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SHIPPING.

FUTURE OF MARINE DIESEL ENGINES.

INTERESTING COMMENT.

COMPETITION ON THE

WORLD'S GREATEST

COCKTAIL

а

CALCUTTA RUN.

WHISKY STOCKS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

UNKNOWN LONDON:

MYSTERY SHIP.

WHERE THE WATCHMÁN CRIES SUPPOSED AT ANTIC PIRATES. The Osaka Shosen Krisha

THE HOURS. fully resolved to enter the Calcutta | AMERICA TO GET RID OF SEIZED run about the middle of September

The Munson steamer “Munaltro," Mr. Walter G. Bell is a sentimental to the considerable confusion, of the

| antiquary who writes about London 4,293 tons, bound for Boston. from shipping companies, especially the

Liquor god, indifferent and very, Nippon Yusen Kaista, forming the It was, we have been told by a Bengal Conference. This new in very bad the value of which at the rate attractively and authoritatively, says Mexican and Cuban ports, put into charged by illicit & alers is estimated Robert Lynd in-a home paper. His Baltimore and reported an encounter competent authority, one of the great vader seems to be prepared disappointments of Lord Fisher's life to incur a loss of over 10,000 at £10,000.000, is about to be spilled i new book, More About Unknown Lon- with a mysterious ship 200 miss

Anto the Atlantic occean by the don, is a pleasant scrapbook, in the vis rup single outward that the oil-engined battleship of i

authorities to get rid of it It has all course of which we pass from Gog the coast during the previous night.

The theory of the United States 100,000 h.p. was not laid down during the South Seas, with low freight here seized in the process of enfore and Magog in the Guildhall to Oliver his period of effice. The fact that rates. No cehnite decision has beet

Goldsmith's last home in Brick Court, Government that 20 ships recently 10g the Prohibition law.

of New Lord Fisher had been induced to reached yet as to what ships will

Rubbish barges laden with the and from that to a discussion of the missing off the coasts believe the oil engine had reached de run and what poets will be

«range cargo will be towed far be

Jersey and Virginia were the victims names of sweetstuffs. the stage of development when such called at The company may open

Mr. Bell learned something about of foul play thus receives support. an application was possible is an exa direct line to the destination on the outer harbour, and the cellent illa-tration of the manner in instead of via Java, for the pur crews, under police supervision.will the latter from an attendant at the The stranse vessel, according to the which the use of the oil engine or pose of shortening the period of site in the mixing of the most British Trade Fair:

delectation of Father Nepture and ship propulsion has been retarded navigation and economising ex-supendous cocktail in history for the because its advocates, like the lady penses. By way of paying the way

Davy Jones. in the play, protested a litle to to the present encroachment, the same much says the Journal of Com

company has been absorbing ship merce.

is

ments from Calcutta to Japan since January on the pretext that the em bargo on exports of India toalhas put difficulties in the way of obtain ing freights on the homeward run with the announcement of its pre- sent scheme, it has expressed itself

Even ΠΟΥ There

tendency to put forward fieures which, when the whole of the factors

involved are taken into account, can-

not be substantiated. I they could, and the necessary supplie of fuel could be guaranteed, the steamship

"As for names, the soft fondants" Mansibro's captain, bove in sight midnight And approached of other days had become "creams," at

She carri. but that we only a shortening. the at a very high speed. proper nage being still fondant ed no side or other lights except creams Barley sugar, one of the one on the foremast. After steaming oldest favourites, keeps in demand. round the "Munalbro" she made off at It is merely a toffee made in spiral high speed eastward. The "Monalbro" sticks, and has nothing to do with barley, but was so named generations was in ballast and the suggestion is

would be doomed, and every raw | ready to carry dry goods at only 1 of this country are celebrating the ago because confectioners broke the that the "pirate," seeing she held out

ship laid down would, within the powers for which the marine Diesel can be designed, be a motor ship.

Even when allowance has been

made for the exacgerated language

rupee (equal to 50 sen) to Singapore, a: 2 rupees to Hongkong, and at 3 rupres to Shanghai and Japan, with the intention of bringing the Alied

CASE FOR COMPULSORY

PILOTAGE.

companies to terms The intruder of injudicious adherents of the marinei, said to be preparing to dispa-ch engine, it will be admitted that most the first steamer before the middle of remarkable progress is being made. September. Many engineers wedded to the turbine, and with a supreme faith in the efficienc of the double reduction geared tarbine, regard the reversion to a reciprocating machine like a Diesel engire as a retrograde step Whenever this point of view is put forward it always leads to interesting speculation as to the possibility of a gas or oil turbine, but this develop ment appears to be as far off as ever

If in the next week or an says; New York correspondent, passing British mariners should note disturb ances somewhere in the Atlantic, and e ozone they breathe should have peculiar yet strangely familiar flavour, they will know that it is not because the 108,999.999 inhabitants,

grain of the sugar with barley water. revocation of the dry law.

