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SHIPPING.

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COAL, OF, OR WIND."

VETEN,

THE CHINA MAIL.

TO THE ANTARCTIC.

SHACKLETONS QUEST.

SEARCH FOR MYSTEROUS ISLAND,

SHIP MYSTERY.

BOTTLE HESLAGK.

W.

INGENIOUS CRIME ?

INSURANCE AND POISON.

PIRATES, SMUGGLERS, OR KDIENA CENTLEMAN CIRAND DOES IN JAIL.

there are a few still with o' today, The "Pekin," the German pris vessel, (formerly belonging to the renowned Lasies feet of Hatsbury, is lying in the Thames to-day. But for our ARTLING REMKDY FOR HIGH COSTS. shipping to depend again upon wind for its propulsion would be to go

The mysterions loss of the United back three-quarters of a century,

London, June 28-The Times an- States schooner "Carroll A. Deering" | "Gentleman" Girard,' the lasury) What the Clyde, the Tyne, the Mersey, Barrow, and Belfast would ounces that Sir Ernst Shackleton's last January is the leading theme in ance agent, who was charged with day to the prospect of constructing fire expedition to the Antarctic, which the New York Press, and there are several murders and attempted mur-

By columns of speculations masted schooners instead of "Aquitan-starts at the end of August in the tiny ias" and "Mauretanias," "Glensops" auxillary vessel of 200 tons named

i galloping consumption in the prison and "Narkundas, "will not bear repea:- The Quest, will traverse 30,000 concerning the possible revival of ders by poisoning, has just died of ing. "The solution of shipping power miles in the Atlantic and the Pacific Piracy in the North Atlantic.

The State Department lends official hospital of Freases, where he was re- in these days of costly fuel and and will explore littleknown islands.

I will seek the vanished Island of sanction to these speculations by cently taken on account of his bad restricted supplies will certainly have to be found, but it will not be by the Uasuaki, south of New Zealand, publishing all the known facts about health. If the charges brought against adoption of sail. Nevertheless the idea which is commemorated in native the ship in the form of a narrative him are true, he was one of the meet French crime. After about three is an interesting and suggestive one legend, and also the mysterious justifying the most romantic surmises ingenious criminals in the annals of and gives food for thought. The Dougherty Island, the existence and The account suthorised by the State years' investigation by M. Bonin, the whole modern tendency of ship con- position of which is doubtful. If it is Department, which has instructed

magistrate, "Gentleman" Girard and struction has been away from sail. found and has an accessible landing consuls in all parts of the world to his wife, one of his mistresses, Mare, The total sailing tonnage of the world place it will serve as a station for watch for information concerning the Donetes and two other alleged ac to-day represents only 5 per cent. of wireless relay between New Zealand fate of the missing crew, is

complices, were sent before the Paris the tonnage afloat.

"On January 29, 1931, the Assizsa and were to be tried in Octo The expedition, which is rendered

the rata ber. possible by the generosity of Messrs. "Deering," sailing at John Quilber Rowett, a resident of of about 5 miles an hour, passed North Sussex, and Frederick Becker, a pa- Cape Lookout lightship, per manufacturer, is to be fitted out Carolina, and on January 31 with the most modern instruments was found a few miles north of that It carries a point in such a condition that there of scientific research. captive balloon and gear, and a sea- was every suspicion of foul play having

occurred. place and seaplane platforms.

Every interesting paper under fitle Coal, Oil, or Wind and one a has given rise to a good deal eculation, was read before the tation of Shipbuilders and

Scotland at neers of

the uning of the year by: Mr. C. O. well-known naval hitect, at one time attached to the seshoff firm of yacht builders. Liljegren took as his subject the ture form of propulsion of shipping. The point be made was that only sen the mean price of commodities s been below a certain level has it sen possible to operate steam ton- are at a profit. The basis of his gument is 'Saverbeck's Mean Prices Commodities. He took as his itune 50, and demonstrated that ply when the mean price, including

THE OLD "ANTIOPE."

cost of fuel, has fallen to 8.25 he owner been able to make

Some old ships are like the prover- profit upon their trading. Darbial old soldiers and never die, and the past ODC hundred certainly the "Antiope" of 1866 comes Sbe was twenty years this condition was under, thi category. realised from 1812 to 1845, from launched as a ship for Joseph Heap, to about 1856, and from 1879 and did very well on the Australian 1915. At the beginning of 1921 trade, running out to Melbourne in index curve of commodity prices sixty-eight days in 1868 in spite of en to the 260's, and there does being delayed for ten days round present appear to be very about the line. Later, she went to pance of its falling to the 80's South America, and then Russia, anyhow, for a good many whose fag she was flying when the The author's argument is that Japanese captured her and seld her to bes fall it will be inpessible to a lumberman in British Columbia. shipping at a profit. Con- As a barque, she carried timber it is necessary to find some for sorte years, and was then hulked fm of power for ship propulis New Zealand for duty as a coal

coal or oil.

depot. The early days of the war saw ber resurrected, and in 1916 she stranded on the New Zealand coast and remained there for over three months.

