GENERAL NEws.
THE KING'S TASTES.
Lord Kitchenar
No confiimtion is forthcoming of a report in the Italian now papers of a frustrated plot by Mussulmans against the life of Lord Kitchener when he was passing through Venice on the way to Egypt,
Home Life and Exorcise.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DR WU TING-FANG.
Literary Labours in His Retirement.
When anything to do with the United States crops up, the Chinese Press invariably draga'in the name Dr. Wa Ting-fang Time and again during the past two or three years these papers have unblushingly announced that the veteran diplomat was
The King's home life and tasten have been described in the Liver pool Daily Post by the writer of
From a Club Window": "In private life he is the sim. pleat and quietest of English gent- leman. He is the most domestic Nelson's Flagship. The launching ways from which of men, the kindest of fathers, about to pack his bag and not off Nelson's flagship Victory took and always happy in the bosom of to Washington, at one moment as the water in the Medway on May his family. The King is the best Minister, the next in charge of 7,1765, have been discovered in father in England. Next to his particularly delicate piece of the mud on the foreshore off children, the King beat likes agri-diplomatic work. The latest rumour is that he is to head & Chatham Dockyard. A memorial tablet has been placed near the culture, but he has practically no mission to the United States to spot, recording that the Victory time for this. He would have thank them for their recognition was built and launched there, made a capital country gentleman, of the Chinese Republic.
As usual Dr. Wu Ting-fang, that she left after refit on April but he would never have been an 18, 1803, and that the Victory re- M.F.H., for he is not keen on securely entrenched in his man- turned to Chatham November 22, hunting and has not a particular-ion in Gordon Road, knows 1905, bearing the body of Lordly good saat when riding. Nelson.
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nothing about it. It is difficult to reall an instance in the last "As he advanoss in middle three years when he has been A Leopard's Attack. Captain Maurice Assheton Har-age, though he bas no tendency acquainted with the alleged pro- bord, son of the Hon. Mrs. John to corpulence, the King finds an jota for his employment, and in Harbord, of Swaffham, Norfolk, increasing good for exercise, the present case again he pleads and nephew of Lord Suffield, has which is why he not only rides entire ignorance of any such ap- lost an oye as the result of being every day when in London, but pointment, or even a proposal to attacked some time ago by a generally manages to obtain a such an end from Peking. He leopard on his form in Africa. set of lawn tonnia. Indeed, in laughs merrily at the position of He had lost several goats by the the grounds of Buckingham third that he took in the Pre-part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154.
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But what Dr. Wa does mention is that he has often been urged
In supplementation of our by bis friends to write his re- miniscence of life in the special cable of Monday last United States. While he was we take the following from
There is no economy in going there he had not the time to the N, O, Daily News - devote to any such work, al-
to an optician of doubtful ability Peking, October 31...
to purchase glasses upon which little the wores for 180 hours "He has very little leisure for though he did once actually make
Great excitement is caused in your eye-sight depends. confinement. He was dragged
Personal attention is given to through a small hole which the reading beyond what he devotees start. Even now he does not
to studying the daily papera, but say that he is engaged upon them, political circles to-day by the re- rescuers, after four days and when he takes
up a book but he certainly leaves them port that the eight members of the examination and the fitting" nights of strenuous, heartbreaki ia never & novel, but within the probabilites of the Parliament, who were arrested of lenses that will relleve all ing labour, dug from the surface a volume of geographical explor case. If a passing remark is any last August on a charge of alleged trouble. The only charge, is for For four days the buried mineration, and he is fond of studying guide, it may not be so very long complicity in the rebellion and the glasses, was without food. At the end of the reports of the Geographical until a work from his pen sees bave since been confined without two days his lamp gave out." "I Scoisty. spent the time," he said, "in complete darkness and quenched my thirst by licking drops of black water which trickled from the boards in my tiny cavern. I couldn't restrain my delight when I heard the rescuers' voices, 1 recovered strength when I re ceived through a tiny tube the Execution of the Chief Assassin.
food and stimulanta sent down to me." Tomisschefski was greeted by his wife and five daughters when häuled to the surface.
