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THE FOUNDERING OF THE
"MYLIE
THE MYLIE'S LIST MOMENTS. "At B'a'clock a hatchway, door, was broken in. Several ports of the ship The captain and chief officer were on the bridge and sagiyo ruan officers were down below. Half an
MESSBOY'S GRIAL STORY OF SHIP'S were washed away.
LAST "MOMENTS,
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Ernoa OUR OWN CONRESPONTENT.]
MUNICIPAL THEATRE MOVEMENT. A Euisheran, August 8th.
The Jiglie' wessboy, Ling Ah Trung. The Scottish National Players are doing Prominence has been given in some London newspapers to
report which spidul work all over the country, and who is the salitary survivor of this hour before the ship sink at 9 o'clock,
the tragedy of
was she heeled over, to the starboard tack, credited Mr. Bonar Law with the interment is on foot which may tend terribly tion of serving his political ties with the unicipality of Glasgow building able to give evidence at the resumed and remained heeled over, It was on this
its own Thentry. "at is recognised, bows, Central Division of Glasgow, and, con-ever, that the scheme can be immed inquest last rek on. Arthur Harvey side that she went down, Just beförs sequently with politics. There y ground, however, for alarm. Mr. Hourly carried out, owing to the state of Green, chief engineers of the faced the Wylie sunk. I was at the place where trade and the weary wat o' siller." vessel who was picked up in an open were the bents and rafts. A quarter“ Law who has been staying at Brighton, Mr. Graham Moffat, the author of "unty hout by the striking on Wednesday, master told in and all other Chineso looks, and, I believe, is. rearkably well Pulls the strings and other delightfal The apprehension, that the Freuch
After hearing meliest and other övidonce, † within houring to save our lives. I never doctors entertained of a malignant affer Scottish comedis, is a strong supporter tion of the threat have been dissipated, or the movement, and he has influential Mr. G. W. King, H. M. Coraner, "acem-saw any of the foreign officers at that and it seems clear that the weakness of change, of opinion ca the part of the Vigi-Consul, who attended on behalf of because I hung to one of the rafts. Ox
This is j-people behind him.
a great janied by Mr. S. Wyatt-Smith) shipping | the, ! dişi not gå under with the ship his voir is due to a functional disordergetish people. Edinburgh was the first y All the same, he has severely rational Chasgow my now be said which is uncomfortable but not menacing city to show hospitality to the stage, but the Board of Trade, visited St. Luke's this raft were also the captain's boy, bave out Hospital, where the messboy is now an in- the second cook and the saloon boy. After himself in ginoking, with beneficral results,
stripped it. Forty years ago Glasgow mate. Seated at the bedside of the lone For the rest he takes plenty of outdoor
was an inhospitable place for actors and survivor, the Coroner listened to one of war in the water & saw the ship's šampan. exercise varied with a good deal of chews theatres, who were loudly denounced from the most moving stories of shipwreck ever and any lifeboat. There was nobody in the and bridge. He takes the keenest interest the pit. At that tine, for its size, heard Shanghai.. En telling of the mat lifeboat. could
th ship. in political developinents, and if the im- 1 it was the worst theatrical town in ner in which the vessel met her dogan, the sink front my voit, provement in his health is maintained he Britain. To-day, but for bad trade ft witness said she was heeled vir to star-For six days I was an the raft. Only may be seen in the House gas during may be regarded as one of the best.
beard for half an hour before (sinking, the autumn, though, it is very unlikely that he will intervene in debate.
THE VANISHING GROUSE.
STUDENT "ILARVESTERS.
to
of
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KOMEN
and went down on that side, indicating cl the first day was the weather rough. that she was overwhelmed, lisa tet fine Two of my companions died nu,the night. beam sen.
CORONER'S SYMPATHY.
I have just shakes hands with a student The invasion of Scotland from the of divinity who is on his way to Canadi
Charles Williun Puttiek, master of th of the wreck. They were swept overburd South has begun. The platforms of Perth put in a month's work at harvesting C... Sinking, said that when his fan it hy the wires. Whenever the, valt Station are littered with trunks and gun he tells me that he is nie of a crowd vessel was 10 mil vast-outh-east of the turned over I managed to go ou to it cases, not-y with the barking of logs, and Farity met who are taking in their Patchokok Island, the chief officer report by climbing up from underneath it and redolent, of Harris, tweed at its most working holiday in this fashion. As you ed that there was a ship's life bent ahend, piquant. The English aristocracy with doubt are aware it has long been the with a sail partly set, The Ninkay was holding my breath. On the second day specimens of the mere plutocracy-arrister of Scottish as a pairts td slow down and steamed towards to my last companion was swept of the raft. in force to make Scotland a country unfit work their way through the Universities On getting alongside the lifebent, witness We had to food or water. I drank &
by acting as puwers on the Clyde steam saw the deernel's body. for grenses to live in. The most pressing
The boatswain little of the seawater, and the others had, problem before sportin.to-day-in the tray as ghillies on the grouse moors, or as jumped inte the boat and hauled it drunk it.”
