CARGOES.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 15

CARGOES.

There is a famous song by John Musefield, describing the different sorts of cargo parried by ships down the ages. ]n the days of Nineveh, he sings, ships carried ivory and apes and peacocks; now they carry firewood, ironware, and cheap tin trays. But the poet would think loss sadly of modern cargoes if he saw'the news the other day that when the Ceramic arrived, at Tilbury she had on board wallabies, emus, cockatoos, parakeets, and ehincherinchco plants. Chinchcrinchee is a, member of the onion family, but without the strongly-marked characteristic of the British branch, and it has big satiny blooms which last for two mouths after they "arc cut. Perhaps now Mr. Maseneld will absolve shippers of the crime of being unrqmantiu, and write a fresh verse about emus, cockatoos, and wallabies.