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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd, 1928.
SINGAPORE'S FLOAT-AIR SECRET IN A LOFT.
ING DOCK.
AN IMPRESSIVE ARRIVAL.
GLASGOW LADDIE'S PLAINT.
was about to be enacted. The
Johore side of the Straits, Apart
MYSTERY INVENTION.
A
mechanic, who answered to the
SHOP GIRLS AS PARTNERS.
NOVEL SCHEME IN LONDON.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
Pretty MissX." in her neat blown uniform frock, selling across.K. Bank......$1,327 bur., 1,335 sel.
Остовия к 1919
the counter in the store of John'
Do... inados...£lioj nom. Lewis & Co., Oxford-street, London, Chartered Banks buy.
Mercantile Banks, A. &B... 235 nom. docs now
thun SO with more
Do
0.214) nom. usual alertness and persuasion. P.&O.. Banks ༦༥༩་་་་་་་་་ до
East Asia Banks 77 bay. She is now both sales girl and Canton Insurances $663 buy.,675. partner in the firm." Miss "X" Union Insurance...
$300 bay. ..... Cla. 190 bay. North China Ina.
AL. 850 COM
bay.
pro-
China Underwriters ......$2.65 Chips Fire iurarances...1276 buy. Hong Kong Fire Ins......$300 sol. Dongleses *********
nom. H.K. Suamboats ... $26, nom
Tuga
..$1.80 sal
Hiinas (Pre£.) ....$k, bar.. 12. sol.
An invention that may go far to wards solving the greatest problem in aviation is row lying in a little engineering shop in a side street SINGAPORE.
in the East End of London. The first part of the floating dock correspondent of a London paper is safely moored opposite "His writes:---| Majesty's Naval Base at Seletar, I visited the shop, climbing" a says the Straits Times, No one steep ladder to a loft. A little, standing on the heights overlook. grizzled engineer, Mr. OierEvol, the' with all the rest of the young anetare insurances
women, all the young men, all the ing the Straits of Johere, and sur-inventor, was there, with his assist-
anti The others present at the shop walkers, and all the errand reying the quiet scene would have
demonstration Wert Mr. G. S. known that one of the most strik- Mather, clerk to the East Ham boys, became last month employer ing. scenes in modern naval history magistrates, a friend of his who as well as employed.
scheme is also interested, and a tall young
This is the effect of a pounded by Mr. J. Spedan Lewis- Do: (Def) ..$72 buy. who inherited the business from hell Transports.118) nom,
Waterboats...
$98 buy, Old John Lewis," the founder of Benguet $21 bay. the firm-to give each of the 2,000 Kallan Mining Admin....71/- zom. employees a share in the under-Langkat (combined).....Th
Do. (single)· S'ha Explorations 7. 2.83 buy, Shanghai Loans Tronoh Mince...... HK & W. Docks ............ H.K. &K Wharis.... China Providents Honghe
Tin. 156 nom. New Engineering. Els, St buy. Bhanghai Docks
Ts. 106
buy. Ewo Cottone
Th.11.10 buy. Oriental Cottons.The. 24 sek. Shai. Cottons (old)....Ths. 62 com. Do. (ou). Th. 35 nom. HK. &B. Hotels...$8.00 sal., 17.80
from clearings on the foothills, looked as it looked before Western navigators came to Singapore. On the island side there were the Ad- miralty quarters on the bluft, solid ground where three years ago was a foul swamp, a lorry following a rond which twelve months ago did not exist, and a pier. Such is the Naval Base to-day!
Coming In-shore., The dock made a fine spectacle as it moved behind the team of four sturdy tugs, each with a blue band round its funnel and the Dutch tri-colour #ying proudly at the stert. It was interesting to see the way in which the structure guided along the twisting channel geing so close to the shore at one point that the British engineers on
WOH
name Tom.**
1-oz Propeller.
2
I saw
gyroscopic propeller weighing an ounce lift a pound weight vertically into the air, an other propeller, weighing Six ounces, lifted nearly three pounds, and third weighing fourteen pounds and driven by a ten-horse power engine litted a hundred- weight. I stood on the shaft of the largest of the models and was raised into the air.
2
An ordinary propeller fitted to the same apparatus failed to lift anything.
tuking.
Mr. J. Spendan Lewis has se: aside the whole of the revenue from the Ordinary share capital in the present business-at least £74,000 a a profit sharing year to create fund for the employees.
"New Finance Company. All the income from the Ordinary Shares will go as subscriptions for shares in a new. faance company,
Baubi......
19.3 bay.
nom. Tls. S com.
Ti, 3
17/8 nom ..$139. nom.
$37 DOM. $5,70 sel
Mr. Cierfvol is modest about his If he were invention
rich he would go out and buy an airplane today, fit bis propelier to it, and, sec clearly the I am sure, be the first man to dy" to be called Lewis Partnership. Shanghai Landa... Th. 138 bay.
board were able strange scenery of paim trees, attap-roofed buts, and rubber plan tations in which they found them- selves.
