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RUINGUS COAL STRIKE. 43
ECONOMIC CAUSES AND EFFECTS EXPLAINED.
ILLUMINATING FIGURES.
LONDON, June 2 "The British Engineers' Association, which is the association of British manufacturing engineers and shipbuilders, in a pamphlet on the economic causes of the coal crisis gives interesting figures collected from official and other authoritative sources shewing that the tonnage of coal raised per person employed in the March quarter of 1921 was only 63 per cent of the corresponding figure in 1913, and that 99,700 more men were employed in person had in- The average yearly earnings per the mines creased from £82 to $332, being an increase of 183 per cent., whereas the cost of living bad increased 152 per cent. The average wages cost per con rose from 6. 4d. to 20s, while the coal exports fell from 97,000,000 tons in 1913 to 38,000,000 tons în 1920. The direct loss inclusive of depreciation, debenture interest, and owners' standard profits, for March 1921 was at the rate of £85,000,000 a year. As a result of the Stuppage only 13 out of 303 blast furnaces were operating in April, and the production of pig iron was 60,000 tons compared with a monthly cutput of £55,000 tons in 1913. The pamphlet quotes the opinions of industrial authorities that any settlement is worthless which fails to reduce prices to a gure enabling industries to afford to consume coal
ALLEGED ASSASSIN ON TRIÁL
BERLIN, Jane 2.
The trial has opened, of a young Armenian student named Tellirian o a charge of shooting Talaat, the Turkish ex-Grand Vizier on March 15,
BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
(Continued from Page 1)
Women as well as men are eligible
for the Order. Companions of the
HOW SILK IS MADE
4,000-YEAR OLD INDUSTRY.
'SILKWORM EGGS FROM CHINA.
Do you realise each morning when Order may add the letters "LS.O." you fasten your silk tie that one after their names, and take prece- thousand silkworms have died to dence after Companions of the Dis-produce it? That your silk blouse tinguished Service Order. Riband, may have meant the death of twenty crimson, with a stripe of blue,"
thonsand? Yet that is so.
The Knights Bachelor do not con- stitute a Royal Order, but comprise the
The silk industry started in China
surviving representation of the anci- over 4,000 years ago, and since then
it has spread to India and Japan, and at a later date to France and Southern Europe.
ent State Order of Knighthood. The «Register of KaightsBachelor instituted by James 1 in the 17th century, having in 1908 lapsed, a voluntary associa Silk cultivators exercise the greatest tion under the title of the Society of care in selecting their stock. Discase Knights Bachelor (which in 1912 by among silkworms spreads rapidly, Royal Command became the
Imand so most European breeders obtain
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POST OFFICE NOTICES.
GENERAL HOLIDAY.
The General Post Ofde will be open on Friday, 3rd. inst. from 9 am to a m. only.
Theit will be one delivery of ordinary en respondence and one collection of letters from the Ellar boxes
The Mossy Ordec Offics will be entirely closed.
The District Post Offices will be open from 8 am to 9 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. with the exception of Kowloon Office, which will be open from 8 am to 9am only and Sheving Wan Office, which will be open from 8 am to 9 .. sad from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.1.
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REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the sims given below unicas otherwise stated, and where mals are advertised to close st or before 8 a.m., registered and párcel näils are closed at 5 pm. on the previous day.
Straits.
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* FRIDAY, INUE 3.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4.
Shanghai Straits..
Caletta and Straits Japan
SUNDAY, JUNE 5
Totomi Haru Malaces Maru
THURSDAY, JUNE 9.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 4.
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perial Society of Knights Bachelor" their eggs from China and Japan. was formed, with the primary objects; The eggs are yellow and resemble Straits, Bangkok, Calcatta, and Aden. of commnning the various registers turnip seeds. They are placed in Straits and Bangkok ******* dating from 1257 and obtaining the incubators kept considerably below uniform registration of every created blood heat, and at the end of 30 day Knight. An annual Knightage is -published from information supplied the silkworms are hatched.
by the authorities.
Straits and Bangkok Heikow, Fakhol and Haiphong
Shanghai and North Chins.
Taza
Fooksang - 4 pm.
Lake Fielding
Kaifong Eniyang
The silkworms are removed to
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, wickerwork shelves and there fed Shanghai and North China............ Paal Lecat
Amakusa Mar with freshly dried cut-up mulberry Swatow, Amoy and Keelung ana mrezam leaves. The silkworm is most
MONDAY, JUNE 6. voracious and in its short life of 30 Canada," Waited States Central sad South America & EUROPE via SAN days cats over an ounce of leaves.
