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THE AUSTRALIAN INTERIOR.
Brilliancy of Colour Described,
WONDERFUL MANLESS
FLIGHT.
Across the Atlantic
Wireless.
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PAGEANT OF HARROW
HISTORY
The Harrow Pageant, to b
held from June 28 to July 5, will
"Captain S.A. White, who ac
| bring together the school and the companied the McCallum Motor Secret plans are now reported people In an ambitious effort to Expedition which crossed Aus. in air circles to be taking shape illustrate the history of the tralia South to north and back for one of the most romantic of ancient parish. It is true that again, bas given the mem all scientific achievements, writes the various calls of a full term bera of the Field Naturalista a correspondent of the Daily will prevent the boys from tak Society the considered results Chronicle ing part except as 'spectators,
Captain of his observations,
This project which would but past and present mastere White in a well-knowa Australian have been declared fantaatia only have had a large share in
WEDNESDAY
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Your and Your Family's Health
depend in a great measure on the quality and purity of the food you use. Have You Considered the absolute neccessity of having your
ornithologist, writes the Adelaide a little time ago, but which is writing the book. The last MILK. BUTTER. MEATS. correspondent of the Times. He considered so no longer by those of ten episodes, covering many showed that, far from being best able to jud. e-in for a wire-centuries, is by Mr. H. A Vachell, gigantic desert, Central Australia lesaly-controlled, pilotless aero-an Old Harrovian, who has is a land of colour-the colours plane flight across the Atlantic already celebrated the school in of birds, flowers, and waving between Europe and America. his novel "The Hill" He will It appears that at recent die celebrate it further in a scene
grasses,
Etc. Etc.
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and out of the control-ren of one the great dead will be acted THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. station after another, has been by distinguished living sons reviewed in all its details.
Sheridan, Byron,
of Harrow.
Hia remarks related chiefly to cussions between experts who, on in which the Lady Fame takes what he saw north of Alice both sides of the Atlantic, have Harrow's great men by the hand Springs. From Lake Eyre to the been concerned, recently with and Innds them, one by one, to MacDonnell Range & desert-tomatic manless flights lasting their several niches in her temple. loving shrub (Eremophilia Free as long as an hour, the whole She will be played, it is hoped. Hingll) was gay with mauve-tinted problem of a wirelessly-directed at the savoral performances hy blossoms. On the vast Burt air journey of thousands of miles, different ladies well known in the Plain, north of Alice Springs, the the machine aloft being passed in district; and it is also hoped that mulga (Acacia ameura) and many grasses were found. The latter were of a tussocky nature, and, in the opinion of Captain White.they machine completely pilotless, will names thus to be recalled. Be- "A first Atlantic flight, by an air and Shaftesbury are among the would make ideal pastoral country." Near to Central Mount Stuart be probably be made in the direction tween three and four thousand encountered a range which seem from Americs to Europe, because performers are to take part in the ed to keep back the tropical on this route, for long periods at pageant.
high-altitude. vegetation of the north. Thers time, great was a gap where thirty-two favouring winds may be, relied species of plants were found, but upon. they did not pass south wards of this point. A wattle was dis- covered in the vicinity which osrried pods 12in. longa fine tree-and also a cassia with large leaves and an abundance of flowers.
FIVE MILES A MINUTE The Transatlantic: manless
LIVER ABSCESS STATISTICS,
plane shall, it is proposed, have The Research Department of engines and air-screws adapted the Severance Union Medical to function at immense heights College in Seoul bas published a above ocean-level. Guided in brochure on Liver Abscess in fact, at its start, so that it slimba Korea, of which a hundred cases Captain White found at this miles high, and then heads like have been treated at the hospi spot red-backed kingfisher, some great projectile fired from a tal, ten terminating fatally-a There was a beautiful gravillea monster gun-towards the coasts low number o
this very which attracted numerous insects of Europe, it is believed that the dangerous complaint. There to the honey secreted in its mass machine will, sided by some great appears to be no extraordinary of blossoms. At Daly Waters heupper air-tide," devour distance feature about liver abscess in saw the Northern Territory bean at the rate of four and even five tree, 50ft, high, carrying poda with red bean, which only the smu was known to 835.
miles & minute l^«^
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Kores except that it occurs far more often than is usual in eo One of the most fascinating as temperate a climate, it belog pests of the point where the pilot usually a tropical affection less machine will complete its There is reason to believe that in THE FLOWERING GUMS. above ocean voyage, of a great Korea as elsewhere it is often as- The gums which grew in this improved-type wireless "beacon." soolated with the abuse of country were
with One might compare this to a vast alcohol. Its associations with - covered flowers. A remarkable colour lighthouse shining its rays far dysentery has also been re- effect was noticed from the blue seaward to attract the eyes of marked, but though the kum at Barrow Creek. From the mariners. Only in this case the Severance Hospital has found distance the tree looked like i beam" from the beacon is Europeans very subject to dysan. blue baze on account of the a powerful projection of wireless tery in Korea it has bad no
uminous bloom on the leaves ene 83.
