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RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
This is August Bank Holiday, and though Hongkong has few opportunities for its citizens going far from home for the week-end, it is surprising the number who manage to leave the Caleny. Tachtsmen are not slow as a rule to make the most of such a spell from Business other sportsman think of turtles and get bitten by mosquitoes, and a big contingent finds its way
ETHICS OF JAPANESE JOURNALISM,
EXPOSURE BY A FOREIGN RESIDENT.
Chronicle:-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1910.
PANAMA CANAL.
OFFICIAL DATE OF OPENING
fort; with churches and schools, medical attend- ance of the best kind free, and good living and good wages. Many admit that they were never so well off in their lives, and look forward with regret to the time when the work shall be finished, and they are forced to seek new homice, new occupations, and, perchance, less kindly climates,
The following letter appears in the Japan After an absence of thirty-four years, I have just terminated a very picasant visit to the Bir,In an article in your issue of the 10th athmans of Params: What change one finds instant I am mentioned as having contributed in such a period of absence from any spot! But to the Toye Jiron an article headed Social the changes in this interesting place are beyond The administration buildings and main offices. and the residences of the engineers and staff are Merals and Rising Generation," in the course expression.
Landing at Colon, instead of the small strip situated at Culebra, soms twelve mile from of which reference is made to Baron Goto and the carriage incidant
of railway, which formerly was screely more Fanoms, on the The article referred to was indeed published than two streaks of rust runcing out
"Culebra Cut," zins miles in and noisy length, I being made through Gold Hill. It is
CANAL STATISTICS,
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to
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the titles to an enormous acreage of timber, Length from deep water to deep water 504 miles, format, and rubber, and a company has been Length on land...
40 miles. formed in London to exploit and work the same, Bottom width of channel maximum
be made in the gold mines with ... 1,000ft. Fortunes are
which the mountains and rivers are filled, and Bottom width of channel (maximum
300ft. within the next docado we shall witness further miles, Calibra out.. Locks in pairs
12ft changes in the career and history of this Looks ussble length
1,000ft. wonderful strip of land so soon to be out through, Looks, usable width...
110ft and thus unite the waters of the two greatest Gatun Lake, are...
ans of the world. 164sq. miles, oceans ...85ft to 45ft. Gatun Lake, chaunel depth
I am hudebted to Arohdeacon Bryan and to
Excavating, amount accom
to Macao, whore it enjoys the bracing breezes or in the Toyo Jiron sud my name was tasked to the swamp, I now found the hasthrough where the groighest point of the isthmus, Excavating, estimated total 174,666,594 e, yards, varlons contlemon at Culebra for their cour-
confines itself to the sensations of fantan.
When the railway opens now holiday of periences will be suggested to most people, and if adequate facilities are provided at Blatin and Taipo, not to speak of the Chinese city of Samchun, there is no reason why there should not be a considerable trafic provided by pleasure parties.
it. Allow me to state that I did not write or activity, houses, ropair shops, spacious offices, cubic yards of rook and earth must be carved Excavating, dono by French
"In a recent issue we referred to an article in the Toyo Jiran, to which the name of Mr. II. L. Fardel was attached, in which Baron Goto was severaly criticised in connection with the wol-known carriage inoident, and to a len thy reply made by
Haron Gole. We
now inserta letter in another column from Mr. Fardel, stat-
out of this mountain to complete this cat. Over thirty-five million cubic yards have already been carried away, and faith and labour are fast moving the rest of this obstructing mountain.
GIGANTIC DAMS,
Commize dual pay-roll of the Dam and spillway, and the isoke on the Atlantic Cost of ditto
teous information, and the data
of
companion in his arduous duties, who anter tained mo at their oharming home; and I look- forward to returning some day and revisiting Calabra, and renewing many friendships that date from former times.
