SCOTTISH LETTER.
À QUIET AND HESPECTABLE
· ELECTION. *
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
men," polled proportionately higher than that of any other party, nad the smaller the total poll, therefore, the better will be the chances of the Labour candidates,
WEALTHY WAR WORKERS. The head of one of the Scottish banks tells me that there is at the
THE CHINA MAIL.
MANCHESTER WEEKLY:
MARKET REPORT.
Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co.
LEAGUE CRICKET.
TOMORROW'S MATOHES.
Tomorrow may mean the cad of
the Prime Minister's description and floating, currency in a city like Glas-support of any considerable buying- unable to play through sickness.
was
ting
at its
the seriousness
of
the
candidates was not a very sharp one..
classes.
Matches to be played, veniuc,
·
selected teams, etc. follow
Graigengower, v. R.G.H. on the draigengower at 2.15.
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„HONGKONG, DEFENCE
CORPS
Administrativo Orders by Majow. H. M. Morstan, Administrative Commandant
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CHINA AND TIBET,
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WEATHER REPORT.
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No. 1.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY LONGKONG, DAILY WEATHER REPORT
MARCH 21, 1913.-.m.
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In a paper submitted to the Royal Hongkong and Bainan. The same, se Geographical Society on Eastern Tibet, Mr Oliver Coales, tately British
gave the latest information about the Consular representative at Tachieniu, long struggle between China and Tibet over the question of Chinese suzerainty. In 1914 it was hoped that a settlement had been reached by a conference at Simla, which was attended by British, Chinese, and Tibetan delegates. But the Chinese Government refused to ratify the Convention drafted by the Con- ference, and last winter the forces of the Dalai Lama resumed hostilities against the Chinese, who for some Reference Corps Order No. 5 dated time had been holding the line of the 10. 1. 19. a lecture on Judging Dist-Upper Mekong; Mr. Coales said Nam ance will be given by the Adjutant that as a result of this offensive the Hakodato Wednesday, 26th March, at 6.00 p.m.Tibetans now hold all the country Orders for Artillery Company by Major west of the Upper Yangtse. In the Nagasak
winter of 1916-17-that is a year be Kagoshima. J. H. W. Armstrong, V.D.
fore the renewal of hostilities Mr. Oshima
Pte. W. Anderson, "B" Company is granted 7 months leave from 27. 3 19. E. W. Hamilton, "A" Company is granted 12 months' leave from 5. 4.19.
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March 21 121 990-No returns In the death of Mrs. Pederson who from Japan and Vladivostock. Predigre passed away ather residence, Morton has decreased considerably at Shanghai, Lid: Manchester, report on January the aspirations of the R.G.A to the
Tetrace, Causeway Bay, at the age and alightly to moderately elsewhere; 29 as follows! Nada
of 76 the Colony loses one of its the anticyclone has probably moved into- league championship. They are
(oldest residents. The death was the Pacife to the 3. E of Japan, and Cotton values are still in an engaged with the Craigengower team Edinburgh, December 16. During the week before the poll present moment in the hands of the settled state, prices ductuating rather and have a weakened, teams. Sergt. No. 987 Pte. W. Greig, was pat unexpected as Mrs Pederson was weakened considerably, and
Hongkong Rainfall for the 4 bour the interest in the General Election Scottish people 15 to 20 millions more heavily, and a considerable amount Graham is gone home. Lieut. Torrelled on 19. S. 19. and posted to weak and feeble from old age. Her was greatly increased in the North pound notes and coins than before of uncertainty exists as to when there and Bombr. Sharman are on the Machine Gun Company, husband, up to the time of his death ending at 10 to today, 0.00 inch. Country; but only in about half the war. A great deal of this money will be a safe basis for business. The sick list. Sharman will be greatly Captain FW James R. D was brakesman on the Peak Tram Total since January aty i trishes, dozen constituencies can it be said he said, was held by people with no general opinion seems to be that missed for his wicketkeeping and Engineer Lieut., R. N. K., ceased to way. She leaves behind one daughter, sastrat an average of 484 inches
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at. that there was any excitement. bank accounts and no Investments. things will still get lower; and con batting. The Craigengewer side is be attached to the Corps on 143.19 Mrs. H. A. Allen whose husband la
There must be a vast amount of sequently the market lacks the about the best available. Ford is No. 220 Spr. M. F. Remedios on the clerical staff of the Hongkong on on the 2nd.
