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HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

[FOX INTO MONSTER

Groton, the old school of Pre- sident Roosevelt, has the most ex- clusive hunt in America.

They have discovered a fox which breaks all the rules of the eport.

A recent field followed the fox for a mile to a stone wall. There the box earthed until hounds ar rived.

Then it jumped on the back of the nearest hound, snapped at an other, chased, three more out of its way and was off again. ·

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MELBOURNE WHERE BATMAN BOUGHT A VILLAGE SITE

BARTERED WITH ABORIGINES

(By Howard Knapp)

TTHAT is this City of Mel-jand as far down the coast as the.

A

Wbourne whose one-hundredth thriving city of Geelong.

birthday party the Duke of Glou-half-million acres. cester opened on his arrival there It left him in complete and at on Thursday, and to which the the moment undisputed posses world's wonder aeroplanes will sion of what in a hundred years was to become the site of one be speeding to-day?

Melbourne was born on a June of the world's greatest cities. day in 1895, some 65 years after Batman ploughed up 20 acres of Capt. Cook landed at Botany land where the vast Melbourne The granting of the title and Bay. Her glamorous sister, railway terminal now stands, and precedence enjoyed by the son of a Sydney, already, 47 years of age, settled down to the quiet and vicount to Mr. A. L. Hood, whose was being wooed by the world's prosperous life of an orchardist.

For long years A year or so later the authori- father, the heir to a viscounty, was adventurers.

Batman killed at Jutland, is not without Melbourne was given small ties in England cancelled his deal

attention. She grew up in her with the aborigines. precedent.

PERPETUATING THE NAME

man.

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An even more notable instance joWr way, selected the British was allowed to keep only his of the bestowal of an honour by example, and as they will claim little orchard. Soon afterwards the King when an heir has been down under"--improved upon he died at 40, a disappointed killed in battle is the Lucas-Tooth it.

His industry and pluck had, She is jealous of a tradition however, added a new city to the baronetcy.

Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth was which she has taken for her own,

Empire. His pile of wooden made a baronet at the age of 17. and is barely on speaking terms huts grew from a village to a War with her more beautiful if way small town. London did not His name before that was rand. His mother was the daugh-ward siater, Sydney.

War..

Your Daily Smile!

Pacific is a potential danger pleased," wrote the son, "to learn that foreigners were "warned off."

T have won the squash championship.": Early in January, 1802, Mel-It came first from Clunes.

Revealed.

T

ter of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, Long before there was a Mel-renew her attempt to plant con- whose three sons were killed in the bourne, and long before Victoria victa on the free Victorian soil. had become a State, New South

Rapid Growth Wheat grew. The timber was In recognition of this fact a new Wales had been an established

valuable-and-abundant-_The___ baronetcy was created for Sir Ro-colony, whose borders stretched bert's grandson, who adopted his indefinitely across the Austra

lian continent. Towards the end healthy climate was more Eng mother's maiden name.

of 1801 Governor King, alarmed liah in its fickleness than any by a marauding French expedither part of the continent. tion, sent a party of half a dozen Water was plentiful Within guised as 'patriotism, is running

to see what really lay to the twelve years 23,000 people had

made the place their home. amuck in the world, and may

Mr. and Mrs, Penley were honest, westward. On their journey easily, cause another universal hard-working American farmer folks,

celebrating her seventeenth catastrophe. In many respects By selfdeniat they had managed to King's party met the Frenchmen Then when Melbourne was. the present outlook of the world send their son to Harvard. One day a lurking suspiciously in the neigh-

gold-was poured into her lap. is anything but reassuring. The letter arrived. "I know you will be bourhood of Port Phillip. The birthday, gold-literally tons of War And Peace

zone, and the Naval conversa "Well, well!" beamed Father Pen-! tions do not promise assurance ley. "We'll make a farmer out of that bourne was really discovered. ninety miles away, and followed "In the events of the times I

Governor King's party found the in quick succession from Ander-. of peace.

Europe is an armed boy yet, mother." see much ground for anxiety, camp with six million men in

Yarra, upon whose banks the son's Creek, Buninyong, Ballarat, but none for real pessimism, uniform, parading, manoeuvring,

great city now stands, and duly Bendigo, Ararat. The discovery with a pick of, the "Welcome: The said General Smuts in his instal and patrolling borders.

