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of ammunition which were found on his person when he was searched He pleaded." guilty to this charge.
Sweet cyder is a great thing,
A great thing to me, Spinsting down to Weymouth town Mr. C. F. Mason appeared befors By Ridgway thirstily, Magistrate Hutchison this morning, And mald and mistress, sam to defend one of sixteen Chinese was tend the Bokkelry at the instance of Inspector Willis O cyder is a great thing, with unlawful sunbly;. Ambira - A great thing to me ! the defendants was a Chinese Sapper The dance it is a great thing, of the Royal Engineers.""
All the defendants pleaded "not A great thing to me, guilty."
KURASIDON With identés fatsex partners Et The first defendant was further For nigh-long revelry: prising that a prospective Taipan of a revolver and seventeen rounds Peeps pale upon the les ; should make inquiry in that quarter
O dancing is a great thing, for news of the East. It rather sug-
A great thing to me! gests that, so far as the average per.
Love is, yes, a great thing, son at Home is concerned, Shanghai Asked for the facts of the case. is very much of an unknown Inspector Willis said that at 11 A great thing to me, quantity," and sources of information pm on August 16, the police raided When, having drawn across the laws rare, says the N.C.D.N
Hit the second floor of No. 1. Po Tukin darkness silently, The Editor of the Bazaar readly Strech and there found, the A figure flits like one a-wing responds to the inquiry and gives defendants. They were all sitt-Out from the nearest tree: details which are worth quoting ing around a table. They were}0 lobe is, yet ́s great thing, Much of the information given is not gambling. The floor was fitted. A great thing to me! description is not as ters. All the defendants were search showing how others see us.
The climate of Shanghal is not unfavourable to Europeans," says the Editor, though the winter is colder and the summer hotter than A bill granting Y80,000 to the in England. The most eppressive The number of analyses was 1,792 Department of Home Affairs for the two months are July and August. maintenance of special officers to and most people who can afford in 1918, 1,886.
watch over what is called "dangerous it go away to the north, or take thoughts" in the Empire was passed a trip to Japan: October and at the last session. Provision was November are delightful months.client. made for three higher police officers The winter is about the same as and six assistant officers to be ap-our own, but piercing winds from the north are, rather prevalent, pointed to supervise the matter.
Hitherto, dangerous thoughts fell and very warm clothing is neces 11,000 alabs.
9,847 bags. under the jurisdiction of the dissary. There are good English be handled doctors resident in Shanghai, and it 1,120 cases.trict officers,
932 bars.
according to the police regulations is usual to make a compact with 5,200 tons.
for these matters. The spread of your medical man, paying so much'a 8,692 cases. disturbing thought throughout the month or quarter whether you are 2,410.
country is necessitating a more uni- or well. The plan seems absurd, but 600 tons. form supervision: Thought in China it works out quite satisfactorily, 46,110 cases. and Siberia will also be investigated usually an Englishman requires car
ful medical treatment for the first and a watch kept 138,995
Will this be capable of checking year he is in China. By this state ment we do not mean that Ching is anything?" asks the Rochi,
particularly unhealthy, but the condi tion of living and change of diet are conducive to slight functional dis- orders at first.
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS "DANGEROUS THOUGHTS."not without Interest he out like a Triad Society's headquar-win these beaways eat things.
THE GOVERNMENT -
ANALYST.
· RIPRESSIVE ACTION IN JAPAN,
SAMPLING
-7. The amount of sampling done during the year is shown in the following table :---
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Antimony....
·Copper
Manganese Ore
Anise Oil... set ved Cassia Oil..
Coal...
Tea Oilet o
Wood Oil....
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90,502
80,514
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MANCHESTER WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
8. Owing no docbt to the high" exchange ruling during the past year, less work was done for local export-
Messrs. James F. Hutton & Co., ing firms than in 1918. The fees paid into the Treasury during the Ltd., Manchester, report on Wednes- year amounted to $35,258.50 as day. July 14:
Raw material prices have been against $43,995.00 in 1918.
LIBRARY.
ed, and the revolver and imunition Great things to me? were found in the first defendant's Let it befall that One will call, girdle. A fighting stick was found" Soul, I have need of thee": on the premises, but none of the de- What then? Joy-jaunts, impassioned fendants claimed it
dings... - Love, and its cokify, Will always have been great things,
Great things to me?
Mr. Mason said he would like 'a' short remiand
The Magistrate fixed-the case fo to-morrow at 11:30.
Mr. Mason applied for bail for his
Inspector. Willis suggested,$100. The Magistrate: The maximum fre in only $50. Inspector.
The Inspector: Make it $50 then, your Worship.
