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BACARDI

AND ITS MANY USES.

BACARDI RICKEY

Wine-glass of Bacardi

Juice of half a Lime

1!

One lump of ice

Serve in high-ball glaas

Add Sparkling Water.

BACARDI GROG

One quart of Ricard!

One pound of Sugar

One quart of Formosa Oolong Tea

Use the grog, adding equal

· Park of very hot water

Serve with slices of ieman

Dissolve sugar in hot water.

BACARDI HIGHBALL. Place a piece of ice la glass One glais of Bacardi

"Fill glas with Sparkling Water.

BACARDI MILK PUNCH

One glass hot Milk.

One tablespoonful of sugar.

A punch of nutmeg

The yolk of an egg

A glass of Bacardi

Beat up thoroughly the yolk of the

Egg with the sugar

Add mük Bacardi and nutmeg Mix it thoroughly

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CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER FOR PERAK.

HARNESSING A MALAYAN RIVER.

DAM WHICH CREATES A 15-MILE LAKE.

One of the biggest water power schemes in the Far East is .. being undertaken in Malaya fifty miles up the Perak River. A huge dam, creating a lake fifteen miles long and three broad is to be constructed and the water thus collected will be used to drive three great turbines of 13,000 h.p. each.

leet of water & second, and prevent the level of "the impounding reser voir from rising more than two feet except in very abnormal foods.

Giant Waterwhaels.

The work is a great testimony to British belief, especially in the Malayan tin mining industry. The Straits Timer gives the following account of the project. At a time when the rubber slump is the main topic of conversation in Malaya it is refreshing to fad ane place in the country that is brimming with energy and optimism, That is Chenderoh, sixty miles upi the Perak River, where British industrialists and investors are showing their faith in the future of tin-mining industry and of Malaya as a whole by putting three and a hall million pounds sterling into one of the biggest water-power schemes in the East.

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£7,000 JEWEL ROBBERY.

HATTON GARDEN RAID.

THIEVES CUT INTO MASSIVE-

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GAS CYLINDERS IN PACKING-CASES.

Jewellery valued at nearly £7,000 was stolen by safe-breakers from an office in Kirby Street, Hatten diamond market of London, during Garden, E.C., the. heart of the

4 recent week-end.

The raid

leisurely and with such complete organisation that it was unmistak- ably the conception of, maaster

was carried out so

cracksmen.

It was at first intended that the powerhouse should be an integral part of the dam, but this was found

At least four men, one a motor- to be undesirable, and the foɔanda- tions of this structure are now being because two stout packing-cases car driver, took part in the rubbery, laid behind a coffer dam a little dis- tance downstream.

containing oxygen cylinders-lelt Huge pipes, behind by the thieves-had to be wide enough to run & Singapore carried upstairs from the street for trolley bus through, will lead the the sale-cutting operations." water from the dam to the power installation of three, turbine units,

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Two years ago the Chenderob site was nothing but virgin jungle. wooden bungalows, offices, and coolie lines, with a population of sixty European engineers and three thousand coolies, and it owes its sudden rise to fame to the fact that here, alone among possible sites for a dam across the Perak River, the engineers found deep granite run ning right across the valley, own both sides and under the river-bed, That granite was wacted for founda- tions. The Perak River Hydro, Electric Power Company are taking no chances with a river that twice in the last three decades has roared down in terrific flood and drowned cut several hundred miles of ter- ritory, and the dam will be so nalidly anchored in ten feet of granite that that, coupled with the manner of its design, it will render it immovable against the greatest food that is likely to come down from Upper Perak in the future.

Was

Apparently, so that they might not be stopped as suspected persons! very pretty little problem in trans-ing, the men also went away with- when they were leaving the build- portation will be involved in getting out a heavy leather bag in which the three waterwheels, single steel their tools had been carried. castings weighing thirty tons each, from the railway at Kuala Kangsar

to the site.

found in the office could only have Some of the drilling instruments

been used by men who had been skilfully trained in oxy-acetylene welding.

Duplicate Key.

The premises of the firm which suffered the loss-Mesare, T. and A. Hirschfeld, manufacturing jewellers of which is a sale. The safes on -occupy three upper floors, on each

the two top floors contained articles. of comparatively small value, but to the one below which held the the raiders devoted attention only principal portion of the stock.

