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*BY THRIFT IS MEANT SIMPLY THAT WAY OF LIVING WHICH

Liberal parties into two [rival groups, the last General Electthe poor support given Ir. Lloyd) George's Nationberals by SYSTEMATICALLY TRANSFERS A the alectors that the PORTION OF ONE'S INCOME TO British people h time for ONE'S CAPITAL”—Mathews. these petty divisiīhey like their politics amies to be clear-cut. That hat they will be if Libssalon is achieved. The. of Mr. His Excellency the Governor Lloyd George rally in is attending the Holloway Court Tolved in this iand, what-idge Company's production of

"The Bat” to-night. ever it is, wa cibut think! that he is destiḥ fill a far more important han that of leader of a secilioup of his aid party.

There have been nɑ ɑases ofi

for the past two days. communicable disease notified

Improvement lying.

FROM.

Gleams THE

Unseen

By Robert G. Shewan.

IV. Experiences of Others.

Thirty years Race passed since 1 published an account of experi- ments tending to shew that, outside our scientific knowledge, there exists a force exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelli gence common to mortals. I have nothing to retract. I adhere to my already published statements. Indeed I might add thereto,

Sir Wm. Crookes.

Shipping is warned to steer plear of a steam lanach which has sunk in the fairway in A friend of mine told me that anos, when bis fortunes were mediately above Taishek Barrier.at their blackest, he was passing Regent Street and noticed the The wedding is to take place at advertisement of a clairvoyant St. John's Cathedral on the 15th. and, remembering that, as he said, instant of Rose Edith, daughter | I believed in these people, he went | of Mr. and Mrs. Cheung Sum- in and had a sitting,” He learnt During the paż years the

nothing about his own future, the world has seen in forward woo, to Mr. Clarence K. Chan.

only remark that struck him be- of aviation. T the latest strides made in provament

The Chinese steamer Anjou, ing that he had a con at school advances in thef flying are which arrived yesterday from who would not cost him soything the automatio c of a pilot-Canton, brought 34 Chinese pass more for his education." This was less aeroplans apreliminary engers who had been taken off the true, as, soon after that, his son Application of principle of stranded steam launch Wo Lee at won a scholarship which covered

the cost of his further education. * hovering." te has yet Pak Tong Mi. perfected the heter, which is designed to risendicularly We are informed by the agents : and remain prady stationary that the 8.8. "President Madison

in the air, but thaems every will arrive in Hongkong at 5 pm prospect of sud before long this afternoon. This is consider- The control, byeless, of ably earlier than had been previ- small pilotlessne, is an ously announced. advance in adscience that encompasses odhe dreams of

Prophecies Come True.

call "D" had a brother in This same friend, whom I will Burmab who went Home with being very much chaffed for a fallow passenger who WAS

having claimed to have medium- [istic or sccult powers. Finally Registry Office, Hongkong, writers of fotof the Jules country endeavoured to commit longer and offered to make

A peasant just come from the this passenger could stand it no March 5th, Lee D. Nagel to Verne type. is intended. suicide at a clansman's shop at prediction if those be informed ücfortunately, Fartime put No. 63. Bonham Strand yesterday would solemnly promise not to poses, as a carof explosives

MARRIAGE. NAGEL-MUSSO.-At the

Mabe! Edas Musso.

BIRTHS.

or of a camera which photo by jumping over the verandah, disclose what he said to others. BERRY-On Friday, March graphs of the y's territory but only succeeded in severely and especially to a certain lady 2. 1923, at Akasawa, Japan. Doris can be taken. ebot dawn, iojaring himself. He is now is on board. This they did, and he Berry, daughter of Oscar Borry, the plans. che, replaced hospital.

told" them that this lady €6. of Lendon, of typhoid-by another of time kind, and

would be a widow on her arrival.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

-

next day when he read

in a newspaper the husband had been killed on a shooting trip in Burmab.

"It is very seldom that I dream, but this morning about 6.30 I awoke with a very vivid recallsation of having (during sleep) thought again about the telegram and that I bad sad. denly said to myself 'Why, of course, it is quite simple, Int bim bold the gooda as security": and I afterwards left home for the office with the set Intention of so advising Mr. Shewan. As the ferry from "Kowloon sp- proached the pier on Hongkong side. I looked up and saw the “figure of Mr. Shewan standing on the verandah of the office building, and I wondered what devision he had come to with reference to the telegram; MÒ the same time I repeated to myself that in a few minutes I should be with him and telling him what it had occurred to me wa should do." It was about ten to fifteen minutes from that moment when I joined Mr. Shawan in his office, as I stay- ed for a few minutes at my desk to sort out some correspond- ence that had been received by the morning past, and I then asked him what he thought of doing about the telegram." · He said that he had written L reply and pointed to

a writing pad on another d-ak in his office. Then," without Mr. Shewan having informed me of the nature of his draft reply, and before I had sp- proached the other desk to read what he had written on the pad, I told Mr. Shawan of my dream. It then transpired that he bat |--written --down-exaotip-the-

message that had been indicat- ed to me, but that it had not occurred to him at all what to reply until some minutes before, when he was "standing on the verandab, looking sorɔng the harbour at the people coming' to their business by the ferry from Kowloon, and that in- mediately he understood what ACEWOr he was to send to the "telegram he came straight into his office from the verandah and wrote, it down, leaving the draft reply on the pad on the desk and then sitting down at another desk (his usual one}· where I found him when I want

