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We are removing from our present premises (opposite main entrance of the Hong Kong Hotel) to the new address at present occupied by "At The Sign of the Lantern," in the ground floor of York Building, and have to sell the entire stock.

No reasonable offer refused.

Sale commenced on 1st. June, 1928.

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· MANUFACTURER OF PERSERVED GINGER AND PHUTT. "Established For More Than Forty Years.

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PHOTOGRAPHY.

THE CHINA MAIL,

FROM DAGUERREOTYPES TO SNAPSHOTS.

ITS ROMANCE.

OBSTINATE DRIVER. | A STEP-DAUGHTER.

SINGAPORE DOCTOR AND

POLICE MAGISTRATE.

"DRASTIC TREATMENT.”

LOVE AFFAIR WITH

CHAUFFEUR. *

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WASTEFUL LITIGATION.

What, one wonders, would Louis

In a case in which a motor-car The £50,000 estate of Mr. Charles Daguerre, father of daguerreotype, ayce was charged with causing seph Brown, of Beech Hill, New- think of the modern amateur photo- obstruction, a policeman told the rt. Shropshire, who died on June grapher who obtains his roll of Third Police Magistrate (Mr. 4, 1927. aged 78, was the subject of films from an automatic machine at C. H. Dakers) that defendant an action, Mias Amy Hannah An- a shilling a time? Doubtless even pulled up in front of Union Bulld-sell, Mr. Brown's housekeeper. this brilliant French pioneer could ing and refused to park his ear of Beech Hill, claimed to be execu- hardly foresee the ever-widening in the stand when asked to do so.trix of a will dated May 12, 1927, reach of his researches, for the gap The car was kept there for 25 and she propounded that will. This between the laborious days of the minutes. It was 4.50 o'clock, in wet plate and the modern efficiency the afternoon. of photographic films and dry plates is a wide one.

The defendant stated that he drove his employer, Dr. K. Black to the Singapore Club and put the car in front of Union Building, The policeman told him to drive the car away from the place, but he did not do so, because his em- ployer had ordered him to wait at that spot and he had to obey his employer's orders.

GEORGE EASTMAN. England, France, Germany, and America share fairly evenly the parentage of the modern hand camera. England took the lead one hundred and thirty years ago when Thomas Wedgwood first applied to photographic purposes the camera

He was fined $20 and costs and lucida, or sketching camera, re- cently invented by Dr. W. H. his licence was endorsed. Wollaston, and much used at that time by artists and architects for projecting an image on a screen to enable them to obtain true per- spective in their sketches.

Dr. Wollaston curried things a step farther when he found that a

was opposed by Mr. Clare Fordham Harriss, solicitor, of Newport, and Mrs. Arabella Mary Burgess, of the Knoll, Newport, executors of a will dated January 6, 1927, which they propounded.

The defence alleged that the will of May, was not duly executed, and that Mr. Brown was not of sound teatamentary capacity at the time. In particulars they alleged that in January last year Mr. Brown, in consequence of great worry and an- In the afternoon, Dr. Black, ad-xiety, had a mental breakdown, and dressing the magistrate, said that that he had not recovered from this the driver was in his employ, and at the time of the making of the will he thought the man had been in May, and that he was suffering drastically dealt with. The fine from senile dementia and delusions. Under the will of May 1927 Miss amounted to half his salary, He inquired why the magistrate had Ansell takes the whole of the estate imposed such a fine. He under- dens could be employed to sharpen stood if a man pleaded guilty with the exception of a legacy to he would not be fined so much.

MARRIED A WIDOW. What fine would His Worship have imposed if a plea of guilty

Mr. J. G. Hurst, K.C.. for Miss had been put forward?

