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· PARIS LETTER, [WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,"]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 201Ð, 1911.·
other and more practical tactics, more so in the interest of other great commercial nations than of Germany. She has brought the crisis to a head she has exposed the dangerous tactics of Germany, and convinced the world that if only Germany will yield and become rational in her give-and-toko demands, France will ably second
NOTES AND NEWS.
A JAPANESE ARTIST.
instraction. PARIS, August 25.
"LA JOCONDE."
which hos so mystoriously disappeared from La Lovro owing to the carelessness of the kouers in charge. When it first became known that the Lady of the Divine Smily, "ty which other name the stolen picture was familiarly called, was missing, the whole thing was described ́us a hoax; not so, sa fimo went on, und no clan to the masterpico could be fonad. That it has been mest audaciously stolen and smuggled out of
to hold out the olive branch to Germany, and that she is prepared to offer some concession in the Cango er elsewhere for en absolute recognition of her rights in Morocco. There is, however, one point on which France insists this time in exchange for concussions, and that ir, that Germany should give final essurances of hor rouunication of any right to interfere in Moorish policy or in French action in Morocco,
lesson was
AN ACTRESS WHO DOES NOT LIKE TONDON.
RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN -CENTRAL AFRICA......
3o as a
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Thus the Court assumed in favour of Counsel A CITIZEN OF OLASGOW.
that he spoke on his "instruction." But in Lord Kitchener, having been made a Freeman
course of time, the immunity of Counsel, et suy of Glasgow, it was only in the nature of things.
rate for spooch in open Court, grew wider, until, well- that the same honour abould be conferred on
Sir Charles Metcalfe, Heater's Agency is in- in 1683, the Court of Appeal decided in General Betba, Both distinguished generals
ho been a barrister for defamatory words used in the sanction. Pain Italice with a turn for at know romething of Seclatsen, Brottish regiments Africa, whose ha bas deess on a visit, of inspec- nowa one that se setion would lie against
an or took an bonourable part in the Sonda
proceediport
“even thongl
of the-case Railways.
Crossing the Congo Rhodesia from they were unnecessary to visiting Japan desired to have lessons from under Kitshenior, and the ubiquitous Scottish tion of the Blindesiat, Congo, and Beuguela course of a judicial
without any
justin. warked, played a very prominent part in do. fier he marched us far north un Kaasbore, 220 his eliunt, and were attired'
miled in Cougo territory, to which point the Everyone is diligently searching high sad
Japanese artist. The Italian says that the first emigrant has, as the South African Premier re- ・Tow for the famous and pricaloss picture by her. The tablos have hooa turned. France les plained to logical. The instructor ex- pupil the condition that the
eveloping South Africa. Curiously enough, how-
orm- anger towards the plaintiff arising from some nardo da Vinci, known as "La Joconde," | given the world to understand that she is preparad mind should be in to ensure a good protaver, South Africa is one of the fow parts of the railway will be completed mat July..thus formention or exonse, and from personal il-will or Beitish Empire where Scottish names are not ing continuous railway connection with "Cape previously existing catse; and are irrelevant
towu, a distance of over 2,400 miles, From to every question of fact which is in sans- full of confidence. The next lesson dealt
Kamborn a line will ran westwords for a die before the tribunal In other words, the the The mind should be at case, sersno an
tance of 100 miles towards Lobito Bay. From advocate, barristor, or solicitor now enjoys with methods of breathing. During work the conspicuous on the map. artist must breathe regularly to ensure clear
sa High Court judge.
It must not, however, be forgotten that. lines. The artist at the third lesson cuaducted Miss Eva Tanguay, America's leading music the latter place Sir Charles reports that the same abaclate inimmaity for free forensic speech obec vs the child attentively and then to repres ten days' visit to London and Paris, with some the lat rior, and further extensions are in
speaks with enthusiasm of bosides the "sanotion of the ordinary law, the his pupil before a little archin and told him to hall notrest, has returned to New York from a Benguela line is completed for 230 miles in dace his features frum memory. That is how startling views on those two cities. I must say, contemplation. I
I don't think mugly of Europe," she said, accord. the progress and development of the regions he barrister is subject to another discipling-viz., ing
in the New York correspondent of the visited both in Rhodesia and in the Congo. that of his Benchers, who represent the profos. you become a painter, the artist explained,
HOBBLE SKIRTS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
Express Take London. Everything is so During t a portion of his tour Sir Charles was sional view and very vigilantly maintain the Among the votes of this month's cute sie borribly old and dingy Why, there's Bucking accompanied by Mr. Robert Williams. In professional standard. Henes, in a proper case. Francais is a somewhat alarming report of the hum Palace, where the King and Queen lire conversation with Router's prosentative Sira litigant aggrieved by any excess of language It's flick and grizy and dilapidated, instead of Charles said: "I inspoetad the Maze Rail-on Counsel's part might have a remedy by Westminster Gazelle correspondent.