"Is your husband a member of any returned to Sydney with reporta

Stranger" nugget 2,248 ounces Becret society?? lation address as the Rector of armaments race is on, and in-

-sounded a toscin round the "He thinks so, bat he talks in his of a fertile land. Dis-creasing armaments make direct-sleep.

John Batman's Find world Tens of thousands of St. Andrew's University. senting from the view that the ly for war The means for war

Governor King sent this in- gold-seekers poured into Mel- Congenial isolation

London. Eng-bourne and poured out again tô world was on the verge of an are there, along with plenty of the distinguished potential issues, and à general lother war,

An Englishman and an American formation to Įstatesman added. "I do not find atmosphere of fear, hatred, travelled in the same compartment on land's primary interest in Aus- the alluvial fields.

one of the Liverpool expresses. The tralia in those years was as Melbourne and Sydney were a real war temper anywhere, jealousy and suspicion. The former spoke not a word to his com The opinion of the South African Peace Conferences left & host of panion, who was the only other occu-dumping place for her convicts. deserted, but for the time the leader carries weight in that he unresolved problems. There are pant of the compartment, and It was So within a year of the receipt modest young city became the if a veteran soldier. At the same Austria, the Saar, the control of only when the train was crossing Run-of Governor King's report. Lon-Clapham Junction of Oceania,

Most British City time he was one of the principal the Adriatic and the Mediter corn Bridge that the American said: don had gathered together two "Excuse me, sir, but your tie is riding transport loads of evil-doers, and advocates for the formation of ranean, and the demands for up over the back of your collar."

after a seven-months' voyage in Melbourne looks askance at her elder sister Sydney, with her the League of Nations, was in-frontier revision by Germany; Well, what it is was the curt

skyscrapers and her hustle, and timately associated with the Italy, Bulgaria, und Hungary reply. Your coat pocket has been on charge of Lt.-Governor Collins, drawing up of the draft for the There is a whole crop of dan fire this last five minutes, and I haven't they arrived in 1808:

Collins stayed exactly three her very American ways. Mel- Covenant, and was responsible gerous and difficult minority pro

months, and decided that the bourne's "city" is as solid and as for the adoption of the idea of blems. France watches: Ger-

place was uninhabitable, even for sure, and as uncompromising, as mandates for conquered terri-many and Italy; the latter

convicts? He promptly packed Threadneedle-street. She plants tory. His optimism is no doubt France, Germany, and Yugo-

up and transported his human English trees which shed their largely due to his belief in the slavia: and Germany is openly principles of the League and the rearming.

Sentence of gix weeks hard cargo to Van Diemen's Land, alien leaves in an Australian British Commonwealth of

labour was this morning imposed on to-day known to the world as winter, and decorates her hot Nations. Indeed only recently On the other hand, there are Yan Bun, a 58-year-old unemployed Tasmania. It was there, at Fort Christmas pudding on a summer he stated that the British Empire powerful factors working for man, by Mr. W. Schofield at the Arthur, that England had built day with manufactured holly. might be regarded as "öre of the peace and, the very danger of Central Wagistracy, for the theft of up the most feared of all her Her chief watering place, is greatest forces making for world war is proving a safeguard of a table-clock, the property of Ho penal settlements... peace." The British, the people peace, by strengthening the Yau, of No. 40 Main Street, Shau with the largest trade in the efforts to minimise disturbing in kiwan. world and a far-flung Empire, cidents. At present there is

bothered you."

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Brighton, and all her best friends. little live at Kew and Richmond. She has her Camberwell, too. She is rather contemptuously amused:

He left behind him a human record of twenty-one deaths, one birth, and one mar

gee, Kurraba, Bondi, Kirribilli

of it.

