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CABLES.
LATEST UABLES.
(incoн RUTER'S ADENOT.]
AMERICAN MERCHANT
MARINE LAW.
OPERATION OF PREFERENTIAL RAIL RATES SUSPENDED.
WASHINGTON, "July wath.
providing preferential rail rates on exports sent to the seaboard for shipment in Ameri-
can' bobteins,
FAR
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 27TH, 1920.
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
POSITION OF BRITISH SHIPPING IN KOREA.
SECRET OF PARIS PRICES,
RETAILERS: FROTEST.
The Times Paris correspondent wrote June 10th :----
MISS ELSIE FERGUSON, CHAT WITH THE FAMOUS CINEMA
STAR
A BRIEF CHARACTER SKETCH,
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2
wonderinliy
3
What was your first screen part?" "It was in a picture called Barbary Sheep," where I was supposed to fall in love with a noble-looking Arab, with the usual complications, and my husband Appeared just in time to prevent me mak- ing a fool of myself,"
**Yong screen work must have been much harder than your singe work!”
"Necessarily 50; it is vefy tiring worki
Inta
THE MAILS.
HONGKONG, STILL DISSATISFIED.
American residents and, British residents aliko wers, much disappointed yesterday: when the news was announced that the The offensive against the high coat" ol
Mias Elsie Ferguson, one of America's Empress of dra brbught no mails from the living continues to gain "new adherents.
greatest emotional actresses, is no stranger U.S.A., Canada or the United Kingdom. The latest reeffit is the: Federation of LONDON, July Sad.
to Hongkong, whers theatre-goers have In the House of Commons, replying to The statement made in thesa columna ihaă Retail Traders, which has issued" con been introduced to her rare type of exotic Mr. Angurin Williams, Mr. Cecil Harms the mails which were actually loaded on videred statement calling on all its mem beauty through many of her films. In The Shipping Board has suspended till worth stated that, as the Government at the the steamer and then taken off would be bars to retrict purchases to su absolute private line se is Mr. T. B. Clarke, the fades, during the filming of my last pic January 1st, 1981, the operation of the binin of the Japanes annexation of Korea-forwarded in the Fur Eust un the Crest minimum. The retailer declaration says--fc-of-arresting beauty,re, "Lady Rose's Daughter," in January the Angio Northera, due in Hongkong next Saturday that the reason why the fall in prices has crowned with a head of luir of the colour of this year, I run down in health so mach section of the new Merchant Marine Lawerpted the annulment of
Korean Treaty of 1983 and Japan's right with the American Congressmen, was made not yet been felt in the shops is becall eaten got, and eyes of woadrons lustre, that I simply had to take a trip. I have often wanted to visit the Kingt, und now, to close the existing trade after ten years on the authority of the parser on board manufacturers continas to demand from from June 20th, 1910, the Government had the Empress of Asia. The Hongkong Post shopkeepers the higher prices. The Retail her pieres wo takon no steps to retain the open door flien authorities know nothing of the Feleration, at the same time as it beautip! girl, but, in reality, un pieturo | 1. am deing under the bit possible Tuc orders to its members, asks the proof ber ean be haded as re-like or satisvirenostases, just going wherever I like
and staying just as long as like. rights of the treaty, in view of the fact arrangement. They are not certain that ducers of foodstaff to do all in their
the Great Northern is bringing the mails, power to make existence a little less im instory. And shy, may be asked! Be-
immensely struck with Hongkong," that from August next all British whipping
After being only 24 hours beru 50- consumers to impose on themselves for some her tree, filing her oyes with fleeting
minded the reporter. he was not certain of the reason why the months to come severe voluntary "restrie- Į will be debated, from inter-part trade in Mr. M. J. Breen. Pistmester General, said me to it is to-day and calls on cause it is the wouinn's goal that glorifies impulse, and conveying beautiful messages Lions. Korea and trade between Korea and other
Kupresa äid not bring the maily, but it was
There is the whole erse of the jubler, ¦ dut are sitta iram the pictured, face. paris of Japan,
probably due to the fact that the pomal ft the general publie will only stept the
ver reporter, who had a brief hat with contract with the Canadian Parific Dean gospel of doing without." then fall TSAR REPORTED LIVING. 'Services Ltd. at the Canadian end had the prerat wholly unnatural prices Ms Ferguson yesterday, found her
is bound to come, and to come increasingly young, ladly of considerable self-confidence, expired. asd the Canadian Government swiftly as production outstrips demand. and pics of attens. "Aa, anterosting talker, RESIDING IN JAPAN.
