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"SALTING". AN OIL BORE.

NEW HOME FOR LLOYD'S. BUSINESS BOMANCE WHICH The following is from Farth (W.A.):

BECAN IN COFFEE-HOUSE. The apparent salting of an alleged cil Find at Lake Eva, near Southern Cross, Anweting of members of Lloyd last was proved beyond doubt with some dia- month sanctioned a scheme which coveries which place it amongst the most outweighs in importance anything which daring efforts at salting recorded in Aus- Since the Government Analyst

has gone before in the long and remark-i trim on the real character of the oil

able history of the Society. It is nothing! less than a scheme for providing a home for Lloyd's, -

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a vaselin soap, lubricating oil from the bore, the saliente which purchase the Lloyd's has a long been connected option has been ontinuing its inquiries. information induced Detective with the Royal Exchange that the Society Certain has always beon regarded na one of the Sergeant Brown to app to the fines Extures of that famous building, bub the Department to send a representative and a party of men to search for a nil that at business josuzuACO development of Lloyd's has been auch during the last few might he introduced into the grouns near years that, although constant additions the bare.

The Inspector of Mines, Kalgoorlië, have been made to the accommodation in the Royal Exchange, the business has with a party of men, arrived at Lake constantly outgrown the space so provided. Eva, and as the result of operations re- It became evident that nothing but a ported that they found under the bed of site of exceptiound faces would be of any the supposed discovery a hole 4 feet in use, and this has now been provided in depth, 10 feet long and 3 feet wide. In the East India Avenue Estate in Leaden this was a 100-gallon tank containing 80 hall Strees, the leases of which expiry early gallons of oil. From this pipes led 40 Icet into the bore. Under the bed wore also tins containing various oils. Great ingenuity had been used in placing the pipes for the introduction of oil to the bore., Other accessories were also found. The man Rothekells disappeared:8000 after the first analysis.

Bert year.

The sits and the new building, it is estimated, will cost over £1,000,000.

The members of Lloyd's, at their gene al meeting recently, approved contract for the purchase of nearly an acre of ground, being the greater part of this freehold site, and it is understand that build operations will be begun, as soon as vacant possession can be obtained.

HOW LLOYD'S BEGAN.

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Lloyd's began in a small coffee house in Tour Street towards the later part of the 17th century. The house was kept by Edward Lloyd, and he has his name hand. OFFICES ed down from generation to generatipa in | GODOWNS. connection with the greatest shipping and the insurance transactions in

mike world

When the premises became too small a committee was formed with John Julius Angerstein, who became known as the Father of Lloyd's," as the" moring apirit.

He was an ambitious man and cast apes on the Royal Exchange as a home worthy of the profession. Members of the cons misteo disagreed and purchased for £100 the option on small premises in Free- man's court, as

Angerstein forded their hands by ac quiring in his own came the offices in the Exchange occupied by the British Herring Fishery Society. Lloyd's moved in during 1774

Angerstein, who amassed & great for- tune, was responsible for the shipping Act

which put an end to the practice of changing the names of vessels in order to give unseaworthy ships a new lease of in- surable life. Ho did good work for the Beato during the Napoleonic War.

Ho was a great art collector and philan-

thropist.

Lloyd's has over a thousand members. When a ship is posted as lost the famous Titine ball is tolled. It was salved from the historic frigate Latine.

200KING AHEAD.

In 1921 the Committee of Lloyd's reported that although the lease of the present building expired" in 1024, if business continued to increase, there was every reason to believe that they rould be obliged to crect new premises.

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In these circumstances," the mittoo added, "we are anxious to accuma- late a larger capital fund in order that the Corporation may be in a better position to acquire, if desirable, a suitable site, should one come into the market in the 67, QUEEN'S ROAD" "CENTRAL course of the next 90 years.”!

SELLING SHIPS.

Mr. Ernest J Chaloner, writing in a London paper 39:

Shipping men go to an auction of ships at the Baltic Exchange in London when they want to put their fingers on the pulse This is one of of the shipping industry. the places where fortunes may be lost or made in a very few minuted. This price at which steamers are

sold tells them whether the slump ia nearly over, or whether the "boom" is going to last.

To-day good steamers are sold at a price that works out at about £9 a ton. They

ton realised as much £40

in 1920. when anything that would float was cager. ly sought after to carry profitearning cargous to all parts of the world.

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Hundreds of thousands of pounds are spent in a few minutes. They sit silently in the auction room and the auctioneer has to read their faces. The movement of a cigar from one corner of the month to another, the slight raising of an eye. brow, the tightening of lips, or "the rapid glance of an eye may mean another thou- sand pounds on the price. The auctioneer can read these signs and he works accord- ingly.

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When he has extracted the last £500 from these silent bidders his small, white beramer knocks the final tap on the black desk, and the liner, or the barge,, na the case may be, pases to its new owner.

The specialised business of gelling ships ia London had its real- after the war. All

hhing that st captured from the Germaans had to ba old at publie auction. Since then auc tions have been thrown opto buyers

of all cations, and many of the Gorman ships have been bought back by the cri ginal German Owners, through their agents in London.

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Strikes and many other things have hold up the building of now ships since the war, and there were never so many old ships on the sea as there are to-day.

The age of a ship is twenty-five years. To-day nearly a quarter of the ships on the are more than twenty years ald. This means that big number will soon be turned over to the ship breakers and that orders will be given to the ship building yards to replace them.

Then

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