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Hongkong Telegraph.

October 31. 1913, Temperature a.m. 70, p.m. 76; Humidity...81, 63.

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SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 1, 1913.

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NOBEL MEDICAL PRIZE. DOMINIONS EXHIBITION. NEW ZEALAND STRIKE. LANARK BYE-ELECTION.

0083 TO FRENCH PROFESSOR | SIR HENRY MAY ON COUNCIL.

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Raulor's Charlee Richet, of Lord Sydenham, Lord Carmi-

at correspondent Reuters Ottawa correspondent

Professor statos that at the Federal bye-Paris, has been awarded the chaal. Sir James. Meston, Sir Wellington states that a strike of Francis Henry May. (Governor of waterside works hins so developed election at South Bruce, Mr.Nobel Prize för Medicine. Trusz, the Liberal nominee, was, [Profese Richet, who was born Hongkong). Coloual Panzer, and be sympathetic strikes that the elected by a majority of 150 over in 1850, has had a striking career. Sir, Ilerbert Soley have joined slipping of New Zealand is at a the Conservative candidato, Mr. He was President of the Society the Council of the British Domia standstill. Miners have joined Cargill. The aleation was noco for Physical Researches of Lonions Exhibition, which is to take the water-ide workers, and the

place in London in 1915. sitated by the elevation of Mr. don in 1905,)

country is faced with a shortege of food and cond Donelly (Conservative) to the Senate, and was fought on the Naval issue.

PLENTY OF LAND

SAN FRANCISCO

EXHIBITION.

FAMOUS MOTORIST

KILLED.

DUKE OF SUTHERLAND'S

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· TRAVELLED 14 MILES AN HOUR.

London, Reseivel Nov. 1: The famous motorist, Perey Lambert, was killed at Brook- lands. He was travelling 14 miles an hour when a tyre burst. He broke the world's records a8 recently as Monday.

Some Facts About the Work of

the Radlum Institute.

OFFER.

London. Recbived Oct. 31. The Duke of Sutherland, intor viewed by a representative of the Daily Mail, declared that ho would not object to silling 400,- 000 acres of land to the Govern ment at £2 per nère.

He only wanted a certain acreage round lis homes.

A

NEW MOVE.

London. Recaived Oct. 31. non-political formed to urge the Government Committee,

to reconsider its dovision not to participate in the San Francisco Exhibition, includes Lord Cow- ray, Sir Thomas Lipton, Sir Marcus Samuel Sir Robert Perks, and Sir Felix Schueter.

HELP AT SEA.

TRIANGULAR CONTEST.

IMPORTANT LEGISLATION.

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THE NEWS. CONDENSED.

Professor Charles Riobet of Paris has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

London, Received Nov. 1. London, Received Oct. 31, The Scottish Miners' Fedora- Reuter's correspondent at St. Canadian Liberals won a bye- tion has decided to nominate Mr, Petersburg aaye a Bill has been election at South Braco in a con- Thomas Gibb as their candidate introduced in the Dums prnalistest fought on the naval issue, in t! South Lanark bye-election. fng failure to assist persons and

The contest will therefore be a abips nooding assistance at sea, Sir Henry May is among those three carpered one.

Captains not rendering aid are who have joined the Council of liable to receive from two to the British Dominions Exhibition. The bye-election is nocossitatsixteen monthe imprisonment, ed by the death of Sir W. Men and, may be deprived of their zies, who has held the soat in the

Liberal interests since 1906. His certificatos for five years. majority at the last election was

Citiz are being sworn in as special castableu, and mounted police are coming into Walling-1,197.)

on.

The struggle has now become Ăn trial of wrench against the Federation of Labour, which bas not registored itself under the Arbitration Act.

MANX GENERAL ELECTION,

Party."

THE FUTURE OF GAS.

Beginnings of the "Ons Age."

the

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CAN YOU BELIEVE YOUR EYES ?

Professor Stirling on Optical Illusions.

Professor Stirling, in opening

A Billins been introduced in the Dami penalising the failure to assist ships needing assistance

at sea.

The Duke of Sutherland says be does not object to selling the Government 400,000 nores of land at £2 an acro.

There will be a three-cornered

the courre of lectures in the fight at South Lanark, the Scot- University of Manchester, gave tish Minera Federation deciding an address, under the title "Can to run a candidate. you believe your eyes? on

LOCAL.