A Malayan Beauty Spot. When the schemo is finished Chen- derch will become one of the beauty spots "of Malaya. The dan will create a lako fifteen miles long by three wide at its widest point, and its shores, fringed with jungle, will be so indented that they will mea- sare two hundred miles around. Nine hundred kampong dwellers will have to go elsewhere, and the pro- blem of their settlement on other

There is evidence that entry was land is not an easy one for the Land afternoon by means of a duplicate made to the building on Saturday Office to solve. A rubber estate will front-doer key. For some days be be eut nearly in two by the invad-fore a firm of sponge importers had ing water, and its rond, factory, and been moving into the ground floor, A. coolic lines

and during that time many packing will be submerged, enses had been carried within. Seven thousand acres of virgin

When they arrived with the steel oxygen cylinders in boxes 3ft, Gin. jungle have to be felled and burned long and 2014. deep and wide, the in twelve months, and that is be-thieves took advantage of the fact lieved to be the biggest single fob that, in removing them from of its kind ever tackled in this would believe that their action was motor-van, people in the vicinity country. The lake will be suitable connected with the moving in of for sailing, rowing, and swimming, the sponge firm. and it is likely to be a popular holi- day resort in the future.

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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

APRIL 30TH, 192, Ba1802 20

London...£130) nom, Chartered Bank........................... £21 buy. Mercantile Bank, A. &8, £33) nom.

Day

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son Insurance.8650 bay North China Ins.........Tie. Union Insurance...$339 bay,, 3414 vol.

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RUGBY, April 28th.

Holsingfors Lisbon Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama

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Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen

34,93

12.10

40.4025

18.19

Vienna

34.69

183.95

2.5/81

780

47.13/18

2/7

1/11.5/10

4,88.1/18 25.324

92.875

Stockholm

Oslo

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Prague

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Madrid.

29.30

Athens

3731

Rio

6.59/64

Bombay

1/5.31/32

Hong Kong

2/01

Silver (apot)

Silver (orward)

28.11/16 201

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New York Geneva Milan

Three Hundred Foot Masts. Catil recently the only access to Chenderoh

by river from Enggor, twelve miles downstream; but the company have now con- atructed six miles of road to con-

Underwriters 12 bay. Chini Pin ra 15 năm " nect them with the Grik road and

Hong Kong Fire in....$760 bug. thus with Kuala Kangsar. That

It is believed that the thieves De

$404 sel Steamboats.tuy., 29) sei, road was an expensive proposition,

were on the premises during the K Power For The Minas.

bay. partly because it had to be excep.

greater part of the week-end, but HK. Tog... And now for the practical aspect not

they disturbed. Indo-Chinas (Pret).......47 buy. tionally strong to carry the heavy of the scheme. The dam will be

Do. (Del.)......$78 buy. - Ir case someone came in by the Borboats thinsuðuƒ» Hom machinery that will be brought over finished, in November, 1920, but cur- moved a window at the back of the Being Ad... 63/- buy-

front entrance, however, they re-

3203 20 it, and partly because it had to be rent will be supplied in August of offices so that they could escape Mining Ad.........5/-, bay. kept above the level of the reservoir, this year by a steam station-the in that direction.

Langkats (combined),.....T. 134 nom. When the visitor to Chenderoh biggest of its kind in the country- that the robbery was

It was not until 8 a.m. next day Do. (single) T 51 nom..

detected. Sha

11. 2.85 nom. emerges from the jungle clothing the that the company are erecting at About 250 diamond watches, dia: Shanghai Loan

་་་་ slopes of the Perak River valley Malim Nawar, sixty miles to the mond rings, diamond bracelets, and Banks and sees the work in progress south of Chenderch. It is expect pouches containing loose diamonds, H. & K. Ward...

brooches, several chamois leather Tronoh Mines beneath bin his attention is imed that that station will be em- and nearly £100 in cash hand been L.K. & W. Docks.... mediately caught by a lofty network ployed to its full capacity as soon removed from the safe. of cables and girders suspended high as it opens, and that the load will empty jewellery pads and boxes and Docks 318:107 buy.. 1081s. auton Ecos nom

The loss was obvious from the Hongkia, 1.80 som above the river between steel gradually increase to such

an strewn about the Boar, but as the masta. There are two pairs of these extent that filty per cent. of the thieves had closed the safe while masts, some two hundred yards Chenderoh station's capacity will be the metal they had barat away was still hot and caused the mechanism apart, and the higher pair run up required on the opening date. The to seize," the police were unable.

