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LAMMERT BROS.
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AND SURVEYORE,
Public Auctions
THE Undersigned have received in
structions to call by Public Auction
on
FRIDAY, 4th Oct., 1924, commanding at 11 a.m.
at their Bales Rooms, Daddell Street, (For account of the Concerned)
3 Cases Extra Soft Twist Lovat 47 Yarn on Cones. (stored in Godown No. 10 Upper, The HK & K. Co. Ltd., Wharf & Godown Kowloon)
7 Cases Extra Soft Twist Lovat 47 Yarn on Coure. (stored in Godown No. 19. The HK. & K. Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon)
3 Cason White Yara Quality XXX Stored on Cones (stored in Glou No 21 Urper, The BK. & K. Wher!
& Godown Co. Ltd. Keloon)
3 Case White Yarn Quality XXX Bioved in Cones (store at Holt's Wharf Kowloon).
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROE., Auctioneers.
PIRACY ON HIGH SEA.
ARMED MEN PLUNDER LIQUOR SHIP.
London, August 31 Shades of Captain Kidd and the freebooters of the Spanish Main were conjured up by a piratical adventure that befell a French vessel within a few miles of the American coast. This ship, the "Mulhouse," registered at Fecamp, left the port of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, some weeks ago, having on board 38,000 cases of spirits and liqueurs shipped on account of firms carrying on busi- Dess in France and elsewhere. The only passenger in the vessel was a representative of one of the firms. The nature of the voyage may be guessed from the fact that. Captain Ferraro, of the "Mulhouse," had authority to sell, in the course of the trip, any portion of the cargo, subject to market rates, which were communicated to him
"When the daily by wireless. vessel, which was ostensibly bound for Bordeaux, was off Cape May, New Jersey, she was hailed by a schooner called the "Patara," Bying the British Bag, whose captain expressed a wish to pur chase 50 cases of the Mulhouse's" cargo. The sale was effected and the required number of cases were transferred to the schooner, whose --skipper promised on leaving that He would return with further or ders. Six days later the Patara again appeared and her captain board- ed the "Mulhouse" to negotiate a further bargain, While the two skippers were below discussing terins, however, a score of men armed with revolvers suddenly boarded the " Mulhouse" from the schooner and smashed the wireless apparatus, Simultaneously an other small craft grappled the steamer, which passed into the possession of the intruders, who
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The raiders then proceeded to transfer as much as they could of the cargo to their own vessel. After this another schooner hove in sight, and then another, and so the game continued for ten days. When the pirates cleared off they left 1,000 cases of drink on board to prevent the "Mulhouse's' captain from entering the American terri. torial limit and asking for ald. A strange feature was that the rob- bery occurred while the steamer "Fire Island" stood near by, the members of her crew being ignor- "ant of what was going on.
When the "Mulhouse" went back to Halifax, Captain Ferraro lodged a maritime complaint with the authorities. Several days later one of the pirate schooners was fund in the harbour of Saint Pierre and Captain Ferraro brought about the arrest of the entire crew. The capture, it is believed, with throw light on the whole conspiracy, which it is suggested, was carefully planned in Paris.
IRISH FEARS.
HARVEST WORSE THAN 1879 FAMINE YEAR
Mr. Robert Morrow, an Uistor magistrater appearing at 4] meeting of farmers at Saintfield, County Down, for a Northern Ireland Land Purchase Act similar to that of the Free State, sald the 1924 harvest season" was more disastrous than 1879, which many of them remembered.
Thousands of farmers in the six couous would be unable to pay rent and would even be short of food for themselves and their familles
There would be pumerou evictions, for, according to British law, they must either pay their rent or go, "elevizo
4 In 1879 thejo was great disffekEKAS
in, Ireland, through the failure of the harvest due to the wet Caumonty Burtons, the stapler crop, were less than a third of the
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COUNTING STARS.
When the discovery of a now. star is announced the layman la apt to infer that an almost ex- haustive list of stars, to which the latest recruit is triumphantly added, has been complied.
Yetastronomers' estimates of the. total number of stars existence vary to the extent of several millions, 1,200 millions being a rough approximation.
Among others, 'Sir John Herschel, Oflo Strave, and Professor E. C. Pickering have attempted to estimate the number of stars. Herschel's computation gave 5% million stars from the 1st to the 14th magnitude, but Strave T improved on this figure with twenty millions, while Pickering, How many Londoners have with the added advantage of of the 15th singing trees" of including stars
Singing Trees.
While W. Loveridge, the Shipley golf professional, was playing on the Cleveland course, Redcar, his ball, driven from the 11th tee, came to rest in long grasa The penal settlement in French, apparently on the back of a toad. Guiana was established by a When Loveridge approached the decree of 1852. From-ihen antiftoad jumped clear, and the ball fell 1867 18,000 exiles were sent to into a hole. Loveridge pushed Gulana
For the next 20 years the toad away, but it jumped back New Caledonia became the chief on the ball, pressing it so deep into the hole as to make it unplayable penal settlement in the French The point arose whether a penalty colonies, but in 1887 French stroke should be incurred for lifting Guiana was appointed as a place but it was decided that the ball of banishment for confirmed having been moved by an agency criminals and for convicts sen outside the game the rule should tenced to more than eight years' not apply. hard labour. Dreyfus, the French soldier of Jewish parentage who was condemned for trea- son and subsequently rehabilitated, heard the. spent four years-1895-99-there. Savoy Hill, off the Strand? asks magnitude, fell short of Struve Eddie Guerin was the next best-la correspondent. At the moby two millions. known occupant of the penal settlement on Devil's Island. In 1901 Guerin blew open the safe in the offices of the American Express Company at Paris and was sent to Devil's Island for life., He escaped after he had been in the island four years. He came to London in 1906, when the French Government's request for his ex- tradition was refused by the British courts on the ground that he was British subject. Statistics publish. ed in 1913 showed that about 1,800 convicts attempted to escape each year, 1,500 being recaptuted, Seven hundred men died each year.
