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Meetings. 11.30 a..-Meeting of Green Cement Co., Ld., at Mesars
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UWAY MURDER AT
ABERDEEN
CHINAMAN TERRIBLY
The American Hongkong on
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ghly developed and the way to other inlands and slands you anght pass to the whole of that of Kaescindeed the opposite content which surrounded worn by the ladies of Minown times the true cossa And again: "In this their ornammis and trinketa, are wan-
What appears to be a murder of 3 2200g faland there was a great and wonderful fully skin to those worn by the English borilis description has be found Shanghai to-day empire which had rule over the whale women of today--and like Knossos hare been committed at Aberdeen, Bome- vine, yesterday afternoon the body of a island and everal others, as well us over we may be depending too greatly upon spectably dried Chinaman was found, parts of the continent." Again, we read one arm of defence for our safety, the iron bridge and on examination that the island was very lofty and neglecting as it were the landward aphe appears to have been savagely attacked precipitoas on the side of the sea but proaches and thus we may be in similar a razor, for the body was borribly matilated, the head being practically that the country immediately about and danger of being overwhelmed and ourered from the trunk. The abdomen surrounding the city was a bevel plain name and institutions turned into the was also ripped open and there were great sheltered. In the north"
airy fakris of legend and folk-story, galas on both hands, giving evidence of History bas an uncomfortable habit of fight of a most desperate character, there repeating itself.
COMPENSATION,
Eleven thousand six hundred and thirteen
being undoubtedly more than me atonilant. In addition the features were almost un recognimble all the head having freen bat
red with great stones, probably after the throat had been ont.
The body dressed in Boropean
ITEMS AT THE COURIER
Acting on these hintaa correspondent of The Times proceeds to locate the lost Atlantis, in Crete, and the arguments which he marshale in support of his theory seem moet plusible. He de dollara represent the first actual loss to other, From the descriplan of the do Telenéscribes the position of that wonderful the Colony incurred though the compal cased it woull appear that he was he city, Kuose--which has been made of Rory shutting of the Opium Divans In journer at Hongkong ather than Stenuato years to yield up so many of its obedience to the mandates of the good rodent for bo bad the appearncica,
long-buried secrets, more particularly people in Ragland. The Hon. Mr F. Having recently been on a voyage either General Memoranda. by Dr. EVANS--and points out that May considers the eum sohiding-a very fom Shanghai or Singapore,
swall thing" he calls it-that he argues. The motive for the murder suggeste MONDAY, April 6 :--
RAMESES II during his famous reign the Colony should quietly pay the bill revenge rather than robbery Noon Meeting of China Borneo Co. was called upon to defend his land without trembling the Home authorities
Id., at Co.'s Offices Gouda per Ernest Simons mélaimed afte from a coalition of the Miroan about it at all. We are glad to see that
this date at Noon will be subject to ront and landing charge.
race, the raca which built Knossos ether members of the Finance Committe Gode per Indrani undelivered after end when he utterly defeated and of this Legislative Council do not entertain the loose, illogical ideas to breezy soun- cisted by the Colonial ceretary. As the Colonial Traasurer pointed out in the course of the short discussion initiated by himself, the payment of this 811,613 is the direct result of the action taken by the it the Magistracy to-day. Home Government, and therefore it follows, in our opinion, that the matter affords a cellent oppurtunity for ascertaining whether the Home Government really intend to carry of centuries with the destruction of the
out their abstract promise to give the Colony fabled labyrinth, while the existence compensation for the los in its revenues A Chinese prisoner who we sentenced to of a bullring at Knossos explains the incurred through the shutting up of the three years imprisonment at Wei-lai-wei, opium dimang. Mr May thinks that the connection with an armed robbery, wIAI presence of the Minotaur. Кроваоа,
loases will be calculated from March 1st, admitted to Victoria Goal this mornag. necording to conservative estimates, 1910, but we do not follow him along that was posted
this date subject to real, TUESDAY, April 6 ;----
9.15 p.Meeting of His Majesty's Boods por Belgravia undelivered after
Justices of Pesce at the Magistracy.
this date anblock to rest. WEDNESDAY, April 7:
Gloods per Devanha not cleared at p.m. on this date subject to rent. Goode per Benalder undelivered after
this date subject to rent. THVERDẠY, April 8:
2.20 p.m.-Auction of Boardhold Forn!
inre, do, at Mr H. W. Sade's residence
Taiping, No. 115, the Peak. WEDNESDAY, April 21-
Noon-Meeting of Union Insaranes So- ciaty of Canton, L., at Head Office. 12.30 p.m. Meeting of China Traders' Insurance Co., La., at Hand Offes.