The Magistrate: I think I will make it $25.
With regard to the 'first defendant, Inspector Willis objected to all say ing that he would like to Interview the CP, first.
The Magistrate remanded the first defendant in police custody, until to morrow morning, and allowed the others out on bail of $25 each.
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UNITY: OF EMPIRE-
WHAT THE DOMINIONS DID IN THE WAR.
Under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute a meeting was held on June 23 in the Merchants' Hall of
the Baltic.
Mr. C. W. Howard, chain of the Baltic, said the Institute founded in 1868, at a time when there was agres agitation for the disrup tion of the British Empire. Its aim was to unite the interest! Great Britain with those of her Colonies. and thus form a greater, Empire.
Sir George Parkin (secretary of the Rhodes Trust) moved: "That this
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A WELL WORN DELUSION. "Shanghai may be divided into four parts the native city, which is enclosed by walls, and has a popula
The Hon. Treasurer" of the Alice tion of about 183,000; the French szulement, which Bes between the Memorial and Affiliated Hospital walled city on the south and a creek begs to acknowledge with thanks The value of the year's work as unsettled during the past week. called Yangkingpang; the British, the following donations to the funds the Metropolis of the Empire, to the determined from the Tariff of Fees There has been a better enquiry for German, and American districts of the Hospitals (Government Notification No 439 of actual cotton which has imparied a which lie between the above bamed 1918) is $39.918.50 as against $48, rather better undertone to both New creek and Soochow creek; and the York and Liverpool. Weather and suburban or Bubbling Well district, 670,00 in 1918.
crop news have been variable but on which lies to the west of the British the whole rather bullish. The Na settlement. Property in Shanghai kas 9. Several standard works of tional Ginners Association bimonthly increased enormous y in price dur estimate of the crop condition as ing the last decade, and the develop reference have been added,
720 which is the same as last ment of the port has been steady. month, was lower than expected The following is an approximate D. H. Cooper & Co. and caused covering with a fairly estimate of the different nationalities E. D. Kotewall ... sharp upward movement. A good of the city: Chinese, including river deal of nervousness is in fact evident, population, 435,000: British, 3,000; as to the growing crop, for in spite Portuguese, 1,000; Americans, 600; French, 400; Japanese, 800; Russians, 100; and other nations, about 1,000 The foreign residents govern the natives as well as themselves within the limits of the different settlements Order is preserved by a force of 800 police, including 83 Europeans and 170 Indians.
SPECIAL REPORTS.
10. Special Reports have been supplied on Chinese Camphor, Stan- dards for Oils, The Macao Poisoning Case, Fuel Oils, Mineral Deposits in the New Territories, The Storage of Dangerous Goods, and the Composi-of moderately favourable weather it is still backward and there have been tion of Hongkong Milks.
reports of bolf weevil activity these are however isolated up to the present and damage to the plants through this appears so far to be light. There is ne improvement to be reported in the demand for yarn or doth. Pro- ducers continue to find enquiry of a testing nature but up to the present
RESEARCHL.
11. Processes for the estimation of minute quantities of Lead in Cassia Oil and for the estimation of Water in Crude Camphor have been worked out and descriptions sent to the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry,
A new physico-chemical method this has failed to mature into actual for the determination of Camphor transactions. The turnover of our
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THE SHANGHAI BUNGALOW. Living in Shanghai is expensive. There are three modes open to a single man, yiz, in an hotel, in a
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merchant of the City and of Great) 1000 Britain. The relationship of the Dom!- 500 nions to Grest Britain, be saxi, -- was 10:00 the same as that of the branches to a 1000 tree, for as the tree, strengthened so did the branches. He wanted to see the interests of this country and its dominions absolutely as one.
10.00
GERMANS IN JAPAN.
BR. SOLF RECOGNISED.
5.00
REPUBLIC FLAG REPLACES EAGLES.
After an absence of six years, lacking only fourteen days, the German fag was, fiying again on August 10 from the Bagstaff of the German Embassy, Tokyo.
The reason for its appearance was that Dr. Wilhelm Self, the German Charge d'Affaires,called at the Foreign
There used to be many people there were some now who did not believe that the Colonies were worth any assistance. At the time of Water- loo two regiments of British soldieră were in Canada, and some people asked whether Canada was worth it. Consider what followed. During the Great War Canada supplied us with six times as many men as the eraire force Wellington had under his comé mandat Waterloo. Was not that a proof that the Colonies were worthy of assistance?
world.
