HAMBURG.
NEW PRUSSIAN MINE LAWS.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT).
Hamburg April stb. To new Prussian mining bill, the promise, of which by the Government assisted s Katerially in nettling the recent strike in West-
nor the social democrats would be sorry to see the measures wrocked, the former fearing the loss of influence over the working classes in the ovent of the bills passing, and the latter, besides hoping that the defeat of the bil's will britig themi numerous recruits, being prepared to size upon the opportunity to introduce a comprehensive and sadical one in the Reichstag.
moro
At a conference of miners' delegates which is
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 6TM¤, 1905,
JAPANESE CHARACTER,
ADDRESS BY DARON SUYEMATSU.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONDI- TIONS OF THE RUSSIAN
RETREAT.
The fighting is sweeping on so rapidly that W It must be difficult for any one not familiar with the scope to follow the quic-ly-changin conditions. The Kal-yaon plain, through
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The Ethnological Society, which has for its object the study of human nature, gave a recou tion in honour of Baron Sayomatsu. The proceedings, over which Mr. W. R. Feel, M.F. presided, took place in the Galleries of the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street. Pall-mafl
Baron Snyerazten, who was cordially received, phalia, waa road a first time in the Lower being hold at'prosent, the provisions of the bills gave an address on “Japanese Character,” in the from less than three miles at Tio-ling to about
course of which he said that the Japanese were after having been discussed at length, have been Chutaber last week and referred to a select pronounced ing-dequate and acceptable only as a
not a nation of high imagination; in that at its northern end. Kasi-yoen city stands in the centre of the widest 23 mile from
t part, 2 respect they differed vory much from the Tie-ling. It was one's famous frontier city. committee. It has been decided into two parts.first instalment of reforms in mining legis Hindces. There was more resemblance between and guardian of the ucrtbora marches. Four
the Japanese and the Chinese than between the miles north of this poor and threo to be dealt with separately; ile que relates to
crapty the labour question and the toanagement of t.e pits, the other to the forfeiture of inising rights for the closing of pits without reasonable
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JAPAN AND SAKHALIN.
and the Hindoos, inasmucli as Chinese town, with ils enormous walls to
an extent as she had, and was consequently ceasing to be one of the artistic objects of the world. It might be true to some extent, but they could not afford to be deterred from promoting the growth of their own con whereby alone it might be enabled to keep pace with the progress of the world, merely for the sake of pleasing the globe-trotters. (Laughter and applaase.)
our Former Addroes.
LONG. HING & CO..
GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG MANILANS.
rain, runs the so-called Palisade, u mero ditch Hongkong, 4th May, 1904. and dyke, pierced by many small or large roads with toll-bars. The railway runs five miles west of Kai-ynou sad crosses the Ching or Crystal river by a large bridge, which has cost huge sums of money and has caused the bridge. makers of the railway more trouble than say other.
lund had a great influence in moulding | Japanese character,
"The Japanese were characterised as a nation In intueing the bill the Prime
Reports continue to arrive of preparations by of imitators. People said they imitated China Minister, Connt von Bülow, made a spo eh. the Japanese authorities for the early occupation in the days gone by, and that they now imitated remarkable for its socialistic favour. He of the island of Sakhulin, and surprise is at Eurepo. This was certainly true to a gent
extent, but they were not ashamed of it (laugh strongly denied that the law was an emergency times expressed that, the war having been gfer law, the result of the late strike, for madar before. If, however, it be considered that that Japan should baso lost her own antique 4 year in progress, Jugun has not anexed itter). They were often told that it was a pity A population of twenty- custerus and manners and institutions to sach ground labour hud for many years back engaged Fakhalin has the attention of the government, who were thousand, more than half of whom came to it us anxious to a regulations, which in this fiscal convicts, without counting women and children, and that some sort of provision must be made ali-ries of the Saar district had proved så for these whenever Japan again includes beneficial, extended to private mines, He the island within her realas, the reluctance of acknowledged the orderly conduct of the the Tokyo Government to shoulder a heavy responsibility whil felag the burden of the men during the struggle, but distinctly war may primps be understool. But that cut dean-d their breach of contract,
Sakhalin will become once more Jajuusse which alone was dao the refusal to treat on the territory, and that before long. is tolerably part of the Masters Association and their certain. The Japan sa first opened up com determinaton to continue the fight to the bitter murication with to island in 1624, at a time when Russia hal not pushed her way farther end. The government had been Flamed for to the east then the Yeness. From the date interioring, but wing that the offects of the of its discovery it was the castoin of the feudal strike wore so far-reaching, extending to every lord of th Matsamaye province, situated in the branch of industry in those parts and beyond, island of Yuse, non termed Hekkaido, to send but he might say the development and tho | works of Kunjalia, with its scores of worn-out;
neam of his troops over to Sakhalin for twelve that, as he had been informed, a million of the months at a stretch for fishing and hunting.
