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ELECTRICAL PLANT AND ACCESSORIES

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS IN CHINA & HONGKONG,

ARNHOLD BROTHERS & Co., Ltd.

1A, Chator Road.

Phone 1500.

“THE REV. MRS.”

THE CHINA MAIL.'

MARRIAGE SERVICE BY A WOMAN.

OMISSION OF "ODEY."'

What is said to be the first wedding ceremony to be performed by a woman in England has taken place at Greville-place Congregational Chapel, Grevilleplace, Maida Vale, W.

The officiating minister was the Rev. Constance Mary Coltman, and the bride and bridegroom were Misa Ethel Minnie Parker and Mr. Arthur HL. H. Draper, of St. John's Wood,

N.W.

THIEF POSES AS MAGNATE, | NEW GERMAN INVENTION. ployed and various changes were

MONOOLE AND WELL-OUT CLOTHES,

CAUGHT BY MILLIONAIKE"

DETECTIVE.

THE FLETTNER RUDDER.

GENERAL ITEMS.

BRITISH TYPEWRITER FAILURE,

cables with unfortunate results. From California, for example, comes nows of A tragedy, in which one man was killed, one boy erippled for life and two others so badly burned that they were confined to the hospital. This The sale is sunounced of the pre- youngster need a metal string for his happened because one progressive minos of the Conqueror Typewriter kita. A boy in Flint, Mich., was is principat abareholder. The commencer Company, of which Viscount Lascelles killed last August in a very similar pany, whose premiser were consider on youngsters the danger of using Is might be well to impresn ed the last word for the purpose of fine wine of any kind in kite firing. mass production, was started in 1910 with a nominal capital of £500,000 to produce an all-British typewriter able to compete with the best American machines, but owing to the industrial slump and other cauers not a single machine has been produced,

"RED FLAG" AT GRAVESIDE.

RUINED BY GOOD LUCK.

cribes the case of Captain D. Penn, Life ruined by good luck" des who, it is stated, is now tramping the A special order of service was em

streets of Lendes looking for work, sleeping on the Embankment, and who if he had not draw the lucky made to give expression to modero ideale of Christian marriage. For ex Forming a procession more than take, might have had a successful number in a Calcutta Derby Sacops. ample, the word "obey" was omitted half a mle in length 5,000 unemploy career in the army. Penn in 1898 by the bride, and the bride and bride. ed. Communist and trade union repre was a trooper in the 21st Loncurs. John William Baker, 38, who died Omdurman and was awarded the Dis peating they words: As this ring now encircles tby finger, from lukjaw following injuries alleged tinguished Conduct Medal. Later, so let my love surround thee all the to have been received in a riot at he went to India, was transferred to days of the life

She field recently,

the 12th Lancers and was promoted The Rev: Constance Mary Coltman The majority wore red rosettes or sorgeant. He and a comrade in 1909 the Communist section displayed the drew King Edward's borer, Minoru. Soviet stat.

Sympathisers present included 2 city 3000 sterling.

Penn's share of the prize was about Penn bought his on a riot charge. committed for trial at Leeds Assiers purchased a residence at Westcott, The bare-headed crowd sang theoonist's businers in the West End, but near Dorking and started a tobac dispersing.

Being again poor he joined the army at the outbreak of the war and was zoon promoted faptain.

Herr Direktor Anton Flettner Broora gave each other a ring, caeb sentatives attended the funeral of Le rode in the famous charge at}

before a representative gathering of German ekipowners and shipbuilders George Brown, one of the cleverent recently gave

most interesting bank thieves in England, was sen-account with demonstratione, of Lis tenced to nine months' imprisonment new.discovery-the Flettner rudder. in joint pastor with her husband, the paper poppies with black centres, and bought a Calcutta Sweep ticket and at Westminster Police Court in wail The controbing of this will require no Rev. Cloud Coltman, of Greville place week on a charge of loitering for a team or electric steering apparatus, Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. expired term of 15 months of a pressure produced by the rudder. To at Mansfield College, Oxford."; Ther councillors and others who have beau discharge and came to England. He felonious purpose. As he has an un- but is controlled by the water- Coltman were fellow students together year's sentence to serve, it will be 2 rudder is attached to the outer edge minister was ordained, and became auxiliary small were married the day after the girl years before he is again at liberty.

