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THE KLOST DISASTER. WHEN NEXT ERUPTION MAY BE EXPECTED.

INTERESTING DESCRIPTIVE

LECTURE

THE FAME. IN 1918 THE CHIEF SECRETARY'S REVIEW,

Dr. G. E. Escher lectured in the theatre milliins

Sir E. L. Brockman in annual raport says the revenue or the reterated Satay States for the year amounted to Following on the publication of a criti-

så million dollars, exceeding that for the revious year by two and three-quarter [vism of Lord Jellicoe's bok by Aduiral

This included the special war Behnke, who commanded the German

anillinas. The three biggest items were Third Squadron at the Battle of Jutland, of the Royal Naturel History Association Taxation of about four and three garter an interesting letter appear in the Times in Batavia on May 27th on the eruptioneers, excise, ate. 154. Unstoms 151,

of Mt., Kloet says Hot Nirway an den Railways 13. trin Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowlest

- The strictures of the German Admiral). The lecturer described the work Paul, Behneke on Admiral Jellicoe's ex-ing of volcanoes in general and dwelt on treme gaation" at, and still greater the forge of the "Lahars," consisting of auton after the bath of Jutland rewater, ash, stones and other volcanic pro- feet to some extent the says) criticisms ducts. These luhars could not be tamed at the disposal by any artificial

D Sabsequently

Escher already made here, not only on Admiral Jellicoe, but also on Admiral Troubridge, man. by those who deply regret the escape described the shap of ME. Sket compared from destructions of the fehen in 1914, with the surrounding moutains, point and still mate the escape of the German ing out that the slopes of Mt. Blower were more gentle than those of the Kawi High Sea Fieet in 1916, whereby the sub and the summits of the Tengger sequent course and length of the war were affected to our great detriment.

ranks

The expenditure totalled 45 millious, the chief items being rail: ways 14, miscellaneous nine, personal adluments seven and three-quarters. "The total expenditure tell short estimate by 171 millions due to the inability to obtain materials, particularly for railways, from Europe. The balance to the erecht of the FF.M.S. on December 31st was 10 millions. investiments amounted tea milions while ix and a half millions terug Liabi the amount invested in war bonds was liries included fifteen millions of public det und zie and a quarter of deposits.

There is invariably in the set clubs which the golfer is in the habit of using a certain club which he values tore than any other. It is a club which peculiarly anpils to him-in that its hahigs are gond--as he knows in his heart of hearts that it will never give him away. Fr ho happens to make a serious nistake with it. He is just a little sur prised, as it is a failing which is not in the combination of the pisser and that particular club, and he realises tull well that the fault does not really tie with the club itself. It is merly the human application which is in dave heard it said that such a gulfing

Imports exclusive of bullion totalled implement is worth a King's ransom

regards the rain of ashes, he had to the player. Quit what the value of a

But are these Admirals, to be blamed, "or King's room kappens to be in the

Extended

as Batavia and and exports 23 millions a decrease of 4 THT Present day I cannot say, as we know is the Board of Admiralty! If the Ad perceived that, in 1901, she na of this 741 milliors, in mereuse of two per cent, Serang, whereas during the presenter cunt. Plantation rahle deerbased of one be two erstwhile monarchs themiralty orders to Admiral Troubridge ext

British "avoid being brought into

catastrophe the most westerly, ransom of whom, would not be worth the

Ma Kruja thre, and a half millions.

suffered greatly proverbind half crown ball, much less the actua

But wr not to accept netion with superior and Banjocitas. It was impossible, how-Grade." value of a well-beloved club.

of the eruption. to study the needs of the country team is Armiral fellicers then the ever, to draw conclusione bence as to the during the war and manufacturers will were given to the greater or less blame for pay failure to destroy on these lashes are always forted skywards up particularly as regards to vohales our to decasions must be held to attach Fertain height and it depends on the kind the lines of low petes and inexpensive. moments of greatest financial temptation mainly, if not wholly, to the Board of wild the power of the winds existing, i

Na doubt Varden, Taylar, and Braid Admiralty of the day, and nut to the hose regions as to whither the ashes will mandewents which Sir Edward quotes,

drives De Admirals.

The

present eruption was very nich dealing with Germans giving preference Fare possessed of several clubs, which they

WHIT WERE THEIR ORDERS! would be extremely loath to part with.

not peculiarly Orders which press uper Admirals more severe than that of wor and this to tiernan goods) are, he says, At the moment am

is evident from the fact that in 1901 al generally observed." af, as it would be sely nepainted with the set of clube that they must rather seek to preserve the water from the crater inke was not better put, are not adopad as British Rubhir routributed a million and a which they utilise. They have sold many themselves than to destroy the enemy, and ejected, whereas, according to the latest omniandments by British people.

quarter to the war taxes and tin eman di there quarters, The sales of chandu totalled one and three quarter million rahils.

are not here to dissertate on the present day value of adnarchs, but of the elah which the guifer would part with fast in

A SPASM AP SENTIMENT.