and matters sent on very quietly, the ad population of the district had found their moun of subsistoneo reduced by one half through no being believed to be part of the continunt of Asia. In 1809 two officers of the Sho-gon's fault of their own, whilst the suffering and dis
Government coming frem edo ndertook to tross amongst the men and their families was explore the northern portion, and found that it w an island. They hoiste 1 the Japanese fag, growing apave, he had considered it his duty to take steps to induce the man to resume work. and erected a bound ry mark or post, suitably The musters probably objected sa principle to insuribed, at the extr. me northern promontory,
to Cape Elisabeth, as it is now
named the organisation of labour and had hoped, by
No Russians ever cams there until 1844, holding out, as they might easily have done, to forty-one ye rs affer the two officers of the deal a crushing blow to trade unionism and to Hakufu, by name Matsuda Denjure and Maniya Rinzo, had formally taken possession in social democrBoy as well; lat if the tendency of the mine of their country. Ultimately, as a maune but from different interpretations of and thence via Tre-In-shu and Tse-ping-kai, capital at the precont day to combine, often result of the treaty which was negotiated by on a gigantic scale, bo considered and the Admiral Yenomoto with the Russiau Gerernment altared relations between masters and mea while he was Japanese Minister in St. Petern resulting therefrom, the endeavours of the hure, the island was banded over to Russis in
change
for the Kurile Archipelago, the islands working classes to unite in order to safe-
of which form stopping-alones from the north-
other countries.
of
Japan was an artistic nation, and artistin tastes prevailed throughout the land to degre far beyond that to which they obtained in
The aristie ·
capacity the Japanese was very deep and thorough. As to the moral character of the Japanese, it was a mistake to suppose that people in the Far East lacked ethical principles. In the Japanese the affections and emotions were manifestes outwardly as little as possible.. This arose fee in the difference not only of mere customs and ethical principles.
Tho Manila Cablenews recently had the fol: ewing homily-
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There is no plano where systematic mving is Northward of Kui-yuen the ground rises more possible or more needed than here in The rail- Manila. When many young men on saluries rapidly into the central table-lands. way winds up into these and then follows the ranging from $1,600 to $4,000 per year, and they lower sertions to Chang-tu-Ex station, ten miles vast majority without families to support, it east of the town. Then skirting a vast bog, it would seem that there ought to be some wargita rises again through a cutting, the sides of which for using. It is doubtful, however, in more than exhibit vulcanic debris in great confusion. a few exceptional cases, whether there is mach award narth-east through the black enthey laid away for the future. The actual region, with deap gallies, at the bottom of which number of personal savings accounts at the small rivers wand their way over treacherous tanks is emall, and so far we have not suffered
The whole greatly from wildent stock speculation cou and boggy beds, from east to want, region viewed from the train seems vary sparsely panies, These will be an especial poiil to the farmors, with the aid of imported labour in the development enterprises and American capital. populated, but farmhouses are plentiful. The young man's incomo with the advent of new There are probably hundreds of son in summer, often cultivato as much as a thousand
Orier beds and cottonwood trees add Manila who would find themselves at the merry One Hundred miles of tla ir friends if they were to suddenly be left manch to the landscape.
without employment. No man can possibly PER CASE OF 10Ó Spins maintain decent wolf respect, and live from hant to ruth, and this habit of life once formed devours every cent of income.
On the other hand, there is nothing that
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like a savings fund Inid away tegets solf for future use. The first hundred dollars that any young man tepasits in the bank, marks the beginning of a new era in his life and doubles the latent power of his personality. He now has a feeling of independence and security that makes him e different man. And then the nost SOLE AGENTS— egg in the bank becomes a magnat that power- fully draws to itself increased savings and it become an easy amatter to save as it formerly was to waste.
