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Chino His relate Bak to return to a collision with a comer,

fisk, "1029", "many. Wars which at one time was thought would in mean the end of the world. Professor with a great noise and brilliant

Chiro is about 100 from Coon Batte, nea PICKERINO believes that a locality where

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a comet may perhaps have one stracksured upon a great circle, so that if the the earth is Coon Butte, a place situated radiant was near the zenith in Arizona, about 70 to 80 miles from the Grandmeteors might have traversed the sky Canyon of the Colorado. With regard tangent to the earth's surface, at Cairo. meteoric shower, as the phrase 'many. are would seem to imply, it was certainly unique in occurring with a

masta posting before 10a.m.

BRIT

Enerow, October, 13,

Me A. J. Balfour, Leader of the Op. parition, in a recent speech denounced

Grand Councilor, Lu Chuan-lin bas

of Mr. Ure, K., Bolicitor Gene monopoly for opitra in Peking.

for Beotland, that Old Aga-Panel gated the establishment of an official 18 scandalous statements the remarks

Twenty-seven deportees arrived from would be insecure under the. by thes... Ostberine Apcar.

(Prom Qur Own Dorfaspandani:

SprzAPORE, Oétober, 29. Hingapore, shooting in the Hile, matal to-day, hâe made a total

Loore of 955.1 This boats the record..

[Note Singapore won this match last

to his theory concerning this probabis the event described refers to Singapore by the As, Derwent and night tires. Mr Balfour declared that M5 year with a more of 932. the full recant›

A trial of viraless telegraphy between Hawat and Japan will be made on the

Ure had dishonoured his profession: | In an follow- and his office.

[** 1889 : Shanghai, 819 Singapore, 777 Mr Urs, speaking at Rochdale last Hongkong. 774-

1890: No match,

grent noise. During the splendid show ist December. If successful, this will break night, described Mr Balfour's chats 1881: "Hongkong. 867 j Shangbai, 890 -

the record for distance.

collision he writes :

"In the midst of an open plain there lies a round, goutly sloping, hill 150 feet in height, containing a crater with of Leonids in 1833, one of the most precipitous walls, three-quarters of a impressive features was aid to be the la reported that H.E. Lễ Chingmal, mile in diameter, and 500 feet in deathlike silence that prevailed. The former Chinese Minister to Austria, will be appointed Director of the Trek-Ban Railway depth. The walls are composed of loud noise would imply that the broken fragments of the upper layer closely approached the earth's

10,000 Records mcks nor any volcanic formations would mean the FTATIS

TO SELECT FROM.

of the stratified rocks, and no igneous where the aimcaphers in dense, which

slowly relatively to the earth. Begur ing the date August, 1020, it is of intarest to note that of the ten ircn

% meteorities whose dates of fall are known, two should have fallen upon

whatever exist within twoive miles of it Drill holes sunk within the crater show that at the centre, at a depth of S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ld. only 1,000 feet; the original strate, are

Hongkons. April 18, 1907. -

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andisturbed. It is therefore clearly t surface formation, a paendo erater, and can not owe its existence in any way to volcanic forces.

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«This locality has been known for (Payable in advance), incinding postage, $3.60 per month, years as the source of the so-called ORLAND CRE, Maz (wockly) 315,00 Cañon Diabolo meteorites. From ten per year; including poenge, $1200 to fifteen tons of these bodies have been Free delivery to all addresses accessible

per year,

by messenger, incinding all Feak, Kowloon and Quarry Bay residences."

Single coples, Daily, tan cants; Weekly,

August 1.

Are you always drunk? asked to agirate of an habitual at a London police

sometimes I'm asleep. our The Toper (with dignity): No, sir!

At the St. Paul's College sports on Thursday's valuable cup was presented for competition-by bir Tei Fing of Bonham Road. The prizes were given away aitor

the sports by Mfrs Landen

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The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, report that the total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending 10th October amounted to 27,413.19 tans and the sales during the

of them had already been removed period to 22,045,77 tons. r

A fact which should not be over- looked in this connection is that the great Mexican meteorites were con sidered holy by the Indines in the time of the Spanish invasion. Indeed, some from their original resting-places, before the coming of the Spaniards. This would seem to imply a knowledge of their celestial origin, and to furnish an exported for commercial purposes indication of their comparatively recent They are of the nickel-iron variety, all Similar attention was paid to the and contain nostony matter. Those palladium of Troy, to the image of which have been found since Messrs. DIANA at Ephesus, and to the sacred shield of Nrxa, all of which were said BARKINGER and] TILGHXAS took posto have fallen from heaven, and were seasion of the property, now some doubtless really meteorites.....

