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AUSTRALIAN TRADE WITH FINLAND,
It is reported from London that the firm of Karl Brostrom, of Sales of gold through the Gold Helsingfors, Finland, has decided to Posts Association Limited, open a direct shipping connection The ship welgbs anchor, the ng December, 1922, amounted between Finland and Java and throaty winch sounding unusually 120,307 oz. of standard at an Australis. If there is an adequate loud in the clear moming air. A sealed net average price of £4 offering of cargo two large ships few minutes later the steamer has 6. v.hich is equal to £488. 11d.will shortly load for the first out-berthed at the angainly coal wharf. Waiting coolies. quickly place or of fine gold. The average ward voyage.
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The doctor next visits the quaran“ tine station and then returas' to the mainland to Inspect the lunatic asylum, which is claimed to be one
WHOSE WAS IT?
DISPUTED SWEEP TICKET,
CHINESE CLUB ARBITRATION.
adviser....
i was 44 Ds. bd. an oz. fine. At a luncheon held in Melbourne basket after basket of coal is swung, dormitory. In the mild wards most Quinn told him that the race was
2 salas include gold of the par under the auspices of the Australian
of the best in the Far East. Its set-The ownership of ticket No. --The-shore lights shine steadily ting is certainly one of the most 3066 which drew the first prize of across the dark waters. Tropical charming, the red roofs of the dif- $50,400 in the Chinese Club's night, romantic, and mysterious,ferent buildings making a pleasant Derby sweep is being argued by hangs heavily overthe strange land. contrast with the dark green foli- counsel before a committee of arbi- The shore lights shine steadily age. Most of the tomates in the trators who held their first sitting across the dark waters calling the women's section are docile, but at the Chinese Club last night...
The rival claimants are Mr. Chik Wayfarer from the sea with the there is one Chinese who has to subtle, irresistible call of the East. be chained loosely to the wall Soong sing and Mrs. Violet Chan. owing to sudden fits of murderous Mr. Chik is being represented by The swift cool dawn has come. violence. (Four times she has at Mr. C. G. Alabaster, KC, O.B.E,, Dim outlines take shape in the tempted to brain the attendant Unstructed by Mr. C. A. S. Russ, growing light and through the with a plate.) When the doctor of the firm of Lee and Russ), and early morning haze the fronds of enters she gives, him a baleful the lady is represented by Mr. tall trees and the red roofs of glare. A comely little maid who Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed by Mr. The arbitrators are: Messrs. picturesque houses acquire rich declares she has no name retreats G. K. Hall Bratton). tints that contrast prettily with blue shyly before the intruder, but a skies and turbid waters. Then Chinese woman shrieks impreca Cheung Tsoi, Ho Leung, Ho comes the sun and before its fierce ions at the doctor and his ances Kwang, and Won Yik Sing. Mr. glare the delicate mists take flight, tors Malay woman prances for M. Lo is acting as their legal leaving the outlines of the little ward, and begins an excited
address. She is still talking her Mr. Alabaster set out in the township hard and clear.
loudest when the doctor passes Course of his address that a"Mr. through the little door that leads Ng Tsze-ho alias Sydney Quino On the Monday after the race was into the men's section the other sold Mr. Chik the winning ticket. run both Chik and Quinn were in side of the high wooden wall. N
buildings and asked whether the Derby had The male lunatics live in two Shanghai. Chik went to see Quinn large ferro-concrete
oth lined with beds like a school yet been won and if so whether he Chik) had won anything. Sydney of the men have shorter or longer lucld periods. One Chinese with to be run on the following Monday, oo of £17,981 supplied to Aus- Natives Association, to celebrate
Sandakan, British North Borneo's native. resource has adorned the and that as he was going to Hong manufacturing jewellers, the 23rd anniversary of the Com during the December quarter, monwealth and the 135th anniver- chief port, might be a small town wall at the head of his bed with kong shortly he would take Chik's
handed the ticket over... 500.00 sovereigns purchased sary of Australia colonisation, Mr. ship in Malaya. The half dozen joss sticks and pictures taken from ticket with him in case he did win Not long after this there came a the Conumonwealth Bank. Since Justice Isaacs, of the High Court main streets stretch along the fore- a thermos flask catalogue, A Malay, anything. Chik agreed to this and es of the preceding circular of the Commonwealth, proposed shore, crowding many of the dwel-sane for the moment, plays an ac Asrican rate of exchange on "Australia and the Day we Celelings into the water where their cordion with spirit and pride. -- His
kong immediately as he had won and is don had remained at about 4.64 brate." He said: January 26, barnacle encrusted piles provide a other pastime is making cord by telegram from his nephew in Hoag- Ham to the 1. Sterling; but 1788, was regarded as the day when home for countless crocodiles. A twisting grasses, but cord in dan kong telling him to return to Hong- ble advices received in Melbourne the actual history of Australia low ridge behind the native towngerous in an asylum om Hew York (January, 1923) re-hegan when there first began to be provides another and smaller Peak therefore discrectly removed the sweep. Naturally Chik was for the white residents. The people Among his most cherished posses- rather nervous at having already ated that the rate had advanced an Australian people. Present-day at the same polyglot collection of sions is an empty cigarette box that day given away his ticket, and 1.67 dollars to the £1 which Australians were the very fortunate Chinese, Malays, European and Another Malay is making a Eur-he made haste to find Quinn. He equivalent of £1 s. 10d. inheritor of all that was won by the Indians, with a sprinkling of tribe opean viplin, complete to the scroll had some difficulty, in spite of the reign or 41 86. 6d. a fine oz.