FRANCISCO. Begistration 9.45 8.11. Letters 19.30 alikanacomecomanda, mass
Bakier TUESDAY, JUNE 7,
mg. Lessang
Record Pook-Bah -The-115th annual election for municipal offices in the village of A silkworm sheds its skin' four! Peru, Massachusetts, has resulted in tines, and finally is 3lin. long and the re-election of Mr. Frank Creamer, weighs 1-6th of an ounce. It is who, as the holder of 13 offes out white and spotted with brown, and of 17, claims to be the record Poohits legs have the colour of the silk Bah of the world. He is Publie which it will spin Weigher, Library Trusice, Measurer
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After the fourth moul: the worm
*Swator and *Bangkok. swatow and Bangkok Sandaran Swatow, Amoy and Foocbow Shanghai and North China
Lachow Hips Ox shoog Ezechnen
B
&
naman i pri
of Wood and Bark, Sealer of Weights climbs upon a twig and there encloses and Measures, Town Moderator,
Boow sad Haiphong Found Keeper and Tax Collector itself within a cocoon. This is Ifin, Swatow, "Shanghai and North Chine. Tangshing!! Zale His a Justice of the Peace, and as long and in. across and takes three Tewa Constable frequently gives days to spin.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2.
tuber Takeng...er &
THURSDAY, JUNE 9.
Boochow Straits, Bangkok, Calecita & ADEN Kwaisang proof of his versatility, he officiates double silk fibre about 4,000 yards Tientsin men contact ....................... --Chipshing. as Fence Viewer and Forest Fire long which is discharged from two Warden. For all this work. Mr. glands underneath the silkwonn's Creamer, who is a village shopkeeper, mouth. Cocoons which will yield Shanghai, Norb China, Daires, Japan,
eridence before himself As further The cocoon consists of a continuous Shanghai and North China.......
is paid £25 a year. Mrs. Creamer ha female moths are oval in shape. much of her husband's capacity for Rod-like cocoons yield males. school-public affairs. Besides being village mistress, she is a member of the school board and manager of the telephone exchange.
St.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10.
United States,
Honolulu, Canada, Central & Fouth Americs & EUROFE
vis BAN FRANCISCO.- Registration 9.45 m. Letters 10.30a.m. saus Siberia Maru
Hatching Ewalow, Amoy and Poochow » emanazoier
"SATURDAY, JUNE 11
For breeding purposes the best co- coons, are selected and placed in a warm room. After two weeks the dirty white moth which has de Shanghai and Korth Chins..... 3 veloped within moistens one end of the
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MONDAY, JUNE 13.
3 p.m.
TUESDAY, JUNE 14. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Habritius, L Marques, Bouth Africa, India via Dhanushkodi, Alien, Egypt & EUROPE vis MARSEILLES Registration 8.45
· Letters 8.30 am quan, cena - Phisy. Shanghai and North Ca
Sinkiang SATURDAY, JUNE 18. Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius, L Marquez, Beaith & Irics, India, via Dinushkodi, Bombay and Aden, Registestion 5 púm.:: Leitars 5 putu ka
SATURDAY, JUNE 25. Ceylon, Mauritius, Le Marques:-Boath - Afries: India vi** Dhanushkodi, Bombay: Aden, Egypt & EUROPE vis MAR-HILLES Begatza,
Several conferences have been focoon with saliva; forces the silk Amy and "Philipplan Islands Taming. held with a view to making arrange- threads apart, and creeps out, ments for the continuation of the The moths immediately begin to work of the Mission, af pair. Each female lays about 400 Healing, say's
John's eggs and then dies. The "eggs are Cathedral Notes The Chinese side collected, examined for signs of dis of the work is mainly a missionary case, and then stored for future problem; but its also hoped that at breeding. the close of the monthly Intercession The remaining cocoons are steamed Straits Services at the Cathedral, or after so as to kill all life within and are the midday celebration on the third steeped in hot water. This softens Sunday of the mouth, opportunity various gelatinous matters and en may be afforded, with the approval, ables the silk thread to be reeled, în of the Bishop, for any English-speak form suitable for making fabrics. ing people who desire the laying-on Silkworms are allowed to live solely of brands, with prayer for spiritual because of the silk which they pro wd battly healing, to avail themselves duce. They are slaves for fashion.
suah ministry.
Daily Mai
Stralia
pandanga
wages and shorter hours. The out- look is serious with the advent 'ol'
summer.
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INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION- SHIPS BEGIN.
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SHANGHAI, June 3. -The open international champion, ships began on the fourth day of the Olympiad, the Philippines leading in the decathlon with Japan a close Second and China third.. Exching baseball and basket-ball contests were witnessed. American marices and infantry were beaten at baseball.
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ORIGIN A MISTERT.
A fire broke out last night in the
ceiling of the Victoria Hospital,
Barker Road. The brigade wat Sum- moned soon after 7 o'clock. Mr. Moss with some European and Chinese firemen immediately pro- ceeded to the hospital with a hand engine and several lengths of hose. Meanwhile the hospital attendants had been hard at work on the fames with their own appliances." A few minutes strenuous work succeeded in putting out the fire but not before the wards had been flooded." In the absence of any electric wires in the vicinity, the cause of the outbreak, at first thought to be due to fusing, is a mystery,
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The results of the recent quin- quennial valuation of London were issued officially, and gave the total value for råting purposes of the 28 London boroughs as £48,613,149. The City of Westminster has the highest valie-£7,874,505 and the City comes next with a value of £6,213,156. The lowest rateable value is the of There are not many
Japanese St. Georges in-the-East, with £212,151.collections in this country, states an The following are the official figures writer in a home paper, that one cas for the 28-districts:-Bermondsey, see dispersed in sale rooms without Tel. £1,015,280; Bethnal Green, £578,797 pang of regret. The Gilbersson, Camberwell, £1,380,781; Chelsea, Hawkshaw and Nantube collections £927,485; Fulham, £57,280, St. f swords and sword furniture have already gone to the hammer, and George's-in-the-East, 212,151ow the Arthur Morrison collection Greenwich, £1,261,255 Hackney, of Japanese colour prints is to follow £1,608,576; Hammersmith, £923,133; in their trail.