There appear to be neither Merican 2,000 in number, were arranged in

crescent, situated concentrically nor Indian traditions that the heavens at, any time appeared to be on fire with with regard to the crater, and extend-falling stars. here appears to have 11 am-uution of Stock-in-Trade of

Dity of Paris Dreseaking and all-ing to an extreme distance from it of been no wide-oprend comatrophs due to linery Establishment.

two and a half miles. Recently consaphyxiating gases, such as might be indicated by scattered human and animal skeletons. Altogether no par ticular harm seems to have been done by the collision at the immediate point where the great meteorite struck."

thirty cunts; for onah, Telegraphio Address, 'M' Hongkong, Code, B. O, fifth edition.

"TELEFON No: 22. CHINA MATI, LÍMITED,

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2.30 p.m. Bazaar & Fancy Fate on siderable quantities of so-called iron

General Memoranda. MONDAY, November 1-

9.45p.o.-Auction of Household Furnt- ture at No. 5,,Kimberley Villas, Kaw. loan

TURDAY, November 2-

9.30 p.m.-Anction of Gent's Suit Lengths, &c. at Mr Geo. P. Tammart's

Balon Rooms

$.30 p.m.-Orgen Recital, in St. John's

Uathedral.

WEDNESDAY, November 3:-

3.46 p.m.---Acction of Household Fami-

tura, at 'Treverbyn,' the Peak. LEURDAY, November 4:—

9 p.m.-Concert at City Hall.

The China Mail

Singapore, 761,5

1999 Hongkong, 895 Shangh .810 Bingapore, To

as outrageous and abominable sad made in singular disregard of the truth. Mr Balfour, he said, had die bosoured his high position and the country by atooping to the meanest calumny in order to escape a politica embarrassment of his own creation-1896 Singapore

LAUNCH OF HMS. INDEFATIGABLE.

1883 Hunghong, 821 Shanghai, 802 Slygspore, 768.

1894: Hongkong, 833 Hingep Shanghai, 150, 1

||| Hongkongs drkanna. Yun

153 1996 Hongkong,

Singapors, 80

(Reuter's Service to the China-Mail) Losmos, October 29. The craiser Indefatigable has been launched,

1997: Singapore, 934 Shanghai, 860

1808: Hongkong, 34: Singapore, 923 Shanghai, 8914

1899 Hongkong, 952; Singapore, 325- Shanghai, 887.

1000 Hongkong BSC; Singapors, 209 Shanghai, 900

1901 Hongkong, 901 Singapore, 854 ; Shanghai, 841; Penang, 721.

1904 Singapors, AlD; Hongko g, 019 Shanghai, 303.

[Note-This cruiser must belong to

1902 Shanghai, 998; Singapore, 823+ the Invincible clase, known as ** cruiser- battleships. They are of 17,250 tons Hongkong, 370: Penang, 871- eil, two turrs's being on the centre-line Hongkong 1 Fonang,750 displacement, with eight 12-in gue to 1903 Singapore, 927; Shanghai 915 forward and ab and two an achako amid, ships, thus allowing of a broad side fire I connection with the YMCA of eight guns and an ahead and astorn firs. T. W. Pearce will deliver a lecture on bet engines ara Parnous turbines of 41.000 Literary and Debating Society, the Hav. of six. She has sixteen 4 in guns, and Monday evening at 9 pm. on Words giving her a speed of over 27 knots. She is expected to out. £1,725,000. The that bare a tale to tell." The public & Indefatigable was only laid down at cordially invited to be present, Derenport in 1909 and her details have

been kept acret-En. C..]

&uummified body which is supposed

to be that of the widow of Thomas, Earl of Kent who afterwards married the Black Prince and was mother of Rochard II., has been found in a garden at Stamford, the site of a former Black Friars monastery.

sod Baden show a remarkable increase in the Socialist Tota. While there was only one Socialist in the ald Diet of Saxony; sixteen have already been elected od fifty-three are participating in the second ballots.

