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party which bas believed it possible without a very huge outlay. The report of the Younan Company's expedition line been awaited with interest, as it was felt that thie was at least no prejudice against the schere among those attached to the

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The opening of the Hunol Exposition has been pretpaned until the 16th November.

Among the "frechmen" who have en grád at Cambridge for the now academic year is .R.H. Prince Tugula of Siam.

Earthquake shooks were reported at the oud of September from Clarendon, South Australia, and from Bouador.

Mr. Mitobeft. Principal of the Kamper and Gopeng English Schools, Perak, F. MS, wullat travelling with his two children in o During the day ended at noon yesterday one gharry from Gopeng to Kampar on the 3rd fatal) care of plague was reported in the inet, was attacked by two Chin-su robbers Colony. The victim, a Chinese, died at: 25, armed with Jong parags, This occurred in Gough Street.

broad daylight. Mr. Mitchell and one of his boys were at the time buffering from fever, and were, perfectly helpless even to call out for assistaude. The rabbers mado off with a bag of clothes and

quantity of bank-notes.

Newspapers are making great headway in Chine, suys a Lundan paper. They are rand now by nearly all the mere intelligent classes,

Even highly-placed officials are showing a taste for the daily or weekly journals.

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S. WATSON & CO., exploring party. Of course we have no details of the expedition's verdict, but the summary given to the British Association scoms conclusive evidence on the side of

'H.M.S.Albion came out of doo's about one those who think a Burma.Yunnan line unprofitable if at impossible. A meun-'block yesterday, and provoded to her buoy tainous country with poor prospects of ander her own steam. On Tuesday evening the traffic is not likely to attract British speen-ship's company gave a concert at the Docks. lators, with their urðunr already damped by Lord Curzon's sperch to the Rangoon Cinamber of Comutires last December. It is interesting, Towever, to read what the Chinesa Imperial Maritimo Customs Con- missioner at Szemno wrote in January, andA world's record in cabling has boon schiered we will accordingly quote from the Szemao by the Eastern Extension Company. A mes- trade returns the following passage. Mr. sago was sent to London from Adelaide and a GRANZELLA, the Acting Commissioner, reply received in the remarkably short space of Ky:-"Want of means of communication three minutes. The multiple system was anol.

principally is what prevents Szemao from taking a greater share in the direct "foreign trade, or extending its home one, in the way hoped for when it was first opened; yet the time may come when tho "projected railway lines, which areapproach ing Southern and Western Yuusan from THE BEST INGREDIENTS only are the Burina and Tonkin sides, will offer thu

"Szomo trade a cluice of development. | ysed,

The rouds ut present available are mostly in a bad stateof repair, especially in stoep "nscoats and descents where more needed, thought numbers of good stone bridges, and "two iron suspension oues, which span, large fivere, show the importance of the traffic of these districts. It is pleasant to record, however, that a new iron suspension brilge ***is being built, and is expected to be

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Volendo ashes are likely soon to become a

valuable commercial aeart. A Japsutio pro fassor has just found they form a concrete of great incability and bardues when mixed with cement. The material has already been used in constructing a-breakwater at Otaru and is said to have proved a great success.

A Parsee bey pund a wealthy timber-mer chant ju the High Court at Bombay for breach of promise of marriage. The defendant, as au exeuse for breaking off the engagement, planded that the lady had concealed from him the fact that her teeth were stopped. He had to pay Eloy damages.

On the 7th mit, s mosting of Britlah züridenle in Nagaanki was bold, when it was decided to ndhero to the ori

ramme Strazzed for the 26th June. It will be carried out therefore on the eth prax.

A portrait of the late Arobidencon Slaw, who for thirty yours was engaged in missionary work in Japan, was recently unveiled in S. Andrew » Hall, Tokyo, by Lady MacDonald, wife of H. M.Minister in Japan.

TELEGRAMS.

HEUTERS SERVICE.

