1935-10-12 — Page 13

GOLD IN PERAK

Results Of Geological Survey

PROSPECTING LICENSES

APPLIED FOR.

Perak has gold as well as tin deposits, and reference is made to them in the report. on the State for 1934.

It is stated that a detailed geo- logical survey of that part of the Batang Padang district included "on the eastern half of the topo- graphical map-sheet 2 N/13 and on the western half of 2 N/14 was considered necessary, because-of the numerous applications to pros- pect for gold that are being re- ceived by the Mines Department. and the work was undertaken by Dr. F. T. Ingham. Mining Geolo- rist

The figures available indicate that about 4,000 ounces of gold were produced from this district in 1904. mainly from tin-bearing: alluvium in the neighbourhood of Klian Bharu. Semoliang and Bidor. and in the valleys of the Sungei Gedong and the Süngei Bidor. Au- riferous alluvium. with little or no tin ore, is also being worked near Bruseh.

During the survey, flakes of goid į were found in stream-concentrate)· of the Sungei Mas, of Anak Sun- gei Jangka and of Anak Sungei! Chepor. Gold stealing once was prevalent in the Sungei Mas, but: it is unfortunate from the mining -point of view that the deposits are

near to Malay small holdings.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935

Cora Sue Collins, aged 7, the baby film star, saw her family broken up in a Los Angeles court, where her mother, shown with her, obtained' a divorce when she told how the husband and father Had arrived in California from West Virginia with another wo- <\

BONES FROM THE

BRONZE AGE

Inquest On Ancient

Irish Chieftain

LIVED BETWEEN 3,000 AND 4,000 YEARS AGO

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Short Story

Madame Trefilet's Illness

ME

By Germaine Beaumont

TREFILET came the sideboard, fit occurred to no Mack from her visit to body to set up and do it instead

Mme. Angerot and went on with of her) Mme. Trefilet, then, gave the course of her everyday a faint sigh, put a hand to her affairs, which were many: the breast, closed her eyes, and fell affairs, in the provinces, of a to the floor!

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woman of fifty-five, mother of “What's this” said Antaine three grown daughters, wife of Trefilet, as if his faithful wife had a'minor official, and mistress of suddenly abandoned herself to a a small house with a courtyard noxious eccentricity. "What's and garden.

happened to you, Felicits?” She went on with her affairs. Mme. Treflet made no answer. which consisted in darning the And Reine, who had run to her stockings of her youngest dangh-mother's help and was supporting ter Renee after having prepared her head and calling to her, got no the vegetables for the soup, clean-answer either: ed the greasemarks from M Treflet's (Antoine's) waistcoat, jand tidied the papers of her second daughter. Reine, who did typewriting at home and always left everything all over the place.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be Live Bait," by John D Morse.

Accordingly, when the eldest daughter Juliette, a teacher of the piano, came home the first of the family, in a bad temper as usual, for she liked neither teaching nor the children she taught she hadjnounced the matter-of-fact Juliette. "Make her drink something. no reason to think that everything

"She was feeling

was not going on in the ordinary Reine." way. Nor had M. Trèflet.

Nor But she spoke without moving- Two cases of diphtheria, two had Reine, who had beer to de-The fact was that she did not! cases, of typhoid fever and one liver some work; nor Renee, who know what to do, and would have from the superintended gone on sitting at the table if case of meningitis were reported came as having occurred in the Colony studies of the local boarding school Reine, had not taken matters in during the 48 hours ended Octo- And they all sat down at table in hand.

the ordinary way. finding it na "Run up and see if her room is tural that everything was as it ready, Juliette. I think it would The SS. Talma, which left was, the house straight, the clothes be better to put her, to bed.”

