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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1933.

DANGEROUS THIEF

SENTENCED

Attempts Upon Peak

Residences.

ONE YEAR'S HARD LABOUR

Sentences

1welve

amanting to months hard laherty were imprised-) by Mr E W Hamilton at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning on Yu Chun-hoi, a Tientsin Chinese,

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charges of theft of jewellery vajoed at $2,800 from the dwelling of Mr.) J. D. Lloydi. 406 the Peak, November 11. and being fed In dwelling houses at 499 and 515 the Peak on November and pectively.

11 rez-

House servants 100m both sidences gave evidence of seving the accused on the premises, while Mr. Francis Charles Jenkins of 409 the Peak and, Mr. George Tinson of 515 the Peak, stated that they had never Been the necused before and that he their had no authority to be in bouses.

It was further proved in evidence i that accused was seen on the stairs

at No. 409, while a Chinese news- } paper, which he admitted to be his. was found in Mr Timon's ro at No B15.

Accused, who had pleaded guiltyj to the charge of theft, was convict ed on all counts and sentenced to months' hard labour for the robbery) and 3 months in each case of house-i trespass, he sementes secutively

To 15m con-

EAT MORE FISH BY ORDER.

Turkish Fishermen's Agitation.

Turkish shermen sne for the Government tu

Victim of Maryland Lynching

George Armwood, negre accused of attacking 81-year-old Mary Denston, is shown in custody of detective as he was taken to fall at Princess Anne. Md. Shortly after he was locked up a mob of over 1,000 persons dragged him from the jail and hanged him near the city limiti. The body was finally burned at the main business corner of the town.

Engineering & Building

MACHINE-FAILURE INVESTIGATION

THE CHINA MAIL.

Experience In Service Only Real Test

BOILER EXPLOSIONS

Istanbul.

In the annual report just pub Amongst the most notable of its agitating ished by the British Engine Boiler Achievements was the demonstra- make the and Electricat Insurance Company, [tion of the baselessness of a one- one Limited, proportionately more time popular theory of boiler ex- Apace in devoted to the various plosions. It was, in fart, contend- Already, by order of the Minister technical studies in which the com-ed that these were

is engaged than was of Education. arrangements have any been made for children in schouls practice in the past.

eating of flat compulsory on day every week.

Lo eat more fish.

Lari

Many other methods of popularis ing fish are being consider-d. year huge quantities were back in the sen because there were no buyers. Reuter.

uften not due)

the to faulty design or to bad

materials, but to phenomena asso-

In part, this new departure may cited with the spheroidal state

be regarded as the natural outcome assumed by a drop of water in con-

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MANY NEW HOMES SHANGHAI'S CIVIC CENTRE

FOR AMERICA

U.S.$3,000,000,000 For Construction?

CLEVELAND CONVENTION

New Phrase Includes Municipal Hospital.

ROADS AND WHARVES

ment building, has already been built, linking with a railway cone completed and the structure nected with the Shanghai-Woosung. formally opened with elaborate line, according to present plans, ceremony on October 10.

As soon as necessary funds are Work is expected to be started available, work also will be started: soon for construction of a deep on the Municipal Hospital with The second stage of the great water wharf at the mouth of the some 2,000 beds, the Municipal A great industry that has been givic centre plan of the Goveru-Jukeng creek. Preparations are Museum, Municipal Library and, slumbering all through the depres-ment of Greater Shanghai will be Works for the project, and funds More roads are to be built and re made by the Bureau of Public the Municipal Recreation Ground. sion will get off to a new start launched in the very near future are to be raised to meet the con- aldential buildings are to be con--

Cleveland.

when 1,000 home builders and land

structed.

developera meet here for the pur- by the Civic Centre Constructionstruction cost.

The warf is designed to meet The projects include the com pose of proving that American Committee. families are ready to spend pro- First stage of the plan, construc- the needs of the largest liners. struction of a dormitory for the bably $3,000,000,000 for new tion of the $1,000,000 City Govern- Along the wharf, godowns will be city government employees. houses.

