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SERVANTS.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 1905.

correspond with the varied form of letters These components can, of course, be sent over a telegraph wire at an incredible speed. The dificnity is in reproducing them in intelligible form at the other end. To accomplish this two tolephones are used at the receiving station, the system requiring the use of a telephonic circuit of practically two wires.

towards Wolf Hill, south of Kukinton, which! THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA.! Le defended for two days longer. His foroo was Some weeks ago. says the Strails Times, we ow relieved by freeb troops from Port Arthur. The Merebant Service Galld have lately been mentioned a circular that was going tho rounds It had gained distinction in front of superior engaged in some considerable correspondenes of Singapore in reference to the registration of numbers. He judged it appartene now to retire with the Board of Trade on the subject of life servants. No doubt some system of registra.

on the position Wolf Hit to Takesh n. The eaving apparatus on board ship and the maucer tion would proven material source of protection Japanese then occapied a front from Louise in which official surroys are carried on. The to local employer, but the matter is ons in Bay, past Walt Hill and Hiskusban, to the line Guild have for some time contended that the which the Government is not likely to aid the of heights on the left bank of the Taho, a life-boats, life belts, and other appliances of the Tho varying currents generote vibrations in public, busing its neglect upon the grounds river falling into the ses at Peshan. It was only kind are usually iu a most inefficient, and defec the reappativo telephonic roceivers, and the

now that the Japanese could proceed to the first live condition. They have returned to the motions vertical and horizontal respectively that a regular system of registration would be impossible among the poorer classes. There actual period of the siege when their artillery, subjent on the refusal of the Board of Trade to

are communicated to a single mirror, in such fore the drawbacks of the present system are being brought up inte its first position, was able grant an interview to one of their members likely to remain for some time, with no chance to engage the guns of the defender. As a fact MT. H. Halison-who wished to put forward vertical moverionts of the mirror, and the a manner that one set of components causes of the employer boing protected from I believe the first cannon shot thus Brod by the certain facts which it was considered merited other sot korizontal movements. A ray of light constant thievery or

of the other Japanese reverberated on August 7. The next the attention of the B. ard. Hy

is directed on to the mirror from an incandes- evils arising from lack of registration. proceeding in siogo

is to, silence The Guild stated that, on public grounds, cont electric lamp, and is reflected from the At the same time wo

are not really so and take

secondary defences. Then they greatly regretted such a decision. In re mirror through lenses, on to a slip of sensitized very badly off as we might be in respect of comes the attack on the main line. This fereas to the statement of the Board to Mr. photographic paper. The two motions of the servants in Singapore, and many of the more is carried out by approaches in trenches. Robson, "that they had no reason to suppose thirror are sufficient to form all the characters origent grumblers at the alleged ineptitude of

which are called parallela. In them are placed that the life-saving appliance requirements were of handwriting, but, of couro, if made slowly the local boys" are persons whose experience the breaching batteries. As those gradually not a ficiently attend to by their Surveyors," the characters would be sugular. But the of sorvants out-ide the Struits is inextensive. obtain a superiority over tho gaus of the do the Gald referred to their representations dur- Many envillers who are loud in their depreca fence, sap work, or digging in the ground under ing the past few years on the inefficiency of hundredth part of a millimetre, while the mirror moves only to the extent of ab ut one tions of the local domestic "help" have practi protection of iron screens, sap-rollers, deli-eating apparatus generally. They mention exposero of the paper is no more than the thou cally no experience on which to boss invidions becomes the vuly possible mode of progressioned a letter addressat in May, 1900, which sandth part of a second, so that the enormons comparisons. Travellers from India who have Now comes the crowning of the counterscary, pointed out that Sveyors oppointed to survey rapidity of the currents and the movements been long resident in that country are prone to

the rush from the third or last parallel, the ship's bouts with oir masts and sails, their makes the characters practically round. So fast compare the Strails "boy" with his Indian decent into the ditch, the destruction of the anchors, connpasses, and other matters connected does the mirror move that, when the working servants, and to compare them to the disparage cap niors, or works of defence therein, theses of with the navigation i and safety departaient of parts were exposed, observers could barely diss Jount of the "bar" But he forgets that the scaling ladders, or the assault in a brough Bship, were

