SERIOUS CHARGE.
FRUIT CULTURE.
A HUNGHOM AFFAIR.' PHILIPPINES RESEARCHES.
An asexual method of propagat- Three mon, who were arested at No, 47, Yn Chau Street, in a pollesing, the bud fruiting producing.
raid on Thursday afternoon, were charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning with participation in an armed robbery committed at No. 34, Bulkeley Street, on July 31, when money and jewellery amounting to about $6,000 was stolen.
Two of the defendants were "further charged with unlawful passession of stolen property and
were remanded for one week.
The other defendant was remand
ed for 48 hours;
SVALBARD.
NORWAY ANNEXES
SPITZBERGEN.
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trees of the troples has been per
fected by the Singalong expert mental station of the bureau of agriculture, reports the Manila
Bulletin.
This method bids well to revolu. tionize fruit growing in the tropics and places the Industry on the same basis as is employed in ap- ple, peach and pear orchards of the temperate zone.
The horticulturists of the tropf cal sections of the world have for yeare endeavored to improve the method of propagating the fruit trees which produce their fruitä from the terminal bud or at the end of the branch. Various methods of budding and grafting have been used with only partial
the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, -- SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1925.
ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE.
STILL EXISTS. IN SPIRIT,
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The Anglo-Japanese alliance, which lapsed. In consequence of
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the Washington agreement, still exists in spirit, according to an official, interview with Prince Chichibu, the second son of the Emperor of Japan, who has arriv ad in England for two years' study
at Oxford.
It is true," he said, "that our alliance, which did such splendid work, has ceased just when it was needed. In spirit, however, it exists. It is to-day as virile as ever. and permeates the whole- Japanese people.
"I am not here to talk politics, but I may just mention the sub- ject to China, to show how offer. tive is the understanding between Japan and her former ally."
Tho Prince ig interested especially in sport, but despite this inclination, he has been as- signed to Dr. G. R." Owat, as a tutor, whose official title is naais- to the tani editorial secretary (Medieval Latin Dictionary Com-
mittee.
MAN 12,000,000 YEARS AGO.
EARLY EVIDENCE OF HUMAN
LIFE FOUND,
New Method Found. When a superior variety of mangos, lansonia or other terminal fruit producing plants were found valuable, the only method which could be employed to insure the Oslo, August 14.
variety to cultivation was to graft Norway has formally taken pos
a portion of the tree by approach. Beɛsion of Spitzbergen," which henceforth will be named Sval-This method is a very crude one bard.
The event was celebrated and assures only a small percent- For this reason very solemnly at Longyear-City, age of success.
other simple methods, have been Advent-Bay,
the Minister of
to Justice reading out the procluma-sought without suceesa tion and hoisting the Norwegian experimenters until the cleft graft- flag, besides announcing the ap-ing method was developed at the pointment of a deputy prefect.Singalong experimental station.
Mangos have been fruited with- Evidence that man existed in in eight months from the date of the age of dinosaurs, twelve mil- the graft operation. Mangos and on years ago, was believed to lansonen have been successfully have been discovered by scientista' propagated.. The percentage of at Camp Verde, near Jerome, ac- success for perfect unions have curding to word received at San averaged over 98 per cent. This Francisco that several stone picks percentage of success and the or hammers had been found over simple method employed makes it a hundred feet deep in a sodium
Accord possible for orchards to be plant, sulphate deposit there. Montreal, Aug. 14. jed and operated with the assuring to archaeologists twelve mil- Patterson (Australia) best ance that only first class fruits Ben years must have elapsed for Wright
(Canada). 2-6,3-6,6-will be produced within a definite the sulphate deposit to build up date of propagation and a regular to a height of a hundred feet crop can be obtained.
above the discovered implements,
Reuter.
DAVIS CUP.
"AUSTRALIA ELÍMINATES
3,6-1,6-3.
CANADA.
Patterson and Hawkes defeated Crocker and Wright, G-0,6-2, 6-4.
Australia has thus oliminated Canada in the Davis Cup contest.
Renter's American Service.
fine specimens of the hammers have been sent to the Smithsonian. Institution in Washington, D.C.
The hammers show remarkably Big Results Possible.
fine workmanship and, according The method of grafting is as to the discoverers, their position: follows: A healthy seedling from when found indicate they were one to two years old is selected positively contemporary with sul- for the stock. The seion is select-phate level ages ago. The dis- According to the Northerned from a fruiting branch of a covery is said to corroborate evi- Chinese pross Mr. Sun Fo, son of tree known to produce superior dence furnished by pictographs in the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and fruits. The scion is cut from six Havasupal Canyon that man exist Commissioner for Reconstruction to seven inches in length. The clefted in the age of dinosaurs. Two in Kwangtung, has issued a state- method of grafting employed after ment to the effect that the Canton the scion is inserted in the stock; Administration is prepared to join the union is wrapped with wax hands with Peking in dealing cloth. To prevent the scion from with diplomatic affairs and that his visit to Paking is connected dying by being exposed to the
sun and weather, a small quantity "One hundred and forty-sight with the transfer of the Shameen of aphagaun moss to the thick divorces were granted on one day negotiations to the Capital. The Central Government has order-ness of approximately one inch is recently in the Philadelphia Com- mon Pleas Courts.. Announce- ed Mr. Klang Yung. Chinese wrapped around the scion and
union. Minister to Tokyo, to negotiate
A piece of Manila paper mont was made that no more with Mr. Sun, who has arrived in eight inches square holds the moss i decrees would be grated until Peking, accompanied by Mr. Shu in place with a string at the base. September, Shih-ying, general secretary of During wet weather a small hole the National Citizens' Conven- is cut in the lower part of the tion
paper to
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the high percentage, in the pro- pagation of the mangosteen and nephilium or luychee which will in turn permit these trees to be grown in orchards here and in other parts of the tropics success- fully and profitably,
CAUGHT IN NEW TERRITORIES.
permit the excessive moisture to escape.
With the high percentage of The following interesting ex success obtained in propagating track in from the book "China the mango and lansonin, it is be Awakened," by Dr. M. T. Zlieved that experiments which are Tyau:Great Britain was the now being carried on will insure first to express its sympathy with China's aspiration, in the Sino- British agreement of 1902, in the following words:"China having! expressed a strong desire to re- farm her judicial system and to bring it into accord with that of Western nations, Great. Britain agrees to give every assistance to such reform, and she will also bet prepared to relinquish her ex- traterritorial rights when she in Batisfied that the state of Chinese laws, the arrangements for their administration, and other con- siderations warrant' her in so-do- ing. The United States and Japan followed the next yeaT,
Present indications point to one of the best crop years western! Canada has experienced in a da-: cade, according to the weekly crop report of the Canadian Paci Ac Railway. Prospects of a hum- per yield in all three Prairie Pro- vinces are uniformly bright. Fields generally present a splon- did appearance, the stand being heavy and the colour good. Early wheat and barley is reported to be beading at many points.
In the course of botting prosec. utions at Cork the superintendent! of the Civic Goard said the city had simply gone mad on the bet ting craze. Whenever a big raco was on the traffic was practically
held up in the principal thorough- fares by people who assembled
there to make bets. They stood
with newspapers and racing pa-
pere discussing form, and to make mattor worse most of the pooplo could not afford to bet. The prin- the New Territories, near a village in the Shatin district. This cipal defendants were each fined strange and rare animal has since been sent to the London Zoo by His Excellency the Governor.Photo kindly lont by Mr. H. Green. £20
The above picture shows the Pangolin which was caught in
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