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THE PONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGU T 5тя, 1903

THE SECOND ORDINARY YEARLY THEGROUND FLOOR, No. 51, CAINE

MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in

the above-namoil Company will be held at the COMPANY'S PREMISES, No. 28. Queen'e Road Contral, THIS DAY (WEDNES. DAN), the STI AUGUST, 1903, at Noon, to receive the Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th June, 1008, clesting Directors, and declaring a Dividend.

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5TH AUGUST, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

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Manager.

Hongkong, 5th August, 1903,

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A CHRONICLE OF CASTLE BARFIELD

AND THE CRIMEA,

HY

DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY

| (Author of "Joinph's Coat," "Naizdow Gold,” "Aunt Rachel," "Despair's Lust Journey," &c.)

CHAPTER VII. (Continued)

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jat moment untered Captain Voluný, to whom jo drill eluting, said:

"It's no use wasting this man's time hero, sir. blonel's orders are to get got 'em through as st as possible. He'd be better engaged at foot. (ill."

Very good." said Volnay. You osa dia- bat, my man. Come with me.”

On the far side of the equare a aquad was at srk at the sword exercise, and the instructor's yeo was bawling: "Thrust, raiarn, thrnst-

aband!"

A voice swaka Polson from his reveria. Carryo! Slops-3! Shun! Stand voice of authority which asked with a mist

· Well," said Volnay. "How do you like it ?” unnecessary emphasis what the blsuk, blank be

I shall like it well enough. I dare say. I meant by skulking there, when he know couben't shaken into the saddio yet." ventionally well that he had been conventionally wall ordered to the Quartermaster's storen toe get his conventional kit. The recruit was not (54% manner, and his earliest impulas was to hit the pug nose of the parson who secosted him, but he remembered himself in ting, and bethinking

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TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALE, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 15TH day of AUGUST, at Noos, for the SPACIOUS NEW GODOWNS, him of the wire man's saying, that a soft answer purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1903.

By Order of the Court of Directors,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 22nd July, 1903.

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burneth away wrath, he naked weekly whers ho should go. Then the sergent, who was straitly trouenred and jacketted that he pranced in his going, ordered him to follow his nose. adding that if he conventionally well supposed that because a conventional general in - a

MAGDALEN TERRACE," carriage catre to see him off, he was entitled to shirk bis conventional duties, he was co- ventionally well ju error.

"I say, sergeant," said Polsen, turning to face his conductor, that's a filthy bal habit If you want to be respocted drop it.”

The sergeant went us scarlet as his stable.

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Volnay, indicating the squad with a motion I'm going to hund you over to this lot,"

othe hand. D'you know anything about it?"

A bit," the recroit answered. "You see, it's

bon the dream of my life to juía, und I've been talug lessons."

Good old enthusiast!" said Volnay. "I saw ymo ting old Stayer. He's a grand old sort. Nainer soldier in the nemy. Begiment adores hic And he has an eye for a man who does bidaty. A nod's na good as a wink to a blind hoe, old Pol, oh ?”

I'll try," said Pulson,

pallo. I've got to be professional, you under- You'll try right enough. You're a good old

sta. Ne end of a devil of a lot of unpleasant- nesịf these chapa suspected favouritism.".

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conventional how,

"My dear sir, uo," Buid Pulavu. It's quite impossible to respect a man who talks like a foul-mouthed parrot."

The sergeaul walked like a man astounded and said no more, and Polson likewise held Lis peao. They were both quietly businesslik

rubkh. There's glory in front of some of ins, Poll"

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by the time this work was over, the dinner hour

geant," said Volnay. "this man has just had arrived. He was told off to a 'mess injoine bat Sergeant Gill finds that be van ride loog barrack-room, in which his brother recruits

and dismissed him from the riding school. | were quartered, nuder the charge of an old. He is me that bo's boon taking lessona in soldier. Some of these new comrades were fresh gabro practice. Just put bira through his

paces will you?"

from the plough, and some were the rowily re- fuse of the town; ons wore a winer's flannels and another was & weady youth from a shop- counter, who had a higher opinion of himself than others were likely to form.

