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THE BURGLARY EPIDEMIC.

THEFT FROM A HOUSE AT ROWLOON. The hous occupied by Mr. J. Johnston nt Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, was en tered by a thief or thieves on Sunday. They confined their attention to the hat- - stand and cleared it of hats and as

brellas and sundry other things.

EMESPASSING ON PREMISES AT THE PEAK.

THE SINKING OF H.M.S. "WATERWITCH."

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10re, 1912.

RAMMED WHILE AT ANCHOR BY "SBANEW,"

Events were moving rapidly now. In] 1825 the Enterprise made the first steam passage to India; and the same year the The your 1837 saw tike

and O. Company began operations, Francis H. Ogden.

first successful

rehimedes, screw driven, in under two scrow tug-boat. She was called the Dover Calais passage was made by the The next year the

Nours.

THE AGE FOR MARRIAGE.

and why i

What is the best age at which to marry,

These questions of world-wide interest

Eugenics Congress, in an interview with and importance were answered by Dr. one of the delegates to the International Frederick L. Hoffman, LL.D., F.S.S..

cupies the position of statistician to the an Express representative.

Incidentally, Dr. Hoffman, who ve Prudential

Insurance Compuny of

A Chinese who had been found on the some time past in surveying the ocean-bed look after their effects, and their loss is which claimed to be the precursor of Newark, New Jersey, exploded what he

servants' quarters of 81, The Peak (oenn pied by Mr. F. W. James) and 83. The Peak (occupied by Mr. C. D. Wilkinson) was charged at the Magistracy yesterday with trespassing, and was the $5 or 14 days and ordered to find surety in the sum of 9100 to keep the peace for twelve. juonths.

THE PEAR BUXOLARY.

It is reported that the man arrested on a charge of committing a burglary it the residence of Mr. R. A. M. Williams, The Peak, had a pawn ticket in his pes- session, which on investigation proved to be for a watch which has been identified as belonging to Mr. J. R. Wood, Direc tor of Education stolen from the re sidence of the Capitain Superintendent of Pulico.

The following account of the sinking of H.M.S. Waterwitch is given in the Straits Timer of the 2nd inst. ; --

H.M.S. Waterwitch, the Admiralty survey ship which has been engaged for

| waters around Singapore, was sunk in and noting tides and currents in the the harbour yesterday in extraordinary circumstances,

She was raimed amid ships by the Colonial yacht Seamer, com went down before she could be beached at manded by Captain Chamberlain, and a convenient spot.

egcurred.

FIRST TWIN-SCHEW STEAMER.

My

stunned and drowned. A Chinese servent was also missing, but various parties stabs that they saw him get from the water into a sampan and go aahore. Beyond thear, the only other injury sustained by any on board was by a Chinese cook who when the Seamer broke in. He, however, was scalded in the wreck of his galley was brought ashore before the vessel sank. wreck. The crew were too much occupied Company's arst steamer, the Britannia, Practically nothing was saved from the

In 1840 there was built the Cunard with the measures for saving the ship to and in 1845 the first iron screw steamer, enhanced by the fact that, Saturday the modern Atlantic steamer, down with their other kit. The circum the premature inception of the first ing successful marriages, having been pay-day, their money went

described as one of the most popular Swiftly was approaching the time of fallacies that has ever prevailed regard stance, however, did not depress them, mammoth steamer. This was the unfor- They cheerfully took up their quartors tunate Great Faxters built into a world said Dr. Hoffman, to-day. The others were invited to tako 1851 at Millwall, and was launched in men and women alike should be a wide for the night in the Sailors Home; other not ready for her. Designed by Brunel that the best ages for marrying are

experience and observation,

have convinced ine arrangements will be made for them and Scott Russell, she was laid down in between twenty-three and twenty-six for The Waterwitch returned from the sur

up residence at Government House and 1858. Having cost £732,000, she was put in the theory that there should be a wide veying grounds about a week ago, and

the Colonial Secretary's alsode. anchored outside the mole. On Saturday

The Waterwitch may yet be revived to an Atlantic roble layer, subsequently the woman.

to a variety of uses, being at one time disparity between the age of the man and she changed her anchorage to a point just add hw more years to her life. She becoming (oh, degradation!) a coal hulk off the north-eastern end of the mole and was built 34 years ago as a private yacht at Gibraltar, she was lying there when the disaster and was originally owned by Mrs. Lang-old iron.

