RANDOM REFLECTIONS,
What should we do witliout the weather to spoak about? It helps us over conversational diffoultion when we have nothing to say, and Occasionally produces some interesting yarus like that of the Irishman who remembered the year when thore wore six worka of snow in May But though we have little or no weather fore hore, there are many who cherish the convic tion that the latest summer is always Imtter than any of its predecessors. Of course we do not venture to contradict an opinion expressed with so much confidence, though we may hold
Uffferent idea on the subject outsolvös
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, MAY 3RD, 1909.
not be surprised if it gave a further impotus tɔ the steadily growing demand for Tariff Reform on the grounds that Colonial Preference will be a mark of recognition.
STORY OF THE NEGOTIATION IN PARIS, The following telegram was sent by the Paris correspondent of The Times on April 4, describing the negotiations between the British, French and Garman fancier on the subject of the above loan
Mr, Robert Yerburgh, President of the Navy The response of the Colonis, by the way, to THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY evon looking at them. Paramount is the
LOAN. assertive aggressive snort of the self-made League, who is most activé up and down the the expresscil naval needs of the mother coun" man, whose length of purse is plainly country just now pressing for Eight Dread.try has stirred all the nation deeply and I would indicated by the frequency of his out-oughts this year" is interested in the Chins bursts and the volume of sound, The "hen Asscciation and in fact all that appertains to pooked nian, after a cantions glance at his soul British interests in the Far East. He was mate, allows himself a discreet and timid cough, formerly a member of the committee that was was formed' to watch-over, those interests and say once in twenty minutes. His better half in the mean time preserves a rigid silence and came to be known to the Pigtail Committee."
We are expecting to have with us before listens to the sermon, which she swallows carn.. fully, lest a fit of coughing should upset the long His Imperial Highness Prince Nashimoto serenity of her toupee. The dry discordanteonghof Japan and his consort, They are now of the atheist, who merely attends for form's "doing" Paris, with a numerous saile, but before sake, grates with that of the respectable atten returning to the East in September they intend tive Christian while the resonant blast of the to take a look round Loadon, Vienna, Berlin sinner drowns the fervent amen of the convert. | and Rome. ・・・ But most distinctive of all is the "gin and bitters" cough;ite pungency seems to envelop the atmosphere and the peculiar click of its
On Wednesday, at the St. James' Church, Croydon, Mr. Herbert R. Yglesias of London, married Miss Euid Mary Dear, aliter of the bonus. The fady has for a considerable time been residing with her mother at Norbury on the southern outskirts of London.
ADMIRALS WITH POLITICAL AMBITIONS. (" There are rumours that both Lord Charles Beresford and Sir Porey Scott will go in for Parliamentary honours. As to Lord Charles it is more than probable that the report is well founded, but a to Sir Percy the probabilities. are against it. You are well aware in the Far East that he is an authority ornaval shooting. He is also a prolide-invontor and his value is well recognised at the Admiralty. Werk for lam is sure to be found ero long, aud meantime in is doing himself well while he may,
Meetings of British, French and German financiers interested in the construction of Chinese railways, were held on Friday and
Chine. The British group was represented by Saturday at the offess of the Banque de l'Indo- Mr. W. Keswick M.P., of the British and Chinese Corporation, ir. O. 8. Addis, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr Cal the Chinese Central Railway, and Mr. Moyer, of George Jamieson, M. The French group war represented by M. Simon, manager of the Banque de l'Into. Chine, who was elected chair.
German grouYWOR man of the meeting, and M. Ullmann, The represented by Her F. Emil Rheders, and Horr Curt Brich
THERE IS SKILL AND
THOROUGHNESS
OF CONSTRUCTION
IN ALL
PIANOS
WE IMPORT
Now who among us hak known greater vari. ableness in the westher than luring the past week? One day sweltering in a summer heat and absorbing cooling drinks; the next day delivery suggests the ohink of glasses and the late Edmund Dear of Hongkong and Melgiving smart parties at the Savoy several times Urbig, of the Dontsch-Asistisels Bauk, Herr STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY giad to get back to warm clothes and anxious to conceal the shiver which we conld nut vestrain. Suchi éhwiges of temperature 170 decidedly trying, the more so that we foolishly thought we had got rid of all that when wo left Europe with its samples of weather.
