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A Sensible Society.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1901.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Tired of Life.
The young Norwegian milor who, in a mostilatormined manner some wooks ago, attempted to take his life at the Sailor's. Hone by cutting his throat, and afterwards
TELEGRAMS.
[ALITER'S SERVICE] PRINCE CHUN'S MISSION TO GERMANY.
The Society for the Erection of Homes for the Num-commissioned Officers and Men of the Imperial German Navy, the patrons of which are the Prince and Princeer Henry of Prussia, is about to build'such a horse at the Government Civil Hospital by tear. at Willicnishaven, at a cost of two himing out the stitches, was to day brought dred and Bity thousand marks. The home before the Police Magistrate on a charge The Koicer may possibly ba compelled to of attempting suicide. He was discharged with caution.
ut Tsington will be ready about the end of this year. It will cost about four hundred thasaud marks, and has a hall for six hundred to eight hundred persons,
Anglo-Australian Cricket.
Australia on November 9, 11, 12, and 13,
report of Mr Hazeland's assistunt, of what practical value the scrutiny of | Mr Hazeland's plans by the Public Works Dupratorent? Where does Me Bize (land's responsibility begin and end?? Where does the contractor's respon Įsibility begin and end? Where does the owner's responsibility begin and end MOET AND CHANDONS DRY IM-THe Magisterial enquiries held during Where does the Public Works Depart- PERIAL CHAMPAGNE, 1800. the past work into the recent collapses ment's responsibility begin arad end? of houses in Hongkong cannot be said Thest and other points might have been to have been quite satisfactory. In one elucidated at The Magisterial expiry, lu Angistrate found that the which seems to us to have been as cause of collapse was dry rot. In the worthless in its result as it well could be,
Three cricket matches similar to those other and more serious case, he found At the time of the collapse, it was stated layed by the last English team have been *in accordance with the medical by us that a reputable loon architect arranged for the Adelaide Oval. Mr J. evidence that the forty-three persons and refusal to eritify an adjnernt banse Creswell, Secretary to the South Australian mot then death through the falling of as capable of bearing an extra story. Cricket Association, while in Melbourne con- the houses named,. Quite so. We The Magistrato might havenvailed linferred with Major Wardill, Secretary to the knew that without medical testimony self of this gentleman's evidener as tothe 1.C.C., and the agreement cone to was or the waste of timent the Magistracy,greunds on which he base his assup that Maclaren's eleven should play South If this is all a Magisterial enquiry in that another storey would-reiderte and again at the end of the tour, on March means, then there is, so far as we can
house unsafe and what mesures be 21, 22, 23, 24, and 20. Adetale is to have see, to use in holding shy more. What adopted to satisfy himself.
one test match, tổ be Begun on January 17. the public wish to know is-Who is re- sponsible for the faulty construction of
Militarism! houses, and in what way ran precaution, be taken for the public safely? If a careful analysis is made of Mr Tecker's evidence, it will be seen that that highly respected flier, who risked his life to save the hapless Chinese burial in the ruins at Cochrane Street, has only a vague idea of the powers of the Public Worls Department. That Department, ns we know, in undermanned, and it may be impossible to have proper supervision of new or altered buildings; but since certain powers of supervision are vest- lin the Departinent it is only Tensunable to expect those powers to be put in force. Mr Tooker called the at-
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Armed Robbery.
Last night, a gang of five robbers.. armed with choppers, enteral a dwelling house near Yaumati. An old mati in the house was badly treated, but his injuries are not of a serious nature. The other oc cupants were put in fear of their lives, and the thiores decumped with all the clothing and jewellery they could lay their handa on. The matter was reported to the Police, and investigations are being made, but, up to the time of writing, the rubbers are still at large. “
The Bank of Formoss.
The newly-established Bank of Formo hashed a satisfactory half-year (says the Kobe Chronicle), and the profits made nro undertood to be suflicient to declare a
Loxtos, 20th August, 10012 Pritce Chan's delay is inconveniencing the Kaiser, who is unable to go to Riel
modify his demands,
GENERAL GASELEE AT VANCOUVER. General Gaselee has arrived at Vani ever.
NAVAL RATIONS. The Committee on Naval Rations: his
recommended modifications entailing mu additional outing of £137,000.
PRINCE CHUN'S MISSION TO GERMANY.
Prince Chun his recoveteil, but shows no signs of proceeding to Berlin. He has sent. several long despatches to Singarfy. The retiring Chioase Ambassador has arrived at Essle. Ho lott Dorlindenly, quite anceromnaiously, without bidding farewell to the Emperor.
