SUPREME COURT.
Monday, 18th October.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, BEFORE HIS HONOUR ME. I. H.J. GOMPERTE
(ACTING CHIKY JUSTION).
ALLEGED MURDER
ROBBEBT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 1909.
Ip Sang, Li Yan and To Chan Man were indicted on a charge of robbery.
Defondanta pleaded guilty, but wasted that they did not take the goods forsibly.
The Attorney-General informed the Court that all three prisoners wore charged with robbery at Kowloontest on the 8th of the month, All three were coolles of the lowest class. On the night of the 8th, at 1150, the accused broke Li Ng was indicted on s charge of murder. into the house of a woman whose husband was Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the following away. The first prisoner sized her by jury was empanelled-Messrs. G. C. Engel the throat and told her to keep quiet, (foreman), J. O. Wenter, F. J. Hellion, G..and threatened her with death if she re- L. Hartig, W. J. Hill, P. D. Sutherland and sisted. Then her hands were tied, the house was ransacked, and the men were about to depart when a European constable entered, and caught them in the not. But for the exemplary conduct of this constable (P. C. Patterson) in going in as he did, single-handed, there men would probably have affected thoir escape.
In reply to his Lordship the prisoners edit tod tying the woman's hands.
J. Wilkie.
The Hon. Mr. W. Bee Davies, Attorney General, instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Jr., from the office of the Crown Solicitor, pro secuted, and Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. Hinds, from the office of Messrs. Bratton and Hett, appeared for accused.
The Attorney-General stated that the prisoner was charged with mardering a woman named Li Wing Ski at. Samchun in the New Territory on September 13th. Deconsed, the wife of a brother of the prisoner's, and another woman, who was
HAMBURG LETTER. [WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE "HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."
September 17th.
COUNT ZEPPELIN'S ACHIEVEMENTS,
willing to learn, and if during the maneuvresi they could not do what they had never been taught, they can hardly be blamed.
and seemed as much relieved when the last partridge had been fired in the men them
The best arm of the service is the engineers, selves, most of when discharged their rifles wildly and at random. One of the greatest failings, however, of both officers and man is who need fear zo comparison with their som their niter neglect of cover; signallers more rades of the regular army, they proved equally especially expose themselves in a way that would officient in field telegraphy and field fortifica. The excitement caused by the surprising lead to their speedy destruction in actual war. tions, boxides which having been taught to ride avistic achievements of Count Zeppelin and of Signalling with flags, the writer think, is they may be employed together with mounted the seronauts at Bheime has not entirely sub-parried to excess in the British army, owing troops. Only men connected with the engineer
nary, After more detailed criticism of the ranks or allowed to hold commissions.
In summing up bis impressions of the Ter sided, the subsequentasvesite of the airship being probably to its having been taken over from the ing and kindred trades are admitted to the fallowed with keen interest by the public, but, the sensation of the past fortnight has been various movements he goes on to say that it the discovery of the North Pole. I mentioned in world be wrong to condado from his obeer- ritoriala the German critic gives it as his opinion my inst despatch by way of postscript that a rations that he locks upon the territorial that the engineers are perfectly fit for activa telegram had been received by a circuitous route infantry as altogether inefficient, on the service whenever they may be required; that mondation; discipline "left nothing to be sequire the training necessary to enable them from Dr. Cook, an American Aretis explorer, contrary, he has seen much worthy of-com-infantry and cavalry are on the right road to stating that he had reached the Fole on April desired and the marching capacity of the to take the field together with regular troops, 21st, 1908, and was now on his way from Green land to Copenhagen, where he might be expected men, although not equal to what would be but that a radical change will have to be intro- in the beginning of the present month. The news expected of continental troops was marvellous duced in the organisation of the artillery to temperature and the shortness of their training ary authorities cannot but be aware of this it is at first met with a considerable amount of considering their youth, the unusually high render them a serviceable corps. As the milit greater efficiency. The postalate of auccess,
willing mind on the part of officers and men is not wanting.
Each man was sentenced to four years' scopticlam, chiefly perhaps because of the long whether they would be able to undergo the to be hoped that they will take steps to ensure
imprisonment with hard labour.