courage, foresight, self-abnegation, men from the interior Consequent on the neck. Odd scraps are his fact that he called at Quinn's house BOTA TO TOUR GREAT BUTAIN. and initiative of the brave men and ly there is the same contrast of only material and a pen knife his in Shanghai two or three times that night. He next wrote to him and After travelling 6,000 miles women who did so much to open up costume, the same babel of tongues, only tool. The other inmates either day, and at half past eleven that ough Victoria, South Australia the treasures and possibilities of and the same variety of customs. gaze stolidly into space or sleep asked for his ticket. In return he These men have a large compound received Ticket No. 3,076, which, Western Australia, the New Australia to succeeding generations.
for playing football, an exercise according to Quinn was the ticket The town has fifteen miles of which is very popular with them. th Wales boys. who toured It was in no small spirit that the:
he had drawn in the sweep, nder the direction of the Young pioneers built up until they estabroad and work has begun on a great
he received a further telegram stralis League. were welcomed ished what were now the great highway between Jesselton and
from his nephew telling him that w on January 20, by the Lord States of Australia: and it was in Sandakan. In the streets are sev- ator of Sydney. The director of no small spirit that later, when the bral of the Colony's dozen motor mates are all completely insane, he had won, and urging him to four said that there had not time of ripeness arrived, Australians cars, one of the two motor buses an suffering either from mania, melan- come down to Hongkong in case en un accident. It was proposed sought a broader nationhood, and enterprising Chinese has, import-cholia or dementia praecox. Those there should be any dispute. He ke a party of boy to Great found it in a noble Commonwealth, ed, a P.W.D. motor larry, numerous awake are also more sullen. When also went to consult Mr. Goldring, of the advice. Mr. Goldring telegraphed Bilan during the Empire Exhibi-On this anniversary, thanks largely bicycles, a few gharries, sundry they become openly violent they a Shanghai solicitor, and asked his
in 1921. This tour would cost to the valour of the sons of Austra bullock carts, and the town's two are, for. the safety 12,500
lin, whose deeds were witnessed in ricshas. Other signs of progress other famates, placed in solitary to Messrs. Lyson and Hall at 'cages". in another part of the tions to see that the money was - GESTERN AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. : sad, but proud, record on the fields are the electric light station, the connement in one of the two Hongkong and gave then instruc In the West Australian Legisla.of France and Belgium, and east-ice works, telephone exchange
Asembly, the Premier (Sirwards to Gullipuli, and further east (with about seventy subscribers)the grounds presently holding a man not paid out on Ticker No. 3,066 any clothes destroying every gar-stigated. Messrs. Lyson and Hai! as litet introduced loan to the Mount of Olives, Australia wireless station and the now in who persistently refuses to wear until proper enquiries could be in-
evitable picture house.
ment he is landed on the ground acted accordingly, and the arbitra diantes for $1,087,480. The prin- stood erect, free and prosperous.
tion resulted. lilere include milways, and holding a distinguished place among.
