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Mr. W. B. K. Shaw, the ex

FISH ARE GREAT TRAVELLERS

SOME MIGRATIONARY MYSTERIES

plorer and archaeologist is hav- HUGE DISTANCES TRAVELLED

fing trouble with the specimens

FOR SPAWNING PURPOSES

(By P. W. Pycraft)

which he brought back with him from his last venture into the Libyan desert. They reached England two months ago, but are still in the bands of the Castors.

London in the North Sea, off Forkshire. Mr. Shaw's problem is to prove

realisation that some Special tackle, however, and enor- that his luggage.” sists

ishes, at any rate, migrate as mous books have to be used when în part of neolithic andi paleolithic inds, is more than 100 birds do, is shown when we speak tunny are taken with a rod, and old. Otherwise it comes of the berring season or the mac-they give their captor an exciting under the category of importedį kere! season: but the mature and and strenuous time... tools, and has to pay duty

years

which con-

THE

the extent of these migrations is

Most explorers avoid this dif-by no means generally recognised. fculty by sending their finds! direct to the British Museum.

strange fourners.

Fresh-Water Eel

But the most wonderful of all

of the

reverser

Some fishes, like certain birds. are resident; but there are some which must perforce migrate fish migrations is that either for the sake of food or to fresh-water eel. which HIS MAJESTY'S MANGO TREE

find suitable places for spawning. the habit of the salmon and goes When the Duke of Gloucester This last reason occasions some to the sex to spawn. About no fish has there been so much. was in Jamaica he saw a mango tree which the King had planted.

The salmon, for instance, leaves mystery as that which surrounds

water. it the sea for fresh He asked that fruit from

And the spawning of the eel.

But some 30 years ago should be sent to the King. The before it can reach a suitable site Governor of Jamaica accordingly for mating and the deposition of mystery was cleared up. As ther

consigament despatched 2

of its eggs. it is often called on to time for spawning approaches the mangoes to Buckingham Palace. perform gymnastic feats of no eels congregate in shoals. Suetr These bare recently been denean order. For it rust ascend as live in isolated ponds make livered in 108 crates Three bore torrential rapids, and leap after their way overland. through the the label. "Mangoes from His leap has to be made before the wet grass, at night. to the nearest Majesty's tree." They are of desired haven is attained.

the red variety, which is parti- cularly sucenlent.

The Royal example, should help

Fasting

ver.

this

In Norfolk they have been seenTM swarming among the rushes that fringe the banks in such eror-

to make mangoes more popular in This sudden change from saltmous numbers that the larger fish

fresh England.

water is remarkable were thrusting the smaller half

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Your Daily Smile!

plain this eccentric behaviour.

When the salmon has mated

Mad Rush'

of their de- the whole sojourn in the river is human conditions of life, and midable problem almost non-human society.

gustation. This

apt to be passed fasting! The truth, as always, les messy, as we know out kere. An- Stranger still is the fact that

It is a mad rush, this journey somewhere between the ex glo-Indians are said to solve it though not hungry it will fall to

the lure of the fisherman's "dy to the sea, and it is the longest tremes It is quite certain that by eating them in their bath. a fine type of officer is usually

No one has yet been able so ex-journey any fan is known to make

on a similar errand.

The eels head for the Westerr put to this work because no There is nothing at all sur other type could cope with its prising in the news that Italy extraordinary

some 3,000 miles distant and "When I was a young man I knew and the eggs are laid, the return Atlantic, south-east of Bermuda, is considering the foundation of we

would understand their only one really sensible girl said journey to the sea is made. of the policy we must realise what the bachelor.

Visitors to the Cornish east here, at a depth of about 100- a corps in imitation

What sort of "Well, why didn't you marry her?" during the summer will see some fathoms, they lay their eggs and

die! famous Legion des Etrangeres their task is.

"I asked her, but she wouldn't have things of the pilchard-fishing Already she has quite an exten-man is it that would choose to

Even more strange seems the For this fish then sive "back country in Africa serve in a foreign army rather in the hinterland of Tripoli to than in that of his own country? Highly Delighted

southern coast for food having history of the larval eels emers

ing from these eggs. for they, who has. say nothing of Italian Somali-He is either one

The gasstove manufacturer whose already spawned at sex

have to find their way back to the if she adds very And Land

good reason to get son is writing pot-boilers.

rivers which their parents left Abyssinia to her responsibilities out of the furisdiction

The journey takes about three there can be no question that its laws, and who in

a lar A Necessity.

The young, emerging from the years, and they undergo a great ia -its course. egy in mid-water, for the most transformation

of

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Precision and accuracy are impos! a permanent garrison will be discipline would be as dare without good health, says a medi- necessary, and a garrison on an gerous to his new country as to cal man, Well-to be surely

Athis old. But a much more dif-

part migrate to the west coast of Minute, transparent shaped like active service footing too.

France. where they are caught in a willow lead, they feed on micros.

örganisms once she will come up against ficult class is the man who has Just Wont Wash

and having The attrage sman boy will not large numbers to provide as with copic the problem which led in the offended not so much against eighteenth century to our own the laws as against the social listen to lattery, declares a novel-sardines," for the sardine, it is attained to a length of about three You can't soft soap him. There are social organisation of a long service conventions. army, with a reserve of militia conventions the breach of which Inevitable and our refusal to adopt the is far more difficult to live down

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perhaps not generally Imown, is inches, they begin to not a distinct species but a pi-smaller? chard in the immature stage.

