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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1928.

NORTH MANCHURIA.

IN THE WASH.

BIG INCREASE IN BANDITRY,

LOCAL CASE IN PRIVY COUNCIL.

· TROOPS WITHDRAWN,

.country.

Harbin.

greatly interfere with their work-

forced Chinese and Russian bermen to erect dwelling houses

event..

ABOUT A BANK NOTE.

MALAYA.

IN THE BY-WAYS OF SUMATRA.

RAPID DEVELOPMENT.

i

padi,

THE CHINA MAIL,

dustry in Malaya may well ponder. A NEW CAPITAL.

The smokehouses are longer and Jower and the factories, in nine cases out of ten, much bigger than ours, but the bungalows of the European managers are smaller and far less pretentious, although the gardens are usually artistically de- signed and bluzing with consonant

Amsterdam.

1

TRIALS OF A CITY IN

THE MAKING,

LIFE IN CANBERRA,

11

Territory elect a representative to A WATER DIVINER.

HON. DR. FOXLEY NORRIS DISCOVERED HIS POWER.

AN ACCIDENT.

membered that every chair, table, "The anewer," gravely replied Mr. the Territory. lently well furnished-when is re- Capital should not be abandoned. mission has become the autocrat of the professional tested the ground,

Toba Meer.

crescent-roofed huts clustering

in-

the

MODS:—

(1) I have found water again and again in places where 1. had never been before and of which I knew nothing and

(2) Over and over, again the twig has broken itself in two with the force of the attraction, whatever it is, half an inch above my finger and thumb. "This could not, I think, be

the House of Representatives, though he is voteless. The Austra Han Natives' Association is taking up this grievance in real earnest, and is organising a long series of meetings of protest with a view to forcing the Ministry to declare it Parliament is now in the middle self. It is difficult to imagine upen The Dutch are rapidly making a colours. The verandah of ench The strange adventures of a

Arst session at Canberra. what good ground Parliamentary Foxley Norris, who recently wrote The Dean of Westminster, Dr. The draining of the best Chinese bank-note belonging to a Hong great harbour out of the river bungalow la lighted by immenso, of its troops from North Manchuria Kong woman were related to the mouth at Belawan, the Port Swet-Gorgeously, tinted lampshades, and At question time in the House of representation can be refused. to the front has led to a great in- Judicial Committee of the Privy swamps are undergoing an Incredi ingly European; so much so that Representatives recently Mr. Mc-i

tenham of Sumatra. The mangrove the houses are in their plan strik-

Under the purely bureaucratic of a forked twig, and believes it a letter on water divining by means crease of bandit activity in this Council on Dec. 12. The note had bly awift translation into deepwater amidst a group of them, one might Grath, the Labour member for Baljcontral of the Federal Capitul Com- to be both useful and capable of some of the larger timber con-ment in which it was placed being modern vargo handling machinery, batter class suburbs of Antwerp orjed of the Prime Minister whether, development of the Capital is that a representative of the "Evening Large bands have centred at been "mutilated" owing to the gar-wharves, equipped with the best of well imagine oneself to be in the arat, Victoria, sarcastically inquir- mission the only incentive to the development, in an interview with

in view of the frequency of com-supplied by the Commission itself. Standard," said: cessions on the Eastera Section washed and starched, portions hav-vast and up-to-date warehouses, of the Chinese Eastern Railway and Ing disappeared in this process. all day there is the crushing of the Between Tebbing Tinggi and Stan-plaints about the poor acoustics of Private enterprise is loth to parti-j

"I have practised it for over 10 Mrs. Lo Lee-shi, of Wellington pile-drivers, the rattling and groan-/tar, lio many ten estates with thick-Parliament House, poor telephone cipate until it is assured that in-years, 1 found that I could do it ing. At many places they have Street, Victoria, Hong Kong, was ing of busy dredgers... "Swetten- 15. planted, closely pruned bustos, services, mud, and excessive expen- vestraent is sound.