the earthworks for which are completed appeal to the Benchers, but there seams to be no
The a proceeding.
sight, and New
never stand for it will reach next mouth. Negotiations are in in question, however, is happily rare, and wheu for u further extension of seven miles it is found is very apt to punish itself. for, in muntfactores, and suggests Parliamentary
progress report, draws stication to the slump in local sile, aght to in intersantion. Tarare is especially celebrated Over hom we don't let buildings get old; we tear
also went over the route to Shamba, where a Chancellor, "Professional licence, if carciel to years, and put up niger ones. suppose there for its cotfoa livings, but scanty skirts have them down. before they've been up tos in order to tap tim centre of a farming district the words (cmist) of ar ta mertal Lord brought about what is stated to bo un chomage aro pople in London who have money, but it is farther extension of fifty miles is contemplated, far, nue's chance of promotion would certainly
will NO lino
excellant farming through you wrist, an agonising stoppage of work the dingiest, and most crawled together, the survey of which is now in hand. This mar, and I for the mune does upply to the Dresses which formerly required from twelve to fourteen meters of lining now need only five poverty-stricken place I ever saw. And
When the survey to Shambo is only: Bar".
Unennis to Victoria, near with the result that many mill-wheels do not right as well try to kuy a diamond as a piece of
ice. We couldn't aa thing coll. We'd survey from
got
In the Mazoe say,We don't care how much Zimbabwe, will be started. move, and that anmbers of wearers and dyert order beer, sand sro thrown out of work altogether, adre upon short time. The hope is expressed that leading dresemakers will ome to the rescue,
the hobble-skirt is a thing to marvel at in these sumptuary laws. Cartainly the popularity of post-Raskie resthetic days!
This is what
Ponce is now the general hotief. Only the Franco la thus willing to pay well, provided the feet of modish desers upon commerer," says
obtains fall value for her money. the horror of the cornapolitan art world. France now offers to. (Formany be way of com- Chamber of Commarce of Tamre, in a recent being broutiful white marble the way you'd as the Junto, line, which the rails: procedent for so
empty frame has so far baba recovered, to
The Joconde" hulit the place of honour in the Salle Carré, "En Inconde," it will he remembered, in the portrait of Mosun Lisa, the wife of Francisco del Gisconti, a citizen of Ponce, and Leonardo da Vinci is reputed to have worked at it for four years about the year 1500 without being able to complete it entirely to kis forice. It was purchased by King Frauens 1., of France, and has ever since been a greuern favourite. It was the first set-treasure which
visitors to the Leuvre asked to seo berano quicursally sulmired. Its strange dia ppearance has naturally provoked a great outery in Paris about lax Guardianship. That it was not stolen before now is a matter of surprise, considering that “La Joconde” was ouly loosely fastened to the wail: the slovenly unner in which the Leuvre freshers are looked after is safeint to tempt thiores, whose work in this direction would be more child's play. Though at ordinary
pusation. The worst awaits Gasmsay's reply. If desirous of maintaining peace, we will accept these terms though they constitute a bit ter pill for her to swallow She never would be allowed to occupy any part of Morocco, if The terms offoroll to she held out for years, Germans arò equal to peace with honour.
