signess, nud aut to persons who took cargo from consigues. The Mutual Stores were not
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or
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were being put into the godowa at Keanody should give notice when the goods arrive, in every respect excapt length with the short rifle, Lown, and could be obtained from hero or from whether the consigneo should be obliged to and then to compare the two in every not of cou ditin a likely to occur in war. That thorough and straightforward test the War Office has lighters. A notion was put in the paper that make enquiries. It seems to me reasonable and
Wo reproduce hero some of the mere striking consignees should take delivery before the good sense that notice should be given. Conso- abstained from applying, and for very good reason, because there can be no doubt that the
passages from a rather bombustio article in the Oth February, and would be charged rent after-quently, I think the shipowner in such case wards, and the shipowner would not be respon should give notice. I come to the question of shorter rifle would be beaten outright in rango, fonthly Review, written by Richard Barry,
"the c in penetration, in flatness of trajectory, in accu
only Auriesh correspondent attached to sible for at risks, and no claims would be entes whether these nua con recover the damages racy of shooting, and, in fact, in all the quaithe Japanese forces from the beginning of their
Investment! tained after the 8th Febrancy. That in fact was they claim, as they are not party to the bill of ties most desirable in a rifle.
But there is a stronger argument still against The Russians in Port Arthur bave not had as a notics that these goods were in the Colony, lading, and I think they can, the defendants
having admitted them to be the owners of the the change. The ballistics of a rifle, important hord stimeastbo worklimagines. The loss of their na they are, are not everything. We have to fleet did not worry them. Since the beginning The Betire sms to have teen specially to con.
goods. There seems to be no pustion as to the gia sores consideration to the man behind the it has begu doomed, and since August 1 they amennt of damages, and I accept the arid rifle, and neglect of the psychological problem here made no extraordinary attempt to save it.
hoary
guns of the remaining vessels were of Mr. Man Fong that the goods is perhaps the most serious of the many
has te do with a rifle knows that a short barrel tion curried is, and the samen brought off to were in such a state as to be unaleally. Iftares of this new departare. Every man who two mouths age placil on shore, the ammuni suan the defences. While it was still ahov accept that statement as good evidence, and I is a distinct disadvantage. He may not know
and probably water it WAN a menace. So the Japanese have. thinks more of the fact than if he market pries of the goods in Hongkong when
reason. Every zasu who goes into battle with the impreguability of Port Arthur.
Steussel is worthy of his command. Not a the plaintiffs first sent in a claim to the defen this now rifle will know that it is shorter that
the rifles of his opponents. He will in most Russian, bat a Swiss, ho combines the prudence. dubte, so of which no notice at the time was
cases bo but a moderate shot with any rifle, but, foresight, and indomitable will of his ances ry taken. I bave up Lesitation in giving judge at with this knowleden in his head, he will ascribe with the century-fomel defensiva figating
all his bad for the plaintiff at the rate he claims.
liable touting to the rifle, and will be vory | ability of the land of his adoption. Ho has himwlf in lavavily handicapped bean for yours in Port Arthur, has superiu- from the beginning. Is it
supposed at teaded the building of the forts and knows of feeling in the
every inch of the
ground. His wife, is sympa. likely to
pat soldier's mind is
consignees, so na between the parties in les rues
tha
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the in February haviny previously obtained a think the amount of damages kostaited is the the reason, but he knows the adid know the sunk it, but it does not bear a vital relation to of the fleet is not essential. It is not Pert the Grand Ducal drones atrnt about with stars
action the bill of lading plays . part. The plaintiffs went to the defmulants getown ou
delivery order from the consignes, Mr. Connel!, to get 20 cases of sugar corn; but, on arriving at the godown, they found ouly eloven cases land come, and the athur 14 casts had not been Indel. The defembut's godown kerpar gave thes p'aimia uote tant li en-es had been sh. rẻ landed, me this ue was marks ant, to
CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE V. W. POWELL, LD.
Arthur, but. Stoessel and his forts that Nogi is after, just as it was not Richmond, but Lee and his army that Grant was aftur.
