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HORIZONTAL
1-Stump of a tree
6-Restrain
10-Desert In Mongolia
14-Eeglos
18-irrita100
17-AleokoBo tiquill
18-Homolese wanderer
19-Cargo/vendula 21-Bale
PS-Agitated
26 Stinging Insect
26-A large lake
28-Tendernea
90-Place of worship
38-Headgear
34-Examines carefully 25-Mohammedan` Bible 87-The Ould Bod
39-Upright
41-Decays 42-Famous fur tradee
of early America M-Fluid constituent of
blood
4-Golf mound 47-City In Holland
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81-8maar 85-Course of conduct 64-Shapes metal with
special block
HORIZONTAL (Geet). 87-Brach
59-Separates from
VERTICAL (Cont) 22-Taverna |24-Rough and harsh in
round
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|64–Gover again with tin
65-Blekan
| 36-Muleanoe
67-Private or elvil
wrongs
88-Lacerate
VERTICAL
1-Faetene with needle
and thread Z-Italian for
"between" 3--EvenresS
• Prior to 6-Wander from the
truth 7-Obligations 8-Choicest part of
Coolety
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16-Sharp, akrill'outory 19-Strip
20-Vibration
|26-Formar rulers of
Rureala
| 27-Faculties of
percoption
28-Takes feipniously. 29-8008
31-Defensive |32-At a recent time
36-Fragment 38–Draway person |40-Members of an
English royal line |43-University insturer
46-bécœuvre of dietenes 48-Lump of metal [50-Burnt fragment 152-Ellessed (Halian) #4-Withered 65-Worthy Grand
Mastere (abbr.) 66-In aight [58-Wrap up
59-Undersina |60-6uffix denating
quality 62-Continued viclent
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MISSING WOMEN
PARIS
POLICE NONPLUSSED
Five thousand Frenchwomen have disappeared unaccountably within two months from Paris.
The information was revealed in a curious way.
The police have been baffled for Beveral days by a mysterious crime. The body of a woman cut up in pieces was discovered on the banks of the Marne,
As there was nothing to show who she was, an attempt is being made to identify her with out of those known to be missing.
The list of possible persons hag -heen narrowed down to 300, and it is hoped to continue the process of elimination to a successful finish.
EXOTIC FRUITS
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
HANSOMI
ADA
ONS RIS
WES OTOS
ALIG JAILI MIGRATE| ANES HEAP N°N CARLA AUDANT PRO GNU OC T} CNMOSH ORISON
RUSSIAN BALLET
ARTISTS TO CARRY ON TRADITION
TRAGIC RECORDS
THE
CHINA MAIL,
ANCIENT PIPES
PATHOS OF NORFOLK ISLAND PART OF ANCIENT JAPANESE
What will be
the fate of the famous Russian Ballet now that M. Serge Diaghileff, its life and soul,
is dead?
GRAVES
HORROR AND HISTORY
SUPPLY SYSTEM
OLDEST AQUEDUCT
TEMPLE OF MUSIC
GRANDIOSE SCHEME FOR PARIS
AMERICAN'S OFFER
No less interesting than the Wooden water pipes of 840 years Two rich Americans, Mr. and historic tombstones in the Hobart old are reported to have been dis- Mrs. Arthur Moulton, have offered are those in the similarly idyllic covered buried under the street to provide between £2,000,000 and garden-cemetery on Norfolk Island, crossing of Sudacho and Ogawama-28,000,000 for the foundation of an writes Raymond Bremis in the chi, Kanda, states the "Japan Ad-international temple, of music near "Sydney Morning Herald". The lat-vertiser." These pipes were parts Paris, Mr. Moultons interviewed, ter in a fenced-in area of several of the system laid down by Iyeyasu said that the idea was to erect a aeres, lying a little way outside Tokugawa, the first Shogun of the building where the best musical Kingston, the township. It is Tokugawa dynasty, in the 18th year works, both classical and modern, divided into two sections, known as of Terasho Era,, about 240 years ago, can be performed in their original the old and the new. But it is the in order to conduct drinking water text during the summer. new which is the garden. It is a to that part of Yedo..
