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[STEPHENSON CENTENARY
Over
fult of
Cottage-Born Genius Who Built Railways
and
Ary
TOWN SITS ON GOLDEN CARPET
By Mortimer Post
at
I have just come back from' say they căn get down to 0,000 ~ Editor-in-Chief:-W. J. Equtes,
the Empire's new gold rush town fest if necessary, but that a pay- -the Klondike of twentieth cen-able banket has been located at tury prospectors, Ten days ago 600 feet in ghe area, an Asst. Editor-Inn Mackenzle.
British-built tractor car carried Ceologists from the Rand minen Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth
a hundred and twentying gradient of one in 450, draw-pgainst prejudice and Ignorande. me over 38 humor filles of dry have been given Jobs here
Oleddgaterüst to the foes of upwards of £3,000 for six yeurs ago, folks were Ulscussing ing a lotal weight of 30 tons. fis proposal for trains spending on whore burg adil-months, Talephones:
George Stephenson, the Tyneside
There are fortunes to When the scheme to bujid apt twenty miles an hour caused
VDY.
be made in this stange village. enginewright, Editors .............
and his project to horse-railway, from Stockton to
real pubile concem. Finally the 32312 hurdle engines with their bellies Darlington received Parliament scheme passed Parlament, and is probally be lost ofte kind even if the gold boom proves d That journay cher andy trucks awakened to amazing new life, Reporters & General Omen 32312 (four lines)
Stephenson walked then his troubles really began which a European will make from slip. across Lancashire at the terrify-conson along metal line
In the spring of There was the tremendous Subscription Rates: ing peed of twenty miles in an 1821 and persuaded Edward of building railway across the
Hour. Efforts wore inndg to stop Pense that steam engines would spongy merasa af Chat
MORY. H.K.418.00 the machinatlotte of "this maniac be more preferable. Whilst Stephenson's great courage, patl-}
our contraptions were fit only whoir
surveyed the Stephenge visited Killingworth success
newence and endurance brought him Odednanistust. HK$30.00 for Bedlam." It is now a matter line,
Almudy road-‚f hst in Winburg I talked to despite prophecies of of history that he won through to Ace the engine there and failure and local opposition.
clearing robyte ard being driven, some conservative Witwaters=" HK$72.00
trinis
rand mining, opgineers, whose ¡in and a highway will be laidi, many
tribula- promptly, became a staunch “nd- Tapton House The unce Bioepy
village
of vordfat that Odendaalsrust is Vocute of steam locomotion. Chesterfield last week (August
In superintending the making Odenotoring is literally "only a golden fish in the pan. Instant Success 19) commemorated the centenary
Clay Cross Tunnel and other Hold" Here, in the heart of the The bankets appear mostly to be BIRTIL
They teamed up. Despite ant-rallway work. In and around northem area of the Orange Free at
ot over of the death there of this ploncer
-nome of 3,0001t., and State, the biggest strike has been them nearly twice that depth, Tynes, backs and opposition, Stephenson Chesterfield, Stephenson perde aince that at St. Helena (20) and the proved So. railways. NIGEL-M the French Hospital, where much
ilrove of his
areas ore lesa Locomotive No. 1 and a' ed the possibilitles of the area. Causeway Bay, on August 27,
early planeering took place.
He was train of 38 coaches on a trium-le helped to establish the Clay miles away) in 1938. the ex- then 30 square miles. So the 1948, to Patricia Anne born in a workman's cottage in phant journey from Brusselton Cross' Coal and Tron Company
perts are right the Orange Free, age-old problem of "Is the gold Mitchell), wife of F. G. Nigel,
the colliery village of Wylam-on-
and lime kilns at Ambergate and state is to for a gold boom which worth the mining?" may have to a daughter.
Tyne, beside which there is now
opened pils at Tapion, Briming will rank with the magie Witwa-be considered. a railway level croming, on
June
tan and Newbold. Tapton House larsrand of the 1800's. 9, 1781. As a boy he spent his
was in one of the leases, and he
Some Say 'Bunk', But- DEATH
evenings by
by the light of a crude
Here he spent. made it his home, lamp modelling clay engines. He
his last years in plekisant semi-
In any caso we shall see no to work as
retirement until his death.
