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RECEIVING ORDER ON DEBTOR'S PETITION.

IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S PROVINCIAL COURT FOR AMOY BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION No. 4 or 1928.

R. TAIT & COMPANY.

N the Petition of JAMES LARDEN

BROMFIELD, Sole Partner of

TAIT & COMPANY, fled the 18TH OCTOBER, 1995, and ambered No. 3 of 199, & Receiving Order is hereby made Against TAIT & COMPANY and WILLIAM DOUGLAS RUS-

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Datel this 10th October, 1928.

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Christchurch When the boys returned to Har- Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the famous Norwegian explorer, who is sixty (Englandy charwoman, who picked row School after their holidays they seven years old, will make a Zep up a purse containing 200 and some found that many improvements had pelin dash to the North Pole in jewellery, and was offered a shilling taken place during their absence. March or April of next year. The reward by the owner, a London The old buildings opposite the head Arctic explorer, Peter Freuchen, woman, is not enthusiastic regard- master's house have been demolish- announces that he will accompanying the saying, Honesty is theed, revealing to the public view,

the most pic She refused the again Druries, one Dr. Nansen. The Zeppelin to be best policy." used by the Nansen, expedition is shifting Hra, Barrow picked up turesque of the old houses." Bricks at present being constructed at Lake 50 in a Bournemouth street two and other material from the de- Constance, and will carry a crow of years ago, and declined a reward of molished houses are being utilised in the ecuatruction of a roadway thirty-five, in addition to fifteen sixpence.

at the side of the football field. scientists.

Women's claim to equal rights This will provide a better means of There is a widespread belief that with men on the Turf has met with approach to many of the house a correlation exists between educa a severe rebuff in Parie. For years pitches when the ground is sodden On School land houses that the millenium is not reached by tion and sterility, and this belief women. have been attempting to in winter. a wave of the wand. The period of has had some support from statis obtain jockeys licences to ride in have been erected for those who were reconstruction in China will be a ties gathered in America and deal thoroughbred races, but none of dispossessed by pulling down the ing largely with college alumni. It them has succeeded. This summer buildings, which has opened up a slow and laborious one. The is important, therefore, that due they obtained licences to ride in pleasing view of the war memorial, fabric of the state has been very weight should be given to analyses trotting races in the provinces. But the speech room, and the chapel. The school workshop has been en- which give another aspect to the when they tried to introduce races badly damaged while the rulers relationship between education and for women jockeys in the Paris area larged by the addition of a foundry and testing shop.. In time the fecundity. the Journal of they so aroused the opposition of have been on the heights. There redity N: J. Butt and Lowry the stowards of the lending trotting workshop will be equipped for all may be some hope of improvement Nelson discuss in this connection authority of the country that the the essential operations which go A further improve are faced and the con data obtained by the survey method stewards decided to ban women to the making of an engine out of if realities?

from the homes in two Utah com from all kinds of horse races. Pro- crude metal. dition of the nation "is recognised murities, one with a population vincial racecourse companies have ment which is now under considera- for what it is and not as it is slightly more than 2000, the other been warned that if they organise tion is a proposal to widen the alightly more than 3000. In both, any more races for women jockeys High-street at the point where the pictured in the imagination. agriculture is the basic occupation, or races in which women are allow buildings were recently demolished. atthough all the chief occupational ed to drive, the subsidy' which they divisions as used by the United now draw from the central autho- States Census are represented.rity will be withdrawn, Cemparison was made of the fami fics of parents with no educntion, with various grades of elementary and high school education, and with The Authers college education. realise that the data are not com prehensive enough to warrant dog matic statemeats, but they consider that their method should bear at least as much weight na statisties

highly from

selected gathered groups. Their results indicate that the families in Utah, men and women, who have had higher educa. tion, suicide. The correlation secured 0.00) shows that education has very little influence on the size of the families, which average about 5 children born, of which more than 4.3 survive until after the parents are past the child-bearing age...

Mr. E. P. H. Lang, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, has been appointed Commissioner to administer onthe so long as he holds the office of Deputy Registrar.

Orders have been made for the removal of all graves in portions of section A and Plague Trenches in Kai Lung Wan East Cemetery and in portions of ecctions A, B and C'in Mount Caroline Cemetery.

