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THE morganatic wife of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Este, nephew of the Joseph of Austria, and Heir-Pre the throne of that country, has give daughter
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Tux War Office has published a number of stateniente collected by Lord Kitchenas sup: porting the story of the durages committed by the Boers at Vlakfontein. A German named l'iet Porsher is mentioned as the most pro minent oflender
THE Kaiser Wilhelm Canol, which connects the North Sea with the Baltic, and is 61 miles
the fact that prescriptiva rights exist in yy the taking of coral and shells from the sea, was demonstrated by the Supreme Court's decision of last year, regarding Lantão Mariño Lót No.
and so far the Government does not appear ope to have appealed against the said decision,
The cond tians in these tivo questions being more or less similar, why should the Govern- ment's powers not be limited to letting hy public tender to the highest bidder the taking coral and shells from the sea adjoining, the New Territory-the lessen being allowed to make bis own arrangements with the owners of the said prescriptive rights
put on his bov arthur means business was the reply: A TERRIBLE 3[Orm of hail has devastated the crops for a distance of zo verste (övér 1,3 miles), at Schatz and Tombloff, in Russia Many of the hailstones weighed three pounds. The storm caused a flood, and many cattle, flocks of sheep, and several shepherds wern drowned. THE Daily Mail correspondent at Cadiz, in Spain, reports that there has been a great battle between the French and the Moors Near Figuig an oasis in the Sahara, latitude sadege north longitude ridge west. Both sides lost. heavily, but the French were ultimately vic torious
THE Fure Bour Bill, which was introduced into the House of Commons by Sir Cuthbert Quilter, Liberal Unionist member for the Sudbury division of Suffolk, bas been with drawn, owing to its having been blocked in
committee. ✨ Then may the British workman be poisoned with impunity or bad beer
The proposed enactment appears to me to be. Inequitable and unjust, and for the information of those interested and concerned, I propose to send a copy of this letter to the local Press for publication,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) T. H. WHITEHEAD. The Han. H. E. POLLOCK, K.O.,
Attorney-Genemis
A SENSATIONAL VOYAGE. The British have not the monopoly of deeds of derring do as evidenced by this, our latest ale of the sea. The George Valentine, a barque sailing under the French flag left Havie with a
in length, is reported to be silting up. The canal was opened on June 1895, and took eight years in construction. The cost was estimated at £7,800,000, THE Butish Admiralty are not sanguine as to the possibility of securing, Kerguelen Land, an island in the Indian Ocean about 2,000 miles south-west of the Capo. Kerguelen the "Land | of Desolation," was anexed by France, in 1893, CAPTAIN Howard Blackburn has made another It is uninhabited, and is bitterly cold.
de-trip across the Atlantic in his small craft of four tons burden. Leaving the port of Gloucester, Our of a total population of 70,000 in the
in Massachusetts, he renched. Lisbon, the Orange River Colony before the war, there are capital of Portugal, in 381 days. One of these now 10,00 prisoners, 35,000 in the refuge
days the sweet little cherub who spends all his camps, and 17,007 still at large. Three hun time looking after fools, and drunken men, and dred Boar families, with waggons and stock, other lunatics will get tired and then--- have trekked into Bechuanaland, and have claimed British projection:
THE Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State THE new American battleship, Maine, 12500 for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of tons, was launched on the 27th July at Phil Lords that Prince George of Greece, had of Britain, adelphia. The vessel will be armed with four acceded to the unanimous wish 12-inch guns and sixteen 6-inch quick-firers as Italy, France, and Russia, the protecting the main battery, and will have a speed of not owers, to remain in office for another term as High Commissioner of Crete. Prince George less than 18 knots, and large coal capacity was appointed on November 16th, 1898, for a flo Hongkong Harbour. Everything went well.
Two sister ships, the Afissouri, and the Ohio, are also nearing completion. THE Band of the Madras Light Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel this evening, from
PROGRAMMES
Der Freireluts "H. Barbierre
p.m. to 9.30 pan.
Overture
Song..
Selection, Song
*
Star of Bethlehem
Weber, Roskint. Walderafel.:
akikka Pouper,antesmandians".