What is needed fe not stinginess, nor për. division of income, Dony. but coruful alloting definite amounts to each item of the expanse budget and then keeping within the apportionment. Any one knows how easy it. to spend money as fast as it is earned and not spend it viciously either, just simply spend it on odds and ends of things that are of little importance, but they cost.
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The whole world now admitted that the Japanese were good fighters (applause), and were inve and dashing in warfare. The question arose whether these qualities were inherent in their nature, and be could not deny that there was some sort of inherent capacity for military achievement in the Japanese blood; from Tie-ling is the large stat on and engine maintenance of martial ardour and prowess disused Baldwin locomotives. Up again to a were dus more to the spiritual training which higher plain of yellow leess, then a long stretch hail been inculeatest among the people at large at plain with black warth and olay, and the an ethical lines for untold Marturlig
railway rises into the beautiful adulating country of Chang-chun-fa and crossos cumbined western and central trade route, about four miles south-west of the city. The station is early three miles from the city on the north- west. The Russians will doubiless send their heavier impedimenta by rail, They must, if there is any fight left in them, soud a heavy contingent up the Central Imperial road, whick mens north-west of the railway through Chang-in.in, s town of some 20,000 people, two important grein centres, to Mai-mu-kai, The introduction of cigars and cigarettes where the great western road from Feking, into the country bad cansed some difference is up which the Japanese are sweeping, joins the the smoking habits of the Japanese tending central road. Mai mal-koi, or Feng-Hsien, is a very important trading and grain centro, towards the augmentation of tobacco consamp and from it the Russians at Kuujaliu draw Litu. The import of all sorts of Western spirits, formerly unknown, also bad esused forage and supplies. The arited roads ras on some slight increase of the drinking habitarellel to but nearly 15 miles north-west of But for all that the Japanese, as a race, were the railway, over a wide and well-cultivated region, with numerous large villages hugging either a drinking nor a very great-smoking either side. The land is undulating and fairly nation. Hear, hent.!
wel wooded Neither near the railway Dor this road are there any naturally strong positions.
A vote of thanks was passed to Baron Buy matsu for his interesting address.
Among the large company uresent wele sepr. santations of the Japanese Legation, the American Embassy, the Peruvian Legation, Lady Fremantle, Lady Farrer. Lady Camoys &c.
STEEL-CONCRETE.
Four miles south of Kaiyuen, at the large village of Sung-chia tai, the Imperial road bifurcates and forme the great Central and Estorn routes. The latter runs through Wayush-pu-mea gateway and satore the hills, and the ce proceeds direct to Kirin city. Between this road and the railway for 30 or 40 miles there is a well-defined range of high hills. On the other side are the hills and more or less enitiva ed valleys of what were, until recent years, the Imperial Manchu bunting reserves. From Tie-ling to Kirin city the distance is shout 24 miles. The road has one large town, Yi-tang-chun, and many smaller ones, with many en vansarais for travelers and Chinese troops. This bas for ages been an important paseable at all seasons, with several rivers of pure water, all easily forded.
Kirin city, are not heaten beyond all hope, they will do their utmost to secure with its stores of grain. ita fine modern arsenal and powder mills, ita asily accessible coalfields, and its unlimited fuel aapply Enormous rafty come here from the forests higher, supplied with building timber and fnol up the Suogari, and Kharbin is almost
The surrounding hills. from in ee especially those known as the Lo-reh-ling, over which the Mandarin road from Tio-ling cross ten miles south-west of Kirin, are admir
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young man made a habit of dropping in a box the price of a stave every tion that he patronized his own barber shop, and at the end if the year found fifty dollars in nickels and dime. Another put the price of a cigar in his Test pocket enth time that be omitted his usual Joke, and counied a hundred dollars at the end of the year. The trick in this, however, consisted in patting the money sway where it was out of repch für the next petty want, and leaving it there to accumulate.