EVILS OF SCHOLARSHIPS.
delay in his return journey, after having accom plished the distance to the Pole according to his own account in a surprisingly short time. His
the wife of another broker, were alene at theIn his address to the British Association at reception in the Danish capital, however, was tion be paid to the shooting, will suffice to
Winnipeg. Sir J. J. Thomson nade some observations on specialisation which are of wide interest from an educational point of view. He said:
the United States, and have thus bod
the
most enthusiastic; the whole population turning out or his arrival, whilst the King and repre- sentatives of the municipality and the lexuod bodies of the town were present on the quay to bid him a hearty welcome. Honours of all kinds were bestowed upon him, amongst others the honorary degree of Ph. by the university of Copenhagen, when like a bolt from the blao stating that he had just returned from the North Pole, which he had reached on April 6th of
hardships of a long campaign le another ques tion, but it may be safely asserted that another six weske constant training, if particular atten, render the territorial infantry fit if well oficered to take the field together with regular regiments, but considerably more time will be required to enable them to act without such support,
RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. grECIAL INTERVIEW WITH MÉS, KAREIMAN.
A New York correspondent of a London paper last month cabled as follows:- When I saw Mrs. E. H. Harriman, the richest woman in the world, in her beautiful though yet conjectures as to her intentions regarding that unfinished residence in the Ramapoo Hills, my
"Railway King, and in her own words Harriman will finish the plans regarding it everything which he intended doing during his Botime will be carried ou as though he reve still with us,"
time of the murder. It seained that a fortnight previously the second woman had had a quarrel with the prisoner's wife about some fields. There
I have had the privilege of having as pupils was no evidence, however, to show that there- had been any quarrol between the deceased students from your Universities as well as woman and the prisoner, ar between the deceased from those of Now Zealand, Australia, and op woman and the prisoner's wife. The prisoner portunities of comparing the effect or was said to have entered the house occupied by best mou of the cineational system in fores the two women sboat eight o'clock; at night at your Universities with that which prevails telegram arrived from Commender Peary soldier, and considering the short period of their £1,000,000 mansion were set at rest. Mrs.
in the older English Universities. Well; as the result, I have come to the conclusion that Tonight I will attempt something against you." there is a good deal in the latter system which the present year, and that, not having met with well. The mounts were on the whole good, many which wors formulated by her late husband, the
you have been wise not to imitate. The ohief evil from which we at Cambridge suffer and any trace of Dr. Cook on file journey he declared which you have avoided is, I am convinced, the him to be an impostor, That he should feel excessive competition for scholarships which confronts our students almost at every stage of sadly disappointed at baing forestalled after so If I tell the Pole will to readily understood by everybody, their education. You may form some estimate many, hitherto fruitless, attempts to discover
of these scholarships of the prevalence you that the colloges in the University of but does it justify so grave an accusation as the Cambridge alone give more than £35,000 a year one he brings against his mors fortunate rival? the
case is much the same at Oxford.
The cavalry surpassed his expectations, although if the standard of regular troops be applied there was plenty of room for criticism, hut it takes a long time to make a good horse training they acquitted themselves remarkably of the men riding their own horses, so that and beast thoroughly understood each other this system, however, has a great disadvantage in the inequality of the animals. To a certain army, but shows Iteelt more with irregular extent this is unavoidable even in the regular troops, particularly when acting in large bodies. Part of the men were mounted on hired hores, and it appears that breeders make a regular trade of hiring out animals for mangenvres. There would be Hittle to object to in this if it were certain that at the time of mobilien possible that in that enes the same horm might he claimed by more than one trooper, and it therefore becomics imperative that the supply of horess should engage the serious attention of the military authorities, or they may find them selves in the painful predicament of having to take the fold with squadrons of which only half the men are mounted. The men themselves they ride woll and boldly, without the stiffness may be compared to the American rough riders; seen in regular cavalry, but this can hardly
in scholarships to under-graduates, and I suppose Will he be able to prove it? It is the word of The result of this is that preparation for one white man against that of another, for they these scholarships dominates the education of were both accompanied by Eskimos only at the the great majority of the oferece boys who latter part of their journey, whose evidence,
of her late husband would be. come to these Universities, and indeed in some
simple and unobtrusive, like everything eles Mr Harriman-is a dignified-looking womana, about her.. She wears no rings but her wedding some sixty years of age. Her mourning is very ring, and the only relief to her sombre garments She is very tired indeed, bat she is not too lay in muslin bands at the neck and wrists, tired to take a vivid personal interest in every- thing that appertains to her estate. She said it was dillonit to estimate how large the estate
said, "and I really do not know myself what NUT TOO MUCH." Ruotations in value to be accounted for," she
"It is not too much, however," she continued, the estate is really worth.
