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NEW.P. AND O. LINER

THE CHINA MAIL.

MALOJA” LAUNCHED AT BELFAST.

The Maloja," a twin-screw passenger liner of over 20,000 fens

ALTANTIC GALES.

A REAL STORM AT SEA

CARUSO'S WEALTH.

£446,000 FROM GRAMOPHONE RECORDS.

AN EXTURALLINO " LIFE.

The oxtraordinary romance of

A gale in the Atlantic, they say 1. declares he has known no worse |The skipper of a 30,000-ton liner

weather in thirty yearsof seafaring. built by Messrs. Harland and He has seen waves forty and eignarus life is on the whole "well" feet high and looked down upon Wolff, Lid., Belfast, to the order them from his towering bridge. But of the P. and O. Company, was what of the tramp sailorman, who, faunched on April 19, the ceremony from a ten-foot freeboard looks up of naming the vessel being perfect high asks R.E.W.F. in a home at those waves forty and eighty formed by the Hon. Elsie Mackay, paper? What of the long ship daughter of Lord Inchape, Chair- battles that, not ending in disaster man of the Company. The or in rescue, never get into the Maloja" and the sister ship papers? This is the story of one

such storm. Mooltan" recently launched are the largest vessels owned by the P. and O`

Speaking after the launch, Mr. Charles Payne, managing director of Messrs Harland and Wolff, said the ship was the largest yet built for the P. & O. While costs were still high, every effort had been made by his firm on behalf of the shipowners to bring them down so that vessels could be operated on a paying basis. Mr. C. G. Deane, for the P. and O., said he felt that a wave of prosperity was coming, and he hoped it would soon develop,

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told if the English is somewhat precarious) by Mr. Pierre V, R. Key, in collaboration with Bignor (Hurst and Blackett, 218.), says the Bruno Zirato, in "Enrico Caruso' Daily Mail.

The extreine sensitiveness of his temperament, the nervous excite-; ment seemed almost to have paralysed Caruso a mental faculties He confused the words of his text, and to have tightened his throat,

began and finished phrases out of tempi, and, beyond all thess and and broke to pieces an all his high other mistakes, his voice cracked

notes.

The famoun tonor; who died at. Naples on August 2, 1921, rose from extreme proverty to great wealth; the royalties, he received for his We were rounding the Horn one gramophone records alone amounted Jupe deep winter. We were at £145,000, a mum which is prob clipper ship of 1.573 tons burden, ably inapproached by any other laden over the Plimsoll with coal

singer. and, sailed by twenty-nine hands

He was born at Naples in 1879, all told, counting the idlers"→→ cook, steward, and other unsca- and began to sing when he entered. manly persons. And the Horn was the army to do his compulsory ser not good to us. We had been vice. He owed much to the kind driven many degrees south of the ese of a major in his regiment, turn, and there were head winds.who had a bad face but a good It was on the cards that we should heart," and arranged for the private. have to run round Australia to get soldier to train his superb voice. to Puget Sound. And there was Carise's first appearance was a com ice about. Then we tried to make plete failure: our westing and our northing in a gale of wind. Lower tops'ls' and a fores'l! Later we had to goosewing those tops'ls. day

On the first of the fight lee scale, you sailormen, not weather took the door of the deck-house galley out of its frame; fire was lit for over ten days. and that was the last time the galley Waves! They may have been forty or eighty feet high. They Looked four hundred or hundred! You would look up at one curling greedily over you, grey jump for the life-line and hang on and muddy, white and green, then for dear life as the tons of salt the young man who had been the

Immediately after my last song" seemed as though the ship were around: and into that hat these water crashed on to the decks. It spokesman took his hat and went did. Then we pooped a sea that Englishmen dropped many pounds never coming up again. But she never rose more than two inches sterling until £100 had been gather- A large electrical installation, into the fo'e'sle and the half-deck, to feel rich. Never before had I had above the deck. It swept forwarded. I was much pleased and made! consisting of six main generators, and scarcely a man's sea-chest was at one tima co large a sumu. having a combined capacity of 900 kw., is installed, and, in addition, clothes,

left whole Shirts, underw Soon afterwards he had an awk- one 75-kw, emergency dynamo, were

shoregoing rig-they ward misadventure while perform. situated well above the water-atter disaster. And we were wet. the ordinary quantity of wine, but floating about ining in Sicily. He drank for lunch line, from which light, and Our oilskins could not keep out forgot that the Sicilian wine is power can be supplied if for the water; our sea-boots were full peculiarly potent