About the ire this reservoir of Marzipan, often thought a modern ardent soirits is being this disposed confection, is as old as Shakespeare, of, the authorities will sell the con- who mentions it. Butter Scotch-- miners and vehicles in which it was why Scotch' is a mystery evan in seized. At present these and the the trade.' liquor are costing the city hundreds of pounds a day for storage in ware houses, unused buildings, and other structures

These

containers and v hicles range from fountain pens, low canes, and bogus cigars to huge The question of compulsory pilot-caka, and the vehicles tramaram spe in the Bristol Channel ports bulator to motor lerries and a Rolls-

Royce. formed the principal subject of dis- cussion at a meeting of the United Kingdom Pilots' Association held at Anderton's Hotel in London Lengthy

He learned from the same source of the revival of bull's-eyes during recent years

Bull's-eres frere to-day much the same as forty years ago, and to be found in all the shops, but for years they had gone out of favour in London and the southern counties. They were national in the North of England. as are peppermints in Scotland. The war brought back their popularity in the south, soldiers coming to London

ne prospect of plunder, made off.

It is recalled that the mate of the

United States schooner "Carroll A

Deering," which was mysteriously

wrecked near Lookout Point, Vir

gmia, after she had been sighted 31 sea with all sails set ånd nobody

ap.

aboard, stated in a message after ward- picked up in a bottle that the shin was stopped by a vesel parently a submarine chaser." These vessels are capable of very high speed, and the mate's story agrees in this respect with that of the Muualbro's captain. The latter laya particular stress on the speed shows by the strange vessel.

Despatches from Washington state that the Government is considering

mystery ship,

**Do you dine, Sir, with Alderman or with Lady Cooper!"

An interesting suggestion which has discussion was given to what steps siðering, however, that it was an unt I making demands for them, and sending à destroyer in search of the

oppose the it made some sacrifices that the Ni-response the black and white stripe been made in connection with the should be taken to development of the marine Diesel principle of non-compulsory pilotage, 1 por. Yusen Kaisha could be admitted reappeared in the shop windows. A engine is that instead of striving embodied in the Bristol Channel into the Conference, the shiping Lambeth firm of manufacturers must to obtain larger power per cylinder Pilotage Orders now before the companies therein, says the Osaka bave made a fortune out of cases of a more natural line of advance, and House of Commons. The pilors journal, hope for the best, being buil's-eyes sent to the camps." one which would eliminate many of

are taking measures in order doubtful as to whether the OSK. Exactly what the the technical difficolues involved, that the

conditions of compul can fight long. would be the multiplication of small sory piloting shall be enforced in Jiji means by this is not very clear, cylinders to obtain the required regard to vessels entering port. This as the NYK. has been on the Calcutta run for years, and i WAS powers. There is somerbing to be matter will be further taken up at a

aid for this point of view. The use special meeting of Bristol Channel only the public not the com any of a few large, highpowered units representatives of the Association which made sacrifices when commett- which will be beld st Cardiff tion was replaced by conference. Scuth Wales pilots especially feel Evidently, however, the Calca 20 that the doing away with compul- New Orleans run sort piloting conditions would conmunerative, stilure a gross injustice, as all Chronicle the evidence available, they feel,!

is attractive, and appears to be quite good engineering prac ise, but so long as the small cylinder engine can be made reliable and reasocably efficient, the multiplication of parts would involve less risk of breakdown than the larger cylinder engine. It is remembered, too, that at first sight there are grave objections to the apparent complication of introducing gearing between turbine and propeller in the modern stearnship, but that experience has shown the theoretical objections to such a system to have no weight. One would like, by the way, to have a definite reply from the turbine party to the latest claim made for economy of operation of the marine Diesel engine.

PACIFIC RUN.

is not very re observes

the Japan

ONE WATCHMAN LEFT.

If With the Alderman" be the One of the most interesting chapters in the book is that entitled London reply, a liqueur of rich cognac is Out of Bounds. Few people know placed at your hand. Should you that there is still a watchman in choose Lady Cooper as host of the Lorden who cries the hours of the occasion, then the glass is one of night in the old-fashioned way. This pure Hollands. That Hollanda, o is in Ely-place, near Holborn-circus, competent judges have assured me, which was still recently counted as is a brew of rare delight, itself justify. part, not of London, but of Cambridge- ing a claim by the Dutch to be con-

sidered a Great Power:" shire:

"Twe o'clock, and a fine starlight

is in support of the compulsory EMPIRE SHIPPING SUGGESTION. night!" principle. The danger of allowing vessels to be piloted by alien pilots in British waters, was particularly indicated during the lare war, and in any case it is held that the cavization of docks and harbours should be a matter for British pilots at the ports.

