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MINING CITIES.
RISE AND FALL OF COOLGARDIE.
AUSTRALIA'S GOLD.
THE CHINA MAIL,
[By Arthur E. Copping.] Who went out to Australia with the Salvation Army emi- grant ship at the end of last year.
drunk too deeply of the cup of PRINCE OF WALES. woe to be lawless in their ways.
AN EARLY MORNING SUR- PRISE ON HIRTHDAY.
GOLDEN, GRAIN, Everything, then, is standing still in diamantled, dwindled, de- caying, wrecked, and bankrupt Coolgardie. And 115 miles to the west is another goldfield city -Southern Cross-which also has wasted to a pathetic shadow his 84th birthday on June 28. He The Prince of Wales celebrated of its former self.
JAMUSING SPEECH.
But on driving a few miles out received the Arst congratulations from Southern Cross one ex- and accepted his firat birthday Perth (Western Australia), changes economic death for present before the day was flye It is Western Australia's economic life, and enters the ripl- minutes" old. The occasion was the strange double destiny to being margin of the advancing ses cómmemoration Day reception at dominated by gold of two sorts of golden grain.
the London School of Economics; the gold that glitters and the gold Among the prosperous farms I relates the "Morning Post," that really matters.
there visited was that of James During the evening, the Prince A citizen of Kalgoorlie drove Nunn one of the pioneers who had made a clever Impromptu me through the world-famous only a year or two ago, were de- speech, the humorous allusions in square mile-crowded region of rided as crazy fanatics for trying which caused hearty laughtar. Im- classic mines (Great Boulder, to grow wheat in a region of such mediately after Lake View Consols, South Kal scanty rainfall.
midnight had This year he struck, Mr. R. R. Gatty presented to gurli, Ivanhoe, etc.), which has averaged 29% bushels to the the Prince a small wooden figure already belched forth more than acre, with 87 bushels from one of a beaver, which represents the £80,000,000 and not in Treasury field. Also his dairying section arms of the School. notes.
has yielded bounteously, and I ate Man's interference with Nature of his luscious mulberries and Prince; "to be able to attend to "I am very happy," said the has there produced a form of un-grapes. loveliness certainly awe-inspiring. PROMISE OF THE FUTURE.
your commemoration this evening. To a great depth he has turned
From my own experience of Univer- the earth inside out reducing all year's wheat yield of 35,000,000 or, as we used to call it, "Commo." Western Australia's current afty life Commemoration Day! rocks to a fine powder, whereof bushels (grown on rather less usually meant an opportunity for there, are mountainous dumps. than 3,000,000 acres) is clearly some celebration and many of us When winds are stirring clouds but a beginning. For domestic seldom knew what it was we were
celebrating.
of this residue meet you in the purposes and live-stock, other white valleye as a sort of choky systems of water supply now sup- fog. But science moves forward plement the historic Mundaring celebrating the opening of the "Here, to-night, however, you are to new dexterities in gold extrac-Weir-the beautiful, deep, seven-magnificent new building, and you tion, and a million pounds mile artificial lake near Perth,
sterling, unstamped, has been whence a copious stream is pump. certainly seem to display the right won from some of the former ed through a great iron pipe, hay spirit. I should also like to men- waste, which emerges from reing many branches and outlets, tion that I am, to some extent, treatment in a moist form that which is laid beside the 375 miles celebrating a commemoration toe. solidifies.
of railway to Kalgoorlie,
It is now six years since I was COOLGARDIE'S DECLINE,. Eastward of Mr. Nunn's farm given the honour of becoming In Kalgoorlie and Boulder City, I found scores of eager pioneers Master of Commerce, but until a though some anxiety now quali receiving Government advances month back I was the only living fies the ardent outlook and the re-blocks. They were chopping and
for clearing their own 1,000-acre specimen of that species.
"I felt it to be a lonely position duced population seeks a Govern-
like and feared that if I filled it alone ment subsidy, human existence they were burning, much
their brethren in the south; but I might some day end up in being still circulates around gold.
Also I visited Coolgardie, some wheat belt forest is lighter and preserved in a glass bottle. Now. 20 miles to the west.
more easily disposed of thanam thankful to say, I am Only a fraction of Coolgardie remains at group settlement forest.
