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The following telegram from Paris is latod August 22-
Under the guidance of M. Delcasse, France is to make a spirited bid to regain her lost the world. place us second naval Power of
Prepaid Advertisements.
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amounted to #1420. Last season the receipts from all the matches totalled only 1,480. And it The Yarn Market.
is now likely that one of Mesers, Polishvalla and Katwall paper of Aug. 24 →
The following is from a Home the Test matches in the kian report under date Sept. 17 :...
gulur tourusinout next year will Nothing has been so remark- he played in Birmingham. The Since our last report on the 1st able in the sonson's cricket as the Advisory Committee of the advance of the Warwickshire counties mot at Lord's yesterday inst. by $. S. Arcadia, demand, in our yarn market, had continued when so many attempta were wickshire for one of the mutebos, team. Before the commencement, to consider an appeal by War during the very commencemeat mando to find a now, and, more and the following resolution was of the interval, resulting in the satisfactory method of deciding passedThat after hearing the
The Parliamentary Conimission TO sales of about 4,000 bales at our the championship, it was sug representations of Warwickshire, which was appointed some time rent rates, while almost the whole gosted that the Midland county and in view of the alterod air-80 to suggest a scheme for the of this fortnight lind passed with-as-first-class. Now, following the hai, the Advisory County Cricket has just conoliidou its report, wore pot strong enough to rank Distances of cricket at Birming increasing of the French Navy out any inquiry:
defont of Kent at the Oval, Committee recommend that the which will be submitted to the Holders are remaining firm, on August 23, it is probable that question of playing a fost mintch Chamber of Deputios at its owing to advices of higher rates they will be the champion olovennt Birmingham-be referred to the reassembling.
of the year. in Bunbuy, as well us of a firmor
Until then it seemed likely that tone in Shanghai, hence the mar-Kent would retain the champion ket, though quiet, is kept up very ship for the third successive year. For once, however, they failed to steady,
beat Surrey in one of the keenest almost exciting matahes of the of the terms at the finish. SBON. Only nine runs separat
Total Sales 3,000 balos. Unsold Stocks 23,000 balos. Sold but un-delivered in the Godown and to arrive 19,000 bales,
Imperial Cricket Conferonco at their meeting on September 11
SUNSHINE-BOTTLING. Some thousands of people in Amorica invo, it seems, been luu
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The Reporter of this Commis. sion (M. Nail, Deputy for L'Oriont} declares that France must regaiu tho nuval position which she las lost: It is necessary, ho says, not
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any for the protection of her com- merce, but also for the mainten give financial backing to at the actual state of affairs in nce of the peace of the world. For-the-first-time Warwick
delusion quite as preposterous as Europe, France is compelled to shire are now at the top of the derel our natity in Couth Bon pay two insurance premiums Arrivals.The Mail Str. As championship table, and all they Bubble daya. A company was a well-organised army and also
any of those on which wo squari-,}
gainst war-she must keep up sayo and extra Stra. Bombay win their last game against North electrical onergy by means of have to do to remain there is to former to collect the sun's Maru, Capri and Bingo amptonshiro, which commences mirrors, bottle it and use it for
a powerful floot- Maru from Bombay, and Strut Northampton on Saturday fighting and heating. "Thus,"
The propaganda of the paci lists show the horrors of war, but A. Apear from Calcutta harey will gain, a percentage of past ages becomes true-4/et arrived when international | next. By winning that match said the prospectus, "a dream unfortunately the time has not "brought in 7,108 bales for Hong- 74.00-figures Kent, as the result ram which would from as conflicts can be settled by-the- kong, and 5,805-balos, for Shang of their defeat at the hands of Utopian as any magic font Hague Court of Arbitration and hai. Shipmonts from Hongkong Surrey yesterday, cannot equal. of the genti of the
HE ORDINARY GENERAL without the sound of rifto and can TH to Shanghai, and coast ports, &c.,
The position, however, is fullbian Nights." This, of course, Commission, will await the Company's Offices, on SATURDAY, MEETING of SHARE- non. France, adds the Reporter of HOLDERS will be held at the of possibilities. Should War is quite moderate and convincing of the era of universal race, the 23rd Septembar, at Noon, for the anouni, to about 1,000 balos. "
Local Mills-llave sold 150 ampton, or only gain either three American advertisement and it without, however, neglecting her urpose of aceiving the Report of the
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points or one point, Kent can, did what it was meant to do. A obvious duty in the oxigencies of Guneral Managers, together with Shanghai show an advance of Kent's two remaining matches country sold shares at sums vary.