Blest prople will roadily admit that it is high time for the sake of European tranquillity thut the Moroccan questieus was rettled. There
DRIVEN TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE.
of
Honest. it's___*_____os_for_
I
bring us something which was the temperature we pay for it, but we want it lead. Then thor'3 hot water The London policemen are the chin whiskers, that hang down on either side and they look like coantry Houbens. For that most absurd things, too. They wear great long
water, all Englishmen are stapid, and don't know how to talk. They just look at you and say: Alys-us, and Ab, no, and 'Fawazy, They don't seem to have my joints in their wear the brains. As for the Buglish women, they are frights-po-itive frights. They sreet. They don't know how to walk, or how shabbiest, frumpiest clothes, pa ticularly in the to sit gracefully. You can travel all-over London for a shilig is a taxi, which is nics. I think the English soldiers are attractive, and I liked the Zoo. The telephone system nearly drow me crazy, but the servants are ideal They have a way of making you feel at home and they are grateful oren for the smallest tips
lovon, and, on the whole, Loudon is deader- than Long Island City."
*
INTIMATIONS
Coffence
planted, and if this is encouraged England wil Valley the best kinds of songs tres have been
the summer mouths, and the large furms of the broken up into thonsnade Mazon Valley will bo
able to get, 2 supply of fresh oranges during BROWNING'S
be
of
small holdings by the antequgnt large OLD TOM GIN.
is now an excellent opportunity for aneb aand that a more becoming fashion will anticipate settlement, provided Germany is agreeable. The terms which Germany has hitherto de munded are sach that no great Power with a pro- or sense of self-respect could very well accept. Until we know Germany's definite reply we can only took upon the Mornean negotiations as till hanging fire. The two States have made au approach to an agreement on matters of il *ia this knowledge principle, and which has produced the comparative calm times the number of keepers is 13, owing to
with which the situation is now viewed. Only the holidays and the cleaning operations now
two conclusions are formed by those who have proceeding, not more than six guardian wore
been kept so long in the dark. Either thers is actually on duty keeping watch over the pic-leadlock of sore kind, or else some scheme day. Both M. Lépine, the Profect of Police which has secretly been agreed upon in principle and kiss me, "If I light my pips, she complains But the silly restaurants afi alose at half-part border is already earning more than its deboa-i
-tures when "La Joconde" was stolen luson-
M. Hamari, the Chief of the Detective Depart ment, admit themselves based on the presont occasion; All their efforts to discover either the atalon picture or the whereabouts of the thief or thieves have so far proved nsoles. Fortunately, whoever has the wasterpiece will find it impos sible to sell it; wore it even pobl to an inex perienced collecter as a copy of the famous work, such a framul would very soon be dalected Thore
is being laboriously worked out in detail. It is wall to remember timt the Morocco question, offer all is said and done, is not exclusively a Franco-German question, and, innoh as one should regret another Algeciras Conferones, it wouki be, at any rate, preferable to the present clumsy procedure. There is no fenndation in the report that the negotiations are to be trans. ferred to Paris. It is best to love well alone. Bellet is gaining ground in Paris that rather Germany will show wisdom and accept France's latest termg. If we cannot have what we like, we must ffice what we have."
WAR
Cases of attempted suicide generally rereal tragic and pathetic stories, tat a man admitted to the hospital in St. Louis, after trying to commit suicide by severing an artery in his wrist, gave what is probably the most ex traordinary roasion ever recorded.. It was that his wife was too affvelionate. The man, Philip Nicholson, declared whose name is that ke fond of his wife and wanted her to be fond of him, but be thought there caught to be a limit to wifely af fection. He said, "My wife is too affectionate, and wants to sit on my lap continually and hng of the smoke, and when I stop smoking she is
When continually kissing me.
was away on business I wrote to bar daily, and the quarrolled with me because I did not write three times a day. It got on my nerves," he couoluded Reporters are now waiting at the hospital f the appearance of this affectionate lady, and the patient has asked the doctors not to allow her to show too much affection.
I
THE FUTURE OF CHINA.