VESSEL AND MACHINERY.? The new vessel has a cruiser stern and will be fitted with two pole masts. There are eleven bulkheads dividing the vessel into twelve watertight compartments, and the double bottom extends right fore and aft. She will be propelled by twin screws driven by the sets of inverted, direct acting, quadruple expansion en- gines balanced on the Yarrow Schlick and Tweedy system. Steam is generated in six double ended and two single-ended boilers, having a working pres sure of 215lb. per square inch. The boilers are arranged for superheat of 100 deg. F., and work under forced draught, and the auxiliaries are of the most up-to date type, being all independent of the main engines.

all

But in 1895 he went to Cairo and eight did better there. He was pressed to sing by a party of Englishmen on his way out. As he told his friends afterwards:

wet

critical capacity of an Italian audi But sing the he did; and the

ence was shown by the fact that the alteration produced.

any reason the main sets are and heavy, Then it was up aloft: Ho was forced to lie down." When out of commission. There is a and make fast the gaskets-hours he walked on the stage his head, was very complete bell installation of it! And at last down again to by no means so clear as it should comprising about 1,000 hells, which in addition to the efficient system and brackish water. No coffee. début. Presently came the words a meal of sodden ship's biscuits have been for the important task of of inter-communication tele- phones, add greatly to convenience the skipper could not. get at the of Scotland). Why he should have

Rum once in the whole time for "La Sarti della Scózin' (the fate i of both passengers and crew. The rum even if he had wanted to. We sung "Le Volpi della Scozia" (the lighting installation consists of were cold with the cold of the foxes of Scotland) the tenor Wa almost 3,000-lights, distributed Antarctic. We wore throughout the passenger accomclothes, nor did we get a dry

never able to explain, modation and machinery spaces.change for three weeks, until we Electric heaters have also been in- were getting, into the kindlier, stalled throughout the cabin accom- lesser latitudes. We could not modation, which can be regulated at smoke. We chewed tobacco-that will by the passengers. Fans have was our only comfort. A great been provided for each cabin in storm in the Western Ocean? Yes, addition to those for the public but did they look down. at those

and machinery spaces, gaint waves or up? Among the electrical appliances of special note are:-A 20-in. search- light of Parson's split-mirror type, a Willett-Bruce. whistle control, and a wireless telegraphy set which enables passengers both to trans-, mit and receive messages,

room

PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION.

CHEFOO FRUITS.

FUTURE PROSPECTS

BRIGHT!

mingled inurmurings which gradu. ally swelled into a tumult. I vain the impresario sought to refore order. The curtain had to

The curtai be rung down,

It was a second failure, and it was followed by a mild riot when be appeared next dayan

HIS TEACHER'S TRICK.; But in 1890 one of his admirers, Enrico Lorelló, declared that he Was the coming world's greatest.

It is almost thirty years since tenor," and his earnings, and soc

the Chinese Bureau of

WEDNESDAY MAY 80, 1928

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NEW MALAY FIBRE.

SAID TO BE STRONGER THAN JUTE,

According to the Malay States

The first-class accommodation Chefoo has become the centre of cesses multiplied. Yet he still had received indeed, as the biography has been arranged on a luxurious the fruit trade in North China, re-difficulties scale, and provision has been ports

declares, among other orders that made for 325 persons in this class. Economic Information. At the notes gave him grave concert. He presume is meant the Victorian Caruso's vocal trouble on the high "of British Victoria," by which we The dining saloon, which is on the very beginning some Cantonese realised that if he were ever to be. Order; and he established his family shelter deck, extends the whole merchants in the port had gardens come great he must conquer this in Clarendon Court, Maids Vale, breadth of the vessel, while the near Nanshan and brought a good shortcoming. Lombarli (his tea from which abode the income tax smoke-room on the promenade quantity of apple, grape and pear cher) appreciated, as his pupil dia ultimately drove him deck is even higher than the saloon, seeds from abroad for experiment not, that a constricted throat while The London receiver of taxes Information Agency, encourage- being oft. 6in. in height, and is a algrowing. As years passed by attempting to sing high notes was assessed him at a figure be consider ment is being given to the cultiva large and handsome apartment. At the fruits were found to be of chiefly responsible for the breaking ed outrageously high. So incensed tion of fibres in the Federated the after end is situated the veran- better quality than the native pro of his tones. Lombardi would make was Caruso that he ordered to be Malay: States, and it is suggested dah.The reading, writing and music duct and many of the local garden- room is at the forward end of the ers were induced to extend their Caruso drop his head, then place it removed from his London residence, there is a future for Roselle fibre, promenade, deck, and is panelled plantations by using the imported firmly against a wall. In this pos- almost overnight, all its furnishings, with which successful experiments and framed in sycamore stained seeds. With the rapid increase tion he would command, "Now sing and those he did not send as gifts to have been made on various estates. silver grey. On the promenade in the number of fruit trees planted with strength to friends he had shipped to Italy. By In an article in the Malayan deck is also situated the lounge in the vicinity, Chefoo gradually By 1898 he was in receipt of £210 auch means did he escape being Agricultural Journal Mr G. E. and divan, the walls of which are became an important port for the a month for singing at St. Petern taxed. And he thereupon moved his Kamiri Estate, Sungei Siput, Perak, Henning, manager of the Sweet panelled and framed and finished export of fruit

