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TELEGRAMS.

The following telegrams appeared as an Extra after we went to press on Friday:-

WIRELESS OFFENCES.

PROSECUTIONS WITHDRAWN.

GENERAL News.

Ex-P, and O. Doctor's 'Divorce,

In the Divorce Division a deoree

nisi was granted to Mrs. Theresa Mabel Johnson against her husb- and Dr. Philip Johnson, on the grounds of his misconduct and desertion. Dr. Johnson was for a doctor on P. and O. liner..

High Prices for Chinese Vases. Reuter's

Mesare. Christie recently sold pair of Chinese famille verte [Service to the Telegraph."]

London, January 3

figures of boys,. enamelled with Router's correspondent at Bos- Bowers on green, yellow, and ton states that the prosecutions black grounds, 11 in., Kang-He, against the captains of the stea- for 580 guineas; and a pair of mors Numidian and Winifredan, powdered-blue bottles, painted for failing to have their vossole with flowers, vases, and utensils, equipped with auxiliary wireless 18 in. high, for 260 guineas. apparatus, have been withdrawn, Decreased Confidence In China the Government having extended them time to comply with the regulations.

EX-PRESIDENT CASTRO,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913.

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Inland Mission.

LET LARGE &nbstantially built "Unusual instructions appear in

Godown situated on water front, the will of the late Mr. Albert East Point. For further particulars apply James Fison, of Clarens, Switzer-Property Ofire, Jardine, Matheson &

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MR. DELAY'S: WILL,"

land, who left aneettled property Hongkong. 18th Aug. 1912. valued for the English probate Loudon, January 3.

graut at £15,558. The bequeste Ex-President Castro of Ve inclule 8500 to the China Inland nezuelo, who was detained on Mission, reduced by codicil from arrival at New York ponding £1,000, to show decreased con- enquiry sa to his eligibility to fidence in the society since it had enter the country, saile for Ham-been associated with the World- burg on the 4th inst...

COFFEE DISPUTE.

• BRAZIL AND U. S, AGREE, Renter's correspondent at Was hington states that the United States and Brazil have practically arrived at a compromise in settlement of the coffee valoriza- tion dispite. This provides for the gradil sale of 920,000 bags of coffee stored in New York.

SUGAR FROM WOOD.

Wide Convention of Missions in 1910,

Yuan's Telegram to Lord

Hardinge...

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The will of Mr. James Arthur

der Stroét.

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One roomed Office. Apply Property Office, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 22nd May, 1912. TO LET, houses in Austin Ay une,

Kowloon, immediate possession Apply to A. Raymond, of B. J.. David & Co.

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charge of 3 children aged 5.6 and 7 years; god salary-Apply A.M. és e of "Hongkong Telegraph."

THE LATE MR. H. G. DOWLER.

Delay, the Singapore soliciter who It is with regrent that we learn committed suicide after the dis of the death of Mr. Herbert appearance of Mrs. Nowill, has George Dowler, one of the mana- now been made public. The gors of the London office of the document, which is dated firm of Messrs. Butterfield & Nov. 25, 1911, bequeaths to the Swire. Mr. Dowler had not been The following is a copy of the Public Trustee of England a sum in good health for some time, telegram sent by Yuan Shih-kai of £10,000. free of all duty, in but had been able to attend the to Lord Hardinge. Viceroy of trust to invest and pay the in-office, and his death; which oc India: "On behalf of the Re- come to his wife, Mary Leslie curred at his own house, in public of Chins I desire tooxpress Delay (to whom he was married Queen Anne's Mansiona, was to your Excellency and Lady in New York on Nov. 1, 1911, quite sudden. According to the Hardiuge my sincere congratula-and who was formerly the wife N. China Daily News," Mr. tions on your Providential escape, of Edward Young). The whole Dowler came out to the Hong- and my horror of the insenente of the residue of his estate the kong office of Messrs Butterfield crime which so nearly inflicted testator bequeathed to his sisters, & Swire about the year upon the people of Ladis an irre-Louisa Delay and Emily Florence 1887 and remained at parable misfortune. Signed Yuan Delay, in equal shares, or to the branch for time. Shihskai, President. "P. & T. survivors of them if either should was afterwards tranferred to Swa- predecease him, but if both tow, where he actel as local agent "Mr. Wu"

should predecease him then he of the Company. In 1898 he Mr. Louis Meyer has concluded bequeaths such residue to his went to Shanghai, and during the arrangements to produce early in niece, Dorothy Louise Josephine next eight years be on two ocoa. the coming year, at a West-end Chard. A codicil dated Sept. 9sion relieved Mr. Wright of the theatre, a powerfal four-act play last, and daly

I give to my friend during the latter's absence on

Sawdust as a Basis of Artificial Times.

Rubber.

