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SHIPPING.
NEW
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A new type of derrick, designed by Dr. H. Mayer, is installed on a series of freight steamers being built for the North German-Lloyd at the Vulcan Werke shipyards, Stettin, and is intended to reduce a ship's loading tackle to a minimum. The principle underlying the new scheme consists of placing the cross-trees higher than is the usual practice, and high enough for the derricks to be swung under- neath and to be utilised both fore and aft This new arrangement will prove especially useful in cases where two sets of four derricks each, in connection with only two Capstans, have so far been provided fore and aft, with a view to using
THE SPHENEDON.
OLDEST CREATURE LIVING.
THE CHINA MAIL.
were eight million years ago. He hasn't changed in all those years because he hasn't had to change. Sphenedon exists to-day where he does simply because he is un [changeable. Life has to adapt it-
in
NEW NAVAL BASE.
RECOGNITION OF AUSTRA
·LIAN INTERESTS,
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BANDIT'S ROMANCE.
PRISON MARRIAGE TO A
BEAUTIFUL' GIRL.
NUTS AND WINE.
WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY,
compel
those universities Was sought to Cambridge to come Into line with Oxford. ·In" the committee. stage an attempt will be made to include a provision to enable the Cambridge Commis admit women to full membership. sioners-set up under the Bill-o
POISON IN SUBMARINES.
ARSENIC IN BATTERIES AND PLATES, The scientific world was startled, not long ago, by the report that self to conditions. When condi-The policy of the Imperial At the resumed conference on
The trial of Plattner, flatteringly! The refusal of the University of traces of a living dinosaur had been tions change, life adapts itself found in Patagonia,' says a writer or porishes: That is what hap- Government is asking Parliament to international labour organisation described in the German Press as Cambridge to admit women of
and industrial health at the Royal the the dinosaur, He sanction an appropriation towards Sanitary Institute, Dr. T. M. Legge, Germany for a century," began at on the second reading of the greatest bandit produced by membership was much discussed in Popular Science Siftings. Ex-pened peditions were organised to capture lived and flourished for four the cost of establishing a naval base Medical Inspector of the Home Hallean-die-Saale. this very ancient form of life which million years. Then conditions at Singapore for capital ships is of Office Factories Department, re-
Oxford and Cambridge Universi natural history experts think died changed and he did not. He died profound interest to Australia, ferred to the necessity for in-robbers chiefly recruited in Berlin,
Plattner was leader of a band of ties Bill. out three million years ago, { No doubt Sphenedon died too, im observes the Brisbane Courier, of vestigating elusive and rare indus- and he paid each member a good bridge and can secure degrees, but
Women have colleges at Cam But there is a creature living on other parts of the earth. We have June 18. Within a comparatively trial discasos. He mentioned that weekly wage. The series of daring the full privileges of membership a tiny islet off the New Zealand seen him dle on the larger Islands recent date a representative of the in 1915 certain British submarines robberies, any our of which would of the university are denied them coast which is older. Sphenodon of New Zealand. He would not Commonwealth Naval Board was had to return to port because the provide the scenario of an exciting and as State assistance is to be to give it its scientific name, or exist to-day on Karewa if it had given an opportunity of meeting crews were suffering from the char-film, organised by him, is so long given to Tuatera, as the Maoris called it, is changed much."
Admiralty experts for the purpose acteristic symptoms of a ceruin at least a million years older than
that it has taken the police six opportunity And this is one of the reasons of considering the suitability poison gas, which could only arise months to put in order the evidence the dinosaur. And it exists to-day, why New Zealand, even more than of the proposed site mainly, where acid or metal was three million years after the dinos- Australia is so interesting to the we may assume,
con- against him. its relation to taminated with arsenic. naturalist. aur perished from the earthi
It contains traces of Australian defence, and as the
Plattner, as every good bandit Sphenedon, eight million years forms of life not found elsewhere, scheme has since been embodied aracaic had been inserted by a ciple of Lenin.
was at first thought that the should be, is an idealist and a dis- the four capstans surrounding the old by the most conservative and as in the case of Sphonedon in the British naval estimates for German spy, bat examination led mast at will for either set of estimate, is a species, genus, family the living forms themselves, main- the current year, the inference to the discovery of one-fifth of crowned in the prison chapel a few The romance of his life was derricks. It also enables one set and order all by itself. It is aly because it has not changed until may be drawn that an important per cent. of arsenic in the plates weeks ago when he was married, with the corresponding tackle to be reptile, but it is neither crocodile, quite recently.