-Hongkong to Gap Book. E or "Quiet, calm. and respectable," was
Engineer Company, is permitted to Hotel. Mrs Pederson has lived invariable windy, moderate; fair, fog or no one will deny its accuracy. It Bow, where there are many enor So far as Piece Goods are concerned.
The R. E's have out a good team resign, on leaving the Colony, to date: Hongkong practically all her tong mish
life. The funeral will pass the Mo-
No. 1. was not a party conflict in the ordin monaly increased factories and work most markets are still holding against the Chinese Recreation Club, from 3.4.19.""
No. 974 Pie. D. T. Wood, "A" aument at 5:15 this afternoon. Bryster fought with so little bit 15,000 to 30,000 people. Beardmore's, Indian reports speak of some im a welcome three points to their re Company, is permitted resign on ary sense of the word. Few elections shops, some of them" employing and business is poor in the extreme.It is on the cards that they may addi
leaving the Colony, to date from Lerness and passion and with,so com-in one 'bf their works alone, were provement in the home, markets, cord but they are weak in bowling." plete an absence of all the tawdry lately paying £110,000 in wages every but values are not yet anywhere near
Excitement will be in evidence on 27 3 19. present Manchester prices. They
No. 791 Pte. J. W. Graham, Sign- the Civil Service ground: The Civil accompaniments that disfigure our week.
Perhaps the most remarkable evid- are, however, getting nearer, values Servants are keen on winning the alling Section, is permitted to resign appeals to the constituencies. It
in "India" and serious campaign beft exce of war workers' prosperity was are increasing
league this season. Tomorrow they under Section 7 (2) of the Military afforded at the meeting of the share the the steady ease. in cloth times and the gravity of the issues holders of the Scottish Co-operative prices on this side which has been should win the three points. Their Service Ordinance, 1917. to-date Reference Corps Order No. 4 dated involved. Because there were no Wholesale Society. It was stated that going on since the Armistice was opponents are the Royal Navy, a from 1 5 19. **** firework displays' some people sneered while the grocery business had in-signed, has been appreciably acceller team, that has played without any
slowness," and mistook the creased 7.4 per cent. the drapery and ated during the past ten days or so. luck up to the present. The Civil 7 3 19. the transfer of No. 424 Pte. mentioned above, the Service team is not to hand but they G. H. Haskett to the Engineer silent, earnest, purposeful attitude of furniture departments had increased While, as the electors for indifference. In some by not less than 722 per cent. This feeling that prices will still get lower expect of field as strong a team as Company is cancelled.
that which scored such a fine win places the divison line between the was described in the report as is the predominant one, it must to over the K.C. C. fast Saturday.
phenomenal." and it certainly spells be forgotten that there is quite a Occasionally. it was described as the prosperity in certain of the working weight of responsible opinion that believes when the demand for goods difference between Tweedledum' and
comes, and sooner or later it must Tweedledee; that in essentials Codlin SCOTLAND'S OIL SUPPLIES. was so very like Short, and Short was For some time back. Scotland has de, there will be a strong upward
C.R. C. v. Royal Engineers. On 50 liable to be mistaken for Codlin. been the only part of the United move in prices again. Those who that, after the general purloining of Kingdom. where the native oil fields have to buy in the very near future, C. R. C ground at 2.15,
Civil Service : Royal Navy. On wardrobes, if it were not for the have been continuously exploited. and this, is certainly the position in the Civil Service ground at 2.15. distinguishing ribbon-sometimes In 1860 we had six off wells; in 1870 many quarters, should carefully
K.C.C.V. Manchesters at Kowloon watch events and be ready to called a "label," or a " ticket," or a these had increased to ninety; in
coupon "the electors would not 1850 the number had fallen to twenty operate as soon as a reasonable
SELECTED TEAM. know one twin-like cherub from, an-six; and, in 1890 to fourteen. The degree of confidence is restored. It
CRC-Un Hew Fan, Yew Man other. On the whele, however, it figure has since shrunk to seven before the Continent of Europe can be Tsun, Harry Ching, George Lee, Sin
