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to see thirteen good-sized freizlit vessels at anchor in the harbour and all working. The disparity between this and the rather inade quate size of the town propor, naturally caused soma wander.But the riddle was soon solved and doubt the answer is already well- known to many of our readers--when one came to see the rich and heavily cultivated lowlands aying to the worth and cast copiously watered as they are by the many branches of the River Han, and earned that about twenty-four miles to the aphs the crow flies is the city of Chau Chorin Mandarin Chau Chau) which is the relide centre, Swatow serving simply as its por Accordingly a trip up the river is planned which rares of considerable interest and is readily accomplished
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at this point is perhaps báļf a milo wide in tolo: This consists if twenty-two plors (originally twenty-four) which are large enough to bear on their tops on either side of the bridge's treadway fair-sized shops of different sorts-bar bars, blacksmiths, carpenters, etc. These piers are joined by three bugs libs of pinkish schedule time from Hongkong to Vancouver is Let us announce at the outset that these
granito, laid side by side, which by actual
| under 18 days; and the whole trip through to:
neten nre meant a dy as fragments; that they
measurement are four feet thick, four feet wide are in nowise intended to give more than a pass
and forty-five feet long, and in some cases England will be accomplished in about 29 days. ing glimpse of some of the things seen, heard
longer. They were evidently put into position A special fast mail train will be waiting the and experienced by a not-over-observant im
by being floated on boats at highest water of arrival of the Empress boats at Vancouver by velier as he passes northward from Hongkong,
the year and then dropped into place as the which mails and passengers will be carried to endeavouring especially to reach some of the
river level sank. In some cases they have upt Quebec, there joining one of the fine new Atte-visited places lying between, or near, the
sustained their own weight and now heavy lantic Empreis steamers (impress, of Britain mojar posts-though not nitegethar neglecting
limbers here an there du duty mstead-and yes as a whole the bridge in.quite well pro and Empress of Ireland, 14,500 tons register)
It was at first thought to be possible to jour.
served for, doubtless, it is of considerable age. THE RIVER JIAN, and from there across to Liverpoot in seme-
ney all the way from Hongkong to the first which begins among the bills of south-
There is a break in the bridge, however, near thing under seven days. The St. Law-port reached by the regular coasting vessels,
western Fukion, and flows with simple modesty the western shore and this gap of some 150 rence River route has, apart from its na viz, walow, by a series of trips on native most die south toward the estuary, at the feet is covered by eighteen chained boats and narrow entrance to which swatow finds itsel, plackways, At the time of high flood tide tural beauties, the advantage of consider. launches. The coast line beiwean Hongkong'
is to be distio, uished from the other viver of these bunte rise to the level of the bridge floor ably lessening the actual ocean voyage, and and Swatow, while in general form suggesting
the south-eastern quadrant of a circular cir the same name, a much more pretentions and the chains let go, whereon a reward of already the new Atlantic Empreses have cumference, resolves itself upon closer acquaint asg, which rises in south-western Shenai--203 cash is offered for each but secured and established a name for their excellent steadi-ance into a series of seven indentations, the and winds its way enstward, through that pro returned. This takes place every year and ness and general 'sea-going qualities. On the more northera ones, Tungan Road and
vince, and then southward across Hupeh to interrupts the use of the bridge at the very time the outward voyage the first steamer 10 Naimun and flops bays being considerably form with the mighty Yangtze a junction when it is most necdeu! | leave Vancouver, under the new fast service,
sin iller than the four southern or western ones, which is marked by the triple alliance of Ḥan-
a Mirs, Bias, Hong Hai and Hie Che Chin bays, yang, Hankow and Wuchaug. Though affold- Hong Hai is die largest (about thirty indexing no comparison with this name sake, so far wide at its mouth, and extending some twelve as mere magnitude is concerned, we venture miles inward); and contrary to the expectation to think the presents some worthy charms aroused by its name, the smallest is "tope" which the camera and not the pen alone Bay (only eight miles wide, at the mouth and suffices to reveal. extending inland but three miles). This les due south from Swallow' ¿bout eight or ten mites, and is, in fact, separated from the later by what is really, by virtue of being crossed
HEALTH-GIVING. the Empress of China, sailing thence
Hot During the Damp Weather when Heavy Drinks are out of the questions, one's
un the 4th September-passenger and mails for her having left Liverpont by the Empress of Ireland on this a th August. The Empress of Chind is due at Yokohama on the 16th Sep tember and Hongkong on the 23rd Sep This sailing will he falawed by ember. the Empress of India and Empress of Japan
partures will be announced in due course, The enterprise of the Caundian Incific Raíl. road Company is worthy of congratulation, and, what is more to the purpose, of every
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At the western end of the bridge crouches huge metal (brobic?) water-buffalo, and legend has it that there was another at the other end, but when an extraordinary flood years ago carried away the two pieces now missing, the other bultalo jumped over and swam upstream
But aside from le being situated in the midst of a striking amphitheatre of hills and
pices of which mildly suggest London's famous span, Chau-Chu-fu self, a, a Chinese city, is
one of the most remarkable we have seen,
never to return At least the luafers at the Stading from Swatow at dawn on a typient | bridge-end, and there were many of them, so
the most ardent lover of summer, and yet July day-one sufficiently sun-bright to satisfy declared.