Interesting speeches on propects of the gas industry were mado at the opening of the gag illusions of the senses, denliog A strike of waterside workers Exhibition by the Lord Mayor of more especially with the defects in New Zealand has so developed London and at the lancheon of vision. Illusions, he said, make by sympathetic strikes that the which followed, Sir Corbet Conservatism of the "Country Woodall, the president of the Ex. up a large part of our daily life, shipping of the country is at a

while the fusion "and continuity| standstill. hibition, was in the chair at the of impressions which give rise to opening ceremony, and besides many optical illusions are repre- The famous motorist," Feroy The Isle of Man is to have the the Lord Mayor of London (Sir sented by the action of the Lambert, bas been killed owing excitement of a general election David Burnett) there were pre- thaumotrope and its latest off to the barsting of a tyre as he small glass tubes also, and are THE FUTURE OF CHINA in November. The visiting sea-sent the Lord Provost of Edin spring, the kinematograph. The was travelling at 114 miles on now able to cent supplios in

on has only just closed, many of burgh, the Lord Provost of Glas light of the body is the eye, yet hour at Brooklands. NEW RADIUM WONDERS: plutos or tubes to members of the

the people of the towns are them gow, the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, the great majority of mankind nedical profession in duy part of The dispute between China and selves on holiday, and the far-and the Mayors of about 30 either do not see the fraction of A non-political committee bas of the country.

Japan has, for the present at least, mors are busy with their harvest. boroughs in London and the what ia displayed to their organe been formed at Home to urge the. "Aan result the whole aspect of heen seule by an elaborate Very

The president of the of vision, or they fail oorrectly to Government to reconsider ita little time, therefore, will country. affairs in regard to the curatiro Chinese apilogy, but it would be be found for electioneering. Institution of Electrical Engineers interpret what is presented before decision, not to take part in the use of radium has ban changed. folish to under-rate the gravity Politics are not strongly marked was nue of the gucals.

them. The sense of sight is the San Francisco Exhibition. Hitherto no public statement If a doctor in Edinburgh, for ex of the episode, says the Daily the land of Home Rule." The Sir Gorbat Woodall said that one in which we believe most has been made by these who have ample, wauts 200 milligrams News. In two ways it is of all Country party in the island the gas industry now represented implicitly, and the one which the direction of the Radium In. of radium for us upon a patient r mise for the future. It re-look coldly on constitutional the remunerative employment of gives us the largest store of in- stitute as to the work which has a cost, £4,000, probably would veals the powers of a bellica reforms, not because it will effect a spital exceeding 150 million formation about the world. So "Hongkong twenty-five years been carried on in its premises be prohibitive; but the institute action in Japan, whose aggresive much change in the conditions of sterling, and, including manufac confident are we that what we ago" appears to-day ander the

plate goutaining instincts and appetites are direct. in Riding House-street, West can supply s London, daring the two goara radium emanation which willed against China. The Intest life, but because "it didn't used turing industries accessory to it, see must be true that the expres heading of “ 1888." which have passed since the have the same fact for a roparts from Japan indicate that to be. They are also opposed gave employment to more than sion "seeing is believing

to redistribution-which is not 300,000 workers. He contrasted passed into a proverb. The pos Messrs. Wright and Hornby's, Last amount which is comparatively the Japanese Foreign Office was part of the proposed reforme-the present activity and enter sible field of error is larger in weekly share report appears elee- institute was established. month Sir Frederick Troves, rifling. Radium gives off the opposed to taking too tragically which will take members from prise of the industry with the the case of vision than in any where in this issue.

exo emanation constantly and itself the murder of three Japanese the country and give them to the state of things before 1880, whes other sense organ.. cutive committee, Sir Malcolm is not destroyed. It is the only during the capture of Nooking towns. They are not in favour gas had a monopoly of lighting Many illusions have their roots Morria, a member of that body, reproduction of the burning hush Its hand was forced by the small general rate for in the old days persona desiring in normal mental life. If on see- and Mr A. E. Hayward Pinch, of Moses-constantly giving off War and Naval Department advertising the island, nor do a service of gas had to conforming an object we believe, and the Motor-omnibus Destroyed by fire. the medical superintendent of the heat and never consuined."

operating, in the fashion with they approve of old-age pensions, to a good many rules and regals belief is demonstrably wrong, As a motor-omnibus was starl- "During the last ten days we which we are familiar, by the workman's compensation, and tins, and anything like canvas there is an illusion. Pictorial arting on its journey from Tower iartitate, received a small num. ber of representatives of the Press have sent out 13 pieces of appr-tirring up of mob pa sion.,

other "capers.

