CORRESPONDENCE.
THE LACK OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AT THE PEAK."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
BIR,As a newcomer to this Colony, I vannot bat orpress my admiration of the many benefits which have accrued from an enlightened and progressive government, and, generally, I think the past and present men
PARIS LETTER.
(Specially written for the " gkong Daily Press)."
July 16th, 1909.
THE NATIONAL TETE DAY.
The "glorious" Fourteenth of July passed off much better and quieter than was expected. The discontented—and their name is legion of lats in France had prepared a great de- moustration programme for last Wednesday,
NOTES AND NEWS.
HEREDITY.
3
THERE IS SKILL AND
The Ministry now has three members who THOROUGHNESS Are practically hereditary legislators; and all of them, saya the World, seem to think it their duty to show that they possess the defects of their fathers' qualities
THE HONGKONG DAILY YTSS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1909. absolutely necessary. That said, It is utterly un. | certain salaries could reasonably be supposed, just to blame Mr. Latham before the expectations other salaries we are told require to be raised. of the public have not been immediately realised. All this is lamentable and likely to lead to very Mr. Latham's monoplane Antoinette is in da serious trouble. The position of Minister of absolate perfect condition ready to start at a Finance in France is no sinecare. M. Callianz is the most abused an in France at the present moments' notice.
moment on account of his demands for money. The people are getting tired of being blod year It is proposed to shortly erect a monument after year 116 mems a matter of impossibility on the Champ de Mars to the glory of "Ls for France to got free of debt, however hard sho Femme Francaise," thus honouring the French tries. The time is coming when the people will woman. The coheme has met with the warmest refuse to pay more taxes. A serious stato of support not only from the Municipal Council
LA PEMHE PRANCAISE
in authority are to be, vot only congratulated, the "Camelots du Roy," or young Royalist het from politicians of all parties, artists, liter, things which the Gorerament most reckon with
but also regarded with appreciation for the results of their labours.
There is one thing, however, which strikes me very forcibly which is not to the Colony's credit: I refer to the lack of any educational facilities for children in the Peak District. Saroly, sir, this is an omission of po little importance, and one which I submit ought to receive early if not immediate attention, fur, whilst the cost involved would only be small, the benefit to the children concerned would be incalculable.
Judging from my short experience of the place, what appears to be necessary is a Kindergarten School, where children between the ages of fire and seven years can be taught in a scientific manger to use the senses and the mind so that when they pass on to the next atop in their education they will unconsciously and without effort bring all their faculties into service, thus not only developing them but also
making the task of learning easier and more
interesting,
Apart from the educational advantages; the ustural but easy discipline of a Kindergarten School would be very useful, and of a kind that a child can Lever receive at home.
THE DIAMOND SWINDLER_
party, had also planned trouble, so as to spoliarymen, soldiers, and sailors, &e. The monument public rejoinings Nothing of all this happily in question will take the form of an allegorical happened, so that loyal Republicans colobrated the Sgure, it will be in bronse, pyramidal in shape, 120th anniversary of the downfall of the Bastillo and attain a height of 40 test. The pedestal in the usual style, by hanging out tricolours out will be ornamented with bas-reliefs glorifying of their windows, wearing all sorts of Re- the curage, devotion and resignation of pablican emblems, going to see the great Frenchwomen. Military Review at Longchampe-always, a magnificent spectacle- and by feasting, drinking, singing and dancing. Paris was full of visitors, all of whom greatly enjoyed the celebration of the Fete Nationale and in many cases joined in the fun. Parisians believe in eating, drinking and being merry as long as they can on that day. for the Fête only lasts a day, and they have to. return to work the next morning. There was a great profusion of English Bags- sight that must havo giron great pleasure to all classes of French people. This year's Military Review where the flower of the French Army marched past President Falliéres and other distinguished
guests--again took place in the morning. The Review over, the soldiers marched back to their respective barracks followed by thousands of ad mirers. Some 25,000 troops of all arms partici- pated in the imposing spectacle. It is estimated that quite half a million spectators were present. The hours at Kindergarten Schools are only The Review was marred by a slight hamillating short, and many children rogard it as a punish-accident to the Ministor of War. As General ment to be kept away, thus proving that the Picquart was riding past the President of the system is not only useful but a real pleasure. Franch Republic and saluting M. Fallières The children at Home have the advantages of with his sword, his horse became unmanageable these chords and it would certainly appear to be through the music and threw him, to the a short-sighted and unkind policy not to provide uproarious amusement of the crowd. The them for the benefit and pleasure of the children Minister was happily unhurt and quickly re- here.
monisted. La Republique from Meudon, and the Ville de Nancy from Bartrouville-two of France's greatest and newest airships, arrised from opposite directions as the troops began the march past. Stopping 100 yards away from the Presidential box, the ships saluted the Hand of the State by dipping their flags.