O.S.K. DIVIDEND.

The curfew bell is also rung in more than one place in London:

husband:

TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1921.

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**Hia irritability of temper probably made him a difficult bushand, and one can well imagine the lady suffered many trials. She got well home on that occasion when we are told she protested, "Nay, hold, Mr. Johnson, and do not make a farce of thanking 1/2 MILES UP IN THE AIR. God for a dinner which in a few min utee you will protest is not estable!"

He discusses once more the question whether Goldsmith was a fool as a conversationalist:

FRENCH, AIRMAN ENJOYS. FINE WEATHER IN THE CLOUDS.

کچھ

KING TURNED AWAY.'

TOO EARLY VISIT TO BRITISH MUSEUM.

This custom dates from the seven- teenth century, when Aldermaz and You may hear the cry still, just Lady Cooper sach made a bequest, ss our ancestors did from the watch providing the one brands, the other Mr. W. F. Massey. Prime Minister men and Charleya" who, with gin, to be drunk in their memory at of New Zeland, speaking at a luncheon

Mr. Bell does not aim at novelty in his honour at the Baltic Shipping tottering foot-steps and lantern burn-the annual feast.

ing, made their nocturnal perambula- Exchange in London, said he trustedtion of the streets, for the old London in subject matter in all these chapters, the time would come when all cries are not all stilled. The beadle bat plays gently with some old themes, trading to the different parts of the Empire would be built in British shio of Ely Place beats the round of his as in Johnson's Wumenkind, where yards by British mechanics, manned pavements at appointed intervals he recalls how on one occasion Mrs. by British sailors, and carry British during the night, proclaiming the Johnson scared at the expertise of her Ta: general meeting of sharehol products and British manufaared hour and the state of the weather to ders of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha goods. The subject was so imp rtant those awake in their beds who may held at the Osaka Central Publi- that he trusted it would receive hear him. A good Father of St. Hall on July 27. approved of serious attention at the Ierial Ethaldreda's living at the priests' propositions for the re-election of Conference. He would cot gest house, confided to me that he finds NEW ADMIRAL LINE BOAT.

Messrs. Abe Hikotaro and Katuku subsidies at present, but if in rove the cry rather disturbing." Rikitaro as Directors, for the payments could not be obtained in any way subsidies migh be The Admiral Line office in Yoko ment of a 10 per cent. dividend, other

"At nine o'clock each night through- haca has been advised by cable that and for the transfer of "extension" arcessary. A great deal was neard Y10.000 000 to Enking of the cutting down of arma.cents. the new passenger liner "Hawkeye funds of

45 l as to and nobody wanted war, but he hoped out the year you may hear from Ely State" has been assigned to its com- Funds for ships

The opinion war did tome again we should not Place, over the housetops, the musical pany for operation out of Seattle, to "extension" funds. take the schedule of the Wenat was advanced by some of the share. De found wanting with regard to the clang of a bell, lasting some three or four minutes. That is the bell of chee" which had to be held in dock holders present that the dividend protection of trade routes.

Gray's Inn ringing the London curfew,

"Admit that Goldsmith said many

Shortly before 10 am a tall man, for a month for repairs and "altera" should be restricted to 5 per cent as

a practice which the Benchers of the good things: his description of Boe-George Kirch, the famous airman man, quietly dressed in a dark grey. tions. The "Hawkeye State," named it was improper to pay a high

of Sadi-Lecointe, Ancient and Honourable Society of well as only a bury that Tom Davies and colleague

suit and straw hat, stepped out of a for the state of lowa, has been dividend in these hard days, but this Mr. Hort

that house religiously maintain. My (the bookseller) threw at Johnson alighted the other morning at Le taxicab at the British Museum. Ee operated for a short time by the proposal was rejected.. Maison Navigation Company from Keijers, the President, said at the In December the ex-German stea good Father of St. Etheldreda's havia jest, and he has stuck to him ever Bourget aerodrome, after mounting was politely but femly told by the gatekeeper that the museum was San Francisca to Hawaii, and it is meeting that the shipping depression her "Minna Horn," of 3,431 tonsing heard it often. but little curious, since": his suggestional to enlarge to 9,000 metres (nearly 54 miles).