must be quite a considérable time should not be imagined that the employing among them a capital of quietness was due to apathy about £2,000,000 and 18,000 work transformed into-a productive coun-Man Ping, James Wong, K. K. Wong, The familiar tokens of rosettes people. Of the seven, three "have y again, and this will make the Wong Po Keung. C. F. Lee, Wei Lee
placards and bands were only crude works, but the remaining demands on the Lancashire Mills so San and Cheung Wing Kui,
Royal Engineers.-Lient-Col. E. discarded; but the meetings at least four have refineries in addition, The much the greater, and is likely to in Scotland-were attended by large industry has always been severely have some effect, certainly not a Coles. Major L. R. Taylor, Capt. audiences who, if they were not handicapped by foreign oil. The cheapening one, on prices. At pre D. R. Wahl, Lieut. A. B. Raworth, exuberantly demonstrative, were retail price of refied burning oil sent all markets are watching events 5. S. Jewsbury, Sgt. Heath, Cpl. keenly appreciative of the arguments fell from 35. 6d. per gallon in the and waiting a favourable opportunity Pascall, 2 Cpl. Waller, L/Cpl Law to buy, and it can only be hoped for reace, L, Cpl. Feakes and Spr. Purnell. of the speakers. Disorders were sixties to 4d, in 1911. confined to those industrial centres
the good of all concerned that there MILITARY CROSS FOR
Craigengower.-3. Basa (Captain). will not be such a burst of demand where Bolshevists most abound. The
HONGKONG BANKER.. apostles of the "new freedom" illus-
from all quarters, which some of the F. Thompson, L. Lammert, G Manley, 'trated their, principles by disgraceful Sec. Lieut. Charles Stewart. of the extreme optimists seem to expect, A. Arculi, U. Omar, M. Abbas, S. outrages or decency, and, counted it Australians, youngest son of Mrs. that will send prices soaring up again ex D. Rumjahn, W. Hall, and A.
Goldenberg. a victory for their cause if they man-Stewart and the late Mr. Peter to their war time heights. We do aged to break up a meeting.
Stewart, farmer, Haugh of Kilmorich, not anticipate this ourselves, but in One notable feature of the election Ballinluig, has been awarded the some minds the opinion exists, and in Scotland was unmistakable. The Military Cross for distinguished con- with things so uncertain such opin hands of the Government were duct during operations on the Westerners are worth while putting forward. immensely strengthened for dealing Front on 3rd October last. Lieut. As an instance of this, active buring with the problems of the Peace Stewart was in the banking profesof cotton in New York yesterday Congress. Political candidates of sion, and was in the employment of sent the market there up a couple of every shade were compelled to ac- the Hongkong and Shanghai Bänk-hundred-points. knowledge the unity of public opinioning Corporation at Hongkong. He in favour of the punishment of the enlisted in Australia in February Kaiser and the demand from 1915, served throughout the Gallipoli Germany of adequate reparation. campaign; and proceeding to the Some "Asquith Liberals who were Western Front, he was wounded in "under suspicion of pacifist, leanings July 1916. He obtained his commis in the last House of Commons sion in April 1918, and was wounded have assimilated the lesson as for the second time in June last. thoroughly as any. Labour ca "di. dates' are in the same position.
" and
THE BAGPIPES IN COLOGNE. The icy reserve of the German
It would not be correct to say that people in Cologne, is broken, unex the extremer men among the La-pectedly at times, writes a corres bourists, the more ardent believers pondent with the troops in the in the "Internationale," have bowed -
occupied zone. And the bagpipes to the popular, verdict. But a are irresistible. number made admissions as to the justice of the claim that Germany shall pay up to the limit of her capacity.
When the first
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A FAMILY NECESSITY, VERY family should be provided with Chamberlain's Pain Balm at all times. Sprains may be cured in much less time when promptly treated. "Late back, lame shoulder pains in the side and chest and thoumatic pains are some of valuable. Try this liniment and become the diseases for which it is especially acquainted with its qualities and you will pover wish to be without it. For salo by all Chemists and Storekeepers.
2.15.