many case gentlemen who-cer more than a flesh of light, but the seusi. Chinese hay does the work of at least brnelies made in the escarp, or actual wall of sithough well versed in their own sphere-had tized paper showed the momentary flush resole- thes of his Indian Morvants. In any caso

the fortress All these operations have been haver had practical ex erience in such matters. ad into a line of the plainest handwriting we are beter off as regards, our house andertaken by the Japanese seriotin. To They also draw attention to the fact that it has.: holl assistants in the Straits than the reduco a fortross like Port Arthur, manned by good people aro in countries where the such a gallant soul as Stover, supported by uhabitants are prone to consider themselves such lieutenants as Fack, Kondrachenko, and huppier all round than we have any right to others, was not only diffcult, but a task of imagine ourselves to be fake for instance the stupendoas unagaitudo, following extincts from a letter written by a lady well known in Singapore, who thus dis- cours upon the servant problem as it obtains in White Australia.” The latter we quote from was received in Singapore by her husband last Friday morning, so it brings the rust for up

to date

The servant trouble has begun, the old housekeeper has left, and my housemaid is geing What to do I don't know." I have interviewed about eight, but after engaging them, four drow out, on the plea of distunes from Town."

THE MOSLEM FEAST OF

ID-AL-FITR,

On Dec. 9th, about a dozen Moslems in sombre European dress celebrated this festival under the dripping trens of Hyde Park. There were no green-turned descendants of the Prophet, no Arabs in flowing roles; instead of the curiously woven praying curpats, a few strips of liunleum were spread on the sodden tart; instead of the glorious sunshine of the East lighting up cliff and scar, a thick haze almost blotted out the prosaic outlines of Park Lane. And yet the naive, unashamed instinct of prayer was at conspicuous here in work-slay London as it was on the deck of the Indian steamer described below.

Fappy sides appear in this trouble.-one woman engaged as Cook and Laundress, and when I sent for her, in fact weut for her myself, she said Well you neo, Ma'am, five people ou the Fields have wired to me to go and confine them, so, as that is more in my line, and better pay, with shorter work, I have decided to go!" Whatever else the Moslems may be, they are Another said she was just separated from not self-conscious in dair religion. The sira- her husband, after 15 years of fairly comfort-plicity of the faith enters into overy department alls life. That had an unsavoury odory, and so it goes.

A housemaid came yesterday in a cab and brought her violin. Musical Maid! Oh dear! White Australia! Very funny times!

"The Groom is a young man with very good references. On being dismissed by me after my telling him all sxpected of him, he said Bight you are! Well, ta-ta At which I gaspod and promptly vented him to say Good day, Ma'am, instead, which he did quite respectfully.

This defect in the character of the groom is based upon an affability of disposition which is the direct opposite of the grumpiness so common to the China boy. At the same time the average English lady in this part of the world would sooner have a taciturn groom with a sullen fuse than one who said "Ta-ta, old girl!" or words to that effect, cach time he left her ut her

doorway.

AGAINST MOSQUITOES.

been officially admitted that many ships may go to sea without inspection by Board of Trade

Surveyors, and that o.quently proper and safficicnt attention to firing appliances cannot be gives, owing to the insafficionéy of such Surveyors.

This

The great saving over presont systems lies in the speed of transmision nud in the fact that up staff of trained telegraphists is required at the receiving end to transcribe the messagos. They come out on a slip some four inches wide in plain handwriting. The mechanism by which the pea of light is made to move from line to line is extremely simple cle-trically, and yet far too complr to describe in small spuse. Indeed, the simplicity of the invention is its most marvellous feature..