clasei to the public until 10 o'clock thought that its assignment in the had already touched bottom in the gross and 6.312 tons deadwright, asked me what it was! London the club because the original members

Although he had failed to beat the The visitor smiled philosophically, Admiral Line is only temporary first half of the current year, and ex- built in 1913, was sold to Brish as another curfew, runs each night had by that time "travelled over American, altitude record of 10,030 raised his hat, and strolled away,

uding the delivery to this coupley pressed the belief that as not only buyers through Lord Inchcape for at sunset from the Bell Tower of the each other's minds"; his happy to

A few minutes later the tali man European and American economic $63.000. The essel has now been

made another autempt to enter the circles had shown signs of revival sold at auction, again to British Tower of London, as from ancient mark that if Johnson made littie metres, he laughingly remarked that with the settlement of the British buyers, for £32,550. Easy conditions days. Yet I never knew a Londoner fishes talk, he would make them talk he had thoroughly enjoyed the building. Passing through the main to arrive at Yokoh- September 8 labour disputes, but Japanese circles of payment were allowed, the spreador, like the Pinafore's captain, like whales thèse are not to be im-weather during the 38 micutes' climb ball, he was suddenly hailed by a

me proved upon. Johnson it was who said into the cloods.

stern voice: "Hi, sir! You can't go Like the "Wenatchee" and the had begun to become comp sad, shiping of 50 per cent of the purchase hardly ever-who could tell

The high fight was made in in with that big stick of yours; leave "Sdver State," it will have an ping would recover from its decline money over five years being permit. whether the curfew was still observ-that "the misfortune of Goldsmith

Neoport biplane, driven by a 300 h..p. it at the desk, please!" American jazz orchestra of university at an early date.

The visitor was the King of the motor. It took Kirch eleven minutes to climb the test 5,000 metres, and 26 Belgians, who spent nearly two hours minates to reach 8,000 metres. At the in the museum and took a great thirty-eighth rolnute the barograph interest in the exhibits. registered. 9,000 metres, and, as the

Belgians The Queen of the

to thermometer at that moment marked went

- Kensal Gree 50 degrees centigrade below Zero: Cemetery, where in the Roman Kirch decide! not to take to much Catholic portion, she visited the of a chance, and downed til he graves of 87 Belgian soldiers who reached ground, where the same died in London and were buried there. thermometer marked plus 98 degrees She was dressed entirely in white centigrade.

and wore a white lace hat.

of its five stare type Iners

The Hawkeye State will leave Seattle on August 27 1od to expected

men. These groups of musicians. have been entremely popular with passengers, as well as with foreign residents of the port cities in thei Orient. The general passenger agent

THE CALCUTTA TRADE.

.ed.

• GENERA'. NOTES.

ed."

A BEQUEST OF BRANDY,

pany:

in conversation is this, that he goes ou without knowing how he is to get There is another quajat rebe of by-off." And there is Garrick's playful This Company's net profit for 1920 gene London in a custom that survives epitaph of him

"Here lies Nelly Goldsmith, for (after deducting depreciation, and

shortness called Noll The Oaka Shoten Kaisha is said making rezerves for the estimatâd at the dinner of a certain City Com-1

Hability for income tax, corporation

"At some stages of the least there Who wrote like an angel, but talked profis tax, and excess profits duty) amounts to £1,972; add balance comes round the tables a steward, with like poor Poll." brought forward, £1,933 together an attendant waiter bearing a tray £3,955, The preference dividend for of tiny glasses filed with an amber or 1920 has been paid, leaving £455 to a white Buid, and to each guest in

turn is put the question- be carried forward.

of the Admiral Line, writing to to intend competing in the Calcutta agencies in the Far East, states that run, the "Celebes-maru" being fixed there are plenty of American univer to leave Kobe on or about Septem eity musicians who would like to take ber 4. The Jiji surmises that the the trip to the Orient and that so long company. inte da to dispatch this as the public desires this class of steamer on trial A present it is on the Calcutta to New Orleans tine. Con- music it will be furnished.

BRINGING UP

{BOS HAVE TO "TAKE THAT BOG

BUT FER A WALK?

"YOU DO AND !

DON'T WANT ANY BACK TALK- DO YOU UNDER. STAND THAT?

CILISAT THAT JUST THE CUTEST-

LITTLE

DOG?

En

And so we ramble on from one theme to another in a book that will give pleasure to the amateur of the antiquities of London.

FATHER.

Oil: THE DARLING.

LITTLE DOG:

WELL- WHEN

DO YOU WANT ME TO TAKE HIM. OUT AGAIN?