THE PLOT AGAINST YUAN.
the light of day.
trial, are to be despatched as prisoners to-morrow to Shanghai, The Speakers of both Houses
N. LAZARUS,
Ophthalmic Optician. 1A, D'Aguilar Street,
The Simple Life- Even in bis retirement Dr. Wu Ting-fang does not find too much, have gone to the Premier this Note: time for his literary labours. As evening to demand an explanation.
The Only Europe, n
Telephone 1292.
in well known; he is a devotee of It will be remembered that the the simple life, and between this Government promised that these Optician in D'Aguliar St. and social duties his time is fairly men should be tried in Peking by the Supreme Court. They The old dictum about the have since, been regarded by well occupied. amount of sleep required by a man politicians as being held as host- Peking, No. 2.
does not appeal to Dr. Wo, and ages by the Government for the Chen Chou-yin, chief of the he goes in for a solid eight hours. good behaviour of the Southern Peking mounted police, who was This takes up a third of the day, party, and the present move is arrested at the time of the Presi and then he devotes a full hour interpreted as a device to soften The unusual spectacle of a pro- of plotting against President two, so that another small portion wishes with regard to the Con- dent's inauguration, on a charge to each meal. Of these he has the opposition to the President's test meeting in Devonport Dock yard was witnessed on October 11, Yuan's life, was executed on of the day is gone. In the morn-titution. arising out of an incident which October 31. The Court Martial cccurred earlier in the day. The has issued a statement on the ing he starts with physical and battleship Bellerophon was in subject as follows:- dookyard hands for refit, and a
Naval Captain Booed,
mental exercises, in addition to which he is an assiduous reader' of the newspapers, while a large correspondence occupies a lot of attention.
After the discovery of the bomb separate gangway, or brow, ex-plot at Tientsin. Chen, Chou-yin, tende from the ship to the side of chief of the Peking mounted
By following the simple life) the dook for the use of the 'work-police, declared that many bomb men, a second brow bearing a throwers had arrived in Peking Dr, Wu sees no reason why a man notica" Officers only," A work with the obj ct of throwing bombs should not live to 200 years, and man named Giles, hurrying to get on the day of the inauguration of has no patience with the snages- on board by 7 o'cicek, entered the the President. When the care-tion that towards the end if that ship by the brow reserved for monies were arranged Chen time a man would become tried ofhoers. He was told by the Chou-gin was ordered to com- of living. The livers of the sim quartermaster and the officer of mand the police stationed outside ple life know how to enjoy them- the watch that, he must not use the Palace, but he arranged, con- elves, and thus no weariness that brow, but he passed on board trary to orders, to be inside the ensues. by it. Commander Harold Briggs Taibo, near the Fresident's per directed a sergeant of Marines to son arrest Giles and report him to the
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Dr. Wa confesses that for sight years he has had no breakfast. "His behaviour aroused suspi An unnecessary meal, the bad dockyard police. Thereupon cion and he was summoned to the effect of habit, he says, Smoking about 200 dockyardmen working police station for observation, is another thing that Dr. Wa on board began to "boo" the while. officers were despatched to eschews, and describes physicians commander. Although the word his house where secret communi- who smoke as not up to date.
arrest was used by the com- cations and documenta were die- mander, no attempt was made to covered, proving that Chen was prevent Giles from proceeding really a rebel. The police also Dr. Wu is at present engaged
But take a few doses of our BALSAMIC COUGH with his work, the sergeant merely found eight bombs. When Chen upon, it is to be hoped that he Keeping him under observation was arrested it was found that he will not confine them to his ex-LINCTUS. It stops the most obstinate Cough, removes until a dockyard official arrived. carried a pistol secreted on his periences in the United States,
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many reminiscent articles, even was adopted protesting against full confession," the notion of the commander of The statement goes on as fol- if he went no deeper than that, the Bellerophon in ordering ille lows:-"Whereas the said crimi and to confine such a work to gally the arrest of the workman nal was secretly united with the one particular phase of his career and demanding an apology and rebels, and plotted, assassination, would be to omit much of the an immediate inquiry into the and therefore, according to mar- first interest-NU: Daily News, matter. By direction of Adm. tial law, he should suffer death, you have lost your appetite Bir George Egerton, Commander the Court pablishes, a statement
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