Wire ti

rain

" as another version put it. the ashes descended worn where millions and tin and tin ore increased

during war time or aid of the Red Cross must take for their model rather Byn 44% time the lake has dis

fonds but whilst these elabs they have uld in this good cause tu doubt have ben mest estimable clubs, and of con- siderable playing value to them, atill, ing golfer myself, I cannot quite imagine that any of the clubs which have thus departed from them have been any those which are ant to be kept, so to spink. in the safe."

A keen alter neve parts with this stamp of club aniess he is forced to do so-as perhaps in a spasm of friendly sentiment and he invariably regrets this I know the feeling well, and I kny, rever o absequent regrets. A trusty friend in the way of golf club cannot be wind yoplar A

spav ermor

I know of one eluh which Vardon bas nicst sincere affection for: I also know of one club which Taylor has almost a reverence for ad Jimmy Braid has one which he always fondled with loving care. Strangs to say, they are all iron clubs, which are able to strike the bail a con siderable distance.

in.

the data available, the let

than Nelson, cannot but bear cruells upon them at the awful moment of deci sion. What the Admiralty orders actual curer was of opinion that the eruptions

Yet in justics of Mt. Kleet nemurred as a minimur, in ly were we do not know.

these Admirals, as well as for our own perval of nine years, a maximum of thirty- Veux. This average has been maintained future gastano, we must know. In other seven years, and an average of eighteen Pass than these the same question arises.

eruption. A new rupe The inept Antwerp adventure, the sacri during the last

tips fer of the cruisers Jugar, Hagar, andtion must, therefore be anticipated within

asonable

Though it might

it might in surmised that after essy in September, 19, the failure to

for Ladek in the same autumn, this terrible visitating a fairly long in and the disasters at the Dardaneles vers terval might lap before the next, ex- apparently caused by Adariralty plosion happens, the possibility exists uners made or withhelsk. The reputation that within at the next nine years of the admirals who have to do the actual the world would be eenyneth by another fighting is at least as itaportat as that exhibition of the terrible powers of Na

f the board which orders them how to do it, or to avoid it

NELSON'S TROUBLES,

Between commanders at a and the Admiralty there, have often been great differences. Nelson himself, as he has told us, had such a difference with the Admiral Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies and with the Admiralty. Having in 1785 been proved to by right, and the

VARDON'S CLUE. a species ofdiniral and Admiralty both wrong, by Harry Vardan's club is

narrow blade. so the Colonial Court (where he pleaded his driving iron with a Barrens that on a question of mere apanse in person), he thenceforth saw every peraner it would instinctively be termed application he made for a ship turned a clook. But it is not a clock, as many down, and having in 1790. had a writ Years ago I designed the model for this served upon him for $20,000 by the partibular club, and feel assured that owners of the ships he had seized, was originally came from the British Calf een driven to the resolution to take refuge in France unless the Govern Company.

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THE MINING INDUSTRY, The total amount of tin exported was +75 pikuls a considerable drop. for the prosince more simply resulted in a Balling appeal to miners to 1 patriotic and The high rin prices. off of 2.16 tons.

saaking the coolies less anxious tu probably had a god deal to do with this turn out buantities and the minera rager to work vut luxee grade ground. The reduction however he does not think ued cause alarm as there is every in- dication that mining will continue to prosper. With regard to the tin civis Big Edward says:

With the sudden termination of the war in November the net for an in

of in were far in excess of the world's There was considerable

HOW TO AVOID RELUARENTE? The returer explained that the appear ance of the clanations of vapour which Some people ascribed to the formation of new eatery were really due to the sinking occasioned the transformation into vapour. of the solid portions of the lahars which rased output dead and stockg of the rushing waters on the terrible beat-rements.

ground No importance need heat-feling among the mining community when this second crisis in i. years, came tached to this

Referring to the fast of the enormous upon them. The first crisis old not damage done by the lahars consisting of Lave been foreseen but it should have been realized that there must be no ad of sion 40 million cubic metrus) ash, volanie the war though the exuet dafe could not the water of the crater-lake (on this occa-

The market for tim was frater, Dr.

arrived at thelased and it became necessary for the stones, and broken portions of the walls be foretald.

unelusu

that, if the influence of one Government to ngain, purchase the output, of the or niare of these factors

cauld the removed, At the time of writing there is still sa the consequences of the eruption might be market for tin. America has prohibited reduced, if not.

the factor crater-lake is

ant is still buying, It was a copy of a driving iron whichment supported him in these law proceed. water u the tirely neitralised, The the import of Eastern sin and Govern- gs. This, not the Admiralty, but Me. which is indicated as the one to be remay Rose and Mr. William Pitt. of the ed if farther eruptions are to be avoided

Seeing that it is" the custour of the Treasury, caused to be done, et neither then, nor in the next year, or in the population always to return to the ples nest, would the Admiralty give him a of the catastrophe, it is the duty of the

water the lake. ship, not though almost the whole ser-overnment to see to the tapping of the The amount of the vice were called forth."

water increases annually by six million He even learnt that the King was ime petres.

