FOOCHOW NATIVE CUSTOMS.
Customs Commissioner E. B. Drow at Foo. chow reported to his Chief as follows, on 31st May 1904
On the 13th April, 1983, I handed to you the Native Castonus statistics of trade for the 28th year of Kuang Hsu.
I have now the honour to furnish similar statistics for the 29th year of Kuang Haa-correrpouting pretty narly to 1933-The statistics are given in pino geeflons, or chapt 19. as follows:-Indports and exports at the Chief Custom House, at Shui-ting, af Chou-t'où, at Hain-chiang, st Min at, at Kuation, at-Wa-lung-chiang and at Tung-tai. Sestion IX-Total Valus of Goods imported and exported at all Stations,
In each suction the Imports and Exports aro shown separately; and the quality and value
of each article are given.
The situation, ele., at the different collect. ing stations are as follows:-
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REVIEWS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THÜRSDAY, MAY 1тx, 1905.
PARIS.
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.}
March 31st,
JULES VERNE, DECEASED. The regrettable death of Jules Verne at the good old age of 77, at Amiens, where he had been virtually a recluse for years, is a terrible and irreparable lors to the Frendu literary world. His works are prized by everyone both young mifi o'd throughout the universo. Ho was an international writer, and his books~ which endeared him to a world-wide circle of young readers have beenixar slated into Floatern as well as European languagos. Thus, as an author of repute, he was a great favourite in Japan. What he did not know he invented to perfection; for a writer whose special feature was travel, no more really untravelled man eror existed. With the exception of the const of French North Africa, ho never saw any country outside Europe.
He was born at Nantes on the 8th of February 1828, where he studied law, with the Intention of becoming a barrister. As ho grew older Lis tasta veered round to the drama and literature;
the economic interests of Gerwony. The visit of William II. to Tangiers can only weakon at this moment France's hold on the Salten and oneourage him to resistance. In this seruse it is
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a grave check for the diplomsey of M. Delcassé. WE HAVE THIS DAY Has M. Dolazeć done all that he ought to have done to provent it? For a long time he has sened to believe that to ignors Germany was · pushed his naivele to nu improbatyfa degros.”
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to suppres her, and in this connection ho bus Promises formerly occupied by Mr. Fa. BLUNOx, silk lace manufacturer, and Next Door to
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Members of the British colony høre nro munh pleased with the radical change which is about to take place in the manner of entertaining za sugges ed by their Sovereign King Edward VII. to his copresentative in Paris, Sir Francis Bertie, the new British Ambassador, who is already a great favourite with all classes. For instance in Lord Dufferin's and Sir Edmund “
uur Former Address,
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Chun-Kwang, a tale of thincse Love and Tragedy, by OLIVER G: READY, B.A London; Chapman and Hall, Limited. 6s. The Roviower does not protend to know tha Chinamau as well as Mr. Kendy knows him Entre now, he would prefer not to. It therefore, agafast perfectly fair criticism is this case that he should be introduced to a Chinese Romeo, a character which he considera in the li, ht of a Mrs. Harris. Still, there are mere philosi imists thun Mr. Randy who aver that Jahn Chinamon is of a very romantic and sentimental dispsilon iliere is not for it bnt to bow to superior knowledge. It can be said without hesitation that in the really pretty and interesting narrative of the couso of young (Chmese love, the author has aged to introduce a grout mass of really faithful description of the hunkita and customs of the people amongst whom he has spent many yours. It should be noted, moreover, that air. Ready claims that his characters really existed, Chief Offle-On island, near the Isin Kan
and he honestly believes that his pictures of Most of its collection is derived from the costs Chiness life and society are neitbor exaggerated and inter-poriscint trade... not, the raitor local nor minimizel, The "atmosphere" of the book in 1850 ho produced his test play, entitled a-keil to any private functions. King Edward. tion whether or not ancient medical men in the is convincingly Chinoso, nithongh the Roviovor Les Puilles rompues, which had a succosiful who knows that the French nobility do not Shuiting--A department of the Chief still thinks that the heroins was too good to be run at the Gymnase Theatre. This was shortly i represent the public in France, and that many true. Her conduct, in Chinese eyes, must followed by another comedy Onze jours de Siege of them are ant British in the bargain, has appear blameworthy, sweet and intelligent which was produced with Lunch eflect at the decreed that for the future tho Ambassador is as she seems to the foreign reader. It Vaudeville The tru. Though he composed to make it a rule to invite official persons to
diffient to present a better several other brilliant comic operas after this, theso privato functions. would he picture of Chinos ingal" procedars ; ond | 11 wir nit a prolific and brilliant” writor that the little account of the magistrates in con » he achieved worldly B 8- Suffice it sultation is particularly neat. The easons for
to say that on his 73rd birth-day he had particular judgment were eminently reason
complete d His 99th volume, and WIR struggling against declining health and failing sight to cumplute the 100th. One day he was able to write, the next found him prostrated, Write, in the literal sense, ho could not
consequenre of this awful culmily, other hands to be used; he, however, employed badi no hireling, Mmo. Vorne, herself a sap tuagenariun. crowd a long lifetion of love, the duties of amanuensis. companionship by assuming, as a last labour of
Verno's life was
riverine tende.
