BY JOHN CAMERON, M.L.A. lil 
the true pigeon’s blood tint, of ten carats weight, has been 
found in the last 20 years, this discovery suggests great 
possibilities. 
PHYSICS. 
The utilisation of the Hertz waves for so-called wireless 
telegraphy has received much attention in the Russo-Jap- 
anese War. What seems to be the most important result 
is the impossibility of preventing the messages being read by 
opponents. 
Scientifically the discovery of the spectrum of the radium 
emanation by Sir Wm. Ramsay, and the continued researches 
of Prof. Rutherford—a _ colonial—in radio-activity, have 
overshadowed all the work of physicists during the year. 
In accordance with the announcement made, I now pro- 
pose briefly to consider the results of science on the develop- 
ment of Commerce. Doubtless, all of you, in one way or 
another, have noticed that, amongst ordinary individuals, 
because of habitual loose methods of thought and non-con- 
centration of observation. those individuals fail to cultivate 
the mental power of looking through the phenomena which 
make up human communal existence, and, therefore, of accur- 
ately estimating the relativity and proportion of those phenom- 
ena. In the service of general mankind this power has per- 
formed what really are miracles, but only unflagging industry 
in the service of science can develop it. How many persons 
have even the remotest conception of the tremendous part 
which science thus plays in the affairs of every day life. 
What are the affairs of every day life? To the serious part 
of the community, they consist of those doings, near and 
remote, which make up what we term ‘‘ commerce,” that is 
the inter-business relations, local or exterior, by which one and 
all are enabled to satisfy the demands and wants of existence, 
Hardly need I dwell upon the complexity of these operations ; 
for, in speaking of commerce, I mean not merely the restless 
activity of the world’s great markets in which the whole human 
race are buyers and sellers, I mean to include the myriad 
spheres in which human energy is everlastingly seeking for 
fresh conquests over time, space, and matter. 
If we consider the effects of science in their relation 
to what ordinarily we esteem to be time, we will find that 
human life, by aid of science, has been tremendously length- 
