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SUPREME COURT.
Monday, March 1st.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
LONDON, January 29th.
THE UNEMPLOYED.
It cannot be anisl that we are breaking into BEFORE HIS HONOVE BR. H. H. J. GOSPERTZ better weather commercially yet, any more than
(ACTING PUISNE JUDGE).
BANK DRAFTS AND CONTRACTS, Action was brought by Man Loe Chen and Co. against the International Banking Corpora. tion to recover 8840. amount alleged to bo pay able under a bank draft dated November 14th 1908.
Mr. Otto Kong Sing represented the plain tiffs, and Mr. C. D. Wilkinson (of Mosers, Wilkinson and Grist) appeared for the defend
ante.
we can say the political horizon is clear. Storz
are indicated in both sections of life.
For instance, there was an advertisement the other day for two warehousemen at a printing establishment in the City. It appoured in a morning paper. When the managing director
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND, 1999.
forests, with the reports on North China as a ↑ demonstration, in his last Mesage to Congress, all nations seem to have become awakened to the seriona questions involved. We have our own Government issuing à report in favour of extensive afforestation for the benefit of the employed as well as for the country, and more stringent steps to protect her lambor wealth. The prospect of a timber famine is an ugly one for the world to face.
Canada too has intimated that the will take
Now Germany is taking a hand in the matter too. Local authorities having shown themselves carolose as to the destruction of wooded land for the provision of building sites s conferenos has just hoon held in Berlin and the Govern- of tracts of timber subject to the sanction of the ment has been urged to make the cutting down
Government As the Government has of late been active in preserving Gornian forests it is probable that the desired stap will be taken.
THE OPIUM QUESTION,
THE CHINESE PROTOTYP OF THE TAXI-CAH,
THE CANTON RIVER COLLISION
CASE,
TEXT OF THE JUDGMENT.
We are having
a very pretty discussion on taxi-cabs just now, with intent to show that these supposely modern developments, are, like many athor of inventions, really a revival of methods long buried by the Chinese,
Mr. Justice Bourns of H.B.M's Supreme dynastic histories in the course of bis Chinese Man On against owners of the steamship Nan
Professor Giles of Cambridge while tracing an action brought by the owners of the innk Court for China recently same to Canton to: try
work, unearthed a complete specification of the chang Captain R. Archibald, R.N.K., master of mechanism of a curions chariot, in which there the Court as Nautical Assessor. Mr Loftus the mail steamship Emprese of China senisted. was an arrangement for registoring the Jones of Shanghai appeared on behalf of the distances traversed. These taxi-cabs were first plaintiffs and Mr L J. Gedge, of Messrs mentioned under the Chin dynasty (A.D.Tobuson, Stokes and Yasters, appeared for the 265-419) and from that time down to
the defendants. middle of the fourteenth century frequent has been a nerdy announced that a decision
have already
mile-drum-chariote," are to be found in the in Shanghai on the 26th alt. is as followe allusions to such vehicles, known as "measure. The text of the Judgment, which was delivered dynastic histories
a notice, acting on itis solicitor's ndrica / Botting to cut oach others throats, and the is issued broadcast also to the dig prick at the old University of Cambridge. plain sail trimmed to keep her niotig the East
tof exchange was receiveil.
received.
capital of £50,000,000.
wrong."
of the business arrived at the office before ten o'clock he found the thoroughfare packed by a surging mob of three thousand applicants and he had to let himself in by climbing the outside of a spiral staircase: The men wers Mr. Kong Sing informed the Court that the crowding and pushing on the stairs to
This notion was heard at Canton on the 8th, phíatiffs were a firm carrying on businoes hore, such an extent that the police had to be
The specification was placed in the hands of 9th and 10th February, 1909, on the plaintiff's and on November 14th, 1908, a bank draft was
seat for Gaining the idea that the advertise
Professor Hopkinson by Professor Giles, and petition, there being by consent no answer.