The second annual garden fête in aid of St. Peter's Church and Club Funds will be held in the grounds of the Seamen's Home, West Point, on November 3rd from

2.30 to 11 p.m.

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The claim that the British are not an art-loving nation is" "dis- proved by this year's attendances at the National Gallery. Already up A new form of hold-up made to the end of August more than half, a million people had passed through" its appearance in New York last month at the Bronx plant of the the turnstiles. In the first six Sheffield Farms Dairy Company, months of this year there were over when two bandits, dressed exactly 30,000 more visitors than during the like guards of one of the armoured same period last year,, the attend- cars which carry money about Newance of 71,000 in April being a York, entered the cashiers cfice recoril. The type of visitors, too, There is still, di and, at the point of revolvers, forced has changed. the clerks to hand over to them course, the man, usually of Ameri $18,000 in cash. They were dressed can origin, who attempts to cover in olive drab uniforms, black tea- the gallery in record time, but for

Browne the most part the present-day visi ther puttees, and Sam belts, and their appearance deceived tor displays a serious interest, and everybody. Ou their way into and an intelligent appreciation of the out of the offices, they had to pass superb masterpieces hanging on the 150 drivers of milk wagons, who walls. Never, too, have those carn- were waiting to hand in their re-est artists who visit the galleries to ceipts for the day. Only one of make copies of certain of the pic- these drivers saw, the actual hold tures been so busy, their average, up," but his shout of Hold-up!'

monthly attendance being about 800. was taken as a joke by the others. Americans and Colonials are their his driver dung a stool after the best clients, and a commission to bandite but missed them, and they make copies of a dozen or more escaped.. The company had taken of the most famous pictures in the elaborate precautions to deal with Gallery is by no means rare. Though a situation such as this, but with a much as £150 has been paid for out avail. The walls of the cashier one of these copies, the average cage are of bullet-proof glass, and price is usually between £15 and there is what appears to be a tele- £50. phone booth in the cage, which is really an armoured fort with a slot in the side through which a re

Some surprise seems to have been aroused by Mr. Rudyard Kipling's According to the Meteorological recent visit to Balmom!, perhaps only because fiterary men are some- observations made at the Royal what rare birds, at Court. Bus the Observatory during the month of King's interest in Mr. Kipling goes far back, and he has long been a September the maximum tempera- reader of his works. The old story ture was 81.1 on September 13th and that the Royal Family harboured the minimum 72.0 on September the feeling that the Widow at Windsor was disrespectful was not 20th. There, were 189.7 hours of founded on fact. The King made solter in the broth may be fired. sunshine during the month. The Mr. Kipling's acquaintance aons There are, besides, readily accessible rainfall was 3.013 inches. The rain time ago, and in later years Kipling alarm gongs and a robbery siren fall for the month at the Botanical has been termed in Court quarters whistle, but this was found after I joined the Canadian and Aus

the King's literary adviser." It the robbery to have been tampered

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Captain F. A. Hemming, who has just retired from the New Zealand eight years at sea and estimates Shipping Company, bas spent forty- that he has travelled 3,000,000 miles. tralian Royal Mail Steamship Com- Gardens was 6.34 inches in 11 days, is known that the King has con-

pany," he said. "and sailed be- at the Matilda Hospital, Mountsulted him on books to read and

tween Sydney and Vancouver for on questions of literary form. Mr.

The extension of the hire-pur-fifteen years. I was first an officer Irish Guards in the war, and hechase system in England is proceed and then commander of the Mio- was the one civilian invited to ing apace, although not se swiftly were, and in that ship I sailed a Buckingham Palace when they were as in America, where most com- million miles. When the company given their new colours. Mr. Kin-modities gat be bought on this plan was sold I joined the New Zealand ling was also responsible for the The latest British developments of Shipping Company, and sailed be text on the, Guards Memorial in the system are in connection with tween London and New Zealand

