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Owing to his much-discussed recent discoveres in the matter of
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wayathetic rubber, the name of Professor William Perkin, who has just been appointed to the Waynflete Professorship of Chem- istry at Oxford, is well known to the public. Professor Perkin isFFICES TO LET.-First Class,
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HOME POLITICS. UNIONIST M. P. RESIGNINO,
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At present, he said, there scom- ed to be no possibility or proba bility of the tubber industry fol- lowing these indusies, bat the Badische Anilin und Sodo Fabrik bad, he understood, agreed to pat by £1,000,000 for search Their cliof shergist, Dr. Duie. berg, did not guarantes success, connexion with 69 athatio rubber.
but the money as required would be forthcoming. In this country, although the research mand so huge a sum to work chemists were not able to com- with, they would not be behind- hand, and in the friendly com- petition of science they would go foward hand in hand."
A Harbin despatch to the Asali" states that an English man in the service of Messrs. Wassard (P) at bin, ing been attacked by Hunghuize at a point about, four miles from Koluan. ffo was robbed of 100 roubles in cash, together with all his person- al belongings. He was about to bo murdered when a Chinose rayman came to his assistinės and rescued him. The Russian corn merebants in Harbin have addressed an application to the In the course of a paper read Chinese Eastern Railway Com recently before the Royal Society pany, asking that guarda should sented the constituency since olan and Harbin for the pro-whose researches into the question [The sitting member has ropro he posted on the road between of Arts, Dr. F. Mollwo Pekin, December, 1913, when he captection of travellera.
of synthetic rubber are well tured the seat from the Liberals
known, discussed the question by the narrow majority of 41, his opponent being Mr. Daac Foote,
A report has been presented whether synthetic rubber, would Liberal.]
by Mr. Buckley, this chief electri- be able to compete commercially cian of the Post and Telegraph with natural rubber, and if it Department of New Zealand, who last year loured America, Eng-were placed on the market in land, and Europe with the object large quantities whist would be A spirited little riot occurred of studying various systems of the effect on prices. In the at Kiangwan on the 7th inst, dis-telegraphy and telephony. He present stato of supply and tinguished by tho part that the states that an automatic system demand he expressed the opinion Chinese merchant Volunteers of tolophones would most satis- that the two might exist side by playel in the affair. Trouble [actorily meet the requirementside without any acute competi- began in tho naual way. A tot New Zealand and would tion. Boldier hated Chiu, one of forty possibly permit of an extension who have taken up their quarters if the area within which a mini in the Jadestone Buddha Temple,inum residential rate might be was returning from market with charged. Mr. Buckley computes a bowl of oil when he was that a saving of over £2,000 sawdust, &c., were taken as the accidentally jostled by a Ningpo year night bo expected from an raw material there would be no men, and the bowl was broken. automatic system at each of the reason why the synthetic produot Chin at onco demanded $6 com- four citios, Auckland, Christ should cost more than 1s, per lb. pensation, alleging that the bowl church, Dunedin, and Wellington. It was, however, one thing to produce a pure product in a had contained valuable modicine. A crowd rapidly collected; Chia An "ohl curiosity shop" has laboratory and quite a different: tried bullying and the police took beon brought to light by a Virginia thing to manufacture it in bulk.
Fermentation on a large scale him into chatoy. Thereupon butcher while he was dressing Chiu's fellows from the temple steer. When he opened the which, he pointed out, was the rushed to the rescue and began stomach of the animal ho was root of the problem was always firing with the rosult that a shop surprise:l to see a small vial con apt to present great difficulties, assistant was killed and one ortaining a substance that hat once but Dr. Parkia added that such two people were wounded. This been pills, but had been dissolved fermentation had now been ear ried on with highly antiafactory roused the villagora and in by the heat. In rapid order the results. The lecturer stated that order to restore order, aho. Puo amazed butcher brought to light in Amsterdam a factory had been sban authorities called upan saya the "Now York Tribuno") the volunteers who happened two keys, a penny, a collar button, tie rubber" from fish.
erected to manufacture "syathe to be drilling on the race conreo, an iron washer, an empty cart-
Dr. Perkin then explained the
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Present Difficulties. With regard to the price of syn- thotic rubber he said he thought that when such bases as starch,
Ja conclusion Dr. Perkin referred to the practice and pro- blems of the plantation companies, and suggested that the amount and yield of latex might possibly be increased and improved by a study of agricultural conditions He neked what and method. means could be taken to improve the tapping, the coagulating, and the preserving of rubber,
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Sub-Lieut. Joht Cracroft-Ana- But on the following day, saya knife, two small stones, three come in dealing with the initial the N. China Daily News," marbles, a piece of comb, a small proposition of such a subject as cotts, who has been tranferred to the authorities managed to iron image of a bird, an iron the manufacture of synthetic rub the Emergency List of the Navy, PL persuade the villagers to get to nipplo, a spoon, two screws, and her, and, to illustrate this point, work again and pease reigned other pieces of scrap iron.. Be before..
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Whether the chemist would be when he was appointed to the According to information re- able to oust the rubber tree was He was in the Dominion, in the Albion, in the Atlantic fleet. ecived in Japanese official quar-still uncertain, but Dr. Perkin ters, the four battle cruisers reminded the rubber planters of Home fleet, July 1910, and in PHILIPPINES.ing for the Russian Navy: the fate which had befallen the September of the same year he
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