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LorDON, June 30.
In the reports of responsible ollservers specially commissioned to inspses the flooded di-tricts of Kwangtung, may be rend the distressing, wel-nigh hentrond- Ing, details of a catastrophe unparalleled m the recent bwtory of the province. We hare before es statements that may be decered official inanuch as they embody the results of inquiry organised by the Cantos Heuvelent Societies for the House of Commers to a question, by express purpose of informing the public Mr P. A. Noltene, M.P. for Dumfrieï- regarding the Tintura and extent of the
Mr. J. A. Pause, one of the junior Lords of the Treasury, replying in the
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Wo begun with no unapproached heri- of an eighth. 536 tage of forecta; more than half of the
For swinging clubs for 55 buren timbor is gone. - We began with coal-fire tiinates without stepping Jack Griffiths fielde more extensive than those of any has become the chippiza club swinger of
Australi other nation and with iron vien res ANNUAL CLEARANCE
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The sale of curion advertised by Mr Gas P. Lammert for Saturday, the 4th SALE NOW ON experts now declare thot the end of inst, will now take place on Friday, the
both fron and coal is in sight. Their inst, one day earlier. EXCEPTIONAL more crete in our consumption of Three hundred troops belonging to the calamity that has vistakon a largo soution shire, said that in view of the projected coal during 1907 over 1906 exceeded | Heilungkinng garrison are said to have of the population ordering on the tower deepening of the Suez Canal to thirty-
boen dispatched to Chientao. The trope reacties of the main rivers. the total consumption in 1876, the
of the Three Fasteru Provinces will be
six feet, which would occupy five years. So far as can be gathered from the costennial year. The enormous stores engaged in maneraries in the autumn exiding adduced, then is no ronson to and cause heavy expenditure, no further of mineral oil and gas are largely gone, It is expected that the Cormonwealth doubt blat many thousands of persons live reduction in transit, dues could be Our natural waterways are not gone, old age pensions project will cost £1,800,000 for the time been rendered homeless
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Booda pet Gregory Apcar undelivered after & pam. this date will be landed SAYDBURY, July 4---
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ping the floud; they and their neighmurs are living in shode hastily Three conlier were bought up at the contacted on the higher lands love the Magistracy today, on a slange vi being mibmerged areas or in the few temples spected of stealing three to fal, which, built of lick and stono, have at Penya East. pe defentiant was resisted the inroads of the devasta sectorced to 14 day's imprisonment and the flood, on mfts formed of timbers the other two were dischazad.
detached from the rained villages, or
dealing with them that there is 'lesa navigation on them now than there was fifty years ago. Finally, we began with sails of unexampled fertility and we have so impoverished them by injudicious use and by failing to check
Java planters are guidoned by news erosion that their crop-producing that the price of sepu" will shortly rise: power is diminishing. In a word, we considerably owing to the shove crops of
the article in Caba, Porto Rico, San Dow have throughtlessly, and to a largu-de-ingo, and the British West India tinus Goods per Nubia not cleared at 4 p.m. on gree unnecessarily, diminished the re-Exporte say that the cicing data sugar
this date subjact to rent.
sources upon which not only our pres-up will show a slight filing of too. perity but the prosperity of our children
The Hoit. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nelliers de Hospitala larga must always depend." There can be to acknowledge with thinks the following Letters relating to business should be address-doubt that Mc Roosevelt is woll donations to the funds of the Bespitals:
adviend in directing pablic attention to Insurance Co's Guild
Building Continctors Guild od to THE MANAGER,
Communications relating to new shedd be this matter. In regard to mineral pro Leung Eai mu
Fruit Vegetable Grild lucto, bowever careful the nation may A Patient A Patient be there must come a time then these resources are depleted. But the forests of America stand in a different category If the various State. Governments do their duty the foresta of America should increase in value instead of decreasing. It would be the simplest thing in the
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WASTING RESOURCES.
24
A BICE RIOT.
(Ouinen Mat's Resta)
Shanghai, June 30. There is an uprising ia Kingtel. htting" as best they cu on the mountain sides, without shelter of any Kiangha province The anestion of kind, for the reason that they, being driven rice was responsible for the riot. Certain way but suddeness from the plains quarters have been deatroyed by fire could not carry with them the means of improvising huts or shanties even of the by the rotere who ultimately were met mret rudimentary type. It is not our by the ankhers of the district. purpose to follow in detail the descriptions
of scenes witnessed by the parținut, relick Two persons mere reported to have parties or to translate at length the been killed and several wounded, reports of intelligent investigators sent forth by the lenovolent societies. They
A strike has been proclaimed. exemplify for the most part ble Shake sperean saying concerning the tale phinly THE TSINPU BAILWAY. 200 toll. The routes taken by vations searchi 100 parties in steam launches, the times of
anival and departure from the different points at which'n landing was effected and particular obserrations runde, the facts na
OPENING CEREMONY.