(+ canopied with drifting masses of white cumulus a invats of 28 days, and subsequent die. by two fair-sized cerke tota pland, the clouds which serve alternately as shields and owning such a curious bridge, the slop-crowned mainland bat large iwin island, the electors-our sampan passes, thanks to sail promontory of which, shaped like as well as pole, through one of the many a huge hammer-head, bears the "Good Hope
narrow creeks which decimate the delta, and Cape Lighthouse, whose white gicams stream after some right miles enters the river proper seaward some fifteen miles, and perhaps it is
near the village of Ampu. Here the water this benificent factor which after all justifiesbadens considerably and we glide along the name from the mariner's point of view.
more swifty, ander increased 'wind and less Inland from most of these bays, at distinces
ferent cking. varying from two to twelve miles, we find several fair-sized settlements, as Bueleng, Hal TENDERS are invited for the erection of afung, Tai Sami (or Swabue); Lufang, weila Mortuary at Kowloon.
Sualeng, and Chaoyang-four of them walled
are occupied by missionaries.
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A few narrow islands now and again reduce the navigable width, but compensate for this inconvenience by the added scenic effects. A
of a boat just ahead, bearing dun northward, on
another, only the sails of which can be discern ed, ploughing its way due south, apparently
Dirly streets and delapidated city walls are so usual, that when one encounters a well kept wall and a wide and clean, and yet busy, main street his attention and even his admiration. are justly aroused. Every effect has its cause. and we were naturally curious learn the reason for this remarkable condition of things in a Chinese city. With regard to the wall,
ing the city against the annual foods
least that por. the wall in ash good repair,
on along the river front; and as the various
'stition, and "rising law and order. " Here on Sunday mornings a weekly drill of police in conducted. Dut of the three clocks prominent in the promises no two showed the same hour, and we received a timely warning that even amid the present show of progress all is not yet. as well-regulated and ordered as it will noed to be before China can boast a really efficient govemment, though here and there ona sens grounds for congratulation.
In the yard of this police station stood a garbage cart which each week (though this is not over-frequent) makes the round of the prominent, thoroughfares drawn by a chain: gang of convicts who are held to the task by a guard of police. Thus the clean condition of
Chau-Chu-fa's main street is to be ascribed to an intelligent and capable Taotai, whose, example might well be, followed by numerous municipal officials einswhere in China.
Another detour brought us to the literary examination hall where formerly contests for the first degree ware held. This also wat clean and in better repair than any axamina tion hall we have seen elsewhere, and it is so arranged that it could welt serve as a place for large public inectings and, seed not suffer tha destrucling fate which bas come upon the so- cond degree ball in Canton aid elrowhere.
Instead of the rows of separate stalls which, characterite the second degree hall, there were long heavy granite desks and benches under one large rood. Each desk bọto dividing lines showing that it was meant to accommodate four person, and the total capacity was readily esti mated at 2,300. Asan examination ball of the old type it will, of course, not be used further-for already in accordance with the new regime the schools in Chau-chu-fu have taken on a modern forin and as well attended.