We have had a pleasant, smooth across
trip the Carribean Sea, and as I am Beishin this lotior wo are entering the jetties which form the mouth of the great 31ississippi. At day- Light weshall reach the wharf at New Orleans, masking the voyage from Colon. 1,340 miles, in ander four and one-half days, some twelve to thirteen knots per hour.
plished to April 1, 1910 103,205,656 o, yards, especially to a dear friend, the acquired, and doctor in chargo the hospital at that 74,146,9600. yards. assisted me with introductions whereby I could placo, who so kindly contribute it, that I am ignorant of its contents by beyond what has appeared in your columne, and where the merry tick of the typewriter was only
useful to present canal 29,908,000 n. yards. Faldon to Mrs. Kefauvor, his noble wife and
reliable information. Nor am I lexs that I disclaims all responsibility for it-Yours interrupted by the sissing of the wireless
Concrete, total estimate for faithfully,
machines quartoranater's offlees and ware
CABRI
5,000,000 o. yards II. L FARDEL, honare, Aled with all kinds of materials, raing
Time
of transit through complated Takyo, July 14th. 1910.
ing
Erons &
needle to a five-ton anchor. Also
10h to 10h. caral Commenting-on-thin, the Chronicle says commissary departments, with every-provision
Time of passage through locks
3 to food the vast army of some 39,000. The principal points of interest are the featum Relocation of Panama R.R. longth 462 miles, soais, who constitute tho
$7,225,1.00. Isthmus Canal
side, which will form the Gatun Lakn by in Canal zone area owned by United Like ants, they are
ging and deiving at pounding the waters of the Chagres River, It,
States, about 322 sq. miles. mountain and ditch, and by their aggregate will be approximately one and a half miles foug. French buildings, number acquired offerte conquering this semingly impossible by bal mile wide, with an elevation of 115ft French buildings, number used
1,537 task. In the same sense,
in place of the maintained at the south end by an earth das Value of utilised French equipment
Lake ortends through Calebra Cat, and will be acquired
... he is not responsible for it in any way. This former dilapidated shacks, overgrown and sur main
I now found connecting the looks at Pedro Miguel with the Caual force actually now at work about of the Prose in this
Jironm Toyo This country.
commodious stations, with is a magasine of comparatively high standing, the latest papers and magazines, and all the about 1,7004t long, with its crest at an elevation Cost of canal, estimated ... ...2375,000,000 yet its Editor does not hesitate to insert an
an accommodations one is accustomed to find in 166ft above mean tide. A sunil lake between Work began by Americans ... May 4, 1904
modern cities. Many of t these settlements
the looks at Pedro
Jan. 1,1915 aro to be of the most approved stylo, with article ca a contribution from a well-known large the population of towns, ranging from formed by damiguel and Miraflores will be Date of completion... olectric light and conveniences, have not arrived, foraigner, anything to do with its compori- 3.000 la 12,500 inhabitants, as is the number at dan to the westward will be of earth, about | time is questioned by many, principally by the Telegrapa
though he knows the latter did not
connecting the walls of Mira at flores locks with high ground on other side. Gatuar where the
Whether the great task will be completed in It more extraordinary is that
The being con- 14 They would have given the opening a better tono tioàn. What maken with the object stated to control the Atlantic division the water in Miraflores Lake. Tho esat dan transcontinental railroad interests, who would
control the waters of the Chagres 2.700ft long, having its orost about 15ft above this article was avowedly written with the obi
River and the locks of
the ferry wharf, and with to powerful locomo-ing that he did not write the dielo and that across the Isthmus to Panama my trin above main sea level. The water level of Gatap French mildings, not value when
Already the railway looks like business. The temporary carriages are seen on the metals near
tive in front, most people have little-doubt that
Border very comfortably and in good time. It
they will be able to make the journey to the can affords an excellent examplant tothods rounded with tropical stands baring high ground to the westward. This dam will be Canal fores (Americans), about...
is a pity,hough, that the pukka sarriagos, which
than it la likely to hara in the circumstances.
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write it or
The
name it bears.
We
contain
dam
There will be twelve locks in the canal, ail
FIVE YEARS HENOR,
A
2,160
1,959,203 1,000,000
39,000 I have enjoyed every minute of my visit, and I wish that others could avail themselves of this 5,500
pleasure trip, especially in the winter. Souro days now Monte Carlo will be established on. one of the islands adjacent to Paname, and people will flock thither in crowds and fashion. abis plumage gay enough to make the humming birds jealonsW. H. Magee in the Daily
casual
£10,000 FOR A CUP.