Bre. Chon:l'ou. On the north side of River Min. opposite the Chief Offer. Collects on the locul trade between the Chinow city and the sur. rounding country renched by rivan.
Hsin-ching. Similar in situation, ele.. to Chon-t'ou
Min-an (or Min-ngan).—In the narrow payable, Orientally regarded. The Chinese middle through which the Min flows, fow miles below Papons Anchorage. All trade between the Miu Valley and the outside world, fur or near, passes in-au. But few goods tre land. od thero.
mi is also a character well hit off a cupital feature of the boo, is to be found in its illustia tions, pictures drawn to order by a Chines
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THE MOSQUITO AND HALARIA. Menson's time, whenever a distinguished par 99 on a visit to this capital was asked Sir Henry Blake bo communicated to the informally to dinner at the Embassy, it was the British Medical Association in Ceylon rule to invite members of the fashionable intresting information relating to ancient theories of fever and the mosquito. His Bot of French mobility to meet the Taglish Excellency's paper, says the Times of Ceylon guest, and this to the exelusion of the Govern- | was a short que, rather tentativo and angies. ing and Republican elements who were never
tive thin conclusive, on the interesting ques
East, specially in India and Ceylon, had anti- cipated ono of the most important dis overies of modern medical science It seems that Sir Henry Blake was first brought into contact with those who maintain that the court on between malaria and the wesquite was kwa in the East, while he was taking a personal interest and making inquiries into the malarial epide. PER CASE OF 43 PINT mic at Mutwal It was then brought to his notion by a Sú valow gentleman that there were Like the willennium, the Income-tax Berey very ancient sanskrit works which spoko of is still coming, but has not come yet, and the malaria as being caused by the bite of a parti- PER CASE OF UO SPLITS French will that its progress a retombed uscular kind of mosquito. It was stated that on much as possible. I'verytime the subject is anclout Sanskrit work nord " Ceraka Vrohu- broached, a lively discussita ansaas. We are once
Anturatankara Susatra," dating carlier then the VI. ceatary
of our ers, mentioned 67 more told that the unwelcomes visitor is ou the varieties of mitos, the bites of some of which eve of gaining a footing in this country. France caurud four kinds of malarial fever. It scons
always been so Whether 31. B. uvier, who is actually arrying out as rins of experiments with the object of establishing nu Income Tax in France, spreads in the present eaxe than doubtful; other Ministers of Finanes have found the task impossible. and given up the des. M. Rouvier convinced of succeeding this tim, so auch so that ho uile es It is only a question of fulfilling the necessary formalities, and then Finnce will rejoice" in the possession of the most un-
that about 40 varieties have becu identified in
Kuan-tion.A busy little town on the north artist. The who hare had "goo-flesh" at for blinduess had gone too fix for that. In is strictly opposed to such a scheme and has Ceylon, Mr. E. E. Green alone` having cowe
or loft, bank of the Min. some 10 miles below the Min-an. Pass and station of that n.me, It Just within the Kilapai Pace, and affords a favourable and convenient, anchorage for uli junk-wbother those engaged in the local distribution traffic about the coast near the mouth of the Min or the larger sta-going rewels. It is surely adstributing centre.
