1936-01-27 — Page 7

FISHERMEN'S

FIGHT WITH

GIANT SKATE

Monster, Swallows A Boat's Anchor

MOUTH 30 INCHES WIDE

Three fishermen had a unique in Tangalla Bay. experience

a huge Madras, recently when skate swallowed the anchor of their boat

up the

They promptly hauled skate and stabbed it to death with Their knives and fishing hooks.

The men were fishing about a mile away from the share with the stone anchor of their boati suspended in the water, when all of a sudden they felt something anchor tugging fiercely at the

rope. "With great difficulty they drew up the rope, to find a bare skate dangling at the end. The

BONUS FOR NEW ZEALAND

DAIRY FARMERS

To Bring Prices Of Produce To Paying Lore

Wellington (NZ),

Dairy farmers of New Zealand. will receive a bonus on the cur- rent season's sales of produce. announced Mt. Martin, Minister of Agriculture, to-day.

He added that he did not know when guaranteed prices will come into operation, but be said that the Government

definitely considering the question

Was

The bonus will not be, on the lines of a guaranteed "price, but will be in the nature of a subu sidy to bring prices to a paying

evel

CINERARY URNS

skate had swallowed the anchor INTERESTING

-and was struggling to bring it out

Stabbed and Killed

The men promptly stabbed the samimal with knives and fishing. books and killed The carcase was brought ashore and the flesh cat up and sold in the place,

market-

DISCOVERY AT

Relics Of Cremation 4,000 Years Ago

THE CHINA "MAIL, MONDAY-FANDARY

MEMENTOES OF

LAST EMPRESS

* Short Story?

OF THE FRENCH RATE OF

Museum To Be Opened

At Pierrefonds

FARNBOROUGH DINING-ROOM TO BE RECONSTRUCTED

By George

EXCHANGE A. Birmingham

ARLINGEST Teddy,

80 many days are crossed off in

DJust fancy: We're actual sodas and alte pencil, 30 as to ly begue to buy the trousseau. show they're really gone. Now Mother said it was better not there are only thirty-one days left) to leave everything to a rash before your arrive in London and Paris reconstruction of at the last minute, so we went I see again. Oh Teddy Pulse

But there! belovedest Empress Eugenie's private dining-shopping to-day.

The rest of that letter has no room at Farnborough when she know clothes bore you, so I lived in England is to be a feature won't go on. Only I must just interest for the general public, of a permanent - museum to be give you

message from though it was deeply thrißing to opened shortly at Pierrefonds. mother, which is important Edward Collis, Second Secretary The museum is to be devoted "You remember that embroider to His Britannic Majesty's Lega entirely to relics of the unfortun-led shawl you sent her for Ghrist-tion in Menzer. Menter, as evers. ate Empress, particularly of that mas, which you said was a kind one ought to knew, is the capital part of her life when, having lost worn by princesses, or perhaps itjof Megalis, one of the minor Bal both throne and husband, the for-was peasant women, in Meralia? kan States

Edward Collis, having read that mer Engenfe de Montijo travelled Could you get some” more, mot

threel incognito as the Countess de Pier-shawls, of course, but embroidery, latter part of the letter refonda

longish strips either red or blue, times, went down to the Imperial In the dining-room will be col-that would do for the front of a State Bank, in which he kept his Tected all the silverware which tea gown? You know the sort of money and drew out the equiva- lent of £5'in Megalian gulden. she used at Farnborough, as well thing.

"Mother says that you way The exchange at the moment was as the porcelain and napkins en broidered with the lmperial mono-spend up to £5 if you see anything 10,000 to the so that be re- gram. On the mantelpiece is the really nice, and dad will send you ceived 50,000 gulden. After Bing

OD. "The calendar I keep

Then he called on Mrs. Beeton,

CLEETHORPES bust made of her by Nieuweres cheque as soon as we know how all his pockets he was obliged to kerke which she treasured until french I'm sure you'll get some wrap up the last ten thousand in thing lovely for that when yous sheet of brown paper, kindly her death.