The Man Ou is a Chinese owned 'junk of 5000 drawn on the bank of Hamilton, Vancouver, meat was a hoax the mob started out to art
the Engineering Laboratory has turned out a picule carrying capacity, and the Nanchang a payable to Man Len Chan and Co. through. sambudy but the police managed after an hour
While the International Opium Conference is model of the wheeled vehicle, accurately ro British-owned twin-serow steamship of 1014 tens the International Banking Corporation. There's physical persuasion, to break them up sitting in Shanghai there is to be great prayer-gistering the distance travelled. At each fl, or net. The junk was sailing down the Canton ful activity in the churches in this contre Chinese mile, a drum is struck, while at every steaner going up, when they collided at a point
River from Canton to first of exchange, was duly received by the That sort of thing is happening every day,
Hongkong, and the Now down in Wales there are three thousand All denominatione have been circularised by tent li a ball is rang.. Professor Giles added between Amherst Light and Second-bar creek, Man Loa Chau frm and deposited in their safe.colliers ille, though they have offered to work at their heads to have special prayers thin this communication of his rosearch that the with the result that the junk sink. The junk About December 22nd of the same year this
lower wages. draft was stolen. Information was gisen to the supply. The coal is mainly ship's coal and there day throughout the Conference for the issuance
The owners have no orders to churches and chapels next Sunday and every fall specification with illustrations will shortly alleges that the collision was dus entirely to the
be published.
of these on board the steamer and negligence police, and a warrant was insual against the is a dead slump in freight shipping On the of the debates in a semise kostila to the opin
Then follows the piquant development from The two agres that the collision happened
sues for damages accordingly. person suspected of having stolen it, together, with a further sum of $9,000. On December Tyne the sight is pitiful--acres of water covered traffic. A pamphlet by Mr Arnold Foster of Fofessor Parker of Liverpool University about 1:30 to 1:45 am. on 12th November, 1968
There is
B fre -sarcasm, as I read it that the wind was N. to N.N.E a moderato 24th the raquaging partner of the plaintiff firm by ille freight steamers. The situation is so the Loudon Missionary Society against
breese, that the night was fine and clear with wont to the defendant bank and took them had that owners of craft are actually for truffle and the cultivation of opium in India in a letter he sonds to the papers,
Possibly Liverpool is glad to get a little pin bright moonlight; mud that the title was flood.
The junk's case is that she was under all informing them that the draft and been lost,ctions are going strongly for introduction says "It sets us as a nation et Professor Parker says I beg to stato that bank going at the rate of 10 to 11 li au hour denominations, The Bishop of Durham, in an international union of shipowners, with and asking them to stop it Rutil the second view to an agreement when necessary to lay up retention of revenue along with great dishonor, York, his dready more than once cited this brightly and that good lookout wea being kept. the dividing of two ways, the oue leading te
Professor Hirth, of Columbia University, New 3 milos) over the ground, that she was carrying masthead and capstan lights burning Vessels for an agreed period in times of Mr. Wilkinson-That part is not admitted depression. I am told the interests already the other to the dignity and elevation on by chapter from the Sung dynasty history (ch-149) When at a point N. of the Second-bar Creek I am instructed that no such notice was oversubscribing to this plan hare an aggregate the resolve, at a real saerifice, to renounce in his demonstration that the ancient Chinuse she was at a distance of about 14 to 15 li sav had no real acquaintance with the navigating which proved to be the Nanchang bearing five miles) the masthead light of a steamship compass, and in his examination into the about two points on her starboerd bow. specifications of the south pointing carts. There was some discussion at the bar as to what taxi-cab in the Asiatic Society's journal, this isitmaterial for it clearly appeared in Moreover I have myself called attention to the two points on the Chinese composa mount, but Shangimi, Vol. 37, p-197.
evidence that the navigators of the junk know. nothing alat points and in talking about points were explaining ignotum por ignotius. When abent eight li distant the junk made out the green light of the Nanchang, which continued to the pure with nails so as kept on aforesaid. She waved her capatan light on her The wheels core ten foot in diameter and starboard side bat the steamer continued to thirty in circumference, saol revolution thus approach rapidly and when close to her ing cart, containing from eighteen to thirty the junk abaft the main rest and did her so covering three Chinese "paces." It was a fight. apparently changed kar course to starboard and warriors, and two artificial men, carved out of much harm that she shortly afterwards, sank. struck with her stem the starboard quarter of
wood, marked the revelations of the wheels by The junk and the steamer wore ought together means of a connecting cog system.