NEW TYPE OF SAILER.

faims that there are only three fet power coal, oil or wind. fuel casting what it does to-day, hat it is likely to cost for some be argues that the day of the g ship is not past. By sailing be does not mean the style of

She was salved, earned excellent freights on the crest of the boom, and when the slump found her on the casualty list in East Africa it seemed as if her end must have

At which was popular in the middle come. Apparently it has not, however, the last century. He says that the for she has just been chartered to be Ap of the future will be a motor towed with a full cargo of coal from chipper having an improved design of Lorenzo Marquez to Beira, and has hull, a revised sail plan, and worked been certified as quite seaworthy. into her construction those features of the modern yacht which I re given stability, weatherliness, and a good average speed. So far as the hull is concerned, he would have her flat

SHI PING PROSPERITY.

This is

In these days when most shipown bottomed, with a full midship sectioners are indulging in temporary swan and cruiser stern, and she would be songs, it is doubly encouraging and fitted with two centre boards. The refreshing to hear of shipping pro- adoption of the cruiser stera for sail- sperity and developments. last ships would be an innovation, but, the case with the young Holland East he argues with considerable justice Africa Line. This company started that the cruiser stern in steamers, operations, in January of this year. mctorships, and yachts, has proved and has maintained a regular month. its superiority to the ordinary form

of stern.

We

do not

and South America.

The expedition undertakes a com plete hydrographical survey, charts air currents and investigates bird, animal, and marine life.

The staff include: Sir Ernest's cal leagues of the "Nimrod" and the Endurance" expeditions. There will be no crew except the scientists.

Sir Ernest Shackleton, in a special interview, says that the most serious task before the Expedition is the exploration of 3.000 miles of un- known land and sea about Enderby Land. He intends to make short excursions on islands

Carry

The police inquiry was begun to August 1918 as the result of the suspicions of an inspector of the company refused to pay on a policy Font Insurance Company. The of 2400 on Mme Monin. The police medical experts were struck by the similarity of the symptoms-which "At the time the "Deering" passed marked her fatal illness, and those of the lightship a man sa board other MM. Delmas and Durous, friends of than the captain hailed the lightship the insurance agent, M. Bonin reach and reported that the vessel had lost ed the conclusion that Girard used both anchors, saking the fact to be cultures of deadly microbes and con- reported to the owners. Otherwise coctions of poisonous "pashrooms the vessel appeared to be in very good instead of the better known arsenic ar strychnine, so deadly in their condition.

effects and so easy of detection.

*Gentleman** Girard

in

SZA

"A short time afterwards a passing steamship, the name of which cannot be ascertained, was asked to take an accustomed to make himself liked everywhere. He was a cultured message, but in spite of numerous

man, very widely read, with a leaning attempts by the master of the light towards music and art, and more the mainland and ship to attract the vessel's attention, than an amateur's knowledge of. in order to

scienc According to the accusations out geological and magnetic obser.no response was received. ·

**WATCH THE FILMS."

he appears to have been a man with vations which he expects to bave

Perhaps," he "On April 11 the following message great power of fascination for men important results.

we shall find connection with was picked up in a bottle near Cape and omen alike. All those with who he associated declare that sald, the nearest mainland. We may come Hatteras, North Carolina:

"Deering captured by oil-burning they liked him for his frank, honest margher and charming character. apon purely indigeanas forms of life throwing a flood of light on the build boat something like a chaser, taking ing of the world zod the changes off everything, handcuffing the crew. Crew hiding all over ship. Findet,! which have passed over it.”

please notify headquarters Deering.

