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MONDAY, JULY 20, 1908.

INDIA.

GRATEFUL BAINS.

Crop Prospects Good.

(Exclusive Service, Supplied by Reuter, vir Bombay.)

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.

Presecutor Stabbed.

Wong Muk was placed in the dock, at the Supreme Court, this morning, when the July Criminal Sessions wero resumed before Mr Justice Gompertz, charged with wounding with intent to kill, and wounding witte intent to maim, and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

The Hos. Mr W. Roes Davies, Loxoen, July 19.

K.C. Attorney General, appeared to Abundant rains are reported to have prosscute on behalf of the Crown, in- allen in Upper India, especially boas-structed by Mr H. L. Dennys, from the office of Messrs Dennys and Burley, iting the famine stricken tracts of and prisoner was unrepresented.

jountry.

The jury were aworn in as follows:-G. Moffatt, foreman; 3. Putelnion, O. Stoltz,

THE FLOOD.

GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

28,400 Homolens-250,000 Foodless.

THE CHINA MAIL.

of relief. Thoso consideratione naturally alvide the country into throe sections:

remaining. In Cvery town and hamlet along the whole length of the river there dus more or less destruction. There iss J. The country as far north as Fai Lot! also been great destruction of household Tar Pass including Sam Shui, Tsing Uen, effects, storos of grain and other food and Ss Wni Districte. This region is very stufe. Many hundreds of animale used accessible, it is flat and protected by dykes, for food were swept away and there was hopea rice and food distributions are also considerable lows of water buffaloes practicable. The river is large and navi. that are essential in the cultivation of the gable by steam launches. Practically rice fields.

every large veule is necessible. The most The loss of life was comparatively inuatural form of relief is to give the denti considerable. Inaix districts the entire loss tuto rork repairing the dykes, paying

· (From Our Correspondent.)

senrcely roached fifty. The water rose them in rice and money, supplemented so gradually that the people had time to by free distribution to needy places. CANTON, July 18.

escape to the hills. At present there Rice can be easily brought in here, making The following is the report of the Comas no sigue of an epidemic. But it is rice distribution more practicable that mittee who visited the flooded districts to almost too much to hope that there will be money. report on the condition of the people and

S. The country north of Fei Loi Taz with rone, and there is a great probability that the damage wrought :

many who escaped from the floods will be in reach of Yingtak. There are no dykes opt away by faraine or by pestilence. within this region. Bosides the orops, the

REPORT OF COMMITTEE.

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SPORTING.

Matches Postponed.

Owing to the heavy rain on Saturday, two polo matches and a bowling match had to be postponed.

AMOY NOTES.

(From the Correspondent.)

AMOY, July 17. SULTRY' 'BUMMER. We are baring bot sultry summnet weather with a vengeance. No rain for over a fortnight, and almost, cloudless skies; a mild monsoon, and not evan thunderstorms to cool the heated air. Surely o typhoon must be browing some-

The crop prospects generally in W. Waterhouse, M. D. A. Souza, J. E. seriously affected by the recent flood, Speedy and suficient outside help is the chief destruction was in buildings and farm whore round Manila: a North-East morn- | unly hope of saving many tens of thousands animals (water buffalous). It is not song wind seems to pulut to some coming accessible as District No. 1 but still can be change. Unless Angust and September who fire in the flooded districts.

India now are excellent.

THE NORTH POLE.

PEARY TRIES AGAIN,

(Tretmaivo Service supplied by Reuter, rin Barbay.)

LONDON, July 19. Commander Peary of the United tates Navy who has made several tempts to dad the North Pole has gain left Cape Breton for the Arctic

gione.

It is Commander Peary's intention spend three yours, if necessary,

quest.

NTERNATIONAL INTER- COURSE DEPARTMENT.

Six districts on the North River were namely, Sam Shui, Sz Wool, Taing er Yingtak, Kak Kong, and Yan Fa Nam Hung Chow, Lok Cheung, Ue Uen, and Lion Chow were also flooded and consider. able damage was done.

The Committee were afforded every por sible facility for learning the condition of the flooded area during the ten days that they have been travelling through it. The officials of every grade, both civil and military, helped us in every way they conló, First, the Viceroy placed at our disposal a gun-boat, which towed our house-bost to Tsing Uon City and there His Excellency

A Sainam where we ascended hill buckrenohed by small launches drawing not over level up the average of rainfall, this past two or three fest of water, provided the of Fakian will suffer from a drought in the water gets no lower than at present. Here actumn and winter, as it present pools people could be put to work on public imaxe dey, and rivere shallow, and mest provements such as roads and bridges to districts are suffering from a sad lack of be paid for in rice and money; there should water. also be free distribution of rice,

of the city, as far as we could see the fields to the North and East were still covered with water, becauss the dykes at this lower place, together with the high water in the river, would not let the water out which had come through the broken dykes al a Ligher elevation farther up the river.

