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AUSTRALIAN NEWS. LA ILAHA ILLALLAH by two. They belonged to a
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
THE CALL TO PRAYER.
This little British Somaliland town of Zella lies still asleep; it is nearly 4 p.m. writes Major H.; Rayne in home paper. From the mosque comes clearly the call to
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CAT, DOG AND CLARIONET.
A cat-and-dogfight and a clarionet solo at the house where a policeman lived resulted in the appearance of John Charles Stevens, of Langroyd-road, Upper Tooting, at the South-Western police-court on the charge of assaulting P.C. Chester."
CHANNEL SHIPPING SEEN FROM WEMBLEY.
Work is about to begin on a new landmark for London which will dwarf every one of the spires and towers of the City. The landmark is the flywheel" at Wembley, the chief and most spectacular feature of the amusement section of-the British Empire Exhibition. -
The tower, up which visitors will make a spiral ascent in a huge cage, will be 600 feet high, or 900 feet above sea level, Wembley being at an altitude of 300 fest.
The tower will not only be an amusement feature excelling any- thing that has even bean attempted in this country, said Mr. F. E Bussey, managing director of the amusements concession of the British Empire Exhibition, in an in- terview but, if all goes well, will be a triumph of modern engineer ing."
In the April issue of tho Ameri- can Magazine Asia there is an interesting story by Charles Mayer, the famous collector of wild beasts, on how he was commissioned by the King of Siant to convey a consignment of animals
from Bangkok to Europe which His Majesty was presenting to the King of Spain. This involved The latter said he was annoyed getting cages for the beasts and when he returned home from duty Prince Damrong sent half a dozen by the cat and dog, which belonged convicts to assist in operations.to Stevens, fighting in the passage. Later, another half dozen was sent When he asked Stevens if he could to pull carts. Their legs were stop it; he replied with an offensive shackled with Heavy iron chains remark and struck him. and they were yoked together two Mrs. Chester, the constable's wife, said. Stevens played the bandit gang which, in addition to clarionet, the cat and dog fought, robbery, had been guilty of and the noise was hideous, murder, so they were condemned Mr. Hanne (for Stevens): Is your to be executed after they had husband a boxer? Witness (in- served for a year in the street-dignantly): No he is a policeman.
Mr. Hanne (soothingly); Well, VISIBLE FROM CAPE-GRISNEZ. cleaning department.
The appointed day arrived while you know, he might be both.
It will be built of solid concrete, they were still with Mr. Mayer.co Stevens, giving evidence, said he and one may almost predict, as he joined the party which was to was playing the well-known Macaulay did of the Catholic give them a good send off. They melody, Alice, Where Art Thou?”:
Church, that when some New were first feasted on all the delica on the clarionet, his wife was sing Zealander of the future stands on cies procurable, and then accom-ing the words, and the dog was a broken buttress of London Bridge I bear witness that Mahomed is panied to the execution ground by barking in anticipation of its and surveys the ruins of St. Paul's, the prophet.
their friends and an escort of dinner.
the flywheel, if it has not been Come to prayer. Come to success.police, forming a fine procession in Mr. Hanne: Do the animals deliberately demolished, will stil! Prayer is better than sleep. front of which marched a man lead the proverbial cat-and-dogbe thore solid and inspiring, Allah is the greatest.
ringingabell. A thousand people life? had assembled to see the show, and a dozen stakes had been driven The pigeons grumble; the ser- into the ground, to one of which 1, 1923. Under the new act.com-vants bestir themselves; there is cach criminal was tied by his el- pensation payable to injured wor-bright moon; I, too, shall rise and bows. His head was then bent kers has been materially increased. watch for dawn from my high forward, and a mark made on the Mrs. Stevens said Mrs. Chester
verandah.
back of his neck with clay to indi- brought her husband's truncheon, FIRST WOMAN LEGISLATOR.
