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SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS,

COMMISSION OF KEZERAS FORMED.

satisfactory conclusion as to the gennine- nene or otherwise of spirit photographs can be arrived at only by exhaustive inquiry into their nature and production. With fals, and in vow The Daily Mail han stranged for

·GASH-ON-DELIVERY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 1908.

NEW REGULATIOTS UNDER THE STRAITS.

HOT POET DESIGN ÖRDINANCE.. Aongh on delivery service has been establish ed in connection with the Post Office.

EXPERIMENTS ON RETOUTED KEN,

TRIED ALLEGATIO

Dr. Georgs F. Ehrady voroner of New York City, is to experiment on seven then how await- sting execution at Bing Bing to decide whether murderers in New York State, who are exsented

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The regulations, which have been approved by the Governor in Council, are to apply to say.

dede in secuie by legislation the abolition this declaration, ada la inggood ivolýt on the Sovereign.

Mr. Asquith's printed reply is as follows, The question whether steps cannot be talem to alter the language of the declaration, while leaving, the sense untouched, has been the subject of much calderation and prosenta many diffonltics. The Government are not, i legialation, but they will give careful attention to any suggestions which seem likely to lend to A solution.

commission of inquiry, combisting equally of registered or insured postal packet and to say the wicity, "under sganciating torture before at present advised, prepared to introduce

gentlemen recognised as sinistent photographie experts and of spiritualists who claim that their friends "on the other side communicate with them by photographic means.

The following gentlemen will be the spiritualistanember of the commission, and have undertaken to convince the photo graphic experts of the genuine nature of the praterious pictures, and, if possible, actually to photograph a spirit in their presence:

Mr. A. P. Sinnett (at one time Editor of the Hongkong Daily Press.)

Mr. E. B. Berocold-Skeels, the solicitor who soted for Archdeacon Colley in the recent legal proceedings between Archiessen Colloy and Mr. Neville Markelyna.

Mr. Robert King, well known as an authority

on spiritualism.

The photographic experts are as foliowa :- Mr. E. Hanger-Shepherd, F.B.P.8., who has by royal command demonstrated his well-known method of three-colour photography before the Queen.

Mr. R. Child Bayley, editor of Photography and Focus.

Mr. F. J. Mortimer, editor of the Amateur Photographer and Photographic News. The Daily Mail has appointed Mr. T. Thorne Baker, F.C.S., F.R.P.8, to act as an independent member of the commission, as one willing to be convinced either way, according to the actual proofs chtained by it.

Mr. Sinnett points out that na many matters must be conferred upon before a demonstration of the photographing of a spirit is made in presence of the commission, some time must necessarily elapse before a full report can be made. Meantime, Mr. Sinnett has obtained the promise of a "medium" to nasist af the spirit photographic demonstration when this can be made,

ROSYTH NAVAL BASE.

BIG SCHEME OF COAST RECLAMATION AND NEW DOCKS,

purposes..

It is understood that the works at Rosyth naval base, in connection with which forms of tender have been issued, will include an extensive scheme of coast roclamation and the excavation of a large basin and a smaller dock for submarine The land to be reclaimed will extend to two million cubic yards. This space will, in the first place, be enclosed by huge walls of concrete, and the enclosed ares the pumped dry, after which the work of excavation for the large lasin will be, began: The large basin will measure some 1,500ft, aquar, and will be provided with a pier 600ft. in length, an emergency entrance, and a Larger graving dock. The entrance will be in the form of a lurk dock, about 900ft, long.

The material raised in excavating the main basin will be used in the work of reclamation, the additional ground so obtained being utilised Ip the accommodation of electric power and lighting stations and other necesary works, The submarine basin will measure 600ft, by 450ft,

parcel (whether jugated or not) posted in the Straits Settlements and addressed to any country, place or British Postal agency specified

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Dr. Bhrady believe that execution by electricity is fuhusa. He, declares that the electric shocks do not kill and that death is inflicted by the doctors who perform the post- mortem examinations,

schedule. Subject to the provisions of the regulations, the Postasstor-General may at the

He asserts that in almost all cases it is request of the sonder, select from the addressee of my packet to which the regulations apply penible to revive persons who have been any trade-charge in respect of any article con-ubjected to the Sing Sing elsetric currents, tained in such racket, and remit to the sender and he declares that in the few actual cases. the amount of ench trade-charge after deducting where revivification has taken place, the persona give awful descriptions of the agony caused by sume due to the Postmaster-General.

the electricity.

But go trade-charge exceeding £20 shall be collected; nor any trade-charge exceeding the declared value (if any) of the packet by more than the amount of the postage and fees pay able thereon.

Dr. Shrady says that one case has come to his knowledge in which swiminal, W. G. Taylor, revived after the electric shock, and was then chloroformed to dents, the doctors holding him down while the anesthetle was administered.

In addition to the postage and any other charges payable on such packot, there will be charged and paid on every cash on delivery. In the case of William Kemmler, after the first charge had filled to Kill, the man was packet the following sums

horribly burned by the second charge, and even then showed signs of life while the doctors were making a post-mortem examination of his

On every packet posted in the Straits Settle mentes a despatch fee of 10 cents.