Brown is 69 and was released from of the rudder. When this auxiliary assistant ministers together in the Parkhurst Prison only three months/rudder is operated, by means of East End, where they carried on "Red Flag" at the grave side before by 1914 the result was a failure,

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achieve thie an

mechanical device, pressure is brought to the angle of the smaller one, which about on the wain rudder according

sgo. He went to live in Wiltshire road, Brixton. S. W., and gave every body the impression that he was

directs the force of the water into wealthy City magnate. Every morn- ing he left his bouno at 9.29. wearing auxiliary rudder operates in steer it 08 required. In brief the a monocle,white spate, and well out clother. He carried white gloves,ing the main rudder mach and a neatly folded umbrella was

hooked on his arm,

He always had visions of carry out a big bank robbery,, his special line being to walk from one bank to another and watch his opportunity to snatch up a bundle of notes or well-

filled wallet that a customer placed on the counter. It was nothing unusual

for him to wait inside a bank half on hour with his eyes constantly on the alost, and if for a single moment valuables had been left unattended he would have grabbed them-and-darted

away.

For a time detectives had sonie difficulty in following him, hat eventually they disguised themselves

as millionaires by locking as if they two, and to he did not suspect them

were soxious to deposit a thousand or

as they followed him into bank after

bank.

atands before the axis.

together the Darby-street Mission for Coltman was in great demand for the the King's Weigh House Church. Mrs.

christening of babies.

Bachelor of Divinity degree at Lon don University before she entered Maarfield College, and had also gain ed an M.A. degree.

Mrs. Coltman had taken ter

WHERE DIVORCE IS EASY.

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According to a White Paper, just} issue by the Government, antive marriage in the former German colony of Togoland, West Africa, may wrote to the Congregational Union," There are no specific grounds for "Before marrying the couple I be readily dissolved by the courts. said Mr. Celtman to a Daily Mail re divorce, the mere disinclination of one porter. The reply was that as there of the parties to continue the union to perform the ceremony. It was antion. are women registrars I was entitled bring sufficient to warrant a diazola

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BUSIEST STATION IN THE WORLD.

the size of the city and the dimen Tweety years ago Londoners proud sions of its trattic, and point to

the fact that Clapham Junte wa the busiest railway station in the

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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Edam, Australian Cheadar American Stilton and Picnic.

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SHAMMING MAD.

[By a Doctor in the Daily Mail.]

"I KISS EVERYBODY."

A BOHEMIAN WIFE.

world-on an average train a A question that is boing freely

Letters written to a young man by

a

& married woman who said that her

the main rudder acts in steer ing the ship. The operation of the auxiliary radder is facilitated by the fact that it is designed as a balanced rudder, so that part of the blade The machinery required to operate the auxiliary rudder is little more than that necessary to overcome the all-woman service-a woman minister Unfaithfulness on the part of a wife minute passed through it. Now that asked is this: "Is it possible for stream pressure. The transmission of woman organist, and a choir of is not considered particularly damag-record is doubled at the Underground clever convicto escape the gallows to at Middlesex Sessions, when

from the hand rudder power

ing to her obaracter, unless repeated station at Earl's Court, where 120 machinery to the auxiliary rudder blade is arranged by means of a shaft Act gives me the right to marry by the payment of damage by the the rush hours (according to Everyday

"Surely the Sex Disqualification a number of times, and is atoned for trains au bour pass through during by pretending to be insane?" which, passing through the hollow people, as I am an ordained minister. co respondent, the woman's word a Science) and at Charing Cross, wi h main

rudder shaft, is furnished In any case, the civil registrar was to his identity and the truth of the ita three underground stations in one, their guard against this, and an in- beneath with a fork leading to

But doctors have always to be on 4 presen.."

accusation being accepted as proof of there are often four and on autimate knowledge of mental disease second shaft which

the An eminent authority on these the offenon. auxiliary raider.

average three trains B minuta matters told a Daily Mail reporter With careful and exact adjustment that he believed the marriage to be in for the different classes--viz., £5 in un motor omaibases, and the borse detect the matingerer.

There is a fixed scale of damages Twenty years ago, again, there were may be required to enable them to is possible to steer with only 5 per order. "The eassatial part," he said, the case of a head chief, 50s. for omnibuses were but a fraction of their cent, of the power usually required is the issue of a cortifioste by a sub-chinf, 30s, for the more educated number. During the busiest houp for steering mechaniam bitherto.

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Moyes

The answer is, ** Yes.”.........

