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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1901.
FISHBITE FAULTS IN CABLES.
which
LATE TELEGRAMS.
Obituary.
Allan, Decamer 10.-The Pioneer regrets to Jestn that Colonel Walter Spaukie, Cantumaat Magistrate, Now- gong, died suddenly on Sunday morning of heart disease on leaving for Calcutta to take his duties as Additional Member of the Vicuroy's Council,
The Eastern Extension Telograph Com pany have brought to the notice of the Press an interesting, fast in ∙opance- tion with the interruptions, due to vari Qua agencies,
aro continually recurring i etib-narito telegraph cables.. Faults arently due to fishbitas have been removed from time to time from several of the shallow-water nee
Fatal Sbooting Accident. tions of that Company's system, which Kotchen, efficiating Commumlant, ist Bat- Calcutta, December 12-Captain S. D.
haye either totally interrupted telegraphia talion, Kerraer Militin, was accidentally communication or havn seriously afooted shot dead in Monday by hie alikari on the the working of the lines. Cables establish was brought to Paraolinar laro on the same
Safed Koh above the Maulana.
The body
No. 1 WELLINGTON ST.ed in doeper waters have not hitherto, evening.
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THE MUTUAL STORES, -8 and 10, D'Agular Street.
HAVE JUST OPENED
and
however, beon similarly attacked. We now learn that fault removed a few months
The Bank Robberies. Lordon, December -Goudin Fection at as great a depth as 330 fathoms Liverpent rohbaries wore brought up at cthors connectad with the Bank of was found to contain a tooth firmly fixed Bow Strest. The prosecution showed that in the core of the cable, although the orra Gondio must cleverlyfrged huge cheques -or interior partsen of tw calle contain-amounts to his contensed who were book
and manipulated the books. He sent lurge ing the conductor-was protested by the maskers and whom he trusted blindly, and
sm sheathing of thick irim wires and fobrained practically nothing hitaself. outer coverings. An export. oxamination of the tooth proved it to belong, undoubt edly, to a species of shark, the exact variery of which could not be identified; but it
IN EXCELLENT ASSORTMENT OF appears that five known varietics of sharks
Raphael Tuck & R
are found to exist at a depth of 30 fat. homs, and one at a depth of even 500 fathoms.
NEW YEAR CARDS. Very low prees 10% discount for cut. IsSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong. October 20, 1901..
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TUROPEAN HOUSES Nos. 4, 5,
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The Queen of Holland, Nets mossage says -The publication in Caleatts, Docamber D.-An Indian Dady the English press of Renter's statements regarding serious differences between Queen Wilhelmina and her barbund has created official deniale have been made of all the great indignation in Holland. Categorical statements of Router and we are asked duels. The Dutch Court is furious and pro- to belleve there was naquarrel, no insult, no Boerisus is simpant it the Hague.
Commenting our this, The Standard saysServe of the unexpected perilatlost await submarine cables, seen in the depths of the ocean, are described in a commani: cation printed in another column. Thongb the Jargest waves in a storm probably do not appreciably disturb the water bayond the first hundred fathomes,-if, indeed, they go so far, currents are sometimes strong detailed Particulars. OUSES and LAND at the PEAK. For enough to fray the cable against some subtitution to make it an offence if any vessel
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Auctions.
The Australian Customs. London, December 10.-With regard to the writ issued against the Captain of the for bouch of Australian Customs Mill, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Oceanio Supreme Court at Motherine bus given that Parliament is empowered by its cons judgment adverse to the Oceania holding
cutore an Australian port with broken senis, as matter where broken,
-
The Soudan. December 8.--The Khusties left Khar- toun for Ceiro and expressed his pleasure at finding the country more advanced lam
Mra Ross's Case..
marine crag, and various living creatures wil do itamischief. Arnongtharu fishos barnlong been suspect, and now the charge has been 2007 proved in the cable connecting Sydney with Nolion. A defect was detected, and on ex. aining the plece a shark's tooth was found ambolded in the sheathing. As that con-Ire imagined. sisted of the usual thick iron wires and their outer covering, the aggressor must have given a hard bite. The motive is not easily divined. Could the shark have mistaken the cable, in the imperfect light, for a new species of conger, or did it, which seems more likoly, blunder against it at a place where it did not torch bottoin, and re- swordfish will express its resentment Have its temper by a vicious snap? A
against a vessel by driving the boyonet at the end of its nose into the planks, and a narwbal will use its lance of ivory in siurikar fashion; smak, like the shark, to its own detriment, for is illustrates the maxim
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OUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS,
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A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE,
THE RETREAT,' MOUNT KELLET GODOWNS at BLUE BUILDINGS. flovSES AT CAUSEWAY Bax, FACING THE POLO GROUND HONGKONG LAND INVEST
SATURDAY,
the 28th DECEMBER, 1901, at 2,80
his Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, EIGHTY PIECES OF VERY FINE IVORY CARVINGS;
Also,
A Quantity of JAPANESE PORCE. LAIN WARE,
Comprising:-
ou Mrs Rossi, the accused in the piano case, Mandalay, December 1.-Tho sonter.ca has been reduced to two months" on appeal rocate is taking the case ap on rovision to to the Beastone Court. The aroused's Ad- the Court of the Judies Commissioner.