* AN ÄUTOCRACY AT WORK,” Under this title the February number of the National ferie contains a remarkable article
Tsar" to the July number of the Quarterly ere. The following extracts were given by the Times.
Nicholas II. is his own muster, and is him- |
Mutual Storrs. Now what is the effect of that MThe plaintiffs sued the defondants for 2500. War Office that this sort in good heart thote woman, who spends much time in tuo from the pen of the sate Russian official who on the e! February your ability when yon for Mesars, Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for It is cemales are dropping at his side? hospitals, is with him. He is in thn priamo of | contributed the well-known srtlelo o
contract, these persone say that you whnitte
COFB.
stato that 14 cases of your sugar cor; ought to Bave been landed. It was not Innded: 2 there is an admission by the defendants thant they should have landed these 14 cases of sugar The plaintiffs Pay Wo waited and waited for thury things; and on the 26th August, ut having heard of thein, sent in a elaite for the value of the goods." The d fendunt dil ust reply till thron weeks later, when they wantel the plaintiffs to take de livery of these goods which the plaintiffs refused to do beruse they were no good for purposes of sale. The defsudants, ske plajutifs Bay, are in fault because they did not take dolivery of these goods b-fura. Tony say 14 was not our duty to full you that these goods
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boing a fee for supplying a valuation of Messrs. Mors and Seinad's business, Mr. E. J. Grist
the plaintiffs, and Mr. M. J. Stephens for the defendants.
Mr. Stephens asked that the matter be referred to the Registrar, as the defendants admitted that The detendauts wald the claim was excessive, the pleit.ffs were The stock list book willing to pay a fair sum.
neurtuin sam was dus.
up 8 foolscap pages; it would be much better
ic refer the mutter to the Registrar.
Mr. Grist-It is the question of a man's fee, it is not a question for the Registrar.
His Houou-- We will got on with the cases. Mr. Grist-It appears that the plaint
e350
winen
tu
"The
more
eur
and ribbons and all the finery symbolical of bravery and virtue, accompanied at times by thoir fair Aspins. To most of these men, who impregnato the Emperor's mind with. mischiavons notions, the gratification of their passions is the sole law of their axistes, and acquisition of money for that indulgence the one purpass that regulates their activity. We are boither Furitanical nor bypocritical in Kussia, we can otako great allowances for eur Imperial family. But we object to a numerous caste of mere blood-sucking paruit, some of whose lives are made up of unpunished crimes, men shifts, colossal Trauds, and oat- laudlink vicos.”
TRADE
MARK.
#
ELEPHONE NO. 135.
IND COOPE'S ALE
It is possible that the authorities alone are life, forty-five years old, and in porfort health.
The naware that in the Bour War cavalry id despo the constant rumeurs that l has been
in their short carbines, netually lose confidence
inos, nouuded. He is the most rigit diciplinacinu and flung them away whenever they could pick in the Russian Army, and is heartily disliked up infantry rifle in their steal? Perhaps they by the soldiers on that account The first order self unwornble for his men wel mesure, surch imagine that their figure of merit" will the immund in Port Arthur after the Japanese bug his Imperial will and pleasure. If some carried in the memory of the average private, warships began to bombord was for every dis of the men are unclean monsters --Grand Dac and will bring to ling the comfort that it seems orderly wenian to leave the place. Laure they arpio who rob the people of their soletance, records of cien and crime with to afford to pedants in their easy chairs. We did, some to Linny ng, some to Blaugh. No and break the. venture think that they are wrong, and that womens remains now but the wives officers, out drawing down punishment or provoking BOTINEV. be who tolerates, shields, and befriends in the fought bastle is discouragement of all of whom devote their time in the hospitals.
soldier may make all the difference botwory The recand arder Stoessel asted concerned them sharus the oding of their misteeds and victory and defeat. There is another point. drink. He made the penalty death for any participates in their risks. If the Tsar raha rieties, despoils Armenian hurt the lessons of the Sut the ferrous of liquer beyond the ration. We all wanted
the military authorities to lay to offer or man found draak, and imprisonmetit Finland of b
African War ou breat and water for any who sold or bought schools and churches, suppresses the nationality
Bug-ins The ration per day for of the Poles, and ke-ps. the We did not wuat them to forget
of any foreign element other wars.
