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river' gunboat
2200
Comair E. D. Marryat.
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0800
180
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Capt
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17
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950
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Prometheus
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2135
5000 Comdr. P. H-Warleib
Ribble
torpedo best destroyer
590
Lt. Condr. E. J. G. Mackinnon
ROSATIO Robin
depot ship, submarines
980
1400 Lt Comdr.NL Archdales
river gunboat
La Com. Allan Dixon
river gun bost
240
Lt. Com. I.A. S. F. Hutton-
river gunboat
940
Lt. Comdr. Mauzon, B. Leslie
torpedo boas destroyer
350
receiving ship
river gunboat
180
800
La Comdt. Hon. G. Stopfond.
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Lo Com. H. R. E. Cottrell-Dormer
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390:
7500
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torpedo bint destroyer
360
river gunboat
135
800
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250
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MACAO NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
MACAO, April 23.. Macao is no little alarmed sta sudden ontbreak of plague. To my knowledge the death-roll since: Sunday last averages least fifteen cases per diem.
THE PROVMICIAL ASSEMBLY, GOVERNOR- GENERAL, AND PRESIDENT.
Tamar Teal Thistle Usk
Apparently telegrams are still passirs Sandpiper between the provincial Assembly in Canton
Snipe and the President of the Republic, owing
Taka to the execution of Cha'n Ting-heun. Wa Fifteen cases of plague were reported in notion that the representatives in Canton one locality.alons to-day. Among the ric
do not now profess to pass judgment ca tims of the scourge this morning I regret to chronicle the death of the brother of the justice or otherwise of the execution of ex-consul. Romano, who was familiarly and this nowspaper editor, but the burden of
their appeal is that the time has come Virgo better known by the sobriquet" Piti."
The Chinese community hers is engaged when ordinary law should come into fore, Waterwitch in elaborate preparations to welcome and military control be annulled. It is Welland Sun Yat-sen who is expected to call at Macao pointed out that pesce now prevails and Whiting shortly after his arrival in Canton. tir though some of the country districts are Widgoon culars are being issued broadcast and a proposal has bees footed by storekeepers still disturbed it cannot be said that they Woodcock and petty dealers to swell the generalare in any way like what they were before Woodlark reception fund by contribution of the Revolution. It is therefore wrong 30
that people should be living under military a per firm,
discipline which may involve them at any
38 tine in serious difficulty, if not in Ines
035 of life, although the crime under: normal conditions might be regarded as not at all 037 arious. Such is the gist of the last appea seat to President Tuan, and there is some interest manifested in the expected reply.
THE BOTHY BALLAD..
(From Our Scottish. Correspondent.)
EDINBURGH, April 2. Some years ago, a Rhymours' Club was started in Edinburgh, its object being to make a abronicle of the folk songs and rhymes of Scotland. The ciab has done.
HE MERCANTILE BANK OF good work in publishing old verses, and act TONDEBTEX COMPASSIONA
THE INDIA, LIMITED.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL.
SUBSCEIELD PAID-CT RESERVE FUND
Bombay,
do. do...
is
There lived in Fatshan till quite recently before it was time they are rapidly
a man named C. He was banker and vanishing before the insidaour invasion of music-hall ditties.
reported to be very rich, which siches The barby song £1,500,000 peculiarly worth preservation, not that it apparently whetted the desires of those £1,123,000
poetic level, but because who wanted to share his wealth This 60,00 iste to, say high to shot, tind a
HEAD OFFICE. 40 TAKLADNEEDLE ÜTKEFT,
LONDON, EC. -
BRANCHES÷ Galle Singapore, Perang,
days ago he had reason to visit his native
365,000 lowly anders know; ~ard many in homestead, probably as it was the festival
Scottish
Name
river gunbeat
submarins
submarine
submarine
torpedo bost
torpedo boat
torpedo boat
of Vice Admiral Alfred L. Winslos, 5.0.B.,
Foreign Men-of-war
Eng and description. Kaiser Franz Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser
life. The bethy, as your the Far East are of rútal
upbringing, of Teing bling. Anyway, he set out for live the an-his destination, and never reached it. It is the
the cottage bure
sout came to light that he had been kid- married ploughmen and general farm workers. A writer who signs himself napped and carried into the hills where he
atas remains. Meanwhite his keepers sent a Duplex † up in the Glasme Herald contributes fetter to the family, letting
them know an article on these botby songs. Calcutta
says that they fall naturally into several what had transpired and the reason there Klaber Fowrah,
classes, perhaps the more characteristic fore. The letter demanded forty thousand Decidée drag
are those dealing with the daily life of the dollars as the price of his release. The Karachi.
