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· Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Export Co., Ltd.

ELECTRICAL PLANT AND ACCESSORIES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS IN CHINA & HONGKONG, ARNHOLD BROTHERS & Co. Ltd. 1A, Chator Road. 'Phone Contrai 1800.

IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIES,

PIECE GOODS.

IMPORTERS AND DEALERS AT LOGGERHEADB:

Foreign importera and Chinese dealers engaged in the piece goods business have been at loggerheads for over finath over-the-question of fancy goods contracte. At present the importers have no standard form

THE CHINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Silver from Films.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Brighton's now cato fue tlie half- year will be 6s. 8d., a reduction of id.....

There is money in the movies, and even in their waste there is silver. Blackpual, Education Committe in "Hypo" in used by the thousand urging a censorship of picture post- gallone to dissolve the silver sut of cards.

the films, and this was for a long time Three hours of tarrential rain in

allowed to flush the city sewers of Los

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 192

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

of contract although the varicus forme Angelès (relatan, thin Daily Chronicle.) Rome caused the tramway service to Just landed ex "EMPRESS OF ASIA”

An apple tree at Little. Bytham, Lincolnshire, hus blossomed thirs times this year.

Reminded at Willcoden on a charge. theft a servant girl was granted bail in order to be warring,

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After being clored for a work as protest against the high amuseinent tax the Heriu kinemas lavo reopened.

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Mr. Cecil Fforde, K. C.. of the Irish

al judge of the fahore High Court, Bar, has been appointed an addition- Indio.

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used are more or less similar. The Now that is all over for from the be suspended.. Chinrac dealers object to these con- 30,000 gallons used every mouth tracts and bave put forward a stand | 10,000 ounces of pure silver are ard forms on which, it has been stated obtained. There is still another source they will alone do business in future, of silver: When the Glas come to In their proposed form. of contract the studios the. little holes along tha These the dealers claim voice in the sides-have-fn-be-punchied. appointment of arbitrators in the event particles of film are collected and SHIPPING.

My destination is a port near 11:ng of a discrepancy between the quality burnt, yielding between five and six kong, China, where modern Jock of goods delivered and of the sample. ounces to the pound, and when there STEAMERS AND MOTOR SHIPS equipment will probably not be avail. At present the dealurs only guarantee are about 4000 pounds of these to be able for quloading, and about 15 days to ship by a certain date; the dealere burnt the silver obtained is not COMPARED.

will be required for discharging the want a guarantee of delivery because gigible. So careful are they now cargo, but with a fuel consumption they say that if ertain classes of of their silver that the old worden per day of ouly & ton as against 6600de arrive too late in the season tasks impregnated with the "hypo tons of the steamer. The same ap. they are of so ure The dealers further are hurat and made to yield their plies to loading any available fright. Beek a reduction in the fate of interest quote. It is sometimes taken for granted Allowing a total of 16 days disohrrg. charged on goods not cleared to time. 1ort Cases for hind funds

Correspondence on the subject has

The interge are so called be Twenty men were injured, 5 serious that the advantage of the motor shiping and loading freight at China ports, over the atramer lies colely in its excess fuel consumption for the passed between the Chiaro Dealers cause, under normal conditions, they, in no accident' to an ascending lower fuel bill, but as owners of oil steamer would be 81-tens, at $17.95 Guild and the foreign merchants and refure to combine chemically with cage in a coal mive near Dousi, north

at the request of the former the matter the chat (+178 Everyday of France. engiped vessels bave amply (Hongkong fuel), or $1,445.

When I get to Chiba, I will fod has now been taken up by te Chinese Seente) Generally speaking, this demonstrated to their own satisfac- tion, there are other savings to be a lot of steamers lying at suchor Chamber of Commerce. While the aloofns is detrimental-it frakes made which are somewhat difficult to waiting for profitable cargoes. With importer, have all along printed them a mest valnel se. One way. Roto," from Antwerp. the safety of but which, the greater sailing radius of the motora united front the deal re have not, however, in whink they may be useful, which was in doubt, has arrived at nevertheless, amount to a consider ship can afford to take cargoes it a rare, been able to reach agree because of this very property, is in Buenos Aires.

