"Phe annual report of the ship-brokers of the Austradian Com-Bam and Goo Ee, norns davidson and Go., Ld, point out thet, while" freights and prices for second-hand tonnage have decreased, the est of new fon page has moresed by at Toast 10/- ton, chiefly owing the rise in steel plates.
Tost year was gonoially depressing for shipowners. The reaking-up market -has boon the chief outlet for old tonnage, Germany, Italy and Holland be ing the, principal buyers British and. foreign tonnage totalling 735,101 tons. was Inid Up in the United Kingdom up to ho quarter ending October this 727,134 tons was British-mods an increneo of 45000 tone ta compared with that on July 1.
the Poutatanding auction" of the year, in which four 8,000 ton vessels built at Hongkong were acquired by British shipowners For £168,000, with (we 3,100-ton ships, built" at Shanghai, for {£96,000 each, showed a loss which must have been considerably over Chimpanzees, the animal nearest to man, have "been particularly useful for experiments with the tuberculosis microbe. For this veaaon they were taken Europe, but they rapidly succumbed to the rigours of unaccustomed
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