It is common knowledge that, whereas in may not be desirable to send children to an ordinary school at an early age, yet the kindergarten systems, which is one of develop ing the faculties through play, can be taught to young children without detriment, whilst the self-control and self-discipline required in the play, work to the child's lasting benefit. It comes at anuge, too, in which, whilst the mental effort of an elementary school is not desirable, discipline and occupation of some kind is cer tainly wanted.
To teach the kindergarten system properly it is essential that a certificated kindergarten mistress shall be employed, for if incorrectly taught it might be detrimental to the child's
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interest and development.
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Should it be desired, a preparatory or element: ary school could be associated with the kinder. garten, bat, judging by the children at the Peak, the miter is of the greatest importance I would therefore, sabuit, sir, through the medium of your columns, that the Government should undertake to provide a school of the
character referred to without delay;
The school fees could be fixed so as to make a school very largoly self-supporting, and a temporary engagement of a certificated mistress and temporary premines could be arranged for until something permanent can be done. In this manner the cost to the Government would
be very small, no time would be lost in providing this very necessary facility, and the educational authorities could feel their way before entering
en a more permanent scheme.
that may occur to them-I am, Sir, etc.,
THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND. PS.I might add that I have already spoken to a number of people on the subject, and it meets with general and enthusiastic
were
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The majority returned to Paris after the Rerisw, and spent the afternoon at the Opons and otlier theatres, which, Deus,
crowded to suffocation, for given .on the gratuitous performances the occasion of the Fete Nationale. In the evening the weather still being fairly fine- everybody came out of doors again, this time to see the open-air dancing and brilliant illumina tions and firework displays. The wine-shops
and cafés, which were allowed to remain open
all night according to custom, made a fortene The beggars and hawkers invaded Paris-New Year's Day and the Fourteenth of July being the only two days in the year on which they are at complete liberty to do as they like provided they behave themselves. Many seised the occasion to go to the Opera, or other places of musement, which, as already remarked, are opened free to all who can succeed in getting in. There is always a terrible crush and fight for seats. It pays to get in, as the plays are all brilliant and exceptionally attractive.
AERONAUTIC.
One fails to see what Lemoine, the diamond swindler, hopes to gain by appealing as he has just done against the sentence passed on him last week. He cannot establish his inuocance. A confirmation of the sentence will likely result.
BFFECTS OF UNSEASONABLE WEATHER.
One has only to go into the country for a few hours to see what the abominable weather has done to farmers and gardeners. Certain is it that we have had no summer weather so far, and not likely to. It was much warmer and the early part of May than mora, agrocable now. Fruit and vegetables are selling at very high prices in Paris: first, because of the large number of visitors, and, secondly, because the persistent rain has ruined the agricultural produce. Everything is soaked and rotting on the ground. Those who depend on the weather for their prosperity are to be sincerely pitied, Pour farmers! Everyone is complaining, every. one is disgusted with the wretched weather, which is raining thousands. For instance, there is no indication, as in other years, of a move ment towards the coast and the country. There has bees up to now no stampede on the part of semisty for the summer resorts. It would only be a waste of money without enjoyment. Yot, thoro was every reason; or rather more reason, this year why the suit for the seashore and the mountain should be as universal as ever, for the season had been prolonged by a fortnight. Even in Paris, those to whom fine weather is everything remaia indoors. There is no enjoyment in sitting in the open-air
theatres or outside restaurants while the raiu
WORLD'S EIGHTH WONDER!
EMBANKMENT OVER THE IRISH SEA.
