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·Dacoities in Bengal.
Two or three dacoities are re- ported every day in the Mofussil of Bengal, and there is an increas ing demand for drastic netion on the part of the Government.
SERVICE MATTERS.
A "Truth"Comment on the Colombo R.G.A.
Football. worship is carried to such a pitch in No. 93. Company R.G.A., stationed at Colombo, that sooner than lose a match the Town Hall for Rangoon, Commanding Officer one day last Rangoon is to have a "now month reloused from the guard- Town Hall to cost about $860,room & gunner who had beou run 000. Mr. L. A. McClumphs, of in by the military police for being Rangoon, received the prize of drunk and disorderly in the town 2300) for the best design. The overnight, and after the match second and third prizes went to was over sent the man back to the gnard-rom, where he had to re- London aruliitects.
main till his onse was investigated
Alec Taylor in Japan. next day. The men, who was
billiard
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FLY TRAPS.
law under which soldiers serve How to Get Rid of the House Fly. cannot be good for disciplino.- "Truth."
A Sailor Drowned.
for the fight against the fly from the house to out doors, and then to extorminate it. Another essen-
tial feature in a town or city is that households most co-operate. The fly is a nuisance besides One ignorant or careless home.
New Russian Railway.. Harbin, May 6-The Russian papers are informed that the Russian Government has finally decided to construct the Kjachta Verkneadinsk railway line t governinent expense izstour! of giving the enterprise into private
Bandarawela, April 21st-The being a carrior of infectious dig- i can bread fliesenough to vitiate the hands. This action is being news has just reached here that a case, and the attempt to exturbeat endeavours of a whole town, taken owing to the importance of sailer hoy, ummed flolden, of minute it needs no justification. Hodge has succeeded in bis the new line which will develop MS. Fox," who has Lelow one can make one's home,
neighbourhood in practically commercial relations with Mongo missing from camp, is raportadown or city Byless is described lia. The Council of Ministers to have been drowned in the M..by O. F. Hodge of Clark Univer' eliminating flies; he uses noj
screens in windows and doors, haon river, about 44 miles from sity, Worcester, lass. He says and can sit outdoors or have win- that the American public spends dowa or doors open at any time $10,000,000 a year for window and without molestation. As flics door screens in a futile attempt begin to breed early in the spring exclude a lively insect which and as they bread with marvellous overy time the doors are opened. a fly campaign is in the winter. insists on getting into the house rapidity, the time to arrange for He believes also that the method, of swatting the flies, using fly- paper indoor traps or poisons 18 ineffective, but may help. His
precated the Duma with a Bill
to the above effect.
Lady Scott's Return,
the Diyatalawa Camp, co the slope of Black Rock and Sea View Hill. Police and naval search parties have been out from leat night, but the boily has not been found at the time of wiring.
BURMA OILFIELDS.
the Advisory Board system work- ed well. Discussing prospects in the future, be said that all the wells in the main field awaited the inevitable hour of exhaustion. Still, there was no need to be unduly pessimistic at present. The Twinza reserves were show- ing astonishing vitality, and there was no geological reason why oil should not be found much deeper, any at 4,000 ft. Sir Thirkell White and Sir Frederic Fryer ex- pressed the belief that the Burma
M. Fallieres' Daughter. Paris, April 19-The news papers state that proceedings for divorce have been begun by M. Lanes and his wife, the daughter of M. Fallieres, the ex-President.
Commodore Geunt. The suit it is stated, would have
Captain Ernest Frederic Au- been brought sooner but it was quatus Gaunt, C.M.G., who will thought advisable to wait until succeed Rear-Admiral Erskine op method is to make use in various Mr. N. G. Cholmeley, 0.8.I., the end of M. Falliores' term of 24th inst., se commodore second ways of the conical wire mesh late Divisional Commissioner in office. Mlle. Fallieres, who had class in command of the Royal Hytrap, which is familiar to Burma, lecturing before the a dowry of £20,000, was married Naval Barracks at Chatham, was almost every oue, in such a way Indian section of the foyal Society to M. Lanes five years ago from September, 1808, to October, as to turn the tables on the flies of Arte, in London, on April 17, Lanes was then appointed Trea-1806, commissioner for Wei-hai-aud "put them in jail and let our on the Burma Oilfields, said that surer-General of the Department wai and administrator of Liu-selves out." The plan involvas, of Seine-et-Oise, a post worth kung Tao. He was naval officer of course, the abolition as far as about £3,000 a year.
in charge at Wei-hai-wei for some possible of all breeding and feed time after this, and upon" the out- Lady Scow, widow of Captain break of hostilities in Northg places for flies and the applica tion of the flytrap mentioned Scott, arrived at Victoria on April China in July, 1000, became com above to the garbage can, to the 11, from Australia. Lady Scott, missioner and transport officer who had travelled overland from: there. He was mentioned in screens on windows, to the covers on manure bias, etc., all which Brindisi, and was looking very General Gaselee's dispatches of can be done by little mechanical wall, was attired in deep mourn May, 1901, and received the ingenuity, Garbage osas are on ing. She was met at the station thanks of the Austrian and Ger the market which have a cover by several of her relatives, and man Commander-in-Chief for his larger than the oun and not fit there were also present Sir Edgar services; as well as acknowledging down closely on it so that the Sperer, hon. tronsurer of the mente from the Admiralty. Hefied gain access to the can Antarctic expedition, Captain was awarded the C.M.G., in the under the cover and escape Oilfields were more extensive than Mark Kerr, N., and Mr. Fran- birthday honoura of June, 1902, vis R. H. Drake, R. N.,
in consequence, besides receiving to the expedition.
the China medal,
Crimes Medal After 47 Years. Flying in the Face of Providence
Filty-seven years after the Cri- When Dr. Humphrey, "of the mean War Willism Melson, a Hackensack Board of Health, re- Boston (Lincolnshiro) Crimean ferred to the fact that flytime veteran, has just received the fol- was coming and suggested that lowing grants-The War Office preparations be made to swat award of the Crimean medal with them, one of his colleagues, evid-clasp for Sebastopol, a campaign ently a fatalist, remarked: "God pension of 9d. per day from the made flies as well as other things, Chelsea Hospital, and an allow and so flies will exist to the end ance of 26. a week from the of time no matter how much Veterans Relief Fund. Melson they may be swatrod. There are 18 eighty-two years old and has too many fool ordinances now been living on the old-age pen and they are driving people outsion. Enlisting in the Royal of town.". Apparently our army | Artillery in 1853, he went through doctors flew in the face of the the Crimes and was invalided out | Orestor when they wiped out the of the Service on 6d. a day for stegomyia mosquito on the Is nine months. thmus and rendered possible the| building of the Panama Canal- Boston Globe,
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Chinese Farmers and Mongol Landlords.
Another R. G. A, man la the
trouble at Singapore. Freeman Burfit, a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery, atationed at Blakan Mati, Singa. pore was charged last week
in the second court with trespass-
Reniev's St. Petersburg cor- respondent states that several Chinese farmers at Maimachen ing on the Borneo Wharf go was
through 0 hole in the bad yet been ascertained. Sir cover over which is fixed a fly-Thomas Holland, said that new trap. In fighting the dy Hodge flotations of Burma Oil Com- has found that the essentials of a panies could only be purely successful campaign are to trans- l ́speculative.
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and also with the theft of a vottle The Judgement House have refused to pay the Mongols of brandy. He pleaded not guilty rente for their farms, and are and was remanded until the 8th threatening armed resistance. inst.
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