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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 1 April 1909, Page 1

For New Zealand to givc_ a Dreadnought at a cost of about a million and a-half is for us to pay an additional £60,000 yearly for peace insurance. For us to give two Dreadnoughts is for us to pay an additional £120,000.' It would pay us to give half-a-dozen Dreadnoughts at a cost of £360,000 annually t rather than sec a German led combination overpower the British navy and strike the Empire at'its heart. If anything will check German combination, if anything will persuade the greatest military Power in Europe that the sea is English and English must remain, it is the unsolicited' rallying of the British colonies round their Mother Country. — Auckland Herald. . ".'!'.- : . .'.■■' . ' - Mine. Curie works all the time now in her laboratory, /making radium, which is now worth £8,000,000 a pound, but as no more than a pin's hea_ of it has ever been made at a time it does not amount to a great ; deal as a commercial product. As. a ' laboratory accessory, however, it is in--1 valuable. Whole truck loads of ma- " terial are used to got a tiny lump, and ' fortunately some of the expense is off- * set by tho sale of rare, metals found * in the by product. • • - ■ — — —