ASTOUNDING PROJECT. feldom in this twentieth century does one come across a personality and a place more cariously reminiscent of the middle ages than may be found any one of these days in the very heart of modern Brixton, whence has just issued one of the most astorading projects of recent times.
"Where big Sir William was defective Was in his loud and crude invective; And brilliant Randolph, though so able, Was far too reckices and unstable: Gladstone, the orstor persuasİYE, Was sometimes shifty and evasivo. The faults of all these mighty onas Live greater in their lesser sous."
TEST OF YOUTHFUL TRAINING.
To prove the benefit of their careful physical training the two young sous of John Abernethy,
OF CONSTRUCTION
IN ALL
PIANOS
WE IMPORT
United States marshal, have started on a horseback trip of,1,300 miles without any nduit companions. They are five and eight years old respectively, but their father boast, the STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAT Chronicle says, that they are as hard as nails," and will thish the trip with konoars. The ronte they are taking will be from Guthrie, Oklahoma, where they live, through Texas and SUPERIOR VALUE New Mexico to Roswell. Specially selected boy having become the owner of a famous cow- ponies have boea secared for them, the eldest boy mount used by ex-Prouident Roosevelt.
The place is a tiny little cell-like apothecary's shop close to Brixton Station just euch an visiting in Mantua-where one has hardly room apothecary's shop as one could imagine Romeu to turn amongst old bottles and rusty keys, mysterious-looking boxes and prosess. The personality is Dr. George: P. Sargent, onco a physican with a good country practice in Essex, WE HA now an old man of 10 turning his hand to all norts of strange porsuits.
Originally a Guy's man-M.D. of St. Andrew, and M.R.C.8. Eng. he proclaims himself physician, sargeon, accouchour, dentist, spethao- ary, house and estate agent, insurance agent, and vendor of proprietary articles. Indeed, packages representing various curiously titled blends of coffee, cocos, engar, malt and hops, jestie the care of false teeth and other paraphernalis of the window.
Bat amidst all these distractions, old Dr. Sargont parrues in every spare moment the work of his 157e, which is the promulgations a great project for saving Ireland. To ilis hoped for end, like the alchemyst of old, he derates all the knowledge and energy his 70 years can muster and, apparently, not a little of saak eel as acornes through the shop. The of Ireland to Great Britain by the running of plan is nothing less ambitions than the joining dam-or rather, two dams-cross St. George's Channel
a
-TWO DAMS ACROSS THE SEA.
Fire sisters acted as bridesmaids
BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR
THIS CLIMATE.
FIVE BEOTKERS WED FIVE NISTERS. A Kentucky dispatch reads mar Kont county to-day riage ceremony in naited five sisters to five brothers. Misses Maud, Nellio, Kate, Anne and Susie Martin were married to John, Dan, Hugh, Jack and and five brothers of the bridegrooms: acted as best men. It was proposed to follow the wed- ding with a honeymoon for the five happy comples to extend to St. Louis, but the lateness ROBINSON of the crops prevented the members from leaving home at this time.
THE DIETY OF A KING.
PIANO
CO. LTD.
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The Seculo (Lisbon) states that the commission. appointed to inquire into the loans made by the Government to the Royal Family during the
Here are 250 people in the voricst extremity of reign of King Carlos has now reported that the
one. The clatter caused by the stone blocks, total smenet is £400,000. According to the danger, and here are their 250 serous, all in arrangement made and approved by Parliament which were used until the wooden sleepers re- minet, is to be repaid in twenty annual instal-placed them, added greatly to the unpleasant- meath. This means that out of King Manuel's yearly civil list of £73,000 the amount of £20,000 will have to be deducted to liquidate his father's debts.
last
BOKEN NECK TỐT PITAL Edwin G Ladd, a fireman, on whom an in- quest was held by the Southwark coroner last, month, broke his neck by falling from a ladder at the brigado headquarters.
"I believe there was a similar case of a broken neck some years ago," the coroner
remarked.
"Yes," a medical witness from Guy's Hos spital stated, "and theman is still alive, and is likely to live for another ten years. He re quires medical attention night and day, but and kuits."
ness of the journey."
