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Motor Mall Vans in Colo nibo.
For the first time motor mail vape are to be seen in Colombo plying between the Post Office and the Railway stations and the harbour. These, as is already known, dis- place the old-fashioned horas coach and the latter will be a thing of the past, Four Albion vans „of a scarlet pink colour have been put on two large and two small --and the mails between the Post Office and the stations will be conveyed much quicker than before Half-an-hour was al- lowed for the horse coach between the Post Office and Maradana station, but now this will be covered in half that time, while there is the advantage" of being ħable to make more than one trip if there was the need for it. The big cars hold the same quantity of wail bags as the horse cocob. -Ocgion Öbserver.
Charles Reade.
A propos of the centenary of the birth of Charles Resde, the Man- chester Guardian says it would be rather interesting to know whe ther any succeseful novelist of to-day attacks his work with the "same, coldblooded precision as did Reade. The most sensi- tive of men, he was cut to the heart when Punch invented a story of how a compositor threw
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Atlantic Waterplane. the 23rd ultimo, and I can assure tion: What was the most popular Natural Aperient Water
the Hammonds Post (New York you that the San Francisco State), June 27-Lieutenant Chamber of Commerce is no more Porte, R.N., made his third flight anxious to have the canal open for
"The universal favourite both last night in the giant flying boat the passage of ships than am I.
in America and Australia woo in which he intends to make än } an
"Fairy Pipers," by Dr. Brewer, of attempt to win the Daily fail When the Mexican trouble Gloucester," she added, and, two. $10,000 prize for a waterplane began we concentrated our planticularly favourite flight across the Atlantic in with a view to scouring a channel were "Annie Laurie" and "The seventy-two hours. With three of sufficient depth through the Lost Chord," the latter being in mechanics as passengers,Lieu-slide for the passage of ships, great demand all over America." tenant Porte covered a distance and by the time this had been found hundreds of letters im- "Wherever we went," she added, of fifteen miles over Lake Keuka. attained the movement of the. Earlier in the evening the flying slide itself had contracted the ploring us to ping songe that bust narrowly escaped being channel to such an extent as to everybody had been humming wrecked. The machine was being probibit its use by the largest
since childhood." prepared for the flights when a vessels. We then started to at tremendous rain and wind storm tack the alide directly, but, due swept over Lake 'Kenka. A to the advent of the rains, we fatty-miles-an-hour wind nearly
were not able to do more than
The Stackhouse Expedition. lifted the monster machine off the old our own at first. At the
Mr. J. Foster Stackhouse'a stocks where it rested on the present time we are goining on
British Antarctio Expedition is to shore. Lieutenant Porte is very the slide, but the movement hae sail from London in December. anxious to start the Transatlantic flight before the end of the second used a shoaling of the original The programme has been con- take four to five years to com- week in July. His anxiety is due channel, necessitating again its siderably extended, and will now
put to the fear that another airman deepening. It is possible to may steal a murch on him, and boats through, but should a move plete. It was originally intended win the Daily Mail prize.
ment of the slide occur to stop to undertake soundings on the navigation the canal would never outward and homeward voyages, recover from the effects, and I but Mr. Stackhouse now comtem Rinderpest in the Philippines. have concluded that the better plates girdling the world in an The number of new cases of policy is not to attempt to pass oceanographical survey which rinderpest in the Philippines, as commeres until we are sure that may equal in resalta the voyage well as the number of fatalities when the boats are
of the Challenger. The expedi once put from the disease in the provinces, through they can continue with- tion will survey some 1,300 miles has again increased during the out interruption.
of the Antarotio cosetline. The week ending July 4, while during
I will advise you as soon as I oceanographical survey includes
the past seven days the disease caz safely see that this result can the new routes following on the
has still continued to spread be accomplished. Respectfully, opening of the Panama Canal.
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and the charts show a voyage of over 150,000 miles.
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