THE KING'S FIRST DIRTHDAY;
It was the 9th November, 1901. All Hong- kang had attended the grand parade of troops in the Happy Valley in honour of the King's birthday and both troops and public had gone to rest, aller a rather tiring day and were sleep- ing the sleep of the just. Thus the blow fell all the more unexpectedly and like a thunderclap. Affairs in the North had dragged on in a most unsatisfactory manner throughout the sumer. Russia had made herself obnoxious over the Corean affair and had been backed up by France. There had been one of the periodical war scares, and the whole of the British deet had been hurried north to dog the combined French and Russian squadrons and a fine dance they had been led, but matters were supposed to be amicably settled and, hence, nobody expected anything out of the common to happen.
But Russia and France perfectly understood what they were about and had been, right through the summer, preparing a grand coup which was now to take place. Russia had a reinforcement of a couple of battleships and three cruisers on the way nut. They had been dogged as far as Singapore by the East Indian squadron, and from there as the scare was over they were allowed to come up the China coast unwatched. France nehdy took any account of She had been active in Canton and on the West River, but nobody supposed for a minule that her four or five small river gunboats would ever trouble Hongkong. At the same time that the Russian reinforcentents for the fleet passed Singapore, three of the Russian Volunteer Fleet went through with troops, but the pay sage of these vessels through the Straits is of too common occurrence to excite comment
But under all this lay a network of prepara tions which nobody dreamed of The French. were sending home a couple of regiments from Saigon and a battery artillery and these were time to leave Shigon about the 5th of Novemlier. So they did, and what is more, they met the Russian squadron and turned back under casy steam, passing Saigon and coming on towards "Hongkong, but keeping well out of the regular track of vessels, if order not to excite suspicion. There were thus two battleships and seven transports, with three best cruisers on the way to Hongkong. and nobody dreamed of any war cloud being
in the air
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.
And the priest paused awhile in his praying. **We were friends from" boyhood, "Father. He was a Churchman, though not your faith and he stood by my side when my girl wife; and I were married, and his lips were first 10 wish us long life and happiness, and his hand was the first that we clasped, as man and wife, He was my friend, and in all the wide tarth there was none whom I loved as I loved him for he had stood between me and trouble from childhood."
TEACHING HIS GRANDMOTHER Take this "Consular report" upon its own merits, ye sons of the land of George Stephen- son, who gave to the world that same locemo- tive the Americans will now teach us how to build and use,
details of the raid leaked out. It seems that The explosions which blew in the caissons of the docks and ruined them completely for the time being, were occasioned by five ordinary, launches, which had been quietly fitted out at Canton as temporary torpedo boats, and came In answer to the telegram sent off by the French
Owing to their constant use without proper Consul. They excited no suspicion as they
attention American locomotives have developed steamed in, in fact it is doubtful if they were
a shortness of steam on the steep grades.". over noticed at all. The cutting of the wires
It would be interesting to have these "asth throughout the Colony, was cared out by the innocent looking bathing parties, who, it need "And he wronged you?" murmured thematic symptoms more definitely described. Absence of proper attention may indeed cause hardly be said, all withdrew with the French priest with white set face. Cansul to the foreign ships. This having been "Listen, Father. One night, my horse had axle boxes to fire, bearing brasses to chatter, or done, the rest was comparatively easy. About gone lame with me as I rode homewards, so Ialve glands to blow. But how it can check mistnight, men were landed from the warships threw the bridle over my arm and walked up the generation of steam in a boiler beats all and troopers at different points along the south the hillside, and neither the hoofs nor my footy going fishing to determine. coast in small parties. These rushed the out-steps made any sound on the deep grass that lying Police stations, and so well were these grew there, so together the old chesnut and I orders carried out, that no alarm was raised. reached a gap in the hedge that faced my As soon as this was done, a fairly large force bedroom window, and. I was passing through with field guns was landed and proceeded to when saw a man standing in the garden, and the hills overlooking Hongkong, by way of the his head just reached above the windowsill. Aberdeen and Pokfulam Roads. A considerable Are you listening, Father?" force was sent round the Island by the Aberdeen Road, and had very little difficulty in rushing Belcher's Battery from the rear, and the turn ing of its guns on the Cosmopolitan Docks, Torpedo Depot and Barracks of the Hongkong regiment was easily managed. The only places where any opposition was met with were at Mount Austin Barracks and the Sanitarium at Magazine Cap; but the men at both these places were taken completely by surprise and, being without ammunition, were soon account
ed for.
