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Last Monday the announcement quiring into the possibilities of appeared of the death of Sir Wil- utilising the limestone products in llam Thomas Taylor, K.C.M.G. Sir
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ATLANTIC CABLE FOUND CUT
Was Done Intentionally, Says Official.
tourist seasons on record, France is preparing for a bamper harvest of Summer trippers and visitors. It was revealed recently that an was de- offered tourists by the French rail- liberately cat through with ways and hotel-keepers, large and in the Bristol Channel on March 1, small, have made arrangements to, and a reward of £100 is offered for
information regarding the outrage. The cable, which belongs to the
William was 83 years of age and I Malaya for the purpose of making Special fures and facilities are Atlantic telegraph cable
what is known as dry ice. This is gather that heart failure in South-produced from Carbolic Acid Gas, ern France was the immediate cause (C.02,) which when submitted to a of his end. He had, of course, hud
certain temperature and a long, busy and honoured life. The combined, crystallises in ice form,
pressure
handle full houses.
The Government has abolished
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WEATHER VANES.
QUEER DEVICES IN THE WIND.
Have you ever noticed the many currious weather-vanes on churches and other buildings?
Like most customs, in our coun- try the idea of placing something high up in the air to show the direction of the wind is a very old one. It sprang from the habit of fixing ornaments, called finials, on the tops of spires and turrets, auch
body is being sent overland this which ja entirely devoid of moisture, many of the irritating and vexa Commercial Cable Company, and as balls, crosses, figures, and 80
week, and the funerai will be attend
and which I understand only re-
ed on Saturday by Mr. H. W. Thom- auives itself into its original ele- tious hotel, port and "atranger" | from
runs
son, the Malayan Agent in London,,
ture.
ment by slow change of tempera- taxes, and many other formalities who will represent both Malaya and the Straits Settlements and who
The gas is, of course, quite are to be waived.
Another point that the Govern- will take with him a wreath on be-cold storage people
In this country the big
to is that foreign use ammonta ment has seen for producing lee, but the street visitors will know exactly what their
half of both Governmenta.
who is still in this country, though no one knows where he is staying, is virtually unchanged in point of health; if anything he is a trifle
innocuous.
very much helped by this dry ico product, which can be carted about
without any inconvenience.
Weston-super-Mare to New York via Valentia (Ireland), suddenly cossed to function at 11.50 a.m. on March 1.
The cable company's repair ship
An official of the
company said
on.
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General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality.
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Agents for
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tell by the wind when the Dutch were likely to be sailing up tho Thames. On a house in Wells Street, Oxford Street, stands the figure, nearly life-size, of an ad miral holding 2 sextant, It weights five hundredweight and is nearly two hundred and fifty years
old,
70, Queen's Road C.
AN INTRODUCTORY
HISTORY.
by
A. H. CROOK, O.B.E., M.A.
W. KAY, MA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A. B.ße:
PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mail Offices.
CAREERS FOR BOYS.
SIR P. FAGAN ON CONDITIONS IN INDIA.
The last of a series of 12 fort-.
nightly expositions of various phases of the Indian problem ar- In different parts of the country ranged by, the Royal 'Empire' some very quaint vanes are to be found, such as the figure of the Society, in collaboration with the parson aver the old deanery at Society for the Overseas Settle. Sonning-on-Thames, preaching toment of British Women, was given a row of empty chairs, his gown recently by Sir Patrick Fagan, blown by the wind."
Sir Patrick Fagan said that at
Madera vanes are just as who surveyed the history and curious and beautiful as the old work of the Indian Civil Service. this purpose was in the form of a golfer driving a ball, attended
The first finial that was used for ones. Gamages, for instance, have Lord Lee of Fareham was in the A flag, hence the word "vane," from by a caddie, and at Lord's over the
chair. the Anglo-Saxon "fana," a flag or main stand, you see Father Time, I hear that Sir Hugh Clifford, sale of ice creams is, I understand. trip will cost them. Every hotel In Marle Louise Mackay was sent from pennon; and this is still the most with his scythe, fixing the bails on the present time it was difficult, Plymouth and when the cable was popular, But in the ninth century the wickets; while Battersea Re- in fact Impossible, to frame any Paris has issued a stated list of raised it was discovered that it had another shape came into use, for ference Library is topped by the forecast of the future. The prices. The cost of food and rooms been sawn through.
the Pope ordered cocks to be seated figure of Thomas Carlyle, Round-Table Conference had, loft has decreased, and in the majority
placed ON churches to com-reading.
with us the vaguest outline of of cases inclusive prices for a stay that it was considered that a vessel by St. Peter, and when these cocks great one in Ludgate-circus,
memorate the denial of Our Lord
Ships in full sail, such as the drastic, not to say revolutionary. must have dragged up the-cable
are constitutional changes which went uncommon, and look very far beyond anything contemplated beautiful in the sunshine, as they so recently as a year ago and in are often made of copper or brass, which administrative considera- tions appeared to have played little or no part.