That terrible spirit of militarism which the Peace and Housity Society-the most The pugilist has genemlly a striking belligerent fašiitution in our unidst fights dividquid at the rate of 10 per cent. per THE LAY OF THE LAST DHOBY.
personality.
(Steam Laundry." Washerman).
so bitterly against is seizing even the child-span, but the rate has been fixed at 8 por 29 of the clergy, says an Australian contem-cent, as the Finance Department refused The Emperor of Germany has promited cary. The son of a Proshyterian clergy-permision for the bank to declare a 10 per cont, divideod. This may he regarded as may, being stirred emulation by the ro- all the Gran prisates who were beslegenital of the devils done by hidem Southevidence of the close attention paid by the The washing was in rigs, and old 1
at Teking to the vaak of non-commissimed officers.
Mount As, the noted roleang in
Shinano province of Japan, was very native the 8th rust.. ashes falling honvily in the vicinity.
At Sotheby's Sale Romas in Welling- tou-streer. Stranki, the other week, one of the five perfect copies of Caxton's Royal Book, or Book forú King, printed in 187,
9in.
It has been kwn for some time let
tention of the Magistrate to a sub- sertion in Buikding Ordinance 53 67 | Fetched £1559. 1869, explaining that under that sub- section the Director of Public Works or any sicer deputed by hit bol only the sea coast of Germany is sinking ever to inspret when he had reasonable especially in the neighbourhood of th pemods for believing that within ang | burg, and the exnet rute for the last fifty Jewcars, buildings or trænute they were youus has now been determined to bo šlṛ. sarka completal or being curried out in contrariation of the Ordinance. Mr
Do you love me as much as ever, Tooker seemed to consider this stiptla- der renderly asked the young wife. Hus- tion so stultifying that it prevented the band (absorbed in the Clan Mail)--Tes, Public Works Deportment from carry-deario. Wile yearning for further words ing out an effective sapervision. Most of love)—Why?' Hasksnu?— Oh, I people will consider it sufficient for all done! Habt, I suppose? pruc ical purposes. The Director of
Prince Chan, the bearer of the Chinese Pablic Works might set out with the
Etapewor's expiation to the German Gonra Fard pinion that all house in Hongkong ment, will afterwards go to Fondos, [ere being built in. contravention of the order to cotisey to the King the Enpert's Building Ordinance, and then carry outcom-lences upon the late Queen's duth, A. S. WATSON & CO,, | his inspection -- even to the moving of aut his congratulatious apen his Majesty's
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brick here and there to see if a wall Accession to the Throne.
is hollow without being stigmatised as unevasomable. Fules he dec- 20, we
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Sonne washing, on its way home from fail to see how supervision can buy exer- the laundry, went astmag in Southampton But let os admit, in the public | recently, and became involved in a Non- interests, that the Pulle Works tre conformist joudde sale. It is ander. partment has not suivient powers, thus, remarks a London journal, that there is no Nonconformist conscience in let the Legislature, give it nl the
Southampton powers the Director of Public Works deems necessary, if it will only frad 한다 better supervision and pub
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Bonded Warehouses in Japan.
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Africa, added this to his usual evening pray- Finance Department to the working of the
er:-"Oh, Lord, don't let the Bears be all killed before I grow up,' and next morning he added, 'Oh, Lord, please remember what I told you last night about the Boers,'
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Jerry Building.
The day was long, the water cold,
The tattered pants, and dresses gay, Bected to have known a better day, That epea lind boca his only joy,
To
rond
and envagely destry. The last of all the Dhobies be, Fay, well-a-day, their date is fled.
clothes so bratnily The Hongkong
For the steam-leandry all corres
confessed, Has wrought a revolution blest
He'll hurmer clothes till sere and torn. No more to sporting half-easte friends, old times are changed, old manners gond, Your collars or dress shirts he lands.
Ascurry. An engine fts the.
the Dhoby's throne ytrick it The bigots of this iran time
·was, to play This unpremeditated lay. Had called his mild destruction crime:
Nor wring from patient lips a swaar, A wandering Dhoby, scorned and poor, He'll never wash or iron were. When they behold their underwear.