The first and I remained with them until I Horse Guards Parade. It is true books and machinery. that Mr. Kinting refused once the known instance of easy payment for retired. In the last twenty years. Order of Merit, but, rightly or engineering plant occurred at the I have only been in two ships. I was wrongly, that refusal is associated Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, at sea all through the war and I with the fact that it was made in where an East Coast garage pro- never saw a raider, a submarine, Coalition times. The Order of prietor, who is opening a new repair or a mine; in fact, I never saw the ferit, of course, is quite outside of chop, took immediate delivery of enemy in the air, on or unter the Captain Hemming sid Government patronage or control, two drills, two grinding machines, water." and unlike nearly all other Orders a back saw, and other equipment that his father went to sea when. be was a boy and joined the Hon- to the evidence given by Captain without suggestions from the Gov-payment of a small deposit and the ourable East India Company. He Johannessen and the chief officer, entiens of the day, although the signing of an instalment plan agree- obtained his master's certificate and Sovereign may consult whom he ment. The other entrant to this applied for, the post of commander Be- M. Bjorstad, watch was left an chooses when making his decision. Seld in the book publisher. A Book of the first P. & O. steamer. There is something majestic and

board to guard the wreck, but soon Still, Mr. Kipling is a Tory of Marketing Board has been formed cause he did not get it he left the over-powering about a mountain

afterwards it was suddenly sur- Tories...and some of his friends be with the object of developing credit aca and became a barrister, latef which appeals to the mind of those rounded at midnight by a flotilla of lieve that if it were offered now he trade on the instalment plan. Pro- a K., and afterwards a County

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spective purchasers will select books Court judge. who look down from its height. It small boats manned by Labrador

from the board's list, and the book- can inspire awe, reverence and fishermen, who, swarming on to the

An interesting programme of Deterioration of Structures in seller, or receipt of a first order humility on account of its mag-disabled craft, forced the watch to Sea Water is a subject dealt with of us least $3, will submit the busi excavation in Iraq is announced for ness to the board. After payment the coming autumn. Not only is But possibly this toiling stand by while they looted the in the eighth Interim Report of

the Committee of the Institution of of the fret instalment the prospec- the number of expeditions increased up the mountains into the mystic vessel, taking away everything re- Civil Engineers. In addition to the tive library owner will receive his from Eve to eight, but also both Germany, in- heights has a deeper meaning and movable, including "1,000 tons of periodical examinations. of immer books. Further instalments will be France and Germany resume their

flour.

Two of the watch contrived ted specimens, the report contains collected either by the board or by pre-war activities. significance than the simple story'

& fual examination of the first the bookseller. The latter will re deed, has already sent workers to conveys. While Moses was on Sinaia esenpe in a boat to the light series of specimens of iron and ceive 75 per cent of the difference Iraq who have received from the house tender, which was near by, steel exposed a Halifax and at between the cast of the book and the Government a share of the finds receiving the tables of the law, the and returned with help, whereupon Auckland for five years. The series Price to the purchaser, who will, of made before the war, but this year exposed at Plymouth and at course, pay a small interest for the two parties will be actively engaged people below, tired of waiting, the marauders withdrew with their Colombo for the same period have privilege of reading while he is in excavation: one under Dr. Julius Jordan will dig at Erech, also been removed, but have not yet buying

north of Ur, and the Deutsche- been reported on. In general, the agreement between the Halifax and In recent years all the world has Orient-Gesellschaft, which was work- "Apparently London is not the only Auckland series is good. There is become interested in tales which iug at Babylon before the war, will place where business men go on little difference between wrought illustrate certain mental traits of now dig at Ctesiphon on the Tigris. of these Under the auspics of Le Louvre, holiday, and the staff left behind is iron and mild steel, although the the Aberdonian; many not equal to the occasion. A New appearance of the bars after corro- stories, it is alleged, emanate from Père Legrain is resuming the How- French excavation of Sumerian cul sion is, as might be expected, de- the city of Aberdeen itself. York banker, a member of the Port cidedly different, the fibrous struc- ever this may be, it is quite clear ture at Tel-lo. Two American ex- This is precisely that which has of New York Authority, who was ture of the wrought iron being from a paper which Dr. James peditions will be at work one under been happening in China these recently in London, left this pretty strongly brought out. Bars which Ritchie, o the Royal Scottish Prof. Watermaa, of the University, tale:This summer after we had had the mill scale produced in Museum, himself a distinguished of Michigan, will work at Tel- YESTERDAY thousands of Chinese many years. There have been all scattered on our vacations we manufacture left on the surface native of Aberdeenshire, contributes Omar in Ctesiphon," and the joint wended their way to the summit of idealists, and supposed leaders who received an imperative telegram were found to be much less pitted to the Aberdeen University Review expedition of Harvard University The Genius of the Aber- and the American School of Oriental from the secretary demanding our than bars which had been cleaned," on the Peak, in accordance with age have spent their time up in the immedinte return. When we got although the loss of weight was donian," that the native of the rararch, now in its third year of

