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LATEST CADLES,
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AŬINGT.]
RUBBER RESTRICTION,
LONDON PRESS OPINIONS DIFFER,
Lesday, October 19th.
In returning to the Rubber Report, The Times underlines its disadvantages, and
Вада abandoned at the earliest possible moment,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, 1992.
LATEST CABLES.
ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIEND-
SHIP. DEMONSTRATIONS AT UNVEILING CEREMONIES..
WASHINGTON, October 19th. The impressive unveilings of a bust of the late Viscount Bryce in the Capitol and a statue of Edmund Burke an one of the most prominent Streets, were in the
American friendship.
FAR EASTERN · CABLE NEWS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY }
SERIOUS OUTBREAK OF TYPHUS IN PENGYANG.
THE DISTRICT PARALYZED.
TORTO, October 12th.
THE RETROCESSION OF WEIHAIWEI.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT, Ì
THE BRITISH RAILWAY GROUPS.
DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
BENEFITS TO THE PUBLIC,
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME.
MUBE ABOUT THE GIGANTIO PROJECT.
it is to be hoped the scheme with baitre of warin demonstrations of Anglo. I The newspaper Jiji Shimpo reports that Padministration of the Territory during be invoked, is incorrect. The announce- two- rival tunnel scheunes.
The Westminster Gazette my that the balance of opinion on Mincing Lane Block Exchange was that, the scheme's! advantages were many and obvious, Functioning difficulties would be over-f
EARLIER CABLES.
AN ADVANCE IN PRICE,
bombshell to the market.
12.
The antu!
FIRE ON AMERICAN LINER.
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NO FATALITIES.
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NEW YORK, October 19th.. There were no fatalities in connection with the City of Honolulu disaster,
VESSEL A TOTAL LOSS.
Sas Erasersco, October 12th. The City of Honolulu is a total All the passengers and crew are safe aboard the Westjuračou.
EARLIER CARLES,
AND CREW..
effect of thes, "oeuminendations was more far-reaching this expected. The market
SAN FRANCISCol October 12th opened exerted and pries #actuated;
The American str. F'ily 'af Hunatun, wildly, closing withe buyers at 10d. performerly the Geraan liner, Frederich der Grosar, is dangerously afire two days off GIVING EFERT TO THE DECISION, Los Angeles.
The passengers. mainly American LONDON, October 12th. It is authoritatively stated that it has tourists returning from Honolulu. and been decided to bring the proposals of 200 grew have taken to the boats..
The last wireless message from the ship the Colonial Ofier Rubber Committee into effect 1 Malaya by Sovember 1st, said Captain and gang" leaving ship; and legislation r the subject will be in good-bye all."
It is estimated that it will be fourteen troduced in the local Legislature in a few days. It may not he possible to move hours before any of the ships rushing to an expeditiously in Ceylon, but it is the aid of the liner can frrive on the understood that the scheme, when enacted spot.
PASSENGERS SAFE-
yang,
'
A thousand Japanese have also been attacked, of whom 290 succumbed.
The
district is paralyzed.
EXPEDITION IN SOUTH-WEST
OHINA.
SECURED.
A good deal of interess has been aroused (says a writer in the Journal of Comp merer) by the knowledge that a new type of excavation which will be used in the boring of the Channel Tunnel is now. being assembled preparatory to the carry- ing out of teste. There have always beat. On the one Richard Grosvenor, favoured & tune hand Sir John Hawkshaw, backed by Lord commencing from St. Margaret's Bay to traverse the Channel in a straight line. On the other hand, Mr. Francis Brady. supported by Sir Edward Watkin, was in favour of commencing the tunnel ar the foot of: Shakespeare Cliff.