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The low rate of oxchange has given the sterling paid men a good innings, but those. whose hopes Be in the opposite direction are. beginning to sale now. The dollar is going up. It has risen practically a ponny in a month and the tendency is still upward. Those who garable on exchange should now be having a busy time making calculations.
popping of corks. I hope all who are afflicted will take heed next Sunday lest they become
the cynosure of all eyou."
RODERICK RANDOM.
HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS, *: [FROM OUR OWN. CORRESPONDENT]
LONDON, April 6th.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kato, has fol lowed the example of the American Ambasador and has separated his office from his houso. Harco forth all the accommodation at 4, GrozveDOS Gardens, will bo for his private use, and the hand- somost suite of diplomatic offices in London will be located in Lygon Place near by Thero and decorated in perfect taste, in these offices. are about a dozen rooms, admirably oquipped
weck. Boll: these naval lights, by the way, gave moseager to the meeting at the Mansion House yesterday in support of the movement for greater British activity in the development of airships for war purposes, in view of the Continental successes in that direction
ORIENAL STUDIES........
I hear the report of the Departmental Com- zittee of the Treasury on Oriental Studies moy I am given to understand be looked for soon. Though on the vote of censure respecting the inadequate naval provision made by the
that us a rosnit of the inve-tigations a favour able case will be made ont for the granting of Treasury aid to the University of London to Govorniment in this year's estimates there was
:: EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT great majority in the House of Commons for
cover the extra cost of a staff of native pro Remarkable precautions are being taken to fessors in the languages of the East. Friends Mr. Asquith and Mr. McKenna to look safeguard the life of ex-President Roosevelt who of the movement are optimistic enough to look complacent over, the enormous Conservative landed in Italy yesterday and will within a few for a substantial advance- towards the accom- majority in Croydon the same night gave them be well to way to the African cast plishment of their ideas before the year is out. real key to national feeling. There is no doubt for the big game shooting he is to indulgo in about the fact that if an appeal were made to
for his own antusement and the enrichment of the Institution in Washington. The American pa-
defeated on the demand of the nation for Eight Dreadnoughts this year, and no wait as Mr. George Wyndham puts it. Nover since the South African war has there been sacle enthusiasm over any public matter of really Imperiul importance.
have worked up interest by giving it-out that the x-President, goes to face dangers such as no eminent man has ever faced before. They have drawn ahuddersome pictures of hairsbreadth ascapes from wild beasts and the
persuaded they have seen the last of their "Big on the topic and always in grave tones warning Stick wickler. A Chicago professor comer
Mr. Balfour evidently appreciates the sitau-
THE REPORT OF NORTH GERMAN LLOYD,
£892,000. LOST IN A YEAR.
A Berlin telegram on April 3rd to a London
newspaper BAYK ZA
Gorman, business: men are staggered by the annual report of the North German Lloyd, which shows that the great steamship line's ormous loss of £892,600, necessitating the wiping out of the entire reserve and "ronewal
SUPERIOR VALUE
THE GERMAN Ghour's ACTION, “ It would appear that the German East Asiatic Bank, a group of German Banking houses, com cluded with the Chinese Government on arch 6, a preliminary agreement for a loan of £3.000.400 for the construction of the northern portion of the anton-Hankow Railway, as reported by your Peking Correspondent in BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR The Times of March 12 According to the British and French coutention; the cation of the Gorman group was antirely inconsistent with an agreement or protocol signed by the three groups at a conference held in Jorfin on March 1. The Germans, it was urged, but given the British and French groups to under stand that, in accordance with the Berlin agree. mont, they had decuted in principle to withdraw their offer, which they had wade on what are known as the "Tentan-Pakon terms, which ROBINSON PIANO
decision.
THIS CLIMATE.
CO. LTD.
The
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allusionments. For years I have been under the tion, for he is almost daily speaking in public ranges of fell disense till the public are halfness in 1908 was conducted with the an-groups informed the German group that they experience, to cause local dissension and delays.
