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San Francisco, December 27.— Information was received by
The legal status of women may A wireless wirslem in the Colony yesterday
from the
The annual prize distribution of the death of Col. Theodore Tenyo Marn which is bearing the be said to have been practically in connection with the Victoria Roosevelt, an ex-President of the Japanese peace commissioners, non-existent a century ago, and Home and Orphanage, Kowloon United States, which took place was recaived in San Francisco at one of the earliest enactments Bishop of Victoria presided and H. K-S. Banks .
City, was held yesterday. The his midnight on Wednesday. on Monday morning at homa in Oyster Bay, Long said that the steamer passed the the weaker sex was the Whippiigner, Mrs. Kemp, Mrs. Beattie and
MARINE INSURANCES which conferred protection upon those present included Mrs, Gur-
Cantons Island, NY. The deceased, steamship Siberis outward bound
North Chinas – who was
60 years of age, on Tuesday night. The Siberia Act, of 1820, which provided others. The children looked bright inlons
Prince Higashi that they should not be subjected of the careful training they had Far Easterns
ad pleasant and proved evidence Yangtzea was one of America's great men, and world-wide sympathy Fushimi who is returning to to corporal punishment (says the
Treceived in go out to the loss which the Japan. After the passing was
the attractive London Daily Graphic nation has suffered by his death made salutes were exchanged,
programme they gave. The China Fires The following extracts sam-
Bishop complimented the girls on H.K. Fires ming up some features of the
their splendid entertainment in celled themselves. Archdeacon Steamboats which he thought they had ex- ex-President's career were сод-
Barnett read the annual report, Indos (Pref.) written by Miss Hollis.
Indos (Def.)
will
trbated to an American Journal some time ago **
To attempt to portray Theo dore Roosevelt's remarkable personality would. prove B Lutficult task. So large and varied his accomplishments, so many-sided his nature, so wide the held of his operations, that we are filled with amazement, as we follow his career! Not until
years after he has passed from we arezz of deeds heroic will it be safe to write a biography uf)
the man.
So pregnant has been his life "with big things that it is almost impossible to differentiate and individualize the major ones. Any such diagnosis, at best, would be but a
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Baron Nobuaki Makino, chief A long interval elspeed before of the mission, expressed deep it was deemed necessary to into appreciation for the courtesies duce further legislation for their extended by Governor McCarthy at Honolulu also for notification special benefit; but in 1870 the through him of the full hospital- Married Women's Property Act ity of the American Government was passed, and this, with various The Report gave thanks for the Shells and of the State of Californi af amending Acts, gives a wife grace and care which had Ferries ter their arrival on the mainland.
been vouchsafed them during. He expressed a preference that power to possess a separate estate, the last thelre months. Sugara
to acquire, dispose of, mortgage, Throughout the outbreak of Malabons entire delegation desired the interference of her husband. and though later more than fifty Raubs
Baron Making himself and the or bequeath property without the spotted fever last summer, no Kallons
child in the Home was affected, widest publicity of the fact that Although a man no longer con-were ill with the "new fever, all no member of the delegation is officially authorised to give out trols his wife's property, he is soon recovered and there had Urals views held by either the Japanese still supposed to control her, They were very grateful to Dr been no need for special anxiety. Government or himself. He and shonid she siander or libsi said that he desired it to be anyone he may be jointly Smalley for kindness in giving H. K. Wharves b. #110) s. 111 understood that for the present sued for damages.
medical help,medicine and advice. Kowloon Docks 18. $187/7 the only decision is that Japan
The ordinary school routine had 'bal Docks will be guided by the couuset of become eligible for many public loyal help of their native teachers,
In recent years women have gone on smoothly thanks to the N. Engineerings b $24
"LANDS, HOTELS her friends at the Peace Con-offices which were once reserved and the Inspector's report was
AND BUILDINGS.·' ference and that the nation is for
"Centrálska
Д A woman may now being looked forward to with of determined to act in accordance be appointed to the position of confidence. question
H.K. Hotels D. with her Western Allies.