The Better Land, in Bill *** *f God save the King an
A CORRESPONDENT writes: It was with sur prise I noticed that Mr. Lau Chu Pak took his seat on the Sanitary Board with no recognition whatever from the president or the other members. (Ed. H.K.T.) We find on enquiry that Mr. Lau Chu Pak was received at a private inforniat meeting and welcomed in a suitable
manner
THE-Agrarian party in Germany are surprised at the concessions made to them in the new tariff, but it is generally considered that the Tarif Bill is unlikely to pass in its present shape. Under the bill wool is to be admitted. free. Frozen meat and butter are to pay 30 marks ( 8, 9d.) per double cwt-packed apples, 6 marks, and oranges and lemons 12
term of three years...
AN American petroleum ship, the Louise Adelaide, has been blown up while in the harbour at Goeddvigen, Sweden. The accident was caused by the Customs officials, who dropped a lighted match while they were seal- ing up the hatches. A terrible explosion en sued, and the ship was broken in two. The captain, nine members ofthe crew, and two Customs officials were killed.
An alarming accident occurred on the 24th July to the great iron suspension bridge which crosses the Hudson River, and connects New York with Brooklyn. Seventeen steel cables supporting the bridge yielded, and in conse quence some of the girders at the Manhattan end snapped, There was great excitement, and the traffic was at once stopped, though it was afterwards partially resumed. *
A REMARKABLE comer is reported from several parts of New South Wales as having been seen shortly after 4 on the inoming of the 23rd July. It was fork-shaped, and appeared to be closed to the earth on the north-west horizon, and to be travelling at a tremendous pars towards the
At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the moming of 24th August, ELLEN ELIZA, wile of F. G. Reek, of H.M. Naval Yard, aged 38 years. The Funeral will leave the Royal Naval Hospital at g'a.m. to-morrow, Sunday 1912cmarks. Hard timber is to pay 180 pfennigs. At Queanbeyan it took the form of a
he Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1901.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. RUPTURE BETWEEN FRANCE AND TURKEY.
(1-8) per cubic metre, but soft timber will not bescharged,
1.
THUS the "Topicist in the Singapore Free Press-So Count Waldersee has been indis creet. His theloric must have been unwise indeed if the press of his own country blame him. For his fault was only in beating the big drum and claiming for Germany something very like a coming hegemony among the rations. There are many things it is wiser to leave unsaid. And reticence is ever a soldier's virtue. There was one. Von Molske, who was silent in saych languages. of h
brilliant meteor, and was followed by a loud report, causing a slight earth tremor
IN November last the High Court of Appeal decided the Taff Vale railway case in favour of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, on the ground that under the common law of Great Britain a' trades union, could not, as corporate body, either sue or be sued. The case has now been considered by the House of Lords, which has decided that a trades union can be sued under its registered name, THỵ case of assault this morning in which Mr. Reece and Mr. Grist appeared for the com
LONDON, August 22nd. The French press is surprised at the Daybreak in Sport & Gossip, says A form of plainant and defendants respectively was a rupture with Turkey, and is still hopeful of an amicable settlement.
cach to TEA CROWING IN THE TRANS
6.75 TRADE OF SAMSHUI AND AMOY, 1900–
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Austrian official reports state that the at templs to grow tea in the Trans Caucasian territory have been successful, and that plantations in the neighbourhood of Batoum are Rourishing.
LATER,
PRINCE CHUN'S MISSION TO GERMANY.
great storm in a tea cup. It was interesting as showing that the art of dying can be brought to a very fine point. They were not clumsy prevarications but No. 1 gil-edged lies and delivered with a readiness and adroitness showing long practice, backed up by a smiling babe-like #mplicity of manners
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general cargo. Her destination was Haiphong which she reached safely, with one mishap how ever. In mid ocean Captain Herbert was aroused by his vessel striking? What?! He could not tell. His chart showed whim clear water and there was nothing to lead him to believe he was out of hie reckoning. The only damage done was to the rudder but it was of such a naturens to enable him to continue on fo Haip. hong On reaching the part and discharging, a survey was held with the result, that the French authorities ordered him to proceed to Hongking to be docked. Thinking the ship would become unaingeable it was ordered she should be lowed, not navigated. Arrange- ments were made with the German steamship Apenrade to tow the barque Georges Valentine
until about twelve miles out from Haiphong, when suddenly the haweer parted. The Valentine was partly under sail, at the time to assist in the towing. The Captain of the steamer Apenrade signalled "Cannot tow any longer. Make sall
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The Captain of the barque signalled “Give me my position." There was no answer this although the German steamer was in view.. Captain Herbert again signalled "Do not leave us. We are in dangor. Again there was no answering pennant. The Apenrade at first slowly steamed away; at that moment a blinding main squall came along and when it cleared, the stranier was seen to be miles away. All sait was made on the Valentine and every effort was made to keep her offing. The wind was rising and a nasty sez beginning to run. In the meantime Captain Pannier of the s.3. Hongkong (Messrs. Marty &- Co.) had been advised, by wire, to keep a strict. look out. Seeing a sailing vessel in a very dangerous, locality Captain Pannier boisted "Are you in want of assistance ?" and saw the answer"
"Yes, want towing." Hongteng pat about and ran down to the The Valentine and passed line aboard. Even then the troubles were not at an end, for vser carried away. In in a short time the hawser
this instance the towing steamer did not clear.
