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SCOTTISH LETTER.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
EDINBURGH, October 10.
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AUTUMN IN SCOTLAND." Automa" has come;-it-is-tktober the month of falling leaves. The long spell of sylory weather is at an end; there is a touch'
MITSU BISHI COSHI KWAISHA of rust in the morning sir, on the pplands
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powdering of rime; and we walk briskly along the roads and etreats to keep a heat. The grass and the goras, the ferns and the heather and the trees have taken on the dying tints as beloved of landscape artists, The rowans and the hawthorns are splashed with red berries.-if there is any truth in the old saying that a how yearly answ year," we shall have a severe winter. All the wild fraite ère in unusual abundance, thanks to the unbroken sunabine of the past months and the hearts of the marsading schoolboys
AGENTS 15 KISHIDAKE & SAKITU are gladdened by a roath of gains and hazals
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Hozaxora.
Hongkong, Aprili 29, 1911.
FRIDAY,
3rd Nov.,
CITY
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lastrament. You belonged to a band, did you not?" Yeo, air," "Now,' kall the sorb of instrument you played on.*** The big drum," replied the patient,, and the lecturer and students could not restrain
burst of laughter.
AIR EDWARD GEST AND BERWICK," The casket which contained the vellum
document constituting Sir Edward Grey,
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a fxeoman of Barwick-on-Tweed, was made out of cak taken from the foundations of the old timber bridge acrras the Tweed. This takes a far badke in our country's history. For coaturies the borough was a biase of contention between England and Scotland,. sometimes it belonged to the one and soma. times to the other. Even after the Union memory, it was mumed in Acts of Parlia of the Crowns,-indoed, within: hems.
most as a distinct and separate part of the United Kingdom. Geographically it is in England; administratively it is attached to and walnuts. Only the brambles, with England' ned its position in the olden their plvesant, tang of mother earth, are time was an important ope. Just as the hard to find, not from any penuriousness river Farth "bridled the wild Hielantmen", of nature, but because the dust-raising so the civor Tweed was a barrior between motors have spoiled this roadside harvest. the lawlass lans on the Bordos. The There are other signs of the change of bridge was therefore always of wood, so the season. The great Highland gatherings that on the first alarm of war or foray tha have been held, the short circuit of the burghers could turn out with axe in hand Scottish race meetings is completed, the and in for minutes how down the long, marrow, slender passage. Not until Jamas last of the great golf competitions has VI. of Scothad became also James I. of taken place. The real Southwards England, and peace; was thereby brought at its height, and to spood the parting to the Debatable Land, was it thought ad- guests there have been talle everywhere, visible to erect a stage bridge between the -hunt balls, county balls, golf club balls, realms that lay North and South, of the
Tweed. and carpet dances" innumerable. Une
of thesu batis truck a novel note; it was held in Edinburgh, and was called "A Dromis of Old China," a number of tableaux were presented representing Japanese, Oriental, and Delft pottery, And Serres, English, and Dresden China. The most striking sign of the end of the holidays, however, is the opening of the autumn platform campaign. Since the adjournment of Parliament we
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OLD MÁSOSIC RƑCORD.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1911.
Intimations.
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There has been privately printed the minuto back of the Aitchison Haven SOLE AGYA POR CHINA, Lodge, 1598-1764-Aitchison Haven lay to the east of Musselburgh, between Levenball and Morrison's Haven. It le designated "The Buik of the Actin and Ordinans of the Nobila Masters and Fellows of Craft of the Ludg of Atchison's beavise," and, contains a catalogue of
The Robert Dollar Coi, HOT MANSIONA.
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have had a blessed respite-from-party.conthe names of the follows of craft that JAPANESE CURIOS
troversy. But now the quiet is broken, and
are presently in the Zair of God. 1588,"
818 till Parliament once more assembles weThe five earliest minutes antedate the
Tickets
CATHEDRAL CHOIR CONCERT
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$3 & $2 (for the Organ Fund)
Flan at
ROBINSON PIANO Co.
Bangkong, October 29, 1911.
shall suffer from a spate ofsorntory of sorts, —Ministerial, Qaionist, and Nationalist.
CHRISTIANITY IN THE FAR EAST."
famous minute of," Ultimo July 1859" of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No 1, which up till now has held the An Address on "Commerce and Chriati-pread position of being the oldest Lodge
minute in existence.
anity in the Far East" was delivered in Glasgow by Mr J. Campbell White, Now, York, who has recently returned from
·
· MISCELLANYA,
Lord Pentland has given a pledge on the Chin and Korea. His position was that part of Mr Asquith that a Local Veto "Bill while commerce was a considerable fact in for Scotland will be Introduced in next the Far East, Christiavity was a good deal session of Parliament. Temporadce men, larger fact. It had to be, admitted that of course, are greatly pleased, but with the Goyerament time already heavily commerce had arently handicapped the ap- proach of Christinuity to the Far Eastmortgaged for Home Rule, not to mention Welsh Disestablishment and several other That had been largely because many men,
important measares, the chance of auch had left their religion behind them when
a contentious Bil becoming law is in- they went into the Far East. All over the finitesimal. Orient to-day, there was the impress of A statue of the first Earl of Linlithgow, bad men whom the natives had supposed who was also the first Governor-General of to be representatives of Christianity. Not the Australian Commonwealth, was in. only were individual men living immoral veiled in the High Street of the ancient 1296 livce in the presence of theen people, but burgh from which he takes his title. It is there were Governments which were significant of the universal osteom in which supposed to be Christian stealing temitory, the late nobleman was hold that his con and doing a great many other things which and successor returned from savelling a FRIDAY, the 3rd of November, were unfair to these weaker nations. monument raised to him in Australlia. in sime to be present at a similar corameny in pendence of the Republic of Fazama, the CONSUL GENERAL will be AT said he did not think we had any parallel HOME' at his Ofice No. 6, Des Youxin history to the effort that we now being Bdad, between Noon and I Y..
