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seema, mnat become adjusted to the new treachery o melho, sin is far more conditions, and this accomplished the mysterious than the earth or the ses

The Ben. - Stores Turner and Minn. aeronaut experiences a feeling of In the air there is no solitude, no lanski-Turner returned to the Colony from A tralia to-day by the Prinx Waldemar buoyancy like floating on water; when news; even-for the dullest imagination. this festing in its fall power had The rapid succession of wat scenic

Monday is the twentieth anniversary: ol possession of me, I never had a sericus illusions, both by day and by night, the birthday of the King of Portugal. His accident. I recall that making a short crowding upon a mind from which they, as well known, is now visiting

King Edward !! arperimental fight with a dirigible about gray veil of the earth has been rent or a year ago at Foughkeepsie, the prolifted, is enough to thrill a stoic. As

Capt. W. Armstrong, of the Hongkong Volunteers, has roalgued his appointment is Honorary A. D. O, to Eda Excellency the Gererar. The rosignation has been

Mr. W. Cameron Forbes has now sucv pellers were caught in some rope as the one clube into the heavens on a cloud-coded Deposal Smith as Governor-Genscal of the Philippines, his acting appointment ship ruse. It at once shot up to a less day, say to an attitude of three becoming substantives from the 11th lust. surprisingly high altitude and sailed off miles, he looks out upon - an, sarth PER MONTH, for about two miles to the south. All

panomina of nearly three hundred miles. this time I had been working to get my in diameter. To the eye the earth bus moters to operate properly. Of a sudden become a huge, concave hemisphers, the ship halted in the teeth of a contrary meeting the heavens on a level with the air current, and began to whirl like eye. In the spring and summer this a gyroscope. I had been caught hemisphere is a deep dark gro in an infant whirlwind, which seeped streaked, dotted, and studded with to be more violent overhead. I would

myriad lights and shadows of cities,

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BIRTH HUMPASYS-On November 19, 1909,

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balloon power and escape, but I felt throw off some ballast and go up with

very vera mbantains, fields, and lakes.

Every change in the position of the air ship-produces a thousand changes in the lights and shadows on this vast canvas, which in October is brown and in December is gray. It is a gigantic whirling kaleidoscope."

accepted.

Hongkong sent Home 1646 parools by Devanha asfling to-day taking the parcels shis year's Christmas mail; the P&O mail. This is a great increase over last rear'a igara.

His Excellency Ganeral Sir JJ. Macha o

proceed to Macao to attend the ball at Government House in honour of the birth- day of the King of Portugal on Monday, after which he will probably visit Canton and then proceed to Lisbon.

All Saints Church, Kobe, is inviting the Rav, J. P. N. Potter, vicar of St. Mary's, Edgehill, near Liverpool, to become its Bir Potter's qualifications is shop chaplain. Among those who speak highly Lander, of Hongkong,

the sport of real fight in my blood and I determined to disentangle my pro pelters, connect the machinery, and get out of this whirlwind by motor-power, if possible. Amid the indistinguiab;| able mass of whirling ropes and spars and beams and the continuous roar of the wind on the gna hag na loud as the loudest thunder, I finally got the pro- pellers free and the motors connected.fectly rew stock of physical and mental But no soouer did the blades begin to spin than the ship made a dive down-pressions in their attempts at con- of consumption for the next three years,

Enthusinsta "generally see things through a screen tinted couleur de rost but there is no mistaking the fact that the aviators are drawing upon a per-

quering the air.

ward at an angle of almost sixty degrees and the prow was beaded directly for the top of an oak-tree on the edge of the ground, about five hundred yards away.for If my ship should be wrecked on that tree, it would not baly be a serious financial loss, but a far more serious loss-the loss of all the salf-confidence I had gained in long years of experience in the air, because I felt from the moment that the ship began to descend

at the Peak Hotel. Fesk. Hongkong, to I held it firmly in my grip. It was moving at terrific speed. I pressed gently on the lever of the planes and the ship instantly obeyed. I have no words" to

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-MEMOS-FOR-MONDAY,

Auctions.

-Auction of 17 Bags Beche-de- Mor, 99 bage Coffee, &c. at H.K. &

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bye-law in respect of slaughter houses animals are published in the Goutle

A bell is to be held at the Club Lusitano on Monday evening in konour of the birthday of the King of Portagal"

The Dutch flagship De Ruyter and the Dutch cruisers Trump and Koniaria. Be gentes arrived in port to-day from Toko-

kann.

The Glasgow Corporation has decided to adopt a system of compulsory-notification

and to carry out a systarmatie visitation of homes to educate people in habits of clean- liness and the advantage of the open window.

SATURDAY

INDIAN BANK.

Zeniter a Service to the Chyna lin

LONDON, Norsaber-12. ^à nơợ Bank, styled the Eastern || Bank, formed under the auspices of the Sassoons, has been formed with a capital of one million sterling to carry on the ugnal banking business in India.