Its extreme quickness would seem to be the greatest hindrance to its general use-a strange paradox in this rapid ago. merits of the system, but complained that there The Hungarian authorities reported enthusiastically on the wore ao two offices in the country which ad between them a suficient traffic to furnish guough work, oron during a short time, to justify an installation. The proprietors hope that in England, which uace telegraphy on such a vast seule, and where newspapers send 52 per cent. of the telegraph menges of the whole Kingdom, a use may be found for their system.

PISTOLS.

CALIBRE 7.63 mm. With CHAMBER for 10 CARTRIDGES, FIRING 10 SHOTS in 2 SECONDS.

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The diffenities of caplains or officers in pointing ont defects on heard their ships was urged, owing to reports of such u kind trading. to very seri ualy jeopardising their positions.

The Board of Tride in replying said, "they were aware that it was not possible, nor was it tad necessary, for their Surveyors to inspect to proceed to sea, but from the result of the the life-saving appliances of erery vess 1 about inspections which are made, they bare reason to believe that infringements of the Statutory Rules are exceptional, and in the absence of any definite information to the contrary, they are not prepared to reard the present system of inspection as inadequata." They sugrested, however, that if Mr. Itobron had any specific information to offer. it would be open for him to interview the Principal Officer of the Board of Trade at Liverpool. surges on was acted upon by Mr. Robson, AUTOMATIC MAUSER Peter, a member of the Advisory Commit- who was accompanied by Captain J.

tee of the Guild. Cases were mentioned where lif saving gear was defective, and they were verified on effioint inspection. The Guild expressed their satisfaction the wa in which the Principal Officer of the Board of Trade at Liverpool interested himself in the subject, bat they desired that the Board of Trade would not consider the complaints of the Guild on lifesaving apparates as of a merely lopal character, and stated that undoubtedly the whole system of official surveying required reconsideration and re-examination. They wished it to be understand that they did not for a moment accuse any of the present surveyors of incompetence, or neglect of duty in survey- ing details, with which they are familiar a | practical exports. They maintained that it was reasonable to immore certain responsible duties upon the in the shape of surveys which essentially need the knowledge borns of practical | DARLINGTON'S HANDBOOKS experience us eussen, sad further, that engineer and shipwright Surveyors hare surveying manded by the Queen to thank Mr. Henry Fonsonby is co- duties in their particular line which are of great Darlington, for a copy of his Hand- importance, and of considerable magnitude: book They did not advocate a diminution in the present number of surveyore, but so increase

"Nothing better could be wished for."-- in the matter of nautical Surveyors, an that the

British Weekly. nautical details of a ship might be inspected by

"Far superior to ordinary guides."- seamen porssssing export practical knowledge of them. This they urged would establish that coatdance in these Surroge which is desirable where safety of life is concerned.

ery

of life, and induces a man to kneet in broad daylight—ar sneb daylight as a Loniton winter affords in Hyde Park, and so celebrate his festival. But I confess the pathes of the service impressed me most. The little roma at of the Faithful who bruted the cloments that morning seemed so pitifully out of touch with the small crowd of loafors attrac'ed by the strange sight of grown men kneeling in the mad and calling opon an unknown God in an unknown tongue. They are a lot of poor orphans," said a kindly paternal policeman, and orphans is just what they are in the midst of this huge, unthoeding population. And yet the King has sixty millions of them in his dominious -more than sill the Christians in the Empins.

A Stanciant correspondent said: When last I assisted at the Feast of Id-al-Fitr we were steaming out of Bunder Abbas on a British India mail boat with a full passenger list of Moslems and Hindus. Sheikhs and horas dealers, pilgrims and part merchants, were huddled regather an deck amid s strange con- fusion of cargo and household goods among As even now we have some vicious "skeeters," the following rather mussy" remedy may help which sheep and goats and guzelles strayed at someb dy. Mr. Walter J. Haramond writes largo. Ons of my travelling companions was a from the City of London Club, Old Broad-great Sheikh of the Arab coat, & magnificent straat, B.C., to an Indian contemporary-Inagure, with dark board and flowing robes, who 1890 fover broke out in the town of Rio Claro, went to sea accompanied, like the modiœval 8. Paulo, Brazil, whe. I was staying, obliging Tarona, by a whole retinue of falconers and rue to remove to San Carlos. In my new real sword-bearers, menials and mullahs, of whom dence there were no mosquito nets for the beds, the last named were so conscientious in their so for two nights I had no refreshing sleep on duties that no moment of the day or portion of seempt of mosquitoes. All who have experi- tae deck was secure from their assiduous sup enced similar misory know how weary and dos plications. During the first part of the jourady