The great able eum during the course of a year, offered for ports where lui is not ment amutigst themselves. Saine al the preserving of foods.

The German Ministry of Labour au This is in addition to the increased available except at very high them were for ceasing to do businces difficulty is preparing tinned foods is carrying capacity of the motor hip as prices; furthermore, I can und-rbid altogether, while others were in favour to exclude air, for oxygen, being very nousees that there are now only the old terms, fur from inert, leade to decomposition 11,000 unemployed in Germany in compared with the steamer. any of the stramere for freights of carry ag on

for a voyage back to the United here we also a eration who proposed of the fool and to torrosion of the tin. receipt of relief..

eliminating the middlemen and Even if air is carefully excluded it is | States, and Led leas freight to pay dialing direct with the manufastarer found that thin contents of the lia do Professor Charles Sherrington, the

With my low operating expenses. operating cost I can afford to move at home in the meantime, although teriorate in flaveat, owing, it is be physiolcgist, has been awarded the clearance have been proceeding lesed, to the presence of xyzen Andere Reizin nedal by the Swedish around in the Orient and pick upate dily, no new business is being enwrappel with the food. A process Physicians' Society. small freights that would by nepro duac.

has now been devised by. which the Gitable for a steamer.

free air and the entrapped oxygen can be driven out and replaced by an inert gas, which maintains the fool and the tin in ésaitly the same state as that in which they were staled up. Dyid Trees.

detail 00 paper,

In this connection a very interesting interview with the skipper of a meter ship is published in the current issue of the l'acific Marine Review, in which are brought out certain facts relating to these subsidiary economies which are well worthy of consideration by shipowners who are now pondering over the respective advantages of eteam and motor vessels.

The skipper in question remarked that he would rather be master of a motor ship, because with such a vessel be could always beat a steamer in any part of the world. Hended that the fuel economy was only a small part of the advantage on motor ship over a eteamer, and explained bis meaning by the following details, computing the actual operating conditions with the two classes of plant.

WORLD THEATRE.

SUZANNE LENGLEN ON THE SCREEN.

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The Ginn steamer Therese

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Taken ill in a tramway car, Mr. Joseph Haloy, three times mayor of the town, died At Dewsbury, Yakshire, oged 60.

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"For the return voyage to the United States, the motor ship would require 370 ton of Hongkong fuel, at S17.85, custing $6,600, as against a steamier requiring 570 tons of Hung

Sixteen Indian Army officers among kong luel at $17.85 and 600 tons of

Experiment. are being made in the those who have become surplus will Honolulu fuel at $14, a total of

Weser district, in Gimany, with a be appointed by examination to the $18,000; a difference in favour of the!

view to profusing coloured trees and Indian Civil Service. mater ship of $12000. The port

a striking initial aurcées bn beon charges for fuelling at Honolulu, and

Patrons of the World Theatre will reported. An area of several arrer Owing to unfavourabl; weather the addition-1 day regu red, would be another $750 expened for the steiner be afforded a good opportunity has been set apart for the purpose the London-Brussels Cologne air liner

of ageing a lady Tennis Cham- Without allowing fixed charges for the longer stay of the steamer pion Suzanne Langhen on the (say the Observer in a large forest which began the service was unable

near the town of Ushit. Every tree to get beyond B.as-elz. rereen on the 14th and 7th inst, in this area is hung with a receptacle. Printed on ilioner paper, the Oct- the Orint. wailing

profitable Cargo food nights only,

containing red or blue colouring mat Most of us have seen the champ'outer, which is directed, by means of a

eb r issue of the London Telephone | of water to tiles the right can keep his motor big at gen

picured in arrested motion by the rubber tube, into the roots of the tree. Directory is much les bulky than its bandling equipment at this, flock; carrying profitable frights a gro and accordugly had to lala large, many days more pur year than I can camera, few ilustra dd papers bave in Eicetricity also plays part in the immediata predecessor part of the carg with sterelores, hamer), the heir ship has a fact faded to show Miss Lenglen in