WAS of His Worship said it would probAnsell, sald Mr. Brown

Yorkshire descent, and his family ably have been $5,

Dr. Black: You have fined for many years carried on the basi- ness of a private bank, trading as Brown and Co., at Leeds. Messrs. This bank in 1900 was absorbed by Lloyds Bank.

doctor and a few small legacies

to servants.

the image. Meanwhile, Daguerre had been busy with the study of light-sensitive surfaces, and his experiments Kreatly stimulated French research. About 1830 the Chevalier brothers manufactured in Paris the first photographic lenses. The mid-'thirties was, in fact, ahim 400 per cent, more. That is period of intensive experiment with very drastic treatment in the successive triumpha in various

circumstances for a poor man countries representing a state of with a family.. international rivalry that has a His Worship! I think you

When aged 42 he married a widow modern equivalent in the present should pay the fine.

who had one child by her former race for the perfection of television.

Dr. Black was understood to marriage. There were no chil- In 1835 W. H. Fox Talbot con- say that he would. He again in-dren of his marr age. His wife sur- structed a simple box camera for quired what the magistrate's ren-vived him, Lut she was insane and taking views of his house, and sons were for imposing such a had since dled. The only other claimed them as the first photo-heavy fine. He thought the police relatives were four sisters, members graphs of a building. Niepce enter-were rather prejudiced against of the Roman Catholic Church, and ed the fray with the invention of a him.

two brothers. The elder, William,

dants in these proceedings.

camera with a "bellowa" hody, first His Worship: I know nothing died in December last, and the used in France in 1839 for daguer- about that.

younger, George Henry, lived in reotype, and about the same date Dr. Black;

Would your Wor- New Zealand. The latter's four adw J. Atkinson place-England on ship give me your reasons, forchildren had been added as defen- terms with the first portable camera your sentence? of the "bellows" pattern. The pos- sibilities of the portable camera were seen for the first time, and with them came the knowledge of the vast potential public awaiting a conveniently compact model.

REACHING EVERYMAN. Between 1850, and 1860 small

His Worship: He was fined on

Apparently, said Mr. Hurst, Mr. the traffic policeman's evidence. Your syce absolutely refused to Brown was very much attached to his wife and atepdaughter. In 1912 obey the policeman's order. That is what I am here for the acquired Castle Wigg, Wigton- deal with these cases. — "Straits shire, and he lived there some year. At Castle Wigg a matter arose Times."

which caused Mr. Brown consider- uble distress for a time. His step-

portable cameras on modern lines IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. were made by B. G. Edwards, T. Scaife, A. Bertsch, and T. Ottewill,

but it was not until 1881, when AGREEMENT WITH GOVERN. rapid gelatine dry plates

MENT PUBLISHED.

were

achieved, that amateur photography drew within reach of Mr. and Mrs. Everyman.

Camerns în sundry styles and many disguises followed in, swift succession. Then, in 1888,, R. Krugener produced a camera dis-i guised as a book, and for a time it was the fashion to own a camera with the outward dress of anything from a watch or handbag to an umbrella handle or in one case-

straw hat! .

London, July 12. The new agreement between the Air Ministry and Imperial Airways, Ltd., has been issued in the form of a White Paper.

daughter became Infatuated with his chauffeur. Misa Ansell was engaged as companion-house-keeper by Mr. Brown and she looked after the household and the wife.

Mr. Hurst referred to several' wills of the late Mr. Brown. In one of June 17, 1918, his step- daughter received nothing.

RELIGIOUS BAN.

It comes into force on April 1, There was a clause that no one 1929, and provides for a subsidy who was a member of the Roman in respect of all services, of Catholic Church could take a share £335.000 during the first year, de-in his will. creasing to £70,000 in the tenth and final year.

In a codici he revoked that de- claration. In another codicil he Provision has been made for set aside a sufficient sum to provide At this stage, with cameras be the carriage of mails at a sur-an annual sum of £1,000 for his coming rapidly cheaper and likely to charge of approximately 8d. per stepdaughter for life, und in yet attract popular taste, Amerien en-ounce from England to Egypt and another codicil he declared that his

6d. from England to India. tered the field withs; a competitor The two recently-completed benefit if she married the man she stepdaughter should forfeit all who must be counted the real

"Calcutta" Rying-boats will be sponsor of modern "snapshotting."

had become infatuated with, That man was, and is, George East-handed over to Imperial Airways, Ltd. The company will pay for man, the head of the gigantic Kodak

the machines. corporation, who remains a blg figure despite America's attempts to make him one. He is seventy-three, has a fortune of approximately 150 million dollars, is a great philan- throplet, and no talker. Americans call him "Eastman the Silent."