The modern Chinese call a hicyle & tahateering 3/4E, when at Blake Point she The case for the steamship is that she was luz-che" or "single wheel cart"; yet because changed her course to N: by W. 14 W. being the poet of a thousand years ago sang that he about 1/4 xabe from the bank on her starboard was going emaily along on his tub-lan-ch'e," I side of the channel. Before she got to the should hardly be prepared to argue that the Point and Amburst Light, she changed her muath of the Greek midway between lake.
course to N. W. by W. keeping on that course. for half a mile when she changed to N.N.W.,
half smile. She first saw the wasthead and kept on this course till she reached & mhurst Light which she passed at a distance of about
side at a distance of 2 miles, when on the light of the junk half a point on her starboard
Mr. Kong Bing stated that the notice had been taken to the bank by the managing part ners of the plaintiff firm, and had been rejected. On December 29th two of the partners of the firm went to the bank and tendered them a Chinese notice, which was refused. He understood that one of the employees at the bank advised the Man Lee Chan to telegraph to Vancouver, and this was done. On January 5th, on behalf of the plaintiff fira, he wrote to the manages of the Inter national Banking Corporation informing kim of the draft being stolen from the premises of the Man Lee Chan, and giving the bank notice to defer payment ou presentation. In reply to that lotter the International Banking Corpor ation wrote informing him that without further particulars the draft could not be traced, and that payment could not be stopped without advice from the person by whom the draft is
Again in Lancashire the cotton strike is likely to break out again, the men belloving they are underpaid. There is a strike of bedstead makers in the Midlands and there is dissatisfaction everywhere.
THE POLITICAL CAMPB.
In political vircies there is chaos and discord alsc. Liberals are gibing at Conservatives for being inclined to aplit, regardless of the fact that across the Liberal party run almost as many signs of discord and cleavage ni there are cracks. on E-badly boarded floor-
In the Liberal camp, to be brief, there are several active young men who plainly tell their leader "You are making a lot of word-play against the House of Lords, but you cant kill them with your mouth. Why not dissolve aud get the country to say whether this stato of things is to continue! But the Premier and the old gang like their chairs too well to vacate them, they lay their hands on their hearts
A FORMER HONGKONG PARTOR.
minister of the Union Church, Hongkong, To-day the Rov, ft. J. Williams, formerly starts for Australia from London. He has been for some time assistant kome secretary, tot the London Missionary Society. Now be goed to Australis, for the purpose of first assisting and nitimately soceding, the Rev. Joseph King, who has been the Australian agent of the Society for many years.
In addition to his service at Hongkong, r On his return to England he was for five years Williams was for a time at Canton, from 1892 in charge of a church at Halifax before joining the staff of the London Missionary Society.
LECTURE BY DR.- CANTLIE,
Dr. James Canthe, who recently lectured before the China Society on medical science in China, was again, on the pintor of the Society of Arts on Wednesday orgung, as a lecturer on the part played by verinin
issued. On January 6th the uk,paid and tell the world, they have such a fund of in the spreading of disease. Of course, a the Brat of exchange to some person or
Dr. Giles's art was two wheeled, and there were two stories to the box or bin (a receptacle like that in which Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snod. grid sat to view Mr. Winkle's struggles with the restive nag), ...
persons unknown. Notion was given to righteous and noble things to distribute to large part of the lecture was devoted to rate as unese need byaisles a thousand years ago,
mankind yet that it would be a sin to get ont.
Tariff
the plaintiffs some days afterwards, and later on, in February, the plaintiff firm recefred body known as "the Confederates" who are In the Conservative camp there is a mysterious the second of exchange for this draft. This bent on tuning Lord Robert Cocil and the other was presented for payment, and was endorsed Bree Trade Conservatiya membery zat #f by the bank in redank Longual (e/dk/1/635 Heer or 16thing for
His Lordship-Are all these facts admitted Mr. Wilkinson-Not all bat even on those facts I sulmit that my friend has no case The action is misconceivel. He is unable to show any privity of contract whatsoever be
tween the plaintiffs and the defendants.
Mr. Kong Sing-Irabnit. It is obvious there is a privity of contract. This draft is payable to Man Lee Chan and Co
His Lordship decided to hear Mr. Wilkinson Mr. Wilkinson submitted that the drawer of a bill of exchange was under no liability what soever to the payee of a bill of exchange until a contract was established between them by the acceptance of the bill. Even if money was specially placed in the hands of the drawee for the purpose of mpeting the bill there would be no privity of contract unless sopie special under taking was given by the drawes to the payes to
pay the smount.
