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Decreasing Pauperism.
The decin of pauperism in London contines, and the latest return showerlint the number at the end of September was lower
WIRELESS" IN
THE MINE.
A Demonstration at A Colllery.
The members of the Lostitution of Mining: Engineers, who have been holding their annual meet
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1913.
The current required is generated by an ordinary battery, a
Speaking and Hearing. The demonstration at Astley was arranged. between a telephone at the bottom of the No. 2 shaft and another telephone about 500 yards in bye. The wires from
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the instrument at the bottom of by 5,445 than the total for the ing in Manifester, went to the the shaft wero, connected with corresponding period of 1912. Astley Green Calliory of the Compared with the umber re- Clifton and Kereley Coal Com-hollow metal pipe. It appeared loved at the end of September, pany. The arrangements includ-to he necessary to speak londly
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close to the mouthpiece "1911, the present total shows led an inspection of the anginf the telephone but the speeola (Church Mission Society Bunge LET. Top floor, 50, Come very olearly to the ear when
decrease of 6,183, and the re-room, with its exceptionally large duction on the figures for 1910 winding engines, the pitshot the representatives of the Raineke
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North Lond n'a Lost Dogs. Land has heep scquired at Willesden by Our Damb Friends' League for the building of a home for lost and stray dogs. It
which showed how "difficulties. encountered in sinking has been met, and a demonstration in the mine of the Reinoko agerem of wireless telephones.
Company were speaking. It has been previously stated that the
atem, provides a portable in-
rument which a be used in any part of the pit to which the In Germany, us in Englandrails extent. The woight of this is estimated that about 8,000 the Government has for some is over 20lb., and with the instru- dogs are lost in the northern die-time past been urging the installment it is possible to "ring up" tricts of London annually. Tention of telephones is inines, sn the other stations or be called by thousand pounds is required for in view of the trouble which them. A smaller instrument, the building fund, and to rise arise through damage to wires which will fit in the pocket, is this amount a special apponl Herr Reineke made experiments committee is being formed,
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HÄRTING and ROGATE, on aleo being made which can "ring part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. which resulted in the present up. "the other stations but can- lavention. It is alaimed that the not le called by them. An over system is entirely original, anil sear or ganger, provided with the German Patont Office granted such a telephone, could give
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A verdict of "Accidental death"
a patent without restrictions or notice of an accident and ask for was returned at the inquest on the body of Mr Thomas Frame anticipations being oited, which assistance from any point in the Thomson, 46, civil engineer and is unusual: Mr. Wallin explained pit. The heavy portable instra-
LET-Shop in Queen's financier, who has found shot that in using the term" wireless ment was shown, but examples To Letral.
Apply to through the heart at bis home,is was advisable to say that the of the miller one were not INKKO & Co. Caen Wood Towers, Highgate. system was quite distinct from that available. Mr Thomsoo, it was stated, was commonly used in wireless or extracting the cartridges from spark telegraphy, tempte bad Wal is developed is the applica-TO LET-Two room Fists in gun he kept for shooting wood been made to employ that arsletion of the system to speaking Kowloon. Suitable for Eur- pigeons when the gun went off in telephony, but with small ane
from the moving cage to the wind-opeane, in good airy locality. and killed him.
Cess, and even if it had been ing engine house. In the engine All Modern Conveniences. Terma entirely successful there were house the telephone
can be Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON- serious abjections which would.
mounted on a standard which JEE. Royal George Hotel. epidemic of scarint fever in Burovent is gereral use in mining brings it close to the enginem's Hongkong, 17th Oct., 1913. 【966
Scarlet Fever Epidem'c
There has been a
inghom, 900 cues being under
work.
treatment in the isolation hospital. Principle of the System. During one week 223 fresh caser were notified to the authorities, and 232 in the previous week, which is the highest number since the extension of the city boundaries. Only seven deaths were reported during the fortnight.
School Children and Museum
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whole day, half of the time being spent at each institution.
.
Describing the general prin ciple of the Iteineke systems compared with ordinary tole phones, Mr Wallis said that the ordinary telephone acted by the actual transmission of current along wire. The strength of the current is varied by the sound waves of the voice, which causes a diaphragm in the transmitter ta vibrate to greater or less ex-
ear.
One other point which. Mr
On receiving a call he has
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only to put his ear to the receiver.TO LET Furnished or un and the slight pressure in sub- furnished, ground floor of cient to switch on the telephone No. 2, Bay View, Mody Road, and enable him to communicate Kowloon. with the cage without removing his hands from the levers. Various methods of connection are pos- sible for the telephone in the cage, one or the most satisfactory being when it can be connected into a loop formed by the winding ropes, | and by the balance rope, or, if Embroidered Screens this is it used, by a wire sug
The Ealing Education Com- mittea rejected by a large intent, and so to vary the resistance pended below the cage in the jority a recommendation that the offerer to the current by a mans same way. It is then possible to scholars of St John's elementary of carbon particles. This varying speak from either cage to the sur school should be allowed to ar tend the Friday lectures at the current is convered along the face or the pit bottom without British Museum and the Natural wires, to the receiver where the any alteration to the ordinary History Museum during school diaphragm of the receiver in winding arrangements.
Question of Installation. hours. It was explained that the caused to vibrat by a magnet scholars would be absent, the which is excited by the current, and so the sounds of speech are
Dr Garforth, the president of the reproduced by the receiver dia- Institution of Mining Engineers, phragm. In the wireless telephone who moved a vote of thanks to the transmission sad reception of Herr Reineke and Mr Wallis for the speech occur in precisely arranging the demonstration, similar manger, but there the said that they had to tbank resemblance
Instead the Germans for a good many of the. current from the things. He thought the word transmitter beingconducted along." wireless," however, was rather the wire to the receiver it is a nisnomer, za a metallic surface converted to a high pressure by means of a transformer contained in the telephone case, aut the high pressure or secondary wind ing of the transformer Feingeu- seeted in the ordury rails or pipes in the pit communicates to to them a charge of electricity
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A contract will, be completed at an early dete between the Birmingham Corporation and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company for the trang "fer of the company's depot in Tennant-street and 30 of their motor-omuibuses. The purchase price is to be about £30,000. The vehicles acquired will cousist in almost equal mumbers of the 30-b.p.. and 40 bp. Cateck modele.
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was being used, and it might be advisable sometime to use wires. Celliery owners would want more infomation about the invention before they finally decided to stop it..
Mr. Charles Pikinginn, of the Clifton and Kerley Coal Com- which spreads over the whole pany, who seconded the vote of system of rails throughout the pit, thanks, said that the previou and varies with the fluctuations day ley had tried the apparatus of the primary current in the between the office and the bottom transmitter circuit of the tele-of the pit, and they heard the phone. It is unnecessary to make aparch quite well. He agreed any recial provision, to insulate however, that these things requit- the rails or pipes, or to connected experimenting with and fully the adjacent lengths electrically testing before they committed The speech can be received by themselves further.
connecting telephones to the railer Wallie, in reply, mid that or pipes at any point of the svetem he believed the patenters were
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The Town Planning Scheme." At a meeting of the Birmingham
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