Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 185
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[Page 185]
Friday Nov 6 Still coaling – 37 tons to go -
Our fine weather still contributes & Suva looks her best - The event of the 5th was certainly the mail brought in by the Levuka – Oct 20 was the date of my home letter & the papers brought us up to Oct 24 - I wrote a business letter & left other news for a letter of more gossiping type -
I am chiefly concerned that there is no word of Parts 1 2 & 3 of my Journal which contained a good deal of information at first hand - The Levuka brought us a new pay master – Hogarth – RNR - He has been in the Orient Service for a long while - We played Bridge last night & he is the best I have played with up to date - He confirmed my suspicion that as an exercise of the intelligence Auction B is not the equal of Ordinary B - Auction B is on the high road to Poker while ordinary B deviates from the high road of Whist - Whist really is far superior to Bridge as a mental stimulant - Men wont use their Brains if they can help it hence the vogue for Bridge - Trivett our old paymaster has been transferred to the