Chau-end-tu harbours three missions-tba French Catholic, the American Paptist, and the English Presbyterian. It was under the auspices of the hospitable surgeon in charge of the medical work of the last named mission that we learned as much of this interesting Eity" as we did in the brief stay we made.
Ahough a day and a half-n ghị ware requir ed for the upward in p from Swatow, the down- ward run was made from 9 p.m. to 7 a.th putting us back in Swatow just in time to catch comfortably the outgoing steamer for Amay
say to those who have travelled the China
The French mail of the roth July was delivered cities, and these with Swabue making five the sharp ture in the river affords the curious.sight doubtless the necessity of adequately guard had she been going on time, which needless to
Besides these places-just-mentioned, and 4 slender silver stream, and not far to the west has had a great deal to do with keeping, coast she did not do.' relatively speaking they are of little or no im portance, the only other place which it seemed desirable to visit in our casual survey of the through an unwatered sen," ull gloriously sections of the wall arò maintained at the ex- coast before reaching Swatow, was Breaker THE Japanese papers state that the autiori-Point Light, the first lighthouse encountered ties have now definitely decided to increase the above Hongkong. minimum salary of police constables from Yo
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It is notified in the Gazette that, in pursuance of directions given by His Majesty the King, Si Henry Spencer Berkeley, K., Attorney General, has been appointed one of His Majesty's Counsel for Hongkong.
INSPECTOR Dymond, formerly in charge of Mount Gough Police Station, the Peak, has been transferred to Aber 'cen, Station, whilst inspector Mac Hardy, late of Aberdeen, is now in charge of the Station on the Peak.
But the plan to reach these places by a series ul trips on native launches sounds better when spoken of, and looks easier when studied on the Admiralty chart, than it really proves to be when one actually attempts the initial stages with any desire for certainty in being able to co on without inordinate delay. Though if one had decades of time at his command and were
willing and patient he might spend a goodly portion of it in carrying out such a plan of
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So far as it could be ascertained beforehand, the only likely place, omiting Mirs Bay is too near at hand, was Tai Sami or Swabue (spit His Majesty the King has been pleased to ap-end-or tail of the spit) to which there is a prove of the appointments of the Honourable Mr. E. A. Hewest to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hongkong and of the Honourable Mr. W. J. Gresson to be an
Kolden with maturing rice, and yet both are journeying on the same stream and impelled by the same breeze. This effect, beightened by the clearly reflected image of the first boat, and the variable shadows cast by its turning sails, together with the choppy yellow waves which submerge the bull of the other, as the head, makes altogether a picture well worthy wind causes the ripened grain to loss its heavy
of our attempted description.
Evidently this river is subject ta large rises, for throughout a great part of its length the banks are marked by substantial stone and concrete dykes--the top of which, at this bar- vist season, ale gally festooned with countless sheaves of rice yellowing under a July sun. These, dykes are frequently supplied with a peculiar sort of water-gate, giving entrance to small canals, leading away into the midst of the cultivated fields-but quickly closed at times of too high water by heavy timbers slid
daily launch service from Hongkong-the rup requiring eight hours and the start being made at a.m. From Swabut there is the chance of getting a launch to Swataw about twice in into place in granite grooves.
Some of the racky bends of the tiver bank
pense of the several districts of the city, and it is a matter of pride for each district to have its
section of wall not oferior to any other, the throughout its whole extent. „consequence is acomplete wall, well maintained
So sudden nad so volumineus floods of the river sometimes nccur that it is necessary to
CANTON NOIES.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Caston, roth August, “. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Commencement of the work of construction of the Sa Ho Band, the Choy Mun Tak Government Industrial Manufactory, and the Public Garden of Canton, was made on the 9th inst. The works are under the supor intondence of some nighty-seven. Weiyuans, appointed by the Viceroy.