men on farths, but this is the abour. Witness saw the name in on West Highlands, at kaste raised by first time that any of them has taken a the stern of the boat. Deceased was sit- very large decrease in the number of gåne
In answer to the Coroner, witness said. birds on the western moors. Along the trip over the Atlantic during the vacation ting on the tanks of the bout rith his he thought the Chinese cost found in the Atlantiesen-board, the grouse have bead my young friend, "next month's water, the boat fring two-thirds full of to the boatswain. It must have belongexi If I get a country kirk after I pu" head on his arms. His legs were in the chief omcer's boat might have belonged come seriously depleted within the Inst five years.
Mr. Set Garden has "perience will be a valuable one."
water. The craft had been badly holed to one at the Chinese members of the theory on the subjret. He says The Land a scheme has been organised by the thought that Mr. Green must have been
There is bumper harvest in Canada,and was flouting an its tanks,
Witness crew. most probable cause appear to me to Canada National Railways with the dead for about two days. His face was cost and trousers when he got on to, Continuing, witness said he was wearing Firstly, changes in the climatic conditions) of the Atlantic: secondly, the gradeal obires of obtaining 10,000 men who, in dark. There was ho food or water in the raft.
·4 erchange for a passage to Cannda at the beat and not even a water beaker. decrease of the henther arms and con
reduced rate will undertake to complete On removing in old jacket from the stern for near the lifeboats or in the lockers:
The Coroner: Was there any food, nt. sequent increase of grass, and bracke at least 30 working days' havesting. For 2 were found. On moving the arm of I did not see any and thirdly, the indiscriminate shooting of grouse in former days (before cig to Winnipeg, where they any he sent a fare of te hagyesters will be conveyed time and limits were instituted), which to any destination in Western Canada. naturally depleted the stock of breed While employed, it is estimated, they will ing birds.
Winter weather on the West be paid at a rate of about 17s. 1 day. On Coust of Scotland is getting worse the conclusion of the harvest or before and worse, That is the astonishing that if they have completed the agreed incontrovertible fact. It is not the theory of old men sighing for lost youth; it is period of work, harvesters will be at a condition proved by the mest enreful herts to remain in Canada or la return observation. Bad weather-not frost and
The gold, but continual storms of wind and rain-is making Heridean existence, for human beings as for animals, à difficult and distressing problem. The grouse are abandoning the West and migrating to Perthshire and Invernessshire.
BROUSE SHOOTING BY MOTOR:
to this country at a reduced fare.
eat majority of the harvesters have some fran the ranke of the unemployed. VETERAN DOLPERS AND FAMOUS SHOT,
dollars. The only clothing worn by de-a rock 3-No, it was because of the waiver the body witness found another two De you think the ship may have struck eonse was a singlet. A pair way washer cut of this hont when it was
trousers that we went under. hoisted on beard. The deconard's right foht expostire while in one of the Jiglie's bouts
In turning a verdict of death from was bailly laceratril, which injury might the Coroner said: The story related by have been caused by the presence of half the captain of the Sinking in Court a dozen small crabs in the boat.
Some this afternoon
one of the :, many wae pight have been made of the sail tragedies of the sea. Here we have a ship but it was evidently meant moreuns a annak by a very bail truboon out the signal. The boat must have been knocked gard. We shall never know exactly what about when launched, witness thought. happened because the only survivot.Can SURVIVOR DECHASED'S MESSBOY.. far as we kuqw, šis nôt à technical man. Mr. Angus Cameron, Blair Athell, who Twenty minutes later, off the starboard We can only be sure of our fact that the has died as the nit of a cycling accid bow, they sighted a raft and steamed ill-fated vessel was heeled over to star ent while returning, from the golf coure alongside it. There WAN moderate, board in a very heavy s Eventually after a game, was over 10 years of age, typhoon well, but no break in the sea. she heeled over too far and foundered. Mr. Keiller, the well-known Dundee and a wonderful old fellow in every way. On getting near the raft witness thought of those four men on the raft, the mess manufacturer, has an antama residence He was the winner of the Queen's Prize he saw another corpse, but a man jumped boy is the only man left to well the tale. at Craigendarroch, Ballater," and is laird (now, the King's) at Wimbledon in 1966 up and waved his hands. The ship's By an extraordinary chance he has
On the first occasion he was boat, in the charge of the chief officer, of the adjoining grouse moor of Mogyon. 18. This year he intends to revolutionise the only 19 years of age, the assistant to a went to the raft and brought the sar! survived. sport, and the twelfth will ser a new general merchant, and was making his viver on to the Siaking. The man seem The Coroner said he would not go intoʻ method of cressing the moors,brought into first appearance at Wimbledon. A en fairly coherent. He told the Sin- the details-they were so painful. All our operation. Mr. Keiller has had canstrnet totaller, it is told that when his fellow-g's offcers that he was messboy to the sympathies went out to the unfortunate driven the lines of the tank-and this corks to celebrate his victory he sat down the raft who had died. He bad been on Harvey Green, chief engineer of the str. ed a special motor car with a caterpillar trymen in the camp, were drawing chief engineer. There were four ethers on offers and crew, and their relatives.