R.G.AM.-Lieuts. Sutherland, and
KOC.-J. P. Robinson, D., M
W. Russell.
PRACTICE RUNS, ¿DEL
Shanghai
€2.20 95
23.94 62 29.45 69
6a 2000 66 0:
20.93
29 80 66
* Annual Musketry Course (Belt and Coales travelled for several months. Naba
in Eastern Tibet, and his account of sidearms to be torn).
Bonin Island Sunday, 23rd March.-9.00 am.the journey showed that parts it any Weihaiver.0 29.78:42 93 Right Half Company at King's Parki rate of the country are of consider Hankow.... Range. Kowloon. 9.00 a.m. Left able economic value. Some of his chang ...... Half Company at Taikoo Range statements regarding the climatic Kloriang Quarry Bay...
conditions will come as a surprise to Chapgaba Gum Practice. Sin. Half Charge most people. On Christmas Day Gatsia. (Pos poned from 16th instant) at 1916, the weather was, so warm sharp Fl Belcher's Battery
that his Tibetan followers strip boy limi Tuesday, 25th March 4.00pm ped to the waist as they walked tow
4.30 pm along. The same night the tempera Thokd 6 29.03 64
Taichu Right Half Company.
ture fell below zero. In one district Tainan Left Half Company. Orders for Engineer Company, by Captain well within the temperate zone he Kosh
found that agriculture was practised Fasosdores. at an elevation of 14,000 feet, the Carton
Hongkong villages being fully as prosperous as Cep Rock those in the lower country. This, henk... suggested, might be accounted for Wachowa. by the heat from the Mekong Valley Pakhoi.... rising up the mountain face. The Hollow: most prosperous part of Eastern Phulien7.22.81 Tibet is the Horpa country, which C. St.Jamor 23.87
Toamne.... embraces five small States extending Apar... 6 6. 79:60-73 long the valleys of two rivers, Dagupan... where a genial climate and fertile Mani soil produce crops of wheat, barley, Legaspi
Tralatan...! beans, and potatoes. At one place. Tolo where the elevation drops below Sarigas Me 10.000 feet,even maize can be harvest-Gram" ed-To-the-nort and north-east are Labusa extensive pastoral districts, where innumerable sheep, cattle, mules, and ponies are det tout to graze.. Prac fically the whole of the caravan trade between the frontier town of Tachieniu and Lhasa is in the hands! of the Horpa merchants, and the
Coltman, C.S.M. Talfourd, "C.S.M
N. C. Os and Sappers as detailed Turley, Sergeants Athorne and Drum- mond, Corpl. Mann; Bembr. Green, by the CSM. will parade for Baines, Middleton and duty at Lyectrum and Belchers at Gunners
9p.m. on the following dates Sharpe...
Lyeemun: Tuesday, 1st April Goodall, J. H. Mead, C. J. Stapleton, Officer on duty: Lieut. Templeton.
Belchers-Friday, 11th April; heers on duty: Lieuts. Hall and Lyeemun-Tuesday, 15th April, Officer or duty: Lieut. "Hill
Belchers-Friday, 25th April Officers on duty: Lieuts. Brown and 2nd Lieut. Blackburn.
C. P.James, L J. Blackburn, T. M. Cochrane, H. Overy K. Pestonji, J. D. Birrell, A. de Sousa.
ARTS ASSOCIATION
DINNER.
Marley.
-
INSTRUCTION CLASSES FOR RECRUITs
Recruits will attend for instruction under R. E. Staff Sergeants at West The fifth annual dinner of the Arts Fort, Kowloon, on Wednesday, 2nd Association was held in the Great 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th April at Hall of the Hongkong University on 9.00 pm. Officer on duty for April Wednesday evening. The Hall was Lieut. Stevenson. well filled with a numerous company
COMPANY PARADE.
of members and guests, the latter in The Company will parade at cluding the Hon, Mr. Sharp, the Hon. H.K.D.C. Headquarters at 5 pm. on Mr. Lau Chu Fak, Mr. A. E. Wood Monday, 24th instant to be photo and Lieut, T. L. Samson in addition graphed. The photographs taken to the Pro-Vice Chancellor, the Deans at this parade are to appear in an of the other Faculties and members Engineer Company War Souvenir of other University Societies. Excel booklet, giving a summary of the ent speeches were made by the Hon. Company's activities during the was Mr. Sharp and the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pals, both of whom alluded to the puttles, caps, rifle, beit and bayonet high esteem in which Arts studies ho pouches.