burg, and sang before the Cear, son Mimmi to Criklewood (Crickie gives details of planting and Ivory white,

Most of the trees are planted The unhappy Nicholas he thus Wood) The first-class staircase and south of Chefoo, occupying almost described:

He was fond of children and liked export. Costs' work out at about the preparation of the fibre for entrance extend from the pro- the entire castern half of the He was a emali almost irrigni- his boy Mimmi to go to hear him $106 per too, while freight from menade deck down to the first-class Fushan district It is about 600 ficant-looking man with an anxious when he song at Covent Garden :* dining saloon, and there is an square li in area and is close to the face. Royalty was to me something Always in acknowledging the to about $56, making an all-in cost Sungei Siput to London amounts omamental wrought-iron balustrad sea coast and Miping, district to to be regarded from a distance. The most vociferous applause he would cff. London, of $162 per ton, or ing to the stairs and the cast. In Fushian district fruit- scone was brilliant, Buch colour, not forget the box where he knew 381 per acre. These figures pre decorated dome ekylight over growing is the chief occupation of together with the beauty of the his child, was, but would smile and sume effective baling at 30 cubic head. The first-class cabins are the local farmiers, who have formed women and the bearing of the men throw many kisses to him. As on feet per ton, the allowance given on the shelter, "bridge and pro an association for mutual protection was wholly new to me. I recall employer he would exact a full by shipping companies. The ac menade decks, and there is a large and to keep joint watch when the having felt a sence of gratitude for day's work for a fair day'a pay; but quisition of a baler is, therefore proportion of single and two-berth fruit le ripening in the gardens that opportunity I could feel peo at the same time he wished his on essential foreconomical marketing. cabins. These rooms are very The expenses thus incurred are ple staring as. I was received by the Ployee to look upon him as a friend comfortably arranged and thor defrayed from their voluntary con-

Reports received from London oughly up to date in every respect, tributions.Secundam pond Ozar, who said, "Thank you very as well as an employer:...

on samples of fibres submitted are There is accommodation for 329 For the past few years the local much and then presented me with -- HIS OWN BOOKKEEPER.

said to be distinctly encouraging." second-class passengers. The authorities have also encouraged a pair of gold coff buttons sol-with. He kept the strictest of accounts but stronger than Jute: An Aft The Roselle fibre is of a jute nature, deck, extends the whole breadth of a fruit-tree nursery station, at the 1899 be visited South Americs, one else his bookkeeping, His rash per ton, combed sample at 230 saloon, which is on the shelter individual growers by establishing diamondes og

He would not relinquish to any combed sample was valued at £20 the ship, and is lifted with small expense of the local government End hit ton throne, wig one long he credits and debits were entered with per ton, and waste from the latter rectangular tables.

and selling them young seedling part of triumph. At his last per his own hand Tips, moderate sample at £IS per ton. At the time. at minimum price Fruit exported formance, in Buenos Aires he was losses of cards, and purchases of the this valuation was made Roselle from Chefco Is valued at Els made to repost the Brindisi (drink slightest character all went into was quoted at £28 per ton,” as 300,000 yearly

ing song in Cavalleria Rusticana) Caruso é cal book. He never gam against £24 per fon for jute. Later The sensations arrest has been Though there are no reliable three times. Yet he found the bled on the market. Thus, in spile in the year a further sample, of ex- niade of Von Veltheim, the hero of statistics showing one of the most sensational trials in young plants raised

nber of work of paration moet trying of his huge current expenditures, cellent colour and good!

This South Africa, states a Johannesburg the estimate of annual

Carusos fortune grew, wire of April 19 He shot the 20,000 by land and 30,0

valued at £35 per ton It is estimated at several hundred $133 (or £15) per ton,

on Roselle Ebre Is giv fancier Woolf Joel in ice in may be consid

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