As soon as the destruction of our Docks,, Naval and Ordnance Yards, Harracks, Ma- gazines and the Torpedo Depot was complete. the invaders calmly destroyed the breeches of the guns and retired, having rendered Hong- kong practically useless as a base in the war which followed.
As for our store of coal, that was fired during
hired for the purpose by the French Consul.
the general confusion by Chinese incendiaries,
The raid was truly awful in its consequences, and its daring simplicity ensured success,
W. FARMER.
A LIFE FOR A LIFE.
BY A. G. HALES.
Now the French Consul at Hongkong, had
The man on the rude bunk in the tattered been invited in witness the review at Happy Valley, but he sent a polite Ihile note, pleading tent smiled grimly into the priest's eyes. Yet indisposition. This id but however prevent in that one quick smile there was a lifetime of his receiving spine twenty or thity French scorn and bitterness, and the priest, looking subjects who came to call at his residence at down with pitying gharn on that hard, stern, about four o'clock, and who were closeted with unyielding, face, upon which the twilight of him for fully half-an-hour. One of them on death was fast setting, knew intuitively that a leaving went to the Telegraph Office and dis-wild and waste ile vas ebbing to its close. patched a wire, The rest, accompanied by He stropest and ran his soft white hand over the Cans, split themselves up into four the brow which carried many a furrow that separate panies and wem quietly down to years alone had auver placed there, for he who different piers, from which unostentatious lay dying was a young man still-young as the Lunches were steaming away shortly afterwards years are counted, öld in, adversity and in carrying very merry bathing parties.
Iniquity,
44
Go on to the end, said the sorrowful voice of the Churchman,
"I saw him, and knew him ; it was my friend the friend of a lifetime. Then the window rpened, and my wife leant down; I saw the gleam of the lamp on her bright brown hair, and on the white gown, on her arms and neck as she leant far out of 'the window. In her hand she held a bunch of roses, the same that now lie beneath my pillow. She raised the roses to her lips, and, kissing them, to him, and he, with a light happy laugh, turned with the flowers in his hand and walked with swift flying steps to the gap in the hedge where I stood; and. I, O God -1 did not speak. could not speak; my tongue was as iron in my mouth, and the witd blond of a wild race was singing in my veins.
He stopped with a little start of surprise when he saw me; then came on with 'out.
stretched hand. 1. dashing his hand aside, felled him to the earth with one blow. of my fist, and kicked him as a man kicks a hound that has bitten the hand that fed him. Then he staggered to his feet and faced me with his face all bathed in blood; and, being a man, he struck back, and then scarcely know how it was done; it Was
old wrestling trick 1 had learnt in the gymnasium-bot his back was across my knee, my forearm was across his throat, and i threw. all my weight on the curve of his neck. There was a quick sharp sound, as if something in his back had broken. One low, bitter, awful cry left his lips, and he lay dying at my feet.""
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Băd coal inight do it, but this cause could scarcely be construed into want of proper attention. The only other reason which can be assigned for a locomotive losing sterm upon a heavy gradient is owing to the boiler being too small to keep the cylinders supplied. To suggest this as the explanation of the American engines failure in the Con- sular report would probably be to hit the right mail upon the head. They were doubtless built with very large cylinders, to give them great tractive power; but these would have the effect of exhausting steam faster than the boiler could generate it when hanling big loads up steep banks,
Consignees.
FROM HAMBURG, ANTWERPEN, PENANG AND SINGAPORE
THE H.A.L, Steamship
Captain Burmeister, having arrived from the " SITHONIAP
above parts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to shad in their Bills of Luting for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediats delivery of their goods from alongside.
This Steamer brought also the Hongkong Cargo x H. A. L. 3.5, ARAGONIA' from Ni YORK, which Cargo was transhipped at Singapore.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Nuo TO-DAY.
Any Cargo Impeding her discharge will be landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
No Clains will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th instant, will be subject to rent.
AB braken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will he examined on the 25th instant, at 3 P.ST. No Fire Insurance has been effected
HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Omice. Hangkong, 18th July, 1921. *
· [761° NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES...
prove utterly unequal to performing the task.
