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THE HONGYONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1914.
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The Local Cavernment Board' inquiry, Plymouth into the Sir Ernest Shackleton is now and the destroyers um, Whit amalgamation of the three towns rapial, completing his, arranging, Virago, and Taku to be mid | concludel last month. Plymouth's ments for is great Imperial out of the Royal Navy, a anfitROGATE, Austin Road, Kow- 0 LET. Bokeme was to unbox the adjoin Antarctic Expedition The famous for further service The Renown
No. 68 Poak, Mount Kellett, ing towns of Starehouse and explorar in a brilliant organizor, was built in 1805;'un cost of Church vission Society Bunga Devonpurt; but, though Stone- Nothing is left to chware, and £7-10-47 and has case for some, tow partly furnished. Cheap rent. house was willing to smalgamato every detail, oven the most 38r past to be zeger led me if No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59 ronditionally Devonport, a county minute, is dealt with as if the "ny fighting value. She was-built Peak to let fur.ished for one borough of almost equal size and fate of the expedition depended with a displacement of 1230 population, strongly opposed the entirely upon 17.
Įtone, and armel with four 10in. „rohème. It has, therefore, fallen
aud ton C ia. guns when first through.
Official Tour Of Dominions.
The Ships.
year from 1st May. 1914.
"Kellett Crest" No. 66 The
Peak, from 1st March, 1914, part-
ly furnished.
built. She has Esen used in late
No. 19, Shelley Street.. years as a yachs for be convey- TO LET. till 31st October The Polaris, renamed thence of Royal personages. The 1914, No. 64, The Peak, | Sir Hartson Just, the sporet the Weddell Sea side of the Actress claps, and was launched furnished, including Electric fans Endurance will be employed on Flora is a light cruiser of the seven rooms and drying room, ary of the Oversons Dominions. Secretarist at the Colonial Office, Antarctic under the command of Pembroke in November, 1803 and Telephone. bas left London on. a loor of Captain J. K. Davin, who is in She was recently relieved on the Australia, New Zealand, and
charge of the Muwe Expetition China, Station be the eruiser Canada, The trip is boing made lip Aurora, now on the return Yarmouth, and will pay off as Davongort on January 17. The in accordance with an expression go to Australia.
or Lieutenant Fam is one of the Thorneycroft of opinion at the last Imperial Peary's ship Rozerelt will be destroyers, built at Chiswick Conference that much good resultested for the Ross Een side of about seventeen years ago, and from a periodical interchange of visite by officials of the Dominions the Continent. All are fitted with
and the Colonial, Office. Sir Charlea Lucas: made asitailar tour in 1900.
Ski-Runners Over Precipice. Two German skiranners, hue- band and wife, lost their way while orossing a mountain pass on the Col de Balme, and fell over a precipice, The people ju the village of Trient board their cries and succeeded in rescuing the lady alive, though half Luried to snow and incantorqueritustion The husband was found dead with fractured skull, "*.
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The Aurora
wireless telegraphy,
The Men.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, head of the expedition, aged 30);
Mr. Frank Wild, second in command and surveyor, „9;
recently reinrned to England from Nrvice in the Mediterranean. The 30 knot destroyers Virago and Whiting wore built for the Royal Navy at the works, of Messrs Laird Brothers, Birken- head, and Palmer's Shipbuilding Company respectively, and have Mr. George Marston, artist and been employed for some reare in charge of clothing and elodges, on the Chita Station, where they 31;
have been replaced by more Lieutenant A. E Macintosh, modern destroyers. The Taku probably louter of the Rss Seserved in the Chino o Navy ae depot party, 335
the Schichon, and was expand Mr. A. Chestham, third offer at the time of the BSxer rebellion on the Wendell Sea ship, 36;
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good be in:ss, with small of the old General Post Office, and dogs or RNs Sea side, 39; sad right to expect when be offers "MODREENAGH," No. 21 or large cap. 1: can aut, as. to the discovery of. pot holes con-
Captain J. K. "Davis, in com to RO with men оп nah East, The Peak, from 1st April. Secretary, if suite, to a com- taining Romau antiquities. Hemand of the Weddell Sea chip. an expedition. Experience and Apply to GILMAN & Co., 8a, pany being red. adiress,
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with awnings. 15-18 H.P. Thor. shes a message from Copenhagen number of them will certainly will notice, range between biriy
neycroft enginca, In first class: stating that the King of Denmark, accompany me, Applications and forty-one."
