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£35,000 for a Statute. New York, August 2.-The New York Herald says Mr. Rockefeller has purchased for £25,000 the Linton Aphrodite. This statue, which is attributed to Praxiteles, was the subject of much controversy in 1898, when the Matropolitan mussum experis | rejested it on the ground that it was not an antique work at all,
· Murdered Man is Alive, Slayer to have New Trial. Milwaukee, July 20.-Nicholas
Georgian, now serving
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Australia's Drought Losses. Melbourne, Wednesday.--Aus- tralia has already contributed $3,100,000 to the various war funds, despite sa unprecedented drought, which is now happily at an end. The area under wheat
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The banners, swords, helmets, reports his studies and investiga-safe navigation down the Lowes TLET.-Houses in Clifton WA maniles, and plates of the follow- tions of the Klondike and Taken River to Daweon begins, ing new Knights of the Order of goldfield, including an interesting the Garter were placed over their review of the early history of this the early ages swept the greater stalls in the chair of St. George'e district as well as a prophecy as to portion of North America they
missed the region of the Klondi Chapel, Windsor Castle:-The its future development, King of the Belgians, the Earl of The sensational pockets of ane ke, and consequently, the gold. Derby, Earl Kitchanor, and the placer gold, which attracted hor producing deposits remained in- Earl of Chesterfield. The ban-des of hardy adventurers from tact notil the early prospectors discovered them. The Yakon ners and insignia of the late Dake every quarter to Klondike, are of Buccleuch and Earl Cadogan now nearly depleted, and no new goldfield is confined mainly to the were removed. Garter Principal ones have been discovered to vicinity of Dawson City, although King of Arms, Sir A. Scott-Gatty, maintain its earlier reputation. small quantities of gold can be naperintended the ceremony, But while this part of the Yukon found in the sand of the Yukon which was, private.
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for hundreds of miles up the From Birmingham. poor man's goldfield, it still con- Valley. Birmingham, noted for intense tains a considerable quantity of
Dawson City is situated on the local patriotions counts among her alluvial gold which can be ne alluvial flat where the Yakon in more distinguished sons Sir T. cured by the application of capi. joined by the Klondike River, Salter Pyne, who has just been tal and brains. It remains a re two tributariea of which are the appointed to a post in the Ministry gion well worth visiting, for be- famous Bonanza Creek and Hon of Munitions. It was Pyne who sides the gold it has other possiker Creek. Although traces of
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astoway to the Yukon. On his trip of investigation, Mr. Cadell steamed up the coast from Vancouver, and through the Lynn Canal, to Skagway, which quartera. Prodigious quantities Yet another County Court be terms the gateway to the Ya- of gold were soon found in Bon-TOLET-For six months from stripped and thoroughly over- 1st November flats in No. 8 hauled in 1914. For further judgeship has fallen vacant eays kon, and describes as "a wretched anza Crook and many minera the Globe. The brief judicial little town with decayed wooded made fortunes in a short time, but The Peak (partially furnished). Information apply to career of the late Judge Gurney, houses and grass-grown streets, unfortunately most of the gold Apply Property Office, JAR- Morton. Agent who was appointed Judge of the the scene of many robberies, riots, was spent foolishly or in deban- DINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd. Birkenhead Cironit little more and murders at the time of the ohery. One mau is said to hate
$25. DOLLARS KEWARD, the police taken $600,000 out of a claim 86 than twelve months ago, was in gold rush, which
FFICES ΤΟ LET.-Two OST.-Brindled Scotch Tor- Biriking contrast to that of the authorities had neither the power feet by 30) feat, but, so the story OF
large rooms with balconies rier Dog: anewors to name oldest occupant of the County nor energy to control, Skagway goes, he spent it in a few years, Court Bench Judge Greenham, is not, and can never be, of much and died in poverty. The quick (one room first floor and one on of Mac. Lost in the vicinity of who continues to administer use to the United States, except est fortune on record was escured third floor) in "Hongkong Hotel Kowloon City. Any one return. For particulars ing same to D. Logan. Kowloon justice in the Leeds County as an obstruction to Canadian by two men who cleaned up gold Mansions"
{upply-MANAGER, Hongkong Docks will be rowarded to the Court--and very good justos to progress, but might be of some to the value of $85,000 in twenty-tal.
was appointed County Court advantage to the vast Canadian seven hours.