BIVAL SCHRE
The essence of the difference betweez Sir John Hawkshaw's scheme and Mr. Brady's was that the former falt his tunnel would be secure in the lower chalk, whilst the other party insisted that the tunnel should pass entirely through a The chalk marfis particular bed of the lower chalk koown as the chalk mari. composed of about 80 per cent., of car bonnte of lime and 20 per cent, of clay. and, on account of clay, it is impervioun to water
It has been
Two headings have been 'driven in this chalk marl to test its nature and quality one above the sea level in the chalk cliffs and the other below the sea level" in about the position the tunnel would occupy. The heading above the sea in the cliffs has been driven 40 years. The one under the sc is nearly 1 miles in length, and, during its making, a small band pump was sufficient to get rid of the water met with. It is clearly demonstrated that it would be foolish to attempt to drive the tunnel in any other b proved beyond doubt that this chalk märt extends under the sea from ahora to ahoře and that there will be no difficulty in following its course, although it may not be is quite a straight Hoe. The French
Th engineers agree with this view. place best suited for commencing the tun- Delis near Shakespeare Cliff, where proper cover will be obtained, the line of the tunnel proceeding thence towarda Sangatte on the French coast. It is a remarkable coincidence that this stratum should be so suitably placed in the very,
WEBAWEI, October 4th The Anglo-Chinese Commission had its
[FROM "TER TIMes.”] first formal conference on the 2nd inst. The proceedings began with a speech by
The impression which has prevailed in His Honour the Offer Administering the some quarters that unexpected difficulties Government" (Mr. Blunt), who in feli had arisen in the work of forming the nowy citous terms and with pardonable pride railway groups, and that the authority of referred to the excellent results of British the Amalgamation Tribunal would need to the past 4 years. There had been coa- typhus is decimating the Koreang in Piog tinuous, safety of life and security of but been arranged between the members of meut a few days ago that terms of fusion property: the people had been able to the Eastern Group came as a surprise to
proceed upon their lawful occasiona": the Revolution in China, the Great War many people, who imagined thas a stale in Europe, had left them untouched: and of dead-lock had arisen. "For their informa. there had been but one calamity, then it may be added that the tego tiations for the formation of the famine of 1910-1930, which had been re- lieved by the generosity of outsiders, both North-Western and Midland Group are SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS....... Foreign al Chinese, whose subscriptions now in a forward state, and that no hitch is totalled about $70,000. The task then likely to arise in bringing this, the largest IMPORTANT U.S. MILITARY
beforn the Commission was to evolve a of the groups, into being. There is, indeed, APPOINTMENT.
acheme which would ensure for Weihaiwei | every reason to believe that the whole of the in future the same security, the same groups will constitated by the action of the LONDON, October 19th. prosperity, the Territory had enjoyed railway companies concerned before the end under the British fag; and it is only of the present year, which is the period fixed Los pox, October 12th.
The Morning Post Washington cer.
that 'existing by the Railways Act for the process of The publication of the Colonial, Oiler
respondent says the appointment of reasonable to expect report on rubber restriction came as SERIOUS PLIGHT. OF PASSENGERS Brigadier-General Connor to succeed ign interests will in no way suffer voluntary amalgamation. In that case all loss.** Mr. Bhant drew attention to the that will be left for the tribunal to do is to Colonel Martin as Commander of the United States troops at Tientsin, indifact that the onus! influx of summer give its blessing to the various schemes.
visitors, some 500 in number, had been Government cates the importance the
It may be anticipated, therefore, that the attaches to the political situation in China an important factor in Weihaiwei's pre- railways of Great Britain will begin to and the necessity of having a high-rank. sent prosperity: that, apart from obvious operate on a new basis at the beginning of ed and experienced "oficer there, who natural advantages, the place bad been 1923. Far-reaching changes, which can, will presumably rank as senior officer, add attractive to visitors by above all, however, only be made by slow stages, are good sanitation and policing. It was up clearly foreshadowed, and the public should instead of the British commander,
to the incoming administration to make be gainers. Many believe that in any of Weihaiwel a great summer resort, and
event the tendency towards amalgamation failure to do so would hardly afford the of railways which has been revealed during strongest of arguments in favour, for recent years would, in the end, have had instance, of the abolition of extra- UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SPECIMENS territoriality,” The opportunity for much the same effect as the compulsory China is to create a model Government in formation into four large groups under the this Territory in order that all friends provisions of the Railways Act. That is and the majority of foreign residents in not a correct view; the provisions of the China are such may praise and admire Act have aroused a good deal of resentiment Turning to the Chinese delegates, Mr. in railway circles, and it would have taken Mr. Liang and Chinese generation to form these groups by Blunt said: members of the Commission, you have a voluntary methods.
