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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1913.

GENERAL NEWS.

YOUNG INDIANS IN LONDON.

NOVEL LIFEBOATS,

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Tia Tacks on the Road.

Among the many quaint types Mr. G. K. Gokhale spoke at the of lifeboat to the designing of For depiling tacks on the first ordinary meeting of the Lon- which the loss of the Titanic has highway at Bootle a woman was don Indian Assoistion, an organis. given a stimulus, the cylindrical model here described appears the fined 2s. 6d. and Couth a one stion for the social and intellect-most curious. Fortunately little magistrates. She said she had done it to protect her children from a ual benefit of young Indians is heard of there weird inventions number of young ayolists who studying in Britain, and bad in actual sea-practice or a vessel's were constantly riding up and some serious things to say as to boat-deck might easily become a down the road in front of her the way in which young Indians museum of absurdities. As a house. She had warned the cyclists are treated in Britiain. Dr. about it, but they did not tako

J. N. Mehta, the president, any notice of her, and were in the chair. pudent.

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matter of fact, a ship's boat has to full so many conditions and meet so many requirements, both as to stowage, seaworthiness and Mr. Gokhale reviewed the ease of launching, that inventors Old Dance to Ragtime. position of Indian students in are apt to overlook some of "the Horn dancing took place at Britain which, he said, had many requirements and coi Abbots Bromley Barton-on-Trent, steadily grown more and more rate their inventive genius on one

September 8. Reindeer difficult,

until At last point alone., horns which have been stored in point had been reached at which. This boat is being built in Eng- the church for four centuries unless active steps were taken to Innd entirely of

steel

cyl. were brought out, and the dancers. place behind them the whole indrical in shape, with in costume, carrying heavy boros strength of the Indian community conical ands. She is 25ft. and astride bobby horses, danced they might find their position im- long, and has a diameter, or through the neighb uring coun- noasible. The more or less cor- | beam, of 88. Dia. The cones are try to the accompaniment of dial welcome "with which they separated from the cylindrical ragtime music. The dancers called ware treated at one time had body at their bases by means of on Lord Bagot, by whom they changed to bare tolerance in the circular wall or bulkhead. The were entertained.

cue of many, and even to positive cylindrical body is strengthened It Pays to Kil. dislike in the case of not a few. by means of circular ribs on the The City Deputy Coroner, Mr. He feared that Danford Thomas, at an ine st causo wha that racial colour H iron, as they are also intended said that it seemed a dre al prejudice was on the increase, for giving contral support to a thing to say, but it paid omnibus this being dus. partly to the passenger car that ia sospended companies better to kill peoplo new shool of. Imperialism which within the cylindrical body. This outright than to injure them. In looked upon the world as made car is a three-quarter cylinder the latter case they had to pay for the white races and upon circumferentially, and is nine damages, but in the case of a fatal other races ns their footstool; inchos less diameter than the accident they escaped everything partly to the greater shore which outer shell, thus giving 4 inches if the jury exonerated the driver, the self-governing Dominions clearance between the two bodies. This was a subject which should were acquiring in the shaping Encircling the car bands to the have received the attention of the of Imperial policy; and partly to upper part of which are attached Select Committee on Motor Trallie' the influence of officials retired two hangers, having rollers but it had been overlooked. from Indian service,"

pivotally mounted to them, such rollers being placed on the inner dange of the H ribs. This method allows of the outer shell to roll,

It is not many years ago that while the inner or passenger carremains practically stationary.& spherical life-boat was put on

He: Perhaps they couldn't Shafts are fitted at both ends of the market which had been hung that picture." the cylinder, one of which is for invented in Norway and which working a propeller fitted to the was claimed to be not only catch the artist."-Boston Tran after end, and the other at the sinkable but incapable of being fore end for working a blower for capsized. As in the present ouée the "lifeboat" which resembled a air circulation fitted in the for- ward cone.

There shafts can be huge buoy, contained an inside chamber which allowed of the easily worked by those in the car

outor shell assuming any position He believed fully in the ad by the attaching of a crank pro- without affecting the inner cham- vantages of contact with the West: vided. The doors or man holes Motor-Bus Splash-Guards. and that selected young men are placed on the iuboard upper ber, the boat bing entered by a Messrs. T. Tilling and Co. have should come to Britain. But half of the outer shell, and in manhole which was closed before notified the inventor of their they should do so not in the line with the upper edge or wall it was launched. No means of craft the idea being apparently intention to fit the Graveley present helpless manner because of the passenger car, being 3ft propulsion were provided for the motor-omnibuses, having been own land, but because they wished easily be accommodated inside

the oar, besides a number on the ed and allowed to drift until some convinced by a trial of the appli- for further advance. It ance on a number of their vehicles a matter of self-respect for India outside of the boat. Provision is thing, happened. Three vessels during the past few months that to be provided with her own made for carrying half a ton of were known to have been provid it is commercially practicable. ednicational equipment. But the

ed with a boat each built on this pattern but they do not appear to The subject of an efficient the adequate creation of such provisions.

have been the success their in- guard to prevent the splashing facilities would be a work of

ventor predicted and the shipping of mud on to the payment has many years, and it ought mena.

world has sorrowfully reverted to been before various conferences while to "be clearly recognised | of local authorities in London, that as England was responsible 1 you have lost your appetite, the more ordinary type of boat.

one of the big Variety of and the Home Secretary has more for governing India, the sons of dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- than once been approached on India had every possiblo right to DRA CAFE is Sure to tempt the point.

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