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FUTURE OF WEMBLEY.

"A VAST HOUSING SCHEME PROPOSED.

SHIPPING NOTES.

The shipping statement "for yesterday showed that the total number of vessels in the harbour at 9 am, was 94, of, which

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The President Madison also arciy- ed yesterday from Manila, en route for Shanghai and Seattle. She well sail this. afternoon with mail for Shanghai, Japan, C. and S. America, Canuda, the States, and Europe rià Victoria.

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The offer of syndicate, which in-52 were British.

the cludes Mr. Harry Day, M.P., theatrical producer, either to purchase For the twenty-four hours ended at 9 The 81. President Taft is due to Wembley in its entirety or, alternatively, p.. yesterday, there were 13 arrivals, morrow with mail from USA, Canada, to acquire the area covered by the amuse of which five were British, one Dutch, Japan and Shanghai and the Sicilia ment Park, is to be considered by the one American and six Japanese. The de should arrive on Friday with Straits Wembley authorities. In an interview partares for the same period numbered letters and papers: while the ss. Khien Mr. Day outlined the syndicate's scheme even, including the as Jade for KwangP&D) is due on Friday with the should a deal be closed. Ha declined to how Wan

Honic and Europe mail cia Suez (letters and papers, London, September 3rd, and divulge the names of the other members of the group, but mentioned that they included a Manchester män interested in

the insurance business, whose possessions are worth nearly a million sterling, and

two millionaires

We have

CHINA COAST CHANGES.

The following are the latest changes out the China Coast:-

Mr. D. R. McAlpine, has signed of the Funnan as first mate, and has gone frit mate of the Chungking,

Mr. W. Forester, has signed off the Chungking as first mate, and has gone first use of the Yunnan.

Mr. J. Burus, Kum Sang, has second-engineer of the Yuen Sany.

Mr. J. A. Gow. has signed off the g Song as third mate.

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Mr. G. H. Hodgson, has signed off the Hop Sans as master, and has gone first

The arrivals fuclauded the $.3. Fan Sangareis August 7th). Due on Satur-mate of the Kelly Sang,

day, is the a.. President Jackson with mail from Canada, U.S.A., Japan, and Shanghai and the Japan mail.

1. dmfurs with

(r.) from Tientsin and Shanghai with tous of general cargo and mail; the 8. Bretwolda (Br.) from Bangkok and We have been considering the scheine Sabang with 6,700 tons of coals and coke; the sa Chiali (Br.) from Newchwang for the past three mouths (wald with 2020 tons of coul; the& Tantalas The Changte, sailing to-day for Manila Day), and had hoped to keep it a secret (Br.) from Liverpool and Singapore with and Australian ports on her maiden until it is nearer maturity. offered to buy Wembley as it stands pro-50 tons of general cargo and mail; the trip will carry mail for these places. vided the figure asked is not prohibitive... Tilan (Br.) from Osaka and Amoy There are no less than five vessels leaving | and if an agreement is reached this is with 42 tons of general cargo, 200 cases this week with mail for Home and el matches for Hongkong, 30 cases for Europe. as will be seen by the postal what we propose to do. We shall ran the Amusement Park on lines similar to Singapore and 950 cases for Calcutta ; | Servien table on page 12. Of these, two thow at presente followed; but shall retas President Polk (American) from mails are rid Marseilles, one c Vas tuce the priers, so that it will become San Francisco, and Shanghai with 23 couver, one id Fictoria, B.C., and one a place of healthy recreation for the tons of general cargo and mail; the .. San Francisco: Two of these mails

Akita Muru (Japanese) from Calcutta leave day. and Singapore with 17 tous of general cargo and feu: the as Hakone Maru"

tasses.

We shall then begin a vast housing scheme to house a 100,000 people,

The

Mr. A. Robertson, Wo Sang, has,

Mr. J. S. Campbell, has signed off the Kang Tung as supernumerary third engineer.

gone master of the Fat Shing.

Mt. F. G. Gregg. Tientsin, has gone second mate of the Yanning

Mr. Wm Brewer, has signed off, as master of the Hydruigen,

Mr. Edward Busthey, Derwent, has gone master of the Hydrangea.

Mr. O. V. Frascalow, Reine, hứa gene first rate of the Philadelphia,

Mr. Ampiane, Cochinchine, has gone.

Various officers of the Taiguan, Har first engineer of the Philadelphia, yang, Changsha and Tam Shing bare transferred to the Chungle, the new vessel which sails today for Australia, Line (Messrs. G. S. Yuill & Co.), of Sydney

bonses will be of the small detached vilia (Japanese) from Yokohama and Shangare busy despite the shipping slumpvid Manila for the Australian-Oriental

type with rentals of from £15 to 285 per year. Many difficulties to such a housing scheme are non-existent at Wem- bley, as it is already adequately ap plied with transport services to the city, fitted with eletrical plant for lighting,

Such

a housing and well drained. scheme as we propose will find work for about 30,000 'warmployed.

