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THURSDAY,

OBITUARY.

FORMER CHINA COAST SKIPPER.

AUGUST 11,

1927.

SPOILING THE NEW FOREST.

HOW THE NATIONAL PARK

HAS SUFFERED.

RUBBER AND MINES.

LATEST SINGAPORE QUOTATIONS..

Mosers, Carroll Bros. have been ad- vised of the following dividends on Rubber & Mining sharos:

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LOVE AND LATIN

ROMANCE.

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GIRL STUDENT'S R

Paris, J

He was a medical stu

(12% for the year) Paris. She was a mode 10% Final Pretty nurse. They beca (20% for the year) gaged; but the young me ents thought that the gir dreams had not the n $2.75, social position, and they

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Telegraphic advice has been re- ceived of the death at Epping, near London, of Captain. William McIntosh, one of the best-known and most popu A WONDERFUL HERITAGE. lar shipmastors on the China Coast, He retired from China in the early

It has been my recent experi- summer of last year, after being inence, after having lived abroad Kuala Sidima the service of the China Navigation for the best part of a year to en-Now Scudais, Company for 30 years."

ter England by way of Southamp- Captain Melatosh was in command ton, and to spend a few days in

Mural Tin of the China Navigation Co.'s str. the New Forest, writes Mr. Ar- Tungchow when that vessel was pirat- chibald Marshall In a London ed a few hours out of Welhaiwoi on December 23, 1925, and his death is Paper. This is always to fall in belleved to be a direct aftermath of love again with the beauty of one's Allenbys

Ayer Panns the wounds he received on the ocenowa country, especially in the Glenealies sion of the piracy. It will be remem-early summer, when the verdure Jeans bered that the Tungchow, which was of England is a miracle of refresh- Jimahs on a voyage from Shanghai to Tien- ment, however fair tho

scenes Lunas tain at the time the pirates attacked from which one may have come. Palams her, was taken to Bins Bay, Captain The New Forest, lying within Malaka Pindas Mcintosh was removed to hospital at a few miles of one of the gate Kedahs Hongkong, but despite the best sur gical attention it became necessary tamputate his left leg, and he never wholly recovered from the operation. came to Shanghai in 1896 in the service of the China Navigation Co, and was appointed to his arst command in 1902, Since then till the time of the Tungehow piracy he had been in charge of various vessels of the company's fleet. He had been

years,

1,67 Instead of committing.

80-as many do-the young 3.20 decided to work in order 2.35 down the resistance of he 2,27

parents. 4.05

She decided to enter a s chemistry, but in order to she had to obtain her B.A.

ways into England, is perhaps the most characteristic of all the national preserves of beauty, with saw in a place that had been She worked very hard at

of cleared of nearly all its large and Greek with her

exan

its sixty-four thousand acres age-old trees, forest lawns, open trees a fine onk lying on the hoping to pass her swe heaths, winding roads, and all ground of which the rings showed this year, almost an im the ancient life that has gone on it to be 250 years old. As it lay, thing to dot within its confines for a thousand it was worth perhaps £2, years.

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Great. National, Park.

A Douceur and a Trd An Ancient Peasantry. So the poor girl could i I have known the New Forest on the Tientsin run for many years, nearly all my life, and have lived work of destruction is not yet ties than to go to the Sec

In another place, where the no better way out of her and was very popular among the travelling public, with whom he had in it, and it is with dismay that I finished, on one side of a lovely of the Paris University a a reputation for unfailing courtesy huve seen the destruction that is little hollow was the unspoilt a good bribe to one of t and officiency. Before he took over going on there now.

forest, on the other side of the ployees to obtain in adva the. Tungchow, he had command of The falling of acres of hard road were some acres covered with Latin and Greek papers the Fengtien, another of the Tientsin wood trees and the planting of felled timber, and not a tree stand-were to be given to the boats and one which, like the Tung- seeding firs, which at the best ing. It reminded me more

than dates. chow, has been on the run for many can never provide the beauty of anything of the Argonne during A trap was Inid for the He was in command of the str. the glades of oak and beech and the war, where on one side of a It was her lover who Yingchow some years ago when that Few and holly that are the glory ridge you had the deep, shady receive the documents, an vessel broke her propeller shaft be of the New Forest, and the inter- woods, and on the other that de were eventually prosecute tween Amey and Manila, and it was ference with the ancient rights of vastating scene of bare ground The court declared its owing to his fine seamanship that his the commoners are arousing acute and naked splintered trees which competent in the matter of ship was manoeuvred into a position local feeling.

those who saw it will never for- in an examination. Bu where she could be picked up. Ho

get.

severe council of the uni is stated to have been in command The spoiling of this great na- The commoners of the New took action on its own, und of a troopship during the war.

