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The following items are from the P&T Times of the 14th inst
Peking telegrams give the 3rd and 4th of the eleventh moon (yesterday and to-day) as the probable dates of the Court's departure for Peking. There is much scepticism in the Legations as the arrival before the Spring
The work of the great enttings to the Hai-ho improvement scheme is two-thirds finished, as far as the excavations go. An attempt will probably be made to open the new channels during the winter, so as not to interfere with the spring navigation,
Fone dull, foggy, and depressing days in cod dank amorphere, is a sequence, with phenomenon all but unknown in Tientsin. The ic which was appareatly well set for the sesson has enfrenal considerably: "Skating in, however, still possible, although not so good 过 before.
We heard the other day from a friend of Captain Beatty, P. N., D.S.O. the gallant young Commander who so distinguished himself with the Bardeurs in the siege of Tintain, that bo bas ut last had to have his wounded arm an putated. Happily Captain Beatty bus now reacheil such rank that this aericas misfortune will in no way interfere with his prospects in the Service bu so greatly adoras. We also hear that thongs he has best an arm, he has gains
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`THE, VOLUNTER SCHENZ DELAYED. Developments have arisen which are causing the achomo for raising 5 volunteers in London for service at the front to be held in abeyance. The chief dillenty which is being experienced by the War Office authorities relates to the question of the payment of recruits who are hanging back at the present rata offered. Unless this ohatado can to overcome there is reason to fear the project may collapes."
FIGHTING IN NIGE FA
London, 6th December.
One column of the expedition against the warlike tribe Arose in Nigeria encounteted sharp resistant, on the 2nd instant, and had seventeen casualties. Captain-Its was wounded.
EASTEEN TOLAGEAPH COMPANY.
Leadon, 6th December.
The Eastern Telegraph Company dined Mr. Denison and Sir James Fender last night. Mr. Brodrick audi ord Hardwicko wao presont. Lord Hardwicke said the Govevamout of India was determined to secure the reduction in rates to India.
GERMANY AND POLAND
Lado, 8th December.
The severe treatment of Polish, setool children at Werschen in East Prussia and the order to compel them to speak German and the impri- sonment of parents who protester has led to riotous demonstrations outside the German Consulates at Warsaw and Lenberg. The windows were broken and the exonteleon at Warsaw dragged in the mud. The authorition salequently replaced it and apologisel.
ETRIXES IN AUSTRALIA.
London, 8th December.
There has been a markel improvement in the tides at Taku during the week and steamers are getting in and out, though the removal of the bungs, de, renders it a more tedious and risky basiese thun naual. Monday last saw thirty stermers still outside, but things are much better now. Mosera Butterfield and Swire have despatched four of their fourteen vessels away within a day or two. Yesterday's fideing with fine and imprisonment strikes and was 11 feet.
Tan Sydney Parliament has passed the Lu dustrial Arbitration Bill coupelting reference
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AR LIGION OF MURDER, Tarsia the title given by the writer of un drticle in a recent is of the Quarterly Review on the Tungs, which is mainly based on Bir William Sleman's reports and books on the subject. The writer describes" Thngges "as the only religion that proac les murder, an amint and once porerini ligion, as well as a profession and a hereditary custom. No Thng ever donated the divine origin of the faith, and he regarded the persons murdered as victims offered in sacrifle to the Goddess Kall, the patroness of the Thugs.
VAN was that
She, it was believed, hid down carinin rates which no Thug was breda. before sarting on an expedition, those son. cerned in it should all meet to coupeorate the sacred pickaxe (originally one of the teeth of the Goddess), to evoke her aid, and to eat the sacred go, or sugar. An oath on the pickaxe was peculiarly sacred, and any brauch of it was believed to be punished by the outraged God- dass with horrid tatures. One of the extra- ordinary characteristics of Thuggoo was tho gonning faith of its votaries, and the fact that it was held by good mon. Tho these was E used by term "murder applied only to the slaying of a Thug or to the killing of any man otherwise than by Chugge. One leader, a man of elegance and polished manners, being asked by Sleeman whether he felt compunction, in murdering innocent people, replied: Doug any mas feel compunction in following his truder Aude not all our trades assigned to us by Providence P On Loing asked how many people he had killed, replied: "I have killed none. Ex any au killed from man's killing! Is it not the hand of God that kill him are wo not mere blooded murderers, who averaged three mur ders a year per man, were good fathers and husbands; they included men of position, mer chants, tax-collectors, and others who held official positions. A Isader who gave Sleeman a great amount of valuable information said :- The changereur batare. Let any man
goor once taste of that goor and he will be a flag, though be know all the tra lex and have all the wealth of the world. I have been high in office, pet T was miserable while absent from my gang. My father made me taste that fatal goor when I was yet a mere buy, and if I were to live to a thousand years I should never be able to follow any other tradu."