"to carry out the plane my husband made in his lifetime. His charities were large bat un ostentatious. Mine will be the same. My daughter Mary will be my right hand in s these matters.
There are
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AGONY OF ECZEMA BEYOND WORDS
Whole Body a Mass of Raw, Tor- turing Humor-Hair Ail Fall Out and Ears Seemed Ready to Drop Off-Clothing Would Stick to Bleeding Flesh-Hoped Death Would End "Fearful Suffering.
CASE SEEMED HOPELESS BUT CUTICURA CURED HER
"Words cannot describe the terrible actama I suffered with It broke out · on my head and kept spreading until ik covered my whole body. I was almost a solid pases of sores from head to foot. I looked more like a piece of raw beet than a human being. The pain and goay I endured peemed more than I Dould bear. Blood and pus oozed from the great sore on my scalp, from under my finger nails, and nearly all over my body, My ears were so crusted and swollen I was afraid they would break off. Every hair in my head fell out. I could not sit down, for my clothes would stick to the raw and bleeding flesh, making me cry out from the pain. My family doctor did all he could, but I got worse and worse. My condition was awful. I did not think I could live, and wanted death to come and end my trightful sufferinge.
In this condition my mother-in-law begged me to try the Cuticurn Bom miles. I said I would, but had no hope of recovery. But oh, what blessed to lief I experienced after applying. Cuti- cura Ointment. It cooled the bleeding. and Itching flesh and brought me the drst real sleep I had had in weeks. It Was as grateful as los to a burning tongue. I would bathe with warm water and Cuticura Song, then apply. the Ointment freely. I also took Cutl cura Résolvent for the blood. In a ahort time the sores stopped ranuing. the Beeh began to heal, and I know was to get wall again. Then the hair on my head began to grow, and in s short time I was completely cured. I cannot praise Cuticura enough. I wish I could tell everybody who hea
Mr. W eczema to uga Cuticura. Hunt, 135 Thomas St., Newark, N. J. V.S.A., Sept. 23, 1906,"
and to have said, "You are both here now. Ferthwith he stabbed the docuered woman in the right buttock from behind with a shoemaker's knife. He then stabbed the other woman, who ran to the house of another person, Subsegmently “she returned and found her brother-in-law and other people in the house attempting to stop the bleading from the wound of deceased. All attempts, on the part of the people present to stop the bleeding foiled, and at Samohua there was no European- doctor, At 9.30 pm. the prisoner returned to the house, and shouted out that if they could not stop the blooding he would do so. Whether that remark was made in aquarters it seems to be held that the chief duty being that of unediacated men, is more tion they would be available, but it is quite spirit of bravado or not the speaker did not of a schoolmaster, and the best test of this leas worthless. Dr. Cook has now sailed know, but at all events, the attenauts to stop the officiency, is to make his boys get scholarships. for America, in order to fetels the two bloeding were unsuccessful, and the woman died he preparation for the scholarship, too, often Eskimos that were with him. Whether the about midnight. Early on September 14th the amination the boy begins to specialize, and question can ever be satisfactorily settled matter was reported to the police at Saikang, from the age of 16 does little else than the would appear doubtful, unless the observations and the prisoner was arrested On the 16th subject, be it mathematics, chizsics, or natural taken by the two men, or rather the absence of the prisoner was charged by the polies in the ulence, for which he wishes to get a scholar auch on the part of Dr. Cook, throws light on ship then, on entering the University, he usual manner, and made a statement in which spends three or four years studying the the matter. In the meantime public opinion, he admitted stabbing both women, but alleged sage subject before he takes his degree, in the North at angrute, seems to favour Dr. that he had some grievance against his elder when his real life-werk ought to begin. How Cook, as several Arstic explorers of note anoh as hss this training fitted him for this work: brother's wife. The case was a simple one, and I will take the case in which the system Captain Snerdrup, Mr. Asmundsen and others
and temperament for the great task devolving that they cannot keep a secret.