Twenty-one now Load Invest. sexton, and can fill the post of children had been received in the H'phreys Est is not duficult to suggest some of
governor of a workhouse. The Home daring the year, several of Kloon Lands the monumental anings which
Intelligence from Hawaii says rewar
legal profession is among the them non-christian with relatives | West Polats characterised his presidential in-
present closed to who desired them to be taught the cumbency. Look back upon his that Honolulu was visited by a
- COTTON MILES. women; but the Church has Christian teaching and who seem- Ewos recurd in the New York legiala- | violent typhoon on December 4. ture, 1882-84; his administration Tramcar and telephone services office of deaconess. Municipal esse. Thirty girls had joined the Lau Kang Mows 2
the fed to expect much from its influ- | Kong-Yika of the otice of civil service were suspended, and may street-bodies are with few exceptions school branch of the YM.C.A. Orientals commissioner, 1889-95; his lamps were smashed. The city open to female candidates. By which holds regular meetings S'hai Cottons utical service sa Police Gummis; } wás thrown into darkness Biouer of New York cauty, 4895-87; throughout the night. Fortuna specially provided that "words Thanks were tendered to several tue Luterpretation Act, 1889, it is managed by the girls themselves. his incombency of the post of tely no deaths occurred, though in any act of Parliament passed kind friends who had made it assistant secretary of the nory, the damage suffered is roughly after 1850 imputing the masca possible to rebuild the garden China Light & P.n. 1897-98; his gubernatorial carreer cstimated at $500,000..
line gender shall include females wall which had fallen through Provideots b. at Albany, 1899-1900; his seven
unless the contrary intention heavy rains. Also to annual Dairy Farmasia-sa) and-a-half-years in the White
appear;" and it is upon this subscribers and many new H. K Electrics touse; every hour devoted to the
statute that advocates of sexfriends who have helped to make Macao Electrics D public service, and all crowned
up the loss in exchange on Ropes With a record of devotion and
equality mainly rely.
individual opinion. lowever, it
achievement almost without a
parallel in the biographical annels of the United States.
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loan secured on the salt revenue,
Among these is that presented in the metamorphosis, of a chief magistrate of the greates: of the republics into a big game hunter, A curious anomaly arises in subscriptions from home: Trams, Low Level sa. wilds of Africa. No more absorb reforms. Under the Workmen's cases of print and flannel, and to his thrilling experiences in the the application of two recent Messrs. Loxley and Co. for three Trams, Poak,old $7 claims out of the proceeds of the ing book can be imagined than Compensation Act a claim must the Ministering Children'sundries his "African Game Trails" The be based upon actual earning League
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"Hongkong, January-8, 1919.
Stilled in inumerable branches
for their generous U. Waterboats 1. of official service, trained in the narrative is a simple, modest capacity, and it is conceivable contribution. The kind friend Watsons art of government, with the recital, yet graphic withal. In that s woman might recover who provided the Christmas gifts Wm Powells instinct of the diplomat, & con perusing its pages we lose sight higher pecuniary compensation last year had again remembered Wiseman's stractionist rather than a doc-entirely of the statesman, and than a men who had suffered the children and his generosity trinaire, where can we find an- see only the trekker and sports-precisely similar physical injury; gave unlimited joy on Christinas other man possessing the peculiar man.
bat under the National Insurance Eve and provided the prizes to equipment that Theodore Roose
His journey into the wilds of Act sick benefit for a man igday velt enjoys, as a prerequisite to a South America, resulting in the fixed at 10s. per week and for a Mrs. Gurner kindly presented proper and efficient discharge mapping of the River of Doubt, woman at 78. 6d.
the prizes and afterwards, com- of the functions of executive was even more startling a propos- The Siander of Women's Act plimented the girls. She had pre- management?
tion than his South African ex-stipulates that where a woman's seated prizes on many occasions pedition. Though it appeala less chastity is involved she shall in in England but did not remember
His administration was a pesce fal one. No American was shot
to our imagination, the dangers any action at law merely recover having seen a brighter or happier those characterising his adven- tures of the Dark Continent,
PAPER-MAKING IN TRANSVAAL.,
THURSDAY, 9th January, af 6 PM. ECTION ~ NOMINATION AN TROFFICIAL MAJORION POPULAR ELECTORATE. S HON. ME. P. H. HOLYOAK will preside.