Out of 15,000 members of the In- Oil in Crude Camphor has also been market has in fact been meagre boarding-bonse, and in a bungalow Yarn prices are on the share systern. Furniture can
size 9,000 were from our distant devised and a description sent to the in the extreme.
again easier with "a corresponding be hired at fairly low rates. No Office, presented his credentials to the Colonies, while the total membership Analyst
An extended investigation is being reduction in cloth prices, but the female servants are employed, only Minister for foreign Affairs, Viscount for the United Kingdom is 3.5818 conducted into the nature and con- tone all round remains confideat. Chinamen. It is usual to have a Uchida, and was officially recognized Therefore he looked to the merchants The generally prevalent view, that headman, or No. I boy as he is cal as the German; representative in of London to support the fostitute in stitution of Chinese Camphor Oil
prices are not likely to experience led, who engages the other servants Tokyo. Diplomatic relations betweenus appeal for £300,000 to endow any serious break, does not lose and is in some degree responsible for the Japanese Empire and the German scheme for enlarging the premises of 12. Mr. Lubatti acted as Govero ground in spite of the prolonged their good behaviour. Clothing Republic were officially resumed after the Institute in Northumberland ment Analyst from the end of inactivity. There are indeed strong not dear, as the Chinese are capital lapse of six years less a fortnight. - Avenue as a means of helping in unic January to the end of October, during reasons in support of such a view. failors, and excel in making boots
The fing that was flown from the the Empire. Il London did that she which time I was absent from the In the first place the raw material is and shoes. Washing is cheap and Embassy, however, is not the same would create for herself as immortal. Colony on leave. Mr. K. W. Lane scarce, and it does not appear prob- splendidly done. No one can beat that waved there in August, 1914 ity such as had never been achieved joined the staff as Assistant Analyst, able that there will be any appre- the Chinese as laundrymen...
{ The imperial eagles and all the spirit and Mr. L. Cheng as Temporary cable reduction in cotton values. In The railways in China.are.quite of boastfulness and conceit that they by any other city in the history of the Assistant Analyst during the year. addition to this the costs of coal; lab up to date. Where they do not symbolized are gone. The banner, LABORATORY ACCOMMODATION. our and production generally, are on extend travel is usually done by of the German Republic is a very 13. No further increase of work a level which prevent any sensational water, or in a litter, or on horseback: simple, unassuming fit three hon can take place in the present Labora fall from taking place. These are facts Most of the large towns on the coast zontal stripes of red, black and toty which is at present worked to which buyers who look for such are linked by rail. With travell yellow.
Doctor Solf's status is still that of its utmost capacity. As a fall in ex-an occurence, must bear in mind. ing expenses paid, which, we take it, change will almost certainly be Labour in fact gets increasingly include all hotel expenses when away Charge d'Affaires, although it is ex accompanied by an increased demand dearer. At the present time all the from your base, you should find pected that he will be given the rank for analytical work, it is desirable thar packing case makers are out on strike £1,000 a year quite a comfortable of Ambassador as soon as lapan Arrangement be made as speedily as for a higher scale of wages, and owing income, but, of course, if a man reopens her Embassy in Berlin and possible for the provision of more to this the shipment of many goods cares, he can easily spend this sends an Ambassador there adequate laboratory accommodation. is entirely held up. The purchase of amount per annum and much more
silver by America under the Pittman in any of the Treaty porta” Act is apparently having effect on the price of the metal which has been TEETHING CHILDREN.
distinctly firmer recently. The pur BETHING children have more or less chases will extend over a considerable diarrhea which can te controlled period and are likely to have a steady. by riving chamberlain's Colic and Diaring influence on the market. ras Remedy. All that is necessyry is
Arrested at Yaumati yesterday ARE YOU GOING ON A JOURNEY? for the theft of a coat, a Chinese was (HAMBERLAIN'S Colic and Dhar. this morning convicted by Magistrate ook Remedy should be packed in Butchison. Sub-Inspector Ogg, who your hand luggage when going on is prosecuted, asked that sentence be journey: Change of water diet apd deferred until to-morrow morning. temperature all tend to produce bowel as since coming to Court he had Retural d then castor oil to cleanse Beginning August 15, WALLA accused on board the brain er steamshin returning from banishment to be trouble and this medicine cannot be discovered that there was a charge of WALLA" BOATS will call on it.isy, erve much sufferjog and incon- all Ships flying the call fagvenience if you hayo it hisudy For sale preferred against the defendant. The
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Sir George Mclaren Brown, in sup porting the resolution, pointed out the necessity of a healthy Imperial trade, so that the various parts of the Empire should work for each other, and no! separately, and thus secure a real strength of mity, which canot rely on sentiment only. Who, he asked. would dire to say that the British Empire would never be attacked agria? As sure as the rising of the sun to-morrow morning a time would come when there would be another attack on our existence.
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