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VERY OLD LIQUEUR

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THIS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24rn, 1905. The" paro" Norwegian bag (minus the mark TELEGRAMS. is a criminal charge in Hongkong, yet the arrest of the man in this way was an out-of the now ropulisted Union with Sweden) was hdistet und saluted throughout the country on ruge not sanctioned by the law of 1902

the 10th instant, relating to Employers and Servants ander which this churge was brought. Section 14

reads:-

The H.V.L.A. Competition for the Genor's Cup for June will be continued at the King's Tark (50 yards) Ringe to-day,

pal" will also be shot for.

"If it be made to appear to a angistanio that thero is good ground for believing that any party against whom a complaint has won rade under this Ordinance, his absconded or is about to

When Captain Jackson of the as. Lourdes, ulmend, such magistrate may issue a warrant to

which arrived in-port yesterday, loft Saigon. apprehen 4 ich party and detsin him in gustody

there were 20 colliers and two volunteer ves wil the hearing of such complaint, unless such ty shall give security to the satisfaction of Buch magistrate for his appearance to answers the harbour. At Cape St. James he wecouverted cruiser with three fannels and »uch compla nt."

two mast

In the present case there was no "good ground" for believing that

Pas inau

WHISKY against whom comprint was made was

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FINEST

WHISKIES

DISTILLED IN SCOTLAND,

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FINE FLAVOUR

REUTER'S SEEVICE.]

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR STORES INVESTIGATION.

LONDON, 1st June.

THE WAR.

*** [REUTER'S SERVICE]

THE WAR IN MANCHURIA.

LONDON, 21st June. The Tokyo correspondent of the Daily Mr. Balfour in appointing a Royal Commis sion to continue the Storea mandat investigation | Telegraph wires that the Japarieso are con- and the opposition has given notice of a wootien tinning a victorious advance, and that, the for a vote of cansure on the Government in this Rassinns are completely outflanked on both wings Joyful news is shortly expected.

connection.

Mr. Balfour could hardly "appoint" the Commission, not being King.

PRINCE ARISUGAWA'S VISIT TO.

ENGLAND.

The remand ense in which eleven Malay sailon refused duty on the ss. Indradra came

LONDON, Plat Juno. net then for hearing befors Mr G, N. Orato at the Polis Court yest-rilay. As the men were still

The importance of the approuching visit of emplatio in their refusal to begin work. His | Prines Arisagawa is fully recognised, and every honour due to the esaltof représoutative Worhip Fontenoed them to one month's im prisonment with furd babour.

of our ally will be past. Admiral Neville and General Nicholson will be spacially attached to His Highness, who will be lodged in York

about to abscond-there was slightest reason to fear it for a moment, and we understand that no warrant wr issued for his arrest and detention. He was taken into custody in flagrant-listegved of the plain provisions of the state. This, to begin with, suggests a question of grave principle, and we fancy that most Englishmen who realise the toportants of the liberty of the subject, the birth-right of overy British subject, will share our unens j- ness until done official enquiry remit in the admission and ensure of the irregalatity, of throws upon it some extenuatory light. There was another informality, at th

and MELLOWNESS, when a person, not the prosecutor, and not a solicitor, was permitted to address the Beneh in application for a severe penalty.

lattained only by

GENUINE

QUALITY

AND

GREAT AGE.

PER DOZ.

$16.50

A wiling to the "Spout Press Weebly. No. 1 of which arrived yesterday, the Emperor of Korea sent a message of congratulation, on the nasal victory, to the Japanese Emperor on the 30th May. Also: It is reported that Korean postage stamps and ewds will no longer ha teed after

the 34th of June, and thst from that time Ja pärse one will take their place.

By kind permission of Colonel W. G. B. Wogen, G. B. and Officers, the Bind of the

Secul Battalion The Queen's Own" (Royal Wet Kent Ragiment), will play the following pregime of music during dinner, at the Hongkong Hotel, this (Saturday) evening.

1905.

Gring to tho band having a later engagement the isnil hours will be from 7:30 pm. to 8.15 pan instond of the nsual time. All...

Vale

La Mase ding"! “Mirošla”

return to..

Sollten Lieder” Seledion from The Gondoliers

11

Procks Gennod

Sult van

House.

The Prince will be entertained at Junch by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London at the Guildhall, and various royal and other fetes will be arranged.

RIALTO" GOSSIP.

Rentor's expression, “joyful news," Meus like a breach of Renter's usutrality.

