WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1921.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MANINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Hair Tonic Drink
The sentences of itaprisonment for drunkenness awarded in the city of Washington during the year ending June 20 show an increase of 31 pur
The cause of this increase i Bizarre nature of the potions absorbed by royst vers, in the absence of entfcient supplies of the usual intoxicants. Hair ronic. perfumes.
cert.
the
favouring
extracts.
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medicines. and poisonous deohol were among their tipples. Citizens, it is tially reported. also found wueans of tracking in alcable imitation of old beverage which
often have an alcoholic content of soudig twice that of the original iting,
Money Comedy.
The pass which business
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en brought by the depreciated adition of the Polish currency is lustrated by the following story
Volk-Fait published by the Frzastadt. A Pole, after making various purchases. found that he still had 30 marks to pay but no small
•hange to pay with. As it costs 1.31 marks to print a l-murk note change
at & premium. He solved the iculty by cuting of three of his tanser lattone the shopkeeper having accepted their value as a mark
14 To make aparce
over four pennig he handed matches out of an ordinary box, which to-day costs 4.50 marks,
South Sea Mysteries.
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That romane is alive-and kicking and that English speaking advent- urers, in the best sense of that misused werd. are alert to hind it wherever it i harboured, has been the burden of Eumber of books and recorded experietors of this war. Mr. Frederick O'Brien, who has written White Shadows in the South Seas," selle of many wonders which have a hazan thrili peculiar to themselves. They outdo fiction in a very literal mann His story of an octopus makes a must carious parallel with a limous socke in Victor Hugo's great novel of the
and is perhaps yet stranger, though it competes in the realm of act with the most daring product of the most inapative among the
writers of fiction.
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4. ft. of ground, and are two in 1169.000 TONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. on some commodities and decrease number, with a uniform span of about 72ft. They are built at a distance of 32it. from and parallel to the lighter wharves, the enclosures for storage being the same as in the steel sheds.
RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION.
The work of improving the facilities of Kobe Harbour, which was begun in 1967 on the ground that the existing One railway line between the sheds accommodation was inadequate to and the quay walls. several lines acet the requizer:ents of the increas behind the shed, and other lizes The suggestion, already hinted ating trade of the port, is now nearing through the reclaimed ground have in a Homo paper that á raunber of completion. Under normal conditions heen laid down. All these have been the Shipping Bound's wooden ships the work would have been accom-connected with the trunk railway at are to be utilised as pontoons in the plished before the end of 1918, but Onolama Station, the total mileage construction of a floating bridge over using to the war the operations have equalling about 12 miles. Twenty the Hudson River, seems to be taking heru prolonged for three years beyond one turntables and eight weigh-bridges deficite shape. A company has been the stipulated time. The war also for wagons have also been provided. which the names accounts for the fact that the total Wide-gauge rails for electric travelling prominer engineers cost exceeds the original estimate by cranes have been laid down along the quay walls, in front of the sheds, the The Shipping Board has a little under ¥2,000,QUU promised sixty ships, ani Congress A general description of the work. total length being 14 miles. is expected to give its assent to the based on the official bandbook issued scheme. If the scheine goes through by the Construction Barean. Depart-j the bridge will be nearly 6,000 ft.ment. of Finance, and figures specially long, and the roadway will be 40ft. supplieri, may be summarized as above water level. A drawbridge is to follows: he provided for vessels that cannot go underneath the road. Knowing some- thing of the construction of these wooden vessels, it is to be hoped that rigid periodicnt survey will be
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Where the Normats Lauded.
NEW 535" SHIP.
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those on others. As there are Bow From a list we have compiled we many new competitors, however, the find that there are now on order 131 shipowners must decrease the rates motor ships of 4,000 tons d.w. and rather than increase them. upwards, totalling 1,039,000 ters deadweight, says the current Moter Ship. It may be remembered that' is the last returns of Lloyd's Register
The US. Shipping Beard baye of shipbuilding, for the quarter ended June 30, the total number of motor allotted to the Admiral Line for vessels was stated to be 183, but this operation on the Seattle-Orient service is, of course, inclusive of craft below the "Bay State." The "Bay State" is of 4,000 tons. Our t includes all ships the 530 type cad is scheduled to leave which have definitely been contracted Seattle for the Orient on December 10. for and are not yet laid down, and of This gives the Admiral Line four course takes account of cancellations, passenger steamers of this type on so that it may be taken as aerate the northern route and will enable At the time the first issue of them to maintain sailings from Seattle The other published, we every eighteen days. this journal was gave complete list of the passenger steamers operated by the motor ships thea on order. totailing Admiral Line are the Silver State" 1,089,000 tons, from which it will be Keystone State and Wenatchee. All roads have been macadamised, noted that although the period we totalling about 14,500ft. . On the have passed through since that date! quays and on the shed entrances (April, 1920) has been one of except granite pavements have been provid.ional dullness in the shipbuilding
On the voyage from Java to ed for facilitating traffic of vehicles industry, there is now almost the The reclaimed foreshore which is Between the north-western part of same tonnage of motor ships on order Calcutta a fire broke out in the almost completed. extends from the the reclaimed ground and the main as was the case 18 months ago. In bunkers of the "Ceylon Maru," neces- headland at Onohama on the east tothe road in the former Foreign Concession the meantime a large number of stating her return to Singapore. front of the former Foreign Conces-a steel bridge has been constructed motor shipe has been put into com- sion on the west, the sea having been fot. wide and 60ft. long. filled in to the limits of about 20+. deep of the shore, and four parallel! moles constructed projecting fron the reclaimed foreshore.
