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ADVERSARIA.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1930.
FAMOUS LITTLE AVIAN.
Used. by Commånder Kingsford-Smith.
LATEST FEATURES DESCRIBED.
London, Sept. 19..gine by means of gravity.
The most striking case of this in my, memory is the last night of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robert- son's farewell season of "Hamlet" at Drury Lane on June 6, 1913. After the curtain had fallen, Si Johnston, still in "sable garb," walked down the stalls gangway | shaking hands with all and sun- | dry.
The machine which Wing Com- told the petrol capacity of the His emotion. was so obviously
mander Kingsford-Smith is to use machine" will be 113 gallons, sincere that it was almost pitiful. on his attempt on the England. Weighing approximately 850 B Tears were running down his Australia record at present held so that the enormoys load of near- cheeks, and he could barely gulp. ty Squadron Leadar Bert-Hinkler ly 8 ewt. of petrol will be ear- "Thank you, my friends, thank with his fight of 16% days in inrled, and the machine when fully you.".
Avro Avian light aeroplane, is loaded will weigh approximately | n]so an Avian, but whereas 2,150 lb. With this amount of In country Hinkler's Avian was an old type petrol on board the Aylan vill Les Crimes where love is the wooden fuselage machine, in fact have a range of 2,000 miles, the Passionell.Vin de Vie," it the first Avian ever, built, Kings greatest range ever obtained with is not, surprising ford-Smith's attempt will be made a light aeroplane. The cruising that the crime passionell not in un Avian of the very latest speed of the Avlan will be 100- infrequently moves both Judge type.
.105 m.p.h. and the top speed and Jury to liberate the
The famous little Avian is 80 116-120 m.p.h. accused. It is not so much well known, as hardly to require The cockpit is both roomy and that the French, are so ruled by description those days, but some comfortable, two very necessary emotionalism that they cannot of its latest features are of par points in a machine having such resist the pathetic plea of the ill-ticular interest. The machine, a range and every detail has re- treated young wife or the jealous briefly, de a single boy equal span.ceived special attention in order lover, but that, being.. an es-biplane, and, in its standard form to obtain the best possible post- sentially logical race, they realise is fitted up as a two seater,
It tion.
The Instrument board has that love has a justice peculiar to has a fuselage of welded steel a full range of instruments and itself. In more northerly tube construction, which is the was supplied by the Pioneer In- latitudes, like Balham or Peebles, result of many years of research | strument Company Inc., of Ameri- love is often a matter of Sunday work carried out by A. V. Roe & ca. All instruments are, nently courtships in the parlour under Co., Ltd., in this type of construc-arranged and clearly visible.. Be the cagle eyes of respectable mid-tion and which has now been kind the cockpit there is a
Large dle-class parents guarding the adapted for their commercial and luggage locker virginity of their daughters from training types after numerous and The undercarringe is of the the empty purses of penurious, exhaustive tests. The advantages small touring type fitted to the but often passionate, proposers. of the welded steel tube fuselage | Avian Sports.
at different speeds' and' with vari- ous loads.
All the controls, of the Avian are in complete harmony, one with the other-the lateral with the longitudinal, obtained by fit ting balanced ailerons of new de sign. The controls are light and effective and the machine is not tiring to fly. It is characterised by a high degree of manoeuver ability and is fully controllable at speeds near the stalling point. Leading particulara. of the machines are As follows:
In Britain, the crime passionell are many, but the outstanding Tail trimming gear, operated by cuts no ice with Mr. Justice point is its safety na exemplified a handwheel in the cockpit, en- Horridge. If a man comits an in every detail of this type of ables the pilot to set the incidence offence under the influence of construction. The Avian steel of the tail plane during flight" so | liquor (which, in ordinary cir- fuselage possesses great strength that the Aviah will fly "handa off"
cumstances, he may never dream and rigidity and the most ex- of committing) he is punished by treme climatic conditions can have the law for the offence, and no adverse effect. This last point blamed by just men for getting is of utmost importance to Wing drunk. He really has no excuse, Commander Kingsford-Smith, in because drink is not a necessity the choice of aeroplane, as his growls, and and is even anti-social if it leads route passes over countries with epithets, curses,
extrame climates. abuse which has been slung by to irregularites. Yet love, which varying and the local public at the misunder-is equally an intoxicant, and does Besides the great strength and stood and maltreated Broadcast-drive men, of certain tempera- endurance of the Avian metal ing Committee and staff, which, ments to anti-social actions, is a fuselage, it possesses considerable What is to shock absorbing qualities, is we are assured, are only "doing biological necessity.
economical to maintain, simple to their bit" for the benefit and im- be done about it?
inspect and easy to repair. provement of the 'candilic (that
The machine which will be used on the flight is a special version of the Avian Sports. It will be Dr. B. de Souza's Austin 7 cara single seater, the front cockpit which was reported stolen from the and in fact the whole of the front parking place near the Star Ferry portion of the fuselage being oc wharf, Kowloon, has been recovered. cupied by a large petrol tank, Cruising Speed
having a capacity of 80 gallons. An engine pump and also an auxi
ary hand pump situated on the right of the pilot in the cockpit will be used for pumping petrol from the large tank up into the centre section tank, which has a capacity of 24 gallons and from which the petrol flows to the en-
News in Brief.
