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CAPTAIN EVANS,

LLOYD'S SPECIAL COLD MEDAL

The silver and the bronza medals: which are awarded by floy's for

PEDICABS.

A SHANGHAI SCHEME.

THE CHINA MAIL

ODDS AND ENDS.

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Boating Orchards.

MAIL WEEK NEWS.

Cambridge University Residonta number 8,226, a decrease of 900 on last year.

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Another roheme which it is hoped may improve traffic conditions in One of the greatest dreies of the Bhadghai and add usefully to the been sudden frost, and many have re elected president of the National Mr. Georgo Terrell, M..P., has been frait grower in South California has transport services bas heen under been the devices to overcome this Union of Manufacturers. consideration says the NO. Daily danger. An oranga, grave one day News: According to particulars which will be in perfect condition and bear will be found in to-day's Municipuling promise of a splendid fruit crop-Iv prohibited, and those who try to Gazette, a company has been formed then a sudden frost rate in, and the du so are liable to prosecution. with the purocas of operating a service next day the grove is ruined for that

Pheasants shot by the King and of "pedicabs," or crelerio-bas. for year, Smoke-eereens have been of which special advantages are claimed, prent use in the past, but are not al-presented by him to the Hospital; of The pedicab is simply a three wheeled ways to be relied upon. The latest London Combined Appeal, 19. ricsha propelled by, a rider on the iden, according to Pearson's Magazine, Barkeloy street, V., realised £3, 48. Od. front wherl. A somethat similar is to itstal oil atvas (lorty to the a brace. experiment was tried, on a very acre) between the rows of fruit trees modest scale, some few years ago, the with an extra row twenty five feet to a basket chair prey elted by a bicycle, supply of heat can be generated all They provel unpopular, and the ex-over the gove to counteract the at periment was dropped, though we be tack of the Beverent frost, lieve on or two of these machines are Payizg Cills. still in operation, e

WRECK OF "KOONSHING." | "Ype o' vehicle on that occasion being windward. By this meas aufficient metallurgist., has been appointed

MASTER AND SECOND OFFICER OENSURED.

AN AFTREUIATIVE COMMENT.

The Petlicab" company, an Eng. lish concern with, we underststel, a considerable amount of capital, hee an ambitious scheme prepared. They

gallantry at eas are coveted trophies, A Naval Court of Inquiry, com and the honour of wearing one or the posed of Lieut. Commander Keith! propose to start their servien with The advantages other is not lightly sateemed by those Adam, of II. M. S. Gnat," Ir. 8.0,000 vehicles,

fliciently supervised, special attention to be given to the trining of coolies a cleanliness of the vehicles, of which there will be two classes. In return for the grant of a monopcly, the company proposes that the con corn ehall become the property of the Municipal Council after a certain number of years,

who have by their bravery in eaving Wyatt-Smith, Shipping Vice Conent, claimed for the prop ad service are lile, most likely at the risk of their Captain Ifoughton, of the "Glaneus," that fates will not be higher than own, wan the distinction of varning and Captain Monkman, of the theme of the existing risha service, the coveted Lloyd's inidal.

conlies and vehicles will ha much more What, "Soschow," on December 29 gaval then, shall way of a deed that their finding with regard to the mada it necessary in the opinion of stranding of the Indo China s.. the Committee of Loja's to de arte Koonshing" at Weihaiwei. Censure from the usual custom, and specially was passed on the ma tee and e-cond strike a gold medal to mark their officer, without suspersion of cer- stase of admiration for the deed of tificates, but the Court expressed its Captain E. R. G. R. Evan, CB, appreciation of the conduct of Captain D.8.0., R.N.. when he rescued all the Brewer and his officers after the survivors of the stranded Hong versel had struck. The finding of the Moh" when she lay wrecked in an Court was read by the President as exceedingly dangerous position near Hongkong nake the Liverpool Journal;

The "Koovshing" was a British of Commerce? The manual of the atenm vessel ( 2,130 tons registerad British Navy and the British Merchant Marine are full of the records of the gallant men whose dee.

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tonnage, official number 120,610, built at Alxrdeen in 1900 and he longing to the port of London.

The scheme has been considered by the Commissioner of Police and, while considering the promoters are unduly optimiste, Mr. McEars area in it the germ of an idea from which something useful wielt como." and observes that, should exp conting a be realized even to the extent of 50 per cent, there would still seem to be fair glorious the world over, but the exploit

maytir of profi: and the prospect of of Captain Evens eight en months ago (he has been since tied by his duties to

anime amelioration of traffic difliculties, tho China station, and has only just 29. 1922. at 11.19 au bound for He recommends that the company bu returned home) stands co-equal with Tietsin with a cargo of 1,800 tons,

have made the name of British senmen

TERCHE.