we sometimes higher and sometimes North-East of Scotland has other excavation, at Tarkalan, near Kir old tradition, either to pray for the clouds--men who believed that the back what do you suppose

found! A New York stockbroker lower. This fact emphasises, as the gifts than those of parsimony. kuk. The excavations at Ur of the souls of those who lost their lives salvation of the nation depended had sold a big block of a recent facts contained in previous, reports Havelock Ellis, in his "Study of British Museum and the University in the historic flood or to secure in a knowledge of lofty principles issue of Port of New York honds. have done, the comparative worth British Genius, found that Scot- of Pennsylvania, and the Oxford Calling in his office boy he said: lessness of loss of weight tests, ob- and produced an unfair share, and University and. Field Muscum ex- for themselves immunity from only, and that the practical issues, Billy, take off the numbers of servations of the manner of corro that among Scottish counties, Aber-cavations at Kish, will, of course,

The story cele. could be neglected. While such these bonds and deliver them to sion being much more valuable. dec nahire enme out almost at the be resumed, as usual. similar disaster. brated tells of the warning given, people were weaving pretty schemes Blank and Company and get. their On the whole the attention given to top of his list. Dr. Ritchie cools cheque, About an hour Inter the the mechanism of corrosion in the this compliment by pointing out that

In the if its former population is taken WEATHER REPORT. to the people that floods were and arranging new constitutions, boy returned and reported that report is disappointing. If Local Companies desirous of taking

Yesterday's weather report, fore- ap further Agencies will let us coming and how the warning was many in the nation devoted them- Blank and Company refused to ac- light of modern knowledge as to the into account, Aberdeenshire sinka cept the bonds because they were effects of differential aeration and to the tenth position, but "still know the Tizen in which they are unheeded except by a few. It selves to the meaner, and baser mutilated. The astonished broker cther factors, a more scientific study stands far above the average of cast and remarks, issued by the mtererted the information will be forwarded to London and passed is in essentials the story of Noah activities with the resiflt that the examined the bonds and found that of the observations should be pos Scotland's production of genius." Royal Observatory at 5.65. p.m.,

the youth had followed his instruc-sible Moreover, conclusions based What is the characteristic mentality stated:-

The anticyclone has weakened on to interested parties as op but it is difficult to understand how country has been distraught by, tions literally by carefully cutting on comparisons between single bare associated with the genius of the portunity offers.

answer is: "It is a bent for This Service is offered to our Readers this particular legend should have armies of brigands, self-seeking out the numbers of the bonds with are rarely trustworthy, the erratic North-East Dr. Ritchie asks His considerably

There are now high pressure- of corrosion being well- the office shears! We had to hold nature without charge and, of course, captured the imagination of the generals, and a host of lawless special meeting of the Port of New known. The most interesting fact minute, detailed work for accuracy centres over the lower Yangtze no obligation la incurred on either Chinese to the extent it has done.me.

York authority and by resolution among the observations on timber is in small things. And having laid Valey and to the north-east of withdraw the mutilated bonds and the indifference of Limauria, on ac- this sound foundation, it exhibits Japan.

The position of the typhoon....is No doubt many other Chinese have There are signs now

Issue new ones in their place. We count of the constructnon. ófits itself in the logical piling up of pre- made short journeys, similar to that descent is being made into the are out of pocket personally, I supetomach, to arsenical poisons used mises and the deduction of laborious uncertain, no returns from the

pose, a good many hundred dollars. to impregnate the wood, so that aiy won conclusions. Lofty imagina- Ladrones being available,

Local Forecast:-N.E. winds, of the believers who climbed to the plains of reality, that the actual No, I don't believe the boy was means of defence against this des- tion is foreign to the nature of the

moderats, fine generally, tructive organism is still unknown. North-East," mountain top, only to find that situation is being surveyed, and fired; he only did his best."

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