Tua. 29 sel.. three hundred feet. From "one "of main object of the scheme is, af to open it without the assistance of K. & S. Hotels

H.K. Landa özel the makers,

Shanghai Lands......la 140 buy, A hole three inches in diameter Humphreys Katalar......$144 nom.

the masts, about two hundred feet course, to supply cheap power to up, a fantastic steel shute, like the the tin-mining industry of Perak,

Cables And Substations.

Explorations

China Providanta

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Ti 51 nom. $4 nom 17/6 nom. $157 sel.

$49 bay. $580 buy. 8ml

160 buy,

Cetions...... Tla, 8) bu7., 8.40 sol. Orientals Cottons..........

'hai. Cottons (old)...... 56 61,

Do.

Do

(old)

Macao Electric.........$461 bay... Telephones.34.10 bay. China Buses

Tim, 74.buy. Singapore Tractions.....11/9 nom, China Sugars Malabon Bugar

*$5.25 pom 324 nom.

Comenta (combined)......$10.40 mel

Do. (old) Do.

(new)

sel,

H.K. Ropes (old)

Do (now).........33 0.

nited Asbestos aran $10 nom Fairy Farms

8 buy, Boler & Wings... 30,50 nom,

buy.

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Watsons

$22 nom. $14 buz.

Tane Crawford...........884 buy.

Wa. Powells

H.K. Amusemete

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arm of a skeleton, rans out into and that will be done by means had been bored exactly over the HE "Roalties, •«********* 95.20 nom. space and connects with something of a network of substations and lock of the safe. As the safe is K that looks like a pieco out of a cables throughout an area of three visible from the street, always with Peak WAYS

(new)...ki, nom. giant's Meccano set, also suspended thousand square miles comprising an electric light focussed on it high in the air. Such is the layman's the districts of Kuala Kangsar, during the hours of darkness, and Star Ferries. Bij zel description of the equipment which Kinta, part of Matand, Lower as the radiation from the welding Ubins Lights (old).18 Eny. 131 sti

Do. (167) $110 સ plant would certainly have been seen enables the engineers to run liquid Perak, and Batang Padang,

outside at night, it is surmised that Do. (1929 Lus).... concrete to any point where it is required on the scene of operations.

the safe was opened in daylight, H.K. Electrica The main transmission cables, probably in stages on Saturday Glimpse Of The Site.

which will ran south from the afternoon and Sunday morning. Coming down to lower levels,

dam vit Ipoh and Batu Gajah, will coffer dam is being built across half deliver the current to six sub- the river, the plan being to con- stations, and from these substationa struct the dam in two sections, and secondary lines will run out to nine a little distance down-stream & aus- smaller substations located in the pension bridge is being thrown over mining, areas, the mines being the river to take materials from one served by tertiary lines running out side to the other.

from the latter stations. There will Six hundred and forty feet long be one hundred and ten miles of at its crest, sixty feet high, and primary cables and sixty miles of eighty feet broad at the widest secondary cables, running along part of the base, the dam will be hundred-foot lanes and carried on of the hollow type favoured by seventy-foot steel towers, so that modern engineers. The contract there is a somewhat complicated job price is a million pounds, and the of surveying and land acquisition to contractors are Mesars. Topham, be done. The company have obtain Jones, and Railton, the designersed the most modern plant and the being a Swedish firm of engineera best of technical advice with a view who are specialists in bydro-electric to keeping the price of current down schemes and in the hollow type of to the minimum. Two great advan- dams.

tages of the scheme will be that The crest of the dam will be the mines will no longer have to curved, and that curve is a matter depend wood fuel for their dred- of precise calculation, the idea being ges, and that they will know what that if another great flood comes it the cost of their power is going will flow over the dam and down to be for some distance ahead, in- the slope, on the spill-way at the stead of paying prices for wood foot. It is the business of the de.which fuctuate automatically as signers to see that that curve is so the price of tin goes up or down. drawn that the raging torrent will It is also expected that some of the not tear away the concrete surface smaller Perak towns will take their in its progress. All ordinary foods power supply from the Company, will be dealt with by opening two and a subsidiary company called the sixteen deep in the middle of the pany has been formed to handle [AP}.]dam, which will release 60,000 cubic the problem of town lighting

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