There was one hopeful sign here; the people were busy repairing the broken dykes above the city.

intend the work.

b. There are many all villages between

NAVAL WEWE.

The German Gunboat, Jaguar," Cap- tain Boland, came into port from Hong- Long on 14th inst., and left yesterday.

ANTI-OPIUM GAMPATON, SURGE

The promised Proclamation re opium has been issued by the Consular Body, and therefore in two months benco, all the opium_shope on the Island of Kulangsu will be closed, for smoking purposes, though a limited number will be licensed for the sale of prepared opium, half of them to expire in end of March next year.

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WEATHER REPORT.

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The following notics is issued by Mr Figg of the Hongkong Observatory :--- It is suggested that a new stone jettys fallen slightly on the N.E. coast of On the 9th at 11,65 s.--The barometer

The depression is moving northwarde over Shantung.

Pressure is high. to the E. of Japso in the North, and over the 8. part of the Chins Sea in the South.

Fresh monaron may be expected in the Formoss Channel and the China Sea.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours end- ing at 10a.m. to-day, 0.79 inches.

Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon

to-morrow.

Gibson and H. S. Holmes.

Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Hon. Attorney General, in eponing the case, anid that they would hear from the doctor who had attended the injured man, that the wounds bad buon very serious, and be would ask them at the close of the case to find the prisoner guilty of the most serious of the charges,

3. The country around and to the north shat of intent to murder. The prosecutor

of Shin Chan. The condition at this place ou May 30 was walking with a foki along

does not seem so serious as in districts No. Queen's Road West, and went into a house of ill-fame. When they came out they

and No. 2, yet there is, need here too. The distance from Carton and Hongkong stood talking and smoking for some time when unddeily a number of men ene Captain General Yang detailed a shallow At Lo Pau the situation in much wores. being great, and the river not navig running down the street shouting "Strike draft steam launch to tow it to Yingtak In There were four breaks in the dykes with able by steam propelled boats, ranke the him." The prosecutor and his back to these each city the head officials readily.co-opera-a_total length of at least four hundred carrying in of rive very difficult. Officiale men and was stabbed in the hack by one tou with us in gathering infiemation. We yards. Two or three hundred yards of a and missionaries there think enougis rice of these den. He looked round in-loit blank forms as we proceeded up the village built on the dyke above was washed can be secured from places near the des- mediately and a prisoner hide himself river and collected them as we returned. away with the dyke. The other break titate region and the best plan would be to under a vorendah. There were other men The figures, as complete and accurate as washed away thirty odd houses. The send money to be distributed to the with him. One of the friends of the prosecu-we can make them are given below. Apeople barely had time to escape, the water needy by the missionaries. This leaves tor corroborated his story and spoke die special Wai Uen, Mr H. Lueh Yung Nien, caz so suddenly. Three hundred of two smaller sections still to be considered. in tinely us to seeing the stab inflicted by the accompanied us partly as an escort and these homeless people were living in rude 8. Up Lien Chow River. Owing to prisoner with a knife. He was perfectly partly to make investigation of the flood aleitars on the hillsides. Between two distance, and shallow rivery money would certain that it was the prisoner, and two men ed districts and report to the Viceroy. We and three thousand people were daily being to the best thing to semi here. The Lden were very mach sided in each district by fed on a gruol of rice and sweet potatoas. who were with lira ran away. One of the

who was in the house, and whe the native Christians. A student from the There was not the slightest evidence that Chow unissionaries could probably super- went downstairs with prosecutor, also Baptist Theological Seminary in Canton the geople were beginning to repair the the wound inflicted by the prisoner. They has spent several days walking through ore damage done to the dykes and houses or would hear from the evidence that the edtion of Taing Uen District for the to remove the sand covering the rice fields, the two passes and also up small valleys to built on the Amoy sida near the fishing China, and riven a little elsawbero. ↑ -

Leaving Tsing Uen we could see small elsewhere that will be hard to reach from villago of Auunking, and a wide stane (Chinese Mul's Service.)

motive was jealousy and revenge. Pro. purpose of learning the condition of tha socutar had been taken immediately to the people and gave us much detailed infornia- villages along the shore partially or almost either of these sections. Some provision road formed from it to the racecoures, on which rickshawa and motor cars" can ́ PERING, July 10,

Government Ciril Hospital, and the doctortion. The Wesleyan Missionaries at Shui wholly destroyed. Many people stood Ahonld also be made for these.