ehow to it was for the jury to say whether a case of might perhaps be expected to mander with malice storethought had been greatest advantage, when his work is to bere full credence to his'account, and men wliebe called a fault, for it gave....thom more doncs, and held many serious conversations are in London, but they are to be found in most established. He would submit when the proper original research in the subject he has behave known him intimately pronounce him mobility in patroling and reconnoitring, when with him regarding the sxécution of his plans, large clogs, and they are ampleyad in the
means that about two years before the or
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upon her. She possessed her father's full con
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CAN WOMEN
LADY DUFF-GORDON DECLARES THAT THEY CAN.
___KEEP SECRETS!
At a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of the employment of women elerks on the ground England last month a shareholder objected to
No one knows how many women clarka there
GERMAN OPINION OF BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY. studying. He has certainly acquired a very incapable of fraud. time come that the fact of this dispute supplied minute acquaintance with his subject--indeed,
I may interest your renders to learn some kind of motiva, and the fact of the the knowledge possessed by some of the students prismer going to another house to get a knife-trained under this system is quite remarkable, what military men in this country think with which to inflict the stabs supplied all that much greater than that of any other students of the new territorial army in England. The playing the horses under cover so that in infontsteps of Mrs. Russell Saga Bhe replied, "Madame Luelle," of Hanover-square,
was necessary to prove malice aforethought.
After the evidenco for the Crown had closed, Mr, Alabaster said he did not intend to call evidence for the defence, and the prisoner, when
naked, said he had nothing to say,
I have ever met.
make the con
For this,
they made excellent use of the accidents of the ground. Diamonnting for fring they seemed to dislike se much as regulars do, and nobody appeared to remember the necessity of actual engagement they would probably have been shot in a very short time, leaving their riders to continue the fight on foot. however, the officers are chiefly to blame, who still in many respects lack a proper perception of what is necessary. The tactical movements in close order came fully up to what could be expected of non-regular horsemen and the charges were exsented with much spirit. When decision; in outflanking movements, for in- stance, they seemed very reluctant to go far away from the main body but this fault is one which time and experience will cure. The spirit of officers and men was excellent greatest exertions. It may be said of them, as of the infantry, that a good beginning has been
both social and philanthropio. She has devoted savings bank department of the Post Office us One of the most convincing answers to the great port of her time for many years to settlewell in other Government departments. I saked Mrs. Harriman if her husband's phil- objection is provided by the famous-dress-
I am a mother first, with four unmarried anthropic plans would cause her to walk in the making business of Lady Duff-Gordon, the children, whose welfare would give most women amongh to do without anything else.
I shall never forget that my children hare duty to the utmost of my ability with the rest
hands, first claim on me, I intend, however, to do my trust placed in my h
shall live here," she continued, and care for those who serve me. I have always admired of the great landowners take a personal interest the manner of life in England, where the wires
With the exception of the manager and one of Mme. Lucile is carried on by women and or two sassistants and a few cutters, the business girls. Lady Duff-Gordon writes as follow to the Daily Express
Bir should be very sorry to say that the i cannot keep a business secret. girls in my business-and there are 300 of them
I invent all my own fashions, and they are
the secret of the business for the, time; but in their employce and tenante. I mean to eat I do not imagine that any of my girls would
are chatterboxes and always have been.