The China Mail
HONGKONA, FXDÃY, AMIL 2. 1909.
THE LOST ATLANTIS,
Evra since the days of Plato, men have puzzled their lea and worried ther
!
destroyed, as the inscriptions on the temples at Medinet Habu testify to this day. This annihilation of the Mincans, saya the writer, may have given rise to the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, the sacking of Kansas becoming jumbled up in men's minds in the course
Fifteen gamblers were ined 83 each
day, at the Magistracy.
RETURNS
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The revenue reurns for the pat quarter show an increase of but for the whole year there is a decrease of £1,950,390
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Mr Taksaki Kalo, Japanese Ambay
4 sentence of three weeks imprisonment sader to. England, was the chief prusit: and six hours stocks was passed on a native at the naval architecte der H for stealing a bag of comensat henkiwa emphasised that dapan's interests were
sew Post Offee and this kd to s punish A nativo atole two hammers from the
out of three weeks in prisonment and sis hours stocks, it the Magissey to-day,
was founded over 10,000 before apecious line of reasoning. He acknow For austching an earpick in Queen'i ledges that the sum voted at Thursday's Road Central, from a woman, a native wat Coner and in the course of centuries outing of the Finance Committee representenced to 12 months' imprisonment, at it had extended its infineurs from the sents an actual loss to the Colony, therefore the Magistracy to day, and four hour from a mere miness point of view it would sticky. A similar sentence was imposed on North Adriatic to Tel-ol-Amarna and
identical with those of Great Britain.
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FROM
from Stoly to Syria. Contident in their pear that the item must be included another naties for a like fence in Well Septe
when we draw op our bill for presentation lagton Street long supremacy at ses the Minoans left to the British Parliament. The Hon. Mr
The assistant compradors of ka. Tai-03 Ho Kai is of that opivion too, Another their cities unfortified, and this neglect unofficial member, the Hon Mr. E. A appeared before Mr F. A. Hazeland, at the of their land defences proved their Hewett, ✯ quite right in reminding the Magistracy, today, and was bred 600 for THE BALKANS TROUBLE. rain when they attempted to extend Colonial Secretary that the principle ander baging 20 taels of opium in hin ponacraíon lying this apparently trifling transaction is For having 24 taols a natire was also fined their away over Egypt. While still in very important, for the svantual loas to the $200, while a coolle in the employ of Mr fall vigour Knossos fell, the whole Colony before this sony opium muddle is F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor, w brains over the legend of the lost Atlantisland was sacked and the wonderftasked with will be very serious. Afined 86 for a similar offere), WOM Many have been the attempts to unravel civilization which it had developed was may be the amount of unquestioning AF Yaumalis native went into a house the mystery, many the daring guesses wiped out of the memory of man. at the probable site of the lost country. its place arose logends winch grew more In every age there have been sceptics fanciful and indistinct as they were who have oponly derided the old-world passed from the men of one civilization story and declared that a lost Atlantia to the men of the succeeding cycle WHISKY was but the idle daydream of an When Uncsscs fell, the Egyptian know
imaginative philosopher mislead by a ledge of the Mediterranean must have
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In sublime faith hich Mr May reposes in the and said he had coine to see the husband
good intentions of the Hota authorities butas the man was not in the nativet
we live in a mutuable work and politics wife that he would wait for hin are provsthially slippery, so no opportunity wailing he stole a watch and chain and should be missed of keeping Downing the Magistry to-day, he was sch discussier throws interesting side lights stooks Street to its plighted word. The little to three weke hard labor and an hours
on the stitude of some local officials and c
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OMMAND
the keer in their defence of the Colony Judge (Mr Justice Compertza gave jude THE INDIA will undoubtedly make the unofficials, all At the Supreme Court to-day the Poisso
A Blend of the Finest Pursuing priest. But these were ever been very scanty: the voyage to Crotoutarosta.
