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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERA, ÅFFHAISERS AND BURVEYORS,

Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned hava rooolved tnstruc- bione do well by Pablla Aaction,

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THURSDAY, February 23, 1922.

antoning at 11 a.m.

at the Sales Rooms, Daddell Street,

12 Aron Safes (new).

3 Nuronal Sterilizers (Medical Pro-

fession

Rengton Typewriters,

2 Underwood Typewriters,

1 Bean.

1 Pave Chart Course Indicator,

1 Thos Azmath Herzanith

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1 Futs Improved Parallel Ruler,

1 Paten: Taffrail Log,

1 Bameter by Hughes, London,

1 Barometer, by C. J. Gaupp & Co... F

Hongkong.

Also

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Bach, London.

-On view from Wednesday the 22nd

inst.

Ter-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneer

Honchong, Foleruary 18, 1922.

PROPOSAL IN COURT.

GIRLS CANNOT MARRY

THIS GOOD MAN."

What a charge of loitering made against a pots girl, Lily Frowin, 23, of Reading, was being heard a Al dershot ang man buntied into court and offered to marry her.

"I love taegirl," he said "We were boy and gr together. As soon as I heard ab was in this frouble. He v¦

at Rending and hurried my work kere.

The chama asked the girl if she would accept the man's proposal of | marriage and inve a home to go to.

The r I would like a home, but I cannot marry this good nian.

The young man gazed imploringly

at the girl, holding out his arms.

The Charmuu She refuses your offer of marriage, and that apparen! ly fuisites:

Still pg at the girl, the young man'slowly walked out of court, but as he heard the sentence. "One guinea or a month," he quickly returned and paid the e Then he and the girl left the court together.

But the reunion WAS of short duration. Waiting outside a shop while the girl made some purchases within, the young man discovered, after neark an hour, that she had eluded bitu by leaving the shop by another door. After searching the town for her for several hours, be returned to Reading alone, still expressing, however, his intention of finding her and making her his wife.

ATHLETIC

MARTYRS.'

HEADMASTERS ON SCHOOL SPORT.

Alter debate at the Headmasters' Conference at Merton College, Oxford. it ws decided by a large majority to reassent objections to any increase in the number of public champion-lip competitions between schools.

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The Leadmaster of Rugby raid - As a headmaster I think anything like a championship meeting, whether in athletics or anything else. undesirable." He added that they believed in relay races, but not in champix nship meetings, which meant a large expenditure of money, wustę of time, and a great increase of publicity.

"If something can be due to bring together is a natural way two sete of boys it will be good for the boys| and good for the nation declared Mr. Hyde, of the Industrial Workers' Association. "Ty to brag about matobos between publir school boys of the industrial centres, for anoner or later they are bad to mout as, emplayers and workers, and if they are brought together in the friendly atmosphere of sport you may do something to heal some of the sores, of the nation."

Mr. Cholmel y, of Owens Boliobl Tellugton, so'd the worst diffoulty headmasters had to meet was the Constant attempt to get boys in the limelight. "Those champions," "t declared, "ate the martyrs of the athletic system,"

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TOLD KAISER TRUTH.

MEMORIES OF A SHIPPING MAGNATE.

were orly the explosions of a strong ⚫ temperament.

When wor cavie, all the Kaiserin's influence was used against any early: prace:

than

SUBMERGED SCENERY.

DRAINING A LAKE TO UN- COVER FAMOUS TERRACES.

It is believed that the famous Pink

She met Ballin with her hands The memoir of Ballin, the German tightly elenched and cried: "Peace shipping maguete and creator of the with England? Never!" The Em and White Terraces of Rotorua, Hamburg Amerika Line, which has just peror's family believed that they had formerly one of the most beautiful been published by bis colleague Her been betrayed by England and the scenic features of New Zealand, were Bernard Huldermann("Albert Ballin," Stalling, Berlin), is a work of extreme difficult to understand now

British Court. Why, it is even more not destroyed by the Mount Tarawera importance from the light it sheds Ballin found it to be ther. But in cruption in 1886, but that they were upon the inner bistory of the war and such circumstances opposition to her only submerged by Lake Rotomabana. upon the character of the ex- Kaiser. was useless and only led to misclief. It is therefore proposed to drain the Ballis, it will be remembered, coma- mitted suicide alter the German the German propaganda tale that

Ballin makes very short work of lake and so uncover the terraces collapse. Long before it be bad Great Britain and France on the eve

which were once } world-famous despaired of victory.