Sir Ernest considers that seaplanesį and aeroplanes are now serius factors in exploration. He expects to gain valuable information from them as to the trend of the Antarctic coastline with its latent floating icepacks. He will not winter in the

Antarctic,

His second in command is Mr. Frank Wild, who has journeyed with Captain Scott, Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackletos.

ly service from Hamburg. Amsterdam, owing to a shortage of materials, know Rotterdam, Antwerp and Lisbon to little has been done to erect new whether Mr. Liljegren expects his Port Soudan, Mombasa (Kilindini), lights, but now that normal con- proposal to be taken seriously, or Tanga, Zanzibar, Dar Es Salaam,ditions are returning, the lighthouse whether he has advanced, it simply Mozambique, Quilimane, Beira, In-service intends to hasten the work of to provide food for thought. But, hambane, Delagoa Bay and Durban. erecting additional aids to navigation undoubtedly, he goes straight to the After six months' successful trading along the Queensland coastline. difficult problem of modern shipping it is now found necessary to double when he says that unless fuel sup the service to meet the requirements plies can be cheapened very, very of merchants. Henceforth the service

The State Department's narrative proceeds to describe how when the ship, with all her asila set, drove ashore it had been ransacked.

The newspapers pablish a list of 9 other vessels which have disappested in the Atlantic in the last 6 mohs The Navy Department refus to share the excitement of the at Department, and insurance me scouting the idea of piracy, sank the amusing theory that the is ships, together with thrilling scapes of acts of piracy on the high ees, they shortly appear on screens officema theatres.

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HOW TO SELL

WHERE ENGLISH GIRLS FAIL,

OP-

Are British women lag in the at they American

A.U.S.A. commercial offensive in much, or a new fuel or source of will be fortnightly, and the vessels (the Far East is being planned to power discovered, shipping will be engaged will proceed outwards alter-counter-balance the losses which unprofitable. In America his theory natively via the Suez Canal and commerce sustained in Europe and art of salesmanship has evoked considerably interest, bar bowewards via the Cape of Good South America. The programme are slightly behind th it has to be remembered that in Hope, and vice versa. Extensions of America the five-masted clipper with this sort not only reflect the enter auxiliary engines would not be a new prise and initiative of the Holland creation. During the war a number East Africa Line, but point to the of them were built and proved them-great promise of ever increasing trade in this rich corner of the African selves quite successful in service on

Continent. the Pacific and elsewhere.

Is

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galant and courteous of men.

When said he was one of the most

fix years before the insurance agent was arrested he was. Very fendly with M. Pernotte, a retired Haines man.. One day: the whole anotte family fell ill with typhoid. Hia wife and children recovered, but M. Pernotte who had handed to Girard insurance policies on his life for £8,000, became worst after having received from the insurance agent a other sous curise the car sho

subcutaneous Injection and died.

were associated with Girard also contracted typhoid · but recovered after hospital treatments

Books on the effects of mushroom poisoning and pocket-books filled with notes on the subject which

would have done credit to anï' expert toxicologist were discovered by the police among Girard's belongings. In the well-ftted-laboratory-in"which be worked there were delicate in- struments, retorts, and stills,

POISONOUS DUST,

NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD TROUBLE.

opened,

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HONGKONG. -

THE AGA KHAN,

PHYSICAL JERKS IN PARIS HOTEL COURTYARD.

Every morning in the open space

MURDER BY KIDNAPPERS:

BOY DROWNED IN DEFAULT OF RANSOM.

includes the establishment of new sisters in this respect one fault steamship lines from San Francisco, Mrs. L. W. Prince, for and pre- Portland, Seattle, New Orleans, sident of the Stare Econ College, Galveston and other Gulf and South Bostan, has been abd find in her

The nature of the effects of dust Atlantic Ports, New York, Bston and Baltimore. Government co-tour in the United om as one of operation is expected by the private the American dr delegation on the human body was referred to companies to make Manila-America "I find so mans that are too the other day by Professor Callis at the Industrial Welfare Conference. ENGINE DEVELOPMENT.

route as important from a trade point conservative to of employing which the Duke of York, President

Little Giuseppe Varotta, the 5-year- The problem of powering ships is

GENERAL NOTES.

of view as Hongkong. and Gibraltar sa educational di who can teach the Industrial Welfare Society, of the courtyard of the Hotel Rits in the vital problem which has to be

to Britain

Paris a daric complexioned man of old Italian boy who, was kidnapped A campaign will be the girls," she to purtez. * And solved to-day in connection with the

With but little of the usual peace inaugurated to secure heavy US that is where yo fail.

Professor Collis mentioned a new about forty-six goes through a some three weeks ago, in New York Que by one

physical jerks," | has been found in the Hudson river. shipping business.