The full verdict was: That Arthur he intends for me in going and from quietly and had a cup of tea, the butts. Should the experiment prove THERE'S AYE A BOMETHING. successful it will eliminate much of the discomfort that atte a shoot through thick heather which has been well moisten ed by rain.
the raft six dava and had had no food or
For 24 hours terrific sens washed over.
water. According to him the Jyle went Mylle, died in a host of that ship from Sir C. C. Barrie has been poking fun down at 9 pm, on the Thursday. Several exposure between August Bird and 4th, among his Banffshire friends over that odds and ends were floating about. They 102, and that the Zylie foundered in Alvah farmer who, on being congratulated were the sun! odds and ends from a 1993, and that the body of the deceased.
a typhoon en the night of August 231. on the abundance of his crop, replied in ship but night hot have been those of the
was found in the bont the str. Suking on A GORDONS' CLUB IN AUEILDREN.
lugubrious tones. Ob, aye, but look at ylic, the awful trauchle (labour) there is to Tu'reply to Chief Detective-Inspector
the morning of August 20th.".... Coneful Si Ian Hamilton opened a tak it in!" That requlls the comment Reeves, witness said the objects sern ware pulatial new club for e-Service, me of another rural ssimist who, under on the usual course of ships in that erected in King Street, Aberdeen, similar circumstances lamented, "That's locality. Theklang was on her public subscription, as a memorial to thee; bit, man, it tak's an awfu' lot ons course from Swatow. Gerdon Highlanders who fell in the war.
o' the grund!” The building has cost £4,000, £11,000 of which was subscribed by the trustees of HEEMASONRY.
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a TUE PORTUGUESE WORLD-
FLIGHT.
"Dr. N. Hay Bolton, who performed the poet-muflem," said he felt aure deceased fired for one or two days after taking
Writing to the Japan Chronicle the old Gordan Highlanders' Memorin! At the last "quarterly communication of his last meni. There was little evidence of Portuguese correspondent who is making Institute, which becomes amalgamated the Grand Lodge of Sedlard, among food or digestive products. He probably arrangements in ecunection with a warld with the new schome. While the club is those introduced" as visitors were Dr. died on about the 26th from exposure. Hight by Portuguese aviators, says - so closely associated with the Gordon George D."R. Black, «District Grand He-must have suffered from the sun. The
A few mouths ago you rublished an Highlanders, it really belongs to the Master of Hongkong and Seath China, erosion on the leg might have been caused accent of the flight of our Portuguese whole Territorial recruiting area, and and Mr. Brodie A. Clark, District Grand after death. Witness would say that Cabral, from Lisbon to Brazil. This fight aviators, Gaee Coutinho and Sneadura. subscriptions came from every parish in Master of North Chins. Grand Master Chinese might have stood a better chance, the counting of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and the Earl of Elgin invited there to sents a Chinese were used to being without ation that enabled them to calculate landing. Banff, while membership is extended to on the dnis. past and present members of all branches MARRIAGE. of the Army at the sixter Services.
At St. Giles, Edinburgh, C. F." A. About 100.000 officers and men of the Gordon Highlanders served in the war: Panting M.A., lectured in economics at almost 10,000 of these lost their lives; and Torcato University, to Alice MacIver, the total casunities of the regiment M.A., daughter of the late Rev. D. Mac numbered nearly 30.000,
Iver, China.
DONATIONS FROM SCOTS ABROAD.
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An announcement appeared in our columins on the 21st ult., ways the Seateman, that a sum of £38, 6a. 3d, hud been received by us from the Selangor St.
THE FORTS OF SINGAPORE,
hat,
mude famous an instrument of their inven
distances accurately, and for which our NO HOPE OF FEATHER SURVIVORS.