Government will receive an allotment of deferred shares en titling them to half of the profits after a 10 per cent. dividend has beed paid on ordinary shares.

The Secretary of State for Air also retains the right to nominate

In January 1923 he executed a new will in which he gave his wife a life interest in his property.

Meanwhile, continued Mr. Hurst, his stepdaughter had. become ad- dicted to drink.

'In February 1927 Mr. Brown was suffering from the delusion that the police were in the house, that Bol sheviats were in the garden, and that people were trying to rób him.. A doctor who saw him came to News has been received of the the conclusion that he was incap- death at his home in Travoncore,able of managing his affairs, but he South India, of Mr. E. B. was acon well again. A little later Fernandez, former resident of the stepdaughter developed prou- Singapore for many years. Mr. monia and died. Fernandez was on the staff of the At the time in May when Mr. Dunlop Rubber Co. and afterwards Brown made the will benefiting his with Dupire: Bros. In 1924 he loft old housekeeper he was quite res for India and founded the Franco-covered and in full mental enpacity. British Trading Co. at Madras.

The personal story of George two Government Directors. Eastman is one of the most re- markable of all the Success. Sagas of America's businessmen. At fourteen, Eastman left his school in Rochester, U.S.A., and became a insurance clerk, contriving to save on a wage of three dollars a week. Ho next obtained a post as a bank clerk, and from a wage of £3 a weck saved £600 in seven years!

A HOLIDAY AT HOME. The merest chance turned film to photography. His holiday was due and he bought a camera, of which he knew nothing, to take with him.

"WASTING MONEY.”

Mr. Justice Hill Inquired the value of the estate.

Mr. Hurst: About £50,000. How much do your expect to be

He began at a time when the tography, but it also gave birth amateur photographer proclaimed to the film industry and extended himself with unwieldy tripods, a commercial photography in a hun-pent in this litigation?—I am sorry dark tont for outdoor developing, dred ways. and sundry bottles of chemicals.

.

KODAK TOWN.

Eastman did not go. away, but in The comparatively small town of stead remained to master his new Rochester has excellent reason to be hobby, and when he returned to his thankful for the bank clerk's inven- desk at the bank he devoted his tion and the beneficence of the in- evenings to its pursuit in his home-ventor, which shows itself in the made laboratory, with his home- Eastman Theatre that seats 3,400 made lamp.

people and combines a cinema with The arrival of dry plates only in a superlative, orchestra that plays tensified his bellef in the future of only the world's masterpieces; the his hobby, but he still felt that Eastman School of Music; the there were too many etceteras in the Rochester University, which is be- taking of pictures. which, would | ing enlarged through his genero- have to be aimplified before the sity; Kadak Park with its 16,000 public would accept photography as workers homes; and several hos- a pastime. And, slowly, cut of pitals and clinics for whose erection these dissatisfactions emerged the and part-maintenance, Eastman is Idea of the roll film, an object that again responsible. Neither is his he achieved after nine years of exphlianthropy confined to local needs, periment

ns London has good reason to know.

any of it is necessary,

Mr. Justice Hill: 1 only ask,.be- cause I am always anxious that peo- ple should put their heads together. all the foolish ways of wasting money, litigation in connection with wills is the worst.

Mr. Hurst had not concluded his speech when the court adjourned."

SCOTTISH LIBRARY.

London, July 4. Sir Alexander Grant has made. second gift of £100,000 to the National Library of Scotland.

Already alx miles of railway have been, laid on the Dilolo territory He suffered two business Tastures it was only recently that he gave which was recently ceded to In attempting to market his Inven- the enormous sum of £200,000 to Portugal by the Belgian Congo to tion. The third brought success, as the Royal Fréo Hospital for the facilitate the construction of the well It might. for not only did the founding of a magnificent dental line from Lobita to the Katanga roll film revolutionise amateur, pho- Velinle

mining region.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928.

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