I Migrations of the herring, on

Closed Mouth

This is because the mouth has which vast numbers of men de pend for a living. and which versal every where else except in may well be the black sheep of of shape.

furnish no small part of our food-to be closed for alterations" and the United States. To hold disa cultured family, who carties!

supply, are more complicated than 30, for a time they must fast. life by absorbing tant possessions needs highly with him into his retreat not

at one time was supposed. Some, being sustained. trained men, of a strict disci only a good education but

like the Loch Fyne herring, do some of the substance of the body. pline. who remain abroad long sensibility which makes him

But just before they enter our do. Lenough to learn

The P. & O. ss. Kaisar-I-Hind not migrate: others." which something feel the crudities of life with- about the

strange conditions out privacy or luxury or outside is due in the Colony this after are now found to be of two races, rivers they have gained their new-

a daily-renewed noon from Shanghai under which foreign wars are interests as carried on. The only doubt is tragedy. This is the type that whether the new organisation tries to escape, or after dis Mr. Eldon Potter, KC. and Mrs. would have time to get welded charge writes books about what Potter leave this morning on together and to become an he has seen and heard; he Express of Canada for a holiday the summer-herring which afford the infant prodigies.

Men

race.

land

Rest In Deep Water". Why holiday-makers see

•

a summer and a winter-spawning modelled jaws, and they ascend

the rivers in vast swarms.

There is something uncanny Each comes shorewards to lay

It is about this 3,000-miles journey of the its eggs in the estuaries.

Though

lefficient unit.

agonises over what the former trip to Japan.

They plan to re-the most important fisheries along they are borne along by the kindly the coasts of Scotland and Eng Gulf Stream, which sets out from the Gulf of Mexico across the There would not be any lack type takes merely as necessary turn in September,

Atlantic, there must be some of recruits; nor would there and reasonable routine.

The RMS Express of Eussia.

subtle "arge" within-them, deve- probably be for Abyssinia, if all who are capable of acute senst

loping what we may call a "thirst doubt about regular pay were bility should simply keep away from Vancouver via ports, is due

This catuses- organisation which here at 6 p.m. next Wednesday

so for fresh water." Where would they from an removed

at the Kowloon come from? And what sort of admits applicants on the plan of and will berth

She will sail for Manila little of the huge shoals of her them to follow up its frst traces. men would they be? What are no questions asked." and which wharf

ring and mackerel on their migra-juntil the river is found.

But the journey is not yet end--- their ambitions and their loyal-has to make rules that can not at 5 pm the following day.

tions is easily accounted for

as they go ties? One naturally thinks of only be enforced upon different the shelf-full of books that have classes of men, but on different

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 since these fish rest in the deep ed. They disperse

to-day water by day and come to the sur-along, and thousands, with won-

water-divining power the derful been written on experiences of classes drawn from all nations hours ending at 10

The total since face to feed a night on the French, Legion beginning It is well known that on the was 0.10 inch.

at night, to crawl through the' perhaps with Ouida's Under whole the Legion would rather January 1 has been 55.09 inches, minute crustacea which then come make their way out of the water,. Two Flags," in which the not have English recruits, who against an

average of $7.37 up in incredible swarms.

But the case is different with grass and find the ponds and Legionaries were idealised into are teclined to appeal from per- inches.

the "scad" or horse-mackerel ditches left by their parents when a sort of supermen--but with sonal orders to written and

Mrs. Moir, of the Taikoo docks, which sometimes appear off our they set out to fulfil the creative Large There is no story to match somewhat excessive ten-thereby cause, trouble. 2 dency to belong to an Officers' most acceptable and numerous has reported to the Folice that coasts in vast numbers.

One case is on record where, this in all the history of fishes the national contribu-white bathing at Repulse Bay from any given spot on the route, Mess resembling that of the lof

even during the Tuesday, someone entered her seven years service is so diffi-tions, cait to suppose that had those time of the Great War, is the matshed and stole her hand bag, they could be seen passing in such mighty hosts that, from above, brightly coloured chromographs German. He is found to have containing a wrist watch, a four-

they looked like one black mass of military life been anywhere a love of discipline for its own tain pen and $3.

They were preying on herring

Gram Tunny

The

near correct there would not sake, and but rarely reaches al

except after the full period of turers who would prefer to

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this

have been a rush to join up in point of protest against severity A mall fire broke out that hot and dusty Algerian There are always, of course moming at No. 1 Carnaven harrack from which escape proportion of genuine adrenBuildings, the residence of Capt. That giant of the macker seven years' service is so diffi-fight with their own people, but Anderson Furniture to the value tribe, the tuny, appears in cult that successful refugees when there is no chance of that, of $200 was damaged and the Mediterranean in early summer would make but a short list perfer to fight with others cause of the outbreak was believe huge numbers.

ed to be a lighted cigarette. Precautions against escape They are simply unfitted for re- would not be necessary from gular occupations that imply a Ouida's paradise. More lately high degree of regularity aad Mr. P. C. Wren has cast a more safety. No one who knows a sober glamour over it all, based army can doubt the existence of

brand at any rate on some preliminary

particular knowledze of what human humanity Just now they are

Con beings of the male sex are like making end Against these pictures we have or anyone that to weigh the reminiscenc of to give whether ex-legionaries who have painted the

not a paradise, but a hell with best chance of “

But it makes spectacular display on arr their presence being demonst Lao Tai, a fitter of the Gas fishermen conversant with Company was admitted to the their habit Government Civil Hospital yes- terday suffering from injuries to This head, when a scaffolding - at

the New No. 8 Police where he was working Three other

also of the sca

etimes inter

Station,

ed or club

Lore to

"Where have you been far the

six mouth

were ed ext