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AIRCRAFT LECTURE.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

WEATHER REPORT.

Fog may be expected along the 9.1 and 8. coasts of China.

Bangkong Rabifall for the 24) hours anding at 10 am. to-day. 0.00 inch. Total since January is 1.18 Inchas, against average of 6.63 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District.

Forecast.

AD

Per sr. PRES. MÄKINLDY April 4d 11h 17m.-Pressure for Shanghai etc.-Mr. W. Hong has decreased considerably at The Mysterious “Hala.”

ger, Mr. Ian Purdie, Miss Alca | Shangbai, and slightly from A lecture for children on model Smith, Mr. & Mrs L Danbar, Formoss to Tongking. It is aircraft was given at the Royal Mr. Jas Mentear, Mr. & Mrs. R. nearly stationary over the Philip Society of Arts recently by Mr. Lion, Mr. S. E. Matteson, Mr. A.- pines. R. A. Fraser, of the National R. Braga, Mr. & Mrs. H. D. Physical Laboratory at Ted- | Warner, Mrs. Geo. W. Marshall, dington. Professor L. Bairstow, Miss E. Marshall, IF, N, M. president of the Royal Aare Larsen, Mr. & Mr. F. Westin, nautical Society, presided. The Mrs. D. Smith, Mina. C. Smith, lecture was illustrated with lan- Mr. H. W. Sullivan, Miss Mary tern views of all types of aircraft, Banks, Mr. & Mr. D. S. White, from rigid airships to observation Mr. & Mrs. Jas. Humphrey Jr., balloons, and by various working Mr. & Mrs. F. A. Bryan, Mrs. models. The most interesting H L Green, Mrs. A. N. Vail, was a model of the windtunnels Mr. Albert L Farwell, Mr. W. used at Teddington to test the H. Groskamp Rer. Chas E. resistance of aircraft to the wind Patton, Mr. & Mrs. W. H and, therefore, the force required Atkinson, Mr. & Mrs. R. L.2 to drive it and to test also the Bridger, Mr. A. R. Madar, LL. & Mr. C. E. Bwithenbank, Mr. "lift" of seroplane wings.

This contrivance is so simple & Mrs. C. A. Beard, Mr. W. Beard, Mr. & Mrs. W. E Grim- that the lecturer had no difficulty shaw, Mr. & Mrs. E. Kent Bwift, in explaining it to the children. Mr. P. H. Guother, Mr. & Mrs. There is a

tunnel in which the model is placed. AJ. Harold Dollar Miss Alle propeller near one end sucks the Dollar, Mr. E F. Townsend, Mr. F. O. Cudlipp, Mrs. L. P. Moors.

DAYTOW

Formosa Channel

South coast of or China between variable. H.K. & Lamocks | winds,

to moderate 3 Hongkong Gap Rock

to light: South coast of fine at first, Chios

between fog.

HK & Hainan.

T. F. CLAXTON." Dirveter.

the air through in a steady stream Miss Brudenell Bruce, Miss A. | LK.Observatory, Apr. 4, 1923. at a regulated rate. The model!

To measure the

the

is attached in a balance. As it is M. Pitts, Miss W. Beard, Mrs. driven back it moves the balance John Bryce, Mrs Margaret Dr. Charles MoVitt, Mrs. Charles and the amount of weight mored Braisted, Miss Gertrude Brad MoVitt, Miss Mary Mevitt, Misa shaw, Mr. Emile Bauda, Mrs. Ethel Morse, Miss Ana Murdock, by the balanca measures Elvia Bowling, Mrs. J. C. H. Mr. & Mrs J. H. Wade, Miss amount of the model's resistance Lee, Mr. W. A. McKellar, Miss Ethel Louise Way.

lift" of the Pearl McKellar, Mrs. Joseph H. Per &s. PORTHOS for Mar wings of an aeroplane a second Severyns. Mt. Sam S. Wolfe, seilles etc.-Mr. Cuvillier, Rav. balance, set up at right angles to Anus Wolfe, Miss Martha Fr. Gore, Mr. G. F. Freeman, Mr. the first, is used simultaneously.

Caris, Mr. Naeb, Wolfa, Mr. H. R. Cooper, Mrs. Mr. The lecturer explained that air Alice K. Freeman, Miss Mildred Mr. Boumessier, H. Catfilia, moves in the same way as water. Freeman, Miss Phyllis Freeman, Mrs. R. D. Acton. Mrs. Loire -Foura- To enable the children to Mr. S. E. Jackson, Mr. Virgil Mrs. Laffond, Mrs. visualise the stream lines of air Jackson, Mr. H. W. McCormick, iar. Mr. E. Negre, Mrs. A. Luns, against which aircraft drive Mr. W. G. Moore, Miss Harriett Mies G. Fuselin, Rev. & Mrs. he showed them by means Raymond; Miss Gertrude Gallen- Bornand, Mr. Leon Walch, Mr. of & Iantern K model der, Miss Helen O'Malley, Mr. & Mrs. Tjon Poon Gim, Rev. Fr. suspended io

