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THE CHILDREN, and those of our readers who possess a sweet tooth will, do well to in- spect M. H. Raitonjee's new stock of French" sweets, etc, advertised elsewhere, w CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE to the erection of a public latrine at the North West end of the Crown Lotto the South of Hunghom Inland, Lot No. 233, was submitted to the Sanitary Board this afternoon, and a pro- position on the subject was made by the
A ROYAL DIVORCE:-(( is announced in On Saturday, 9th November, at the Church Berlin that a divorce is pending between the of St. John the Evangelist, Kuala Lumpur, Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse, owing to Selangor, Federated Malay States by the Reverend V. M. Renard, PERCY BOLING incompatibility of temper. UROKE ST. JOHN, of Kuala Lumpur and THE TOBACCO WAR-The recently Twives and Children.
WO AMAHS for HOSPITAL for Soldier's Penasg, second surviving son of the late James formed American Tobacco Trust is spending
Augustus St. John and the late Martinha Marianne St. John, and nephew of Sir Spenser immense sums in gifts of cigarettes to the St. John, G.C.M.G., 10 MARY CARMELITA English retailers. As a measure of retaliation HARKIB of Kuala Lumpur, only daughter their British rivals have promised the retailers of the late Edward: Harris and Estephania Hongkong. Francesca Medina (nes Harris), formerly of a share in their profits.
SIGNALS IN THE STRAITS—From the Medical Officer of Health, At St. George's Church, Penang, on the 14th
1st January, 1902, the New International Code November, JACQUES. FRANÇAIS, VANREES, to MARGARET MADELINE STUART, youngest of Signals will come into force and be used in daughter of David Brown Esq, Glugor, all communications with shipping at the Signal Stations of the Straits Settlements. The Local Penang.
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THE COLONIAL FORCES IN CAPE COLONY. The Cape Gazette announces that the Colony will resume control of the colonial forces in certain districts.
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BOER LOSSES. Lord Kitchener's weekly report brings the
A CRICKET MATCH will be played in Happy Valley on Saturday between H.M.S. Tamar XI, and a Club X1. Stumps will be
pitched at 1.30 p.m. The following will play for the Club-Messrs. Wild, Tibbey, Hanson, obinson, Head, Goldring. Brown, Captain Rotterham, R.W.F.,.Major Buttanshaw, and Gerard Cunningham.
WHAT HO1 The old expressions pass from us, says the writer of Notes and Comments in the Pinang Gazette. No longer does the home ly phrase of the past suffice to explain the situation. We have, in our modernity, to adapt ourselves to present day circumstances and bring ourselves strictly up to date. Thus, what Ho! She bumps, becomes in modern phrase
alogy, what Ho ! She buckles.
A MAMMOTH FARM-Mr. Alexander Wilson, of New South Wales, has submitted a scheme to the War Office for an Imperial hotse: breeding estate of 5,000 square miles in the Northern Territory. The outlay is estimated a £670,000, but Mr. Wilsan claims that the scheme yields great economies after six years. THE MORTALITY STATISTICS for the week ended 26th October shown death rate of 250 per 1000 for the whole Colony, and 43.5 for the Civil Population. For the week ended 2nd November, it was 19.5 per 1000 for the whole Colony as against 27.7.for the correspon ding period of last year, and 16.3 per 1000 for the British and Foreign Community as against 11.4 for the same week-of last year. PURCHASING FOREIGN BOOKS -lis
reported from Wuchang, the capital of Hupeh, that H.E. Chang Chihtung is about to send several of the teachers of the Tre-chiang
College in that city to Japan to select and purchase a number of the best textbooks translated by the Japanese from European languages and bring them to H.E. for the use of the Preparatory schools which H.E. has decided to establish'in the province of Hupeh.
