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Cars

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HEAD OFFICE & SHOW ROOM IN PEDDER STREET.

SHIPPING.

LIBRARIES FOR LONG VOYAGE EXIPS.

of a movement which has at the back

of it educationists, shipowners: and seafarers.

National Sailors' and

THE CHINA MAIL.

GENERAL NOTES.

DULLEST LONDON,

TOO MUCH CONTROL.

VISITORS DRIVEN ARROAD.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of command. The yacht curies a CIOW June 16 last year the "Kiyo Haru," of 85 men. 9,000 tons displacement,left Yokohama Harbour or Kobe after having dis- charged her South American cargo for the northern Japan port, Fire broke out from waste in the engine room shortly after the vessel left the harbour and off Hommoku the steamer was out of control owing to the crew secure as the last of our romantic land of which all visitors are com having been forced from the engine institutions. But scientific advance plaining lies in the continued existence

has made him unnecessary and, of war-time restrictions. economy has doomed him dispensable.

room. The 0.8.K. steamer "Africa

Mara" answered the distress signals and began rescuing the passengera, who were helpless on the blazing ship owing to the life boats having been

burned.

In future, England's coasts will be illuminated automatically. Changing times! The lighthouse keeper seemed

docus Channel,' Shanghai. It is

painted red and black and has been anchored in a position corresponding to the south-eastern extremity of the middle ground, between Cooper Bank crossing and the entrance of the Demodochs Channel.

The secret of the dullness of Eng|

American and foreign visitors to

Hotel proprietors are not permitted to supply residents with any liquor except between 12 and 2.30 pm, and between 6 and 10 p.m. If a-resident wants a glass of wine, whisky, or beer at any other time he must order it beforehand and pay for it as

be gets it.

Ralph Nevill, who has written

May shipbuliding returns from London are making their stay as Clyde yards show a Considerable drop short as possible in order to exchange from the same month last year, and the deadly dullness of England under is accounted for by workers going on The "West Jester," on her way to short time. Eleven vessels of 22,625 the Liquor Control Board for the Yokohama and Seattle, had just been tons were launched, as compared ghter pleasures of Brussels and Paris, pulled off the sand st Yokosuka with 61,501 in May last year. There when she received a wireless message is also a falling off of 300 tons from from Mr. Herbert Hall, manager of April. the American Trading Company in Yokohama, to stand by and give all A large new buoy has been estab possible aid to the burning ship.lished at the entrance of the Demo Shortly after 5 o'clock in the afternoon the American steamor, which was commanded by Captain Fatrick J. Woods, approached the Kiyo Maru" and in the rough sea went alongside on the windward side. Using their fire hose, the crew of the "West Jester " fought the fire until 10.30 o'clock, when the wind switched and blew the flames across the deck of the rescuing vessel, burning the lifebosts and blistering the side of the ship Captain Woods pulled his ship out of danger and clamped her on the other side of the burning ship. The flames were fought all through the night and were finally extinguished about 8.30 o'clock the next morning.

The Japanese vernacular papers frequently report the activities of the Yamashita Kisen Kaisha, especially in overseas trade. It is now reported that the company has decided to open so American-Australian line between San Francisco and Australia or New Zealand from next month. be preparing for the opening of a The company is further reported to line between Seattle and Sao Paolo, Brazil whether via Panama is not stated.

new

and edited several books of remints- cences, including those of his mother, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and than whom

no man knows London better writes: Anyone who has not visited Lon- doo since the early part of 1914 must find it difficult to realise that we really did win the war.

PUSSYFOOT SUPPERS.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1921.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

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HADDOCKS

KIPPERS

RED HERRINGS

80 cents per lb.

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$1.30 per Ib.

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THE DAIRY FARM, ICK & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

NUNNERY WIFE.

NULLITY SUIT STORY,

DESERT ISLAND "INNOCENCE.”

should throw himself beneath a train and his mother would dia of grief and she would have two deaths on bar conscience. He said he was French. She eventually found he wis Russian. On his visiting card be szid he was an artist, but he told her he sold furniture on the monthly instalment plan. He assured her that if she found she did not love him when he came to her in London sha could tear up the note. She thought that what she signed was merely an engagement forts

WHAT IS A SPINSTER ? The Lord Chancellor told counsel that the ceremony was referred to as marriage in the pleading. Now Mrs. Korel said it was something else, and that she did not understand the questions put to her during the cere mony,

Londoners, instead, are being treated as if they were under the heel

The story that a girl who had of some austere conqueror, the night life of their city being now about as been to school at a nunnery did not exciting as that of Criccieth, while know she was going through a cere. ending at the same honten.

