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NOTICE TO THOSE WHOSE MARRIAGE WILL
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Pictorial records of weddings are highly desirable.
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NOTICE.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924-
EVERY PAIR OF EYES. is deserving of the Granfest - Care and Bit! In re Examination and the Bost Quailly in Glasses. Our Edira Time, Effort, and Equipment in our Examin tion Rooms and Factory in aimed towards The goal of
REAL CRUSOE,
How Selkirk Lived, "In "Soamion All" (HolnemAGI, 10s. Od.), Mr. E. Keble Chatterton, the well-known authority on the history of ships and the sea, tolls number of stories of adventure in
Quality
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ports on 9th August, 1924, Conaiguosaareherab... QUALITY GLASSES. notified that their cargo J being landed at their rio) into the hazardous and/or extr hazardous godowns of the Hons kong and Kowloon Wharf an Godown Co., at Kowloon, an stored at consignoos' risk:
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All broken, ahafed and damage cargo is to be left in the godown whore it will be examined 10 a., on Aug. 13th, 1924, by thi Company's Surveyors, Meani Andorson and Asho.
All claims must be prosenter within thirty days of thi stoamar's arrival hero, Afte which they cannot be recognised No claims will be recognise after the goods have left th godowns, and cargo undelivere on and after Aug. 16th. 1924, w] be subject to rent,
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They are all true, and most aro! no amazing that they are far more dramatic and thrilling than tho best of fiction. In fact, a real ad venture is the basis of one of the Anost romancos ever writton,
Everyone knows that Alexan- der Selkirk went out in Dampier's privatuering expedition in 1703. and that when the ship toncheri at the island of Juan Feraanpoz. off the coast of Chile in the following year, he asked, in con. ajuence of a quarrel with his -captainrto-be-put-astoro thero. It was from the account of his experiences that Defoo wrote Robinson Crusoe.
FORGOT ENULISH.
Now, on the last day of January: 1709, Juan Fernandez | was sighted by the frigatos of
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and a boat was ashore. It return- ed with an abundance of crayfish, and “a_mon clothed in goat skins, who looked wilder than tho first owners of them. He hadi boon on the island four years and? four months. I agreed with him to lo mate on board our ship,' writes Rogers.
Selkirk told togers all about his experiences how he built) himself two buts with pimento traes how he got firs by rubbing) two sticks of wood together on his kneos: how he lived on crayfish and goat's flash, boir tho island was overrun with cats and rats which had come ashore from ships; how, when his cloths wore out, ho made himself K cost and cap of goat skin, using
nail for, a neodle. On coming aboard ho had so far. forgot the English language for. want of so that the trigato people could scarcely understand him.
A curlonx footnote to the story is supplied by the fact that the Drosdon, which escapod after tho Battle of the Falklande. was surprised and dostroyed by British cruisers at this island of Juan Fernandez.
Crayfish are still very plentiful,). and the owner of the fisheries was much annoyed at the invas ion of the warships.
RINGLETS THE NEW FAD. Parisian milliners are devising
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out their scanty funds by selling ERAPION No: 1
the employment of children bas fruit. Suddenly, following the IERAPION No. 2
passed both House and Senate murilor of a policeman by mem it will come before the State bors of the President's Body RAPIONNA&gislaturos for adoption at their gard, no one was permitted to next sessions and the fight will leave the Palace without spocial not be won until at least thirty-permission and the fruit business two States have approved it.
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