The speech of every man jok of them was like the oxhalation of a cess-pont, and the new eat of Her Majesty's hired servants sat in a grim wrath and loathing, seeing that he had choson these for his life companions. The meal was plentiful, and not bud of its kind, but it was dirtály se vod, and asked for long custom or on appetite of more than average koonuose. Our recrnit had neither the one nor the other, but he remembered his promise to Irene. He had undertaken to meet his fate cheerfully, und

So o sorgeant set his squad to maud at ease spin, and Polson, being provided with a belt anpabro, was stuck up in front of it. fesling surdly like a trick ape on show,

distance and so on.

"Dr! Shopa-sɔ! Prep-ir! I'cove

"Padin' pretico. Oue. Cat-thrusi---- parry, o. Cut-thrust-parry. Shuu! Yow from th word of command, right through. Sword srciss. Prepair! Prore distance go: Ba: Pursuin' practice! Prep-air! Go! Sha! That's all right, str. Ever been in the sevics before, young felter?"

“NdRaid Polson. “I always mesut to

the fare was pact of his fate. He would have join, and thought I'd get ready as far as I

would no rapining

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I floor of 550 Tough The Grind some, and he would probably learn to be eager. You't been through the mill before, you for for the yer was oVET. So he, share. Yh're a deserter, you know, that's what

suitable for Offices.

it were, sacred his shoulders at his troncher,

and was just ready to fall to, when one of the you are

Poley laughed. He had thought navar, to plough tail gantry sitting just opposite lot fall laugh gain, but the seatin a speech which would have turned the stomach (1757

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I your pardon, Captain Volnay," be of a decent hog, if he had happened to under-sail, sating in after's fashion-the only way stand it. Polson's heart midtened within hin,

speak for me. ROUND and 2ND FLOORS of No. 3, and he emote his fist upon the unclothed table heen taught; "bat perhaps you will

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You filthy olnd-pole!" he said, rising from his place and thrusting a prognathous jaw and "Speak blazing eye- halfway across the table. like that again ia my bearing, and I'll give you such a hiding as you never had since yes were born."

"And Barve him right, begorra," said the men at the head of the table. "It's sick I am of all the dirty staff I've to listen to. An' dese boys is listed for do war, and dere's not was of (8'em knows he maya't be stiff on do fell in tree or four monts' time. An' be way of makin'

Volnay. *Rubbish! "Dorter" szil Kuo the man for years. Always keen on the pics, and got really for it. Jorvaso."

Ys. nie."

"Yu're a pretty good shot, I gather?"

Dank you, sir."

"py instraction in muskotry?" "kott fair, str.”

"ut bi through bis facings, sergekat, in theding school at four o'clock this afternoon.

thers. You hear, Jorvase ?" Yes, sir."

ibis juncture the sergeant surprised a wils from Volnay, which that young gentleman enposed to huse been nurses, and be full abinking. The result of bis cogitation was rid and conclusive. The young man who Kew the misutine of his trade of soldier, and

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"Thank you,” said Polson, and so eat down ergeant, touching his focage cap to Volnay. (2119 Hongkong, th July, 1909.

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Very well," said Volnay, "I'll see the adjutant about that.”,

And the raw recruit was drilling his barrack- room comrades before he or they had ütted on ao uniforms, and has ringing "Carry->!" or Ground- oh!", muded through the squire as imperiously as any in those fra busy days:

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two or three things which happened later on. Exampla. The whole rough squad was tarned into the riding school that afternoon dressed af they might happen to be. The accustomed ol drill horses, saddled and bridled, were rangd on the lan at the wall, with stirrups crussd

You'ro a conventional wader, you are, over the shoulders, and when the word Moan!'

said the drill instructor at the closs of the was given. Polson was the only one of the nep-seand day. You've got the powers-that-be recruited crowd who did not make a painful beyond you, and you'll be one of us in s menth or two. Promotion's quick when the word comes climb in trying to obey the order. He wagin

for blood and rust and mnd and wil” the enddle in a flash, and sat there like a conteur,

To be continued.) We've got one mau atsungat as, soemicky," and the old rough-riding enrgest. I've seen a horso before to-day, my lad,"

"One or two," said Polson.

Come on," said the rel-nosed drill "Let's see what you're good for.. Pat per al tirit,"

"That" was a fuzzo-sorored revolving pole mounted on swivelled træstlos, and about three feet high. It was a leap for a child, and Polson wout over it, tuned and came nimbly back again. The instructor approached him and took him by the foot and suklo.-

"That's the slaps for the cavalry leg." he said "Keep that and don't lose it Now pat her at it again."

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