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GENERAL NEWS.

A New Form of Fraud.

Two female nurses at Mel- bourne have ench been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fins of £100 for conspiring to de- fraud in connection with fictitious claims for the maternity bonus. A doctor who was similarly obarged was acquitted.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913.

SHORT STORY.

THE STRANGE CRIME OF JOHN BOULNOIS.

A STIRRING DETECTIVE

TALE.

Military Training in School.

(Concluded) Lord Islington, speaking at "Why, what can you mean? Chippenham Secondary, Sobool abe aried. "All the servants prize distribution, urged that all were out of the house. seeing the who enjoyed the advantages of theatricals. And we don't keep education should be obliged dura butler, thank goodness !*!. ing their school years to undergo Father Brown started and spun a course of elementary physical half round like an absurd teeto "and" military training between tum.

'the ages of 14 and 18.

Adventures of a Hen.

"What wint 2" be cried, acewing galvanized into sudden life, “Lok bere may—con I make your husband hear if 1 to the house?"

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"Oh, the servante will be back by now," she said, wondering.

It was apparent from the do. meanour of 'n hen at the Guildhall polien court, London, last month that it bad never been in a police court before. A man, charged with being in unlawful possession

Right, right," rejoined the of the fowl, was discharged, the clerio energetically, and not off magistrate saying the evidence scuttling up the path toward the Was insufficient."Can Iave the Park gates. He turned once to

en. sir ? asked. the prisoner. say

"Better gat hall of that Yan- Failing another claimant, the bird was handed over to thekre, or 'Crime of John Boulnois' prisoner.

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"I can't analyze myself well," went on Boulocis; but, sitting in that chair with that story, was happy us a schoolboy or half holiday. It was security, eternity-I can't convey it.. a The cigara were within reach the matches were within reach... the Thumb had four more ap-i pearances to... it was not only You don't understand," said a peace but a plenitude. Then Mr Howard Elliott, who bora. Boulnoia. "He wouldn't that bell rang, and 1'thought| been appointed president of the

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When Father Brown reached literally, physically, muscularly Kowloon, from the let of October. most highly salied men in the the house with the beehive and couldn't. Then did it, like aApply to Spanish Procuration. world.

He raves £30,011 the drowsy dog, a email and neat man lifting the world, because } year, which is exactly twice the paid servant showed him into know all the servants were out. I stipend of the A cubishop of Cante dining room, where Boulnois opened the front duor, and there terbury, although the difference in the value of money on hath dat reading by a shaded lamp,' was a little man with his mtb can agent of Mme. Zola for the exactly as his wife described him, open to speak and bis nute-book sides of the Atlantic has to be A decanter of purt and a wine upon to write in. I remembered taken into account. The highest gines were at his elbow; and, the the Yankee interviewer I had for salary ever paid in any country instant the priest enterod, he gotten. Elis hair was parted in was the £160,000 a year which noted the long aul stand out an- the middle," and ['tell, you; that collection in New York. The

Mr Charles M. Schwab obtained as manager of the Stool Trust.

How Dictionaries Grow.

broken on his cigar.

murder

"He hits brau here for half an 1 understand," said Father

our at least," thought Father Brown. In fact, he had the nic of sitting where he had sat whon bis dinner was cleared away.

Brown; "I've seen him."

"I didn't commit murder," continued the Catastrophist mild.

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"Don't get up. Mr Boulnois," hast, goue turos to Pendragon that King George, will visit than a select vocabulary: John said the priom, in hie pleasant. Park, and shut the door in his Australia in November of next! lollokar produced what he taruprosaic way; Ita'n't interrupt face. That is my crime. Father year, and lay the foundation-stone ed a "compleat dictionary" in you a moment. I fear I break in Brown, ani I don't know what of the Federal Parliament House 1816, and it contained 5.080 on some of your scientific stud- penance you would inflict for it, to be built at Canberra, the site words. Thomas Blount followedien."

I sha'n't inflict any penance, selected for the new Common- "No," said Bulnois; "I was said the clerical gentleman, col-wealth Capital, Sir George lleid, in 1656 with a slightly increased Vocabulary. and. then came reading The Bloody Thumb.' leoting his heavy bat and am- High Commissioner for Australia, Edward Phillips's "New World He said it with neither frown nor, brella with on air of some amuse has no information on the subject.

A Possible Change. of English Words," with 13,000 Binile, and his visitor was cons ment: "quito the contrary. I words. That was really the cious of "a certain drop and came here specially to lot you off Mr. Arthur Peel, H. B. M. beginning of the English diction-virile indifference in the men the little pennace that would Minister at Bangkok, will be ary as we know it But what it which his

call otherwise have followed your lit-going on leave to Europe early has become may be gathered fromed greatness. He laid down a tle offense."

next year. The "Siam Observer" the fact that Funk and Wagualla gory yellow "rhocker" without "And what," asked Boulnois, hears it is probable that Mr. Peel are about to publish a Now even feeling its incongruity smiling, "is the little penance Standard Dictionary with 450.000 enough to comment on it humor worda.

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