Congratulations to Mr. C. A. Carr: He retains the proni position of the champion tennis player of Hongkong, and though he was not called upon to defend his position this the country fo-day the Government would be museums under the control of the Smithsonian year, there is little doubt that he would have succeeded in doing so. His play is without doubt beyond compare in the colony "und some new arrival will have to appear before his laurels are wrested from him.
Apparently life is full of illusions and dis
impression that the church set its face against
fnture and yet I see the notice board of mise of our local churches covered with a bill on which is writ large," Fortung Telling." Fortune telling" is of course one of those title deceptions which - we know is a deception, but somehow I never associated it with the church, though I am prepared to admit that botli deal largely with Both are concerned with the future of the individual. The one good feature which it seems to suggest is that the church is not so jealous of its privileges as before-that it does not mind competition.
do not secure foreign control of the actual expenditare of money or of the construction of the line. At the Berlin conference it was pointed out that the only question which had arisen concerned the date on which the German offer should be withshawn. In Berlin the British, and. French groups had desired the German group to withdraw their offer there. and then, but the German group had maintained that they had the right to postpone their A few days later the British and Freunk (the Britial and French) had themselves received from the Chinese a formal offer of the Canton Hankow Railway loan upon the "Tientsin. Pakon term, but that feeling bound by the had refused it They had also withdrawn their proposals. The German group, far from withdrawing their own proposal, took advantage of the loyal intimation from the British and French that they had withdrawn and forthwith proowded to submit a new proposal to theChinese Government. The feeling veomed to prevail mong the British and Freach groups that this was an act of bad faith apon the part of the
any men or wonian attempting to read the the country that we must build, build, huildStarr, who previously distinguished himself by with which the Lloyd began the year 1908, it is agreemont signed in Berlin on March 1 they understauling with the ritish and French
the same.
I notice that the Daily Press is optimistic a to the future of the colony. It announces that the fact that the cases at the bankruptcy court being so Tow-only three this week-may be regarded as indicating that business in the colony is not so bail as it was. It is certainly one way of failing the business puteo of the colony, and I have no doubt that there is good reason for feeling hopeful as to the future, the opium question notwithstanding
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We all like to be surprised by generosity, and it is no training of language to say that pleasant thrill was experienced by most folks in the colony on learning that Mr. Mody had increased his handsoms offer of $35,000 to the Seamen's Institute to $50,000 or buing acquainted with the difficulties in which the committes found themselves. If Mr. Mody has prospered in Hongkong ho has shown that he is grateful, and the colony will not readily forget the name of a gentleman who has done so mach
for our public institutions.
Home papers tell us that there is a silk hat revival, that the threatened extinction of this kall mark of respectability is repulsed, and that for some reason or other the stove pipe is becoming popular again. The bicycle and the motor our bred in man a spirit of don't-care for appearances," and one of its effects was that the silk hat went out of use. The period of
from now on, without waiting for eventualities, studying the language of apes, and also by so that the supremacy of the Union Jack on declaring that Dr. Watts the unthor of "How the scas, vital to our very existence, may neverbe doth the little busy bes" was a greater poet in serious question. In the House of Coamous than Shakespeare; las gron gone so far as to Mr. Balfour cannot do much, in free of the positively foretell the demise of the great deadweight of the Government majority, but Trust-buster," for be mys he knows Africa in the country he believes he can make such and the ex-President has not the temperament volume of feeling against the Government that
nor the temper to emerge from the conditions their daysof office may be wonsibly shortened. He there," which demand. & man of extreme is now convinced that the Conservatives will win, placidity of mind and prudence of action. and besides being more palatable to him if he Hence the journalist aboard the Atlantic looks upon a strong nary election cry as even liner started to get his hand in as soon as more effectivo in its appeal to the electorate possible and cabled from the Azores that on than the Tariff Reform policy. In support of Italian on the Hamburg had made an attempt his idea may be mentioned the fact that the on the distinguished traveller and his son great bulk of the labour vote that in 1906 Kermit. It was a
pare "fake," but half wont to Labour candidate in Croydon this year America believes it still, 'and an extra conting
wont, not to the Labour or the Liberal, but to the Conservative. "
H.E. WANG TA SIEM,
ent of American journalists in Europe have been despatched to points to be touched at till he outers the jungle. Then he says he will There was a considerable number of well-regulate things bis own way and if any journ know Far Eastern men at Victoris station the alist attempts to interfere with the privacy of other day to see of Wang Ta Sieh, former his caravan life or to follow him in any degree Chinese Minister here and lately special com- he will hear from him in a very unfriendly way. missioner who has been studying our constitution The ex-President is a wise man, for he has with a view to reporting for the guidance of the contracted to write an account of his Chinese Throne in framing a constitution for travels, at a record price, and if some of the Empire. Among others I noticed Sir the Yellow journal sleuths got in shoud John McLeavy Brown, Mr. Byron Brenne, with stories of his exploits, elaborately subroid- the Chinese Minister, Lord Li, and his very ered by their aimble fancius, the truth as he
Chen. would tell it might look pale by comparison: popular first secretary, Mr. Ivan
KING EDWARD. Wang Ta Sieh is staying for the next week or two in Belgium and Scandinavia before proceed- ing overland to Peking to take charge of the
Department of Communications.