In Mr. Stevenson's early days the signalmen were actually men signals. They wers attired. as the Telegraph reminds us, as the policemen of the period, with dress-coats battoned up to the throat, white duck trousers, and top hate. They stood at intervals along the line, and per formed "ith their arms, their worried brains, and two fags" all the duties of the signal-posts by which they were superseded.. Fir Robert Poel, Lord Brongham, and Daniel O'Connell often rode on the railway, according to the diarist, for the novelty of the sensation.
WINE GROWING AT CHEFOO..
In the Chofoc Trade Report, Mr. F. 8. Unwin, interesting account of a notable local enter- prise:---
blows into one's face. All engagements are impossible. qnos-steam voyages, airshipe, the he is quite cheerful. He reads the newspapers Commissioner of Customs, gives the following
cancelled; society is patiently waiting for the clouds to roll by--if they ever will. It is a moat unfortunate state of things for everybody.
THE NATI
The discussion in Parliament on the Nara Report has, so far, yielded nothing. As much was expected by all those familiar with French politics. According to the Gaulois, "The Inquiry has susk like a stone". Deputies sad Senatore belong to the same family, it remarks; they know one another, they have studied each those oursers and can prove very dangerous opponents. Therefore, they do not attack one another. So the naval scandals are likely to sleep in the archives of the Rue Royale for want of a party strong enough and energetic enough to insist on reform. Meanwhile, the failure of Parliament to effect anything at all
In a little den at the back of the shop, lined with encyclopedias, Dr. Sargent detailed his representative. scheme to a Daily Chronicle He did so with an airy cheeriness and confid ence that made doubt a sacrilege.
My scheme is simply, said he, to dan St. Of course, everybody George's Channel.
They laughs at me-my own family included. say it is impossible, but then everything was Suez Canal, and a thousand great inventions. I have studied the matter for thirty years, aind I am sure it is possible.
My idea would be two dams-ons stretch
Greenore, another ing from Holyhead to from St. David's Head, near Fishguard, to, Cameore Point, in county Wexford. The dans would have to be respectively sixty-three miles and fifty-two miles in length. They would have to be a mile in width at the base and a quarter of a mile wide at the top.
be
A representative of the brigade stated that a third man, who had fallen sixty feet from s ladder, had recovered from his injuries.
HOUSE BUILT FROM BATTLESHIP, As an illustration of the lax methods in the French Navy which have had auch dramatic aquel may be instanced the revelations made recently at the trial of an arsenal employee at Toulon on a charge of piltering. The ovidence showed that the man had built a house out of This would afford fine embankment, over fittings which he had purloined from the which trains could run, and roads, houses, atentiquated battleship Neptune, which lay in the be bullt, practically niting Ireland to England State harbour, Making journeys in a small or rather, to
All within the dam. boat by night, he removed timber, ironwork, and would be converted into an inland son, while practically all he wanted, and when the house. with two families with which he was connooted, cazals from Milford Haven to Fishguard and had risen two storeys, he moved into it, together Another storey was to have been added, bat of shipping. passage
The effect of it all would be, Dr. Fargent dissensions broke out amongst the occupants, through the Menai Straits would permit the
He was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, but gally continued, to settle once and for all the and Lebarrier was denounced to the authorities.
given the benefit of the First Offenders' Act. Irish question, and to develop all the un weed resources of Ireland. It would be
let.
THE ESTIMATED COST.
A
stupendous work, I know. It would mean is more and more apparent. Questions of ex-millions of tons of stone being dropped into the traordinary importance have been before the sea. But there is the stone right enough in the Legislature, but they have resulted in nothing: Walsh mountains, Those questions include the revision of the Customs duties, an electoral reform bill, the organisation of the Navy, and the fame Statut des Fonctionnaires", which regulates the position of civil servants. Of course these meas-
I have figured out the cost at something over 50,000, 00, and it would take thirty years. The money could be paid back by tolls. Think, by the way, what a fine meter track it would make round the coasts and over the Channel sex would be!