TONDOY 20th Oalober,

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At the end of last month, a ciark in AndraTM | retreated:

Carnegie's London office, named Greig, was arrested for alleged forgerie, amonating to - 215,000. It is believed that thers are inch

James Wrey has oballongal George Towns. the Australiza sculler, to row for the Cham- pionship of the World, which Towns it prevent holda, i England ur Amarica. Towes refused to accept the challenge, bat offered to row any

The trade in rion between Saigon and porta | greater defalcations, and that several othura are in the Philippines, Java, and South Chins has iesplicato. hitherto mainly been confined to small- British and German steamers. Now, Lowever, the French are taking a hand, and a new lins has bon started under the name of La Compagni Frany dao de Cabotage des Mers de Chine, with M. Ascoli as Agent General at Srigon: Twa Dew steamers, the Quang Nam and Bink Thuand both built in England, Kavo arrivad on the Indo-China coast, and a third is due in Dacamber.

A big rubbery of jewelry took place in Singapore on the 10th inst. Information renobed the police at 7 p.n, that jewelry of the value of $1:181 had been stolen from Mes. Kutcher and Miss Poulsen, of 171, Serangoon Road Two impostors went to the house to mokė suquiries, but could find no elne na to who was the thief. Ia sobuquent emarches, however, they found some of the jewelry; to the ralts of about $159, in a pawnskop, and the pawnbroker was promptly arrested. It is thought that the man who committed the robbery has gone ever to Johore.

me on the Parramatta River for £500-ido

The rule limiting the service of troops in the Philippines to two years does not become immediately operative. By a ducision of the US. War Department, all regimente on Philip- purs, duty must complete a three years term

ERUPTIONS AT ST Volcano eruptions āraigh Vincant on the 15th art devastated, the jaland tions have been oblits

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of service before the two years" rate takes effegt.

The U.S. Navy Departinent has found means of siding the suffwore by the Gum earth quake by appropriating $15,000 for repairs and labourers' wages, The department was legally advised that Guam could be classed is a natal station, and the money could be apportioned would and expended on repairs, and for the bira of anticipated, labourers. Thot sum hat, therefore, been set aside, and will be placed to the ordit of the naval officers on the sixtion. The sufferers will be permitted to purchase supplies from The Japan Advertiser quotos the Japanese the naval stores at Carite. Both President: vernacular payers as stating that "Professor" Rocsaralt and Secretary Moody were enricus to Davis's illusion performance, which was to be assist those who were rendered homeless by the continually given for thirty days in a certain earthquake, and their action la setting aside ball in Tokyo, was diecontinued after only one this money for the purpose has met with

"fuisbed in a car or so, to cross the Rad Moir and his men have dons a great deal during day's performance, owing to some disagracine at i goberal approval in the States.

Kiver above Yilan-ching-chou, which will put in communication a. now secon- dary road ring from Ta-lang to the roads leading to the provincial capital

The sxevilent band of the Sud Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers played their Farewell programmu on the Parade Ground last evening. There was a large attendanes. Bandmuster

the time they have been stationed hore to relieve the monotony of every-day life, and they are wall deserving of the thinks of the community, A cablegram from Washington to Manila announces the appointment of General James

as to the terms of the contract. A Japanese, in whose name the performance was commenced, considered this a breach of the contract, and he decided to bring action against Messrs. C. Thwaites & Co., of Yokohama, who is described

compensation for 7,000 yen damagos.

The report of the Commissioners of Friaɔne and the Directors of Couviet Prisons for the year ending March, 1909, is interesting reading, though all patriotic Scots must lament the un-

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and also to Mengiszu. The new road will E. Smith, a justice of the Philippine Supreme to bo one of the contracting parties, eliming body prominencɔ into which the roport has fever. Some charitable e

“be much easier, and caravans, will be able "to avoid two high and difficult passes, The benefit of this work will be more "appreciated by Szemao after the construc- "tion of the projected railway line from the "Tonkin frontier to Yunnanfu, passing by Lin-an, three days journey nearer than Mengtażu."