THE HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB will commence a two day's match against the Navy to-morrow. Stumps will be pitched to-morrow at 2 pm and on Saturday at 11 am. The following will play for the Club, A Mackenzie, Capt. Cadogan, R.W.E., Major Beresford, PARADISE ON EARTH-Tasmania is said A.S.H., R.W.F., J. Hooper, J. A. Woodgates,o be the healthiest spot in the world. Illness W. E. Dixon, Capt. Clapham, R.A., A. G. is practically impossible. Perhaps this is due Ward, G.H, Edwards, A. N. Other. T. Sercombe to the fact that the little island opposite Mel- buone is the home of the eucalyptus-and Smith (Caps)
since the advent of induenza we all know what
QUITE A FAMILY FAILING. Mr. Jay Briggs, a farmer, hanged himself from a tree
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed fotal Boer losses for November up to 1,287. near Danbury (Conn.) He was, the fifteenth the Thames it shines two in Tasmania. In
that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE STRAITS COLONIAL SECRETARY: -Ramour has it that Mr. W. T. Taylor, the new Colonial Secretary, will arrive in Singapore
ou the 12th of March next.
H.M.S. ABOUKIR-When the new cruiser Aboukir is put into commission, it is under- stood that she will join her sister-ship, the Cressy, on the China Station, relieving the Terrible. ITALY'S HOPE-Much satisfaction has been caused throughout Italy by the announcement that the Queen of Italy's second accouchement will take place next April, when it is much hoped that a son and heir may be born.
SIR H. KEPPEL, Admiral of the. Fleet Sir A. S. WATSON & CO., Instant at tiffin at the Singapore Club by Mr. Henry Keppel was entertained on the 19th
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HONGKONG POLO CLUB:-The tourna ment for the R. A. Trophy will commence on Saturday next the goth inst, when the Club will play the Staff. The next tie will be on Wednesday, December 4th, between the R. A. and R. W. F. and the foal on Saturday: December th Play to begin each day at 4 p.m. sharp.
member of his family-which has been noted for self-destruction for generations-to commit suicide. Many of Mr. Briggs's near relatives died by their own hand, including his father, brother, two sisters, and two cousins, all within ten years. This beats the juvenile and morbid Arthur in Grass Widows quite hollow,
that means. In Tasmania the sky is always blue at least, for every hour the sun shines on
fact it is said that to start the Hobart graveyard they had to shoot a tramp-the only one?
"SPIRITED" AWAY-An official having refused to be bribed at the Russo-German frontier by a pedlar, who wanted to smuggle a number of bladders containing spirits of wine, "THE CURSE OF EDEN"-M. John the latter broke one over the head of the Customs officer and then struck a match and Long announces that he will shortly publish a
set light to the spirit, so that the victim resem new work, entitled "The Curse of Eden," by the author of the much-discussed "Master bled a pillar af fire. The smuggler then escaped. Sinner." As the title indicates, the book deals with the contraband goods over the border. with the legacy. of pain and sorrow that the The Custom House official is so fearfully burn- first man and woman bequeathed to posterity.ed that he is not likely to recover." However, it is in no sense a treatise, but a MISSING MAUDE:The Central News novel daringly conceived, delicately writter, and palpitating with life; moreover, the sub-says-Miss Maude Gonne has disappeared from the watchful eye of Scotland Yard. She ject is approached from a standpoint catirely has left the country, and the information in the possession of the police shows that she is now on her way to South Africa. As her opinions will not make her a very welcome guest at the Cape so far as the authorities are concerned, ? the fact of her departure has been cabled to all the principal pons in South Africa. It is believed, there will be interesting develope.
ments.
HIS TIMETABLE General Botha's time- table showing how his days are portioned out according to the reports so continually received from South Africa -
new to fiction. SHIPPING DEAL:-Messrs Clarke and Co. of Bangkok have bought the British steamer Hadan for the purposes of the wood trade between that port and. Singapore. She can carry a thousand tons of cargo across the bar. Before she can commence to run, however, certain repairs have to be carried out, as the furnace crown has dropped. It is said that the 5. 5. Breid has been chartered by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. She is to run between Bangkok and Singapore, bringing. the Japanese Eur opean mail line transhipment cargo. THE HON. TREASURER of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following offer tories on Hospital Sunday :-- St. John's Cathedral
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rotten. 1 and one or two more have at last
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bad to part from our trousers, and are doing duty with a blanket round us in the shape of a kilt. It is no fault of our company officers, who have even given some men some of their own trousers, Every one, however, is taking it in good part, and it is laughable to hear the jokes passed round, the men calling each other "Brummagem Highlanders," and Robinson Crusoes," elé
returned from Japan, expresses the opinion Rhenish Mission Chapel that a 'war between Russia and Japan is inevit Fable. Japan, he says, is making preparations.for such an eventuality without the least trace of concealment. This war, adds the professor, will be one of the most sanguinary of which PENANG GOVERNMENT CLERKS - history has any record.
