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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11287, 22 March 1905, Page 4

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i Mr Nikola Tesla announces that he has invented a telautomatic torpedo. He says it can be directed with unerring precision from a distance much greater than the range of the largest gun, while an enemy will not be able to interfere in the slightest with its movements by any electrical means. Mr Tesla. says that he is at

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'. work on the designs for a plant to transmit 10,000 horse-power wittrout the use of wires. Mr Marconi, the youthful inventor, of wireless telegraphy, has become betrothed to Princess Giacinta Ruspoli, daughter of Prince Ruspoil, one of the foremost Roman nobles, who traces back his descent to the fourteenth century. She is said to be the prettiest girl in Rome. The memory of Major-general Sir Hector Macdonald is to be perpetuated by a splendid memorial iff the form of a square medieval keep' or tower in the old Scottish baronial style of architecture, to be erected on Green Hill, Dingwall, overlooking the place where, as a lad, the hero of the Soudan had dreams! of the "pride, pomp, and circumstanes at glorious war. " One of Marconi's latest marvels, says the "Onlooker," is a wonderful ship, which, without the aid either of steam or electricity, can cross the water, simply on the same principles as wireless telegraphy. When New York was paralysed by its latest snow blizzard, a pretty young woman, stylishly clothed Id furs, pitied a famished little news v.ndor, took his unsold eyemtog i papers, sold out two dozen of theim to a fascinated crowd, gave him the money, and disappeared. The grand jury at Essex Assizes congratulated Mr Justice Grantham ' upon his praiseworthy endeavors with regard to the better housing Of the working classes in the country. At the end of December there were , 2_ paupers in every 1000 of the popu- , lation of England and Wales. Blackburn licensing magistrates have formally resolved to levy on publicans, the maximum charge allowed by the new Licensing Act for compensation. Canada's Red Indian population, which has remained stationary for Several years, now numbers 100,000. An American expert is of opinion that if rinderpest, now at the Philippines, spreads to Australia, it will be worse than a seven years drought. Captain Rostra leprolin* a ttevv serum which it is hoped will prove a cure for leprosy, is being tried in several of the Indian asylums of the Mission to Lepers. Three cases at Pierulia, in Beugal, where the mission supports 600 lepers, are declared by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner of the district to be "to jail intents and purposes completely cured." The hopeful cases will be isolated, and observed for six months before a final decision can bo pronounced. ■■win i i ii ■ i r -- UT