It is possible, says Engineering, for. workshop or inctory to escape the imputa- tion of jerry building; indeed, to be Mesers Weber, Lohusan & Co., the icontly well built to. eastor all too niore i stones at brank of down.. purpes for which it is intended at the Sydney representatives of the North Ger- time of erection; and yet moventually be
como as unsuited for its purpose as if the weakly actrice will be definitely inaugura undur burbed in the first instance. Tus to the effect that the oatempted three work had boon scamped and the strength tod from Sydney on Sovumber 16 next, tordercy of modern workshop practice is Nane der nail stesaners, eich úver
in the direction of larger and heavior other, dace of them, the Rhein, Necker, The dangers, therefore, which have to be 10,000 tons register, will follow one au- machines and increased speed of ranning.
waters. The froser Kurfurs!, of 12,500
to Australian guarded against, and provided for by some tons, will leave Sydney in Fury next.
maunt of reserve fund, in the case of The whole of this feet are twin-screw equaly to be expected and prepared for in the following items in connection wills badly built or weak workshops, have
The Pacific Cable.. vessels, and all are under five years old.
theso which have an additional strain of the new Paulie Cable will be of interest weight or vibration placed upon them, business en-In Contraiffes of Ways and without any sufficient margin of strengthMoans on the 30th July, the House of
and Bremen being new
Praise for Austrian Sailors.
to mest it
The Formosan Lottery Schema.
Goacral Baron Kodami, the Minister for War and the Governor-General of For-
DOLLY.
The Emperor Francis, Joseph has nd-
Cominous considered a resolution proposed dressed an autograph letter to Rear- Admiral,Count Menteonçoul, evimanding
by the Government sauctioning the expen the Austrian Squadron in Chinese waters,
ditura of £2,000,000 on the laying of the ] in the following words show the occasion
new Pacific cable. There was some opposi of the return of my ships Express „Si'zabeth mos, passed through Kyoto the other day to the motion, and the view was by- and Zeate to home waters, I joyfully taken his way to Tokuyama, Yamaguchi-kened that the money ought not to have the opportunity to express my mumst Interviewed by a represedintive of the been asked for until Parliament had passed thanks to the officers and men of my Sqe Asahi, he stated that be intended to es dron in East Ania for their successful and tallish a lottery at Formosa under any cis
the Bi dealing with the matter. Sir Michael Hicks-Bench give an undertaking
that the Guerningut would not attenspe
self-sacrificing sorving Tendered under cuiastiness, At Amoy the lottery was very
so the money uut the messure 125 difficult and unusual circumstances. The popular, snt Formosa was losing a con- remaining two vessels of the Suadron, the siderable sun of unes by zipt following passe, and the motion was climately car Empress Maria Therese and the dijera, muy example. The profits ou a lottery icd y jerity of 14. The Imperial will remain in Chinese waters for the in Formosa were estimated at a milieu Evernment Eave offered to be responsible yen, whick was a quarter of the amount to the extent of five-eighteenths of the present.
the Fannosans spent on the Amoy futteries, by which the not receipts of the cable. With regard to the objections mudo against any fall short of the amount of the ex the proposed lottery, Baron a senses, it being uniterstood that the oredit that. it was impossible to regard the For of the United Kingdom will be utilized moans in the same light as the Japanese, the provision of the capital sum, estimated *bout £2,000,000, necessary for carrying Strict supervision would be exercised in received would he sad for claritable carrying out the lottery, and the money
samitny and other pubic affairs, Thafts from the "Coptic."
A Record Balloon Ascent
The two Berlin aeronauts, Dr. Bersan and Dr Suering, who nscended from Berlin on the 1st inst., at half-past tea alin., and descendeil as Britsen, in the Trovince of Brandenberg, at half-past six the same evening, reached an altitude of more than ten the sand three hundred wetres. The greatest height could not be ascertained, because the two aeronauts were then un- conscious. The lowest tempemture recorded was forty degrees (Centigrade) below zero The greatest altitude reached heretofore, also by Berson, was nine thousand one
hundred and fifty metres. The balloon in which the two neronauts ascended yesterday was the 1 rgest one here, containing about ten thousand cubic metres of hydrogen. Dr Burson and Dr Suering are both quite well again, but they think they have reached the utmost height attrimble by man.