Bat though he has acquired knowledge, correspondent of the Hamburger Nach has attended the recent the effect of studying one enhjeet, and one richten, who
maanvres on Salisbury Plain, expresses him. subject only, for so long a time is often to dolf his enthusiasm for it, and he beginself on the whole favourably. He begins by searah with mach of his early interest and keenness evaporated. Now there is hardly explaining that the Territorials are intended to Mr. Alabaster, in addressing the jury, said any quality more essential to success in react as a second line in place of the former volan that no motive had been proved. The place search than enthusiasm. Research is difficult, tees and yoomsary, who, for want of the where the blow was struck, the buttock, was not laborious, often disheartening. The carefully a place where a blow would be streak if the designed spparatus refuses to works, it develops necessary discipline, would have been of little defects which may take months of patient work use in actual warfare, and it is owing to the prisoner intended to commit a murderous to rectify, the results obtained may appear dread of stricter discipline, he thinks, that so left to themselves the officers showed want of the same sort of thing here, though it will take give them to another house, although we woINEN saesult. He was sufficiently weak-minded, how. inconsistent with each other and with every mexy of them have refused to be enrolled under the now regulations, and that of those that have laborious days may seem only to ever, to attempt an act of chastisement in a known law of Nature, sleepless nights and particularly foolish and silly way. It had not fusion more confounded, and there is nothing joined nearly a hundred thousand have engaged only been proved in evidence that the socused was for the student to do but to take for his motto for twelve months only. Including all re- an habituel drankard, but also that he had been "It's dogged as does it!" and plod on, som-raits enlisted since its for now numbers success does come the difficulties he has over drink, and that he had been drinking. The prosecution had to prove their charge up to the bilt, otherwise the jury world be entitled to bring in a charge of manslaughter.
The Attorney General said the jury would Imve to be satisfied that when the accused not respon stabbed the deceased he w sible for his acts, that he did not know what he tras doing, and
a long time to bring this place to the state of Mrs. Harriman was here called away, and I perfection which we hope it will reach. took my leave of her, being entertained for the reunainder of my visit by her daughter Carol who is as simple and unaffected as the daughter
sts banquet that night, that his breath emelt of forting himself with the assurance that when atout 261,000 rank and file and officers; and it throughout; they never gave in even under the of some plain country squire.
made.
Of the artillery he speaks far less favourably He understands that special attention has been paid to the training of that branch of the service but they have never been taught to ride or drive To begin with, the horses were unused to the
STATE LOTTERIES FOR CHINA.
I think girls are more apt to chatter about business at home than men are-and how can you prevent any girl from chattering about a new dress! But that is a different matter altogether from giving business secrets away. Daly's Theatre: they are a secret until to-morrow night. We have just completed the new dresses
aut
We have a number of girl clerks, as well the 300 other women and girls. As for giving them all up and having men instead-why, what a comical idea! We couldn't go on foza day.
I think women are what you make them, and especially what men make them.
If a man treats a woman a doll, she is opt
that he did not know he was committing experience of students of y considerable the manenvros, however, the youthfal ardeur work and too heavy; the harness had not been tickets at-381 sech will be jeaned. One million an intelligent, reliable person she develops better
wrongful act, before they could bring in verdict of manslaughter. They would also have to be satisfied that the prisoner was in such a state of intoxication that he was not responsible for his set. According to every principle of English law, drunkenness on the face of it was.
THE IMPORT TRADE OF SIBERIA.
dangerous weapon was used, drunkenness wasmachines are importeroles; of the latter There are good marksmen amongst them, who as the men they were sent to teach. The here to-day, at 8 a.m.
a
His Jrdship, in summing up, said it was
no
set up an exONED.
The LG.M. str. Iuction left Shanghai on the 16th instant, at 9 p.m., and may be expected The C.N. Co.'s str. Zinan- left Shanghai on the 17th inst., and is dus here on the 20th inst. The Apcar str. Arratoon Apear from Calcutta
Look at America! If you go through the Capitol at Washington you will see as many
Every millionaire has a woman secretary, who women se men taking part in the Government
There is certainly a difference in America, business. It is the same all over America
for there the consciousness of ser disappears, knows everything that is going on.
and women are treated on equal terms with
women, 18 a rule,
Althongh the sense of sex disappears in treated with greater courtesy and dignity. America there is no country where women is The result is seen in the independence of
I don't wish to say anything against English girls. They are certainly more adaptable and character and the self-reliance and dependability
readier to grasp an idea than most mon.