NOTIOE..
(being the anniversary of the Indo-Referring to the opium traffic in China, he
ENRIQUE L. HURTADO
Canad, General. Hongkong, Octoer 31, 1911,
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made by the Chinese Empire towarda sorions. moral reformation. We ought to help them in every possible way to hasten the day when they would be rid of the
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The death is anounced of Dr Joseph Bell, & distinguished Edinburgh sarkoon, who was better known in a wider world as the prototype of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's amateur, detective, Sherlock Holmes. A
Linlithgow.
Clyde Navigation Trustees hare accepted an offer for the erection of a large granary at an estimated cost excording £103,000, The quanary will be the largest of the kind in the country, having eleven stories, and, being capable of handling 31,000 tons of grain at one time, and turning pror 250,000 tous yearly.
At a parado at Glamis Castle, the Earl of Strathmore presented colours to the 5th battalion the Black Watch.
Mesara Kaplar and Millor, Old Kirk-
man of marked personality and sympathetic piltrick, have received from the Nippon temperament, Dr Bell was a great favourite Yusen Kaisha an order for a passenger and
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INSPECTION EARNESTLY SOLICITED. Hongkong, October 30, 1911.
NOTICE
"CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY.
TOR
HR Convenience of Passengers, it is notified that the leaving Kow loon ou WEEK DAYS at 8.3. will leave on SUNDAY MORNINGS at 8/15 4.M.
By Order,
E. LINDSEY, Manager, Hongkong, Noovmber 1, 1911,
HEADWATERS MINING COY.,
INCORPORATED."
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【OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
MEETING of the Hongkong Share- koldora(whether registered or unregistered) of the Headwaters Mining Co. will be held the Offices of Messrs DEACON, LOOKER & DEACON, Prince's Buildings, on MONDAY, eth Nov., at'4.30 P., for the purpose of considering the financial position of the Company.
BY ORDER.
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Hongkong, October 30, 1911.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND
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the numerous patients of humble position whom he treated in the public institutions of Edinburgh. de a lecturer, to is des cribed by his students as "intensely in teresting" and "fascinating.""
OBITUARY.
As Culler Houso, Banshire, the Right Hon. Caroline Starb, widow of the sovath Earl of Senfield, K.T.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER, 1911;" from
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LING per Sharo, free of tax, le of the following dimennous,-length behova declared by the Directors of the above- Company, making a total of 10 per cent. tween perpendiculars, 345 feet; breadth for the year ending 28th February, 1911.
COUPON No. 17 is payable on the 2nd moulded, 44 feet; depth moulded, 28 fast. The Vessel will, have a speed of 14 kaots. Australis & Chins, and the Russo-Asiatic.
Novamber at the Chartered Bank of India, ORGAN RECITAL. Deeside District Committee recently Bank at Tientsin and Shanghai, When interviewing patients at Edin-erected a shelter, at Crathle for the treab Hongkong, Databer 31, 1911. bargh Royal Infirmary in his capacity of ment of a local case of consutaption." The surgeon, Dr. Bell would bring into play Queen visited the patient, and has given those powers of deductive reasoning which orders that a azilar abeller shall be pro- mystified the subjects, but which, like the rided at her expense for use on the Balmoral more ambitious forts of Holmes, seemed estates. so transparantly simple after an explana tion. "I seo," he would say to s patient, "you are "apffering from drink. You oven carry a flask fo the inside breast- pocket of your cost." Another case would come forward. Cobbler, I 6o." Then he would turn to the students and point out to them that the inside of the knee of the man's trousers wax worn, that was where the man bad treated the-laputons-as peculiarity only found in cobblers. Ho in- formed 'a labourer brought into the out, patient department that be bad walked scross certain district of Edinburgh that morning, fact which was correctly deduced from one or two minute portions of a distinctive kind of gravel adhering to the mas's boots.
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The resonte of the method was the duo recognition of trivial things which would escape a loss observant eye. Of course, be OBTAINABLE ZVERYWHERE, sometimes was slightly at lauit. He wan one day lecturing, on emphysoms (en uri, Imtural diatopsion of a part with al:), nad introduced spatient with, the remark,
JOLE AGENTS
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA.
Hongko December 17, 1910.
Now, gentlemen, you will probably find 129 that this patient used to play upon some
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Admission Tickot 81-which is entitled to a Souvenir on its presentation at the Souvenir Parition on t the evening of the Fete only
The public is respectfully invited to in: spect the various stails from 2 to 7 7.x. On the 5th November.
Tea Cakes and refreshments will be served during the afternoon and night
Grand Cinematograph Show will be
axhibited daring the evening and nigat..
By kind permission of Lieut. Col. Hamil ton and Odicom, the Band of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry will play from 9 to 11. de
Tickets can be obtained from Today, at More GRACIA & Co., Fedder Street, and st the Roman Catholic Cathedral Com pound on Sunday, 6th Novembar, from "Cmy to:7 Mar and no- the gate on, tlie. night of the Fata
Special arrangements have hoon made with the Peak Immway Co., Ltd., to run slate trar at 11.80 for the convenience of the Peak residents.➡
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