Might and day the prospecting Orange gold for at least 12 RITCHIE AL M St. Mildred's was soon put
B
Despite
that his derrick-drills are thumping away months, and the first large-scalo Breman to his Road, Lee,, London, S.E. 12, tent
fathar at
the wealth talents brought him, he took no Evary bore of this vast area in deep mine will not be working the 26th August, 1948. Dewley Colliery. Here his first
Boodlit until 1930. Darlington on part in the wild gambling in rail the grasscovered veldt Assistant insight into practical engineering near Shildon, to Ritchie,
Liverpool- Guld panle has hit everyone the
Odendaalrust Hong Kong was gained by taking the pit en- September 25, 1823, and made an way
shares of
remains Manchester zine to pieces, which whefted his impressive debut for the first
If Odendaalsrust da in truth on optimistic. Thero, project. Again, when
are celebra- uppetite for tackling the prob- public railway train in the world. a new rallway company was hard one of lum of inventing a machine" "for
In the derricks are silenced and the Instant Dn
ол
Wiliam Superintendent, Poliao.
THE ITALIAN COLONIES
of
Is
By J.W TAYLOR
ופס
Floodlit Veldt
.of
But
The old S and D Railway was pressed for money, he offered Ipf loenas nose gold bein known tons every 10 days or so when Panket" pags his geologists pronounce a favourable perpetual motion." He found
rock suocess passengers postpone acceptance of his own with shivers his inability to read and write a were carried at a shilling a time fee until more prosperous times of feet deep-then it has been so verdict on some test drilling. handienp, and at the age
for millions of yours. But now and started a minor industrial were reached. of
"A banket. Bunk," say the Rand eighteen took lessons, for which
revolution. For instance, it rais At Chesterfield, Aritish fall- there is not a moment to lose.men who believe the Odendaals- he paid out of his meagre earn-over a site occupied by a solitary ways are showing exhibits lush gold must be worked before rust gold is only a bubble. But ings of a shilling a day.
rush dies businessman has signed up sites farmhouse. In ten years this was trative of modern and early fall the shapespeculation transformed into a busy town ways, including full-scale Already it has diminished, and infor
hotel in the little bik with 6,000 peoplo engaged in the model of
There, in its place has come a saner specu, i'tate of Hennenman, where, the
Jend.
the village track meets the rail- and
When won
called Middles-of p
of a Stephanson locomotive and 2. borough.
came to Odendants.
way and which will be the golden number of letters in the inven- rust the boom had forced £100 gate to the Orange gold if the Stephenson went to Lancashire tors own handwriting Cánd
These for his second great project-the spelling). Liverpool and Manchester Rall-particular interest, since Stephen-
last have a Four days later the price for the same plot was over £7,000! way--and fought a real battle son was literate as a boy,
"Standa are calculated in units
his
口
After studying his predecessors, Stephenson decided to make "travelling engine" at Killing- worth in 1813. A year later his engine "Blucher" travelled the
transport of coal from the Tees, hiso the Rockeń drawing factor
NATIONALISATION OF
BEER DEMANDED!
London, August 26.
Arst
bulging plots to byer £600,¦dream comes true..
of morgens, one morgen ing 600 square.roods,
Even for the northern area, endaylrust ng ben
a hick- Until the boom there were. probably not more than 500 European there Ironzoored shacky surround the grass village Fquare, and the only bulding is he Dutch Church drab, three-room shack has done service as the
office
ITALIAN STAND ON DANUBE
Rome, August -26. Italy made it known today that she does not feel herself
Tired of watery ale and queuing for cigarettes they The whole and bound by the new convention
cannot get, British workers demanded tonight State control of beer and tobacco.
to
一
ASSYRIAN TRIBAL
APPEAL
pysty for part of the
forged for the rest le linked by passed at the recent Danube
year, -water-
a spider's web of tracks,
conference attended by 11 na- tions.
Geologists Miss
The convention was adopted by the Easteri Danube States.quol Geologists made drillings here the protests of Britain, France grly sifteen years ago, but did and the United States who were bot persovore. Two months ago excluded from any control in the
new boring gave a sensational | river's
result and that started the boom. A surly Now South Africpn; British and the
riotë handed to
American interests are concerned conte dominated
Danube
at Belgrade by the
in-gigantic plans to boom the foerenbassador at Belgrade,
banket, and there, is talk af on was released by the Italian For
600,000 fund to start ruit, irrga-sian Mu
Ministry today.
tion ang pan
Tenders have EpEE to
It pointed out that:
1. Italy, Le. the Kingdom of and British structural englusers. Sardinia, helped found the Euro There
plan de hring water pean Danubian Commission
from the River In those 1870
Ever since.