Various, means have been suggested for pressed with an unfavourable opinion, of me. By January, 1793, indeed, when the tapping the water such as pumping, ent Dr. Escher considered the last method the most practical one. The turer advised that

had been very carefully fled away and the bottom past or base of the head was It was in this considerably rounded. effort to make the base round that the How long club head became, so narrow, Vardon has used this club. I cannot, say, but it must have been, about the year 1905 or 100G.

The last time i ww it it had a large piece of metal welded on the back of the blade to give it the necessary wright, and

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MUST KNOW WHO IN TO BLAME,

life. Noticing this. I sent him one of the were bring completed, then, and then

A Cigar of full flavour and it seemed to be arriving at the end of its preparations for the war with Frinting through the banks of the lake, and The Imperial Government ceased to buy attractive" shape, covered with the original heads of this pattern, and event.uly, did the Admiralty relent: then, and The said tunnel would have to be 1,400 this price was maintained till after the

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Booking for 9.15 p.m. at ROBINSON'S.

The average price of tia in 1919 was $130.62 a pikal of Straits refined tin... The highest price was $19.50 on the 3rd August, and the lowest 8117,50, on the 4th January; the average price in 1917 was $10.74. The "Imperial Government assumed control over tin and appointed buying agents in August when the price, was about its highest and rapidly reduced the price until it reached $15 a pikul,

in December. It was at $1 that the local Government decided to buy. and nally unearthed the first copy and then only was the King's unfavourable metres long. which I had used for some considerable opinion over: then, and not till then these easures should be taken in hand Chinese New Year (February 1st when number of years and I also sent this to was Nelson given the famous Agamemnon, at

presence of

new quantity to SC, and eventually to . at which him. Quite what use it has been to him So nearly had he been allowed to take one and the bottom of the lake inapped the Government buying price was truce"

refuge in France, so nearly prevented made this survey difficult, if not impos- price it now remains.

The output of the collieries was slightly from winning Trafalgar. We must know sible. It was the duty of the Government

to undertake this work at once... The higher but operations were hindered by Yardon's, 1 have seen in the Press many where the blame lies for our more conical capacities of the Dutch nation plant and labour difficulties.

spicuous failure during this war, whether

were at stake. Why should they not h Referring to the Tio Commission be with admirats or with the Admiralty capable This we cannot know unless we have the

of doing this, seeing that the says it exonerated the Governuwat gene- Romans Admiralty orders in each instance. Nor an accomplished it venturies ago rally and the Mines Department parti

were afraid of crying cularly from charges of administering the enn we, without these as Mr. Walter out this work, or besitated in doing so, laws so hardly that capital was being

I cannet saŁY,

In

+

Long says use the experiences of the it would always be possible to import driven away.

Italian labourers who were familiar with this kind of work.

As regards the original favourite of imaginary accounts of where in cut From the last account I saw being that it was an American model. From what I know this is painfully incorrect.

Taylor's club is a big driving-iron, which he used in the championship of

war on ses and land for the benefit of 1013 nt Hoylake with great effect. that event there was an exceptionally the Naries of the future and for the strong wind blowing, and Taylor was the future strength of the Empire," which only player in the field who apparently Mr. Long rightly holds to a just and was not unduly influenced by that wind, reasonable contention and an attitude This big driving-iron we have mentioned which the Admiralty intend to meet." the club with which he mainly May we know when, or about when, it is

to be thus met? managed to circumvent the rough condi tions prevailing, and he played some quite wonderful shots with it.

ATH

BALANCE THE THING.

ESTATES BADLY DAMAGED,

Regarding the rubber crisis Sir Edward makes no comment but merely recites Sourabaya cables that the estates on the the history of the occurrepes. Referring western slopes of Mt. Klcet are without to forests be says much more has yet to water-a niatter of life and death. to the be done before the country is assured of plantations, In those cases where the permanent supply, of timber adequate estates have not been totally destroyed, to its needs. Twenty thousand fewer the remainder ina be regarded as having Indian immigrants came compared with been retarded by at least three yeark in the previous year, and unfortunately, productiveness.

wing to influenza and complications, the Many estate buildings and houses of death rate was high (5357), although estates six inches of ashes, stones, and Labour and Health Departments werd Europeans have fallen in. On one of the lower than in 1911 the year in which the sand fell like rain.

