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Built at the largest automobile works in the Empire and of 'world-wide fame for the remarkable successes it has attained in trials and tests, the Austin Twenty demands the instant attention of overseas motorists. In the Austin Twenty you have a ruper-car at a moderate price. It is a thoroughly tested car, built upon proven principles, and particularly nüitable for overseas conditions. Get in touch with local distributora.

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AN ENGLISH INVENTOR;. TRAGIC LIFE STORY OF FRIESE GREEN.

Mr. William Friese Greene, whose sud- den death at the Connaught Rooms, after addressing a meeting on the kinwuato graph industry, is reported in the Daily News, had a life history" full of tragic romance. To him, sa the inventor of the kinematograph machine, is due the credit of building up the vast kisema amuse ment industry, in which so many fortunes have been made. Mr. Friese Greeno led in all inventive progress connected with cinematography. Ho was abead of Edi- son by three years.

Atances. ventive

Fate decreed, however, that while he belped many men to affluence, be and his family should be in poor circum. Once he was sold up," bis in apparatus figuring in the sale catalogue: while some time ago his friend, Mr. Will Day, of Lisle-street, W.C., organised a fund for the benefit of the family. The honour which Mr. Friese Greene was denied in life is to bel Bis memory. The industry is arranging paid to Yor a public funeral, and it is probable that a fund will be opened for his family. His son, Mr. Claude Friese Greene, has shows that he has inherited his father's graius,

Shortly before his death, Mr. Friess Greene solved the problem of making calour photography commercially possible. In this task he was helped by his son.

Mr. Will Day recounted to a Daily

New Engand he almost tragic life of

ane of

I's greatest, if

unrecognised, inventors, and it is of interest to note that the Daily News was perhaps the first Don-technical paper to realise the value of the first

picture machine."

Frione Grid Mr. Day, "was

born in Bristol in 1955, and was educated at Clifton, Blue Coat School. He gained his first knowledge of photographic work from that great scintiat, Fox Talbot, and carried out movement experiments at Bath with Budge in 1882.

"In 1883 he evolved the revolving glass dise which be showed before the Photo graphic Society of Great Britain. machine was rotated by a clock-work The weight.

He had no celluloid fims then and no projector.

THE FIRST PATENT.

Os June 21st, 1850, he made provi-

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Letters, are lying at this Office for #Boxse CE, XI, LM, LN, LE, LU, LW, MA, 50,

OR SALE ONE LEVIS MOTOR- Speed Gear, £75. Apply Box MH, c/o Daily CYCLE, just arrived, latest Model, two Frean Office.

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sional application for a world's patentWANTED. Experienced BOOK- for the first kinematograph machine,

KEEPER desires Work after Office

on May 10th, 1890, was granted patent hours. Wall conversant in Accounting, Type- No. 10,301. That patent stands prewriting, and Office Routine, Excellent references; eminent, and this Englishman beat Edi- commengurate salary expected. Apply Box MG, son by three years. In 1894 the American c/o Daily Pras Ofice. courts upheld his claim that the Edison kinetoscope was in intringement of his patent.

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His experiments were carried out at 20, Brooke street, Holborn, and when he threw the first living picture on a screen he was so excited that he ran into the street, caught hold of a policeman and dragged him into the house. The police man thought he was mad, but became Almost as excited when he saw the [tre.">

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AGAIN BEAT DISON.

"Mt. Day has that first film, and showed it. It is a street scene, at Hyde Park Corner.

"Friese Grene," Mf. Day added, "was the first to invent. the perforated edges

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A CHINESE GENTLEMAN, with high to well-known Shipping and Import and English education, formerly Compradore Export firms, seeks position; guarantees to bring very good business connections-can farnisn security if required.

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in the film, again batting Edison by threLARGE GODOWN at Wan-chai (known as years. 1 have all the patents here, and letters from Edison asking Greene various questions. Just imagine: bis co-patentee, Mr. Mortimer Evans, sold him big share

£200 rights of these discoveries for

Mr. Day said that beore Greene brought out celluloid films he used paper dipped

in oil to make it transparent. He kept G on inventing improvements, and spont £90,000 on the work.

In 1898 he made the world's first dis- covery of photography in natural colours. His rights in this direction were confirm- ed by the English Courts, and in 1800 he gave a demonstration of this discovery to Yeuw, which spoke well of it.

the News had written on Decem-

The

ber 6th, 1880, when he invented the kine matograph-that through this wonderful invention there is a probability of show. ing life in motion.

He did valuable work in connection with aniline dyes for the War Office dur ing the war. He was concerned with colour kinematography up to the time of his death, and it is believed that he had overcome the great difficulties involved in that direction.

M. CLEMENCEAU.

AN AMUSING STORY OF HIS TOUR IN INDIA.

A rather humourous story is being told in Paris of an incident which occur red to The Tiger (as M. Clemenceau is everywhere called) during his recent tour of the East

When the veteran French tesman arrived in Bombay one of the first things bo caught sight of was a small piece of antique jewellery in the shop window of an aged native merchant The little article appealed to the "rugged old ex Premier and walking into the shop, M. Cleranceau demanded of the pld Indian,

How much is that?" "One hundred rupees,” replied the Indian merchant.

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"One hundred rupees!" exclaimed M. Clemenceau. And don't you want my watch as well? I will give you forty DAIRY

rupees for it."

Forty rupees, your excellency, I would sooner give it to you."

"Seriously!"

"Seriously!"

"Eh bien, I accept your present, See. I take you at your word and put it in my pocket at once. Thanks very much! But one good act of generosity deserves another. Permit me, it is my turn; to give you a present. Here are forty rupees for you. And M. Clemenceau placed forty rupees in the hand of, the old Indian who was amply satisfied and pro fuac in bia thanks.

We hope that Great Britain will be chivalrous and give the German people a fair chance to recover from existing difficulties-Herr Wirth

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