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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1913.
SINGAPORE HARBOUR
THE SUPPLY OF MOTOR
· SPIRIT.
WORKS.
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Petoskey (Mich), Angast 24.-- Miss Helen Keller, the noted
In the course of the past few blind, deaf and dumb girl, has At the last meeting of the weeks the Petrol Substitutes heard her first note of music, Singapore Legislative Council a Joint Committee, which is com
the posed of representatives from the She caught the vibrations of a discussion took place on violin string through her testh, voting of £140,000 to meet cur-Royal Automobile Clab, the held against the bridge of the rent requirements on the Singa Automobile Association and instrument. Although bor ear pore Harbour Works. It was Motor Union, and the Society of drums are useless, Prof Franz mentioned, saya the Straits Times, Motor Manufacturers and Trad- Kohler of the Berlin Con- that the engineora estimate sa o era, hua discovered a process, by
No. 21, Shelley Street. servatoire declared that the the cost of the works had recently means of which it is hoped that No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Peak. harmonies bad been
combran increased from the figure fally 40,000,000 gallons of Brit-Bungalow containing drawing. municated to her brain and that given by them in February, 1912, ish motor spirit will be available dining and smoking rooms and she had caught the straion. The but no explanation was promised annually, without further deple. five bedrooms. With ground for first note which the former cup-land, this having been obtained tion of the country's mineral re- Tennis-Court certmeister of the Pittsburg from Messrs. Ccode, Matthews, sources. The spirit is said to be Symphony Orchesten played for Fitzmaurice and Wilson, it has
got from coul. Miss Koller was on the string of fb en circulated among members hie rare old violin. She held her Connoil.
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Excellent results, the com baittee atate, bave been obtained from a small demonstration plant, and it is confidently hoped that the full-s zad commercial plant now is course of building will be
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teeth firmly against tho' Faroli The Singapore hour Works, while Prof. Koblar played strains it may be recalled, comprised of a Saint Sons composition, originally the construction of the using both the high and low mole and a sea-wall with attend registers.
aat reclamation work extayding equally successful. from Johnston's Fier to Mount' The Slavery Question in the Philippines.
Palmer. Owing to contain oircum- Washington, September 23-tances thin reclamation scheme motor spirit in this country is now estimated at about 100,000,- A close and full investigation of was altered to include the con-000 gallons, so that if expects- the whole question of slavery struction of a tidal basin at Telok in the Philippines, with reference Ayer, The estimated cost, made in February, 1912, for the whole also to the condition of
peonage in which thousande are enid to worke, ineluding the tidal basio, exist, will be among the first was £1,512,000 Since then cert-
On the day after the above duties to be taken up by Governor sin difficult es bave been en- General Francie Burton Harrison, countered which make the esti-statement had appeared in the
Stenson Cooke, Hongkong, 27th June, 1913 [211 after he has assumed office in mate bigber. The principal par. Times, Mr.
Automobile Manila. This is the statement tion of the work on which excees secretary of the just made in official circles, expenditure has been incored is Association and Motor Union and. where it is freely said that instruc-in the grinder work in the piers of the Patrol Subs'itates Joint tions are to be sent to Mr. and the engthening walls. One Committe, expressed the opinion TO LET No 150 "Magazine Harrison, conveying the wish of raw of cylinders was already in conversation that the n-w President Wilson that the question dona when that 1912 estimate process was likely practically to be studied from every angle, and was made and they were the only revolutionize the motor spirit that an extended report be for guide afforded to the engineers in industry, and, what is of aven warded to the War department at making that ealimste. it has greater importancs, render Great the earliest opportunity;"
been found, however, that in Britain partially independent of puiting down the second row of foreign applies.. Mrs. Pankhurst to Visit America cylinders the sea bad was ex- The substitute involves the On the conclusion of her resttremely inconsistant and the utilization of a by-product of coal "in France Mre. Pankhurst second row had to go to a greater hitherto unsuitable for motor fuel. will not return to England, says depth than the first Honce more Mr Stenson Cooke states that he the Times, but will leave for the expenditure was incurred. That is unable to give details, though United States, where she is to accounts for the greater portion of the idea of applying the proress conduct a 'campaign in favour of the iñorengo in the estimate, but to the particular substance rifle have been issued experi? woman suffrage, with special there isalso a considerable inurere emanated from the committee. mentally to the infantry in the reference to the white slave" in the amount allowed for filling. The fullest investigations have course of the present year. They traffic. Meetings will be address and there has been a smaller bean made by exparts, and the have been much liked. Recently, ed in Chicago, New York, addition in dredging. In their Boston, Philadelpbis, and other report made in August this year great cities. Mre, Pankhurst will the enginrara incases the esti return to London in time for the mate of cost by £144.003, mak:
· re-opening of Parliement, and abe
ing the total £1,056,000. proposes to address an. Albert
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Servics rifle, bed a lower trajer. tory, and an aperture sight, firing a sharp-nosed bullet. It did not merely rond or jag-end a three- eighths steel plate through which itpenetrated, but cut its way We understand that the new clearly, driving the cisintegrated 276 rifle is about to be withdrawn disc of steel clear away.
A certain number of these Tinca.