Kaan, Messrs Hutchison and Ellison gave along the shore holding cupty baskets and Using the estimates given by officiala run to and fro, giving easy access The Board of Foreign Affairs has reald tell thors that prosecutor had been us help and some details of the flood sacks waiting for some one to come and to and reckoned from other sources of into the central place of festivity. Sports sued orders that all Provincial foreign and tenth ribs. The wound had been succity.

atabbed in the back between the ninth in the inmediate virinity of the prefectural distribute rice. We got off the boat above formation, we give the following statistics are to be held marquees to be erected

hoes shall in future be known as Inter-and a half inches in width and near the

Tai Mui and went through one of these to be as near the truth as can be obtained side shers will doubtless appear: and plenty of amusement will be provided Our first stopping place was Saimate, villages. Most of the houses were destroy-under the ciscumstances.

for the thousands of sailore who will come itional Intercourse Departments and lungs. Prosecutor had been in an extreme which is three miles east of Sam Shui ec. Going through the business street

Number of lives lost: Yingtak 6, Tsing on shore, not to speak of the tens of thous saw only one shop selling rice, Uen 7, Bam Shui 10, total 23. Number of ands of Chinese who will flock in from the all be in direct emmunication with critical enndition. The doctor had District City. We went ap on a hill back of we

FORECAST DISTRICT. considered that he was near death and was the city and thence had a view of the country and it had very little. There was very

We shall be

1.-Hongkong and Neighbourhood: S,W Doard!.

surprised to see him alive.

for ten miles or more in every direction. little meat, vegetales or fruit in sight and people homeless: Yinstak 8,000, Teing Uen country to see the fun.

mundated with visitors front Shanghai, and 3, winds, fresh; squally, showery, Three hours were spent at Sam Shui, which that inferior in quality. All we saw wae 8,400, Sam Shui 12,000, total 28,400.

2.-Formosa Channel, Same as No. 1 Number of people without food: Kuk Hongkong, and other parts and-probably

3.--South coast of China between Hong Prisoner put in a stateront to the effect we occupied with a visit to the Commisbirely worth $2.10 Mexican. The people that in the struggle, the prosecutor receis- sioner of Custon and the Chiness officia! gave a petition asking for help which they Kong 20,000, Yingtak 40,000, Taing Uon the warships of a good many other nations

4.--South coast of China batweon Hoog ed the star from one of his own friends, who is head of the likin station. Our route had ready for the first person who came 140,000, Sam Shui 30,000, Sz Wasi 10,000, will come bore also to share in the fest-ong and Lamacks Satie as No. 1.

ivities. One thing will have to be guided kong and Hainan : Same as No. 1. watch was meant for him (the prisoner.)

thence was up the North River. At. Shrl along.

The journey from Xingtak to Shin- The jury animously found prisoner Kok, a market towo about twelve milçə

Fercentage of crops destroyed 80% Nast agains, and that is a pancity of food, for guilty of wounding with intent to do gaic-south of the Districs City we found the Kwan was tonde overland to see the harvest 9 to 11 month, that is between stands to reason that it will take a good

Magistrate and His Excellency Yang, was country lack from the river as well as to three and four moulbe from date.

drul of provender to satisfy the needs of Tous edily harm.

anch a paodigious influx of visitors for the Catairy, and four battalions of the finding of the jury. The' wound was a accompanied us to the District City sad i

His Lordship-I entirely concur with were there on a tour of investigation. They save time.

With the one exception of around Ma -Seed rice needed: Yingtak 200,000 cattica, eight days of the visit. Altogether, it bids bowals during the hot weather. should be a warning to mothörsi." Infentila cholers may develop in a Fow hours, and. Infantry will be withdrawn from South very eerious one and it is fortunate that there wo had an hour's conference with a Market the crops were destroyed. From Tsing en 700,000 cattios, Sam Shifair to be a most auspicious occasion."

prompt action should be taken to avoid it. Afrien between the 7th of September the prosecutor is alive. I sentence i them, talk with a number of native Christ. Ms Fu, Kong to Sha Hau was especially 400,000 catties, tolu' 1,300,000 calties.