い
Mr. Kong Sing submitted that the defendants were clearly liable on that point. It was clear in this case that the bank were the acceptors, for they had paid the first of exchange, and con sorted to their own use montes belonging to the His Lordship-You say it is the fact of their having paid the first bill that makes them
In a postscript Professor Parker inserts a
Lies. Dr. Cantlis satd the abhorrence of and oth or ports have suffered from at various aposial interest in Chinese affaire, I think yong the conveyors of plague, such as Hongkong mild sting! As I notice you are not taking
Varda was part of the nature of the manager gives in the Song history with
ainological readers may like to look up the
fed on them. Plague in men was associated transmitted by means of the parasites which with rats, the channel of transference being the
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
minch of by those interested in the Far East, Two visitors, to England are being made
for five minutes
rapid The junk, was
had with a fide of about one
being them about a mile of 13 point on her port mile an hour, over the ground. At Amburst Light she changed her course to N., the junk
bow Sha kept on this course for.
GOT NO RELIEF.
FROM ECZEMA
Which Spread Over Hands, Arms, Neck, and Face-Face so Swollen She Could Not See-Doctor Called It Incurable Treated by Many but Grew Steadily Worse UNTIL WHOLLY CURED
BY CUTICURA REMEDIES
"My wife was cured of eczema about six years ago. It came between hor Angers and on the palms. She was ad- ved by friends first to try one thing and then another but it continued to spread to the elbows. She had the ad- vice of three doctors. The first sald there was no cure. The around said. the discase was due to the chango of air and water our home being in Kent. Sho continued with him "for about three months but she still got Woren Much against my wish the want to the hospital. They gavo ber a prescription for ointment only. That did not satisfy me, so after a week I went with her to another doctor, as tho eczema began to show on her face, Ho add he could curo her but it would take
Jong time. He attended her five weeks, giving her medicine and oint- tuent. She soon went from bad to worse.
Her banda, neck, and face be come swollen. For two days she could: not see out of her eyes. I was in terrible trouble. A fellow workman asked mo If she had tried Cuticura. His uncle Buffered with eczema and found great benefit from the Cutlours Remedies.
then got a set for my wife to try. I commenced with great engernees. For three days she was bathed freely with Catfoura Soap before we could remove the critat of mutter and ointment which had formed. Then things began to change, the swelling went down and ahe could move her fingers and feed her self. We continued using nothing bus the Cutleura Remedies and in three month treatment my wife derived complete cure, I chall at any time be pleased to recommend the Cuticura Remedies to sufferers. G. Campany Jubilee House, Hart St.; Walsall, Blaffer July 30, 1907.
Send to neprost depot for freo Cutl oura Book on Treatment of Skin DisearEN. Complete External sud Internal Treatment toe. Every Humour of Inants, Chidren, and Adulti Conaty of Cuteur Folg to
Sura Matment to fled as the skin, Cel
kit, nnd Chisleura RiDod. A Bake Set often Cures.- Bold through- posts of co) to Party got the world. Depan: London, 27, Charterh Bor Pori, o, Eue dita Faire Austalla, X. Town
Do. Bydney;]
Town. Jadi, tres, Lehnou, Ltd. D K. Paul, Centis; U. 8. A Potter Drug & Chest. Curp, Bole Frope, Bostad
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right position. The Wind would hate errved miscalculated the steamer's speed. She was going full speed with the tide, and the is without touching his sails, He may have
bright moon-always a treacherous light Again the weight of evidenes is greatly in favour of the steamer's version
have caused him to misjudge hor position.
For the steamer we land u clear and consistent accoun't from the Chinese Pilot in charge, evidently
who was on the bridge and who telegraphed to' experienced and competent man i from the Chief Officer who holds an extra-Master's Certificate
reverse the port engine; from the Chines Quarter-master ut the wheel; from the lookout.
forward
Engineer the
an
showing that he revathed the
helm was never starboarded und, the port port engine. we believe that the junk's atery we must believe that the steamer's
Reforms and as they are rather overdoing the aggressive tactics they are very likely to make it just chass
Idaresey, though, that the worst of the crimes be the cause of disase, and on that Oh is Tang Shao-y, the special envoy from fore the coinsian, say mile: minutes the witness called for the steamer were guilty
rat fles The rat had been held from ancient
China, who has come on here from America
portfof
in the Conservative camp is to be seen in the cong been stunned by mankind in all He speaks English fairly well, and modestly Liberal papers, and that inside the mails there countries. Everywhere measures and to be that he comes merely to look short blaste, put her helm hard is, starboard bad by the junk that the order to go astern with the
is less fighting than the reports indicate
THE TOTTENHAM SENSATION.
