1928-06-16 — Page 9

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928.

THE CHINA MATE,

OUR HOMESIDE PICTURE SERVICE.

THE SINGAPORE FLOATING DOCK-Built for the Admiralty by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., at Wallsend Shipyard, in seven sections, each section being launched separately. The Singapore Dock has a lifting capacity of over 50,000 Lons, 20,000 tons of steel was used and 31⁄2 million rivets. The pumping capacity is 30,000 tons of water per hour, and it will require 70 feet of water to operate in at her destination. Before .commencing the 8,600 miles journey to Singapore in two sections the two end sections will be joined together. When passing through the Suez Canal there will be only a few feet to spare on either side, all traffic on the Canal being held up. It will be the largest structure to have ever crossed the Indian Ocean-(Sport and General).

THE OPEN-AIR CULT FOR BEAUTY REIGNS SUPREME. Mrs. Bagot. Stack's Beauty School at Holland Park, London, where pupils exercise and perform classical dancing in the open air. A remarkable trellis-effect pose by some of the pupils practis-. ing in the garden-(Sport and General).

AN EFFECTIVE SMOKING SUIT,--A variety of design in the manufacture of materials, makes up very effectively as will be seen in this charming suit of Smoking Pyjamas in plain and printed crepe de chine, embodying stripes, squares and plain fabric.-(Sport and General),

A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING. First hon-stop journey, London-- Edinburgh. The new and wonderful London and North Eastern "Flying Scotsman," with a monster Pacific locomotive, left King's Cross Station, London, May 1,. on its first non-stop run of 392 miles to Edinburgh.-- Sport and General).

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WORLD'S SMALLEST RAILWAY-A distinct contrast with the giant "flying Scotsman" starting on its non-stop run to Edinburgh, Pigmy Pullmans for Kent's Toy Public Railway--(Sport and General);

H.M. THE KING INSTALLS KNIGHTS OF THE BATH FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1924.-(Sport and General)..

PREPARING FOR THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT which took place at Olympla, London, from May 24 to June 9. A new feature this year was the gymnastic and toy soldier displays of the Duke of York's Military School, Dover. (Sport and General).

MONUMENT OF AN ORIGINAL KIND "AT VIENNA -A memorial has just been unveiled in the Winarskystrasse in front of the Winarsky Hof in memory of Ferdinand Lassalle, the famous Socialist, consisting of a huge base shaped like an obelisk of rough granite blocks(Sport and General),

ROYAL OPENING OF ALL BRITISH BRIDGE, Crowds attended the opening ceremony porformed by H.R.H., the Prince of Wales, of the Royal Tweed Bridge at Berwick, Northumberland, May 16. This new bridge, with a span of 361 feet, constitutes a British record, being the longest highway bridge in the country.—(Sport and General,

MIDDLESEX WORCESTERSHIRE,

AT. "LORD'S CRICKET GROUND,

LONDON.—lat day, May 5-J. W. Hearne (Mdx.) hits a loose ball from P. 8. Evans

(Worcs,) to the boundary-(Sport and General),