That extending in serted ranks far into diture on the Capitul, he would re- of the leasehold system of land twig from a professional water- The adoption quite accidentally by borrowing the ham" la lagging far behind. given two 600-dollar notes by her is one's first impression of Dutch the dim distance on either hand and for them and also have employed husband, and put them in a pocket methods in the most northern of interspersed with rolling downland. commend to the Cabinet the desir- tenure as against freehold is un-finder who was experimenting an a them to dig trenches to be used in of an inner garment. Later she their great island colonies. Energy Stantar has a delightfully comfortability of taking a referendum of doubtedly a handicap to vigorous field my was exper case of attack by soldiers.

washed the garment without first and efficiency, and

able hotel, very different from any- the people of Australia to decide development. In supplying the In- enthusiasm,

"The twig moved strongly, to my The administration of the con- extracting the two notes. She dri- tempered by a certain lack of adap- thing across the water, and excel-whether the construction of the centive to development the Com- cussions is forced to provide the ed the garment and starched it, but tability, which we ourselves auffer

great astonishment, In my handa; bandits with food, clothing and when she came to iron it she notic from to lesser extent and the

Its word is law. and confirmed it: a well was sunk, almirah, and bedstead, beyond a Bruce, "is in the negative, and is If ever cash under threat to see its stocks ed for the first time a lump in the French not at all.

there is doubt that its of timber and firewood go up in pocket which contained the two and their affairs presents a strong.

Everywhere the condition of men specified maximum, is taxed some confirmed by the general apprecia-word is law it passes an ordinance and is still in regular use.

what severely. *fante.

"But I am only an amateur, and notes. She took out the lump, and contrast in comparison with the

There are many British people at tion of members and public ser- to remove the doubt. If the city have no scientific knowledge. Men Railway In Same Plight. Not only private concessions are adhered to the rough edge of the is still a new and very vigorous room being supplied with all the

as she did so certain small portions counter part in Malaya. The latter Siantar and the hotel seems to be vants of the conditions in their new is to become a city in the real tube, approach the subject from

used by them as a club, its reading- home.".

sense of the term it will soon be-scientific point of view (and who thus molesteil but even the conces

"General appreciation", may be come too big for this sort of gov-are not themselves water-finders) sion of the Chinese Eastern Rail pocket, and these had not been re- young country. Sumatra la under London illustrated papers as well an over-statement of the conditionernpent. Control is too centralle generally attribute it way at Shaftouhesize finds itself in covered. She gave the lump to her going rapid development by Euro-as German, French, and Swiss week-' of mind of some new residents of led and too tightly held by Govern-

to Involun- the same plight.. A new branch husband, who took in to the Bank penn enterprise but her indigenous Hes.

tary muscular action, Canberra, but undoubtedly the mal-ment nuthority. Already the Com-i line had been completed this fall and explained what had happened. Peoples, in the Eastern Residency, leading to a fresh forest but work Certain portions of the lump wore and all but eliminated the jungle, mountain pass from Siantar lies

"With all due respect, they are at least, have long since conquered

Mr. mission is finding that it cannot mistaken. I say this for two rea- Forty-two kilometres over

contents are in a minority. along it had been stopped on ac-examined. The number of one of and where, in the F.M.S., we have Prapat, a dozen delightful little majority opinion of members

a McGrath does not reflect the monopolise everything, and it has count of the presence of a band of the two notes was identified, and wide tracts of virgin forests, in

of accepted the tender of a private brigands some 1.000 men

wealth strong this note was eashed without fur- Sumatra they have intensive and houses set amidst a

of Parliament.

company for the right to conduct who have demanded 850,000 for non-ther question. Later the husband, scientific cultivation, aided by the on a tiny headland jutting out into inseparable from the circumstance service provided by

flowers and wind-sprayed fountains, The prevailing discomforts are omnibua and taxi-cab services, the interference. A detachment of having further manipulated the re- inestimable advantage of compora the turquoise beauty of Lake Tober, that Canberra is

the Commis- Chinese troops sent to that region) Was ambushed and fighting is now maining contents of the lump, jtively flat land-plaine, downs, and In a shelered bay to the westward Scattered over a great natural, am- | adequate,

a skeleton city. alon having proved hopelessly reported to be in progress.