plunginan. The rustic visited by the family met and discussed the situation, Argus muso turns naturally to the subject that then wrote to the robber chief telling him Rangoon
lies to his hand, his daily abour, sad him that the sum was much too large, and Vigilants
grant of
of ADY Peito Colombo, Kandy,
sings as well as in him lies of his various that such a demand showed a
An answer was taske. Thus in the song of "Drumdelgie" bowels of compassion MAR JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., we have a detailed account of the whole soon forthcoming. indicated that the Dondard de Lagree
LTD.
labours of a winter's day, —
robbers wished to be generous, and seeing their fame for generonity was at stake, they had come to the conclusion that they might be induced to let Mr U go free If twenty thousand unliars were at once forwarded If not, then
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At five o'clock we quickly rise sud-hurry
doon the stair
To get oor horses a weel corned, likewise
to straucht their hair And so we are conducted through break. fast-
LONDON JORT STOCK BANK, LAMTED, Every description of Banting and
into the change business transacted, and Stooks At half-past five we quickly.
kitchen goes and Shares bought and sold on account of constituents. Letters of Credit granted on For to get some breakfast for corsal's-it's agaths and Correspondents all over the rhe day work is no child's play
generally, brose, INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts At six o'clock the mill gaes on and gie's us
a' strait wark, at 2% per annum on the Daily Balance
Forid
and on Fixed Deposits at rates which mayt taka frs o' has to mak strae to her till be ascertained on application.
PAID-UP CAPIRAL
·BESERVE FUND... KESERVE LIABry of Pro-
IN
440
F. 0. MACDONALD,
Manager. Hongkog. March 28, 1912.
.
TELETORS
...21,200,000
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General I
Banking business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or
TATIONAL
CORPORATION.
1
BANKING
the
was more
Capt. F. H. Mbobell
6 8300Lt. Comd. Brickenden
Commodore C. J. Byron
Comdr, G. B. Hartford Com. M. H. Wilding
L-Com, M. Blackwood
Lt. Gomdr. G. F. A. Malock
LE C. Godfrey Herbert
Lt.-Comdr. A. & L. Fenner Lt. Comdr. J. B. A. Codrington
Lt Comdr. Woodward
Lt. Comdr. Murphy
Lt. Comdr. Nicol
F.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief
the China and Japan Station.
Hongkong
Went River
West River
#West River)
HP.
Captains.
H. Nauda
French armoured cruise
-20,000
•Capt. Varzos
French armoured craiser
19,800.
Capt. Gouts
French gunboat
$200
Laenandie
French river gunboat
570
Lieut. Dordet
Cantor
French gunbont
Frouch gunboat
123
130
500
Lieut. de Jerviller
Canter
Lient. Collin
Tong
French gunboat
Livet. Dupuy Duters ps
+Flagship of Rear-Admiral Collochide Kerilis, Commander in Chist, the French China Station,
Mousquet Manche
flagship of Capt. (Commodors Boucicact. Comma
Proten RULE OF THUME JUSTICE.