"were unable to come to an amicable arrange This is a subject which now. verupies the The former Tsar of Russia and his family went with the Company. As a matter or daily rations of men and woman in Ferguson rambled sa from subject to the cafes and streets, to say nothing of subject a manzer that showed she is a are alive and what is of greater interest inet, all the shipping Companies were the space which the newspapers are keen student of life and not one was goes to the people of Japan, sass the Japan seminated Mr. Reich, ex-Minister to Times, the royal family is living peacefully sticking out for higher prios for carrying rating to it, and this degree from through this. Isuss world attulessly.
ence gives real hope that a solution will
burst beents of the hot rod.
And my and happily in this country. This state the mails, Shipping costs had increased to be found in the extension of a voluntary taneus she has an imaginative nature, and China, as a rumiliate tor the Senate.
inent is based on a recent three columin
stiff-with-starch chauffeur nearly died in that the critical faculty is well developed his exertions putting on another pair of article appearing in the Ginette de fur an extent that they found they were strike of consumers.
Meantime, prices cantine to fall in the And all this, with the gift of the gods inres: The glass stood at 114 and never , a Swiss newspaper. The journal in i unable to carry the muils at the old rutas, turn dining that the story is based on the Further, now that the penny postage is "a
departments, while even in the capital
Not an ordinary thought I should live again to mesothor planes may be found where sweeping redues her beitteous lo report of Russian pobles and officers who
reaped from Russia and Siberia by way thing of the past, it is a farther argent lines are advertised. to Mailles the young lady by any means, nad one who is they made their way to Europe.
Eöurses, while, rúnsiderable reductions are
wine are down train t
of the la
Astral Benson, the Chairman, has ex- plained that postpouenient is necessary for investigation and intelligent application Lle has earned that foreign steamship companies have objected to this provision which wyalų, probably, be made the basis of diplomatic conversations be tween America and other Governments.
EX-MINISTER TO CHINA. CANDIDATE FOR SENATË.
MILWAUKKE, July 22nd,
The State DeteeraDe Conference has
EARLIER CABLES. IRELAND IN PËRIL. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S GLOOMY FORECAST.
of
LONDOS, July 11th An official report regarding the deputa tion of the Trade Union Congress to the
The
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ers are down 150frs, a bend, and at Aldi calves have fallen 30 per cent. It may
is not only in the air but in the streets as
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thow two screen stars,
Die
if first impressions count for anything," Miss Ferguson, this is a delightful place to live in."
And you don't mind the heas ?" "We have it Very hot Sructhies in Now
York. Why, when I was filming my very first-picture--I-had-to-go-out Long Island for some of the scenes. I used my brand new motor and twis of the tyres just
picture taken. But I survived it.
One man wrote af! america.
Last
Vladivostock and reached Japan, whence in inversof an increased charge for carry. Pagar de luisse has now reached thefantined to rise even higher than she has pight I went to a Chinese theatre here, and existence and exact wheresients of the the mails. air. Breen said that, as recorded in in and ails. In Horibaux risen day, when she shares with the enjoyed. Of course, one must be royal family, say the Russians, is being far as the Hongkong she was concerned, kept secret for political purposes.
they were still paying the same rates to burrol, and generally the price of cattle is; Brcomparabir tautine tetrack and · thoroughly deat to properly appreciate the In the course of its story the Swiss news- Prezaier to present the Congres reuniul paper ways that one curious fact abong the the C.P.O.S. It was the Canadian Govern.! Ruing down very fast. At Samatan pork lace at the very top of her profession, i playa, in a sort of serial form, lasting,
whole matter is that of the 10,000 inhabit|ment's business to control the other end, tion na the subirer of "Ireland says that ants.of Ekaterinburg, not a single one aaw Mr. Breen told our reporter that waly indeed be said that the long-awaited bolts, greater in her own way than her gf good one, which we
to the spokes the death or burial of the Russian rayal. Mr. Lloyd George, replying
family, while even the Bolshevik version of letters from England supomeribedid well. man Mr. Thouins, said that Labour's the incident lacks confirmation.