in the minority. Mankind, taken in the Malt Whiskies distilled in mass, has chung to the legend as fondly flest ever took out of sight of land. was probably the first that PHATACH B
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Scotland
as it has done to the story of Cinderella, But by the time of Sorow the borders The French Mail of the 2nd March Jack and the Beanstalk and other
of men's knowledge had widened and was delivered in London on the 1st last. nursery-tiles" which have come down so when the priest spoke to him of a
Engheer-Lacut. HG Moon has beep
OF
AND
mens for $109.5 in the case in which the Foo Kat Choong Firm sued Mosera Schuldt and Co. for the return of $316,54, mid to have been paid for 20 mees of sardines which it was alleged the defondents failed to deliver.
A Japanose clerk named hoshiki, of b
the Magistracy to day that he was cele The next Philharmonic Concert has nating the third year of his shop, was been fired for Friday, April 22, at 9.15 p.m. hood $10, and ordered to pay 50 cente compensation, for being drunk and die In the City Hall.
orderly, ambiting a Clness policeman and doing damage to bu moiform to the extent of 50 cents. quang denga
GENUINE AGE 10 us from the very day dawn of history, lost headpan befont the four appointed to the H. M. S. Kent, undated. Arsenal Streit, who told Mr Himoland, në
and which we now know have a very pillars of the world, he naturally solid basis of material px 1astroco-
placed it out in the west beyond the mical fact behind them. For many
Pillars of Hercules, our modern Gibral
tar. But a stronger argument is furnished, says the writer in The Times, by the strange and persistent tradition of the shallowness of the Atlantic Ocean sad the mind banki, which marked the
FINE MELLOW years it was thought the Cape de
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PER DOZEN- $16.50.
Verde islands might be the last re- maining vestiges of the last Atlantis, uz-|
It was stated at a stepney inquest that a mother and her adult daughter had been living on 3s. a week.
His Majesty the King has witnessed the son play, "An Englishman's Home," it Wyndham's Theatre.
sil scientists began to plumb the depths of the Atlantic between them and the nearest mainland, and then the theory was reluctantly abandoned. Other place where Atlantis had been. We thinkers, more daring, transferred the cannot imagine that the first navigating und of life, Sho was a noted socia lest Atlantis to the Indian Oceau tors who sailed west of Gibraltar leader in American society
Robert Porter & Co.'s while spune even located it in Australia. brought back tales of the shallowness
BULL DOG
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Mis Pierre Torlard, He wife of multi-millionaire, has committed suicida
Miss Lilian Mary, da'ighter of Mr dễ
Commander &. ¤ B. C. Home, who pretty well known in the China Station, has bem appointed to the command at the third
cruiser, Pegasus, Australia
Christian Kuempel, raster of the st. Anghin, obarged the master of a steam
FORD
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appoint
Note: The "nux who hash bomi: Secreta Department of the End is is 61 years of born on April 2łu), Cross hero, and
launch beliers Commanda Besil R.N., at the Marine Court to-day failing to observe the role of the rod thereby colliding with a passenger beat. A das el 150, in two months' imprisonment, sery was imposed and his cortinate to be banghar suspended for six months.
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But all these theories, it must be of the seas on the contrary, they Witchell of the Green Island Cement Co.help to him. It restores and preserved lis good bestibi supports, his strength sid energy, and thereby mala bis work lik admitted, sound very wide of the mark, must have been impressed with their 1 to be married to-morrow, at St. John's
It will be remembered that in the depth, vastness and absence of islands Cathednt, to Mr E K. Wilson of Japan isome
But if Atlantis wers Crete the explana tion is easy for if through bad weather or faulty reckoning & smp misa Crete and pass it on the
it would soon find itself on the quicksands of the Tanian coast, the Syrtes, which very dreaded even
story told by Puo in the mans, SoLow, the great lawgiver, while paying a surreptitious visit to the banks of the
Nile, entered into cnptoraation with a
priest of Saus, then the capital of Egypt, and was told that in a bygone age there had been a great island state in the Wo in Pints and Splits, which, in un attempt at miv
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