“OH, HOW THE LODGERS YELL.”

CHANSONS OF FRENCH BOARDIES DISTURA POLIOR Madarne Guion of the Pension Francaise in Pattinger Streel, was charged with rnlawfully during ansat and sunrise between the 18th and | 14th instant making or causing to ho mande a noise in her house calculatol to distar the Ps and quietude of the neighbourhcol.

Mr. M. J. D. Stophone appeared for the defeudant, and stated that although the charge was malo on the 18th or 19: instant, the simmons was not served until the 2ml instant. so that his client knew nothing about the complaint until three or four days had olapsoil. They pleaded not guilty.

His Worship-I will find out why the samtoons wat not sørved at once.

Sergeant Evans deposed-On the 19th instant I was returning up Pottinger Street from duty. I heard a disturbance in No. 49, the

Money was never tighter at Hongkong,' said a broker to a Daily Press reporter yostór- day. "Shares that under normal conditions should now be attracting buyers are stagmaut, because there is no money loose to play with,

No. It is not Europeans, but Chiness. Few people realise how hard hit they have been, howarding honse of which defendant is the pro many failures and private arrangements there have been and it is not over yet.

· Togo's famous victory should bare sent hung exchange down with a ruz, and that it didn't may be taken as some sign of the truth of what I tell yen, Prospects generally are excellent; but at the local string acy in China-town is cased, there will be little doing for na.”

As to the trial itself it is impossible 19 regard it as satisfactory, and we fal sare that had the man's defence been properly put before the magistrate, bis Worship

Ortal Scene A. Dervish Chorus” Suluck would have taken a far more lenieat view

Cake Walle "At a fivorgia Cammy) Meeting" Mills of the Tase than he did. The prisoner was,

More Hora Earre-Caviare in Eggs PhPishat Muqieur. Soup-Mock Turtle, of course, asked to plead whether he was

Erners -Laub Catleta a la Westmozelsart. Ox "guilty "not guilty" aa henge a la Postleite, Indian Corn and Butter

Taints, Rat Aunt culian Teet, Beast Cipar, and Sansa re, |pleaded that he hal given twenty days Sur Carry-alontra. Curry

Bu York Hard and Champ (gue Sauen, Coll notien: but as it was not the full month's

-Luted Duck and Phun Salud, Swens-Semolina Prdling. Ratafia Ice Cream and Finger Cakes, Apple Tart. Tipsy Cake. Bessert effee-Fruits.

or

A. S. WATSON & CO. notice demanded by the law the plea was

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taken as one of "guilty" and that eade the prisoner's part in the procedings. The prosecutor, an Englishman, then

Court lass

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understood WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.anguage very imperfectly

it dars ot by the prisoner,' and as appear to have been the business of the Court interpreter to tell the prisone what was being alleged against hún by an Eng Hish witness, there was no cross-examination jand no farther opportunity for the prisoner to say anything in extenuation of his offence for in mitigation of the penalty. Hail hel soen walthy enough to have engaged a

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

FSTARLISHED A.D. 1841,

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

should be addressed to The Everoa.

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ALTLGED MILK.

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To Shang, milk velur of Corirane Street, was jilures before Mr. G. Orme at the Police Cort yesterday on a charge of xeling add

ended milk. Evidence proved that the mix

EXTRADITION OF ARMED

ROBBERS WANTED.

frietress. Trapped at the door and cantioned the inmates, and on returning from tar Station they were still creating a disturbanes by outing. I saw the defendant and told her to keep her house quiet.

In cross-examination-Whon I passed the house the renetians were open, and the inmates were shouting. It was such a noise that I could hear it at Hollywood Bond. I did not use strong language to defendant. I did not tell her to "shut up her box." When I fold defendnat to stop the disturbance sho mid something I could not understand.

Chief Detective Inspector Hanson stated- know the defendant as Malms Guion, pro- prietress of the Pension Feinealse bonding

ʊnto.

Before Mr. G. N. Orms af the Police Court | yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hursthouse (of the Crown Solicitor's office) on behalf of the Chinese Goverment applied for the extralition of Lau

On the 19th instant I was asleep in my Fun on the charge that while armed witlı offensive weapons, and in the company of other quarters, which are on the other side of the persons not in custody, be folonicusly did assault street, when I was awakened by considerablo and put in bodily fear and danger of his noise. I casnet swear where it cams from life, one Lui Kwong, and further feloniously Borgesut Garrod said-I was sitting on the

SUPREME COURT.

