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AND SCEVETORS Public Auctions-
#TIT Undørdened bare received instruc tans to sell by Public Auction.
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SATURDAY, May 13, 1822. commencing at 11 am.
at No. 100 Canton Road, Mongkokisui
One Steam Engine
E. P.
(from ss. Hongkong).
1400
Cylinders 29, 33, 54
Stroke
40"
Also
5 Shafts (no tail) and I gearing
shaft
6 Lengths Anchor chain
1 Donker Pump
6 Davits
etc., etc., etc. Laspection orders on application Tas on delivery.
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Auctioneers..
Hongkong, May 1, Leon
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IRELAND.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LONDON, May h In accordance with the decisions reach- ed at the Irish Republican Army Officers Conference, the Anti-Treaty forces are evacuating the Past Offices recently solved in Dublin and 108 prisoners cari tered by the Pre-Treaty forces at Kil keasy, mentioned in a cable on the 3rd rest, have been unconditionally released...
INDIAN PROVINCIAL LIBERAL
CONFERENCE.
BoxBAY. May 7th. At the Provincial Liberal Conference. presided over by Mr. Sastri, a resolution was passed calling for staunch adherence to constitutional means, and
and urging an acceleration of pace towards complete self-govertment, with immediate steps to introduce full responsible government in the provinces. The resolution also demanded the, reduction of military i expenditure.
JIM LARKIN.
NEW YORK. May Th Jim Larkin, who, according to a cable message pablished yesterday, had been released on a bail of $16,000, was in. ¦ mediately re-arrested on an old indic ment, charging him with criminal anarchy.
GENOA.
Pants, "May 7th.
The Armness of Bigium's attitude to wards Rubia was voiced by M. Theunis
is interview with the newspaper Ze Matin.
He declared that Belgium' bad
Sery Wallace and Dr. WA-Taylor,
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture and President of Plant Bureau with new Easter lily for Mrs. Harding.
no confidence in documents signed by the CATCHING A PYTHON... Soviets He would not budge on the question of private
engender new VIVID ACCOUNT OF TRAPPING that the conference rroperty, and hoped confidence, but feared that such confidence
GIANT SNAKE.
was very remote.
The newspapers this croing are fail of rumours regarding Genoa, As an ex
The pyen had swallowed a pig, ample: Le Journal states that the Rusthe natives said when he came running sians and the Czecho-Slovaks initiated a
to the house with the news that he
The
ing caly one of them in place. python suddenly leaped forward, and, though he did not loosen the rope, whipped in car of the hands of the men and knocked several of them Haz; then be caught one man, who had not been and able to get cur of the way, wrapped the lower part of his body arsund him while Eve or six feet of
treaty on Mar 3rd, similar to the Russe had seen a big stake. It was at least his tail lashed about with the rope. "
German agreement.
A more improbable rumour in the same paper is that Mr. Lord George is cop templating resigning from polities in order to write his memoirs, for which certain publishers have offered £5.000.
NORTH CHINA WAR,
fifty feet long and as big as a tree, I yelled to the others to pull on the according to the native. but kraving tail-rope, but the confusion was so
I the Malay habit of enggerating, the great the they did not hear me. white man mentally discounted the went for the sake's neck, which is length to about twenty feet. A crew the most tendes part of him. hoping to of natives was gathered and a crate Sick my fingers in ca the nerve centre was built from the limbs of trees and 2nd disable him for a moment antil
TUNTEIN, May_ Sch.
hembes, bound together with green; the men collected their senses and Yesterday was a day of varied and exelt rate. There was plenty of time. for Fulles the rope. By jumping keward, tae incidents in Tintin, Yesterday morn the snake would remain in the same the snake had loosened the head-rope ing's train for Peking returned, and replace, sleeping and digesting his meal. sufficiently to an en me and sink his ported that the Fenstien cavalry had cut Ayton always kills is food by ceiling fangs into my icrearm. I sprang back. the line, scan down telegraph poles and sound it and crushing it to death; then The unfortunate man who was cap the wires at Yangisub
and were Le swallows it whole, During the caught in the snake's coils screamed, holding the statio The Fergien furces, however, fed or were captared on the digestive process, he generally be- and tied to bear off the rail as it was arrival of a train load of Chibli troops comes terpid and submits to capture drawing in about him. Then suddenly from Tiratsin. It is hoped that, the rail without putting up much of a Eght. the snake constrictes, and crushed the way and wegraph will be restored to-day. Sext morning was set for the capture, life out el him He was thrown limply and it is also expected, ha the Trin-Pu says,Charles Mayer in his book Trap- about as the snake lashed the am. "Mr. Fre ill be open today,
in Maisy Jungles Mayer yelled to the confined rative to pall the head-repe-fast. Fortunately for everyone contested. the Lail-rope Before We went out for the snake, had not become loose' in the struggle, I told ech man what he was to do, and the men were able to catch it jus explaining carefully how I intended 10 as the python tried to lunch forward;
When eg Then they allowed the stake ate round, get the sake into the crate. Pursuing Chai
foxers the fugitives and several skirmishes I was sure that they understood, we to move forward slowly, ca-cially draw- Fared not far from T in
Bands, of Fengtien testare wander ing through the countryside; sime are looting villages, and for party of 0.009 created mich alarm, we they dpproached the ex-Guns conceive, hat they did
not enter.
Th
Duffeld):
LARGEST SNARE EVER SEEN.