There was very little bayonet work each soldier is a tot of vodka, amounting to about miserable than
his motives, but we fin South Africa, hat Port Arthur and Matte gills, cad to each officer a pint of champagne population, we may discuss
At the world that her is room churia have raasitudel the warl
or a gill of brandy or whisky Thr o privates cannot question his responsibility. in this was employed by the fur the bayonet, oven when artillery and ville tire and a fer have been shot in Fort Arthur same time it is a fact which should be noted
valuation of shig have been developed to a point which seems to hut to
PER CASE OF 8 DOZEN PIETS... $16.00 uilitary ordur.
he does and leaves undone he is strongly, bat
bis chandler's business. At the time Mesexs Powell exclule it altogether, tow will our soldiers within the past tone months for vio ating this as extenuating circumstance that in everything
cha g
unclo Stu set has also availed himself of every tule, indirectly, influenced by
BASS' LIGHT GRÁVITY when every man knows that his reach is inches less than that of his adversaries?
They seem Japanese burial parties have not been per uitted are seer buzzing about him. to intor their
own corps nor the verses of nudowed with a spoil faculty of calling forth
PER CASK PINTS...... Russians fallen between the lines of the bloody wit is least estimable in the Emperor's angle. The rose has mudo living for character. They surround him with a moral the the Japanese next
The atmosphere charged with m-phitic and stupefy- BASS' BOAR'S HEAD an carabi Russians above, safe in permanent works, ing vapours, which bring on a morbid mood, mailed in grim glen. The dead were helping and then the slightest touch from without
Prx ÇARK PInts... them as the living could not. Wounded in this co and writhe.
the acts which cause our people to zone have been shot by meu in the Russian line wince
hand-to-hand fighting
"Only of late has it becoms known that IND COOPE'S STOUT thing possible has been omit tones, sutellites has long bean his own adviser and his Nicholas II. at the barf his Grand Ducal and left to
pistela. bayonets, subres, packet-knives, stones,
PER CASK PINTS... own ¡Government, and from that moment the eadgols, lists, test, and lead weighted boots
lines of his portrait gained in sharps959. have Le-n in the final scrimmages, or
ho now stands forth as the author of the
make it
པ
arrised, and if it was we did so on the 22nd and Company were thinking of taking over fort, in making or repelling a bayoutive | weapon of defence on which he could lay hands, cousins, and nephews, the Innarisi droner, wh
March." The evidence on that piut is that of Mr. Bark and the godown keeper. Mr. Burke a "I told our colown men to tell This gedown man them abart the 14 cases, “ go to this Matasl Stures and ask them to tako uelivery of cargo ont of the Dumpia. I asked him if has said ay
he saidNo thing ele Bt all aut Then I said "Did you say nothing shout those 14 cases," and he answered "Yes." He was given every opportunity, and I cannot therefore
tako in statement. Su Ituasier to did not give the plaintiffs moties on thi 22 Merch, except that he gave a general mulie He must the Orgot had arrived, and that was not
special notice that those girls had arrived. O The 5th January Mr. Barke took this godown
to deliver goods in one lot, but fails in this dity and having failed in this
does not
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the business. The plaintiffs valued the stock and spent considerable time over it. The de-even that the knowledge does not Suppose fendants offered the plaintiffs $300, $350, $100 soldier, still there remains the physical fact that his airorary can put fire inches of stol into and $40, and finally paid $160 into const.
him before he can reach the adversary's skin, H. F. Carmichael gave evidence. He had Thn this ill-starred innovation strikes at the use the valuation in scordance with an agree. British soldier in every way. He is to have a mont made with Mr. Gaskell, and had employed rifle inferior in range and peustration to the Mr. Galt to assist him in valuing the stock, which he might posee
of the real physical disadvantage. which included the voluing of a stoum launch, know it, and imagination will enhance the effect A hundred dollars was the usurl charge for have a reach at close quarters se inches surveying and valuing a steam launch. He shorter than is antagonist's, and that will toll had bou verbally offered $500 by Mr. heavily against him, whether he knows of it 1. Macdonald, and ho understood that Mr. not. Macdonald was acting on behalf of Mr.
