5,000 {1, of Henley Cable for the Yangtze An unusual shipment of drums of submarine cable ig being made he P. & 0, liner Rajputana for China. The cable," of about 5,000 ft, length is in drums weighing 33% tons oad Tt is a 18000 volt armoured cable, with two 3-core double wires and.
\seamless_ lead sheath.
The cable is to be laid across the! Yangtze at Pukow for the National Construction Commission's Capital Electricity Works. At Nanking the: river bottom is of slightly shifting line sand and the cable is being sent out by. the. makers, W. 7, Henley's Telegraph Works, of London, arrive before the seasonal rains and rise' of the river.
A. presentation of a. travelling clock was made un Saturday ovening fo Mr. M.A. Crickmer, Engineer Ameer of the Shanghai Fire Brigade, who will shortly go on Home leave: The presentation was made. by Capt J. Gordon Dyson, Chiot Omicer, annual Brigade Dance at Hongkew Fire Station. Those who attended the dance included Capt. and Mrs, Dyson, Capt, and Mrs, if Reed, Mr. B. M. "Hunting, Mr. HR. Powell, Mr. W. C. Charters. Mr, S. M. Vincent, Mr. and Mrs, W.
Dent, Mr. R. J.' Crouch, Mr A. J. Toon, Mr, W. A. MeDonald, Mr, 8.
Avery and Mr, and Mrs, Brownrigg. A commit ice headed by Mr. C. C. Caynes was in charge of the attractive arrangements, Comparing the visions of dreams with the visions of the kaleidoscope, dAuxlc De Rulffo, author, lawyer, and expert in dreams, Inlerpreted and explained © this baming Subject in a tale elvan on Monday ovening In the studio of the Inter= national Avty Theatre, The speaker, after prefacing his remarks by saying that he had tittie faith In clatrvoyants. and explaining the various types of dreams, went on to say that he considered, as did the rear number of modern payentattists, that.a comparison with the visions of the kaleidoscope is a ood one, He sald:—"The numberless visions which "we have had during our life {ime aswell as. the myriads of thoughts which pass through our brain may be compared to the hundreds of leees of coloured lasser which are stored In the "attorn of the kaleld scope. When, durinyt our sleep. our brain Is got. in motion, without the feontrol of our intelligence, as. who Wwe are awake, those thoughts an visions. which, unknown to. us and Forgotten during the day, come into play and form the fantastic visions of Arcamland. Certainly, the nature of those Kaletdoscopie visions may be affected' by our feelings of the moment or of the past: by our {roubles or our joys; but they romain Little controlled as the pieces of lasses of a toy."
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