$

The convention was called by men from various parts of the country who are chafing at the de- lay in obtaining Government funds for financing home construction [projects that are supported by real orders" from the public, ac- cording to Don A. Loftus, of this scity, Chairman of the new Home |Buildera and Land Developers Com- mittee. The meeting is to be held primarily fo take a poll of the total applications for such loans that could be filled immediately with the R.F.C. and the Public Worka Ad- ministration in Washington and Mr. Loftus saya this sum will come close to $1,000,000,000.

Then if the $1,000,000,000 is used for first mortgage financing, an other $2,000,000,000 will be spent to complete these projects furnish, and equip them.

Builders from cities throughout that they could provide immediate the country are expected to tesify employment for thousands of build- ing trades workers and oper A uvarket for home furnishings and jequippment if the Government "will Lake as much interest in this gigantic business as it has in the smaller railroad and other bust- ncases."

Second in importance is the malters to come before the conven- tion is that of a separate code for home builders and land developers. |

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NEW SYNTHETIC STONE FOUND.

Weather-Proof And Fire Resisting.

new synthetic stone, made

of an increasing faith in the value act with a highly heated plate. from 8 combination of shale, of laboratory research, but ad-such thrown

a drop le supported on a alkaline earths and rock dust, was milting this. the ultimate

testushion of steam, and so long as recently announced as the product against which there is no appeal is this cusion persists the transfer of of chemical research in the that of experience In actual ser heat is small and the evaporation laboratories of a midwestern uni-

PEARLS AND PEARL

JEWELLERY.

vier.

Unless hecked thus, laborately

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versity.

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As the plate cools, however,

manufacturing process ultimately reached at which includes steam "cooking" Lots and office computations may int is prove seriously in error. In fact,

which actual contact is establish-and the application of heavy prea where service conditions are

ed between the liquid and the hot sures, la bellaved to be approxi surface, and the drop 18 then dis-mately the

same as that which sipated almost instantaneously produces natural stone.

The new product, designated to steam.

latively easy as in railway bridge Exhibition At Messrs. work, it is notorious that some de-

agners ignore the experienie of the! Komor And Komor's.

maintenance men, in a way which

It was held, and Tyndall seeme commercially as "Rostone," is a would rapidly bankrupt engine

of close, even

texture, Mr. Kodaka, who is staging en builders and machinery minkers.

to have accepted the view, that if material boiler plates got overheated and the about as light as baydite concreta. exhibition, at Messrs. Komor and Ko-

IL WAS considerations

fire-resistant and this feed of

weatherproof, then turned were mor's galleries in Chater Road, of

of pearls and kind which enhanced the interest spheroidal state would be establish- non-efflorescent. a choice collection

and Importance of the reports led at the outset, and that, when this pearl jewellery mounted in gold,

written by Mr. Michael Longridge, ultimately disappeared, steam

Friday by the Chichibu Maru,

Mr. Kodaka held no exhibition here last year, as he waa engaged

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Famous for

over 50 years

EA-316

Castles" Cifarelbe

The reason for the wonderful popularity of the "Thureo Cantica" Cigarettes in no mysterious, clusive secret.' It may be summed up in one word-quality. With a rep- utation, in itself an unmistakable evidence of excellence, they have, for many years, received a measure of appro- ciation accorded to no other brand of Virginia Cigarettes.

"Three Castles"

donament la fumad by the Strikink-Aletana Talrus On, (Gllan) Ltd

platinum and white gold, who had both the insight to see would be generated in quantities too...........................................................

what was instructive in machinery which no practicable safety valve failures and the capacity to de-could give relief and an explosion on an extended trip to Amsterdam,cribe these clearly and vet con-would be inevitable. Parla and the Continent

clacly.