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increase in the population. The erection of bacon contera. factories and contral dairies is under plation by the Chartered Company, who bas sent out an export to report on the best localities. been completed at Mezibpuks, a few miles south A calton gin and hydraulic proes installation has
used for grain transport, being navigable for of the Kafe River. This river is now being small steamers towing barges at all season gf the Bridge year for 200 miles above the Kafas North-Western Rhodesia is doing a profitable trade la cotton, grain, and smaller produce with the Southern Congo territory, which has con aiderably added to the tale of the railways. The railway from Broken Hill to the Congo turo interest After oroaving the Congo border I travelled 163 miles on tho Belgian line to Elizabethville, the administrative centre of Kotanga, and afterwards marched to Kambors, further distanco of 104 miles, passing numer- ous ecpper mines all the way. The Kambove mine itself is a very large one, and the railway now being constructed will reach tharo in July next. As soon as the tine reaches that railway will be commenced running point & westwards to Rare, & hundred miles in the direction of Lobito Bay, From Kaalove an Bakama, 200 miles further north, on a navig
of the Congo." able rity of talle stated that he found the
Sir Charles Belgians so sensitive aluat the strictures that sto von passed on them regarding their con duet to the native races that in Katanga they have gone to the other extreme, but in spite of this it should be possible to get sufficient
and Mr. labour. Sir Charles
Benguela Railway to the travelled up the desoloped owing to the railway, and that pros- perona farme with maize, cotton, rabber, and This fruit have taken the place of bare voldt reason," he added, "would rapidly prosper if the Poringas Gorernment would see their way to grant better titles to the land than at present. Tan husdred and thirty miles of the line from Lobito lay are completed, and now extensions WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. are being contemplate."-Router.
is nothing else to be done for thò prevent thanthip provoke the anger of the nations any longer says Dr. Anerbach is confirmed in his boliet that of population upon the means of other exionsion has also been surveyed to
ig
Profore E. A. Ross contributes to the Century a paper on the struggle for existence In Chin. He says: "For a grinding mass porarty that cannot be matched in the Occident there remains but one general canso, namely, the
This over population, he says, que tu the universal hellef in China in the demants of the spirits of parents and other The very atmosphere of chica is ancestors. charged with appreciation of progeny. From time inmemorial the things considered most worth while have been posterity, learning, and
the order named riches,
As a result, the mortality among infauts įs Probably one female infant in ton is What authority
to walt onil bepo for the host. L'almatia has offernil a reward of 10,000 frames for the recovery of the missing chof-d'ouvre, plus another reward of 40,000 frames, or £2,000
· HOUSEWIVES' STRIKE, - altogether, to the person who brings it back to
French housewives are a very determined the offices of L'Illustration. Telegrame hate body of women who will staed no nonsense-
·been sent to all the porte asking tha anéhorities The cost of living is getting on their nerves." the equilibrinca. When they are irritated their well-nigh incredible, smpanting to ninety per subsequently proceeded to Lobito Bay and f
to koup sin aga on ull boate leaving Pratice.
tion
cent.
Whoover the thinf or thinvas were, the work f They have not been afraid to help themselves in the doctors of Vienas found by experimentine/ doge war with at birth! of camoval was most cleverly and audaciously tect them from the tyranny of the tradesmen. destroyed could not be the canals had been exists for these figures ire do not know.
that
Williams
rait- bus
*An Ideal Drink for Summar.”
SOLE AGENTS:
head, Sir Charles says that this country H. RUTTONJEE
"THE SEAT OF SEA SICKNESS," Dr. Julius Anorbach, who has spent nine months at the University of Vienne, returned to Now York recently. An American paper seasickners, is not due to the stomach, but to the irritation of the semi-circular ennal of the inner car. This is the theory that has han known for some time to specist ists, and Dr. Anerback believes that Pro- fessor Dalikinik of the University of Tierna has proced it. The Dootor says that the
Fuzio of the semi-circular canals is to maintain sensiskness bare all the symptoms of Owners consequence of the strengor any failing to pro- that a child in whose Owing to the incrensasi cost of living in France, several tradesmen found it necessary to raise prices; in doing so, they failed to reckon with simple operation, especially as the theft was
the spirit of indignant housewives, who quickly committed while the gallery was full and rotaliated by boycotting foodstaffs. Thus the guardians wore or duty. To do this and got it indies of the region of Maubeuge, in the North away without discovery as they did is certainly of France, succeeded in getting tradesmen to a masterpicos of manipulation. It is enough to lower the price of butter, milk and eggs against cause Leonardo to turn in his grace. Will their will. Several manifestations, accompanied "Monna Lisa" over return to the Love by violence on the part of the women, occurred in It is impossible to say, though everything will different parts of France, and though soldiers and be done to recover France's stolon treasure:gendarmies were called out to ovoruwo the who'll bay this of Frederic II. whose walls of the city will be razed to allow the pent.pecaliar-interest for the Bar: it raises the by i is years since Paris lng boon sa dosply stirred us it is over the daring theft. Frou the Morones enraged romon, the latter won the day. Where prayer was, "Teach me to suffer without.] up people to spread. Wide streots, parks, ander.dely, Counsel say go in "abusing the other!
earried out. Leonardo's wonderful picture is
not a little thing in any sense. To take the canvas from its frame from the wall is not
a
mado senslok, and animals without the car cauals were agafigotest by seasickness. Dieting before a voyage would not prevent seasickness, therefore. The Doctor said no remedy had been found.