Styx Oneof therepresentatives in the provincial. assembly in Canton recently had occassion | Fronde
d Tberville to employ some work people on his pre- mises, and, as is not infrequent in Chins under such conditions, some of his propertyPistolet vanished and he sat it no more. Mean while he arrested one of the workmen,
The maa whom he charged with robbery
or inse arsmined and apparently we could wring cor sark.
was not convicted of the offeros, being set When" daylight does sppear *gaffer" gives the orders for the day, at liberty. Meanwhile the owner of the The first pair they'll gang ban the ploo. property was so incerised at his loss, and the second the the neope," and so on till also at what be regarded as the failure of Frodon we wind op with the pleasures of the even justice, that he took the case fute his own reisendo ing oot through a 120 000
the countric, oorhands and had the man, thread severely-
so that the body was covered with weals Itin lasses for to salversal passion, naturally
and sores. The matter has now assumed Love, the forms the theme
eme of
most of the songs, and more important aspect, for the man who Jaguar it is dealt with in a very plain-spoken was beater, supported by his fellows, hare Lepag
compelled the focal official to bring the Luchs the rustic sings how t
oficial will bare to settle the matter. It
Depository of the U.S. Government inner. Thus in his matter-of-fact matter before the Governor, and the higher Kärnburg shorter periods at rates which will be quoted the Philippine Islands and the Republic of Sandy Macfarlans, a streppin' young chiel, on application.
W. DICKSON, Manager.
Hompirome, April 12, 1912.
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Ás straucht as a rush, and as-swank as an Peel,
He fell in love wi' Jenny MacNeil, Bonnie young Sandy Macfarlane.
Another class deals with the pdvantages, from the rustic point of view, of the life of the beggar and wanderer. So we have the brisk song,
Shanghai. Yokohama. CAFIZAL "AND" RXAERTE 4GOLD,800,000 About... £1,400,000 EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK-joy ING BUSINESS transacted.
CURRENT usual terms ACCOUNTS opened on the
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If bogging be as good a tende
As I have heard them my,
It's time that I had on the bags
And joggin' up the bowe
·Oiber is reported that the Governor hae ferued an order to the representative to appear in Scharnhor
5.90 public tr
An inquest has been held at Hastings
or
he bodies of eight persons drowned
w
ru the racent dister to the Oceans. A verdiet of accidentally drowned
returned. The captain and chief officer Calabria
of the Oceans, giving evidence, said that
they thought the Occans would sink at Maono.
In another the writer has taught the traseny moment. Therefore they considered | Patria
of the open road :-......
it advisable to lower the boats immedi
I'm happy in the summer time beneath the ately, although the ship was still going Adder
bright blue sky
I
carena in the mornin' for whaar I'm gasit considerable speed. The seaman in Albany charge of the boat which was swaniped Bainbrid to lis
said in his evidence that he thought the
Wi' lumps o' bread, and tattio acones, and
cheese and brazie ham,
Nas thinkin' u soo far I've come, nor yet
hoo faut I'm gaud
boat expsized owing to the jamming of e block. Two survivors, Miss Macfarlane
The historical ballad. Also, used to be and Mrs. Scott, were too là to attend the
lar. A particularly doleful ir a aquest attached to The Plains of Waterico, wherewa begin from the point when
the piny na madeOn the 18th day of Jung, brare boys,
Radja, (Achoenfear, BandjameelproAUL E LETTERS Flanders where we laga
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OF CHE
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French sub-marine
Lieut. Boluir
Frosch sub-marine
French armoured gunboat 1798
-1700
Lieut. Guillaume-Louis
French destroyer
903
Lieut. Aurillac
French destroyer
Capt. de Frigate Rouisen.
French destroyer
300
Comdr. de Marquessa
French destroyer
300
French surveying a
1623
Comds. Volain
Ingst defemon Indo China.
13,500
11,600
900
36 26,000 1300
13 1,000
German gunboat German cruiser Germsu river gunbost German Hagship
3400
Cap Tent Jantrep
196,000
Capt. Boxing
German torpedo-boat
6500
Capt. Lleut, Berrenberg
German torpedo-boat
6000
OUIL S. Clanseen.
Garman gunbont Herman river gunboaé derman river gunbos
Italian cruiser
1350
Comdr. Lappe
1800
300
2145
Coindz, Bogra.
Portuguese ganb Portuguese ganbost
Capt. Martina
Capta
German gunbost
ven gunbost German
German cruiser
Captain va
Comdr. v. Gohron
Comdr. Vansalow
Capt. Bohncke
Comdr. Bendemzun
Capt. Morsberger
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