On avery sexet received for delivery in the Straits, a delivery fee, as follows:

Where the trade-charge does not exceed £5, 15 cents;

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Where the trade-charge exceeds £5, but does not exceed £10, 25 cesta;

Where the trade-charge exceeds £10, but does not exceed £15, 35 conta; and

Where the trade-chorge exceeds £15, but does pot exceed £20, 45 conte

The despatch for payable on a C.O.D., packet pasted in the Straits shall be prepaid by the sender in stamps. The delivery fee payable on avery packet received for delivery in the Straits, together with the commission on the money order or postal order, by means of which the trade charge is forwarded to the sender, shall be deducted from the sapunt of the trade-charge collected from the addressee..

Each C.O.D. packet shall be posted by being handed to an officer on duty, and the sender will have to sign -declaration in writing in the prescribed form to the effect that the poket is sent in axecution of an order; sign a reggest in the preserited form for the collection of the trade-charge; write on the cover of the packet (1) the name and address of the sender; (2) the amount in British eur. rancy of the trade charge in figure and words, (3) the name of the post office on which the money order or postal order in favour of the sender is to be drawn; and affy stamps to the request form in payment of the despatch for On the posting, signed by the officer of the Post Offee receiving the packet, must be obtained.

The packet shall not be given up to the addresses therent er opened at his request until the trade-charge and any other charges due theroon have been raid.

brain.

No time has been fixed for the death of the seven Sing Sing murderers, but when the astos are announced, Dr. Shady will attend the xecutions, and after the men have been pro honneed dead by the prison authorities,, be will attempt to bring them back to life.

If he sucopeds in restoring animation, the abolition of "electrocution in New York, for which many doctors have long agitated, will probably follow.

THE BRITISH ACCESSION DECLARATION.

MINISTERS WILL NOT INTRODUCE LEGIBLATION.

A PLUCKY WOMAN,

REB STRANGE EXPERIENCES.

Mrs. Nelli Campbell, who owns and works 320-acre ranch will th three miles of the village of Elisabeth, in the State of Colorado, on the Colorade and Southern Railroad, on which as a comfortable seven, roomed house, with barns and sheds, all the work of her own hands, BO (Says the Philadelphis Record") she in remarkably placky woman. Twelve years started with a capital of 5. To-day she has a clear title to her Anndreds of acres, with stock and machinery in addition.

As soon as this energatio, ambitions wOBILE homesteaded 161 acres of rich. Colorado land she mored on to it with her non, who was only a boy in his teens. They had yast 25 between them. They obtained enough dry goods bozes to fiz u a home, which they occupied for a whole year. Then they managed to proeure lumber enough to build a small room, which they moved into. But her first year's work went for nothing, for the crop they planted was entirely destroyed by hall. So Mrs. Campbell and her son both went out to work by the month, thus earning enough to carry them along.

For three years they kept at this kind of em ployment, becoming at the end of that time so prosperous that it was thenght best for her son to buy a relinquishment, with a small House on it, adjoining his mother's land. The young man was delighted with his prospects. To fuldt.the requirements of the law ho lived in his own. house and worked on both places. There cazas a. morning, however, when the son, who was always prompt, was late to breakfast. His Mr. MacNoill has naked the Prime Ministar whether he is aware that by an Act, 30 and 31 mother waited and finally, unonay, went over to Vic... 62 passed in 1867, holders of the offices, see what was keeping him so inte. She found of the Lord Chancellorship of Great Britain, him in bed, shot through the heart while he After that her neighbours all said she must not the Lord Ideutenancy of Ireland, and the slept. Chancellorships of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which are confined to members live there alone. Something might happen to of the Protestant faith, have been relieved from her, as it had to her son. But what was she to I leave it all, so she toild on all by herself, sow- the necessity of making the declaration required do? She had striven too hard to go away and of the Sovereign as his first public act. po accession to the Throne, in repudiation of ing and reaping and doing whatever there was Roman Catholic doctrines, notably the doctrine to be done about the place. It was just seven of transubstantiation, as idolatrous and blasphemyears since she and her only boy had come there ons, and that no Roman Catholic has, since when, one night while she was at milking, her the abolition by gtetate of this declaration, been house took fire and burned to the ground. Wan discouraged, which is as different as can be. enabled to fill any of those offices; whether he is the cast down Naturally. But she was set aware that the Sovereign alone is required to There is no telling what some men might have make this declaration, by which he is placed in an done under these circumstances.

What Mrs. Campbell actually did do was to It, upon the Bret tender of the packet at the isolated position, and that, in the ovent of a place of address, the trade charge and any other Regency the declaration is not required from the sell some of her cows and got herself into shape charges theroon are not paid, the packet shall Ragent of the kingdom, and that other statutory to build her now seven-room house and the rest within mah period as the Postmaster-General provisions poure that the occupant of the my from time to time prescribe be delivered Throns should be a professor of the Protestant of the buildings on her place. The barns and also did practically all the work on the house, to the addresses at the post office, or (at the faith; and whether, having regard to the fact slids are all the work of her own harde. She request of the addressee) be tendered at the place that the making of a declaration of this kind is too, having only some little assistance in carry of address a second time, charged with an addisonched in terms offensive to feelings of the

King's Boman Catholic subjects and unnevesing out the more minute details, Notwithstand tionnd delivery fee of 20 cents.

sary for the exclusion of Catholics from the ing all the has gone through, Mr. Campbell Throne, the Government is prepared to take feels herself fresh and young.

If undelivered, the packet will be returned to the ender.

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