RETURN OF VICEROY SHUM." The Canton Daily Nairs of yesterday's date contains the following items:
make adequate provision for barring the city gates against the rising water, and we found the same sort of huge granite grooves in the walls just in front of the gates as we had pre- viously noted in the dykes along the river bank, and heavy limbers were ready to hand to slide into position, and piles of earth as well as sacke
· Viceroy Shum returned" to "Capton from filled with it were nearly ready to form an effecWhampoa at noon yesterday as some import tive dam, when put between the regular gate and this extra screen of timber arranged in front. The street outside the wall is sometimes flooded sofficiently to force the inhabitants to seek the second stories of their houses, and so to provide an easy way of egress. The wall beats openings opposite the various houses and wall, which at such times becomes one of the main thoroughfares of the city,
As already remarked Chau-Cho-lo can boast a clean and well-kept main street and one is
unofficial meinber of the Legislative Council, ten days, though the service is far from regular. | afford quiet prols in an otherwise rapid current, planks can be laid from the windows to the
vice Mr. C. W. Dickson resigned.
We mention such details in this case and
shail do ao for ushers also, because judging and about them one sees ducks, geese, cows, INSPECTOR Gourlay placed Le Wing, a hawk- from the difficulty with which definite inform. and even the youthful herders, all enjoying the coolness of a submerged existence; while along the top of the dyke, not far away appear three
er, non Street, Wanchai, befure Mr. F. A. Mazelund, at the Police Court this morning, charged with selling samshu in his house with- out an appropriate keepice. The accused was arrested last night. Defendant entered a plen uf not guilty, and his Worship allowed the police a remand.
1119. Honour Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, bas, by Commission signed by him, appointed Mr. J. 1: Kemp, Deputy Registrar and Apprai. ser of the Supreme Court, to be a commissioner for taking acknowledgments by married women of the deeds to be executed by them, so long as he shall hold the said office of deputy regis trar and appraiser.
INSPECTOR Warnock, of the Central Police Station, arraigned a German miner named Lutwig Holz, before Mr. H. fl. J. Gomperiz, at the Magistracy, this morning, on a charge of vagrancy. Defendant said he came to the
·Colony to get a job. He could get none, and so became destitute. An order was made that
he be allowed to enter the House of Detention.
THE master of fishing junk 16,363 was charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy,, today, with failing in exhibit a bright light on board his boat while entering the port last night, and also with being in unlawful possession of a quantity of dynamite and detonators, without a permit. The defend ant pleaded guilty to ilie charges, and was ordered to pay a fine of $15.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1906.
ACCELERATUD MAIL SERVICE.
It is a small world, this terrestrial globe on which WC live, after all, and every day some new departure bears evidence of its being made smaller by reduction of distances and times, in traversing them That being so our renders will no doubt peruse; with as much interest as they will appreciate the importance of, the famt service to be instituted between Hongkong and England via Canada, by which passengers and mails will reach England on the 29th day out from Hongkong-a matter of great consideration to those compelled to "run home" un urgent private affairs, but who are only able to obtain very short leave, as weli as to those who cannot leave their business in the Colony for longer than can be avoided, "Home via Canada" has long been a house- hold phrase, but it bids fair to become quite a matter of course that Canada will be the route for home-returning Far-Easterners, with this alternative British route offered them, and
A COOL was this morning fined $to by Mr. H. which it certainly more enjoyable that thaia H. J. Gompertz, at the Police Court, for test- Suer. Therefore the fact should be of wide ing his bamboo pole on the head of a boy, at interest, not only in this Colony but in China West Point, yesterday. The defendant was in general, that Mr. J. Craddock, acting agent carrying vegetables along the road. The boy rushed up to his basket, stole some of the of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, vegetables, and bolted. Defendant was alleged has received a telegram from the Head Office to have given chase and lay the lad out with at Montreal announcing the fact that no his carrying pole, necessitaring his removal to' accelerated mail service between Hongkong hospital. and England has been arranged with the
A PROJECT is on foot in Bombay to start a British Pastat Authorities. Under this' new
Newxchange Bank with a capital of one crore fast service the Empress steamera, will for the of rupees. Twenty-five lacs have been already present leave Hongkong at 4 pm, on Thursdays taken up, and, after half the capital has been Instead of noon on Wednesdays, as heretofore subscribed for, the Bank will commence busi- The first steamer 10 Jeave Hongkong under theness. Fifty lack will be the reserve fund. The
Bank will be styled the "Union Bank of India new arrangement will be the Empress of India with branches all over the East, especially skilleg, at 4 p.m. ou, the 30th instant, to be Hongkong and Shanghal. A preliminary meet followed by this Empress of Japan on the 27th ing of the promoters was to be convened in September, and the Empress of China on the Bombay soon after the mail left.
ation has been secured-and that masily by actual and sad experience, it seems desirable
business has to be discussed' with the con suls and others. It is reported that he will stay here until after the Emperor's birthday, when the official banquet (to foreign officials, Chicas officials and foreigners in Chinese empley) will be given.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS.