agnin attended at the Bank. and uplands. The population is much Other Fends have invested high-presented patiens of a note from more dense, the people poorer and huddles the Batak village, with its phitheatre is a population of little Meanwhile -the Commission ways along which grain produces which parts of the words "Hong few big towns and scattered kam- the great, dusty market-place in some day will house hundreds of of the Capital plan. It proposes to are carted to the railway and exact Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-pongs, they have a village every their midst. On every hand, and thousands.

far more industrious. Instend of jamong fruit and coconut trees and more than 5,000, in an area which pushes ahead with the development a tall from each čart. Attacks and poration" were missing and the hundred

Each of the many ask Parliament, to sanction a modi- yards. Rubber, plander of ear and motor car cara-umber and date were indecipher-tobacco, ten, all are cultivated by all round the sixty-mile long inke, suburbs in time will have its own fled form of the original plan for effected by any muscular action of vans have also become a frequentable. This note the Bank refused the

tower the mountains, some of whose shipping and recreation themselves one peasants

centre. a chain of lakes through the city.

mine. Motor-Car Attacked.

to engh.

misses the immense, imported la-peaks nestle among the clouds a So far there is only one shopping The modified plan provides for the

thousand metres above the breeze-centre at Eastlake. It is not unna-construction of a

A Family of Diviners. bour forces that, are

dam on 80 essential Rank's Contention. Only a few days ago six motor-

"No I do not profess to under- ruffled waters. Little patches of tural that those who live nearly Molonglo River near the Federal stand it, but years of experience an adjunct to agriculture across forest shade the valleys but else-five miles away, at Ainslie for in- Government House, which will pro- during which cars carrying passengers and The Hong Kong Court held that the Straits. The village shops are where there is neither bush nor freight from Tsitsihar to nichen as the plliteration was caused by Javanese or Batak owned, the hotels tree, but many graceful waterfalls, stance, should complain, especially vide nearly four

I have never been, miles of water, proved wrong convince me that it were attacked by a large band unintentional negligence on the part are staffed by them, the roads made one of which leaps from ledge to in view of the intermittent chara sufficient for Five of the motor-cars were

any aquatic sports is a very real thing. cap of Mrs. Lo Lee-shi the Bank were and maintained by native Inbour. ledge, a thousand feet from the ter of the transport service. Can gathering. It is building halls in tured several passengers. being, bound to honour the note; and gave Almost everywhere, in fact, the roof of the world, as the Bataks berra is like a picture in which only the various suburbs for concerts

"A good proportion of people killed or wounded. Only one cari in charge of a Ruslan driver, and judgment for $500 and costs. currying $100,880 belonging to ul

allen is excluded or not encouraged.eal the great tableland encircling the high lights have been painted and social functions and publie possess the faculty-I should say This dreision

And with all, the prevailing im-the, lake, to the padi fields which and the background remains to be meetings. It is laying down turf probably 2 or 3 per cent. I once appealed

pression is of poverty and no great) Tsitsilar lank, was able to break against, the appellants submitting content. The highways bear few slope down and down to, the water's supplied. So far the Capital has tickets for cricket, building large two sisters who could all do it, but through the attacking line and that the note was not duly present cars, motor-ereles or bicycles, not falls drifts like a veil of glistening cost Australia more than £8,000,- groups of tennis courts, making a neither the father nor the mother reach its destination, its body rided to them, that certain places of because their surface is poor, but lace over the gorges, painted by the The misty spray from the

dfed ly builets,

paper were presented, but that they | because, one imagines, A gruesome case is reported from were in a mutilated condition luxuries are beyond the means of moods of the 'Meer are as strange and the fine administrative build- and pools along the river. Several No, I cannot tell either-some pro- sun as a score of rainbows. The the luxury of Parliament House construction of swimming baths "The depth and the volume? the neighbourhood of Hailin station, to render proper identification as the wayfarers. Especially on the where a band of hunghutze kid-

and capricious as those of any wo-ings and pretty homes built by the schools have been opened in various naped 12. Kovaa farmers and de-4 bank note impassible, that the great coastal plain the huts of the man who knows that she is beauti- Federal Capital Commission, the centres, and tenders will be invit.fessionals say they can. If so the manded a ransom of $150 per hendt, nato presented was subsequently to inhabitants are poor, their owners ful. In the chill dawn one may visitor is impelled to ask where the ed soon for the construction of the Practice at once becomes commer- The ran for three of them was its issue by them materially altered the shops stock but the bare neces- of the rollers among the shoreward miles away from the city, he will the

often ragged, and the wretched lit-listen to the roar and hissing crash money has gone. paid promptly and they were