(taskell.
A. H. Skelton, of Mossra. Lane, Crawford and Company, gave an opinion that $500 was a resectable charge. He had valued stocks for Bee insurance companies, and charged as much as $100 for an uftornoou's work.
H. Eyre, munnger of the defondant firm, said he thought the price was exorbitant. In answer to His Honour he said "prices are a little higher at Hongkong than at Home."
He will certainl!
He will
Ix
to
Fur
iot his sorchlights go out, as if ht, and then sanguinary war, the marplot of the seat GUINNESS' STOUT
one
And
far
Stovesel is tricky. One night in August ho when the assault went in ander the parsels, staff, and the main obstacle to the peace s0
often sadionly throw the whole face of the bill out heroic role of Blat e eet, Nicholas II is
publicly done! ip-wors ip-In that mock- In this way with the quickly displayed light.
and also
the two Japanese regiments were trapped
recognized as
hindrance to popular almost entirely destaged. At all times he reforms at home, which in a grouter or lusse reserves his fire until it can be used with the measure most intelligont Russians desin indis- the most deadly effect. At on time a flag of truce pena ble to the welfare of the nation. was raised on the shoulder of the Kerk was dangers inseparable from damming with his Fort- this was Angust 4-and when the own person armlet which the blood of Japanese
advanced to accept surrender they Manchuriau battlefields my yet swell to the werd met with shall and ballet. But this should dimensiona of a resintless torrent, have not be charged to Stoessel, for it was probably consed to be ragus that they were charitably a member of the Imperial finily by a crowned due to home desperate privato at na advanced and discreetly pointed on they were sharitably
The Russians have enough food. In the and kind hearted foreign monarch," beginning they had flour and caused beef to
Nicholas's inability to see this truth, last a year, and otherwing, the place was well provisioned Sinea then a number of junks- either in the abstract or in its concrete Russian Terbapa dozau-and at least one 0000-ton form, is now the chief stumbling block to the steamer have run the blockade. If they can development of our people. How long it will beach anywhere on the Liaotishan coast their remain so is uncertain. The obvious criticism mission is accomplished. Hundreds of junks to the Emperor's meddling in the war is that it are sent out from the Russiau agents in Chefoo ran counter to common songs and revealed a For if his own choice of and Shanghai. About une in twenty reaches lack of moral courage,
The public will naturally ask in amazement. how these things can be. The shirt auswer is that in high military quarters a fid is ent-r. tained, founded upon several misconceptions, and that there is a sort of fetichism in other quarters, which makes men forget, that no one man is wiser than all the world. In South Africa mounted infantry were, of great impor tauce owing to
circumstances. It bas been assumed that mounted infantry will always la of supreme importance that the ordinary ride is far too cumbrous for mounted infantry, that it is very disadvantageous to have two sorts of thist
mounted and that one where ought to be only one sort, and, finally, that t'a short rifle suitable for mounted mon is far better for sunpshooting than the ordinary infantry rifle. None of these as
here is no suruptions will bear examination. conclusive reason to suppose that mounted infantry will always be as important as they ware ia South Africa, but much reason to suppose the contrary. In any eats, mounted infantry are still infantry, not cavalry The cavalryman and hers form one fighting Judgment for the The man is meant 10 fight on horseback. ita dustipation. The rest we picked up by the Kuropatkin for the post of entimander was
In giving judgment his Honour said that the defendants must have believed that Mr. Carmichael was compat-ai or they would not have employed him to do the work. It was a pity that nothing was stranged beforehand about the fee; and was also regrettable that there was no sunle of fees to guide the Court in this matter. Mr. Skelton thought the work was worth the money. plaintifs with costs.
THE NEW SHORT RIFLE,
GOVERNMENT STRONGLY INDICTED BY THE **Times,"
It
men; post.
