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GENERAL NEWS.

Big Crocodile Caught. A orooodile measuring twel、a feet long, with 49 young ouse, was brought to the Taiping polies station on August 31 by a Malay "from Bath Masang. The mother was killed with "s cudgel, and ...when the Malay looked round be

perosired the young ones in a. pool hard by The man will be given a reward af about $15.

A Kentish Centenarian. Mre, Elizabeth Wood, of 193, Luton Road, Chatham, Kent, celebrated recently her 100th birthday. Born on July 28, 1817, at Bargate-street, Canter bary, she was popularly known throughout East Kent se "Nares "Wood," and is the mother of ex- Sheriff Thomas Wood, of Home. wood Hall, &turry, near Canter bury. Five of her seven children are living (one sop and four daughters), their combined ages amounting to 352 years. Op to: within the last few months Mrs. Wood was able to read without glasses, and to sow well. She often says that she hopes to live „until the end of the great war, to son once again her relatives with the Forces, among whom in Flight-Commander Stanley J. Goble, D.S C., D S.O., and Croix de Guerre, of the Royal Naval Air Service, :..

Big Indian Irrigation Project. in presenting his financial etatement to the Imperial Legie lative Council at Delhi in March at Sir William Meyer mentioned that among the irrigation project- ; ander examination was one for dealing with the dosert tract in the Sind Sagar Daab (Punjab) known as the Thal. Thie scheme DOBSCBA03

possibilities. great "In their report presented BOMB 14 years BRO the Irrigation Commission intimated that they could not then recom- mend that the Sind Bager Capel should be put in hand until the Lower Bari Doab Canal and ita allied works were approaching completion, but they went on to express the hope that" it may be possible to undertake this work a few years hence and so complete the programs of perennial canals from the Panjsh tiveIE, which will not only protect the Province from famine, but also render it the most importaal granary of India.

Land for Service, Men. A meeting of the British E- pire Land Settlement Propegands League we recently held at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor, who presided, asid the objects of; the League would benefit sailore and soldiers and their dependente after the war, by providing for them on the land, not in this

country, but in the Empire be- yond the seRe. Lord Willoughby

de Broke moved a resolution amp- porting the objects of the Leagur,

pledging the citizens to sit

actively in the carrying out of) its work, and expressing high appreciation of the efforts put forib for the settlement of sailors

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917.

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and soldiers on, the land by the Governments of the Oversea Dominions efforts which were worthy of emulation by the British Government-Major Hant, M.P seconded the motion, Regimenta! Sergeant-Major Middlemise, Misa THE Flors Ormar, Mr. RoeInace, and Mr. H. E. Esaton (bon. secretary) supported the resolution, which was carried onanimously. Japanese Silk Commandeered.

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LONDON DIRECTORY.

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