If in future the whole adminis- tration was to be carried on by Ministers under full
respon- sibility to so-called popular legis- lative bodies, both at the Centre
better.
petition."
Singapore Free Press.
DANGERS OF COMMUNISM.
Sir Rennell Rodd And The Five Years' Plan.
wwwwww
are being clearly quoted.
It is also understood that Signor with her anchor, and a saw used to./ were made to turn with the wind; not
cut it through.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dwyer, a
and in the Provinces, subject to
certain more
sent,
Mr. H. S. Banner, the publicity agent, Is still by no means well, but
Mussolini intends shortly to create
they were called weather-cocks. expects to resume next week. An
the post of Secretary of State for
Old Vanes. "The place where the "cable was article from his pen entitled "The
Tourist Traffic. The new depart-
The first weather-vane ever cut was thirteen miles from Weston-known was an elaborate affair. It Evolution of Malaya" appears in the
ment, which will have the entire Super-Mare," he added. Crown Colonist., In its first Issue
control of the tourist traffic in Italy, The depth of water at that point named Andronicus, in the year 100
_NEW_YORK_TRAGEDY. was built by -a- Greek-astronomer, It rather suggests that it intende At the annual meeting of the both home and foreign, will conduct is about forty fathoms, with a B.C., in the form of an octagonal to write up articles about the dif- South-Eastern Area Women's Ad-
British Couple Shot a big publicity campaign.
sandy bottom. There were no rocku
Dead. ferent colonies rather than give, alvory Committee of the National
which could have caused the break tawer, its eight sides carved with actual news about them, though of Union of Conservative
and follow suit.
figures representing the principal by chafing. The line is a twin core winde, and upon course this may be wrong.
Its roof a brass The Unionlat Associations in the Cax- Turning to disarmament he said cable, originally laid in 1885. 'Malayan Agency Itself, in addition ton Hall Sir Rennell Rodd, M.P., the thing which struck him with "I have no doubt that the cable triton or sea-god, with a rod in its British couple employed by Mr. hand, which awung on a pivot as Joseph Patterson, the newspaper to Mr. Barner's article, gives a delivered an address, in which, he terrible apprehenaton was the im- was cut fatentionally, and our ex-
or less transient good deal of information about emphasized the menace of Com- potence of this country and the parts have examined the cut section
the wind blew.
publisher, were found shot dead in safeguards, then it was quite im- Malayan Market Its great Potenti- muniam and the dangers of dia- preparedness of the rest of Europe at our office in London.
We have some very old weather- their room in Mr. Patterson's Park Possible to see any place for an Indian Civil Service of any such alities for British Trade and Manu- armament,
A wire. factures: Chinese and other Com- we had communista in Britain, war. We had accepted the Naval graph Act provides for penalties if and seventeenth centuries.
He said that, though not only for war but for immediate "A clause in the Submarine Tele vahes in Britain, dating from the Avenue home, New York.
fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth leas set was playing jazz music in type as had existed up to the pre-
Lon the next room. people were not much im Treaty to which hardly any of our a cable is cut by the master of adon has its famous vanes, such as
An inevitable corollary of such Among the callers this week at pressed with the peril
Mr. and Mra. Dwyer, who acted as of Admirals would assent, and wa ship who has fouled it, unless the the golden grasshopper, over the butler and chambermaid in the gested would seem to be adminis- & system as was apparently sug- the Malayan Ofco are: Mr. G. Communism, but the countries on had accepted 50 cruisers when anfety of his ship is imperilled. Waite of Kuala Lumpur, who is the borders of Russia were trem- everybody
Royal Exchange, which is 11 feet apartment, went to the United tration by completely provincialis- said the minimum staying at 26 Ailsa Road, Westcliff; bling in their shoes to-day. There should be 70. We had given away cutting a cable when their traw! Thomas Gresham, and the legend Their English home town and the lar local Governments, and entire- "There is no excuse for fishermen long. It was the emblem of Sir States from Southampton in 1904. ad staffs under the orders of popu Mr. J. Grimths of the Survey were outward signs that the Five by the Optional Clause our brings it up. We always compen-Is that when he was a tiny child name and addresses of their Office at Penang, whose address is Years' Plan was making progress, greatest weapon of offence, the gate fishermen for the locs of their he fell asleep and was lost in a latives are not known.
ly or almost entirely Indianfsed, the National Provincial Bank, 50 but the difficulty of Russia was to right to establish a blockade. We trawl and catch if they report, the field of long grass, but a boy who
with perhaps a modicum of Euro- Cornhill; Mr. F. C. Wallis of Tal obtain money to carry on until it were about to enter into a con- matter to us.