The Board of Trade then wrote that the perete w become through the constant from Bombay the Fast of Ramazan was still in Guild a representations would receive considers- onslaught of the insects, which prevent sound force, during which gool Moslems, even when tion, but that as at present advised, they saw sleep, however weary and tired the body may be. they are travelling--though some claim disper no reason to increase their waff of nautical Knowing kawene oil or petroleum to be dos-sation on that account only cat by night. The Suregors. The Guild then referred to the tructive of all insect life. I auginted my face, coming of the new moon was, therefore, eagerly duration of the Royal ission on Un- neck and hands with the oil, and so got some expected. As we left Bunder-Abbas the sun sosworthy Ships, which sat in the year 1874, sleep; but as wOGU as it had evaporated the was sinking behind the rooky promontory of to the effct that additional nautical assistance creatures were at me again. My eye fell on the Cope Mussandim. Behind us the forbidding was requisite for the due performance of the washstand. and, in a happy moment, I mountain scarp which lines the Persian share dates entrusted to the Board. In view of this thought of mixing the petroleum oil in a like a baze battlement changed from piuk turecommendation, the Guild pointed to the fact, afrong lather of soap. The effect we crimson and from crimson to deep purple in the that whit the tonnage of British vesels enter. perfect, and 1 slept until the morning afterglow of the evening. Then, for the tested and cleared with car goes and with ballest with ease. Until I had mosquito nets arranged, time, a thin, silvery band became visible high in at ports in the United Kingdom had in the

used this mit: ure every night with the same the Western firisament, and the glad Ambs happy result. Numbers of my friends have need knew tha, the month of fasting was at an end. this preventivo. not only for the terrible The praying-rugs, hand-woven by the women mosquito that conveys the germs of yellow in their tents in the desert, were spread over all fover or other awful disease, but to keep off the dock, and the green-turbaned haijis led the gnate of all kinds, midges, &c., which are to be service. found in England. I write this because so many persons have at times to sleep à aight or two in mosquito-infested towns where nets aro not always available. The proportion I found best was about a small coffee-spoonful of petroleum to a lather of soap and water, which, when free from bubbles, would fill one-third of the soap dish. The mixiare, of course, smells slightly of the oil. but it is not say stronger than old brown Windsor coal-tar Soaps. No injury whatever is done to the skin. however often it is used, and the slight discomfort felt at first is compensated thousandfold by the immunity it establishes from mosquito ог gaat assaults and the attendent danger.

SIEGES.

The following extract from the Times is of inforest, in view of the recent end of a notable siege. All slopes are in principle the same. The first stage is to invest or eat off the fortress from all communication with the outside world. It must then bo decided whether the place can be taken by assault overcome by bombardiert, or reduced by starvation. Only in the case of weak or in- enificiently provided towns cun the first or third methods command success. There re- mains then the bombarding attack. At first the artillery of the defence, carefully placed so that its fire sweeps all the ground in front of tlie fortress, is immeasurably in the ascendant. The besiugor then determines upon his base, or place from which he can bring up to the front his guns, ammunition, food, &c. A maritime Power will, if possible, select a port un the coast, such us Balaclava or Dalay. The next thing is to drive back the troops who are charged with the task of operating around, as distinct from these who are fald off to defend the inside of the fortress. The mobile portion of the garrison was in Port Arthur's case under General Fook, commanding the 4th East Simerian Rifle Brigade, which had been in creared from the eight to the twelve battalion standard by troops brought direct from Russia. On June 27-General Fock engaged the Japanese along the line Shaowautes-Tudi nkan-Wacha yingtsz. Yinkosban, &c. Ha had gradually fought retaining cations in front of that line since the retreat from Kinchan. He sustained several attacks here, but fell back on July

