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THE DOWNS, PIGS AND given his eyes for love of his MR. ASQUITH ON AIR
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· received from › Messrs. Samuel, *Montague & Co. dated London, November 1-The Bank of Eng land gold reserve against ite note An interesting review of airimus ebows an increase of 8182. In the Daily Chronicle, Mr. and nat-cake, for they have to work and air raids on London 950, as compared with last week'e F. E. Green, writes:-
find the rest of their living on was made by - Argaith in return. The Federal Reserve Drohling, in Snesex, is the fallen muis and acorns opening an aircraft exhibition at Board of the United States took H. K. & S. Banks 8. ouricualy fascinating place. One and on the roots of tross, Leeds. The present type of air-care to emphasis in its letter to find an atmosphere here of For shelter there are little bats craft (be said) hes now booms the Federal Reserve Bank of New Cantons
well of made of basal-boughs, where an indispensable part of the Tork (quoted in our letter North Chinas modernity. Mount the breezy rows dan enter wben about to operations of war. I see nothing of last week) that the principal talons dowas to the top of the Beacon ferrow; bat so much do pigs love in the Zappalin, savs, perhaps, of maintaining internal gold Yangtszes and you will find the shepherd, the open air that the sows seldom for secating purposes. It has payments wha not iny FIRE INSURANCES. either an socient man or a youth care to bring their young into the turned out, in my judgment, to be way to
be affected by ita China Fires with bis dog at his side and world save under a canopy of Bat the captive balloon (the gold. The letter continued as
objection to the earmarking of H.K. Fires ghastly failure. his prehistorio crock in hia hand, watching bis flocks by
‚” as the soldiers osll it) | follows :-" It must be under- day and folding them in the The wood is not only a summer has proved a valuable adjunct in stood, however, that say restric- Douglases sleepy hollows by night. Go a resort for pige, but a winter home, these days to any considerable tions which may be placed upon Indos (Del litle farther along the wind 100, for here they stayed all is fighting force. Over a week ago the exportation or earmarking of swept heights and you will find winter, excepting those where I was somewhere between Ypres gold must in no way affect the Shells the self-binder besting the air were driven into the extremely and the Messines Ridge, near Payment in gold whenever Ferries with its weird arme, catting and well-made modern piggeries to where the eplendid fighting is required, of any obligations pay- binding wheat grown on landfarten for the batsber; and one going on to-day, and I saw in the able in gold within the United which within the memory of of these piggeries, I may men air some twelve or fifteen of these Stater, whether due to domestio living man has never known the tion, has a front made entirely of captive balloons, all making their or foreign holders, excepting plough. Wander amid the folde glass, through which the sun beervations at different altitudes, enemy holders, the regula of the rolling Downs and you
hesrily shelled at times, though tons sffecting only
gold Kailans will find cats being barrested Outside the confines of the unsucessfully, by the Germans, which
shipped Langkats deeply-shaded woods, in the open and on obalky soil which has had its
esch protected in ose outside of the United States or to Raubs thin, tang orast torn up by fielda which look on to the medice of disaster by its parachute. It be earmarked for foreign so Urais
Tronohs the caterpillar plough which val conditions of pig-keeping into was a wonderful sight,
count." The Times correspond-Oriental Cons. bae crawled its
a scene of the most up-to-date way
Even more remarkable, and eat in New York ander date these
method of modern farming. Here more rapid raid has been the October 30, states: "A delega heights after traversing the Atlantic in the you will see strange looking development of the aeroplane, tion from Canadian Bankers be hold of a vessel! This you will machines at work, ripping up The Dake of Wellington was arranged with the Federal Re H.K. Wharves s Sad on Standean Farm, the pro and pulverising praen fields for once asked--I think it
was serva Bosrd at Washington for the Kowloon Docks sa perty of Mr. Abraham Fels, who, ext year's harvesting. There i
old sgehat had shipment of limited amounts of like his brother Joseph, has found are the experimental tractors sent been his greatest difficulty a gold to Canada from time to time satisfaction in pastoral paranite.to Mr. Edge's farm for trial, and a general, and he said, "Ise needed to correct the exchange Walk sorose to an adjining farm one can trathfully es that any have spent all my life in trying situation,
Canada bas large and you will see picture que tractor that passed through the to find out what was going on balsross here, which are being English girls, so in the time of ordeal of this soft adhesive clay on the other side of the hill." His added to by sales of grain bills." should be fit for use anywhere in successors, who command the Bath, tossing sheaves into the
The Shanghai Markets. corn-waio, bilet in the black thie country..