development in the defence policy and batteries of the submarine, to a beautiful girl. dispensed with. The advantage lizard, snake, nor turtle. Loosely
of the Empire is in contemplation. Hundreds of thousands of pounds derived from Dr. Meyer's scheme speaking, he is more of a lizard
Singapore, as a glance at the map had to be spent in replacing the will be even greater if, as in the than anything else. He is really
will indicate represents one of the batteries and plates, A submarine case of smaller vessels, only one the grandfather of them all and, by
most valuable strategic positions on might go to the bottom from in- LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. British Empire where less attention capstan and one derrick are pro-
the same token, the ancestral form
the ocean highway to the East. It is dustrial poison of that kind and no vided for bach hatch. However,
of the bird. It is, perhaps, seven
one of the ports which the foresight one be the wiser. even in the case of six capstans in and a half million years older than
of the builders of British sea power connection with six derricks sur-the first man and it looks just the
added to the Imperial domain rounding the mast, it will be found same now as it did in the Permian
of trade and commerce in ages useful to arrange two of these der period of the Palaeozoic age, eight
long gone by. From Flymouth ricks for swinging below the cross-million years ago,
Hoe, out of which the great captains trees, either the innermost or the
of the Elizabethan era sailed the outermost derricks being used to
Seven Seas planting the flag of this effect,
Empire, to fat Cathay, where, at Hongkong, the modern merchant. armadas of the world distribute
For example, Sphenedoo had no competition with predatory animals until recently. The greatest enemies of all the pre-historic creatures were mammals, who first evolved, five million years ago, as small, rat-like creatures.
But in two million years' time these mammals had grown and adapted themselves, and the pre historic reptiles had not adapted themselves, Wherefore the un- changing reptiles perished as did the dinosaur.
But the record of the rocks shows that there were no mammals in New
Through all those eight million years Sphenedon had gone right on in his rut Old continents were destroyed and new continents arose from the ocean, and they in turn grew old and were destroy-Zealand until approximately & their precious fréights amongst ed, but Sphenedon went jogging thousand years agoma mere split- the nations of the East, the channels along never changing his appear second in the history of the world.of trade are served at frequent in- ance or his habits or anything.
These first mammals in New tervals by British ports and naval- Zealand were men and rats, which stations. Links in the strategic the men brought with them. And for eight million years, minus a thousand, Sphenedon had com- petition with other forms of life.
The Tuatera or Sphenedon is so important, scientifically, that the Govenment of New Zealand has taken steps to protect it against extinction. It is an open question, however, whether the government has intervened in time, for as far back as 1882 the creatures were very rare.
At one time, scientists believe,
ADVENT OF MAN. Nor has the vegetable life on the island of Karewa changed greatly froin that to which Sphenedon was accustomed. The great ferns and vines and thorny scrub and ancient kinds of rocks are still there. But on the larger islands, men came, and later other mammals, and with their coming began Sphenedon's exit.
Welsh National School of Medi
Professor: E. L. Collis, of the cine, said our weather made us the nation we were. If we had the weather we asked for, probably we should degenerate into a third- class Power.
BOAT DRAMA,
DEATH TO EVADE CAPTURE,
BUILDERS' SCHEMES.
The purchase of old boats from abroad, now in vogue in Japan, has dealt a serious blow to the ship- building industry, whose mainstay is now repair work. Even this is difficult to secure. The shipowners, taking advantage of the situation, have been dictating their own terms to the builders. Shipbuil- ders in Tokyo and Kobe have decided to make an organised effort to extricate themselves! out of their difficulties, says the Sphenedon flourished all over New Japan Chronicle. Their plan of Zealand. But it has disappeared operation is reported to include from the two main istands, and of such items as petitioning the late years has only been found on a Goverment for the restitution of group of rocky islands, none of the Shipbuilding Encouragement then more than six acres in extent Act; sharing among themselves in the Bay of Plenty on the east materials in stock, in order to re-side of the North Island. duce building costs, collection of They gradually disappeared dock dues, an agreed rate for re- from all but one of the islands, and pairs and a fixed period for settle-on that one Karewa, only one man ments and the establishment of a now knows where to find them. fund to give help when needed for They have survived on Karewa be- the execution of repairs con- cause even the Maoris-the natives is the egg-laying rate of Sphene-ed against interference from any gave the alarm and Tirel
of New Zealand-avoided it and the reason for their fear of it was discovered when a scientific ex- pedition found Sphenedop there, as will be told later on.
tracted.
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Mr. J. R. M. Butler, son of a former Master of Trinity, declared that it was impossible for Cani bridge to remain,aman's university solely. There was no place in the
was paid to social distinctions than the universities. One of the professors at Cambridge started. life as a basket-maker and was proud of the fact. (Cheers.)
The segregation of the sexes is essential for good education, de- clared Lord Hugh Cecil, who thought a really mixed university' would be disastrous.