Below, in the compound, my cate where the executioner was to The magistrate ordered Stevens A portrait of Mrs. Edith Cowan, O.BE, M.L.A., has been lung in men make the ablutions necessary strike. Next twelve executioners, to keep the peace for six months, the Public Library, Perth, Western after sleep and before prayer en-dressed in red, came forward with saying that he believed he had re- their swords and the twelve heads ceived considerable provocation. Australia, to commemorate the joined by the Koran.
The hands are washed, mouths fell, after which these were stuck But both men were to blanie. that sho was the first! Australian woman to be elected to and nostrils cleansed; now the on the top of the stakes. There The face, after that the right arm, then were three dozen bandits in the an Australian Parliament.
gang in all, so there were to be portrait was unveiled-on-January the left.
two more executions but Mr. 19, by the Hon. Lady Newdegato, before a large gathering of women,
Mayer did not go back a second
Mr. W. H. Ifould, principal librarian of the Sydney Public Library, and chairman of the New South Wales Board of International Exchange, left Australia on January 20, on an extended tour of France, England and America, in of of his study Fursuance documents bearing on early Aus tralian history.
The Amending Workers' Com- pensation Act, which was passed during the 1922 session of the State: Parliament of Victoria (Australia), came into operation on February
fact
The Premier of Western Australia and other State Minis- ters, and the Mayor of Perth, at- tended the ceremony. Mrs. Cowan has been a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for nearly two years.
prayer.
Wake! Muslims, awake. Allah-h-h-h is the greatest.
La ilaha ill-Allah. (There is no God but Allah.)
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The wet hands, joined, are drawn across the head. Last of all the feet, right foot first, are bathed.
Heedless of my curious eyes, they will pray here in the open. Has not the Holy Prophet said that the whole carth is a mosque?
They stand in fine, facing Mecca, both hands raised to the cars; Adan, the cook, best versed in Koran-lore, acts as Imam or leader. The prayers procced; the hands are dropped, right upon left, to the breast; again to the knees, as heads are bent and lowered. Allah-u akbar," the deep voices softened and reverent.
AUSTRALIAN GROWN COTTON.
Lieut-Colonel Godfrey Evans, who is going to Queensland to advise the Government regarding the cultivation of cotton, broke his steamer journey at Fremantle, on January 25, at the request of the Premter of Western Australia. He
Prostrate-toes, knees, hands, has been for 16 years in India, forehead press the ground-they Mesopotamia, and Persia Lieut.-call upon Allah for protection. Colonel Evans stated that he saw Sitting, they reflect on I know not two shipments of Queensland what. Prostrate again, they glorify cotton which was first-class, and their Maker, Kneeling, they pray just what Lancashire wanted. for the Holy Prophet, themselves,
Mr. H. C. Armstrong, of the and brother Muslims. Australian Cotton-growingAssocia➡ Peace and the mercy of Allah tion, who was in Melbourne to be on you!" wards the close of January, has
MAKING TELEPHONES.
The prayers are finished; and so every morning of their lives, what ever ill they do they never neglect their prayers.
time.
Stevens: No; they play together. He denied striking Chester, but said that Chester rushed into the kitchen, sat on him, while Mrs. Chester spat at him.
GOVERNOR OF MACAO.
KONG
From the top it will be possible on a clear night to see the lights of Birmingham and of the ships far out in the Channel, and its lantern will be visible as far afield as Cape Grisnez, in France,
The following comparative heights of our present landmarks give some idea of the altitude of the flywheel.
St. Paul's Cross, 365ft.; Westminster Cathedral Cross,
284ft.;
The Crystal Palace, 282ft.; The Monument, 202ft.; Nelson's Columin, 145ft.