Wheat has been successfully a man who enjoys the fame and longer alone, because last month Coolgardie. The rest as so many tiles, joists windows. Brown at Kalgoorlie itself. So it name of a distinguished Scotsman doors, and the like has gone 200 needs no special sagacity to fore- or 80 miles down the line to help see that in the years immediately got through the wire entanglement, ahead 'succeeding batches of ar- overcame all difculties, and joined build Merredin and sister towns,riving British migrants-or, at me. So there are now two Masters
whose new prosperity is secure-
Bruce and the Spider.
no
"The name of my colleague I dare
not tell you; nor yet is his name Robert Bruce..
Jy based on the other gold--the any rate, those of them endowed of Commerce. sort that ripples in a breeze and with the necessary grit will be takes a dozen hues of shimmer-able, over a vast territory at pre- ing splendour in the evening sun-sent lying waste, to build assured light.
position for themselves while A handsome 28-roomed build- adding to the volume of the ing in Coolgardie has just been world's most precious commodity. bought for $155. "Why!" some-Daily News and Westminster
Gazette. H one exclaimed, "the fine fireplaces and staircases are worth that, without counting the other fit tings." And Coolgardie had renched this decrepitude at the carly age of 36!
Once-famous streets are al-
ready empty sites, with perhaps a gaunt brickwork carcase, and a
RAZOR BLADE.
50 SECONDS OF HARD WORK.
"From the incident of the spider, that figure in Scottish history might not have minded being 'ploughed at least six times, but none the leas I am not going to tell. you the name of the one who has become associated with the degree i have received. You will see him in. due course.
"But we are not satisfied.that we of Commerce. In the event of one should remain the only two Masters
find himself lonely again. And a deputation of commercial magnates
Did you know that when the aver litter, here and there, of building age man shaves, his razor travels of ua being left, the other would debris. The only populous quarly 80 miler an hour, and that he across his face at the speed of near ter of Coolgardie is the cemetery. may cut through approximately might come along with a number of Two hotels sadly survive.
Besides railway and water- 20,000 hairs? works officials, few citizens are qualified to be ratepayers, so the impoverished municipality has been swallowed up in the district Road Board.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert. but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellinge, such as harbor, plow, and altko.)
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21-Raleod platform
|66–The old spalling of |23-City on Niagara
11-N. American rall 68-A plotted map 14-To cripple.
60-Push 17-Man's name (short)|61-Causes soṛrow to 19-An Indian of the |64-A medley
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unit
lg-To bang 28-Sudden prosperity 30-A knab
32-By way of
#3 The charred portion:
of a wick 36-Lively sympathy 35-To make public 39-Sainte (abbr.) 40- (contr.). 41-Man's nama 44-Holds out 46-Man's name 47-in addition
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qualities 51-Proceeded (3-Steady movement
certain direction
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family of printara 7-On account of.. 6-Spruce
10-Afflicted
12-Onco (Scot)
13-A horse originally
from Barbary
15-A town, Llege
River, W. New York
25-Plat of ground
27-A companion [29-A moar (Boot)
81-8econd fatter of
Grenk alphabat 134–A stat». of irritation
35-Suffix denoting a
native
26-Hazard
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word
puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
PRATED WORMED R
WATER SUPPLY.
1
Level and Storage of water in Re- servoirs on July 1, 1928:-
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
1927
1923
1' 10" 4' ("B
Tytam Tytam Byewash... 89'38' 10''B
L
Hàng Nói Chung .. 7 gia 18 TE Pokfulum
TO EVE
ROT HE
TRI
SIT
(EN)
LED
DIS]
ANT EID
Tytam Intermediate I Tytam Tuk..................
ED
EAR DRY SE
OMIT S
REPENT
UTER INTERRANIMAL SVENICETEN
....................... 9' 11"B 14' 10"B
[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": ¡A. denotes "Above Overlow; L do-
notes "Level with Overflow."]
Storage in millions and Decimala of gallone.
1027 1028 Tytam...
369.40 347,32 Tytam Byewash ... 11.19 18.83 Tytam Intermediate 195.90
larga new COURT OF NEW IDEAS Tyam Tuk
been add-
Details of this kind in the life of knotty problems, and then It would safety razor blade are given ine a case of your partner saying. I "The Engineer,"
shall leave it to you.'" by Mr. J.
The building referred to by Ferdinand Kayser. He says that
the Prince 25,000 hairs packed together would
ig 8 building which has occupy about 2 square centi-: metres (about 2-5 sq. in), "quite a ed to the accommodation. It represents the last stage of a sice little bunch." He adds:
programme of extension and re construction which has been pro- ceeding for nearly eight years. foundation stone was laid by the King in 1920.