"Not that I am afraid of these young people falling in love," he Kee-explained. At that age people
do not very often fall in love. But Camillo, (A.P.C.) from Singa-they get into the relationship of pore. Co.'s Wharf.
pals, and nothing is less educa Delagoa Maru, (N.Y.K) from tionally valuable than that: Yokohama. Kowloon Wharf. it docs not stimulate
the Prosper, (Fok Tai Cheong) from brain. At Oxford I spent SaigonC43.
whole Sunday afternoons arguing Szechuen, (B. & S.) from Shang- at the top of my voice-over nuts hai, Swatow.-812.
and wine-(laughter) which I Lalsang, M. & Co.) from should not have done if young Wharf. Calcutta, Singapore.-Kowloon women' students had been among the party. Though more pleasing Saigon.--West Point.
Telemachus, (Wo Fat Sing) from it would have been less stimulat-
ing."
DEPARTURES.
Referring to the educational "ladder" to the universities, Lord Hugh remarked that he did not want it to become a mechanical escalator."
Swatow.-August 2
Hydrangea, (Chin, On) for
Saigon.-August 2
Lt. de Missiessy, (M. M. Cic) for
LABOUR M.P.'S "PAL." Mr. J. J. Lawson, a Labour mem- Shanghai-August 2.
Paul Lecat, (M. M. Cie) forber, thought Lord Hugh Cecil had missed something in not having Hoihow.-August 2.
Jade, (Kai Yu) for Haiphong 25 his education consisted of what the friendship of a "pal." Up to
chair are Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Aden, Karachi, Bombay, Colombo, and Singapore, which may be
As the Boulogne-Paris express was steaming out of the station a regarded as the principal gatewaynan jumped from the mail van and Pacific. of commerce to and from the walked to a tunnel on the Calals line, where he laid down with his cision to establish at Singapore the ments later a train cut his head off. The British Government's de-neck resting on a rail. Some mo facilities for supplying, docking, and repairing her biggest capital been charged with many robberies The man, Louis Tirel, had just ships is a recognition of the vital of hand-luggage at Boulogne re- interests of Australia and New cently. He was Zealand in matters appertaining to sorter on the Boulogne-Paris route, Empire defence. With an ade- and suspicion fell on him as a quate navy in a position to operate result of the discovery that the Sphenedon is from nine to twelve from Singapore the dangers of an robberies happened only when he inches long. The female lays her attack from any hostile Power was on duty at Boulonge Harbour. eggs in the sand and the male would be considerably lessened fertilises them. The sun does the and an assurance provided that in handed. Mme. Leveque, a French It is alleged, he was caught red- rest, but it takes a year or more to the event of a conflict in the Pacific woman arriving from London, saw hatch them. One egg at a time, the sea routes for Australian and the man dart to her side and and perhaps a dozen in a lifetime British trade would be amplyguardsnatch away her attaché-case. She don.
quarter. The moral effect on India, caught.
was The little reptiles are sluggish and do nothing to resist the inspiration of alien propaganda, postal inspector in the Paris ex very and other countries where, under Given into the charge of the their capture. If taken by the the belief is gaining ground that press, Tirel was to have been ar- tail, says one of their investigators, the prestige of Britain and of rested on the train's arrival at its In connection with the sailing of Why has Sphenedon outlived the they give a quick shake and drop Western nations generally has destination. the s.s. "Leviathan" from New York dinosaur and all the other pre-away from their tails leaving the weakened, would also be very on July 4 on her maiden trip the historic creatures who first ap latter in their captor's hands. beneficial. Japan can hardly take Pacific Mail, as Agents for the peared on this earth a good while Some specimens were found with umbrage, because she has no reason United States lines, are in receipt afterwards? Why has he not tails lacking vertebrae. Instead, to fear any hostile designs on the ally effective scheme for Australian of the following information; In changed, or adapted himself, like they possessed a flattened, joint-part of Britain, whose attitude hasnaval defence and the people of the
As a result of a gas explosion at a the kitchen and dining room ser- other old forms of life that still less strip of cartilage. The scientists always been friendly. The con- Commonwealth who realise the im- baker's shop in Marlborough-road, vice she is equipped with: 48,000 exist? Dr. G. Kingsley Noble has reasoned that these were replaced version of Singapore into a naval possibility of bearing the burden Holloway, N., a man and a woman pieces of glassware, 120,000 pieces a very succinct answer to these tails, and that when it was neces-dook and repair station even in the unaided, will gladly welcorse ware injured and a plate-glass win- of chinaware, and 72,000 pieces of questions. silverware. 'She has 20,000 square
sary to reproduce a tail the appen- eyes of the Japanese, cannot be Britain's help in setting up a barrier dow was blown pat. The injured YEAR TO HATCH AN EGG., dage grew minus the vertebrae. regarded as more than a mensure against hostile aggression at a point woman is Mrs. Taylor, wife of the P.M.G.'S' yds. of carpet, 3,000 square Sphenedon still lives on The Sphenedons were dull olive of precaution dictated by the in Australia's sea frontiers where proprietor of the shop. She was yds. of Oriental rugs, 15 Karewa," says Dr. Noble, "because green in colour except on the belly, circumstances of the time, miles of plumbing, 500 miles of the conditions of life on that island which
the Council of Imperial Defence burned on the face, neck, and arms. was white with yellow, electric wiring, and 15,000 electric are about the same to-day as they spots.