He appears to have been a German On bis return from London a few

of war were thirsting for a conflict. attraction. of singularly moderate and shrewd days before the war be reported: viewe, with an understanding of the British which nowhere else was to be politicians are entirely pacific, and

"England and the leading British of hot springs, and were formed of found among the German leaders: the French Government is so little exquisitely coloured siliceous sinter "I am regarded," he wrote, "in anxious for war that its representa-[finty deposita). On the night of the bigh quarters and even by the Kaisertive in London is making himself very eruption Mount Tarawera, 16 miles himself as Anglophil, and yet I am small and doing all in his power to away, was nearly rent in two, and the sole German who can claim with avoid a conflict." Churchill, with eruptions burst out in a line nine reason to have been for 30 years tears in his eyes, on taking leave of

The Pink and White Terraces were on the shores of the lake near a series

engaged in war against England Ballin, ertreated him thua: My miles long. The next morning the for predominance in the shipping dear friend, don't, let us go to war!" Pink and White Terraces had dis

business."

Even before the war he regarded the German policy of building a huge navy as dicastrous to German inter- ests and certain to lead to ultimate

trouble.

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appeared. THE U-BOAT CAMPAIGN,~-~ Even after the war was in fall swing, Ballin still dreamed of a swift reconciliation with Great Britain. In October 1914 he wrote to Tirpitz: Folly! Everywhere folly! I feel "What we must aim at is a new that. I am in an asylum when I hear A nation which rules a third of the arrangement of Powers in the shaps people discuss war with Holland, inbabited world and means to retain of & German-British-French alliance. America, Denmark, and Rumania as this de minion could not renounce its This alliance we can obtain so soon as if it were some trifling affair." position of superiority at tes. The we have struck down France and British argument, was sound from the Belgium, provided always you make British point of view. For that

up your mind to reach on understand-

KAISER'S DELUSIONS. --

On the eve of disaster, in August reason be desired a compremise in the ing with England a to your ship. 1918, ba was called in by Stinnes to form of an Anglo-German under building programmo. England is tell the Kaiser the truth: "Stinnes standing.

fighting for her existence to exactly told me that the military position With the aid of Bir Ernest Cresel, his the same degree as ourselves, or bad become extremely bad. Our friend in England, he made epeated perhaps in an even greater degree.” man-power was failing; wa had many

efforts before the war to secure, such

On the U-boat war Ballia wavered deserters (Stinnba kámed some

an agreement and played a direct part in opinion. There was a moment 32,000, I think), Ludendorff has at in bringing about Lord Haldane's visit when he seems to have approved it, last made a clean breast of things to to Berlin in 1912. But the German believing that if Germany had 300 the Crown Prince, but the Kaiser bas naval authorities took goed care to U-boats the might win. But in May still to be told. bring his efforts to nothing.

A few days later Ballin saw the Kaiser for the last time, but the suite took care that there were people present, so that it was impossible to speak freely

THE RAIBERIN'S ANGER.

1916 he wrote:

The people who are now preaching The Kaiser did not like to be fold the ruthless U-boat wat are falsely aplescant truths. The manner in informed as to the efficiency of the which the truth was kept from him. U-boate. They imogine that the was a misfortune to himself and his starvation of Englatid by much means I found the Kaiser very badly in people. He was informed only of is not only possible but is disa reason formed and in the excellent spirits what was satisfactory, and therefoeably certaink I need scarooly say which he always affects when there is did obese things as they ally wore that such an imagination is false. That He was, according to Ballin, too the ruthings U-boat war will bring on prone to yield to his Minister and is the bittorost ohmity and perlings that the disastrous failure of, the All the urutral offensive, which at Arst greatly de-

the actual

a third person present. The people about him have so distorted the froth

Tirpits was not sympathetic to him Statre is a consequence these pressed him now represented as di and in no way a man after his own enthusiata ap

heart, but be gavo way to hun, believetiol

ing Tirpita's" unval jolloy was the

sound cue, He did not fully almi,

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