Садиби were despatched on the Empress General Logorkowski and Engineer scheme of Home Ritle was truncated Dominion House Rule." It was idle to dis- Natizov, who were both in Ekaterinburg at boats, so, of course some letters for the Far the time it is alleged the Tsar and his East are held up at Yuncuaver, together with cuss such a matter exempt with somebody family were murdered, confrm the fact able to deliver thus goods,” as the deputa that the royal family esenped from their the Canadian and the U.S.A. mails. Our tiun was not. He saw no sign that Sian Prison ghero, Fein was prepared to discuss anything, except that independence which was i undiscussable, «
STORY...IS... DOURTFUL. :.
information is that the Great Nurtheri· âm bringing 8.06 bags from Vancouver,
MAILS FROM 'ENGLAND..
DEPOPULATION OF THE
The
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the peerless Nazimova ate acknowledged music. I think their idea of having their Sour critics My that Misa berguson is suretime, over three or four months, is a might adoptin Miss Ferguson not go long ago that few { "It remains to be seen whether the serial athers have ever, interpreted the emotions stage play will be as successful as the serial bin woman's hears so clearly, or revealed flu play. Here, for instance, the serial so perfectly the light, and Shade of war: filin is a great favourite with the Chinese, perament. Her gift is that of the port, long as it containg SOME sensatiouni the painter, the priest or the prophet--the stauts, I should think it would be mono- inspired beings parted from mortals by the onus to the actor or actress."*** intangible flame of grofus.
CONGO.
SPREAD OF DISEASE.
How did you first go on the stage" Commission constituted under asked the reporter. Article or the Belgian Congo Charter Miss Ferguson is a determined young The story in the Swiss journal is very
to look after the protection of the natives person. I always intender tu become an doubtfa, says our Japan interporary. Mr. Breen told und reporter that he had, and the improvement of the moral and actress, though that, you see, is very difer Certainly one of the many Russians living
brict either' for thelonia postal material conditions of their existence, satent from going on the stage. And when I bridge bein Jana give it any credence and in the
got my opportunity I started in learn the I started in light of investigation conducted by theorities or for those in "Lodia, but, hej at Leopoldsville in December last, aftur
Presentatives of the Allied Forces during
interval of seven years. The Commission great lesson of experience. reported that important progress has been the chorus of a musical comexty. their occupation of Siberia, the story at
made in many respects, but it describes the Aud from a chorus girl you have made best is lit the expression of a vain hope.
depopulation of the country a rapid and yourself into a great emotional actress! alarming;
Isn't that something to be very proud of I don't suppose many other girls, can claim to have your' record?
Not many girls start in the chorus of
Mr. Thomas declared that a tween the two extrenus of Irish opinion could be found through the Parliamentary Committer of the Trade Union Congress and the Irish Parliamentary Committer.
Mr. Lloyd George Fepld, You may kaow-more than I'de 1 nu convinced that things on the other side are going to much beenne very "unch worse, xterger. We cannot allow this to go on.
very
NO NAVAL COMPETITION.
BETWEEN-GREAT-BRITAIN-AND-
UNITED STATES.
coughs that both were doing their best to forward mails to China the earliest pressible time.
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I don't know that," said Miss Fargu son, " played the same part for over a year once, but did not find it monotonous, probably because I was playing to differen audiences all the while
Have yuir done any connedy?
Not for the films. You sex, it is b difficult get a story to suit yon, and I should only do what I may call high class comedy, that is, the comedy as played by Constancy Talmadge as distinct from that of Mabel Normand. The greatest need to-day in the cinematograph world is now stories. Producera suap up everything which
they think can be picturized profit- ably, and every posible subjeer has h
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INSTY
Therefore, anybody anxiong far praeo.inust admirable spirit in the master at her Navy. that steamers often, arrived before the ship-population, which was over-estimated by comedy, and so, by hard study and 'expert: You see, I have iny own ideals about the
act quickly,"
aware that the
By the last mal came the full text of the question asked in the House of Com mons on June 14th, and of the Portmaster= | The principal cause is sleeping sickness, tieneral's reply
which has always been known in the colony, Mr. G. Stewart (CU-Wirrally asked but which has been spread by Europeans. the Postmaster-General whether he was but there have also been introduces hither.mical comedy and get to the leading tent with. There is a fortune for the man aware that the irregular and slow postal to unknown diseases, such as tuberculosis, part in dran. Most of those who start or woman who can write something original in músical comedy rise to be stars in that in the way of screen stories. Recently, a The New York Nation writes
service to China was causing inconvenience cerebrospinal meningitis, and hyphoe branch of the profession. I found that for producer in New York, paid as much as Great Britain continues to show a moj to British residents in that country, and fever.