Even now that two of the groups-the great opportunity to do a work for China out of all proportion to the importance Great Western and the Eastern-have been of this Territory-a work which all read formed, the extent and importance of the friends of China will hope to see you ful- amalgamation effected are not generally fil" He also referred to the public realized, and as it is obvious that the in- revenue and expenditure as evidences of terests if the business community and GERMAN GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS.
the material prosperity of Weihaiwei. the travelling public are closely bound U.S. TREASURY BONDS ISSUE Revenue to-day was more than six times up with the operation of railways under :: SPECULATION.
as large as the amount collected 20 years the now system, some details of the
·CONSTANTINOгLE, October 12th.
OVER SUBSCRIBED." Despite the signature of the Mulania
ago: expenditure had grown from $142,500 groups may be given. The Eastern BERLIN, October 12th. Agreement and Ismet Pasha's assurances
WASHINGTON, October 12th. to $226,667; there was no grant-in-aid this Group, which has just been constituted, A decren issued by the President against with regard to the suspension of move-1
supporting. To bring the place up to six' trunk milways-the Great Central,
KETHOD OF BORING." mr bunday north of Baridia, in the ed to prevent farther depreciation of the Mellon, announces that the issue of modern standards, to supply it with every North-Eastern, Great Northern Great meats of troops, 4,000 Turks crossed the speculation in foreign exchanges, intend The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Year; the Territory was virtually self- may be taken as an expample. It includes narrowest portion of the Straits of Dover. Mr. P. O Tempest, the engineer to the It forbids the $500,000,000 United States 41 per cent. modern convenience, would require a sub- Eastern, North British, and Great North of Channel Tunnel Company, has prepared smidt peninsula, this morning and admark, has been issued.
fixing of bone prices in foreign currency Treasury Bonds has been over subscrib. sidy of only £8,000 per annum, "I think Scotland-and comprises in single owner- numerous schemes for the approaches, con- vanced some miles to Tapeeuren.
General Harington immediately sent an or on the basis thereof, whilst purchases ed.
this might have been afforded "by the ship nearly seven thousand miles of railsidering in particular the position of aeroplane to drop a message of warning of foreign currency are subject to assent
ww.y. Its lines extend from London the mouth of the tunnel, which up to now to the commander against trespassing on
"One last word. It is argued, I be through the heart of industrial England has been a great stumbling block. These the neutral zone, whilst the British Con
lieve, that the lease of Weihaisei would to the northern boundary of Scotland, and schemes are ready for submission whenever mander on the Asiatic side sent a emis
have expired in any case next year and penetrate into the coal, iron and steel, and called for. Bary with a white flag o #similar purposes. Banks must be satisfied with
that the action of Great Britain at shipbuilding areas. The group owns and regard to the identity of sellers of for
Washington was dictated, not by gen operates sixteen ports, including those of the tunnel will be apced and disposal of General Harington also telegraphed to eign currency befors purchasing. The
erosity, but by a desire to gain credit fall, Grimsby and Immingham, and the guavation. Great things are expected Ismet Pasha and Mustapha Kemal drawcontrol departments must examine trans-
by forestalling the inevitable, and to save Methil, and operates important steamship of the new excavating machine, which actions to s if the purchase is used for attention to the breach of agreement.
money in grants-in-aid, Aa to the services to the Continent from Harwich, should have an output greater than any- While it is possible that the movement Purposes economically necessary, not in- was carried out by the local commander cluding speculation or the chaployment
former, he would be a bald man who Hull, Newcastle, and Leith. Nearly thirty thing hitherto used for tunnel boring, would assert that had great Britain de hotels are also included in the properties "without higher orders, these familiar with of foreign currency as an investment.
sired to continue the lease, China would acquired by this group. "Turkish diplomacy regard the breach of Offenders are liable to a maximum of
have been justified in refusing under the faith more seriously. It is felt that the three years' imprisonment and a fine of
most favoured nation clause. As to the Turks may be endeavouring to obtain a ten times the amount involved.
latter, I have already shown that the atrangle-hold on Constantinople, in order The Lokul Aussier says the German
Territory is just self-supporting."
