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CHRISTMAS PARCELS MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

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INWARD MAILS

Shanghai and Europe via Siberia (London,

October 16).....

Shanghai and Swatow

From

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Sourabaya -

TUESDAY,

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Oct: 18) .....

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Japan and Shanghai

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SATURDAY,

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toria, B.C.

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President Madison'

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

Manila and Java'via Sourabaya Tjlbadak.

Saigon, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,"

E. & S. Africa, Ador, Egypt, and Europe via Marseilles

THE CHINA MAIL.

LONDON'S 25,000,000 to nothing.

TONS STORE-HOUSE.

Elephant Tooth That Weighed 14 Pounds.

IVORY MARKET.

Most Londoners know that they inhabit, the greatest port in the world, but, how many have any true idea of what this moans?.

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These are hippopo- tamus teeth, or senhorse tusks as the catalogue has always called them." They were curly and flut ed, worth only an eighth of elephant Ivory, I learned. There were dozens of them in boxes.

"I've seen

some funny-looking tusks in my time," said Mr. Lord. "One had broken, when the ele phant was young, I supposé, and had kult itself together again no- turally. Another had grown right. round till it was like a huge hoop- you could bowl it across this floor."Un Patin He showed me some of the On demand curiosities this store has acquired from time to time. There was an elephant's molar-"It weighs four- teen pounds, and they have four!”: —an elephant'a jaw-bone, too heavy a weapon, I thought, even for Sam- aon, boars' tusk, and many other marvels..

Between Bugsby's Reach, just be- low the East India Docks, and Gal. lons Reach, just below Woolwich Arsenal, for instance, there is the largest area of enclosed dock water in the world, the Royal Victoria Dock, the Royal Albert Dock, and the King George V. Daok, two han dred and forty-five acres. They can accommodate half-a-million

It was when I left this warehouse tong of shipping at once-or more that I began to realise the vastness cominge than sixteen Mauretanias, of the port's atorehouses. In my and have quay accommodation for Interest in one of the smallest I more than twelve mlies of shipping had allowed most of a morning, to And this is but a section of Lon-alip by and I remembered some sta- don's docks.

tistics I had been told of the port: The Tusk Store,

28 miles of wine vaults, refriger Many and many a Londoner.hasated storage for three and a half gone down seaward in a steamer,million carcases, 140 acres of tim and has passed by the gates of all | ber, a million 'buiès of stored wool, the dicks seeing perhaps, a distant 65,000 tons stored grain, and so forest of gaily-painted funnels, all telling stories of strange seas and- foreign climes (could he but read them) without really grasping what lies beyond these unimpressiva en. trances.

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And then I smelled a delectable smell, and found myself among the spices. My guide picked a clove Com a large box full of them. "One of these would spoil a pudding he told me. They are too strong and plly for cooking and are used for manufacturing modicine and so on."

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Tilbury's new landing stage, opened last May, he may indeed have marvelled at, for this floating atage, the size of forty lawn tennis courts, rising and falling some Cassia, ginger, bales of fragrant Chinese Sub. Coin. twenty feet with the tide, is in ful cinnamon, heaps of orange-colour-Hong Kong Sub, Coin Par. view of the river; but what does heed mace, nutmega know of the maze of docks and warehouses lying beyond the banks?

A thousand vessels of all descrip tions pass Gravesend every day how does London accommodate Twenty-five million tons of them? merchandise enter the port. every year-where is it housed?

I know where the imported Siberian mammoths' 'tusks are stored. Mr. Lord, the foreman of the ivory warehouse, an expert on his subject, showed them to me among the heaps of elephant tusks on the floor.

Off The Ice.

"These," he said, pointing to some curly ones of a dusty brown colour, "were found in the soil; but this one came from a river bad." It was dull blue. There was a pair of beautiful, long reddish ones near- by that looked as though they had come from a tortoise-shell mam- moth or at least a blond one. "Those were found preserved in ice." said Mr. Lord. "The whole mammoth is sometimes found in al- most perfect preservation in such instances, with the meat quite fresh, We were told that dogs ate away part of a mammoth's front legs after the body had been got out of

the ice."

"He told me that these tusks wers, used for commercial ivory-it is a solemn thought that when one-pots- the red, one may be treating cave- lierly a "tusk, that pocked a bronto- saurus sixty thousand years ago.

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"There are 6,000 to 10,000 nut- moga in each of these boxes," enid my guide, pointing to stacks and stacks of them, and there are about 6,000 boxen here now. Each of the nuts must be picked over and examined for holes, because a hole allows the oil Inside to evaporate and lowers the quality of the nut. P.L.A. men do the examining.”

But it was on the next foor that I found the schoolboys' de light. It was the "Bark Floor," storing cinchona bark for the mark ing of quinine, capsicums, chillies, and so on. I sampled a capsic, m seed, and, turning away to hide my diatomiture saw two metal bottles In the basin I anw and a basin. my own flushed face mirrored in the silver surface of £70 worth of My guide picked up quick-silver.

with an effort two iron weights, 56 lbs. and 28 lbs., and put them into the silvery flood. They float- પ.

"It's a job to get the children away from this quicksilver," he said "And we have to watch the ladies carefully-they will put their bands in with rings on their fingers," and then and that their wedding rings have gone sliver!”—M.D. in the Evening News,

STANDARD TIMES.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY.

Bunrise Sunset. 6.29 5.45 6.29 6.44

Thousands of pounds worth of ivory, the tuska graded „In" heapa, Sunrise and Sunset in Hong covered the floor of the warehouse, Kong for. November (Standard time or was stacked on shelves and in of the 120th Meridian, East of big boxes. I was in the greatest Greenwich) are as follow: ivory market; in the world; and || Novej. Mr. Lord explained many technf- calities: Picking up a huge. tunk." with some dificulty, be: sald, "This one is albeauty, straight grown that sa fine feature and it has thick points instead of tapering away. It's worth £80. This hard grain, ivory is the first. That pile of tuaks on your other side is soft. grain ivory, second quality."

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