My reasons for fixing on between In 1898 she was sold as

twenty-three and twenty-six as the ideal 'clock yesterday forrnoon. The repurchased her a good many years ago. length and of a tonnage of nearly 19,000,

It happened about eleven try (now Lady de Bathe). Thus Admiralty ships she yet looms big, being 680ft, in roughly, these

Eren in these days of giant marrying ages for both sexes are, returning to port after her monthly visit The Tanjong Pagar people are already to Horsburgh Light for the purpose of busy salving the avaliable fittings from

The man and the woman are then, changing the lighthouse crew, was shapher as she lies, and later an effort will he sible to treat the subject with anything row dominant. On the one hand, the so far as marriage is concerned, at their In an article such as this it is impos lopment. Their hereditary traits are hest physical, mental, and moral deyn ing a course round the end of the break-made to raise her and pump the water like completeness; we can only mark the twig has been bent or the temperament water to reach her usual berth inside, when the short voyage to Tanjong milestones by the way. In one hundred has been moulded in the form it will The position of the Waterwitch was more hull of the vessel is almost half exposed inadequate engines to wonderful turtion, for life.

Rhu will be completed. At low tide the years we have passed from feeble and probably retain, with a little modifica less in her direct course, but the possibility of collision was evidently fittings and the belongings of the officers realised too late. How it came about is

so that a great deal of her internal bines developing 70,000 horse-power i Four men armed with revolvers and known fact is that, although at the last attempt to raise her is made. This fore. Elder.

In 1854 the first compound cylinder matter for oficial enquiry later; the and crew may be taken out before the engines daggers entered a house near Youmatimoment strenuous efforts were made on

On the other hand, they are both were tried, designed by John still sufficiently plastic and malleable to In 1889 the Atlantic was first readjust themselves and become mutual.. in the early hours of Sunday morning, the bridge of the Srame-which is hand side and men of the crew of the Water pound engines, engines of

noon & Tanjong Pagar lighter was along crossed by a steamer propelled by comly complementary to drove the inmates into their cubicle, and stored-to divert her, she ran straight ich were up in the rigging of their cylinders utilising two

one another. In two other words, the man is willing to sarri- Allected clothing and jewellery to the the other vessel and struck her a clean, the charts, documents and surveying with triple expansion engines.

vessel stripping the canvas off the yards, steant.

office himself to the happiness of the wo- piercing blow fair amidships on the port

In 1874 came the Propantes, man and the woman to the happiness of value of $43, with, which they made off. side. The police have arrested our

Had the Waterwitch been iron-

the man. This is one of the essential map on plated, the bow of the Neuner would

this heralding the advent in the subse-co-ordination is another.

In 1851 came the first twin-screw vessel, conditions of true suspicion of being evncerned in the have buckled under the shock, but as it

narriage. Perfect affair.

was the sharp nose of the yacht cut like

quent year of what are called ocean "A boy or a girl of, say, eighteen, The Sears, which can out of the greyhounds, confirmed two years later quite apart from other considerations. a chisel into the wooden body of the accident remarkably cheaply, left for those famous Cunarders the Etrusin Cannot be expected to know his or her The supposed second attempted burg-Esprit was projecting out over the star-the round of the lights. The slight

Waterwitch and penetrated till her bow- Malacca yesterday afternoon to complete and ebriu, with their twenty knots mind. This point, I think, requires no lary at Mr. Ho Tong's house on the board side. The vessels were locked thus damage to her, however, does not repre-;

laboration. At the same time I should Peak, mentioned in our yesterday's issue,responding to her reversing engines, local Government..

for a moment and then the Neamer, sent the total crest of the affair to the gradually increased.