How sawdust can be turned into a valuable castle food or substance of attity in, a number

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some

that He

of industries was explained by named Mr. Wu. The story is laid follows witnessed, runs as duties of manager of this branch]

Mr. A. A. Zimmermann in

paper read before the Royal Society of Arts.

in Chino, save for one act, which Marian Nowill, the wife of Sidney home leave. He left Shanghai in passes in a house in Adolphi Nowill, of Sheffield, the legacy of 1906 and bas since then been one terrace. The central figure is that thirty thousand pounds, free of of the managers of the London By the "Classen process, saw of a Chinaman who, to a large legacy or any other duty what branch of the firm. During his dust is subjected in closed totorts extent, dominates the actions of soever, which I beg of her to ac- residence in Shanghai. Mr. Dowier to digestion with a weak sulphur- the remaining characters. There cept as a slight token of the high was very popular and made many ous seid solution and un lor for the greater part are Europeans admiration and esteem I have for friends. He was for some time a pressure of about 90-lbs, to although natives occupy a. pro hor, and the gratitude I feel for member of the French Municipal 100-ib. to the square inch.minent place in the picture.

the friendship she has shown for Council, as well as of the China A very effective transmu

50 Years Without a Stipend.' me during the past 18 months." Association and the Shanghai tation takes place under

Father Stanton, who is seventy- It appears certain, as Mrs. Newill Chamber of Commerce and also these conditions. Of the resulting four years old; and his just in all probability predeceased belonged to all the principal product, sugar is an importan completed his fiftieth years as a Lim, that this legacy lapses and Clubs. His wife, also, was very constituent, the amount being curate, without stipend, at St. falls into the residuary eatste well known socially, and to her. about 25 per cent. A number of Alban's Church, Holborn, has The gross value of Mr. Delay's family of two sons and two volatile products are also formod been obliged to cancel, owing to estate is £72,971. The debts daughters, our deep sympathy is in the process, among them acetic illness all his engagements until and funeral expenses amount to extended. acid, furfurol, and formaldehyde. after Christmas. He was the £2,282, so the net estate smounts Though improvements have first curate of St. Alban's when to £70,689. The fact that de- been made in the quality of theit was completed in 1862, and ceased was married was quite. sugars obtained, so far it has not bas never since sought prefer unknown to any member of his boon possible to prepare a crye ment. He prouchos regularly at family until after the inquest. talline sugar on a commerical his own Church every morning, scale. But the converted fibrous and at other churches every Sun product known as 8100liulose has proved of great nutritive day evening His Monday even

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value when mixed with a smaling Advent services for many Chabtung (Yunnan) correspond was in this neighbourhood that PLUNKET'S

years have been crowded by

quantity of molasses or some fatpeoplo of all classes and many be or not to be," is a question great battleship of the British

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England's First Battleship. With reference to the discovery of an ancient ship embedded in the Thames mud at Woolwich, Mr W. T.. Vincent, President of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society, Oplum in Yunnan. The "N. China Daily News" draws attention to the fact that it ent writes on December 11: "To the Harry Grace a Dieu, the first ty substance.

Mr. Zimmermann quoted the

still hotly debated about the Navy, built by Henry VIII., met her fate by fire, as a contemporary results of a number of experi

opiam crop. A very large amount "ments upon horses and sheep Sir Archibald Gaikio delivered of the poppy has been shown in record has it, by carelessness of with this diet. The most striking the Presidential address to the many places. Soldiers have been the mariners," in 1559. This was that with a cols, declared by Royal Society at its annivorenry sent out to destroy the crop, but vessel was built at Royal Dock- four voterinary surgecas to be in meeting. We note that amongst this is a process not at all easy at yard at Woolwich in 1512, and it such a stale that it ought to be the bellows who have been elect- this atago. In one place near the was aboard ber that Henry crossed destroyed, as it was not possibiced, not being members of Council Yangtze the people resisted the to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. for the animal to digest any last year, are Professor Schuster, soldiers and killed one of their

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New Fellows of the Royal Society.

normal foods, At the end of six of the University of Manchester, number. The officials state that Melton Mowbray, Pork Pies, Beef, montha' feeding on sacchulose who was chief of the Eclipse ex the opium is doomed. The peo- Matton, Game, Veal and Ham pies, and molasses the colt showed a pedition to Siam in 1875, and ple are determined to take some Small Hot Pies always on hand 15 total increase of more than 40 received the Royal medal of the risk for the sake of the great procents Each.

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work."

Gowland, Emeritus Professor of Discussing the possibility of Metallurgy at the Royal School utilizing the converted wood sub-of Mines, who from 1872 to 1888 stance and its sugar content in was chemist, assayer, and foreign other directions, he mentioned head of the Imperial Japanese that a factory, capable of treating Mint, and was for some time. 200 tons of Bawdust per week, metallurgical adviser to the could turn out between 300,000 and 400,000 gallons of proof

spirit per annum. This would

Japaness War Department,

A Motor Misadventure. A party of F.M.8. motorists had

Notices

For Winter Cough, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Slow Convalescence after Fever, Rickets and Wast-

also give by-products of 50 tons a narrow escape the other day, ing Diseases of Children,

of acetic acid, 10 tons of furfurol, They were on their way from Ben-

and 2,000 gallons of methyl-tong to Kuala Lumpur, says the alcohol far recovery. Of late "Singapore Free Press," About

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years, too, molasses had been used nine milos from the latter place COD

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