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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
N. 8. W. v. M. C. C.
COTTON STRIKE.
TWO MILLS TO RESUME.
HOMESTERS BRILLIANT
REPLY.
ROWING.
CREW FOR MANILA, Training of the crows to go from the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club to row against Mariin bas boen Shanghai, February 24 The going on this week with some
caalor
and dimoulty. Owing to the fact that strike situation in
stopped. Two atzoko of the four, A. C. Grover, intimidation has millas employing seven thousand he been unable for two night to de people have decided to resume to- any rowing, the other three hove been going out behind n substitute stroke and of course, this has not to assisted the training, which is being of carried on by Mr. F. J. Euster- thebrook and Dr. E. P. Minett,
morrow.
It is reported that the strikers have reduced their demanda applying for the cessation assaults by overacers
and
Sydney, February 24-In sultry weather, 5,700 people asembled at the Sydney Cricket Ground to-day to see New South Wales bring their Born to 516 for 5 wickets in tho match against the M.C.C. Tho wicket was wearing well, but the bowling lacked sting and was not dficult. Throughout the batsmen had complete mastery of the reinstatement of all employees with However the others are showing bowling. Colline scored 173, in-no victimisation. The demand for cluding n fve and 13 fourn He increased pay has been dropped. batted for 257 minuten. Andrews-Reuter. batted for 296 minutes and scored 224. His brilliant hitting all round the wicket Included 13 fours. His is the highest acore made gainst the tourists. He and Collins scored 270 in three hours which is a record for a Retonil wicket stand in N.S.W.-M.C.C. matches.
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Evers particle of matter is be-in that in addition to the pair our lieved to be constantly dissipal-uvent a pair out of ench bout shall ing energy, and more than one row a third event, thus making the The fielding was good; Gilligan man of suience han claimed to contest one for fours and two races was brilliant. A draw is inevit-have demonstrated the existenco for pairs.
So for the Hongkong four has able, in view of the
on of rays with remarkable proper- Friday.Reuter.
ties emanating from the human not been split up to try their body, particulary from the norven strength against cuch other bat in Such were the any event the pairs will be either and muscles," "V" rays which Major Dargot, a Rasmussen and Bishop or Groves French investigator, claimed to fund Easterbrook. The latter aro have discovered, and the "N" light pair and the latter heavy, rays of M. Blondlot. They were, and before the end of the week Some Queer Results. it was said, capable of enhancing they will be tested against encia electric sparks, 241241 when other.
The main pair are doing very Visit a dog show, and look at
originating 113 the heart, the the animals exhibited there. diaphragm, and certain musclos, well and were out yesterday despit Compara a St. Bernard, a bulldog, could pase through thin shoots of the fact that the weather was in- and a Pekinese, and try to remem-aluminium, which stopped those element. They are Mesars. Robert- bor impossible as it my soom-coming from the nerves or the son and Henderson and have been that they were all bred from brain, though the brain was rowing very well together.
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Man porforins miracles with But, so far, the claims of the dis- plante, making wild grass into coverors of these rays have not hoavy-headed whoats, and cbang-buen substantiated by other in- bages, writes T. C. Bridges in the They are recalled however, by Daily Dispatch. Yet all his efforts the announcement, made in the in this direction are not so strunge Times to other day, that an as the results obtained by cross-order has just boen made by!
Patont brooding different variation of the
Oflice rostaring birds and beasts.
Lotters Patent granted Bevon Charles to Mr. DRO
call that they
It has recently been announced years that a wall-kunwn fancior. has Buss, M.B., M.R.C.S.. for an
entitled invention
in- "An brød tumblor pigeons to such point
only strumont which is set in motion throw somersaults. but no and whose motion is controlled, that is, by longer ily. The varioty of by the human eye, pigeon known as the dragoon is vision. almost equally different from its
HOW IT WORKS. . wild progenitor. In America a
This is accomplishod by n fancler has produced a fowl that
"delicato
Rolanoid of metallic is practically foutherless. Ho is
ndor the impression that such a wire suspended near two charged bird will put all the enengy for-insulated conductors." This tom-! merly given to forming fuathors porary magnet can be moved at! into producing eggs. English ox- will simply by directing one ori ports regard this experiment with both ayos at oither extremity.
The same movement can also be!
the solenoid communicated to
de orn.
It is in England, however, that the turkey has been crossed with when it is suspended in the of a Bacond magnetic fold the Wyandotto fowl. The cross, solenoid, and the intorposition of knows as the "churkay," was shown in 1923 at the National scroons of glass or celluloid! Utility Poultry Show. While the between the solenoid and the body of this bird rosetubles that of oye is unable to affect its move- a fowl, it has the hood and wattles mont when the oyo is focussed of a turkey. Another strange bird on it. hybird is the "swoce," which is half-swan half-gouso.
THE ZEBRULE,
Apparently the inventor of this remarkable instrument has con- vinced himself that rays,
yoark
or
sono form of radiation from the Among animals, one of the joye, are tho offective and only most promising erasses is that cating of the movement, as his between the zebra and the horse. experiments have been prolungod The first was born in 1896 at for several years, but it would Ponyenik, in Midlothian, and the be interesting to know if he has formed any opinion as to the Indian Government has since Vœux
purchased some of those hybrids nature of the rays, and whothor ho has tosted the phonome-i for draught purpuses. The zobrute is hardy, a good trotter, nan with his own eyes only, or and can stand extremes of heat has convinced himself that the and cold. Full grown, it stands are power is possessed by all
human eyes. about 14 hands, and is strong
So many marvellous things and stocky.
havo beon discovered in the last In Canada a now beef animal quarter of a century that nothing! has come into being from cross-can be diamiusod as improbable. ing Hereford cattle with the t Was twenty
aftor bison. The creature has the Clerk-Maxwell hoorotically do oddest appearance, having the
oxistonco of monstrated tho white face of the foreford with electric waves in the other that the mane and hump of the bison. Herz proved their existence, and The lion and tigor, will brood another doondo elapsed before together, and the offspring has Marconi commercially utilised properties. marvellous the tiger's body with the lion's thoir hoad. The leopard and puma X-rays woro discovered almost have been successfully crossed, by accident by Rantgen, but it and so havo the leopard and the was left to investigators liko Sir lion.
W. H. Bragg to prove their roal naturo. It is not easy to 800 what uso can be made of Mr. The boat of our common forrots Russ's invention, assuming it is' aro the result of a cross botwoon banod on a real phenomen, but the white farrat and the English like so many other scientific dis- polecat. The forrot has also boon coveries it may prove capable of crossed with the common stoat. unexpected developments and ap- Now and valuable varieties of plications. ahonp havo boan produced by crossing domestle variotios with the giant wild shoop of Asia, while park door and English phossants have boon similarly improved by the introduction of wild blood,
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