Knowing, for example, that insanity

nature was Bohemian were referred

Francis Albert Gray, 23, agert, of Pembury-road, Tottenham, N. Was

2100, the property of Max. n. charged with stealing articles valued

road, Muswell Hill, N. Archibald Tren- Goldsworthy, at 44, Fortis Green.

dell, 22, engineering student, of Hill drop-crescent, Holloway N.. WAL charged with receiving,

Mr. E. J. Purchase, for the prosecu

A practical demonstration of the aperintendent registrar. and the oed induential classes, and 48. 63. for to day 610 omnibuses pass Charing seldom comes on suddenly, they will tion. said that the morning after a He was finally arrested by Detec easy control of this steering device giving of us notice. In some cases the proletariat. This spplies whether Cross in the hoar 566 pase the Bank, look for evidence of its existenes be musical party given by Mrs. Golds. tive Inspector Stevens and Sergeant was given an experimental tank. In the registrar attends to record the the individual or the class mentioned 542 pass Oxford Cirens, and 518 para fore the crime was committed. Wiltshire while paying a second visit conclusion Ferr Direktor Ziegelasch, marriage, and although I am speak is the ffender or offended against.

ing from memory-there are cadea

ter, and his eyes. were fixed longingly on them.

& Flattner rudder,

SHIPBUILDING IN JAPAN.

worthy, whose guests they were for Piccadily Circus. Omnibus.sand underground trains carry 4,000,000 vestigate carefully the mode of onset rother of Archibald Trendell— Failing such evidence, they will in the night Gray and Leonard Trendell passengers a day. The population of the "ilinna" to see if it corres bound Mrs. Goldsworthy to a chair has increased less than 20 per cent, ponds to the usual incidence of and took the property. In view of some misstatements rebut for every journey in bus, tram,

si ce the beginning of the century mental disease.

Mrs. Goldsworthy said that she had train, or cab we

She and her The family history has also to be been married 24 years. made then, we studied in case some mental in-husband bad lived very happily to make Letween 80 and 10 to day.

stability may prove to have been gether. inherited; and a careful scrutiny of Mr. J. D. Cassels, for Gray (croes. the symptoms presentel by the examining): Did you at any time tell patient generally enables the ex- your husband that you were upon aminers, whe must see the case in terms of the elosest friendship with dependently of one another, to arrive Gray and Trendell 1-My husband at a true diagnosis,

was introduced to th m.

to the London County Westminster of the Deutsch Werft. A. G., an where an authorised persen can take and Parr's Bank Victoris street,nounced that they will be can the place of a registrar on the occasion. 8.W. He was atsuding close behind acting an 8,000, ton vessel for the As far as I remember, the identity of a woman customer whose art was. A. L., which will be a motor ship the person who officiated is almoet reating on a pile of notes on the coun- carrying no steering machinery, but immaterial, provided the necessary garding the revised shipbuilding pro

civil proceedings are adhered to." gramme of Japan the Consul-1 Discussing the alteration of the General for Japan at Simla states that marriage service, he said that the the new programme consists of the omission of words at the service which building of four 10 000 ton cruisers, were of an ecclesiastical nature would twenty four 1,400 ton destroyers, and not affect the validity of the marriage. The above programme is to be com twenty-two 1,370 ton submarines. provided that certain essential words

The Consul

"I am waiting to receive some money from a bookmaker," was bis explanation to the detective when they seized him. Later he said he

SOME SEA FACTS.

"GENERAL POST" PICNICS.

The difficulties that confront the impostor are enormous.

Mr. Cassels: And did you as some time introduce as a part to the enter tripment a woman of the name of "Billie"-Yes.

New interest will be added to motur conch tripe by a schems to be in General states that Japan is faithful ugurated shortly by the Samuelson to the spirit of the Washington Con. Transport Company, Ltd. 28 Dra. ference. While the number of ships mark-street, W. C.. The o ting will is increased in view of the necessary be called a General Post Social," demands of the prezent age, the new one of the chizi features of which will programme falls below the old cina be that the participants will have no latter is well-night impossible for any went upstairs, returning later to the

waa writing a book entitled "Why trate water to a depth greater than such as the truth, for instance-pleted in six year'

Ordinary light rays will not pens Crime has Decreased," and he was 282 feet. In other words, however, merely visiting the banks to get clear the water, there is pitch darkre repeated by the pair. material which would ebon bow

ness at 42 fathoms below the surface. vigilant the police were.