Mr. Acting Consul Larson, when he wrote of the trade of Szemao and Mengtszu in 1899, stated that all the conditions becessary for a flourishing British commerce were conspicmons by their absence at Szema, and Mr. GRANZELLA'S figures seem to hear him out. The latter speaks of the railway approaching Yannas from Burma; it seems that this line is unlikely now to go beyond the Salween ferry, so that it will not alter the situation much British railway designs in Yunnan has been

Court, by President Roosevelt, as a member of the Philippine Commission to suceed Com. missioner Moss, who has resignol from that. body, the realgation to take effect. 1st January, 1903. Commissioner Meses is also feoretary of Instruction,

It was remarked by a Court fanctionary at the Supreme Court yesterday as a notable fact that during the past simmer the custom of discarding their wiga in the hot days was not followed out by the Judges and the practising barristers as it has been done in former years. The installation of the electric fans into the Court has certainly effected an improvement. Perhaps too there has hean less hent displayed

in the dobates nt the Bar:

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A meeting of French citizens and prologie residence of M. A. Jourdau. There was a was held at Bangkok on the 9. inst. at the large attendance, about 20) being present. The majority were Chinese; not all the European French residents attended. It seems that the signing of the Treaty in Paris came as a arprise to French residents at Bangkok, and it is understaged that the meeting was called to express indignation at the terms agreed to. A felogram was despatched to Paris. It is said that in this telegram the French protégés asked the Government to protect them. It is expected in Bangkok that a strong effort will be made to defeat the French Government over the question

of the ratification of the treaty.

-Chrust their country. If there be any trach inlng sabscriptions,

figures, then Bootland is pre-eminently thaland buy cheap tice of law-breakers. Evglund has per 100,000 of tire and other places

Scotland 1,489. Apart from the condition of population 621 criminals, Treland has 74, and people in Kw

Canton has Scotland, the report shows a distinct increase of erime as compared with the previous year. One hundred and ninety-three more prisoners were sentenced to pensleervitude than in 1901, and the population of the local prisons was greater than at any tiuse caneo 1887,

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In the second number of the August Roose lose their bravery de Paris is an anonymous and somew“ it | Die west technical account of the new arrangements Nam Ngen mads concering the disposition of the French the surasma feet in the Far East. At the present moment Id ble Franco's possible adversaries would naturally be establishmen England and Japan, and the writer concludes | Batang for the not only with France, butale with Russis, who gaged 50 to 60 soldi that in that case the allies would be face to face the protection always keeps a portion of her feet in Chinese like garrison parallels between the naval conflicts which took about day and

during the next twenty years. He warne the village. The soldiers went la par eighteenth century, and those which ass occur lion, had to Froach Admiralty that in such a Far Eastern two of the dead naval conflict as that foreseen by him, Frases avenge then

No anonymously signed communications that are We way take it that an effective check to tobe iteb," which caused the army great hard to imagine-The death of H.E. Liu waters. The anonymous writer draws careful were aimed

alrady appeared in other papers will be sacerted:

Orders for extra cupice 11AY Puxes should be

sent before 11am on day of publication. After that Runounced. Whether the idea is likely to "dhoby itch," and was probably the same thing. having taken place on Oct. 3, from dysentery place during the last twenty years of the

The U.8. military authoriti s in the Philip pines have encountered a good a deal of trouble in rooting out an affection of the skin estled annoyance. It seems to have been taken to be sont beat is limited. Only supplied for Cash.be revived it is impossible to judge. Fran disasudeveloped that it was caused by a parasite, Microscopic examinations and study of this is pressing on into Yunnan surely if slowly,sad it appeared that it was communicated by and in a few years' time we shall be faced the careless methods employed by the Chinese |with deckled French predominance in that

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full wing obituary notice of one but recently What the Singapore Fice Press moans by the acknowledged as China's greatest viceroy it is Kung-yl, Viceroy at Nanking, ja announced as

described as the extortioner, the avowed enemy In the Chinese Crisis From Within he is of reformers and foreigners, and the prime instigator of the anti-foreign crusade, The in doing laundry work They were in the history of Chinese misgoversiasat since the on bushes and on the grass, and ironing thom with a cold iron. Under the ballef that the para- site cume from the vegetation, and was com municated to the clothes from the bushes, orders were issued that clothes would be hung ou lines dry, and ironed with hot irons instead of cold As a result of this practics the dis ase disap- peared.

of some 40

province if the restrictions on trade do not habit of drying the clothes. by spreading them up Telat of 1893 is largely the record of the Tould be in no sense prepared to hold her own if they

doods and muschinations of this man." He was Mancha interpreter originally, and anyone should refer to the work mentioned above. He who wants to know anything of bis character was reported dead in 1900, and the Fowers pressed for his posthumous degradation.

