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THE CHINA MAIL.
eureal letter, there was no guamates thað he could produce it.
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THE BEETROOT CROP.
Loxbox, Oct. 28, The factories setimate that the beet. root crop will amount to 7,908,000 toni
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SEQUEL TO, DUBLIN STRIKES.
LARKIN SENT TO PRISON.
Lospor, Oct. 28. Great crowds gathered in connec sion with the trial of Larkin, the THE PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH, strike lender, who was charged with
silition and inciting to riot. LONDON PRESS COMMENT.
Lesbos, Oct. 9.
THE DUCHY OF BRUNSWICK
PRINCE ERNEST AUGUST'S POSITION.
Loxoox, Oct. 28 A telegram from Berlin states that at the instance of Prussia, the Federal Council has unanimously decided that
The man bad go sooner laft monastory, vowing rangesnoe, then anceher jknock was board, and...” when at laxa the
enturod. Neither spoke for a moment. The visitor then sal "I have in my pusket be letter you sent in your lover, 1
A copy at home, It you take thi frons diy it will avail you nothing. If you give me dies hundred dollars, 1 wi 1 hand is over to you, and pledge my word to keep Jan unbroken a ferice."
A long discussia 1 now followed, in the lowest whispers. The print, was deter diided to got the letter, and the postman know it the latter would sell is dently as this. So they whispered and curved and he could, and the priest was convinced of
The Attorney-General said that the marriage of Prince Ernest August | ghin was struck, and the fateful letter ex-
to the Kaiser daughter and the former's oath of fealty Prossis officer, his declaration in that respect
Garkin was not being tried because i was a strike lender, but because The Unionist papers fini it dif he had broken the law and was Aba o changed the situation that there cult, till the fevernent's views are wicked and dangerous criminal, mere fully disclosed, to estimate
is no longer any objection to Prince A later telegrain states that Lar Ernost August assuming the govora whether, or how fur, Mr. Asquith'skin was convicted only of using sediment of the Duchy of Brunswick. speel has improved the prospects of tious words and sentenced to seven
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Settlement by consent. Dealing months imprisonment.
with his reservation" regarding "per- manent barriers to Irish unity, they insist that if Ulster is temporarily exelnded sko must baise a'in choice at the end of the perind of exclusion, The Daily Telegraph says it is not likely that anything valuable will come from an offer manifestly de. signed to mandurre the Unionists into a false position.
The Daily Chronicle says the Unionists will be false to the best politien tralitions]) of both partiAK if they refuse the offer.
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The Daily News deprecates even ntemporary exclusion of Tister. It maintains that this would dis gabrons'te. Tister itself, which weald gein nothing, therby, which cannot be suhtmel hy the fullest concession of local powers over education; patronagy, and similar subjects con sistent with Trish unity."
THE BRITISH MINISTER
TO CHINA.
LONDON, Oct. 28. Sir John Jordan leaves London for Peking on November 10.
TH THE P. & 0, DISPUTE.
THE COMPANY'S POSITION.
LONDON, Oct. 27.
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MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
THE PRESIDENTIAL. ELECTION.
Lesnos, Oct. 27.
The Mexican Presidential election opened on Saturday. There was pretically no voting at Mexico City and Verà Cruz. President Huerta sulamaned the candidates to the Palace, and all, except Diaz, who is still at vem Cruz, agree to abide by the result, and, if the election
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dufamed each other, till ultimately a bar.
changed hands, and went immediately over hundred and fifty dollais had found their the fama of the lamp, but not until tes way into the postman's pooka
The priest was in the restost constar- sation during the following days, but seeing that nothing further happened, his serres gradually assumed their normal calmnes
Just three weeks after the letter bat been burat, one morning Mr. Chung's Secretary knocked at the doar of the monastery, and asked after this particular priest, named Tue. He is in the Bamboe Grbitol," the dowe keeper replied: *pass andas, that, Achæay, and you will see the room directly in front of you. The Secretary found the "Grotto, and knock- |ød.
Come in responded à voice, The Secretary stored,; sosted himself, and conformed to the usual etiquette, till A Yes, who was secretly alarmed at this visit, began to regain his composure. The former aid quite abruptly, leisurely Do you know this bracelet? Have you taking the bracelet from his pocket,
aver seen it before 7"
If A Fushad been hit between the ayee by a clenched fat, he would not have shown mars terror. He made tremendous efforts to recover his self-control, sa drawning man
man will struggle to seize upon the patron of his rescues. At last, with, tolerable composure, he replied, Indeed
fore. It is a beautiful ornasient. Way do you bring it hers?"