It ay para from the evidence given hefure t is Court that she sailed from Shanghai on or about October

pergers.

the arrets for experimental purposes and the granting of the full ausber

of licences, shoul! the expriment

prove a Bugreza,"

THAT DREADED WORD.

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I wonder if you've ever seen. The dainty little Fairy queen? For when the moon is very high. She journeys far serve the sky. She does not use her wing it's true. That's on old fashioned thing to do, Nor travel by the Eifia train- She has a silver sert plane!

· Tis mide of moonbeams every bit No wonder she is proud of it As off she goes some calls to pay Along the abining Milky Way.

These ara no houses there," "yon

cry,

She can't pay calls up in the sky," There are--I ugn that they are

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Dozens of castira in their!

b. M. O., in the Morning Post. Lordon Fed By Raid.

Dr. Percy Longmuir, a Sheffield Director of Korearch to the British Cast Iron Research' Association, Birminghami.

Costing £2.300 three. years ago, the steam drilter "Forward” way sold by auction at Scarborough for £04, whils tha motor boat "Acbitye,” which was old two year ago for £700, realised

£85

Just after the Ely Diocesan Cou for the afternoon sitting, the Rev. ference at Cambridge and reassembled

William Ellison, rector of Harltos, near Cambridge, collapsed in his chair and died...

Like Britain, Italy, Signor Nitti, the ex-Prmier said, must renounce all reparations so as to sa:ure reconstruo tion. This was the only way of e-cur ing the ect somic support of the United States.

The Early Closing Association is Night and day hundreds of horses urging railway companies to extend in relays were coming up at trot an i the present week-end excursiin tickete gallop, from the South Coast and even (from Saturday to Monday) to Satar from the Berwick and Solway salmon day to Wedne day, to carry over the Gisberies, bringing fresh to Billingsgate Christmas holidays.

A hun the best fish of every port. dred thousand head of cattle and three quat ers of a million sh-up year

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the Canadian House of Commons,

Mr. Lucien Picand, a member of

ty walked up to Smithfield for the will succeed Mr. W. L Griffith as slaughter, many of them from Scot secretary to the High Commissioner

But strangest of all

the nounced from Ottawa. modern eys well be the drove

to

probably show what ought to be, and

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The Berk of England is promoting Bill in Parliament to provide for the removal of any buman tomains found during the r building The wut eal of the bank stands on the site of the

the very best of them for its dating its ant a crew of 59 hands all told, as permitted to place 200 pedicabs ou land or from the holders of Wales for Canada in London, it is an- andaranes, and its total disregard of: well as thren European and 33 Chinese personal risk.

Said to have been very dent, All went well till about 302 a.m.

of guru and turkeys, two ( The Hong Moh," with well over a

three thousand at a time waddling William Berk hire, G1, fisherman Flowly and thousand coulin pas cngre on board; on etuber 31, when the vessel wis

loq ciontly along stepped in front of a motor-car going ail the roads to Loudoo for a hundred about 10 milis an hour along tho etruck a rock in the vicinity of long-ste-ring couree N 87W. (T). Chiming

We understand that the matter ro miles round, tw cu August and Matias Pord, Brighton, and was kong in March of last year, and Island abeam. This couran was con quickly broke in two, and two days tenned until about 356 am, when it mains in abeyance for the pirant: October, feeding on the stubble of the knocked down and killed. elapsed before Captaia Evaus recrivrit was altered to 883 W. (T.) Stand by owing to the refusal of the Council to Gelds through which they parsed. On | a wirefran message to proceed to the was then rung down to the engine. Prant this monoply asked for, but our rand from. Ipswich to London. Mr. John M'Donald Henderson amage to prve in the room, and the Second Ufficer, that the promptes of the scheme are 150,000 turkeys walked over the Stour chartered accountant and barrister. cruiser "Carlish the position was who was ou the bridge, took a about to make a further proposal,

bridge euch year.-From "Bilish of Cambi gate, Wimbledon, SW Special reference is made to the fact about as bad as could be conceived, compass bearing from Flug Stall Heavy teas were breaking over the Light and laid it on the chart. This that the coolics engaged to work the story in the Nineteenth Century, M.P., for Aberdeenshire Weeb from 1782 1001," by G M. Trevelyan. 1903 to 1018, died at the Palaco wreck, the cruiser cult Lat get near bearing was incorrectly laid there bomachines would be perly trained