REMARKABLE BALE OF BORCELAIN.
of showing the low state of the morals of
morals of the ris I see it is reported that it is now definitely ing generation. Apparently the Editor saw noth are being built Ample provision has been made will be of concrete, about 500ft long, and will decided to have the terminus of the railway ating wrong or immoral in printing auarticle which for the care and accommodation of the formid form a spillway for Miraflores Lake, with crest In a sense could be described as the contribution able army of workers, whose occupations cover at similar to these at the spillway of Gatan Hunghotu instead of at Kowloon Point as of the and that the origin of the article was on kinds, doctors, nurses, clerical forces, step-
of all Dum. noarly the gamut of life, from engineers of originally the change, though I should have interview of a few minutes which the Editor of shovel setists (as they are fuestiously called); in duplicate; three pairs in fights at Gatun,
contemplated. There must be good understand that the thought that, other things being equal, the the journal had with Mr. Fardel one evening, down to the labourers, who are principally | Atlantis division, with a combined lift of 85ft; January, 1935.
as the latter was leaving house, on the subject Jamaican negroes, with an intermingling of Bhortness of the distance between Victoria and of the morality of the rising generation the latter, like the Chinese, being occupied only Pacific division, with a combined lift of 54 2-3fi | estimated time, and these happy conditions are among many the mainland would have been a desideratam. brief was the interview that if took place in Italians, Spanish, and a few East laurent wear at Pedro Miguel, Pacifio division, with informed by those well posted in the true facts has come under the hammer for the last twenty- Speculators in land will not appreciate the garden in the open air, and as it all screened in, good sowcrags, onde,, The dimensions of sil are the repented at other points. Certain it is that Alfred de Rothschild. Almost all the biddin
their losses.
change. Some of them will now begin to count
Speaking of the railway and its possibilities in the peninsula, reminds me that it has been ang gested that in view of the great development which future years is expected to witness it would not be amiss for the Government to con
Bo
was dusk It | tradin
to take dore,
in
one
Mr.
give a great deal to provost or delay the under- taking. And while it would appear to a yot Tam assured that there is not a doubt in the observer that the work has barely commenced,
minds of the engineers that, barring accidenta Nearly £70,000 was realised in a little lega Einished at the date set for its opening, other day for fifty-savon lots from the collection or one great calamity, the work will be than two hours at Messrs. Christie's rooms the At the Gotna Dar. I am of the Inte Baron Schroeder. No such collection Jift of 30 1.3ft; and two pairs at Mirafiores, that the work is six months ahead of the five years. The sale-room was crowded, and
well-known Well-built houses, with ample corriat, mais
collectors was was impossible for Mr. Fardel's visitor to take any notes. Yet on the insis of a few remarks water supply are to be found at every point, as width of 110ft. Each look will be a chamber Colonel Gorthals, United States Engineering £1,000 as nonchalantly as if it was pence instand-
nable length of 1,000ft, and a usable under the able management and direction of however, was by leading art dectors, who offered made by Mr. Fardel that what was needed was well as churches, Roman Catholic and Eple with walls and floor of copiereto, and water-tight Corps, who has been in full charge since the of pounds, not so much the teaching of morality: as its
one reaches where
As an instance of profitable art collecting, preotice by persons holding authority, and a the principal hospital systems in maintained, gatos. The side walls will be 45ft to 50ft wide work passed from the sivil administration to reference to
to various matters of public comment Fine residences are built in beautifully laid out disaurace of the floor. They will be per- that of the war department, and provided that this sals stands almost unrivalled. Nine lots in the newspapers, the article is composed by grounds, good roads radiato in every direction, pendir on the face, and will narrow from a the sppropriations are continued by Congress, showed a profit of nearly £21,000. But the the interviewer and Mr. Fardel's name attached and an hotel has been constructed with some Point 24 1-3ft above the floor until they are 8ft the work will be ready at the date sat by him. famous Gabittas biberon, which sold at Christie's to it, he being represented as making a severe 500 rooms, where one can close one's eyes and wide at the top.
Too much credit cannot be given to this five years ago for £16,275, realsext caly criticism, of a well-known Minister. To
oneself at the Hotel del Monte, at The middle wall will be 50ft wide, approxi. that he has drawn around bin, for the gigantio in the shape of the bowl, a
indomitable
g cap resembling, sider the advisability of creating a European gore such conduct on the part of a The-service-is excellent-and-well At.a.point 42 1-3ft above-the-top-of the-mixdistant so well nocomplished to onle, if allowed 1
or any first-clas modern mately Bift high, and each face will be vertical, that journalist seems.. fa-be not vary scrupulous, it wo
4-export campio of Uerman-sixteenth-century may use this phrase without being heled before kept up, and le maintained by the Snb
Subsistence adopted in the Colony, and its extension to the Courts. We do not know if the Editor of Department of the Canal Commission, Tert, this wall will divide into two parts by fate, which in this case may be taken as art work, carved of rock crystal and mounted The leaving a space down the centre much like the synonymous with the appropriation commitbe with gold. But it was only after considerable
letter U, which will be 19ft wide at the
of Congress, be
he will
will undoubtedly bottom.