from Taftor all, carry off first honours hundred ageals up and down the national defonce, Tls. 1 to 2 with good inquiry. are with Yorkshire, at Cuntering from one to two pounds, and struction of 16new battleships, 20 Company will be CLOSED from the
The Commission urges the con- Japanese Yarn.-Business-kas
bury, to-day, and Essex, Al Layton abiained, according to the New 'orpedo eraft, and 50 tbmarines 9th to the 23rd September, both days noxt Wednesday, Middlesex, 100, been done in 50 Bales 16s. at $170 should matters go badly with York correspondent of the "Stan- of various tonnages. The cost of inclusive. and $270 Bales 20s, at $170. both Kont and Warwickshire, went so far as to eroot the about £00,000,000, and by 1920
dard," £200,000. They even this now fleet will work out at DOUGLAS LAPBAIK & CO., Raw Cotton. There is nothing have yet a chance of being cham- sunshine-bottling apparatus on all of the new vessele will have Hongkong, Sept., 4th, 1911. [1459
General Managers, in stock and quotations are pions. The records of the teams housetops and invite the public to been constructed, and the effective nominal; Bengal $35 to $38,
in the tournament are as under :-- Chinose $37 to 841.
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SATURDAY, the 28rd day of Sep- tic producers to produce a "rub-ry. 26 11831 130 75 60.00 same country with Mr. Edison 6 58 62:96 ed. But perhaps living in the
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Mr. Meadows Frost, in his report
pany's Articles of Association be Gorduer in the "Financier." In Hamp 21 7 8 42 106 40 48 60 imaginative inventor almost as that on February 6 the Anglo- on Perlis for last year, observes
altored by substitating the sum Wares, 21 9-11-01 106 46 48.80 long as have the discovery Siamese. Boundary Commissoners
of $60,000 for the sum of his remarks he states:-
Glos, 19 6 1 0 8 95 28 29.47 of the secret of perpetual mo- rouched Perlis to start their labours the required majority, it will be sub-
$26,000 in line two... Personally, I am not convinced Sussex. 21 4 1 2 2 105 28 28.60tion or the philosopher's' stone, in delimitating the frontier be-pitted for confirmation as a
Should the Resolution be passed by the substance actually is caoutais. 21 116 2 2 105 13 12.88 nounce' to-morrow that he bust/weon Porlis, Kedah and Siamese Res lation to a Second Extraordinary
Deby. 17 2 12 0's 86. 13 15.84fund if Mr. Edison were to an- chouc, although, of course, it is Sonite. 13 110 0 2
special
not possible to affirm this absolute-
657-10.76 discovered a means to do it no territory. Colonel Jackson, the Meting which will be subsequently The match at Dewsbury between
Surveyor-General of the Federat-povered. ly unless a lengthy chemical in-Yorkshiro and
one would be very greatly astonished Malay States, was the Chief Dated, the 15th Sajt., 1911.- Northamp-od. The prograss of science vestigation is entered into. The tonshire, in which an innings was has doubtless cleared away mach Commissioner of the British par DOUGLAS-LAPRAIK & CO., not completed on each side, is not fantastic lumber from our beliefs, Narondr held the same position for appearance and the physical al- included in the above table.
ty, while Major-General Mom tributes, united with micros-
but it has at the same time so ac- A win counts 6 points; in customed us to seeing the impro-the Siamese. The day of their ar copical examination, suggest drawn games the side leading on bable or apparently impossible rival was the first day of heavy rain rather that it is an analogous the first innings scores 3 points, become the actual that one doubts in the year and thenceforward it homologue, or a body closely and the side behind on the first whother conditions are not more related to caoutchone. At the innings 1 point.
rained consistently throughout inost I can only describe it as a
favourable, to the charlatan now.
the rest of the year. The DOMESTIC Servants. Servants Warwickshire have never play-than ever they were in less inven-
of all descriptions suitable for all rubber-like substance. We have el such good cricket, nor have five times. Manchuster Quarably with the task of the sur- and Tea plantatione, and for contimeters. weather interfered consider kinds of work, coolies for Rubber, Coffee, been toll it takes three wooks for they ever had anything like odian." thie material to acquire the cha- good a record. From a side that
veyors, who worked under great Forfartherparticulars please apply to racteristics of rabbor; if so, the generally hail to struggle for runs
difficulties and suffered severely i The H.K. Servants' Registration sample I hold us hast, suflicient they have become a live ten,
from fover in the jungle. A
and Labour Agency, time to aller. Certainly, it is confident and daring to a point
trigonometrical survey in con-|
37 Connaught Bord Coutml. changing from an opaque white to which has commanded success.
nection with the boundary was Tel: Ad. Fame." Mangora.
.v.). Code. L.K. FAME &C.. a translucent appearance at its It has not been Warwickshire
The Value of "Boosting."
carried out by Mr. Goulding, and exterior, resembling sheet gela-who have gone into the field four-
Perlia is mow joined up throughong, 11th Sept. 1911. [1870 tino. It is still unchanged in its ing defeat this season, and their Banner Convention
Detroit, it appears, is The Kodal with the Federated Malay interior. It is extremely soft, and record of. 12 victories is only America." Last your no fewer
City of Statos.
