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HERCULANEUM.
PREPARING FOR THE EXPLORATION.
REMOVAL OF LAYERS OF LAVA.
NAPLES. The task of excavating Hercu local share market dated" Friday, laneum is one of infinitely greater Messrs. Benjamin & Potts say: dithculty than that presented by Cheerful and boyant conditions Pompeil. Not only is the volcanic Robert Augustus Delaney, the have prevailed. There is a further matter imprisoning the former far harder, but the problem is com- original "cat" burglar and master improvement not only in the applicated by the fact that the modern criminal, who is the nearest appreciation of stocks, but also in a villages of Portiei and Resina have proach in real life to the celebrat-
occupied by the ancient city. A been built over the site formerly ed. Raffles of fiction, ended a brief
commission has been appointed to spell of liberty in the dock at
find a new home for every inhabit ant dislodged by the excavatörs. Derby Assizes, where he was lea- tenced to seven years' penal ser- vitude.
Delaney had only recently been released after serving a long term of imprisonment for an extensive series of daring "eat" burglaries on London mansions.
Mystory Visita.
He went from prison to Swices head, in Lincolnshire, where he once owned one of the finess faca in the county and lived the life of a gentleman farmer, interrupt- by mysterious visits to Londoa. which coincided with sensationn! crimes which for long baed Sect- land-yard.
Delaney and A young motor- driver named James Brown were tried as Derby for the theft of mblor-car and safe at Swineshead Brown was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for his share of the crime, and the judge dealt much more severely with Delaney when he had heard from the police some of the astonishing details of the master thief's life of crime.
Delaney is one of the most re
markable criminals whose portrait is to be found in the Rogues' Gal- lery at Scotland-yard. He is a tall, dark, handsome, man, only thirty-two years of nge with in- gratiating manners and expensiv tastes,
Gang Leader.
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larger volume of business. Buyers predominate and in spite of some profit-taking, there is no sign of weakness.
The following are the principai alterations
The work is still in its propaza- tory stages. Since Prince Elbeuf, of the French house of Lorraine,
discovered Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks accidentally
Hercula- were bid up to 160 bat close acum in 1719 numerous attempts to easier with buyers at $1.150. The retrieve the buried treasures have London quotations £121.10.0 been made. Terties pits, varying (middle).
in depth from 60ft. to poft.. were Uniona were done at 8993 and dug, and from these horizontal tun- continue in request Hong Kong nels pushed out in all directions. Fires are a strong market and the Most of these tunnels were after- price has made further headway towards filled in or abandoned, and $660, Cantons are again higher it is, therefore, necessary first to with buyers at 8573. Underwriters chant them accurately to discover were booked as the improved price which sections of the city still re- of $1.50,
main unprobed."
tinued their rise and are in de Douglas Steamships have con-
mand at $40. Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboats are in good demand with buyers at 820). Star Ferries closed appreciably higher at 839. Tugs and Lighters have also improved and are wanted at go. Waterboats are enquired for at 811. Kowloon Wharves changed hands up to 8128) ard 8138).
moved up to 87.40 bat eased off to- Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels
wards the close to" -87.
and
advanced further
to 360.
Fountains of Pompell
Work is also being pushed for. ward in the exposed section of Herculaneum lying between. Resina and the sea. It conkistain remov ing the top layers of volcanic mat- ter over a wide area. exposing what is known as the "archaeological stratuin," which will be explored later.
Pompeii long ago yielded its richest treasures and its lure cou sists in the accurate picture it pre- By sents of life in Roman days. Hong Kong Lands were tavoured again the method of excavation arst in- troduced by Professor Spinazzola, Realtys were placed at the outset everything discovered is left in the at 9 and have buyers at this found, and the buildings are partly exact position in which it was rate. Humphreys Estates were put restored step by step as the ex- through at 814 Hong Kong caration progresses. The plante Trams were dealt in up to 892.
and shrubs, identified by the plaster casts of their roots, have been re- placed in their former positions in ancient gardens. Pipes leading
China Lights (Combined) have shown renewed strength and were negotiated at 313.40. A dividend He led gang of dangerous, of 40 cents on the old shares and Australian and South African 16 cents on the new has been de criminals in raid after raid on theclared. Hong Kong Electrics have houses of wealthy and famous per been in strong demand and the sons with such skill and audacity price has further risen to 8581. that it was months before he fall Hong Kong Telephones fetched 84. into the hands of Scotland-yard.
Green Island Cements took a spurt It is typical of the Raffles-like to 87, but are casier again with character of the man that be usual-enquiries at 86.00. China Provi- I wore evening dress on his house dents were sold at $33. Hong breaking expeditions, and that he Kong Amusements are the turn sedulously cultivated the acquaint-higher at $20. ance of the wealthy women whose Hong Kong Government Loans jewels he had marked down for
can probably be placed at 3 per his spoils.
cent. premium.
Delaney spent his time in Lon- don at the most expensive hotels and restaurants, and squandere
water to the fountains have, been
put into use again; and the foun- tains are playing as they did 2,000 years ago.
New discoveries are being made in Pompeii all the time. The most recent include a mural painting which gives the first authentic re- presentation of how, the ancient supposed to have been invented by
cochlead the water-raising system
Archimedes, was operated.
Hopes Of Rich Treasure,
the proceeds of his crimes it extre THE QUEEN IN AN APRON, supposed to vagant living.