B.N.B., the British section of the that it is not good enough,
Mr Alabaster proceeded to point mways, (750,000); harbours and the peoples of the earth, and, more
out that when Mr. Quinn told Chik £1710): water and sewer-than that, maintaining with pride world's second largest island, is
Soong Sing that the rage had not 2,4974400: agricultural develop its position as one of the great units held under charter from the British beat, £2,720,300 : roads and of that wonderful and unexampled Parliament by a limited liability
pathetic earnestness. He is still by that time telegrams from the ridge. £11,000,
organisin known as the British company. Naturally the primary the doctor enters, talking with been run, he must have received talking when the doctor Chinese Club informing him that A PICTURESQUE DRIVE. Empire. This land, with all its object of this company is to pay t Referring to his drive from Syd-glories of achievement, and all its dividend. However, the govera leaves. Seven years before, a la ticket in the books he had sold elbourne by motor car, wonders of promise, was a special that of any Crown Colony with the telephone operator with a good re- had won the race. If, in truth, the Chandler, a visitor from heritage, which Australians had the exception that the officials are ap-card, he was dismissed from the ticket Mr. Chik had bought was refusing to answer the nephew, on hearing the number of l, and it was the finest motor privilege, the right, and the duty pointed by a court of directors in government service for persistent-No. 3,076, why was it that his
hi ever undertaken. "You to preserve, to live for, and to make London. The colony, therefore ly
calls of an official who had the winning ticket and referring different government 4a hof Switzerland, a bit of the the most desirable spot on Gol's has Eglik labs, and a bit of Devon-earth. Australians had gates to departments. Sandakan is extreme-had him punished for a mis-to the note he had made of his His mind became uncle's ticket on the day, should demeanour, Hi all rolled into one," he said.watch and lo guard. and seriously healthy for a port, escaping' They is as tried as it is problems, political and industrial, many of the usual tropical diseases, deranged and for seven years now immediately wire to his uncle that iful; the overchanging lauds to solve. He took it that all Aus- notably malaria, basiliary dysentry he has never ceased to spend every he had won, if it was not true? ap, with lovely bays and headtralians recognised that it required and cholera. Eight years ago there waking moment talking, talking in hand, and the pur-as much courage, foresight, forbear was a severe cholera epidemic, and a tongue nobody has ever been
able to identify, . Lille sering move on the ance, and patriotisa, and as much the precautions since taken have re- the the exquisite lakes, the readiness, to recognise what were sulted in almost complete absence
dad, and the pastures all pass the higher claims upon conscience of cholera.
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In the dangerous ward the in
One man in the dangerous ward, a native of Brunei, is talking when
But
Mr. Alabaster had not concluded
were adjourned to this evening. his address when the proceedings
A path engineered by the Chinese dresser in charge of the main streets are rarely empty.
Offenders bentenced to rigorous
When the Prince's and conduct in the ordinary daily Never had lepers fairer home asylum and made by the lunatics Play is conducted with strict. fair- Dighway infileted the trip battle of tle as in the conflict of old ply superb. There is war. By what statesmanship and than the forty-five men and six wo-leads past a jutting rock resemness and order. The house collects
marvellous properties, y of wild duck, pelican, what political methods, more or less men who idle away their time oubling a dog's head and possessing ten per cent. commision
of Berhala certain d other water fowl to be obtain-controversial and, contested, that the beautiful island
Night has come with tropical Mr. Chandler added that if was to be assisted, belonged to an (Isle of the Gods) near Sandakan. thence to the jail once famous with oglan adats realised what area in which he had now no con- A beetling cliff rising five hundred tourists for the notice "Prisoners plendid day could be had in cern.
There were some things in fect sheer from the sea protects not in fail by six o'clock will be swiftness. The streets are thronge india, they would flock there in which all had concern, to some one end of the sandy beach froul- locked out for the night." Prisoned with Asiatics and natives whose Earnest, ing their row of dwellings and a life has evidently lost its lure since costumes colour brightly in the on warm light from the open shop undreds instead of going, as at extent, at all events.
et, Valetta, Simula, Darjeel strenuous, individual exertion of the wooded promontory the other those days as the jail, run 5. Rangoon, and her parts of best character in every department Behind rises a ridge dense with thoughly modi m lines, is now very fronts. The eating houses, luring Australia the European off was essential to untional tropical foliage through which a jealous of its inmates who are each the hungry from the streets with fed bitself in a climate prosperity. That was the very angle track winds half a mile to housed in little cells when they are tasty smells, are crowded with other building in Sandakan the jail rooms, furnished with little more at to Lin: in Melbourne and Foundation. Nothing could be done the quarantine station on the other not working. Like almost every noisy diners, and the gaming. is built of wood, but it is a native than tables and chairs, hold many ydacy habtained a little "life" without it. That was the greatest
wood that can resist a dynamite hopeful devotees of the goddess dotale the cities and towns lesson that the pioneers of Australia When the capable young doctor charge.