The fine noial strong man of to-day began with small savings a generation ago, and while money ie not all of life, a little of it does help to gat other desirable things. There is no country on the Philippines with. earth where there will be better chances to invest in five years from now, and there is no place small capital, than hersi where young men are better paid nor have better oppertunity to lay by the margin that may form the nucleus of capital with which to begin active operations in a few years. And then resources should be developed by curabinations of howe capital than that all its vest possibilities
professional financiers from abroad. should be turned over to be administered by
guard their interests by the power of numbers estara extremity of Yoso, Cape Shirotoko, to could cause no surprise. So to regolats the Katabat. Inte the question of the relativo relative position of capital and labour that value of Sakhalin and the Kariles it is needless now to enter, but the impression formed at the bolther might anffor and both work together in
time was that Rusis had rather the best of the barmony, had become a most serious problem deal Be that as it may, the island of Sakhalin which, he believed, could not be permanently is the northernmost of the Japanese chain, solved without the aid and support of the and seems naturally to form part of the Japanese Empire. The harbour in the mouth gorerament. He concluded by saying that as
is now ice-free, and the herring fishery long as he held his present position he should will bogia about the end of next week. always be prepared to resist the subversive Resistance to the Japanese occupation is doctrines and sots of the social democrats, but practically eat of the question, and it is even the men in the coal districts of Rhineland and said that the Russians here already in great measure abandoned the place, that is, as far as Westphalia bad resuqet work on the strength the officials are concerned, but the convicts have of the promise of the government to introduce not been removod. Probably it will be necessary Scarcely any attention has bean devoted by a new mining low regulating the hours of work eventually to transport them to the mainland scientific institutions in England to the valuable sud creating, men's committees, &c., sud he and place them on Russian territory. Meannisterial of contraction afforded by the com- while the entire population, it is to be feared, binatich of concrete and Atest, and which may appealed to the house not to disappoint them, must be very badly off for the necessaries of life. be most appropriately designated as concrets The Ministor of Commeres followed, explaining Sakhalin is separated from the island of Yoso, steel. In the United States the first meating the purport of the several clattees of the bill, or Hokkaido by La Perouse Strait, and dming of a pecial committee on Concrete and Stosh, the blockade of Vladivostock it has been needful Courrets" appointed by the American Society and he dwelt at some length on the desirability to watch very closely this passage from the of Civil Engia-ers was bekl'in Fane inst, and military route, and the road is fairly good and will be far better for the country that its
Facific to the Sea of Japan. In the coming the first report of this body is contained in a operations which may have Vladivostock for their ree-ut number of the proceedings of the society objective it is conceivable that Sakhalin any Representatives of the American Railway has its nus, and that the ides of permanently Engineering and Maintensare of Way Assoc occupying it may, therefore, take definite shape tion, the American Society for Testing very shortly.
Materials, and the American Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers are now in cluded in the committee, and sub-committees THE SHAN STATES.
have been appointed to deal with different parts of the investigation. Some 1 Colleges have During a lecture on the Shan States, Sir undertaken to co-operate in making tests and Gourge Scott said that so far the British much interest is being taken in the inquiry by occupation of the Shan States had been of very railway companies, manufacturers, and others, doubtful advantage to the traders of the The hope is expressed in the repo:t that during country. They enjoyed the blessings of peace; the present year suffuiout wumber of tears in it; but that of five or six times the number the country was much more accessible than it
will be made to give some rules for governing of workers in other industries. The establish-was, and the chiefs had improved the lines of concrete and reinforced concrete e nstruction, ment of a maximum working day hul become communication in all directions, but so far although the general work may occupy far more and more impenfive, as the upper lodes from more money coming into the country it more than single year. This example on Beemed rather that more was going out, and so
that is deserving of being followed by the having been gradually exhausted the necessity for from the prospects for the future being Institution of Civil Engineers, as had arisen of descending deeper and deeper in'o brighter, it seemed that they were becoming engineers who are engaged in structural werk the bowels of the earth. Owing to the diversity steadily more discouraging. For mu years would welcome authoritative investigations of of the conditions provoding in the different now the volume of trade had been, slowly
gradually decreasing. The Mandalay-Lashio the kind.-Tinde
of mea's committees and regretted that such had not existed before the recort strike, because being a sort of counceling link between employer and employed they might possibly have succeeded in uverting it. Be know from his own personal experience that, although they might at times promote agitation, they were on the whole amenable to reason and not difficult to deal with, An extension of the system to other industries was not at present contemplated, but coul mining occupied an exceptional position, for on it depoided not only the wolfare of those ingeged
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If the Russians
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There is a great trade rond, with Russian post and guard houses, running over the 8 miles from Kirin directly west to Chung-chan-fa. It leaves the Tie-ling road after emerging from the Kirin bills at Ta-shai-ko village 15 miles west of Kirin, crosses the river. Ta-shui-ho, and
Now is the young man's chance to lay by and get ready for the time when a hundred or five hundred dollars may put him in position to play a part in the industrial situation of a great country.