home and strangle him single-handed. The families of these adepts were honoured for several generations. Nor were large rewards required to lead them to morder. One cele brated loader deposed that eight annes was a very good remuneration for martering a man: they often strangled a victim, he mid, who wa suspected of having two pics.
A WONDERFUR DISCOVERY.
A Williams Bay, Wisconsin, telegum of the 19th ult. gives the following details of the latest scientific discovery. Ait would bes pity Condensa the telegram, we give it a ils "origina", annuswhat florid styl
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THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Calcutta, 7th December. MORE VOLUNTLERS INVITED. An Englishton special cablu says that, with a view to providing reinforcements for South Africa, Government has decided to make a fur- ther enlistment of volunteers for active service. A movement is on foot to raise a new fores of volunteers to replan those who returned from the front a year ago. The fores when raised will insist of boat five thousand men. It Is considered that this reinforcement will set free a large number of efficient reterare we are now employed in guarding communications.
London, 8th December.
OTHER REINFORCEMENTS,
Various drafts sailed for the Cape yesterday, including 100 Hospital orderies who will be followed by 800 in the next two months in order to cope with the enterie-season.
SCOTSWOMEN FOR THE TRANSVAAL The Marquis of Tullivardine in developing a scheme for the immigration of Scotswomen” to the Transvaal,
London, 1 December.
HOBHOUSE v. KITCHENER, AND MILNELL Miss Hobhouse, whom the Capetown anthori. ties compelled to remain on a Gospital ship, is aning Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner for false imprisonment and assault. The action is causing some unusement as it is so ogregiously a party move.
A CAVALRY INCREASE,
The Daily Expresa states it has been decided
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THE HOLDAN.
Loudon, 8th D comber, The Khedire left Khartouni fo aivo and expressed his pleasure at finding country more advanced than he imagined.
DISTURBANCES IN TRII OLE
London, 8thcomber. Six Arabs and two Turkish soldiers wero killed and many wounded in nonfict between the troops and population near Tripoli, where n state of siege has been proclaimed
TRADE BETUENS.
London, 8th December. The British fraports for Novembers how a de crease of £2,123, 177 due to miscellaneous canse and exports a decrease of 41,882,23 owing to a decrease in the quantity and price of coal
TRUSTS IN AMERICA,
Loudon, 9th December. The position of the Amalgamated Copper Trust, which is the earliest of the huge American trasts, is causing much concern and the New York Stock Market is agitated. The depreciation in coppar skares in the last ten days is estimated at four millions derling. The decine is largely do to manipulation of powerful adverse interests.
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This is one of the greatest discoveries in the history of astronomy, and Professor Ritchey alone deserves all the credit. It is the first big Yerkes Observatory, and it will fusure to werk of absolutely great magnitude dons at the Professor Ritchey a foremost pince among the world-renowned men of science
The celestial object upon which Professor Ritchey has made his observations is a mysteri
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Astronomers at last settled upon the theory that the new light had been caused by a tre mandous explosion proportionate in size to the site of the st. This inter theory is now harpe oat by Professor Riteley's observations.
On the night of september 20th Profemor Ritchey photographed Nora of Persus by mans of the twenty-four-iush reflector at the Yerkes Observatory. The negative disclosed
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The early history of Thayy o is not known. Their organisation was perfect, the way in which their party was divided up as it went along the roads, the selection of the place of fanation and methods of the inveigler and of the strangler, and so on. In addition there were a good many rules which experience had taught and which warehoud down from father to son amongst these were the following:-Never you without murdering for dead uten tell no tales; never allow one of a party to escape, and this rule of "kill one, kill ait" applied even to a travelled dog, lest the animal sheak scent out its master s grave; there must be two men at least to every London, 9th December. victim; never murder near home; and the Goudio and others onnected with the Bank rules for hiding away the bodias were very of Liverpool robberies were brought up at Bowstriot. The beyle or chosen murdering and Street. The proscention showed that Gondia barying grounds, were thickly dotted alongy and her oberver. most eleverly forged hugo cheques and mari- every high road in the country. In one place is litokay there were two fairly dose wisps of nubulosity towards the west, pulated the books. He sent large amounts to near Lucknow there were no less than fitoon
with a carro to the north, morging into this carolutions of nebula. This is a farthing his co-accused, who wew bookmakers and whom beyla ou a stretch of rusd twenty miles long, at he trusted blindly, and obtained practically each of which parties of travellers, numbering fact, but Profesor Hitchey patiently waited for a favourable night to secure another one to twenty peeple, had been strangled and nothing himself.
