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And what did he discover 2 – To beg ance for the afarchnat Adventurers of the with, he phased through a big game Low Countries and finally for himself, country and then came to land whereon only to be beaten back by the we and pre situated the northernmost of stormy weather JONAS POOL followed the world. He made the great dis him in 1610, then came BAFFIN in 1613; covery in company with two Esquimaux, and Bommeter in 1815, after which for and therein lies the disappointment of contary and a a half the attempts to find the scientific world, which likes to have north-west passage and incidentally such things fully corroborated: had he to reach the north pole were not re-but had one white companion his story same With the 'extrordinary out would be accepted without hesitancy. burst of naval activity which followed As it a sceptical world hesitates and the accession of GEORGE II men's asks for the most positive proof. It is thoughts once more turned towards most unfortunate, but Dr. Coon is not Arctic exploration, and Captain Jobs the first to suffer such treatment. The Purrs afterwards Eard MILGLAVE, fitted wave of excitement which swept over out an expedition at the charges of the England and all places where British British Admiralty which had purely folk do dwell at the announcement of
ÁFRAID DEBTOR WOULD
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[COFTEIGHT] THE NORTH POLE.
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themorning the No. 1 bar bor of the Belle DI COOK'S STORY ACCEPTED View Hotel was sued by a shopkeeper for WITH RESERVESAVA 4 rum, od #90, 85 said to be balance due-for provisions supplied. Debtor appeared and (Reuter's Service bathi Chứng Muih). consented to judgments RS
Loanor, September 2
BAKUMA
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Tory September P Governor General Sakume of For For plaintiff Mr Bondor Harris applied that the debtor be committed to prison. A telegram from Dr Cook, the mass, is to retain his present position peling execution as he was likely to run Amrican explorar, rasived at the for one year more, special Imperial
Brussels Observatory," adda that be sanction having been obtained, His Lordship asked the defendant-Are discovered land at the far north. you going to run away?
Newspaper comments and interviews Dofondant - No, my Lord, I will not with other Arctic explorers are tinged abecond.
with a certain amount of reserve pond ing detailed information.
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Mr. Harris-It is more on the ground, my Lord, that he is likely to hide himself. Bia Lordship. Hide himself in the Colony?
Mr Harris-Yos, my Lord. Plaintif was called and said he had many times gone to the hotel in order to get
10,000 RECORDS scientific objects set before it. But Liest. SHACKELTON's close approach to the money but he could never find the
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Defendant stated that when plaintiff called he had bean out collecting debta.
Mr Harris stated that he would drop thi "pplication.
luck was not with him and Faurs did the Antarctic pale-he got within aus defendant. If he chose to hide himself is a room it was impossible to make a searah not reach far north as old. Her hundred miles-will be as nothing His Lordship That is true of anybody, Hutson had done with his far inferion compared with what must follow the arDo you think he did hide himself 7
Plaintif Ter. ship, by fully 49 miles. Capt. Cres, rival of this news in America. It is, we the great navigator, was the next to at feel, a great thing which Dr. Coos, be tempt the task, and he proceeded by way achieved and he is entitled to all the of Behring's Straits, only to be driven honors that the world can bestow | back after reaching 70°45′ N, Int. His
upon him.". experiences greatly disheartened other. explorers and it was not till 1906, that Beukens, the mate of a Hall whaler,
A boatman was fined 850 by Mr F. A reached $130 N lat., or 510 geo-Hassinad, at the Magistracy to-day, for graphical miles from the Pole. Sonar making fast to the s.a, la Jebson. has cut his name deep in the annals.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Judgment was ontored for plaintif
HONGKONG CHURCH MISSION.
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Nota-According to service regulations- General Sakuma bas reached the retiring ago ma general officer, bat his adzhinistra. five ability is so grund that is in generally felt that it would not be in the interests of Formor if he retired at the present. mament. Hence the appeal to the Tarona" had the granting of another your's inrvice.
The newspapers draw attention to the difficulty. De Cook will experience in—ED. C.M.). furnishing confirmation of his stale- mente as be was unaccompanied by ang civilised companion
HOW THE DISCOVERY
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TO SUPPRESS BOY- COTTING.
