GENERAL NEWS.
Hanyang Conflagration.
A couflage tea which involved insurance remedies in the Muiñei
of nearly Tis. 100.000 occurred recently at Hanyang The total low to the insurance companies, however, it is expeated, would be far below the above sum, for valuable salvage returns were anticipated.
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Disguise Useless. One of the released prisoners ander the Cal and Mouse Act," Mo Apo Re'l, disguised to evde he polic, was regnise! bea poliems, o spite of the for that she was die-set in a Norfolk anir and man's straw hat. She was arrested for failing to return to Hell way golto finish * srowave of 10 staye' imprison
ment.
MESSRS. J. AIRD & CO."
Retirement of Famous Contractor.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1913.
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TO LET Finely appointed Kowloon; suitable for middle- TO LET No
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After 1895 the Lucas interest disappeared, and the firm revert ed so its old style, John Aird & Co. Its greatest work was yet to he accomplished in the construe- tion of the great Nile dams at I in offically stated that the Assouan and Assiout. A difficulty works of the famous engineering presented itself with regard to firm of Messrs. J. Aird and Co., this vast scheme in the matter of Queen Anne's gate, W., are short-finance; but it was surmounted ly to be closed.
with the aid of Sir Ernest Cassel. class Europeans, Airy; in good Notification of the cessation of Sir John Aird was able to lay his locality: Electric Light; Water; loon, Five Rooms, Tennis Court the works bas slready been oom plans before the Egyptain Go Bath Rooms; Kitchen: Moderate FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in municated to the many firms vernment on the basis of an agres-rent. Apply:"H. BUTTON- with whom Messrs. Aird and Co., ment that his firm should con- JEE," Royal George Hotel. have been interworking for years atruct the dame, without any past. The offices at Queen Anne's payment being made until the MEIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak, ga e will paea into other banda, work was complete, sud that then Cheap Rental, from 1st December har allenptracts entered into, with the payment should be spread the exception of one, which it is over a term of ten years. In 1902 newly painted and colourwashed.
unfurnished,
proto, will be fimbed in 1914, the great structure was unished, loon; unfurnished, will be completed forthwith. in less time by a year than the
6 Rooms.
RGATE, Austin Road, Kow.
No. 68. Poak, Mount Kellett. The history of the firm is re-engineer, Sir Benjamin Baker, (Church Vission Society Bunge at kabe. It was founded in had stipulated. As is now udo) from 1st October, 1913, till by John Aird, a mason, who had, iversally admitted, this was of the 30th May, 914, partly furnished. come to London from Rs shire most advantage to Egypt, Cheap rent.
which has ever since been saved
the terrible from
effects of
FOR SALE... HARTING and ROGATE, on
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FOR SALE or TO LET. dartled at Bromley.by-Buw.' Mr R. H. Smith, the genera He had been for twenty year drought when there has been a
(From lat November, 1913.) Borotury of the Ironmongers'
No.1 Gough Hill, No. 103 Pook. Federated Association Incorporat the Phonix Gas Company at superintendent of the station of
lur Nlle. In addition the en Bungalow containing drawing el, baving writen to Earl Grey Greenwich, and in 1848 be start- ormous reservoirs have brought dining and smoking rooms and calling attention to his speech deer as a contractor on his own ac-
into cultivation an · extensive, five bedrooms. With ground för livered at the Congress in Glascount. That was a time when the area of land that had pre- Tennis-Court
.Later viously been desert. gow of the International Co-
great towns of Britain were un- operative Alliance, his lordship dertaking works for the supply of the firm executed the Royal Ed- has replied greatly regretting that the members of the Rasocia one of the earliest contractora in gas and water, and Mr Aird was tion "should have 'helieved that
in London for the erection of gük- he had been correctly reported a works and the provision of water. having myled all shopkeepers in
mains. His eon, John Aird, this rou try as paresites. Ear who became M.P. for North Pad Qrey dented a full report of his
dington, and was created address to be sent to Hr Smith. baronet, extended the operations who, however, writes that it in no way alters the conclusion that of the firm in a remarkable one arrives at, that Earl Grey considers the middleman or shop- keeper as unnecessary, and styles him a parasite.
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State Aid For Vivisection.
manner.
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Having entered the business in 1851, the year of the great Crystal Palace Exhibition in Hyde Park, his first important Thousands of people attended anderinking was the removal of an anti-vivisection demonstration Sir Joseph Paxton's famous strac- in Hyde Park arranged by the ture to its present site. at Syden- London and suburban brauches bam. Following this work hie of the British Union for them undertook large waterworks Abolition of Visissetion, to pro- constrations on the Thames, and test against the allocation of at Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and $57,000 per year under the In-Berlia, and gasworks in Russia, surance Aot for the purposes of France, Italy, Denmark, and research. Mr H. G. Chancellor, Brazil.
M.P., moved a resolution entering In 1860 the firm amalgamated
ward Dook at Avonmouth, and a John Aird died in 1911, and left Road. Fine View of harbour; 8 large dook at Singapore. Sir Part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. LADBROKE, No. 9 Conduit fortune of over a million sterling Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, Garden and Sir John Aird; the second Tennis Court, Accomodationa baronet, has decided for private for 80 Servants. reasons to discontinue the business.
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A House-Selling Story,
Mrs, Gray, of South Norwood, prosecuting John Jamieson, aged 83, at Croydon, said the man called with reference to her house, which was advertised for sale, After viewing it he said he would purchase. He gave the name of Jim Jamieson, of Ayr," and told her he had a factory at Kilmarnock,
When he left he asked her to lend him a little money to get back to Victoria, saying that he
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The Simia Conference.
ference, has been instrnoted by the Peking Government to take note of these points for discussion with the British and Tibetan de- logates.
It is said that there is one more At the request of the Chinese article about the non-interference Commissioner Mr. Cheng Yi-fan, of China with the internal ad- the Chinese Government has ministration of Tibet for the pre- drawn up the following points sent until Tibet is in a position to for discussion between the Chin-, be administered alter the methods ese and Tibetan delegates.
of those Provinces in China Pro
Notices
a strong protest against Mr Lloyd with that of Messrs. Lucas, under had put money in his pocket, but 1. The new Convention should per-Peking Daily News, George's recent assurance in the tale Lucas and Aird, and it was missing. She lent him 2. not infringe those commercial Parliament that the research in shortly thereafter the combined, 6d. and further sums on other agreements concluded between connection with the National In-company entered upon the work days. Her suspicions were arque-Great Britain and China in 1893 surance Act would be conducted of contracting for railways. They ed later, and sho gave him into and 1904. under the conditions of the Vivisection Act..
The resolution characterised the research as wasteful and use less Mr Chancellor said that for the first time the work of vivisec tionists was endowed with public money, and that was diversion of public money from its proper object
executed the Metropolitan Dis- custody. Jamieson was remand- 2. All administrative affairs trict and St. John's Wooded for inquiries, Railway, an extension of the West Highland Railway, and simul- taneously carried out the con-
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