AN OFFICIAL APPEAL TO THE RUSSIAN PUBLIC.
An appeal to the people of South Rusia ban! been printed in the Gove, umeni printing works at Mobileff in Pollia, and bears the title, How the War Arcee." This appeal has been scattered broadcast among the people, and its object and valne may be seen from the following extroots:
**Rusia did not interfere with the Japaness,
rises into beautiful down-like bills, which form a long and somewhat irregular wall for nearly 60 neither did it do them any harm, but Japan milea across the great and rich plain. Southward fell upon Russia. It attacked our warships, of these kila weanders the Yi-tung-bọ river; blow them up and sank them; it has also fallen Borthward, some 20 miles distant, winds the upon our railway and epon our fortress, and it pita it had been extremely diffenit to devise a Kailway could not be looked upon as a railway
Sungari, far below the level of the plains. has seized Manchuria. Manchuria is certainly uniforma method for ixing the duration of opening up the Shan Staten at all. The
Midway between Kirin and Chang-san-fa not Hussan territory; it belongs to China; but labour, bat after maturo deliberation it Shan Blates had no outlets for their trade,
The following notes on advertising are taken is the thriving market village of Bro-chiz-ho it is next to Siberia, and was paying China a had been decided that the simplest plan or only outlets which imposed a probibitive
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goodly sum of money for the rip of land on While we had done nothing practical by the British Trade Review from a recent Tan, and north of this rises would be to make it depend upon the tem- to connect the Shan States with the Kangoon article in Printers Ink: The ad. must talk peak, the highest in the range, known which our railway ani our fortress at Fort
To Ting Tu, Great Hesi," very
Arthur are built. Both the railway and Port perature of the place where the men worked. Mandalay trunk line, we bad also done little business from start to finish, arguing and
Arthur were built simply in order to make it. The system of Nuller" (annulling) was not to give ontlets to its trade in other directions, reasoning, telling and showing just what the symmetrical, and rising like a huge pyramida practised in the government mines and in bia The Mandalay Lashio Railway was a mere ex machine has done and why it's better than thousand feet above the plein. These hills har easier for Russians to settle in now regions. well. opinion the imposition of fines for careless ample of faint-heartedness, and the projected others. When writing an ad. of this sort, maoy prosperous villages, lims kilns, stone the Russian mation must mark that loadlog of trucks had proved more effective; it way from Bhame to Tangyueh was onle it is a good idea to choose from ameng | quarries, and revezal-small ecal mines, producing Russia cannot let the Jayanose remain in Man-i
further proof of the same want of determination. your friends or acquaintances one man who
many grades of fuel from common liguita to churls, for if they are left there, then they will is a fair representative of your possible almost pure anthracite.
soon thru themselves towards i orin and drive Arailway which left the Nanting valley at some
ske-up and habits of customers, in mental
Kirin city, if the Russians have any heart, out thenes our settlers; for the Japeness will point abort of Shunning.fu and to cross oveY to the Nam Bong valley would be infinitely mind, and write your exactly as though will be held, and the Japanese will have a hard go even further, and then farewell to Siberia, better worth constracting than the line which you were writing letter to that particular task to drive them from it. Btween the line the Amur region, and the newly-acquired it was seriously talked of making to Téagyish man. Maybe it would le a better scheme to
of hille, not more then ten miles wide at vacant places for colonising." The Japanese are from Bhano, The Shan States bart always actually write him a series of short letters, of the Japanese advance and Kirin lies a range districts, and the Rn cian people will find no bean vory cheaply held, and the exponse was 10 each covoring a single enture of your the widest, and surrounded on every hand olever; they seiza overything. If they take product, and then, instead of mailing them to by low-lying lands with rivera io ail Fagbalion from us, then Russia will have no greater now than ever it was the expenditure him, put an attractive headline on each of them directions. These bills are almost all covered spot to which criminals can be sont. These are received by no means covered the
in place of his name and send them to the paper with brusbwood and rise very steeply cu the reasons why the Russians must rise to a It did not seem likely that it would for very many years, nnless we provided them with You know how to write such letters, because very side, especially on the southern face. man to drive off them; the Russian nation von are doing it all the time, but perhaps you Chang-chun-fu, the Prefecture of Perpetual can do it, it it wishes to do it. Otherwise, communications which would enable them to develop the very considerable potential wealth don't know how to write o idee on of shoes Spins." or, as the tutives conexonly designate things wild go isly for it. The uing time whe
Kaun-cheng Tzu, "broad expansive give it no rest, and for a second
Russian nation w fall under the Mongol.