THE DISSOLUTION.

PROBABLY DATE, JANUARY

10TH

(Router's Service to the China Mail.).

LANDON, November 19. The Daily Telegraph states that Parliament will be dissolved on January 10th.

AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIKT.

AN APPEAL TO JAPAN.

(Reuters Service to the China Mark)

Losday, November 13.

The Sydney correspondent of Beuter's Agency says that the coal-mine strikers have cabled to the Japanese miners for support

GERMANY AND GREAT

BRITAIN.

FARE WE REALLY DRAWING: TOGETHER?

(Reuter's Service to, the China Max.)

LONDON, November 13.. Ambassador Matternich speaking at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said that on behalf of Germany he Telegrams from St Fateraburg state grasped the hand of friendship extend that the Tear has devided again to také op

his residence in the Winter Palace. Hised by the great emporium. He was Majesty recognizes that continued seclusion confident that both nations desire to at Tsarkoe Selo is not only unnecessary, but live in unity and peace. is also likely to have a bad effect. Ee wishes to resume closer intercourse with his subjects

Mr Justive Swinton Eady recently granted

The October number of the Farn order for the compulsory winding up of the Crystal Palace Company. The order; Eastern Reviete deretes very considerable

added his lordship, would not in any way restrict the power of Parlament to deal with the company. The amount of the indebtedness was stated by counsel to be

space to an illustrated article dealing with the Chinese Army and the Anhui manœuvre

دا

MOB RULE IN AMERICA MEN LYNCHED, BURNED AND

HANGED.

Militia Called Out.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

Laspos, November 1 At Cairo, Illinois, a mob of ten describe my thrill of power and triamph Owing to a lapsus domi, Mr Aabout £100,000.

thousand persons, many of whom were when I felt and saw the ship in its Bollamy Brown's lecture at the Union

Church Literary Club was announced in A letter has been received from the Rev. women, lynched and burned a negro K. Wharf & Godown Co.'s Godowns headlong flight to apparet-destruction our isans hast, drening for Thursday, Dos E. P. Merer accepting the pastorate oriolator of a white girl. They then 4.30 p.m.-Anation of Bundry Provi-yielding to my will. The influence ember 18th. It should be November 18- Regent's Park Chapel. Mr Meyer hemitated raided the gaol and tore down the caga

sions, as Mr Coo. P. Lammert's of even sporadic Bight on the physical | next Thursday.

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General Memoranda..

9.30p.m.-Auction of Household Furni. ture at No. 7, Des Voeux Villas No. By the Posk

FRIDAY, November 19:-

The China Mail

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body and the health is remarkable In The New Emerican states that balloon voyages I have been in the air nosely 70 prominent members of society as long as four days at a time. Once and 30 leading millinery houses in New York will shortly be indicted on charges of I made a voyage almost an invalid from smuggling. The allozed fruds have es- rheumatism. I could scarcely mise any tended over many years, and the total sum

involved is about $7,000,000. arms on a level with my head. My blood was black. The doctor would not

The Hippodrome Circus arrived to-day

for a time because he d-ubted whether it

was wise to take so important a past at the centining white man accused of age of on, and because he had invitations murdering his wife Him they hanged for prolonged tours in China, Australia on a telegraph pole. ̈ ̈ Canada, and Turkey.

Major-General R. Bower, Indian Army, who is promoted to that rank, will be well remembered in China as commanding the now disbanded Chinese regiment, së taking part in the Relief of Tientsin and Peking

The mob is still pursuing its excesses. Eleven companies of militia have been summoned.

· RESCUED AT SEA.

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VEMBER 18, 1909.

U.S. PAC

ACIFIC NAVAT.

HOW MANILA IS AFFECTND.... (Reuters Bervice to the China Math)

Icsony, November 12... A Washington dispatch states that President Taft has approved the recom mendation of the Army and Navy Board in favour of making Pearl Har bour, Hawaii, a naval base for the Pacifis

It has been decided to construct a temporary station at Olongapo (Philip- pine Islands), and to abanden the improvement of Manila Harbour, leaving the protection of the Philip pines to the Army..

CHINA AND CONSTITU- TIONAL GOVERNMENT.

AN AUTOCRATIC GOVERNOR.

Wah Tee For Pola Service)

PREMO, November 12. HE Chin Chen Strang, Governor of Kirin,, has had a dispute with the meusbers of the Constitutional Assembly for that Province, and has ordered that the Assembly be closed to all members.

The Governor and the people are now | both telegraphing their respective con

tentions to the Constitutional Depart-- ment at Peking..

CHINESE ENGINEERS FOR: CHINESE BAILWAYS.