Then one day, National Museum of Zoology and re without the appellants' consent by ties of life. There is a leased, the bandits promising to the erasure, destruction, or oblitera- squalidness foreign to Malaya, and calm and still and grey, like water pipe. There is the clue to

permanent administrative rocks; at midday the water lies await until the rest of the money tion of the number and date, that the children play in the dust and mirror of burnished steel.

sce a scarlet fire hydrant or a building near Parliament House.

The Commission proposes to un- At five such alterations were due to the dirt. squabbling with the dogs and the white horses gleam like a mile the course of the expenditure. Edertake the condust of the city's occasion I found water for a brick However when some days later negligence of the respondent, and pigs in a manner reminiscent of lion snowflakes melting upon a sessential services, such the money was brought to the camp that much alterations within the Burma or Southern India.

18 water, milk supply, to restrict private It was discovered that the bandits had left, leaving 9 terribly mutilat, meaning of Section 64 of the Bills of the women are unclothed above the wake of the passing sun and it have been planned in advance for a of milk to n central depot. There

above of ink. At even, calm follows in sewerage, electric light and power, enterprise to the wholesale apply company-but I received no fee ex-

cept gratitude. of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, and and the clank of golden anklets, all but boundless field of cloth of Bions. vd earpses behind them.

waist, wearing but a dirty is impossible not to rejoice in an great city and have absorbed mil- the milk will be pasteurised and of water in an angle near the city "At York I detected the presence that the note sued upon was in con- sarong. The gleam of gay Bilks

so familiar in Tanah Melayu are amidst the mountain mists, which sequence void.

gold, glittering radiantly

No one knew that there was The appeal was dismissed with alike absent, It is, in fact, pain- have stolen the silvery pinks of

A Sea of Mud.

system. On the Molongle River any water there, but an examina Contemplation of the city-to-be, near the Royal Military College costs (one Judge dissenting), the fully evident that money is very mother of pearl. It is at this hour! however; ls cold comfort to those several blocks of land have been tion of an old plan of the Arch- Court affirming for reasons similar scarce. One hears many to those stated therein the judg-plaints of burdensome taxation, orange, and palest blue linger in comforts of the city in the making some of these are already occupied ago. showed his fishpond exactly in ation, that translucent greens, scarlet, who have to put up with the dis net aside for market gardeners, and bishop's pleasure grounds of long Iment of the Court of first instance, affecting all classes. Europedas astounding harmony upon

It was in these circumstances that maintain that they work five or six that at dawn was as black and chill ly three inches of rain fell in four city with vegetables, which have at there, though the pond has long ago

asky At the beginning of October near- by settlers bent on supplying the that place.

"No doubt the springs are still weeks a year for the benefit of the as a pall. the present appeal came before the

Government, the Asiatic, does not Washington, Jan. G.

Poultry days, and unfinished roads and foot-present to be imported. Judicial Committee.

Goldfish and Cannibals, seem to look upon the orang putch

been filled up. Evidence which is reported to be

Upon the Inke, fifty miles long!

4 paths became Their Lordships reserved judg in this matter with by any means and ten broad, hundreds of Hittle Motor-cars and omnibuses

sea of mud. farmers have also been induced to

A Friend's Challenge. designed

were settle a few miles out of the city to link Miguel Avila, ment.

a favourable or friendly eye.

