GARDNER
HEAVY OIL ENGINES
Cold Starting. Compression Ignition.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929.
A PARISIAN DANCER AT STAR THEATRE. WAS
#
BUILT IN MANY SIZES
54 10 300 B.H.P.--3, 4, 5 and. 6 Cylinders.
Special
Features
Starts, from cold, without the use of starting lamps, electric
or other pre-heating device
Airless Fuel Injection.**.
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Variable Speed Governör-range from 0.3 to full spead.
Steady running, at the slowest speed, without land,
immediately after starting.
Forced Lubrication Bystem-fitted with oil cooler. Direct Reversing controlled by one hand wheel:
Fuel Consumption 0.4 lb. per B.H.P. hour.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.
SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA AND HONGKONG,
Queen's Buildings.
WELL
Hongkong.
HERE'S LOOKING!~
THIS MANISH CERTAINLY IS THE BEST WHISKY SCOTLAND HAS GIVEN US”
Note the different flavour of McNISH- it signifies BETTER QUALITY
MCNISH'S
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THE TIME FOR BLANKETS
IS HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THOSE 'WHO CANNOT AFFORD. THEM?'
Members of the Committee attend at the Society's" Room, City Hall, every Monday and Thursday, at 10.30 to receive Gifts of Blankets, part-worn clothing, etc.
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
(Est. 1889)
Mile. Ameta, the Parisian Mirror and Fire Danter, who is to appear at the Star Theatre. as a special New Year nitration. She has a distinct novelty in mirror dancing. She employs inrge mirrors which reflect her every pore, and give the effect of a company of ballerinas dancing at once. Her dices are the exemplification of grace and the poetry of motion. She appears with a wealth of filmy robes which are given beautiful Gints under the multi-huel rays in which she dances,
MURDER DURING
SLEEP..
DEFENCE ACCEPTED BY
JURY.'
rease, the daughter would have to go and put her child in a home, Later the child was found dend,
The jury returned a verdict of guilty hot insane, and Alexander -[was nidered to be deinined during The mother of „Alexander, said carried from the dock in a state the King's pleasure. Shu WHA that her daughter was jilted by a man three days before the date of collapse. fixed for her wedding, and had been depressed since.
A-defence of somnambulistu was raised at Winchester Assizes when Marie Patterson Alexander, ages Dr. Watson, of Brixton Gaol 30, single, was ageused of murder- said it was possible that the act ing her three-your-oki child by was committed in a state of som- cutting his throat at Newport, Istenambulism. He was satisfied that of Wight.
she had forgotten the act.
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Mr. Maude (prosecuting) ex- Mr: Justice Charles-Supposing plained that there had been un-someone committed an net of this pleasantness home through sort in a state of somnambulism, Alexander' alleired infatuation | would they be in a position to dis- (with a married man. The parent tinguish between right and
had suggested that, if it did not wrong? should think not.
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S.E. ENGLAND ELECTRICITY · SCHEME.
BRITISH MATERIALS TO BE USED.
The whole of the material used in the contract placed by the Central Electricity Board with the General Electric Co., Ltd., for one section of the overhead trans- mission lines In the south-east of England, will be manufactured in Great Britain,
An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would cover the erection of the 132,000 volt line in the district north of the Thames, stretching from Reading on the west to Peterborough on the north, and Ipswich and Colchester on the east. The total mileage of the overhead trans« mission would be 254 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be 1,800 miles.
The contract would be carried out by the General Electric Company with the assistance of their, associated company, the Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd., of Southampton, the latter company carrying out all the actual erection work." The work of erection would 'take. in all three years, and employment would be given in the "actual erection work to between 500 and 1,000 men. In
addition to that employment would be given to large. numbers in the manufacture of the steel towers, atesl aluminium conductors Insulators, and other accessories. 'The overhead lines are ons section of the system of overhead lines covering the whole of England and Scot- lind which are being erected by the Central ́ Electricity. Board with the object of linking up the main generating stations throughout the country and affording a cheap supply of electric power in all districts.
FIRELLI LIENERAL
Estimates for underground Cables up to 38,000 volts & overhead Transmission schemes up to 120,000 volts given by
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. OF CHINA
Queen's Building, Hongkong.
Sales and Service on
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Prices Competitive
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