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Mr. 3. O. Pott...
Mr. J G, Pott, member of the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
SERVICE MATTERS.
The Gordons.
The Gordon Highlanders at Indian Council, has been honour-Cawnpore, under orders for South ably relieved from this high post, Africa, will proceed, says the and will, under the title of Cor- Rangoon Gazette, to Egypt, re ernment Commissary, bo charged lioving the 1st Battalion Scots by the Governor-General of the Guards, at Cairo. Dutch East Indies with the necessary preparation for the re- vision of the Indian Mining Law. | Japanese Friendship of China.
Col. Hoblyn, R.Q.A.
Lieut. Col. E F. Hoblyn, R.G.A., has been appointed to Golden Hill (Isle of Wight), in place of Lieat Col. Williamson- Oswald, transferred to the Indian Mountain Artillery.
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The Japanese M. P.' who recently visited China report "a, universal tendency to reckon Japan as China's best friend, and as a neighbour who was least open R. A. Colonel's Appointment. to suspicion.” Our travelling in-
Col. A. W. Money, late Royal formants do not tell us why this Artillery, has left for India should he 80, observos the to take up duty" GB Bri- "Nationial Review;" and until gadier General on the General they do that, we prefer to keep Staff of the Southern Army. an open mind on the subject, merely murmuring to ourselves at times" Manchuria, Mänchuria.” Capt. L. Fort, 2nd Bo. The There is the touchstone of Japan's Buffs, has been granted leave of intentions with regard to China, absence from Singapore on private If the solemn obligations of the affairs. from November 30, 1912 Anglo-Japanese Alliance are reto December 21, 1912, with per spected by Japan, China will mission to travel in the Federated have some reason to regard her Malay States.
Leave of Absence,
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island neighbour as at rate leas General Nixon's New Post. inimioal than Russia. If not,
Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Nixon has protestations are mere hyponow crisies.
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little town, well laid out, with after, they were also very strict in broad flat rail. And rangod before
excellent buildings and two or preventing bolting, and every GREEN ISLAND CEMENT the bar are tall choirs, luxuriously Capt. J. Thomson, Royal Gar- three large hotels. The town was planter knows that he has his
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PORTLAND. CEMENT Territorial Royal Garrison Artill- disadvantage was that it was sur- Trouble in Kwangtung,
ery on January 6,-when-he-will- rounded by tobacco land, and had The condition of the interior of be succeeded by Lieut. A. O. Bo room for expansion tobacco the province, writes a Cantoo
Alford, who is now serving with paying such big profits that it correspondent, is anything but No. 22' Company, Royal Garrison was almost imposible to buy satisfactory. Fighting has been proceeding round three market Artillery, at Sheerness. Capt. A land, and consequently living towns, situated on one of the Keyes, Royal Garrison Ar was very dear in Medan,
The European population, Mr. tillery, completes his period au biggest of the inland rivers of Staff Captain. Royal Artillery, Dickson said, consisted of two the delto. The aggressors aro said to be supporters of the famous Eastern, Coast Defences, in two thousand Dutch and about thirty months time. The officer selected Britishers, most of whom were
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Tea is now being planted in Sumatra. Mr. Dickson met a for- or Travancora plantar, who has opened land in tea. The tea grows splendidly, and is ready for plucking in two years. The roads are fairly good, until one gets right into the interior, where the
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anti-Republican General, Wong for the post is Capt. W. B. G. employed by Messrs. Harrisons There is a railway from Bala- who has been in hiding lately. Barna, adjutant of the Royal Ger-and Crosfold, who are just put- and is said to have been at work rison Artillory at Woolwich.
ting up a very fine new building wan, the port for Medan, to Me- in French Annam. Any way, B
similar to their offices in Colombo. dan, a distance of forty miles, and large band of men, provided with Developing the Australian Navy. Nearly all the Dutch speak planting distriots. There is Ma- it is now being extended to the flage and other paraphernalia of As most people anticipated, English, but knowledge of Malay Government, suddenly appeared having once started on the path was an absoluta necessity; one faria in Balawan, which is situat- in a fleet of boats, took possession of paying more fully for the pro- could not speak through the telcod on a swamp, but at Median and of the largest of the three towar, tection of their shores and their phone or even get a whisky and further inland it is unknown. The and issued instructions to the maritime interests afloat, the soda without being able to speak though, it is as botas as in Colom climate is very healthy, for, al people to attend to their own Australians are realising more and Malay, Mr. Dickson went on. business," seeing that there was more how necessary it is to build 85 Mile Motor Run Up County: no quarrel with them: The up a local fleet, which shall pre- All the land around Medan is intruders were not allowed to sently count as a factor to be reck-devoted to the cultivation of to- have things all their own way, oned with by foreign Powers, bacco. On a tobacco estate only The Central Government sent The growth of this feeling recently one-eighth is opened every year, down troops, and gunboats, and found expression in the House and after the crop is harvested there was some fighting. Some of Representatives in how South the land is allowed to lie idle for civilians were killed in the trouble, Wales, when Dr. Moloney eight years' this gives the
Washington October 31-The and even some women. The warmly advocated the con country a very abandoned ap Department of Agriculture has bandits have dispersed for the solidation of the State debts in a pearance. Tobacco is paying received from its experiment time being, but it is to be feared manner which would effect a much better even than rubber, station at Chico, Cal., a consign- we have not heard the last of them. enficient saving to build a fleet The rubber etites are all doing ment of t'eau, a Chinese fruit Sino-Japanese Relations.. of Dreadnoughtsin a few years, well, there is plenty of Javanese which the department Gopes to A scheme is on foot among a for the protection of the coasts of labour, and labour troubles are introduce in California and the number of influential Japanese Australia and for patrolling the unknown, Coolies are brought Southern Statae. The t'eau is the and Chinese to form a Sinor trade routes, or defending the over under a three years' agres- size of an egg, with fruit like an Japanese Society for the purpose Empire by co-operating in vital ment, and as a rule sign on apple, except that it has a single of bringing Japanese and Uhinese enterprises further afield. Such for another term of three years. seed, cherry-like.nz business men into closer relation a gilt-edged security, it was con- says the "Japanese Chroniolo," tendod, should be available in On the Chinese side Mr. Li Ping-| small amounts, so that Australia's 'shu, who was one of the Revolu- poorer citizens, could show tionary leaders at Shanghai, is their patriotic feeling, and take working for tho formation of the an effactive hand in giving their Society, and on the Japanese side country an efficient and sufficient
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