At The Basin
It was rather before eleven o'clock when the dock arrived at the dred:
it. As it is he works away in his loft and hopes for the best.
"My idea is quite simple," he said to me when I made him talk. He was much more eager to work his cagine than to speak about it.
"You see, instead of being solid. the blades of my propeller arc covered with, fabric," he said. These rods spread out fanwise. and rubber at the base prevents them from closing up.
ltd., and, as these shares are issued they will be allotted to the men and woolen in the business in proportion Lewis to the money they earn. Partnership, Ltd., will have a per- manent holding in John Lewis & Co., and any other new companies.
B.K. Landa
$67 110
Humphreys Estates...$15.70 bay, 15 sa.
$9.15 nom K. Realtios EK Tramways... 1.60 bay, 924
sel. 22.00 2. Peak Trams (old) .........$13 buy.
Do. (a).................... 36.30 nom. Star Ferries
............. 671 13,70 al.
ged basin opposite the Naval Base, really a grid of flexible tapering formed.for an extension of the bugi Chins Light (old)...$13) bay,!
and immediately the tugmasters set about the delicate task of placing it in the position outlined by the buoys. This was no enay matter as the dock, which had come in with its after end facing the west, had to be slewed completely round. The work of mooring her was then started, and here the services of the mooring" stenmer fuorlark, un Admiralty craft specially built and equipped for this work, and brought
"These springs" prevent any vibration reaching the shaf
Hinged On Springs. The blades, instead of being at tached to the main shaft, are
hinged on springs.
"
He brought me. a chair, and I sat and watched him play with this child of his invention.
down from Hong Kong recently, were required. The Moorlark had two of the permanent moorings "I bought an old motor-car en- already hooked up and showing gine from scrap," he said, pointing above the surface.. and the pro to the contrivance on the floor. cedure was to get each massiveIt might develop ten horse chain through a ring on the side of power, but we do not know exact the dock and then shackled on to fly.
ness. Thus money which is earned by the workers in the shop will go back to them through their shares in Lewis Partnership.
"I have waited eighteen years to put this scheme into practice," said Mr. Spedan Lewis to a Press representative, and I propose to devote the remainder of my active career to make this partnership permanent.
The men and the girls in the shops of John Lewis will elect a
council which will watch theft in- terests in Lewis Partnership. Ltd.
Any member of the staff who is a partner and thinks that, something has been done or decided affecting him can appeal to an official, named the warden of the constitution,' Mr. G. S. Conway, the Cambridge
an eveplate. There were eight Another thing about my inven moorings to be attached, two being tion. is that it is almost soundless.Rugby blue, who played for temporary ones,
That is because the action of the England in eighteen internationals. air is uneven, and, these" blades being flexible and capable of move- went, the air passes through them in a series of waves."
Boredom, Altogether, twenty-two men travel. led out on the dock-five Britishers and seventeen Dutchmen and they
THE MANILÄ SHOWS."
Do [ney)........ $13.50 bay. Do, (1928 Issue) .....$13.20 bay. H.K. Electrica (ald)...$32, buy,
Do. (new) ..... $31) nom. Macao Electric...........20ƒ bay, Telephones
cum rights bay, Do.
123.59 tny, z rights
$3.30
RUM.
Do. righta China Busss ...... To fla, 11 buy. Bingapore Tractions.... 12/
Do. (Pref)...15 buy,, 19/- China Sugars
$1 nom. ..$19 bar. Malabon Bagar Dements (combined)
Cauton Ice
Do. old Lo. (hew) HK. Bopos (old) Do. (new) United Asbestos Dairy Farmas Walscoi Der A Wings Lase Orawfords. Mackintoshs.
-Binderes
Wm. Powells..... HA. Amusementa
$9.80 bay.
$3 nom.
now.
ai bay.
$7.60 bay.
$7.65 buy. 35 num. 802g bay. .314; bay.
30,50 nom. $355 12Ů ROMA. ,$9+ bay.
$3.66.bar.
buri.
..399 sel.
H.K. Constructions ......$14 buy, Bazo. Indas. G. Bonds...84% bay.
el.
were very willing to admit that one certain whether. I have just agen TO BE A FEATURE AT MACAO/HK Gort, Loans -%%-prum, boy.
of the strangest voyages of modern times had left them with a burning desire to get on to dry land again and stay there for the rest of their lives. Everyone who has known the monotony and the general irrit ability prevailing on an Eastward bound passenger liner, will renise something of the utter boredom which these men have survived. The deck has no scenic attractions; and the last time they were nshore was on August 16th at Ismalia, in the Suez Canal. They played football occasionally, they played one game of cricket, and one only, they walk ed several miles a day; several of them took photographs and deve loped them as best they could witle out a refrigerating plant on board, And they got as tired of each other's company as might be ex pected.