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negative. The looked for opportunity came The British officers looked on thes)' men,
The plate of Beptember 20th had been exposed naturally enough, as tigers, and it is curious last. Wednesday night, Norenbor 13th.. that the Thugs bal a kind of from feeling lod three hours and fifty minutes. On Wednesday UNSET DIAMONDS, JEWELLERY AND WATCHES the tiger, for they would never attack one, and
the light of the mysterious star. When he believed that the nuimals would never attack night for seven hours be exposed his plate to them as long as they remained good Thug leaked at the negative he observed fact in is estimated that 3000 persone Tere killed wkiuh tus at ours recognized the proof so long every year by these wretches; they vanished,ght and so ardently wished for by observers "It may very whore. The spots of density in the west as it were, into the earth every year.
field of the uobuts had moved. Never before seen to us inconceivable that the people them. selves should have tolerated such a sate of
led this amazing fact boen found, and Professor things, but we never hear of a village rising to hunt down the murderers; the, innocent Ritchey, who at ouce saw the immeasurable im- pertauce of the marvellous discovery he had villagers died of strangling then as they die of cholera or the plague now, in a silent, hopeless made, was gratified bayond words with the belief that it is wrong to straggle against the unqualified succes with which his patience and prazverance, as well as his daring and original vizitation of the goda. The murderers wero
concept ou, hal been rewarded. never trace, or hard of."
THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND.
Caloutta, 9th December. An Futun Daily News message says:-The publication in the English pross of Router's to send ten thousand horses and an establish- statements regarding serious diffamaces between ment for the use of the Cavalry and Mounted Queen Wilhelmina and her husband has creat Infantry, and also retain the provisional Carafryed great indignation in Holland. Categorical regiments after the war, this considembly offest denials have been made of all the state
meats of Beater and weare asked to believe there increasing the Cavalry strength.
was no quarrel, no iusut, no duels. The Dutch Court is furious and pro-Bourism is rampant at the Hague..
alcatta, th December.
THE WAR AND THE PARTIES. An Iulian Daily News special cablegram ways that at largely attended meeting of the Liberal Federations rezolution was passed cou- itemning the manner in which the war is being puraned and demanding the appointment of a Special Commissioner to negotiate terms of pence with the Bours.
Lord Selborne addressing a large gathering of Conservatives and Liberal Unionists at Ful- ham said the outory against Lord Milner which was the most recent shibboleth of the Radical party was spurious He emphatically declared Government would not throw over Lori Milner, whose work as High Commissioner of South Africa wan excellent to a degres.
Bima, 9th December. RECENT CASUALTIES, The following caenalties are reported from South Africa:
"OCEANIA'S CUSTOMS BILL CASE,
London, 10th December. With regard to the writ issued against the captain of the Peninsular and Orisutal steamer Oceante for breach af Australian Unstoms bill, the Supreme Court at Melbourne has given judgment adverse to the Ocean, holding that Parliament is empowered by its constitu tion to make it an office if any vessel enters an Australiau port with broken sals, no matter were broken."
ARMY HONOURS.
London, 11 Dee.mber. The following appear in today's Gazette. -Major Grierson, Royal Arillery, to be Companion of the Batli Major Gould Adams, Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Lieutenants Loch and Colvin, Royal 4th November: dangerously wounded, Liout. Engineers, and Captain. Holman Lieutenauts Fernant, South African constabulary 5th Stiring and Macpherson, Indian Staff Corps, November lied of wounds, and Lieutenant and Herbert Williams, Indian Medical Service Martin, 2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry. No to the Distinguished Service Order. vember 13: Diel of enteric, Lieut. Cuthill,
The following officers are prometed lieutenant Uitenhage Volunteer Rifles November 22 colonel: Majors Macdonald, Renny Tailyout, slightly wounded, Sad Lieutenant Nash, 1st Royal Engineers, Turner Royal Artillery; Leicestershire Regiment. -November 27: Angelo and Thayes, Staff Corps: Captains severly wounded Captain Eastwood, Ist Watson, West Ridings, Stewart Hadson, Low, Dragoon Guards-December fet died of Mockler and Adye, Staff Corps, and Major dysentery, en Lieutenant Staines, 1st East Manifold, Indian Medical Service, al for Lancashires, slightly wounded, Lieutenant Bol-services in China. and. Queenslanders; died of enteric, Captain North, 2nd Mancholer-December 4: died of enteric, Major Pl, et East Lancashires.