Hotel, Aberdeen, aged 76.. on account at the hallow water, and ing a 5 error in the compass, aari the and, if success is achieved in this Put Ungava Cn The Map.

the service might Ungava, that triangular peniu-u'a when boats approaches it was found Second Officer making the error of essential,

The sentence of six months' impossible to get alongside an account laying the bearing as N. 85 W. (T) prove a valuable solvent of traffe running south from Hudson Strait for

passed by tbe of the breaking seas. Captain Evans instead of S 95 W. (T) At 4.02 a.m. difficulties; but the public would 800 or 900 miles and extending nearly imprisonment

1,000 miles from east to west, in the Richmond, Surrey, Bensh on Frank eseing therek of trying to board the Chao Pei Tsui Light was abram 1 have

increase in epond would gatest are remaining unexplored on Emery, ahosmuker, for stealing ap wreck, determined to make the miles approximately, and 4.04 a.man attempt himself. Plunging overboard the Caprain weat to look at the chart, not involve a corresponding decrease earth ac onling to the Toronto Globe, plus valued at 61, wai reduced to 14 from bis moter host into the icy when he observed that the position in safety. With a machine ronsiter.Through the fur-teading operations of days at Surrey Quarter Sessions. waters, carrying a line, he endeavour the was in the white sector, the light ably faster than thi riesha, it would be the Hudson's Bay Company and the

Th Prince of Wales paid a short ed to reach the "Houg Moh," and alter he thought he had observed being red, most fortunate if the riders clevilored work of fishermen along the Labrador risking his life a dozen times he Herang down top is order to pre- the eccentricition of the rich cole cost, a little has became known of its visit to Oxford where he was the managed to get on buaid. The story pare to anchor, and at 4.10 a.m. then wandering to and fro between the outer elges. Expedition from the guest of the President of Magdalen vca. 1 struck After she strunk, the k-rhstone and the middle of the road. Geological Survey have done good Sir Herbert Warren, with whom he is an old one now, and details are

work exploring portions of the launched. In the evening the Prince Kanccessary, but it may beaded rocks the wind und een icerenard, The ela's of vehicles to bused, up that he succeeded in getting all the and dietress signals were eat to parently would be a very consii rabe interior, but much of it is still no dined fath Cole Hil and attended

HMS. "Despatch." Everyth ng improvement on the present, type of undiscovered constay. Great rivers, common room. surviving coolies but ole to the motor boat by means of the line, attacoed te possible to save life was dose and norie ha in use, and with uniformed are well known at their mouth and

live were last,

coolies better cared for and control for some distanco up stream. But in a mast that was at any time expect. ed to crash down upon them. The The Court is of the opinion the than the present agd but withnguany cases the maps of the interier last coolie be took with him when Master, William Brewer, appears to mab of workers, the new service should he swam back to the motor boar, hove navigated his vessel in a seaman-have features to commend it Even then his werk was not finished,ke manner until 4.02 a.. when Choo for a rope had got foul of the propeller Pei Toni light was obeam, The Mas of the boat, and Laptain Evans again ter was then given an apparently safe went overboard and worked at the position from cross bearings taken and rope until he was too exhausted to get laid off by the Second Officer which into the boat again. culice it to say he acc. pod, although in doubt as to that every living man ou the witcklits correctors. This doubt caused was any.d. Of coured there were him to atop engines and prepare to others who during the rescue-showed anchor, but too late to avoid groun

The country is being florded with that gallantry which is inherent in the dine. In view of the state of the British square, and excelent bely weather and low visibility we co. "Take ancient" carvings by a new error of rehnal of b ne sculptura which is was also given by the Chinese crew sider he committed an Btother vessel, but Captain Evans judgment in not verifying is making Paris its head-quarters, states heroic endeavour is the outstanding position before attempting to make a Parie paper. feature of the rescue, and thiors are the barbour entrance, and are of. It is specialising in imitations The busiest centre in Lond n is lyde deal mora talint than is gives to son who will not applaud the de-opioion that he is deserving of censure, the carvings executed between the Park Corner. Here, in twelve hou s many modern painters," wait. Mr. ision of Lloyd's that such start but do not consider the circumstances ninth and sixteenth centuries, and 51.000 vehicles passed or more than Justice Coleridge at Stafford Assizes, warranted Lloyd's Committee in de justify in any way suspension of his although it is compelled to carry 08 a 18 a minuts for the whole period. when he sentenced Samual and

clandestine trade, reputable mext comes Piccadilly Circus with Jack Thornayoruft parting from their usual custom to prepare and award their first gold The Court considers that the Second chants are fully alive to its trickery.