LUCY DUYI-GORDON. of the American women,
Hanover quaTE. RUSSIA'S UNSATISFACTORY POSI. TION IN THE FAR EAST. The situation of Russia in the Far East fills
come will increase the pleasure one of the appears to him doubtful whether the fall
With a view to raising funds for the develop most exquisite men can enjcy-of getting some strength of 31,367 will be reached for some conception which will make all that was tangled, time to come, even if the role as to age not
ment of agriculture, industries and commerce confused, and contradictory clear and consistent.balow seventeen be not strictly adhered to. Unter he has enthusiasm to carry him on when
merce has, with the approval of the Board of the prospect seoms almost hopeless and the That this has not been done so far must
the Board of Agriculture, Industry and Com- labour nad strain incessant, the student may patent to every observer, many of the infantry
Finance, petitioned-for-and-obtained Imperial, give up his task and take to easier though less battalions, particularly some of the London
sanction to run three State lotteries. The first important pursuits. I am convinced that no
dollars will be distributed in prises: first qualities. greater evil can be done to a young man than ones, looking almost like cadet corps. During
one will be the Industry Lottery. Ten million to regard herself as a doll. If he treats her as
furthermore to dull his enthusiasm. In a
physice beginning and unfalling willingness of the men made un properly fitted and the appointment of a saddler $100,000, 2nd, $50,000, and so on. Of the for tasir want of years, and the German critic to each battery had been omitted. The men neither remaining $9,000,000, 88,000,000 will be devoted research I have met with more-many mors failursa from lack of enthusiasm and determina-
the expenses and $200,000 given to the Govern cbtained by only a fortnight's training he tion than from any lack of knowledge or of what express his astonishment at the results understood anything about the horsing of to the establishment of a big industrial Company is netally known as eleverness,
evidently overlooks that a large proportion of the gang nor of driving them; where rough and $800,000 will be retained by the Board to meet the men ars old volunteers. The shooting ite broken ground had to be crossed frequent ment. Non-winning tickets will be considered The imports into Siberis chiefly consist of declares to be extremely poor owing to the accidente socarred, and where such were avoided na skare certificates of the Company at 80 por
useless. The reason alleged for this is that! a man has but to are twenty-three rounds the instructors appointed had been taken from LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS men. They are better educated than English no excuse for crime. Counsel for the defence said harvesting and other agricultural machine y, fact that, according to present regulations the movements were so slow as to become almost ! cent. of their face value. there was no motive, but there was, because there Portable engines with threshing machines are
row beforehand, chiefly British and German, but business in of hall. cartridge in the first year in the garrison artillery, who naturally were as had been a chapite and a
es an effective, although, in its infaney. Ploughs order to rank
ignorant of the requirements of field artillery the target once Society would never be safe if every time these machines is as yet
are principally manufactured in Russia. Sowing
in large quantities from he may not have hit Germany, as also Bro there are also nome British and Russian in the have carried off prizes at rifle meetings, but they handling of the gure by the men was, on the
wall worked by défonce to say that had a doctor heen there the market Cream separators are mostly Swedish do not make up for the others, and infantry whole satisfactory. The officers, he thinks, have
German commercial committed such an sot, and suck consequences tives of British firms are seldom seen, and then for attack or defence; as nothing demoralizeIt is true that they showed littlo independent expected here on or shout the 22nd inst. woman might have been saved. If the prisoner and Danish. The cofers, while representa. that can not shoot straight is of no use either been too severely dealt with by military critics. left Bingapore on the 10th inst, and may be
no effect on the enemy. As to the officers of the batteries, and seemed to have no ides of were remarkably only for firms having a branch house in European troops more than finding that their firing takes judginent, particularly the commandere of Russis. This is all the more extraordinary, as the British Vis-Consul of Omsk oboerves, when it is taken into consideration that the territorial infantry, he is of opinion that most reconnoitzing, still they demand for British-made articles is large, and, of the older ones, many of whom were taken happy in the choice of positions and apparently if the territory were properly worked, would over in the hope that through their influence unwilling to retire or advance after having once. the provocation must be very serious and increase enormously.