Detective Duncan informed the But the rays which affect a photo- magistrate that Brown in 1918 was graphic plate, the so-called actinia sent to penat servitude for five years rays, penetrate much deeper. Ex for stealing £100 from a bank counter periment has shown that in clear

water light will affect a photographic

in London, and was released on licencalate at a depth of 1,500 feet, or 250 in March this year. There were two fathome. Since water is a bad con other convictions in London. Ho had also been repeatedly punished in Paris ductor of heat. (saya Everyday Scienc.) the temperature of the sea is

*1 am old, fricadless, and penni les," pladed Brown. "For the last twelve years I have had nothing

but misfortune."

In sentencing him Mr. Chapman, the magistrate, remarked, "Your misfortunes are due to your babit of Bustching money from bank counters, This time you were claverly thwarted by the police officers." RAGIIME FOR PENGUINS,

MYSTERY WOMAN IN

POLICE COURT,

PAYING PRISONERS' FINES.

and anyone conversunt with Japan' idea as to their destination. old naval programme would know that the new plan reduces one cruiser thirteen destroyers, and twenty-four submarince viz. 13,385 tons in all, 12000. and men aud officers numbering about

Many curious and beautifal things

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TANK" MOTOR CAR.

To be consistent with bir assumes "madasss "he may have to go for days without food or sleep. The

one bat the nah-ppy lunatis.

Mr. Cassels suggested that after a bigb tea ste and "Billie"

The popular idea of madness is con. Į two young men in very scanty dress. tinual frenzied excitement

Mrs. Goldsworthy emphatically with incoherent conversation and erratic denied the suggestion, behaviour. The strain of keeping up deception of this kind is so great that frand is soon detected.

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Replying to counsel, Mr. Cassels, she said that she kissed the men good-night when they were in bed. "I kiss everybody," ehr added; “it is my Lature Lam of a Bohemian----- asture,"

She denied that it was at ber sug- gestion that she was bound and gagg-

Mrs. Goldsworthy said that Gray Not so with the malingerer. It is was called "Browa Eyes" and in the presence of visitors that he Treadell Blue Eye." She admit displays his wildest bursts of excite ted writing the letters and exclaimed. munt and incoherence-aymptome "I did not think that they would be hiob exbaustion compels him to cada anough to bring them up against abandon whenever he is alone,

It is an almost invariable rule that

count for his ridiculous fancies in a real lunatic will declare emphatically that he is perfectly sane. He will the most ingenious way, but admit

me."

Giay stated that his relations with

bound and gagged. Mrs. Goldsworthy had been intimate. It was on her suggestion that she was

The hearing was adjourned.

At an arranged time a coach with not more than 12 women passengers will proceed to a country spot on the outskirts of London. Fifteen minutes for theft, and a few years ago was very much more equable than that of

Daring the afternoon's proceedings

later another conch with 12 men pas expelled from Fance.

ecngers will follow. The passengers regions the ees is always warmer (says a home paper in moll week) & the land or in the air. In Polar re-at Marylebone Police Court yesterday

will then take fresh acats in the

Many are the pitfalls into which than the land or air, in the tropics it young-woman-entered-the-building

AN ANCIENT SEAPLANE," of the woman who holds a ticket

coaches, each man sitting by the side the sham lunatic may-be-entined is always cooler. On the equator the wearing the daiaticst of summer

Anyone familiar with an asylum bearing a corresponding number. dresses and a large pink hat. For

knows that a visit from a stranger temperature of the вед normally from 82 degrees to 83 de- some time she listened intenely to the unearthed by Professor Flinders the secret destination where a picnic result that he appears to be far more.

rangea

The coaches will then proceed to puts a patient on his guard, with the Brees Fahr, ; 87 degroes Fabr. is the sordid case, then she took a poor Petrin and the members of the British will be held, and a theatre or dance sans than he actuaily is. maximum temperature that has been child upon her lap and fondled it."

School of Arebealogy in Egypt during will terminate the outing after the re- registered. Land Burlaces in the i A little later a costo monger was the piat few months were included turn to town. There will be a woman tropics are raised sometimes to 130 charged with obstructon and was fined degrees F. The amount of salt and

an exhibition at University chaperon. The young woman promptly Collegue, Gower street, W.C. 30s, other solids present in the sea varies followed him out of the court and set

The story of the past is being piece considerably. In the Atlantic there are, him free by paying the fine.

