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Motor Car Mascots A. E. LEJEUNE
HEAD OFFICE & SHOW ROOM IN PEDDER STREET.
SHIPPING.
MARINE TRANSPORT, :
SIR MARCUS SAMUEL'S' PROPHECY.
Interviewed by the Times, Sir Marcus Sammel- dealing with the significance of the internal combus
THE CHINA MAIL
men from Jank No. 901, which had, ARE WE AC3 NATION?-
capsized about 20 miles to the north
**ENGLAND'S TURN OUT.
1,500,000 KICK LIST, 1,500,000 persons are constantly on the sick hi
Over 13,000,000 weeks' work are
of Penang. The junk which was laden with rice ran from Kuala Muda for Penang, and two days ago sho ↑ ran into a squall and capsized. The two men who were found clinging to the-fank stated that a third man swam away. Nothing farther has been heard of him: The junk, which | lost. had come from Pungab, was aband oged.
SUPERSTITIONS
FOWLS AND SNAKE BITES. In many parts of the country the flesh of a fowl is regarded as a sure care for, snake-bite; is facuthe same superstition is rather general. There
sections also where the same “falk-medicine" is recommended for rheumatism, shingles, scarlet fever and diphtheria, TEE
3,000 mothers dis in childbirth. 60,000 infants are lost. These facts in each your's health There are several vacations of the statistics for England and Wales
insisted that the application made were stated by Sir Kingairy Wood, Petitions In some section it is MP., of the Health Ministry, it should be of the maand bleeding addressing a Westminster conference flesh of a fowl which has been stunned of insurance organisations and social but is still alive, while in others it is sufficient that the fowl be newly workers on the subject "Are we a
killed. This superstition should read. C3 ustion 1"
There were some favourable facts,ock"; instead of “a fowl and there are places where they still say in the situation, he saidi n
The trend of the death-rate is that a cock should be used in case of a Several steamers re steadily downward in Bawa na waan and a ben in case a woman is to
Two Bine Funnel Finers have arrived at Kobsichang, says the Bangkok Times. They are the "Hyson discharging rails and case oil froin New York and the Menon to lead rice for Europe. The sie man liver "Kioto has arrived to load part cargo rice for Europe. There is still seven large steamers in the outer anchor- age, And the fighter tonnage of the port available is kept extremely busy at present. gularly trading between here and) Singapore have been engaged in lightering cargo to Koksichang.
A matter of economic that this improvement had recently. extended to the middle years of life.
During the last 20 years there
been
remarkable
be cured.
The origin of the superstition is easi>) ly seen in the relation which the.cock bore in Greek mythology to Aescul fall
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DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUST RECEIVED
consignment of Smoked. Fish direct from the
SCOTTISH FISHERIES
Fillets, Haddocks,
Kippers.
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ONCE BITTEN.
HUSBAND DISAPPEARS.
WITE STAKES & CHANCE. *
Mr. Green And now another
wishes to make you his wife?
so
The Woman (shyly): Yes, and I wish him to be my husband.
Mr. Green said she could not marry again and the wonzan looked very
A woman asking his consent to her marrying again, Mr. Green, the disappointed.. magistrate at Tottenham Police
M Green: Nothing venture,
message reached Singapore, shortly/England and Wales attributable were the last words, of Socrates. Court, asked where her first husband nothing gain. If you like to take
to infuerza.
A very humane action on the parti of a ship's captain has just come to as
son of Appollo, the sun-god. The izut. Last Friday week at ten in infantile mortality rates Inspius, the god of medicine, and the o'clock in the morning the Pacific 1920 there was a sensational drog cock's connection with the sun, whose Mail Bost, the s... "Lake Faulk," left from 88 per 1000 births to 80, and first heams he hails with his crowing, made him a particularly acceptable Singapore for San Francisco and in London it was as low a575.
In 46 weeks from June 1918 to and appropriate offering to Apollo's when she had been about four hours! on her journey a Chinese stoker was May 1919, taid Sir Kingsley Wood,
"Sacrifice a cock to Aesculapius" badly injured through an ash bucket there were over 150.000 deaths in
A wireless falling on his head.