When the vexations liquor restric-ony of marriage, and felt light tians under which we suffer came headed after eating chocolates, was into force, definite and solemn assur told in the Divorce Court, when the ances were given that with the dawn Lord Chancellor (Lord Brikenhead) In her day the "Japan"and her sister. A claim for salvage was presented

of peace full social liberty would be heard the petition of Mrs. Rose ressels were the smartest ships onto the Toro Risen Kaish, but

restored. The keepmg of pledges, Korel, otherwise Cohen, for a decree the Pacific, continues the paper, and Captain Harloe of the Shipping Board As a result of a meeting of the however, means little to politicians of nullity of her marriage in Cape CULTURE IN THE FO'CASTLE. their original appearance on the trans did not allow the case to be taken Wireless Committee of the Chamber well accustomed to the tortuous paths town with Henry Korel, on the

Pacific route created a greater sensa into court. After the matter has of Shipping, and conferences with of equivocation.

ground of fraud and duress. tion than did the advent of the large been pending for about a year the the authorities concerned, a

Mr. H. Woolf, for Mrs. Koral, said Empresses of more recent years. It is mum of 200,000 has been decided on agreement concerning wireless in-

Questioned by the Lord Chancellor, With regard to the apparent on the day on which she was to Buil said that last year the company as recompense for the work of the stallations on ships has just been apathy of theatrical managers, whose for England Mr. Korel induced her Mrs. Korel said her conversations considered putting the "Empress of commander and crew of the American drawn up with the Marconi Company.

engagement only, and English but he spoke very bad essays, and be tutored by correspon-service as

Jack is going to read books, write Japan" on the Calcutta-Hongkong freighter and that is the amount of the The new agreement puts an end business is being seriously affected to sign a document which she under with her husband were always in

a feeder for the trans check handed to representatives of various disabilities the shipowner had the suppression of anything but stond was

Pussyfoot" suppers, a prominent she would say that he gave her English and she did not speak it as dence, or at any rate that is the ideal Pacific liners.

the Shipping Board and Frank Water-to face concerning operators, cost of figure in dramatic circles, in a letter chocolates, after which she felt light well then as she did now She saiced

running, and length of agreement. The Montreal headquarters of the house and Co. by Mr. Komatsu, It is the object of the owners to open

beaded and then dased. Mr. Korel them at the office where she signed to the present writer, saya:

spinster was. She did C.P.O.S. are now arranging for the Private Secretary to

"I have been wondering why you told her he would throw himself what a Mr. Asano, healtby competition between the think that theatrical managers have under a train if she did not become not know and they did not manning of the new Empress of President of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha. wireless companies.

not realised how disastrous the engaged to him:

explain. When she said she was The movement was initiated by the Coina The first ship of that name World Association for Adult Educa-was wrecked at Shirahama, 35 miles

The Lord Chancellor: I think not even engaged her husband Government's manis for over-regula- THE FATE OF HOG ISLAND.. tion, but the money necessary to from Yokohama, 12 years ago.

The slump in shipping is evidently tions' is to their interests. I don't petitioner who goes through a nudged her with his elbow to be begin operations was given by the The Empress of China the Dew

felt in Eastern waters, as a letter just know a single theatrical manager Ceremony of marriage before a quiet.. She was not in the office five because 1 husband į minutes. At the ceremony Mr. Korei Firemen's C.P.0.8. liner for the Pacific route,been decided on the fate of the site Merchant Service Guild from the possible.

Nothing definite seems to have received at Home by the Imperial who does not realise it as fully as magistrate

his own finger with Perhaps you think we threatens that if she does not he will took a ring Union and the National Union ofis due on the Pacific Coast some time of the Hog island fabricated shipyard | Straits Merchant Service Guild at have not made any effort to get do away with himself is not entitled three stones in it and put it on her Shipe' Cooks, Stewards, Butchers and in August, according to word re on the Delaware River, but the Ship Singapore shows.

Shipping there these *over-regulations removed, to remedy in this or any other court, engagement finger. When he came Bakers. This was followed later by a ceived by Canadian Pacific Ocean ping Board has very wisely decided appears to be practically, stagnant, but have, I assure you, tried very The remedy is to allow such a to her in England she told him she grant from the Chamber of Shipping Services oficials. The vessel, former that there is no future for it as a vast and this state of affairs has obtained hard indeed."

husband to do away with himself. should be out if he called next day

** | and would not let him kim her. of the United Kingdom of £500 toy the "Prins Frederick Wilhelm," & shipyard, whatever else it may be for some considerable-time. The "You are only squealing because (Laughter).

