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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8833, 21 January 1907, Page 3

Emigration produces marvellous changes in a race which emigrates. The modern French-Canadian is two inches taller and quite 10 per cent stronger than the average Frenchman. James Bowman Lindsay, a Scotsman, accomplished wireless telegraphy through water as far back as 1834. He patented it in 1854, experimented further between Portsmouth and London, and in 1869 laid his system before the British Association at Aberdeen. A novel idea comes from Vienna. The authorities there are about to start a school for the study of criminal cases. It is to be called "The Central Bureau of Police Sciencej" and instruction will be imparted twice or three tirne§ aweek to members of the police force. The idea is to discues every criminal case of the week. The tendency of naval designs in recent years has been to greatly reduce the extent of unarmoured superstructures in warships, and to increase protected areas; with the result that a much larger amount of punishment could be received ' by modern warships without serious consequences to buoyancy, stability, or manoeuvring power.