Rise and Fall of Output Judge thirty five years ago. hinterland less than twenty miles Another facioial vaterso, Bir inland."
second requires more financial The total output in 1898 waS
resources and mechanical ability, W. L Selfe, has been a County Skagway is surrounded on three $10,000,000, from which figure but a successful man in the first Court Judge more than thirty sides by a plateau of steep and it jumped six millione anually.
may become # member of years. Twelve judges in all rugged mountains through which until 1000, when the production the second class. While the have served on the County Court two trails lead to the north over reached $22,275,000, the highest first two olasses require fairly Bench for more than twenty years. the White Horse and the Chilcoot point. Then a steady decline rich ground, only men with Unset Diamonds. Parses, ap whose wild and dif- began until 1908, when it was exceptional ability and ample The prohibition of the im-foult ravines thousands of for $2,820,131, at which time hydr-capital oan reach the third class Hongkong, 9th September, 1915. portation into Great Britain, of tame-seekers trekked and strug-aulicing and dredging began, and work the low-grade placer unset diamonds, save under gled with their heavy packs, tools, and the total output rose again special licence, is simed at pre- and tents in the mad rush to the slowly until it was 35,018,411, in gravale or quaris veins accesa.
fully. Tenting money for the gems expected El Dorado over 500 1913. It has been estimated that reaching Germany through Hol-miles away. Boon after the gold only about $20,000,000 worth of land. This is a wise precaution, was found in quantities, a moan- gold remains to be produced, out The author describes in detail although it would appear fairly tain railroad was bailt up the of the original available amount the several methods of extracting hai. easy of evasion, for it is no white Pass, from Skagway to the of nearly $180,000,000. At the gold from the frozen Klondike, difficult matter to provide a atous summit, and on to Lake Bennett, height of the boom in the winter field, based upon his personal with a cheap temporary setting. a distance of forty miles, travers of 1899 the population of Dawson observations, and shows how man
Tongsangloong, Kobe. Undoubtedly Germany must have ing a wild and ice-worn platean is said to have reached 25,000 has changed the topography of
Dorsienku, Shanghai. in reserve a large number of of gigantic proportions, strewn recently, however, it has dwindled this district, especially in the
Chinggun 35 Connaught Road, stones from her 8.W: African with moraines, sprinkled over down to less than two thousand valleys. First, the drift miners
Shanghai. ́ ́fields, which are now in our with lakes, and enclosed by snowy people.
Larned the gravel upside down,
R BLACK, possession. We know that our own peaks 5,000 to 8,000 feet in height. Processes of recovering gold in then the dredgers ploughed it all
Superintendent. Only a Church there Now. this region fall under three main over again, and throw it into Hongkong, 10th September, 1915. reserve of stones that if all the At the head of Lake Bennett heade: individuals, by washing great ridges of stone with mud produos of Kimberly were placed lies the deserted town of Bennett, surface gravels with shovel and banks between, and finally, where district is imperfectly explored, upon the market
at once where, at the time of the gold pan, or by aluising with flume there were white gravels on the and although it is far north, the diamonds would be five shillinga rush, there were lodged some and sluice box; email parties, by high ground, the hydraulic climate in summer is warm and carat! It is fairly obvious that 5,000 people in honses, bute, and working drift with mechanical "gianta" washed them down into favourable for agriculture and the Fatherland also has some tents, but the only building now scrapers and aluices, or drift min- great fan-shaped cones, sometimen grazing. Exploration, is now nice little packets of diamonde, a standing, besides the railroad ing in shafta and aluising, and reaching across the entire valley, readily effected from Dawson, sale for which it would welcome, station, is a wooden Presbyterian capitalista, by dredging with completely burying all below, and Mr. Cadell hopes that freah (2 blocks West of Cent. Market.) ber 1915,
charoh which shows that at least powerful mechanical plants, damming up gullies and produo- enterprise will reveal new re have lost your appetite a few righteous men were among bydraulio alaioing with monitors, ing new lakes. All of these sources that will lead to, the per- manent settlement of this remote
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and simost uninhabited outpost.
dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- that the first prospectors and mills. The first olam includes blama for the fature geologist: DRA CAFE is sure to tempt miners got into bosta and oshoes,
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