Owing to considerable machine-gun and started into the jungle, led by the ing his hand toward the crate snd at rift
S across the site, the teaker cave who made the discovery. I was the same time bolig his tail fanly; Chingling, carrying
the Captain of surprised to find the largest stake 1 until at best they had him stretched H.M. Curier, was unable to come up had ever seen. It koked at least. Meanwhile the bamboo poles were yesterday afterboct- H.3.S. Jution thiny feet long and about eighteen called into play cose mole and by went down and found the Sighting ended, inches in diameter. For a moment we prcdding the stake's mil, the natives forced him to uncoil and to release the and escorted the Chingling up the river.
Estood thate gasping. Several trainloads of Chibi troups have
The python was sleeping peacefully, passed, dropping cavalry, 7 route for runding up any
digesting the pig. I called to the men fugitives Ca iderable Eghing" dve pd at and put them to work at saking the Churgliang ben ending in the capture of crate to the ground and securing it so more than a brigade of the Fengtis that the stake could not leth it around. giving his head too much play. Assur.}
forces..
dead brey of the unfortunate native. But the exckepent was not yet over.
The head-moose had been slipped
further down than I wanted, and was,
Pa Mag 7th.
The crate was about eight feer kaging the men that he could do no more, six feet wide and two and one-hali harm. I took three of them with me With the exception of the rounding up! of small group of scattered Fengtien feet deep: just large enough to hold we grabbed the snake's reck. He troops, military operations in the Peking him cad just ergh so that, once in- torsed us about, and we had several region are ended but the outpost dis-side, he would not be able to get minutes of exciting work before we tricts are steadily strengthening.
Tang Chih Ling. the Military Commised what each man was to do-
leverage and break it. Again I explain- got the head into the open end of the Then Crate. When the rope was secured we sion of Hsvankuzfa Kagan and taken over control from I passed a repe, through the crate, festered another rope about the middle
Th
tying ere end to a tree and preparing of him. the commandant Second Brigade went to Chazar from a running one to be slipped around
Shop Ming.
Arrived
at
VICTORY.
Kalgan yesterday with the same object. the rake's head when we were The sake-lashed furiously knock- 2.00 Feastien troops from Jehol are re-ready to draw him forward. Twoing several of the natives down Station- ported to be approaching Tungehow as more ropes were laid cut. running ing a crew of men at the tall-rope to they are not aware of Changuolins defeat from his mil. These we wrapped slacken it as we moved forward. I
Fire commissioners are visiting the local
war area for the purposes of assessing the ts on each side of the tail. took the others to the crate and set damage.
and I stationed men at the ends, show them at pulling on the middle rope.
It is reported that Feng Yu-sang ising them how they were to pay our As we dragged the pythen forward, he preparing to march towards Kaifeng. the rope as the stake was drawn.to-coiled in the crate; then, when he was where military preparations are proceed-ward the crate, keeping it tast enough half in, we secured the middle rope. and Lead-ope to trees, passed the sail- is not believed that Chaoti would) to prevent him from lashing.. have shown opposition to Wa Pei-fu in The python slept soundly through rope through me crate and dragged the
tail in spite of promises
to support someone all these preparations. When we were else.
ready, I gathered the men about me Probably Caenshufan and Shrosi will be declared outlaws, but it is poicted out and cautioned them against becoming excited. I warned all those who had that the war against Fengtien has reach-
There was great rejoicing, says Mr.
of the crate and prepared to haul it. Mayer, when they had closed the end They knew that back to Palembang,
ed a.. stage where such pin-pricks would, not been given werk do, to $139 hey, had captured a prize specimen, not endanger the Chibli position. (back out of the way and not to spand, indeed, the writer says that he
PERING. May th proach unless ve needed them.
General Wa Pei Fu left Fengtai by With bamboo poles we prodded the has never before or since seen the special train yesterday morning with the sreke at the head and tail, standing by python's equal is either length or intention of proceeding to
to Tien sin. He With the nose, ready, to slip them cogirth. But, huge as he was, the snake I by three train loads of Third
Was
Divisorted
troops, while the Fourth and when he stirred sufficiently. Before accepted the situation calmly, coiled Thirteenth Mixed Brigades were also deshe realized what was happening, we himself up comfortably in his small patred towards Tientsin: The Eleventh had the head-nose over him. The quarters, and, promptly falling asleep. Division marched eastward along the instant he felt the rope tighten he was again. went on cigesting his pig. "He" was eventually sold so a dealer in Liverpool, who ca measuring him found that he was thirty-two feet long.
callway.
The Fengtien troops are not offering any resistance and it is evident that the Chibli forces could capture thousands by pressing the pursuit,
A mandate issued last night appoints the Minister of Interior Kao Ling Wej) to concurrently act as Minister of Com municationK« »
... TIENTSIS, May 7th. All danger of looting at Tientsin is con- sidered to be over.
BUR YAT SEN BACKED THE WRONG HORSE. LONDON, May. 7th. The Manchester Gyordion is an edi torial, says that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has apparently backed the wrong horze, and must now readjust his diplomacy
The important fact about the fighting. is that, no excuse has been given for for- eign interests to send forces to China to ExRet
preposterons indemnities for
demager
The upshot of the fighting giver little hope for the consolidation of China, as esz. dently her great unifying mind has yet
to come.
awake!
SNAKE ATTACKS THE MEN. The natives holding the el-nopes became excited and succeeded in get-
ostrian who fought for Ameri
and won many medals.
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