(Wah Tan Eat Po's Service:)

FERING, November 12. TE Shu Shi Chang, President of the Board of Communications, has issued instructions to all Provinces- that in future private railwaye must employ Chinese engineers to supervise their construction work..

AN APPEAL TO PEKING

(Wah Tas Fat Po's Service).

PEKING, November 13. The Chili Province has sent a repre sentative to Peking to appeal with regard to masters connected with the of Lin Chan coal mine, in respect which negotiations have been entered into with Great Britain.

"R. 1. DANOR CLUB,

The R. E. Theatre, Wellington Barracks, was on Friday evening last the scene of a Dance given by the R. E. Warrant and Senior N.C.O's Dance Club. The occasion was of more than usual interest na oppor vanity was taken to bid farewell to depart ing members and give a hearty welcome to new arrivalko

An unusually largo gathering represent

| alito of practically all arms of the sorrice": in Hongkong and civilian friends indulged

in the light fantastic until I am. During evening Auld Lang Syne was rendered

the

by the Prinz Waldemar. Everything was in the China expedition, 1900, and

The N.DL. steamer Wong Kui daring 9.50 p.m.-Auction of Gold & Diamond prewit me to taste meat Withia 4 landed safely, including the elephants, licus subsequently commanding the Legation har lest trip from Hongkong to Bwater,

Jewellery, o. at Mesers Hughes & few hours every drop of blood in ray and tigers, which were hoisted, over theGuard at Feking for nearly five yours.

on the 10th and 11th November, while and the incident offered a signal oppont- Hough's Sales Rooms.

severe gale was blowing, picked up 16 wity for giving a hearty send-off to thoas p.m.-Performance of Hippodrome body had become a bright red liquid, ship's eide in their boxes. The opening night has been fixed for Tuesday next a Circus at Causeway Bay.

Lord Charles Beresford has accepted an shipwrecked fishermen, about 20 miles off leaving and welcoming the comrades who looking like flame, and I seemed unable 9 o'clock, at Causeway Bay,

invitation to contest Marylebone in place Breaker Point. The fishing junks were arrived by H. M. T. Rewa. of Lord Robert Cecil. Lord Charles drifting dismaated to seaward and a big lot It is Intended to continue these DAOCSE 6.30 p.m.-Organ Recital at St. Peter's to appease my appetite for strong ani-

Sporking at a banquet in London resford ad rocaves tarif reform. Mr of wreckage was passed. The shipwrecked during the coming Season and experience Church, West Point.

mal foo of which I had none too minch Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Scott, K.CO.,Richard Jebb, who has beca adopted by fisherman were inded at Swałow. tashes that a hearty welcome is assured aboard. From the tortures of rhou-said that the Navy was never more efficient the rival Unionist Association and is also

so-those who hare in the past supported than at present. The naval officers at the in favour of tariff reform, refuses to ratiroi matism that voyage conveyed me to Admiralty, he continued, in spite of most in Lord Charles Beresford's favour: De cricket-groand, the lease for which is particularly the ladies who graced Friday The vexed question of the Yokohama this Club and intend to to the future- the tortures of hunger. I went to nesodious and ferocious attacks, had persevere Moon has been chosen as the Liberal expixing, has advanced another stage. The night's dance with their presence. x friend who was very low with con-of the officers in the Service was unshaken.

with the necessary reforms, and the loyalty candidate.

sumption. I told him to go with me:

The King's Bench Court, on 12th We are requested to state that, as bir park. At a crowded meeting of members of to visit the Philippines next year. They on a voyage and he would come back October, granted a rule nisi for a mandamusal and Brazil in this Colony,

J. J: Leiria, Consul-General for Por the Y. and A.C. the other evening it was point out that he could make the trip in a fast cruiser and return in less time tham a well man. He shook his hond, but I directing the Birmingham stipendiary to still confined to his room from the sale Sir Claude MacDonald to forward to While the President's inclinations prompt decided that the Club should respectfully has been consumed by his Western tour Etrofy at the present moment seems was persistent. At last he went, and issue summonses ausiest the Governor and result of the unfortunate accident in the British Foreign Office a full statement him to consider the suggestion he will wait

medical officer of Winson Green Gach, September last, there will be not of the case, and ask for the opinion thereon before committing himself.. to have gone mad over aviation. The for the first two hours in the air the instance of a suffragist, for an all Home" at his residence on Monday, the of Six Edward Gray, the Sematary of State papers are full of the treatings held at thought he would bleed to death, with by forcible feeding. The Lord Chief Justice 15th instant, on the occasion of the anniver for Foreign Affairs,

held that there was no ground for a ma-ary of the birthday of His Most Faithful various places on the Continent and in hemorrhages. I felt like a murderer dames against the Home Secretary.