"Tear
Japanese nary. But one in twenty makes it made in good faith that general ought to have worth while, and the auccessful Chinaman is born free to elaborate his plana; while if made independent for life. Five thousand Nicholas II. saw re-son to adopt the suggestions roubles is the price pada junk for running the of any and in honour to raise that fittest tha of any other officer h was surely bound in blockade. This means as mach to a Chinaman
by
Arc
por
of
and
power.
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keeper to the Mutual Stores, and todd him to point out the person to whom ho gave notice aad be pointed to Mr. Mau Fang, but in thes witness box be said "I did not po nt out that as to Mr. Burko." I take Mr. Burke's word against that of the Chinese. He had pointed him ow, bat on the videnon I cannot come to any other conclusion than tint he made no communication that these 14 cases arrived by the Olym- pia. It is quite clear that there was no notice to the plaintiff before the 17th September, and that was certainly a very recent dato. I come to the question of was it the duly of the defendant to give notice that those things were in the godown? I take it there must be some difference made botwein goods ordinarily lauded
A mounted infantryman is a font soldier using ahorus for transport instead of other means, and goods short landed. I think it unreasonable
When his horse brings him where he is wanted, to expect that a consignes to whom you have
he fights ou foot, just as if he had mareled admitted your indebtedness of short handed
there or gone by traiu. It is absurd to any that exubrous
million dollars would to the average min to the past a long rifle is too
for him on hors
repous bility: cargo should be expected to constantly make
back, bucsuse he usually has
to enrry it himself, American. One fort which alone would What the Emporar actually did was to lay upon enquiries and waste time Anding out constantly
proro this statement of the food condition Kuropatkin the batonsible responsibility and The Times calls Bttoution to a very serious and he is very well off when the horse carries it pro whather those goods hara arrived. Tho ques change in the arwing of the British infantry, for him. The anthorities have now before than the nature of the supplies picked ap upon Alex if the implied responsibility, while the Japanese on these jacke. They reserving for himself the absolute right f tion of making allowance on acconst of the to which the War Office now stands committed, an equipment so simple and excellent that as
vegetables about 25 experimenting with and sacrificing the lives of ке mostly fresh Nippon Maru boing taken up by the Japanese The change is quite gratuitous, because the far as carriage is concerned, it cannot make any
cout. delicacies, apparently for the hundreds of thousands of bis subjects." Government was not raised, and I am not magazine Lee-Enfield rille, with which the appreciable difference to the rider's
officers tablos. Over half of the plunder toessei's whole object sams
"It is well known now that the plans of going to consider it. I am going to take trees are at present arand, has been developed and freedom of movement whether is rifle is
by a number of alterations out of the original long or short. There is no dis dvantage in is onions. the line of a steamship company which ought Le-Metford into an excellent and serviceable having two kinds of rifle in the find, provided to be to preten for fifty tons of valous, ho is
searvy. If he is paying tive campaign forced upon the Commander-in-Chief and differ
Laousand roubles for
were worked out in St. Petersburg by General weapon. It is, moreover, capable of receiving they take the same amanition and slight but important improvements, which antiing m length of harrel. It follows that not en fering for beef or flour. Doubtless ho Kuropatkin's former sabordinate, the present That oficial and would ronder it the best military rifle in ther is no reason whatever for placing the world know how to do justice to is full-course War Minister, Sakharoff.
tho Grand Dake Vladimir stirred up the give notice that these cases have hoen landed.