CLEMENT-0 March 200 life will haten lost, nor) Bunkichi Iusnajs, 36, Japan.la England, although she had left 1923, at St. Mary's Hospital, will an expensisachine have ese, yesterday took paison to end her busband in good health in When the steamer Shanghai, Anas Augusts von been sacrificed.und up with his life and was removed in Burmah.

the lady received Vedinghoff Clement, aged 50. these improvers in aviation serious condition to the Govern-arrived,

bad news

D." Bod are the discovej made in the meat Civil Hospital. He died on po realm of wirelesne advance, the way, however, and the re- brother was triumphant until in fact, pressgeather, and the mains were transferred to the the The family of the late Mrs. M. inventive trium of experi- Mortuary. schmann wish to thank all menters in one bb of science friends or their condolences and are adapted byzdents of a A Canton correspondent in- kind expressions of sympathy in different series opblems. We forms as that reports say that the bis partner Blodgett and myself My friend Warner, of Manila, their recent bereavement..

read in a recent iter cable of authorities. of Kiangsi. and finding ourselves together in New a small aeroplanestructed to General Shum Bungying, the York with nothing to do, went to serve as a meansprovisioning Kwangsi commander, have as the

a fortune-teller. flying-machines in the air result of negotiations decided to told nothing startling that I re- Blodgett was This opens up mew possibi-act jointly in case of emergencies member and I was told, as usual, Hities. With air, there have on the North River,

that I would never make a large been many recenjprovements,

fortune but would always get alli the most notableing in the

in. Amongst the passengers who I wanted and never come to want. increase of stabiland the use left by the ss. President Grant Warner, however, was informed

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 12th March, 1923.

TOWARDS SIMPLICITY.

of not-inflammalas. We com-

instead

and Mr. W. J. Hawker.

mented not long on the in-esterday were Dr. and Mre. that he was soon going to make Marriott, Mrs. Leonard Yates, more money than he ever expect- creased safety of it, the higher Capt. Tom Gunn, Mr. W. Eed and although he would return speed of the males, and the Roberts, Mr. A. S. Ellis, Mr. J. to Manila, he would not work any I would appear that the more powerful aretter type of politics parties at Home are engine evolved, inding one in M. Noronha, Ms. George Mooser more. beginning to re-group themselves which crude oily be used has of pet One in such a manner as to lead to a cause for wonder just when reversion to old-time conditions, man will reach limit of bis when there were three main ele powers of inventi ments Conservatives, Liberals, and Labour. Mr. Lloyd George's idea of forming a Centre Party (which would be nothing other than the Coalition under a new camel has evidently been abandoned, and we can well understand the belief

tion of Liberal reunion. We are

Some months after, he called on me in Hongkong and, when I asked him what he had An old Chinese was sentenced come out for, ha said he was only to ten days' hard labour, this going to Manila to wind up his morninz. without the option of affairs, as he had made a great the fine usually imposed in each)deal of money and would not New Source oElectricity. cases, for selling Chinese news-have to attend to business ABY papers without a licence. The more. He was rather taken A few days as news wire defendant had prevaricated in his aback when I pointed out to him recorded the discoy by a young replies, and apparently it was this that this was just what the New Hungarian of a mas of obtain that drew the severe penalty York forture-teller had told him ing electricity ft the atmo from Mr. W. Wynne Jones, and at which he had scoffed. where the electil power is istrste. sphere. By meanspoles erected newly-appointed Second Mag- required, the inver claims that

be can obtain egy at a com.

Chamberlain appearing on the of poles seems to fow the same suitably connected and the use

1

1X

Mr. Hammes met me for the first time on a steamer going up:

to Shanghai, and it resulted in bis For being on board the s.s. Kai joining our office in Hongkong

thick.. fog this

عم

would make him morning.

***This appears to me a clear case of telepathy as to the com- munication from me to Mr. Shawan, and it must be borne, in mind that first of all he told me that he had written a reply (bat did not state what reply). I then informed him of the reply that had been indicated. to me. He then said (us proved by the writing pad) that it was that identical reply that he had written, and it then transpired that the idea of that particular reply had come to him at the very moment I must have been on the ferry looking up at his figure on the verardah and thinking of my intention to advise him of the particular Com- reply that had been municated to me.”