coaxing that the auctioneer could induce carry the Kowloon or further afield should not be boyond the Toyn Jiron is a member of the International press are reasonable, ranging from $5 per In this contre space,
Mr. task to a successful consommation. Association, but we would suggest to that which includes ample service, bathing, &o, and Press
which
to raise his bid to £10,000. will
Charles Wertheimer to be 44Et wide the powers of the Government. If action is to body that if it really desires to do something to excellent table, and I can cheerfully recommend at the top, will be r tunnel divided into thre
The government of the Zone is by judges thengh he was prepared to giro £16,000 in 1935. be taken in this direction it should not be du raise the standing of journalism in this country, to any traveller this beautiful spot. Situated storeys, or galleries. The lowest gallery will appointed by the United States, and the code of Then its history was unknown, but recently the layed, as it is not at all unlikely that Hunghom it should take up and investigate such cases os as it is on Ancor Hill, it has a superb view of be for drainage, the middle for the wires that the United States is followed, except in cases maker and the whole pedigree of the cup have and Youmati will meet and make the building this. At any rate foroigners in general would Pannua Bay, which, on moonlights, is na will carry the electric current to operate the where the situation requires special rulings. been discovered.
wido barth to the Japanese surpassed. As a tropical institution, I can only gate and valve machinory, which will be in principally selected from the United States 9,000gs, very much in excess of the sum paid The Isthmus is policed by mounted men Two sets of three Sèvres vases each made of European houses in the present residential interviewer, for this case does not by any means compare it to what one finds at the hotels of stalled in the centre wall; and the upper will Cavalry, and they are a Bne-looking body. A for them. The fires ast, seld at Lord Dudley's locality an impossibility.
be a passage-way for
operators. The look chambers will be filled and emptied through certain number of coloured polion assistas sale in 1896 for 2,650gs, yesterday aroused as Interal culverts in the doors, connecting with patrol ment.
opening bid of 5,00028., and only after a very main culverts, 18ft in diameter, in the walls,
The many afables and dairies established spirited contest with several of the leading the water flowing in and out by gravity.
dealers were Messrs. Dureen able to secure it, and the arses I have seen ridden by the The other set, sold at the Lyne Stephens sle are as those used by the trafic squad of in 1895 for 5,000gs, caused more lengthy by 100 gainen bida
reservation, The principle has already bees
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well to rire do
stand alone,
ELECTRIC TRACTION COMPANY OF HONGKONG,
Colombo..
ENGINEERING TEIUMPH.
As an engineering feat, the Panama Canal must and will stand first in the orld's history, I have seen the Great Feansylvania and New
the
The look gates will be stout structures 7ft
Ninety-two leaves will be cognired for the
able master-mind, nor to the able staff | £10,000. A biberon is a drinag-bottle. It i
out
the Isthrang are kept scrupulously
to the
The local newspaper which had it on excellent authority that Commodore Wu refused to be interviewed while in Hongkong must have foll
A meeting of debenture-hollers was held on
York tunnels which cross the Hudson and East thick, 65ft long, and from 47ft to 82ft high, New York City, but of a sturdier type, suitable contest. The price rosenheimer compot. sorry for itself when that personage wrote to the July 6th at the oflew, St. Swithin's-lane, to consider extraordinary resolutions_apposing
rivers of New York, and watched the harn They will weigh from 300 to 600 tons each. Daily Press explaining what he did say to the the proposed appointment incorporated in of the Sault Soo and Wellard looks; I have antire canal, the tote! weighing 57,000 tone. 814.000.000 has recently been appropriated by Barly in the sale a pair of Kien-Luvg
by the United Ex of the waters of Niagara Falls, and the
from 7,000gs., Mr. Charles representative of that journal. It may be, of ploration Company (Li
In the above statistics some ing with a private buyer. course, that the Commodore did not realise that 1895) of the United Exploration Company passed through the Impressive monotony of the Intermediato gales will be used in the locks, in Congress for fortifications, principally on the vases, Hold at Lord Revelstoke's rale in 1895. ho was being interviewed when being plied with (Limited) (incorporated in 1909) as trustees, Suez Canal, and inepested the grast works of order to save water sud time, if desired, in islands of Taboga, Flamingo, and Naos, lying for 1,000gs, realised 2.400gs. A small Serres.
