GENERAL NEWS.
Shanghai Autumn Races.
The Shanghai Autumn Rache ara to be held on Nov. 11, 12 and 13th. There are, as usual, nine events on each day; with the Grand National and several others on the off-day.
WIRELESS IN THE
FAR EAST.
The Present and Near Future
of the Marconl System.
There soome to be good reason to anticipate that the whole of the Far East will shortly be linked up
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China had a commercial station at Shanghai and sinall Govern meat stations at Peking, Tien sin, Paotingfu, Hoihow, Chuwen, Canton and Kowloon. It is stated that it is proposed to link'up by wireless says an Erbhange. Peking and Lhasaa, with repeate Widows ought not to be Merry. More attention is paid to this ing stations at Tucbisalu and The mayor of a little town near Important subject than ever Batagg. A coastwise system Gard, France, refused to allow a before and if proposals which are of twelve stations from Hainan Englishman) open for immediate en- theatrical company to give a per-pow under consideration bear to formance of the "Merry Widow" practical fruit the day is not far hus also been mentioned. An Hongkong, Sid Oak, 1919
the Gulf of Peobilligement. First class referances, **J
c/o this paper.. on the ground that it must be an distant when the Far East will be excellent Open Letter addressed immoral play, as widows Lave no in touch with Amorics on the one by the writer who employs the right to be merry,
Bills and Europe on the other. (... Population of Chosen.
per-namo "Putnam · Wenle " to According of the latest census, services operated by the Govern- to be noticed.
At the present time there are the Government of China, denares the population of Chosen is ment of the Philippines,, Japan, 14,055,869. Of those 13,832,378 Netherlands-India, Russia, Ger- aro Coreans, 210 689 are Japanose, many and China. There is also Mr. Putnam, Wenlo, after com- and the remainder (12,804) of a small British station at Cape mending the Minister, for com- other nationalities. The increase D'Aguilar, Hongkong, but this is munications for reducing the in the Japanese population is used exclusively by the Admiral-domestio telegraph rates, points 40,000 as compared with the ty. In the near future, however, out that the adoption by China, figures in 1909.
Interesting to Horse-lovers.
sintions' are to be established at as a business undertaking, of the Singapore and Hongkong. In Marconi wireless system is the Individual drinking vessel for the Philippines the usefulness of only possible means of modifying Panoptio Buntter. Satchel Acceseories. horses are advoonted by Com-wireless was early recognised the present state of affairs which One 16ft Salling Dinghy i two set missioner Lederle, of of the Now and in February last year the close daily contact with the restF.L,"oats of "Hongkong Telegraph." effectively isolates Okins from alle. Dinghy class, R.B.K.Y.C. York City Health Department, Philippines Wireless Board sub- Caused the adoption of the into the institution and main in direct communication through on the same grounds that have mitted recommendations relating of the world. It seemed certain Hongkong, 6th Ost., 1912.
that very shorily India would be dividual drinking oup for men tonanes of a system of wireless chain of stations with England, and women. The common drink- telegraphy in the Philippino Olina had now a unique opporTO LET Houses in Austin ing trough, he says, is just as the Islands. The Board recommend. common drinking cup. In this ed the establishment of fourteen tunity. Her territory ortonded
Arcaun, Kowloon. Immediate connection we note that a Now wireless stations. Of those sixto within 205 miles of the possession. Apply A. Raymond, clo York City horse-lover has recent wore to be stations of high power fished powerful stations ly established free shower baths to be erected at the following her extreme, Western frontier she
8. J. David & Co.. Afghan frontier. If she estab Hongkong, lat Oct., 1912.
onjoy these bathis hugely.. north of Luzon, (2) City of
University of Agriculture for Manila, (3) Point near the Straits Europe.