Mr. Blunt then asked Mr. Bertram Giles, C.M.C., ne Senior Delegate, to take the Chair at that and subsequent meet inga. After a speech by His Excellenc M. Liang, Admiral Wu on behalf of the Chinese Navy outlined the attitude of the Chinese Gorerament towards retro- cession, with special reference to the use of Liuk angtao as a summer resort for the British Fleet.
by the Cryin Legislature, will operate as from November 1st in order to secure uniformity in both countries,
TURKS BREAK MUDANIA AGREEMENT.
GENERAL HARINGTON ISSUES A WARNING.
mission.
は
New York, October 12th.
LONDON, October 19th. Professor J. W. Gregory has arrived in Leadon, from a scientific expedition in South-West China. He said the expedi- The passengers from the City "of tion had been most successful despite Humofula are safe. The yacht uxin is torrential rains and terrific foods. He | scamlinga hyun
bad secured a unique collection of botanical, zoological and geological speci-
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FLUCTUATIONS. -
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by special control departments except in BECKETT DEFEATS MORAN. the case of forms or persons certified as
LONDON, October 12th, requiring foreign currency for business
At the Albert Hall, in a twenty-round contest, the British heavyweight, Jo Beckett, beat the American, Frank Moran, The referee stopped the contest in the seventh round. CABLE COMPANY'S PROFITS.
BERLIN, October 19th-
Government measures to prevent specula-
LONDON, October 12th. The Eastern Extension: Australia and China Telegraph Company's report for 1 shows revenue of £2,394,000; avail. to be able to demand the evacuation "of
able for balance, £1,207,000 transferred to General Reserve, 300,000; and caution Conference.
tendering or acceptance of foreign cur for 1921 is ten per cent.. tax free.
forward, £307,000. The total distribution FRENCH CHAMBER DISCUSSES" rency for purposes of speculation or
TROOP, MOVEMENTS,
boarding: the issue of four hundred mil- BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE lion gold marks Treasury Bonds at 4 per PARIS, October 12th.
cent, having as security the receipts from The Chamber has re-opened. There were many interpellations with regard to the export taxes and the increase in receipts Government's policy. Replying to a re
Loxtos, October 19th: ference to French troops at Chanuk, M. Poincare declared that the troops were Io London, marks opened at 10,500 to
the £. The report of German Govern Beat, there without the authority or con
ment measures to check gaubling on ment of the Government, and as soon as he knew they were at Chanak he ordered exchange brought out a few buyers but their withdrawal This was one of the sellers held back, market opinion being nitiatives on which he prided himself that the internal position of Germany did most and he was of opinion that it was one not justify the appreciation. The quota-i of these which most contributed to the pre- tion finally relapsed to 12,300,
the foreign troops before the Near Easton in currency include prohibition of
servation of peace.—(Loud applause). The Franco-italiar Generals at Constantinople acquicsced in General Harington's request
to send, contingents to Chanak, but he
from the coal tax.
:
AMERICAN PROHIBITION
RULING.
(M. Poincare) was only informed thereofSHIPOWNERS SECURE RESTRAIN afterwards. He consulted Marshal Foch and the French General Staff, who un animously declared that the position
ING ORDER.
New Yona, October 12th
1:
RETURNS.
Lorde's, October 12th. The Board of Trade returns for Sept. show that import totalled £77,000,000 and exports £62,500,000.
THE GRAVES AT GALLIPOLI.
British Government."
.
The subsequent proceedings necessarily took the form of a preliminary discussion, principally with reference to the status and administration of the Taland in the future, more particularly from the Naval standpoint.
"
The Great Western Group, although smaller "is character, provides transport facilities for the whole of the South Wales area, including the great chain of docks from Bristol to Fishguard, and with the exception of the Bristol deck system, owns the whole of the dock system.
* THE LARGEST GROUP.
AMERICAN" HUSBANDS AND in this group.
ALIEN WIVES.