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foreign trade alone increased by over 23,000,000 Visitors to Brighton, Eastbourne Hastings tous, the number of nautical Surveyors as Bournemouth, Wye Valley, Revoru Valley actually less than what it was in the year 1876. Bath, Weston-super-mare, Malvern, Hereford At the present time fifteen nautical Sarsepors Worcester, Gloucester, Lisutrinod Wells, only are distributed throughout the United Llangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth Kingdom, and obviously, the Guild stated, there Dolgelly, Harlech, Críceisth, are many ports where there is no nautical Llandudno Kbyl, Bettwa-y-coed, Izlo of

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WHY KIDNEY DISEASE IS NO

BERIOUS.

so quietly. It has many symptoms, but often they are mistaken for other diseases. Hend- aches, rheumatism, a nervous, irritable condition, weak heart, dropsy, sleeplessness, an always tired feeling, yellow complexion, unnatural urine, too much or too little urine these are just as much symptoms of kidney disease as backaches, gravel, binidor troubles, o.

Kidney disease is serious, because it comes on

system for years before the patient suspected Kidney disease may have been working in the the cause of his trouble. That's the danger.

Treat the kidneys at the first sign of any ailment. That is the only safe way. Koop them well, and they will keep you well. backache kidney pills help the kidneys to filter Doau's the blood, and remove from it all disenss-bresi ing impurities. That explains thoir success.

All the chief chemists and medicine-dealors for 1 boz, or 139 fur & boxes; or the medicine sell Doan's Backacho Kidney Pills, price 2/9 may be hoc, post free on receipt of price, direct from the proprietors--the Foster-MoClethn Co., & Wells-street, Oxford-street, Louden, England, who will also send a Sample Box Free to anyone who writes for it and gentious this paper.

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HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN THE CHINA SQUADRON. Alaorify, despaton-beat, 1,700 tons, 10 gaz, Albion, battleship. 12,950 tons, 16 gana, Capt.

3,000b.p.. Com. R. M. Harbord, Mira Bay Fremantle, Hongkong. Algerino, sloop, in reserve, Hongkong Amphitrite, let class cruiser, 11,000 tons. 18.000 hp, Capt. Charles Windham, C.V.O., Weihaiwel Andromeda, cruiser, 12,500 tons, Capt. Nelsca Autraon, 2nd class cruiser, 4.360 tone, 10 gune,

Ommannes, Hongkong

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7,000 i.b.p.. Captain Lionel G. Tafaeli

Britomart, guabeat, in reserve, Hongkong Bramble, gaubont, is reservo, Hongkong

Hongkong

Centurion, battleship, 10,500 tons, Capt. Fegen,

Hongkong

Fame, torpado-boat destroyer, 360 tons, 6 guns,

5.700 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. C. Asser, Hong. Glory, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,500

kong

Handy, torpedo bost destroyer, 260 tons, 6 gan, h.p.. Capt Hon. W. G. Stopford, Hongkong 4,000 hp, in reserve

Hart, torpedo-boat destroyer, 280 tons, 6 guns,

4000 b.p., Weihaiwei Hogue, cru ser, 12,000 tons, Captain Shortland,

Mirs Bay

Hamber, storeship, 1,640 tons, Comde. P. M, Iphigenia, 2nd class cruiser, 3,800 tons, Capt.

Rindore, Hongkong Fawohner, Mirs Bay

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Janns, torpedo-bont destroyer, 280 tous, & guns, 3,900 bp. Lisat-Comdr. J. A. Gregory, Weihniwei Kinala, river gunboat, 381 tons, Lieut.-Comi Christopher P. Metcalf, on Yangtze Moorhen, river gunbout, 180 tons, 2 guns

Lieut.-Comdr. F. B. Noble, West River O.ean, battleship, 12,950 tons, 16 guns, 13,50. i.h.p., Captain Greet, U.M., Hongkong Otter, torpedo-baat destroyer, 350 tons,

reserve

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Phoenix, sloop, in reserve, Hongkong Rambler, surveying-ship, 583 tons, Comdr.

