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The now Tilbury landing stage, f 1,140 feet long, with baggage hall, has been completed. “
HUNTING KIT RENOUNCED
FOR THE SART.
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There,na Shrimati Mirn Bai." she lives in a call not more than two, yards! square, with stone floor;) prison-like window, and few possŻ HWAL RIVER JOB POSTPONED,sions but a brasa wating ntansik
It is learned at the Hwa Rivar Conservancy Board that the pro The work, includes the remoriel posal was made some time ago to ling of Tilbury Station by tha, Lon-float a loan in foreign countries' don, Midland and Scottish Railway Company
totalling 3100,000,000 which will be nocured by the British share of the Boxer Indemnity Refunds. How Two moter ships of 5,500 tons dis over, no definite scheme has so far placement anch were launched on
been worked out for the actual November 21 from the Baltic yards carrying out of the proposal. Works at Leningrad The vessels, which concerning river conservancy in the have been christened --Stalingrad" fiwai River aro understood to have and Scordlevek," will be put into buen postponed, and will be carried between Vladivostok and Far Eas-out at the end of the current year, SALVAGING NO LONGER PAYS.
tern porta.
"During a concert on a ship cross- ing to America a collection was taken. The purser in a little speech thanked the passengers for their support.
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We have collected, 200 half crowns, and one throepenny-piece, he said, adding in a jocular tons. "I think there must be a Scotsman on board."
Immediately from the back of the erowd a big voice boomed out:
"You will excuse me sir, but there were three of uệ in that donation.
Orders valued approximately at £20,000 have been placed by the Soviet Government with the stcol manufacturers, Thomas Firth and John Brown, Ltd., Sheffield: Much of the material is required for the making of turbine blades,
LONDON AND ST. "KATHARINE DOCKS
Good progress has been spade with the reconstruction of premises at South Quay, London Dock, includ ing the provision of a new transit ahed.
The rebuilding of No. 5 Shed, West Quay, London Dock, and the erection of a new electric, truck charging station are practically complete.
In order to facilitate the road traffic at the docks 20 entrance gates are being widened, and the work will shortly be completed.
A new shed for fabtes is being erected at New Gravel Lane.
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bowle for cleaning cotton, and the inovitable spining wheel..
DOES SHE REMEMBER?" Deen this remarkable woman over pacar in her work to recall her girl- hood in Surrey, the house on the bill, the mill in the valloy, the ex- hilaration of jaunts with the hounds over plough and pasture in the teeth of a keen winter wind under an English, sky
We do not know, for sho nover
speaks of herself; she is as re-
ticant as she Mahatma is talkative. Perhaps, in dedienting herself
In her young days she was appa
After seven yours of work, salv.heart and soul to her strange now age operations in Scapa Flow will life and becoming an Indian woman be abandoned, according to a
in dress and religion and customs port published by The Times, which
she wishes to forget. adds that the scrapiron prices rea- liacd for the salvaged German resrently prone to hero-worship, for sels do no longer even cover ti
I am told that one of her early working expenses. So far, 32 ships Lamond, the pianist, whom she enthusiasms was "the playing of of the scuttled Garman Beet havo been brought to the surface and helped to make known to music towed to the break-up yards. Of Patrons in England.
these, 6 were battlecruisers of 20,000 | And in thia bscctio Indian ro- on displacement. The remaining former and champion of a vast 14 ships, lying at a depth of over people she has found a 'hero to serve hundred feet will be left to their wholeheartedly, an ideal sufficiently fate.
strong to make her change her whole life,
FRENCH LAID UP SHIPPING.
Returns for Oct. 10 show that the gross tonnage of ships laid up in of the taking of hundreds af micro. French and Algerian ports increas photographs such dust is found to fed by 4,053 tons during the quar- contain white, round, opaque, cellu tur. The statistics, with Julylar bodies, transparent, glass-like figures in parenthesis, are as fol-partiden, and yellow to brown Lows: Passeriger liners. 36,359 tons crystals, all of which are ash parti. Kross (87,010); chrgo steamers, cles that have been, melted. A 521,710 (187,827); sailing vessels, portion of the d'ast, both from 15,498 (15,314), miscellaneous, 9283 stoker fired and pulverised fuel (5711); total, 300,836 (568,789). In furnaces will also be found to con- addition there are in French waters three idle forsign steamers, total ling 11,858 tons. One French vessel, of 1380 tons gross, is reported as laid up abroad.
BRITISH IRON AND STEEL.
sist of coked (partially burnt) coal of various shapes and sizes, black opuque globular bodies of unknown origin, and unburnt cond particles.
A large proportion of the white paque globular bodies and brana- parent. particles re sufficiently According to the statistics of the Eght to out on water, and inci- National Federation of Iron and dentally this shows the difficulties Steel Manufacturers, the number of trying to remove dust from gases of blast furnaces in operation at by use of water sprays... The. the end of August was 64;. 6 fur- opaque white particles usually 'pre- naces having been blown out dur dominate in the dust from pulver- ing the month. Production of pigised fael boilers, being expecially | iran amounted to 275,700 tons com abundant in the dust frou boilers | pared with 317,000 tons in July and using turbulent burners,
It seems 416,700 tons in August 1930.
clear these particles are formed From list of the more import
The production includek. 38,100
from the ash portions having ant orders secured by United King tons of hematite, 104,000 tons of high melting point, and probably dom firms from the Egyptian Ocv-1 basic, 89,000 tons of foundry and result from the very fine ash parti- ernment between January 1, 1981, 15,200 tons of forge pig iron. The las in the plastic ur semi-molten and June 30, 1931, the appended August output of steel ingots and stage sticking together in their summary has been made.
castings amounted to 357,300 tons passage through the combustion compared with 128,700 gens in July.
chamber. Thus the complete and 451,300 tons in August 1930.
globules often have smaller nah masses adhering sometimes specks of unburnt,coal On the
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other hand the clear glass-like particles are formed from the lower melting point ush, which has insed completely, being hollow.
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are most numerous in palverized fuel fred dusts, but there is no Much valuable information hasharit and fast rule, náð auch glass- been, made available during the ke bodies are to be found with past two or three years concerning every cinas of coal firing even in one of the most important factors the scot from a donatio fire. in fuel technology, that is dust re-The suggestion has been made that moval from "chimney and other these fragile glass-like bodies re. | guers discharged to the atmosphere, sult from the passage of gases and This is largely due to the pioneer vapours from a burning coal parti- work of Davidson and Co., Ltd., ele through an outer skin of molten of Belfast, whose researches have ash. In general both the hollow in the perfecting of their new glass-like spheres and the white contrifugal and gravity dust collée opaque particles will flost on watér, tore, of which more than 500 are but the Former are very fragile and already operating in some 100 the latter iny become water- power stations, quite apart from logged, so that portions of the all feinds of dust collecting applica hollow glass-like spheres and some of the white particles will be found amongst the dust which ainka, Tho Ay interesting aspect of the sub. bulk of the latter, however, will ject is the composition of the averulobules of unknown origin, having be found to be binck, hollow... age fine dust contained in chimney thick walls which perhaps are gases both in connection with highly bituminous coal that has mechanical stoking and pulverised been melted but not carbonised to fuel fring, of which it may be various amorphous forms, mostly of any-appreciable extent, coke in stated the collectors will remove irregular shape, and also coke in 70-05 per cent. of the total accord the form of rectangular pieces, ing to he conditions. As a result lightish in colour, whilst unburnt cond is represented by black needles (Continued on nest Column.) with sharp edges.
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