The Commission states that theme there was nothing to rise to in musical 2100,000 for the film rights of "East is
West,
the well-known Broadway >uccess..... Thus the London Telegraph, which is any ping documents, whereby difficulty and de two thirds at the beginning of the Euro-ence, obtained work in druma, where I
pean occupation, has been reduced by one found success, though, of course, ant all st theatre, and I will not play in anything Mr. Thomas, after further discussion, thing but liberal or anti-imperialistic, call lay in the bandling and delivery of cargo
attention in an editorial to the fact that was caused; if he was
half the result of these diseases and of once. And I am not sorry for the unusual that does not suit me." said that they would again get into touch
"for the first tiine for centuries we havo arrival of fetten posted wid the United the decline in the birth-rate resulting from experiences that have been mise during all with the trish Trade Union Congress, and not a single capital ship of any serip States and Canada was very uncertain, and them and from the spread of immorality those days when I was working myself P
hand, and no vessel, large or small, that there were often prolonged delays beg the natives.
to stardom. In those early days, I played | appealed to the Government not to make tion
Owing to the intensive exploitation of with Cyril Mande in America, and, inter AVIATION_RECORD"MAKING, the mistake of ignoring that body as un-
Dominion shipyards since the armistion the arrival of succeeding mails, and was signed. On the other hand, eighteen whether he could take any action in the country, natives are leaving their own on, whez keeping at it early and late The Com- brought" me a name, I was associated with
M. BOUSSOTROT'S EFFORT, villages for the large towns," representative If the Government made a
also whether the pre-war weekly deal with the Irish Labour Party they battleships and battle craisers are belag mail service to China, formerly provided by without delay to preserve the population, to built in the United States, affective con- the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga
urges the Government to take steps the late, Sir Herbert Tree playing
Portia in the Merchant of Venice'
PARIS, June 3rd. struction of no small proportion having
The French airmen MM. Bousotrut and been started since the end of 1914. The bion Co. and the Mageries Maritimes en promote agriculture and native industries You know, the life of actors and actresses Telegraph also brings out the fact that alternate weeks had been restored or wakeep a strict eye on large come everyone getting increased salary to cope began their effort to set up a new record
in the neighbourhood of the villages, to is not always and altogether a joyous
thing. With the high cost of living, and Bernard, soun after 5:30 this morning while the naval expenditure of Great Bri- soon likely to be restored.
Mr. A. H. Illingworth, in reply, wrote:
undertakings, and to protect young with it, except the people in our tain for 1918-19 was £325,000,000, for the current twelve months it is to
girls "Improvements in the mail servien vid İn be only £84,000,000. The Telegraph says that it Surz bave enabled the to provide a better does not write of the naval construction of service to China. The mails are now being
would solve the programme
On the subject of Poland, Mr. Thomas demanried a frank recognition of the Russian Governmest, and asked whether the Government was prepared to enter into negotiations with Russia immediately, Mr. Lloyd George said, "No, we will invite them here to discuss, firstly, peace with Eastern Europe, and once such dis- cussions begin they are very apt to end in clearing up all misunderstandings, POLAND'S-TROUBLES. FRENCH, MISSION DEPARTS.
PARIS, July 23rd.
"
The advance of the Russing armies into A Havas message says:- Poland continues to be of absorbing inter-
erst circles.
has been laid down in our own or in
America
just confirmed these facta.
maiter;
Do alternative save to build the largest the plans of the Panmaster-General at
gand. Marshal Foch's Chief of Staff and JAPAN'S TRADE POSITION IN the Secretary-of-the-Mission,-1, Vignon, I representing M. Millerand.
CHEMICALS.
Brission
w
We found, it necessary to do something for a non-stop neroplane flight. The re Nos all the managers in America are cord at present, as has been already stated,
White,
e, and many of them give Bo I is held by the flerman airman-Leulemann,
the United States in spirit of criticis sent out by P. and packet Indis Our reporter wanted to know why the thought to the welfare of the men and the but in order to do away with the belief | vach week, except when there is a through mails were not put on at Bombay to the women in the profession. And there were with 21 hours 48 minutes, and M. Bong in some quarters that England is engaging service to China via Canada, connecting,
so many" practices, continued by long motzat and his companion made every pre in a competition in naval armaments with with an Empress steun the Pacific, regular Japanese steamers leaving that custom, to our profession that affected us
As a matter of fact, it adds, and they are now arriving more regularly, pert for the Far East, Colombo and to such an extent that, in spite of great paration to remain in the air for forty we (the British) have abandoned all navy as well as in shorter time. There is no shipbuilding and Ermanent." In a speech immediate prospect of a direct ookly gor
Singapore, or to the P. & O. boats, les position on the part of the managers; the huurs endlinous Hight.
