No more st the progress made ye found than the fact that in tha near future aeroplanes aswell ships will be classified as AL aft Lloyd's. Arrangements have now been made whereby the certification of aircraft will be undertaken by, the Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It was announced in July that the Air Ministry had auth erizod the British Aviation Insueance Group to undertake the section of civil aircraft for the renewal of certificates of airworthiness. The authority wsa limited for the time being to the inspection of privately owned and club aircraft, The Committee of Lloyd's have now decided to take the matter up in response to representations from the interests; concerned, particularly the underwriting interests. The committee have appointed Mr. L. J. Hill, until recently stationed at Croydon Aerodrome in charge of the inspection of civil aircraft on behalf of the Air Ministry, to be the society's surveyor for aircraft, Mr. Hill has entered upon his duties, and his services are now at the dis posal of owners of aircraft and of underwriters.
The procedure will be similar to that at present in force for ships. The mew department will also be failable for the inspection of damaged aircraft, to determine the actual condition and the nature of the necessary repairs. Tt is éx-Lected that, in due course, a special Aviation Committee will be formed; "Permanent" Beauty We have now in Bond Street a master of "permanent" beauty, He claims to blacken the eyelashes to Inst for eternity; he claims to prolong the arch of the eyebrows and to remain indelible for all times and he claims to be the master of the secret process which will fight time and age, and which will make woman's beauty impervious to years and to weather, However, there is a drawback to this treatment, and that is that it must be torture, The room in which the operation takes place is furnished with quisitely finished electrical instru-wents which can impart blue, black, red, mauve, green, and all the other colours ina permanent way, and. by the more pressure of a switch, The most useful of them contains needle as thin as a hair, which can be made to oscillate at a speed, of about 650 movements per minute, The needle goos right into the skin and every stab must mean torture to the patient, No anaesthetic is given, but what woman would not bear pain to be made permer ently beautiful.
A face permanently treated costs from £5 to 10 guineas, but a gue antee is given that it will not dis-colour for at least ten years. 8 woman wants to go back to hee natural complexion, a reverse opera tion is provided. An inventor of safe beauty treatment is always astured of success, but if we continue present in the way we are going in the craze for exaggerated fnc0 colouring, there is little doubt that one day a violent reaction will set in, and simplicity will be the keynote of the fashionable woman, Our Mankow correspondent, write ting on November 8, reports that the proprietors of the Shen Hsin Cotton Mill at Wechang received letter stating that as their business was doing well, they must fend a man with $3,000 to a cor-lain place outside the railway at certain time. The route was specified and: the method of identifica tion mentioned. The matter was reported to the police, Remembering that the Inst episode of this sort nearly cost the life of a detective who went alone, the police this time drew a cordon round the chosen spot and secured two men, one carrying a dagger and the other unarmed.
Exronr of silver rom the province of Shansi has been forbidden, by the Provincial Government, order to help currency rehabilitation, in view of the depreciation of the notes of the Provincial Bank, Any person travelling out of Shansi will be permitted to carry only 100 silver dollar. A fine of from 20 to 80 per cent. will be imposed on any. amount exeoeditig $100 found on any traveller; while any sum over $50,000 will be confiscated. 30 por cent. of the fines imposed will be ded among the officials respon-lo for the" detection while the will be remitted to the Provincial Department of Finance, says: the Chinese Press.
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