A-HAWKLE'S FORTUNE,
DEATH-LATE.
HIGH BIRTH-LATE: ANTICIPATED LOW After all this terrible description of the mal- tiplication and Fight velustion of life, the article conclades with a prediction as to the near future of Chinese population;
Within our time the Chinese will be served A Gorman hawker, Hans Banermeister, bas just cutired from business, baving amassed a by a government on the Western model. Ee- lite fortune. According to a Paris contem-bellions will cease, for grievances will be re- porary, misfortune was the foundation of his dressed in time, or else the standing army will success. The hawker's specialty was the sale nip uprisings in the bud When not of rail- of portraits of the Imperial family His mode ways enables a paternal government to rush the of haranguing his audience was soothing like surplus of one province to feed the starving in in already well-nigh throttled. The confining. this: Buy a portrait of William I, whose Brother, famines will and. The opium demon motto was
I have go the to be wearird."
ecollectio
FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR COUNSEL.
& SON,
(50
Garelte-Oue Chas. J. Gaupp
& Co.
thi Lords Justices Fletcher Moulton
Bays the Pall Mall Gazette -One aspect of! the rocant Boltomlay appeal naturally has 'n no means novel quastion. how far, to put it very Du noi fail to complete sewers will be provided. Filtered water will be. This in not the place to examine the tradesman refuse to lower their prices, they complaining!"
A university trained | actr
actual words need by Counsel at the trial of and ty this portrait within reach of all.
1., medical profession will crapple with disease. which the appellant specifically complained, arisis has gone entirely into the background, soon got their goods upset and otherwise dam your
great Emperor, Willia The whole population is with these of our nel.
Yeu ino Williams, and and the only subject discussed in the cafes and energetic-liousewives-working men's wires in whose favourite phrase is, Augusta, you pack Everywhere health officers will make war on rate
cause your trunks. The last always brought down and busquitos, as o-day in Hongkong. Epidem hat it is only fair to
ics will be fought with quarantine and serum and Parisians still maintain that it was purposely af I suppressing what they allege to be downright
Tradesmen will- ery. imposition and
gain senike,
that the appellant's grievanos on this score removed as a joke to prova how insourely tha
He did his time, and mothers will be ingranted how to care for their aud Lord Justice Buckley did not think
In response to such life-saving
was sufficient to entitle him to a new trial. sure to Le- release restarted bis business. He sold his infants,
What is valuable as the last word supported by their nothing by holding out. This women, hertug for. Barrister was sentenced to 60 days husbands and brothers; this Islated-help-is) portarils with the old formin until he came to motivities, the death-rate in China ought to de unecessary, as the housewives who are conduet. tbnt of the Kaiser, and then he said, "I have olius from the present height of Bity or sixty per in the present campaign are well able to hold learned to my cost that it is not lawful to repeat thouguud to the point it has already resched in In most cases what he says so often." The people were just a modernised Japan, namely, twenty per their own against all comers. they have succeeded in striking farror into the as well pleased, and the portraits sold splendidly. thousand," hearts of unconscientions tradesmen who deserve all they get. It la tor then in return to exact. justice from landlords, rate-collectors, &e.
·olsowhere is the loss of La Jovonle." A few most cases-who have taken up the good candience, and in time the police, in arsatherton hespitals, Milk will bợTvailablo, and condemned some of ibup, bat-bat the latter!
Cau
Topt
the are now
Lonero-is-guarded; others declare that the theft is the work of a madman who has become fascinated by the wonderful face depicted as the canvas. There is also a third theory, sud this finds the greatest credenco, namely, that the thief is waiting for a reward for the return of the picture. Everything is possible at such times, and ono only farcently hope tbal, it will not be long before the fatcons work of art is rosters to. its original One of the first things place in the Louvre.
