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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1916.

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concerned in thefts of jewellery THE INSTRUMENT FOR

valued in all st $10,000 has been sentenced to four years' imprison- ment Accused when arrested had a fully loaded Browning revolver on him, and another revolver was found at his house.

Canadian Poet Wlas.

Winnipeg, Jan. 26.-Captain Harwood Steele. son of Major- General Sem Steele, of Winnipeg. hes just won a competition in England open to the world for the creation of a new Imperial National anthem. Captain Steele is under 20 years of age and had sttained international reputation as a poet before leaving Winnipeg with his father last winter.

A Famous Wicket Keeper. Among recent arrivals in Egypt in the Australian Imperial Forces is J. J. Kelly, the famous wicket- keeper. Kelly was the succeseor to J. M. Blackham, and kept wicket for Australia regularly between 1898 and 1905. Another test match player now in Egypt is C. Kellewsy, who made a couple of centuries against South Africa in the triangular tournament. He holds a commission in az in- "fantry regimenL

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Public Clocks Silenced at Night:

The use of the chimes and the striking of public clocks in Twins Bern in Different Years London is to be discontinued be-

The Church Family Newspaper records from Pimlico the unusual ween sunset and sunrise. Acting event of wine being born in on the instructions of the naval and military authorities, the different yeara ose just before midnight on December 31 last police have approached those and the other just after midnight. responsible for the clocks, and in every case the request made to That has happened before: a) similar divergence is recorded in them has been willingly met. Invernesshire in the year 1885-6. France Determined to Stamp Out But still more remarkable wis a case which occurred in the United Elates a few years ago, when twins were registered as having been born in different counties.

Crimean Veteran's Death

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Paris, Jan. 28-Repression of the opium and cocaine traffic in France is made stricter by an amending law passed today by

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