DressKhaki tunic, trousers with
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22.01
C. W. Sarren, Chier dasliter, Hongkong Observatory, MarcĪLU, 1918) 1. BAROMETER, reduced to at degrees Fahrenheit, on the level of the son in
HUMIDIT in percentage of saturne tion, the humidity of siz saturated with miniature being 100.
profits are so great that even o-din-inches konths and hundredtha
* TEMPERATURE, in the shade in dos ary folk live in houses such as else arees Fahrenheit. where only lamas could afford to build. As an example of their wealth, Mr. Coales mentioned that at one monastery a new gilded roof had been put on the principal temple during the past year atza: cost. of £5,000.-Scotsman.
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Scottish infantry entered the city to take over the Rhine bridges from the Dragoon Guards and Hussers of the
GIFT FROM MADRAS SCOTS. Cavalry Division, they lifted the Mr. Alexander Sim the organiser of There is great curiosity about the
inhabitants out
the Scottish Veterans Garden City of their calm, size and destination of the Labour
Association, has received a letter and made them show real vote in Scotland. Who will capture curiosity.
from Mr. I. Wilson, Secretary of the and even 2 the position, the Moderates or the mild excitement." Unwillingly the Caledonian Society, Madras, enclosing Reds? The name "Labour Party." mask was lifted. They were strolling a bank draft for £300 for the of course, is misleading. It is ar about in thousands after the mid-day purpose of erecting a cottage in umbrella that shelters many kinds dinner, looking very grim and deter. connection with the scheme for the of men and many shades of opinion.mited, when the music of the pipes housing of our disabled sailors and had been held by the Chinese in the Musketry-Those who have not wish to fire at Quarry Bay) atTaikoo Latterly it has discarded the idea was heard, and a company of High soldiers, the cottage to be named that "the man the hurls the barrow landers marched briskly behind their Madras Cottage."
past and to the value which modern yet fired their Musketry Course will does the work," and admits that band through the. little square and
MARRIAGE.
Arts studies had for the Chinese of attend at King's Park Range at 3.00 such a person exists as the brain past the Cathedral. Men and women At St. Columba Parish Church, behalf of the Association, and Mr. Officers: Captain Russell and Lieut to-day. The President replied on p.m. on Saturday, 22nd inst. Range worker." The "brain worker," how rushed from tramcars to see them, Glasgow, Douglas Robertson, ever, is not the person who plans for Led perfectly by small boys and girls, gineer, B.I.S.N.C., youngest son of proposed the toast of "Our Guests.
en Wong Yik Cho the Hon. Secretary Hall.
Monday, 24th March-5.15 p.m. industry and organises the men and the Scots managed to make their way Thomas Robertson, Eastwood, A noticeable feature was the presence the Engineer Company Office order
Pay for February will be issued at At Jockey Club Stables Dress Drill the barrows; he is too often merely the through a great crowd to the Thornliebank, to Mary, second daugh of Arts graduates, to one of whom HK.D.C. Headquarters, after the so-called
intellectual," the theorist entrances of the
Hohenzollern ter of Inspector and Mrs. M'Larty, Mr. Lo Hin Shing the members of Parade on Monday, 24th March the dreamer.
or
Sunday, 23rd March,-7.30 a.. No. 7 Flatoon (N. C. Os. and-men who Rifle Range Annual Musketry Course; Part 3. Practices 15, 16, 17 and 18.
ROY MOUNTRO SECTION.
One does not Bridge, and the suspension bridge Marine Police Buildings, Glasgow the Association extendedi their best Orders for Infantry Battalion by Major At headquarters. T.E.T.-Rifles, belts; }
ONE FOUND AN ACRE.