flowing water. George B. Boyd, Mr. Charles Vignal through which

Peras. PYRRHUS for London. streams of Freeman Mrs Sylvia Toby, coloured water passed, dividing Mrs. John 1. Traphage, Mr. Mr. & Mrs. Eckford, Mr. & as they reached the model and Harold Weston, Miss Elizabeth Mrs. G. R. Atkin, Miss Kesenia approaching each other again as Boyd, Mrs. Evelyn Freeman, Kotilarowskaya, Miss Tation they passed it. He showed how Mr. John I. Traphage, Mrs. Kotliarewakaya, Mr. & Mra. Pery much great was the resistance of Harold Waston, Mrs. Hazel Fowler, Mrs. Ames, Mr. J. B. a spherical body than of one Wilson, Mr. J. A. Barwin, Mrs. Southmaid, Mr. & Mrs. J. W. shaped like a rigid airship. He Sarab E. Berwin, Mrs. Ethel Berwick, Mr. & Mrs. Barley, Mrs. pointed the blot of coloured Craig, Miss. May B. Craig A. E. W. Davis, Mrs. Johnson, water that remained behind Mr. Edmund B. Clary, Mr. A. Miss Macfarlane, Mr. & Mr. the model even after the Callahan, Dr. G. W. Don- Macfarlane. Lieat Comdr. J. M. coloured water taps had been lap, Mrs. DaVeet Dunlap, Heath, Mr. R. Young, Mr. J. turned off and a stream of Miss Lorena Dunlap, Mre. E C. Lennox, Mr. F. C. Crush, Mr.A C. clear water had flowed through Walters, Mr. Ike Weinstelu, Mrs. Johnstone, Mr. F. K. Ferguson, This dark water represented Anita Winsteir. Maj Arch Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Reeves, Lient. the "dead air" tehind the air-Yorke, Miss Damians Dolorico, N. H. Adcock, Mrs. Wrightson, craft which provides a problem Mr. Fred Kert-ld, Mrs. Amy Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Glenister, Mr. for aviatore.

Kenfeld, Mrs. H. A. Lampman, J. B. Afflich, Mr. J. H. Eston.

These experiments had been show first fifteen years ago. but it bad only lately been noticed that while the coloured stream flaws, against the model it does, not actually touch it, being withheld

foe halo. NOT/T from it by

of Demand the cause one yet knows

30 d/s...... that fine halo, which exists 60 da alike in the streams of water 4 m/ and of air. If the cause could T/T. Shanghai. Singapore be learned and a remedy found, a

Japan resistance T/T. Indis certain amount of would be removed.

Demand India

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Demand, Bombay

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On

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Demand, Singapore

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On Haiphong

Now.

On Bangkok

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The lecturer afterwardsrepeated T/T. San Francisco and ow the experiments with bodies T/T. Jara suspended in air through which TT. Marks smoke was driven, showing, as in T/T. Franc..... the case of water, how the stream- Demand, Paris lines of air passed around-the

model.

2

On Saigon

2/5: Bank of England raves

4 / L/C. Frofessor Bairstow told the 4 m/s. D/P. children that bebind all they had 6 m/s L/C. seen was much scientific truth 30d/ Sydney and Melbourne 2/5 as to the way in which the world attacked some of its problems' ones. The and provided new adult members of the audience were probably most impressed by the evidence of the immense amount of mathematical work done by the staff at Teddington.

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Staple Inn Hall Saved.

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of the Prudential Assurance Company, by whom it was acquired from the Ancients of Staple Inn in 1884. The present It is good, after these examples tenants are the Institute of of the problem of preserving Aotuaries. The Hail is by no 4th April. antiquity, to record the definite means so old as the Inn. In the asivation" of Staple Inn Hall Intter, in the fourteenth century, This, like Weetminster Hall, was the wool-staplers carried on their attacked by the death-watch business; but they appear to beetle with the long Latin name.have been sent back to West The failure of a lintel over one minster by Richard II, and in of the windows gave the first 1378 it became so-Inn of sign that decay had set in. An Chancery. An oriel window-in- investigation was made by Mr. the Hall bears wilness in one of Waterbouse, who consulted Pro-ite panels to the sojourn of the fessor Lefroy. These experts merchants-in the Inn, The soon discovered that the death Billiard House, or Staple Hou watch beetle had attacked the was the ancient Customs House, timbers. Some of the cavities and the merchants of the steel- Thure Sish. 1.30pm. made by the insects were almost | yard, says Mr. Cato Worsfald, Thaty

5 i 2p.Iarge enough to contain a man's were so called from their trading Thara 6 Inst. 8.30 pmr body. The method used to almost entirely by weight and Thurs 5.inst 330 pm destroy the hosts of beetles and using the steelyard as their sp Thart B Inst 5 pm

Fri 6 fast 10 30 am and their eggs and larve in the paratus. At one time the Hall Fri 6int noon. wood was similar to that em- was-vested in Principal and Fri. 6 Inst. 2 p.ployed at Westminster Hall-elevan Ancients, and had ita Eamely, the forcing of a very place in the legal life of the Inns Fri ́btb Farcals 5 pm powerful insecticide, containing | The roof of the Hell itātes from

a solution of cedarwood ofl, into 1581. the wood, after clearing -away- dust and decayed matter. The

CATS 50 FELT JUMP Burface of sil old and new wood | A black cat névad also was sprayed. In some cases being bred to death by steel reinforcements have had unburt a distance of to be used to strengthen the im- from the fourth storeyof,

tha was on fire. The poverished oak

WITNESS OF THE WINDOW Canned £15;000% Staple Tan Hall Is the property Fout op premis

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