Space may be found here for a brief account of the wine-growing enterprise started in Chefoo in the year 1891 and proscented in the face of many difonlties with extraordinary patience and perseverance, at a vast ontlay of capital, by the Chang Yu Pioneer Wine Company Company, a private one, owned mainly by the well known Kwangtang capitalist Mr. Chang Chen- hean and under the local direction of his nephew, Mr. Chang Ying-tang, commenced operations in 1895 under a Government charter, issued at the instance of the Grand Secretaries Li Hung- chang and Wang Wen-shno, primarily with the intention of making wine from the excellent Laichow district, as well as elsewhere in the native grape grows in large quantities in the Chibli, Shantong, and Fengtion proviness. was very soon found, however, that the supply was not only irregular, insufficient, and costly. but that the grape itself was deficient in sugar and produced a wine of poor and this ME, BOOSEVELT'S ADVENTURES. quality. Some vines were then imported frora Mr. Roosevelt, according to the special Americs and planted in the company's own correspondents of the New York Prese in vineyard rear Chefeo. In 1896 under Baron von Babo, the Austrian expert who manages Africs, gathered material for a thrilling chapter the business, large quantities of different of reminiscenses recently, when he engaged in varieties of vines, guaranteed free-but not a perilous encounter on Lake Laivasha with immune-from disease by the Austrian Govern- more than a dozen hippopotamuses. Starting atment nurseries, were imported and planted. 3.1. in sind best route by toto partof These flourished at first but after some time be- came infected with phylloxera, the scuros of Mr. Roosevelt had presseded to a remote
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ures cannot possibly be voted before the breaking and what a splendid place for yachts the inland the lake, when, he was suddenly attacked by, which was found to be the first vines imported
TAXATION.
approval. The only person who did not approve death. Hence, why Mr. Latham is so strongly no country where, in a certain sense, there is soguines subscription, and has had maps and towing the specimens ashore.
alternative of
covering the 700 mon (roughly, 120 nores) now
Mr. Latham is still weatherbound, otherwise he is quite ready to attempt flying across the Channel. No one feels more annoyed than he doce at having to unavoidably disappoint so many people on both sides of the Channel as he
"shoal of hippopotamuses. Some of the
from America The company had then to face In this latter the subject has been merely does. He is a model of patience; so is his com-
animais dired beneath the boat, rising under-
of its touched upon, but it is hoped that any others panion-inventor, . Levavasseur. There is up for the summer vacation. In November next, the old man tabbled on about his dream. neath it and striking the bottom of the frail the prospect of the complete zain
or the costly enterprise who are interested in children may write to absolutely nothing else to do under the regret when Parliament re-assembles, its whole time. In the light of his faith difficulties floated away craft with their backs. Others swan straight you on the subject making any suggestions table circumstances than to wait patiently at will be taken up with the voting of the troubls. into thin air. The necessity of an Act of at the boat. The negroes were frantic with gradually replacing overy plant by graftings en
Farliament was easily negotiated. I shall just fear. Shouting to them to keep still, proces a Sangatto for a favourable opportunity, which some Budget.
apply to King Edward to be created a marquis, the story, Mr. Hoosevelt seized his gun and never seems to come along. Mr. Latham as
heenid, and put a Bill through. Everything shot in quick succession two of the "hippos, confident of ultimate success as ever. To
would come in useful, you know. Even the one a sow and one a bull, and frightened the attempt a flight across auder present conditions As most people are aware, there is no country obsolete battleships would serve for old iron.
Not least, Dr. Bargent has started what rest away. Finally a launch with a rescue party would be to court disaster, perhaps certain in Europe more highly tazed then France, and
he hopes will prove an annual and universal reached the ex-President and assisted him in advised to wait. It is only natural that the little to show for it. Well may it be said that prospectuses printed, and even receipt forms. But, he remarked, you wouldn't believe it, I intrepid young Frenchman should feel greatly the Budget figures of M. Cailloux, the Minister THE REVENUE QUESTION.
disappointed with his persistent run of ill- (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKOKO Ingk. Thousands of visitors continue to
DAILY F&E38."]
arrive from all parts to suspect his wonderful SIK-Fudging by the correspondence in the monoplane, and in expectation of seeing him local Press, the suggested Increase of licence depart. Many are getting tired of waiting and are losing interest in the vertare Last Tues fene appears to be causing considerable intorest. It is undoubtedly necessary for the Government day Mr. Lallana Frenchinen born of English parents inade a superb trial flight which greatly to raise more revenue to meet the expenses of delighted spectators. He sonrod to a height of the Colony, and it is their duty to obtain game 20 feet, cleaving the air in wide circles. De the people is difficult to explain. One is not ranch as Roger Bacon might have done his / to wonder where all this gold was obtained. Teinsnfu and Wei-hsien, which turns out a very from sources which will least affect any particnscending in a field in a valley, the sudden ceas for wrong in attributing it to Jar section of the community.