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The Odeass correspondent of the Times wrote fotilla of the Black Bon feat only a few days on the 15th of last month:The torpedo-boat ago received a further prospectiva addition to its strength by the launch at Nicolaieff of twe now up-to-date lorpedo-bonta. The strongthen- The Vienna correspondent of the Standarding of the Black Sea Aset, which has been reports, in connection with the painful incident going on incrasantly for a number of years, is Princess Stephanie of Belgian was asked to which such uninterrupted activity in the neural which occurred last mouth at Spa, when the worthy of attention. The aggresive menadest 8 pm,

dead mother's body, that the Princess omitted of mind in particular is considerably onhanood leave the mortuary chapel in which lay beryards in the Black Sea spells to Turkey's posse

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marry. The first intimation that King Leopold It is agread here on all brade that the Dounte to inform her parents of her intention to re- received of his daughter's intention to marry and various ports of st stegic valas in the south

by the woeful lack of efficiency in her own fleet. | 14)

the Count of Lonyay (in 1990, 14 months after of the Black Sea, which have of late repeatedly the suicide of her first husband, the Archduke been visited and sunnded by Russian naval craft,

Rudolf of Austria), and thereby forfeit her post-

shallow-draught ressols ench as Ruxsm posse

impel the Chimese still to favour the old water routes. The dream of the French Colonial expansionists does not stop at Yunan-tu ner m the further borders of HONGKONG, 23rd October, 1902. Yunoan; d extends into Szechuen and to the hend-water of the Yangtze. Time AMONG the papors read at the meeting of will show its chance of realisation, but it is the British Association at Belfast last at least physically possible of realisation. month was one by Captain C. H. D. RYDER. The one great argument, it seems to us, in In Glasgow recently a workman was led RE. on the province of Yanman. The avour of a Bursa-Yuuuan railway is that for walking on the pavement with his tools greater part of this dealt with the physical Yunnan trade into Szecbuez and Szechuesslang over his shoulder. The police of Hon- features of the province and as such need to the Yangtze. If a railway is impossible might do worse than take a leaf out of the not detain us here. But the point of chief (which Captain RYDER did not tell the Road it is ut nunsual to see coolies monopolising book of the Glasgow authorities. In Queen's interest in the paper to those concerned in British Association), then all such ideas the whole of the pavement as they walk along the trade of China was when Captain must be dismissed. But if it is only very with loads upon their shoulders, and particularly RYDER related the result of the Yunnan difficult and not tempting because of the annoying is the slow-pace i Chinaman with the Company's expedition to report on the

poor traffic-prospects in Yunnan it might long bamboo pola, which as he turns round from feasibility of a railway line from Burs still be necesary to reconsider the sebeme time to time to gaze at something which takes Some two years ago the Yuunan Company the Yaugtsze trade. There is also to discomfiture and no little dangor of pedostrings Howspaper.The late Queen of the Belgians in considerable numbers; and Turkey's letoergy, ipto China across the Yunnan frontier beenuse of its bearing on the question of 1 his fancy sweeps roud viuleatly mich to the ion in Royal circles, was through the are completely at the mercy of a fleet of emaient fitted out this expedition and put at the horne in mind the matter of a railway from other nuisance is the habit which the coulies who happen to by following close ballrd. Au head of it Major Davis. The Government India to Hongkong, which, dreamlike as it have of walking on the pavements with their of India attached Captain Bros to it tunt may sound now, must not be dismissed as a wide hate on he might survey and report on their behalf dream therely because of the scoffings of head-year meet on the sidewalk there is room When two of them wearing such The work of the expedition was accom→ plished successfully in the course of two those who no doubt scoffed at the Trans for Utils elss Inft. A workman's tools cannot. seasons and the British Association learnt Siberian and all other great railway lines be a greater nuisance to the liages then these

things. last month what was the conclusion arrived since heroma accomplished facts. at. Briefly stated, it was that the mouu-

