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case of clothing in the half-empty hold As there was every indies. tion. that the thief had only just started operations, they did not re- port the matter, but watched and
A BRIGAND BAND.
OFFERED FOR SALE.
GOVERNOR.
AN.O.D. News correspondent wrote as follows from Fakumen, Manchira, on June 4:-
When General Wu, recently ap pointed Military Governur af Heilung kiang, the meet northerly province
insisted on commandeering 13 rides belonging to the squire. And a formal receipt was duly signed by the robber chief and handed over. It was a temporary loan!
WILL THE ARMY BUY TINH, T
Shipping tobacco in Turke
Faiteri. Presently a seaman slipped THE RESPECTABLE OUTLAW AND THE down and began to help himself, to
The question is whether the Mulden be neatly captured by the two
Government is willing to accept these youngsters. Did they get warmly praised for their real when they
brigands as soldiers. That is the brought the man to justice? "Not a
little problem which General Wu left to his successor in Taonanfu. Negoti- bit of it. The magistrate sentenced
ations have been in progress. The him as a very hardly treated indivi-
robbers have been comparatively wel dual, and then turned round and soundly rated the prosecutors for
behaved. So it looks quite likely that putting temptation in the innocent
the Manchurian army will be streng- man's way. The fact that the bait of Manchuria, left his original head- thened by what an officer of the would not have been seen had he not quarters in Taonanfa, he bequeathed British Chinese troops of Weihaiwei entered the hold with felonious intent to his successor a little problem. In once described as the best fighting material in this country, the ecunted for nothing.
the neighbourhood of Kaitanghsien,
**hunghutze or brigands. Some shipowners hold the view on the road between Lisoyuanhsien that their business is to prevent the (Chengchiatna) and Taanstifu, there ship's stores and fittings being stolen, was a formidable band of robbers
Their numbers were:
CRAMP COLIC. - and that the shippers and under-unsubdued. writers must look after themselves. estimated at several hundreds and
ATO peed of ruffering from cramps in It is a very short-sighted policy in a their behaviour was fairly satis the stomach or intestinal pains. Diarybos score of ways, and many who held it factory. For instance, by a rose Chamberlain's Colic and during the boom are realising its their chief, with a large following, Remedy never fails to relieve the most be no time to send for it after the at- fallacy in the slump. The pilferage succeeded in entering a rich farmer's severe care. Get it to-day, there will evil is one against which all concerned homestead. They were supposed to tack come on. For sale by all Chemists must combine. The proposal that be regular troops The chief merely and Storekeepers. the ship's officers shall again be em- ployed to check cargo in and out is reactionary, and bound to be un-i satisfactory in its working, and to cause more discontent than its ad- vantages would be worth. For it! must be admitted that too little tally- ing is done at the ship's side at the moment. Perhaps the best solution of that particular difficulty is the pro- vision of a special tallying officer at to the matter, and careful measure the ports-a man sufficiently senior ments proved that the brosched case to avoid being gulled or allowing his could not possibly be made to hold attention to wander, with a thorough more than one hundred and seventy, knowledge of ships and docks, sailor. Other fraudulent consignors are not men and labourers. In other words. so clumsy in their methods, and there a master mariner who has not held is no doubt that over and over again his command too long before he the underwriters pay claims when swallowed the anchor. Responsibility the packages never contained any could safely be placed on his shoulders, thing else but the rubbish with which and power given him to have any they were delivered. At other times case of which he was suspicious have probably-often opened and examined. Were he en- have convinced the men who know, certainly been opened and sealed gaged by the owners, 'underwriters, and will not be worried over the up again before it reaches the hoid shippers, and dock authority in con- matter any more. In that they of the ship which is to transport it. cert the extra salary to be paid would make a very great mistake, for the It must be remembered that railway. not press upon anybody, while loyalty shippers and shipowners, to say men, carmen, and dockers have to his employers would not cause him nothing of the underwriters, maw infinitely better opportunities of pil to turn a blind eye upon any part of perfectly well what is cecurring, and fering than have seamen. Some of his duties. With adequate police are preparing to marshal their facts them are liable to be searched at the forces ashore and afloat, and the in a manner that will convince the dock gates, but then it is only by adequate administration of maritime officials they have to meet. The the policeman, who always has to justice by the bench, such measures pilferage evil is only limited by the cope with rushes of big gangs of would soor put a big check to pilfer- reduced opportunities offered by re- men coming off work together. The ing at the British end of the journey, duced trade, and although its benefits seafarer has to get past the Customs-leaving other countries to take mea- are beginning to be felt, the under house officer, too, and generally has sures best suited to their particular writers' 75 per cent. clause does very to undergo their scrutiny by himself, needs. little to put things right. It is a for with only one or two shipmates very difficult thing to place the blame to distract their attention. It is in for the present state of affairs, or the matter of policing, to a certain rather to apportion it with any degree extent at the gates, but much more of fairness. The shippers are not particularly with plain-clothes men, by any means blameless. The honest that the Home Office should have ores all too frequently pack their acted long ago. goods in cases which would be child's play to the clumsiest thief, and it
SHIPPING.
