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SHEETS STOLEN FROM
MORTUARY!
Several Previous Cases Reported.
DEFENDANT FINED $20.
ELECTRICITY STOCK.
£1,500,000 Subscribed in 10 Minutes.
JOINT AUTHORITY'S ISSUE.
Rugy, Yesterday.
COULD WE LIVE 1,000| YEARS?
Longer Life Not Good For the Race.
SCIENTIST'S “RIDDLES”.
A case, which had a morbid
"Why must, we die?" "How does touch about it, was heard by Mr.
our hair turn grey"" la telepathy Schofield in the Central Police Subscription lists for the issue a fact?" and "la there cruelty in Court this morning, when an elder- of £1,500,000 worth of 5 per cent.nature?" These are among forty ly Chinese pleaded guilty before stock at £101.108. each by the or more questiona put by Sir him to a charge of the theft of two London, and home counties joint Arthur Thomson, professor of na- sheets of white cloth, used for electricity authority, were closed tural history, in "Scientific Rid- covering bodies in the mortuary of within ten minutes this morning,dles," a new book (Williams and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, the amount having been over-Norgate, 10s. 6d.).
subscribed.-British Wireless Ser- He also raises the question whe
ther human beings could live to a much greater age than at present.
Detective Sergeant Kennedy, vice. prosecuting, said that gt 8.10 last night, a hospital attendant was
hanging clothes out to dry on the IMPERIAL AIRWAY'S
second floor of the main building.) when he saw the defendant entor the mortuary, which is situated directly opposite. He went down the stairs, and caught the defen- dant in the get of sorting out several coverings which were to be washed.
His Worship (to defendant)- You seem
FLYING BOATS.
To Call at Port
Limasol, Cyprus.
Rugby, Yesterday.
The chief reason why we die, apart from disease and accident, appears to be that we wear out.
Man, domesticated animals, and cultivated plants are often killed by Invading microbes and para- sites, "whereas," says Sir Arthur, this is rare in natural conditions." Animals and plants in a natural condition come to terms with para- sites that invade the body.
"Natural" death is due to "tho
to have been found in Flying boats of the Imperial the mortuary.
Airway's England-india Service, slow mounting up of unrecuperated when operating in both directions arrears of wear and tear in essen- Defendant-No, your Worship-above the Eastern Mediterranean, tial organs." on the steps only!
will pay regular weekly calls at Wear and tear are to some ex-
Sergeant Kennedy remarked he the Port of Limasol on the Island tent counteracted by rest, sleep, Į had been instructed to bring to his or Cyprus, weather permitting, food, and change but Sir Arthur Worship's notice that there had after April 17.-British Wireless says that "the active organism has been several similar cases of theft, Service.
and the hospital employees had been given instructions to keep a strict watch on these prowlers.
His Worship imposed a fine of $20 or, in default, one month's hard labour.
BACK TO THE OLD HORSE.
Its Superiority for Short Journeys.
MOTOR TRANSPORT OUSTED.
a tendency to go into debt to itself. Unrecuperated arrears mount up,
EVIL OF NARCOTIC and when they exceed a certain
DRUGS.
Geneva Convention
Approved.
Washington, Yesterday.
(very variable) mount, naturali death is inevitable."
There are, says Sir Arthur, vari- ous animal types, such as many fishes and reptiles, which show no signs of old age.
"In man's case," Sir Arthur says, "it is conceivable that the accumu- liation of lethal fatigue effects The Senate Foreign Relations might be evaded for greatly pró- Committee to-day approved the langed. periods. Rejuvenescence; Geneva Convention, regulating the might be more perfect." distribution of narcotic drugs and Would it be worth while, so for limiting their manufacture-Reu- as the interests of the human race ter's American Service.
generally are concerned? Sir Ar thur seems to think not, and that it is more advantageous for the race that parents should be re-
More horses are working on the streets of Great Britain to-day than example, it is calculated that horse latively young.
at any time since the War.
Motor vehicles are being sold daily to give place to the waggon, and scores of stables converted into garages are again taking on. their old form; there is every sign,]
means
ая
economy,
transport is nearly 50 per cent. cheaper.
Incressing Value. "Municipalities and commercial]
service.
FOR EMBRACING IN PUBLIC.
Chinese Couple Fined
-in Johore Bahru.
accused claimed trial.
in fact, that the number of horse-firms in London and the provinces drawn drays will in a short time are finding that the value of the reach something like the figure of horse actually increases for two pre-motor car days.
years after it is on the road" said
The chief reason is
Mr. R. A. Brown, Secretary of the
On a charge of misconducting National Horse Association of And not only has the horge
themselves in public two Cantonese Great Britain to a Morning Post re been at long last "redis-
"Its young men and a Cantonese young covered"
presentative in mall week. an economical
that of girl appeared before the Third Ma- of transport, the upkeep is cheaper than
but British farmer is Anding in its re-motor transport, and it is being gistrate, Johore Bahru. All three turn to popularity a much needed found that mechanical haulage has
For the prosecution two Malay Blip for one of the most typical not even resulted in more efficient
constables said that they saw the of Great Britain's industries.
girl embracing the two men and It is estimated that there are at The despatch manager of a lead-kissing them on the Causeway. present 300,000 horses engaged in-ing London transport firm said that! The story of the defence was that: dustrially in England. Taking an on the basis of a 20 mile day he they went to the Causeway for a average of £40 per head a year for finds that a light horse van costa "makan angin" and there they re- feeding, this is a constant and ex- 2s, 21⁄2d: an hour, against 3x. 211⁄2d./mained for some time watching panding market for £2,000,000 for # *25 cwt. motor van.three Malays fishing. worth of agricultural produce. A four ton lorry costs 4s. 6d. að In reply to the Court Inspector, Transport firms have for some hour to run and a double horse cart the girl said that her husband was times realised that the substitution 38. 0đ..
away in Seremban and that she had of mechanical for horse haulage on "For work necessitating fre been separated from him for about| shorter journeys has reduced off-quent stoppages," he added, "the two months, also that he had been ciency without reduclag costs. On cost of horse collection per ton is sending her maintenance regularly. journeys within a radius of five 18. 235d. cheaper than motor trans- All the three accused were con- miles of the City of London, for port".
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