He dissipated one fortune of £28,000 that came into his hands through his early marriage with the widow of a well-to-do Lincoin- aire farmer, and he wrecked the lives of many other women.
Delaney was born in Capetown, and came to England in 1914 as a gunner in a siege battery of the South African forces. He was married the following year, and the Lincolnshire farm, where he after the war he paid £22.300 for tried to establish himself as a country gentleman.
He paid £50 or £60 a week in ages and lived in imposing style. He even planned to start a pack of hounds become a Master of the Hunt. He bought a number of hunters, but by this time he was oatracised by the county families, and be had to ride the country
lanes alone.
It was not long before he tired of life in the country, and in Loo- don he found himself attracted to
CHECKING GARMENTS FOR
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Privileged visitors to the Im perial Institute at, South Kensing ton last month saw the Queen, an apron over her black dress, help- ing to check and sort the thousands leated by members of Queen Mary's of garments which have been col- Needlework Guild for distribution
mong London's sick and poor.
When she arrived she went straight to a room to take off her coat and have an apron tied over her dress.
As opposed to Pompeii, Hercu laneum remains a city of mystery and unbounded possibilities. One villa alone, the Villa Suburbana, have belonged to Lucius Calpurnius" Piso Crsoninus. Cesar's father-in-law, yielded such treasures as the reposing Hermes, the drunken Silenus, the statue of Aristides, the sleeping Faunus, the dancing girls, the quait throwers, and busts of Plato and Sences.
The existence" of one such villa argues the possibility that there may be others..
THE SCOURGE OF ECZEMA!
ZAM-BUK ROUTS FIERY. DISFIGURING DISEASE & GROWS NEW HEALTHY SKIN.
The ancient Greek meaning of the word Eczema is "to boil over"" The handful of women who work and a disease which is veritably a with her at this task each year met boiling over of af harmful matter her in one of the long galleries contained in the affected parts of where the parcels of garments have the body could not be more aptly been accumulated and stored and named. there were very few formalities Dry, weeping and scaly eczema before the business of checking beare a most dreadful scourge of hot
climates. The disease attacks chil
the haunts of the underworld, The Queen's own things and the dron and adults and unless treated where he began to replenish his contributions of the Royal Family by a powerful healer and germicide diminishing resources by frauds, were dealt with by a lady-in-wait like Zam-Buk, eczema may, in its cheque forgéries, and burglaries. ing: There are gifts mostly use chronic stagee, produce blindness,
Then he found that his true ful clothing for boys and men-- deafness and baldness. metier in crime lay in utilising his from the King, the Prince of Eczema may arise through the amazing prowess as a trained Wales, the Duke and Duchess of scratching of an itchy spot or pim- athlete and gymnast.
Delaney could swarm up drain York, Prince Henty, and Prince ple or through an abrasion, knock, George. Princess Mary, who is cut or trivial wound whore skin is pipes like a monkey, and could one of the Presidents of the Guild, broken or damaged. Early symp climb to dizzy heights in an in
Ar reddened has her own contribution and Kerfoms of eczema credibly short time. It was he wo
patches of skin on which tiny own parcels of goods.
The areas originated the "cat" method of
The Queen and all the helpers watery heads appear. burglary, and he soon gathered had luncheon together in one of around him a number of criminals the rooms at the institute a happy, informal little meal at which conversation was general
Never ignore these early symp- He and his gang set Scotland and she not only talked herself of yard a defiance for months. Detec- little incidents connected with the toms! At the least eign of soreness or itching, anoint the place with tives patrolled West London night work and of various holiday ex- after night in searth of "eat" periences but also questioned her that wonderful soothing and heal- The rare burglars who climbed up walls and guests upon all kinds of subjects.ng hálm-Zam-Buk
herbal oils and extracts which com- over roots after their spoil, but,
pose Zam-Buk are, so perfectly..con- the police were without a real clus
stituted and so refined that they until Delaney was caught red- handed in the garden of the Over suive. Battery and polished man-
Women fell easy victims to his are quickly absorbed deep into the tissues where they attack skin Club, in Park-place, Et.ner, He is said to have had ni disense at its very roots.
most an hypnotic effect on those who became his dupea
nearly an agile as himself.
Беля
James'
Caught Red-Handed.
Delaney is said to have found keen enjoyment in his adventures in crime, and he had a perverted sense of humour that he liked to
gradually become swollen and in- famed, there is a fiery irritation which becomes more intense as the eruptions burst and discharge.
Zam-Buk quickly soothes the fiery tortured den; it kills and ex- pels poisonous gorms; draws away corruption and disease, and grows new healthy skin. Zam-Buk is a valuable discovery which has re-
When he was tried at the Old Bailey and sentenced by the Re- corder to three and a half years penal servitude he was also churg ed with breaking into Lady" North cate's house in James'-place, and with attempting to rob the Duke gratify in an audacious way.
It is related that once he gave of Ratland's home in Arlington a large dinner party at a fashion street, but these were only comable hotal. Ten ininutes before the paratively minor incidenta in his arrival of one of his guests he had criminal life.
climbed the stack pipe of her house He posed in London as a rich and robbed her of her jewels. All English and Chinese dispen- ex-officor mid had passed himself.
Then he spent a thoroughly stries supply Zam-Buk in handy off as "Captain Craddock" in amusing evening condoling with size boxes, Direct from Agente famous clubs.
his guest on her, unfortunate loss. A. B. Moulder & Co., Queen's Road, -Daily Exprcat,
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