And why should the new English engine which the short-winded Yankee engine had been accomplishing regularly? It is to be presumed that when the order for the lace- inatives was placed the character of the work they were required to do would he specified. THE P. & G. S. N. Co.'s Steamship The Consul simply suggests that British loze. motive engineers are incapable of turning out) engines that will pull their loads up heavy in! clipes. If he knows what he is talking about. (which seems scarcely possible in a man who
speaks of developing shortness of steam then he must be conscious that he is writing
bosh!
"COROMANDEL"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
being landed and placed at their risk in the Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kuwlou, where each THE FACTS ABOUT FOREIGN ORDERS. consignment will be scried out mark by mark The British engineman.needs no exponen and delivery can be obtained as soon as the hounds in which he takes an insatiable pride. This vessel brings on Cargo:-- to apologise for the magnificent steel grey-Goods are fanded.
But for all that, I cannot refrain from chal tenging the Yankee Consular report in the fr quoque spişik..
We love American locomotives over here, as doubtless this Consul would gleefully remind us.The Midland are working several of them on their road, and I un acquainted with the driver's of two of these.
The Yankee engineering journals exulted when the Midland Company placed their con- tract with the Baldwin Works. Their cry was that English, focomotive practice was now killed by cheaper and superior American production. They forgot to mention, although they no doubt knew, the real reason of these orders coming, across the Atlantic. The Midland had occasion to greatly increase its rolling stock. Derby was quite inadequate to promptly coping with the demand the big private firms which supply many of our rallways, such as Messrs. Sharp, Stewart and Co., Messrs. Dubbs, and Stephenson and Son, were chock-a-block with contracts, and would undertake nothing more for a long while ahead.
locomotives at once, and so they had to go to
And the priest went on with his praying. **Then picked him up in my are as though he had been carrion, and, with him took the little bunch of roses, and passing through the house, I carried my burden into my wife's hed-chamber, and threw the man and the flowers at her feet. She, being a woman, understood it all without words. She went down upon her knees by the limp body, taking his face between her hands she pressed it to her bosom and kissed the white hips; whilst I, mad with the madness of a devil untamed, Nuthing tiappened until nearly daylight of Outside the tent the night was calm and heaped taunts upon her head and bis. And I the tenth-at least nothing so far as anyone instill, excepting when a burst of rude laughter stond by and saw her struggle with her broken the city knew. Then the whole town was or the chorus of a song ring out from one of load until she placed the dying man upon her Awakened by a tremendous explosion in the of the many groups of diggers who were gather-bed-her bed and mine-and then she turned, direction of Hungham ocks, followed a few ed around the camp fies of inter's Gully, for and taking from my pillow, where she had pin seconds afterwards by several others from the the "boys" were on gold in Kuralpi, and a day ned it, a letter, gave it to me with the one word The Midland had no choice; they wanted same direction and by similar explosions from of toll was ended, usually, by a night of riot. "coward" on her tongue, and then sped away the Cosmorulitan Docks. Everybody turned The priest looked down upon the broad into the night to bring a physician, who lived Ainerica for them. They got them cheaper it out. The General gave orders to telegraph to shoulders, and the white round arms that close by, and I was left alone with him and the is true, but they assuredly did not get them Kowloon immediately to find out the cause of looked almost womanisly in their nudity, and letter she had given me. I read it through better. Their drivers all tell you the same tale the explosions. The Governor gave similar he knew, for he was a man of the world as from end to end, and then all heaven and hallThe boilers are big, the heating surface is large, orders, but they were never carried out. The well as a priest, that the week before him was seemed to open, and the air was full of con.
the remnant of an athlete. He did not low demnation.
and they make steam well. In this one respect the man except by repute, and the reputation the farm upon the bed, and saw the big been ahead of our own, although we are now I looked up at last-lanked at American locomotive practice has undoubtedly he had borne was an evil one. He had heard black eyes of him I had loved fixed on my turning our engines quite equal to any of theirs of him as a cynic in his sober moments, and face with such a gaze of yearning love and in this respect, as witness the huge Great as a savage in his cups. A sneering, reckless, pity that all the marrow froze within my bones, Western structures of the "Waterford" class. ruthless devil, possessing neither love nor
and with one bitter cry I asked my God to reverence for things buman or divine One let the hills fall down and' cover me, He who knew no fear and had no faith. Men said called my name and I crept close to him. he was one who would give his last crust He drew my head down, and he kissed my to a starving dog, and his last sneer to lips, and out of his love forgave me all, and had liked from the letter in my hand, and from his dying him as much as the men hated him, and lips that never lied, I knew that he had come he repaid their liking with careless wooing that night to tell my wife how that evening he and macking contempt, until they said that he had won the promise of her dearest friend to was fair to none and faithless to all. And be his wife, and she had given him the roses now he was hovering on the very boundary of to take as a sweet token of her fond regard, life's lease.