taken to put down the rat whether by sats and degs, or mongosos tents. The activity in North Lezikon that would have been and therefore potent i tre clug people of the We have suddenly had at of terroristicct that the serpents arenony of the rat, more suitable on the soil of Idaho. Two rak scourge, explained why on ancient coins Russian secret society members, apparently there were agaros on which the corpent was short of funds, set about with revolvers, to take held aloft while a dead rat lay at the feet of the
gure.
y.
leg containing fifty pounds pay money for the workmen of a rubber reclamation works in Tottenham. A policaman sad two others are shot and twenty are wounded, before the two desperadoes are trought to hey. One shoots himself, and the other is so badly wounded that
THE FORTHCOMING ROYAL VIBIT TO
ÉPBERLAND INDIA
of the Netherlands to the Dutch colonies in The forthcoming visit of the Prince Consort Netherlands India is arousing great interest in he is in hospital. The money las dissppeared-HollaIt tends to revive attention to those presumably fit the hands of another argomplice outlying Dutch territories, and may result in a The one who shot himself served on the Jess stringent syplication of chooséparing mining ship Fenced in Dalry harbour at the military policy, which has resulted in the long outbreak of the wars. Just think of that in intermittent war fays between the natives of London. Two ecklons men of powerful Achen, Celebes, Flores and other districts and build, shooting their revolvers with intent islands and the indequate forces of Dutch troops, to kill at overy man or boy who stood In any case the visit is interesting, as it is the to them over a course of five miles first time a Dutch Royal personage has visited running On the way two men stood at the end the East for over afty years. The modern of a road with guns in their hands. They were Mr. Kong Sing-Yus, the fact of their having called to shoot the fugitives. They did not growth of the coffes, rabber and other in- dustries in Java and Sumatra has done much to awaken the stolid Dutch citizen to a sense of the potential wealth of Netherlands India
payeu.
acceptors.
paid the bill in anticient.
His Lordship reserved his decision,
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
CAPITAL FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORY.
England and study our conditions, bat he is credited with the broader mission of satisfying financial enterprises are worth serious attention, hardment and financiers that Chinese
oficials the Foreign Office, and Sir John Me, He is in consultation with the Legation Leavy Brown, trom day to day, and incidentally ho experienced a real London particolar" for, that a sint out the daylight for two days,
The other visitor is Dr. Stein, the explorer Government Travellers tend members of the of Opital Anin as a special officer of the Indian Ral Geographical Society are intensely interested in his accounts of the awful region of diserts between the salt marshes of Lob Nor and the Tung Huang oasis, marking the extreme west of the Chiness province of Kangu. His account of the wonderful wall, built a dred years before Christ by Chinese gas in the face of enormous difficulties the day has also struck the und of the student of apeient things. remaining traceable for three hundred miles to
engine never put full speed mitern, and that
ide at a distance of about her ship length, the think one or more of them must have broken on the case, the junk being on her
pretary and conspiracy if this had been-so-f
junk crossed her bows. The steamer blow two down under cross-examination. It was suggested the port side engine full speed asteru, but she port engine was given after the collision in could not avoid a collision and struck the junk on shout 15 degrees. The junk was always on her would also in that case have been stopped or the starboard pide aft of midships at an angle et me that this would not have been the appro order to get clear, but Captain Archibald advises
priate manoeuvre but that the star-board engine.