tional park is not a purely local Forest are perhaps the most ined to exclude the medical Captain McIntosh came of agen-matter. It belongs to "all of us, teresting survival of an ancient for two years while his disc faring family, his father having been chief engineer of the Douglas str, and is increasingly used as a peasantry to be found in

Eng- fiancee was excluded fro Namon when that Ill-fated ship was playground by all sorts and condi- land to-day. A few of them are B.A. examination. pirated, in one of the bloodiest affairs tions of people. It is not only the large landowners, but the treat The desperate fiancee ap of modern times, south of Hongkong well-to-do motorist who can ex-majority are small folk who have yesterday to the Superior in 1891. His grandfather is also be plore its beauties. It is within lived in the Forest for generation of Publie Instruction- lieved to have been a seafaring man, easy reach of the greht popula-after generation. They are de after a touching appeal for and to have come to China in the tions of Southampton and Ports-pendent for their living on the decided to reduce the you early fifties or forties. Captain Me-mouth and Bournemouth, and the rights that have come down, man's punishment to two Intosh himself was born in Glasgow charabane, which is the poor them through centuries. Their exclusion. in 1869. It is not known whether he man's motor, brings them within ponies and cows and pige pasture It is understood that the reach of all its beauties at all in the forest, they cut their turf man's parents have decid times of the year.

on the heaths, and enjoy mapy withdraw their ban on the The first consideration ought to other rights which in other parts age, so that the poor girl be the preservation of those beau of England have disappeared able to prepare for her B ties, and to use it as an oppor. These rights are now being peace, tunity for experiments in forestry seriously interfered with, and no should come a long way second wonder they are up in arms about As for making money out of it, it.

has any near relatives living,

When he retired from service of the China Navigation Co. last year he was dealt with most generously by the company in whose service he had received the disability which ultimate- ly was to lead to his death.

CHINESE BONDS.

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DENOMINALISATI

very little money can be made, Much has been written about and that consideration ought not the wholesale enclosure of com- to come in at all.

mon lands which so changed the

AN APPEAL FROM CH The Forestry Commission hab face of rural England in the last

AND JAPAN. REGISTRATION CALLED FOR 300,000 acres of its own to deal century; and here is the inter-

Lausanne, Aug. BY NANKING.

with in other parts of the king-ference going on again, in one of According to indications d dom. In the New Forest, which the last strongholds of the anable at the Ecclesiatical Conf The Nationalist 'Government of belongs to the Crown, it has the cient happy life of the English on faith and order meeting Nanking has issued a proclamation right to deal with only 16,000 peasant. calling upon holders of Chinese acres out of the 64,000, and it is

"Hands off the New Forest"Very strong appeal for unit up to the present come from bonds to register these for their for this that the spoiling is going would be a more reasonable crysions in China, Japan and

than many of its sort, and it is where the National Chr protection. Although no regis- on.

It is serious enough from the one that ought to be supported by Churches are against Eur monly understood that a fee of 10 point of view of beauty, which is all lovers of English beauty and and American denominalisat

all that I am concerned with. I the old English country ways. Reuter.

tration fee is mentioned it is com-

per cent, will be charged, and, further, in the event of failure to register within a specified time the bonds will be declared invalid.

When this proclamation became generally known bonds dropped four points. Chinese holders do not know what to do, failure to re- gister may mean loss of the entire investment, while registration

does not necessarily mean that the bonds will be any safer or free from such additional registration fees as the next Government may enforce.

The Loans concerned are:

1. Fifth year loan. ?

2. Seventh year loan (long

term).

3. Six per cent.

loan.

consolidated

4. Seven per cent. consolidated

loan.

5. Monetary reform loan.

6. Eleventh year loan.

7. Fourteenth year loan. Registration must be effected at the National Bond Recording Bur- cau between August 1 and Septem- ber 30, and upon registration a certificate will be issued.

After the expiration of two months, presumably after Septem- ber 30, all unregistered bonds will be cancelled.

The compulsory registration of bearer bonds is extraordinary, com- pliance with the proclamation pre- vents them any longer being con- sidered bearer, but failure may en- tail loss altogether..

This brilliant idea of registra- tion can only be looked at ns a means of raising money, and if this registration is to be strictly enforced It is difficult to Imagine what will be the next step to bleed the country.

CHOLERA

SHANGHAI DECLARED AN

-INFECTED PORT.

Tokyo, August. 10. As the result of a cholera patient being found aboard a boat from Shanghai, the harbour authorities at Yokohama have declared 'Shanghai an infected port. Consequently "all vessels arriving from there are sub- ject to quarantina inspection-Bouter.

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