THE PILFERAGE EVIL.
A SUGGESTED SOLUTION.
Public servants have told the business men who met them to discuss the pilferage evil that such a thing exists only in their imaginations, and are apparently satisfied that they the
cases
Certainly a quantity of valuable goods are stolen or shipboard, and
is very certain that there are thieves that is perhaps the most unsatifac
SHIPPING REFRIGERATION.
NOTABLE PIECE OF WORK.
Among the notable developments! that have recently taken place in the shipping of perishable cargoes from Australia to Britain a particularly interesting piece of work has just been carried out by Insulators, Ltd., of Canning Town, Londen.
out on the motor steamer "Kangaroo" at Messrs. Thornycroft's Shipbuilding Yard, Southampton. The Kangaroo," which is owned by the Government of Western Australia, is one of the most up-to-date unita in modern maritime refrigeration transport work.
at work who certainly cannot be tory means of all. For not only has described as clumsy. Before the the loss to be considered, but salt is bottom fell out of the für market rubbed into the wound by the know- Their work in this case was carried shing of all sorts were the special ledge that Merchant Jack is invari- mark of what was probably a large ably robbed even more than other gang of the cleverest thieves that thieves by the receivers to whom be have worried Scotland Yard for quite tries to dispose of his wares. Disci- a long time. No matter what pre-pline is in such a condition that Lot cautions were taken, no matter what infrequently the ship's officer actually ships were selected, the shipments sees the theft take place, but cannot were broached and looted with ex- consider himself in a position to The insulation is on Messrs. traordinary regularity. But that was apprehend the thief. Should he do Insulators' usual system now being a very exceptional incident, and most so it is not at all unlikely that the installed in vessels of many of the of the cases which are rifled are of the local branch of some union or other leading lines, and consists of Titahi common-place sneak-thief order, into will delay the ship's sailing, while cork slabs subsequently faced with which, unhappily for romance, in- they make sure that their member is their Insulite jointless composition. vestigation places the great bulk of not being victimised Seagoing pil- The surface of the insulation is fire, old-time piracy. But it is annoying ferers know this chance, and take full-vercin and moisture proof, and the just the same, and very much greater advantage of it; they also know that holds possess a most clean and care ought to be taken in the packing the young officer who lands his hygienic finish. of nineteen cases out of twenty, Bay owners into a heavy bill for demur. the Journal of Commerce.
rage is not likely to be promoted for And, unfortunately, not all shippers bie pains. And if the ship's officers are above suspicion Not long ago take pains to protect the interest of a merchant made a great noise over their owners clients by detecting abroached case. Instead of contain- thieves when there is no fear of their ing three hundred and fifty articles, vessel being held up, are they likely BLAZON TYPE NOT NECESSARY. as it should have done, the case to be thanked for it? There is a arrived, obviously tampered with, certain elderly master mariner HAMBERLAIN'S Colic and Diarrh. A Remedy, ceeds no glaring head. and with only a hundred. Had the known, loved, and respected by line to attract the public eye. The shipper taken his loss rather more everybody who frequents the London simple statement that all chemists sell quietly it is quite possible that in river-who tells a story of how he was it is efficient, sa every family knows the press of business his claim would fired with excessive zeal when he was its value. It has been used for forty have been passed without comment, a very young inan. He and another years and is just what its name implies For sale by all Chemists and Store but the fuss he made drew attention junior officer discovered a broached keepers.
IF (KIN GIT PAST THIS DOOR WITHOUT MAGGIE SEEIN' ME - I'M JUST AS
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At the tests of the refrigerating machinery and insulation, some ex registered, reflecting great credit on ceptionally satisfactory results were all concerned.
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