anchored, lowered bost and brought off the two steermon, 3 lookout-man forward, and a port side after the steer changed her course reversed. For the junk, we had the aridence of grow of the junk so that no lives were lost. to abore. After the colmion the steamer,
man whose duty it was to look out aft. Thus both the weight of evidence anil inherent probability are in favour of the steamer's version. I have no doubt and Captain Archibald agrees rashly crossing the bows of the steamer with me that the junk caused the collision by
steamer was keeping a good bookon Captist
I must next enquire whether the steamer is. also to blame. I find on the evidence that the
and that there was no russon, there not being Archibald think she was not going too fast not have been going full speed,
CHINESE TEMPLE IN MANDALAY furthezontin the steamy aquarter from Beman of competent skill and E-
A
On these two versions of the facts there is only ono eubstantial point of difference, namely whether the junk crossed the steamer's bows? That is the main issue. It was of course the and the steamer must therefore be presumed to steamer's duty to get out of the way of the junk, to such conduct of the junk se to render it impossible for the steamer by the ax blame unless she shows that the collision was due
ernise of ordinary capable seamanship to avaid the collision. The junk anys ale never Archibald an Offear of long experience and the Earl of Elgin L.A. PCA P. 7.) the high character, on whom the parties agreed se saw the steamer'e red light this Captain many junks about up. (The "Jesmond” and
Assator says he cannot, believe, not can he reason salisce per table. He thinks that thinks there was no risk of collision until the
anything like five minutes. On all the evidence the steiner did all that could be expected of baliove that the ships were caught together for a collision almost inevitable. he bine, the collision happened much when he thinks that she might possibly have gone and particularly from the position of the wreck, capable navigators toured the collision; although Captain Harris, a witness for the junk, but it, a clear by putting her helm hard to port and re- quarter of a mile or rather more above A mhurst versing the star-board eugine, but that this is Who would do so in an ordinary way in
not a mancière to be reasonably expected mile from the left bank, because on the London street at the passing hail of a pursuer P
flood tide there would be an indruaght at the perience, who will ordinarily take the safe So the insz went ahead and took pot shots at
Second-bar Creek as soon as the creek opened out course of going under the stern of the other. anybody who came within range.
The Prince has hopes, I hear, of impressingThangaration ceremony in connection Thich would tand to float the wreck where ship when there is danger of collision, natives with the belief that the Dutch people are with the Chinese Temple in China Street, she was found, ig, on the lower bank of the
I therefore hold the junk solely to blanie and Constable Tyler, who leaves a widow in full of sympathetic interest in them, but he will Mandalay, took place recently. The toure, the creek. The okay that she was coming give judgment for defendants with costs. wonk health, fell shot through the head. His probably be easily converted on the spot to the Regnon Gaselte says, proved a regular onriosity down ander the left bank with the steamer on. I wish to aid that it would be a great benefit London was one of the most imposing that belief that in that case a roady rifle mail adequate slap to admirers of Oriental art Burmesso starboard bow and did not change her course to junk masters on rowded waterways mauzoli Tho-directors of the British North Borneo year. His widow will be well cared for, for in
London policemen have arranged for many afores of troops taken together have a wonderful we whe performing without, while a Chiabte before the collision Now how does this accord freyented by both steamers and junks, if they
entertaintment took pace within. The costumes with inherent probability P. On this hypothesis,
had translated, for them the more necessary of Company auounce au iesue at par of 649,259 addition to a small polica pension, there are
peranasive way with them
of the Chinese actors, who were procured from the steamer after passing Amburst Light mist the Regulations for preventing collisions at sea. The visit, in any event, is not likely to take amo, were gorgeous. They spoke in the always have had the junk well on her starboard Neither of the loadahs of this jack knew the £400,000 of the £2,000,000 capital authorised
ampoco dialect, which was certainly bow and must have ran into her without any meaning of one short blast from a steamer. by the company's dead of settlement. It is er plained that the objects in making this igeno Naturally this entrage makes people talk once felicitous announcement as to an heir.
Queen hopes to make her nation happy by saisy seen an exaggeration to tell that one whole ziver open to her on her port elds. The be induced to carry two white lights, a higher are: (1) to provide more capital for the far more of the aliens who take refuge in England,
four lakhs of rupees were spent upon this temple steamer could only have done this if the hud be one on the aftermast and a lower ous on fore- ther development of the company's territory That is not at all surprising, but it is probably
A FORTHCOMING MARRIAGE.
which as certainly not of extraordinary come anmanageable or if her look-ont had been mast as most steamers now do. The account of (2) to redeem the £461.600 outstanding Five
proportions, but when one considers the work of drank or saleep. But there is no evidence at the collision entered in the steamer's 'dock log per cent. debentures and bonds, the interest unfair to judge the mass by the samples of There is to be a marriage at the end of art and labour bestowed upon the edifice, all of all pointing in that direction: indeed I think as vory nauticient, and such a lack of detail February that will undoubtedly interest all which had to be paid for out of the temple the way she was handled after the collision would certainly have told against her in a members of the various branches of the Chins funds, during the period of the past twenty makes such a supposition impossible for the doubtful case.