Actors' Equity Association was formed. Starting from Etampes -aerodrome-on- in New York Bir Auckland Geddes has vice to China by the two lines mentioned, guler, from Bombay to the Far East. The managers did not take well to the their Farman Goliath biplane, fitted with It is a mis- but the mails for Chins are already being Mr. Breen said that he thought the Indian safeguard the interests of the actors and hampered at first by foggy weather, with objects of the Association, which are to Samson engines, the airmen were much fortune that Congress should permit the conroyed regularly each week a far as ships of war. Mr. Wilson, too, is octisur and communication between Singapore and the matter and had come to the conclusion deal said in the papers, and finally, publie Orleans-Glidy-Etampes. The wanther ROOR United States to go on building additional Singapore, vid Bombay and Negapatam, authorities had very carefully consideral petresses, and there was a big strike in the the result that they ice hours to q
profession last year. There was a great plish the Brat circuit of the euren Etamper able for such utethical and wasteful ex Hongkong and Shanghai is frequent
that the Negapatum route was the most opi penditure, and the position that
the League of Nations faila tre have. Mr. Breen explained to one reporter has expedisina Colombo must agree in this managers had to sign equity contracts improved, however, and -hey were able to
opinion
cover subsequent circuita at 110 kilometres. the managers do not like the Associa say, 891 miles, an hcor, which is the aver But in diploma, the French Ambassador at armada, the world has ever seen. England Home would work very: smoothly indeed it main of July 6th and 8th by train to to sow dimension, anong
opinion, for they had forwarded their tion, and some of them are even now trying age speed they hope la maintain during Washington, started yesterday from Paris, in showing the same enlightened spirit an
the members, in their forty hours fight where he was on a vacation, and is going to she did before the war when she offered a there was a prospect of an immediate con- Negapatam to catch the same steamer which the hope that the Association will break up. Warsaw as the head of the French Missan naval recess of a year to Germany which the nection at Singapore for the mails which
But, on the whole, the members of the pro- in turn, each taking a six hour spell while The airmen are occupying the pilot's seat which will confer with the Polish leaders | militarists of the latter declined.
took the English mails. Occasionally, fession, or artists, as we call ourselves, are the other snatches what rest he can obtain regarding the Allies assistance,
are brought to that port by the regalar howwer, P. & C. Lusts brought the Eng better off than they were before.
"Artists," queried our reporter,
* in a couchette with which the car has been panying M. Jusserand were General Woy-
B.1. boats from Negapatam. The mails lish mails direct to Hongkong from Mar you have every right to so describe your- "Burely from England arrived regularly at Bonseilles. This way, of course, the quickest
fitted,
M. QAHALD'S HEIGIFT EXPERIMENT. "Most certainly no," replied Miss Farg M. Jean Casald who, on June 14th, 1919, bay, From Bombay they were despatched method. Mr. Breen explained how some on, I think that the cover actor on the succeded in establishing a world's record. The following particulars with regard to by train to Negapatam, from which little times the Naval mails for Hongkong, which age in as much an artist as the man who in Hoight of 9,520 mètres, is attempting a Japan's imports and exports of chemicals are of interest: (1) Chemicals, the volume pert there were regular sailings to Sings leave London at the same time as the paints a canvas, or the man who sculps siniilar trial in ten days from now, asing. of imports of which he vastly increased in pore vid Penang. Sometimes, he presum ordinary mall are received hora several every gesture, every pose, every inflexion problem he is seeking to solve is one of In our profession, for the purpose a Damplane meter. The this past few years, are salicylic acid, is, the malls arrived at Negapatam and days in advance. All Naval mails for the of the voice, every movement of the head, extreme interest. He aims at riring to a caustic soda, cyanide of sodu, sods as there was no steamer to receive them. At Far East are addressed to the Naval Office has to be done with set purpose and after height of 12,000 metres, and it is by no logwood extract, and aniline dyes. (2)
study.
means certain that at such a height atmos Earl Beatty received the Freedom of the Chemicals which have been in over-supply other times, the mails arrived at Bing in Singapore. The boats from Negapatam Except when the genius, who is born pheric conditions will enable him to carry City of Huddersfield. In his speech ho during 1919 are carbolic acid, soda ant pore and had to wait woverst days before call first at Penang.
through the test..... said today's navy, both in commission and glue, caustic soda and roxin. (3) Owing
At Penang, air to it comes along!!!
