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An Actress 1 Jewels, The wondeful jewellery she has worn has frequently drawn atten tion to Miss Fanny Ward, the American actrean who has just been divorced. When appearing in The Marriage of William
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Drafted to Singapore, LieutTM B, Dryer, Lospector of Army Schools, has arrived at Singapore and is taken on the strength of that command,
Major Warlug. R.A.M.C. Major A. D. Waring, Royal' Ashe" she wore a Venus costume home from Hongkong, has been Army Medical Corpe, on arrival with £200,000 worth of diamonds on it, and in a music hall sketch posted to Southern Command. at the Palace Theatre decorated herself with £50,000 worth of glittering gems.
"The Chinese Army- Peking, Feb. 14-The Ministry of war has prepared a plan for the reorganization of the army which provides for fifty-eir divisione, in fourteen military distriote under the command of twenty-eight higher officers. The plan will be submitted to a War Council, which will consist of all com- manding officers of the provinces and will be convened in Peking
on the 28th instant,
Sudden Death on a Rubber
Estate.
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Defence of the Dutch Indles. due to heart failure. Aber-surveying the entrance to and the
"The Defence of the Dutch donians in particular will regret hills overlooking Cromarty Firth. to hear of the sad occurrence, The survey is a result of the First Indies" is the title of a very in- says the "Strait Times," Do. Lord's visit in September. Offices teresting contribution to the cessed was a renowned athlete have been erected for the en- Dutch journal " Do Gids." Tho and his football triumplis in gineers, and local datimates have best kind of defence for island Aberdeen were well known. Of a genial disposition he had many friends in Malaya, to whom the news of his death will come as great shock,
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smaller and sparsely inhabited weakness, shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, headaches faculty of Columbia University, The Late Captain Halbert, R.N. places s strong navy is necessary and giddness, noises in the ear, has filed a voluntary petition in Captain Arthur Russell Hul. So Holland must increase her bankruptcy in the United States hert, in command of the Firat naval power and must have the District Court. He gives na Destroyer Flotilla, was drowned best of ships and armaments, liabilities $101,000.86,unsecured, in Harwich Harbour on January super-Dreadnoughts, and all. In and gives se assete contracts for 12. He was on the quarterdeck Java: it would be possible, and royalties on publications. His of his ship, the Blonde, at 920 advisable, to have a native army. chief creditor is given as Esther a.m., and suddenly disappeared Quinn, whom he owes, he says, over the ship's side. The body $50,000 because of a suit for a has not been recovered. Captain breach of promise to marry, and Halbert, who was promoted to
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was lieutenant in the Endymion, Chias Station, in 1900, and was mentioned in dispatches for his services with the Naval Brigade in North China.
Battleship Fight la Congress. Washington, January 13, Renewal of the fight in the House for an increase in the number of battleships to be built for the nary during the fiscal year, for which appropriatione soon will
a
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An Early Easter. Easter this year comes on the
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Iron, it is now known, will not care suismin. The remedy "must be in the form of food. Discussing what is needed under such condi-
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The good service pension of by a clear sky and dry ground. $150 per annum which was af In 1812 Easter was even a day
He adde: "Patients, who have
grown things the reqult of obronic
be made, has started a campaign the disposal of the Admiralty/earlier than March 23, and in maladies, put on flash at the rate
of one or two pounds a week, or
by the two-battleship programme
even more in some intances, when weather made still less difference, advocates looking to a comprise consequent upon the promotion 337 A.D., when the state of the on a single battleship. In the of Rear-Admiral Le Marchant has
time the colour is brought back to meanwhile, the navy is pressing been conferred upon Captain E. the occasion was two days earlier taking Sanatogen. At the same has seen a good deal of active ser on the moon, for the Gregorian vice, from the time he was a sub calendar has decreed that Bastera-mentioned result is due to an lientenant in the Ruby during aball be the first Sunday after the increase of red blood corpuscles the Egyptian campaign of 1889 full moon following the vernal has been shown by repeated and down to his share in the suppres vernal equinox and the first day equinox. Usually the moon, the sion of Persian Gulf gun-running. and participation in the Somali of the week make a trade agree business when commanding the ment that works out pretty well
for provision for three big fighting Radcliffe Poare, Captain Pears/All of this trouble may be blamed the patient's cheeks. That this
ships. Secretary Meyer urged this programme to day before the House Naval Affairs Committee.
Chinese and Phonetics.
By order of the Chinese Min- istry of Education, the provincial autliorities bave insued 200 copies of a pamphlet giving rules and methods for the unification of the Chinese language according to the phonetic system; the district
Perseus.
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but in 1913 they will be atepping Thousands of medical men on each other's heels, all in a have testified to the value of Gallant Rescue Work at Spithead,
hinery to buy their clothes and Sanatogen in anomis. Among During the recent gales there calla lilies in time to stroll down them may be mentioned the Pri- prefect of Shanghai has received was an exciting and very brave Van Ness avenne on the proper vate Physician to the Czar of three copies, and the Teachers' rescue at Spithead. While man-morning.
Russia, who writes: “My daugh- Training School one copy with ning the cutter at the boom of
ter, who was very nervous and instructions that they should try the cruiser Achilles, a seaman
anemic, has been greatly benefit- Sanatogen. Her appetite in- ROYAL-W ed by the prolonged used of
proved, her weight increased, and the colour of her skin became bealthier."
to got the system popularized in named Weeks fell overboard. SENNET FRERES. the whole district-Exchange. He was wearing oilskins and soa boots, and as the sea was rough
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New York, January 25-Sonor and there was a strong tide, he Jewellers, Diamond Merchants Castro, ex-President of Venezueln, was in danger, of sinking. An who was to-day further examined able seaman named Hollinge- at the Ellis Island Immigration worth sprang overboard to his Binoculars and Stop Watches (all Chemists. Dapot by the special board ap-rescue, but came up some pointed to determine whether or distance to leeward of Weeks, who not he is a desirable person to was now becoming exhausted. enter the United States, became Hearing the ory "Man over- so enraged at the questions put board," Lieut. Alfred F. B. Car- to him by the thres members of penter, navigating officer, rushed the boara concerning the killing forward, and without divesting of General Parades in Venezuela himself of any of his clothes, that he ordered them from his jumped overboard and succeeded room. When they refused to go in reaching Weeks, whose head he summoned his valet and, seiz- he was able to keep above water ing a gold-headed oane, tried to with dificulty. Lifebuoys and a elect them. They then withdrow plank had been thrown to them, and Senor Castro banged the door and Hollingsworth secured the
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| RUBBER SPONGES
Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, while Able Seaman Bundy had TURKEY SPONGES bishop of the Reformed Episcop-jumped overboard with a line, al Church, will sail from San which he attached to Weeks, All Francisco on Jan. 23 to visit the were then hauled on board in an Philippine Lalande to study con-exhausted state, therescuers being ditions there. Bishop Fallows loudly cheered. Weeks did not said last night that he was going recover consciousness for four for "profit and not for pleasure. hours. He added that he had no com- mission from the Government,
A Cape Quarrel. He expects to be gone three A Capetown, despatch of Feb- months. The problem of self-ruary 5 to the Tokio Asahi government of the island will be says that the quarrel between 12 and Mr the next great problem for the Premier General Botha, nation, in my opinion, he said. Hertzog has become heated. The
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