CHINESE TRAGEDY AT LIVERPOOL.
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Nor has this been the only "fake" of the
funds,
Of the total undivided profits of £1,699,907 left with only £807,307 in the shape of its insurance fund. The company earnings in 1908 were only £460,900 as against £1,634,350 The shrinkage in 1907, and £1,965,500 in 1906.
without parallel in the history of German shipping.
Own
German group.
Dr. Heinrich Wiegand, the able managing director of the Lloyd, who died last week, only a few hours before the publication of the num report, is believed to hace succumbed to nervous
The British and French groups, it it phin, prostration brought on by the crisis in the comlad, associated themselves with the German pany's affairs,
The Hamburg-American Line's future to declare a dividend for 1908--for the fist time in Sfteen years had prepared the commercial and financial world for a depressing balance sheet from the Lloyd, but the disastrous
utilize
fail to obtain modifications.
flat the so-called "gantry clause" did not affect these radical objections to the German loan Germans, however, urged contract practical objections to enforcing control by European engineer as likely, in view of
past The Chinese had in a recent instance "taken a dislike" (air) to the Buropean engineer.
Flera that the German group declared that they had always been willing to come to an groups, but they appeared to exempt from the cessity of such an understanding their present offer of the Canton-liankow Railway loan on ground that no such understanding had been effected ap to March 6 or 7, the date on which their offer had been accepted at Peking. They shied that it was only one-third of the railway for which they wore contracting, while two-thirds of it could still be made the subject of the joint operations of the three groups: In response to French representations it was admitted by the Germans that they had already settled the price of issue and rate of interest for the loan, but they urged that three groups ought to sink their differences with regard to this particular business and prepare to co-operate-in-the-future-
out that there could be to reason why The French group was not satisfied and pointed the German group should share in the Chinese Central Railway with the British and French groups if they did not join them in this loan.
quarter that if the German group succeeded. ix A final suggestion was made from a British obtaining from the Chiness Government super- vision by a European engineer the British and Prench groups should join them, but should allow stige to have the nominal concession forthe loan. the German group in the interest of their pre- Per contra if the German group failed to secure European control of expenditure they
should agree to break off their negotiations with the to agree to hir proposal. A British repre- Chinese Government. The Germans doolibet
"What would you sentative asked them:
group in Berlin in an agrement to refuse tu negotiate s cau on the Tientsin- Pukou terms. The British and French acted in accordance with this agreement, and were
time in their option-indoed; actually in their thereby deprived of the loan, which was at that gliaracter of the latter's showing far exceeds all expectations. Its causes are set forth in the hands. The Germans, on the other land, in following
wing official statement::--
direct, contravention of the Berlin agreement, "Business in 1908 was affected in the most accepted the loan. The British and French comprehensive dropping of in emigration, to their offer or to alter its terms so as to bring unfavourable way by the abnormally great and groups thereupon mada representations to the Gormans, asking them either to withdraw America, as well as by the extremely depressed it into accordance with the Berlin agreement, condition of the freight market, which was further The Germans could easily have complied with aggracated by rate competitions among several the dictates of loyalty, because their original less than in 1907. Return emigration to Italy and did not mention the price of issue or the Unce. Steerage passages in 1908 were 185,000 offer was otherwise conched in general terms rms was important by comparison, expecially as
rate of interest, but regardless of the Berlin in consequence of the rate war between Mediterreement the German group prefired to ranean lines prices wore reduced to a point clinch the bargain and to obtain the loan on which prohibited profits.