central accommodation, liglit and Mr. Patoau Wenle l'airy, on First, second and Third Floor, It is reported says the "Poking Cebu Island, (5) City of Zam-pany should have official approval WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO.. of San Bernardini, (4) City of suggests that the Marconi Comin na buildtog being erected for Mosers. Daily News," that the Ministry boanga, Mindanao (8) Point to oranzo a subsidiary Chinese LTD. Entrance from Des Voeux Bond of Agriculture and Forestry have noar been contemplating the establish-
Davao, 01 South Company to construct and equip ectric Lift to all Boors, Elottig mont of a University of Agrioul Stations of intermediate power, when they were in working order. PALMER & TURNER, Alexandra
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The plan on be seen and all particu- ture in Peking, the object of which will be to tenoh
lara obtained at the Offices of Mara capable of maintaining comm- branches of agricultural possibi-powered station, it
uniontion with the nearest high- This suggestion stands out from
Buildings, 3rd Floor. litios in the country. Colleges, commended should be established the Peking Government is being
among the hundreds with which 980th Sept. 1919 middle and elementary schools of at Bagaio, Luzon; Tacolan, Layto; inundated as eminently worthy MODREENAGH, 21 The Peak. agriculture will also be oponed loilo, Panay; Cuyo, Cuyo Island; of sympathetic consideration. ber. Apply Property Office, Jardina, in the provinces as soon as their Dapitan, Malabang, Mindanao; in gront material and moral Hongkong. 3rd Sep'.. 1912.
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Low Power Stations. Cholera Cases In Tokyo, The Japan Gazetto
In addition the Board recom-IN FORBIDDEN CHINA.” that four more cases of cholera power stations capable of reports mended that at some future time have been discovered in Tokio maintaining communiention with
If any one has an idos that a The wife of a railway employee with the nearest established sta-Frenchman has not an English- belonging to Horjo Siation was tion, installed at twenty-eight man's pluck, saya the "Outlook." sttucked and died a fow hours other points. An appropriation hahould-rond-she-Vroomto1d'0]– later. Medical examination re-of P30,000 was recently authoris one's "In Forbidden China" Tura Floor No. 2, Ped- vealori the presence of choleraed for the reconstruction and re-from the northern boundary of Offos, Jardins, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. The author describes the journey One roomed Office. Apply Property bacilli. Lator two onson Dconrred, pair of the wireless stations in ono at Okasaki-cho, Kiobashi, bad Mindanao. At Zamboanga P15, French Indo-China to the Gobi Hongkong, 22nd Mar, 1912,
881 the other at Naganage, Horjo; 000 is to be expended, P4,000 Desert and the Great Wall in and a third case was reported at for the erection of a new station, Mongolia, The expedition left
Among some of those whose Tida-machi, Koji-machi Ward.
Indo-China in the summer of 1908 duty it is to deal with públic The Drought and the Philippine insulation, ole., P4,000 for a and emerged into the Mongolian offenders the disappearance of
Hemp-Crop.
plain three years Intor. The it the cangue is regrotted, but the As a result of the present high now generator, P2,000 for prices of hemp and copra pro-
now transformer, and P1,5000?inerary covered about five thou-powore that be at the Mixed for now
instruments, switch-sand miles, and the journey wa Court, or at least some of them, sperity reigns in Sorsogon (Philipboard, etc. P 145,000, for wirerioh in reward, especially as about consider that its value asa punish- pinos), provinco, says a report less tolegraph stations in the two-fifths of the route was through ment no longer entitles it to rank received from the provincial capital. Everybody is busy strip-stations are for the use of the In-plorer, who is also a captain in the
non Christian provinces. These an unknown region. The ex-with the other forms in vogue.
While the dangue has thus die- ping hemp to fill the increasing demand but it is said that aftor sular Government and the army French army, brought back several appeared, it has not been formally October the hemp production and nary. The money will not thousand photographs, several hun abolished in the Settlement, and will fall off about two-thirds due be spent, however, until a similar dred anthropological measure in reality it has only fallen into to the recant drought. Hemp Bum has been appropriated ments, nearly fifty vocabularies of desuetude. With the supposed that would have hoon stripped by the United States Con- non-Obinese dialects, and four enlightenment which followed this year will not be rondy until gress. Trans-Pacific facilitica dictionaries of native characters the revolution, the Chinese scem noxt spring as the drought stunt-are also contemplated.. The previously unknowa. The most to have resolved to drop it, and ed its growth." Manila Timos." Western Union has
interesting region through which it is stated that in the country HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN Split in the Japanese Cabinet. od that it has entered into a traffic Captain d'Ollone passod seems to generally this line been done.