Europe. The War Office, Lowever, has decided, infantry at a disadvantage in order to secure a dinner, but as for the satin of horseilesh and Prima facie, under these circumstances it seems without oxhaustive experiment, and on what merly pedastic uniformity of weapon. The shoe-leather and ell that starving nonsense-worst sentiments against the distant comman
for pahaw
dør that man can bear to man, And because ! that a seasonable duty is cast on the shipping appear to be very insufficient grounds, to dis argument that the long barrel is less fitted
Meni
In the beginning Stoess-1 was Nicholas II. supported this party and, so to company to give notice of the arrival of short card this excellent weapon, and to put in its place enapshooting than the short one is an a priori landed cargo. There is not a shadow of doubt aawriffe five inches shorter in the barrel. It has argument, not founded upon experience, or even supposed to have about 23,000. A quarter of say, delivered our soldiers bound to the enemy, tia not easy to think of him without a strong dens this in defiance of a preponderance of will supported by such experience as we have. In that number should be enough to man the line
bat eight tincture of bitterness. We allow largely for that such notice was never given. Contrary to tary and expert opinion which is very market, y case, snapshooting may be trusted to take of permanent defence, whow front
good faith but we look for repentance as a care of itself; it is carefully-nimed shooting and half miles long and superbly entrenched. as well as count them. the reasonableness of the whole transaction, if it in detance of ballistic science. if that needs all the encourageant it can get
bag done
The losses in resisting assaults have been condition of pardon, whereas the Tsar asems
resolved am told that the custom of this port is that ship: universal experience, and of the uniform practice It is upparently upon this curious collection of small. Where the less has been heavy is in
to go on sinning in good faith as He compelled Kuropatkin to al ping lines should in no case of the arrival of of the great military Powers of the Continent. fancies that the determination was arrived at sorties. And there have been sortie nearly befor
judgmen and yet openly short landed curge give notice to the persons Happily no irremediable mischief has yet been to arm the infantry with a short rifle. All the every night. The preservation of morale impels against his botter
trust the fate of his Bapire to that BABY to whom the cargo belongs, and that the usual done. The short burrols already manufactured rest follows from the attempt to justify that it; the men must be kept at work or spirits professed course of business here is for the persons to may be used to supersede the old cavalry carbine determination. But, if there is any authority tug. The prizes fur success are the highest gallant general's intelligenes and skill. And
and in here
India, but there is no time to loco, in the Government t put a stop to dangerous that one be offered, and thus sparred the the brave but servile soldier was thus forced to whom cargo belongs to continually go to the if the construction of short barrels for the eccentricities of this kind, that authority can- dusportson of the attempts to win glory and lead scores of thousands of our people to the
not be too quickly exerted for the Government's for ane sneers at description.
slaughter, improvising & spectacl unparalleled shipping company to find out whether their infantry is to be stopped: Some time ago a
in horror aran in Rome, with its Laser The Japanese losses have been rusty over- goods have arrived. Proof offered to me that Committee was appointed to consider the rifle credit.
A temporary triumph estimated. The censorship has been so absolute morituri te suiulant. there is no custom of such notice is the evidence smittee, and in so far as they have hads fro
отег domestic reforme was the dubious aim, that he word of authentic upws has lealcel out given by Mr. Lewis of the P. & D. Company hand they have dons excell-ut work. But they
and the origin of nearly all the reporte about wanton batalhery the cert in upshot. Where, Well, his evidence gees in far as this were not allowed to find out the best rifle for
numbers is Chefeo, an insignificant treaty port our people ask, was the Tsar's sensibility then? on the China coast, seventy miles away. The And when the awful deed was perpetrated in knows of no regular äixed custom for shipping the Army. No, they were tied down to finding lines to give notice of the arrival of short landed out how to make the best of a rifle five inobes
Chafoolish brander has been the cause of the loss vain, Kuropatkin's foredeemed failure was set shorter in the barrel than the one actually in
of more min at Port Arthur than the whels down to his lack of strategy, the Emperor cargo, but he might say that if it was con
uw, One of the most essential points in the
Empire of Japan could furnish. There has riving no hint that the general's only blander venient to the shipping line to get the goods construction of a rille was arbitrarily
beou but one time when the losses were really was excess of loyalty. grant in the seven days battle, from August off their lighters they did send out notices seitled, before an experiment was made, and
to The Indo-China steamer Kunsang left Cal saying that these goods had arrived; but I even wrong war. It is established extra for this port via the Straits on the 5th should be very loth to take, from the mouth beyond controversy that a long-barrelled rifle inst, and may be expected here on the 22nd inst. men. No other grand assault cost more than The subject is unsavoury. One has but to take PIANO PLAYERS.