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Both the Taikoo and Kowloon Yards hai with 0.3. tons of general cargo the Many coastal shipping companies having Ikemian Jara (Japanese) from taken advantage of the conditions pro Milks with 39 tons of coal; the availing to, Prcondition and overhaul Samatra Mary (Japanese) from Bombay and Singapore with 84.30 tons of cotton their vessels. At the Taikon Yard, a new

and Macao Steamboat Company is very THE OCEAN ACCIDENT: AND goods, dry fruits, and rattan and 6,000 river steamer for the Hongkong, Canton gallons of alcohol for Kobe; the s.8.

GUARANTEE within the next month. At. Kowloon,, metus. Huru (Japanese) from Hai- nearly completed and should be launched phong and Hoihow with 300 tons of

two new Star Ferries have been laid general cargo and mail: and the ss.

down, and these are of the improved Taikwa Maru (Japanese) from Keglung Golden and Meridian Star class. They and Swataw with 1,770 tons of coal and will be ready for service, in from four mail.

to five months. The Taiping, sister ship to the Changte, is not likely to be ready until the latter end of November. or December" to go on the Hongkong-Ans-

THE STADIUM.” The Stadium we do not intend to alter. It will be reserved for football matches, sirgus shows, and other spectacular events, unless, of course, "it is not a pay

Lazer yesterday morning the xx. ug proposition. In that event we would draguan, the new twin steamer built have to consider the desirability of dat Bordeaux for the Messageries Mari-tralian run, molisting it and using the area in our housing scheme.

times, and making her first trip to the Far East, as referred to in Monday's Imily Prem, arrived and went to the Kowloon Whares The Artogman was released for service in July of this year. and left Marseilles on August 28th. She is to take the place of one of the small boats of the Company on the China

She brought general Japan servic

Our scheme is to reconstruct the Palace of Engineering, transforming it into huge shopping arcade, where the Wem bley residents could make all their pur chases. We would als turn another of the present exhibition. balls into cinema, Jusic halls, and theatres. Thus in time Wembley would become a self- contained town of a 100,000 inhabitants, cargo and huil from Marseilles and

Saigon. Mr Day, going on to deal with what he described as arguments in favour of It would mean a such a schcare, said: great saving to the taxpayers of the coun try, and would remove in a large degren the social evils in North London mada marked by the overcrowding. Into our villas would go the families now living iu Azt, furnished and unfurnished, and that would leave thousands of the cheaper Eats available for those families who are now living in one and two rooms. It would also mean that nearly 30,000 workers would come off the dole, and that the loss on Wembley would not The have to be met by the taxpayer. Government has alreay voted £1,100,000 to Wembley, and by the time it closes, down I think the figure will be nearer £2,000,000.

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ALL DEPENDS ON PRICE Mr. Day added that everything de pended on the price asked. He remark- ed that if Werabley were not bought it might become derelict, like the old White We want the City at Shepherd's Bush." authorities to regard it in that light, and cut their losses by fixing upon n figure not prohibitive (he said). We do not want them to point to a building. and say. That cost £100,000; we'll let you have it for £60,000." We want them to sell us everything us it stands, and when an agreement is reached the pur- chase money is ready to be handed over,

A TRAVELLED TUNE. HISTORIC AIR THAT GREETED THE PRINCE,

A new chapter was added to the history. of a famous song when guests at the banquet at Monte Video replied to the Prince of Wales's speech in Spanish by singing He's a jolly good fellow," the time of which is believed to be one of The oldest and most international in the world.

Tradition says that the Crusaders learnt it from the Arabe in Palestine. Surviving, in various forms, it sprang into great popularity in France in 1566 by being fitted to a lament for the Due de Guise A century and a half later a French officer, ou the eve of the Battle of Malplaquet, wrote a satirical poem on the English commander and wedded it to the old tune "Malbrook s'en va ten guerre," sung throughout the length- and breadth of France, was remembered and hised by the peasant woman, who. nursed the little son of Marie Antoin- eite. The Queen heard her and sang the song herself!

Beaumarchais caught it up, introduced it into his Marriage of Figaro" p 1784, and an broadenst, it over Europ Beethoven used it in his Battle By phony as symbolical of the French army It came to England and the English folk found that they had known it for a long time to the classic words which gretted the Printe at Monte Video..

The Arabs, they say still sing it, and it is the favourite air of the people, of Hawaii T

MOTHER DIES ON SON'S GRAVE.

On August 18th, an English woman, Mrs. Alice James. came to visit the cemetery of Douchy, near Mons, where her two sons," who were killed in the war, are buried. She was so overcome grave and died shortly afterwards. with emotion that, she cullapsed ca their

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