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ROYAL ROMANCE”

OF LONG AGO

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PETROLEUM RESOURCES

OF ASIAS O

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The Duke of Clarence, third son

The Yenaagyoung field is situated of George III, had ten years of on the loft bank of the Irrawadi, sea life behind him, but was now about 270 miles north of Rangoon parmanently ashore, with nothing and 130 miles south-south-west of to do. Dorothy was in her early

thirties. "when prince and actress Mandalay. A denuded, dome forms decided to mako á sort of match. at the surface as elongated pllipso An old situation. The Duke, of of Pogu beds, surrounded by, an course, know all about Mrs. Jor- outcrop of Irrawadi sandstone. The dan's "past." He must have been fait occurs in a complex series of much attracted by her to contem plate lita in common for an inde finite period.

For her part she probably decid ed, almost unemotionally, that life with the Duke promised botter than with the unsatisfactory Mf. Ford,

THE BEST OF THE BARGAIN."

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She made a formal agreement

lenses, streaks and beds of aand, varying considerably in thickacss at different

different points and situated at various hozone in imperviout clays In 1924, productive aanda word tapped a depth of nearly | 3,000-£.

The oil has a "specific gravity from 0.800 to 8,950.

The Bingu field is 30 miles porth

with Ford about the children. It of Yonangyaung, upon the same

is not incidental to add that there. after she did everything for them, (and he” nàthing,

Thus began that extraordinary

bank of the Irrawadi, and the main producing portion of the Yenang yat fold lies 30 miles stijl farther north, upon the opposite bank of

the river. Both fields are situated liaison which lasted for twenty

upon a single asymmetric anticlinal fears, and during which ten semi-fold, which rises and pitched in royal children were born with the thres places, producing local dome. name of Fitaclarence. All married structures, each of which forma a well and passed into social history separate oil fiold. At Singu the oil in varying degress of eminence. sands are fairly constant and becupy A few years after the royal Hai bwo main horizons, one at about son had begun-rivalling in public 1,500-ft, and the other as 1,850-8t,. interest the contemporary affair he whilst at Yonangyat there is much tween the Prince of Wales and the inconstancy, which is also charac austere Mrs. Fitzherbert-the Duka teristic of the Yonangyoung fold.. was made Ranger of Bushey Park, The oil-belt of Assam is crescent and went to live at Bushey House." shaped and some 800 miles in It was there that most of the Fitz-length from the extreme north-east clarence children were born. The of the province to the islands off Duke's best characteristic was his the Arakan coast of Burma. all-round amiability.

Patroliferous beds of Eocene age William lived as a country gentle-underlie an extensive area, in Nor man with his large family. The thern Punjab, balween Rawal Pindi 'King and Queen were quite amiable and Shalpur.

about it. William did not really The total production of India last count. There were two brothers be-year was about 1,100,000 tons. tween him and the throne. Eis royal parents, sisters, and brothers quite often applauded Mrs. Jordan at the theatre.

SARAWAK,

The producing feld is in the Miri district of Sarawak. Last year's production was about 830,000 tons.

In theory the Duke allowed Dorothy £1,000 a year. In practica

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. he added her very considerable earnings to the common stock. His

Petroleum occurs as a very light Town income was never enough for paraffin-base oil, at various poista his needs. There is no doubt that in the Philippine Islands, notably he had the best of the bargain in in the Bondoc Peninsula, at Toledo his alliance with the stage He and Algeria in the Island of Cebu, took a hand in her business stairs, and at Tayabas and Luzon. Indica read new plays, and helped to plantions are also reported to occur on the islands of Palawan, Leyte and ber provincial tonte.

Mindanao, whilst the islands of Panay, Guimaras, Negros. and Bohol appear worthy of further investigations.

In & sympathetic study of Mrs Jordan, Miss Claro Jerrold man- tain that he occasionally drev her salary at the theatre. It is one of the ten million situations from real life which show how much stranger truth is than action.

PAGLIACCI---IN REAL LIFE.

SAKHALIN (RUSSIAN).

.For a distance of nearly 200 miles and in a belt six miles to 18 miles wide along the Pacific Coned of the northern half of Sakhalin, oil in- dications have been reported in the Tertiary sandstones, Asphalt is

The bizarre situation came to an end when William" merely faded out" of it. He was fond and even proud of his children, and went about a great deal with the eldest, found in all stages of density, from Sophia. But the romance" was the consistency of tar up to a hard, :OVET. Also he was looking for mooth-surfaced mass resembling heiress, despite the ban of the Royal an asphalt floor. The lake near Marriage Act,

J

The parting came towards the and Oha Creek, over 1,000 ft. long, of 1811 Dorothy accepted it with 400 ft. wide, and from 2ft. to Bft. her usual courage and accommoda-deep, is estimated to contain more tion, although there came a moment than 25,000 tons of a tough naphalt when on the stage nt Cheltenham

she produced tears instead of like substance, comparatively free

laughter on receiving a letter from from foreign matter. Little deve the Duke that he wished to see her lopment work bas so far been done.

to arrange the matter another Production is now about 180,000) variation of the Pegliacci theme."

tons per annum

And what did Dorothy do, once the matter had been arranged? She went on playing and touring. Money bad to be earned. We can most for debt, put the matter to a imagine what those later provincial Mr. Barton, the legal agent between tours must have meant to her. The ber and the Duke. He coldly ad- weary round, with so many child- ren, and yet no home.

vised her to Ay" to France until

There was a moment when she the matter was arranged. could not play at Brighton because

her daughter Sophin was with her

And there he left her, vainly

father, staying at the Pavillion waiting for letters that

with the Prince Regent, and "the" She died of heartbreak came.

King and Queen expected! It Cloud, still waiting, would not do to have mother play-

St.

Pat The Duke

ing round the corner. What a dra may not have realised the precise matic situation for a poor littis sircumstances but he never enquir comedienne 1

od. Nor did anybody else. She who had so many children, died without one to consola, her,

RUINED BY HER GENEROSITY

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She was forty-eight There was Her own generosity family ruined-] hor A Ford son-in-law played one drop of irony, missing from her false with certain promissory notes, cup of bitterness. She died without Mrs. Jordan, in terror of imprison- knowing that one day her royal '(Continued at food, 17 newt outillon, lover would be King of England,

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