with wishes for a happy, hopeful life. that his life was sapped, and that the shroud and not the bridal garb would be his portion, he told them all it was an accident, a horse's placed my hand within my wife's and asked blunder in the darkness did it; and then he her, for the Man of Nazareth's sake, to let the
wires were col.
woman-and yet women
You had better leave me, Father.
"I cannot leave you to die alone, my son.. Is there not one man in all the camp whose hand your would like to grasp before the end Again that cold smile flashed over the clean cut face. Not one, Father; no, not one, neither
comes?"
Then an awful thing happened. It was but some thres minutes after the first explosion on the Kowloon, side, when there was a deafening Fuar overhead, and the horror-struck inhabitants As they were rushing out of doors saw that several guns han "been posted at Victoria and Magasine Gaps, with more along Barker Road, and the whole of them had opened fire simultaneously upon the Barracks, the Naval Yard, and the Ordinance Yard. Bugles were ringing out in the Barracks and officers and men were rushing" out to Queen's Road and forming up as quickly as possible, but before anything could be done a sound of sharp musketry firing from the Magazines told that there was trouble in that quarter. It continued for perhaps three minutes and, just as the first company of men was advancing at the double in that direction, a muffled roar told them that one of the Magazines had gone up. The concussion was tremendous; houses col- lapsed like packs of cards and hundreds of people were crushed in the streets by falling walls and roofs. The ruin was tremendous. here por in all the earth. Do not rats leave. Then, one by one, the other magazines ex-sinking ship? Friends are true until the bank ploded and the havoc wrought was fearful, breaks, then good-bye to friendship. I know, The Volunteer battery attached to the China for I have tried them, Father, and I'd rather die ulane like a wounded dog than have those Sugar Refinery at East Poini bad mustered and were just on paint of marching out, when I'don't believe in with me in an hour like this," Kellet Island magazine went up. The sugar
"Is there no wonian, my son, whose bands works and adjacent house; were blown into dust can close your eyes and soothe the last dark and the battery was completely buried in the hour? Tell me, my son, and no matter whom debris. Hardly a house remained standing in or what, she may be, I will bring her to you if every direction, and made the whole City a she is within my reach." perfect Hell. Hundreds, nay thousands were "A woman, Father? In all God's earth there slowly burnt to death, owing to their inability is not one whose hand could help me now." to escape from the ruins of the houses, And "Then let me pray for you, for there is one then, as if in mockery, Belcher's battery at
friend to whom the friendless can turn when West Point, opened fire, but not on the guns earth holds none. You are not of my faith; on the hills. It turned its attention to the but as a man and a sinner let me kneel and Torpedo Depot and Cosmopolitan Docks. As pray for your immortal soul." for the men-of-war in port, there was only the "No, not that, Father. Let me die as I have Talbot, with her engines all to pieces, and the lived-friendless, faithless, podless, and alone." "destroyers. None of them had steam up and 'I will not leave you, though you are stub- lying right under the hill, they could not bring born in your sin ; even to the doors of death I a gun to bear, at such a great elevation.
will go with you.
"How long shall, I live, father?” "Two hours, my son."
Then let me talk, if you will stay, and when the end comes take from beneath my pillow a bunch of withered roses and place them in my dead hand,"
Is that all, my son "It is all, Father."
A TIN-POT CROCK,
But here the virtues of the Yankee engine cease. The motive works and valve gear are distinctly inferior to that of our own locomo tives in design and workmanship, and immea surably sa in quality. One of the Midland drivers assured me that the rods and spindles wear so fast is as to keep a man busy most of bis time in adjusting them. Low price and Give me one of our Derby red racers, and bad stuff" said he with a significant grin
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HE
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instructions are given to the contrary before 2 PM, TO-DAY,",
Goods not cleared by the ith instant, at PM, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me is any case whatever.
