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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 257, 3 November 1904, Page 3

A gold watch, the giit of the German uu.peror, wus pivsantod to Captain J. i'eurce, of the London steamer Chang-chow, by the Mayor of Plymouth, a t a meeting o< the local Marine UoarJ. )n Moxeiuber last, jvhen oh the China cou&t, near the entrance to Formosa Channel, Captain J'earce found in flames the Uoriflan s-teamer Arnold Luyken, oi Hamburgh, which was bound for ."Bientefin- with a cargo of keroeeno. He approached and discovered some of the members of the crew floating on three rafts and others in the ship's boat, which was waterlogged. All were taken on hoard the Chengchow, and afterwards landed at 'Amoy. The Are on the German steamer was due to an explosion of oil gas fr 0 m the kerosene. Some of the crew, including the chief officer, jvere lost, and others badly burned. General Booth has finished his motor-car tour of the United Kingdom at Aberdeen. When he started (says an English paper) not even the most sanguine upholder of the Salvation Army would have dared to predict that it would be Such a triumph of energy and organisation, ami be applauded with such unalloyed admiration. The whole undertaking must be numbered among the strange and striking aohievementß of the time. Hut the chief wonder goes to the chief figure. He has spoken four and five times a day, and in themn'ority of enses his speeches have nit hern mere casual observations hut lone orations, fretirnth last'pg wr>ll over the hour. This in Itself wnuld re a remarkable record Tor any man, much more remarkable tor a man nf so advance! an aire. 'Ai'dinrT the strain of constant. J<i«'r--ne-v'ng, th« f e«t approaches tho ,sr>re"e o' the "almost irfmf'i'oiis " lUfr A'<A nvir-Vrs vfth M« tcnenie dnrinsc +hc Midlothian r*mTiaiim. but Ws piirflv nhvsicil aeh'eviement can harrilv he said tc ■ivach of neural Bnrvth\ TV/UWoiis •""'storilfinß of ib* futurp wfl' "hV r"i7?V.i when ***<*? rtVorH **** t~nr -Whether to regard ft as an actuality