Nyom then onwards speed and size that every man of twenty-five or there. like to state with all possible emphasis was a false alarm, A couple of deter

In 1897 speed re Lives were mistaken for burglars.

backed out with nothing to show for the

ceived a great fillip when Mr. C. A. Parabonts who is earning his living and As regards any enquiry, says the sons perfeeled the steam turbine as ap⋅ I do so, provided only that he and his collision but the loss of her figurehend Singapore Free Press, it is not likely that result was the Turin, a small craft prospective partner are healthy. evaie suggests that this merely points out and some paint.

wishes to marry should be permitted to plied to marine- to the authorities the advisability of get-

purposes. The first Any public enquiry will be held, as the of 2,000-horse power, with a speed of ting residents on the Peak accustomed to

Seamen does not come under Board of 30 knots! One of the latest results of

"The woman of a man's choice. has the sight of a policeman after dark.

Trade regulations, but a departmental the turbine is enquiry will undoubtedly be held. The Lion, driven at twenty-eight knots by the battleship-cruiser officers of the Waterwitch will also have turbines of 70,000-horse power. to face a court-martial to answer for he loss of their ship, but that should be more ther the Court will sit in Hongkong or or less formal, and it is not known whe whether the enquiry will be held over

stations.

ARMED ROBBERY AT YAUMAT!.

A FALSE ALARM.

THE ESCAPED BURGLAR,

A

We understand that the man caught in Mis. MeEvren's residence during the night and who subsequently escaped from

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THE "WATERWITCH'S M

INJURIES.

The Waterwitch was mertally injured. A gaping hole, which must have extended right from ber bulwarks to near her keel, was left in her side and through it the bridge collapsed hudity in the collision sea was pouring in great volume. Her and partially went over the starboard sise, while her mainmast was unstopped

instrumente are at present housed in the Master Attendant's office, where they were take before the sinking.

MODERN WONDERS,

pressures

Among modern wonders are the fam ous Lusitania and Mauretania, the lat ter having crossed the Atlantic in 4 days

custedy while in hospital, had not had and fell to a drunken angle over the port. until the return of the officers to Home 10 hours and 2 minutes;

At about half past three yesterday morning a Chinese was seized in the

EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN SHIP.

REVIEW or 100 TRAES' PROGRESS.

the

THE PLASTIC AGE.

right whatever to demand that he pounds a week before he enters into shall be earning a certain number of wedlock with ber. I strongly deprecate these so-called

'marriages' તું con- venience, Moreover, should be placed-within'

restriction course on the number of children. No renson, of marriage is perfect or satisfying if there are no children as its outcome.

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"The nation which first takes that only win in all matters of international great work thoroughly in hand will not

honour in the history of the world. competition, but will be given a place of

INTIMATIONS

TERRIBLE RASH

ALL OVER LIMBS

Used

Scratched Until Blood Flowed from

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**' tash broke out all over- my arros and legs. The apot catus out about the size of the points of plas and I suffered very much particularly after I went to bed. I was re- luctantly forced to reritch. my arms and legs until the blood Howed from the sores. I took all sorts of malicios but without avail and I als consulted a doctor. He seni me 1 boxes of olimen? and told me to rub the on- ment well into the part? affected before going to bed, Idil us directed bin instead

of getting relief I only got worse.

The mah was always jurteasing but Daly affected my arms and legs. I used to Teel worse after getting wara fi ted, so much so that I dreaded going to bed at all. Nover aball I forget the pain I endured all along. I would scratch the very lesh off as well the skin. I wrote to a friend abou it and bo gent me a box of ointment, but it did no good. I read about the Culcura Renities in th paper and I decided to give them a trial at any cost, I got so cakes of Cuticuro Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment and beg using them as directed, Front the tirst there was on kaprovement and in abut three months' time I was compleicly cured and Row ablo to sleep quile soundly J. E. Sisumton. Carnagan, Ballygians, Co. (Signed) Mayo, Ireland, April 14, 1011.

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Chs. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATIE ROAD.

Finally, just as 1812 brought the re volutionary Comet, so has 1912 brought age of thirty and wish to marry, do so "Men particularly who are over the almost equally

revolutionary at their peril. At this age or over a man Selandia. The Selandia, it will be re-is generally so strongly individualised, membered, is the first large ocean-going so set in his judgments, that too often gotor liner. Whether internal combus in courting a wife he is only courting tion engines will ultimately drive the disaster. steam engine from the sea is for the future to show, but it is significant, that perament, su frequently heard to-day in That phrase incompatibility of tem- It is to be doubted if wo shall over the Selandia should set, as it were, the connection with unfortunate marriages, celebrate a greater centenary thap that heal upon the centenary of the Comet moans in many cases simply that the Always have on hand a very large complete of the Court, which falls this year. and it is startling to remember that tastes and temperament of the man, or of Greenock were startled by an an-give us the Jutlandia, a sister to the Exed to promote a successful union.