London firm, ន. Pearson & Sons (of questions by the pressman.
and sanctioning certain modifications of the your previsions of the trust deed. Mr. Edmund which Sir Westmon Pearson, just raised to the passing small vessels through, the gates being at this catmace of the Bay of Panama, which tes service of nine pisces renlieed £3,000, a as to divide the leeks into chambers will provent any hostile fleet from reaching the three times the price paid at the Dudley sale in Davis, who presided, moved the respintions, and Snake stories are common enough in. Ilong explained that the directors' original proposals Dover the head), viz, tho Tort works at
Colombo, Vers kong teetotal and otherwise --but the latest had been difed. Several debontara-holders Salina Ürnz, and the fast/zacoalcos, and 690ft and 400ft long respectively, Nicely, Arnlocks and dams at Mirafioree.. A like.provision 1886. A pair of Bavres orange tube, though
Craz,
works of per cent, of the vessels navigating the high will also be made on the Atlantie er Colon side present intimated that their objections had been Mexico. All these triumphs of engineering seas are less than 600ft lung. In the construe to protect the Gatun Dam and locks.
tion of the locks, it is estimated that there will fool rather nervous. A Inly on the Peak was party met, and it wasnally decided that the were colossal tasks, but in zone of those be used approximately 4,500,000 cubic yards
instances the mind BG impressed, as it i meting should be adjourned until 12.15
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is likely to make some of our good people
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ENGLAND AND THE NEW AGREEMENT.
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ELECTRICAL TOWING,
NOBLE DOCTORS AND NURSES.
LORD CREWE ON THE CROWN
COLONIES.
A dinner of the Corona Club, membership of which is restricted to officials of the Colonia! Office and of the Crown, was held on July 7th
Only 6 inches high and luches square, mude 5,100g and a pair of Sèvres jardinières, 5 inches high and 94 inches wide, 2,000gs. Two other Sövres jardinières, sold the Dudley sale I cannot close this article without paying for £1,360, mede 4. 200gs.; a pair of tulip-shaped of concrete, requiring about. the same number awakened the other night by hearing a certain on Friday to give an opportunity to the deban the case of the Panama Canal, with the "im
tribute to the many young doctors and nurses
Lord Chenhom's collection in who so nobly risked their lives to come here in
Vases, sold with rustling noise. She did not roses her husband, ture holders to consider the proposals. Sabse-monsity of the undertaking," and thoroughness of barrels of cement. bat got up herself to ascertain the cause. She antly the ordinary general masted. A resolus in its consummation from the smallest detail to and completeness of the organisation necessitated
the first taking hold by the Americans. Tu face the same year for £920, made 3.400gs, and a and the report was formally be firestors powers the largest. The commissary depila requisite through the locks ander its own power. Elee-swept off by smallpox, Chegree fever
of the enormous death rate in the French camps, small Sevres ton sorvice, sold in 1906 for 6208, saw nothing and returned to bed. Next morn
tion was passed extending the
Na vessel will be permitted to cater or pass where hundreds, and even thousands, were yesterday rumbei 1,000gx. ing, after her husband hat loft, she was of borrowing to the
Bum of £10.000195.000 at a cost to employes far less than would be paid | tricity will be used to tow all vessels into and fever, and pernicious anaemia. they came,
theplies every item of food and heaseho
Follow surprised to notion a snake coiled round the amount of the outstanding issue of
debentures scared by the trust deed dated July in New York or Chicago, tations of the canal I valves, power being, generated by water tur-Those who have taken vacations to northern of through the looks, and to operate all gates and and the few devoted survivors are here still. soiled linen basket. Needless to say, its life
1. 193. An extraordinary general meeting the best. At the various stations. was not a long one.
was afterwards beld, at which it was resolved to have eaton chicken and porter-house steak farbines from the head created by Gatun Lake, lands come back looking well, but those change the name of the company to the "Houg better than I could procure
elabor hotel in The time required to pass a vexsol through all) who bave remained constant show the It is plossing to observe that it was not apathy kong Tramway Company Limited)," and to either of the aforementioned cities, and at the locks is estimated at three hours, one hour pallor and wasting away, due to a system which affected members of the local Philharmonic
reduce the capital to £81,250.