"On another.occasion a friend Hearst, secret agent, with Hearat's

it is impossible to criticise the, ad- fishermen in wary search for the nothing for it

soft wood dugouts carry the Batak bogged everywhere, and there was area, but the Commission is reserv-challenged me, before a dozen famous allegeil Mexican documents GRANT IN FAMILY. Governments continue to dispense the depths at dark and dawn to mud to their offices. Each Federal tory

ministration. Would the Malayan great shoals of goldfish that leave and officials to wade through the their produce outside the

but for Ministers ing the right to forbid them to sell guests, to find a well that his father

Terri- was introduced to-day before the Senate Committee which is probing!

with serious direct taxation were feed and roll and splash in Inzy Department is now represented at the Hearst charges of Mexican in-

there no tin reyalty, and if their contentment in the weedy shallows. Canberra by a skeleton secretariat, tention of conferring with the was. I proved at once that he was

Mr. Bruce has announced his In-

"He thought he know where it terference in United States domes-

revenue from rubber were proper There, with net and spear, the and the transfer of complete De-Leader of the Opposition (Mr. wrong by more than 50 yards, and tionately reduced? And would the sturdy little Bataks trap or stab at partments is proceeding as accom-Charlton) regarding the provision was able to establish my contention tic affairs.

Malays be quite so care-free and Commander- Carlos Cusachs,

happy if it were necessary for them erring skill.

fast fleeting shadows with un- U.S.N. retired, who is

of a new official residence for the by tracing the water for a quarter a famous) Relatives of Ching Lec-shing, to tail from dawn till dark to pro-l Spanish scholar, declared that one cookboy on board the British steam vide for their personal needs as fathers and mothers of these men, This fact and the fact that resi-£14,000 has just been completed, flowed into a pond.

The grandparents, and even the The Federal Territray is "dry." Prime Minister. A house coating of a mile to the point where it of Avila's statements in the hands or Tian" who was shot and killed to satisfy the demands of the com- possessed many appetites which are dents of the territory have no re-but the Prime Minister considers of the committee contains certain on November 5, while the vessel was munity as crystallised in Govern- lost in these degenerate times. In presentation in the Federal Legis-it unworthy of the ofee and in- before in my life.

"I had never been in those fileds

could be collecteri.

HEARTS HOAX.

THE MEXICAN FORGED DOCUMENTS.

ments.

W38

COOK SLAIN AT SEA.

EMPLOYERS' GENEROSITY.

a compas-

the

such

certain

edge.

azure

000, Even after he has admired new golf course, and planning the

modation becomes available.

bottled for distribution on a block

knew a family of two brothers and

could..

elally more valuable."

Asked if he had ever experiment- ed for commercial purposes, the Dean said:

"Yes, more than once. . On one

walls.

had long ago 'filled in. The spring, he said, was still strong.

unusual errors which are the same on the high seas from Swatow to mental taxation? us errors appearing in

the good old days, for example, lature have created two first-class adequate to meet his social respon- the dacu Shanghal, will receive

Despite this apparent poverty, and "long pig" was accorded a pro-political issues peculiar to the Ter-sibilities. A new Federal Govern- do. I have used all sorts-applc, "I believe any sort of twig will sionate graut of $600 from the ship the summer the intents at fors, minent place on the menu as often ritory. Ministers are considering ment House is also contemplated to hazel, rhododendron-anything that owners through their agents, But there is, among the Bataks at least, as the capture of an obliging) duced attorney, with following the acquittal of

teed by Heart's only intru terfeld and Swire, it was disclosed a genuine anxiety to please and a stranger or errant enemy would the taking of a local option poll of replace the old Yarralumia home was handy: sometimes even coarse

Seki cheerful willingness to serve that is allow. All men fled their teeth residents of the Territory to deckle stead, which was hastily converted out comment, stating that experts Mohamed, indian guard on beard almost pathetic, but which can, by (many of the elders of to-day are whether the sale of liquor should to receive the Duke and Duchess of/grasa. Hazel is used, I believe, be-

the "Linan," who was tried for mur- no stretch of imagination, be con- decorated der before Judge Sir Peter Grain sidered as other than the result of fashion), and as black a heathenism solution decided that the Parlis-

this engaging be permitted.' Parliament by re- York during their visit last May, "I hold it between thumb and

now declare the documents to be forgeries.