CONGO REFORMS

FORCED LABOUR TO BE

·ABOLISHED,

TAG: Hongkong, 923, Shanghai. 899 z Singapors, 800

1906: Shanghai, 936; Singapore, 109:

Hongkong, 891; Penang, 891.

Singapore, 928

1907: Shanghai, 943; Hongkong, 838-

1908 Singapore, 937, Sbaoghai, 933- Penang, 919; dongkong, 01.

[The date of the Hongkong shoot has not yet been decided but it will probably be about the 6th or 11th of November ED.Q.M.).

The election for the Dieta of Saxony (Router's Service to the China Mail:)

Lomon, October. 29.

Vico-Admiral Galster, of the German The Congo reform bill has been ry, who opposes the hig-ship policy, introduced in the Belgian Chamber. urges the construction of submarines in- It gradually opens the whole of the stead of Dreadnoughts as being more snited Congo region to Free Trade by 1912, to the particular needs of fremmany, He except three million hectares. The declares that thirty submarines can be built- bill reduces taxation gradually and for the price of one battleship shalishes forced labour, while assigna

ahale have been found. This consists chiefly of the oxides of iron and nickel

Medars. Conter of Glasgow have placed orders with twelve Lancashire Arms for siz It sometimes occurs in spherical masses

ob pounds of yarn to be delivered in three months. Mesure Coates' mill in thirty-three milion francs for in- several inches in diameter, and often at the centre is a piece of meteoric

Japan has nearly finished building making portant works. Ita distribution in similar to that collision with a comet in the building the Barenth in foreign lands controlled i

iron

of the other icons.

On the whole Professor PICKLING seams to make out a better case for the fall of a meteorite than for &

by them.

up of the pseudo volcano at Copa Batte, but he prefers the comet.

theory

The population of Camda daring the himself and we are content to let it go last facal year gained 166,905 by immigra- tiou, including 50,899 from the United States and 62,901 from Grant, Britain, American immigrants during the past 13 yeins have brought £12,000,000 in ensh and effects to Canada.

Beneath the floor of the crater, are found enormoce deposits of nearly paré silica, in an extraordinarily finely at that, divided state. Although under a microscope the particles are seex to be aber and angular, they are so fine as to be invisible under an ordinary lea and to give no feeling of grit when taken between the teeth. Such ma-

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Gerald Han- well, MR.C.S., L.RU.P., only surviving Bon of Major-General J. Haiwell, rotired, erosion, and only be due to the

daughter of Sir Felham Warren, E.U.MG HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29. 109. shattering of the substanco by a endden his Britannic Majesty's Consul General at

blow. Mixed with this silick has been | Shanghai. found meteoric material extending to

COMETS AND METEOFS.

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CHINESE REVENUE

PROPOSAL

(Wah Taz Fat Po'e's

Service.) Pazzo, October, 28. The Board of Foreign Affairs pro- poses to lory an increased stamp duty so as to replace all miscellaneoua tare, which are to be abolished,

After quarreling with her lover who was hon tamer, in a theatre at Blancey, suburb of Paris, young girl soughts She terrible mesas of ending ber File first infuriated the lions with whip, and then thrust the upper part of bar body through the bars of the cage..." be enraged fanimals acon accomplished the girl

traction.

The cultivation of poppy for diami- now officially reported to have been pro hibited throughout British territory in the Panjab, while the Native States in ther Punjab plains are also being mured to put a stop to the production of opium. The"

fortunately synchronised with a notable enhancement in the profits of wheat cultivation.

terial can not be produced by ordinary Royal Artillery, and Dorothy, youngest to-day. When one case was called it was CHINA'S RAILWAY LOAN page of poppy cultivation hen, it is said, “

There was quite a little crop of inter esting incidents at the Supreme Court

stated that the plaintiff was dead, though his soliciter said he knew nothing of it; in another the cause for action was that defendant had painted Chinese charactere yet another two solidtors told the Puise Judge that they had been instructed to

Ppor for the defendant 1

depth of 900 feet below the level Stewart Richardson, Gravesend Estate in tar on certain slabs of granite; while in

the original plain. It is therefore evident that the formation of the crater

and the deposition of the meteoric material took place at the same time."

CONVENTION.