Chas. E. Monro, Hongkong Robin, river gunboat, 85 tone, 2 guns, 24

h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. Vaughan, West River Rosario, stoop, ia reserve, Hongkong Sandpiper, river gunboat, 85 tons, gans, 246

b.p. Lieut. Comdr. H. T. Atlay, Hongkong Sirius, 2nd glass cruiser, 3,630 tons, Capt. C. H.

H. Moore, Shanghai

Snipo, river gun-boat, 35 tons, 2guas, 240 h.p.. Liout.-Comdr. Ernest W. G. Davidson,

Yongtsze

Sutlej, let class cruiser, 12,000 tons, 21,000 i à p.

Capt. Wm. L. Graat, Hongkong Tuku, torpedo-beat destroyer, 200 sons, 6 guns,

5,600 hp, Hongkong

Tamar, ressiving ship, 1,800 tons 6 gaus.

Commodore C. G. Diaken, at Hongkong Teal, river gunboat, 180 tons, 2 gaas, Liont.

Coudr. E. F. R. Dugmore, on Yangtze 'Thetis, oraiser, 3,400 tons, Capt. J. C. A

Wilkinson, en route Singapore Tweed, gunboat, in reserve, Hongkong Vengeance, battleship, 12,950 tons, 1 guns, 13,500 i.h.p., Capt. L. C. Stuart C.M.G. Hongkong

Virago, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tons,

in reserve

Waters itch, surveying-ship, 20 tons, 450 i.h.p. Whiting, torpedo boat destruyer. 360 tous, 6

Comdr. E. C. Hardy, Hongkong

guns, 5,90 h.p., Lieut-Comdr. Weils, Wiveru, casst defence ship, armoured, 2.570 tons,

Hongkong 1,000 h.p., in reservo, Hongkong Woodcock, gunboat, 150 tons, uus. 550

Lieut-Comdr. Hagh Somerville. Yang te

Montealm, cruiser (Flagship of Vice Admiral Bayls, ommander in Chief), 9700 tons, 12

Mousquet, destroyer, Lieut. Prat, Baie d'Along guns, 19,000 b.p., Capt. Dartige du Fournet Baie d'Along Oley, gunboat, tous, gans, hp., Lieut. Pascal, senisor, 4015 tong, 27 guns, 8500 h.p.,

Audemard, Yangtse

Peibo, gunboat, Lieut. Lavisatora, Tongku

Comdr, Chevalier, Saigon Pistoler, destroyer, Lieut, de Ruinach-Worth,

Baie d'Along

Rodontable, battleship, in reservo) 9437 tons, 8 Protée, submarine, Lieut. Glorioux, Sainon

Kuns, 6021 b.p. Commodero C. P. H. Sabre, destroyer, Liuat. Lebarl, Saigon

Poidloue, Saiger Styr, oruiser, 1796 tous, 10 guns, 1700 h.p., Sully, cruiser, 10,014 tone, 38 guns, 20,000 h.p.,

Comdr. T. do Balincourt, Saigon

Surprise, ganboat, 629 tons, 2 guns, 900 h.p.,

Captain Gaiberteau, Heibow

Takiang, gasboat,

Liout. Roque, Hankow

~~tops, -gitus, b.p

Takon, destroyer, Lient, Gaillard, Saigon

Lieut. Yangtzze Vauban, battleship, (reserve) 6150 tona, 23 guns, Vigilante, gunboat, 123 tons, Frgane, 500 h.p.,

4560 h.p., Lieut, Saigon

Lieut. Jemca, Canton

GERMAN.

Bussard, braiser, 1857 tons, 15 guus, 2900 h.p.,

Comir. Huss, Fatherland, gunboat, tons, guns, — .p.