A Theory Exploded Many of the accidente on which Ha collection on the present oc

This theory had the obvious ad- the be reported occurred to engines casion comprises jewellery of

early times vantage of largely relieving boiler! very latest designs, while prices, dating from quite owing to the exchange, will be low. The number of such engines is makers from responsibility for de- necessarily steadily diminishing, fective designs or materials, and er than on his previous visita.

and in view of the higher standard i was correspondingly popular. of technical knowledge and the The Manchester Steam Users Asso. better quality of the materials now ciation determined, however, to available, fewer accidents might be submit this attractive hypothesis expected.

to actual test

News In Brief.

Stated

Under the direction of Mr. Lav- Conditions are, however, under- to be Buffering from leprosy, a Chinese, So Kun, aged 52, going a continuous change. Speeds ington E. Fletcher, then chief en- of no fixed abode, was sent to the have gone up to rates which, to engineer, a full sized boiler was AC- Kennedy Town Jealation Hospital earlier generation, would have cordingly constructed in line with seemed incredible, while the intro- the beat practice of the day, and from the Kwong Wah Hospital yes-

duction of the internal combustion was erected in a bomb proof shel- terday.

engine. and of the electric genera-ier.

tor and motor, brought in new pro- The plates were overheated more At St. John's Cathedral last even-blems to which must be added than could ever be possible in ing the Bishop of Hong Kong, the Right Reverend R. O. Hall, preach-those peculiar to the steam turbina, practice, and the cold feed

ed the second of his series of scr- mona on "How to read Testament."

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Reliability of Steam Turbine.

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then turned on.

Nothing happened; and when

It is of interest to note that not the Old

a single accident to steam turbines the observers emerged from their Is recorded in the report under re-safety retreats, they found the Pleading guilty to a charge of view, though rumours have been boiler intact.

This particular experiment was, embezzlement of $8,161, monies re-rife of not a little trouble from ceived on behalf of the Wing Fat dinc vibration even in large units it should be added, only one item of an exhaustive series in which Company, Admiralty Contractors, built by first-class nazers. Chan Wing-yim, manager of the In all ploncering work, accidents every detail of boiler construction canteen on HLM.S. Sandwich, was are practically unavoidable, but and equipment was submitted to sentenced to six months' hard unless these result in loss life, it is proof. Boiler practice was thus labour at the Cantral Police Court to the insurance companies alone greatly improved. this morning by Mr, Hamilton. that the profession can look for Mr. Fletcher was succeeded: na Impartial and Instructive parti- chief engineer by 'Mr, C. E. Strome- Wong Hin, who was sentenced to cufara.

yer, who carried on the good fraði- "one years' hard labour by Mr. Bal The report under review is the clone h

four at the Central Magistracy this arst to be issued since the com The most important morning for returning to the Colony pany responsible for, ita publica- studied by him was that of water from banishment, had already, in ton absorbed the historic Man-hammer, which was responsible July, received six months impri- cheater Steam Users Association for many fractures of steam pipes sonment for this offence, but, owing This was founded by Fairbairn in and valves. The precautions by to the congestion of the prison, was 1854 and made most Important and which this danger has been released after three months and de-l valuable contributions to the in- aliminated are largely due to Mr,

-Engidaaring: provement of engines and boilers. Strome

ported:

problem

FOR 10 DAYS ONLY Mr. Kodaka's Exhibition of Natural and Cultured

PEARLS

AND

PEARL JEWELLERY

FROM TO-DAY

AT

MESSRS. KOMOR

KOMOR

Mr. Kodaka has brought to Hong Kong many new and griginal designs, in mounting which he sequired on his European tour last year.. The collection is unique and prices are extremely moderate on account of favourable exchange, Beautifully, mounted necklaces range from $90 only. There is a fine selection of Brooches, Rings, Earrings, Clasps, Studs. and Tie Pina, mounted in Platinum, Gold and White Gold. An early visit is advisable,

R & KOMOR

KOMOR

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