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims 'will be recognised.
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CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
"GAELIC."
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
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THE Steamship
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby "MARIA VALERIE,"
informed that their Goods ane being landed at and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.
per Share for the ix months ending 30th Jago, being at the RATE of TWELVE per Cent per annum, will be PAYABLE on the 27th instant, on which Date DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on Application at the Company's Office, No. 5, Queen's Road Central,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 22nd to the 27th. instant, (both Days inclusive).
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"And when they came to him and told him will be buzzing my road up the Lickie long their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong 1.EVER WATCH & CHRONOGRAPHS.
past be buried with him.
"But from that hour to this I've been a
vagrant on the face of the earth, a wanderer without friends or resting place. My punish ment has never ceased by night or day, and every hour has been to me a living death. I never met a man to call him comrade but he betrayed my trust, and laughed at me until I learned to loathe the very voice of mankind. have known no woman in these long, accursed years who has cotturned when trouble touched me, or else grew weary of me as a passing toy so I grew weary of the ceaseless pain, and with my own hand I have paid the penalty of the unpardonable crime, for life must be given. Father, place the bunch of roses so that they will hide the gunshot wound through which my life is ebbing. Throw the tent wide open; let me see the camp fire glisten once again. And the priest closed the tired eyelids, and went on with his praying.
So this must be the ending."
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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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after this lamp-black and tinpot crack has rusted out of sight upon the scrap heap." phy of the subject. The Yankee engine is His remark summed up the whole philoso her the period of its life. Our Consular cheaper, but the saving is affected by sacri friend reports the American locomotive in Jamaica as breaking down after five years. As in illustration of the length of life of a British engine, the old "Corewall," built for the London and North-Western Railway in the forties, quite recently ran the West Coast Diner (the heaviest train in England) from Euston to Preston at express speed. Many of the converted broad gauge engines on the work after a quarter of a century of hard usage. Great Westem are still daily doing first-class
clear our minds of cant. The British lace-
Let us, in the language of Dr. Johnson, TE P. & O. 5. N. CO's Steamship motive is the finest, as it certainly is the hand- somest, engine in the world. Other countries. claim faster trains. France runs the Amiens what our pessimists forget, in bewailing such express, which beats our highest record. But **tate of affairs, is the bulk of traffic," Take your stand upon the platform of any wayside station on one of our great lines, and hour by hour watch express after express go dashing through.
"TIENTSIN,"
vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are FROM BOMBAY AND STRAITS. Consignees of Carga by the above-named being landed and placed as their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo:-
From London, &c., ex S.S. Egypt and Clyde, Goods not cleared by the 23rd instant, at 4
No other country in the world can approach it. America runs the "Empire State Express," which gets "line clear" for an hour ahead, France will run one traip at sixty miles an hour, will be subject to rent. to every score of ours that do fifty-five miles an No Fire Insurance will be affected by me in bour. Our drivers know that they can neverAll damaged Packages-must-be-left-in-the-
any case whatever, have a clear road for more than a few minutes Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob. summed up.
Then for many minutes the dying man lay/Past has, says Mr. Herbert Russell, lain in the ahead, and in this the whole matter of speed is tained from the Godown Company within top
In twenty minutes Hongkong had been converted into a mass of ruins. Every Dock, and each had a vassel in it at the time, liad had its caisson blown in, wrecking the vessel within and damaging the sill to auch. an extent that it would take months to repair The guns on Barker Road and at the Gaps, had knocked the buildings at the Neval Yard, the Ordnance Yard, and the whole of the and Electric Works, Belcher's had turned its Barracks to pieces, besides destroying the Gas guns on the Torpedo Yard And Cosmopolitan Docks, and had completed the wreck which the first explosions had commenced. Then there was a full for a few minutes before firing recommenced, but this time it was not the guns on the hills that spoke, it was Stone- And the priest bowed his head, and went on cutter's and Kowloon Easi shelling the heightspraying silently. from the town.