The main factors in the construction of
This rapid excavator will require a Here again the engineer comes to the willing partner-to dispose of the "spoil." rescue with an ingenious scheme. Instead of laboriously loading the spoil" into trucks and hauling them away on special tracks, there will be powerful mixing machines installed to convert the "spoil" into a kind of soup by adding water. Huge pumps will then dispose of this The North-Western and Midland Group, liquid as fast as the work of excavation proceeds. This system is known in engi- which is the largest of the four, comprises neering parlance as the slurrification. no fewer than thirty-five milway companies, including important undertakings like the It is fully anticipated that these London and North Western, the Midland, methods will materially reduce the time
and of construction. the Caledonian, the Lancashire Yorkshire, the North Staffordshire, the Glasgow and South-Western, the Highland, and the Furness. The docks owned include Gnagemouth, Garston, Fleetwood, lines as a single system must be associated and Heysham, and the group has interests with changes of this character. These in Kolyhead and Barrow. The services to changes need not work to the public' Dublin and Balfaat are given by railways disadvantage. Numbers of persons visited Callipoli in
Other reforms will be the concentration the spring, according to a report received
The other group; the Southern, which of locomotive and wagda buildingand repairs from the War Graves Commission's
includes the London and South-Western, in fewer workshops, the reduction in the officer at Anzac (Lieutenant-Colonel C. E.
AN ANOMALOUS STATE OF the South Eastern and Chatham, and number of types of engines, and the stand- Hughes), Two special tours were organised,
AFFAIRS.
Brighton systems, and fourteen subsidiary ardization of details of design of both and many. Australians were included in the
companies, of which the most important are locomotives and passenger and wagon steek. parties,
Accommodation was provided, The U.S. Consulate-General at Shang the Isle of Wight railways, is responsible The gradual introduction of high-capacity and assistance was given in the finding of hai has communicated to the Press the not only for transport facilities over the wagons, and perhaps the absorption of the would be untenable if attacked. M. Poin- The Cunard and Anchor Line officials special graves, There are now 32 cemeteries following important announcement:" south and west of England, but for the privately owned wagons, are other develop care immediately warned the Allies, lay- have asked the Federal District Court on the Peninsula. Of these 21 are situated
The following telegraphic instruction cross-Charnel services which link the ments which are in mind. These are the ing stress on the fact that should a single for an injunction to restrain the Govern at Anzac, six at Cape Helles, four at Suvla dated September 27th, 1992, from the British railway system with the Continent. main directions in which economies in shot be fired, a general war might resultent from seizing ships liquor.
Bay, and one "at Kalid Bahr. Stone
Nor should it be overlooked that many operating costs are being sought, and GREEKS AGREE TO SIGN TREATY.
The Judge refused the application but protection walls have been constructed Department of State, has been received:
Under Statuts in effect September, of the railways included in the groups are it is regarded as certain that material ordered the Federal authorities to show round nine of the cemeteries at Anzac 1922, no alien woman acquires American owners of canals.. The Birmingham Canal savings can be effected without impairing
the work is being proceeded A semi-official message from Athens use by the 18th inst. why the injune-and
to America and the Shropshire Union and the Forth efficiency of service. The worst that the on the mienta
the ut states that as the Greek Government has tion should not be granted.
embarkation, points. It is expected that itizen. Hereafter each passport and re and Clyde Canal are among the properties publie could suffer would be the withdrawal dinitely decided to accept the clauses of
New Yonx, October 12th. On the application of the Internationa! the first headstones will arrive at Anzac for Bistration application including wife acquired by the North-Western and Mid- of some of the slow passenger trains which must state date of marriage. Each land Group; and the Great Western are in the existing time tables, but this Mercantile Marine, acting for the Ameri-erection in September. Every effort is
woman married after the passage of the combine avas, among other waterways, would be a small price to pay for cheaper can lines of that Corporation, the Federa! being made to keep the cemeteries free from Act must scompany her application with the Kennet and Avon system. In spite of travelling Goods train services could be, Court has granted a temporary restrain weeds, and the visitors expressed keen satir evidence of her own citizenship. Appli- the criticism which has been levelled at and probably would be, speeded up, owing ing order prohibiting probibition officers faction with the conditions. Those whose cations which include wives married after railway companies in connexion with can-to the extension of through running from carrying out the Federal order, loved ones sleep on Gallipoli." Colonel the passage of the Act must be a reliable als under their control, some of these facilities, and there should be a reduction under Attorney-General Daugherty's, rul Hughes says, "zuay, he assured that their evidence of both the wife's and husband's waterways carry a considerable traffic in empty wagon mileage following the ing, to seize ships' liquors aboard vessels resting places will be always safeguarded citizenship. Alieni wives will not be in- Some of the companies also operate road absorption of the wagon stock of many of these lines..
