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Proposed Reduction of
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AMERICA CUP.
The Preliminary Trials of
The Challenger,
Interest in everything apper- A telegram from Santiago states that the nitrate producere taining to next year's contests for the America Cup will grow space are trying to arrange for a re- duction of four million quintals that a commencement has been made with the actual con- in the output for 1014. Argentine Navigation Debenture Reports.
We understand that no steps have yet been taken by the Argentine Navigation Company to issue Debentures, though the advisability of such an operation has been under discussion.
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Captain J. E. Simpson, King's Own Light Infantry, on vacating the adjatancy of the 3rd Reserve Battalion, has taken over a com- | pany in the home battalion.
Captain A. R. 9. Sale-Bill Somerset LI, who had been placed on the temporary half-pay list on account of ill-health, has been for some time with the 2nd
atruction of Shamrock IV, says a Battalion at Tientsin. He joined home paper. The odds which Sir the "Light Bobs" through the militis 14 years ago, and got his Thomas Lipton has to face may by 'gathered when it is considered company in 1909. He was in the that probably no fewer than five Boer war, 1899-1902 (Queen's and yobts will be built in America King's medals, with seven clasps). from which to select the tat for and was for four years attached the actual defence. As all these the West African Frontier Force. Lietenant G. T. Raikes, South verele will naturally be built in accordance with the American rnie Wales Borderers, has been se of measurement, to which, under conded for service with the
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Krupp Profits and Dividend. The Timer Berlin Correspon dent telegraphe that the profita
the defenders bave a decided ad- vantage upon this point alone.
competing yachts must conform,
The trial horve for the chal- THE STEAMER VORONEJI, langer in her preliminary triala in English waters will be the exist
In the Probate, Divorce, and ing Shamuck, the 23-metre cul- Admiralty Division, before the ter, built in 1908. She is not of Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans, the same type as the challenger on November 10, a motion by the will be, but in the nearest appro- owners of the Russian steamship ach to the type that there is in Voroneji to set aside the writ or England. Whether a series of -tay proceedings in an notion of tests between this beat and the damage instituted against them. new one, upon which work has by the owners of the Austrian just been begun, will reveal much tearnship Saterenji came on for in regard to the possibilities of hearing. A collision took place success in the eventual contesta between the two vessels at Con- next year is entirely a matter of stantinople, and the plaintiffs, conjecture. Some such tests are with the assent of the Austro of the Krupp firm last year reabsolutely necessary, however, as Hungarian Consul, instituted a from £1,476,000 to £1,830,000, the most expert yaslitsinan can laim in the Russian Cansular tho most satisfactory result obtained in the history of the form but very vague opinions of Court at Constantinople, and began proceedings there againet the Russian vessel. Then the Voroneji, which belonged to the Fastest Cutter.
Rassion Volunteer Floot, left for The existing Shamrock is the Far East, but on touching who has proved herself to be the informed by the plaintiffs' solicti- vessel of known quantity, and one at Singapore the defendants were fastest cutter in England ander tors that unless the defendants the international le. Surpise would accept service of a writ in wan manifoated, however, when London in proceedings in the it became known recently that Admiralty Court, the Voroneji the skipper who had had charge would be arrested by proceedings of her since the day of her launch in the court at Singapore. The had been deposed for one who defendante therefore appeared has not hitherto had charge of ander protest to the writ in Lon
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Pankhurat, in Ford Road, from house of their colonel, Miss Sylvia
which plecs she would address them.
Mias Emerson ale) said that
they were negotiating for an open spars on which the " army could lilled. Their intent on on, and agreed, without pre-was-so-to-train-the-meml-era-of- judice to put in bail, and the
the corps that they uld praed present motion was taken out.
in forca to Downing-street, and there impris› Cabinet Ministers in their houses until they ennced." ed woman anfrage. They had
Allured by "Rubber."*
The policy of thus changing The allurements of rubber planting and other "back to the skippers has given rise to con- No reflec- land" pursuits, and some dissatis-siderable comment.
The learned president, in giv faction with the conditions of tione are cast upon the ability of
ing judgment, said that on the their service, recently induced the newly appointed skipper, affidavits and documents he was several P. and O. officers to turn, whose reputation is excellent, not satisfied that the plaintifla so to speak, their sextante into The point is whether now man had begun proceedings in Con- latex cups and ploughsbares, says can be expected to get as much the Straits Times. The improve out of the boat, at any rate in the "tantinople. There was therefore ment in the conditions of their first few trials, as one who has no lis alibi pendens and be old service, compared with the sailed her through for sonsons of accordingly made no order. Costs conditions on several estates hard racing against a vessel of where hasty ex-sailors now abide, her own calibro, and has thus hse impressed these latter with had every opportunity of finding the virtue of constancy. At least out every little whim of here. a letter to Singapore tells us that the surprised jungle in several places now resounds to the tearful trains of "A Life on the Ocean Wave!!!
Maldan Voyage.
Under any circumstances, it is asked, would it not have been
in the cause.
SUFFRAGE ARMY RECRUITING.
more instructive to all concerned Boxing and Fencing to be Taught. in the welfare of the new chal-
lenger to have had the old boat. In view of the telegram announ- sailed ander conditions similar to cing that the women suffragists Messrs. Workman, Clark & Co., those under which she created are taking ap boxing and jiujitsu to repel the police, it is interesting of Belfast, have launched the her excellent record?
The period available for preli- to read that the enrolment of the twin-sorew steamer Cardigan- shire, which has been built for minary trials in this country will" Suffragette Army" started at the Far Eastern trade of the be necessarily short, and it is Libra Hall, Bow, when about 300
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I promise to serve my country about 9,000. Accommolation for new boat without having to con- a few passengers is provided in sider whether the old boat is and my comrades under our duly comfortable state rooms in a large wailing in her old form, and thus elected officers. I will be a friend house amidshipe, while the poop providing a reliable standard of to all, and a brother to every and bridge spaces and the main comparison. It is evident, from other member of the Peace Army. deck can readily be made suit- inquiries made in yachting cirI am a sincere believer in univer- able for accommodating 1,300 eles, that there will be many who sal adult suffrage. deok passengers. One hold has will doubt the value of the tests been insulated and fitted up for the reception of general re- frigerated cargo, such as frozen meat, dairy produce, and fruit. The vessel is to leave London on her maiden voyage on December 10.
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NAVAL AND MILITARY.
Somo objection was raised to the word "country," one speaker remarking, "I haven't got & flower pot full." Eventually the undertaking was altered to read, To serve the common cause of justice and my comrades."
The officers who had expressed their intention of being present
failed to avail themselves of the
Second Lieutenant H. H. Tra- vers, who has just been appointed to that rank in the Borderers, ia marving with the 2nd Battalion, Already "Scott's Last Expedi-Tientsin, North Chins. He was tion," the brave story of the appointed to the regiment in opportunity. Even Sir Francis ill-fated Antarctic Expedition, September, 1911, published yesterday, has establish. Second Lieutenant J. B, Smal- ed a publishing record for books of ley, Gloucestershire Regiment, this class, says the Daily Mail of has resigned his commission in November 7. The first issue of "The Slashire," to which re- Women" service. several thousands in nearly ex-giment he was appointed in hausted, and a second is now in September, 1911.
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