On the Pa coffee estate there is a lover of ash

started six to seven centimetres in deptb., Ac-

to the cording statement of the manager

EDUCATION... On the subject of education there are. of one of the estates on the western slopes, two paragraphs of more than ordinary who witnessed the eruption of 1901, that interests. In these the Chief Secretary eruption did much less damage than the

Dr. Kemmerling, the geologist, has attention it deserves. The first fed is the Education is beginning to receive the bivouacked close to the boundary of the improvement of the teaching staff, and

Jays!--

With him it apparently devolved itself after each round, and although the pro- into the solution-when in doubt take the css of wearing away is slow, it is very hig iron-and he seemed able to hit the persistent, and eventually a club becomes o light in the head that the balance fa, ball with it just as far as the others did

In the matter of destroyed. with wooden clubs. direction, and holding the ball into a strong cross or head wind, there was no One can attach pieces of metal to the comparison between the strokes of Taylor back of the hend, as Vardon has done to and those of the others. They were his favourite, and, believe. Braid wandering all over the place. Taylon did; but such attachments are prone to se dom deviated more than fifteen yards alter the halaner, and the club is never from the line, and his accuracy met with quite the same club. its due reward, as he won by no less than No doubt, the three big men have had Goebid and Badak lahars. During the higher rates of salary have been approved other prime favourites besides their driv. emissions there is an enormous liberation for masters educated in England. Locally The club I remember in connection with 1198 iron; but nevertheless it is not a little team in the Badak lahar. Small erat trained teachers are hard to get and it.

ers are being formed in the faliar which has been necessary to increase the pay. Provision is to be made in 1920 for the Just as in volanic eruptions. The James Braid was a lofted driving-iconare all clubs which necessitate a shon gives for the most terrible phenollerection of a school or college" for train

eruptions yomit forth stones.

nine strokes...

WHERE BRAID 'GOT HIB-AND HOW.

significant that the favourites of the trio

which. I believe, he originally seduced with an iron club which has not only to from the bag of Mr. Arthur Croome I be considerable in length, but; moreover, do not wish to infer that he prevailed extremely accurate. upon the club to leave 31r. Crone's bug It paints to the fact that the long without the knowledge of Mr. Croome, accurate iron shot as applied to first-class but, as they might say in the Scriptures:golf is the most important of all, and, Braid cast loving even upon it, then in addition, that a sound reliable club spoke kind words to Croome, and it with which a shot of this description can passed its way into the set of Braid." be played is the most difficult of all to

It is or was, an iron elub which the replace majority of golfers would term a medium My own personal experience teacher me iron, as it had considerable loft on the that this is a very correct assumption. face, but in the hands of James it could as I have found that I can unearth all hit the ball prodigious distances, and manner of clubs with which I can play some of the forcing shots I have seen him the other shots in the game, but that of play with it have been quite remarkable. the numerous family of driving irons As a club, it is an old man now, just which I possess, there is seldom more than

Varden's favourite club is becoming, one on which I can rely, ad.Taylor's will soon inevitably become, as the wear and tear of a strenuous life tella on an iron club. It has to be cleaned (Continued at, foot of next column.)

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A good medium driving iron is to a first-class golfer worth a "King's ransom," whatever that latter term may

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No fear need be had of these eruptions ing teachers for the English teaching which

are only indirectly for

connected with schools. the volcano.

We are now at the parting of the waya It is surmised that the in the watter of education in this country. crater lake was emptied over the southern

The A false step may be fatal and it and western edges of the volenne. ground temperature of the bivouac i fore necesssary to proceed with the great- 92 degrees C. In the Badak lahar ground est caution even if it means some mora delay. The great need of the whole temperature is 300 degrees C

Peninsula is to train local candidates for the medical, Railway, Public Works Survey, Mines, Forest, and Agricultural Departments and no possible harm can come if all the energy of the Education Department is concentrated upon this for some years to come."

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HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE. ORDEER 1891ED BY ME. J. FRANXS, D.H.P. (R.)

SEARCH SUPERVISION DUTIES,

June 20th to 8th.-Inclusive No. 2 Platoon, June 29th to July 19th.-Inclusive No. 2

Company.

July 20th to July 24th.-Inclusive No. 7

Platoon

June 18th, 1939.

Dealing with railway work and exten- sions on which two and a half millions, were expended, he says that the Depart ment's programme for the next six or seven years contemplates a further ex- penditure of 187 millioni.