The Secretary did not reply, but replaced it in his pocket, mying: "Kit was found recently
and some one suggested that belonged to you, This surmise is incorrect apparently..1 am sorry that i bave troubled you
The P. & O. Steam Navigation Com.should be rendered void by an too, I have never set my ayer upon it be-f any replying to the Imperial Mersufficient poll, to assist President chants' Service Guild, Bays that last Huerta in restoring order, pending Spring the Company, in view of the another election. prosperity of shipping, authorised im portant modifications to be made in the scales of remuneration of officers and engineers. Since then the Company had received an representations from either branch, Apart from a system of compulsory insurance and superan
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An hour later, the Secretary returned to the building with ten soldiers, and guing directly to the room of the priest, who wSTEE. FRICE INCLUDES FREIGHT sastad at the table appareaty lost in
shouted thought,
bo tas sergeant, Reuter learns to-day that although Arrest that scoundrel; I charge him with
stealing a bracolet, and also with the mur
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The Times says: Any form of exclusion will in the ou prove widely auation, of which the Company, pays Sir Lionel Curden did see some jour^der of the widow and the man who lay by 1
bxif the premiuma, amounting to ualists, he did not refer in any way her side, which was perpetrated more than SHIP TO ANY ADDRESS IN unacceptable. The only course to £10,000 a year, the Company, volunt to the intentions or the policy of the two years ago."
Avert disaster is an early appeal to arily allows all commanders and engi the pantry To the Trish indepenbeets, who retire after long and un- dent, any exclusion, whether partin or temporary, would", lo unarcept
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THE IRISH PEOPLE
Mr. John Dillon, M.F.. speaking at Carlow, said that it would be a great misfortune to all if there were 'nny vestige of privileg or distinction between the different section of the
Irish people
VIOLENCE TO BE MET BY VIOLENCE.
She Edward Grey, speaking at Ber wiek, said that if Hon Rule were resisted by violence it must be met by violence. Coercion was utterly hate- ful, but, if there was to be in wottle- ment it must be on the conditions 4aid down by Mr. Asquith. If Ulster were excluded, the position of the Unionista in Irebind would be much
ore precarious.
A STRAIGHT FIGHT.”
Ulster newspapers say that it now is a slight fight. Mr. Asquith ean- not intimidate the loyalists by force.
FRONT BENE URMBERS
NEGOTIATING.
The Daily Chronicle says that there have been negotiations between members of both front benches during the past three weeks regarding Ire.
Sand, a memorandum being drawn up by Mr. Asquith and his colleagues
blemished service, pensiona, the aggre- gate of which reaches a very high figure.
BOY SCOUTS DROWNED
RESULT OF A COLLISION,
"LONDON, Oct. 27.
On Saturday night a steamer collided with and sank a Boy Scout Training Yacht off Gravesend. Twelve were saved and four wars drowned.
DEATH OF SIR WALTER MENZIES.
ANOTHER BYE-ELECTION.
LONDON, Oct. 27. The death is sanounced of Sir Walter Menzies, M.P., for South Lanark in the Liberal interest since 1906
(Wah Fez Yut Po'e Service.)
CHINESE NEWS,
PEXING, Oct. 28. REBEL HUSTING. Lung Chi Kwong, Governor of Canton, has been authorised to arrest those members of the Provincial Assembly who are proved to have favoured the rebel cunse,
GOVERNOR OF KWONGSI.'
Chan Ming Chi, who during the Revolution wus viceroy of Culion, has been appointed head of the civil
at the suggestion of an exalted per: udministration of Kwongsi. sonage. The same course was taken
Law. The Mernoranda has been
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ELECTIONS PASS QUIETLY,
The Mesieun elections passed quietly, the general public being apathetic. It is believed that the vates recorded were so few as to in- enlidate the Elections.
INCREASING THE ARMY.
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President Huerta to-day issues decree increasing the army from 82,000 to 150,000.
THE MISSION TO JAPAN.
Senhor Dulabarra has been ap pointed, in lieu of General Diaż to thank Japan for her participation in the Mexican Centenary ceremonics.