PHYSIQUE AND POLITICS. can be readily torn apart by the surpassed by Kent, Surrey, Lanthan 182 "conventions," con was completed by the end of the The Perlis part of the boundary fingers. A little separated, it can eashire, and Yorkshire, who each gresses, conferences, May meet your, except for a portion in the help to success in politics is tho That a substantial physique is be very easily stretched, but fails play several more matches. to regain its shape that is to say,
ings, and so forth, were hold north, where p small area is conclusion of a New York jour- it is not alastic, or only so to an
Brilliant Young Captain. thero. As the result 185,000 claimed by both eiles. The mat-nalist, who has been illustrating infinitesimal degree. In order to ed Warwickshire were without a and $7,000,000 (£1,400,000) was tween the British and Sianiese Abraham Lincoln, he says, was
Shortly before the season start people were brought to Detroit, tor is still under discussion be this moral by American instances. Bussion Tmin Time is 28 minutes ahead of the 8.M.B. Time. For insignes be perfectly fair in my investiga-captain, and the position was left by them in the city. This is governments. Beacons to mark the last spare, long-faced min to
8 pim, by the former is 5.87 p.in. by the latter, tion I took for comparison the offered to the brilliant young not due to the advantages which the boundary are at this mo-be elected President. All his EXPRESS EXTRA FEN... Y8.00
Supplementary Charges on DAIREN-CHANGCHUN Berrics. newest real rubber obtainable cricketer F. It. Foster, "on n Detroit offers to the organisers ment being put up by a joint successors, not excepting theener
SLEETING CAR Burtlement, Y5.00 from the plantations, about four mouth's trial." Foster consented of meetings, for Detroit, it ap- purty of Siamese and British getic Roosevelt, have
TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's rallway and steamer ticket 'months old. I could not detect to lead the team, but only after all pears, "has no very large audi- officers. Starting from
been obtainable at all the Agencies of the Laternational Bleeping Car & Hrpe any admixture with natural restrictions lud boen withdrawn, torium, and must pass up many coast, the line follows the thus been prepared physiological and Belsebureau der Hamburg-Amerika Linio
the inclined to be portly, and have ins Co., the Nippon Tusen Kaisha, Shanghal, Meranie Thos. Cook & Son, rubber; indeed, the properties of and to liis own splendid play and large conventions because the article, apart from any scion-influence can the wonderful im- inability to house the delegatos mountains which soperates Perlis troubles of their position. The ori-pany's management,
of water-parting along the range of ly to accept with good-nature the Dairen, Fort Arthur, Mukden, Fushag and Changchan, all under the Cozy- BAILWAY HOTELS YAMATO Horst (Igh Add 11! Famito") a tifie scrutiny, are opposed to the provement of the team be directly in session." presence of natural rubber, from ascribed, Asbatsman and bowler "Convention Bureau," which is ly due north and sontit. From Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, who Bat the city has a from Betul and which runs near- tic recalls also that such men as which it differs very greatly.
SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY It will thus be gathered that ifit be cricketers of the season, and not that are
he has been one of the finest supported by the businesses the point of this line where the were popular heroes up to the time
DA BEN. caoutchouc it is suck caoutchouc since the days of A. G. Stool has presence of large numbers of is renoted the boundary turns in favour of candidates of a
benefited by the main watershed of the peninsula of the election, were pushed agile Tel Add. Man stan." Codas: A.B.U. Eth. EL A. L. & Lieber's as a broker might hesitate to England seen such a clever young visitors-hotels, theatres, garages, south east until it meats a pointless nervous type. Blaine, the sell as rubber, and to which it may amateur. Only 22 years of age, "transportation companies, cafes where the Kedali frontier begins, brilliant, had to give way to the be averred indisputably a manu- he has accomplished the feat of and restaurants, liquor and In this south-easterly direction slow-thinking, careful Cleveland. facturer would be reluctant to scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 pigar dealers, and merchants the line crosses an undulating "Bryan, with his oratorical dome give serious attention. Until some wickets,
(shopkeepers)."When a con- plain which givides Perlis from and flowing locks, the hero and cheaper and more satisfactory The success of the team has vention is in the balance the the Siamese province of Nakhon the idol of every place where, method is introduced, until, also, created an astonishing revival of Detroit Bureau goes after it with Sritamarat. This plaju marks a crowd congregated, went down to some process is devised that will interest in cricket in Warwick- such vigour that when Detriot large gap between the northern defeat, first before the pinoid, give rabber of indisputable pro-shire. Financially all records wins it is with s perties and of indubitable nature, have been beaten. During the next step will
The and southern port of the
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even more placid and plantation industry nor the plans week and the following two play-apolonies which might hold tation industry itself need have ing days 50,000 people, watobed ventionis in Detroit pay canse for alarm W/Dire
the three matches contested good work will go ga
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