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DISCOVERY OF PEARLS
PRECIOUS GEM WORTH £600
RICH NORTHERN TERRITORY.
Sydney, N.S.W. Pearls worth about £3,000 were discovered in Northern Territory waters, says the Administrator (Lieutenant-Colonel R.H. Weddell) Statistics published In Prague in his report for the year ended. show that one citizen in every seven June 30 list, and the most precious le lable for seizure of goodo forgem among them was valued non-payment of debt.
£000,
A memorial hall is to be erected to the lato Miss Charlotte Gow- roy, the ploncor principal of the Crouch End High School for Correspondents. Girls, who spont her life fighting: for the proper education of girls. For her, however, the proper education of girls' did not conslet in providing them with public schoole modelled as closely as possible upon those of their brothers.
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Nor did she encourage them to compete with the male members of their family by seeking to enter the professions or the commercial world.
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Her aim was to educate her girls to excel in all "womanly and wifely accomplishments," sical work was of great value, in her opinion, not as an aid to benu- ty nor oven because it produced healthy body, but because a fit body la more likely to house well-balanced mind."
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A struggle between a ken and a snake .at Ventersdorp, South Arrica, lasted for five minutes and the hen killed the snake.
But an hour later the hen died from the snake's poisoned bite.
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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.
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AGENCIES AND BRANCHES :-
ALOR STAR KLONO BRANCHES :—Dombay, Calcutta, Chlost, AMBITRAR IPOR plombe, Hongkong. Madres, Shanghali BANGKOK Bingeporn.
BATAVIA Agencies--in at the principal towne pi the world.
BOMBAY General Exchange And Banking Dates CALCUTTA transacted. Loans and overdraits granted on CANTON approved aecority, Current and Fizad Depositi CATHPORE keppunta opened.
BAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT:Interest COLONDO allowed at rates which may be obtained on
evening was the Coolles' race which The outstanding event of the
provided a close finish. Contrary to expectations the
his antrants in
di In 1931 pearling operations re-event displayed dine form and cut in through the water faster sulted in a shell-take of 225 tons better style than some of the swimplication.
TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF of mother-of-pearl shell, valued at mers who contested the men's approximately £45,000, the greater
and TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES lesuad A disappointing water-polo game PASSENGENS' LETTERS OF the better between portion of which was
Victoria Recreation the grade. The limited output of shell Club and the Chinese Athletic As-Home Line stansers, and at Porta of Call HONGKONG RANGOON
first team concluded the British Income Tax Recovated.
Executorships and "Trusteeships undertaken,
and
Tacos,
has resulted in a steady market, ramme,. The visitors won by 21 Murli, a tom-cat belonging to the with pricen well advanced, but proprietor of a grocery shop in careful consideration should be goals to 1 in a game marred by bad Vienna, is believed by its owner to given to the possibility of the tackling and poor refereeing. C. one of the largest in the world. restriction policy being defeated by Roza-Pereira scored both the V.R.C. local pearlors operating from bases goals and Young Man-kit scored for statues, adjacent to Australian territorial]'
RESULTS. waters.
Ho weighs seventeen pounds.
Ttwenty-one wouden some of them cight feet high, are being used as bechives by a farmer
in the village of Hoofel Bohemia, shell was raised was 44 fathoms, The greatest depth from which Miss Cowdroy, considered that Some of the statues were erected by There were no deaths from divers the set face, muscular rigidit monks In the seventeenth century-paralysis. Thirty-nine divers were The remains of a sixteen-year- licensed, and, 37 permits for divers
tenders werd issued old Princess have just been cremat. physical work, inevitably producoded at Loethen, Anhalt, Germany, a corresponding loss of resilience, poise and grace of mind.
and ungainly carriage which ro- sults, from Home
systems of
The memorial which is being planned to commemorate her work in the school which she ruled as principal for many years, is to include a new hard tennis court and an outdoor classroom. When the latter is built, there will be sufficient room for the whole school to be accommodated in the open air.
Shortly before she died, Miss Codroy finished a book which is to be published under the title of "Wasted Womanhood."-Router,
THAMES AS A MUSEUM
ITS MUD HAS MANY
TREASURES
But the Princess died more than 300 years ago.
£50,000 CAPITAL. Indentured Japanese, Koepanga, | Her remains lay in the tombs of and Malay Labour, the only labour the Princely house of Anhalt with which the Industry is con- Koethen, in St. Jacob's church. Aducted, was recruited from Japan spark from a lamp set the tomb on and the Dutch East Indies. The fire and the coffin of the princess behaviour of the indentured crews was destroyed.
was; in the main, satisfactory.
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While
the Chinese,
The following were the results; Boya 60 Metres Free Style:--
1. Lau Ping-pui
2. Tong Po-cheung
3. Mul Chi-cheung
Timo: 32 secs.
Girl's
200 Metres Breast Stroke:—,
1. Miss Chan Ngan-ching
2. Miss Chul Pul-tin
8. Miss Chan Chih-tal Time:
3
mine, 59.-8/6 secs. Men's 100 Metree Free Style-
1. Ng Wah-chau
2. Yeung Man-kit
1. Mul Chih-choung Time: 72-7/10 secs. Ladies Go
50
The increased exchange rate now Josef Wyobck, aged 40, of War prevailing has added to the over- saw enjoys a peculiar diet.
head expenses of the master be was resisting arrest, handcuffs were put on him, but he promptly pearler, but these are more than broke these and swallowed them rate of exchango on shell sold in favourably balanced by the inward When taxed by the judge, he London and in New York. boasted of his "ostrich" digestion, and claimed that before the war he The private capital invested in 60 used to swallow coins and watches. the pearling industry in boats, He was sent to prison for engines, fittings, diving apparatus, month in which to digest the hand-sorting sheds, and dwellings cuffs.--Reuter.
estimated at £50,000. The re- stricted shell output has necessarily resulted in the lay-up of a number of pearling boats. The value of these boats may be regarded as dead capital, and the depreciation on pearling vessels, particularly in the trupica is rather high.-Reuter,
Acid For
Baths
FEW REVELATIONS Body Burns
London.