The priest rose, too surprised to offer any opposition, and too terrified to any word. Suddenly he was seized by, the soldiers, and cleverly handcuffed. He was marchod out of the monastery, through the streets of the town and lodged in the
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for the momsat that the hour of his pro- for what she did. This went on till one Tazaron No. 4 the worries of the past two years, You know that Shap Sham was in the widow's mation had aired: be only remembered day I arranged to be in the village when I clerical adalterer and wretched murderer, he shouted, and he swore big Chineas the place except my accomplice, and the house. There would be no one present in oath and banged the table. "Confess at blind mother-in-law The plan succeedai. once the
murder, that.
I may award you. Thereafter my visita became frequent, and your sentence, and cut short the trial.”
A. Yus, more dead than alive through was I dressed as a layman, and bought In order that no one should fospect who I pricat has
bat with a false queue. It was sug
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THE CHINEJE MODERN NOVEL, fright, replied, "Yaar of bis order, gested by Shap Sham that I should policies under all the best and modern methods: of Life Assuran.DE
THE GOLDEN BRACELET,
All through life kept the
And naver transgressed at any time
confess i crime so abhor:not?"
self of ses returned emigrant, the the most rigid limits. How then can I rides, cousis, for then no one would
This I did. suspect
The magistra
The magistrato, Mr. Chung, in a mighty
(Specially Written for the "China Mail.")" rage, again barged the table and bawled dred villian #. i. *zclaimed, "You double |
No. IV.
out, Confess; confane at once and make a clean breast of it'
A Tae continued, my visits became
By this time the rage of the magistrate frequent, I gave the widow the bracelet, which a former priset" bequeathed to me was shaolutely uncontrollable; he there when he died:" Somstime after, the ownero! fore, threw down a piece of bamboo, which the house in which the murders were com (Cantinord from Thursday).
the lictors who understood the sign, knew mitted, with his family, visited his mother The letter was sealed and addressed, and indicated fifty blpax the prisonar, was, i
on her birthday and left the keys of the as in those days there was no national therefore, bentan till his skin, was a house with the widow that she might look seums and his bunés bam." He cried out post, it was sent to its destination by in his Anfal pat5 T56 magistrate after things. They were to be absent thres day The and I arranged an evening. private messenger. This man, like most said, Will you confer: ". The priest and feast in the empty bones on the second Chinese, was curious to know what theered How Impofess that of which evening, when
I am innocent
we thought that we latter contained. It was written by a
should -be "Take the prisoner back to his call."
gaite alone. About nice the evening, the o'clock in see whether to morrow's experiences will didn't know where he was going, un bring him to his sonses."
expectedly returned, thinking that it was The following day he was examined his mother's house and knocked for ad opened and read its contents. and "Haigho!" Here was a revelation. The gain, but was a obetinate as ever. The mission. The widow and I were terribly magistrate again shouted, Put him ander frightened. The widow said hide yourself priest in the letter referred to a bracelet the roller." (This means that the prisoner in kitchen, and
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will put away the and also to some tragedy, in which some tar-lica flat on a table, on his back a board is remnants of the least." I tried to hide
placed horizontally on his chest and lega,
owner,
priest; it was addressed to a widow; this exclaimed the magistrate, and we shall of the house, who was dead drunk wad
locked suspicious!
Instead of delivering the letter, he "Ah Ya!!
the
(rible calamity had befalien a woman, The over which a heavy roller is pushed to myself, whilat she went to open the door. by Lard Lansdowne und Mir. Bonar
An English sudicate has twice post thought long and deeply; then sudo and fro.. The agony is almost unbemale Meanwhile, I was so terrified at the thought of discovery, that I completely lost self-
· poor" wretch control. therefore, seized the wood exchanged through an intermediary, had interviews with the President on denly exclaimed, "I'll wager twenty dollars In an ardeal of this kind
the subject of a loan. This has to one that this has to do with the murdered will confess anything.) A Yue screamed chopper, and silently crept up behind the brought a strong protest from the widow and the bracelet, which is now in with pain, and then moaned Stay, stay members of the other four nation- the hands of Mr. Chung. If so, I'll make untrue, because ring from the by the 40th was, and failed him with ope I will confess; but my confession will be widow, to ascertain who was at the door. As soon as she opened the door, I sm a good sum out of the holy scoundrel" lities composing the Quintuple
agony."
The magistrate shouted "I Tant that kind of confession, blow. The widow screamed, and weiz-
exclaimed, A on my sleeve Group Another British syndicate is by blackmail.”