+
past few works monoy has been and has been active on It Baghdad, August 26. poured into the village. Each of Because of her big trade----- Assykloh, tribi ezlerUans in over 9,000 the the southern side Italian shipping averaged 23.34 derricks costs with the Danube basin, countries, and
States, was surprisingly free simple -problem. In a sane bourd he improved. asta joint statement today urged of the village la ringed with them. ner pent of the river's traffic for
and dra
and
considered
When the United Nations Assembly meets next month
Engine Doctor Tel 20051 (3 Haes). | in Paris it will probably be
Neighbours Tooked upon faced with at least one poli-
gadgets and his tinkerings with tical question of the first im-much scepticism, but they were portance. That is the future quick to employ the mechanical of the former Italian colonies gentus of this "engine doctor" to in Africa. By the terms of prescribe remedies for the many the Italian Peace Treaty the old, whoexy and ineffective ma- chines in the neighbourhood and four Powers are bound to inundating the cottage with watch submit this to the United and clock repairs,
He married early, and found Nations if they cannot agree on a solution by September The neighbours'
extra
work to the 15. In recent weeks, the de-welcome supplement
household Income From this puties of the Council of For- and his self-taught tailoring eign Ministers, having heard miners at Killingworth were glad the wishes of the "interested to wear clothes of "Geordie Steevio's cut"-he saved ionry Governments," have been
to further his inventive genius meeting in London to try and and to put his son to a gond draft some recommendation school. which may serve as a basis for agreement. No progress
A demand for the Trades Union Council to look into has been made for the reason
the transfer of the brewing and tobacco Indus- that the obstacles to agice ment are not to be found in | Killnigworth railway at μ, steny
tries to state ownership, is proposed for discus- Africa but in Europe; they four miles an hour on an ascend- sion when the Council meets in annual session lle less in the complexities
the week ofter next at Margate. of the problem than in the
The resolution came from | came. There was some feel- the National Union of Public fears and jealousies of the Great Powers. If it were ing against a return of the Employees which is in favour... not for the great division be- Italians, especially in Libya, of extending socialisation tween Russia and the West but there was also some-feel- many private enterprises which nothing could be simpler. in ing against the British; on have not hitherto figured in the
Labour Government's plans. a curious way this has been the whole the commission The motion proposes that TUC admitted by the four Powers found that they would ac-1 undertake a systematic examina- themselves. The report of cept any trusteeship which tion of all unfortant industries the commission of investiga- gave them security, prosper and services all under private tion, which included repreity, and the eventual pros-ing whether with traitsfer to
control
with a view to ascertain-
pub sentatives of Britain, France, pect of independence.
lic owhorship, reductivò gdpa- Russia, and
Here then, in essence, is a city the United
all Assyrians of military age to They tower meally, hundred the decade 1930 used thore effectively.
to 1939. The In addition to ekanining the enlist and help in forming an feet into the sky. from controversy. There world all the colonies would
349,703 tonn of 1939, represented Every hour or so there is 33.14 per cent or just about one were differences of emphaals, be placed under a United tobacco and brawing, industries, Assyrian fegular by to de-
aaks the Tuck to look fend Faceline alongside the drafentic tension as the diamond- third, the Russian representative Nations trusteeship which into control by the Subte of the fraquis
down the 3. A signatory of the 1921 never lost a chance of a dig would develop them in the reduction of manpower in non-
Wimped, in firal: Thousands of Assyrians fought to be tad to be inetallurgists Danube accord Italy at the British Government, interests of their inhabitants. scential industries.