Returning, she heard the case of inscriptions, and mammy cases, but together, not only from papyri, tomb Captain John Cadwallader, of Van- on an average, 8.6 part of dissolved | couver, British Columbia, who las matter in every 100 parts of water. ship's steward who bad been arrested also from countless staall objects cl just reached home from South Georgia Lo the Baltic the proportion of die of £20 due to his wife under a main bas yielded a rich harvest of tools degrees and rash light-heartedly over

on his arrival in port for the recovery common

To watch a motor-car climb a stes uso. The desert sand baak at an angle of more than 45 alter a two years' hunt for whales solved me to the Dead Be on the tenance order. The man was ordered and weapons, of domestic utensils, heavy ploughed ground was the ex- told of a remarkable gramophone only 0.5; in the Dead Bes, on to pay the amount or go to prison, toilet access.ries, games, antdelicate pericace of a dumber of people at that he is mad? Not he! "concert he gave in the Southern Sess, other hand, every 100 parts of water

with thousands of penguins as bis contains as many as 92 solids... Hence Remarking to an officer of the court jewellery.

Blough, Buckinghamshire, recently.. the Dead Sea's remarkable buoyancy that she would be back soon, the

The pretended lanatio, on the other Oon day," he said, "I took out More than thirty chemical elements young woman hurried out, hired at Abydos ivories of the first work car fitted with a special attachment,

This mechanicst kare was a 10 h.p. hand, never asserts his sanity. my gramophone into the cpes and have been found dissolved in the taxicab, and returning in a fewmanship were found, including an invented by M. Adolf Kagrease, forcaught app ng" in this way. Ask The clumsy actor may often be commenced to play it. There wasn't ocean, including gold. Gold, Lowever, miten paid a police officer the £20

exists only in very small quantities; penguin in sig t, but within a

ivory comb on which is carved a merly in charge of the Czar's garage him to same some common article When the overjoyed man expressed winged ship, like a fantastic forecast in Russia.

such as a penny, a pocket knife, or a For the information of visitors the minute of the first record being start- for every pouod's worth extracted his gratitude his benefactress told

of the seaplane. ed hundreds of birda appeared and probably £20 has been spent on the him that if ever he was in trouble

The attachment consists of a rub pencil. From four of showing sanity allowing list of some of the bighest ber "track," similar to those fitted to he will, as likely as not, name the points on the Island and Mainlsaj is walked in this slow, stately gait to attempt, sa many "get-rich-quick" again he was to be sure to go and see wards me.

people have discovered, Clothes her,

KITES AND CABLES,

Tanks, and operated by the rear axle. objects wrongly.

published:- Returning to the taxicab, she diros- Bama thousands. Several King or take a long time to dry, owing to the

Weat End Crested peogalus sat within a low { et: Presence of magnesium salts, which of me and the ordinary species form obstinately hold water and continue ed a number of circles. They listened to absorb it from the air oven while with almost human interest to the the clothes are drying. It te this music, and the lilt of ragtimes sent quality of magnesium salts which them shuffling and swaying...

causes table salt to become damp **When my concert was over the when the air is very moins. The hard penguiar rose, bowed gravely as it to era of sea water is due to the pre- express their thanks, and all walked sence of sulphates of calcium and

Budience.

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In the tombs of the first dynasty

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The weight of the back of the oar is A truly insane person, if he did not borne by four small wheels which run feel insulted, would smile in a superior

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

Very soon I had an audience of which have been immersed in the seated the driver to an address in the From various parts of the United on the track" and which are eprung. way at having to humour you in your Signal Station.

He defied God- and there-

THE DEVIL TO PAY

The faastlo is generally retiosnt

States come reports of serious and Litt weight reste on the front wheels madnes. But he would probably even fatal accidents due to the flying which are of an ordinary type-and sawer quite correctly.. of kites with fine wire in place of the on turning the crest of steep ascoate usual string. It appears that the front wheels on more than one about his delusions, but when an youngsters, in their desire to obtain occasion rose from the ground. imposter adopts them, as a rule ha higher altitude for their kiten, sub It is claimed that the car, which keeps harping on them continually.” stituts Ene mine for travy ring. har tenvalled at an average speed of Many other points of dilleronce There are several recent instantes of 25 miles sn. hour on a long road indicate that to feign insanity such kites and fine wires coming in journey, is suitable for motoring over successfully reganes skill, patience, contact with high-tension wires or snow, sand, mud, and ice.,

and knowledigs far above the avarngu.

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