"One of the troubles in an piece of scientific work which showed regular course of

athletic by a young

The day after he had disappeared developments have come into being. time ceremony the light cruiser investments in Japan, China, the The compound engine was replaced Effingham, the last of her class, was Strata Settlements, and Australia. English shop is the feels one must that silica or rock dust is actually a assisted

the his parents received an anonymous by the triple expansion, which remains launched at Portsmouth Dockyard, This policy will require astute buy. The saleswoman looks so dis- chemical poison for the human body. French trainer. Many of

appointed if she makes no sale, but Workers in it, as is known, are more visitors whose rooms look out on to letter telling them that unless they for the great majority of the world's the Marchioness of Salisbury per diplomacy with Japan. tonnage.

she should be taught, as our girls are liable than other people to consump the space below are put to shame by would pay £600 within a week, they the popular form of forming the "paming" rite..

What has not so far been the energy and determination to keep would never see the boy alive again. it Nevertheless

Mr. Varotta is a van driver and Improvements estimated to cost taught, that if the customer has had tion. propulsion.

to give way News has just been received by £1,700,000 are to be carried out to gradually having

Hable to kidney diseases-"Bright'a') guest and his trainer. They often never had a tenth of that swm in his before the geared turbine, which the local offices of the China Mail the harbours of Accra and Takoradi good look at the goods, she will buy knows is that they are also more it which is displayed by their fellow

something to-morrow.

disease."

finish the morning's work with life, but the kidnappers fappear to again will no doubt be displaced SS. Co. from their head office in on the Gold Coast of West Africa.

"Then your saleswomen should

The idea of dust as a chemical couple of rounda of quick light have believed that he had savodfa

considerable sum. by the internal combustion engine. San Francisco to the effect that the At Accra the initial cost will be

The son beaten dark complexioned It is stated that this is the first During the past few weeks yet a new str. "Nanking" will no longer call about £100,000 for the construction know how to explain the reason for a poison is of vast importance, for silica sparring. form of marine engine has been tried at Manils but will maintain a regular of waterside ware houses and rail higher price. They should be able dust is everywhere. Some-time ago out at Greenocks, built on the Still passenger and freight service to and way tracks to the sea, so as to enable to prove quality and not let people Dr. Halford Ross suggested that it middle aged man, says a Paris Thermal Cycle system. Economy of from Singapore, the same as the goods to be transferred straight buy the cheap article because the first was to be found in the air of some message, is none other than the fuel, and thereby economy of operastra. "China" and "Nile." Hereafter from trains to ships. Work at the cost is small. In our college, where printing establishments, carried by Aga Khan, the wealthy, and dis He has just completed tinguished Indian Prince, who is tion, is the keynote of investigation the three steamers will also make harbour of Takoradi, costing about educational directors for stores are small fibres.

And in marine engineering to-day. It is Kobe a port of call on the outward £1,600,000, will begin with the taught, wer ake a big point of quality, further experiments which show that at present staying in Paris. Dremed doubtful whether, although wind is voyage.

building of a breakwater to enable and all the young women learn the fibres of a microscopic character area white flannel trousers ocean-going steamer to discharge processes and histories of your famous present in the air and on till days woollen waistcoat and tennis shoes, the only form of power which has

entangle dust particles and hold them the religious head of the sect of the A new lighthouse has just been into lighters in calm

weather old brands of articles No matter cost so that they are breached. Ismail Mussulmans spends half an not increased in cost, world ship. sing will ever go back to sail completed on High Peak Island, be Wharves and other modern harbour how much dearer they have become Certain dusty trades are notorialy bour daily is the fresh moming sir

an auxiliary engin tween Rockhampton and Mackay, equipment will also be erected to help out in calm weather Queensland, and an unattended white permit of vessels berthing alongside the English goods that have earned unhealthy, but apparently it is only with his trainer, doing all the move at 8 or 9 knots. We have had light, visible at 20 miles, has been ip At present all cargo is landed and a name for quality will always sell in the rock or stonedast which produces ments of physical exercise laid down

America."

the evil effects..

by the Alderaliot school -- famous sailing ships in the past; stalled. During the last four years loaded in surf boats.

CTE with

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WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN-

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HAVEN'T BEEN ANYWHERE · I GOT

THIS AT HOME”

BRINGING

DO YOU TALK

BACK TO YOUR WIFE WHEN

SHE QUARRELS

WITH YOU?

WELL HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE I GOT THIS.

BLACK EYE?

UP

FATHER.

HERE CONES THAT GUY MONAHAN THAT GOT.

TEN DAYS IN JAIL FER

BEATIN HIS WIFE

! HAVE

NO

SYMPATHY

FOR HIM

HE DOESN'T NEED ANY

SYMPATHY

pay

time in the history of New York that death throat)has been carried out after a demand for ransom,

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