The building will be erected in bright and cheerful place, where While the municipal employees of one of the suburbs easily accessible the grass is regularly clipped and the water supply bureau were ex-to Paris, on a picturesque site,, re- the weeds discouraged, and every cavating a street about the Sudacho moved from al noise and movement. grave is a bed of blossoms. The crossing, they came arross some it is emphasised that the enter labour is all of love. The islanders+hard substances about 8 feet below prise will be in no way meant to charge not a penny for the burial the surface of the ground. A care-compete with the Opera; on the con- of one of their own race. They tend ful examination proved that they trary, it would serve as a kind of the graves week by week, taking a had uncovered a part of that complement to the opera and al day off and making a picnic of their famous wooden water pipe which low Paris to enjoy music during devotion, as, indeed, they are very history narrates. was laid down by the summer season.
froin
wise in doing, showing they know Iyeyasu's order. The materials There will be a school of music, Something of the secret of the old used for the pipes are all of Japan-atudios, restaurant and lodging saying about death and death's ese cypress, and they are all of places-in fact, a small musical sting.
rectangular shape: The larger of town. Several new ideas will be Two of the most beautifully kept them measured 18 feet in length embraced in a specially constructed traves here are those of George H. and 1.7 feet in height, while one of auditorium, which will be capable Nobbe, the leader of the Islanders the ends of the pipes was made of being turned to face different early Pitcairn days til his gradually smaller so that it fitted scenes, The rest of the building death in 1881, and of his wife. into the larger opening of the next will include foyer, library, and re. Sarah. Nobbs was 85 when he died, pipe.
ception-room, and a restaurant on after a life of romantic adventure. The purpose of laying down this the roof opening on a large roof
to garden. In
Mar. conclusion, His wife was a grand-daughter of water system by Iyeyasu was Fletcher Christian, who led the lead fresh water from the place Moulton said the ensemble will considerate Bounty mutiny.
called Inokami in the suburbs of bring immediate and The "old" is that portion which Tokyo to supply the downtown dis progress in the development of the was used in the penal settlement tricts in Kanda, Kyobashi and musical arts in the world. days of the island's history, and is Nihombashi wards. This system a very depressing place to the was called Kanda Josui, or the causal eye. The graves are sunken, Kanda drinking water supply, and the headstones dislodged, and the it is said to have been the first and inscriptions almost indecipherable. the. :oldest &queduct system But to one who has studied the established in Japan. early days, and knows what 24 The total length of this old aque- wealth of material Norfolk Island duet was approximately 40 miles. supplied the opponents of trans-The main part was constructed of portation, and how greatly Marcus stone-made pipes. The wooden Clarke was indebted to its black pipes are thought to have formed period for his terrible novel, these a branch aqueduct to the main same stones, with their gruesome system.. legends, are far from depressing.
At least, one reacts less to asso- clations of horror than to those of history.
Some Inscriptions
DANCING IN DAY CLOTHES
MYSTERIOUS CRIME
A case concerning the exhuma- tion of three bodies at Croydon, near London, in connection with arsenical poisoning, is completely baffling the police.
Since the verdict in the last of the three inquests every chemist in and around Croydon has been visited, and the poison registers examined, but these inquiries have proved fruitless. The police are admittedly faced with one of the greatest crime mysteries of the cen- tury, and for the present they have!
Certain London restaurants and come to a dead end. Several of the inscriptions, par dance clubs are now making some. It is considered that only some ticularly on vaults where lie the concession to what used to be fortuitous circumstance can afford remains of prison officials, make one known as the dead months by Scotland Yard any new line of in-
quiry. think of that cynical reflection of allowing their patrons to dance in Spurgeon's, on the load some people day clothes.
