GENERAL NEWS.
Horse:Bichraged for Woodbłu os. An officer writing home from the front recalla's remarkabla ipcident of the relésat from Mons, skys the Express. "Ons.of our
men,
,” he says, "was telling me to-day that at the time of the re treat he was lucky enough to find #horse, which he mounted. In this way he was able to sleep a 'little mbilo travelling along. But Sabe rich part of the story was tho 'fact that he sold his borse Dext day to an Artilleryman for a packet of wood bines! How's that Ina price?
?"
in the
**Death Rate at Singapore, The rate of mortal Betsement of Singapore for the week ended Ocwber 2320.87 par The mille of the population number of denis was 136, of wuton 87 were male sui jecia and '49 1. male. Louvalitne claimed 18, plebista 14 mod 18 aus fever 15. Tus tag best mummt zuf muull dentis, 29, 120k ploc b⋅tween the #ged of 25 and 35. The desiüsi Under the muitu, num erau 25 Bud between to age and one year 11. U European died, 3 Eurasiale, 27 Ominoso, 24 Malaya anu 9 tudtour,
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wrapped in cloude of amrko and OUR LONDON LETTER.
dust as the huge belle plunge into (From Our Correspondent,)
it, the air rent with bursts of: fire, London, October 1.
the defender hugging the ground (Continued from Festerday.)
aa it ataken bruouth them under DINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd. Indian and Colonial Police
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third the incereant storm of shot and have did shell. The account of a GermaD The first to places in the re re shows it to cent concurrent competitivo ex-appested, and so we eurmine it to prisoner who had spent threeTO LET Offices at 2 Con-
naught Road. amiua wa for appoin meate in be a listening post in a depression nights in the "Witches Cauldron"
Offices ia King's Buildings. the ludian and Otuntut Puice of the ground, or a trench run out gives some idea of such a harrow-
Offices in Des Voeux Road Service have been won by the from the German line. Little by ng experienon, and is well worth
Central. audermcntiqued 0800s: W, little two of the scoute appranoh reproducing. Darkness, he tells us, C. Piumu, marks 9,085; E U W. whilst the remaining pair stand bas set in whan they start on the Poarce, 9,259; G. G. Field, 9,097; fat in rear. The former carry a periloss jurasy to reach the No: A. Boult, 2,033; P. J. Huri bomb apiece ready to fling into crater, the first time he has form- baus, 9,016; w. Davies, 8,870; the German post should it provato ed one of the garrison of this Hi Ladowe, 8,008; O P. Luuk, be auch. It is a weird game, this uncanny spot. They approach in 8,535 ; U. T. it. darutox, 8,496; eerie night work, having as its a cranching attitude, half raoning JA. Suroggio, 8,153.—Sinyapors object man-banting and the recip-and half crawling over the exposed Fico Presa.
rocal chances of meeting a saddeo terrain, the while the artillery fires and violent death, The final as if possessed. The dugouts A Meal on Plaster and Pill. Is to exuduranary bow duge approach to within some twenty and aboltere sway to and frolikes will manage to live on the most garde requires a supreme effort, weather-cock as a burst of fire bulikely 10, Sefans.on bus but the long grass and the moon-from the bostile guns strikes just kuld us how in the Aretio less night are favourable aid, and above, around, and in the crater. THE HON KONG LAND IN-Apply to
gained. The emoke: and thirst are over. regious his dogs were partly fou a vantage point
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Shunt Wound Dynamo acapped, the pin pressed down, the cauldron, until sunset, when quarters, &c. vacant 1st Novem-reut
Apply De con Looker. of 50.0 volts with shunt Mio de Natacey's-ANNST WHICH,
Vierie and both are burled into the midst the reoccupation is carried out. ber.
regulator. scoording Walle, died one day ou a bʊx uf of the unsuspecting fan. A ter-, None who have not gone through Dandon & Haraton. liver pilis, haf a porous plaster, rifio explosion fullows, and their the ao gal experience can realise
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Audiig hub Voou outfed up teal away to regain their own iron it demande sa the essential Victoria Lodge. No. 15 Peak R. Lio-tead & Davis, Alexandra
lines, for they have done well to-night,
the sight of the first woman Justice of the Peace Laking her
Exchanging the News. brat on the beach, which is al-0 u|
Occasionally the tue braamDE novelty in the judicial histry of the Empire. But the United gay and bilarious, indulging in
8-stes is before ne New Jersey Ime seen a budy invited by the Recordor to sit in the reat of judgment and, worse than thak,
band. She ventered to propose
foundation to ithetand each an ordeal.
Buildings" Kowloon. Mo-
Hongko g 15th September, 1915
LOST.
ST-Yesterday, an English
Picking up the Language. Lieutenant the Bos. F S. Mc-15 Laren, MP, writing from the The Tarke loud singing and shouting across Dardanelles, ass: the open space, devoting bire wnderful shots, and have TO LET-Nos. 1 & 6" Turres
Cat White and Tabby. energies mainly to invitations to eyea like hawko. As soon as I omega and attack, or to newe of put up my periscops ballets derate rental. Ready for occupa Fieder will be rewarded on tion. Apply to: SPANISH retorning me to Lane, ( aw- the German anoneses in Poland, whizz round it, and at any DOMINICAN PROOCRATION. ford and ompany. or betur than that, suggrat a The opture of Wareaw and Breatment one expects it to be shot soutence for her drunken bas Litovsk elatert them to a bigb from one's band. I have done
then jumped is, and this section thirty days in gol, and her ides degree, and cornets; mouth organe, good deal of work in the Indian wounded. Seven or eight Turke | UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. Was acceptest. Ouncerning the ad anndry musical instruments, 'renches. It is thrilling to see of the trench was for the mom-n! contributed an air of gainty to the chanting prayer in the trench warfare. The occasion of evening, and reading from old left open to a wounded officer the naval sorceres in the Baltic religious books which look as if who, when coming back through against the Grm in Fleet afforded they is come straight from the the communication teneb said:8. Consul, Corregid r. fion into the West ludies has opportunity not to be nagloted British Museum. They spend most They have got me, the Tark proved to be a graster pant than of acquainting the enemy with the of the day washing and oroking Corporal Jacka, who was in the Rangon.
