NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16121, 9 May 1923, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

ISLAND BORN IN RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTION.

SAIGON, Cochin China, March 20.—A French survey ship which has arrived here, reports thai alter a. volcano eruption of March 2, the vessel sighted a new circular island 400 metres in diameter .and 35 metres high, in the. South China Sea, in latitude 10 north and longitude 108,59 east. This lattitude and longitude converge about 200 miles eastward off the Gbchin China coast.

ORDERS 100,000 CASES OF SCOTCH

WHISKY'

LONDON, March 15.—With regard to a rumor in circulation in the, Scotch whisky trade that a powerful syndicate has been formed to run huge cargoes of whisky to the United States, employing ' thirty ships in the work, a despatch to the Westminster Gazette from Edinburgh says the syndicate allegedly has placed an initial order for 100.000 cases of whisky.

CURE FOR THAT TIRED FEELING. BERLIN', March 22.—Professor Dr. Weichardt of Leipzig has just announced to medical circles that lie has discovered an unfailing euro for "that tired feeling." After several years of arduous research he says he has discovered that weariness is caused by a certain poison accumulated in the muscles by excessive exertion or overwork either of the brain or the body. This poison, Dr. Weichardt has named kenotoxin.

lie obtained it by squeezing the muscles of guinea, pigs and other small animals which had worked for six hours, or until they died of exhaustion. When a large quantity of kenotoxin was injected under the skin of animals in full strength, who were then put to work, they immediately became exhausted, as though by excessive exertion, and died.

Quite different was the result when only a small quantity was injected. In that case, ho says, the. animals treated showed a conspicuous increase of endurance and would continue for more than twice the ordinary time at, their task.

Aided by this knowledge, he succeeded in discovering his anti-keno-toxiu with which he has since experimented on himself and other physicians and lay volunteers with surprising results.

RUSSEL CASE COSTS FAMILY ITS FORTUNE.

LONDON, March 17.—The protracted retrial of the sensational Russell divorce vase ended! in a. victory for Hon. John Hugo Russell, and the exclusion of his wife's 18-months'-old son from future ae-cos.-ion to the Barony of Amptliill. The feature of the proceedings, probably without precedent in British judicial history, was the jury's inability to determine the paternity of the child, although three co-respondents were tiled in the first hearing, and! two in the retrial of the case. The jury found the wife guilty of infidelity with a. "man n>nknown." The husband's victory was dearly won. His father, the present Lord Ampt.hill. testified a, week ago that the expense-: of the two hearings aggregating £24,000, liadi brought the family to the brink of financial ruin.

The wife's claims to ignorance of marital relationship wag. the main feature of her defence. This was countered bv tha husband's counsel, whoi told the jury that "this man is not tho first to 1 e made, a fool of by this woman, and he will not be the last."

While the jury's verdict practically disinherits the Russell child, it is understood that tho question of his legitimacy (.an bo finally settled only by further procedure in the Courts. This will probably be in the form of an action instituted by his mother in the event of the appeal in the divorce caso going against her.

PRINCE WILL NOT WED OR GIVI UP HORSES.

LONDON, March 20.—-Two things which the Prince of Wales so far has declined to do continues to cause Great Britain much perturbation. He refuses to make good any of the mini- . rous engagements arranged between him and the future "Queen of England" by obliging social gossips and newspapers, and he will not quit foxhunting, point-to-point racing, or ■teeplechasing. Attempts to inveigle the Prince into matrimonial alliances have been abandoned lately, possibly owing to his joking, but reiterated assertions '.hat he is going to bo a bachelor. Hiit now, it is stated, that he refuses io hood the importunate pleadings of his father, mother and intimate friends -,hut he give up tho hazard of horsemanship, notwithstanding his recent n cord of one or two bad spills weekly. The Prince walked with marked lameness when he attended the Pilgrims' dinner ton days ago—the re.tilt of a fall in the hunting field—but he came in first and second in two tapes a l\'\v days later, and has since scored another tmi|ble from the back of a galloper in another rneetjng. "As long as 1 rj.de you may know £ am feeling fine,'' the Prince told a solicitous friend after his most recent accident.

DAYS Of 1 MUSTARD. PLASTER ARE GONE. NEW YORK, March I!.°..—Tho prosaic mustard plaster bus paved the ,\ ay for a. new treatment for pneumonia which promises to control that disease.

Electric, plates are applied to the patient's chest and back in this new treatment and the temperature of the mugs is raised. This, aeeVrdjpg to Dr. R. B. Nattrass of Jersey City, who has experimented wjth the. device,, is an improvement and elaboration of the old mustard piaster; ?'Mustard plasters have saypd the lives of' many pnoumqnia patients!," he said, <'Th»t kind pJ heat, however, do.es a.of penctyntp inside the luflg ß tufficioutly?Tho new method developed by Dr. Harry E. Stewart, of Yale and introduced at St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, by Dr. H. V. Broeser, carries heat deep into the lungs without pain and v.ithont burning the skin. The electric current flows through the body and some experiments have shown the temperature of tho lungs increase to i If) degrees thereby. Tho experiments with the pew Method —known as tho diathemic treatment —have been successfully conducted with a number of patients so far and in each case improvement has resulted. Development of this treatment is considered extraordinarily important at this time, as pneumonia's ravages have been increasing. In New York there, have been ."f175 cases so far this year, as compared with £794 during the whole of 1922.