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FLYING FROM ENGLAND TO INDIA,

NEW AÏL SERVICE TO. START SOON.

INTERESTING DETAILS.

Rugby, Sept. 28.**

The air service from England to India is to be inaugurated on Jan- nary 12th next. As already an- nounced, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secre tary for Air, accompanied by Lady Maud Hoare, will travel to India 'by the first flight. Three machines will set out together, and Air Vice- Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker will also be one of the party."

It is probable that only three aeroplanes will be completed by January 12th, but later five will operata on the new airway. Each will be of the De Haviland typa, fitted with three Jupiter engines and having accommodation for fourteen travellers.

For the journey of 2,500 miles from Cairo to Karachi the faré will be approximately $72 On the route not only has it been necessary, to make suitable landing places in uninhabited and dificult country, but hotels for travellers have been built at roníantic places where one could seldom hope to find a kostelry. There is to be one such at Ratha, in the middle of the desert, about halfway between Cairo and Bagdad.

The service will be worked as follows-Setting out from the Heliopolis Aerodrome, near Cairo, the first halt of the machines will be at Gaza, where passengers will spend the night.. Here also a hotel has been built.. Gaza" has been selected in order that a footing may From. be obtained in Palestine. Guza, the route will be across the Dead Sea through Ratba and Bag- dad tó Basra, this being the second day's flight. On the third day, from Basra the passengers will go to Bushire and Bundar Abbas The final stage is from the latter aerodrome by way of Charbar to Karachi. Leaving Heliopolis on Wednesday just after lunch, passen- tea at gers will be able to take Karachi on the following Saturday. -British Wirecas.

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FATAL QUARREL.

STREET-SWEEPER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.

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F.A. Hudson, stated to be a aval pensioner, appeared before" Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning on tinued before the Chief Justice, Sir The Criminal Sessions were con- charges of failing to pay for his Henry Gollad, in the Supreme ricksha fare and of assaulting the Court this imorning, when a charge puller.

of manslaughter was preferred It was stated that after an against a Yaumati street-sweeper. hour and half of work, pulling The case arises out of a quarrel defendant around Wanchai on an between two street sweepers at aimless journey, the coolie drop-Yaumati, who fought after a dis- ped the shafts outside the Kwong [pute over the picking up of paper Sang Hong, while Hudson went in rice bags. Later it is alleged the

side. Sometime later he reappear-prisoner struck the other man with ed but did not again use thea street sweeping broom in Bat- ricksha. Instead he walked down tery Street, as the result of which the Praya, being followed and the man died, when being taken stopped by the ricksha coolie home by his relatives.

of Mr. Eugene Chen was the out-when the Wanchai Police Station Was reached. It was then that the

defendant is alleged have assaulted the coolie.

Although pressed, our informant "said he would prefer to withhold the direct reason for Canton's wish for friendship, but he could say that normal relations

were very rauch desired.

SHARE MARKET BRIGHTER.

The case for the Crown is being conducted by the Attorney General, Hon. Mr. JH. Kemp, and the pri soner is undefended.

Hudson admitted the offence, and,

Medical evidence was given to stated apropós of the fine of $20 the effect that there were a few imposed on both charges, that he scratches below the left breast of had great expectations of a fortune the deceased, and a bipise between of half-a-million pounds that was the ribs and spleen. An internal. left as a legacy by his brother. He examination revealed the fact that was, however, not allowed to touch the spleen was enlarged. The man it yet

had had malaria, and that would

The confidence of Chinese in the end of the boycott has been re- flected in share business, which has been much brisker in the last two days.

Previous suggestions that the boycott would possibly terminate have not re-acted on share bust-thinking of borrowing from friends official police photographer, Inspec

His Worship asked if he was ity was given, after which the

Later, Hudson who had stated case the spleen to be more easily that he had been twenty months injured. A blow from a fist might without employment, asked for tinfecape the rupture, but it would not which to pay the fine. for the raising of the money with cause the bruise.

Evidence as to a map of the local-

ness, but a broker with whom we on the strength of this fortune. tor Vincent, spoke with regard to

talked this morning said a tremen- dous amount of Chinese business had been done.

Share prices have not yet stif- fened to any appreciable extent, but Electrics have advanced $61⁄44 in two days, H.K. & S. Hotels, have advanced 86 cents to-day, Dou- glases have advanced $2 to-day, and Steamboats have improved $2.25 to-day.

sary time in which to obtain the Defendant was allowed the neces-

money.

LOCAL LARCENIES.

LADY'S $1,000 LOSS.

The following Inrceries were re- ported to the police yesterday:

Miss Lema Roza, residing at No. 138, Caine Road, reported that dur US. COTTON MARKET. ing her absence some person

The case is proceeding. photographs he had taken.

GREEK POLITICS.

ELECTIONS TO BE HELD.

Athens, Sept. 20. Newspapers of all shades of opinion, applaud M. Kondylise's decision to abstain from politics. The elections will be held on a date cently stole from the wardrobe to be fixed, on the basis of the pro in her bed-room, which was then portional representation system. BIG SLUMP REPORTED. under repair, a pair of ear-rings

set with eight diamonds, valued at An official Gazette to-day publishes the text of the new Constitution New York, Sept. 23. $600, and also une diamond brooch, The cotton market was to-day de- valued at $400. A Chinese work which was voted by a Parliamen moralised by the appearance of the man is suspected.

tary Commission of the National It will be Government cotton report forecast- Mr. R. L. Moncrieff, assistant Assemby last year.

Ing a slightly lower crop than last cashier, Hongkong and Shanghai submitted to the future Chamber Bank, reported that during the past within a fortnight of its meeting three days, some person or persons, Reuter,

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Prices, which rose after the hur-

ricane damage in the South, drop ped from 126 to 132 points, closing near the lowest.

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of the bank various articles, valued

at $10, also a ten-dollar note, and FRENCH TRAIN SMASH. some penholders...

As soon as the report appeared there was a flood of liquidation, now Mr. R. M. Austin, reported by short selling and heavy hedging.

letter that while playing in the DUE TO BROKEN COUPLING.

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