SERVICE MATTERS.
Scotland's First Admiral
GENERAL NEWS,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1913,
THE AMERICA CUP.
The Question of Designing
the Defender.
Writing in the "New York Evening Post," the sporting con- tributor "Fair Play" saye
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King's Tiger for Dublin.
The newly created post of During the King's last visit to senior officer on the Coast of India he shot several, tigers, one Scotland is the logical outcome of which, a particularly fine of the developments which have to the National Museura of Ire specimon, la decided to present
MEIRION, No. 10, Poak, TO LET AT KOWLOON, With a race for the American'a
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NEW MODERN 3 ROOM- Cheap Rental/ ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms been made during the past decade land The tiger has been set up cap assured for 1914-the New 6 Rooms.
No. 21, SHELLY STREET. Pantry, Kitchen and Servants' by the Admiralty in the main in a crouching attitude as if ready York Yacht Club and Royal
No. 59 The Peak, 6 "CAM- Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with strategic theatre.
to spring, and is now exhibited Ulster Committees have about At various
in the natural history section of reached the end of their negotia ERON VILLAS," Mount Kollot. English Baths. Kitchen has En- To let or for sale, `GLEN-glish Cooking Range and Hot points along the East Coast, and the museum in Kildare-atreat, tione relating to conditions, both SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 184, Water Boiler, Electric Light in particular from the Firth of Dublin,
reserving definite announcement Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, throughout Immediato Poss08 Forth to the Orkneys, naval bases
until everything is sealed, signed, 1913.
sion. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED have been established, and sobremes
and delivered-attention of racing CRAIG RYRIE,' No. 4, the TERRACE HOUSES WITH are in band for the provision of
¡members of the defending club is Peak to let; fine altuation; 8 TENNIS COURTS, Now roady oil fuel and coal depots, aviation His Excellency the Governor turning to consideration of plaus rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. for occupation. Apply to: stations, and other notable devel- of Singapore has been pleased to for the defence of the trophy. It To let, furnished "KIRKEN-HUMPHREYS ESTATE opments. Meanwhile, the great approve of Captain B. . Llewel-is to be regretted that no definite DOA" No. 113 The Peak, till FINANCE Co, Ltd. Daval base and dookyard at Rosign and Lieutenant H. Millard steps have been taken either on 30th September. Immediate pos- "yth is within monaurable distance being placed on the reservo list the part of yachtsmen, and con- session.
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Singapore Volunteer Officers.
corps. Lieutenant E. A. Brown has been promoted to the rank of captain..
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Alexandra Buildings. One Godown, Duddell Street. designers, looking to the pro-ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-
FOR SALE HARTING and Hongkong, 22nd May, 1918. duotion of a defendor.
land Lot No. 1154.
of completion, and the time has of officers, Singapore Volunteer sequently not on the part of arrived when it is felt that the Admiralty should be represented permanently in Scotland by a flag
We have alwaye been late in FOR SALE. LADBROKE." officer, The importance with
matters such as this, and onco, in No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View which their Lordships regard this
the case of Constitution, which of harbour; & Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, step is indicated by the selection At Doncaster James Greonball, did not bave time for proper Garden and Tennis Court. Ac-| of an officer with the seniority of 17 pany boy at the Maunders tuning up, there dilatory methods comodations for 30 Servants. Sir Robert Lowry, who stands Main Colliery, was sent to prison resulted in the failure of the sloop third on the vice-admirale list, for three months for cruelty to a and the wasting of several and was given the K.C.B in the pony. Greenhall heat the pony hundred thousands of dollars. The recent Birthday honours, thus with a pickshaft, kicked it, and fact that the new racer must enabling the first holder of the belaboured it with an iron bar, be built under the uniform rulo, appointment of senior oflicer on the Coast of Scotland to endow the office with dignity na woll
the professional ability acquired by 46 year's servico,
The Firing of H.M.S. Orion. The battleship Orion, which was at the top of the list of ships armed with the 13.5in. gun in Inst year's battle practice, har just completed this year's teni with continued success, The actual figures of her practice are, of course, confidential, but it may be said that she has broken al "records," and that unless the firing of other ships is very exceptional hor performance can not be eclipsad.
the wounds penetrating to the
not as boats usually have been bone. The pony was paralysed built under that rating, but under through spinal injuries and died
few duse later.
S1. Paul's Cross.