Notwithstanding the most rigil-economies to undertake is that they will do their best Chinese terms. All that they are now willing in operating and the laying up of a large nam- ber of ships (no fewer than forty soren west to modify these terms, but they decline to stand
after I had signed our agreement with you ward sailings being cancelled during the year) by their own Berlin agreement if they should have said if the day after I left Berlin-and It is understood that there were heated disens. I had gone and negotiated tile loan en these the results have beon go limited that in order to write off the required sums for depreciation, ions on Friday between the British and French terms with the Chinese?" The German reply taxes, interest, etc., it was necessary to the entire reserve and renewal funds. Since groups on the one had and the German group was "Nothing. You would have been with
rights on the other. I learn that the spokesmen of in your the beginning of 1909 emigration to America
When the conference wa
was resumed no Satur week, Los, as you have dumbrless boss informal has shown a considerable mere. The hope the German group not only ranked their all surpringd, and we should not have been st
arrangements with the Chinese Government before their previously pledged word as given in lay no reply to the German telegram to! Peking by cable, there was a newspaper report originat justified that an improvement has set in."
Notwithstanding the nature of Lloyd's re- the Berlin agreement, but that they also had been received. On behalf of the British and ing in Madrid and circulated in Paris and Berlin port, its shares closed a few points higher stated that the German Foreign Office would Fronch groups it was announced that a formal There was a ghastly scene on Monday at that King Edward had been striuken with yesterday than a week previously. The Lloyd not allow them to withdrew from their engage protest would be entered in Peking against the
was the most active of the German lines to take Liverpool, when a Chinamon named named Seepralysis at Biarritz.. It was a tantalising re-
the fight with the Canard for the blue ment to the Chinese Government even if they setion of the Chinese Government in concluding were willing to do so." After-considerable a loan without first having submitted their Lee was hanged, for the murder of a fellow port, for it is always so hard to disprove such an ribbon" of this Atfantic, and built four ships of debate it was agreed that the German representa intantion to the British Government in esman. Yuu Yap, because the latter sertion positively at a distance-official state. the Kaiser Wilhelm II. class for that purpose.
tive should send a telegram to their agent at accordance with the terms of the Convention of jealous of the attentions See Les paid to his meata being liable to be discredited as endeavours
Peking to the following effect —
1905. This, it was explained, was not a threat, NEW SAN FRANCISCO. wife. The murder caused a good deal of bad to postpone any serions announcement. It had
All the improvements we require boyond the but the German group might find thes gentry clause" (excluding the interference of information useful for their own guidance. blood in the Chinese Colony in Liverpool, and nothing too improbable about it either, for the The pessimists, and even the conservative wise the local Chinese gentry with the con- While there was no intention of describing the when the story of the murder in court produced King was not at all well when he went away. acres, who predicted in April, 1906, that twenty struction of the line) is to secure European German action as "infair, there could be no soft bats and collars appears to be ended,
a death sentence there was a report set afoot The Stock Exchanges reflected the uneasiness years would elapse ere. San Francisco recovered control before the expenditure is incurred.doubt that it had placed the British suit Freuch I not had a fair trial because till it became know for a fact that that morn remarks, at the story of work already accompli of the Tientsin-Pukou agreement, after the been that the misunderstanding was originally that the man and
her old saprot, will stand aghast, the Colonizer There should therefore be inserted in article 14 groups in an unfair position. It might have and city men, I read, have now come to the conclusion that no headgear is of the enmity of serae of his fellow countrymen ing his Majesty had attended an exhibition of shed. Little more than two and a half years ago words "signed by the msunging director of the caused by the terms of a telegram from Berlin eminently suitable as the silk bat. Happily if they would. The hostility to him was
who could have giver evidence in his favour Basque sports and had enjoyed the fun. I ister 1469 squares of buildings, including the City railway, the words "and countersigned by the which had not been clearly worded.