Government received congratulatory tele Mr. Eric Moller, recalled, "stated that grams from the heads of every nation, in-. deceased's first name was Arthur. The cluding the King of England. Their Hight glie was a big ship-3,000 tona. She had to the rock of St. Peter and St. Paul, passed the Hongkong passenger require-given in Portugal in commemoration, was inents which wore very exacting,
She a brilliant fest. had six liftboats and the required number the world, with three aeroplanes, in which Now they are projecting a flight round. of rafts, capable of accommodating 300 the Brazilian aviators may accompany passengers. Witness had had no further them. They will leave Lisbon next March information regarding the wreck.
or June on an English aeroplane, iz
RE." notes in a home paper, that Sir and others that the die aank where Delhi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Hongkong, Can In giving it as the opinion of himself Algiers, Malta, Lesbos, Persian Gulf, Andrew Society, at Kuala Lumpur, Fris Perey Scott says the forts at Singapore already stated, Mr. Moller said there on ton, Shanghai, Nagasaki. Following the ricted Malay. States, for distribution – to are useless," and "the sooner that is the St. Domiule were unable to touch cost of Japan, they will go to Kamchatka, deserving and necessitpur Scottish Hes is supplied with some modern weapons bottom with the lead line at the spot for Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and then turn pitals and Institutions, This dum has been the better, and Mr. Geofrey Drage sy miles south of the Side Saddles. There ing to the south, to Kadiak, Chichagor distributed as follows:-Loyal Infirmary, there are no modern defences. He asks: Kuburgh, £12 Longmore Hospital for they aware that: the defences of the water, and other indications in of and. Vancouver, from Vancotiver to Quebet. Incurables, £5 Royal Infirmary, Glas- Singapore were remodelled only a few ship had sunk there. After the typhoon Lisbon via the Azores: gow. £8 Western Infirmary Glag years ago, and that the weapons there are gow, 281 Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, 27, as up-to-date as those at most of the first- Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Aber eines defended ports in Great Britain?" dern, £5: Royal Infirmary, Dundee,, £T. | 20 108. Northern Tufirmary; Inverness, £6.
To acknowledging these sums, the repre IF YOU WEAR GLASSES sentatives of the Hospitals have requested...
us to convey to the Belangor St. Andrew there is almost as much comfort and Society their grateful thanks,
THE COMING LOCAL VETO "CONTEST.
that
de Terra Nova, and thence to
the wind had changed towards the west,The first aeroplane will fly from Lisbon. so it would blow the bodies of the crew to Japan, the second to Terra Nova, and and any wreckage down the coast towards the third neross the Atlantic The cost the Chasana.
will be $50,000.
expect that £16,000+ - the estimated travelling expenses--will be granted by the Government, but to be qu to the public and all the Portuguese news- the safe side they have made an appeal papers have published it.
There is just a small chance that some of the crew have reached the islands, sail witness. "But I think that it will be impossible to find anybody alive?
All Portuguese citizens are invited to subscribe, no more nor less than a hundred escudos (about 113)."
THE SINGAPORE' HASZ.
pleasure in wearing Pince-nez Eye
MESSUOY'S FIGHT FOR LIFE."
The Local Veto battle in Scotland, which i
Glasses, as there is in possessing a The Court, then adjourned to St. Luke' will open in the autumn, will be oven perfect pair of eyes for they it so com- Hospital, to hear evidence of the mestoy
Although bearing many traces of "his more exciting and strenuous than that of fortably and securely that you forget you terrifying experiences, his face and other three years ago. For some months the have them, on-the most important imparts of his body being blackened by the organisera of the opposing factions have teen busy maturing their plans The provement in eye-glasses in the past sun, he appeared to take an interest in
In the House of Commons on August Prohibitionists will be reinforced by an twenty-five years. Pince-aez Eye Glasses, the proceedings and gave a fairly coher troy of spell-binders" from the st any prescription in either regular or cat, though, unfortunately, as the Coroner 2nd, Major Boyd-Carpenter, in a written
remarked, not a technical story, U.S.A.; and emissaries sent by the Wets Toric form are manufactured by the The witness said: We left Chin estimated total amount proposed to be reply to Mr. Cecil Wilson, says that the are returning across the Atlantic with portfolios bulging with figures and re Hongkong Optical Co., successors to wangtao at noon on the 21st. The weather spent on Singaporo naval base ports. The areas which wens Dry in Clark & Co., Manufacturing and Ro of the 23rd, when the typhoon started. current Nayy Estimates, and it is anti-. was good until 9 o'clock in the afternoon £10,500,000; £160,000 is provided in the Scotland at the poll three years ago will fracting Opticians-the most competent The ship was then off Tecknaichow Leland.cipted that £200,000 will be required in however, bulk meat largely in the speeches optical manufacturing establishment in The weather got very bad between five 1021-95. Thereafter, the annual expendi- on both sides, and the facts" quoted about them are, of course, strongly con South China--located in 53, Queen's and six, huge seas falling all over the ture will be governed by circumstances Mylie. The engines were going all the No date has yet been settled for the com tradictory. In the coining election, the Road Central-Apvr.
time
pletion of the worka
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