But although the old Wivery joined in, the guns at the Peait failed to reply, and it was then seen that they were deserted. The remnant of the Garrison which had escaped the general destruction below, and the rein: forcement from Kowloon, and Volunteers, made a rush for both Gaps and met with no opposition whatever. All they saw was the tall end of a body of mon disappearing somewhere far down the Aberdeen Road, and that was all the Garrison of Hongkong saw of the invaders, who withdrew to the ships in waiting and got -clear away with the loss only of a couple of their transports, which were overtaken and sunk by four destroyers which went in pursuit -some couple of hours later,
down the plains and gullies and over the hill still with white set face, looking backwards tops of a blasted life, and when he spoke his voice had lost its rough, rude tone, and he talked as a well-bred man of the city talks "Shall I take you back with me over twelve long years, Father -
Most men have their hobby; mine for years.
tion for no other purpose than to establish my direction of travelling upon the locomotives of our various express trains. Which fact I men- claim to speak with some little degree of know ledge upon the merits and performances of British engines.
Of all the exaggerated nonsense talked about invincible Yankeedom, I think the following paragraph, which I have culled from my even She was my wife, Father, only a slip of ang paper, beats the lot girl, with a gentle. tender face. I can see her A Consular report just received from now as I could see her then, smiling in all the Jamaica states that a patriotic but expensive grace of girlhood, the bonniest, proudest face effort has been made to substitute British for in all the south land. She loved me then, and ¦ American' locomotives on the famaica Rail- I loved her too. I can see the cottage in the way. Owing to their constant use without hills, the little white cottage that was built like proper attention American locomotives have a bird's nest, half shrouded in trees. I can developed a shortness of steam on the steep smell, even now, the moss roses and wild ger grades, and so, under the impression that aniums that struggled all over the great wilder British makers would turn out better engines, ness we called our garden, and the hedge of wild | five were ordered from England. One of the fure that skirted the road. I can see it now new English engines was tested with five loaded as plainly as I used to see it morning and and two emply cars, and proved utterly unequal night as I jumped my horse over it, and the to the task of hauling the cars up a high hill | little creek bordered with pear-trees, where she which had been regularly crossed by the and I used to sit in the hot noontide in the American engines drawing six loaded cars. The honeymoon days, and talk of love, and the American locomotives in use for five years cost future-I can see it all, Father."
about £2,000 each, while the English ones cost nearly £4,00q each.”
Previous to leaving, however, the invaders had placed and exploded mines at Tytam, Pokfulum and Wongneichong dams, entirely destroying the water-supply and rendering the efforts of the Fire Brigade in extinguishing the fires absolutely futile, except along the water-front How it was all brought about was not learnt
■ considerable time, but by degrees the | my side,”.
And the priest went on with his praying. "I can see him, too-my firmest friend. '1 see him now with his brave good face, looking so kingly in the calm of an unspotted life, and the sight of that face brings back a pain that deadens the anguish of the gunshot wound in
That this pretty little anecdote emanates from Washington almost goes without saying. But my evening paper quotes it without comment, evidently in the belief that the statements it contains are quite true. And no doubt, roost of its readers will implicitly swallow it too,
because of the superior merits of their loco-
Is there anyone who really believes that days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which other countries can run. their trains faster
no Claims will be recognised, motives? If so, let me tell them this: Many
Η A RITCHIE, a time, with the permission of the authorities,
Superintcadent Hongkong, 13th July, romi, have I myself driven the fastest regular train *** NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. in England (335 ex Paddington), running over 100 miles without stopping And at the time THE P. & O. 6. N. Co's Steamship when we have been thundering over the rand at seventy miles an hour, with ten eight-wheel ad bogle coaches behind us, oach weighing forty-five tone, the engine has been notched-up to one-third its valve stroke,
Which means that with such a load and at such a speed the locomotive was only using one third of the power she was actually gen arating. To have opened her to her fullet capacity would have been to have made her spit red hot ashes amid the pouring volumes from her chimney, and to have quickened her speed until the first sharp curve checked her tempestuous fight by a dizzy, headlong plunge off the metals.
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Whatever may be the shortcomings of our rallways, these most certainly do not extend to the British locomotive,. The Yankees say, our engines cannot keep steam. Well, I have often taken the first half of the “ Cornishmani. from London to Exeter without a stop, the longest regular run on earth, may it please Brother Jonathan, and have never yet seen the finger of the pressure gauge fall below 145lbs, to the square luch, even after the terrific pull up the Wellington Bank.
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Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 4 PM, TO-DAY.
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