ridiculously small market priens. In this con- and a half in the three locks at Gatan, and about charged with malaria. Such stories they tall at the Hotel Cecil. Led Crowe, the Colenial nortion the following quotations from the the same time in the three looks on the Phoife of the early days before asaitary precautious Bedrotary, presisted, and among thero present Bocisty, and caused the animal meeting which
were Colonal Seely, M.P., Sir F. D. Ingard, Cazul Record," the offcial gazette, may not be the tire time of pesenge of a vessel through and its when I conversed loft Brooklyn, hav. Bir W. Egerton, Bir Cecil Clemonti Smith, Sir was summoned the week before last to lapse for
without interest: Chickens, large roasting, the entire canal is estimated as rane ing from lady with whom Ι
equals
94d por 1b: ten to twelve hours, according to the size of the inger frat work placed her in charge of n 6s; matton, 19e equals
just graduated as a nurse a protty, refined General Sir R. Biddulph, Sir M. F. Ommaunes, Hopwood, Sir M. Nathan, Sir J. W. Bonser, want of a quorum. This fact is borne out by the large attendance of members ho nasembled last
porter-house steaks, 2 e equals 101 per lb. All
travel. The total east of the canal
Ray, Bir ng, Mr.
Six sleep in. Many Bimi- committeo, who are empowered to zeloot a piece tug by Conat Reventlow, the well-known writer best qualitios are brought, but in such immense nearly £7,000,000) will be about 427
Sir A. Sharpe, Sir E. M. Merewether, lar instances could be repeated, and it is only Sir W. Wallace, Sir D. Morris, Sir H. F. for the forthcoming concert. The "forthcoming on naval matters.
quantities that they can be sold under wholesale pounds sterling. The subsistence department, to the untiring constancy of these ministering concert" sounds like business, and is proof that This Agreement, says Count Reventlow, prices,
and hotet, does a business of angels that numberless poor fellows have lived Wilson, Sir W. A. Boil e-Hamilion, Sir C. P Sir R. B. Llewelyn, Mr. G V. Fiddes, the soul of music is not yet dead in Hongkong, comos neither unexpectedly nor as a surprise..
and
Mr. with necessities, approximately shown for the whole medical forces, doctors, Wilkinson, and Mr. F. G. A. Butler, After the War Suocess to the Philharmonic Society.
The system that is in fores for the employés,500
It runs nurses, an Austrian statesman that the relations of Prussia who alone have the use of the commissary, i0,000 people, and is self-sustainin
are witnesses of the good orderlies, hotels eighteen
The Chairman, in proposing Prosperity to with Austria must become much better or much the coupon plan, and it is impossible to otisin
for white hteen
done " employes, work
are doing. where meals are served at 30e;
they are messes Arriving in Panama, one finds oneself turned the Corens Club," said that the pact your in The sensation of the week has been the esp-worse, and, according to Count Reventlow, Japan anything for cash. Occupants of houses are for
sud Russia were In a similar position after their
European laboureza who pay рас ration completely around, and, apparently, the sun rises the Crown Colonies side of the Colonial Office ture of a number of alleged Colowan pirates in war. Tapan must either have fought a second given their house, furniture, chiun, in fact of three meals; and sorentoen kitchess for West in what should be the west and sets in what had beed Hongkong. Since the nows of escapos from war with Russia in order to ensure the quieting but plate and linen. Electric light | Indi-n tabourers, who ars charged 400 per rs- should be the east. This is explained by the things a period of inquiry into all maurer of is everywhere, and fuel applied for cooking,tion of three meals. The department operates fant that Parisma faces south and east, and that trade relations are still inquiring into the romarkably active, and although they have been free hand in the East, or there must have been delivered free. Ice, a serious and essential plant, bakery, coffee roaster, ice-cream factory, the Atlantio side, thus produci Pacific Commission of the kind-which was in itself reticent in imparting information, they have That the latter alternative was preferable was, ned at this figure 13 cheaper than in New and similar plants at Cristobel. Ezery morning illusion, as one supposes
The significance of the Russo-Japazcae
81.50
Friday and passed a vote of confidence in thoir Agreement is discussed in a three-column lead. these provisions are brought dowa from the and the rate of speed at which it can of forty negro email-pox patients, with Sir Frank Swattenham, Bir nel
ing articla in the Agrarinn Deutsche Tagenci North, and kept in ceal storage, and only the BPpropriation of 1910, viz, an adjoining tent 10
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event of the
of 1866 Bismarck remarked to an
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COUTONS-NUT CASH,
delivered at 40e
100lb., per
the
about
pera annam. It feeds, clothes, to tell the tale. The respect and love that is a Portram Fox. Brigadier General F. 3.
them from Pannine or Colos.
