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WHAT STATUS?

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A correspondent writes asking us to explain which is the world's biggest ship, as he has read in THE ECHO" YOU HEAR WHEN one and the same issue of a papar "KNOCKING" A COMPETITOR IS that Southampton is going to dock THE SOUND OF NAILS BEING the largest liner in the world", DRIVEN INTO YOUR OWN COFFIN. the Leviathan, and that the White-Coleman Cox. Star liner Majestic, which receives

3,000 wireless messages per trip,

is

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The Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen "the world's largest ship" returned to Hongkong by the P, We trust there is no bat connected and O, liner Malwa, with the matter, for the only way

to decide it will be by the toss of

Forthcoming marriages include a coin. It is a matter of iudi- that of Mr. J. A. Fregor, Soore vidual opinion which of the two tary of the Sanitary Board, to Dr. mammoth liners, the Leviathan Gladys Turner.

or the Majestic, can be called the biggest in the world, and the con- troversy has not bean settled yet.j

Attention is drawn to

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NATURAL HISTORY

NOTES.-II.

Some Things Lubbock Missed:

CHINESE FOOTBALL

TOUR.

An Appeal for Funds. We have received from the South China Athletic Association (BY "FIRMSPEAR"),

the following appeal in connec- I. Ants.

tion with the forthcoming tour of There are various classes of Australia, towards which the Hongkong Chinese footballers in ants, but they all belong to the big Hongkong Football Association arder Hymenoptera, and are well-hee kindly made a donation of known as a hardworking type of $200- the most like bumanity among from the Australian Soccer Asso- the animated world. They are An invitation has been received the inferior creatures of the earth. oistion for a team of Chinese We have black, brown, red and Soccer players, to tour Aus- The reason is this-whilst the apology to the Sun Life Assur-really a different order altogether, matches in the different States.

an white ants. The "White" ants are tralia and play Leviathan has the greater ton-ance Company of Canada, ap-but, as in Russia, the inistake has Mr. H. A. Millard, the Aus- 8 series of pago, the Majestic has the greater pearing on Page 4. length. We ourselves are inclined

been made of giving them a place tralian delegate, after having to give tha first place to the former, It is reported that a tallyman This, of course, is a diplomatic best material, has invited the among the "Red" ants and others. traversed China in search of the becausotoonage ebould count with employed aboard the s.a. Hwah blunder. a vessel's classification more than Kuei jumped overboard between actual lineal dimensions. For the Saigon and Hongkong and was most parts of the world. Some mittee, to fill 12 vancancies in a Habitat: Anta are found in through the China Contest Com South China Athletic Association, purpose of comparison, we give drowned. the specifications of the three

live underground, others on the total number of 17. largest liners sailing the seas~~

surface, and others at higher The Leviathan, 59,956 tons (gross), ports by wireless that she passed species that reside in the middle scription list was opened in

The motor ship Formosa" re-elevatioris. We

Five players from, the North have 907.6 foot long. 100.3 feet wide a junk, bottom up and surround-levels of tree-trunks, and high Shanghai, and the Committee many are included in the 17. A sub- the Majestic, 56.551 tons, 915-5ed by timberstocks, in Lat, 20.45 walls, whilst others profer the there succeeded in raisingsufficient feet long, 100-1 feet wide; the north, Long 116.20 east, a danger upper strata of the atmosphere funds to present the playing uni- Berengaria, 52,022 tons, 882.9 feet to navigation. in length, and 98.3 feet in width.

and choose the housetops, trea-forms to the whole team of 17, in Of other big vessels, there are the

tope, or the peaks of hillocks, addition to winter clothing to The Hongkong and Shanghai Some specios from the lower levels their representativos at a cost of Olympia (16,439 tons) and Aquit Banking Corporation is paying have been known to mount higher, $2,000. ania (45,647), the only two other an interim dividend of £3 per whilst it is on record that a few of paseanger liners above 40,000 tons, share, subject to Income Tax, the higher-living, types have position to equip themselves with Incidentally, it is still a moot point for the half-year ended

As our players are not in a whether the limit of size in rela-30th, at the rate of 28. 3d. to the atmosphere.

Juna desconded

to a loes rarefied suitable clothing for the change tion to profitable working has dollar. The dividond is payable! been reached. Some say that on August 7tb.

Food:-Ants eat all that man for their own expenges during the of climate, or to make provision BIRTHS.

very big vessels are uneconomical,||

kind does, but are very particular tour, our Association has decided SULERZYSKI-On July 6, day of the 70,000 ton liner might shows that there were

whilst others do not think so, The

what they drink." Last week's health return 1923, at St. Mary's Hospital not be far ahead.

Habits: The habits of the ant of the Southerners, a like effort, that in order to uphold the dignity. world give us an example of an to the one made in the North, Maternity Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. de Sulerzyski, Sanitation in Laundries.

cases of plague (four fatal), autocratic monarchy somewhat should be made in Hongkong. sloven of enteric (four fatal), overdone. There is a queen ant eleven deatha from small-pox, that can truly refer to her subjects out of 17 positions is a signal That we are invited to fill 12 Another reader of this paper two fatal cases of cerebro-spinal as "my children," and she is the honour to our players. The Aus- DEATH...

desires us to draw particular diphtheria and one non-fatal case full sense of the term.

fevor, two non-fatal cases of queen mother" to them in the tralian Association are paying the URQUHART-Mrs. Urquhart, attention 'to

a very insanitary of paratyphoid fever.