The rerollich suggests that with the British during the last for assay. Ten-foot rods, linked her rights under it still valid and the French representa- The trouble is that it is not
once the Counck carries out its world war.
together like he, Bamboos of a
the 052,000 gold franes owed show that none of the coun-cult to believe that such conference to entisider there jak khoalada, Chier of all Iraqi- steam ferrick druin. tive was painfully anxious to a sane world and it is diffi- inquiry, it then calls a spacial
The supeal was gifted by Mu-pelled to the ground by the thus e consent
chimney sweep's diet are pro- her by the Commission sull duo-- of the ties without the
ali consent of yet an international trusteeship' "erials prograthine", tries concerned was
partics viointed International Law, alternative to syriads and a number of other ready for independence. would work. To some ex suggested as
spiritlini and tribal Assyrian lead- wage treating.
The final Italian argument was But on the whole the com- tent the commission's report
thof nowhere in the peace treaty With the nationalisation of the s mission did it work well strengthens Italy's case for steel industry facing them li The atutement, and that the
thë halë thes mdké is barely is there anything that says Italy and allowed the facts to having the colonies returned Parliament-on which the Tories troal Governant Had we tumed two tuches id diameter, but the forzelted her Danube rights. speak for themselves. It is to her, since it admits that will put up the biggest anti-so-the decision to form in Adylian shit runs at least 5,000 feet forfelted her Danube rights.
cialization glit pince labour army..
déwn. "Odendaalssigt engineers¦¦ Associated Press. indeed a matter for encour- the Italian Government was
came to powerit is extremely agement that, perhaps for trying to do the right things, unlikely that the Atüre dovērü- rt I belive the Assyriäni vili! the first time since the end In Libya, however, anti- ment will be prepared to arouse farm sine compiau alvision. Alost! of the war, a fact-finding Italian feeling is too strong the opposition the brewing of them are probed till he detent commission including repre- and in Cyrenaica the Arabs and tobacco interests by agreeable igualain fighters
ing to nationpulse those hair- Funds of Aspfians fought Vichy sentatives of Both East and would certainly fight. For trics, at least, ant during the life forces In Syria and participated West have found the same want of a better solution of the present Parliament which on many Mediterranean fronts as facts. This itself is a minor Abyssinia may get Eritrea ends in early 1950,
parachutists.—Associated Press. victory for international and Italy Somaliland.
Weak Bear sanity,
Cyrenaica may achieve inde- The Governmerți's snawior tỏ The facts, very briefly, are pendence under, a. British the criticism on weak beer la these, Libya (which can be trusteeship on the lines of that malt and barley are neaded divided into Tripolitania, Tränsjordan-provided Rus that high prices ere part of the Cyrenaica, and the Fezzan); pia agres France will disinflation
Fan-medled by Eritrea, and Italian Somali probably keep the Fezzan, shortage is being lafid are all semi-desert coun- which she has already de the substitution at Empire grTOWN tries with small and back fatto annexed. Only the rest
a which cannot be bought The United Nations Economic ESTABLISHED 1889, Telephones: 30050, ward populations. None of of Tripolitania, with its vital
#14 them is economically self- Mediterranean coast, appeard dollar, famine cut the and Social Equicli) meeting in
sufficient, none; with the real difficulty. Yet, if the important resolution to be proposat
international.
Geneva, today rejected a Spylef politics, the
condemning" látni possible exception of Eritrea, Powers fail to agree, what an debated by the TUC is one tube which were accompanied by has any mineral resources, opportunity to add strength mitted by the Electrical Trades, demands for political privilejës. All these countries have and cohesion to Western Union on
The Soviet resolution was da political parties, vociferous Union by making all three jummon a triipower Ave abitent me, y
on the Gor-Jected by ning vasto tour, with and fanatical in their decolonies a trusteeship ad conference of Briidly, and the Lebanon doloed, the Sd mands, but the commission ministered jointly by the United States with Soviet Russia Uhion, Poland and Byclo-Rusak found-what the British | nations of Western Europe to try to get down to a kettle in voting in favour of the respir military administration had including, in this case, Italy, tent of their overall differences. told them that the parties Together they have the United Press. did not go very deep and capital, the colonial, experi- that they represented few ence, and technical ability people besides themselves, which are needed, while the When the commission left Italians could still provide the towns for the chintay the majority of European and talked to the Arab sutera. If Rusala refuses to tribesman in bla lent or the nodept any other solution and Somali shophord with his FTP United Nationa“: also flocks, they found; makes often rallato) Renee, Mr. Bevin than not, that what they really wanted was good ernment and
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