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P. & O, COLLISION. Struck by the Kumano Maru

at Woosung-

A collision which was fortunate- I attended by no loss of life or serious damage to the vessels cancerned, took place early on the morning of the 20th, ult between the the P. & O. Dongola and NY.K. Kumano Maru.

Shortly after 6.30 a.m. as both

proceeding were

vensels

on

CABO,

off Woo- identical courses sung break water, the Kumano, for

unknown Rome avertook the Dougola on the starboard. The latter was struck amidships, the prow of the N.Y.K. steamer grating against her ball from the vicinity of the engine) room to the stern. exceptions the passengers on the Dongola were asleep in their bunks, and the noise of the impact was the first intimation they had of what had happened.

With few

The Toogola was not seriously damaged. As she was making water in the engine room and in one of the holds, her commander. Capt. C. R. A. Newby, R.N.E., deemed it advisable to run her ground. She was accordingly beached on the Lismore Flats. Thei Japanese vessel sustained no After standing by to damage. render any assistance, abe was despatched on her voyage to Japan.

Reports which appeared in the presa over last week-end were to the effec: that a dense fog hinder

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Sir A. Conan Doyle's Photograph of Soul's Flight.

At New York last month Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described the sensations of the deathbed as

"Proof?" he asked.

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UNIVERSITY FINANCE.

Cambridge in Low Water.

Less than a month ago, the Royal Commission, it will be re- !membered, which reported on the financial condition of Oxford and Cambridge, recommended

that

impoverished condition and its increasing requirements, should receive from the State an songal grant of £100,000; and shortly, afterwards it was intimated that the present interimgrant of £30,000 which has been receiving yearly since 192 would be indefinitely continued, states the Times. There may bave been those who were

of the existing gra01. prepared to regard the continua-

those times

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ed the navigation of the estuary, he said they had been communicat-each institntion, in viaw of its As a matter of fact the morning ed to him from beyond the Styx.

"Death is not painful. but was fine. Although the sun was! nothining, the weather was fair-pleasant process," said Sir Arthur. ly clear, with a slight haze on the "As death approaches, the soul horizon. Looking towarda Shang--the etheric body-floats out hai the masts and funnels of from its earthly shell, and hovers above the human clay, tethered vessels in the river were visible.

Shortly after the collision, Mr. only by the silver cord of which P. C. Reilley, of the well-known Ecclesiastes speaks, The only oce of delicious firm of marine surveyors left sensation is Shanghai on the tender Gutzlaff, languor.

The first sight that greets the to survey the Dongols. It is understood that, is the opinion of eye is one of smiling, loving faces the surveyors, she will only re-bending over the deathbed." con- quire to be docked for three or tinued Sir Arthur. four days.

"I have stood by the side of After high tide (1030 a m.) at Woosung the following morning the dying, san hands turning acquainted with the finances of the Dongols was towed off the old in death stretch out. heard either University or with the Li-mors Flats, and under her words of endearment fall from emphatic but reasoned language own steam, came up the Huang lips that soon would more used by the Royal Commissioners, How far pu to the International Dock more. Delirium,'say materialists.will take this view.

short even £30,000 a year... fallu at for repairs.

Here pas-So, it is not debriam.

Proof?" asked the preacher Cambridge was clearly indicated diserobarked were sangera shortly aftar noon. An hour suf. of spiritualism again. The dis- yesterday by our University Cor. who, quoting the ficed for the clearance of their engaging of the etheric body can respondent, baggage. while the passengers b. has been, photographed. I am latest returns of the Financizi themselves were landed at the fortunate enough to have such a Board, gave us the unhappy in telligence that the University ac- Customs Jetty. The Doogola was plate."

Then be told of eight daughters counts still show a deficit. Indeed learing for London with a full passenger list, which included all clairvoyants-who had sat the grant of £30.00 represent, between one-third and one-quar- 68 firat-class, 26 second class and beside their dying mother.

"It was lovely to see theter of the University's entire five deck passengers. Biron, Shanghai agent for the F.etberic body disengage itself," be & O. Company, and bis family said. There was a multiplicity contestably thatthe Commissioner has decreased slightly at Vladi- were among those on board.

JAPANESE ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY.

Mr. C.

com.

The captain of the Kumano ac copted full responsibility for the collision. A notice to this effect. in which the Japanese mander apologized if he had been responsible for delaying their journey, and expressed regret for the shock occasioned to those oc board, was posted in the pas Benger salcons.

of beautiful lights."

Other accounts, agreeing in detail, had been given of the passing of a soul, he added.