Chamberlain's Colio, Cholers and Diar- jand 6th February next.

The imports for the wosk June 27tohoos Remedy, followed by a dose of castor. íaus and then proceeded up the river. bad. The ground above the high water Our boat anchored for the night at was not good for farming. All the stable Pank Miu, a small town just beloy land was flooded. At one place in a ben the famous Fei-lai Pass, Our progress to prove the people were gathering dobris next day was slow as the current was swift for fuel. They said that there were stout and the launch small, We spent a half off thousand people at that place without ar hour with one of the foreign engineers food. In another little valley where the (From Our- Corrispamtent.}" in charge of the construction work on the crops were destroyed one person said that Wucnow, July 17. Canton-Hankow Railway at Tai Min. Tho they were eating free leaves. Authorities are divided here as to the mouth of the Tien Chow river was rouch- One of the worst sights from Vingtak to success of the recent opium edicts. Publiced after dark. About nook of the next Shin Chau (Kwan) was met with on at opivion is ocrtatfly against the habit and day, the fourth after loving Canton,proaching Sim Hao; while still several many dens have been closed, but it is we souched Yingtik The District Magis-miles or more from the city we met people doubtful as £» how much less ópíum tmte was away investigating a portion in such numbers as to form practically a consumed. Certainly there is no difficulty if the flooded are, and we talked with procession at times, teost of these had LONDON, July 17, in procuring it. My own opinion is that the Assistant Magistrate and the head empty bags or sicks. They were country

It is a puzzle to many why the dollar Foniteen hundred mill hands struck less is actually smoked but more is being military officer, also with a number of people without food who had heard that work in Bombay yesterday, and sub-cater in the form of opium and mordas native Christians. The next day we start free rice was to be distributed at Sha Hau, much local relief, The situation will still keeps so low, as it in uemlly higher in

grow worse until the next harvest and pills

ed for the prefectural city. We made this They came only to be disappointed. Rice et dessitate will intron summer than in winter. For some time it sequently attacked the on-striking

last stage of the journey overland so that was for sale or to give away. Sumo could mills whose windows they smashed. Two

wo night obšarve more of the conditions bug, the rest. mans sway caply. They JAPAN'S NEW PREMIER. Europeans, besieged in a shop, summon

of the country and also to save time. Woooked hungry. ed the police, who fired on the riolers.

reached Shinkwan in a day and a half, What relief in beaded First aid in will do very little to improve the situation ongizons, for while a week ago (9th) it TOKYO, July 13 with unknown, casualties.

spent some six hours there and then came mediately, food. There are approximately The work should be entrusted to a carefully was actually at 18% Premion, it is now Marquis Katsura received the Imperiul ack to Tinytak in a small house boab 250,000 people in the alley of the North selected relief committee The prere only 2% Premium andato yesterday to forta a Cabinet.

From there out house-boat was towed Lack Rivar without food. This is a conservative needily beginning is made the easier it The Mayor and Comeillors of Tokyo over the same route as the upward estimate. There are over 130,000 in Tsing will be to deal with the situation. have resigned their posts owing to the rejection of the scheme for the municipality.

tion of the tramway system.

(LEUTER'S SERVICE.]

SOUTH AFRICA.

Losnos, July 17. Mr Haldane, Secretary of State for For, has announced that a regiment

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LONDON, July 17.*

Mr Sidney Buxton, Postmaster- General, states that the Post Office estimates show an anticipated surplas of three and three quarters million sterling.

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THE EULENBERG CASE.

LONDON, July 17. The action for perjury againat Prince Eulenberg has been postponed in-

definitely owing to the illness of the acensed.

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THE BALKANS.

MOROCCO.

Bvidence was then culled.

sorer to seven years Intel labour.

THE ANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN

Questionable Effect of Edicta.

FLOODS AT ICHANG.

munications.

waters.

months.

.....

total 240,000.

Dykes destroyed: Tsing Ten, Main Rirar 30 odd places, total length Chinese

AMOT TRADE ..

INFANTILE OĦOLERA ANY unusest looseness of a child's

feet 9,398) feet. There are also s great July 3rd show that trade in Amy is lookil, will check the disease in its insipissing, number of breaks on the smaller streaming up a bit, in spite of adverse circinn and all danger may be avoided. For mo

·Tributasi-s, 50 odd places. Sam Shui,

by all chemists, and eborekeepers.

stances.

56 places, total length Chinese feot. 10,600

Sheetings and T. cloths, &c., 5050 pos.|| feet. Estimated repairs 50,000 Taels.