"Ought we to get a doctor 2" The evidence so far collected in- Although human remains found Singapore on Thursday afternoon, ready for the next day, the soup

asked Renee. who was deeply dis- dicates that the gold is derived at Mullaganeish Mountain. near is due here next Tuesday morning hot, and the meal well cooked from quartz-veins near the con- Londonderry. ere estimated to be and will leave for Shanghai and But in the completeness of this turbed, at fourteen. by Mine

a crack Trefilet's stillness. tact of main range granite with more than 3.000 years old. an in-Japan next Thursday at daylight. daily order there was

"For Mme. Treflet, who rose from the metamorphosed sediments, and quest was held on them recently.

touch of giddiness?

said M table to fetch some dessert from Don't talk nonsense!**

Trefilet. "She'll have forgotten al about it by to-morrow.”

from quartz-reins near the con-! They are believed to be those of A Tea Dance will be held at tact of those parts of the isolated an Irish chieftain of the Bronze the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow Changkat Rembian granite intr-Age. They were in a bowl-shaped at 130 p.m. A half-hourly bus ser- sion that have been foliated burn buried in a stone vault-like vice will operate during the after-

shearing.

structure in a bog.

FOOD. -

Gold-bearing vein-quartz in situ The jury's verdict was Un- has not been found in quantity known cremated human remains A Dinner Dance will be held at; sufficient for milling, but, in mines placed in a food vessel dating back the Repulse Bay Hotel to-day. The near Semoliang, excavation to the latter part of the early half last bus will leave Repulse Bay at

bedrock, phyllite of the Bronze Age, probably 3.500 1 am.

the weathered

OF

and foliated granite, underlying to 3.700 years ago.” auriferous sands, yields some Dr. A. G. Martin, the coroner. primary gold which adds its quota said that the um and remains had to the total output.

been taken to the municipal mu-

“FRESHMEN” AMONG arise later. to hold an inquest. In

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Reine and Renee helped him to get Mme: Trefilet upstairs. Then there was a general movement to provide her with every possible comfort. that would put an end to the malady. But it was a malady that lasted unpleasantly, for the two eldest Treflet girls bed to share the odious business of clearing away, washing

up, and bringing in chairs from the gar Safety, razor-blades made from den. Renee, seated at the foot of glass that is the latest idea of her mother's bed, did her lessons the invalid. the glass factories at Jablonec in and kept watch on

From time to time she asked: "Do Mize The blades are said to be as you feel better, mother?” thin and strong as steel ones. Treflet, whose eyes were "open The discovery of the ruins of and the makers claim that will again at last. looked at her a little They vaguely and without answering; a minor megalithic building at have an even finer edge. Mellieha Bay, Malta, is record-will be transparent like window-but at least she looked at her in ed in the annual report of the. glass.

a way that seemed to show that

seum at Belfast. but he decided. in view of the difficulty of es- tablishing ownership, which might

consequence he served a warrant¦-- on the museum curator for their! return. He thought that the po To Perform Servicelice should have custody of

remains until ownership was On Beats

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London Lord Trenchard has given his approval to a plan for a finish- ing course drawn up for the London Police College students who last month were drafted to West-end police stations..

This is how they will spend the first twelve months in the Service:

Four months as a constable! in uniform;

Two as a section" sergeant;

and

tablished.

the

es-

IMPROVED CANNING OF PINEAPPLES

Malayan Experiments To Be Undertaken

GOVERNMENT FINANCE FOR RESEARCH

MEGALITHS FOUND IN MALTA Discovery By R.A.F. Officer.

North Bohemia:

Museum Department, Malta.! The disadvantage is that they they need have no more alarm. Flight Lieutenant Forbes Bent cannot be resharpened when the In which they were quite wrong, ley had seen the remains and edge has worn off. This is coun- for the next day me. Trefilet reported them to the museum terbalanced by the fact that they gave no sign of improvement, in authorities The megaliths are will be far cheaper than steel the sense that she did not get up disposed so as to form

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midday they all sat down, minus

Mme. Trefilet, to a revolting meal.

