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In a little office next door to the Hing's Arm Tavern at Fleat Bridge Le ancestor of all London's giant London, April 19.
daily newspapers was horn Just" There have been many indien- According to the Morning 224 years ago The Daily sions: recently that the financial Post's' Washington Correspon Courant, first edited and publish straits of the Government have dent, the United States negotia ad by Mr. Mallet on March 11, become sovore, and the merchantstions with Great Britain, with 1708 was a plain little single are groaning under the oxactions the object of minimising the sheet consisting of two news.
to which they are being subjected, smuggling of liquor, have already columns. There were many weekly and recalling no doubt with quiet yielded four important voluntary and fortnightly papers in sircula- derision the hot denunciations of concessions on the part of Great tion at the time, but Mr. Mallet. the extortions of Ch'en Chlung“ | Britain. "
had not a good word to speak of ming's generals in which the Rodei The first permits American name boasted in his first were so lavish on their arrival hero cutters to visit outlying: Britishditorial, which was completed in last November, and their generous islands in the Atlantic, provided
one brief paragraph, that his assurances that under their régime previous notice is given to the outral" was "confind to half the such things should not be
Colonial authorities, thus enabling Compass, to save the Publick at the suspected vessel to be kept least half the impertinences of under continuous observation ordinary newspapers. A cortoin The second provides that if necked independence of view Great Britain will forbid the seems to have won this pioneer admission of ships to British-re-editor many admirers. gistry unless their bona fide Bri By some strange irony, says the tish nationality is proved. The Westminster Gazette, the little Bahaman authorities are to exer paper, which had a wonderful cise greater vigilance in prevent
Is is common talk that the pay of the soldiers, is in arrears any thing from six to eight months, and if that is anything like the truth, it is suffelent to account for a certain activity in the Taxation Bureau. It has been making strong representations to the Chamber of Commerce regarding the returns made by the merchants of the values of their property, which it
ing vessels clearing with disuccess with the London public contained no London news what honest inten roundly declares are almost with-i Finally the British Governor. It was made up entirely of out exception very far distant from ment will prosecute the Owners extracts from the "Haarlem the truth, and threatening to close and masters of vessels Fraudu up the business of those who perlently securing a clearance, pro- sist in making false returns...
vided the United States furnishes evidence on which a prosecution Profits from Gambling.
can be based (Reuter's Special The most recent device for raia Service to the Times of Ceylon' ing the wind has been the rescind-via Bombay),
The new lieutenant-governor of British Columbia, Mr. Robert Randolph Bruce, dressed in a redskin's clothes when the Stoney
Indian made him a chief.
ing of the prohibition of gambling which has been in force since the return of the Reds in November. The contract for the monopoly rights has been put up to auction, and the price obtained for the city was $1,650 per day. of Swatow The whole district of Chaochowfu went for $370 per day. If Sgures fike these preval over the whole province, the relief to the official coffers should be considerable..
LABOUR JOKES."
WHY LABOURITES WERE SUSPENDED.
OBSTRUCTION TACTICS..
London, April 15.
Courant"Amsterdam Courant and Paria Gazette," including: news from Nables, Vienna, Rome, Frankfort, Liege and Paris. A very natural interest in the great war, which Marlborough was con- ducting against France, was the cause of this boom. In foreign news
A multitude of be-wigged and ehoe-buckled gentlemen bought the "Courant" every day simply to learn how the Duke of Escalona had made his entrance into the port of Naples, dressed in a French habit, or that Prince Eugane of Savoy, fighting on the English side, had received, bills of exchange to support his reinforcements. Al the information was sober and unadorned.
Statements of Fact...
It was not long before the Daily Courant, was taken in hand by one Samuel Buckley at the Sign of the Dolphin, in Little Britain His policy was very similar to Malet's. Ho restricted himself to a dignified statement || | of fact and declined to "take: upon himself to give any com- ments, supposing other people to have sense enough to make reflec- tions for themselves."
London news soon began to creep in Details about the new. Queen Anne were popular, though no gossip was allowed. There were alao plain announcements to the effect that Colonel George" Churchill made Admiral of the Blue an
Morl allusion to borough'e brother-or that "the Queen has commanded that the Princess Sophia of Hanover be Prayed for in all Churches, as one. of the Royal Family "a reminder that Sophia's son was heir to the English throne, actually destined to become George I only twelve Years later.
Two extra columns of print. were eventually added on the other side
In the House of Commons, an extraordinary situation developed This restoration of liberty was at 6 o'clock in the morning after celebrated yesterday by a fusillade an all-night debate by a Com-of the page. They were alled the chiefly with "puffs for new books of crackers in front of the largest mittee of the House on gambling house in the city, and Economy Bill, resulting in the by authors with a strong commer cial senses The Art of Glaas- crowded attendance of clients,
Just about this time last year the suspension of 13 Labourites showing how to make: All Sorts of
students were holding a great anti- owing to the invention of an en Glass, crystal and Enamel Like- gambling demonstration, and tirely new method of obstruction wise the making of Persia, China, and 0000000000X | parading the streets about it Mr. Lansbury and Mr. Wheatley Precious Stones....
A work ton- knowing well that the authorities were in favour of repression. Now and eleven others, in the division Looking Glase
ties never before Discovered, vý they are discreetly silent, and find on the Labour motion to adjourn taining many Secrets and Curiosi again.. "Stenographia, Or the an outlet for their energies in hold the debate, remained in the Aye ing memorial meetings for the Lobby joking and singing, over Art of Shortwriting Completed in a far more Compendious, Method TRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this estabhabment is guaranteed. "Peking martyrs" and denouncing half-an-hour, delaying the whole
than any yet extant. There we Tuan Ch'i-jui, and the foreign business.
Ministers and the Chairman have a singularly modern touch. Powers who are said to be respon Town Ofice: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tel. Central Na 458sible for it all. The financial diff lengthily consulted and finally This highly respectable and Shipyard: Sham-Bui-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong.
culties of the government are called the Speaker from his bed dignified journal flourished for 23 being popularly attributed to the Mr Neville Chamberlain, years, during which time Walpole failure of the Russian sources of and a Eabour uproar, moved the established the long Whig rule Bupply on which they have been suspension of 13 Labourites. The over England, and Swift wrote able to draw until recently Whe Labour Opposition thereupon Gulliver's Travels. At last in ther the policy of non-co-operation adopted the same tactics, but 1735 was absorbed in the with the Soviet government which after another half-an-hour's de Daily Gazetteer." seems to have been adopted at lay the Speaker ordered the tellers Canton is the result of this failure, or the cause of it who shell Bay
Food Supplies Short The problem of food supplies for the. British community is again to the fore. For these we are de pendent on British steamers come ing from Hongkong (the landing.
They were discussing the marital being done by bluejackets from the affairs of a friend. "Yes," said man-of-war) as no other steamer Phyllis, she says he's a perfect. which calle at. Hongkong la per- busband.
Sole
"Agents:"
MITSUI
BUSSAN
KAISHA.
ASAHI
BEER
to report the figures showing the motion carried by 168 votes to 76. Whereupon the 18 Labourites were ordered to withdrew and business resumed.
he even sandpapers
mitted to land cargo here. For a the drewood to save, ber from get time B & B boats were calling ting splintars in her hands
once a week, and later when they
were called off, the Douglas Co
did what was necessary but re- A Chelsen
cently they also have failed te
and simultaneously the only ice
painting
work
factory operating in Swatow (a Japanese one) has been closed so Watchin
that we are dependent on
kong also for ice, as well as for per
the fresh food to put upon
result has been a general retur
the tinned food diet,
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