I climbed down the ladder, un- something that will solve two of our greatest difficulties or just the dream of an inventor that can
never come true.
I am certain, however, that the authorities should test what may prove a great discovery.
FAIR.
buy.-bayerss sol-ællore; sa- gmle 2;
Nom.--Nominat
Yau Chiu Man, D.C.L
Mr. F. G. Eea da Silva, Secre tary for the Macao Charity and Commercial Fair, which opens at Macao on November 3rd, has made all arrangements for the trans. portation of the "Manila Shows " to furnish the entertainment fea Counsellor & Attorney-at-Law FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, ' tures at the Fair.
SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
LESSON SERMON.
DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, October 20th.
The Mania Shows arrive in Hong Kong on October 30th direct from Penang, Straits Settlements, and the balance of the attractions, also operated by Churchill and Tait, are coming to Macao direct from Java.
The Manila Shows have several attractions that are entirely new to this part of the country although they have been operating succesa- fully in Jaya and British India for several years.
!
The Golden Text was from 1 Corinthians 1:18, The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." One of the engineers, a typical Among the citations which.com- Tyneside Geordie, dressed in prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
The Manila Shows consist clothes which would comfortably following from the Biale: Who withstand a November wird at Shields, was leaning over the rail, whom is the arm of the Lord rewill also be a number of side shows, hath believed our report And to riding exploits of the kind used in the big circuses in England. There looking pensively at the strange vealed 1... Ile is despised and surroundings in which he found him. rejected of men; a man of sorrows, several of them of considerable self, when a Straits Times repre and acquainted with grief and we merits, including a Filipino circus, sentative approached him and asked hid as it were our faces from him; Variety Show, hula dancers, a him what he thought of the voyage. he was despised, and we esteemed Magic Show, and
him not Surely he hath borne attractions. our griefs, and carried our sor
The Missing Eum.
Kan," he said, it was dull.
we.
and
the
some smaller
It is possible that Hong Kong will be favoured with a visit from this large organisation as they will pass through Hong Kong after the. Macao, fair en route to Manila where they will furnish the chief attractions at the Philippine Car Dival.
EXCHANGE RATES.
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It was so bad that when someone TOWN: yet did esteem hirm tried to be polite and said Gond stricken, smitten of God, morninyou turned round and said, afflicted. But he was wound-
Go to—;"
It was like going ed for our transgressions, he was te seu forty years ago. We lived bruised for out iniquities": on tinned food; we had no ice and chastisement of our peace was upon the water hot enough to wash in, him; and with his stripes we are and we passed the time by reading healed." (Isa, 53: 1, 3-5). and arguing the point. I wouldn't The Lesson-Sermon also includ have minded the grub if I could ed the following passages from have had my tot of rum, but all we the Christian Science textbook, had was gin and whisky. It was "Science and Health with Key to too hot to sleep below, and after the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Colombo it rained so much that we Eddy: "Jesus bore our infirmities; couldn't sleep on deck.'
he knew the error of mortal belief,'
Paris and with his stripes (the "rejec Champion."
tion of error) we are bealed."
Brussels However, the five Tynesiders on
Amsterdam Despised and rejected of men," board looked remarkably cheerful
Berlin.. and at, considering the time they returning blessing for cursing, he
taught mortals the opposite of Copenhagen have been at sea, and when asked
even themselves,
the nature of how they were feeling they replied God; and when error felt the with that hearty Northumbrian ad
power of Truth, the scourge and jective, Champion." They had the cross awaited the
great had very little excitement during Teacher. Yet be swerved not, well the trip, they said. They had one
sh
rough night off the Yorkshire coast,
knowing that to obey the divine
order and trust God, saves retrac
a rough spell in the Channel, and Another spell lying to off the coast and traversing anew the path
from an to holiness." - (P.20). of Africa, near Gibralter. They had fine weather in the Bay of Biscay,
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and also in the Mediterranean, but was sufficient to deal with this. they had five weeks moving up and The dock was attached to the tags down the Red Sea, and that was by # connection consisting of the worst of all. The dock moved Manila rope, steel hawser; and choin scarcely at all in the heaviest scas, cable.
The dock will be put together but the men on the tugs had a bad time occasionally. The dock by Swan, Hunter, and "Wigham made a little water, but a small Richardson's men and a staff of engine rigged up on the platform.welve British engineers and about (Continued at foot of next column.)200 natives will be employed,"
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These volumes, published by Johnson and Stevens in 1814, were Keats' inseparable companions three years later, when he went to the Isle of Wight to write r "Endymion "a poem which is full of subtle influences from "The Tempest." They have lain out of sight since 1881-forty-seven years age-until, after a variety of ad. ventures, the books, with "John Keats, April 1817," written on the American title page, reached an
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