Woh Tae Yet Po's Service) ERKING, September
The Peking Government, bas directed
TWO ESQUIMAUX AND 20 DOGS Viceror Shi Liang to suppress any
IN THE LAST RUSH.
· Fuller details reach America..
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(Reuter's Serving to the Chiam af of Lasnos, September 3. Dr Cook has telegraphed ar account,
Meeting of the Children's Branch of
of his successful Polar expedition to the Yew York Herakili the Hongkong Church Missionary Associa tion will be hak, by kind permission of He says that after a struggle with Mist Beyor and Mr Alfred Bryer. At hunger and coll he has reached the of the Farthest North, but space. Toung man, do you not at times feel day, September 7th, at 5 p.m. The He found a big game country, then
Dialoged from Golf illustrated-Tanderages," 119B,, The Peak, on Tuer Pole. Orania ZINA Maiz (wockly) 815,00 forbids our entarging on his achieve that this Sunday golf in jeopardising you Pishop of Victoria will preside and addres made the land wherren are found the
per your; including postage, 8:7.00ments. The subsequent expeditions chanoos of heaven? Jeopardising Free salivory to olhaddresses accessible of Pterax and Frassus in 1818, of Why it is heaven." by massager, including all Poak, Kowloon Charai in 1823, of Gran (Danish) and Quarry Bay residences.
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The Board of Agriculturo estimates that the wheat crop throughout the United 1833, may be considered as virtual fil-Kingdom will be abare the average. There ures for they really added nothing to our strong belief that the world's harvests 22geographical knowledge. Of the tales of generally will be above those of 1009.
heroism which each of these expeditions afford in umple abundance, we bare not space to enter upon here; quither can we make more than fleeting reference to the last expedition of FRANKLIN which led to his untimely death, to the voyages that were made in search of him" by". Though the sultry. weather still con M'Cuts, McLayroom and others, and tinnes with us, athletic circles throughout
11 a.m..-Auction of an Assortment of
Drapery at Mr Goo. P. Lammert's
Sales Коста.
Miscellaneous. 4.10 p.m.-Fourth Meeting of Hongkong Gymkhana Club, at Happy Valloy,»
Amusements.
9 p.m.-Performance at the City Hall.
General Memoranda. MONDAY, September 6-
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Hocsehold Furni
ture, de, at Mr Geo, P. Lammert's Salos Rooms.
3 p.m.-Auction of Crown Land at the Public Works Department's Offices. TODAY, September 7 :-
2.15 p.m.-Meeting of His Majestys' Justices of the Peace at the Magistracy, WEDNESDAT, September 8:
2.20 p.m.-Auction of Household Fomi- tucs,&c, at Meets Hughes & Hough's
Sales Rooms.
tare at No. 13. Morrison Hill Rond. SATURDAY, September 11 :-
Noon-Meeting of China Light & Power
Co., Lal, at Co.'s Offices.
movements leading to a boycott, of » Japanese goods in Manchuria.
ME. FAIRBANKS.
(Wuh Ta Yat Pui Services)
FEXING, September 2. Mr Fairbanke, the ex-Vice-President of the United States, has been received: in audience by the Prince Regent..
CHINESE STUDENTS GO ABROAD.
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(Wah TwYat Pu's Service)
PEKING, September 3. The Board of Communications bas
ses will be given by Miss L. Bryer and | Miss BR Rodd; of the Charch of Eng.northernmost rocks of the world.
He had great luck in finding Es- Iand Zemann Missionary Society, who haro been working for many years in the quimanx gathered for a bear hunt at Province of Fulkien. Weather permitting Annatok. Ment was plentiful and there the Meeting will be held in the open air, it were hundreds of healthy dege. He arranged to send 42. students, to is specially intended for children but all thus got expert assistance and with a America interested in Missionary work aro cordially splendid outfit found himself only 700|" invited to attend
milea from the Pole.