"Is that not good evidence?" he asked.

The tense silence was broken as his audience in Carnegie Hall, obviously in sympathy with the doctrines of Sir Arthur, broke into prolonged applause.

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No wonder even provisionally."

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 that the Cambridge authorities regard the financial position, as)

with hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, Then he proceeded with his our correspondent tells us defence of the hypothesis that anxiety"; for although the recent 0.00 lacb. Total since January A passenger acquainted with physical phenomens exist. Table sale of certain lands will result 1st. 18.47 inches. against an

average of 22.34 inches. nautical technicalities, said that rappinge, he said, could be in an increase of income, the gain although he did not see the proved by such evidence as will not be dearly enough, and State failing MOTO generous Kumano, being in a port cabin of would carry a point in a court of

or its equivalent, FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS the damaged ship, be had heard law. Puerile signals, be said they support,

certainly too

ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW. that the Kusano dropped bor were, corresponding to the knock which starboard anchor whereas bad she on a door bere below, designed much to expect annually from lowered the port anchor the nose merely to herald the approach of private benefactions, there is only of the ship would have been more friend and capture the atten- one way in which the deficit cap be mat, and that is through the likely to turn away from the tion of a sceptical world. Dongole.

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TIME SIGNALS.

Equal proof, he said, could be pockets, directly or indirectly, of 1 The ships were passing through brought forward that the spirits the undergradustes. To be com-

through polled departed,

to such an a fleet of juuks which necessitat of the ed reduction in speed. Had mediums, could converse with expedient would, indeed, be to

retrograde, if not both been going faster the colli. their beloved below and that take sion would doubtless have proved these messages were the essential disastrous, step. The only way

thing.

out seems to be by the frank "I stand but ankle-deep in a acceptance on the part of the vast ocean of psychic knowledge, nation of the Royal Comms bat even if I am only ankle-deep. Bioners' recommendations. The I CAD perhaps bring some reasons, which have stready been message to those who stand dry-set forth in these colomas, are Six Million Gold Dollars.

Ishod on the shores."

given, in their report with an Concerning the Allies' debt to Spirita not only can converse unanswerable cogency. At least

1. F CLAXTON; Director. the Chinese Eastern Railway, with those on earth, Sir Arthur on the financial aspects of Oxford Dr. C. C. Wang. President of the continued, but they can present and Cambridge the nation is in.. Observatory, May 29, 1922.

possession of the best and most C. E. R., bas sent the following themselves in material form. He

advice which it telegram to the Chinese Govern-bimself, he declared, had gazed authoritative

OD the faces of his mother, son could command. The Commis In moving the expeditionary and brother, and had talked with ioners have not reported without

The time ball on Kowloon regard to the public parse; their forces over the Chinese Eastern them. Railway in 1918 and 1919, the

argumente make it plain that Signal Hill in dropped daily at 10 participating Allied Powers in- curred a debt of aver six million remains unpaid, as the Allied £100.000 is only the minimum am and 4 p.m. except on Satur needed to preserve the efficiency days when it is dropped at 10 Chinesa Governments have been shifting of the two Universities.

a.m, and 1 p.m. and on Sunday" dollars gold to the

and Holidays when it is dropped Eastern Railway Company, the responsibility to each other.

at 10 a.m. ouly. The Railway. understood that The Railway has, consequently.

The ball is hoisted half mast-at- the Allied Governments, includ-uffered a good deal financially.

The contract for the construc- the 55th micate and fall mast at ing America, England, France The Administration of the Chi- and Japan, etc., ware responsible nese Eastern Railway bas, there-tion of the new ball at Olympia, the 57th minute. Should the ball

com- (London) has been awarded, and both individually and collectively, fore, just dispatched s to pay for the transport of these murication to the Government the work is to be begun forthwith. fail to drop at the correct time, it allied troops.

urging the latter to press, sbrough The expenditure is estimated at will be lowered at five minutes past the hour and the ordinary about £150,000.

routine repeated at the following The Railway consented to the Allied Ministers in Peking. on the different governments for a

SHANGHAI FUNDS.

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of their account only upon the explicit prompt settlement

Notices urging Chinese to be

Should the time ball be out of promise that the Allied Govern-financial obligations, which will ments would pay on presenting not only prove their good faith patriotic and subscribe to the food the bills. Since then, although but will also greatly raliave the for the redemption of the Kiachon-order the above routine will be

the storm signal mat repeated demands for payment Chinese Eastern Railway from Tsinan Ballway, have posted all carried out with the flag "Z," on kave been made, the debt still further fanncial embarrassment, over Shanghai.

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