The confessional used by her say things are so cheap in Mega-provided by the banker, and carry

them in his hand- also will

belia. at Farnborough The skate, which was a 12-

shown besides tors with which commonly large specimen, mea-

she played in her youth the desk is beginning to look lovely, the wife of the Commercial Secre

i sured 16 feet from fin to fin, ten

handle of her parasol and feet six inches in width, and

numerable documents and pic- twenty-one feet in girth. It stood

the London-Urns containing the tures of her by Winterhalter and two-and-a-half feet above ground. Its mouth was no less remains of a woman and children others-Reuter, than thirty inches wide, and its who lived 4,000 years ago have

measured three-andra-half been mearched at a large mound IRISH CENTENARIAN

tail

feet.

LINKED TIBET WITH WORLD

Feat Of British Telegraphist

Calcutta

REMAINS OF MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN

201 .in Beacon known 23 Cleethorpes, at the entrance to the South Bank of the Humber.

A large vase containing four smaller ones and another small cinerary urn, containing the cre mated remains of a child. bave been found.

OF 106

Still Likes A Glass Of Whisky

Michael Ferguson, of Cunna Mr. T. Sheppard, director of the haggan, Ballina, Co. Mayo, claims Hill Municipal. Museums, under to be Ireland's oldest man. He is whose supervision the excavations 106.

have been made, and who is now He has never been in his life, restoring the cases. states that and still gets about on his farm.

"I eat well at all times, but

The says!

tary of the Legation, and told her jabout the commission which Mar jorie had given him. He was

KLM. SERVICE little nervous about buying em-

DOUBLED

July To October,

1935

RESULTS ISSUED

broideries for a tea-gown by him- self. Mrs. Beeton rather Iked the job, and said she knew exactly the shop to go.to.

She succeeded in buying eight long strips of embroidery, au of them good specimens of the beau- itiful needlework done by Megalan peasants. The price of the eight the Altogether 26 eastbound and 25 came to rather more than westbound flights were effected (50,000 gulden-bart Mix Beeton aring the third quarter of the was a vigorous and determined year 1935 on the Amsterdam-Bata-bargainer

She best down the

ria line of the KLM 21 and 23 prices, and in the end spent respectively being carried out in neither more nor less than the accordance with the schedule in £5. 574 days Delays of one or two days occurred during the other flights, and these were mostly due!

To link Lhasa, the "Forbid- this discovery of a crematory ura, den City and capital of Tibet accompanied by no fewer than six none of your fancy patent stuffs, with the outside world by means small cinerary ums, is unique.

My favourite meal is two duck of the telegraph was the feat The large cinerary ura, obvious- of Mr. W. P. Rosemeyer, M.BE that of a womas, accompanied eggs and a cup of strong tea. Ito weather conditions..

who has died Darjeeling

The comparatively large amber

at Kalimoong, by half-a-dozen unusually small don't smoke, but I take my glass of journeys carried out according

cinerary, urns, each containing of whisky"

He was in charge of the Bri-childrens, bones, suggests that tish telegraph lives

thei 02

the mother and her young family, Tibetan border, and spent al- most his whole service in this were buried at the same time.

arez

The vases, which are 4,000 rears old, are remarkable for

A personal friend of the late their exceptionally small size and Dalai Lama, Mr. Rosemeyer

for their pancity of, decoration.

was frequently summoned to A few of them have been orna-

the palace at Tibet.

He was always ready to bravemented by means of

winds in a lonely country order to keep the line open.

Coldest In Asia"

HALF US. LIQUOR

“ILLEGAL

New Tax Suggestion

New York-Fully half the al- a twisted coholic beverages consumed in

to schedule dearly demonstrate that the irregularity which occar- red at the start of the duplicated service was only of a temporary{ nature: during the last 10 weeks), only once a delay of half a day was

experienced

.*

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "His "Duty,” Cable,

Bord

Collis was greatly pleased He packed the embroidery in a neat parcel and despatched it in, the Service Doubled

Legation bag, by the hands of the Foreign Office courier, addressed Although the loading capacity of to Miss Marjorie Grosvenor. He terrible snowstorms and biting cord, pressed into the clay before the United States are either of the KLM service was doubled as also wrote a long letter-

baking, though the majority are illegal origin or illegal distribu- compared with the same period in "My dearest and sweetest Mar-

tion, according to Senator Cope 1935, a cover of 67.7 per cent (as orie perfectly plain.

against 82.8 per cent in 1934) was But the letters of lovers, ought In the upper part of the mound land

The Senator declared, in a reached in a westward direction. not to be published. They give In 1909, the line broke down remains of a green glazed vessel at Botha, Tibet, known as the of the 14th century were excavat-statement issued here, that he and 70.3 per cent (as against 77-8 occasion for blasphemy to the a Bill into the per cent. in 1934) in an eastward irreverent, and they are seldom ed. These were doubtless placed would introduce "coldest place in Asia."