A serious difficulty is reported Agreement with the Marconi com-have boon the Lolo country north
In the case of the Mixed Court to have arison between Marquis pany, which provides for the ex-of Tongking, a region hitherto Saionji, Premier, and Baron tension of the Marconi system aavisited by white people. We it is understood that on one or Uyehara, Minister for War, in from the Pacific Coast of the learn that the Lolos are not two occasions since the opening! connection with the proposal to United Sintos to Hawaii, Chins, Chinese in appearance, in lang- of the new regime Assessors have station two more Divisions in Japan and the Philippines, uage, or in manners; that the de- suggested it applicability to Corea, Baron Uyehara insists The Japanese Government has fiant topknot they wear has by no certain cases coming before them, that this must be done, but the stations at Osi Saka, Gota Island; means the same significance as but the proposal has not been Promier withholds consent, and Talienwan, Port Arthur; Keelung, the queue of the Chinese; instead. pressed, as the Magistrato pre- recently the War Minister was Formosa; Nagasaki, Sasebo, Cho: it is a badge of distinction, and ferred to meet the case in some most urgent and a breach ocenr-shi, Shimonoseki, Tsunoahima and the Lolos feel a superiority to the other way. It is at any time cap- red. It is said that the Minister Otehishi. Some of these stations Chinese. As to the latter, Captain able of being revived, although it for War has resigned, and Pro-inke naval messiges only.
d'Ollone, having seen them in may be imagined that an extra- mier Saionji has presented a
would be required before this was done..
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memorial to the Throne asking ment has stations at Sabang, declares contrary to the common for an Imperial decision. Rumour Sitcabondo Balik Papan and notion that they are both a adds that the matter will be sub-Timor Loopang, while a fifth is highly religious and, at base, a mitted to the Genro for decision, ia course of erectoin at Amboina. fighting people...
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Generally speaking, fines or longer terms of imprisonment are now imposed where formerly the cangae operated, and in certain Liszt, the composer, ia said to ranch of Colombo and Singapore Disappearance from Shanghal
quarters the opinion is expressed that these are more efficacious! have abandoned" the habit of
For one thing the man whic smoking as a result of a mis- Russia has two stations at A peraml of the police reports wat oangued was generally GRAVING DOCK understanding with the Italia Vladivostok. Though for ordinary during the past few months las of a class which had little customs authorities," He was purposes northern, and western shown the absence from the list "face" to lose, so that the indig: nocustomed to smoke but one Siberia would not be considered of sentences imposed in the nity was not so great as might cigar a day, and on a journey to to be within the geographical Shanghai Mixed Court of the have been imagined. At times Rome had one oigar for each day limits of the Far East, yet wire. punishment of the cangus, at one it was applied to others, and in of his stay in the Holy City less langhe at mapmakers and time much favoured. For long 1892 a foreigner, was even sen- placed in his trunk. On being Russia's wireless intentions in it was a common occurrence to temoed by the Mixed Court to be Baked at the frontier if he had this regard have thek ia have offenders sangued, says the cangued, although the sentence any tohance to declare, he absent feront for this part of the "N. China Daily News, especi- was never carried out. Now he 100 T. ELECTRIC JEANS CE QUAY-ELECTRIC OVERHEAD mindedly shook his head. When world. The Dama is to be ask-ally those of the mafco class, who Court is extending its workin URARESTI floor Tas Biors Bingine ur no 100 Tomualdocto the trunk was examined, nearly sed to provide 2515,000 for build-were marched up and down the other directions, and it may be mate ran for Doodles, Reads to Hall and Machinary, Constructio
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