In 1869 he was elected one of fifty foreign members of the Royal Society of London, and a member of the French Academy in 1882. In that year he was awarded the Albert medal of the Society of Arts for his researches as to fermentation, the preservation of wines, and the propagation of zymotic diseases in silkworms and domestic animals. In 1888 the Institute for the treatment of hydrophobia was opened in Paris. The cholera outbreak of 1892 led M. Pasteur to make experiments as to the feasibility of anti-choleraic vaccination, and he found the vaccine he used was completely successful in the case of animals. His seventieth birthday was celebrated with enthusiasm before a brilliant official assembly at the Sarbonne on December 27th, 1892. Almost every university in the world of any note was represented, and the late President Car not presided.] AMSTERDAM, Sept. 27. Ten thousand diamond cutters have gone out on strike owing to the employers' refusal to agree to the Union's labor conditions.