SOCIAL LIFE,
The spiritual welfare of the Protestant bat-
and
Berow
rad
Lis
Sir
Then there was
.ane.
between Caunda and the West Indies under the chairmanship of Lord Balfour, who was assisted for the first time in a Royal a rapprochement between the two countries. item in the tropics, is deli
the peculiar shown that few pirates may expect to remain in Count Reventlow continues, evident, sepacially Incinerating plante exist in all the towns, and to the various towas along the line, the perish. will show the situation as it is, and that the of these
Cork supply train distributes ice and foodstuffs coast looks dus west. A careful study of a chart remarkable fact-- by two
tanadian Government Buished members here. Armed detectives have been se after the Peace of Portsmouth Japas came
conducted ably garbage is collected and burned daily. malang, byturions joumaja irto outla beli pegard the United Statoe en het opossar of the fo the win cholder that begant dis conway is able gode being conveyed in refrigerated cars canal roes almost north sud south. Communi- the tastaz into the affaires of Mauritias, and by Sir Frank
future.
presided over by Lord Sanderson, parts of the New Territory, and although Press Count Reventlow is convinced that the con
untidy. A weekly
department to see what repairs .representatives have been aware of the fact, olasion of friendship between Japan and Rassia quartermastor's inspection is made by the person or family needing them can procure the Hamburg-American Packet Company the inquiry, pres
steamers (Atas service), the Panama R. R. into the conditions of Indian immigration into and replenishments xaxy to required and no they have been unable to gain much informs means the loosening of the bonds at present nepiest
Company's service, and the United Fruit Com- the Crown Colonies. They had with them that as to the upkeep of property.
two distinguished Governors home of evening t uniting England and Japan. It is clear enough. Indeed, tha repair shops and round houses have
pany's steamers, tion concerning these trips.
he contends, that both Japan and Russia are at
The last named company, which bas apont leave Sir Frederick Lugard and Sir Walter. baay time in these respects, and also with the
Frederick Lugard since banana one in their desire to counteract or oembat. enormous amount of work entailed by the tations of this great army of workers is attend millions in the industry, and has acquir. Egerton. (Cheers.)
whim Waa able to congratulate him A supposed chief of this band of ontlaws is American influeno! and also that the Anglo. mending of dredges and steam shovels, and the ed to by the Very Her. Archdeacon Bryan (late od nearly all the country from Bolize down, has to the o
is valueless to Japan in the keeping in order of locomotives in a climate of the diocese, assisted by his corps of curates, Now Orleans Up'o-date, 5,000-ton twin s
of Hempstead, Long Island), who is in charge put on an excellent service from New York and self on the foundation of the Hongkong Uni-
rew versity. Sir Walter Egerton
was to be new in Victoria Gaël, as well as eight others Japanese Tretically inevitable conflict with where the least neglect involves corrosion and sohoolmasters, and laymen. The Roman Cath steamers, built at Glasgow and Beifark, congratulated a who are believed to be pirates. Then the sup- the 1 nited States for England will not take
the progress which was being in uselessmens reme head of the desperadoes is supposed to be rides against the latter Power,
short time. Too much praise olie portion of the zone comes under the dio. regularly, and the accommodation is
perfect; made
great harbour at Lagos, one of in the Colony, and the police are leaving "no Important, however, as are
cantiof. be given to this portion of the complex cese of the Bishop of Panoms, who maintains lexge, airy state-rooms, with electric light and the most important enterprises of the kind in tho changes
management.
churches and schools at at all points.
with the fans, equipped
latest
would. Looking round the Empire at large, tho inventions and stone unturned in their efforts to hurt him augured by the Russo-Japanese Agreement dowa. If the same activity prorails in China, Count Reventlow does not bellove that there is cleanliness is shown in the care of the equipment. YMC.A. buildings, with gymnasiams, pool ventilation: Not an odour of fruit can one small, he thought that they might discern, ze
any foundation for the enggestions made by tools, mabhinery, roads, bomes, and multifarious and billiard tables, exist at all towne; and although there may be stowed away in the holds speaking rides exited in t
in the Service some that there existed in the perity. novasizers, the much-wanted Leung should not have a los German newspapers that a German property. And no less care sa displayed for the amateur theatricals, dances, and negro minstrel sopie 50,000 bunches of bananas, as well as pine-regreso far as the griestion of promotion lease of liberty or life.
