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MONDAY MAY 15, 1922,

WAKIKUYU WEDDING,

BRIDE WANLAID AND LEFT

50.000 LITTLE SLAVE GIRLS SAVED BY A WOMAN IN 1922

BUT THEY ARE NOT SAYED

YET,

RUSTLES $ RI

DISCOVERY DUE TO INFINITE PAINS.

TO CRY FOR 8 DAYS.

--Returning to the United States

The secret history of the discovery after a nine-years' experience in East

of the new stainles malleable steel Africa as a Catholic missionary. Dr.

"The Government has done the and rustless iron-bath purely Shef L. J. van de Bergh "found it diffien't to get an unbiased or even credulous handsome thing in a handsome way field invations, which on the highest bearing owice to the absurd state in declaring that 50,000 little elametallurgical authority may revolu- ments (bead to my hearers) of the girls in Hongkong shall be set free. native sages and habits-which I

THE CHINA MAIL

TO-DAYS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL VACANCY.

UR A. & LOWE desires to thank M bis proposes and secondar and the other Justices of the Peace who bare koncored him by returning hin without a test, as their represents nive on the Legislative Council. Hongkong, May 13, 1922

G.

NOTICE

"They had to. They were up tionise certain sections of engineering spoke of." He resolved to return against a woman," says Mr. Wilson production-throws light on the in Midgley in the Daily News. "Mrs. and this time I wished to bring Haglewood had seen the thing which vestigations which are incessantly back photographe which could pot the Chinese call Mui Taai and proceeding to keep British industry lie." The result is just published in bis interesting book," On the Trail of Government officials call adoption ahead of foreign progress.

in its true, lurid colours. She return- the Pigmies" (Fisher Unwin, 12s 5d.)ed to England two years ago, having stainless steel was discovered mare or Public Bathing Beach adjolving

Shortly before the war the original risked health and position, and those who feet her then, a quiet woman less accidentally by Mr. Harry Sheffield metallurgist, with a soft voice and deep, dark eyes, Brearley, a

than operating in the Brown-Firth realised that she was bound to win.

to which Dr. G. B. Shattuck bas contributed some notable photo graphe

On the way to the Congo and the sualess forest in which his Figacies

"Other people English and Chinese, Research Laboratories, an enterprise rosm a variety of tribes were studied.

The Wakamba, settled eastward of may share in the honour of having reconducted jointly in the interests of Nairobi, have developed some remark-moved this ancient stain from the

Empire's scutcheon, Mrs. Hazlewood the two steel engineering and arma- able dentists. "Lost upper teeth are replaced with new ones obtained from has been the Florence Nightingale of ment firms of Thomas Firth and Sons, Ltd., and John Brown and Co., Ltd. the Kongoni az hartebeest (a large

Mr. Brearley, while investigating the antelope" These artificial teeth are "grafted on to the cavities and ham

of erosion in gun barrels mered in until they remain is place

detected the properties that a non- The tribe also have an abnormal sense of hearing: "They can speak to one another in ordinary conversational tones at a distance of one hundred yards without difficulty."

DEATH CONTAGIOUS.

the campaign.

"Numerous admirers of Abraham Lincoln were found to deny that Mui Tsai was slavery and to point out its benefits, but, unhappily for a wick

csusa

ed system, A child's cry had erodible material should possess. reached the heart of a woman who Stainless steel resulted from could see a straight issue and dared

subsequent experiments in alloys.

to net on what she saw.

"Commander Hazlewood, who had

the premises of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.

(1) This beach is now open for the

General Public,

(2) A charge of 10 cents per person

will be made.

Pabile Bathing Besah at

Kennedy Town

(1) This beach is now open for the i

General Public..

(2) A charge of 3 cents per person

will be tasat.

Public Bathing Beach st Stonnenther's Island.

(1) This beach is now open for the

General Public.

(2) A charge of 10 cents per person While its most interesting property will be made

T.L. FERKINS. Adjacent to Nairobi itself is found been through the horrors of Jutland, was that of being rust-proof, aircraft

Director of Public Works indebted to another of its though still a young man, was after was the Kikuyu tribe-"essentially a very the Armistice appointed superinten peculiarities-that of resisting the Public Works thee. religions and pensive people." They dent of the Admirsity Chart Depot in

Bongkang May 15, 1992. bold the familiar creed that "sin is the root of all evil and that the result the British Navy Yard in Hongkong. action of heat and of retaining a It is a British Colony for which high tensile strength at high temper

of sin is death.”

Britain is absolutely responsible. His stures. This virtue made it of special Stylish Ladies & Gentlemen's Footwear They further argue that death is wife had joined him, and one Saturday value for exhaust valve, which were contagions, and that therefore no on must touch the dead for fear of being trening, from the baddle of native made in bundreds of thousands for contaminated by the germ of death, houses beneath their hotel, they heard

Hence before a person dies he is carried the cry of a little girl, being punished aeroplanes even before they were pat out where no one needs to touch bis-far more than punished, tortured to a supreme test in the frst direct body after the departure of the spirit. Commander Hazlewood and his wife fight of the Atlantic, when the late went to the police station. The Sir John Alcock sud Sir A Whitzen official on duty, in the most canal Brown won The Daily Mail's £10,000 way, let slip the phrase, Probably prize on June 15, 1919, a slave girl It lit a candle which has burnt the system out,

When a person dies suddenly the body is left in the hut and a hole is made

in the wall so that the hyena will enter and drag the body out.