Wu-lung-chiang.Situated about 5 in les above Fagoda Anchorage, com munding the local traffic to and out from the Yung-foo and other small river valleys-rural districts-
staing foreign attempts to illustrate Chinese or Japanese boos wil know how to appreciate these obarming drawings. The book is mostly and strongly packed in blac clothi
Macao: the Holy City: "the Gem of th
Orient Earth;" by J. Dyer Ball, M.R.A.S .. Cunton: Chima Baptist Publication Society $1.50.
Mr. Call has dono better work than this, and south of the Min (ie., “back of the island | he might have been better advised to lose the
of Nan.tai).
of the samo author i
The into Jules
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of simplicity; ambitions he had nono. Strange
that so distinguished a writer never became a
member of the French Academy. The younger Dumas, not the less, broschisi̇ the subjort as
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across His Excelloney was very much in terested in these statements, and wordered SOLE AGENTS- *whather we were not" to uso lús own words, merely picking up forgotton crumbs that fall from the rich table of the long buried Fast in the ngos past," whether media science had reroly lighted once more upen knowledge which was familiar to oriental physicians 1,400 to make cartain that the elims made on behalf Sonce ago. His Exe-llency accordingly desired of the Sanskrit writers were based upon fast, A meeting of sererat well-known Delon and Indian puasits in the prosazen of Sir Allan Perry dad Dr. A. J. Chalmers was held at Queen's Howw, when His Excellency was satis
Sanskrit. His Excellency then communicated
Tung-hi.-Situated near the seacoast at the compiling of a mere guide book to some emalior ( far back as 1858, but nothing care of it, so popular tax in England." However, it does not month of the viver whose iginks and branch 'mas. It is not particularly well written, judg-that 31. Vorne cast asidy even the desire for fellow that teenuss the present Minkter of Ead of the accuracy of the translations from the vallers constituto Lien kiang-heien. The ing by the standard set by the vivacious such a distinction. Ouly four years ago, on Tungti station controls all the trady goingThings Chinese" into the busy town of Lion-kiang and its de- and so cannot add to his reputation as pendencias, so the Export trade out of that place. Lien-kiang has a considerable trade by littérateur. Typographically, it conters upon small craft to and from Foxehow, Its river enters the sey, way, 10 miles north of the Min, and hero is the Tung tai sution.
The value of all the trade taking bealant distant together which has come within the cognizance of the Mia Hai Chong Kuau | (stations included) during the 29th King He is shown by testion IX of these Returns to be somewhat over Hk. Tls. 14,000,000.
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bin unmerited disgrace. Apparently the China Baptist Publishpes did not trouble to obtain any author's corrections, for at the end there are three pages of errata, containing 161 recorded mistakos, and there are errata even in the list of errata. Add to that the most sevole censure on mersant of the hideously It is interesting to get at the value of the nasuitable type used for cross-headings, and trado with other parts of Chins, more or less it will be gathered that the Reviewer bad little distant, as distinguished from the merely river pleasure in the performance of b's immediate ine trade. 11e following calvala ion enabi-task. An appareatly exhaustive index may
to do this roughly ;—
The total valus of all the trade is Throw out from this in-ngau's
trude, because it is included in the trade of either the Head Office or Chou-t'ou or Isia- chiang (Mio-ngau being only a' place of transit)...
Hk. The.
make the book useful to visitors who want to se8 -
14,58,406 all there is to me at Macao. It is a matter of
809,428 Remainder Ek. The 13.249.978
Hk. Tle. 1,335,344
Of this total, the following is riverine trade,
viz.:---
Chou-t'ou
Hein-ebiang
156019
Wu-lung.chiang
Kuan t'on exporta
Tung-f'si importa
134,957
130,895
44658
What remains in the non-riverino
trade, viz....
Mk. Th. 11,451,15
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Total H. Tis. 1,797,873
taste, perhaps, but the Reviewer cannot imagin anybody huing pleased with Macao segnery after sening Hongkong. Store piles liko Cromwellin castles are capable of picturesqueness in decay, but the historical stucoses and adobes of Macao have a second-hand air about them that goes well with the grime and sortidess of the Chinese house. It might be the gem" in Camoen's time, but it seems to be a gom neeling some polishing and re-setting now. The book ismarkod down" from $2 to $1.50. In its present form, people will pay $2 for it just as readily as they will the smaller sam.