Ring or advertising would have is largely based on illusions. In Bridge to Kilburn the oil in a And communicated to them in-atas, representing un activity For the first time for years the One of the most interesting been regarded as utterly unreces architecture, the ancient Greeks tank under the motor broame formation concerning that which equal to that of 840 milligrammes bluat occupation and seizure of bas been accomplished, and made of radium, which would be worth Chinese territory ima beon urged nests of the oleation in antiary and in many cases corrected the unpleasant optical ignited. In a few seconds the cipated in Rameey. Mr. W. T. distinctly vulgar,-(Laughter.) illusion which columns with perhole of the front part of the some important announcements about £17,200, and we are now as a mode of getting compensa-Crennell succeeded Mr. Hall The Lord Mayor of London, in feetly straight edges suggest omnibus was in flames. The fire, as to the conditions under which distributing over the

country tion for grievances real or ficti-Caine in the representation of the declaring the exhibition opes, namely, the appearance presented brigade was summoned but when equivalent to 105 tons. a widely extended use of the emanations

town, and now a country mem-laid stress on the effect of gas by the shaft of being narrower at they had extinguished the fire.. active principle of radium is now milligrammes of radium daily, We believe opeir aggression of ber is determined to put forth all improvements in the home as the middle of the column. They practicable in this country.

That is the quantity which weLapan in China, may precipitate his strength to oust Mr. Crennell. Himplifying and making it pos-therefore gave to the middle/nothing but the framework of the The quantity of radium in the are obtaining daily from one world conflict, says the Pall possession of the institute is four gramme of radium. I hope that Mall. The immediate question is Mr. Crennell declares himself a sible in many small households the shaft an incressed diameter anger, Rhoda Green, of Tiverton-

the chairman of

the

Troves,

CHURCH SERVICES.

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Conservative, but he favours to do without a survant," measures that are usually regard-

The Early Years of Gas,

bas

vehicle remained. The only pass- The Greeks also applied the same street, W.C., was taken to Guy's ual alles of a tower. Numerous about the hands.

Correction to the apparently verti- Hospital suffering from burns.

Eastern Sumatra Rubber Eriates.

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY,

Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Opening Cruise and Dinner

"Harmaton's. Circus.

"Twelfth Night," Theatre Royal

Victoria Theatre, 9.15 p Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW. Victoria Theatre 9.15 p.m. Bijon Theatre 9.15 p.m.

grammes, which at its present in time we shall put down more whether Sir. Edward Grey re- reputad price is of a value of radium for the supply of emann-cognises what is going on, and

ed as Liberal. He is one of the £80,000. The material is said tions to be distributed in this what he thinks about it.

loaders in the movement for The Lord Provost of Edinburgh experiments were shown by now to be unobtainable at any way, because that seems to be the

constitutional reform, and he price.We know of no other solution of the problem of supply-

lavours the introduction of death said that Scotland could claim to Professor Stirling to illustrate the institute in the world holding asing radio-activity. So far as we

duties and income tax as a means have produced the inventor of gas illusions which affect the per- much as four grammes of radiam have ascertained, this is the only

of raising revenue to provide old-lighting, namely, William Mur ception of plane geometrical doch, who was born in Ayrshire figures. Other experimente illus for curative purposes," said Sir institution in any country which

age pansione, &c. Mr. Corlett, Frederick," and I am disposed has produced a hollow emanation-

St. John's Cathedral, Hong who means to oppose him, is the in 1754. Murdech made his first rated the after-effects of seen to believe that if you could collect containing plate and has distri-

kong, 2nd November, 24th Sunday cenior member for Garf Shead-experiments in Cornwall, and his vements, such as the effecta all the radium in the world need buted emanntions in this way. outside this institute for thera.. Another branch of the activity after Trinity. Holy Communion ing, and be declares that he is first practical application of gas produced by gazing for a short am. coming out for Ramses solely to lighting was made in Scotland in time at a waterfall and tl en turn- 1708 The first public displaying cur oyes to the contiguous peutic purpises you would find of the institute is the supply of (815 nm.), Matins (11 that it is not so much as font water impregnated with radium Matins (11am). (Full Choir.) fight these innovations. The of gas lighting occured in 1802, rocks, when the rocks appear to grammes. Therefore, although emanations for consumption by Responses, Ferial; Venite, Goss; majority of the electors are work when the premises of Messrs. move upwards with a velocity

Boulton and Wait, near Birming equal to that of the falling water.-9.15 p.m. there has been some clamour sufferers, from certain afHictions. Palma, of the 2nd morning (1); ing men.

