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S. S. "WING HANG"
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THE STEAMSHIP **WING HANG" as the Feszcar Shamshaipo in the Barbour of Hong-
Will be sold by
Order of the Mortgages -by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
TUESDAY, the 10th day of Angust,
19:3),
at 12 o'clock NOUR,'
by
Mesen, LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers.
at their Auction Rooms in Buddell Street.
The Ship is a Chinese Ship register- ed at Canton.
Ber dimensions and tonnage are approximates as follows,
Length:-10 fireh RFGISTERED
TONNAGE
"Breadth -25 ft inch s Depth: ft. inces
Gruss - 14
Ner
and her speel is about 10 Knots
For further particulars and coali
tions of sale apple to
Messes, WILKINSON & GRIST,
9, Queen's Road Central,
Dz 13.
Mess. LAMMERT BROS.
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THE Codersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction,
on
FRIDAY, August. 27, 1920,
at 12 o'clock (noon),
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, (Por Acccent of the Concerned,
The Wreck of the
S. S. "CHIYO MARU, as she now lies of the Lems Islands,
Terms: Cash on fall of hammer when the wreck will be at purchaser's rist."
LÄMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hongkong, July 30, 1920,
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THE INSECT ENEMY.
INTOMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
OF TO-DAY.
field to another. The ignorance and i prejudices of the cotton growers, in the early days of the insect's migra- tion to their crops, have much to do with its present firmly established position.
SKILFUL NAVIGATION.
1,600 MILES WITHOUT A RUDDER.
The French steamer "Vancouver."' with a cargo of timber, was assisted into Queenstown by a local tug after an eventful voyage. The, steamer left Vancouver on December 12, and, after passing through the Panama Canai, lest her rudder in the Atlantic. Her captain, after much difficulty, reached Bermuda, and, after spending more than three months getting his vessel Etted with a new rudder resumed his voyage.
Another cotton, pest, the object of Strangely, as though by way of much concern to entomologist at the a challenge to the Imperial en present time, is the pink boll worm, tomologists now assembled in Lor-the larva of a moth. This insect, in don, British insect pests bid fair to 1917, damaged Egyptian cotton to of over £10,000,000. be more numerous than usual this the extent
are stupendous figures summer writes C. A. E. in a home These paper of June 6. We, in Britain, £50,000,000 on the debit side of the however, with our modern sanitation, account through the depredations of our relatively limited crops and our two species of insects on one kind of herds, numbered by tens rather than crop in twelve months, by thousands, know little of the real struggle between insects and mati. In the tropics, where insect life attains its zenith, the warfare is grim, unceasing. Even in temperate impossible. The pests of tea are, the time of the second accident the
lands, where agriculture is practised
It may be affirmed that every crop of economic importance has its own insect problem. To deal with a tithe of there, in a short article, is clearly however, to the fore at the moment.
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weather, the new rudder was dis- 1,500 Feet above Sea Lovel abled, and the captain had to depend
on the twin engines to steer her. At
steamer was about 1,600 miles west of
on a large scale, the struggle is little One of them, the shot hole boter, Queenstown. The captain was cor
gratulated on his skill in navigating the steamer 1,600 miles without a
rudder.
HOW PLANTS TRAVEL
tunnels in the stems of tea plants, less intense.
Compared with many of the other much as the familiar furniture beetle sciences economic entomology is a riddles our furniture. The other, comparative upstart. It has made the tea tortrix, in its larval stage, and is making rapid progress. Its rolls the tea leaves and ensconces importance, however, is not fully itself within just as the larva of the realised outside of scientific circles. oak leaf roller moth rolis the leaves One apparently contradictory result of its host plant. Tea leaves thus
That "Animals live and move, of the increased and increasing know. rolled are rendered cistasteful, and
while plants live and are fixed" is stifl ledge of insects and their ways is lose their fine flavour.
With the object of making good, an article of popular belief, though that entomological prob'èrs appear to be more urgent and more wides in some degree, the waste of war, scientists discarded the dictum long considerable planting of young forest ago as a definition of difference pread than ever. To-day. man's
This has between members of the animal and enemy is not only the mosquito, the trees has taken place. fica, or the tsetse fly: he is encombeen the signal for renewed activity the vegetable kingdoms. In a lecture passed by an active, industrious on the part of certain insects. As a on the various methods of locomotion borde seeking to do him evil. With consequence, one of the urgent developed by plants, delivered in the Kreater insight into insect, activities entomological problems of the day Museum at the Gardens of the Royal there have arisen greater responsi- concerns the control of the pice Botanic Society of Londos, Mr. 1. L.. weevil, a small beetle which, injurious North, the society's curator, pointed bilities.
Were it possible to tabulate the to adult pines, is fatal to the young out that though the above distinction. annual amount of damage done by trees, stripping them of their bark still held, broadly speaking, there are down to the cambium, the active, some animals that are fixed and some insects to man and his belongings, wood-forming tissue.
plants that can move. He said the figures would be so staggering in
that plants, in addition to an actual, their immensity as to appear incredi of the pests of stock, the most power of mevement possessed
ELOW-FLY AND TSE-TSE,
a
ble. An example may lend persuasion important, at the moment, is the by a few, as a result of ages of ex- to the statement. Apart from food
have elaborated blow-fly which is causing so much perimenting, crope, no plants are more important trouble in Australia. In 1912 the secondary method of locomotion, than those which provide fibres, and damage done by this y New rivalling and excelling anything to of them, cotton is the chief. Failure South Wales was estimated at be found in the animal kingdom of the cotton crop brings unfold £1,000,000, and at double that figure dispersion by seed A natural misery in its train; yet, during in Queensland. The fly grubs, hat barrier, such as a range of moun- single year, the cotton-boll weevil did ched from eggs deposited in the tains, a desert, or a sea will confine damage to the extent of over sheeps wool, are provided with within it most species of animals; £40,000,000 in nine States of Americe; formidable mouth hooks with which but it is to bar to plants. Plants In a country, be it noted, which is they tear the flesh of their hosts, have made friends of air and water, fully alive to the insect problem.
thus causing festering sores and and by these means have secured THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL.
even death. Despite the expenditure ways to travel to the uttermost ende The cotton-boll weevil, known'als of much money and effort, the pest of the earth. They have even drawn in the animals to do their bidding. as the Mexican cotton-boll weevil, is on the increase. from the fact that it first became The whole story of the tse-te fies sometimes by bribing them, but, at associated with cotton in Northern in Africa has not yet been told by other times, by means as effective as Mexico in 1885, invaded the American any means. Since Sir David Bruce's they are brutal
much discoveries cotton, fields in force about eight epoch-making years later. Since then, despite every ground has been covered, but müch
The problems confronting env effort at control, it has continued its remains to be learned concerning serious depredations. The fact is there insects and their relation to tomologists in the immediate future the more remarkable when it is man and his cattle. The house fly are, in main, agicultural rather than known that more than fifty different at home is in like case; surprisingly medical; on that account, however, species of insects are the weevil's little is known of the habits. and they are no less pressing. It may be foes, thirty of them being true activities of this ubiquitous insect, a only the swing of the pendulum, or parasites. Its success in the strug-proven disease carrier. The familiar possibly a tardy recognition that gle for existence is due to the is always immaterial, but until the man's very existence is being threa- fact that it is prolific, it com house fly question has been grappled tened by insects. Now, however, the pletes its life cycle rapid with more seriously, man will con cards are on the table and it remains and, being a strong flier, unde to suffer as a result of his to be seen, which will triumph, man
or his inveterate enemies. speedily distributed from one cotton apathy..
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