He put the letter carefully sway, and Remove him back to his all- temorms I
1 be negotiating with the Premier for the
will hang bi
by the waited, till the priest had returned from turning to the proner, he Bid, "It makes the clung tenaciously to my garments, and
Then as you hare ruined me, fox I shal
murder and cannot escape. charged with monastary. As soon as the priest was at I have sufficient evidence to start you lifted the chopper again and struck her the north of the province to his own po difference whether pan-conlom or a bi would not moleme vas. In a frenzy of ge liberty, he visited his lover She upbraid your head will query ako or po twice. Thereupon she falls the ground
confession."-
THE ITALIAŃ ELECTIONS.
LIVELY PROCEEDINGS,"
[thamla.", LONDON, Oct. 275
The elections yesterday, say a tale -gram from Rome, were generally calm. Ministers are assured of a large m jority. Thirty persons were wocnded by revolver shot at a disturbance at
Ficuole.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE PARTIES.
LATEL
ending of $15,000,000: to construct fu railway between Canton and Amoy
TARIFF REVISION, ASKED FOR Negotiations are proceeding be- tween the representatives of the Powers at the British Legation in regard to the request made by China
for a revision of the tariff,
THE TROUBLE IN: MONGOLIA." "An army, filty thousand strong, has been dispatched to Mongolia to suppress the trouble there.
REBELS INTERCEPTED..
:
od kim, for his long absence and complete That night. A Tra, knowing that Mr i quite dead. I rushed out hate the night,
silence.
"What," he exclaimed, "Did'nt ou receive the letter I sent ten days ago? The woman replied "Did you write Thon, the lotter has been lost, for I have
never seen it.”
fell upon them both, but especially up a He then told her its coutants." There
Chang had the braosat, and fearing lest he and erept back to the monastery. This destroyed my unclerical clothes secretly, had the letter also and, further, setingar Honger, in a correct version of what nothing could say his life, decided to come marine). Have most on me!” Do not when he again confronted the magistrate, Mr. Chung was of course deeply Toms. On the folowing morning, thetafore, and from !"
mora Baad them allre he said.Tour
grabited. He fore we honours sød pro Honour," 1"will poolsus, dog'i torture me motion before him indeed this would further. the priest, great dread. The latter would guilty the widow in Taneling rply to the Appeal of A Yue, but amply He then apske as follows. I can much colat, and some substantial Roancial rewards. He did not deign to A report has been received in the certainly fscriminate him if it were in village some poem age and loved her. Andered the warders to conduct the prisoner
according to the vows of my order I could to the cells de The Italian elections are nearly com-capital to the effect that a number existence and found.
Manwhile, the postmen could not con-ot marry. I devised a scheme by which I pleto. There will be little change in of rebela in the pay of Chan Kwing
could cretly get her into my power..
The magistrate also wired the im the Partios, The Conservatives Fro Mi bave been arrested by the tain his secret, but divalged it to a comrade, valled myelled the assistance of a promediate nest of the progress, Shap probably rather stronger, while the French authorities in Annam da they and at the esme time mid "I'm going to visit ourens, named Shap Slice who stole from Eham, and then sent special despatch to Radicals and Republicans have receiv. were setting out for Yunnan and this priest to-day, and demand for him herds of her slibes, I bet this up in the Frefect, informing him of the arra ed a sharp sat back at Rome, where Klangs for the purpose of fometing fire hundred dollars the price of sense." pariel, and mall, formed a lore luar, and confession of the priest also the par if the widow ward, the piter, and put it played. by the woman, it the same ting mot one-third of the voters polled. rebellions there,
The ousada maid nothing, but mentalith the parcel. From this & wald spear requesting that an order be sent back by WANKING GENERALS ENTERTAINED. determined to be art in the deld. Ima if the widow bad leads involved as the messenger, to exscute the prisone The Japanese Consul-Genors in mediataly after breakfast his rushed off to a natosith anothe man. This the same day in the open market play Nanking, has given an entertainment and the prímet. After
word or two operar. I myself, caused to be lost in the The goder was it, and the two wretches
village, ty kópe a dust who, for found were at odos sxecutash to Generals Chang Haun and Fung, gretting, thể visli Kwok Cheong
this lacter, the bracelet, and the mon [give me ashaddred dollars); and
KAISER'S AUSTRIAN VISIT.
LONDON, Oct. 27.
The Kaiser lett for home on Sunday might after separate and long convera tions with the Emperor Franz Joseph
Minister.
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appoin
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eharacter of the ches-To this alsop id': Would drive her out of be Cended then to protect her through the medium of Shap Bham. The plan faile
for the consulted witly Bisap of the who offered to witikio wider A Tra
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