THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1986.
£1,010,288 Will Of The
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Man Who Made
Made Ink
MR. Michael Stephens, re-
tired ink manufacturer, who died in Portugal in February, has left estate valued at £1,010,288..
AFRICAN WATER
Paris, Apr. 8. A plan calling for the creation Estato duty of £373.174 has of two vast lakes in the heart of been paid.
Africa, and connecting them with the Mediterranean by * canal 2,000 miles long, has been pro posed by a German engineer.
Mr. Stephens, who was sixty- eight, went to Estoril. Portugal, for a holiday and was taken ill in an hotel there after playing bridge. Death was due to heurt failure..
Mr. Stephens was the grandson of the founder of the famous Ink manufacturing firm, and was its hend until it was turned into à public company in 1926, when he retiral.
Four days before his death Mr. Stephens made a codicil to his will. Probate of this and the will has been granted to his widow.
He left her £25,000, bonds and securities abroad, kis property in Surrey, his collection of stamps and any two racehorses she may elect
SELECTED HORSES
As "Tattenham" exclusively an- nounced a month ago, the selected horses were Victor Normatt, who subsequently won the Hurdle Chal-
His ColOBBRI project, which recently appeared in the Depeche Coloniale, is to construct these two internal lakes by utlizing the natural formation of the land and, by employing and harnessing near- by rivers,
The Arst luke would be largely located in Belgian Congo and would be made possible by the damming The second of the Congo River. lake, which would be directly to the north, would be formed by enlarg ing Lake Chad, which has been Jundergoing a drying-up process in recent years. This would be done by forcing the Logone River, which has been gradually, changing ite course, to flow back and once again feed Lake Chad. Since both lakes would be in eiuso proximity they would be joined by a short canal. The Inst part of the plan calls for the joining of Lake Chad with the Mediterranean by what would be the world's longest canal.
lenge Cup at Cheltenham, and If the plan is ever worked out, Armour Bright.
Ile kave £2,000, an annuity of £1,000, his other racehorses and his stable furniture to Morgan D. Blair, his trainer.
The will makes several bequests
to servants.
THE LAST MDIVANI BROTHER
DEBUNKS 'MDIVANI
CHARM'
Plymouth, Apr. 8.
central Africa would become one of the most fertile regions in the world. The German ongineer works on the fundamental principle that "all animal and vegetable life is dependent on the presence of heat and water. The first condi tion is more than, amply fulfilled in this region. But there is a deplorable lack of water which is vitally necessary in these vast ox- panses of land now eronomically worthless in this respect while the valuable waters of rivere like the Congo How wastefully and uselessly from the Interior to the ocean.
In order to make this region a rich and flourishing land, the engineer proposes making use of the Congo. The Congo busin, is encircled by a continuous chain of
mountain Home 1,700 feet above sen level, broken only by the gorge which has been carved out' by the waters of the Congo. lie would bar
Bridal group taken at the wedding, at St. Joseph's Church, of Mr. P. N, da Silva and Miss Ofelim Barretto. The bridesmaids were the Misses Edith and Laura Nolasco da Silva, Hilda de Sousa and Pau- (Photo: line Choa, while Mr. Leo D'Almada Castro, Jr., and Mr. P. N. da Silva, Sr., were bost men.
Mas Chaung). *
Prince David Mdivani, last this exit by a huge dam to control The tarpon which is much sought after by the fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, is a strong and agile creature of the three Mdivani bro-the outflowing waters. This hollow
would be filled. in and form the
thers, former husband of film basin of a lake some 900,000 in area. As star Mac Murray, arrived square kilometres
France covers a total superficies here to-day from New York. of 650,985 square kilometres, the This is his first visit to Eng-size of this lake can well be
Imagined. land for sixteen years.
He was on board the Ile de To the north is the centre and France on Sunday when a cable lowest part of annther basin, which told him that his brother, Serge, is relatively close to the proposed --had been-killed-playing-paloin Logone River, the only important Congo Lake. Thus by forcing the
Florida.
afluent of Lake Clind, to flow back Prince David and Prince Sergejalong ita old bed to Chad, a second were almost inseparable com-lake almost equal in area to the panions. Princo David left New first lake would come into existence. York for London, on Saturday to There would be only 100 metres clear up some of the estate efi difference in levels of both lakes so by his brother, Alexis, who was that a short canal joining them killed Inat August in a car smash would net as a flood gate, controll- In Spain.
ing the levels of both lakes,
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To-day the Prince landed,) The most stupendous part of the deeply shaken by the death of programme then calls för insuring his last bratlier. He goes direct sea communication of Tibesti straight back to Americà on in Central Africa with Mediter Monday for the funeral,
'MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
In a few terse comments and facts which he gave this morning. he sheds n new Eght on the Mdivanis,
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ranean ports by the construction of
a canal more than 2,000 miles long which would flow through the Touareg Mountains and across the Sahara, coming out at Tonis, not fr from Italian Tripoli."
Whether the project la ever acted Prince David is not particu-upon or not, it is one of a series of proposals advanced In recent larly good looking. His half grey, half sandy hair is bols-years which would directly affeét the "Dark Continent." Other plans terously curly. His eyes are a have called the creation of a green-brown, he has a slow, shy Sahara Lake, the lowering of the emile. In the past few days he level of the Mediterranean and the has become a multi-millionaire. construction of an immense electric He sald: "My brother's death is central by the building of a barago a terrible shock. Both Alexis and cross the Straits of Gibraltar, the Serge were just jolly good fellows. Italian projects of submerging the "There is no particular Md.vani Danakil desert in Abyssinia and charm. That's all bunk. We have tranforming the recently captur been hounded by publicity. We ed town of Makalle into a seaport,
as well as have not wanted it.
plan of General Jean M. Tilhe, member of the French “As for marrying heiresses-Academy of Science, to insure the say-look, not any amount of future of Lake Chad by changing marriages to heiresses could the course of the Logone River.--- give us the money we've earned [United Press, ourselves out of oil.
"I know the Mdivani reputation"
as playboys." Here that slow, Air Traffic Mounts pleasant smile.
facta.
But here are
"Fifteen years ago Sorge and ! began studying oil mining in | America. Wo worked hard, in overalls, as apprentices in the boughest oilfield of America.
OIL AND GOLD
“In 1950 we owned ono oil well. !
"Now my brother leaves 110 producing oil wells, twenty-five more about to be bored. He leaves two goldfields, I have a large number of oil wells too," The last of the Milivanis sighed over oil. For he said, "Yos, W like it, toll, a fascinating “Busibens. I like solo too, but you have to work before you can play,”-
50 P. C. During '35
Washington, Apr. 11.
A gain of GO per cent, in the number of passengers carried on commercial airways in 1935 over 1934 was reported by the Com- merce Department,
The 1935 total was 860,761 against 561,370 In 1934, including passengers carried on domestic Airways and their Canadian and Latin-American extensions. Pounds of air express - jumped from 3,449,675 to 6,511,737, Miles Down went to: 33,540,233 from 48,786,5517
Passengers pald an average of
··5.7 cents per mile In 1935 against
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