record of Europeans suffering and pode. - A scarlet finch was The idea, in fact, is that the from liver abscess. The period observed here; it was named invisible "rap" from the beacon, of greatest incidenca is between in_1911" after Captain White's flashed out over the Atlantic, twenty and forty years. Ao in wife, who accompanied him on shall influence-while it is still at other countries there is a marked one of his trips into the interior a great distance-a apocial me- preponderance of males in the and visited localities unknown to chanism in the pilotless place list of cases, but the preponder white women since time began.connected with the control-surance in Korea appears to be After leaving Barrow Creek the faces of the machine. And what rather less than in most countries. motorists entered the magnificent in effect, will result is that the Sturt Pisin, with grasses over 'plane, pointing its bow authoma 6ft high, billowed like & sen,tically till it is beading directly Rabbits are found in this country, for the dietant beacon," will fly but the heavy tropical rains to it, unswervingly just as a 80- Mrs. Mand, widow of Dr. Lud. drive them outp
going ship might be steered by its wig Mond, has died-at-her-resid A plea was made by Captain human pilot towards the visible ence, The Poplars, Avenue-road, ENGLISH MADM-Packot in 7-ib tins with handle, and f-owt, Drums Regent's Park, after a loog and bite for the preservation of a lights of some shore station.
INVISIBLE "IN. THE SKY. lingering illness: She was Frids, large area of the country in its
International co-operation is only child and heir of Adolph Lisbon Care natural state to that the native vegetation and animals might be suggested in regard to the gul-Meyer Lowenthal, of Cologne, by kept intact. North of Daly dance of the manless craft while his marriage to Johanna, daughter. Waters he saw some magnificent far out in mid-Atlantic. Ships of and co-heir of Aaron Levin
wireless sohn, of Cassel." She was married gums with baudsome tango-col- with specially-fitted oured flowers. It was bere that plants will be required, some in 1866 to her cousin Dr. Ludwig mud-building birde were seen, setting out from the American Mood, F.R., the great industrial called jumpers, or because they eide, and somo. European waters. chemist and founder of the firm were always in flecks, happy Between them these craft, plotting of Brunner, Mond, and Co. He families." The bare-eyed pigeon out by wireless direction finding died in December, 1909. Mrs. proved no tome and confiding that the position of the machine, with Mond leaves two sons, Dr. Robert the motors almost ran over it.- out any human occupant, invisible As the tourists advanced northin the eky far aloft, will send up they noted a leus endy for the to it the impulses necessary to birds to become smaller. Many keep it heading in the right
direction. beautiful species were observed,
including rufousbreasted thick- Perhaps one of the greatest bende, doub.e-barred fin. hes, and pieces of wizardry will be the gorgeous red winged parrot; method by which the pilotless The tropics were entered at Daly plane itself, even without any body Waters, where Captain White, at on board, will signal its own posi a locali y nearer to Darwin, came tion, from minute to minute, as it across the cyada rare plant. rusbes, unseen, through the higher Some specimens were 25ft, high, air
It was calculated that theas
This will be effected by a per might possibly have taken hun-fearly self-contained, automatic drada of years to attain their wireless, installation within the prosent size.
macbiue itself Operated by B Tue equalter pigeon was found mechanism driven by the power- happy in his home amid the long plant of the plane, this wireless. installation will keep sending.out, grasa of the Barkly Tablelands, but was seen flying only at dusk over and over again, a prearranged and dawn. The travellers met signal which will be recognised by the bronze cuckoo all through all those listening-in for it. By the journey, and the black-faced this means ships and shore ste
ubiquitous, It was a tour of sUT"
passing interest, with landscapes of glorious diversity of colour.
puntry full of education and of - maoy scientific surprises.
THE LATE MRS. MOND.
Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., the emin- cnt chemist, hoa, secretary to the Davy-Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Insitution, and the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Mond, Bt., M.P.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
The diagram represents a barn- yard, with a duck pond in the tions, working out the position of centre. The four squares ATE Wood swallow was "naariy the plane from the stream-of duck-bouses, the four circles are signals emanating from it, will hen-houses. The farmer built a keep track of it and guide it on ite fence that separated the han long trans ocean flight. *****|houses from the duck-houses and cut off the..hen-houses from the THE BIBLE IN RUSSIA. pond, while the duck-houses still Lord Parmoor, presiding at the had access to the pond. Can you British and Foreign Bible So trace the course of the fence? ciety'e annual meeting, referring Yesterday's answer to Russia, said that the full work The vowels AEIOU appear of the Society would not be ac. in their alphabetical order in the complished so long as that great word facetious (fAoEtIOUs) country was practically isolated and also in the word "abstemious" from the great missionary effort. (AbstEmIOUs).
ALARUM CLOCK STOPS A PLAY whilst Mr. Henry Ainley and his company were performing Oliver Cromwell at Hull an alarum clock belonging to some one in the audience started ring
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A small investment with s time an audience has had to be £850,000 before the war), and that
big divident. wake by an alarum clock," marked Mr. Ainley, before the imported inco, Russia.
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