North of Fingal District we have no roo, 10,952 pela; opium, foreign, 38 pola; acourate figures. but missionaries and

riativo cpium, 21 pets; flour, 5213 pols;! ociale do not soom to think the situation

beans and beancake, 17,387 pcls; buche de Herinus there, but there, is need of some

mor, 157 pels; kerosino oil, Borneo in help.

The above necount does not aim to give bulk, 58,015 gads ; Sumatra in bulk, 92,116. an idea of the total destruction wrought by

gals. the flood. Ten millions of dollars would

In vaports the principal items were scarcely cover the loss of property. In giving the number of destitute we have sugar, 1609 pcls; hemp sacking, 16,450 aimed to include only those totally without pos; 3rd 13 lbs. of prepared tobacco.

When it is remembered that all their neighbours suffered severely, it appears how vain it is to hope for

resources.

EXCİVANOR.

ather then decrease If pestilence should has bevered somewhere about 1/9. break out the plight of the people will be marked change for the better has occurred funtful indeed.

in the rate of exchange between Amoy and Spaulic, ill-contacted relief measures

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The Spanish Jude, by. Maurice Hewlett." A sad fatality occurred on July 14 near The Traitor's Wife, by W. H. Williston. the 8.8. **Joshin Maru" on her arrival from The Sacred Stall, by Geo, Griffith. Uen District alone. The next harvest of

Hongkong and. Swatow. A Chinese sailer Anse Page, by Netta Sprett The most serious result of the flood is rica cannot be gathered until about the

was just fastening the stoamer's chain to Restitution, by Dorothea Gerard. the destruction of growing crops. From raiddle of October. Many will not be able (From Our Corrspondent.) the Luoy when he missed his footing and Five Nights, by Victoris Croce, the prefectural city of Shui Chow down to plant for the nexttrop either because

Wucnow, July 17. fell into the water. He was however soon The Wheel Fortune, by Louis Tracy." the full length of the river, on both sides they have no sed or because the fields

The town has now settled down to the picked up and taken on board the steamer Chateau Royal, by L. H. Yoxall.

Young Lord Stranleigh, by Robi, Barr. extending back to the foothills which in

Redemption, by Rene Bazin A dispatch from Ichang states that the santo places are tab or three miles awaying. Some of the smaller crops of potatoes, food. Thanks to the charitable gifts sent

can not be got into condition for plant-ordinary routine of business after the but was found to be already dead. whole contry round about that vicinity the crops of all kinds are toally destroyed.beaus, etc., can be gathered within two up from Canton and elsewhere, immediate for many miles is under water owing to disastrous rains which caused the fcbang In some cases where the river was swilt,

distress has beert relieved and there is river to rise nearly twenty foot above its the growing crops together with the vil LONDON, July 17.

General Hasegawa's Views. The House of Cards, by Lady Ironbridge.. Allowing five conté a day for each person, probably little fear of a famine provided normal level. All the crops have teea was washed away. In other places where

The Smarlet Runner, by C. N. and A. EL

Williamson. Reuter's Constantinople correspond.stroyed and it is feared that there will the water was comparatively, still the escas making no allowance for cost of transporta- the second rice crop proves to be a

much suffering the winter amongst the

tion and administration, at least $1,000,000 good one." The methods adopted by the! The Seoul Press translates from the The Great Amulet, by Maud Inver. ent learns that it is believed the Greek Lauers sad poorer people in Ichang pre-were flooded so long that they died, in

other places so much silt was deposited is needed in this section alone to save the charitably disposed have been typically Keijo Nippo" some remarks on the in- What Woman Wills, by Lucas Cleers. bands, which are now better organized fecture.

Chinese. It is well known that whenever urgents which are attributed to General A Gentleness of London, by Morios flerară, than formerly, are acting in concert with

that they were buried. Only a few plants starving

A second, but scarcely less important any money is te be given away almost all Viscount Hasegawa. The General is quoted Andmatear Adventures, by F. Fesafort

Moore, young Turks, whose propaganda under We learn from a Ceylon paper that arrived in the places covered by the

need is seed. The Teing Uen Magistrate the Chinese, rich or poor sliko, are more as stating in atjovial manner that nearly An Engagement of Convenience, by Louis the banner of Union and Progress, are telegram to "The Times" from Peking a Probably the next most serious result of estimates that 700,000 catties are needed than willing to have a share. In order to all the prominent insurgent landers, includi Zing willen gee obtaining a considerable hold on the fortnight age announced that the French the flood is the destruction of dykes. This in this district at onco and the Yingtak find out who was mally poor several, curing Kim Kink, Yi Kangyon, Ho Wi and The Tree of Beaven, by Robb, W. Chamber, army and intelligent moslems.