The report for the year ending 31st August which the Paris police discovered on being called wore strange finger marks on the frame, which states:
During the year soveral applications for may lead to detection. These marks have been carefully photographeil, and the records of the assistance from the Charitable Fund ware police department will be searched for the iden-received, and after full investigation grants in Another aid war given. Those anivanted to 8588.30 as tification of the thief or thiorea
curious, coincidence: Early last year a Paris
-HONGKONG ST ANDREW'S
SOCIETY.
against $169.45 the previous year. Situations word also fond for several applicants. The balance at the credit of the Society now stands at $4,789.30.as against $4,596.33 lust for
Twenty-eight new members have joined the Society during the year?
FARMERS' TELÉPHONES.
Ent it may easily take the rest of this contury, the writer says, to overcome ancestor-worship, early marriage, the passion for big families and the inferior position of wives. So for a genera tion or two Chias will produce people rapidly in the Oricats way who will die oft slowly in the Occidentul way.
In all lines of transportation 40 men are. incessary to do work that two would do in England Farmers till the land with crude on-handled ploughs-or else, as in Japan, with hoe-like kawas; they use
eu and women weavers do work
ожел.
no homes or
Bure
Have
Jus. Recnised * Now
Selection of Goods from
MAPPIN & WEBB,
LONDON,
Comprising:-
SILVER CUPS,
18 sage in the judgment of Vaughan Wil come a locus cluscicits-on this delicate question:
thoro can be no esking generally liams, L. J. (taken from the game report)
doubt that Connel has no right to make seri- ous charges uúless he is in a position and has materials to prove them. He has no right to refer to matters which have not been proved sud have no real relevance to the questions in issue. A judge is not always in a position to obeck irregular statomoule made to the pre judice of the opposing litigant the moment they are made If impper and irrolorant observations could bare affected the verdict of the jury the Conrf must, in my opinion, take in' considerations a relevant Plement the possible extent of prejudice affecting the minds of the jury and not the question whether it did in fact materially affect PRINCES PLATE, their verdict."
Appeals to set aside a judgment or to grant a now trial on the ground of the licencs" of Counsel are naturs ly rare, and successful appants once applied for a new trial on the grand that of that sort rarer still. In Tennesse a litigoint Counsel against him burst into tears in his speech,
an
PRESENTATION PLATE;
TEA SERVICES.
&e.
TABLE WAKE.
ke.
CUTLERY,
FISHI KNIVES and
SILVER FITTINGS,
The Board of Agriculture is endeavouring 10 draw the attention of farmers and resi cats in rural districts to a circular which has an isaund by the Goreral Post Office explaining the advantages of a rural teleph ne system. In the United States it. bas been found that more
THE HEAL CAUSE OF CHINA'S POTEETY. telephones are in us by farmore than the whole
Mr. Clarence Fae has an excellent article in unmber in use by the commercial and all other classes in the United Kingdom. These telephones World's Work on What the Orient can teach are found to add considerably to the profits and us" In the esures of the article be enys s comforts of the farmer. The rural telephone must find the r al cause of Asia's poverty in just system, by which a number of subscribera agron two things the failure of the Asiatic governments to use a single line on or near a country road to educate their people, and the people to in- orease their productive capacity by the use of to a town where there is a telephone ex- haare, can be enjoyed for the moderate fixed machinary. charge of £3 a year. By means of aach a line the farmer can communicate with all the telephone subscribers with whom he does business, not only in the nearest town, but also in all places within a distance of 100 miles The charge of £3 a year allows malimited calls for the subsorib-- ere own exchange, and conversations with that machines de hore; grain is reaped by sickles but it was solemnly decided that a advocats had other towns can be carried on at the rate of 1d., instead of hy hores and reapers. Sixteen mene right to weep during his oration. But there DRESSING CASES with
apped on the ground of 2d and 3d., according to the distance, to towns at Hankow carry the lagenge that one Tan and seans no doubt that, in a sufficiently grass case, within 25 miles, and at 6. to towas withio-50- one-borso dray would carry here. Women our law would allow
will not allow is any legul miles. This system has bean werking for carry brick, stene, and timber up the mountain Course exceeding his professional rights.
time ia the Bradsby district of side at Hongkong There are no say-mills in But what it
the Orient, but thore are thousands of men process against Counsel for any words Yorkshire with complete success. Farmers are some
The privilege prooeding.
