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CEYLON'S GOVERNOR. REACHES KARACHI.WOMEN AND SNUFF.

Sir Herbert and Lady Stanley Arrive.

SCENES AT COLOMBO.

Admits He Has Much To Learn,

World Flight 'Plane In Feminine Takers of All

India..

RESTING IN SPAIN.

Grades.

65 PER CENT. IN ENGLAND.

British Atlantic Machine Meets Bad By Supplies Obtained In Street

Weather:

Karachi, Testerday. The "Pride of Detroit" arrived here.---Reuter.

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has

Colombo, August 21. Scenes of great enthusiasm marked the reception accorded to

The Courtney Flight. Ceylon's new Governor, Sir

Madrid, Yesterday. Courtney landed at Corunna Herbert Stanley, and Lady Stan- ley, when they arrived in Colombo owing to lack of petrol. He is

resuming his flight on by the P. and O. “"Naldera" early inst.-Reuter. yesterday morning.

vice.

the 5th

He

Manner.

London. How many bishops are addicted to anuff?

A century ago the answer could easily have been given, for snuff and episcopacy were closely

related.

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Nowadays tobacco impregnates the bishops, and snuff, if taken London, Yesterday. Captain Courtney who left at all is taken sub-rosa. A pope A full salute fired by the Flag- Plymouth yesterday for Azores once offered a cigarette to a staff battery about 8.40 told the with a navigator mechanic and dignitary.

"I have not that vice, your crowds thronging every place of Mr. Elwood Hosmer, a Canadian vantage near the Customs pre-passenger, on the first stage in Holiness." he said.

The Pope replied,, with a the westward trans-Atlantic i mises that His Excellency had flight, encountered bad weather twinkle in his eye, "Had it been left the "Naldera." Accom-with strong headwinds and des- a vice you would have had it."

Complex Process. panied by the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. cended at Coreunna, Spain.

Presumably the dignitary, Fletcher and Mrs. Fletcher, Sir will continue when the weather

improves.British Wireless Ser-with a fine regard for tradition, Herbert landed in the Governor's

would have accepted a pinch of || snuff. Yet snuff is manufactured barge at the Melbourne jetty,

Rugby, Saturday.

complex, which was gay with many de- The intention is to proceed to from tobacco by

Waste and process. the Azores where, after refuel- tedious corations of flags and streamers, ling, the flight will be continued scraps are largely used; the crotons, palms and orchids. to Newfoundland and thence to material is moistened with a After inspecting an escort of New York. The intention is to solution of common salt and is the Ceylon Mounted Rifles and make the return flight to London left in heaps to ferment. meeting Church, Naval, Military via Newfoundland and Ireland. Later comes the flavouring,!| and Civil leaders, he emerged Captain Courney is a test pilot of with such materials as liquorice, from the Customs into Wharf exceptional skill and experience tonka beans, and other in- Road about 9 a.m. and was driven with a reputation for caution and gredients concerning which the Queen's House via Leyden courage. His departure to-day trade maintains reserve. Then Bastian Gate, Lotus Pond Road, was unostentatious. His wife ac- follow drying, grounding, and and Chatham Street.

companied him in a launch to the fermenting processes again. The seaplane but only a few people properties of snuff-depend upon other than mechanics saw him go. free nicotine, free ammonia, and He made a perfect start and the aromatic principles developed machine was soon out of sight during fermentation. British Wireless Service.

to

Women Snuffers.

Crowded Route. The route was decorated by the Western Province Chiefs and lined by the Ceylon Defence Force Troop and Boy Scouts. Thou- sands of people, men, women and children, of all classes, waited in

It is considered that the only to-day is sold to women! Yet few the streets to watch the new Gov-remaining hope for Princess of us know of any woman snuff- ernor pass by.

Lowenstein Wertheim, Colonel taker.

The "St. Raphael."

London, Saturday.