· On behalf of the German group it was replied Hall all the wholesale and retail districts ofan chief engineer." the popularity of the silk hat is not likely oh that when his solicitor first started a
in the day had from his querry Col: Sir Arthur Francisco, and all the principal hotels—a total This telegram was dispatched on Friday that it was quite legitimate for the British and to strike Hongkong, where on Saturdays mition for his reprieve the-loral Colestials Davidson a rather angry telegram describing of 28.000 buildings were destroyed. With the afternoon, and the representatives of the British French groups to enter the proposed protest in and Sundays we shall be content to wear our threatened to get up a petition to the Home the report sa a mischiorone and ridiculous con- exception of nineteen structares of steel and and French groups are, said to have declared Peking. If it succeeded the Germans would the whole devastated ares was laid that if a satisfactory reply were received they doubtless be kicked out" (sic), but they would) two-dollar straw or five-dollar topee when the
damage aggregated over the sun is hot. Weddings excepted, but then Secretary to proceed with the hanging: The action. Asa matter of fact I am assured by appeal for the reprieve was therefore delayed,
one who has just returned from Biarritz that £100,000,000, including stocks of merchandise would be willing to withdraw their opposition to not lose face" in China because they would
Government, we can always borrow a friend's !
but in a day or two, owing to some religions the King is immensely benefited by the change, and household effects. After insurance risks the Canten Hankow Railway loan as proposed
ANGLO-FRENCH - PROTEST. £60,000,000. Excluding the relief funds gathe The British and French groups demand that On the invitation of the chairman the British the kind spelt with an "e"and withoutan" fra- Clinese voored round and offered their aid to and recompanies the Queen to Malta ko willed in the United States for the temporary needs instead of, as hitherto proposal, a mere control by
To speak of waists, ladies' waists, I mean-not influence or other that was at going, the and if, as it is planned, his prolongs his absence and boon sotiled, the.. net loss we nearly by the German grɗmp.
and French protest, worded in the following terms, was handed in
The British and French groups beg to place calls love's young dream to some of us who have the solicitor. The appeal was sont to Mr. i return to London in very fit candition. As to of over 175,000 homeless residents, only thesaditor after money has actually been spent, a wakened and discovered the reality. Consequently Gladstone bat'ha declined to interfere. When State cares, the Prince of Wales, who has had £2,000,000 has been borrowed outside of European engineer as well as the Chinese
an office permanently installed at Buckingham California.
manager should have the right to check expeu upon record in the minates the position assumed no one will misunderstand me when I say that the news was broken to Be Low he remained. Patien, is taking
Today, on the wasted area, stand 16,831 much possible off his
diture and sign certificates for the withdrawal by the German group in consequence of which entirely new structures, representing a floor- my foolings were somewhat uitked the other unmoved, merely remarking: It uot natter" father and at the same time is training for the space considerably greater than that of the to the purposes for which it is alleged that they continue their negotiations; but Inwing laid of sama from the bank and for their application the French and British groups are unable to day when I read that fashion had decreed that Next day, however, when taken to the scaffold time when he must succeed to the kingly duties 28,000 buildings destroyed. The cost, £30,000,000, have been withdrawn.