The Government clerks have been favoured DURBAN-The Premier of Natal states that with a circular requesting them to state whether it is the intention of the Government to make they will be willing or not in future, a1 Durban the best port in South Africa. The occasions arise, to accept promotions to either Govemment are now arranging with a steam Singapore or Malacca, or both Settlements, ship company for mail steamers to resume call says the Pinang Gazette. Those clerks reply. ing at Durban as heretofore. We can fancying in the affirmative will be transferred, as says a Straits paper, there peeps out in this Sir Henry McCallum's experience of Singapore as a port, with its Tanjong Pagar wharves, TEA IN THE UNITED STATES will, if its cultivation takes place on a large scale, much upset India and Ceylon, for there can be very little doubt but that the home grown article would be cheaper than the imported. Still, one is apt to take such an announcement as that made by Reuter with a grain of salt and, WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? Some Guy V. Rayment, B. A Sub-Lient-Wilfred at all events, it will take some time before the time ago Lord Kitchener reported that the French, Surgeon-Noel H. Harms. Assist. American' plantations, if any are projected, are Boers still in the field were estimated at about Paym-Frederick A. Cornford, Engineere in full swing. If things go on at this rate fifteen thousand. Since then over ten thousand Henry C. Ruth, John Kelly. Assist. Engrs there will soon be very few articles the World have been accounted for as either killed, Hilgrove Hammond, Edward B. Scott, Emiest wounded, or taken prisoner, and the last little G. Smith (proby). Cunners-John C. Haswell, Mas reported by Reuter still further reduces James). (Pro) Boatswain-Robert Holmes the Boer force. Yet no matter how many are Carpenter-Alfred, Connney, Artif Eng put out of action others seem to spring up like William Standen. Midshipmen-George B. flies, until one wonders if the Boers have a Falmer, Charles 11. Mackinnon, Maurice P. B... method of sticking their men up again, like we Portman, Edward T. Fletcher, Francis L. Back, used to do in our younger days with tin soldiers. John Fawcett, Anthony W. Loveband, Frede It will be interesting to know later on what the rick J. Chambers, Lancelot A. W Spooner, Boer losses really have been, for it seems to Henry N. M. Hardy, John F. Hutchings, us that, up to the present from, the commenco Victor R. Williams, Henry R. Sawbridge,
THE OFFICERS OF H.M.S. CRESSY are-Captain-Henry M. T. Tudor. Com- opportunity occurs, to the settlement of their
manner-Arthur Halsey, Lieutenants-Char- election. Refusal to proceed then would in- volve, for the first time, forfeiture of seniority, les M. Masters, Victor G. Gurner, Bertram 5. and a repetition of the breach of promise would Thesiger, Robert A Newton, Cathcart R. cause their separation from the service. The Watson, William J. Kerr, Hugh T. Pel chard. same dire penalties will apply to any refusal to Capt. R. M.-Walter T. C. Jones, D. S. 0. be transferred in the Settlement on promotion. Lieut. R. M.-Cecil G. Bird, Chaplain-Rev. We take the circular to be a consequence of John Beatty, M. A. Suff Surgeon-Robert the recent protest of the clerks in connection. Nicholson Paymaster-Henry Constantine. with their seniority list...
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THE BANK'S CUMSHAW-Mr. F. E. Jennings, late of the Straits Police, has received à cheque of $2,500 from the Hongkong and "Shanghai: Bank" in acknowledgment of the strvices rendered by his Detective Agency in securing the arrest and conviction of the burglars who robbed the Bank recently, and also for furnishing the information concerning the description of the box,in which the stolen
notes had been despatched to Colombo, which
enabled the authorities at that port to recover the quarter of a million dollars which the box
contained.
AM & GO. NEW SCARVES Lnd
ment of the war, more than the estimated Robert R. Hallowell Carew, Courtney 1. Greer,
populations of the Orange Free State and the Naval Cadet-Walter H. Leeke, Cler Transyaal have been accounted for. Perhaps Harry B. Orchard Assist. Clerk Donald H. each Boer has nine lives, like a cat
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