The Viceroy, considering that trade was much hampered by these being no telegraphic communication between Canton, Yangchiang, Kau Chow and Chao Chou Fu, recently wrote the Inspector-General of Telegraphs on the
to present data which, may be useful to other dark figures silhouetted against the sky-a also struck in passing along it to note the pros subject. The latter replied that he would al
intending itinerants,
'SWATOW.
Entering the outer harbour of Swatow in the early dawn, passing Double Island at least a
couple of hours before the residents, who have come down there for a latte respite over night, will arise, one passes through a narrow strait into a larger estuary.. On the north side of the strait the ordinary waterfront of a Chinese coast city is seen, with its Customs landing, mission compounds, and modera godowns pro minent in the foreground. The Customs fore- shore is a large open common, which, though anadorned, affords a veritable boon on a sum 'mer's evening to large numbers of natives who crowd there from ther close city quarters to catch a refreshing sea breeze. Directly op posite on the south the attractive and comfort able residences of the foreign'friends of China appear, boil, or rather in some cases "perched," here and there along the rockiest shore-ridge one has yet enchpotesed in China. These dark and brownish granite crags in some places assume most curious forms, many of the houses are half hidden by others and by the trees which relieve, to some extent, the rugged character of the bills, and as seen across the clear water dotted by many sailing campans and & good baker's dozen of fair-sized merchant ships of various nations, riding quietly at an chor, or turning slowly in a huge arc toward one of the bulks moored along the city's front, the whole picture gives an impression of beau ly long remembered. While the southere shore is by far the more picturesque. and the northern fat and rather drear and sandy, yet the latter enjoys, during the summer months, a nearly continuous breeze which at about ons or twa in the afternoon generally stiflens consider. ably, and bears the significant name of "the Swatow Doctor "old résidents declaring its efficiency, and, with considerable truth, no doubt, to be superior to a host of real and wise doctore,
Though now a place of perhups 35,000 people, we understand that some forty years ago it was but a small fishing villaga and has reached a -present importance solely as a result of foreign trade, or at least trade carried in foreign bottoms and that now it ranks, among the first five posts of South China as a revenue producer for the C. I. M. C.
Having learned these facis, to our surprise as wo approached Swatow, we still did not expect.
buffalo cow and two herders, one's mere mid- get, the animal, by all odds, wearing more covering on its body than its keepers can
boast of.
But perhaps the most characteristic thing encountered on the River Han is the peculiar son of craft used by the Hlakka river-men. We have not seen them anywhere else, and never saw them pictured. A high beak-shaped prow with flat sides and angular, not rounded, En.s is the most striking feature.. Down the steep sloping sides of this beak the plem in reads as bending neatly three quailers over be pusties the boat ahead by the usual long bamboo braced against his shoulder. The second marked feature is the sail--no proper mainmast being used, but an upward spreading prong of bamboo poles around which at the lower half extends a stiff curved bamboo matting while hetween the upper and wider part of the prongs a cloth sail is bellied into a portion of a trun cated cone by the pressure of the wind directly behind. We imagine that this rig is of small efficiency where tacking is necessary, but we can testify from experience thint when sailing dead ahead of the wind this curious craft makes no mean hendway,
As twilight fades the night becomes radiant with a nearly full moon, and while other less ambitious boatmen ride at anchor, our craft glides silently on, and the traveller lying flat on his back on the prow can slar-gaze and muse to his heart's content-his meditations now and again being broken by strains from the lure of some boatman he is passing, which
come to his car as a cross between the notes of a Scottish bag-pipe and the sounds encovo. tered in the streets of Cairo, (with apologies to the former).