Piece Oooda :-Quiet but fm. simies to-day, have no such an- yerd are German prisoners from The tractor which interested riety, because the acroplane, with The market is again overshadow Lowes Geal, throwing sheaves me most was a Ford tractor its photographic apparatus, and by the political strife in the from the wagon on to the stock. weighing only one and three is wireless, and its capacity to North, and business is for the Down in the valley lies quarter tops, which can be relied soar to enormous heights, is able moment practically at a standstill. Ditobling, where you can boy aapon to plough three acres in an to provide the general and his So far the new Cabinet at Peking Kung Yiks nicely printed edition of Cobbett's hour at a cost of 3a. 93. for three staff with every feature of contour has been unable to bring about a "Cottage Economy," with galions of parafin. When one and of the diaposition of the reconciliation.
Aside from the Yangtszepoos
S'hai Cottons. S. prefice by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, remembers that as a rule it coste enemy.
differences between the Northern Orientals for half-a-crown from Mr. Douglas 148. a sore to get land ploughed Equally important, if not more and Southern factions, there are Pepler, who on a band-press and if you have to hire a plough, important, in these days of a number of individua's, who, Borneos
MISCELLANEOUS. an hand-made paper printe little hores and man, these tractors artillery warfare, is the service from personal ambition, are caus China Light & P.b. books about sainta and derila, abould be invaluable to small which the seroplane renders to ing trouble. The River trade is and songs of freedom for the farmers se
Providents well as to large the guna, which, with its aid, are practically stopped, owing to the Dairy Farms English peasantry, and on a small farmers. The cost in £125. able to aim with precision at fighting at Tochow on the Yang'z› Green Islands holding of 20 odd acres you will It ia very reliable, I am slmost impossible targets, and above Hankow. Merchants from H. K. Electrics b. find him mowing his corn with a told, ja accomplishing its from almost inconceivable ranges, the province of Szechuan are raid H. K. Ice Co., scythe. Cross the common and three acrea in an hour with its It is no exaggeration to say that to bave something like Tis. Ropes you will come to a little house two farrow plough at a depth the Air Service has become the 3,000 000 in the banks here with teel Foundries with an orchard and a van drawn of seven inches. But it is when eyes of the Army, and to a large which to parcbare imports, but Trams, Low Levels. up ander the shelter of trees, used for cultivating or harrowing extent also of the Navy.
no business can be done. In the Trams, Peak, olds. This is the home of Me. Eric Gill, it shows to beat advantage. When There are several forms of early part of the week, before Trams, Peak, new s. the soulptor, who cute wood harrowing it can travel at a speed serial activity, on which those new reached Shanghai of the U. Waterboats b.
Laundries blocks for Mr. Pepler and adorns of 15 miles an hour, aing who lived in London have become fighting abored Hankow, the the Catholic cathedral at West gallon of oil an hour. It took a daily and nightly familiar. Bet market showed some life. At the Win. Powells
Watsons minister with beautiful statuary. farm hand only 20 minutes to the raids do not alarm them in Kangping auction on Tuesday Morning Posts" n.
Then, by taking the road north-learn how to work oas of these the least. They have complete the market was fairly steady. east you will enter the domain of machines.
confidence in the powers of their Greye were up, with black and CORRECTED TO RODE THURSDAY Mr.S. F. Edge through a gorgeous On the average the ordinary airmen, and of our defences to whites steady. Tientsin and local
DECEMBER 20, 1917, gateway. And it is on Mr. Edse's tractor for deep ploughing takes keep the raiders at bay. baying was seeD.
BENJAMIN & POTTS, There was farm you will find medievaliem four gallons to the sore, and with -and-modernity-in-farm-methode depreciation-and-all-incidentale without feelings fervent admira-200-packages-were-offered-Bat
You cannot visit this exhibition little inquiry for white shirtings; Share and General Brokers,
Princes Building............... cheek by jowl As you enter on acre could not be ploughed tion for the gallant men who are on the following day the news Tel, address: Broker. dense copse of hazel, strongly deep on heavy land under £1. risking their lives every day and of the fighting caused the market fenced with barbed wire, you will The equivalent ploughing with every night in the most hazardone to alump and this coupled with hear strange sounda of granting, borses, however, if it were possi-aerTice, and to whose skill and the curtailment of exports and which makes you think of herds of ble to plough to the same depth, devotion the Army and the Navy the money tightness stopped buy- swine, as in ancient times, grab-would cost at least 30a, per acre. and the country and the Empire ing at the Ewo sale. Black bing for beech nuts, and scorns, I understand the 16,000 of these all owe an immeasurable debt of Italians were down 31 mace,T/T and roots. And you will not be tractors have been ordered by the gratitude. wrong, for in this woodland pig Government. Let us bopo they paradice of 110 acres roam at their will all be adequately used, for aweet will 800 large black pige, there are complaints in both -besides a number of breeding cows Surrey and Sussex that the and boars,
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