tion of the wind brought the seropians to the legislation. Bureaucracy Will this measure meet the case? From my ground rather more sharply than was expected the country. M. Caillaur admite
was a bachelor!
of Finance, bare frightened everybody, while haven't had seingle subscription yes! Ha, ha, humour that had its pathetic side. The prob his proposed Income-Tax has driven millions ba!-and the old fellow laughed with a good from the country. The Republicsa Coronability that supposing Snowdon and Carnedd
handy
Darthquake, Ireland herself and special- ment, in spite of its other virtues, is certainly Llewellyn could be shifted under water by not cheap. In spite of its sirist economy as Dublin might object, naver seemed to have compared with Royal and Imperial countries entered his head. France sinks deeper and deeper into the mid ach year. The vast and growing expenditure, which puts a greater and greater burden upon
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KING BOLAMON'S MINES.
imported plants of the disease-resisting varieties. The first batch of these was imported from Austrin and planted in 1902, since when the process of substitution has gone on steadily, with the result that the bulk of the plants under cultivation are immune to the pest. Dur ing all these years the vintage has been se enmulating and maturing in huge casks in the cellars of the company the actual stock, cou- sisting of over 20 varieties of red and white still white. The wines are pronounced by all who have wines, being about 2,000 hectolitres red must 1.000
to be excellent, and much pressure has boo tasted them, including not a few connoisseurs, brought on the company from various quarters
indace
it to sell. Before this is possible, however, the
of casks and bottles, which
to
The statement made at the Rhodesian dinner that the ancient workers by delving only 501 between sixty and seventy million pounds worth into the soil had extracted, it was calculated,
plotures which always seemed mysterious if not of gold throws an interesting limit on and incredible, remarks the Pall Mall Gazette. utensils of his temple, the snuffers, basus, When we read how King Solomon made the From inquiries, The Daily Chronicle repre- and so forth, of pars gold, and overlaid presente considerable diffoultion, has to be sols- rith gold the doors, the laver, the sheru od. So far no wood suitable for casks has been obtainable in eastern markets.. There is a glass sentative learnt that this eld dreamer of Brixton
character in his way, shrewd bin, and all the hundred and one decora is quite a popular, car inspires local Yondesertions of that unrivalled edifice, we are apt factory at Pashan, on the railway line between social medieval neighbours. And, after all, in a few Dr. Kari Peters has proved that the people who superior description of glass, but up to
present has not been willing or able to under- take the supply of wine bottles. The Chang curse to centrires' time, when some method of inexpensive delved in the Transvaal and left behind them eds. mountain-dumping has been invented, who there some 500 temples, fortifications, and mines, from other sources enriched the Kings of the
mon of lund on the Chefoe hills but experiences of another world?
earth," besides "making glorions in the heart
many obstacles in adding to it. Though prac of the seas" their own cities of Tyre and Sidon. tically worthless for farming, owners of ad- They had intimate trade relations with Solomon, jacent land ask prohibitive prices. The results and so it becomes evident that the phrase of many years experience show that the climate "King Solomon's Mines," is no mere fanciful though occasionally injuriously dain during creation, and that much of the precious metal
are on the whole suitable to wine growning. and that a vast amount of hill land, otherwise if INTERESTING BAILWAY REMINISCENCES.
unproftable, could be made, productive procured of old between the Zambesi and the July and August-and the soil of the district Limpopo found its way to Jerusalem.
'There has just passed away one who was obtainable at a reasonable price. The enter
the
point it will not. I am a householder and a Tho landing skid was broken and a wheel ficit of 100,000,000 francs (£1,000,000), which / knows but that dam may be the eighth wonder were the Phoenicians. These people we know Tu Wine Company now possesses 1,000-
consumer of wines and spirits; my neighbour is buckled. The repairs were only a matter of a has to be met by now taxes and loans,
a teetotaler, and therefore I shall be paying part of his proportion for the upkeep of the Colony, and I suggest, to make it a just taxation, dis- tribute it over the whole community by putting it on property.