By midnight the objective "fa" is reached, and day-break is awaited before setting out to investigate what it afford,
A REMARKABLE city: chau chu.ru. An early morning start gave us a chance to climb one of the highest hills on the east side of the river opposite the city without unneces sary fatigue, and as the mists lified and the horizon broadened one saw that the city was centred in the midst of a striking amphitheatre of hills, a full three quarters of a circle, the only apparent opening being toward the south which was the way we had entered in the The second marked feature in the landscape in the peculiar old bridge across the Han which
night.
perous and progressive character of many of
ance give orders for the construction of a line: the shops. Some estimates of the population reach as high as 300, and while we cannot between Canton, Yang Ching and Cha'o be sure of this, we should at least recall that
Chou Fu, but that a line between Yang Chiang throughout Kwangtung not more than six other and Kau Chou was al present impracticable. places, outside Canton, are at all likely to be
IMPORTANT LAND SALË. comparable in size and much less in import ance. The chief industry of the place stems to be the manufacture of shoes of all the various native styles. The making of indigo and the, dyring of cloth are next-in importance, while pewter-wate and pewter fail to be used as idol money, and the grinding of gems also receive some attentos. A particularly effective kind of fan with a long curved upper part made of sulit bamboo and covered with decorated paper, finds its sole place of manufacture here, and a very few pennies luy a fan which in Canton brings some thirty or fury cents,
SITE AT HUNG HON OFFered,
An important land sale at Kowloon is short- ly to take place. The lot, measuring' 23,250 square feet, is situate at Huse Hem and com. prises portion of the foreshore and sea bed. It is subject to an annual Crown rent of $21z and the upset price is $29,062. The amount stipulated by Government to be spent on rate. able improvements within two years of sale is $15,001. One of the special conditions of sale
Perhaps the modern spat which is spreading is that the purchaser shall reclaim the whole over China is best attested by the change in,
area of the lot and an additional strip of land the character of the better class of book-shops 50 feet in width along the north-eastern boun as seen in Chau Cha-fa-from which most of dary of the fat for the purpose of forming a the ancient and useless stuff has disappeared public road to such levels as may be approved by the Director of Public Works and shall pro- and really informing books on many subjects, tect the reclaimed area to the satisfaction of as prepared in pan or by the Commercial Press in Shanghai, are exposed for ele, together
the Director Public Warka, with the various other requisites of the modern student in China. In some cases athi-tic goods and sets of national history and minerological specimens filled the shop windows.
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FROM to-morrow the dis. IỶing Chai, Capt. T. Austin, leaves Hongkong for Macao, on Sun- days, at 8.30 am, and returns from Macao at 5 pm, tide, permitting.
THE T. K. K. South American Line steamer Kasago Maru will be despatched for Callao, Iquique, Valparaiso, via Japan Poris (Koba and Yokohama) on Friday, the 17th inst, at
We had pointed out to us a silk shop which did a foreign export business direct on its own account, and a little further along we were as tonished to see over the portal of a thriving silversmith's the following Lutla inscription:
1994 Spolita Iterum Extracta. This, we DODO. were told, was a shop owned by converts of the French mission and having been sacked as a Tite MaLao Government has just acquired a piece of persecution by unsympathetic fellow. seismograph for the neighbouring colony. townsmen, had been reconstructed out of an in- The instrumeol was ordered from Japan and demnity received through the agency of the mis-was delivered at Macao on Wednesday. It is to sionary's consul. In any case it was a well be fitted up at the Government observatory at kept and striking shop, and this Latin super- Penha in charge of the Harbour Master in scription but added to its unique character.
Macao.
Throughout its length the main street was at SERGEANT O'Sullivan, of Hunghom Police quite frequent intervals spanned by notable Station, proceeded against a painter named Li and substantial granite arches bearing small ping, before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police figures in full relief on the upper cross beams,Curt, this morning, for being in possession of "The rising reform in municipal government | a piece of spiked, fron, resembling a knuckle. was evidenced by the polics in khaki uniforms, duster, for unlawful purposes. The sergeant and a slight detour brought us to a large said that when defendat saw him last night he behaved very suspiciously, and so he was temple, the outer courts and side-buildings of searched and the iron found. The accused which were belag used as police head-quer admitted possession, and a fine of $50, with ters—a significant indicator of passing super, the alternative of six weeks' gaol, was imposed,
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