truib, something which he sadly-trange, fist things like praokea, the vermin be was supposed to destroy, orizontes in 1uts, sad lacke, so carefully is it conoraled Their English is very limited, but communication
subsequ«nt conjugal tappiness of tbsp. ir history in milani,
Where she Mongoose Orteluates
The museer, #uden kulkudur-
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behind the last traverse of the is of the ion-amon f-m ly. There from the nation as a whole. Copies they can ail say: Tork, b-fool-mediately jumped up to the step
пендрарего were a strangely incongruona expres- Bre a good many petabel cases, of of London
had not yet been reached by which the must notable are the therefore, fixed in a cleft stick sion from these dignified, tor- section of the fire trench which Hongkong, 4th November, 1915. and placed at night well oat in banned. Easterns. I have just the Torks. In doing this rabbita in Australia sau the spare the zone close up to the Germen been lanching with a machine- Towa in some parts of the United
the Tarks rf at a distance of Hotel, Dairen. Sistes. Nature set me generally to parapet, the passages referring ton ficer, and he tells me how be was exposed for a moment to
& F. P.
A Musical Vicar.
morning showed that the news he Turks as they were epiked in
Great Northern. Telegraph.
Company, Ltd. Chilvers, Kobe, Kogakikupe «l> Matiubara
Melbourne Carlton Hotel,
avenge he rasli for arbitrary altera.the deeds accomplishod at sea | wonderfully and calmly they about three yarde. Once behind tion of her zoological schemes, being surefully marked, · Next | rack at night, and of the equeals of the traveras he was sheltered from Shanghai.
had been duly gathered in, and the trench. A few hundred varde their fire, provided no mote Tarks Frathips Passenger Katori-
Belmes, Grand Hotel. Kyoto, Ister in the day as opposition away there are two bandred Turk came over the top of the trench, maru ojo Morioka, Tekio.
W. E 8. HRODER, A most reni..kable musical re- notice of German operations in ish prisoners. I had a talk with beanwhile Lieutenant Hamilton,
Superintenden', oord has been established by the the East was displayed as a set-one, who cumplained bitterly that running up the communica-
tion trenob, began firing Hongkong. 5 b November, 1915. Rev. F. W. Galpin, the vicar of off. In the area of Ypres and he had been fed on nothing but Hetfield Regi-, Essex, who has Hooge is the crater of a mine olive comp. Thoy bave marvell with his revolver; but the just been sppointed vicar of known to the Germans as the ous undies epotted with dra. Turks on the parapet saw the Witban, in the same county. He Witches Cauldron." It is the gone and crescents. Most of them ash and shot him through the Tue officer told Jacks he would ba+ made a hobby of collecting result of a mine exploded under are wounded, and our doctors head. A second officer was sent hold the exit and give the Turks old nuntical instruments, of which the German parapet, leaving an were lopping af fugers and toes ap. Just as he was reaching the the impression that he was going be han about six hundred, and he excavation some forty feet deep and bandaging them up, while fire treneb Jacki shooted Look to che se again. Jacks said he and one hundred and fifty feet cursoldiers were swopping ideati cat, sir, the Tacks are in here." would make his way round to the instrements range from an Exy broad. By day the crater so form-fication dieos, water-battles, and The officer asked if he would other end of the fire reach at the charge if he (the officer) got some rear of the Tuske. Tue officer's tian Bale dating back to 2,000 ad can be adequately covered by such like for cigarettes,
men to back him up and Jacka party throw iwo bombs and fired! into the wall B.U to a sackbut male in Nurem-rifles and machine-guns, and can, L-Corporal Jacka, V.C.
Baid 'Yes.' The officer's platoon several shots berg for Henry VIII, and from a therefore, be lightly bold, but The details of the incident in horn used in the worship of| at might conditions change, and which Lasce Corporal Albert was following him and be culled of the trench opposite them.
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It's siuk or only four Tarka came 'cram!jpg men answered.
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Boshus to intraments each as three used in Nebuchadnezzar'e it must perforce be occupied Jacke, the young Australian, in sufficient strength troops with| obtained by Viet via Cross are as bast and mentioned in the Book an attack should one be launched | followa; "On May 19 h,`ss & @wim; we will come, sir,ӌnd the over the parapet, These Tucke by the British. One can imagiu party of 10 men and a sergeant of leading three went forward. The were abot, and Janka was found what a centre of attraction thitha 14h Anualian Battalion moment the loading men put his in the trench with an onlighed orster in by night, what an informere holding abort motion of head round the corner he was hit cigarette in his mouth. :: Well, for those who form its garrison du ranch as Courtney's Post the in three places and fell bok, I manager to get the beganza, (2 blocks West of Cent. Market. IF you have lost your appetite
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