One hundred years ago the good people Glasgow, which gave as the Comet, will woman, or both, were too hardoned and nouncement in their local devertiser of clandia Charles Gaunt in the Pali August 16, 1812, that the steamship Mall Gazette, Glasgow and Greenock thrice weekly. met, would make the passage between The days of sailing were to be Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from Glasgow, and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from Greenock. The fares were first cabin, s.; second cabin, 3s.

came the

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Sha

70 YEARS WITHOUT LUNCH.

KOW LORD STRATHCONA KEEPS FIT AT 92..

VALUE OF GRIEF. "Again, a marriage celebrated after thirty tends to become an affair rather of friendship than anything else, and

abook of

SCIENTIFIC AND

this, in my opinion, at least, is by no SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS

eaus all or anything approaching all,

that marriage should signify Although Transits, Levois, Plano Tables, Prismatic and

I confess I have no facts to bear out my contention on this point, observation Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, cele- both sexes frequently follows these 'over The mightiest of all the great family leads me to think that the sudden ap of Smiths. Donald Alexander Smith, pearance on the scene of 'affinities of brated his ninety-second birthday last thirty marriages. month in harness.

And now let me just touch on the

Sight Compasses, Hand Levels, de, &c.)

DRAWING

also

INSTRUMENTS

AND MATERIAL

tions found him at his desk in the Cana-popular belief that a really successful A representative of one of the London question of successful marriages. There dian Government offices, Victoria street, marriage is necessarily a happy one papers who called to offer congratula-was never a greater fallacy than the

the busiest man in the whole office. Indead, I consider that that marriage is T Squares, Set Squares, Straight Edges,

sort of birthday message" the inter-row, loss, disappointment, aye, and

Now, what would you like to say, as

still incomplete which does not know viewer asked.

Seales, Inka, áo., ¿v.) "Message!

The sterling value of sorrow has

to do.

Oh, no! No time for never

yet been properly recognised. AGENTS FOR messages, said the High Commissioner, Some day grief, deepening, broadening, with a sinile. I have too much work chastening, cleansing, liberating grief

will come into her own.

even death!

the handcuffs removed as was at first re ported. He is now said to have made his of the contact, however, was the fact that The most striking illustration of the force Escape with the manacles on his wrists, the vessel's lines on the starboard side a fact which must have made his descent were bulged out to a shape approaching of the water pipe, a distance of about the back of a crescent. Immediate steps 20ft., extremely hazardous, and a fact

were taken to do what was possible to which adds to the hungur of the escape,

keep her afloat. Commander Reyne was not on board, and a considerable propor- UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT WOSANKICuroso.tion of her usual complemont, which is

An attempt to comint a burglary was

$1 officers and inen, was away on shore mande at the residence of Mr. F. Howell, board under the command of First leave. Only abont half that number were Woagneicheong Road, at midnight on Lieutenant Waterlow, and they were at Sunday. The thief, who had got on to collision stations a few seconds after the the lower verandah, was scared by the occurrence. The pumps were manned dogs, and ran off. In his husto to get urush of water by securing collision mata and an endeavour was made to stay the away he knocked down a number of over the hole, which was obviously too flower stands and flower pots. When the extensive to be effectively stopped. These place was examined a number of burnt measures were probably the means of mateles was found on the verandab, and keeping the vessel above water-level till a string gag was found on the steps.

assistance came from shore, but by the time the Tanjong Pagar tug Varunha BOBBERY AT MËSSRS, GANDE, PRICE

arrived, before noon, the Waterwitch was wondership Comet, the first passenger

Thus modestly beheralded, & Co.'s STORE.

practically waterlogged. Such assistance steamer, practically and commercially Marine Department. as was practicable was offered by the successful, a vessel which consequently Commander Rad was to revolutionise the whole world of eliffe, Master Attendant, was quickly on maritime consorce. She was laid down private lane alongside Mesars Cande, the scene in one of the department's in the yard of John Wood at Port Glas- Pries and Company's store, in the act,

launches, and Captain Coleman, Acting gow in 1811. She was built to the order it is alleged, of carrying off two cases of