Marriage is a strenuous ceremony

"Mr. and Mrs. Hazlewood began at among the Wakikuyu. The bridegroom, having paid down the first instalace to inquire and to tell what they had seen. Commander Hazlewood ment of ten goats" to his prospective was bound by service regulations. father-in-law, as dowry, sends three Mrs. Hazlewood was not. It was coon

With the return of peace the use of stainless steel has spread to cutlery, sports implements, machines and engine parts, ship, railway carriage. and tramway car fittings, wire rope

of his friends to waylay the girl at a hinted to him on the highest satkerity and chains, and even stair-rods and certain prearranged spot.”,

He carries her off to his mother's that the climate did not suit bis wife'e frying pans.

health. It was true her health was "The twin discoveries of malleable hut, while she fights back and weeps affected, but it was not by the climate. stainless steel and rustless iron have continuall v. After the has been It was then suggested that Comman-now emerged after years of patient placed in the hat she weeps for eight der Hazlewood shetld resign, and research," said Doctor W. H. Hatfield, days more, while her husband remains the hint was conveyed that an officer who was a point d head of the Brown- who did not resign, but had to leave Firth Research Laboratories in sue- the service, would have to stay in the cession to Mr. Brearley, to a Daily Colony or pay the expenses of the Mail representative Journey home for himself and his wife. £

away.

1

The actual marriage takes place ten days later. Next morning, the "bride's girl friends come and take a great display of sorrow on losing their playmate. They stay for three days, during which period they weep "endlessly." When they are gone the

"The authorities found that Com mander Haslewood had leamt the

development "The #bole

of stainless steel and iron originated in Erse laboratories. Mr. Brearley was the principal here until six of

play is over; the husband builda bielesson of the British Navy; he stuck or seven year ago, and it was in his own hut, and the young couple settle to his guns. He refused to speak a time that stainless steel was first |

down to married life.

discovered. Since then we have been collectively developing the discovery.

but my opinion is that the field for "Rustless iron has a great future,

malleable stainless steel is even greater. Malleable stainless steel and

single word to discade his wife She refused to sbate one jot of her The Pigmies are described as activities. They came home. Com disappointing when one has taken mander Hazlewood obtained a po the trouble to march 200 miles to seetion as lecturer in his own technical them."

subject, and began a single-handed campaign. When a child-elave was rustless iron are both now available burnt with live coals, he saw to it in sheet form and can be pressed cold that the part of the British Press into the shapes required for domestic which was ready to pablish tensile building trade requisites or pleasant facts should be in possession

engin ering productà.” of them.

They are clannish and live among themselves without caring. to mingle with the rest of mankind Not have they their fixed abodes. They never finger longer than a fortnight in their villages, which are as diminutive as their bodies. We

offered meat and fowls, but they

rafosed because they must eat no meat which is not killed by their own hands in the forest. That seemned to be their taboo.

"Mrs. Hazlewood began ber campaign exactly where she had left off in Hongkong. People were sceptical; she gave them They were difficult to impress; she told them what she had heard and Members of Parliament

Reed.

factu

But the Pigmies are courageous bunters. Nothing is too big or too began to ask questions based on small. They will follow the trail of exact knowledge. They had talked elephant remorseleely. They with Mrs. Hazlewood. Women' pepper the big brate with their arrows societies took a sudden interest in the and put their spears in the branches

Mra. Hazlewood had question.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

From NEW YORK.

HE Steamship

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of the trees, to that they will addressed their meetings. The Daily baring amired mom the above port, pierce the back of the huge prey News, convinced after fall inquiry, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby Enti it finally is exhausted took up the case. The Government informed that all Greda are being er dies of loss of blood.

Departments kept on denying and landed at their risk into the hazardous evading and temporising according to and for extra-hazardous Godowns of their kind. The strength of the Hongkong and Koxloon Wharf, and charge was its weakness to some Godown Co., Ltd. whence delivery critical minds, but Mr. Hazlewood may be obtai ed. never forgot the crying of the child KING ALFONSO AND A PAGE in the night, and she has ber reward.

ROYAL OLD BEAN.'

BOY.

Н

"Fifty thousand little slave gide are saved from hanger, overwork, beatings, sale and resale, and the

Goods not cleared by the 22nd inst., will be subject to rent.

All broken chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined st 10 Would you have the goodness to horrible prostitution of the East. a.m. on the 22nd inst. mak the secretary to speak on the tele-Great Britain is indebted to a brave Claims against the Steamer must be phone?"

man and his indomitable wife. They presented within 10 days of arrival This message, received by the page sacrificed an honourable position and otherwise they will not be recognised. telephonist of the Military Club of risked the ostracism of polite society.

No Fire Insurance will be effected Madrid, so astounded him by its ex-Commander Hazlewood should be by us in any case whatever. quisite politeness that he thought one of the other pages was having a joke compensated and his wife should be

with him. He therefore replied genially:

"Hald the line, old bean (or the

bonoured."

Spanish equivalent), and I'll give him & Most Barbarous in«trument.

to you!" and fetched the secretary.

"A most barbarous instrument and To his horror the secretary; says highly discreditable. We do not want

by

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I'Opinion, addressed the person who to return to the thumb screws in this SAFETY FIRST had rung up as Your majesty," country," said Judge Jones at the Shortly afterwards a message came Old Bailey in condemning the new that the page telephonist was to go to police handcuffs. The police said that the palace. There the King received the cog wheels tightened the hand- him and gave him a 100 peseta (about cuffs if the prisoner struggled. The $4) note, saying laughingly, "Thers Judge said he understood that it was au American invention and in the you are, old bean

King Alfonso took such a fancy to present case it took more than st the boy that he invited him to spend hour to unfasten. He added: "Per- the rest of the afternoon at the palace haps- some people in America need with the royal children.

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