The whole of the costs of the tour. wife of the late Mr. D. Urquhart practice he has observed in some

.: prince consort is not anything including first-class transporta- (C. M. Customel, at her residence, Passing by the door of one Chineso laundries in Hongkong.

to be reckoned with, being just a tion and hotel accommodation No. 1 Gordon Terrace, Kowlood the other day he

Sze To-oboi, cook, who was useful individual at the founding throughout the tour. on July 10th., at 8.30 p.m. Cortege

BAW charged before Mr. C. D. of the dynasty. The subjects of will pass the Monument at 5 p.m. clothes, sprinkling them with this morning with being in pos. 4ro the soldiers and the common good showing as possible, off the man, just before ironing the Melbourne at the Police Court each little nation among the ants presentatives should make a We are desirous that our re- Shanghai and Tientsin Papers, please copy.

water from his mouth. We agree session of a revolver and 200 workers. They have been so fold as on. Realising the great that this is a practice that should Hautak Wharf, was sentenced to no time for love-making or any-matter of improving relations with the complainant in the case rounds of ammunition on the wedded to work that they have importance of the visit, in the not be permitted. It happens, pay a fine of $500, or undergo six thing of that nature it is all left between the people of the two bowever, to be the, one might months' imprisonment."

to thoir royal family, who see countries, and the immense good almost say ancient, habit of the

that their populace does Chineas laundryman, even in

not which will accrue from the visit dwindle. The travelling public will be

Ants were the first of our lads, who are the first white communities. We fancy interested to know that Mesars. aimated creatures to keep pets, team of Orientals to he invited this easy method of John's" of Thos. Cook and Son have a Far and the first husbanders of grain to tour Australia, we feel we making clothes damp for the iron Eastern Department in their

and first agriculturists. must be in vogue in Melbourne Office at 125 Pall Mall, London believe firmly in co-operation, sist to make the project an un- They should strain overy effort to as- and Cardiff as much as in Hong-

8.W. Mr. N. F. Blanch, former and in exchange for a home and precedented success, kong. We were once visiting the ly the firm's General Manager in sweet excrescence provided by small "mining town of Wrexham, the Far East, controls that da- certain species of plants they wider message than an athletic This team is entrusted with a We should very much like to bills of North Wales, and learned assistance to t. avellere from the bas been noticed that they away the prejudice existing in the

tucked away ae it were among the partment, and can afford every keep these plants free from one.

harmful insects. Latterly, it will do much towards wiping We believe that the visit encounter someone who could that there was a Chinese laundry Far East. explain to us the exact status of in the place. We investigated--

have a kind of bug in some western people's minds against theSun Yat-son regime in Canton. entered had

and found two. The first one wel From the Peking Express

of their homes which they either our people as suitable and worthy We had a letter yesterday from ironing some shirts. He raised a

a genial Celestial Press comes a booklet entitled keep as a pot or else merely citizens, promoting trade between Dr. Sun's secretary on notepaper cup of water to his lips, and elot Should be Independent." It is a

talero to. Most ante bite, some China and Australia and cul- Why Military Expenditures very severely. beaded "Republic of China, Gov. forth a spray over the work before memorandum

General observations:-Don't between the East and the West, tivating a better understanding ernment Headquarters, Canton."

him, in time-honoured fashion General Chan Ying-fang, and Pronounce "ants" as if it were That would seem to suggest that practice, open to many objections, Opening with an appeal to the who told a class of schoolboys with the generous assistance of All the same, it is a reprehensible shows much painstaking work the predicament of the lecturer We desire to play our part, and, aunts, and you will be spared ported by all conversant with it. The scheme is unanimously sup the present Administration re especially on the grounds of health nation, the book goes on to give that the best way to kill" aunts" garda itself as something more local authorities should enforce the Chinese President on the sub-strychnine. Finally go to the purpose of clothing them to fit precautions, and we think the the text of a petition addressed to was with a mixture of sugar and procure sufhelent funds for the than a Provincial Government. the use of a proper sprinkling ject, and than makes out the case ant, thou sluggerd; but don't alt the ocassion, etc.

our friends, we hope to be able to Dr. Sur, we know, describes him device.

for proper organisation of the on bis nest at a picnic. He docs eelf as "Generalissimo," a title

country's military forces. Draft n't like it, and neither will you. which he appears to have created

regulations, ordinances, tables of for himself. It would imply that

expenditure and other statistica of military expenditure are given. he is the head of the military forces a kind of super-militarist -but be himself does not con- sider that his position is merely

Constance Talmadge is at the confined to that of commander duction," The Perfect Woman." Coronet in a First National pro- in-chief of the troops. He regards Constance falls in love with a himself 48 cbief executive in multi-millionaire. She applies all aspects of government. We for a position in his office, un- an appreciative audience wit At the Star Theatre last night, could understand his making that of the age hero of her dreams Company's production of Rossini's aware of the fact that the hobby nessed the Italian Grand Opera claim if he still styled himself cousiasts resisting her sex.

