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Alexandra Building.

Telephone C. 763.

Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark

SHANGHAI,

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Sale Agents:-

W. R. LOXLEY & Go.

THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH,

IN STREET FOR FIVE DAYS.

COMEDY OF A NEW MOTOR-CAR.

An apparently derelict motor

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

POISON AFTER

DEATH.

DIRECTIONS IN WILL TO PRE- VENT PREMATURE BURIAL.

Directions that prussle acid car standing outside a West End should be put in his mouth, and club for five days has been the decapitation carried out by sur- chicf "effect" In a comedy ungeons, to ensure death were con wittingly played by a visitor to tained in the will of Mr. James London from Indin, Mr. C. Mott, of Valentine-road, King's Charsley,

Health, Birmingham, retired brass founder, who left £19,088.

Mr. Charsley was taken for trial run in a car he proposed to buy. "If I decide to have the car, you can deliver it next Monday at my club," he told the salesman before they started.

Mr. Charsley, pleased with his prospective purchase, was driven to the club. "I will have the car," he said, and then he went indoors. Shortly afterwards he left for the country.

The salesman, however, mistook his orders and left the car by the kerb near the main entrance to the club.

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"I direct, and most earnestly desire" (Mr. Mott stated) that after my death two medical men or surgeons, shall apply every test to prove that life is extinct; that a strong dose of prussic acid shail next be put into my mouth, and that one of them shall then decapitate my body in the pre- sence of the other, and that both: shall certify that such decapita tion has been done; or otherwise, I direct that my body shall be dissected by post mortem amination."

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After such decapitation or dis- It stood there for five nights, becoming an object of grave sus-section, Mr. Mott expressed the ricion to numerous policemen. wish that his remains "shall, if Each night some kindly person in any way practicable, be buried from the club switched on the fat sea, wrapped only in sack cloth lights, and in the morning switch-or other kind of wrapping of the most porous description, and not ed them off.

enclosed in any wood, metallic, or This was done until a Sunday other case, but so left that they morning, when the lights had be- may come into immediate contact come a mere glimmer owing to the with the aca water. If this be battery running down. The police not practicable, then the remains were then officially informed and are to be cremated similarly wrap> a constable stood guard the whole ped. and the ashes scattered to the of Sunday night.

winds, as I prohibit interment of

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The owner arrived on the Mon-enclosure in any kind of wood, or day morning, to be greeted by two metal, or other case." detectives and two constables, all The Rev. Alfred Alston, of scenting ar abandoned car Framingham Earl and Bixley, Nor- mystery. It took him some time to folk, rector of Framingham, who reassure them.

left £7,723, expressed the desire to be buried in a stuff vestment and

with a appurtenances,

small newter chalic and paten between his hands."

$100,000 FOR UNIVERSITY.

DONOR'S NAME A SECRET.

Leeds University announces that an anonymous donor has offered £100,000 to defray the cost of the naw library buildings which are to form part of a development scheme. decided upon in 1925, when an appeal for £500,000 was launched aa meeting presided over by the Duke of York.

This is the largest single gift received by the university. Plans for the new university building were recently selected, and it is" expected that building will begin shortly. Before this latest gift was offered the fund stood at £300,354. The Daily Mail gave £2, 100 to the fund.

A letter written by the donor of the library buildings to the Vice- Chancellor, Dr. J. R. Baillie, in- dicates that it comes from a Leeds; citizen, and says: "I desire for the moment that my name should not be disclosed. Later on it may be that the university will honour me by attaching my name to the library premises."

BOY'S SEA BURIAL.

PIPERS' LAMENT FROM TUG.

Impressive scenes were witness- ed recently when Robin. Bell, elder son of Major Bell, of the Gordon High-landers, Aberdeen, who died, aged 13, after an opera- tion, was buried. The boy had just graduated to enter the Royal Naval College and as he WOR passionately fond of the sea his parents decided that he should- have an ocean grave.

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With a flag flying" at half- mast, a-tug, with the coffin on hoard, steamed out beyond the three-mile limit and Bishop Deane conducted the burial ser- vice. As the coffin was lowered into the water pipers from the Gordon High-Janders played a Inment.

A REMARKABLE OPERATION.

CAT THAT SWALLOWED FISH HOOK.

An extremely difficult operation was performed by Mr. E. C. GI- lard, a veterinary surgeon, of Folkestone, on a cat which swal- lowed a fish hook.

X-Ray examination revealed the hook near the heart, and the cat, which belonged to the Rev. Dr. Everard Haynes, Hythe, was put under an anæsthetic at a nursing home. The hook was dislodged by instruments passed along the

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SINGON & CO., ESTABLISHED A. D. 1880.

HING LUNG St. Phone Central

516.

T. NAKAO Japanese Shoe Export. TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND CASES A SIECIALITY

Hongkong Hotel Building, Queen's 'Road Central,

MRS. SEKAI

MASSAGE

2nd Floor

2, Duddell Street, Hongkong.

food tube and was withdrawn MASSAGE HALL

through and opening made in the stomach wall.

The cat. bus now almost cora pletely recovered.

MRS. 8. UZUNOYE, Expert Basseure

37, Queen's Road, 'O?21fd. Hoër

1927.

WHY?

Why make the hot weather hotter by wasting the

heat from your kitchen range:

Why not use the heat for your domestic and bath

water supply?

Why not instal a modern bathroom with a reliable.

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SHIPBUILDERS.

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OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL

Telephone C. 1080..

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