Chance intent upon the play. The metallic crash and the shrill pipe of was plenty of sport and won-had written in large and unmistak-
Chinese band fills the air, drown- The excellence of able characters on the face of the who weekly inspects the colony alation if some of the land. To forget it would be to fall. lands from the government launch siths tels, often a hundred He urged the promotion of more at the little wooden pier, he is met]
in imprisonment are breaking heavy ing the ceaseless chatter of the be, and the magnificent rapted co-operation between capital inmates are Chinese from other road metal stones in the prison crowds and the intermittent cries
to Sandakan because it is the sentenced to lighter imprisonment ng bowls of eresin, large and labour. He thought that it was districts. They have been brought yard under armed guard; Others of the street hawkers. off with, surb as one never very possible be would even go centre of the government medical are pounding coconut fibre for sex ton, new-laid eggs, further and say that it was probably carvite. In many cases they have matting. Trustles". employ their tower, Sandakan's most conspicu- bor, and capital faro gen-that in this department of politi-brought the discase from China time making furniture from nativeous monument, above the stone Even the noted dead, and above the quaint as delicious as it was tucal action, as bad happened in other elading the examination in China wood and rattan. They also act memorial cross to the colony's
Mr. Chandler praised departments, Australin might yet and again in Borneo. Passing along as hospital orderlies. ulation to be found at show the way to a completely the row of neat little bungalows jail clerk is a trusty. The prison Chinese temple-above the whole concrete piles with has roughly two hundred inmates, noisy, sweltering town, prominent in, Australian hotels. The acceptable on satisfactory solution. built on
man's club, the centre of the: taurants and tearooms in the At all events, there was one great attap roofs, the doctor is frequently several of whom are in the prison on the hillside stands the white colony's social life and the common cl compared favourably characteristic of Australians they greeted with smiles and cheery hospital.
mecting ground for the Europeans. ith the best to be found in London never had been, and they would salutations, more in anticipation of
Lepers may drowse, lunatics Still higher are the extensive and The cost of living he never be, afraid to try. Having re-prospective favours than in thanks l 1,9 from expensive.
gard to the great urgency of the for past ones, silice the ders babble, and prisoners fret but commodious buildings of the hos Butter, and to its immense and appear to show little gratitude for Oriental Sandakan moves leisurely 'pital, and along the very tap of the ALGOTUMAAN JOCRNALISM, The land Mayer of Sydney widespread importance, he thought the efforts made to combat their through its usual day, seeking ridge rise the homes of Sandakan's ferma (ilpin), who gave à civic, that it was absolutely true to say ter.ible disease. dese ou fazuary 20, to visiting that waking error is infinitely rials from various, States of better than sleeping truth."
ad Pan
Conwealth, who are in]
ano,
tending the annual con-
of the Australian Jour-
Group
After noting the progress made in clearing the ground for cultiva tion-the island will grow almost every tropical plant like tapioca, co
Above the little wonden clock
recreation at night in the clubs, elect. and the gaming and opium houses, i The gaming" rights cost many)
thousand dollars a year and the Ten in the morning and the last sale of opium is a government 'sling of timber in the hold, the monopoly. Anyone found in pos- steamer slips her moorings and is
Hikis Action, paid a high tri-
This deraso in sp dangerous and soconuts, bananas and pineapples session of illicit opium receives soon heading out the little harbour. to the fairness and sincerity of rapid in its development that every the doctor enters the large wooden very rigorous imprisonment. "Con- Sandakan, this little world of tei that mother of roune children should be pro building which serves as a hospital sequently, smuggling. Joes not thousand people on the fringe of strali pwspapers,
pared for it. It is very ridty to wait et, he said, they were the equal patit tho a sok of grony appears and and examines the more serious exist, and the govemment is free the great junge, is som lost to ay pers in the world. It then send for medicine and let the child cases, men unable to work owing to eliminate the evil by the slow sight, and the steamer is slipping to the benefit of the country per until it can be obtained, to the loss of limbs through the process of reducing the drug's past the long low coast of a land The Chinese are thit still defies the pioneer into its at Audralin had an exceptionally Chamberlain's Conch Remodels prompt ravages of the disease. While it potency and making its price. that still holds many secrets, a land
and effectual as has never been kepuis possible for this hospital to prohibitive. uable and educational press. He to fall in any on Always has check the disease, it is unable at inveterite gamblers and the large dark interior, a land that still holds idered that the journalists of bottle. For sale by all Chemists the moment to cure it owing to the rooms above a shop in one of the the break ofcomunesë nd betralia did honour to their pro- torekeeßen G
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