Habits:-The habits of bees are crowd, of absolutely no use to us. President," but that is a title has barricaded himself against Siviglia."

He three act opera Barbiere di probably well known to most There are various kinds, some which bo now never usos.

their charms by employing a

persons, especially those who stinging more severely than others. Although the work ie, strictly have handled them or have in- eharacter reader, who can spot speaking, comic opera, rather advertently, overturned a hive ches of trees, in holes in a bank, It seems to us that Dr. Sun's designing young ladies at half a overburdened

Habitat:-Nests, either on bray- actual status is just as nebulous barrier the first time, but her of the language,

mile. Constance fails to pass the which loses effect on account the queen who lives on and wasps build in keyholee, hence dialogue The drone bas his uses, but it is or in crevices in a wall. Some: as that of hie "Government." second and successful attempt of the play

the action reigns, The worker bees, like the hatred exhibited towards them When ho left Shanghai to and the subsequent development tained, and the company entered objects in life work, and more

Was well sus the worker ants, have only two by female domestics. come South, he disclaimed say brimming over with fun and high work.

of her plot provide. a story just thoroughly into the spirit of the work.

Food-Wasps live on offat, on And here, ye humane, fruit-buds, and on bones. When intention of re establishing the class humour. Another interest.

note that a bee is a busy body young they devour another kind. "Constitutional Government.ing picture is the novel comedy, and soul of the play, his singing bess bore, making tunnels in

Signor Scamuzzi was the life without being a busybody. Same of grub. Yet his troope and his cause all the actors aro canines, the other characters were also excel- carpenters in the world. The distances and sting. The mother

Just Dogs," in which practically and acting boing faultless. The wood: those were

Habite-Naoty, always. When are given this adjective, and mainder consisting of goate, rab- lently portrayed, while the

the first disturbed, they chese one for long bo bas during his present bits and a monkey. The amount chestra again acquitted them- days by human carpenters whose pillers and other gruha for her or antagoniem shown them nowa wasp provides stupefied cater stay in Canton appointed quite of time, patience and money ex-selves with great credit. a number of "Ministers." The resie must have been enormous, "Carmen" is sure to draw & panded in producing these two

beame are tunnelled is probably arvas, so that from an early stage Tonight, Bizot's aver-popular due to professional jealousy. appointment of Ministers, we but those who saw this film at crowded honge, so that early book-provide us with honey which

General observations :—

wasps are cannabalistic. always thought, lay with the the Coronet yesterday are un-ing is advisable.

Beef General observations Wasps Central Government. At first, animous that it was well worth

they such from flowers, and with are therefore much more ancient were the first missous, and wax. Some day they will develop than the buffaloes, goodfellows, Mr. C. C. Wu was described me

it."

ENGLISH" BRIDE FOR EGYPTIAN that they are being exploited. At the first paper-makers. It is just sufficient brain power to realise and tempiars. They were also Minister for Foreign Affairs; now he is spokon of as "Secretary for

present they are merely suckers as well they didn't learn how to Foreign Affairs." What does it all gift of Mrs. Charles Davios, ofrecently at the Egyptian Reji-expected to die after using his

Cair Prince Said Halim, cousin A worker bee is exceedingly print, or they might have been Triplets were the Empire Day of the King of Egypt, was married brave in the face of death. He is the first fournalists. Dmoen? What exact status Lord Avebury) was

Dr. Sun claim for himself and his husband, an agricultural labourer. Bird, daughter of the late Colonel hesitates.

(Sir John Lubbock (afterwards Government? Perhaps somebody The mother and babies are doing Bingham Bird. The bride and bees, they are usually waxy,

Don't interfere with Britain's keonest naturalists, and one of can tell us. Frankly, we don't

well. Mr And Mrs; Davias, who her. mother come practically

wrote a standard work on ants, know.

were married a year ago, aro every winter to Egypt, and aro

III-Wasps.

boon and wasps in relation to applying for the King's Bounty. very well known in Cairo society of the booa, but are a nasty!

WAODH are noar folatives fertilisation of flowering plants.]

(To be Continued.)

THE CORONET.

"The Perfect Woman."

14

A THREE-FOLD GIFT.

by Lieutenant-

THE OPERA,

Last Night's Production,

with

PRINCE,

II.-Bees,

We therefore appeal to you to assist us financially in this laud- able object, which is the first The bass belong to the same opportunity China has bad, of order as the ants, but are some-showing to the rest of the world what distantly related. There that she is in the march with the are, as with humanity, various rest of the nations of the world, types-the drones, the queens, to progress.

and the workers; the Bumbles, the All donations should be seat humble ones, and those that bore. to Mr. Mok Ming, c/o Snowman Habitat:-Hives, either natural & Co. Bank of China Building or artificial, and tunnels in tree and will be acknowlonged in the trunks or beams.

local papers.

young, bee bread made of pollen, Food:-Honey, and, when

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