RECLAMATION.
The claim put forward for Cuoden Beach as the landing-place of William the Conqueror and his Norman knights has revealed the curious fact area of reclamation covers 67.8 acres, that countless frequenters of the its height being 11ft. above the mean Sussex coast have never yet discover-low water spring tide. ed the old-world charms of the reali
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GENERAL NOTES.
ARRIVALS.
GENERAL ITEMS.
A young lioness, escaped front a show, trotted down the Boulevard de Clichy, Faria, but was quickly recap- tured.
Four persons Lave been killed near Bitterfeld through a balloon in which they were making an ascent colliding with a factory climoney.
As a train going towards Drogheda (Co. Louth) was p ssing upder bridge, arar Conmanston (Co. Meath} the guard put his head out of the Ivan window and it was cut off.
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As Northampton workhouse is overrun with rats, and the cats on the premises are too well fed to catch them, the guardians are seeking the aid of the borough rat officer.
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The Ministry of Agriculture is not prepared to imposes tax of 220 oa horses exported from Britain hat is tryingto ensure that horses intended a for food shall be slaughtered there.
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A family of four, who were working in the fells at Tanneruezao, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, were all struck by lightning. The mother and son were killed and the father and daughter badly burned.
Four o'd ouzzle-landers, recovered off the Welsh coast by the ship's com→ pany ci HMS Revenge" have been identified as belonging to one of the Spanish gallons of the defeated Armada in 1588.
There are signs of a big trade revival throughout Fr.nce and especi ally in Paris, where statistics for the various districts show that while the number of unemployed was once as high as 45,000 it is now 17,000,
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White 30,000 people were thring ing the Leipzig Zoo, some pickpockets raised the cry: The lions are loose. A panic-stricken rush for safety started. which the thieves utilised to NEWS.saatch many watches, chains, hard-
bags and purses.
No representatious had been made Keschow, (B. & S.) from Bangkok to him that the next London stipendi- ary magistrate should be a woman, Hoihow.-C. 35.
Kansu, (B. & S.) from Newchwang.said the Home Secretary in parlia C. 19.
ment, but the claims of any properly Yingshow. (B. &. S.) from Shanghai, qualified applicants for the position Swatow. C. 14.
would be consid red.
Sunding, (B. & S. from Shanghai. Aruoy.-B, 12.
Choy Sang, J. M. & Co.) from Canton.-B. 31.
Hang Sang, J. M. & Co.) from Shanghai, Swatow-Wharf.
Wing Sang. (J. M. & Co.) from Saigou-C. 31.
Derwent (Thai Thuan) from Saigon. B23.
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Gienfalloch (Seng Soon Hong) from Amay.-E13.
Majoustan (H.M.H. Nemuzee) from Kuching.-Yaumati.
Hydrangea (Chin On S.S. Co) from
Swatow-Wharf.
Bealomand (Gibb Livingston & Co) from London, Singapore-Wharf.
Hanoi (Lapieque & Co) from Hai- phong-C36.
Providence (K. Larssen & Co) from Canto C40.
Kaijo Maru, (O.S.K.) from Keelung. -Wharf. mission, and of special significance, as A general meeting of shareholders Chung Hing, (Cheung Fat S.S. Co.) showing the development of the motor of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha took place from Quizhon.-C. 39. ship idea during the past 18 months, on Sept 28. The Director's proposals
Hok Cantor, (Wo Hing) from For the protection of the moles a The total line of breakwater, 2,2871t., making is the increasing number of ship-for the distribution of an 8 per cent. Kwong Chow Wan-Wharf.
ck Taishup. (CMS.N. Co.) from portion of the proposed breakwater wers who have embarked upon the dividend and for the issue
Kwangtah (C.M.S.N. Co.) from for the harbour of Kobe, has been policy of motor shipbuilding, and also deleatures of 13,000,000 were passed. Sharghai.-Wharf: constructed on the south-eastern front the growing list of shipbuilding and It is explained that the company could of No. 1 Mole. The top of the break-engineering firms which have taken manage to pay that dividend, after Canton-Wharf.