Captalis von Buelow, Wahu Furst Bismarck, (ilagskip), 11,000 tons, 36 guns

14,000 h.p., Captain Prowe, Singapore Geier, craiser, 1776 tons, 15 gaus, 2900 h.p.,

Comdr. von Judaitz, Hongkong Hansa, cruiser, 6230 tons, 34 guns, 10,009 h.p.,

Captain Weber, Shanghai

Hertha, cruiser, 6500 tona, 37 guns, 10,600 h.p.

Capt. Barou Sobina melmann, oagkon Ittis, gualeat, 1000 tons, 10 guns, 1300 g.

Comdr. Baron von M. Hallessem, Canton Jaguar, gunboat, 900 tone, 10 guns, 1300 b.p.

Commander Wilbrandt, Nankiong Luchs, gunboat. 850 tons, 10 guns, 1944 h.p,, Mowe, gunboat, 1009 tous, 8 guns, 875 h.p.;

Commander Kroncke, Hongkong

Commander von Grumbkow, Manila Seeadler, ernisse, 160 tons, 15 guas, 2800 h.p.,

Commander Pursins, Tsingtae Thetis, cruiser, 2660 tons, 24 guze, $600 h.p.,

Captain Voit, Shanghai

Tiger, gauboat, 200 tons, 10 guns, 1300 h.p.,

Commander Deimling, Amoy Titania, cruiser, Captain Schanke, Hongkong. Tsingtau. ganboat, 170 tour, 5 guaɛ, 1300 hp.,

Commander Gibber, Cantou

Vorwarts, guoboat, tabs. 3 guns, 500 k.p.,

Lieat, Suharf, Shanghai.

ITALIAN,

Elbs, cruiser, 2300 tous, 19 gous 7471 hp,

Captain Bores Rivoi, Haiphong

Marco Polo, cruiser, 350 tons, gane, — .p.,

saptain Presbiters, Shanghai Paglia, erniser, 2498 tons, 29 gans, 7000 h.p.,

Captain Pescetto, Chomulpo

PORTUGUESE.

Adamastor, cruiser, 1980 wns, 14 guns, 4000

h.p.. Captain d'Antas Ribeiro, Hongkong Diu, goabout, 720 toos, 6 guns, 700 hpi, Capt.

Coutinho, Macao

Vasco de Game, cruiser, 3020 tons, 20 guns, 6000 h.p., Capt. Manuel Vasco de Carvalhe, Hongkong

UNITED STATES.

Albany, cruiser, 376 tons, 28 gune, 7500 b p..

Captain Dyer, Cavito

Anoupolis, gunboat, WA tons, 12 guss, 1927

hp.. Captain Rohrer, Shanghai Bainbridge, tbd., 420 tone, 7 guns, 83) k.p.,

Lieut, G. Williams, Manta Baltisuore, cruiser, 5,000 tous, Capt. Surgent,

Manila

Barry, tbd.. 420 tons, 7 gune, 8000 h.p..

Lieut, Irwin, Manila

Callao, gunboa, 208 tons, 10 gers, 600 h.p.

Lieut. Dismaker, Hongkong Chauncey, t-b-d., 420 toos, 7 gaur, 8000 h.p.,

Lient. E. P. Jessop, Manila Cincinnati, ornisor, 3113 tons, 19 guus, 7500

hp., Captain Osterhans, Hong oug Dais, t-bd., 42) tons, 7 guas, 8000 h.p., Lieut.

Garness, Manila

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Decantur, t-bd., 420 tous, gana, 8900 b.p.,

Lieut. A. W. Knox, Maaila Eleano, gunboat, 560 tone, 10 guns, 6000 h.p..

Lieut. Comdr. J. Hood, Shanghai Helann, gunboat. 1393 tons, 8 guns, 1989 b.p., Commander P. E. Sanyer, Hongkong Monadnock, monitor, 3990 tons, gube, 3000

h.p., Captain Mabao, Shanghai Monterey, monitor, 105 tons, 4 guos, 5244 h.p,

Commandor J. B. Milher, Curile NewOrleans, cruiser, 3137 tons. 20 guns, 7300 Oregou, cruiser, 10,288 tous. 45 guns, 11,111

h.p.. Commander, Shanghai, b.p. Captia Burrell, Shanghai Pampanga, guaboal, 201 tens, 3 gaus, 250 6.p..