Though the ages have broadened the after two and when the ship put
superstition a little so that we no back into port a 'well known local
longer are particular as to the sex of the doctor proceeded by launch and boarded the ship outside the harbour
fowl sacrificed, yet when we attempt to cure disease or snake-bite by the limits. The injured man was after- wards conveyed to the General Hos
application of the flesh of a newly with the palm of the hand, Sir Marcus Samuel said: The pital and the ship resumed her are inautes at each application. killed fowl we are, in effect, sacrifo advent of the internal combustion voyage, after five o'clock in the even Then dampen a piece of flannel slighting a cock to Aesculapius in the hope engine enables vessels equipped with ing. Considering the cost of feel with this buiment and bind it on over that the old Greek god will accept the
sacrifice and give relief. them to take an enormously larger used in returning to Singapore and sost of pain. For sale by all Chemists cargo than steamships, and as sure the speed at which the ship came and Storsk as the motor was improved so will back to port one must say a few these
be engines
improved words in praise of the ship's captain! The cost of frain transport and officers for their kindly action.
abroad to this country from
much reduced. will be very
The new type of ship carries no
tion engine to ships said it was nine stokers, has no boilers, or spaces
the
Dutch
GENERAL NOTES.
It is reported that the Aberdeen
Company.
Receipts of the Ministry of Ship- 1919-20 amounted to ping for £215,253,016, and the gross expen diture was £104,956,384, leaving a net baisnes to be handed over to the Treasury of £111,793,934.
years ago that he foresaw and preoccupied by them and her cargo Line-steamer "Untiades" has been! dicted the employment and the carrying capacity is increased. I sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet. success of vessels to be propelled think it is no exaggeration to say, by by internal combustion engines.at least 20 per cent both in weight At that time no British firm had and measurement: The effect of built one of these ships, though this reduction in the cost of grain
branck of
the cannot fail to be shown in the lower Shell Company had built the "Val cost of food, but it will also canus," the pioneer of the Dutch naturally react very seriously on obtained for home motorship. In April, 1912, in an the prices
the grain. Finally, article in "Fairplay" on oil fuel and produced
of the internal internal combustion engines te fere development
Two ex-German sailers, the "Paul told the future of this method of combustion engine, introduces at and the "Weser," have failed to find transport, and wrote that it would entirely new factor into the question buyers at the auction just held at be rank folly for those engaged in of the disposal of the German ships, Dunkirk under the auspices of the The four- the trade where oil is plentiful to If Lam right these crafts are already French Government. build steamers."- In November, 1913, absolets. There might be a pos-masted "Pola," which was withdrawn at the launch of the Arum," he sibility of their being converted into from the sales is a magnificent vessel, referred in his speech" to "the vessels with internal combustion en- and, it is said, is to be used as a train- opening of the Panama Canal, gines, but obviously the value of the ing ship for the Navy. which he said meant the opening hulls as such is much less than if up of large tracts of virgin land and they were atted with modern ma- an immerse increase in the produc chinery and capable of competing tion of cereals, which within the next with the motor shipe." three years would be coming into this country. (The literal fulfilment of the prediction was only prevented
CROSSING THE TAKU BAR
JI
Engineering and shipbuilding em- ployers are no longer obliged to give their workers seven days' notice of the termination of their employment,
In H. M. Supreme Court, at or, alternatively, a weeks' pay in
by the war.) The cost of shipment, Shanghai, his Honoor Judge Skinner lieu of notice. An order just issued
pre-war
he pointed out, would be enormously Turner has given judgment in the under the Ministries of Munitions and reduced by 30 per cent at least by action brought by the owners of a Shipping (Cessation) Act places them the employment of the internal com- Chinese steamer, the "Cheng Lee," at liberty to revert to bustion engine-boat. The opening against the owners of the Nancy practice in the matter.
for damages sustained in a
The South African liner "Arundel of the Canal would make the vast Moller supplies of oil in California ton for collision between the two vessels off
the Taka Bar on the sight of March Castle," built by Harland and Wolf ton cheaper than coal.
16, 1920. His: Lordship was.accom- for the Union Castle "Line, has left panied on the bench by Captair Belfast for Southampton after trials. Hartford, R.N., sitting as Nautical This is the largest and most. Inxurious liner yet ballt for the Cape route, Assessor.
