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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1930, Page 8

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LAST OF THE LINE.

SAILING SHIPS DON’T PAY

LONDON, February 28

“T’ll stick to sail while I live,” Gustav Eriksoiv, the Finnish sailing ship king, told the “Sydney Sun” representative. “The freight market is at present the worst since 1910,” he said. “X oulirort the barque Penang home in bal!ast from Sydney: where ,1 was offered a rate of 13s to load wheat. It is imnossiMe to .accept that freight, which would result in a., minimum loss of 010.00. “O’nt of a fleet of 20 ships I have only six chartered, and these at. unprofitable rates. 1 mpst. depend on . Australian "rain to keep my fleet conimisuod. My fillips the Grace Hanvar. Ki’loran. and Winterhude, at present discharging coal at,..Venezuela, have been ordered horns in ballast.

“Tt is hopeless to expect to make ships profitable, bpt my fleet is Dio last, and, when,,it goes practically no sailing ship will remain.

SEEKS QUITE.

.u.ali SCOTS COUNTESS.

LONDON, February 28.

"j.l i. had occii oorn a boy, i would oe cluei oi cue Gian Grant, but I’ve , VUl ne» enougiiL without that,” said wic Jo-yeur-om countess of Sealield, in .ui interview.

One secretly married Derek Studley neruert, on January 10. She is greyeyed, lair complexioned, and has hair ut light copper shade. Her parents wore corn in New Zealond.

“Gians,” says the Countess, “are almost things of the past, except on great estates, where they assemble for funerals, bjrths and marriages, which are not always the brightest occasions of social pleasures. My uncle, Lord Strathspey,'who was born at Oamaru, is the clan chieftain.”

The Countess“denied that her marriage was secret of flippant as alleged “There’s nothing flippant about a girl being prevented by outside malicious interference from marrying in the ordinary way,” she declared. “From the moment of our engagement, obstacle after obstoele was put in our way. We were left with no choice but to be married quietly, without preliminary fuss.”