Mr. Woolt said Mrs. Koreli had

The Load Changellor asked her wards the provision of a library German ship, is now outfitting at useful for. Therefore the definite majority of seafarers will not, however, you think your pockets are being

Liverpool, and when she arrives here order has gone forth that it is to be be as badly placed by this as are their injured." is the reply of the Govern-ved in remote and small places in whether when she signed she knew- Libraries are being placed upon will take up the traffic work between scrapped, and work has started on confreres in this counter, as the ment to all protests from theatrical German South-West Africa and did the difference between the words long voyage ships, and each library British Columbia and Oriental ports. forty of the fifty up-to-date building Eastern officers will mostly berserving managers, hotel-keepers, and re- not really know at the time what marriage and engagement and under- was happening. She war only 21 Stood what the word husband meant. slips about which so much was said on continuous agreements running staurant proprietors.

though her age was recorded as 22. she replied that she did but she did when they were built. The Phila-over a period of years, and will not

MPS.* CYNICISM.

She did not read what she signed, not listen to the questions put by the g delphia buskies seem to have plenty ❘ be affected to any great extent by The cynicism of members of Parlia-She was brought up in a content | magistrate. to do to demolish them, for they were the actual laying up of their ships, ment has become amazing. - The or nunnery and schooled in Ger constructed as though their designers

subject of the present harassing many.

NUNNERY TEACHING. 1er a century or two. The plas famous battle erviser New Zealand, wealthy M.P. with a fine house re In the winese-box Mrs. Korel said ber the use of the word marriage. according to the wishes of the men Journal of Commerce contains the ¦ fermina! which shall be a dangerous which is to become fagship of the marked that he did not see that she left her home in German South-Stie was dazed after the chocolates on any particular ship.

Or such ships as have already ad- at a session of the National foreign Buitely abandoned, but its advocates vessel, presented to the Royal Navy always go home early," said he the West Africa at the age of 13 for a } ---first light-headed and then she slept -

Reserve Fleet at Rosyth. This was anything to grumble at!

'scare" of 1909 by inference being that as long as the boarding school in Germany, and i all next day on board ship. opted the scheme the greatest in-Trade Council that our ships are do not seem to be very popular at terest has been manifested. Books equal to the ships built in the ship-ich are being left, nobody knows only capital ship with 12in guns luxurious surroundinge it

As for the ten slips the New Zealand Government, is the speaker was comfortable amid her parents at a place in South-West was not going to accept Mrs. Korsi's on economics and industrial history yards of any nation," Senator Walter are seldom asked for, Shakespeare E. Edge, of New Jersey, speaking at whether it is merely a respite or which is being retained, all the rest matter what other people were made whites and the population was largely was told to leave the box. has a few followers, standard fiction the council's annual banquet, urged standing in order to be ready for had a distinguished part in the war.

whether they are going to be kept having been scrapped. She not only to put up with.

As Mr. Manning Foster, in a Daily a great many. For works of refer newspapers to tell the truth that revival should the emergency again when she was present at all three of Mail article, recently pointed out, ence and atlases there is a steady literally hundreds of the ships added arise.

the great North Sea actions, but is London since the peace has go

Meanwhile Paris, demand

the only capital ship in the Fleet steadily duller. which has been twice round the where social freedom has been fully world. The first, occasion was in restored, throbs with life, wealth, and 1913, the year following her comple- gaiety. In that happy city all irk- captain; and the second in 1919 when lapse, with the result that visitors tion, when Sir Lionel Halsey was her some restrictions have been allowed to she was Lord Jellicoe's flagship rive in ever-increasing numbers. during his Empire tour.

service.

is constructed with a view to the particular needs of the readers. The greater part of the library consiste of atlases, dictionaries and excyclo- pardias. The remaining portion is

80 arranged that the books can be exchanged from voyage to varage,

www.c

TRUTH ABOUT U.S. SHIFS.

** HUNDREDS NO CSE WHATEVER."

had every intention of their lasting

A recent issue of the New York to convert the site leto an ocean

following:-Following a remark made rival to New York has not been de

the moment.

AN AMERICAN YACHT.

to the United States Merchant Marine At first sight one can scarcely are of no use whatever, that they imagine sailors sitting down in the can't be used even for coal barges, cabin to follow courses of study and and that each is stocked with approxi write essays which have been prescribmately 75,000 dols. worth of maid State Jacht " Yacona," 169 It is interesting to note that the ed in detail; but the propounders of chinery now of value only as cheap

tons, which has arrived at Singapore the scheme are hopeful

from Colombo was previously the Portuguese royal yacht. She was sold to Mr. Clay Arthur Fierce, a wealthy New York gentleman, who sub- sequently sold it to the American Government for $1, gold. This was

Any member of a ship's company may be supplied, for his own special use, with books which are not in the ship's library, free of any charge ex- cept that of postage.

junk."

AID FUE BURNING VESSEL FITLY REWARDED.