ENGAGEMENT.
al
H.A. Morgan.:
"D" Company at King's Park Range, Annual Musketry Course.
know how to characterise their which connects "Cologne with the political and social melange. There eastern suburb of Deutz. I saw
wishes on the eve of his departure is certainly a Labour programme thinly disguised soldiers in tunics or Brigadier General George A. ML. The Committee of the Association Saturday, 22nd March.-3.00-p.m
The engagement is announced of for England to continue his studies. before the electors. But it seems cloth cape explaining to groups of Secales, D.S.O., "Argyll and Suther are to be congratulated on the success that those who subscribe to it may towns-people who these bonneted land Highlanders and Tank-Corps of their arrangements... liberalise and latitudinise its creed troops were, and what kind of only son of the late Janes Sceales of until it becomes a stuff on which all fighters they had proved to be. manner of strange arabesques may
Thornhill, Stirlingshire, Brigadier, be embroidered. The plain fact is
King's Bodyguard, and Mrs. Sceales, that in Scotland-as no doubt else The Duke of Sutherland's Land Prestonholm: Dalhousie, Mid-Lothian, where-Labour is incoherent through seems to be going cheap. Mr. and 14 Drummond-Place, Edinburgh, excess of the feelings and imagina- Alexander Morison, of Punta Arenas, and May, widow of Brigadier General tions created by an age of opportun- Argentina, has acquired the fine Henry Buchanan Kirk, Argyll and ity and exploitation. Many of its sporting section known as Kinloch, Sutherland Highlanders and daughter members mean well, but they mean extending to 29,000 acres for £29,500. of Mr. and Mrs. A. „P. MacEwen, It intemperately, impetuously, and "The purchaser is a native of Loch Reidley, Branksome Park, Bourne) with so little counting of the cost Broom, emigrated to the Falkland mouth. that they would cast all our institu- Islands, and subsequently became a tions into the melting pot with as pioneer of sheep breeding in Patz-
OBITUARY.
William Macintosh, Lord Kyllachy
little hesitation as the Bolshevists of gonia and ChiliHe intends, it is of the Scottish Court of Session; 76. Russia in the confident belief that said, to run the sheep farms on the the fierce heat.of revolution is the property on his own account... certain cure for all our socialilla.....
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MISSION PROBLEMS.
Brigadier General A. A Wolfe Murray, CB, late Highland Light Infantry-He served in South Africa; in 1814 went over with the Expedit
The polling day passed off without A great central missionary board heat or noise and with very little dealing with all missions is a clamant ionary Force in command of the 2nd hustle. In many places, indeed, one necessity, th, the opinion of the Rev. H.LL, was Mentioned in Despatches, might pass the booths without being Dr Drummond, Moderator of the and awarded the CB. aware that there was an election but United Free Church. They had At Bagdad,· Lieut. Col· Harry for the presence of the official posters magnificent forces in the field, George Melville, C.I.E, M.D, FR.SE, In regard to one matter all the most yet they were short of what they Indian Medical Service, second son of experienced electioneering authorities pught to be. They had come closely, the late Francis Melville, Edinburgh. agree that the attendance of the into touch with the men brought as Captain Thomas Robertson, women was proportionately muchy labous battalions from China, South Dundee, the well-known whaling larger than that of the men.The Africa, and fadia, and men in artus aptam. He was a native of Peter women, generally speaking, did not from India fighting in Mesopotamia head and sailed for many years to the attend the meetings, not even and Palestine with such magnificent Arctic with the Dundee whaling feet. those organised for their special courage and success. A suggestion Hewas, however, best known as benefit but they astonished the had been made, he said that before Captain of the Scotia, the ship organisers of all parties by the the men went back to China front selected for the Antarctic Expedition. strength with which they turned up France, 50 Chinese Christians sho He also visited the Antarctic. În to vote: In some quartera It is assu be brought over to this, country and seach of whale a quarter of a century med that this large muster will be to entertained by the Chi
Lin order¦agoi For the discovery of an island the advantage of the labour Party, that they might have.
which “was named Dundee, in the In one sense that view is well unity of seeing wla
Antarctic, he received an hörcrarium founded Labour, women as well as Christian life was lite
from the Royal Geographical Society."
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pouches and dummy cartridges to be carried.
G. ESTEWART, Captain, Adjutant, H.K. Defence Corps.
Hongkong, March 21.
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HONGKONG TIDES,
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The zero of the table coercenda with the zero of the sounding fathe Admiralty. Chart, which has been found to be steet, * inches below mean non-level 5. *To obtain the depths of water on the aide gauge at the Victoria Naval Yard add 3 foot 4 inchen, and out bagram pho at Lavicat Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet, Cfuches to the height given in the tabick
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