Counsel is, un of pabled to find the best market for their labori usly converting huge logs into lamber whatsnover spoken in the course of a judicial goods, and frequently find that the prices of by means of whipsaw There are no pump,
even at the most ared watering-places, but Ossance, the privilege of the client, for it is their local market are quite anfavourable. An
su unduly strong word should involve him in a authority at the Board of Agriculture stated buckets and ropes; often ne windlass; on power obvious that an ad rccato chronically nervons lost that in a certain village ono farmer had used grain-mills, but men and women, and in some the telephone, in spite of general disapproval, a cones nereg and oxen, doing the work that the lawsuit or a presention might be lukewarm in few minutes after it was opened, and was able idle water-powers era given no chance to do, bis champions ip. In other words, this privilege
subscription owing to the These are but specimen illustrations. In the few is in the public interest
Bri Bat this position has not been won witheat z
git into y iatricts. Although the dyn
ordinary labour is as yet but and ontiring
Ona Brook brought an action agai at the grot little better paid, because such industries are won for her golden camions. Throughout the following members-James Guy, T. Soggio tages of being able to invite neighbours to litt trying ordeal and serious crisis Franco behaved and Capt Warrook,
disse, as explained in the circular, are hardly act numerous enough to effect the general level Sir Henry Montagus, then Recorder of London of wages. The zat result of the policy of and afterwards Earl of Menchester, for defam most admirably; she did, everything in reason “The income for the year was $1,486, and the rufficient for the installation of a telephone,
benefits of the system for purposes of adminis refusing the help of machinery is that Asis has story words spoken by him as Counkel, but the W
more than halved the pay he gets for that work the threats and anger of Germany to upset honilay was $599 for charities and $109 for other -trative and committee work are great. Then t doubled a man's chances for work, but has | Court said that
disbursements, leaving a Íslance of $7.39. The difficulties which are experienced in rural districts pasce of mind or enbark ju war. France deposit account now amounts to 84,000. The where corporate action and the co-operation of A man must get his proportion of the commen to day remains as firm and as determined as ball account monate to $5,440, $2,941 of which residents who live at a distance are required woulth, and if the masses are shackled by should by this misas be, eradicated. There ignorance and peor tols, they produce little ever she was, and since Germany's desire is to went for supper and wine. The subscriptions sa beso, however, some complaint of the and each men's share, no matter what his line of prolong the useless negotiations, hoping thereby collected amounted to $5,360, so that only $78.17 delay which has ensued between the request work is or how industriens be is personally, must
for a telephone and its efficient installation Inevitably be little. to exhaust France's patience, France has adopted' bad to be raised by additional subscription.
newsagency received from a New York ngocy an urgent telegramo inquiring whether it was trne that the picturo in question has been stolen from the Louvre. The reply then, of ecurse, was in the negativo, M. Roquefort, who was
St. Audrow's Day, 1917, was celebrated by s editor and proprietor of L'Intransgiant for years, suggests, as an art-expert, offering a hand-ball, hell in the City Hall, which proved most some reward and a free pardon. If necessary successful.
Two vacancies on the Committee occasioned the noble Marquis -for Rochefort: b-longs to a most distingaished aristocratie family-will by the departure of Mr.J. W. C. Bonnar and gladly raise the sum ecoded, so as to assist the Mr. E. Ormiston rere filled by themppointment recovery of a picture whose loss is so deplored of the Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross and Mr. D. Wood. Mr. P. S. Jansson resigned the post of or by the whole civilised world, and France in
orary Secretary on his departure from the particular,
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
Colony, and Mr. A. V. Merk was appointed in Rather than prolong present suspense in his stead definitely, France has made overtures of pence The Committee deeply regret having to
to
to Gormany as regards Morocco which have recard the deiths during the year of the difference Year hetween the local market industries where machinery and knowledge at long chapter of history. As far back as 1606.
to maintain pette, and did not once allow
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Counsel in law retained both a privilege to enforce anything which is informeil bim by his client, and to give it in evidenca being pertinent to the matter in question, and not to examine whether it be true or false; but it is at the peril of hin who informs bim."
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