The cost of construction will be in the neighbourhood of £100,000,
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This is how they deal with OFFICIAL VISIT TO HONG which cumpares very favourably with the cost of the Eiffel Tower, bandits in Siam which, in con-
which was over £200,000. It is in- sequence, is a well-ordered country
teresting in this respect to note that in which life and property are safe, An official visit was paid the Eiffel Tower paid for itself not The law in China also prescribes to Hongkong, yesterday by only in the first year, but repeatedly that bandits shall be executed, but, His Excellency the Governor of in succeeding years, since the Republic came in, the Macao, Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues. practice of the art has been largely The party arrived on the Portuguese lost. There are still magistrates in gunboat" Patria," soon after mid- It will be seen that there is no some districts who hunt downy day, the arrival being notified by reason to fear that the venture will bandits, and cut off their heads a salute fired from the guardship be a financial failure. Visitors when they catch them, but the num- for the day. As soon as the "Patria" will make the ascent in a huge ber of these gets fewer and fewer. had dropped anchor, Capt. Neville,cage, which seats four hundred Such a magistrate get no recogni- | A‚D.C. went on board to escort the people, and which will be sur tion, and for promotion he cannot guests to Blake Pier, where they rounded by glass almost from the compete with others who stand-in were received by H. E. the bottom. It will therefore be possi- with the freebooters, and thus get Governor and Lady Stubbs and the ble to see in all directions at every possessed of the means to pur- principal civil, naval and military period of the ascent. chase promotion. Then it is not officials of the Colony,
The cage will rotate, and will easy to get the soldiers to take Amongst those on Blake Pier reach its highest point in three efficient action against bandits, were: The Colonial Secretary (the spirals. It will make two circles since they may have belonged to Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, C.M.G. up the top and three spirals on the the same class tliemselves, or are C.B.E.), and Mrs. Metcher, the return journey. The time of the likely to do so some day, after Chief Justice (Sir William Rees-whole trip will be seven minutes waiting in vain niany months for Davies) and Lady Recs-Davies, the and periphery of the cage will be their pay and becoming thoroughly Acting General Officer Command- at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. disgruntled..
ing (Col. Davy, C.M.G., R.G.A.), It has been decided to make a Commodore H. E. Grace, Mrs. charge of one shilling. The design FIFTY-NINE CENTENARIANS Grace and the Misses Grace, the of the tower is cylindrical, and it
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sons on the sick list.
been advised of the inventio, by Haring Dallas, of Texas, of a mechanical cottonpicker, Accord ing to the New York representative The pigeons are wide awake now; of the association, "alt information I call for early tea; the servants foreigners do. As it was in Commodore's Secretary (Pay- will give the impression from a points to this being successful scatter cheerfully to obey the Europe half a millennium ago, Lieut. Commander R.E. Worthing-distance of a huge pencil. It will Exhaustive experiments will be Christian-Islam orders all men to mass robbery may be considered a ton D.S.C.), H.E: tic Governor's be carried on a concrete raft TC About five hundred delegates there was far too much of what undertaken in Australia to ascer respect those set in authority. highly honourable profession and Private Secretary (Mr. Eric Rice) thick by one acre in extent from all parts of the country at tain the value of the invention. Istand reflecting on what I have robber chiefs be admired as Anumber of Portuguese ladies and The Eiffel Tower, which is of Up to the present the association witnessed until I realise that I have popular heroes. Many noble fami- gentlemen were also in attendance steel, standing on four steel fect,tended Caxton Hall, Westminster has recommended cotton-growers missed the sunrise and allowed lies took their rise in this way. including the Fortuguese Consul- occupies several acres of ground, for the Faculty of Insurance annual not to plant more than they can ay tea to get cold.
In China, the founder of the General for Hongkong (Mr. Cer and we may therefore claim that national health conference of in- handle themselves. If tests justify
Ming Dynasty was a Buddhist veira de Albuquerque é Castro) and the fly-wheel is a much greater aurance organisations and social There were three ominous mat- the adoption of the mechanical
monk, named Chu Yuan-chang, Madame Albuquerque-Castro, Mr. engineering feat.
workers.-
ters which might well tend to damp picker, the area grown by in- POSTAGE FROM AMERICA.
who threw aside his yellow robe and Mrs. Silva Notto and others. Had we built on the same prin- dividual landholders will be in-
and became a robber. He was so At the entrance to Blake Pier a ciple as the Eiffel Tower we should Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P., in his optimism in a study of the health of the nation's children." There creased.