Easiga J. E. Bass, Cavite Paragne, gunboat, 201 tous, 3 guns, 259 h.p..

Captain Bennett, Cavite'

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caught us on the assistance at all. The Guild asked if they could | Wiebt, and Channel Islands should send for Woodlark, gunboat, 150 tona, 2 guns, 550 b. Raleigh, cruiser, 3213 tons, 18 guns, 7500 h.p....

That night, when the feasting was over, a biting, reading "kharoud ben in mid-gul. Through the darkness; above the howling of the wind and the racing of the scrow, a despairing wail of "Yah Ali, Yah Hussein!" went up to tho unleeding heavens, mingled with the more variegated appesha of the Indian merchants and their wives, who, not content with calling upon every ged in the Hindu Calendar, interrupted their cries to urge the Moslems of Bahrein to fresh endeavours, that no possible means of salvation might ge Cuntried. It was a night of thanksgiving and feasting and wild supplication not easily to be forgotten.

Many Europeans have seen the vast multitudes arembled at the end of Ramazan in the grant square of the Friday Mosque at Delhi, or in the streets of Cairo, but nothing in all the Bast ever impressed nie so much as the picture of these old world Arabs, dressed in the very garments of Bible history, holding their great ligious festival in the crimesati glow of a Persian Gulf sunset.

CATCHING A COLD.

be furnished with a copy of the Report of the Principal Officer to the Board of Trads `at Liverpool on the interviews and subsequent surveys held by him on this matter, but be Board expressed their regret in declining this.

The Guild are now considering what facther steps are advisable in ensuring as far as possible the thorough efficiency of life-saving apparat us on board ship.

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The fastest telegraphic apparutas at present in use is the Wheatstone, which transmits messages at 200 to 250 words a minute. But How to catch a cold! That depends a good mitted in Morse telegraphic charactors, aud by the Wheatstone system telegrains are trans deal on the innate perversity of Natura. I have to be transcribed into plain writing by a you are a schoolboy, anxious to haves aung staff of telgrapbists at the receiving station.

M. day, without lessons. you will and draught This latest instrument (the invention of two disappointing and wet feet of no avail. You Hungarians, Mr. Anton Pollak and Mr. Jozsef may even fall into pouds without fear of Virag, and called the Pollok-Ving Rapid courequences, for you will not eatch cold till the Telograph; not only vastly increases the speed holidays. On the other hand, if you are a of transmission, but reproduces the messages popular tenor, with an important engagement at the receiving station written in ordinary on hand, you will be particularly susceptible, and handwriting. draughts will tumble over one another in their baste to get at you. A good way to match cold is to stand about railway stations on draughty mornings. People who rise up early to bathe in the Serpentine and other chilly places boast of immunity; but they were evar a bragging Some day, in brighter age, another Sir Jamas Young Simpson will aries who, on the first is first prepared on a perforating apparatus, The message to be transmitted over the wire indication of a cold in the lead, will put the This apparatus is very much like an ordinary patient under chloroform for a week and he will typewriter, and is operated at about the same assake a hale and bearty man. But for the speed. It converts the imessage into perforKWONG present there seems to be no way of avoiding tions on a strip of paper, resolving it into two the common lot. No care, e costume, will sets of components. the vertical and the avert the sneeze or alleviate the miseries of the horizontal, this being necessary for the reason white flag fluttering from the coat pocket. Ee that the electrical currents can only transmit for the present we must even suffer.--Úloba,

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strument should be devised that can mechani. It seems sufficiently marvellous that an in- cally inscribe script at some 800 words a minute when the average fast penman cannot write much more than 30 to 35 words a minute. The system is, of course, extremely jechnical, butesa, perhaps, be roughly desribed as follows:-

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