Mr. Norman Lockhart Smith re- sumed duty as Deputy Clerk of Councils, with effect from October
is, ourselves) and very much We against their inclinations. can understand their being "fed We often feel the same up." way whenever people refuse to take us sericusly. It is hard to be criticised, isn't it? All the same, it is not always advisable to threaten physical violence to out critics. We may succeed in "bashing their brains" 80 23. vigorously: that they will never be able to think about us again in any other than a complimen- tary manner, but the $100 fine for common assault rather takes the gilt, off the gingerbread, don't you think?
*
It was one of
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mrs William Woodward Hornell, C.I.E., to be a member of the Board of Education for a period of two years, with effect from Octo-
ber 17.
Two Chinese boys were ordered
It Is Really those moments to receive 12 strokes of the cane
MINISTER SHOT.
Span
Height Length
Max. speed
Range
.30 ft. .8 ft. 6 ins.
1.24 ft. 8 ins. .115-120 m.p.h. .100-105 m.p.h..
..2,000 miles
Weight. fully loaded, approx.
-2,350 rb.
As is now known Comman- der Kingsford-Smith broke Bort Hinkler's record. He made the lang flight on Mobiloil, the - manufacturers of which are the
Vacuum Oil Company.]
> CALCUTTA BEGGARS
Worth It? that seem an by Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kow-KILLS HIS ASSAILANT BEFORE 11,159 ARRESTS DURING THE
"... eternity. Wait-loon Magistracy yesterday
for
ing for a letter from his beloved throwing stones into the Po Hing was as nothing compared with Theatre.
Would
Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 25, 1930. this agony of suspense.
He leaned for- he never come? ward and pressed the bell with an air of repressed violence. How he would like to strangle him; to pour boiling oil in his ears! "Without fear, favour or malice."
It was criminal to keep him Of all the types waiting like this. He licked his Men We Like of mankind it lips wth his tongue; they were He could not stand to Avoid. is the common parched.
Gathering lot to endure, this much longer. perhaps the self-appointed mentor all his courage and irritation into and shepherd of a small com his voice he bellowed "boy"
At last! The vision of an munity is the most curious. He is to be found in all countries, is uniformed figure, armed with a usually rather solid and inoffen-variety of cooling drinks, saunter sive, kindly and perfectly un-ed towards and past him. He original, and totally insensitive fell back, with a sigh, into a state to the most violent forms of rude of exhausted apathy among the ness or contempt. He follows you upholstered recesses of the 1.18 About as a keeper follows his p.m. train to Sheungshui. Was favourite lunatic; he considers the game of golf, he reflected that you are always lonely when philosophically, worth all this! alone, and that it is his duty an a Christian to keep you engaged in a long and dreary conversation. Usually he talks better than any man on nothing whatever. His
It is notified that at the expira- tion of three months from date the Ping On Accident Insurance Company, Limited will, unless cause is shewn to the contrary, be struck off, the register and dissolved.
DYING.
POLITICAL CRIME?
Asuncion, Paraguay, Yesterday.
YEAR.
A POLICE PROBLEM.
The Calcutta Police are deserving Allahabad The Finance Minister, Senhor of sympathy (says the Ayala, was seriously injured to Pioneer), for a perusal of their day by a man who fired a revolver-annual administration report dis at him. Ayala drew his revolver closes the amazing fact that last year they arrested no fewer than and shot his assailant dead.
Later.
A Chinese married woman named Cheung Siu-lau (88), living on the third floor of 30 Western Street is
Senhor Ayala died of his in- alleged to have committed suicide at 6 o'clock this morning by hanging juries. Reuter's American Ser-
herself in her cubicle.
vice.
ARTIST DEAD.
The death of a Chinese street-. sleeper, stated to be a pauper, whe was knocked down by a car driven by Mr. C. H. Goetz in Hennessey Road on September 80, formed the FORMER HUSBAND OF LINA
CAVALIARI. subject of a Coroner's enquiry which was conducted by Mr. R. E. Lindsell
Woodstock, N.Y., Yesterday. at the Central Magistracy yester- The jury re- day, with a jury.