Austrian-Tarkish-Japanese League is in oon comfort of the workers ander the watchful showware frequently given in a creditable man-
apples, coconuts, and other fruit.
lurge aud, he was templation, still less that England will join issue guidance of Colonel Gorgas, was, in Havanna ver, while baseball and football clubs carry on a
reas concerned, owing to the RUBBER AND GOLD.
the afraid, increasing disproportion between lively rivalry from town to town. Convicte and That the promenade sencorts which are to be with the United States against Japan. The and Santiago de Cuba, after the American
Once the Canal is opened this company will number of places in the lower grades of the prime concern of the German Empire, bald in the Public Gardens are not going to to keep her hands frein Brize, he states, capation, cleaned their stracts of filth and their prisoners (of which there are quite a number, be the first to profit by it, for it is soquiring service and those in the higher grads. That air of mosquitos, and then came hither to carry. principally coloured) are better cared for than prove the failure at first feared was evident by Far East is
is centred in the maintenance of the
os bis good work wken. thu vanal zene became and I have seen in America lands on the Isthmus and around Panama, and a difficult matter to remedy, and one which Blog: in the United States of Columbia suitable for was not likely to decrease, but it was the to door": Japan the much larger attendance, which assembled 'opon
has not latherto attempted the property of the United States Government.
are kept at Culebra, and employed the cultivation of bananas, rubber, cocoa, and all which he gave all the personal attention he to frustrate German commercial enterprise, and Ieat Wednesday night. The first concert was a
there is as little res
Botha, I predict for this port of could, knowing, as he did that it so closely For and airy with electric light.. fans, reason for Germany to engage
MOSQUITO EXTERMINATED.
an immense future. It will affected the careers of those with whom he was killing frost, but the second was in every souse site for success. The night was ideal, and for her to join with it against the United States nito, ether inadequate to bestow the praise that restrictions as to intercourse me food, and to
Knowing the isthmus as it was, I fnd words and cold showers ad libitum and hardly any
Port Said as-a port with a similar proud to be associated. He stated that the mem- with one another. is s due to this latter department. Instead of
enjoy good,
capital for the
•
in a crusade against the Yollow race as there is
Germany, says Count Reventic, in condu
On all sides the most careful and scrupulous
ill any
iu
generally
reads. Their quarters are clean, sitan
penulation, but the valuable lands berahip of the Club vow numbered 1,640, an
the beautiful music of the band of the Bassion, must not forget that she is a Continent 1 mosquito-ridden swamy, oLD, DOW Seen on all of it, and with the sola ameption of the antred make the
and
foreign capi
吐
Planting De
one of
and a party from Government House were she participated in ovents there, eine would only the isthmus I did not once hear or feel theving is the slums of our great cities." To zive well as of mere transit be slaveral buyera
OPIUM PRICES AT BOMBAY.
Three thousaud fhree hundred cheats of
could not fail to plesso in such pleasant sur
Fower; that the arm of her Fleet does not reach sides beautiful residences to picturesque gardens, restraint, are far better off that many families rubber, roundings. His Excellency Sir Heary May to the Far East, and that, even if it did, and if
daring
the nineteen days which I
I spent on
a broad ides of the immensity of this undertak are on the ground. One gentleman has acquired entrancing bass or presence of a mosquito. Aing, and the many and complex cars involved an island on the coast of Columbia, where there paralles, where white men can work and live this, I append a few statistics gleaned from hardwoods, pearl faberies, and valuable gold in June, Rs. 3,082 in May, and Rs. 3827 in veritable inferne has been changed into in making this waterway across the Panama are largo, quatitities of wild rabber, timber, spin on July 6th realized an average of Be 2,062 (£137 10x.), sa compared with Ba 2,177 the report of the Canal Commission for 1910 : mines. In addition, he holds, on the mainland,
April,
present, as well as the General Offer Com-pluck the chestnuts out of the fire for someone manding and suito..
be, let position in Europe first and everything else and weakon horzelf. Germany's motto mast else after,
RODERICK RANDOM,
with their wives and families in peace and com-