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ment the tall trees standing in the churchyard of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, are vocal all the night with a chorus of unseen birds. Passing by the spot shortly after 3 a.m. one day I heard the music of these birds, and stopped to listen to the sound, which was so unexpected and so pleatar t deserted, lamplit London. A policeman who stood close by told me that though he was a countryman he did know what the unseen birds wors. A few nights ago they sang so loudly that I could hear, them in the Strand," he added. Death Certificates.
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A new form of death certificate will be issued within the next few weeks. The new certificate re- Entering the service of the quires the doctor to stats when the Carlton Hotel as a junior walter it patient was last seen by him alive, 1909, Signor Marino Prates! has It does not require him to state on been promoted to the past of man what day the patient died, as in ager of the restaurant above the the old certificate, because of diffi- Palm Court. Signor Pratesi be culties that have arisen when the came head waiter at the hotel after doctor has been told the date by only three years' service. Five informants who have disagreed. British Prime Ministers have Coroners have recently criticised lunched and dined from time to death certificates issued by doctors, time under his care, and he was and the feeling is that it should be on terms of acquaintance with Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, and made compulsory for the doctor to many, distinguished foreign sul-inspect the body, although this is
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But densely and sparsely star. occur, clusters spangled areas being frequent, with the Galaxy, or Milky Way, as the main con- And as the astrono- centration. mers struck an average from counts in various sections, one is not surprised at the divergent results,
Stars are brought to count by the use of a powerful telescope, combined with a camera, and exposure of three or four hours. The Lick refractor, one of the world's most famous telescopes, makes visible stars of the 17th 100-inch magnitude, and the reflector recently erected on Mount Wilson, California, shows stars of the 20th magnitude.
“To the naked'sye at any one time only about 2,000 stars are visible. But if the observer Des to different parts of the earth at the most propitious seasons of the year 6,000 stars may be brought within range of the human eye
unaided.
Before the stars are definitely numbered the stellar system must have its borders explored by giant telescopes. And this appears to: be nearing completion, as the most modern lastruments are not dis- closing the number of new stars anticipated. Meanwhile, "the skies are palated with unnumbered sparks."
Miss Betty Nuthall, who is only Claims to a share in the Angell 13 years and four months old, and estate in South London, reputed to has won all the junior lawn tennis be worth £60,000,000 and to have competitions for which she has an annual rent roll of £1,000,000, are entered, carried off the British advanced in a letter to "The Daily Junior Championship. It nearly Mail by Mr Herbert Charles always happens that Miss Nuthall Watson, writing from Harpenden, is the youngest player in, these Herts. Referring to the claims, competitions, as the age limit is recently reported, of Mr. Alfred under 18-yer Miss Nuthall wins Sydney Harper, Newcastle, New with ease. Miss Nuthall's fore- South Wales, and Mr William hand drives are the basis of her, Adrian Allery, Larkhall-rise,game. They compare favourably Clapham, S.WMr. Watson states with those of our very best players. that he is a direct descendant from She meets the ball with the full- Henry Dennis, who married Ano face of her racquet, and strikes it Angell, daughter of John Angell, | hard
and
Miss accurately. who died in 1784, leaving the Nuthall's backhand is very safe, estate, which lies principally is but as yet not as severe Brixton, Streatham, Stockwell, as her Lambeth, and Balham.
Jewels Vanish.
STOMACH TROUBLES. Their Causes and The Tonic Remedy.
Lots of people abuse their stomach. forehand, while her They eat too mish, use indigestible food service is A fast underhand. many of them swallow quantities of When she is older Miss sleobol thinking that this will help
digestion, Nuthall intends to develop the Investigations were being made overhand service. In both kinds
could be more stupid and Nothing in the West End of London, on of doubles game Miss Nuthall stomach; on the contrary it makes digen- wrong, Alcohol does not help the September 15, by detectives volleys when her partners are tion more difficult, a fact which is recog; into the mysterious disappearance serving. Her one apparent weak-mized now by selontists and doctors all of jewellery the value of about 'ness is that she falls frequently on over the world. The only right way to £10,000, belonging to a visitor to short-length strokes, but time will remedy matters is to begin to treat the the Savoy Hotel. The detectives, increase her speed of foot, which stomsch properly by case at to diet and by giving it fresh strength by mesas Detectives will allow her to reach the ball that of tonic treatment-the treatment which Inspector Plizgerald were called-in is short-Miss Nuthall remains is best supplied by Dr. Williams Pink to the hotel from Bow-street Police unspoiled by the favourable Pils Station to make inquiries.' criticisms she receives in the Whether a robbery has been Fress There is not one element committed or not is not at present of "side" in her nature, which is certain. It is stated that there is a frank and pleasant. She possesses possibility that the jewels may an ideal temperament for the game have been taken away from the, and is an example to many more hotel by accident.
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experienced players in the way: she receives adverse decisions of the umpire with good grace. ~During a case at Dudley, What with her aptitude for the Worcestershire, when a man from game and her temperament, Miss Oldbury, a neighbouring district, Nuthall should within a few years was charged with being drunk, create a record equal to that of the Chief Constable Campbell said a famous Mile. Lenglen, remarkable increase in drunken. į ness had taken place since the unemployment allowance was in-1 creased on August 28, The chair! maa, Alderman Lloyd, said that if, this sort of thing continued there must be propaganda to reduce the dole. The chief constable said to a reporter afterwards that they were gotting cases of drunkenness now at every court. In some of them the offenders had spent the dole in drink almost as soon as they received It.
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