POWERS OBJECT TO CANCELLATION,

(Wah Ter Yat Po's Service)

PEKING, October 28,

When Mr Ginnell recently put a loog· question in the loss of Commons with reference to the cancellation of the origins contract of the Johore railway and im The proposal of the Board of Com-construction departmentally under the control of the Crown Arents, Colonel munications that the loan movention Seely and Mr Ginnell made imputatione in respect of the railways in the Bee of improper conduct, for which there THE chuan, Hupeh and Hunan Provinces no shadow of foundation, upon honourable

them. He therefore declined to reply. further. be cancelled. has been rejected by all men, who deeply felt the slur cant upon

America was particularly firm in ber the foreign Powers interested.

objection to the proposal..

Tax near approach of Hurr's comet has caused renewed interest to be taken by the general public in the subject of astronomy and cognate matters. Nearly

The only valid objection to the every newspaper of importance has of

theory, Professor, late been printing articles dealing with comet-collision the heavens and the celestial bodies FCRIBING thinks, is the absence of evidence of high temperatura. But the occupying the regions of illimitable

meteors must have been moving rather space and we are not surprised to lear slowly, as shown by their comparatively that the scientific journals peculiarly light penstration. This is the case devoted to astronomy are ânding gratify- with many metedra, and is to be exDamiano, near Assisi, to Lord Walter Kerr, to the bearer-and it is entrusted entirely be afraid to give Chamberlain's Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In A Gl

The engagement is announced of Arthur Bulawayo, Rhodais, son of the late Mr George Richardson and Mr Richardson, ts Violet, second daughter of Biz Patrick Manson, K.O.M.G., and Lady Manson, 21. Queen Anna Street, and granddaughter of The jewellery and other valuables the late Captain J. P. Thurburn, RN." which the military authorities have collect

ed from the ruins of Moxins, and for The estate of the Inte. Mamais of Hipon which no claimanta can be found, are has been valued for probate purposes at estimated approximately stover £4,000,000. £125,574. He bequeathed to Mr St. This vast collection of riches is heaped Quentin, sometime his private secretary, together, partly in the subterranean, vaults £10,000, and provided for scholarships in of the citadel and partly in wooden shelters.

CHAMBERLAIN'S, PAIN BALS connection with the Ripon Grammar School. It consists of money in coins and bank

A BAPE MEDICINE.

700 will bunt a good while before you And a liniment that ́is' equal to He made no religious bequests. He be-notes, of State bonds and companies queathed the church and convent of San shares which in Italy are almost always

Cough Remedy to your children. Itzhenustian and nciation - it “relieve the to the honesty of four officers, who have is intended especially for cough, colda, Inteuss pain and makes sleep and renta ing increases in their subscription lista. plained by the retarding power of Of course this interest is merely trans their own atmospheres, generated Colonel Henry Gwyn ¤: Deane Shape zob even sufficient soldiers to guard the group and whooping couch; and it is the posible, Soreness of the musclos, mwoll

best medicine msúa for those dianasan. « Is contains no opious or other narcotic. For ient, but it is a sign of the times never during their pamage earthward. Fro whose sudden death at the Guards Clab

sale by all shamiata and stovekeepers. T A fire brigade rehearsal for the annual theless, while equally typical ure the fessor PICKERING goes on to say: London is announced, will be remember endeavours made by many learned-If merely a coincidence, it is certained a Principal Private Secretary to the competition took place, this afternoon at astronomers to convey to the outsidely surprizing, considering the total to Mr Arnold Forater at the War Ufice the Central Police Station, in the presence He was only 49 years of age and was of MrJ.J. Baddely, Captain Scperintendent world some idea of the complexities of extent of the land surface of our married two years ago. He served in of Folios, Captain Lyons and Mr. J. Vode- 00 the many alluring problems with which globe, that of the world's ten largest Egypt in 1882, at Suskim in 1865, and also house, Deputy Assistant Superintendent of

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Turning to a recent ius of Popular Astronomy we had. Professor W.

aheiters:

meteorites, seven should have fallen in South Africa where he was in gommand Police. Amongst the competitions were AAK VERBIN

Pa of a mobile'elkomn, ?afterwards being made. Despatch box competition, dry drill: boss within 900 miles of Coon Butte. In Commandant st Graaf Beinet, Cape Colony, drill and ladders to scound foors; extension the following list sech meteorite is and adminstrator of martial law, Cape ladder and getting the hose and ladders to all

PICKERING, of Harvard, calculating the chances of the earth coming into col- all are of the nickel-iron class; lision with a comet and then speculating

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