It is a curious fact that 65 per cent. of the shuff sold in England

Having inspected a Guard of Minchin and Captain Hamilton "I have seen a woman come Honour furnished by the Ceylon is that they may have been picked into one of my shops," a manu- Light Infantry, Ilis Excellency up by some vessel unequipped facturer said recently, with all entered Queen's House, passing with wireless. The theory main- the marks that are the inevitable the Lascoreen Guards to the ac-tained is that the intricate wind traces of the confirmed snuff-

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The scene which attended the "St. Raphael" off her course and and ask for a tin of snuff, add- swearing-in ceremony within the that the weather prevented the ing: It is not for myself, but for Council Chamber was an impres- taking of observations to rectify a friend. Other customers ob- sive and solemn one. The rea- it.

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plendent costumes of the So far, the North Atlantic has post, but more often they lay in Kandyan Chieftans, the immacu-never been flown by an aeroplane a large supply at a time, buying lately white uniforms of the Civil in a westward direction, though at a shop far distant from their Servants, and the striking scarlet it was crossed in 1919 by the Bri- homes, secretly, and I fear robes of the Judges combined to tish airship "R34," the only air-shamefacedly." form a gorgeous conglomeration ship yet to make the double flight. Sanctioned By Church. of colours.

Since then, the German airship Why there should be shame- The Clerk to the Executive "ZRB" has been flown on a more facedness over a habit sanction- Council read the Commission up-southerly course to America for ed by the church for generations pointing Sir Herbert Stanley delivery to the United States.I do not know. It may be con- Governor, after which the oaths British Wireless Service. of office were administered to His Excellency by the Honour the Chief Justice.

demned nowadays as a horrid A Mystery.

habit, at any rate when done to London, Yesterday, excess; but possibly some of the The fate of the "St. Raphael" old saints and snuff-takers, auch The Air as St. Vincent de Paul and St. His Excellency replied to an remains a mystery. address by Sir Ponnambalam Ministry has received a message Alphonsus Liguori (the latter a 3.30 p.m. Ramanathan and

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aeroplane which may have been possible that St. Vincent de Paul the "St. Raphael" passed over a learnt the habit when he served point half way across the on the galleys. In his speech, he said:-

Atlantic 'at 9-44 in the evening It is said that nowadays It is, of course; difficult for me (Greenwich Mean Time) on women snuff-takers are to be to come to a perfectly strange en- 31st ult., while a New York found in every grade of society, vironment. All my previous ser- message states that a white light, and in their thousands. In the vice outside the United Kingdom possibly belonging to an aeroplane Lancashire cotton mills, where, has been either in Europe or was sighted by a Dutch steamer without concealment, they find Africa. This is the first time, ex-450 miles East South East of snuff an invaluable medium for cept for a few days when I passed New York at six in the morn- clearing the air passages from through Aden on my way here, ing (G. M. T.) of the 1st instant. Auff. that I have set foot on the soil of The light was travelling east- Asia.

wards. If it belonged to the "St. Raphael the pilots had evidently

I have, of course, much to lost their course since the ma- learn. I noticed that one of the chine was flying away from its newspapers, which were sent to destination. Reuter.

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HARRY FONG, Dentist, A strong feeling of revulsion aeroplanes, competed at the inter-at-foor, No. 74, Quee. Road 1.30 p.m. have ever learnt or ever known. against what is now considered national air meeting, before 100- (Laughter). I am not quite sure to be the exaggerated import 000 spectators, comprising speed,

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do. I stand before you with a countries should legislate in or- escaped with a broken leg very little experience of your pro- der to stop the increasing loss of Reuter, blems, but, at any rate; I stand befe-Reuter's American Service. ** fore you with no pre-conceptions Washington, Saturday, and, no prepossessions. I have Mr. Warner, acting Secretary President Coolidge has con- come here to learn. I do not pro- of the Navy, stated that owing sented to a request of the Navy poss at this moment to commit to lack of information as to that Naval Lieutenant Williams, myself to any indication of policy the most probable whereabouts an American entrant for the or any pronouncement whatso of the St. Raphael it was prac Schneider cup race at Venice, ever upon the various questions tically impossible for the Ameri. should be conveyed there with which Sir Ponnambalam Ramana can navy to search for her but his specially-built Besplane than has reminded us are await if the British or Canadian au aboard the cruiser "Trenton if ing solution. I propose to study thorities requested assistance the the tests of the seaplane are not am: them and learn as much as I can American navy would lend a completed in time to enable himn about them before I attempt to do hand-Reute American Ser to catch a liner Reuter's Ame-

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