Talking of ships reminds me 1 must Introduce you to Mr. H. V. Wilkinson representative of that most famous of all Far Eastern shipping. companies—the P. & O. Mr. Wilkinson is the President of the Shanghat branch of the Royal Society of St. George and a most popular president at. that. There is much that I might say of England and of tne injustices suffered by us at her hands but I shall content myself by congratulating Mr. Wilkinson on his fellow countrymen's atest marvellous production known as. DH. Comet, whose performances under the skill and daring of Scott and Black held the wondering imagitation of the world on its flight from England to release three days later from Melbourne to the uttermost corners of the Empire a. tht of pride and, T dare say, a sigh of Fellef the heart of every true Briton.
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