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hand and his left nervously twitch-On demand ing a pencil in His waistcoat pocket. On Singapore- Prince responded obediently to his On demand commands, but the two ladies did not seam to be so frightened of the Scribe. Cora, indeed, caught him vindictively with a claw, but the resultant disaster was merely em barrassing for the journalist and | highly diverting to the onlookers. 3. Saladin's haste to leave the den was not due to any craven fear of its denizens, but to an overweening anxiety to reach the dressing room. M. Dalgara. who followed; dis- tinguished himself as well as his confrere had done. In this case. too. It was only the females who seemed to resent bis intrusion.
The jury decided that so magni- cently had each hero acquitted himself that only a declaration of a dead-heat was possible.
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The first means of movement common in Africa at the present day is the human porter carrying a load of perhaps 60 lb. His total daily mileage capacity is 15 thereabouts, which gives a trans- port capacity a day of rather less than half a ton-mile. The chargos, per ton-mile range from 5. to 1s. 6d., depending upon conditions, wages paid. &c.
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cles designed to carry or haul about be justification in some cases for the same load at one time. These can the use of pack animals for very only suecced in competition with short distances, where the loads in the bullcek waggon if they can show volved are not large enough toan. economic advantage, and in justify capital and other expendi- places like South Africa, ture on heavier and more economic animal transport has been carried methods. In the Union of South to such periection, it is no essy Africa the use of pack animals is matter for the mechanical vehicle While it must be not widely spread, and is mainly to supplant it. confined to very difficult and hilly borne in mind that finally the one routes, where the expense of pre- and only criterion is cost, the paring tracks suitable even for the mechanical vehicle usually has an South African bullock waggon is not advantage in speed which often in- justified by the volume of traffic directly affects cost; it is also per- haps more independent of seasons available.
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JUBILEE OF THE ENGLISH TELEPHONE
August marked the opening of the public telephone service in Lon- don 50 years ago when one of the eity exchanges modestly began its operations with nine subscribers while another was inaugurated by
a rival concern and was able to boast of a dozen. To-day London has 660,000 subscribers and is steadily "going automatic."
Author believes that in no other capital charges. country has animal transport been especially with the lighter preuma- carried to the pitch of perfection tic-tyred vehicles, indirect savings which is common practice in the are effected by the fact that less Union. The taking of a 5-ton net damage is done to the route. There load across the most difficult coun-are few vehicles more destructive try through steep and winding to earth road surfaces than the drifts, over boulders, through river bullock waggon, and which are the bede and ravines, hauled by 16 or chief offenders, the waggons them- more oxen all carefully trained to selves or the bullocks, it is difficult work in unison without which the to say. There is only one transport feat would be impossible is a most enimal which improves instead of remarkable achievement, and under deteriorating earth road surfaces similar conditions and difficulties and that the camel, due to the has probably never been excelled fart that with a maximum load it elsewhere. In all probability the puts a pressure per square inch on bullock waggon of South Africa is the ground of no more than 15 lb. The jubilee of the English, tele- the most economic means of animal When we come to consider the ques phone system happens to gyn- transport that has been evolved aption of the cost of transport in its chronize with the opening of a till the present, or ever will be. widest aspects, it is essential that seven-storeyed Telephone Exchange If we put the net load carried at we should realise that such cost building in the City which will ac from 1 to 5 tons, the daily mileage must include that of route upkeep. commodate four sew automatic ex- capacity at 16, the daily miles load-Though the individual may not changes, each of which will carry ed at from 8 to 12, we get figures fully appreciate this charge or the 4,000 lines to begin with. Seven- of ton-miles per day of from 8 to extent of his necessary participa teen big areas of inner and outer 60. Speaking from many years ex-tion therein, it must always form Condor are already able to obtain perience of South Africa, but with part of the cost of transport from communication without the inter- no knowledge whatsoever of it dur- the national point of view, and any-vention of the telephone girl and ing recent years, the cost per ton-thing which can be done to six more will be added before the mile is estimated at from 1s. Gd, to economise on route upkeep must
end of the year. - d Sd. It is probably within the recol- ultimately be of benefit to the com- lection of many present that figures munity.Lieut. Col. Philip Johnson very much lower even than 9. per pin "Engineering." ton-alle for bullock waggon trans- port have been obtainable.
The Bullock Waggon We now come, not perhaps to a further stage in the transportation system, but to what might be more justly described as merely an alter- native to the South African bullock waggon, he, the mechanical vehi-
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