A young man ramed' Edward' Legge, who attempted to intercapt Mr Asquith HONGKONG SERVICE NOTES. for the good of his sual” on his way to the Foreign Office, has been dotained at the Fulham Infirmary, and is said to be suffering from religinus delusions.
of the daring expeditions led by Nines, the Colony are beginning to stir with reawakening life and the prospects for
WATER FOLO Uwing to the fact that in former years 4
1
ANOTHER DISPUTE
Describing his approach to the Pole, with two Esquimoux and twenty-six (Wah Taut Pots Service.) dogs, he says astronomical observations
PERING, September 2. were daily secured until the 21st of It ie eaid that an international. difhculty was experienced in finding suit. April, when he was within 14 seconds dispute has arisen concerning some ablo referees for the R.G.A. Inter Co. of the Pole.
islanda near the Pratie shoal matches, it was decided that in the event.
MINTING OF COFFER of either of the three companies beating
'CASH TO STOP. the other two in the Hongkong Lengue matches, the RA. Traphy would be their without further competition. On Wedne
He then advanced the requisits dis- tauce and reached the actual Pole.
The sun indicated local noon, for all meridians had met, but north, eust and
As the century advanced expeditions cricket,, football, howls and other sports day evening the 83rd Ch. met and dolented West had vanished, and it was south ja to the Polar region grew more nu-diring the coming autumn are already merous. They we despatched by theming discussed. French, the Danish, the American. 'the
2.46 p.m.-Auction of Household Farni-like taking up a book of the old Norse Sagas to read the various acequäts which Arctic explorers have placed in print for the benefit of the stay-nt homes, and always the task bas bad to
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TRUEBAY, September 30
9.30 p.m. Auction of Valuable hold Land at Shameen, Canton.
The China Mail
Explaining to the St. Austell Guardians why he had not answered, letters from their clerk, one of the overseora of St Sampson's parish wrote :—
"I amny have received them, but still not have opened them, making it a rule of my be abandoned incomplote. As the life not to open letters until I have a good- nineteenth century drew to its closely number. Then I take a day's work of it. Always remember you are paid for Lousebreathless interest the attempts of
were following with your letter-writing; I am not."
the mations
9th Co. by 2 goals to 1; and as they had every direction, but the compasa point- already defeated the 87th Co. in the League ing to the magnetic pole was as useful they are the RA. Water Polo Champitosus ever. add therefore holders of the eup for the sson 1909.
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PEKING, September 2.. The Board of Finance has instructed all Provincial mints than the minting of copper coins must be stopped at once. ****
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PEKING, September 2. The Chientao agreement provides that Japanese and Korean, inhabitants.. of Chientao will be under Japanese jurisdiction.
RECORDS AT RHEIMS.
Tis reported from Winnipeg that British, the Italian, the Russian and the terrible forest fire is in progress in British Swedish Governments, while many Columbin. The less already reaches mora private adventures were made by men than a million pounds, and several citise who had felt the call of the north nadaza threatened with destruction. The Grethe R. E..N. C. Os. Picnic Club on Satur ie adrane'ng with great rapidity with a day last. The wanther was all that could be
Information came to the knowledge. of were determined upon penetrating to front of one unile. No lives have bean desired, and the committee who were re
the Excise Officers. that some illicit opium. sponsible for the arrangements on this the heart of its bafting mystery. It is Inst
occasion, are to complimented. A very was to be found at 110, Connaught Road anjoyable time was spent ou the trip, but Central, which is occupied as a boarding beyond swimming and lunching little cise house, and acting on the information the was done after arrival at the Island owing house was searched. A handbag containing seven tins of prepared opíam, besides a cash box containing shout fourteen taeis That the recommendatione of the. Army was found in the safe. The story told hy Council with regard to rife meetings are the proprietor was that two wome beginning to take effect is evident from the from Macro and engaged a room. They fact that tho R. E. Rifle Association con-sked him to place the handbag and cashi positions are now a combination of rapid and box in the safe and he did so. The the "Telegrams to the N.0. Daily News from alow praktises on the ringed-figure targets, womon left apparently with the object of Rheims say that Mr Curtise, the American, The results of this, the first competition taking a walk, a locked hor, near the won the Gordon Bennett prize for NANSEN,, of PEADE, of WELLMANY, and Ford Avebury has naked the council entirely on the new principle in the Colony, cubicle which the women engaged, was twenty-kilometros race, in 15 mins. CO the Duke of Amezza to reach the Pole, of the Fordon Chamber of Commerce to will be watched with interest by the local broken open and it was found to oqptain M. Blérict, who was second, covered.
ascertain the opinions of various trades shooting enthusiasts, as the adapting, by brick, and, a half wrapped up in paper. the distance in 15 mins. 563 secs. They each attacked the problem from committees on the following two points the U.U.S.R.A. mosting of the require. The proprietor of the house was arrested.