The police believe. Mr. Dwyer ping, who is staying at 352 Finchley was completed. Unfortunately, ference at Geneva hext year which
was chasing a grasshopper found shot his wife and then committed nical posts and the like. Not only pean agency in advisory and tech- "Two years ago we paid the him and saved his life.. Read N.; and Mr. E. J. Bennett, the many of the other nations of the had all his sympathy, but he was owners of a yacht for the loss of
suicide. There is also
would there be little place for the representative of G. N. Slot and world were helping by buying the afraid we were going into it on the their anchor because they had not eight feet ten inches long, over the a great dragon,
No letters were found, but papers young Briton, but the prospect of Ca, Singapore and Penang,
proceeds of compulsory and under- wrong lines: When they looked at cut the cable,,
zoom indicated such a career would scarcely at- The latest appointments include: paid labour and granting credits. Europe, they saw France training "The present break in one of our
church of St. Mary-le-Bow, in discovered in the tor to the Agricultural Department grant credits when the trade months. They saw an enormous as considerable inconvenience. Our to remind people to the poor saint's er's margin call for £60 was found
Mr. J. S. Norman, Field Instruo It puzzled him why we should 500,000 and 600,000. every 18 five trans-Atlantic cables has caused Chespaide, and on the steeple of that the couple lost heavily in the tract the best products of our uni-
St. Lawrence Jewry is a gridiron recent stock market crash. A brak-versities,
Further, there was grave doubt S.5, and F.M.S.; Dr. C. R. Stanley, balanco was so entirely in Russia's increase in the proportion of artil repair ship was engaged for two painful martyrdom.
among the couple's effects.
whether such a far-reaching ad- Medical Officer, Malay Medical Ser favour. He saw a danger of the Jery to infantry. If we were going days of the ground.”
Mr. Patterson, has been out of ministrative change imposed from Another interesting vane was vice; Serat W, Williams to be middle and artisan classes in Gerto Genova to a disarmament con- The following announcement has placed over St. James Palace by town for several days on business, without on the vast rural masses Sergeant Major and Instructer, many, bound down by the weight farence we could not leave that been fesued by the company:
James II. in order that he might and it is believed that Mr. and Mrs. of British India would command MAYR and MV.L; Mr. HC of Reparations, asking themselves, out of account. Unless we went "On March 1; 1981, at 11.50 a.m.
Dwyer had been dead for some time. itself to them; whether indeed Mackenzie, Mr. Ad J. A. Blake: and if Russians, a century behind them into the question of reserves, of G.M.T., a submarine telegraph cablo
Water dripping from a tap in the they would not keenly rescut it. Mr. W. G. Lows, all to be pro- in development and education, military training, military ex was deliberately cut through by a to any person supplying such in-kitchen flooded the floors of the The work of the Indian Civil Ser bationer Inspectors of Police, 8.8. could make something out of the penditure, and stores of, artillery | saw In the Bristol Channel in a formation as will lead to the con- apartment, causing thesuperin vice had not been unworthy of
Kalayan Limestone:Wanted.
the might not themselves make a Bet-considered only the number of minutes 00 seconds "N., Long. 8 Submarine Telegraph Act of 1885. master key, to investigate.
had been in the past Government Grocers Exhibition at Plymouth tee thing out of It If, Germany troops actually serving, the Dis degrees 18 minutes 26 esconde W. "Information should be sent to The door of the Dwyers' bedroom of India."; If so, let them hópe was well attended though it does not were tempted by the Communist armament Conference would be (two miles. 8SW, of Breaksea the manager in England. Commer- was locked and had to be forced bs- that some traces of its achieve- seem to have been quite the sno---example, Austria and all the nothing less than camouflage, lightship);
cial Cable Company, Mackay- House, fore the discovery of the 'tragedy i ments might survive the troublous cessful affair it was at Portaniouth Balkan States would inevitably | delusion, and fraud,
“A reward of £6100 will be paid I Wormwood Street, London, EG2” was made.
tities ahead
1
.
Iam fold that after alleve Years Plan, whether they and military material, and if we position: Lat. 51 degrees 18 viction of the offender under the tendont to enter the flat with a the great nation whose agent it