The Outlook of the 20th ult, pablishes tän

A telegram ia the Maxilu Cavlenens, dated tainous country and the poor prospects of to-day by the Arratoon Aptar, the baggage Following as couldg from one who speaks New York, Cutobar 17, says -General Firzin, traffic forced the Company to abandon any-being-bon-slipped yesterday.

with authority on naval matters"-You state the Haytian revolutionary leader, has taken that the Prise-Firing Regulations have been refuge on board the United States cruiser idea of a railway. In a short time, said

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILT FRUSE altered, and infer that the Admiralty are endery. Cincinnati at Gonaives, a port about forty milės Captain Rroen, a railway would be com-

oaring to improve the shooting in the Navy, north-east of Pert on Princes. It is believed

Hongkong, 2nd Octob Six--Will you permit me some, prac pleted, but it would be from Tonkin and not

As a matter of fact the Admiralty have dons that the insurrection is now at an end, as the from Burma. This decision seems to be the

nothing. The office on Whale Island as full of goverment troops have lately been victorions your paper to uske public a grievance death-blow to any British railway schemes. connecting India with the Yangtze through There will be a practice game of hockey at designs from Captain Scott: they are shut there in all engagement, and have dispersed the is fast becoming intolerable P Yunnan and Szechuen.

the Happy Valley to-day at 4.30 p.m. sharp to be reported upon their adoption is recom.urun sol forces of the revolutionists. General The opinions of

It is hoped that players will make an effort pendet, and they go back to the Admiralty Firmin took refugs on the U. 8. cruiser, as he Messri. CoLBOENE BABER, J. W. JAMIESON, to turn up. On Tu sday the Houl Ulab and are shelved. You should have Leszd the would have been executed if he had fallen into Glonealy and adjoining roads, At

The Hongkong. Regiment leaves for India.

From 7.30 till 10.30 to-night the band of the Burma Inisatey will play at the Kowloon Hotel. The programme will be found in another column

LTON, and others, including the Viceroy drow a good game with a team from H.M

of India, are thus borne out. BABER Amphitrite. spoke once disparagingly of the idea of

During the last few days the big steam pile- the road from Burma to improving

driver working at the reclamation site opp site Yozpen-fo by piercing half a dozen Mont the Hongkong Hotel has been drawing large Cenir tunnels and erecting a few Menuiorowds of staring Chinsmen to the spot The bridged.” Iater critics, with lesa extmvn amount of work got through by the new driver gance, have pronounced against the railway as compared with the old wigillans type dugme to project, but there has always been a small stake them en messung,

newspapers spreroly censure King Leopold, who Leopold bas pesur relented. The Austrian fergave her daughter before dying, but King

refneed to enter the mortuary slopel antil his daughter had withdrawn. The Vienna corres- pondent of thò Times slates that feeling in Vienna is unanimous that King Leopold's con- duct was heartless,

last few years in Russian naval quarters in the changes which have bean wrought during the Black Sea, is a linen table as it is anfatelligible.

n naval matters, in the presence of the vast

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for: opinions expressed by our correspondents.

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* confidential” lesture delivered by Captain the hands of the victorious government troops needles for me to dwell on the Scott before the United Service Institution of The American and German war vowels have ruler and the ortrame Hongkong. From if you would have learnt in been closely guarding he Haylien coast over who pass thro what a shocking slate the Fleet is as regards sluge the sinking of the Alontserrat | Oréte-d- which the gunnury, and how important it is that contie. Pierrot), an insurgent gunbeat, by the German It occurs to men in your position should not state that the cruiser Panther, with a view to protecting the

Admirally are improving matters when such not the case 4-fow ships lataly -hajë, n high scoren, nót owing to hdmiralty incours meat but by theis on a individ

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