The colouring matter makesita way. delaying me nucly 10 days. Daring nlvattage in operation expennes for one or other of her serves, voileys or

Jack hands the folow through within about four wroks to the utter thie tie in pott, the furl ropromp the voyage of 103 days (105 days

the stole, the close minst eads of the branches and the tion has only been 6 tan of'cil as for the stearii) of $27,700 * against 6 tns for a su ames, with far. The following table giva in detail being unusually instructive in showing smallest tags in some case up to a less standby less. Additional cost the various sav nga and additional Law the racket is held and maripat hight of twentyards,

"I arived from Hamburg in in balla, and my ship was too high ant retura.

colaning preet33.:

The tree

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The number of undergraduate at Cambridge is much etler this term, sad the congestion of the last four years has been remov.d.

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Leatherbord, Surry, Gas Company for the stemmer, 5.4 tons at $7.29, 15, canings of the ship on the din varying the pace art direction then dies off and is felted and ent into

part cular contes in questing This with: ball. All the will be better timber. The wond thus obtained is bas reduced the price of gas by 3d, 6 days, $630,

vecamy of $27 700 (ay £1,000) is at sern in the wonderful tum rather uel for various purpass specially 58. 9. 1er 1,000 cubie ft. in the the rate of $99 000 for the whole year ban described writing Tennis for the making of furniture. The part Leatherhead district and Sa. 11d, in or almat 122,000, the comparison be players lould aut miss to se this of the forest where the experiments th: Cobham area.

This motor ship of gut tots

deadweight capacity, inimbing Lun

ker fuel burns 9 tons of oil n day,

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As against 30 tons (of cil) aulay for a ing made in relation to vil fired { picture. Owing to the high cost of are being eare ed on may already bo Tiva-hundred prisoners at Alipore

Corresponding steamer while at sea.

steamers, since the large majority of tispecial-filmr prices of admission

"I have an opportunity of filing American veseels are equipped with have been raised to 82-and $1 my ship with cargo at $9 a te burners Based on 15 per cent respectively. Soldiers and Sailors in Burning only tous a day at 11 fixed charge; an additional capital uniform balf price to Stall only. knots, the 39 day run to Hongkong expenditure of nearly £150,000 would requires 370 tons of banker fuel. be justified, whereas the se'usl cust! Allowing 5 per cent. nerve, I can of a motor chip is not very much take on 165 tons of fuel and 8,535 'gwater than that of a steainer. tons of fright.

! Motor ship additional freight

**If I had a steamer, I should have earning outbound ......$2250 to ressive bunker capacity for the S enter excas cost put fuel, longest leg of the worage, which loading

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bound... Stelar excess cost port

tu 1 Ching discharging .. Ste mer excÉIS ext fuel,

homeward bound.... Steager Extra day calling at Janular for Insi (opera ting and fixed charges)... Skanier

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noticed from a far pit, by the rd or blue tint of the felinge.

Cocktail Habit.

Jail in Calcutta rushed the hospital to rescue & prisoner who was kopt! there as he was slamming lunacy, but order was restored.