I certainly agree with Mr.

that this is a move in the direcparatively negligi cost, and of Picg without permission, four As he was partly committed to

a very high voltagirovided the men came before Comdr. Beck-some-one in Shanghai, he did not Hawker that this seema & good authoritatively told that no ties pole is tall enoug This seems with, at the Marine Court this accept the proposal I made him case of telepathy, but the Secret. now exist between Mr. Lloyd to be similar to principle of morning. The Chinese detective till some days after he arrived ary of the Society for Psychical George and the Conservative obtaining electricenergy from who arrested them said they were there. About two years after- Research rejects it as it might ex-Ministers not included in the some years ago:We recollect defendants, with previous conviction, he told me that some time occured to each of us at the very

trees, that was big discussed all bad characters. Three of the wards, in the course of conversa have, in the ordinary.... way,-

that the tacit understanding be- some such arraement were monte herd labour. The fourth had no intention of going to it were a case of chance, then I Bonar Law Administration, but arguing the point to whether tions, were each sentenced to two before he met me, and when he same moment. It might, but if tween the two wings of the the time. Apparely the trees of one month.

possible with an dorimenter at man was fined $50, with the option Shanghai, a lady in Hongkong, think most people except the Cabinet which was evidenced by were to serve as cductors of the

Mrs, Underwood, told him that he Socisty would deem the coincid-

ence more remarkable still.-' was about to take a sea voyage Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Austen electricity in their to wires Hongkong experienced quite and meet a business man who There is no arguing with the ал offer, Society, for when it says " Pigs ex-Premier's platform during the principles. If thirstest inven People moving about the but for some reason he would be might fly" all we ona reply is. General Election, has been tion proves to be practicable streets loomed like ahadows, held back from accepting it that they are very unlikely birds,

· Other Cases, abandoned by both sides. Welone, there will be added

buildings less than a hundred right off, although eventually he to the comforts of dern life get from view, and visibility in the

On one occasion, my sister-in- yards away were almost hidden would do so.

Dace in conversation with law, who has no leanings to the are thus getting back to the old another advantagehd the cheap harbour was reduced to minimum.Lady May, she told me that one occult side of things, was told by days when Mr. Lloyd George ness of the systemhould enable! was a Liberal, and nothing but a almost every housold to bare a Launch sirens, as a consequence, night after she had left her female grosy, quite of the Liberal.

supply of electricity Out of small were busy. Conditions improved husband he assured her that his woman's own accord, that, slightly after sunrise, but the father had appeared to him and although she was living in a beginnings do gret things grow thick mist remained, antil quite sat in the chair opposite to him. small house then, she would soon Seventy prominent Liberals and it may be hat we ате

I forget if they bonversed, but leave it and never live in such a who favour reunion are to meet

about to observe tl perfection of late in the morning.

May remarked to his wife the small one again. This so far bas to-day and we have no doubt that epoch-making as jreless itself

a discovery as maellous and as At H. M. Surpreme Court, governor is dead," and so they proved quite true,

Once on a steamer to Yan- shbir deliberations will result in The thought of iconjures up Shanghai, on March 6th., Sir soon learned by cable.

couver, I was told by a passenger, farther consolidation of the visions of the futu when "every Skinner Turner gave judgment Was it Telepathy?

aminer, that after a long spall at party. Apparently there are only might be the slog, when ships against

wan his own ower-station" in favour of Mr. R. B. Wood,

whom his former Hawker speaks for itself-

The following statement by Mr. the mines be and his mate took s about half a dozen National will be propelled by energy ob-employers, Messra. Caldbook,

holiday at the nearest-town and” their Liberals who cannot be persuad-tained through throws masis Macgregor & Co., brought an Hongkong, 3rd Beptember, 1920. Indulged themselves to

Shortly before five o'clock hearts' content. When he came. ed to join the movement. These absorbing electrify from the action to enforce the term

atmosphere, and hen even air of ma are doubtless the real, out and ships and seropanes, on the bim

agreement restraining

on the 2nd. September, 1920, we to himself he went home to his from engaging ja received a telegram from New wife, who told him minutely out "Wee Frees." They are not principio of adapation already any capacity in the mineral water

York; I went to Mr. Shewan's where he had been and what he office about it, but I was inform- had been doing, and with auch to be seriously considered, how discussed, will be ble to extract business in the Far East for a

ed that he had read the telegram detail that be assured me she ever, We welcome this new main aloft honor indefinitely, plaintiffs sought damages to the and left for the day. To me the must have seen him in the very

power from the and thus re-period of 10 years. Alternatively, Liberal move, because we think This is certainly th age of inven-smount of $20,000 on the ground

answer to be sent to this room for away from where she it will greatly simplify politics at tion. Perhape hirians of a few that, during his term of service telegram was quite a problem, was to which he had been. From and although I thought of the the way he spoke, the whole Homa and remove the confusion thousand years once will refer with plaintiffs, defendant gained

matter several times during the affair had made a deep impres to it as the airag! They could a knowledge of secret recipes and created by the splitting up of hardly finds zure appropriate might use them in the trade to

evening, noʻsatisfactory answer sion on him and made him think. both the Conservative and the name,

the detriment of plaintiffs.

occurred to me.:

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