Tean, (B. & S.) from dividend reserve. Reterring to the B. 14. water is it. above the mean low- the construction of marine drasing over 1700,000 out of the water spring tide, and, according to oil-engines and motor drips
issue of debentures, the company will It is an ironic comment on the way acres between and in front of the the original plan, a lighthouse is to be
borrow the desired sum from the English history is taught that while moles; the dredging depth in from erected at each end.
Yasuda Bank at 8 per cent. per most of us can recite, parrot-wise, a0ft. to 36ft. below the mean low Other installations are 27 cranes,
annam on the hypothecation of the dozen battle-dates, including A.D. water spring tide. All dredging is electric are lights, electric incandescent
"Gigyo-marn" newly-built 1006, few saunterers on the Brighton completed.
"Fakayo-maru." front could answer
DREDGING.
and original" and only landing plece. The dredging area totals about 270
off-band ส
sey, now a mile or so from the sea, is proud of its place in history.
Prison Jays.
QUAY WALLS.
lamps in the aheds, water maine along the quay walls and underneath the side walks of main roads, and hydrants furnished at proper positions for feed. ing vessels and for emergencies.
EXPENDITURE.
YACHT-LIKE LINER,
EX GERMAN SHIP FLIES WHITE STAR FLAG.
The latest addr'on to the White
Star Line, the 17.300 tons steamer
OCEAN TRANSIT.
German
and
34 per cent. of the total net tonnage was Batieb, and 32 per cent. of afl the cargo handled was carried in British bottoms. Approximately the same percentages apply for 1918, 1919, and 1920. During the first three years of Canal traffic, Le., 1915, 1916, and
query as to where the "Conqueror The effective length of the quay
In the statistics of the Panama first set foot on Sussex soil. The walls is now 8.124.6ft. (in the modified
"Arabic, formerly the Bayeaux tapestry leaves the point in scheme of 1907 the total length of the
steamer "Berlin," has been recon Canal British shipping takes second no doubt. It records that our William
ditioned. A graceful yacht-like ship, place immediately after that of the I "venit ad Pevenex." And Peven- quay walls was stipulated not to be
United States. Australia, New Zealand The total expenditure of the im the "Arabic' steams 17 knots. less than 9,553.24ft., with an effective
of length
Nineteen 8.400ft.)..
provements amounts to some Y15. She has spacious writing and read and Canada all contribute materially steamers can be moored at one, time 000,000, and that for the breakwatering rooms, 3 verandah cafe, and a to the tonnage under the British flag. alongside the quay wails.
construction to Y2,670,000, one-third domed, beautifully appointed first- In the fiscal year ending June 30 Life is ordered very plea autly at LIGETERS WHARVES AND SEA WALLS of which is to be paid by the Kobe ciasa dining saloon. Luxurious suites 1921, 33 per cent. of all vessels pass- Of the 1.797.6ft. of lighters Municipality. The work is under the of bedrooms with bath rooms ing through the Canal were British, the Preventive Detenion Prisoa at Camp Hill, Isle of Wight. In the wharves to be constructed, 1.317ft control of the Construction Bureau of attached are a special feature.
The "Arabic" will later be put on annual report of the Central Asso-are finished, and the remainder will the Department of Finance, and is
be completed by the end of the being carried out by the Kobe Branch the White Star Naples to New York ciation for the Aid of Discharged Convicts it is said of the "guest" at present fiscal year. The walls of the of the Bureau. All construction is one the prison that "bis diet is varied in remaining foreshore, totalling 588ft,
end of the present fiscal year. character and so arranged that he are also finished, and are now avail expected to be completed before the The work done deserves great credit, does not know beforehand what he is able for mooring launches with a
and is of much advantage to the trade Along with the notable improve-1917, British shipping represented to have for dinner." He is provided draught of about 9ft. On the eastern with three novels and two educational side of No. 1 Mole, concrete blocks of the port. Unfortunately the ment of some ocean shipping routes, from 41 to 40 per cent. of the total.
are piled on riprap foundations to books, the novels being changeable weekly and the educational books protect the Mole as a wave-breaker wharves are still liable to be focded cost of the idle large-sized ships have The relative decline is explained by The blocks at very high tides.or in case of strong been re-engaged, says the Japan the rapid development of American against the east wind. ence in four weeks.. .. He may purchase tobacco, cigarettes, books, are about 2,287ft. long in total (as south-west winds pili-g up the water Chronicle. On the European line, shipping during and after the war in biscuits, fruit, etc., out of his gratuity, against 1,548 in the original plan), on the Kobe, side or the bay. The about 20 ships totalling 150,000 tons Europe.
and their tops are lift. above the constraction of the breakwater pro- to 160,000 tons ran during July and which amounts to 3d. daily during
ceeds slowly, and should have been August, while the Portland-European first taken in band. Indeed, if protec- line was served by 25 or 26 ships of good conduct." Also he is allowed mean low water spring tide.
tion to the harbour had been afforded some 200,000 tons in the same period to spend his spare time in painting, or any similar pursuit. When he The sheds erected are of two by a breakwater, the construction of As so many ships have made their ap becomes eligible for "parole lines" classes, steel and wooden. The steel wharves could have been proceeded pearance, however, a small excess of he is given the use of a cabin with sheds, 16 in Dumber, cover about with at leisure without any loss result-bottoms has now come to be experi verandah complete. Each cabin, "540,000 sq. ft. of ground, each shed ing, as vessels could have been work-enced, and freight rates have become!