The Singapore project is of un- believes it will prove most useful The man was Frank Ellis, a gas bulbs. 76 life-boats are provided
questionable importance in any re- I should the emergency ever arise.
inspector. having a capacity for 4750 persons all classes. Six round trip voy- ages between New York, South- ampton and Cherbourg have been arranged between July 4th and November 2nd. Fares range from $275 for a single room, to the suites with two bedrooms, parlour, dining room, three bathrooms, and trunk- rooms, at a cost of G$5,278.
SAN FRANCISCO TONNAGE,
All toonage records for the port of San Francisco were broken during May; 574 vessels departed and 522 arrived. The inward ton- nage was 1,211,893, and the out- going 1,234,217, the. grand total being 2,445,110 tons.
ISLAND FUNERAL
DESTROYER ESCORT FOR PIERRE LOTI
The funeral of the late M. Víaud (Pierre Loti, the author of adven- ture novels and travel books) took place at St. Pierre d'Oléron, a hamlet on a rocky island off Rochefort.
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It was the funeral which the saí- lor novelist, who supervised the building of his-tomb, would have chosen for himself. The waves were running high under a dull, grey sky when the coffin was borne by sailors on board the gun boat "Chamoix" at Rochefort and trans- ported to the island..
The "Chamoix" and the escort of destroyers had to fight through the westerly gale to the island of Oléron, where, in the little rock- bound harbour, a French Protestant minister read the simple words of the Huguenot burial service, and ended with a quotation from one of Loti's works.
Then, in accordance with the last wishes of the daud novelist, the minister and the Government officials, the sailors and officers withdrew, and at nightfall the coffin was buried in the presence of only Lot's family.
Aplain granite stone,, bearing the words "Pierre Loti," marks the grave in the midst of evergreen bushes.
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Wing Hong, (Williamson) for the opportunity came for him to go to Oxford for a year or two," and for Seattle, Shanghai-August 2.
President McKinley, (Ad. Line) the best pal I ever had," he added, feelingly, suggested that we Hok Canton, (Hong On) for Fort should sell every stick we had, and Bayard. August 2.
she went into domestic service while I went to the university. If the noble lord had had the ex- perience of a'pal' like that his attitude towards the problem would be different.
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£40 APPEAL,
"TYRANNICAL · CONDUCT " ALLEGED.
Judgment was delivered in the dispute over £40 between the Post master-General and the Corpor ation of Liverpool. It arose out of an action by the Postmaster-Gen- eral to recover the cost of repairing telephone pipes and cables, said to have been damaged by explosion through a leakage from corporation electric light cables under North John-street. An agreement be tween the National Telephone Co. and the corporation that 'in the event of such damage there should be no liability on the part of the corporation had been held to be binding on the Postmaster-Gener al, who appealed against the decision.
Lord Birkenhead said that a circular letter addressed to the corporation by the Postmaster- General, was interesting from the fact that it adopted an entirely in- accurate statement of the law. No notice was given to the corporation. by the Postmaster-General asking
for a withdrawal of the conditions under which he had taken over the service from the Telephone Com- pany. Parliament had' provided means by which he could have obtained relief, and it was import- ant to observe that he had not avalled himself of this statutory provision.
Lord Birkenhead proceeded to refer to what he called fantastic consequences involved in the Postmaster General's arguments. He (Lord Birkenhead) knew of no consideration of law or equity. which entitled the Postmaster General to transfer an advantage. to himself and take it away from the other party. It was an absolutely hopeless appeal.
Lord Shaw, in agreeing, made reference to tyrannical and dis honest conduct, which found, no support by Act of Parliaments th Lord Carson said that the Post master-General had exceeded all necessity of litigation in Bringing this master of £40 to the House of Lords. It seemed to him as though the Postmaster-General'wanted to fay it down that he could do no wrong, ang ba did a vloog ho
** could ask stone alke to pay for.
The Postmast tra's appeal was dismissed with costs.