Majeely, D. Manuel II, King of Portugal. England at which the flying machines But soon he began to change. The

The Portuguese Consulate will be entirely are tested or raced against each other, voyage was from St. Louis to the

closed on that day and the natural queation on mans lipa se, Atlantic Coast. That w

was twenty years

HoxGrove, Saturday, Nov. 18, 1900,

AVIATION.

It is notified in the Odseite that Mr Justice Gompertz will be chairman of the Board which is to determine the smonnt of Dompensation to be paid to the owners o

Japanese do not wish to renew the lease, dasiring to turn the place into a public

SAVE THE DOCTOR'S FEE

Mr. Taft is being urged by his friends.

CROUP QUICKLY CUBED,"

Adors of Chamberlain's Cough

Remedy brings murpelsing resulta. when a child shows symptoms of croups ↑ you are a man of moderate means and There is no cause for alarm wheh- this

cannot afford to employ a physician when medicine is in the house, as it rarely tako- youbare ED attack of diszefoon, you will now than them or four leave to bring. Captain Frank B. A Lawrie, Boysl be pleased to know that one or two donés about a completa pure. It has never tallod of Chamberlain's · Oolic, Cholers✨ andt.

kaspers.“

OTHER KINDS IN GREAT/"How does it feel to fly?" GABRIELLE ago. He went back home and is still Kowloon Inland Lots Now: 442 and 618 Marine Light Infantry, has been appointediarbone Bamądy will cure it. For sale eo in the most avots” and “dangseons- D'ANNCEZIO, the Italian author, has given living, a robust man I had another which have been resumed by the Governor to the cruiser Kent for duty Captain by all chemists and storskoupers," HONDA KUMAR For mis by'all thomista and store- De a very poetic description of his feel-friend who cured a very bad case of in-Connell, and that Mr P. N. H. Jones, Laws joined the RM.LL in January, inga when he first flow through the air iron and copper dust in the Inngs by a member of the Board. The ownors of 1905. He served with the Naval Brigade |

Acting Director of Public Works, is to be 1693, sud was promoted captain in May,

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Mrs Cour, wife of the gentleman who has few balloon voyages. There is no saab the property are required to nominate

been helping the British Army all the thing as air-sickness. The air has a summer to devise a practicable Bying machine-with so far caly moderate general motion like the water, and, like success-tersaly summed up her ex-

the water, ils waves are disturbed and

member within beron days.

in South Africa, and was present at the actions of Sormberg and Queenstown, was" with the Ladysmith relief column, and with Permission having been, obtained from the armoured tikit patiolling from Durban, His Excellency the Governor to fly the and commanded the detachment in charge Union Jack over Queen's College Instead off, the Durban water supply (modal with periences by declaring "It was just broken into-billows. Its waves are the Red Ensign formerly need, kwo fiaga | Tientsin, where he was wounded, during the |

"Nabal" clasp) took part in the relief of fine;" while others have been equally twice as long as the water waves, but, hava bean prosented, one for ordinary me Chins War, 1900, thesotions around Tientsin staccato, not having found a sufficiently because of its great elasticity, its dis by the members of Chen Lá and a larger one and the defence of the railway station, the for state occasions by the English Staff of capture of the Pal-Yang manal, and the Bow of words to express their turbance and commotion do not cause the College, On November 8th the large captors of the native, part of Timmaia feelinga. Mr. Tros S. BALDWIN, whose sickness. I have never navigated flag was duly "broken" from the flagstal (medal with clasp for Rellet of Feking"). by the Headmaster, who was supported on He also served with the West-African

VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH airship he been accepted by the United the air without being impressed with its

the roof by the Stad and the boys of Class Brontier Bores for some time, and shared States Army, is not quite so reticent graat superiority as man's natural high- TA The ceremony took place at 1.15pm in the brilliant Kano Sokoto Expedition, however. In an article in The World's way. It possesses now freedom, s and immediately after the fag had streamed 1978 (medal with elap); and during the Work he has gone to sons considerable new poetry; but it also possesses a out proudly in the breeze three steatoris roubles in Korcs he commanded the Con-

cheers for His Majesty burst from the long suler Guard at Sexl. Captain Lawrie CHARON OF PROOZAICION BARY DAYS length to depict his mental and physical frightfal fury before which the stoutestinos of boys draw up in the playground expert in Japanese, haring qualified to ot

experiences in this new realm of human heart zanat quail. I have never gone while the crush of two hormon strings den interpreter some year ago. activity; He says that the feeling of aboard of an airship on the calmest day of crackers spended from the roof startled triumph over the forces of the air has without first searching the heavens în

irresistible charm," and fist it thrill all directions and studying every breezeOW is the due to gif of your one with a opaciousness of mure than that touched my face, or the tree tops, human power. If the first stage of or the clouds. And with every pre ose out of ten des simply

plying Chamberlain's Pain Delme Niss how to fly one is impressed caution, I have been often dessived, soat, and yield to the

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