For outlery and edged tools of foreign manu- the men, too, might be induced to join, will have occupied them; this may be accounted for by the for this port on the 16th instant, pm, and may the Bourse Gazetta (St. Petersburg) with grust The NY.K. str. Hakata Maru (European takes, as a rale, a sane view in important const region in the Far East belongs to as only Vary sudden. With regard to the question factare there is a gooi demand, as they are to be replaced by officers of the line, sa they do diffonlty they experienced in moving their men be expected here on or about the 24th inst. p.m.unesalmoss for the future; the organ referred to of drunkenness a man might, by continued of better quality than the Russian; those on not seem to realize that they have no longer to about There can be no doubt, however, that
The N.Y.K. str. Kaga Maru (American Line so far so the Japanese are not quite ready to inebriety, drink himself into s state of the market are chiefly German and American, deal with volunteers little amenable to discipline, the six days to which the training of commands, Line) left Moji on the 18th instant, ad is questions; it now confesses that the whole semi-madness and in spite of the fact that be with a small percentage of British.
general view of British firms is that to do but with soldiers; they lack firmness and decision, as of batteries in regular artillery is limited is expected here on the 25th inst.
war against Japan and therefor Ramis's sim produced that madness by his own act, it would business with Biberia otherwise than on & each and at their age are not likely to improve in perfectly inadequate. The firing practice left Tokohows for this port via Kobe, Mojt and take it from us, and it remarks, that without a The Bank Line str. Suveric left Kobe on must be that of making itself sufficiently strong be a suficient defence. His Lordship said he basis is very risky. Such is far from being the that respect. The younger ones babated very when stationary, is said to have been good and Shanghai on the 18th instant, and is expected Navy Russis certainly cannot wage an offensive has been said of the commanders of batteries the 17th instant, for Vancouver and Trooms to meet Japan when the latter hai ompleted its present the for making, an advance would leave to the jury the state of the mind of case, however, though few Siberian traders can much like subalterns in continental armies are an improvement on last year's shooting. What here on the 31st inst
still greater measure to vis Yokohama. M
territory which lies eastwarda the prisoner, and he asked them to consider their afford to pay onah and then wait months for
goods, and after receipt sell on credit, and apt to when called upon for the first time
The CPR str. Empress of India arrived upon the
of Lake Baikal and the Pacife. Russia le verdict.
wait again probably the best part of a year for manovrs, to use their own-judgment, thay applies in
warned at the same time not to put the least amount Vancouver on the 17th instant, at 8.30am. seemed diffident and afraid of the responsibility the higher officers, who, although they
certain B
trust in China's ability to withstand any their money.
Another thing which the Consul thinks it but andar proper instruction and with more appear
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com advance thas made by the Japanese on the plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crême Charmante, Lalt necessary to bring before the British manu experience they will soon gain self-reliance, of theoretical knowledge, show little skill factarer is the matter of catalogues, which, in their eagerness to learn and a certain soldierly in the handling of troops. comparison with those of Germae, firms, fall
in its comment The Japanese have their lamentably. It is absolutely necessary, he bearing proving that they are of the right the artillery, too, may become officient in time if Chant and Special Skin Tonie and Poudre mainland of Asia. How well the Bourer Gazette states, to give gross and net weights in plain material. Their nervousness was particularly the authorities will only appoint proper instituc Charmant will enable you to do it. Her grasps the full meaning of the situation is seen
(453- foreign politics complications." figures for calculation, and, if it is a dificult noticeable during ball practice in the field; they tors in the shape of officers and sergeants from Specialities for the Skin are the study of a fost free, while Russia's feet are in a sack, matter to have them printed in Russian, then appeared to lose all control over the firing the field artillery, for the men are eager and ifetime. A. 8. Watson & Co. Ltd. Sole Agents which is the result of series of home and they should be in the German language,
ensued, they all flowed from his own doing. There were circumstances of gross and endden provocation which took away the presumption
of malice, and if proved, reduced the offence to the mince one of manslaughter.
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The panel retired, and after an absence of few minutes returned into Conr.
In reply to the Deputy Registrar the foreman of the jury announced that the jarens were ananimons in finding the prisoner guilty of manslanghter.
His Lordship passed sentence of seven years! imprisonment.
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