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Many expedient: pre adopted in, Indin to raise and maintain the physical standard of the Army. Since

To make no example of the the war, games and, recrrations of all ringleaders of the revolt against the steamerin lower capital cont. Quite kinds bave been encouraged by the Italian's in Tripoli the death penalty apart from the rense 1 economy of military authorities, including pole, has been re-introduced, and an Arula operation which warrants the addi football, boxing, and hockey, but hangman has been employed. ** tional cuties on the mater ihip, the|whilst these exercises have bad good

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depreciation of steamers will probably effect, much harm is being done by Increased fees are now payable on rapidly increase as the number of an increase of a'coholic drinking since parcele wighing more than 51b. sent motor ships augments and the eterner the war. Da ich authority it is by the parcel air service to Paris beconys a ligg workable proposition stated that both in messes and in The new scule is: Up, to 2lb.. Is. Od ; 500 in comparison with the more efficient clubs in India fou much alcohol is 25[b., 39. ; 5-8b,, 4s. 63. ; 8 1tlb., 65,

oil engined vessel.

consumed particularly in short. This is a point to which owners have | drinks, and this, post war habit, it is An Exchange messago from Paris presibly not given sufficient thught; averted, is militating against the states that the liver” “Berengario' 9775 it is by no nicans improtable that in physical fit-ess of the Army. The arrowly escaped collision in a fog the course of, say, 10 years, when a matter has been brought to the notice with the French liner "Lafayette." 1,445 steamer, built at the present day, will of offers by Lord Rawlinson, the The "Berengaria" met with ico-bergs only have run ball its life, such a Commander in Chiet, who emphasises on the third day out from New York. 12,000 vessel will be well-nigh unsaleabla and the importance of example is a mat-

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would be II. nolulu to Hengl.ng, a Extra day. for steamer cl distance of 4 910 miles; say 19 dayaling-nt Honoʻn!a-f-rfurt- 30 tons of ful, per day, 576 tons operating burned, phi reserve of 25 percent. ^eliangre) Lor a minuten linker farl-gi--715-Summer-port

tons The auximum. cargo__mugl_1_ land on a steamer would be 288 Steamer Excess c-st fuel out- tons, 250 tons less than the motor! ship, which corro-pona to $2,250 more froight money. When I get through the canal, I will est a course straight for Hongkong, wheremy

The British Medical Association with the steamer I would have to

perhaps unworkable, in competition ter of ilie kind, urges officers to arm deviate and love a day going to

with the vastly increased motor lees how far the cooktail habit really forms has objected to Glagow Education Honolula for fuel. The port charges at

530 | Chut will by that time be in service on part of their daily requirements, and Authority offering a salary of £105 Honolulu, including towing and pilot,

all the dean routes in the world. In plainly states that if a man has not for a medical officer, contending that would be about $250, in addition to

250 other words, íf a motor ship to day inflicient contrul over himaalt to the salary should be £500. "It is the cost of operating the ship and the

costs £130,000 to build and a corres-socure moderation in the alcohol be stated that many applications have fixed charges on the investment for

$ 27.700 ponding steamer £100,000, under drinks it is his duty to adopt total been received for the post.

normal conditions, the former will abstinrace. sa extrs day, which amounts to abont $550. For the 39-day ruo,, the The slump in the price of steamers probably be worth about £65,000 in

Preaching at Birmingham Cathedral { motor ship cost for fuel will be is probably partly due to the adoption 10 years' time, whereas the latter

| Sir William Ashley, vice principal of $2,885. The steamer will bura 600 of the motor, ehip, and this point may quite conceivably have a value Be careful of the wolds you take at this Birmingham University, said he had toos of Port Arthur fuel at $7.80, should be borne in mind when cos of little more than £25,000 in the open time of the year "They are particularly given his life to the study of history, and 570 tons of Honolala fuel at sidering the question of building either market, due to the fact that it is dangerous.. A teglected cold may nenn and he did not believe there was ever

a winter long cold. Take Chamboriniu'n $14; total $2,000, or $3,775 in steamers or motor shis, and weighing of a class that no shipowner will Cough Remedy at once. For sale by alla time when the great body of our

up the apparent advantage of the then desire to possess.

Chemisty and Storekeepers.

people were as moral as they are now, excess of the motor ship.

Honolulu

Total

Early Colds..

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Canadian Potatoes 10,

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