Whereupon M. Treflet's meanness gave way to his love of good food. To cure as quickly as possible so incomparable a housewife as bei now knew Mme Trefilet to be it) was well worth paying for a doc-

Improved canning methods in island At Ghajn Qajjed a Two as a station sergeant; the Malayan pineapple industry farmer who was cutting stone are to be experimented with, sc- to construct a water tank in a Four months. with the cording to a report of the Colonial field. The catacomb was reach CID, during which time Development Advisory Committee ed by a few steps leading to a

passage 16ft. long, at the end A chair covered with stamps tor. But the doctor, who came in they will have to spend issued in London recently. periods in the Criminal Re- To accomplish this the commit of which was, a partly destroy of all nations, some of them of the afternoon, avoided saying cord Office, the Finger Print tee recommends that a grant be ed Agape table and two arcoso considerable value, was in the anything definite. He spoke of department and with the Fly-made to the governments of the lia Farther ahead was a rock hold of the Orient liner Orsova getting run down, of overwork. which reached Plymouth on and prescribed a few days in bed. ing Squad wireless section. Straits Settlements, the Federated

"What's to become of us?" August 26 from Australia. It Their Beat

Malay States and Johore on con-

is the most treasured posses- groaned Juliette When they have completed dition that they contribute a like

sion of Betty Murman, an Aus- "Suppose we got a daily wo- this finishing course their ap-sum toward research

on the im pointments as junior station in-provement of canning methods in

it to England in the hope that M. Treflet would not hear of it spectors will come up for con- this industry."

the King, who is an enthusias-Out of the four women in the firmation.

tic stamp collector, might in-house there were still three sound terest himself in it. The chair ones. They could share the work He would lend a was to be handed over to the among them. representative of the High hand himself to water the garden, Commissioner for Anstraha fetch wine and coal from the cel- London when the liner reaches London lar. A common aim was every- This notice appears on the door

thing. Juliette would do the shop-}

would help with the housework. Continued on Page 11)

During the 12 months the More than 60,000 acres of land] students wil be expected to in that part of the world are de stay in the large house in Cam-voted to pineapple production, bridge-villas, Bayswater, which about 40,000 acres of which are is being converted by the Metro-(in Johore. The bulk of the fruit politan Police authorities into a is canned and exported. finishing school and club

When they have finished walking their best during the first four months, students will return to the club, where there will be frequent lectures and debates upon their daily experi-

ences.

Exemptions

Lord Trenchard has agreed that students who were already

CHILD DOG-LQVER OF STONE AGE

2,000-year-Old Grave Discovered

A child dog-lover of 2000

in the police force before enter-years ago has been uncovered at ing the college need not go back Hettstedt, Central Germany

PIÙ FINDERS FROM Atralian girl of twelve, who sent man

CHURCH

To Be Kept Locked In Future

of Totteridge parish church, LOVERS REUNITED ping Beine the cooking, Renee

Herts:

"Owing to the mischief of

mean-minded marauders and per- Together After Long

Years Of Separation

verted petty pilferers, weŊ have

MEMORIAL TO LAWRENCE been reluctantly compelled to keep this church locked during the

OF ARABIA Miss Mary Anne Hoy, aged week Honest and respectable 67, and Mr. Philip Jay, aged 637 folk may obtain the key at the were married at Horsell, near

plaque has been placed on vicarage."

Woking, recently, after 40 years the wall of 15. Birmingham- where Sonthampton, delay In the nineties they street,

nted: the "walked out ether but awrence of Arabia.

was very back bedroom for many months parents sent employed as Aircraftmari

Perfect Epidemić The notice is signed by vicar, the Rev. J. Edgar D. Pratt parental oppos

strong Mary's epide her away to wo always bidden to see

lately The long

"We have had^g"per

to street duty: Other work Workers enlarging the cellars He said: will be allocated to them for of a local wine merchant came their first four months upon a fiat gravestone, and mic of

Among the men who will be under it the skeleton of a child kept the door walking a beat within the next and a dog.

the few weeks are two Cambridge Experts pronounce the find for wre

undergradua

school boys.

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