down the principle that some reasonable means ladios' kaista were to be inerentoll, that is to way he broke down altogether. With a shriek be
exceeds the assessed valuation of the former
On the German side it is urged that the of control over the expendituro of the loan funds... the girths were now to measure twenty
rtructures by over £5,000,000. After the leasoa
German East Asiatic Bank could not withdraw is absolutely necessary us a safeguard to of the earthquake. four inches instead of the hitherto orthodox was in that limp condition that he was hangel
from its agreement with the Chinese Gorern European bondholders, they have no alternative of steel and concrete. The German meresses with the Zeppelin been constructed nearly all the buildings have
that ease accuse but to part company with their German friends, twenty-two inches. I have no doubt Just before going he had sent for the chaplain airship and the steady advance with the
From 450.000, the population dropped after ment, which would in the ladies will enjoy the additional comfort and professed Christianity, He is stated to machines designed by the Wright Brothers, the fire to 350,009, but as fast as habitations them of bad faith Moreover, hey and they now hold themselves released from any withdrew, the loan would fall into the obligation under the protocol of February 26 afforded then by Dame Fashion (or is it Mere abandoned his original religion before he Mr. Henry Farman, M. Delagrange, Dr. comers from all parts of the world Hocked in would be entirely lest to the Brition and French deem necessary. In their own interest."
could be completed the old inhabitants and new hands of some outside English group, and and competent to take any steps which they way Fashion) though some will be foolish enough committed the mussler.
Alexander Graham Bell and others, are certainly A census just completed with every care by the
„of the discussion when a making the advent of practical nero-navigation gas and water corporations plices the present syndicates, which could very well partici-It is further deserving of meation that for the human form divine. I don't know how Mr. T. G. Taylor, the anti-opium M.P., wood large in the public oye. Hore in England the city at 507,339, and when-it-is stated that French sy diente could not see their way to late French
number of people rosiding within the limits of Pate in the German loan. If the British and ss made to the British and ̈ it will appeal to the beant. They won't be able has been ill for a long time with norrous trouble, if we are slow we are waking.up. Mr. Asquith the trans-bay and suburban cities uddrapatici ating," the only, alternative was to eliminate French groups to join in the proposed German to circumferanos: the waist HO EDOCMaťally inhia so much better that he will resume his has himself stated, that there will have to be 150 000 in population, and havə Baintsinod the expressly the Canton Hankow enterprise from loan on the German terms the reply was
the scope of their conjoint operations and to That is impossible. Even if we desired to do before, but the more frequent efforts to attain Parliamentary attendance in a week or two. estimates on this head in future Budgets; we increase, this growth is little short of marvellous, come to a better understanding as to future as our respective Governments would not allow success muy gave them some solace..
Since he was taken ill he has then staying at are having a great aer-experimenting ground
Lusiness in Chine. As to the particular point, it. The interest of European bondholders are Bournemouth and the only occasion he has been arranged at Shopper, and there are to be
DIAMONDS IN GERMAN SOUTH
at issue, the Germans maintained that in their not sufficiently guaranteed unless a European. WEST AFRICA CROSS in the House was then the rote of censure on important trials in the summer, including those
own enterprises they retained a control over engineer can control the actual expenditure... the Government was taken: The whips that with the Wright aeroplanes, for which the War om at pritatis" cource to the effect was draw This declaration was then verified the local book-keeper, anil always got a written In consequence of "tenstworthy" informa declaration stating for what purpose the money. night could not find a pair, so Mr. Taylor came Offco is negociating, and last but not least Canade that bine ground has been discovered in the by their German auditor. The feeling of the piexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante. Last appears likely to make part of her promised conuighbourhood of Luderitz Bay, there was a moating was that the Garuan group had Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre Sir J. P. Rodger, formerly Resident in tribution to Imperial defence a subsidy to the sensational rise in the shares of the German confronted the British and French groups Charmant will enable you to do it Hər Tarions States in Malaya, now Governor of the aerodrome experiments with Dr Alexander Bell's Coloniat (ompany for South-West Africa on with fait accompli, that the 'guarantee starded Specialities for the Skin are the study of a Gold Coast, is on his way home with Lady the telephone Inventor) newest tetrahedral qaneters nothing is known of the discovery.
the Berlin Bourse last month. In official by the subsequent examination of expenditure lifetime, A. 3. Watson & Co. Ltd. Sole Agents by a book-keeper or auditor was illusory, and
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machines at Baddock, Nova.
to regret the deurture from the wasp-like ideal
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fell in a faint from fright, and it was while he
PERSONAL PAKS.
up to
to town to support the Governmet.
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HEITISH AND FRENCH DEMANDS.
not have broken their contract with the Chinese
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