The death has occurred of Mr. turned, a verdict of "Death By Robert Winthrop Chanler, the When we have Misadventure" attaching no blame noted American artist, and a for- mer husband of Lina Cavallari, When Great attained the age whatever to the driver of the car.
Heuter's Men Cry. of asy, twenty-
the operatic singer, - Mr. H. L. Pratt, Chairman of the five, we find it Board of Directors of the Standard
American Service. conversations, if they may be very difficult to cry, Occasional Oil Company of New York, arrived called that are forms of low we may feel like turning on in the Colony last night aboard s.s. muttering delirium, and about the tap during a severe emotion- President Cleveland, on a short holl-
intelligible ne' the Incoherent al strain, but the tears just won't
$5,000,000 DAMAGES, babblings of a parrot. Not con- come, and we have either to
turn trip on Monday night. ME chatter on every subject under Women find it harder to cry after Pratt was appointed President of tent with maintaining a ceaseless laugh or to light our pipes. Even ife, and they will leave on the re-
Washington, Oct. 16. twenty-five than after eighteen. the Company in 1923, and Chair- the sun (on which, in addition, he Yet some of our greatest men man in 1928, and his father before was filed to-day by Bishop James A suit demanding G.$5,000,000 beleves himself to be an au have been known to "pipe the him was closely associated with Mr. Cannon Jr. against Mr. William thority) he must needs interfere with your enjoyment in various eye. Lord Curzon cried fro John Rockefeller, sen, in the for ways to such an exasperating but that was but another
quently and without restraint,mation of the company. degree that one is driven to a pale and homicidal fury. Clubs and hotels, apparently, were in- vented for such types. soldiers used to cry Chatham looks after ducks.
Criticism 18
symptom of his eighteenth cen- tury tradition. For in that century all our statesmen and
Pitt, Nelson; and Collingwood wept buckets in public. Even
LIBEL ACTION.
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11,159 beggars-and this, in addi- tion to their other duties of regula !- ing traffic, maintaining peace and order, and all the things a policeman usually does. Unfortunately, the report places emphasis on the face that the solution of the beggar nuisance is a matter not for the- police but the public.
This appears to show an inclina- tion on the part of the force to shift their undoubted responsiblilty, and if they proceed about the matter in that way we can hardly expect pro- gress. The problem is to be setiled
by co-operation between the public and the police. The function of the former is to devise means of keeping. the beggars off the streets and making them serve some useful pür- pose in industrial homes or on agricultural farms...
It lies with the police, however, to
they do not avoid the provisions made for their amelioration.
Indeed, that is the greatest, pro- on the street to welcome relief when blem that the beggar is too well off
It is offered; and, human mature Randolph Hearst, spectacular being what it is, it is useless to hope newspaper magnate, whose latest that the public will abstain from excitement had been a forced de assistflig beggars and thus drive parture from France.ser them into harbour. Someone is cer Bishop. Cannon charged that the tain to part with his money when one who Hearst papets have published he heaza the usual wall. We must "malicious and false" articles con- therefore, stop the wall. cerning the Bishop and his second wife, intended to affect his stand-
to hinder his efforts on behalf of ernational prohibition enforcement. Shakespeare lived at Windsor United Press. with his merry wives.
day. He is accompanied by his HEARST NEWSPAPERS SUED FOR round these people up and see that
MORE HOWLERS.
Quack Doctor,
Where Violence not always so late as 1860 Lord Tennyson ex cow is called a calf and gives de ing with the Methodist Church and REFUSED TO PLEADE
A cow gives us milk. A young ***Doesn't Pay apprpected, his listeners to dissolve jelly.
ciated. The in tears. To-day, however, the art local Broadcasting fraternity are of weeping la mostly confined to extremely shy of having their
shins kicked in the public press.
The Adversarian, in the on his duties last week,
right into the lions den. Wasimin
our pugilista
But occasionally A Blizzard is the, inside of a actors: wee real duck,
not.
ye Sir Walter Scott was called the probably "Blizzard of the North."MER
BIP means return, if possible
SPANISH ROYALTY.
INFRINGEMENT OF THE SALT LAW.
Allahabad, Yesterday, Jawahar Lal Nehru, who was arrested recently, has been charg anded with: sedition, and abetting an 1 In Infringement of the salt law, as well as instigating non-payment
Beay He refused to plead, and judg
ment was reserved Reuter,
London, Thursday", The Queen of Spain and her two daughters, Princesa Princess Maria London this ever greeted by the Pris Prines, George and tric British Wordles
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