The coroner has been waiting to
will have to lift at the resurrection. It is emphatically pointed out. get away on his annual holiday, But one of the shortest discloses a on slips of cardboard placed about but, instead, the police have to relationship foreign to everything the tables, that such larity is only guard his house, since both he and one gathers from "His Natural temporary. In the one case men his wife have been receiving threa-
tening letters. Life." It runs:-
are requetsed to refrain from "Beneath this stone are de- dancing when their garments in- posited the remains of Michael clude such emblema of unconven- | Mansfield, Pte. in H.M. 13th tionality as grey flannel trousers Regiment of Infantry, who died or knickerbockers.
Level and Storage of water in Re Sept.. 5. 1817, from the effects The distinction seems a little servoirs on September 1, 1929;-- of a fall from a horse. This unnecessary.
The mixture of even-CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
WATER RETURN
stone was erected by Wm. H.ing dress and tweed suits on a Thornton, capt. of his company, as dance floor is calculated to offend
WORKS.
1928
1929
a small mark of his regret for a the aesthetic as well as the social Tytam good and promising soldier." susceptibilities of the discerning Tytam Byewash 15′ 8′′E
L. In another, just one word spoils visitor, and when once that mix Tytam Intermediate 12
Tuk everything, even if the servitude ture is allowed the finer distinc-Wong Nei Chung. 18 57B were the happiest possible:-
tions are ridiculous.
Pokfuluni
1' 9"B ******** 14 0"B [Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": denotes "Above Overflow: L. de notes Level with Overflow."]
Storage in million and decimals of gallons
1928 227.15 5.26 195.90 195.90 1,278,00 1,128.75 12.62 25.19
21 "B
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1"B
1929 984.80
DOG MURDERER
.
22.37
36.00 62.14
Total
1,749.93 1,818.15 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gullens during the month of August.
1928 1929 Consumption
326.53 180.65* Estimated population 424,820 435,140
рег Consumption
24.8 head per day..
14.0 Includes 60 M.G. from Taikoo
Dam
"William Tandy, late private Some establishments, anxious for soldier in H.M. 58th Regt., who, exclusive patronage, close al after many years' faithful ser-together during the period when vitude to Major Amey, of the this is not likely to be forthcoming. wax Others will probably realise that Kame corps, commandant,
Tytam accidentally drowned whilst bath-their reputation, imperilled by the
Tytam Byewish ing in Emily Bay, December 81, momentary introduction of inform ytam Intermediate 1845, aged 28 years."
al dress, is as delicate as a Tytam Tuk And the memory of such a bunch of hothouse grapes. Touch Wong Nei Chung
Pokfulum tragedy seemed to cast a cloud over it, and the bloom has gone. the clear, green waters of the little, dis- sweetly-named bay when one ported there recently.
The following short and dignified legend would, we thought, have The theory was advanced at an
in been one that might have stirred inquest Liverpool. that Gray, had he come across it in the whippet dog
which slept in a bed-room had made a pounce to old English graveyard-
mouse and knocked on the "Thomas Salusbury Wright, catch native of Frodringham, York gas tap of a stove in the grate.
Mrs. Mabel Evelyn McCain, 43, shire, who died February 7, 1843, aged 105 yearE."""
wife of a sugar refinery labourer, To-day it recalls the gasp and was found unconscious in the bed the chuckle which resulted from a in the room, and died from coal-gas in Cockburn Hood's "A poisoning at the Walton Institu- By no tion, where she was removed. The
August, 1929. Cruise in H.M.S. Fawn."
From lat to 7th inclusive there was forefather of the hamlet:dog was lying unconscious at the means
supply of street fountains only, from 6 am, p.m. instead, "an irreclaimable old rascal foot of the bed.