As the Thames rolls darkly
Hen-Pecked
through London to the sea, people NEW SAVIOUR TO Husbands
think of it as an artery of com merce, as the most historic of England's waterways or if they lack imagination-just as a river. But they ever think of it na -something-clao-which--it-un- doubtedly is a museum. His
HUMANITY
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A new bath treatment for bad,
Hold Meeting
is
body burns was described recently NEW DEMANDS TO before the American Medical As toric treasures ranging over some sociation. Tho lives of persons 3,000 years have been discovered severaly burned by petrol ex- in the mud which forms its bed, plosions, ignited clothing or ex usually during dredging operatensive scalds may be saved by tions.
tannic acid baths, it is claimed.
BE MADE
The famous
London, "Adom-without-
Metres Free Style:- 1. Misa Lo Kwai-chan 2. Miss Chan Woon-king
Suk-ping Miss Wong Time: 40.-3/5 BCCH
3.
1.
Metres Free Style (Open to St. John'a Ambulance Brigade) ;- Chok Shui-fook
2. Fung
3. Cheung
веся
Metres Veteran's Free Style:-
1. Fung Tai cho
2. Tam Kit-pang
3. Chang Seng
Time: 21 seca.
60 Metres Mixed Relay:
1. Ng Sun-ying
.. Ng Kam-chuon
Wah-chau and Miss Ng
and Mas La Kwai-chan
8. Young Man-kit and Miss Wong Suk-heng
Time: 24.8/5 accs.
Greasy Pole:**
1. Mul Chih-cheng
2. Ng Tak-wing
Coolies 50 Metres Free Style:-
1. Tam Hok
2. Tam Chang'
3. Tam Kam
Time: 35.-2/5 BOCA.
WHOLE VILLAGE SWALLOWED UP
BY VIOLENT EARTH MOVEMENTS
Belgrade.
A muzzle-loading bronze gun The bath provides a method of Eve" club, secret organisation of has been found off Free Trade
preventing infection, previously hen-pecked husbands, has held its Wharf, and bones, weapons and difficult because of the great pain. annual "freedom" meeting.
The whole of the beautiful vill coins have been found at varidus suffered by victims of burns. One
age
of Berkovatz, near -times. It has given up relies of doctor said that he believed that land
The rally was held in a moor- Gornjitopanza, has been swallowed the mighty beasts which reamed most of the deaths and exhausting Yorkshire."
hamlet, "somewhere in up or wrecked-by violent earth the swamps and plains or made illnesses resulting from burns were of the rendezvous was that no
One of the rules movements. their homes in the huge forests due to infection alone. The ta man who went was to tell his which covered the land in the dimnic acid bath relieves pain to such past long before the world had
an extent that scrupulous cleaning heard of Nome.
wife.
A molluse dating from the period those were the days when the island enjoyed A tropical climate, and acons before history began, has been found bedded deep in London clay, while the bones, feath, and great curved tusks of that fearsome prehistorie other parts of the body, even to the the demand for a night out once The proposals this year include "elephant"--a mammoth have membranous lining which is sup- a week, more pocket money, and been unearthed from a bed of plied from the museus membrane less dish-washing.. glacial gravel near Thames Haven, of the mouth. Eyebrows and eye- Exquisitely designed figures of lashes can be made from fragments
of burned areas is possible.
Human facea burned beyond re: bands with nagging wives. Each Membership is open to all hus- cognition now can be made over by new member is initiated with the graphs and plaster models are used "swears by the snake" to support surgeons. Old and new photo secret ceremonial in which he as guides in the process.
When eyelids are burned away,
the club's proposals. new ones can be made of skin from
When most of the people were working in the fields, terrific rumblings were heard below the village. Houses. rocked and fell in ruins. Roads disappeared. In yawning clefts. Hills subsided; flat ground became hilly. Trees were shattered.
time to escape by fleeing into the The few people in the houses had forests-but the possessions of 50 the whole area around the village families have been destroyed. Now has been officially declared "un- safe," and the housea are to be rebuilt a mile away.
hillside on which the village was Underground water beneath the
The club made merry at its gods of the Roman Panthoon, and of the scalp. Noses and ears, al- annual gathering over the news the bronze head of a statue of most obliterated, may be restored by that the Threatened Wives' Defence built is said to have been the cause the Rome Emperor Hadrian are manipulations of the skin-Reuter. Club has disbanded-Reutor. other discoveries.
Bronze spear heads and shields which wore a thousand years old when Jullus Caesar's galloya appeared off Britain's shores In 66 B.C. have been found. So have
the Iron head of a Saxon spear, a dug-out canoo. 17th century clay nipes, and a dug-out canoe...... and so the list might go on, al- most for over-Reuter.
GOLD YIELD INCREASE
Australia's Greater Productivity
of
Melbourne, Victoria.": Вослива of the Increased price and the reduced costs
production, the yield of gold In. Australia continued to increase. In the first three months of 1958 the estimated totai ylald) was 0174,625 on, or approximately £18,000 on, more than in the first quarter of 1983, and 50,000 10%, more than Jn the corresponding
of the disaster. Retter...
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