It was not expected models of literary style. The Facing terrible hardships, Mr. there at the time the first beacon next Congress whereby liquor direction. Rosemeyer with two assistants, was erected on the site, in the taxes would be collected from the after the results of the first months only part of that letter which con- retailer instead of from the manu of the duplicated service, that the jeered anybody except Marjorie made his way to the spot, and year 1977.

cover of the previous year work herself was a request that she after seven days during which The Hill was last used as a bea-facturer.

This, he

was the only way be reached, and it is therefore should regard the embroidery as they lived in a tent, the line con during the recent Jubileef was mended and communica- Celebrations Retter. tion restored dwe

Mr. Rosemeyer, who was

awarded the M.BE in recogni- BROADCASTS FROM tion of his services, leaves a widow and five children.

HOUND BURIED FOR 17 DAYS

PRISON

Giving Occupation To American Convicts

Joliet - (Illinois) Convicts at the Illinois State prison are to

Ress.

to put the bootlegger out of busi-highly satisfactory that the per a presents a sort of preliminary centage has been so nearly a gift of the bridegroom to, the proached. This is certainly the bride. There was no need to best proof of the great demand a cheque in payment for it for loading capacity on the KIM

Five days later Megalia is a service.

long way off and Eastern Euro- pean trains are slow-them-

THE TRADE IN NARCOTICS

"Prince" Arrested On Drug Charge

Transport Of Mails

perform in a series of member of the former Polish royal parison with the mail transport this is perfectly lovely-

broadcasts

The total transport of mails in broidery and the letter reached both directions smonated to Marjorie.

She read the letter 18.435 Kg, equaling 160.334 while her mother examined the Paris ton/KM, and this represents an embroidery.

“My dear,” said Mrs. Grosvenor,

Yout A man describing himself as a increase of 31 per cent, in com- New Hunting Again

family, and self-styled claimant to during the same period of 1934 couldn't have bought anything Eddy Seventeen days a hound of the Convicts who can croon, recite the Polish farone, has been arrest Parcel post came to 866 Kg5145 like it in London for less than

}spend?? Braes of Derwent (Durham) pack or play jazz-band instruments ed here on charges in connection ton/KM, meaning a decrease of $15. How much did

10.5 per cent. as against 1954.

"Just what you told him,” said of foxhounds was buried in a pit will broadcast in a weekdy pro with the narcotic laws.

Altogether 484 passengers were fall, seventeen days without food,gramme from the prison, accord- His arrest was, made in a fas

himable hotel A quantity of carried during this third quarter Marjorie Exactly £5.** drugs is alleged to have been found of the year of 1935 In 1934 this "l give you a cheque at once The to send to him," said Mr. Gros-: figure was only 204. his possession The "Prince," who is about 28, crease in Pass/K is 128.4 per venue, who happened to be in the Another hound in the same the prison authorities to keep the is well-known în Faris and on the cart, which can certainly be con-roOKE. Riviera, pack did not have such lack. He prisoners fully occupied To give was run over by a railway trala them more work, it is also pro- during a recent hunt and killed.posed to take machines out of the prison shops and do all work by hand-ma

without water,.

ing to an announcement made by Now he has been recovered-the Warden and is hunting as vigorously as

The broadcasts are part of a programme recently outlined by

ver.

"FEWER GERMANS AT COLLEGE The authorities decided to give

work to idle hands after one con- New registrations in Germanvict had fatally stabbed another.

have shown steady declines from 14,000 in 19339) im

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People who get the most for there dollar in the @market-places are those who keep an eye on the

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