Our staff consists of eight Australians, four cluded in passport."
passenger services on a large scale, and it is railways by a single-owning company. Englishmen, and two New Zealanders. This is an important change in pass common knowledge that the railways - These things are, however, only the The decision with regard to the appli. Great credit is due to them for the way they part and registration regalatious, and whole desire to carry goods by road as well obvious developments of the group system. sation of the International Mercanti base stack to the work through the trying the American Consul-General hopes that as by rail LONDON, October 12th.
There are other reformis which can only be With the Near East controversies Marine affects only the steamers Finland heat in the summer and the blizzards in the those concerned, when making application
DUTIES TO THE PUBLIC.
suggested, by the experience of working. momentarily settled, the subject of re and St. Paul, but steamship owners, ball winter. We should very much like to have for passport or registration, will be pro-
The question will be asked whether the under the new conditions. Among these is parations has been revived by the Paris it as a victory, because the order for the a visit from an official Australian represen-pared to furnish the desired information. elimination of competition which must be the question of operating the whole of the nowapapere, which declare that the next uforcement of Attorney-General Daug-tative."
associated with the operation of railways on British railway system by electrical methods. session of the Reparations Commission, herty's ruling was to become effective at
the group system and the extended use of The time when the capital outlay on the must give attention to the serious situn midnight to-morrow"
road transport will be associated with conversion of the railways from steam to improved or inferior transport, facilities electrical operation would be justified is Taking a broad view, it seems probable nearer, perhaps, than most people imagine. that a better service will be given to the A charge of this far reaching character public at lower rates for both goods and would put the existing trafie arrangementa
LONDON, October 19th.
the Armistice Treaty, the Gruck delegates will siga by Saturday.
Heuter's Athens, correspondent says vaartial law has been proclaimed through
out Greece,
THE REPARATIONS PROBLEM COMMISSION TO CONSIDER MARK DEPRECIATION.
tion resulting from the depreciation of
LATER.
the marke
COST OF THE U.S. COAL
M. Barthou, interviewed, repudiated i
STRIKE,
New York, October 12th.
the suggestion of the German Prese that
his appoltitment meant boercive measures,
with
NEW BOMB THROWN AT THE
THE THEOLOGIAN,
citizenship by marringe
INCREASED SMUGGLING INTO GREAT BRITAIN, The higher customs duties levied during Sir S. C. Sherrington, in his presidential the past few years are held accountable for He declared he would study the question The ex-president of the National Coal address to the British Association hurled the striking increase in snuggling do dia passengers. It is probable that by slow into the melting-pot. Few of these reforms impartially, while upholding the Treaty Association, Mr. Bradley, estimates that a new bomb at the theologians by standing closed in the latest report of the Commisstages the whole of the passenger services can be made immediately, but their of Versailles,
the nation suffered losses aggregating that the human being was merely a cleversioners of Customs and Excise. Tobacco will be revised to get rid of duplicated accomplishment in clearly brought much The newspapers state that the Commis £297,000,000 from the recent coil strike, ly devised animal machine. Life was not and spirits are chiefly concerned. There trains, and that a reorganization of good nearer by the decision to operate tha sion yosterday considered a scheme sab of which £112,000,000 was lost by the more than working mechanism. The mind were only 8,500 seizures in 1904, while there traffic will be brought about so that freight milways in largo groups and by the news mitted by Sir John Bradbury, which is miners in wages, £75,000,000 by the rail hitherto regarded was non-existent but were 11,000 last year. Similarly the penal trains may follow the shortest routes The that the formation of the groups is now designed to prevent Germany's financial ways, £100,000 by the public in fael and was simply the highest point of develop ties recovered percased From £5,400 to working of four or five or more important practically completed. 4 new railway erá
"£10,000,000' by the mine-owners.
ment in the nervous system.
(Onsikesed of feet of ngat cohama
219,000.
about to dawn