NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

Mandingo warriors from SieiTa Le°?°,V wl i° f ?, rm one of the attractions of the Earl's Court Exhibition, have paid a visit to the House of Parliament. As^they were in their native tingushed by a deep collar and a short tolt made of straw. He speaks English well, and had a chat with Mr Burns, Mr Thorne, and the Duke of Abercora. When passing the bust of £flf Vl ? t( f a eve , r y nran prostrated himself before the. Great White Queen, at the same time giving vent corrfe' "^ *"»& the The German savant who is experimenting with. a view to^ascertaininK the duration of dreams ' might get some useful information from |atients who have passed the dentist's cha ir . One of them not long a^ o sat down, took gas, and dreamed for all he was worth. He saw himself finish his work, go to his club, run to the tram, and miss it. : He returned to his club and lay down on a settee m the library. There he passed a miserable, restless night, getting gradually colder and colder' as the fare went' down, and : with a pain gradually growing about his. head and tace, from the hardness of his couch i'lve o clock in the morning came and-the steward roused him to say that the club must -now" be ' closed ihe sleeper got up, feeling very seedy and stiff— to find that the steward was the dentist, and that the night's adventures had lasted exactly two and rorty seconds. In discussing the question of a white Australia with a representative of the ; 'Advertiser" (S. A.), Mr J. Ware, a missionary of the Churches of Christ, who has been in China for 28 years, said the r«al way to : stop Chinese from coming to. was to prevent the of -the deceased Chinese; . from - Vbeihg taken. from Australia ,to China. He' said it was the desire of jevery Chinaman to have his bones taken bapk to China after death,;a^d placed (at rest in the hpme of his ancestors.' The Chinaman considered that if his remains . wer& not placed at rest in his country hi sr: soul would become a- homeless wanderer throughout the ages. If it was known that natives of. China were not permitted to take their dead back to China from Australia they would not come to Australia. . .