An individul who has been lately they were learned by the members of The Kaiser's Congratulations. living on the fat of the live at Yonchingån, the search parties in the several districts Chibi province, and costing trip which they succeeded in reaching, among the officials by pratending that together with certain sggestions for the be is in possession of an alleged commission relief of the present distress and the Erom Price Ching giving him power to retorn of the farming population to the tavestigate certain criminal cases pending | laud from which they havo heen driven by
(Chinese Mrols Sextire)
TRISIN, June 50.
The Germany section of Tainpa Rail-
at the Cunts of that city, has been arrested the inunating, are the wain features of way was opened to-day. Minister Lu
by the police there under instructions Froza test: naratives. There is unfortunately Hai Hung, Director-general of the line, Peking. It appears that the alleged co donbt as to their credibility and they mission is a fortery and that, the bus show that the reports first received in the and H. E.. Yang Shib Hang, Viceny agent will be punished with a tent of Colony regarding the extent and gravity of of Clafili Province, were present among the floods in Kwangtting were by no means.
a brilliant gathering of European and exagerated.
Chinese numbering 600,
Imprisonment for his aubgity.
world when a State Government was granting a timber concession to insist that planting should take place simul taneously with felling. If this were done the arate would conserve a valu-
The Tokyo vorrespondent of the It will probably be found that the loss N.-O. Daily Newswired on June 24 of Bfe ban been greater than the hest able source of revenue and anxiety for The Japanese Charge d'Aire in Tekig computation, appally on low lying arous Cordial speeches were delivated by the future word. Now provisted in the Chinese na titano en lilly country. That both foreigners, and Chinese. that America has set the erataple of Fakuren Railway, to which reference was people in masses appears to be largely due
the Japanese counter-staterat en the there has not been a specping
bue, China and looking beyond the immediate present made in my telegrun in The North-Chins to the fact that some of the most destrus Germany was largely dwelt it may be expected that our own Co. Daily News of June 11. It puts ut five breaches in river embankments took His Imperial German Majesty the Kai that Japan does not obstruct the develop place in a region where escape to the lonies will give attention to this importmont of Chinese tairitory, sid it saggists uplands was possible before the villagos ser also wired his congratulations. ant matter. There can be little question that a tie should be built connecting becanic submerged. but that the methods of to-day in Manchuria Railway.
Fakanien with a point on the South
ploiting natural wealth are extremely wasteful. For the next few centuries this will not natter but in time the world will be faced with the very seri, ous problem of obtaining light and heat Of course it is possible that by that time
DEATH OF CAPTAIN COX.
Suicide în the Harbour.
THE CONSTITUTION
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN- MENT IN FIVE YEAKS T
The Western traveller, proceeding up what is known as the North river with a view to. ranol the Mi Ling Pass by way of Shinkwan, er to explore the caves and odier picturesque fentures of the landscape in the vicinity of Siachau, must be im pressed by the height and breadth of the dykes in the district of Samshoi, the
Chinese Mail's Service.}. We regret to have to aucunes the sad smallest of counties, and the lowest per
PEKING, June 30. own that Captain Ross Con, of the Indo-tious of Tsingyuen, the largest of the
Ata necting of the Grand Council Amorion, which can still be re- the inventive genius of mankind will China steaner On Shing committed suicide supty divisions, which serve to keep the garded as a "new" nation, should be have diserered substitutes for road this morning by jumping overhandi from river within bounds. He will have occasion it was reported that both Yuna Shil his vessel which is anchored off Wanchai:
to repurk that at points on his journey Kai and Chang Chib Tung are un favour perturbed at the possible depletion of and coat. That ponetheless it is our This will come as a great shock to his the river bod is higher time the adjacent her vast natural resources, comes as a duty, as Mr Ricosevelt has realised, to friends. He was one of the senior skippers lands, & circumstance entirely favourable of granting a national assemblage with
in the service of the Indo-China company to arigation at ordinary times, but a source in five years, GENUINE AGE surprise. Those resources have not nike provision, qui unly for our own and was a trusted and highly exfearned of extrutte penil who that river is inlbood been exploited for much more than a necessities, but for the possible require officer, the last man, indeed, whe would century yet President Roosevelt has ments of posterity...
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and the pressure of water on the dykes
be thought likely to take his own life. prores irresistible. At unch times the When soon in the office of Messrs Jardine sweeping away of the dykes may mea Matheson and Company yesterday be was submergence of the countryside for many in his visual spirits, and there was nothing square miles. Inquiry would readily elicit in his demeanour to denote that he had the fact that asis Holland some of the trouble of any sort in heart or mind. This tore remarkable local occurrench which being so motive for the desperate act has lire in the memories of the people from yet la he found.
