„ELECTRICAL
EXPERIMENTS.
Interesting Lecture by
Professor Smith.
MANILA CARNIVAL
Disastous Fire Destroys Exposition Bulidings
A disastrous fire which started
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At the Institute of Engineers in the Negros Oriontal booth, at and Shipbuilders last evening the extreme end of the long line Prof. C. A. M. Smith of the Hong of the provincial and commercial kong University delivered a buildings, has completely destroy Capt. G. N. Ramage, R.N.R. will highly technical, lecturo, illumi-ed the entire structure and prac-be despatched for the above ports, nated by lantern slides on some tically all the contents of on TUESDAY. the 3rd February, electrical experimenta. Mr. W. what was to be the obief at- at 4 p.m.
The Steamer has superior BO- C. Jack presided över a moderate traction at the Philippine Ex- attendance,
position for 1914 at Manila, commodation for passengers, is installed throughout with Electric
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The fire started at three Light and cores a duly seed Straight as it comes from the Cow. The looturer in the course of his interesting address dealt with minutes past two yesterday after-doctor. Professor Rankin'e law ia con- nook, ya the Cablenews of the Return Tours to Japan(occupy-]:... nection with the stresses and 27th inst, and in less than 30 ing 20 days.) strains that materials were capable minutes had destroyed what had The Stesmere leave about every one time a taken many weeks to pat id order, 3 weeks for Shanghai and Kobe of enduring.
(Inland Sea), returning via Moji. question arose as to whether and many months to prepare. Professor Rankin'e Law was The heaviest Jossen were providing a stay of 5 to 6 days in accurate or not and it was found sustained by the provinces which Japan. after experiment that while it had taken time by the forelock was not generally accurate, it and installed their exhibits, some was so for brittle materials suck
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of which were especially good trip $120. cast iron but for ductile and exhaustive ones as there were materials, there was another law expectations of making good sales to
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The commercial exhibitors lost heavily also, the total loss to all exhibitors being estimated by Mr. Barolay, the director gen ral, at 100,000 Posos 35,000 Pésos for the buildings, 150,000 Pesos for the exhibits and 5,000 Pesos for other material.
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said, was whether after all the for the "Panums Pacific Exposi- Hongkong, 31st Jan, 1914. [1155) Inwa for the two materials tion. -one for brittlə material and the other for dubtile material were not in reality one and the same law with rather different co-efficients of friction. The lecturer went on to describe some of the experiments which he had made
"DILWARA," during a period of three years to
having arrived from the above determine
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"The exposition will be held,”.
ports, consignees of cargo are pening to mild steel as mild steel said Director General W. Whoreby informed that their goods pure and simple. He found that Barclay. Continuing he said: will be delivered from alongside. the mild steel law was quite dif "This Giro live been a terrible! ferent from the cast iron law and blow and of course will absolutely he called it the Gcost law because do away with every attempt we Guest was the first. person to set were making in the way of people thinking of that law. He decorative display. But such the great pioneer who part of this show as remains wil! cast a doubt on Rankin's law. he opened next Saturday as The difficulty in the experimente sobeduled."
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Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed at once, at consignees risk and expense.
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was developed us they went along. The exposition boar held First of all, it looked a fairly sim-meeting at the University O'ub IMMEDIATE delivery of their ple matteron the blackboard to in the evening. It was there say they would take hold of a decided to open the exposition specimen, give it a pull and at next Saturday se had been plan the same time apply a twist, or bed and that some of the provinces, to give it a push and at the same which had not as yo: pliced their time a twist. But it was by no exhibits in their allotted spaces means so easy as it looked to and some of the others which
it out. The usual machines had .. been enable l for carrying out teats were pretty rodons some of their effects, would bulky things and very expensive, share with some of the bureaus and the subject was rather com in the latter's buildings. It would plicated by the fact that on the be possible, it was decided, to Continent of Europe they were hold a fairly representative in- working on an altogether different lustrial show as many of the law. The Continental work bad artisans of provinces ba materials beer used there for a great num-on hand which they cu'd utiliz ber of years and in consequence in de.nenstrating how the various very great preparation had to be arioles were manufactured. made to measure not only the pall or push and twist, but also the stretch of the material and that led to the development of rather delicate apparatas. In the ex- periments one had to be quite sure that the whole of the spaoi-
tension men in
was really stretching all over. That it was not, led again to a further doabt. If the stretching did not take The . SATSUMA (of the Barbor place equally all over, what was Line) sailed from New York on 14th Jan. it due to? Was it due to the and is due to arrive here on or about 14th
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fact that the material was not The 39. FATHAN (of the Mogul Line) homogenous or was it due to the sailed from U. K. on 25th January, and is fact that the ordinary testing due to arrive here on or about 5th March. machine did not enable them to
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No. 8. 28. The Following par- that the elastic limit and the go are hereby notified to send in ticulare of the letting by tender yielding point were one and the their bills of lading for counter of a granite quarry at Ngau Tau same thing. In order to find ont signature and tako immediate Kok, Now Kowloon, are publish- what was happening in the delivery of cargo from alongside. od. specimens the lecturer remarked Cargo impeding dincharge will
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Sealed toaders, which should be landed immediately at con- be clearly marked "Tender for that it was necessary to devise signees' risk and expense. Cargo Quarry at Ngau Tau Kok." will very serious instrument which remaining undelivered Tuesday, be received at the Colonial Secre- enablo: one tu measure the February 3, 1914 will be landed tary's Office nutil Noon of Mon- sttetob to one-half-millionth of at consignees risk and expense. day, the 9th February, 1914. of One Lot of Crown Land at commencing from 31st March,
Cargo remaining undelivored The Government does not bind Saturday, February 7, 1914 at itself to accept the highost or any noon in addition to the landing tender. charges will be subject to storage
an inch, from which they would Bee they were working to very fine uoзeurerements indeed.
The lecturer then explaicel his points ou diagrame thrown on a screen and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the speaker.
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