PROVED EFFICIENCY.
The "Arum" referred to above was one of three motor-ships belonging to the Flower Motorship: Company.
The concluding paragraph of the being 19,000 tons gross, 650ft. long, Sir Marcus Samuel, finding that all lengthy judgment reads:From and has accommodation for 1,063 the foreign builders were getting whatever point of view I see the passengers. She has a speed of 17 ahead, founded this company about matter. I can come to but one con- knots. Geared turbine engines are 1912 for the purpose of encouraging clusion, and that is that the collision installed, and her trials were very the building of laternal combustion was due to the negligence of the successful.
angives in Great Britain Two Nancy Moller" alone: and she is re ships, the "Arum" and the "Arabis, sponsible. There must be judgment:
were
built by Swan
It is understood that a Los Angeles, and for the plaintiff with costs, and if the Cal, syndicate has requested the Hunter with engines constructed parties cannot agree, the usual re United States Shipping Board to
Wigham Richardson Company, an affiliated firm. A thirdference to a Registrar and one mer-assign to it for operation to Honolulu
by
and
ship the "Abelia," was built by Arms
trong, Whitworth, and Company, the engines being designed and built by
chant to assess the damages.
SHANGHAI SHIPPING RETURNS... Shanghai Shipping returns for the
the Walkend Slipway Company from first three months of the year, com the plans of their manager, Mr. piled by the British Chamber of Com Andrew Laing. All three ships were merce from the Customs daily returns, torpedoed by the Germans, the show the following percentage of "Abelia" on her second voyage, but total tonnage: they survived long enough to prove that all difficulties had been overcome. There did not seem
remote
the most replacing
of chance
77
British.........38.31
Japanese.... Chinese
.29.35
****~1753
American......... 8.68 French... 2.49
The total tonnage entering and leaving Shanghai during the quarter
was:
Entered.........2,810,157 tons.
them for years to come owing The remaining 3.64 per cent. was to the war, and the incidence of
EP.D" very largely caused the distributed among Holland, Norway, directors to decide to wind up the Denmark, Russia, Italy, and Czecho
Slovakia. company and return the capital to the shareholders; but the Govern ment having requisitioned the ships, the directors went to arbitration as to the price to be paid for them, claiming that they were so much more efficient than steamers, and that they were entitled to a higher rate of pay. The arbitrators, by their award, justified this claim, and the owners received 12s. 6d. per ton per month charter money, as against 10s. paid for steamers.
MOTORSHIP ADVANTAGES. Describing the existing advantages the motosship over the steamship,
Cleared
Total.
2,821,051
...5,631,208 tons.
LOCAL NOTES.
Captain Lifevis of the steamship "Jin Ho," reported on ber-arrival at Penang that he had picked up two
--FOR A LAME BACK. WHEN got bave pains or lamences in V-the-back, bathe the parts with Chamberlain' Pain Balm twice a day
massaging
If
~and
and Japan the last two 535-foot passenger liners now under construc. tion in American yards for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. the two vessels are secured the Syndicate proposes to build a chain Islands, the Philippines and in Japan, of tourist hotels in the Hawaiian assuring the passengers of first class accommodations in the Orient. Those who are behind the scheme declare that such a system would do much to popularize tours to Hawali, the Philippines, Japan and China. They Point out that the Facific would voyager provided adequate hotel make a striking appeal to the facilities, with American cuisine, ports of call The ships would: be might be available at the various devoted to this route and would be: run by the owners of the hotels.
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the blend- can't
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20 for 20 cents
in sir-tight packages. Also obtainable
in round tins of 50, vacumososted.
was. Was he dead?
the risk-You may be promuted for
"I don't know," replied the woman bigamy and then your defence would who added that she was marred in be that you had not seen your hus- 1913. On her wedding day her band for 8 years. But, well, I must husband seemed somewhat pre-not say too much.
The Woman: It is quite perfect. occupied and absent-minded, and in the afternoon he said to her, "I am Mr. Green :- As near perfection sa
The Woman I'll take the risk. going to fetch a friend to our wedding matters party. I shall not be long." She had not heard anything of his rince, la She left the court happy.
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