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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1925, Page 4

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AI AM RAILWAY ORDERS. LONDON. September 3. Railway contracts placed during the week states " Modern Transport,” include : I Two bogie sleeping fill's, of elaborate design, for the I'ganda Railway and '27 cariago under-frames and bogies tor the lliirma Railways from Messrs Clayton Wagons, Ltd, Lincoln. Two engines and tenders for the Sudan Government Railways from Messrs Robert Stephens and Company. Ltd., Darlington. Twenty three-cylinder locomotives for the Ruenos Aires Great Southern Railway from the Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Xewton-le-Willows, Lancashire. They are to lie fitted with the patent j type of super-heater manufactured by ] the Xorth-Kastei'ii Marine Engineering I ( ompuny. Lid.. Wall-oiid-on-Tyne. Tin Loud,mi and North Eastern Railway has [ilai-’d a cmitiact tor a new and enlarged section Cl Welwyn Garden City with Messrs 11. Arnold ami Son. Limit'd. Doncaster. The F.iirm-id Shipbuilding and En- .. inveiim- Gun.pau• . Glasgow, bate obtained from M!■--!■> Ihbliy and t’o.. Liverpool. an oil let fur a second motor passenger and cargo vessel u! 7,750** tons gross, for the services between

London, Liverpool, Colombo and Rangoon. It was reported on -Manchester .Exchange yesterday that more than 5(10,00011) of cotton vain lias been .sold to Russia this week. After being closed down for three months. Mjllom, (Cumberland) ironworks restarted yesterday. One furnace was nut in action and others are being prepared. THE MOW TAXCJO. LONDON, September .'l. It is now evident that the Tango—or. to he precise, the French Tango, which is quite different from the prewar Tango—will he dominating the London ballrooms within the next few weeks. The musical director of a leading West End hotel told a reporter yesterday that during the coming winter the French Tango v.ill equal the foxtrot in popularity, though both the waltz, and the Charleston will find a place on dance programmes. The Tango, however. will, he predicted, he the dancing event of the winter. He added: “It is perhaps a pily in some ways that this French Tango was not given another name, for it. lias little in common with tlie old Argentine Tango. It is infinitely simpler, and is, in fact, as simple as the fox trot itself. “It is a placid, sliding dance of four steps, though it is twice as fast as the pre-war Tango. The .suspicion of a pause between the stems suggests the 'Tango spirit. I'.ven the best syncopated hand cannot capture the rhythm of the Tango. and for that reason the first Tango hand to visit London since TOIA will he arriving here at the end of this month.” I he spirit ol the Tango is alreadv reflected in some of the newest evening gowns. At. .Deauville—where the Tango was supreme—some of the evening gowns were startling in their length

and fulness. The “sheath” gown, as the Parisienne has found, does not lend itself cither in grace or comfort to the half-lazy, pulsating movements of the Tango.