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the fact that the water-line in the present challenge has been It has been decided to regild definitely stated, means that de dre cross, bull, and truesos of St. aigners who may be called upon Rond. Paul's Catedral, and scaBolding to produce a single-sticker for already being ret, up for this cup-defence racing have a kt of purpose. The cost of the opera-studying ahead of them. tions, which will probably take Nicholson Hard at Work.. two months or more, will amount
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to a large sum. Of this sum the came over here for the polo cost of setting up the ecoffolding match told me that Nich are entirely different, and des- will account for an inconsiderable pleon get to work upon aiguers, so to speak, must work part, but the actual regilding is challenger as acon as Lipton's backwards. That is to say, the very expensive, as only the challenge was accepted, which rating can vary, but the water best English
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means that by this time he is line, which is specifically sot down leaf, as it is technically described, well along, in his ideas, at least in the challenge and approved by This is the third occasion on will be used. This is actually This is not the case here, by any the defenders, may not vary. It is which the Orion has recently pure gold, beaten out and placed means; and, if Americans wait fixed. Fixed water line means fixed carried out special gunnery teats on transfer paper treated with until fall before giving their displacement, so that the designer She took part in a competition paraffin wax and is double the orders, the outconie may not be has nothing but his sail area 10 lethargy in the New York Yacht with the Thunderer when the thickness ordinarily employed for altogether satisfactory. Constit- trouble him. Just one thing-it Club aboutAmerica's cup matters, latter was fund with Sir Percy outdoor work. The scaffolding willution, referred to in the foregoing, sounds simple, but it is not at all anyway, these days. Polo, of course. Scott's director, that test 1 singhe extremely simple, consisting of Wie a good enough boat, bat simple for the object of the des- hoe absorbed a great deal of confined to a comparison of the ittle more than a few ladders, there were various defecta which igner will be to build a boat with attention of the members, and two systems of aiming. In the and the work will be carried out took study and time to rem-fixed water line and fixed dis with the international match out one ship all the guns wore laid by by a firm of experts in the fixing edy, and, as it proved, there was placement with as little sail area of the way, it is optirely probable an officer at the director, and in of lightning conductors.
not time enough, so Columbia was as will drive the bull at its high that interest in the defence of the the other by individual layers
'Congress Committee for the
chosen to defend the trophy. eat apead. There must not be too famous trophy will be awakened. at each gun. In the circum-
Philippines.
Under the present rules of rat- small rail ares, for a seventy-five. Many yachtsmen rather closely: stances the system of simultaneous
From the congressional recording, designer has a fairly easy fot water-line eloop is n big bulk involved in the arrangements for firing exhibited manifest advan-
This Milk once opened, keeps longer than tages, but it was felt by many just received in Manils the full time in laying down his boat of a boat, and requires power, no the race seem actually to hold the naval officers that in a trial ander personnel of the House committee has to design to rating, and matter how artistic her design. idea that anything that is said
difficult conditions then insular effairs is learned. thus has three elements to juggle A designor thus will be in a about the cup race is tantamount ordinary Milk and can be used for any purpose for
which ordinary Cows' Milk is generally used. Orion might have made a better William Atkinson Jones, father with: sail area, dieplacement, and delicate position. He may decide to an advertisement for the chal- of the Jones independence bill, is water line. For example, three to give his at a sail area lenger, and, this, as a conse showing. After the director trials, the Orion ont ried out experiments the chairman, and associated with rate rating in the same class, which will require her to give quence, may in large part, be Bay, Joyant, Windward, and time to her opponent, or he may accepted as accounting for the to test certain parts of the Pollen him are Finis J. Garrett, of Tep-Michicago, need not necessarily be decide to design a bost which close-mouthed attitude of the Butomatic fire-control system, nessee, Harvey Helm, of These tests were particularly tucky, Martin A. Harison, of of the same water-line longth; they will stand a good chance of taking defending club. Their idea is to interesting, not only as in Indiana, James S. Davenport, of probably are not- I am selecting time from ber competitor. Races have the series arranged and dicating the advantages to bo Oklahoma, Oscar Callaway, of these three boats merely at hap sometimes are won by giving sailed with as little brage-band obtained by using the Pollen Texas. Henry M. Goldfogle, of hazard-bat as long as other elt-time and sometimes by taking it. music and shouting and fuss and Tel. 66. automatic change-of-range and New York, J. A. Goulden, of New mente, viz., Bail area and displace- The point to be decided in this feathers as possible, in the hope bearing clock, but because of the York, Joseph J. Rusrell, of Mis ment, bring their ratings to even case in which sort of a craft to that next time a peer of the realm, design. It is more than likely or some other English yachtsman unusual conditions under which souri, Warren W. Bailey, of Penn- terms, there is no objection.
But in the care of the that one or the other of the boats aside from Sir Thomas, will come they were carried out. The Orion sylvania, I. B. Stringer, of ron at a far higher speed than is Illinois, Clement L. Brumbaugh, America's cup racers, conditions will give some time-the question forth to give that aspect of variety
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customary at battle
of Ohio, Walter Elder, of Louis- which, with the courts chosen for iana, J. Tompson Baker, of New the target resulted in a very high Jersey, Horses M. Towner, of rate of change, and the teate infowa, Clarence B. Miller, of claded an attempt to keep the Minnesota, Simeon D. Tess, of target under fire while the Ohio, James A Frear, of Wiscon- firing ship was under full sin. George M. Young, of North Dakota and J. A. Falconer, of Washington.
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