The Wolf, by IE. Buckross engineer Charignon had been appointed concerns only Sam Bhai, Se Wool, and Magistrato that his people require 200,000 ons plans were invented. One was only Ki Samui, had either been killed or taken Dragon's Bilk, by Paul Herring. adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Con-Taing Uon. The last named cured mout. catties. Using these figures az o con to help those households whose dwellings priser, and there now remained only part of Pearl Island, by Joba Oxenham.

Besides thirty seven broeks in theservative estimato yields 1,300,000 cotties had thatched roofs. I am afraid that this three or four secondary londons such as Sin The Shadow, by Paul Urquiser. The Peking Government has wired to over ten thousand feet, there were han in the valley of the North River The Many quite well-to-do inhabitants of Wu. Was doing its best to arrest these men an Crossiggs, by Mary and Jane Findlater.

main river, dykes, aggregating length of a the mount of seed urgently aroded method was more ingenious than just. Tol-sok and Che To-syon. The military And The Day Oste, by Albert Dorrington,

their efforts would be sufficiently rewarded LONDON, July 18.

Raine.N tie Viceroy of Mineke to properly regulate dreds of breaks in the dykes along the cast of this will be approximately, 865,000 chow received a few dollars whilst others, Mulat Hand, interviewed by the the railway, miministration of Amoy and smaller streams, which are just as essential The act of replacing the dykes in Tsing really poor, were unable to obtain assist "Morning Post's" correspondent at also to induce the local gentry and mer to the protection of the cultivated ads. Un District alone is estimated at overence owing to the misfortune of having Fez, disclaimed hostility towards Eur chants to organise a public body to welcome The labor and expense of restoring the $30,000 Tools. Nz Wont and Sam-Shui leaky tiled root, opeans whom he mid he wished would the American dret.

dykes will be enormous and far beyond the need at least 10,000 more, or ssy #75,000 come to the country to develop it. He

It is reported, says the "Japan reuves of the people. But not even the for the whole. Usually the cost of repairs further declared that be was quite pre-Gazette," that if Baron Goto enters the next harvest will be assured onlees the on the dykes is apportioned among the

H. E. Viceroy Chang Jen-chun and the pared to abide by the act of Algesiras. now Cabinet Dr. Foruichi will be appointed Apkes are at leas partially restored. A villages in any given area, but it is ubao-

President of the South Manchurian Railries in the river of only a few feet from its lately impossible for the people concerned Provincial Trossurer and Provincial Judge way, Company. (As readers, know Baron prosent level would be fatal to a new crop to reconstruct the dykes. As noted below of Kuangtung have donjonctly appealed to tions of the military, gave him exceptionally The Missioner, by B. Phillips Opporkers.

it will most likely be impossible to combine H. E. Shong Kung-pao and his Honour the prisoner, who was reported to have Bennett

kind treatment. This apparently moved The Histos, by Koten Phillpotta and Arnold. doto hre been appointed Minister for in the dozerule of the food relief if the starving with the work of Tai, Tuotal of Shanghai, to raise money remarked to an interviews Japanese By Their Fruits by Mre Campbell Presă. I through New Zealand and all over

is that grent areas of land have boon restoring the drizes. The provincial gov for the relief of the differers from the have no oquais on flie earth in their work Australia," says Mr. R L. McBean of Nave from the United States says covered by vast ceposits of sand. It will orament should of course help in this work doods in that prince, due to the over intelligence! They know how to tacat a Dantroon, N.Ž, “and changes of water tfist there is at, presunt no demand for be. Jests In some cases before such fand But vero persuaded that much seater Horing of the banks of the North, patriot but they have no idea of the respect, TO BE OBTAINED FROM

due to a country free p and moto ellenve relief will be given if and West rivers. Wo understand that a to foi estist in meeting of prominent Chinees gentleman, direct etibutions be made

NOOD-STE, HEADA hath of the foringn notlements, and the reconstructing Wade dyken

The nature and aboeasibility of the coun↑ Native Ciy sud suburbs, is to be held handy,

And ricans in tƯỚC NHI a dansen will determine the nicejs

A SHEEP SERABER S TRIALS.

have followed the shearing season Coramunications)

and turker · always bring, an attack di

Another very serious of

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