GENERAL NEWS.
Cotton Farmers' Troubles.
WILD ANIMALS
DRINKING.
Remarkable Photographs.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,
VILLAGE ATTACKED.
Lawlessness Near Quinsan,
Details:have reached Shangbai
The very remarkable series of of an attack made on the village of moving pictures of wild animala Lukiapang, near Quinsani on
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which the water hotely; and the taken the course of painting their animals for miles round were fcas to conceal their identity, New Nagasaki-Shanghal Cable, forced to come to it instead of Some of them spoke the local
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Care of the Wounded." of the compensation to be paid by baby elephant teases its mether,
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AQUARIUM.
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that the greatest sufferes among the people at Nanking are the middle and student classes, and aquarium in Unter den Linden
M. Pierro Schamel of Neuilly, to these it was proposed to make was pulled down to give place to
was 100 years old on August 25 small loans to tide them over business premises; the inhabit- their present distress rather than ants were houred anyhow at the
Bis span of life has been as re- markable for the events which the gifts of rice commonly dis- Zoo, and Berlin was without an
Growded it sa for its length. tributed. It is interesting aquarium until this month. For note that the very poorest classes more than two years a building!
Born at Vereailles when Napolen Personal attention is given to are not so badly off, many of has been in course of erection in
was in the zenith of his glory, the examination and the fitting of lenses that will relieve all them having obtained and stored the Zoological Gardens, with a
Schamel in his childhood often trouble. The only charge is for some of the loot. According to separate entrance from the road. this telegram, rice is actually and this building, the future:
played with the young King of the glasses. cheaper at Nanking than Shang-aquarium, was opened with due
M. Gaitry, the well-known Rome, and one of his proud re- hai, but quantities are still being ceremony last month: It is a
French playwright and actor, miniscences is that be Fid-Len sent up, having been provided by bandsome edifice and, we are as- Chinese merchants for free dis-sured by competent judges, the made some interesting statements fondled by the great Emperor, tribution-North China Daily ficest thing of the kind in the in an interview with regard to of whos guard his father was A
his experiences of the censorship member. in France,
His memory of events of the The ground floor contains s The Salt Inspectorate and the and river fishes of every name
"Of course," said M. Guitry, last years of Napoleon's reign is .Group.
there is no censorship in France remarkably vivid,The return and lime. For the accommoda Peking, September 23-Pretion of the former nearly 2,000; now except that of public opinion, of the Grande Armee and the mier Hsiang Hsi-ling, replying COD gallons of Fen water were hut while the censorship existed building of the Arc de Triomphe to the note of the ministers of the hrought from Hamburg. The used to adopt a very novel and to celebrate its glories, the return Quintuple Group, states that be arrangements for the circulation of successful method of keeping of Napoleon from Elba, the does not desire to interfere with the water are so well managed what I wanted in a play. Hundred Days, the abdication the efficient working of the Sult that experts say there will be no contained in which were some tera of history in which he took first of all wrote my play, und exile to St. Helena are mat- Inspectorate in accordance with need to change it for forty years, phrases and episodes which might part as a spectator, though a very the quintuple agreement. He The floor above is the reptile suggested amalgamating the Salt house, which is equally well to some people appeal somewhat youthful one, Commissionership, wbich created stocked. Here the chief attract risque, but in which I myself dissatisfaction among the mem inn is a lifelike African jungle then proceeded to interpolate in memory of the Emperor, and
could see nothing objectionable. hers of the Group, with the Sait
swamp, twenty-eight yards long. Inspectorate. By this means Tesi pad twelve brand. Half-g-dozen the play some things which, with during the latter's internment at Ting kan would become Inspector" real crocodiles of very respect-out any doubt whatever, would St. Helene he visited the ielund General and Commissioner. This able size swim in the water or re bave no possible chance of seaing reply is considered satisfactory pose lazily on the mud banks at the light of day on the stage: Hsiung Hsi-ling subsequently will, obviously well satisfied with there were obviously beyond all cottage at Neuilly will fad the and the Poultry of EUROPEAN visited the bankers and suggested their surroundings.
hope. My play would then go be old man plea antly reminiscent STOCK, Try Our Delicious that if a further question arises The uncanny scene, which is fore the censor, who would seize and categorically precice us to Grand Hotel, Queen's Road. he and the bankere would bathed in pile blue light-pre- with horror upon these carefully the various regimes which he probably Le able to settle sumably jungle moonlight-is prepared additions, and, having bad scan pass away. He will the matter amicably without the surveyed by visitors from a bam exhausted his cfficial wrath upon learn that M. Sebamel lived THE IDEAL LAUNDRY Ministers as the Chinese Govern- boo bridge across the swamp as them, invariably failed to notice under two Emperora, three Kinga ment desires the Inspectorate to long as they can endure the tro what I wanted kept in, and thus and ten Presidents. He witnessed carry out the work without frio pical atmosphere. On the top my play would pass,
"I present this experience with storey of the building is the In- sectarium, where the habits and all good wishes to my English customs of most foreign and confreres without in any way New York, September 2.The native insects offer an object les expressing an opinion as to the insane fear of poverty which Bon to the student of natural his desirability for the existence of affilets many wealthy people was tory. The handsome vestibule an official censor of plays."
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Poisoned Millionaire.
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I
Embarked for Hongkong,
responsible for the attempted and staircase are embellished with suicide yesterday of Mr George reliefs of antediluvian ammele, Jamieson, a millionaire of Radnor, the work of well-known Berlin Pennsylvania, and the death of artists The aquarium is under Twenty-three men of the 128th his sister, Miss Jane Jamieson. For some time past Mr Jamieson the supervision of Professor Hook: Baluchistan Infantry, and twenty- to whose skilful management and Ave men of the 26th Punjabia has had an unfounded idea that hamare judgment the Berlin embarked at Bombay on P. & 0. his immense fortune was melting Zoological Gardens owe their Delt on 24th September for away and that a poverty-stricken high standing.
old age confronted him, and he
infected bis sister with the same
passage to Hongkong.
A Circular Church, The remains of the Church of
fear. Two days ago the couple, Policemen For Nanking who lived on a magnificent estate Tutah Chang Haun disbanded near Radnor, dismissed their six the police force of Nanking as soon the Knights Temples, on the servants and swallowed tablets of as he had taken the city, as most Western Heights at Dover, are corrosive sublimate. When dis of the policemen joined the relle being restored by the Office of covered, Miss Jamieson was dead during the siege. He requested Works. This is one of the few and her brother unconsciu.the Government that 1,000 police round oburohes remaining in The millionaire is now lying in men be recruited in Tientsin to England.
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