A Japoncse Utupu, by Leonard Arthur Magnus. London: .. Routledge and Sons. Limited, Is.
a friend reminding him of the incident, the late Jules Verne replied with a lungh. "I have sean fifty-eight-cademicians elected, and all
of them ne dead, while I remain." Had he
becoise an "Imtaorial he might not have lived
to such a green old age.
Thousands of sympathisers followed the lamented author to the grave. The hearse was invisible beneath the mass of floral tributes which had been sent by relatives and friepes from all parts of the world. Several speechos wore delivered, and many eloquent tributes paid to the brilliant gifts of the famous novelist The funeral took place at Amions. Whothor
tho remains of the deceased will lo later on
brought to Paris to be interred in the Fauthson
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Financo declares that France is on the eve of adopting the Income Tax, that it is an accom- plished fact. Thus M. Comber-M. Rouvier's predecessor who was partisan of the bogey, is ent of office, and it may be assumed that at least for the moment bis rohome for replenish replied to Admiral Ferroiru Antaral at Lisbon PREMIER PIANO ing the coffers of the State has been indefinitely as follows: Gentlemen, from the bottom of my pestpored. No fewer than fifteen Income-tax heart I thank the committer, the diesetor, and the membora of the Instrions Geographical schemes have already ke presented to the Society for the brilliant reception which they
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into am very pleased to make the acqnsintanco of that Parliamentary sepulchro where false ideas of the works which your great men, drawing this intellectual centro, the faithful guardian go to rot." M. Roche, a well-known French their inspiration from the genius of Henry the deputy rejects with scoin the argument derived Navigator, the precursor of modern times by from the exemple of other nations, to wit, Eng- his ideas of peaceful commercial and soientific conquest. have accomplished; the guardian, too, land and Germany-and maintains that the of the great traditions in which shine such Income.ter does not exist in those countries names as Dias, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, is not yet, rattled, though he is certainly entitled the conditions in which it would be Almeida. Albuquerque, Serpa Pinto, Capel., to a niche in that Temple of Fame.
administered in France. Ho distinguishes the and many others, among them a German,
Martin Bohair idea of a tax on the revenue of the individual Society is very busy preparing for the from a tax on revenues in the plural; and in approaching visit of the young king of Spain. connection with the latter be warmly secam Alphonso XIII., which certainly will be a most mends the 4 per cent. duty which is at present brilliant affair, provided the weather heaps fine imposed upon all dividends in France. This Citizens committees for decoration have been tax is automatic. being deducted from the formed while both the Municipality and the coupons before they are received by the owner, State have promised to co-operate extensively and varying precisely with the amounts of the Parisians who are ever original as well as happy coupons. So, too, with the tax of 3 per cent. on in their ideas propose to transform that the rent of houses. This also is not in its fashionable portion of Paris, the district of the essence a personal tox, but is levied on the house or how many Palais-Royal (now known as the Theatre regardieas of who the owner
othor houses, he may poss It is a Francais) and the Place de l'Opera, into a consideration of the persons income of the miniature, reproduction of Madrid, wherein citizen which seems M. Roche so dan
The State, be gays, con ouly Japan is evidently still a name to conjure would be shown the Puerta de Alcala, the
proceed by arbitrary taxation of the citizen
"I have the firm conviction that each of us, FACTS for except in the title, and on the foolish title Columbax, thus facade of the King's Excurial, say what it thinks his income is or by declara mainisia peace, tranquility, and order in our page pictars showing on impossible Japanese and the monuments of Spanish Kings. Lotion, which involves an inquisition into the territory, and bring to a satisfactory termina