There are few, very few, geniuses in To help him he is taking up a special reserve, was the minimum compatible with to the difficulty of obtaining supplies from they could be put on té a steamer for the mails for the F.M.S. and Singapore are our profession. Occasionally one comes mask which delivers oxygen automatically the safety of the Empire heavy's Europe, most of the above have been in Far East. One of these two eventualities unloaded, and the Singapore malls are crons on exceptionally clever child actor according as atmospheric premure fils policy regarding construction had been to ported from the United States, while the must have occurred to the two London forwarded by train, a day's journey, Theor actress, and one sees flushes of real. In order to avoid every unforeseen chance investigate problems of the war and co following have been exclusively imported mails which were received together guaval mails, being addressed to Sings the children fail to reproduce the genius he experimented on at the Aerotechniques genius. But, as the years pass, somehow be is either to-morrow or very shortly to ordinate all lessons so that when the time come, as it must come for them to put acetate of calcium, milk-sugar, and sailine Sunday by the B-1 Takada Thong
of which they showed signs. I think it is "Institute at Saint Cyr, with his oxygen in those lessons to a useful purpose, they
pore, go there by train, The Naval Office The salt. The articos that have been imported left London on June 17th and June 24th there sorts them out and then forwards One sees far more musical prodigies who Jur. and this will be exhausted until a should be applied with wisdom and under-
life that chokes all budding genius. position. He will be placed under a belly standing. The best brains in the Service the United States
more freely from Great Britain than from and caught the steamers Cecilia and Maria them by the first steamer leaving Singa- full the promise of their earlier years. pressure equal to that attained at 12,000 were bring devoted to maintaining a navy ammonia, tartaric acid, white sine, evazide respectively at Marseilles. They roached pore for Hangkong.
"Tell us something about yourself," matres has been reached. in such a condition that it may continue
pleaded the reporter. What would son The experiment is one of very great in- to form a principal bulwark of the Empire
consider your greatest part on the stage terest from the standpoint of scientific against aggrosion.
I think it was as "Miriam in The aeronautics, Outcast that I made my greatest success, is that M. Casaid achieved the world's A curious feature about it Some of you in Hongkong saw Miss Marie record last June, winning theroby a prize image, from my work on the screen, what beaten within a year. The conditions of Tempest here in that part, so you can of 20.000 francs, provided this was not. a difficult part it was They maid in the prize are so rigid that should be da America that mine was a wonderful inter fent his own record he will be disqualified. Pretation of Miriam. The play was a For this reason he hang to wait before st.. prent 'success in America, where it had tempting a fight until after the 14th of. almost a reccr1 season,
this month-Morning Post,
BRITISH NAVY'S · TASK. » WHAT BEST BRAINS IN SERVICE ARE DOING,
LONDON, July 24th.
AMERICA CUP.
TIFTH RACE POSTPONED,
LONDON, July 24th, The fifth America Cup race has been postponed till Monday, owing to heavy weather.
from there: Bichromate of potash,
are carbonate of
of soda, chloride of ammonia, gelatine,
Meantime, the borate of soda, ana citric acid. Perezida Bombay at different times, but the train steamer from Negapatam dawdles a day or of soda and cyanide of potassium have been and steamer connections from that, port two at Pornng and comes to Singapore, exclusively imported from Great Britain. onward seems to have gone awry. But, where she unloads the mails for the Far The following articles have been converted aid Mr. Breen, to make up for the mail-East. The cranecting steamer has already into export lines during the war Naph thaline, acetic acid, calcium, zinc dust, and of June 17th being a couple of days late, left, taking the Naval mails," so that the copper sulphate, as have les several the mail of June with was certainly a ordinary mail has to wais three or four potash compounds, much he chlorate of
days for another steamer from Singapore potash and chloride of potassium Board couple of days early, of Trade Journal,
(ontmued, ne font of hext column.) to Hongkong.
the block of marble,