The Consul General for the Un- successful in his adopted calling. Naval Guard of Honour was drawn have required at least five acres. presidential address, said we might were always 10 per cent of the ited States in Australia has compil-that he ascended the throne in 1368 up. “After the introductions on the The engineer responsible is Mr. E. no longer be described as a C3 children attending elementary A motion agreed to by the Inter-American business firms who des- till 1628.
ed a statement for the guidance of and his descendants occupied it Pier the Guard of Honour was in- O. Williams, designer to the exhibition, but we were a long way off schools who, although not mentally
Gray in his "Elegy" spected, and on-the conclusion of ition, who built the Stadium. state conference of the Australian patch letters to addresses within says: "The paths of glory lead but this the party motored to Govern- For those, Mr. Bussey continued, being an AI people. Notwithstand-deficient, proved to be seriously dull and backward. Eight per Postal Electricians' Union held at the Commonwealth. Printed copies to the grave", but in China thement House for luncheon.
who are nervous of the journey in ing the Great War there were to cent. of London school children Melbourne in January, favoured of the statement supplied for dis-paths of robbery may lead to super- In the afternoon the party motor- the cage, as, for example, the old day many indications of a favour were always absent on account of the manufacture of telephone and tribution in America, point out that tuchunship. The uncrowned King ed round the Island leaving later ladies who prefer to toll up the able and improving state of affairs, illness. Medical and surgical telegraph equipment, including the rate of postage from the United of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, is a for Macao
Underground stairs rather than risk The trend of the death rate in treatment had to be provided in- telephones, in Australia. Dele- States to Australia is 5 cents per oz. I case in point forthe started out as a
the escalator the ascent may be England and Wales was steadily hospitals and clinics for over two gates maintained that if given the and 3 cents for each additional oz. Hunghuice. Under such circum❤
made either on foot or on one of the downwards, and the decline had hundred thousand children in opportunity by the provision of Letters forwarded 'short paid" stances it is no wonder although
several lifts inside the tower taken place in all ages.
London along. Probably half a proper facilities, Australian postal cause the receiver to pay double the method of dealing with bandits
There will 40 platforms an which electricians would be able to pro the shortage. The Consul General prescribed by law should becomoa
During the first twenty years million children throughout the In the case of the present rail one may rest if travelling inside of the present century there had country had to be treated every duce any article used in connection expresses the opinion that this tostart.
and where one may remain if the with telephones. The argument creates a bad impression with Aus When foreigners become advise how the bandits should be whole journey is likely to cause been a remarkable fall in the infant year for various defects and dis- that the proposal would involve tralian business firms, and he urges victims of bandit activities the dealt with By rights they should vertigo.
mortality rate. In 1920 the rate was eases.
But there was a bright side. The high capital cost to purchase and that care be exercised to place the situation gets still more com- be attacked with troops on all sides. At night a strong searchlight will per the lowest 3 ver set up the machinery would not proper postages on business letters. plicated. The time was, and not and exterminated, but that would be flashed from the top of the recorded. Last year it was 83 per cleanliness of children, their cloth- hold, as many industries against Parcel post packages may be sent so long ago, when bandits were probably mean the foreigners, who flywheel," and it will be possible 1,000, A striking comparison with ing, and their health generally which the same argument had been from the United States to Australia most careful not to interfere with happened to be in their hands, from it to see people waiking in the average rate of 150 at the be- were in steady progress of im used were now in flourishing con- weighing up to 11 lbs. at the rate foreigners. They know that, if they would be murdered. If these are the streets in practically all parts of ginning of the century. That was provement. It was noteworthy dition. If the policy of the union of 12 cents per lb.
doubtless due in no small measure that in a careless age there was An additional did, drastic action would be taken to be rescued by paying ransom, Londen, want were adopted by the department, 6 cents per lb. is collected in Aus to make things unpleasant for them. and giving in to any other demands ALondon wire of April 30 tomaternity and child welfare an increased and more intelligent work, The State grant amounted sense of parental responsibility in the way would be payed to a tralla as a special charge levied But the foreign representatives put forward, itwill mean encourag says flourishing industry. -
for Commonwealth revenue...