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asked for the assistance of the Corporation in raising a fund towards reopening the holes.
It was agreed that the Library Committee should expend a um not exceeding £50 in repering the holes.
Interview With Sir Ernest.
several
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at a Cabinet Council informed the have also come from members of members of the marriage of Dr Mawson's pressut expedition. Sir Ernest Shackleton has Prices Aago, adding that theft the permission of the Admiralty recently bad interviews with Mr Prines had, himself and his dess is obtained, officers and men from Churchill, and Colonel Sealy, wit cendants, renouuead the title of the naval side of the Scott ex-regard to the loan of officers an Royal Highness and Prince of perdition will constitute the ship's men, en bath, at the Admiralty the design of the clothing to, be scorea being 250–236. Sarga Danmark. He will retain the staff on the Roes Sea.
and the War Ofice be les me worn by the memtore of the rumpeter Palmer, 87th Cuy.
title of Highness, and the King "At the present moment with every consideration. The expedition.
Jheat auuer Tyrell 83rd Way. has bestowed upon him the title | ! am engaged with Mess a War Officer has promised valuable] The main plans are for the alter a neck an 1 deck stuggle by of Count of Rodenberg. His Wild and Marston in going help in connection with the aerolecision of the leader of the one point. wife will be known as Princess through the derails of the con plane sledges and all soientific expedition, alone, and when asked Aage and Countess of Bodenber.
struetion of the motor-sledge tests that may be required, as if they had undergone any change, and toat equipment. In March well as with the supremely imir Ernest replied "None what we shall go to the porth of Nor-portant question of food values. When the London Mussum way to try them out, There we At the clices of the expedi- opens its doors this spring not hope to fine conditions similar totion in New Burlington-street the least interesting of its many those prevailing in the Antarctic, piles of skins and wover. exhibite will be the models of though with higher templabrica have been subjected to tha Old London made by Mr.Juba (erature."
The Tower in 1600.
B. Thorn. His latest (which has "What about doge'
sverest tests. The effects of water, snow, freezing, and rough usage Mr.
bron specially constructed for "I hope to have about ajare each scertained, by Mr. J. O. Joicey, who is present-hundred and twenty. Unfort. Marston and M-, Wild, who are ing it to the London Museum) usately they are very expensive two devoting close attention to represents the Tower of London now, the best running to £40
in the year of 1800. The sole each. I shall get them from is one-hundredth and covere an Alaska, where the best are bred ares of 150 square fest. Charnow," mingly executed and historically
IF you have lost your appetite, one of the big Variety to dainty dishes at the ALEX AN "How many offers of service DRA CAFE is Sure tempt
accurate down to the very cranes have you had?" and bargea by the river side, the
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the strength of the old fortress. and the qn intness of iis architec tore in Tudor times..
£1,300 Error by a Typist. A typist mistake which might have post the Commissioners, of Works over £110,000 was men- tioned in the Chancery Division recently.
The Commissioners had arranged for the building of a post office in Wimpole-street at a cost of £20,000 bat a typist in tha the office, in typing the form of contract with schedules for the contractors, Mr. William Fredor- ick King who trades as King and and Son, sccidentally substituted the words "cubic feet for cubic yarda." This multiplied the agreed cost by 27, and the Com- missioners now, applied to the Court asking that the contract should be reatified: If the error was taken for calculation, the Solictor-General explained," the $20,003 contract would work out. at $133,400 Judgment was en- tered against the defendant, the reptifination asked for being granted.
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