The present mombera for about the lack of radium in this The improvements brought Te Deum, Gadsby in E flat; country, England is better off about in the condition of patients Jubilate, Ayrton in E; Anthem: Douglas are all temperance men, ham, were inagnificently illumin- than any other country in regard by drinking radium water strong "God shall wipe away all tears," and anxious to keep the drinking ated in celebration of the Pence to the quantity available." enough to be laminous," said Field Holy Communion (11.45 facilities of the island well within of Amiens. The first application Therapeutic Value of Emanations. Sir Frederick

"are a.m.). Kyrie, Barnby in C; limits. They are prepared to to Parliament for a public supply Presiding at the Eastern Sams Of even greater interest was marvellous. We are supplying Hymns, 230 and 428. Evensong stand again, and there has been was made in 1809. The poison-ra Rubber Estates, Mr de Bois

emanation of theannouncement which followed. radium..

a (5.45 p.m.). Responses Ferial; no announcement es yet of any ous, inflammable, and explosive" Maclaren deprecated the tenderey properties of gas appeared to have to talk about "appalling" iu- alarmed the public at that pending supplies of rubber. He Referring to the gas which is strength of from one to two mil-Pealms of the 2nd evening considerable opposition. given off by radium, Sir Frederick (lis cuiries per litres strength for Magnificat, Davy. (9th evening)

time, and such appalling pictures had been going very fully into asid-

exceeding that of water, whether Nano Dimittis. Felton; Hymns,

were drawn by the press of the the m-trer, sad had como to the "The scientific committee of natural or artificially produced, 227. 429, and 222,

day, that the application was not conclusion that there were at St. Peter's Church. West Point, The Lord Mayor's Show,

successful. In 1812 a clinrter wisest ubout 1,200,000 acres nuder thia institute have demonstrated obtainable anywhere else in the that this emanation has exactly world. It has been tried in cases Sunday, Nouember 2nd. Holy "Lord Mayor's Day" this. year granted to what is now the Oas cultivation in rabber. There had the same properties as proof arthritis deformans, and in 40 Communion at 8 a.m. Morning will bo observed on Monday, Nov- Light and Coke Company, and no doubt originally been an in- radium, and is as efficient as pure per cout. of the cases, to whatever Service and Holy Communion at ember 10, when there will be Scotland followed closely in the tention of plating very much radium for curative purposes. cause attributable, most marked 11 .m. Evening Service at the usual procession to the Law wake of England. Sir Water more, but many causes had com- The committee insisted that use benefit has followed the consump Seamen's Institute at 7.30 pin. Courts and the banquet at the Scott was chairman of the Edin.blined to bring those ambitions. Union Church, Kennedy Road. Guildhall in the evening. It is burgh Oil Gas Company, formedsebouests naught. Still, if they ought to be made of the emanation. tion of the water, while one-half How it could be carried about of the remaining. creea have Sunday November 2nd. Morning, understood that the general idea in 1824. The Gas Commissionera took that ares of 1,200,000 acres, was an extremely difficult pro- benefited in varying degrees." at 11 a.m. Hymns, 1, 43, 328. of the pageant is to be founded of Edinburgh still met ie the and granted to each acre a yield blem, which we have solved by Uannily a patient drinks about a and 380; Subject of Sermon: "The on Waterloo and Trafalgar. board-room used by Sir Walter of 300 lbs, it would give them the invention of hollow plates of half pint of the emanation water Persistence of Forsonality after Ancestors of the Lord Mayor-elect Boott and his co-directors. Even altimately only 180,000 tone. varied forms into which the daily for six days in each of six Death." Evening, at 6 p.m. in the persons of Major-General now the industrial application of Even at 4001be, per acre that only the emanation is forced by pumzing weeks. That is the first course, Hymas 10, 198, 104, 271 and 384. Sir Edward Bowater and Admiral gas was only in its intanoy, We gave them about 214,000 tone, and fixed by being put in liquid and after a rest the course is re- Freacher, Bev. J. Kirk Macons Edward Bowater fought in these were indeed at the commence. and that was not such a very ex-

obie, air, We store the emanation in pented if necessary."

battles respectively,

ment of "the gas agė.

traordinary figure to face.

Monday, November 3. Boxing-Victoria Theatre. Tuesday, November 4. Miss Dora von Mollendorf, St. Andrew's Hall.

Wednesday, November 5., Licensing Board-2.15, p.m.

Thursday November 6.. 2. Batt'n. D.C.L.T. Sports.

Friday November 7.

2. Batt'n. D.C.LI Sports.'

Saturday November 8. H. K. O. O. Extraordinary general meeting-5.80 p.m.

2. Batt'n. DÜ.L.L. Sports.

Saturday, November 15. Christian Science Lectare at

Theatre Royal-6.80 p.m.

Monday November 10.

Sixth Gymkhana, Meeting, Hap

py Valley3 p.m.