Indications therefore are that the investigation le due for early collapse, so far as Mexican activi-

in

ties are concerned, and that it may heard, Judge Grain in his dumans "Tuan Besar," and he is cer- far and perilous country and to-day "dry" condition of the Territory House which had savagely attacked way. Sir William Barrett who ac develop into a general round-up ofming-up to the jury said in parings with those who serve him. inloped a nice und epicurean judg- seems to be a polite fiction. While numerous passers-by, including sev-was much interested when he once

JAPAN'S POLICY.

SAYS ENVOY TO US.

MODERATION TOWARD CHINA,

AR. I

Rubber and Tea.

cause It grows in convenient forms.

and jury of 12 in. the British sympathetic treatment by Dutch as the world has known ruled mentary bar should not be opened force of ten men, which made its have had the skin of the palm of Finally, there is a Federal police anger, because more than once I officials. The Dutchman, though, 15 supreme. Then, not many Supreme Court.

"After the testimony of 15 wit very much the master he is not ago. German missionaries forced Indicated their views.

years until residents of the Territory had first appearance recently. The was addressed as "Tuan" but invariably their way into what was indeed a

my hand scratched by the wriggling nesses for the prosecution

force's first task was to deal with twig when held in the ordinary tainly quite decisive in his deal the children of men who had deve-

To a disinterested observer the a magpie nesting at Parliament those responsible for attempting to "Gentlemen of the jury:

companied me in some experiments, perpetrate a dangerous hoax upon constantly said, in these cases, it is the hotels, for instance, the boys ment of human flesh are respected liquor cannot be bought or sold in oral members of Parliament, who saw the twig break above my hand. William Randolph Hearst and the the duty of the Crown to satisfy jump to serve one. They suffer pillars of the Lutheran Church. On the Territray, it may be imported had to be treated at the hospital for I do not profess to understand it." United States Government-United you beyond a reasonable doubt that under no illusions. Press,

prisoner is guilty of the crime with

the mainland, "the pale Gallican has or drunk openly, even in the din-facial wounds. The force, however, which he is charged. What you with their huge windscreens of larger than Singapore) in the

Beyond the tobacco plantations, on the great island of Samosir trolled by the Federal Capital Com- the Federal Capital Commission has

conquered," in very truth, though ing-rooms of the "dry" hotels cpn- found itself in a dilemma, because HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. have to consider in this case is, has!

January 17, 1928, the Crown done sn? Would it be teak, in thickly sown groves, and midst of the lake it seems that the mission. Quenbeyan, in New South passed a firearms ordinance. With

Mesars, Goo, M. Allen, G. Appel- Anfo for you to find this man guilty sheds, lie the rubber estates, where the Old Gods, A few months ago, only nine miles away, and to itsion the police found that they had. J.. Birbeck, N. C. Berry, Leo A.

the immense attap-walled drying people in times of trouble turn to Wales, the nearest "wet" town, is out the permission of the Commis- baum, Gee. S. Aveyard, of murder.

Mesars, G. A: Palham Browne; "Occasionally you have Савел

there is every sign of skilled and it is sald, an aged crane was killed runs an efficient omnibus service. no power to possess or to discharge Block, Mr. and Mrs. H. Birkett. goes before the police magistrate tree trunks are covered with a maze remote village, in order to pro-ceeded in earnest, nearly every to be left unmoleated. where a man says nothing. He careful cultivation. Many of the and eaten by the wilder folk of a Since the building of Canberra pro-firearms, so the vicious magpie kad and says nothing and then comes of signs and figures. Silt pitting is pitiate the divine giver of rain. hotel in Quenbeyan has been en- before this court and launches out adopted on a scale unknown in And rais it did so that the young larged or rebuilt. The evil of the with a complicated defence. That Malaya, with a series of pits and padi' sprang up and flourished ex-"dry" law is that, as one result of Addressing the Japanese Society tells you what his story is and he Aluminium latex cups appear to be

is not the case here. The prisoner ridges round almost every tree ceedingly. of New York at its annual dinner, has kept to it. He has never de-used universally. There is evid- Ambassador Matsudaira declared vinted in any way and practically ence of heavy, though far from DIAMOND SMUGGLER that Japan's policy toward China said to-day exactly what he said feature being the big area of young reckless, tapping, a noteworthy consists of moderation and respect before the magistrate and what ho rubber on most of the catates, in- for Chinese interests and national said before the Captain of the dicating greatly increased, crops in aspirations.