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Hampstead, £1,149,185; Holborn, Few people have realised, perhaps, £2,312,493 Islington, £1,888,271, the wonders of technique and colour. Kensington, 2,531,076; Lambeth, ing of which the old Ukiaye artists £1,930,447; Lowishain, £1,281,349; were capable. City of London, £6,213,156; Maryle bone, £2,428,282; Mile End Old Stady carefully one of those old Town, £154,181; Paddington, woodcuts, and you will see its zuerit. £1,545,277; 8t. Faneras, £1,831,385 Suggestion, hidden truth, that is their Becret. Where a European artist Poplar, 1917,995; Shoreditch,
reproduces a cloudy sky to the very £865,123; Southwark, £1,255,477,list detail, your Japanese old-time Limehouse, £330,218; Wandsworth, craftsman contented himself with a £3,295,065; City of Westminster, sweep of dark grey tones deepening New Flims and Cameras just arrived. £7,874,505; Whitechapel, 194,827; across the top of his picture to Tel. 2170, 60, Queen's Rd. Central Woolwich, £959,041.
WHY
IS THE " OUIJA BOARD
SO CALLED?
blackish blue; his fields are a wash
of green, his moonlight scenes but
a few lines of Eight yellow on a dark
a great round silver moon.
and what daring 1:
EDWARD- NOW -FUNG. Import & Export Marchini. Tel 1676. 60, Des Viem Rd. CL
THE XMONG ZHULA:
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LAZARUS, X. Opticians,
blue background, out of which stares Tel. 2203. 12, Queen's Rd. Central,
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But what an effect ! What Colour
As a painter of night Hiroshige is flash of coloured fireworks leaps in" without rival Fesellosa, one of the red-coloured stars from behind the world's greatest connoisseure, when bridge; the milky light of a round moon shijes down Just as there is a heated discussion alive labelled him
unsurpassed. Summer
the waters of the river: the left bank the night over the discovery of the principle There are no moonlight effects which on Hiroshige could not grasp and on. of the Quija board itself a legal master, no starlit skies which is mists creep up to the housetops, discussion which has been fought brush could not reproduces beauti while on the other, the red lacquered through the courts for a number of fully and without fault Whistler temple entrance to the shrine in the years-so also is there a conflict about had courage, enough not only grove of pine trees peeps out, a the manner in which the name hap: to borrow his ideas but to fitting contrast to the scrues of pened to be applied.
admit doing so. Perhaps the best revelry below One claimant to the honour of in-known of Hiroshige's colour prits. Such prints may still be had in yeating the board which answers are his "Go ja San Tsugi" the London to-day. Twenty years ago questions in such a strange and fre- fifty-three stations on the Tokaido two pounds would buy Just such a quently accurate manner, maintains highway; but for sheer startling picture Today they are five times wonder his night scenes of the expensive and if in perfect com that, after perfecting the apparatus, Sumida River and the Ryogoka dition they may fetch fifty pounds he inquired af it by what name it should be known, and that the in-ridge which spanned it are the sixty pounds, and even more.
finest prints produced in all the
Tis a pity--and yet, I log ons, am dicator skipped rapidly to the letters Uklore achool
not sorry. In Japan they will be “Ouija " and would answer queries Several of these will come up for treated with the respect which is dus only when addressed in that manner. sale. One of this series is in my to them, honoured, off admired, laid The other applicant for patent nights mind's eye on I write. The picture away in preserving volumes lest the declares that the name is merely a represents a night fete on the Sumida rays of the sun deprive them of their
colour glory. combination of the French and Ger River period about 1889, 172 man equivalent of "Yes" Oûi” selected because “- Ouija", always gave truthful replies to the dark blue A great wooden bridge LARRHRS #lways more or less questions asked. So, anal the the Ryngeku apans across from D courts decide which of the rival k to bank. Accoss it the revell prepared for it: Ciumbe Mins: Colic ing Yeo night crowds surge and; and Diarybos Remedy prompt and inventors of the bourd is entitled toastle, shouting to the merry parties-closinal. It can always by devended the credit for the board, the true in the lantern-lit boats below; the por For sale by Il Chemists and origin of the name is cloaked in almost
and "
as much mystery as is the supposedly cccalt influence which guides the in- dicator along its polished surface.
KEVELLING CROWDS) The tone of the print is a deep
Printed and Publind for THE
WILLIAM CADA BURTETI: S;
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