A new distinction has befallen the restrictions being under discussion, a

after the great

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didn't

--

after being in a convent returned to

Africa where there were only 500 black. She had little knowledge of

The Lord Chancellor: Did you read books --No, not much.

Did you ever read the Bible ?--- Now and again.

the world.

tion.

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The Lord Chancellor: Why ?- Mrs. Korel: I was excited. I had to catch the boat at 12. She added - that she was too excited to remem

When the Lord Chancellor said he

story she exclaimed, "Oh, sir," and

NUNNERY CONVERSATIONS,

The Lord Chancellor said in this extraordinary case he could-not believe Mrs. Korel did not understand the ceremony or was affected by Were you taught the Bible at the threats. She was quite capable of understanding this case. As to her No, but we had religious instrae were other girls in the nunnery, and convent?-It was & Dunnery.

Were you taught the Bible there? { general knowledge be assumed there

that there was the kind of conversa EDICTS.

During the war, she said, their tions which all the world knew went It should not be forgotten that town was bombarded, they were on among all girls of all nationalities.” the mischievous regulations which | under fire four times, and her mother There might be a degree of Innocence" have indirectly diverted so much | had a nervous breakdown and she in it. Sometimes there was not. He For the heroic work of the comman-

When Margaret Penfold, a married money from flowing into London had to nurse her when her brother saw no evidence of extraordinary Her aloofness - from things of the der and crew of the American Ship

woman, was summoned at Chatham were never passed by any vote of was killed in the fighting.

world in Mrs. Korel's demeanour. "If ping Board freighter"West Jester the compensation received by other for pretending to tell fortunes, a the House of Commons. They are mother became paralysed.

The Lord Chancellor told counsel | she had been brought up on a desert in extinguishing a fire which threaten- Americans who had given over police officer stated that she had merely the result of edicts issued by

their yachts to the American offered to charm two women til the the Liquor Control Board, the fund that no story of exhaustion by nur island and suddenly projected into ed to completely destroy the T.K.K.

Government the entry of end of August for 5s. each. They tions of which, we were assured, were sing would produce in his mind any the sophisticated environment of South American steamer "Kiyo Maru

America into the war. Some of Bald they could only, afford 2s. 6d., so to end with the war.

impression that would support a civilization there might be something Rumours are current, says the year ago, a cheque for Y200,000 them were returned to their Penfold burned a curious powder, Under present conditions the con- decree of nullity.

to be said for her case, but she Daily Colonist of Victoria, British was to be handed to Captain M. 8. owners on the cessation of hostill saying that they would be charmed tinued existence of this over- Mrs. Korel went on to explain that was not. Probably all the adult per Columbia, that the C.P.0.8. is selling Harloe, representative in Japan of the ties, but the "Yacona" was retained till the end of July The charm righteous wilenagemote" is highly just before the ship sailed Mr. Koreli song of 21 would see that there were, the Empress of Japan," Last of the Shipping Board, Mr. C. E. Harvey, and converted into despatch will come into operation to-night as prejudicial to the interests of London. asked to be engaged to her. She babies even in a very small place, sodi line's original feet on the Pacific Vice-President of Frank Waterhouse vessel The "Yacons" is 25 years the clock strikes twelve," the police The sooner it is relieved of its func replied that she did not know him at understand that processes, were at Ocean, in connection with the ac-& Co., operators of the "West Jester," in service. She was to sail for Manila officer said she told the two women. tions the better for the prosperity of all. He had asked to be "introduced" work. The certificate of marriage in quisition of the former German biner last Monday and will be receipted for the American naval station, en Friday Fenfoldwas fined 40s, the magistrates our great city which, to the detri when he saw ber in the street some her possession recorded in plain and not ment of its prosperity is none too weeks before. He assured her that unambiguous language that this wan the "Prinz Frederick Wilhelma", which by Mr. Harvey and Captain M. S. last. On arrival she will be banded remarking that they could will be known as the Empress of Harloe, representative in Japan of over to the United States Philippine understand how people could be such slowly acquiring the unenviable she would only have to sign a note ocesory of marriage. Mrs. Korel's Army to be used as a despatch vessel. fools as to pay money to listen to notoriety of being the dullest capital which would not bind her under theory was incredible and the petition the American Shipping Board

Lieut. Commander R. E. Sampson is in euch jargon.

in Europe.

Jewish religion, and if she did not he must be diamlased.

RUMOCKS

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BE SOLD.

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BRINGING UP

DOES THAT PERSON WORK IN MR.J

OFFICE?

NAW- THAT.

LADY IS A BOOK

AGENT

FATHER.

THANK GOODNESS

HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN BOOKS:

HELLO _MAGGIE".