$0,000 vehicles, Trafalgar Square Wolverhampton, to 18 months' hard It is possible, according to the with 38,000 the Mansion House with labour lar uttering forged Treasury wedal. Such a used as that of Captam Officer, William Primrose MoAllan, is Evare and his able lieutenants de to blame in that he gave the Master French magazina Opinion by 30 000, and the Elephant and Castle notes.

on 200 000 monatmtes once more how any an incorrect safe position by cross simply toiling in infusions of tobacco with 20 000, Close democratic is the kinship of the tea, boaring takes at 4.02 a.m., and that juies and the alcohol of raisin sede vehicles were counted in the tw-Ive which knows no rade of creed, but the on discove jog an error of 10 laid off or hathing in peroxide of hydrog hours at thece five points. Thee which conveyed the French 7th Divi

in his bearing of Flag Staff Point, he followed by oven treatment, to givcircuses" and conserging priots, sion from Paris to the Battle of the left the bride without forming the the ivory the finest colouring in a few consequences of the fact that London Horne in September 1914 are to be re- Master, and that therefore bo should hours.

*growe" like Tupsy, instead of placed in the streets of that city by be severely censured.

Thus a clever "Faker" can charge heng laid out like modern Paris or more luxurious cabs, bat ne.will be and get-£100 for a trinket not New York add enormously to the put in the Invalide next to the rail- worth more than's few iranca,

attractiveness and intereat of the city, way saloon in which Marshal Foch Hundreds of tourists are probably but they would break the heart of signed the armistice. exulting in having acquired remark

saurs of our commun humanity,,

Wile (pouting): "You wred to think I was an augel," Hub.: “Well, I do still. You am always up in the air, and forover warping un somelking."

certificate.

AFTER THE VESSEL STBOOK. The Court desire to express their appreciation of the conduct and bear-

FAKED IVORIES.

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And o'er nubabitable downs Plice elephants for want of towns,

A London Trafe Convas

Thel at ernus of London street traffis, taken by the police this sum met, thows some, mazing figures and also some unexpected results (observes Everyday Science). Tiu bus est spot in London is usually supposed to be the crossing at the Mann on House, on which seven roads convergo, but

in this consus. it only coms fourth.

of Church of St. Christopher a Stocks, which was pulled down in 1781.

The Bulgarian referendum as tớ, whether tho mambere of the Cabinets of M.M. Guechoff, Daueff, Malinoff, and Kosturkoff should be tried-by the High Court on charges of causing Bulgaria's downfall by entering the war baa resulted in 75 par cent. of the votes being in favour of a trial.

These orgeri india'o a great

brothers, of

The last of the red Rennult taxicabs

ing of the Master and officers alterble-bariaies of aufiqueiforica, play other trailo controller than thee Admiralty sntounce that they

picked in Leat leather covered boxes and anally beating the crest of some noble French family,

the v. sal struck and until she was

London police. Bixroads, four of

hem oma bus routes, meet at Hyde cannot give orders to Portemouth **Jones, "" "kaid; the colonel to abandoned. his batman, have you seen my The Courty in paramance of the

Park Corner, eight (six bus routes) at dockyard, for the building of battle. baggage" "Yes, sir," said Jones power vented in it by action 483 of

Piccadilly Circus, seven (four bus abip machinery because of unsuitable promptly. She's just round the 57, and 58 Vlot,-0. 60, orders that the

routen) at. Trafalgar Square, and of equipment. It is, however, under i corner en king to the capfain." sum of £11.8.0, being the costs of the

the seven at the Mansion Hones six stood that for the coming year there) sra bux-ropter. Still strcete laid out will be no further discharges on a big proceedings before the sald Court, be

Chamberlain's Tablots. Topstinent ue (on the pier, paid in equal aliares by the Master. The Talets are infected specially at right nules do not eliminate the scale from either Devonport or Ports #Ik sezme to me. I've seen your William Braver, and the 2nd Officer for lisades of the soul. lisan a tirais problem, ani there is far more mouth dockyarde. The numberi face cotnewhere Iso." Flapper: 1 William Primrose HoAllen, and they bowels you we trouble with her. Flocking and delay at one or two employed are practically the same 46 abouldn't wonder. This isn't the fire are hereby ordered to pay the side or sonstantion the New York: cross roads than as any in pre-war days, and are not to be

will in yougo Fo sul by all London "'oiteps.”

dermed for the present "time I've taken it out"

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