Trusts in America. the Amalgamated Copper Trust, which in Tandon, December 9-The position of the earliest of the huge American trusts, is causing much concern and the New York tiori in copper shares in the list ton days is Stock Market is agitated. The deprecia- estimated four millions sterling Tho
TEA SEA, DESSUT SITE, COFFEE CUPS | Con't you leave it alone,' by luwing the decline is largely due to manipulation of
and SAVCERS, TEA POTS, PLATES, VASES, JARDINIERES and STANDS, &e., &c.;
And
A Few Pieces of CANTON BLACK
WOOD FURNITURE,
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ROOMED Bangalow "Rheda," Bun ham Road. Beginning from let January, 1900,
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FROM the 1st of January, 1902,. aa
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LOON.
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weapon of offence. The conflict between ahark and cably sccurred three hundred
and thirty fathoms below the surface, a
powerful adverse interests.
The Sugar Conference. Os View from Friday, the 27th Decem-depth which formerly was supposed to be December 11-The British delegates at
almost lifeless. But 2cap
the Sugar Conference includo Sir Edmund TE--Cash on delivery,
sea. dindging Phipps. Ministering Brussels, and repros during the last thirty or forty years told neptatives From the Foreign, Colonial and different story. In the open ocean living India Offices, The expert advisers include
Sir Novila Lobbook and Mr Maitinamu. greatures generally do not descend below a few hundred feet, theagh they are often enormously abundant in this upper layer the home of countless files, molluscs erustacea, and in many plecs of clouds or tiny foraminifers and radiaların, with corresponding abundanga of seaweeds, large and small. But living creatures, fol-
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE Attention of Advertisers is drawn Advertisements and Corrections to Adver- tisements :-
low the ocean slopes downwards to very
Disturbances in Tripoli. December 8-Six Als and two Turkish soldiers were filled and many and population near Tripoll, where a state wounded in a coufic between the troops of siege has Leon proclaimed.
Trade Returus.
The British imports for November show
Alterations and addition to Advertisent depriu. Sponges, at least certain ments on Pages 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be kinds, go far below the thousand fathom a decrease of 22,025,197, due to miscellane sentto this Office not later than 11s.m. New line, a hydroson riso yards long wasdred-ous causes, and exports a decrease of
yuantity and price of ensl
Advertisements should be sent in before ad up bytho Olalichugur firm 2900 fathoms 1,882,215. owing to a decrease in the
8 pm.
BAIN & REID.
CHINA MAIL Offico, Dec. 1900.
1. THE TRI-METRICAL CLASSIC
千字文
and occasionally a comt er some near relation may be found at as great a depth. A well-known species of the former was
Kussia and Germany. brought up on a talegraphs cable froin maze
A communique to the Russian papers. than eleven hundred fathome, and Dr.in its present form Russis will sdopt a tariff thrusters that if the Geraan tariff is passed.
tubers,
Carpenter obtained mollasch, generally of retaliation against Germanufac found in shallow water, from not much 2.—THE THOUSAND WORDS' FOEN, depthe ss low as Mount Everest to high, less than fifteen thoueaud feet. Even at
Strikes in Australia. by E. J. TEL, F.D.
living creatures have boob obtained, The Sydney Parliament has passed the To bo had-Price 39 Cents the act from
but they are comparatively low in organis- Industrial Arbitration Bill impelling the CHINA MAIL Office, Wyndham ation. Still, fshes have beet saptored at courts, and punishing with fine and im. referencs of labour disputes, to spacial.
Hongkong. Decearber 16, 1901. 2563 Translated from the Chinese
Dwa
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S. A. SETH, LASU AND ESTATE AGENT AND BROKER
Top Floor, 37. Queen's Road Central Hongkong, December 18, 1901.
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Bangkok Times.
THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN SIAM
A STEWART TERRACE.
AT the PE (FURNISHHO), No. 7 And widely circulated in Malaya, Cochin
Apply to TELEPHONE CO. 2 Ice House Road, Hongkong, December 18, 1901.
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A ROOMS, with Kitchen and Bath- T KOWLOON, TWO UNFURNISHED rooms; uyer Telephone Company's Pro mises in CatERON RA
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2391
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China, the Straite Settlements, and Burm.
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the lowest depths, in which eases they are prisonment strikes and lockouts before or
Germany and Poland.
often bind. Even where they have oyes,ording such reference. those in that region of eternal night would be useless, if they were not able to tpra on the light at will, by being provided with The severe treatment of Prilish school phosphorescent organs. It is, however, children at Werschen. In East Prussia, and unusual to find a shark co deep as nearly and the imprisonment of parents who the crder to compel the to speak German. Their testhave, indeal boon dredged couple of thousand feat from the surface.
in nodules of tanganese oxide, but these
ap from profound depthe, om hedded
have dropped from tar jaws of fishes which RIGAUD'
have Hired and died in this upper waters,
and settled quietly down to the hartom.
Sbaiks in geuerit keep near to the surface,
& habit which makes them such a terre to bathers. Still, one kind of shark, more nearly related to the dog-fishes than to the dreaded ble shark, is brought up from depths greater than theme spentioned. Thu. A UNIQUE FEATURE of the Bangkok genus, which contains sovrtal species, has Times" is its Siamese version. Thus the wide range, and spear-like tooth, one of advertiser is enabled to talk aa it were with
the Siameso in their own tongue withous which may have done the mischief. Oft the knowing one word of it, the Bangkok Portuguese court there is a regular fishers. Times" doing the translations required. for a species of this fight, which is about fire Literary communications should be adfeet long; it is caught with lines, at depths dressed to the Trou Business dota of four, and occasionally fire, hundred munications to the MANAGES Cheques fathoms. As it in necustomed to live under and Post Ofen Orders in favour of MANA
pressure of abuat sightly, ethicspheres GER, “Brugkok Times."
Orders bunked by MANAGER, China brought to the surface.
it 15 dead pratically safented when-
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