The coroner recorded verdist From 8th to 18th Inclusive an In- and sinner," says Hood, who died here whilst undergoing his third of death from coal-gas poisoning, termittent Supply of 2 hours daily in there being insufficient evidence to all Rider Main Districts was operat- show how the gas tap came to bed. Frincipal Mains closed 7 p.m.- turned on
From 19th to 31st inclusive a 12 A son said that his mother had hours' supply (5 am-6 p.m.) was ever threatened to harm herself givea to all Rider Mains Districts. and was of a happy disposition. Principal Mains closed 6 pm-6 a.m. The dog often caught mice in the
KOWLOON WATER WORKS the memory of
bed-room. The tap of the gas fire Stephen Smith, 40, native of was very loose, and he thought it Dublin, who was barbarously must have been turned on by the murdered by a body of prisoners dog, as there is a mousehole close on July 1, 1946, whilst in the
to it tak execution of his duty at the settle. ment cookhouse
passage
A wide choice of exotic fruits is. It is not likely to die. The art appearing in London now, and ists who comprise it are now or sentence of transportation!" many foreign countries are repre- their holidays in various parts of
Having soaked oneself in the sented in the greengrocers' shops, Europe, but they are arranging
period by reading "His, Natural Mangoes that look like large meeting almost immediately in Life" and "Martin Cash," one found green potatoes with a dull red flush Paris to discuss how they shall several stones to be of more than and have all the sweetness of a carry on the Diaghileff tradition, casual interest:- peach, represent the West Indies. · Diaghileff produced 120 ballets, "Sacred to Baby limes that shared, perchance, and the artists who have perform- the same grove, are piled, old gold,ed them for the past 19 years are beside scarle pimentos that re- certain that they can carry on. In mind one of tiny tomatoes with any case the tour of England book- handles.
ed for this autumn will take place.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
Here indeed, is a still-life picture! the artist would delight to paint
Chillies gleam like red patent leather-admirable foils to the waxon yellow of the melon pears from Madeira-and around them are grouped prickly pears, aube- gines, granadillas, – and passion fruit. And, as it to emphasise Sunrise and Sunset in Hong their preciousnes3, # basket of wild strawberries from France stands Kong for Sept. (Standard time of aloor in a corner, its only adorn the 120th Meridian, East of Green
wich), are as follow ment being a ticket iuscibed "218, per basket
September
Compared with the same period last year, British, humigrants into Canada during the mast three l months had increased by 32,90
Full supply in all Rider Main Dis- tricts daring August 1928, with the exception of the districts West of Garden Road where an Intermittent Supply was given from 1st to 8th August, 1928.
1928- 1929 173. L.
Kowloon Reservoir Shek Lai Pui Re-
servoir
L 10' 2"B Reception Reservoir 0′ 1′′B
Storage in milion and decimals of gallons The Norfolk Island section of of whalers from America, who had
1928 1929 Martin Cash's book gives the whole either deserted sea-life for a verit | Kowloon Reservoir 286,15 352,50 story of this incident, as it does of able. Eden, or been put ashore sick. Shek Lal Put Re
i servoir
116.10 78,44 the next
not having recovered in time to Reception Reservoir *82.98 33.15 "Alfred Essex Baldock, late Prejoin their ships. Very common is
Total Chief Constable, who was un- the type of entanza quoted by
485.18 464.09 fortunately drowned by the up--KLB,” the the article on the Ho-
Consumption of water in Kowicon in millions and decimals of galicns bar, on April 12, 1848, aged 27" and the lizabeth North. selling of a boat in crossing the bart stoner Margaret Dowing during the month of August,
1929 The frequency of stones hare but indeed, are multiplied wherever old Consumption ... 118.94 117.30 for the simple words, There Hea" or people lle But Norfolk's grave Estimated population 118,640 171,680 "died suddeny," has often purged yard and the inscriptions there will
Consumption very se Sunrise Sunsetitors to this weed-grown old remain unique. Side by side with
am. p.m. 6.136.16
place. *・・ The explanation ✯ equally those who participated in a black simple for that was bone the fate and regrettable phase of our history 6.15
of many executed convicts was relie those of a race of mixed blood corded
whose exploite
form one of the ~Here and there "He the remains legends of the South Sem.
They
1928
head per day 221 22.0 Full Supply in all districts during August, 1928 and 1929,
show thes, the quality of the water la
terestry ve
The Government Analyst's reporte
Total rainfall to August 11, 1928, 85.97; 1929, 87.10
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, ́ 1929.
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