Mr John Carroll.
borlain, Financial Secretary, stated in the at the undertaking. Mr Austin Cham
House of Commons on the 2nd inst. that the engineers advising the Pacific Cable. Band were satisfied as to the contractor Today, before Mr Hassland, Chan ability to complete the work of laying tha Fo Sing, cabin boy on the ss. Ceptie, was cable by the end of December. 1902. smartly dealt with for stealing. He was first charged, on the complaint of Captain J. H. Rinder, with heving, on the high
He bent o'er the widowed young Mts: 10b, giva ore," he prayed, 'a few Kra Your cheek sayus. a recompenses Me
She said with a smilo-so he K
and should take steps at once 10 siption, and
soas, on or about 23rd Aprit inst; stolen 2 gold watch, chain and locket of the valus of $400 gold. The property belonged to Snz-My husband does not manke, drink Mr Arthur Tirrell Hellyer. The sofeudant clow, enuar, play cards, nut nights, scold, was one of the salcon waiters. Mr Hellyer come to late for dinner or kick on my mil get out of tamper, complain of the cooking reserted his loss on the morning of the liver bills. He doesn't New Friand 23rd ipst., in Yokohama Harbour. The Gracians Why, he must be a perfect gold watch, was found in defendant's trunk, Angel I-I hope so. He lins been dead
ten yearn and it and the chaint and locket produced. There left for Hone by the English Captain Rindor identified positively as the
Consumption. naft steamer Massilia to-day, one of the missing cuticles. Sergeant O'Sullivan said
Comaumption in disenso dreadful in its hardest working subordinate officers the that on the 30th inst., at 4 p.m., tho da. efects. It is widely prevalent, its gerros Government has over lud in the public fendant tock him to No. Queen's Road robust health are sate, pomparatively, from are everywhere, and only those persons in To day at the Supreme Court, in servies. We refer to Mr John Carroll, East Defendant said his brother lived its attack.. If you have a hacking magh, ry Jurisdiction, C. H. Kim, clerk in the overseer of Drainage Servios Works, Mr there. He and his brother then went into weak lungs, impure blend, a weakened orn Yokohama Specie Bank, sued Chuk Th. Carroll came out to the Far East, over a cubide in the front part of the house stitution, you are an easy prey to coas 821, being one Chinese month'a rent die Japanese Government in the supervision and in it was found the chain. The defen- cinployee in the Chis Works, for the summot twenty years ago, mid was engaged by the The brother handed a box to the defendant, fild up your healthandeveloped
It is no longer Lecessary to punish your in respect of the second floor of No. 1. of the construction of railway bridges dant then handed the Jacket to witusforce down the old-time cod liver oil or its
self by
by gorging and retching, trying to Shelly Street in list of notice. Plaintiff throughout the principal island. Hojoined Defendant's story was that ho picked the Eulsion. That custorn betongs to the and defendant never gave notice; he stu the Public Works Departo:ent of Hong articles up, and intended, bauda then to days of the tallow-dip, stage much and the ply quitted the premises without intimating May, 1887, and his painstaking work the Chief Engineer, His Worship passed Wins of Cnd Lavor Oil contains the me- Defendant, ou he has earned the highest praise from the sentence of four months imprisonment didnt essence of Cod Liver Oil in a other hand, said he gave verbal notice whas various Directors of Public Works under Defendat was then, on the samplat tut Cod Taror Oil will do, and more beightened degrou of aclivity, and will do card out in adipose days after he gave this notice, the plaäniff wont do per, ude i dorady, aniwly W. charged with the theft of two bottles of carried in accordance with the pathe rex or the sixth moon. The whom he served, including Mr Price, Mr. Spocs, chief steward of the ope
This accounts the enzative effects Department took the trouble to sen
exhibited a 'To Let notice, and this bid Chathani Ho did excellent work during live of two boxes of soap, and a rantity ren
Laud all diseases where the tut put heen taken down. The Actise the plague epidemics of 1884 and 1896, of rising He said he bought the oil in
Sind Wholesale from 4. 5. oned and cnaciste At all that the plans it had sanctioned were Puise Judgo (Me 1. Sercombe Smith) and received a epiendid testimonist from Japan, the soap be picked up and the War Co., Ltd., Hongking being followed. Of course, it may nẢ have been the additional storey that evidence was considerably in favour of the Carroll has been in failing hens to some showed that he was guilty, and a further came to the conclusion that the balance of His Excellency Sir W. Robinson, Mr raisins he took to eat. The evidence caused the collapse, and so everybody plainties statement of the case, and that time, the arduous nature of his work tell term of the month's hard labour was in.. who contributed to the extra storey can defendour did not give proper notice in ing, during the quat six months, upon his flisted. keep a clear conscience, but Mr Touser plaintiff of his intention to leave. Deles constitution, and he was further palled stated in evidence his belief that in this dont must therefore pay the month'e rut down by a bad attack of blood poising Ix laden db impuilities ypreads dine bil Cochrane Street case, if the work had and costs of the suit.
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