has s lower
The P.M. steamer Mongolin, with mails, &c., 5 0). The usual loss for a hard day's fighting any money seautal well enough in order to of that witness only, proof of the custom shoots harder and straighter,
a rifle which left bonco Feb. 8th for San Francisco TAL is about 300 That is a frightfal number if come upon a Grand Daks at the bottom of of the port. I should want more than one trajectory and a longer re but having Nagasaki, &c., arrived at hor destination on the you come to think of it. Fighting in extended! While foreign ladies can realize millions for
identical in overy other witness to establish be custom of the port. shortex barrel. If in war canid lasy 4th inrt.
there The AA. steamer Cluverburn left New York formation orer & small arca does not let the their smiles apon the scio a of the Imporial soldiers with their fentering On the other haul, there is no direct evidence be fired from a fixed rest, they wond be made
monut. Their on the 23rd uit., and is dus here on the 25th On December & Chefon said that 15,000 of a gentleman from one of the shipping com considerably longer than they are.
been kiled in taking 203, Metre life-blrud are thrown upon heaps of horse-dung for days without panies, but there is evidence of a gentleman sotal length represents the nearest approach April.
to the ballistic ideal compatible with the cspacing
The steamer Opland left Tientsin on Tuesday Hill. Not hall that number could have and bumped and who has transactions with shipping offices, and of the average soldier to hold the weapon straight afternoon, and is dus here on Monday afternoon. Leen engaged,
the point of attack is so small medicaments, food, water, or any other and the is constantly the consigues or owner of cargo, without a rest. That length is approximately
the attempt to take 203 in September, when and has specific instances of notices concerning the same throughout Europe, our rife being carge ordinarily and short delivery cargo. I have already a little shorter than some iu use on the Continent. Yot the War Oflice determines not only the evidence of this gentleman maging beforehand to shorten our rifle by five inobes; that suck in the practice, but also the evidence sets a Committee to work to make a plausible of Mr. Man Fung as far as he knows. The case for the alteration, by giving the shortened whole thing comes to this-nothing regarding weapon the benefit of the custom here in this respect has been proved. I am therefore thrown back on what is the more reasonable, whether a shipping company not having delivered goods a part of a bill of lading
There were able men anon that
believe, in the
much
range.
tha
improvements in work. manship, iu rifling, and in aighting; and finally, by comparative tests not fairly conducted for the purpose, gives the impression to the pubile that it has produced a short rifle which shoots better than any long one. The only real test is to make a rifle of the ordinary length identical
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The C.P.B. sleamer Empress of China arrived at Yokohama at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, the 7th inst., and left again at no seme day for Kobe, where abe was due to strice at noen yesterday.
The Indo-China seamer Suisang, from Cal cutta and the Straits, left 8 ngapore for this port on the 7th inst. at & p 18.
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"Of the defalcations, embezzlement, and ROYAL 19 to 25. Then the Japanese casualties in killed downright robbery of sams destined for the and waunded amounted to upwards of 25.000 wounded and thuir farailies I shall exy z
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And none of the Grand Duc sybarites. its eatwork, Namicoyam, was captured. The who live argely on the money extorted from people, offers a rouble for the wounded or his The Hongkorg Observatory yesterday issued the following report
regiments, about 1500 men. The loss in the sword for On the 8th at 11.55 am. The barometer has two days' sotion was 2013. It is not likely that for themselves the honours and rewards, reser- it cost as mack to take the fort as it cost not ving the hardships and dongers for the obscure fullen over China and W. Japan.
cepsek of the millions grey soldier, Nové Pressure is highest over Central China, and to take it.
Tokyo said that when 203 was captured it which the Grand Dakes received or squeezed a shallow area of low pressure seems to be lying
have from the
our people Japanese command of the town, and
given back for warm they to the S.W. of the Looches.
Gradients moderate to slight.
was a strategic move of great value. We have clothing for the soldiers or medicamenta for the 1ST Moderate mapsaou will prevail in the Formosa had those despatches very frequently for some wounded and the sick. And while numbers of Channel aud N. part of the China Sea.
months. They are from the Japanese, who must heroes-genuine heroes-cured of their wounds are turned adrift without a shirt to their backs, Forecast-Moderate N.E. to N. winde; fair. report progress. The command of the town of
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