In view of the Germany failed to andemins civil- says the report, "has a bed sitting having a whiform span of 84ft. Theyed within the protected space. It was somewhat dall room, tall kitchen with a andars built at a distance of 2ft frem decided; however, toattempt the more atuation, the shipowners such as the jization, and now the hateful thing gas stove, and "each
and parallel with the quay walls, and ambitious work first, and credit is due Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka seems determined to undersell it.
Shosen Kaisha, who have regular sail Tarrytown Daily News. latchkey to his own cabin..
many bave enclosures inside for the for what has been accomplished..
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Found dead in beri at Smethwick. ад acrobat named Staffordshire, Thomas John Jones, was stated at
the inquest to be a dwarf whose armis and legs were so short that when he rolled over on his face while asleep he could not get back again and so was suffocated.
The Berliner Tageblatt states that Rome is expecting an invasion of wild cats. The animals, the newspaper says, are collecting outside the city in large numbers, and the advance guant has appeared near the Porta San Panciaio and the Porta Portese aji- proaches to the city.
A man who was summoned ar Bristol said that when he was pre- viously at the court his case was adjourned "nom de plume." Then clerk explained that the case adjourned sine die (without £xing a date. The Man: I knew it something strange.
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Scotland Yard is to lose its famous Pro- telephone number "City 400." bably the only City number in the Whitehall area, it will be known as Singapore.-"Victoria 7000" The men on the
CLEARANCES.
Kueichow, (B. & S.) for Canton. 18th.
Pembrokeshire, (J. M. & Co.), - for Shanghai, Kobe.--18th.
Kam Ying Fat, (Globe Nav. Co.), for Kwong Chow Wan-18tb
Man Bang, (J. M. &Co.), for Sandakan-19th
Glenapp, (J. M&Co.), for Singapore, Hamburg-19th.
switchboard are chosen for their reticence, and mesrages telling of crime and death are received as calmly as if the report related to the loss of a pet dog.
During a cricket match at Alton. Hampshire, a batsman was given "out" for what is perhaps best des- cribed as "bird before wicket." Roberts, the Sussex professional, was bowling fast one-and the bail struck and killed a swallow flying low over the ground. Then it hit the wicket and knocked the bails off. The hatsman, Major Bentinck, was given
Kaiping, (Sing Kee), for Pakhoi, Haiphong.-19th.
Arafura (P. & 0, 8. N. Co.) for Fout. Manila, Melbourne.-19th.
Kaneu (B. & S.) for Canton.-19th. Kwangtah (C. M. S. N. Co.) for Shanghai.-19th.
Yuet Wah (Hung Shun) for Manila. -19th
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Some time ago a London merchant who was cycling along a Surrey road had so adventure with a supposed footpad who chased him and hit him twice on the back before he could Taishun (C.M.S.N. Co.) for Canton. escape. Revisiting the neighbourhood 19th.
a few days ago, he found that he Atlas Maru (0. S. K.) for Shanghai,amailant was a local policeman wher had mistaken him for a tighwayman, Kobe-19th.
Busho Marn (0. 8. K.) for Takao, and had been credited ever since.witr chasing a pest from the neighbour- Keelung-19th.
Wa San, (Pak Kong) for Shanmihood! 20th.
Focttit, the famous clown, who, Choy Bang, (J. M. & Co.) for Swa-
with his comrade Chocolat, has tow. Shanghai-20th.
Persia Mary (T.K. K.) for Dairen,amased young Parisians for many San Francisco, 20th.
years by his antics in the circus, and of a citizen who spent 93 per cent. of
Chefco, (Hung Shun) for Kriching. who had become quite a part of Paris bis income for arms and ammuni-
life before his retirement some year 20th. tion?-Columbia (S.C.) Record.
Telemachus, (Wo Fat Sing) ago, died at his residence in the fot Saigon. 20th.
Avenue Montaigne. Foottit was at Lushan Maru, (N. Y. K) for Can- Englishman, born in Manchester, and his father, grandfather, and great ton-20th.
grandfather had been clowas before
What would pur Government think
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Dunera, P. & U.) for Singapore, Bombay-20th.
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