The following Resolution,
That this public meeting
Son foreign soil and no-belligerent and hardships were greater than costs which do not exceed the She hoped that in after days they burglary, and, theft have made a Plant, which is of an extensive chinese nominated
Anumber of bifciál zá
The establishment in the Transe submitted yaal, of the paper industry has Rongkong+erosidantayə been decided upon, and operationsfirming is unswervi are expected to begin shortly.t, the Crown and Empire The work will, in the first in- opinion that the instruc GERMAN BURLARY
be limited to the stance,
produc- His Excelener ... the INSURANCE.
tion of cardboard, for which there relative to the mode of is a big demand in the Union, of the Legislative Coun COMBINED AGAINST but it is intended as the industry amendment in suah,
FRAUDULENT LOSSES.
progresses to manufacture brown secure su T
official members...... of. Zurich, October 25.-The Ger- paper, beaver boards, and many That as regards alī
other
er cognate commodities. The Council (ather lot of girls than those present. man insurance companies against ship dashed American men,
smodat of pecuniary damages women and children into the
novel agreement in order to character, is being manufactured principal of ela awarded, so that a farthing would alt remember the loving prevent losses. They state that in locally. Waste paper, rags, Back-mantination hall depths of the sea. A great war In all his achievements he has damages would enable her to care which had been bestowed many cases the insured owner of ing, and twine will at first be That the between two great nations was been actuated by a singleness of recover a farthing in costs. In upon them in that Home. Above the stolen goods during the war med as raw material, but it is our be fought, but so complete was the purpose possessed by few men an ordinary libel action it is all they should remember that has been the accomplice of the intended as time goes on to increased from 6 to 9. neutrality that we maintained, He has thought solely of the end customary for the defendant to God, Whom they had been taught thieves. Therefore, they haveade a greater proportion of and so friendly our relations with to be attained, and rested not pay the plaintiff's costs, even to know here, would be always organised a blacklist of persons natural products, such as Ebre, That of both belligerents, that as pre- until it was accomplished. Men
near them to help and guide. though the damages are
and houses in which burglaries. viously indicated, peace was have harped on the letter of the
temptuous.
Archdeacon Barnett moved & and thefts occurred. No German spout wattle-back, &c. The pro-nacholal me effected through the interposition law, and have sought to tie his
vole of thanks to Mars. Garner insurance company accepts such posed enterprise is all the more shall be: Bri of the Presiden; of the United hauds with red tape, but, seeking her husband camos rank as a Church Missionary Society to all blow not only for the in the Union on a commercial one by the time
The wife who lends money to and expressed the thanks of the individuals and houses for interesting from the fact that it shall be the public good, he has mored
insurance. This measure is a is probably the first reel Attempt General Chata bas As Roosevelt's administration forward undaunted, to the preferential creditor in the event who had made the long journeyiminally insured; but especially scale to produce this class of roof was peaceful, so was it gloriously attainment of his purpose; giving of his bank ruptcy. She cannot to show by their presence their for the innocent, who are article.
marican Never before and little thought to the hindering pledge his credit except for interest and sympathy in the unlucky enough to be mer since has America held so barriers, which have caused timid necessaries. The criminal code work of the Home. Lady May victims of burglary. Consequenter munanding a place in the coun- and commonplace men to take presumes that when a wife com- had hitherto been generally prey, many people in Germany.fear mifs felony in her husband's present of their prize distributions to report a small loss through pause
[After the war broke out, Mr. sence, other than treason, mur and now that aha away it become theft to the insurance company Roosevelt showed himself a most der, or manslaughter, a matter at: anxiety who shóp KF and prefer to renounce their ads erect, and no foreigner enthusiastic supporter of the she acted under his over succeed her. He thought that claim. During the last few weeks red or felt inclined to smeer at Allies, and before America's con and excuses her; but in Mia Gurner they had found the blacklist, system has been ex-
such a presumption may be a worthy sabeditate, ** pentry he strongly urged her par- in or his flag.
tended not only to sui bean i sin and suspect persons, There are still other features ticipation in the struggle. He rebutted by evidence. Divorce.
on and burglaries have the life of this extraordinary even offered to lead an Angeran law is not applied equally to the sexes, but the position of married aside from his achievements Army himself. H's war ušle
13tstee.
ls of the nations. Daring his incumbency of the White House mericans travelled abroad with
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stand out ances have been of a most fervent
as evid and unambiguous character, and
the vigor of his
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formerly the opinion of
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