Personal Pars

Captain and Mrs. J. S. Anderson

obviously have a vital interest inquiet along the fronts of Danzig. Under the auspices of the Chin.riage. Not far from the centre at the aboriginal suburban, neigh- keeping the peace. By a world the Polish Corridor, the Russo-lese Y.M.C.A.. Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen of the now great city, of Melbours of her elder sister-Coo- war we have nothing to gain and Polish border, and the Bulgar- is conducting a series of lectures bourne those twenty-one graves She is very English and is proud

are slowly decaying. everything to lose. And the Yugoslavian frontier. Just on Christianity and problems of With Collins and his convicts British desire for peace has been cently Signor Mussolini said, "I our time. These lectures are to went all the horrors of the "sys Whatever the next hundred jamply demonstrated by efforts think now that peace will be kept

be given commencing this evening tem Melbourne when grown years may bring, Melbourne will towards disarmament. That in Europe for at least ten years. (Thursday) at 8 pm at the Hop to maturity repaid him by giving be the most British city in will for peace will be a powerful I believe we can keep the peace Yat Church, Bonham Road, and to his name to her principal city the Empire factor in promoting it. The if only we can prevent an un- British Foreign Secretary, Sir limited war in armamenta." be continued on each Thuraday thoroughfare.

evening.

As it was, more than thirty John Simon, in a recent notable Herr Hitler has caused general address also stated that the ass-fear of trouble in Europe. But

During those years |assination of King Alexander he has also made the Polish Pact A lecture will be given by Mr. s years were to pass before the city

Robin, worldwide traveller and was born. would not prove a parallel to and held out officially a hand of

Hume and Hovell, foremost se. Sarpedon. Sarajevo, basing his belief in the friendship to France Dictator Director of the New World Asso-many explorers went westward left the Colony Yesterday by the

among. them, reported glowingly prospects of peace upon the same ahipa evolve usually towards clation, at present in the Colony as

Captain and Mrs. E., T. J. Hop two articles of faith as General moderation, as Fasciam showed a visitor, at this evening's public of the land along the Yarra

kins were among the passengers on Smuts: "the British policy of The same, moderating influence meeting to be held by the Manuk banks. patience and moderation" and of time may prove stronger than Lodge of the Theosophical Society A young man named Jolin board the .a. Sarpedon which left the League of Nations with the certain aggressive elements in in the Lodge Room at 17, Queen's Batman, native born, and a boy-here ye method of consultation "which it Germany. There is much force Road, Central, Mr. Robin's subject hood friend of Hume," had heard

Captain and Mrs. R. Umpleby left has made the ordinary habit of in the dictum of President will be, "Is Spiritual Life Possible when in Tasmanis of the dis European 'statesmen."

Masaryk that "there will be no in the Present Day World?" The coveries around Port Phillip, the Colony yesterday by the B.. But is the optimism of General war because there is no money." meeting will commence at 8 pm Fired with enthusiasm, he set Sarpedon.

Ball for that place on May 10, Smuts and Sir John Simon jus-And, finally, fear, the cause of tified? Lord Rothermere has war, may also work for the main A wORDAD, Wong Ping, residing at 1885. With him were two white Mr. S. Longfeld, of the Hong just declared that he did not tenance of peace. The progress Telegraph Bay, was admitted to the friends and seven aborigines of Kong Electric Co., Ltd., returned to share this optimism, since there of science has made the weapons Government Civil Hospital yester the now extinct Tasmanian tribe the Colony by the Empress of

Place For Village:

Asia this morning. were European countries which of war, especially in chemical day morning, after being knocked would not be averse to another, and air warfare, so dreadful that down by an unknown motor lorry in war Even Britain is being any nation might hesitate to let Pokfulam Road. forced into military and naval them loose upon the world. The preparedness. It has been an manoeuvres over London and Tal Sau-lin, a schoolgirl, was ad- day is this simple Bounced that next year training Tokyo have proved that there is mitted to the Kwong Wab Hospital will be the place for a villag of the British army will be no really adequate defence for a yest primarily towarda preparation civilian population against the aud for European warfare." In cer attack from the air. In the

tain countries on the

war is still glorified, mili

has become almost a relig

even children are

Manas

KEN WAN

that

the name of

ords of Mr Stanley Baldwin's

ng the bomber Always rough the nations

the need for disarm

and heroic Nationalis

members of

eague.

On June 8 he rowed up the Yarra, and in liary of that tryThis

uffering from injuries Then came his fam she down the deal with the abo

Tak Girls this Street.

180 knives, mirrora,

man handkerchiefs 18

chief's

of four

Land now occupied by

There yesterday.

Mr. C. M Manners. assistant manager of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godow Ltd. was among the passen |board the sa Empress of

which arrived in the Colony

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