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GENERAL NEWS.

Last Year and this.

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MYSTERY OF THE NECKLACE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913.

ed. The upshot was that the pearl could not be found either in Horne's possession or in the sweepings of the publichopee. Mr PEARLS FOUND IN A LONDON Max Mayer states that the two

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Mr George recently

pearle still missing from the neck lace are the finest of the round abroad agir to renew his sir agth

gems, and together with two drop in anticipation of the land-burst- A Workman's Discovery, ing campaign, He went to the

Fifty-seven of the missing 50 pearls, also missing, are worth south of France for the same pearls belonging to the necklace between £14,000 and £15,000.

Probable Cost of the Recovery. reason last year, and the Daily stolen while in transit from Paris Newe tried to make our flesh to London came into the posses

Among many persons who have creep with the things he would sion of the police on Septein ber closely followed the incidents do when he returned. He returns 18, as was reported by Reutter at there is a feeling that nothing bas ed, but there was no "Jand-buret the time, in circumstances which been so mysterious in the affair ing." The Obancellor found are as sensational as those in the recovery of the necklace. that the Marconi scandal and which they disappeared.

Most of those who are financially relieved by the return of the reputation-barating held the field,

Going to work that morning, pearls are not likely to want to Will,history repeat, itself?

Augustus Horne, a pianoforte probe too deeply into the cir An Ancient Parallel. back maker, of Baxter-road, Esenmstances. It may be recorded It seems that the British soldier sex-rond, Islington, saw on the that one of the earliest reports of bas such a dislike to mutton that it pavement of St. Paul's-road, High the safety of the necklace which is no longer to be served in his bury, a purcol having the ap was received through unques- ratione. Classical scholars will pearance at first sight of a roll of tionable channels was to the remember that his Roman pre- waste paper. He prodded it effect that the pearls has been decessor had an equal objection, with his walking stick, and on discovered in an empty house in to being fed on meat of any kind examining it more closely found

Bighbury. When Car triad the experiment, that the contents, were a number

At Lloyd's some reinsurance on To finder took them and subsitituted mest for the of gems

the necklace was placed at 30 per beann to which his man were to the local police station. In-

cent,; and an estimate of between Recustomed, they vigorously pro- quiry showed that the find was 25 and 30 per cent. was favoured tested, and declared they would genuine one, und Mr Max Mayer never face the enemy if they had was naked to call at Sootland Yard: the possible cost of all the to exist "on this soft food." His first glauce the pearla satis esca connected with the theft fied him, and be formally claimed and salvage of the necklace. A them as his property. "They

claim of 25 per cent. on £117,000 would amount to over £20,000.. As the Westminster Gazette are the pro liost things in the is supposed to be in the secret world," he exclaimed to tho. ölli- of Ministers, its suggestion in are in a moment of enthusinau,

Mr. George's Threat.

Note of the Day that when Mr."I am delighted that they

Globe.

'The Laziest Creature.

It is a pity the Zoo contains no Sloth to enter for that competi: tion in laziness in which the Boat bill is considered to be victorious,

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Mayer's necklace add to the already sensational circumstances of the loss and search for the gems.

Inquiries next day showed that! one of the two missing perls, which belongs to the necklace, was either thrown away or lost When the parcel containing the pearls was found by Augustus Horne 50 of the 50

Sir Thomas considers that aviation accidents group them- selves under two heads:-

(a) Those duc to mechanical errors or defects.

"Hitherto the process of selec- tion has been the crude and wasteful method of nature; the imperfectly equipped get killed early, the batter equipped survive. Note: It is the latter alone, he says This Daght not to continue. It

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here. Let me begin by enunciat-for aseful work in other spherca were apparently included, Horne on some propositions (1) A of action many brave men whose then went to publicbouse successful aviator requires not physiological equipment is de

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It is the almost invariable de. in cree of the British Civil Ser- met a number of fellow-work-mely courage and skill, but a cer- ficient in this particular direo THE IDEAL LAUNDRY vice that just when a man has men, including Edwin Ben tain physiological equipment, viz., tion. Variations in the sense a highly sensitive appreciation of balance are probably as

NOTICE OF REMOVAL the rich experience of the ac- Lewis, a pianoforte ätter. Lewis of any change in his position great as in other senses, though cumulated years he is called upon states that Horne took the gema in other words, an acute sense of hitherto the differences to retire. Fortunately in the case from his pocket and showed them equilibration; (2) this sense of not attracted attention, as they From 38 to 30, Austin Road. of Sir J. Stewart Davy, who is round. They were in a dirty equilibration resides in certain have merely caused inconvenience giving up his main work at the match-box, which Horne said was,

anatomists as the semi-circular senso of equilibration "ead be Local Government Board as As-when be found it, closed and tied fans of the inner ear, known to to the defective ones. Again, the sistant Secretary of the Poor Law with string; he also told him thatcals; (2) this sense of balance, developed and increased by train Division, after forty-one years' soon after he found the parcel a though doubtless varying in ing.

Is it not possible, naka Sir service in the department, his ex- police sorgeant and constable acutenessin different individuals, walked past. Lewis declared to

can be developed and rendered Thomas in conclusion, to devise ceptional knowledge of the pro- Horne that he would not give

acate and sensitive by an apparatus whereby with ut be lost to the Government, ne be bim 24 for the lot, because, be training; (4) in France, and else-needless risk the requisite in- hes consented to continue his remarked, they looked quite com-where, some of the most success aressed acuteness can be acquired

depart-mon things. Another main profil and daring aviators have in by practice and training? membership of two

sent, named Jacobs, expressed their earlier days been trained the opinion that they were mere "An Old Lightning Rod, marbles, and advised Horne to equilibrists, acrobate, &o.

Without desiring to push this! While fixing new lightning throw them into the gutter. Evan- conductors which have recently tually, according to Lewis, Horne line of reasoning unduly, it is, I been installed at St. Paul's Cathedecided to take the parcel to the think, permissible to believe that dral, part of one of the original police. The two men went with antecedent training in equilibra- iron bar conductors erected over Horne to Caledonian-road Police tion has done something more to 140 years ago under the super-Station, and when the latter came those successful aviatore than vision of Benjamin Franklin, the out he said the officers had "de- give them merely what is called nerve." It has also given them inventor of the lightning contained the things" and had given ductor, was discovered. This bar, him a receipt. The party then highly-developed, almost preter- having been inside one of the onlled at the Hungerford Arms, naturally, sensitive organs in towers and so not exposed to the Camden-road, where Horne dis their semi cironlar canole, by weather, was still in a good state covered a loose pearl in his pocket. means of which they become con- of preservation. The fixing of Lewis advised him to throw it scious of the slightest change in these "Franklin rode," as they away, but, as a matter of fact, he their balance long before were called, led to a heated con-offered to sell it for a penny to a ordinary person would appreciate troversy as to whether lightning man who was in the bar. The the trifling, but perhaps fatal, conductors should have pointe man refused, and they went to tendency to displacement.

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dent of the Royal Society, who Horne kept pulling the pearl out advocated points, had to resign. of his pocket and playing with it.

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