- London, 10th December
A. WEEK'S WORKS
Lord Kitchener, in a despatch dated the 9th, says that since the 2ug 48 Boers have been killed and wounded and 387, taken prisoners and surrendered. The extension of blockhouses permitted for the first time the conduct of systemic and onlinuous operations in the Vicinity of Ermelo, Bethel, and Curolina.
KOEK LEADE WOUNDED.
Commandant Maritz hce been rerely wounded in un unsuccessful stiask on Toateel besel kop, in the extrem west of Cape Colony, THE COFCENTRATION DAMPS.
THE BUGAS CONFERENCE,
London, 11th December.
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The conclusions which follow from this truly it appeared at one time as if the East Indie Company were afraid to medite with the epoch-making discovery are stupendous. They of the cost, and of the lead to positive knowledge that in unspeakably murderers-afraid scandal at home. Lord William Bentinck first gulfs of space nature is slowly moulding Bus and planets and solar systems and star took the matter is haud by putting Steeman in
plasters but nebules are converted into suns, charge of a department for dealing with it. and suus into webule; that catastrophies involr. This was in 1830. In the emuning five years Sleeman had arrested over 2,000 murderers andig unthinkable quantities of matter are by no proved the the facte against them in all but 21 means rare in the infinite womb of space, nad cases At the wry outset he captured one of that out of chaos and confasion thus produced oxler and symmetry emerge after ages of approver, the leaders, who turned
evolution. me," writes Sleman, that if his life were spared he could scare the arrest of several large gangs Seeing me disposed to doubt his authority upon a point of so mach importance, he requested me, put him to the proof, to take him through the village of Selohda, and he would show me his ability and inclination to give me correct information. I did so, and my tents were pitcled, where tents usually are, in a small mange grove. When I got up in the morning he pointed out three placer in he and his gang had depmited, at different intervals, the bodies of three parties of travel- fore. A priest and six attenants, murdered in 1818, lay among the ropes of my sleeping tent. harilder and four sepoys, murdered in 1924,
which
The British delegates at the Sugar Con- ference include Sir Edmand Flipps. Minister at Brussels, and representatives from the rorlay inler my horses and four water-car: ivs, eign, Colonial and India Offees. The expet advisers include Sir Nevile Lablock and air Martineau,
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE YOU HAVE.
London, 11th December.
In the Inter-University foth match Oxford won by a goal and a try to unbridge's
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THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
London, 12th December. Senator Lodge in a specchi is the senate-at Washington declared that the rest of the Lord Onslow in a speech at Crefos last night New Canal Treaty was that Britain bed trane- said the Colonial Office had taken over the con--ferred to America the entire sagement of centration camps and those wishing to go to the Canal, both in peace and it was, with the the angle would be freely permitted to do so. right of fortification The larger camps were being broken up, and in the analler ones no trouble or money was being pared to make them as healthy as posible If things did not improve Government would not hesitate to apply the experion o gained in dealing with the plague in India, fara orga
London, 11th Decemler.
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HOME TIOMANRY DICUDED ON The Daily Mail save the departure of fresh
The U.P.E. steamer Empress of Japan arrived troops on a large scale will commence shortly to the Cape, and that it has been decided to at Kobe on the 5th lust, at 3.30pm. und left raise more Yeomanry to consist mainly af again at noon same day for Yokohama, where members of old county regiments and oxshe was due to arrive on the 2tk inst, at noon. military men and to call up all line reservists under twelve years service to stilen the regolare, share
ME DEODRICK ON APF1129. Mr. Brodrick in a speech at Glasgow said the expenses of the war had oomiderably diminished in the last two months, and it was now possible to re-establish greater scale of industries in the Band 400 refuges were returning weekly instead of 200 fortnightly, and it was intended, he said, to remoto the overflow from the broken up, unhealthy con centration camps to the coasta.
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