tion the noble civilising mission which we have lady in impossible clothes surrounded by im- publican Paris seems never so happy as 'when citizen's private affairs. Nothing could be more
horrible and odious than this to the French; it undertaken If ever the exigencies of our possible furniture, there is nothing Japanese demonstrating her love for Royalty provided it
in precisely for this reason that they will con- about the whole book. The Reciowor has a is not French. All Loing well the yuang tinue to oppozo the introduction of the income neighbourhood, commerce, and relations of any well-founded theory that Mr. Magnus road Spanish monarch is expected here early next Tax to the bitter end. Gulliver's Travels, Robin-on Cruce, The May, when he will be must heartily welcomed at Pilgrim's Progress, and Mallock's "Veil of the the station by President Loubet, in the name of Temple," all in an aftern on, and straightway France. M. Loubet intends going to Madrid to wrote and compiled A Japanese Utopia return the King's visit, before the end of the which was probably finished the self-same even-year. By the time His Majesty returns to ing. This Japanese Gulliver's Utopia is so Madrid, it will almost be time for him to set vague that the reader is left unconvinced of its out again, this time for Lendas, where another superiority to existing social ayates. The right royal welcome awas & him. best thing noticed is the Utopian nowspaper, which was as much a Government affair as is par post-office. The current number of the Po-oh-ta-kar was splendid; it had only one Good literature is rare, and when paga. the editor does got some in Po-oh, he excludes all the inferior matter: form and spaca serve good taste, not good taste the form. If the elitor of the Daily Press wants a Utopian paper to-day, he will know what to do. Those costly cablegrams and intellectual editorials are in forior matter to the "good taste" of the Re- tiewer! Mr. Magnus has some good things to say about religion and education, but they have all been said before. It is a book for a wet week-end in a country house where the ones are all antipped and there is nobody to play cards with.
gerous, What proportion of this non-riverino tratio cousists of imports and what proportion is publishers wilk. Mr. Magans has thought so, famous Puerta del Sol, the column and state in other words, deciding in a sort of "a priert,by dint of work and perseverance, will come to
exports P
js:-
Hond Offee Shai-ting Kuan-t'ou
The actual value of the imports (non-riverine)
Hk. Tia. 2,322,266 979 750,620
Total imports. Hk. Tls. 3,134,173 And the actual ralus of the exports (non- * riverina) is
Ek, Tls.
Head Office ...
Shai ting
Tour tại
7.693.119
810,421 13,359
Tatal exports Hk. 1la. 8,316,932
Coming new to special articles, we find that
the chief ones are as follows:-~
Imports (Chief Office, Shui-t'ing, and Kuan- tou fatles) -
Native Cloth
Salt Fieb
Bean Oil
Ton Oil..
Hk. The. [19027 493,514 49,658 39,623 [12,394]
258.254 114,914 Wheat
484,903 [143,008] Berns
327,895 175,097). Beancako
327 917 5.0027 Other important articles are Raw Cotton, Dates, Cuttle-fish, Hump, Lily Flowers, Melon Berde, Samshu, Shrimp cao, and Vermicelli The principal oxports have been as follows (Head Office, Shui-ting and Tung tai
Hk. 'Jle. 104,238 20180 (441,583) 25.780 | 10,644] 140,823
46.979 | 8,470] 29,364 47,137]
together,
Аисовов Bamboo Shoots Bamboo Split Chinaware, Coarse Lampblack... Olives, frosh and salted Oranges, fresh and pre-
Fotted
Paper, 1st quality Paper, 2nd quality Paper, Josa Planke, Soft-wood Planks, Coffin Poles Trunks, leather
17,935 | 70,231) 489,804 172 5201 2,251,792 227.8181 31,296 870,848) 90,002 10290 123,00617717] 4,024,913 675,908)
24,325 It is interesting to note how very large a share of the junk exports of this region consist of wood sud bamboo and their products (includ ing paper).
The total revenue, Hk. Tis. 230,488, bears 10 the total value of the trade, ITk. TIs. 14,058,406, the proportion of about 14 per cent.