FIRE ON STEAMER "GLENAVON."
few hours. So pleased was Mr. Latha with while the Budget of 1909 is at the present mo- the behaviour of the machine that he decided ment in a scarcely more favourable situation. that it is unnecessary to make further trials. A report by M. Deamer on a number of supple-
'Last week the watchman on board the Next time, he rises in the air it will be tomentary credits was laid before the Chamber a I am surprised the Government have not the attempt the Channel without delay. The few days ago. Up to the present the supple steamer Glenavon, 2,798 teas, Captain Wolfend the C. M. Lower Wharf, Hongkow, Shanghai, Conte de Lambert has arrived at Wissant mentary credits required amount to £3,780,000,, from Liverpool with general cargo, lying at plack to put the necessary amount on the rates, a for miles away, with his Wright seroplane and allowing for surplas receipts there is still noticed sinks issuing from one of the forward but if there is any truth in what one hears with which he hopes to fy across to Dover. a deficit of £2,330,000, to which the initial cef. holds. Ho at once gare the alarm and the intimately associated with the British railway prising pioneers of this new industy are on- outside, it would appear the strings are being
pulled by our unofficial members on the Council.record fight; this has not a little made Mr.
I hope this is not the case; still it is common. talk
It would be interesting to know when the rats were last increased, also the additional revenue obtainablo if raised 5 per cent.-Yours, &c.,
IMPARTIAL.
a value of £2,200,000) must be added, making for the first five months of the financial year a total deficit of £4,630,000. M. Doumer remarks
fa
book.
of
Government can give fi
The hatches were kept closed and the fire was Mr. David Stevenson, whose death has occurred finally located in the No 2 hold, in which in his 88th year, joined the London sad there was a cargo of phospheres and bran. Birmingham Railway in June, 1837. and rose
PASSION PLAY AT OBER. Latham feel uneasy. One and all in any case
AMMERGAU, fre, using
the ship's own appliances, of and Forth-Western Ratsay the London are at the mercy of the terrible weather
The crew soon had streams playing on the to the position of goods Had it been possible to attempt the flight in his report that a number of supplementary which she has a good equipment. In addition private diary of the important events of those
Ober-Ammergau is a picturesque village in before, Mr. Latham would have had it all estimates appear to be inevitable for the opera to these overal trasms were also led on early lays when the third-class passengers rode
celebrated for the passion play which is per- his own way, and if successful would have tions in Morocco, the strengthening of the board from wharf. The general alarm was
Mr. Stevenson has told how the roadside formed there every 10 years. The next per- immediately received the Daily Mail prize of artillery, &c., and expresses alarm at the situn-not sounded and it was not found necessary to a carriages, and tickets were toru from Bavaria about 6 miles from Munich and is call in any outside assistance. A good deal HOW TO BE Beautiful-Keep your com £1,000. Today he has to rookon with rivals, ton, M. Caillaux defends his Budget proposals of the enrge has been damaged by both fire and stations were enclosed with lofty iron railings, formances take place in 1910, the play being plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait Mr. Latham and others may have to wait prob for the year 1910, and remarks that it is now tuo water, but the damage to the ship itself is within which the passengers were imprisoned given 32 times between May and September. Charmant and Special Skin Tonio and Pondes ably a month before the weather is exactly it late for the taxpayer to complain of the in- trifling. Most of the cargo will have to be landed until the train arrived. They were then per Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son have been Charmant will enable you to do it. Her for a journey of this description. The crossing crease of expenditure: when Parliament was in order to ascertain the full extent of the mitted to rash out to take their places, for, which appointed official agents for the play and will Specialities for the Skin are the study of a Lifetime, A. S. Wateon & Co. Ltd. Bols Agents, of the Channel is a very tricky business even preparing to vote laws which entailed new damage. The crew of the ship worked well and they sometimes had to join in a free fight. he pleased to give any further information on
the fire under control-Shanghai Mercury. ! [453
which Charles Dickens described as saying, Road. at the most favourable time, and caution is expenses on the State was the proper time. If deserve credit for the manner in which they got "Then the engine gave a prolonged whistle, application at their local office, 16 Des Voeur