Captain Pannier in the Hongkong rounded, and passing close put another line aboard and towed herafely to Hongkong Too much credit cannot be given to these two gentlemen who, by good seamanship-
iling have brought an almost unmaungable, vessel safely to harbour. The Georges Valen tine was towed into dock by the tug Fami this morning,
WISE AND OTHERWISE,
Have There has been a great deal of Our talk lately about jerry, building in Buildings. Hongkong and really, the majority
ze of our Chinese tenements are a disgrace to any civilized place. Most of them are so built as to utterly prevent the inhabitants from indulging in light and air, and sanitary
cruelty to animals as bad as anything that has yet been brought to light by the S.S. F. C. A is in the method of shipment of sheep to Hongkong, and the matter is being gone into again by the Society, Crowded into a space
armingements are of a most primitive descrip where there is often not standing room,
tion: How many of then, I should like to where the heat is simply unbearable,
know, will be standing twenty-five years hence. sometimes where the sun shines full upon them
Very few, I imagine, for by that time the and where if there is a breeze it cannot reach
mortar will all have been either washed or blown from between the bricks and the bricks: them, and in addition to this where there is no
themselves, in most cases, will have crumbled water to drink. No wonder so many dieron
into dust. :. It is horrible to think of the probable the voyage.
effect of a slight hock of earthquake here. In We have received from the Hon. T. Hall probability it would bring down nearly half OWING to plague bacillus having been dis-Whitehead, with a request for publication, the the town and would damage the balance of the covered in some rats found dead in a house in following copy of a letter addressed by him to buildings to such an extent that most of them Kuala Lumpor, which is identical with that the Hon. H. E. Pollock, K. C., Acting Attorney would be unsafe. In fact we should have our Prince Chun's Mission to Germany will found in the bodies of the two Chinamen who General
Whole Chinese population, or rather the sere Hongkong, 22nd August, igorvivors of it, forced to go into camp while their, stay at the Orangery at Potsdamn, and recently died of plague there the Health Dear Pellack In reply to your note asking houses wera being rebuilt or repaired. Create will, arrive there on the 26tli instant. The Officer there is now conducting experiments for my suggestions ie the proposed Foreshores Emperor William will receive the mission at with a view to destroying rats by means of and Seabed Ordinance, please allow me to
It really must be very amus-, Berlint on the following day, this compelling introducing among them a disease resembling point out the Supreme Court decided last year The Sick Mon. ing to the Sultan to see France as to deprise certain 5ahermen of their pre He occupies such a peculiar position they ha by Cavalry, through the main thoroughfares and domestic animals. A reward of cents scriptive Fights" to take cart and shells from can do as he pleases und gehemlly play old of the capital.
now given for cach rat brought to the in- the sea, refer to case in re Lablao Marine Lot | Harry with the Powers, because he knows that cinerator Kuala Lumpor, has been raised to No. 2, and the Court gave judgment against none of them can afford to do without bim 13 cents-for-a period of one month..
the Government, If exacted, the Ordinance He probably knows that if he can't settle with will enable the Government to do what the France himself, some kind friend will come ALICE, Bronson, says a home contempora Supreme Court has decided the Goverment forward and do it for him, and so he lets matters who two months ago sent a pathetic letter to cannot now do legally, and the Government go on as they please, the worst comes to the New York Sunday World ap
will no longer in respect of such Crown the worst and he has to light, he knows that aid in her ambition to be a
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Leases be subject to the judgment, of " his troops are good and will make a good stand, bas Supreme Court In other words this Ord and be also knows that his position will be just rom the ance, if it becomes law, will give the Governlie same whether he wins or loses What a Underment the power lo dispossess pro etary rights delightfully irresponsible position to occupy 14
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MAHA MANILA OBSERVATORY,
August 24th, 11 There is another depression East of Luzon.
LONGLONG OBSERVATORY REPORTS The Observatory report says
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