Deputy, and Boarding-Ofteer Chalmers, of that inspired millwright, turned cigarettes and other articles. He strug-to du really but stand by in case of need.

in another. There was nothing for them hotelkeeper, Henry Bell, of Helensburgh, across the Clyde. This man for long gled desperately with one of the watch-Some of the men who were not required had been keenly interested in the pos- men in the employ of the firm, but the for the pumps were taken off the Fater.sibilities of steam as applied to marine Chinese staff went to the assistance of the into the boats which were lying astern.

witch into these launches and others get purposes. And now, in 1811, he gave watchman on bis raising the cry of thief, The Paymaster, following the recognised reckon ships now, us bigger indeed, not

practical expression his interest. The Comet was a tiny vessel' as and the m Was secured.

A police procedure for such occasions, took steps so big-as many of the lifeboats carried whistle was then blown, and a lukong to save the ship's documents. The other the deck of liners of to-day? appeared on the scene in record time, officers on board, besides Mr. Waterlow, was only 42ft. in length, 11ft, wide, and

"Yes, sin ninety-two to-day; but

Go into the National Gallery and what difference docs it raake whether a note the pictures which most attract 5ft, deep. So small was she that one man is fifty-two or seventy-two or ainety you; these analyse the source of their wonders where they found room for the two / I did not mark my birthday in attraction. You will find that grief and When the immediately took the doomed vessel in advertisements,

Tarunha arrived she first and second cabins mentioned in they way; I never do. It just comes and tragedy in most cases constitute their tow-and-headed for the nearest shallow, engine-roon and stokehold and crew's

addition to the 50s, and one does not seem to notice it. lure. So it is in connection with mar which were at Tanjong thu, the launches quarters,

"How do I keep myself fit for work?them he repeated. Why, by working. I

The marriage of Thomas Carlyle and and boats in close attendance. About a

have been a working man all my life; Jane Welsh, for instance, was, in my score of men and the three officers men- tioned were still aboard, but, beyond the the germ from which sprang, through

But within her meagre dimensions was always glad of something to do, as long opinion, an almost ideal union. Astig-

as it was something fit for a man to do.

matism, with improper lenses, was gang employed at the pumps, they could slow stages, the wonderful triumphs of do no more for their ship, so the dis marine engineering which to-day find Lord Strathcona's rule, for close on from this, Jane Welsh, with her sense No birthday feast marked the day. their domestic troubles, but even apart both of them responsible for many of engaged hands stood by the rails ready expression in our giant vessels. Other seventy years now, has been to eat only of frailty and leaning towards her hus to quit her at the word of command, the before the Camel, but she was the first

few there had been two meals a day. officers forward and the men aft. With

band and Thomas Carlyle with his sense every yard she travelled the vessel was Passenger-cariying steamer, and her

of protection and leaning towards his s to be settling more decidedly and ments which followed upon her advent

success rendered possible the develop-

wife came very near that mutual yield. listing to the starboard till the water was

ing which constitutes the ideal marriage, on a level with the lower side of the deck her contemporaries, she must have ap

To our eyes; and, indeed, to those of

The so-called uniformly happy It seemed apparent that she would never peared a queer-looking little craft, with a West African State umbrella of the anticipation. You have only to look largely myths, made up of memory and marriages, like happiness itself, are be kept afloat as far as Tanjong Rhu, and her four paddle-wheels ta on either type sold yesterday in a London auc into the calm faces of old women and The floating dock which has been built that proved to be the case. About half-side-between which arose by Mesers Cammell, Laird, of Birken-way between the starting point and the and very thin Eunuel, so thin that when 14th ult.

very tall tion-roon, says a London paper of the talk to them to discover that the outcome head, for the use of the Admiralty at Portsmouth was launched last month. It

shore the upper side sank quickly to smoke was emitted it looked to be com- Dahomey, who sent at the same time some the nearest approach to happiness in The donor was the King of of unselfishness and abnegation forms was floated out from a specially designed to be the last moment, so the hawser that was shipwreck, but before that occurred to smoke, and

nearer the level of the sea. This was seening from a mast. The end of the Comet native pipes and tobacco for her Majesty married life or out of it.11 building basin, being towed by five tugs. The

launch was witnessed by many

connected her to the tug was cast off and she had been reconstructed, gaining coloured wearables.

a selection of highly- thousands of people on both sides of the

the officers gave the command to jump 18ft in length, and losing a paddle each Mersey. Soon afterwards the deck was

Major Darwin, in his presidential ad- clear. The sailors obeyed the order side by the operation.