Bhip,

the near future-a sign of the time "If you come to the conclusion The policy of Japan," said the Ambassador," la guided by a spirit ceased was a pirate and that it was

that prisoner thought that de- which, the controllers of the in- of conciliation, and tempered by a pirate and that it was necessary genuine respect for China's inde for him to do something desperate pendence and integrity.

to save himself and perhaps the other intention, you will find him "Our Government never has in-ship, then you will find him not guilty of murder. It is for the tended, and does not intend to guilty. If you find that he was Crown to prove to you, beyond á carry out any policy of aggression reckless and that there was toward China,”

New York City, Jan. 6.

1

reasonable as

Mr. E. J. Carmichael, Mr. and Mr. P. Courtney.

Mr. J. M. Dalgarno. Mr. J. U. Finch. Mesara. R. D. Gillsepie, N. P.. it, liquor is imported into the Ter

Captain David Clark, whose Gadjew, Miss A. M. Gront.

Messrs. M. B. Hoare, A. F. Henry, than would be required were it ob- was marine superintendent of the Hibbert, E. Hunt, Capt. T. P. Hall, ritory probably in larger quantities death has occurred at Edinburgh, C. E. Horsman, Fred. A. Hill, J. E. tainable on the spot. Moreover, Ben Line and joined the company Mr. and Mrs. D. Hann, Mr. and AN INTERNATIONAL RING until the sale of liquor is permit. In 1860. He became a shipmaster Mrs. I. W. Harris, Dr. and Mrs. E.

DISCLOSED.

ted the Federal Capital Commission about 1898, and in this capacity Hafter, Mrs. Hardilton,

Miss K. Ingles... itself will be obliged to continue to Balled on the company's Eastern succeeded Washington, Jan. 6..

Mr. J. E. Joseph. conduct the hotels of the Capital, trade routes until he Operations of an international and at a substantial loss. Private Captain John Potter about 20 years Messrs. AH. Kutechbach, H. A.

Keller.

مشید

diamond amuggling ring "were dis-enterprise will not undertake the go as marine superintendent,

closed to-day to the customs sub-management of unlicensed hotels. committes of the House Ways and Means Committee.

-- Citizens' Griévaders.... G

A "witch" was recently arrested!

Information received by the sub-that of the franchise. Citizens of trade to a magistrate. Among The other purely local Issue is in Oporto and made to explain her

was to effect told the

Mias H. Lillie, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lockyer.

Mr. J. W., Moss...

Miss Caborne. Mr. G. L. de Negri,

funkcient grounds for him to shoot men, that this man did with malico the antiagiova hit the entert that Canberra pay Federal taxation other thin, so prepared a powder Prophet, Mr. and Mrs. H.. H. Ambassador Matsudaira explain the man, you can find him guilty of aforethought kill the deceased. Is liverica of millions of dollars worth siderable State. ed that present negotiations imposition there are no ratepayers' privileges if a wife scattered this powder on Mr. O. G. Steed, Dr. and Mrs. G.

income-tax-but from horse-slices, and asserted that Priestley. Chang Tao-lin are designed to solo/conclusion that there was some rea-facts before you? Gentlemen, con of the Import, tax, 2

Mr. A. U. Reid. pending questions of development that there was what we call malice

son that we do not know of and alder your verdict."

as they exist under ordinary muni- the path which her husband would Shoahan, Masters W The Jury retired and returned It was said that the value of the cipal government, and there is no have to tread when on his way to Sheahan, of Japanese economic Interests in aforethought and that he de shortly with a unanimously verdict smuggled gema has totalled $40 vote for the Federal Parliament, an amorous adventure, he would im Mr. Wragge

liberately killed his man with some of not guilty,

|000,000 a year United Press. Even the people of the Northern mediately turn back and come home, Mr. E. Zourmeroff.

Manchuria.—United Press.

and

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