way, therefore, proposed to substitute it for the present method of contisestion.
at tantalized them. The wants All right. After you have written
is the most, prosperous wholesale trading contre and desires, and even the needs of the people,letters, read it through, and you are nimest sure
to fad. somewhere in the body of that letter, in Manchuria, with upwards of 100,000 enter- had vastly increased since we took over the Slater 18 years ago; but the wealth of the
short sentence that would make a strong head-prising business mer. Unlike Mukden. them yoke," country had only so far increased as was implied line. The headline often makes or mors the are few family residences. Nearly all the by the establishment of a stable Government, entire ad.. as it is seen first of all (except when Chinese have their homes in Chin proper. and there were signs that it was now almost were not wanting, however, stationary. There
a cut is used), and if it bolds attention even Chang-choo-fu is separated from the above for a few seconds it may lead the reader on hills by the Yi-lung-ho river and a fiat eulti-
LIQUID GAS
The principal argument in favour of the forfeiture bill is that mining property differs essentially from other property, for if the latter he loft unused, the general community is not much affected, whereas the mineral riches of s country only add to the wealth of the nation by bring brought to the surfare; consequently awtors of mining rights who putrict the output for selfish reasons are ating contrary to the economis interests of the public and should, therefore, be deprived of their rights. This is more particularly the case with regard to conl on which the entire industry of a country depends. Of course zobody would expect pita
When opzed to gat pressure coal gas or which, in the course of time had become exhausted or for some other reason, could only be worked signs that the chiefs were endeavouring to get down into the facts and tigures you want him to vated marth, some six miles across. The town oil gas my, like nil other gases, be liquified, more revenus out of their people than the people absorb almost before he realises it. But avoid itself has a low mad rampart and insignificent could afford, or the sanctioned budgets allow straining or catchy headlines, for in the gates Westward are undulating cultivated and liqui! gas, ad bit sin enter "blues, At the same time the people had discovered new straining one the effort is too apparent and the plains, merging into the Mongolian steppes outlets for their money, and had acquired now effect wholly unnatural, while catchy generally tastes. They know that there was a market means something that's short and silly. Be for their potatoes, if they could get them down guidet in machinery advertising, as in other for a reasonable price; they know that they things by commonsense. could make large proats if they cou'd get their possibilities, nor expect them." wheat to the railways. They believed that Burma was more wealthy than they were, LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT. simply because it had railways. The whole population, chleds and people, therefore, The C.P.R. sir. Tartar arrived at Kobe at clamoured for a railway as the only hope of the 6 s.m. on Thursday, the 4th May, and lett again Shan States, and there were not wanting people 130 p.m. same day for Yokohama, where she was who believed that the building of the railway due to arrive at pau. yesterday. would be a very profitable speculation for The O.S.S. & C.M. B. Jasos left Shanghai ourselves, although it could not be proved hy on the morning of the 4th inst, and may be fgaros,
expected here to-morrow morning,
at a loss, to he kept going; wash cases, it is proposed to leave to the decision of the royal mining suthorities of the district.
This looks very much like a first step in the direction of nationalisation of all mining pro- "perty, which for a long time has been realously
advocated by extreme radicals in England.
To judge by the speeches of the representa tivos of diferent part en it would appear that both bills had a feir chance of becoming law, sifhough they may be whittled down in com. raal toe.
The only arert opponents are the ctamrvative parties, but it is said that neither thu nites mortsuo faction, the so-called "centre,'
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power lamp 656nt The blugas s made from oil, and it t a vantage of possessing ocly a very te laaide er t explode when The abolition of a false idea of soldiering mixed 1 steps are wir. "It is stated to would surely be no evil. Let the tax-payer and furnish, wien -r „, quin the inverted famo possible recruit learn to realise that the require- wents of a good soldier are essentially health, a acandesc sa beautiful Hamina- straight eye, and a disciplined mind ~J, H. M.; sa iti alreatly in onderable use for
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