years, the fact is realised. Close observation manevres of getting clear of the junk, turning Association. The secretary in London, Mr. feals a great deal of hidden beauty. In every and sashoring was well ezsented, and the Chief chaloner Granville Alabaster, of the Inner corner there is acmo sculpture, painting, carving Officer, who was on the bridge at the time of the Temple, barrister-at-law, will marry Miss Mabel of gilding to be seen which ovinces the pains collision, went himself promptly off in a boat I ATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, Winifred Mary, fourth daughter of Colonel taken in the work. To go through the whole and rescued the junk's crew. On the other . P. Mainwaring, late of the Indian Army, temple and see all that is to be seen is a matter hand the steamer's version accords with inherent of time Everything would have been on a probabilities; she says that on her course from Colonel Mainwaring is a neighbour of Lady grander scale if the late Ko Yin Det, who Amhurst Light she had the jank on her port Alabaster, the bridegroom's mother, for while fed recently, were alive, for the deceased bow and she intended to pass her port to port, she lives at Dilaraan, Boscombe, the Mainwaring gentlemoe took a prominent part in the affairs that she was in a safe position heosuse if the with a ship's longth between them : îi there in Det's temple.
jirounzatahias when a ship length off the junk and will leave for Batavis, Cheriton, Samarang, suddenly changed her course to port and came. Sourabaya and Macassar on or about 12th mat How TO BE BRAUTIFUL-Keep your com- mancontre to
The J-CJ: Lija str. Tjiliwong left Macdesor (dcross her bows. - A probáble reason for this sexions, Mrs. Ellan's Crime Charmante, Lait sure on the part of the junk is not fard on or about the 6t instant, and will louve for on the 26th ultime, and may be expected here Carmant and Special Skin Tonio And Pondre Every time I meet a steamer I koop close to The 1.G.M. str. Prina Regent Luitpold which
Japan ports cn or about 11th inst. Specialities for the Skin are the study of a further ont than he expected or the steamer Itstime. 8 Watson & Co. Ltd. Sale & parts further in and have gone ross the steamers on arrived at Singapore on the 28th altimo
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bows in order to get into what he thought his at 5 p.m.
shares of £1 each, loaring for future issue funds galore coming in to the various newspaper place till after April, when it is persisted, the understood by most of the Chinamen prevent reason that can be thought of, for she had the sptain Archibald suggests that junks ought to
in
oficos for her..
on which (after redemption) will be available the other day, though the police assert that for dividend purposes.
secret societies are growing rapidly and fresh From £14,196 in 1901 the surplus of revenne over expenditure, has risen to $52,900 iu nests of iesperate foreigners are springing up 1907, and the dividend from 2 to 4 per cent.,
iu quartors of London hitherto free from such whilst the sum standing to the credit of pesta. profit and loss nesounts in the last balance sheet. But as a matter of fact the cold figures of was £134,201. The prospectus points out that the Government retorns show that the working the ompany has among other assets, sovereign of the Allons Act of 1905 has brought about a rights, under which it is empowered to frame and enforce laws, to fix Customs and other considerable decline in the number of immi
The CPR. ats. Emprese of Ching left rekohama on Monday the 1st instant at 6 am. for Victoria and Vancouver.
for this port on the 24th ultime, and may be The J-J. Lijn ste. Quaria left Sonrabaya.
tariffs, and to lory taxes for revoque purposes grants. There has been a drop of. 81,453 00 family divide their time between their house the temple, which in fact was called by some jank had kept her coures they would have passed expected here on or about the 5th instant a.m.,
within
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thin the State of North Borneo, and territorial the total number of Continental passengers rights
over the whole of the state, the area of which is estimated at some 31,000-square-miles coming to our ports. Of those pussing on to in Richmond Gardens, Bournemouth, and and a large portion of which is suitable for the Ameries and elsewhere there has been a drop of Milford-on-Sas, Hants. oultivation of rubber and high-class tobacco. 110,758, Of those who wanted to settle here Mr. Alabaster, is, of course, the socond son of The assets valted in the books at £1451,000 609 were last year refused admission and 356 the late Sir Chaloner Alabaster, K.C.M.G., for -include the markotable timber fifty million tors, while the company owns a fully equipped were expelled for criminal or other reasons,mer British Consul General at Canton. He 18: Charmant will enable you to do it. Her bank. He may have feand himself rather left here on Wednesday, the 24th ultimo at
#keez food, popular man, looks the fawyer, and Since President Roosevelt drew such lengthy is also a keen politician, being identified with attention to the evils of reckless destruction of West London Primrose League movements.
motregauge railway 125 miles in length, and about 800 miles of telegraph sud telephone lines.
FORESTRY QUESTIONS.