1917-10-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH

DUTORER

GENERAL NEWS.

Mualtion Workers' Mad Rush'

An accident at Ilkeston, in which a woman was 'pushed on So the railway and had both her legs out ca, was said to be das

the habitual mad rush of munition workers to get into the front part of the train,

Ptomaine Polsoning.

At Gillingham a naval me. chanic, named Elwin Obarles] Bocking, 42, died after eating herrings. As the inquest a wet- diat of death from gastro-enteritis due to ptomsine poisoning was

returned.

England's Diminished Nop

Acreage.

The hop acreage for England this year in only 16,946(of which Kent claims 10,465 soree), na compared with 31,352 last year and 34,744 in 1915. The Kent crop has fallen from 19,499 acres.

Veteran Railway Engine Driver. Mr. George Hall, of Coventry, who has completed 60 years' service with the L and "N. W. Bailway, he entered on his 72ad year. He drives an engine daily on the Coventry and. Nuneaton line.

A Lucky Discovery. ▲ Southwark engineer, who -collecte old farthings, recently dropped a George E. farthing dated 1754, and noticed that it sounded hollow. On examining it he found that it, was hollow and contained a finely preserved George L. quarter-guines, dated 1718

Well-known Scottish. Circus Proprietor.

John Henry Cook, who has died at the age of 80, was a well known circa proprietor. Al- thoogb obiefly associated with Edioburgb, he bed travelled

widely on the Continent and in America, He performed before Queen Victoris and Prinos Albert. Woman Salirage Defested in Maine.

Equal coffrage for women has been defeated in Maine. Returns. from about two-thirds of the State showed on September 11

that the constitutional amend

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MOUTRIE" PIANO

FOR

$60.

Prepaid Advertisements.

ONE GENT PER WORD

FOR EACH INSERTION.

TO BE LET.

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furnished TWO-ROCMED FLAT in Central District. Kowloon; rental #35; possession Moderate rental. Apply Box November, Apply on premises. 1328 c/o Hongkong Telegraph."

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ment which would give the bellot KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

"to women had been" defeated by two to abe."

(bituary.

Mrs. Margaret Marchant was buried at Pembroke in her. 10let "year, A Gillingham, Harry Jocelyn van Tromp, 57, who claimed to be a direct descendant of the Datch admiral, war buried. At Woking, Police: Sergeant Hitchcock, 45, of the Metropolita Police, died within a few hoore of the death of his father at the age of 78

Both were buried at Brook wood Cemetery.

Tokyo Newspapers Affected by the Flood.

For a week after ibe recent storm the newspapers in Tokyo: were obliged to cat down the namber of their pages, due to the soaking of a considerable portion of their stock of psper in water. The N. Y. K. however, ofared to biing down paper from the Hok- ksido mille at a reduced rats of freight; and thanks to this, and. opportune arrivals from other quarters, the papere. have now -managed to re-appear in their old form.

Justice E. F. Johnson. A8an Francisco despatch received by the Japanese papers on October 11 from the United Press reported that Justice Elias Finley Johnson, judge in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, had been murdered. No farther details were given. Justice John-

on has many friends among Americans and other foreigners in the Far Esst. He wansppoint- ed to Manila in 1910. Previously to him sppointment be had been 8 member of the Ohio Etste Legislatore and a professor of law at the University of Michigan, -cf which he was a gradaste," "He wee the author of several law books. Justice Johnson was born in Vanwert, Ohic, on June 14, -1861.

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suitable for OFFICES, et Married Couples, with or without From $3.50 To $15.00 Per Suit.

Apply to Box No. 183, c/o board. Electric Light and Bells. use of Telephone. Terms moder- Hongkong Telegragh."

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FOR SALE.

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tically new; upright; over- #trung. Price $300. Apply to W. Izard Pedersen, 6 Morrison Hill.

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THE UNION INAURANCE BOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.,

Honorary Secretaries & Treasurers.

Hongkore, 15th January, 1917

CAST IRON

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