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"I leave you, gentlemen. in expressing onco The extraordinary rush in the City for more my warm thauks, and at the same time participation in the ner Japanese Loin is a the hope that the possessions of Portugal in other Continents, under the wise rale of your striking event from the political point of view as well as from the financial. Wo ara tld that angust sovereign, and under the iut ligent direp within half-a-bur 70,000 prospectusas had tion of your Government, will continue to barn distribute by one honk alone and that march in the path of progress and civilisation, before the day clow the whole of the Eogl-hand will arrive at the same pitch of prosperity portion of the loan had been more thou covered as the fagnifierat country in which I am happy Public opinion believes that the Kaiser, who at the offices of a single firm of brokora. At to find myself at this moment, and on which is proverbially shrewd in most matters, failed the same time applications had been receiret Divine Providence has manifestly Inrished its
from the Continent to the amount of several blessings.—Renter. to exercise sufficient tact by his trip to North millions, and in New York it was reported that the | Africa. So far as the affair is susceptible of bonda were selling at 4 per cent. premium. The
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CALIBRE 7,63 m.m. portion of the Republic in Morocco, the voy has guided them rightly in this instance. Japan By the King, the Marquis of Bute has been moderation of the policy which French has now been fighting for her life for more than appointed Lord Lieutenant for the county of With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES twelve months and she can go into the money Bute, in succession to Lord Dunedin, the new
FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS. diplomaoy has laid down for itself is a suficient markets of the world upon her own terms. Her President of the Court of Session. Lord Bute's
SIEMSSEN & CO. guarantee. Is it the intention of the Kaiser to present position is a conclusive testimony to the father, the last marquis, had in his young days Hongkong, Srd October, 1900,
an amusing experience near Rothesay He was postpone imatinitely the reconciliation between confidence of those who hold the international
purse strings in the prospective resources of costed by a Cockney touris, who congratu his own country and France? The imperial the country, as well as to their conviction of lated the nobleman on being civil end, which visit has set the majority of Boulevardieis mad. the loyalty of the population, and their de was more than he could say about the Inte True, the Gorman Emperor might perhaps The war with Russia may be farther pro queried the stranger, deceived by the marquis
termination to stand by the Government. islanders, "Porhaps you're English like me have chosen some other time than the present longed, or it may come to a close rarlier than accent, “No. I'm a Buta for his ill-advised compliment to the Sultan of is expected, but in either event there in 10 resposure. Then where on earth were you Morocco. According to that Socis.st leader, doubt" of its ultimate issue. Japan not only
tamed " spoke the astonished Lindoner. Lord M. Jaures, Whatever may be the attenunting shows no sign of exhaustion, bat ahe can Bute pat ca a very fierce expression and Bour- look forward with hope to the future, for shed a cudgel he was carrying...... "Who Bayx explanations given by the German papers, the which she has provided so wisely, and fought I'm fame!" he shouted. The alarmed Cockney Kaiser's voyage is very unpleasant for those gallantly. There is one asset in her turned and fled. The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued French Government. It takes place at the red coming prosperity which bas, per- the following report —
moment when our representative in Morocco, haps, not received sufficient attention. Her is a land tourning with people, nearest neighbouri On the 3rd at 11,55 m. The bar moter M. Saint-Réné Taillandier, is paintly
The Standard understands that several and possessing enormous undeveloped resoners. has falen in the neighbourhood of the Loochoos, negotiating at Fez to obtain from the Sultan a It will be in the power of Japan, after her and rixen elsản here.
changes in naval organisation st under con- Presence is highest over Chins. It remains commencement of administrative organisatio pending contest is finished; to utilise the trade sideration at the Admiralty, the first of which low to the N. of Japan, and a shallow depression It seems calculated to recall to France tint she of Chios to a degree which may wall prove is the abolition of the paymasters' branch, the is not alone in having interests in Morocco: how to ranks the best of her opportunity is and executive branches of the service (as astonishing. That her statesmen will know second the smalgamation of the engineer appears to be lying to the E. of the Leechoes.
Gradients are slight on the Chien coast, and that it is not sufficient for her to Lave obtained guaranteed by the sagacity with which, since foreshadowed in Lord Belborne's scheme of moderate N.E. winds may be expected in the
from England a protocol of semisriptorested the China-Japanese war, they have managed Christmas, 1902), and the third the introdnation Formosa Channel, Bud moderate E. and SE.
nese and to have negotiated an arrangement their relations with the Celestial Empire.of a system of short service for the naval winds over the N. part of the China Sea.
Forecast:-Light F. winds; fair to showery, with Spain, but that she must still reckop with
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