have let their nationals down by ing the bandits to carry on, in the House of Commons, to over a million pounds, of which regard to the importance of the EGG IMPORTS.-
£6,000,000 FOR WOOLGROWERS. accepting money payments for and also inducing similar bands in Colonel Buckley stated that he had some £900,000 was paid to local health of the children. One of the delegates to the
The directors of British murders and allowing the guilty to other places to get after the for instructed his representative on the authorities and £200,000 to volun- ENCOURAGEMENT OF RESEARCH. tary socleties, Parade Ma Sir Kingsley Wood advocated Poultry Breeders Interstate Con- Australian Wool Realisation cacape punishment. The effect elgners within reach with all speed, British Empire Exhibition Manage People were living longer to the establishment and enclos
this was to place the Then to exterminate the bandits, ment Committee to voice his ference, held at Sydney in January, Association Limited, have com-of
day continued Sir Kingeley ment of a National Commission passed a which would further encourage and ed yolk of egg from China. It was tribution on 14th April, 1923, of bandits to the same extent as and secured the liberation of their which he felt that there were con and Wales there were 600,000 per support talent and brains in the in- stated that the tariff had worked approximately £6,000,000 on ac-if he were an ordinary native, captives, would be a breach of sidemable objections. satisfactorily against Astatic eggs count of the reduction of capital of and to encourage the bandits faith on the part of the Govern in the shell, but dried yolks and the association. Over 75,000 che to get after them because a great meat which no foreigner could dried whites were now being im-ques and 80,000 certificates have to deal more profit could be made recommend. In Tientsin, and in ported. One pound of the dry be prepared, and the corresponding from foreign foot, and bigger ran Shanghai, it is proposed that soms obtained for the foreigners foreigners should go after the material was made up to equal to accounts verified.
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way outrage we really cannot
10 lb. with water, and was used for AMERICAN-AUSTRALIAN TRADE, whom they might succeed in bandits themselves, and the meringues and decorative work on The St. Just Steamship Co., in kidnapping. In a leading article Ox service men have volunteered cakes. Even with a duty of 32d. January opened direct trade bes The Peking Leader argues that to take on the job, but their appear per lb. this Asiatic product could tween New York and Brisbane, the foreigners have themselves to ance on the scene would involve be sold in Australia for 9d a lb., Queensland. The s.s. Jersey blame for what is now happening the captives, in the same risk as if whereas fresh whites From City, carrying pianos, plaster, in China, and we quite agree an attack were made by Chinese Australian eggs cost 1/2 or 1/3 In type-writers, motor cars, lawn although on different grounds from troops, besides, in all probability, Canada, it was stated, shops using, mowers, lanterns, hardware, glass those advanced by it. Further, giving rise to many extraordinary. Asiatic eggs had to notify the ware, etc., came from New York, when big indemnitica are demand and unexpected happenings some fact, and it was decided to approach Philadelphia and Port Arthrod they are not taken from the of which might prove to be the State Government with a view (Texas) via Panama Canal. The coffees of the Tuchyns, who are the unfortunate
to having similar legislation Jersey City will call at Sydney, Parties really responsible for the we do not know how lutroduced here. It was also Melbourne and Adelaide, for red country being filled with bandits should be dealt with
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THE GODDESS OF EMOTION
IS PAULINE FRI DERICK
THE MISTRESS
tons over seventy years of age, and vestigation of medical and physical sixty-thousand over eighty-live science. The whole expenditure of Last year there were recorded the the Medical Research Councilper deaths of fifty-nine persons who
lived to be a hundred, and of theacmitted by Parliament last year was thirty-eight were women, incitid- the beggarly sum of £130,000. We ing thing-one widows Medical should suitably acknowledge the science had gained a great triumphardices of the small body of men, many now living on a miserable. over certain discases, such as pittance, who devoted their lives typhus, scarlet fever, diphtheria, to medical research small-pox and enteric, but heavy. Sif Thomas Nefl expressed the life tax Wan still being paid in view that the Interests of public tuberc
cancer, and diseases health demanded closer co-opera- ** tion between the hospitals said the PTION..
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