THE ORIENT IN LONDON.
In Ald of China Missions.
Srom Our Correspondent.) -
LONDON, June, 2 Winston Cuchill got to like mESSIONKI109 generation to generation have been the white in East Africs, bones his appearance Se far an can be learned a smpan boy happenings of foods through the bursting at the oper Fthe Miserary exhibition who was on board the tenner, was a of embankments. In parts of the provincoat the Agricultural Hall next Thursday a
wit
of Captain Cox's last velontary this catastrophe has tended to change the the must, gerg
found it necessary to cautamon
White House Conference" to "COU- SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. sido: the question of the cons
From Shanghai, says a Sydezy paper, vation and use of the great funda- conss news of the centh there (suddenly) mantal sourees of wealth of America. on March 27 of Mrs J. S. Ross (nee Miss Ida Hughes), who some years ago sa Af this Couforonco, wae forty-four
champion lady simmer of New South $16.50. Governore of States and several hun-Wales. In most instances Max Ross om
We understand he saw the Captain system of land tenure from pensant pro proceedings which dred men representative of science ended good starts to her contemporaries
so-muck fuster was she comparatively, this cabin this morning, tear apa prietorship to land bolding by the wonky and Industry. In his opening speech Before tantrisge Mrs Ross taught winning photograph and throw the pinces over gentry, who advance mousy on nort the President said:"The growth of at Farmer's Domain, and Lineke's, Lady board, put some weights into his shirt and this nation by leaps and bounds makes Robinson's Bench, Baths The cause if deliberately stop overboard into the water gre of the most striking and import-death was aerism of the heart. Masak hawediately, and when the withe
Tan to apprise the cook that the Captain Ross joined her husband (foreman anginar art chaptere in the history of the I the Shanghai Deck and Engineering Co. had jumped into the water that member of tou crew was so sceptical that it was some world. Its growth has been due to td.) in Stanghai three years since,
ting-before he would take any notice of
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The two districts named abovo Samshui of the cuts of axonary, labour in the and Tsingyuen are among those to which East here will be real nations and told this report has special reference. Its most Chinese houses and each exhibit will sphio descriptive touclies are those cho'mlastonary rendy and will
was enterrauring to play some gun jake retch, is like a vast sea, with possibly the
before opening their parse stringe,
the story believing that the angst boy whoivin the country, as tua sarthe eye can give details to those who want them
there are thousands o
reading op
Bains, late sub-editor of the CEIA MAIL, Hover the report proved only to us, tops of Houses Appearing aboyo the surface departed for Shanghai to take up a position and new efforts are being made to recover of the water, the groups of tens and com on the Horary staff of the North Chiru tím body,
panies of hundreds working day and night tó
his friends shown, and lun, character
has supplied to us in the United States, and still supplice to us, mory kinds of Daily News. During Mr-Bains dive yoursptain Lex was highly esteemed by rostero or t› prosorge the dyse, the us cames, for there are to resources in a more lavish, degree than the Casa MAIL staff he made many may be aged by the revista al semblies of old folk snd children si the thousand of them
friends in the Colony and we particularly quition, who, whion told cf the temples or such other
dings as remain lins over been the ease at any other prominent in sporting circles, his knowledge acorence, and having reenvored freu to Kind a shelter, the widespread destruc- timo or with any other people. On of all branches permitting him to contribute the remarked, Well, I fasion of the crops and the state to which reno
unch to the record of sport in the Colony to ton level handed a way to do that,
Rekreely believe il Cox always seemed
the eultivators and position in the world has been atlained by the extent and thoroughness of the control we have achieved over astare but we are inoze, and not loss, depend- ent upon what she farmishes than at any previous time of history, since the days of primitive man. This nations. began with the belief that its landed possessions were imitable and off
in the columns of this paper, and alan tetut in the gamut of human amutions flere roused. A pileone fale waliood with
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the writer of the History of Spors in are incomprehensible minute which the variations from North-and-East, and Woot! Hongkong for the Twentieth Century outside low noter wors of, but which kons Impressions" portly to be issued by Toyda Greator Dhital Publishing Com pany. This particularartclo will be the only ano dealing compreneuntyely will sport i the Colony, and by having compiled, it
Kamma ling established for all tiúo s and valuable foundation for the anned history of games in the Colony Mr Baine bas of late been the shorthand instructor at the Technical labiital
alio in the mind of the allian mannot come for even an opp And it is costain that Captain Cax inboured. under some great stal strun when he aur mesure of tre disaste delbontel leap into the waters of the over, chase that multitades of distressed parbour this morning to clases the twok n hĩa: life. What caused that "striiuwe B:9 triable to say,
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