Mr Henry Farman won the passenger different bases. FooT ANDREE, a brilli- The transference of the Easter Back sents of the Army Council can only be a bat after the evidence of his fokis when he prize. He carried two passengers a dis. appeared before Mr J. Wood, at the tance of ben kilometres in 10 mins. 39 seca.. ant young; Frenchman, conceived the Holiday from Easter Monday to Enster matter of time.
Magistracy this morning, the case an M. Blériot's seroplane was subsequently idea of reaching the Pole by means of a Bank Holiday, or Thanksgiving Day, siroiler ova.. The desirability of having a fifth
destroyed by an explosion of the motor. balloon, and to this day his fate is to the holiday observed in America. The A SPANISH BANK FOR CHINA.
certain. He sailed away and was idez in that in the first ease clerks could never heard of again, though many in the second there would be fifth Bank have three consecutive days of leave, and
have been the stories which Esqui-Holiday maux tribes are supposed to have told of a mysterious god-like object dropping from the clouds and thereafter
HOROS FRIDAY, SEPTEMĺnen 3, 1909.
THE LURE OF THE NORTH POLE.]
From the days of Omst the Northman right down to the present year of grace! all races with a drop of Viking blood in their Teins bare felt the lure of the frozen North. For the mere last of adventure the early voyageurs sought to find a way through those inhospitable being killed. Following Asmus's ex- ample, Wix, an American ex- regions to the fshied and which was
plorer, constructed an airship, but his
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and storekeepers. wil chemfite and storekeepers,” car has been put as high "no twenty
supposed to lie hidden behind the icyo attempts have both ended in failure, hi-kis the only man who can reliere given that no scheme had been lastil of
barriers, a lagd of calm delights and | idyllic government where the joys of Vallalla could be anticipated during
the last only the other day July 17, 1908, Commander PEART set of
Thore is a growing, feeling hat Tuna On China from the tanglo into which her foreign affairs have been placed, and rumour is busy in regard to his possible recall:
8. WATSON * 00 moral life." Coming down the centuries from Sydney, Cape Breton, for yet one
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million tacks. So far as can be learned this raport is at confirmed, for on ed quiry at the Augustinian Procuration la Yangtszopoo Road the information was there. Evidently, however there is the possibility of some sort of financial ander. taking with Spanish backlog, ne rumours have been circulated that several Uhi- Desa merchants have become interested in
Similar rumours have been current in
we find men still willing to go on the establish a base on the Northern shore Bromhed Matthors (Inte of such a project. It is of course possible Frengrave and Matthews, Penang, and that something of the kind might be ac- great quest, but now their objective kad į of Grant's Land from whence he hoped now Attorney-General,-Bahamas) has been complished by Spaniards other than the changed somewhat, as well as they make a dash with sufficiently laden appointed by the Secretary of State for priests, but evidently any scheme, in pre motives úctuating them. It was to find alegou to the Pole Other expeditions the Colonies to be Attorney-General of the post has not yet reached the point of
Straiter Bettlements, in anocassion to Mr materialisation, are also in and around the polar regions. J. Napier. Mr Matthews, who will a northwest passage to Cathay and Hindustan, and so to wrest the wealth bent on doing something similar, arrive in Singapore to take over the daties Bougkook, but they do not appear to rest of the Indies from the grasp of the
among them being three under Danish in October, was called to the Bar in 1890, on any more satisfactory basis than the reported dinantisfaction of the Spanish. Portingalle," to whom these regions bad leaders. But if the news which we print-acting Solicitor-General of the Strate Father with the returns they are at prac Bettlements from October 1902 to May sent receiving from house property and been given by Papul dispensation, that
ed last evening bo true, the guerdon 1903. For three years, from 1901 to 1004, arious mercantile investments in which
they are interested." CABOT, FRODINUES, Sir Hempner Cher sa at last been pron, and that by the hose member of the Legislative fact and Jony DAVIS made so many daring representative of the young and vigour. Council attempts to win through to the farthest us American aution. Leaving a point
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