The provisional failure of the ammunition is stated, however, to be only a contributing cause to the reported withdrawal of the rifle. It is raid that as the auto- matio rifle is so near to us it is! not worth while to make a change. and that it would be a great waste of money to be compelled to check
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results are excellent. The process however, more savere tests have, bas en watched from start to been applied, and it appears to finish, and final judgment is only have been, discovered that when postponed until it has been trium- the rifle is hot after firing a large phantly demonstrated in a foll-number of rounds the cartiige A satisfactory feature of their sized plant, which will only need in the tile become baked und There is no economy in going Hall demonstration on the ove of explanatory statement is that duplication in order to produce se's up undue pressure when to an optician of doubtful ability the opening of the new Session, which canceras the mole. There from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 fired. Esme authorities think to purchase glasses upon which She will then outline her new has been no increase in the sum gallons of the spirit annually. A that the matter can be adjusted, campaign, and in the meantime it is understand that the "trace"allowed for the mole, which is full-sized commercial plant is now others incline to the view that we is to be adhered to. There is, it progressing in a normal manner in course of building, and if the must change our powder if we are wish to rival the low trajectories for works of that class engstruct-experiments made there ie stated, no foundation for theed on a mud bottom, where the successful as the committee con- of the best foreign arms. report that Mies Christabel
process. of making up natural fidently hope they will be-the! Pankhurat will leave Paris to settlements as they occur has plant will be duplicated. direct the militant movement in
resorted to. The
The motor fuel produced from Britain in place of her mother. eritics who delight to note the demonstration plant appears Big Fee Claimed for Operation. and call' attention to in every way to answer the re- New York, August 30.Aboso settlements may be interes quirements of the modern engine, petition heard by Surrogated to know that the quantity of and it is said to give from 10 per Towler showed that the late Dr. material allowed for in the con- cant. io 15 per cent extra power as James P.Tattle, who operated on tract for the mole, at the very compared with the ordinary Mr James R. Keine on January beginning, was 1,248 CC0 tons.marketable petrol. The cost will re armament when tegan and to Optician in D'Aguilar St. last, the day Mr Keene died, had Up to August 31 Fast the amount certainly be lower than the pre- change to an automatic rifle. oral understanding with put down was 1.056,000 tons and sent price of petrol, and it will This explanation des not pleur Keno that he was to receive the ongiscars believe that the be equal to the best quality everybody cure the automatic $5,000 for the operation. Dr. whole nf the original allowance petrol. Within six weeks the rifle seems no nearer is than THE IDEAL LAUNDRY Tuttle disd not long after Mr will possibly not be required. committee hope to have full when the decision was made to Keene and his executors sent a This is good hearing ears, the knowlege of the commercial adopt the 276, and it is alleged
NOTICE OF REMOVAL bill for $5,200 to Mr Solomon works being let out on schedule possibilities. Mr. Cooke added that incncisi reasons, rather than Hanford, executor under Mrraton of payment, it means a Bavily committee bear in mind that sound grounde of policy, are re- From 38 to 30, Austin Road. Keane's will, claiming the extra ing of money of the much ma- the motoring community calls not sponsible for the decision which $200 as a consultation fee. Mr.ligned mole.
so much for very large reductions is reported to have b in takon. Hanford refused to par, saying the The engineers add that "the in price as for the abolition of The question is important, and it bill was excessive. The petition probable cast of the works has the present irritating spirit of is very desirable that a definite -before Surrogate Fowler was by now been got out with the advant uncertainty as regards both price statement ébould be made by the
the Tuttle excontore for permis age of an additional 18 months' and supply.
War Offics without delay. sion to settle the claim for experience of the conditions, al- $4,000. The Court permitted though the latter very suddenly the settlement.
and abruptly. The extent of the ground over which cydiadere have to be sunk is rapidly be
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Attacked with a Hatchety
Wireless Tel-phony'in Mines.
The first instalation of wireless coming smaller and it is believed telephony in a coal minein Great allowance made as to the depths Britain bas just Leen fitted up at of the remaining ones wil prove A hatchet was the weapon'used Dinnington Main Colliery, South fully suficient. There are still in a fight last week at Manila, 13- Yorkshire, Bad" is giving some uncertain feotora notably tween Anicata Cruz, and Ray- Batisfactory results. The system the behavioge of the realsmation mundo Villanuers in one side, is the invention of Herr J. H. during the dredging of the tidal and Silvestre Bundoo, resulting Reinecke, Bochum, Weat basin-for which
no certain in the serious cutting of the latter, phalia, and bas already been allowance can possibly be made who is now in the General Hos adopted in German collieries. Its and a the enginess cannot tie pital in a critical condition. The Antroduction into England is themselves to the sum of £1,853,-fight: occurred on Calle Juan dus to Mr. Maurice Deacon, 000, which is and must remain Lans, and arose over a labour managing director of the Dinn- an estimate of the probabla tatal question. The fast wagon was ington Main group of collieries. crat of the works, prepared in hurried to the scene, to take the At Dinnington instrumente haye what they believe to by at the injured man to the hospital, and bean placed at two points-one in moment a conservative monr."bisassailants to the Meisio station, the transformer house near the
where they will be held until it is known whether Bandoo will recover!
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In By present arrangements His the event of a disaster in s pit, Highness the Raja of Earawak, you have lost your appetite, miners entombed by falls, would Sir Charles Brooke, alls for one of the big Variety of be able to open up communication England about the middle of this dainty dishes at the ALEXAN with dihar parts of the colliery, month by the French 'Mail from DRA CAFE is Sure to tempt
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