WOMAN TOWN CLERK. Miss K. Browne, a young lady who clings to golden hopes of The edge of a good blade does not her native city, pluckily dis on an average give more than 10 charges the duties of town clerk. clean shaves, and hence its useful An ex-mayor can be seen as a cutting life is only 50 seconds. The humble street-corner figure, rate at which a razor traverses the ready for any odd job. Some face is 20ft. to 40ft, a second. times, going to borrow a book The total time during which the from the municipal library of edge is cutting through hairs in one dingy volumes, he will peer into shave is 5 seconds, the Mayoral Parlour, now grown grey and shabby, and glance up at the large portrait of himself as an erect figure of opulence in official robes of fur.
Its
WHERE COUNSEL ARGUE SITTING DOWN.
Wong Nel Chung Pokfulum
Total
1,419,00
21.08.
195.90 1,429.00
14.84
44.48
34.84
1927 1928
L
צייד 2
Do,
2,061.05 2,024.78 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of One of the busiest yet probably | June. the least generally known of all
1027 1928 .808.33 Consumption..
$10.22 courts in England is the Comp Estimated population 412,780 423,100 Turning to Sir Arthur Steel troller's Court at the Patent Consumption per head Maitland, the Prince said: "I think Office, which stands just off Chan-
per day.........
244 24.4 that is enough of speeches In this cery-lane, W.C.
Constant Supply in all Rider Main Districts during June, 1927 and 1928. cold air. We mustn't spoil the The court is held in a small
KOWLOON WATER WORKS A blade which will not longer
construction which has been room with nothing imposing
LEVEL shave one man may work quite made on a roof staircase exposed about it, yet almost every day it satisfactorily, with another man to the wind and night sir.
is the scene of arguments which Shek Lai Pat Reser
Kowloon Reservoir. If with a beard of different texture.
The Prince, afterwards attended decided, the fate of fortunes.
voir..... Mr. Kayser discarded some blades Union.
a dance given by the Students' Mr. W. M. Faahan, another after 15 shaves, but they lasted a
For it is here that objections Reception Reservoir
0' 11"B to the granting of patents are Storage of millions and decimals pioneer, recalled the days when man with a atiffer beard at least
of gallons. an egg cost a shilling, and water another 50 times.
heard-opposition which, if auc- £250 has been given by the cessful, may mean the shattering Kowloon Reservoir
1927 1928 (brought by camel) was 2s. 6d.
862.50 952.50 American Sulgrave Institution to of the rosiest dreams of wealth Shek Lal Pul. Reservoir 90.46 116.10 per gallon. Later came the time His advice to preserve the edge la wards the fund for recasting the that ever filled an inventive Reception Reservoir through Bailey-street (which has rosive liquid, instead of wiping it. England, was the ancestral home The Comptroller of the Patent Consumption of water in Kowloon when it was difficult to drive to keep the blade in an anti-cor- Sulgrave Church bells. Bulgrave, mind.
Total 90 feet of road-way) because of This is stated to double the life of of George Washington, America's Office (Mr. W. S. Jarrett)or, in in millions and decimals of gallons the traffic. Miss Browne told of the blade.
first President...
his absence, his assistant-aita during the month of June. an old lady, now dead, who testi-
beneath a wooden canopy, and at Consumption fied to making pasties for bank Since the establishment of the Flold-Marshal Sir William two long desks are the counsel, Estimated population 160,050 185,700 clerks, 34 years ago, and being a Suggestions Bureau of the District Robertson guinea each for them."
opened Peterborough solicitors, patent agents, wit Consumption per head Railway in 1927, out of over 42,000 and District War Memorial Hos- nesses and others concerned, A few substantial buildings re- suggestions from the staff, approx- pital. main, including a handsome court-imately 8,000 were actually adopt-
An oddly homely feature of the house. But what is the use of a ed, and many others have led to
procedure is the fact that counsel, courthouse without any prison- modifications of equipment and fertory boxes in St. Paul's Church remain seated while they sub- Money was stolen from five of who wear neither wig nor gown, ers? Coolgardie's citizens have practice.
Knighsbridge,
mit their arguments.
80,73
14447.422.05 - 499.82).
1927 1923
106.12
21.8
per day...
20.3 Full Supply in all districts during June 1927 and 1928,
The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water is satisfactory
Total rainfall to Jame 80, 1927, 58.46 June 30, 1928, 46.28.
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