These gifts were in acknowledgment dress, which opened the discussions, towed away on its journey to Ports instantly and all plunged for the water

of a damask tent, a silver pipe, and two said that our knowledge of the laws of What an amazing century of progress silver trays sent by the Queen to the heredity, however perfect it might be- mouth,

together. As they reached it the hull of fare we the ship disappeared quietly below the after the Comet's advent the tob Roy Burton, who brought the gifts, that the use as a method of insuring the progress now eelebrating! Six years African potentato. He told Sir Richard come, would be of comparatively little surface and she touched ground in made her maiden voyage. She was also tent was very handsome, but too small, of mankind ratil it was not only widely twenty-four feet of water. Part of her built at Glasgow, and was the first sea- and that the silver pipe did not smoke known, but actually incorporated in the funnel and nearly the whole of the masts trading steamer, marking a great step so well as his old red clay with a wooden moral code of the people; were visible.

forward. Next year a further advance stem. He liked the trays very much, was made, when the Savannah, & paddle but thought them hardly large enough to to establish such a moral code as will "Our first effort," he said, "must be wheeler, crossed the Atlantic, She was serve as shields. He hoped that the next ensure that the welfare of the unborn immediately by the attendant launches driven by sails as well as machinery. As and a white woman, both of which he all questions concerning both the mar- The officers and men were picked up what we now call an auxiliary, being gifta would include a carriage and pair shall be held in view, in connection with and boats and when the last man seemed her na implies, she was American, to have been taken aboard they were being built in New York.

would appreciate very much. brought ashore. A muster was held at

riage of the individual and the organi sation of the State. the marine offices and the roll was called.

"As an agency making for progress conscious selection must replace

and took the man to the police station. Yesterday we learned that one of the Indian watchmen in the emples of Messes Gande, Price and Co.--was charged with the larceny of the goods in question, it being alleged that he removed them from the store during the day and engaged the Chinese to transfer then from the lave during the early hours of morning. The case will come before a magistrate a few days hence.

FLOATING DOCK FOR PORTSMOUTH.

The area of the dock is 21 acres, and the over-all dimensions 630ft. long and 144ft, wide; the clear width at the top of the side towers is 113ft. The side towers are gift. high from the bottom of the pontoon. The total displacement of the dock when submerged to receive u ship having a draught of 35ft, is 49,000 tons. Complete control of the dock is arranged in the valve honse. The structure is equipped with a service of telephones, flying gangways, and travel ing cranes, and accommodation has been provided for the dock faster, the petty officers, and a crew of 43 men.

The dock has taken abght two years to build, delay having been caused by the engineers' strike which lasted 11 weeks,

were Lieut. Rice and Wilson.

VESSEL HINKS.

PICKING UP THE MEN.

GERM OF PROGRESS,

steamboats a

INTRODUCTION OF IRON..

All answered to their names but u maring in the construction of a steamer. Three named Sturgess and there is still doubt years later the General Steam Naviga In 1824 iron first was used in England as to what has happened to him. He was tion Company came into existence, and seen on the deck immediately before the commenced running passenger steamers sinking and it is thought that in diving between London and Margate, and later he struck some hard obstacle and was on to Southend-on-Sea.

AN EXCHANGE OF ROYAL GIFTS.

Queen Victoria was once presented with

NEW MORAL CODE.

in

the

The Charing Cross-road as the resort blind forces of natural selection; and of the book-lover has not yet received its man must utilise all the knowledge ac meed of glory from the book-maker. The quired by studying the process of evoin- Standard says a stock of a million books tion in the past in order to promote. is by no means unusual in the neighbour moral and physical progress in the bood.

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