Friday. 3rd Jane

IS ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE MR. F T. PIGGOTT (CHIEF JUSTICE).

QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP. The heating of the following issue, which first came before the Chief Justice on the Joh instant, was contiunod:—

**Whether either of them, the said L-m Tang and the Nam Loong firm, and if so, which is or are entitled to a sum of $2,100 obtained by the defondant, F. J. Badaloy, from the plaintiff's agent Chow Kwan and deposited by the said F. J, Badeley in Court, and being moneys tho subject matter of this action."

The parties in the case were us follows:-- Lam Tung, plaintiff; F. J. Builgley (Captain Superintendent of Police), dafendunt; and the Nam Loong firm, of Saigon, claimants. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., instructed by Mr. Dixon (Mr. John Hasting's offic), appeared for the plain- tif, and Mr. H. N. Ferrers, instructed by Mr. J. Hay (Mosses. Jobneon, Stokes & Master),

for the claimacts.

Mr. Pol'ook having closed the case for the plaintsif, Br. Forreta, provious to calling wit- nosagis on behalf of the okimants, addrossed the Court. His line of orgamont was that i1, the plaintiff's sory, on the face of was very improbable. The Initor, described us a travelling trader and cook, hnd met Chow. Kwan, the man who was arrested at Hongkong on the ground that he had taken money from Saigon the prop.rty of the claimant (Nani Loong firm), on board the 8.8. Kinskan, where he shared the plaintiff's bunk A document, copy of a judgment of the Court of Indo-Chine, was produced to prove the guilt of Clow Kwan. To meat ብፁ plaintiff's statement, that be, Lam. Tung, lad asked Chow Kwaa, during rongh weather at sea, to look after a packet of $2,600 which had been intrusted to the plaintiff as a balles, money found on Chow Kwan when he was% arrested at Hongkong, Mr. Ferrors suggested that this story was invented primarily to obtain the release of Chow Kwas by his friend Lam Tung, and, being successful it this, they were now endeavouring to obtain the money.

The case was adjourned, it now remaining for Mr. Forrors to close his case for the claimants, and Mr. Pollock, in conclusion, to agala grass the Court for the plaintiff.

tate sold contain à more water than it shouldini steal $50 in money, one clock and a certain rerandab of my quarters on the opposite side | FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION"

have done. On a previous occasion the defou. daal was fined $ 0 for a similar offsary, but as this did not act as a deferrout His Worship yelordsy inflicted a kno of $209.

SQUEEZE PIOGIN.

Osteommunications relating to the news column Con syradents must forward their names and ad-licitor to assist him in presenting a dreones unth communications addressed to the Rdites,

f publication, but as evidence of good faith defence, the Magistrate's decision would in All letters for publication should be written on all probability have been very different "one side of the paper only.

¿communicatí as that have from what it was, for, wecording to the No anonymously signed t

cinearted. alrealy appeared in other pipers will

Ondare for atra copies of SAILY PHRes should be man's own story, which he cltims could be sent before 11 am. on day of publication. After that supported by evidence, he would seem to hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash. Telegraphic Address: Pass: Codes: 4.8.0.5th Ed. have a fairly strong defence, and hadis called, bat the coolie informed the

Litter's

P.O. Box, 33, Telephone No. 12

DIRTH.

it heen placed before the Court, we can

hardly conceive that the maximum line of

the wife of THOS, SEINS, of a daughter. [1518 curning $22 a month. In default of paying

On 2ård June, al No. 4, Canton Villas, Kowkion, 850 would have been imposed on a HONGKONG OFFICE :14. DESTRUI ROAD CLucha (toim) large sum, the defendant LONDON OFFICE: 181. FLERT START, E.C. who, at the worst, was guilty of only a technical breach of the Ordinance, is to andure for two months the treatment of a real criminal.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JUNE 24TH, 1905.

It may, of course, be retorted that it injustice has been duur re-hearing

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qusutity of clothing from the said Lui Kwong en January last in the province of Kwangtung. Empire of Chius

In outlining the cuse, Mr. Hurstbousu stated that the charge was armed robbery. The prisoner in January, of this year. In many

wont a large gang ur robbers,

ut

of the street when the disturbance cconerod. The inmates wore very noisy, and were singing snatches of songs. The noise begat from the fime they had dinner, and continued until 1.30 4.10. I think the song they wore trying to sing was what they all wo-million

In cross-examination No complaints were the country house of Lui Krong about made by neighbours to the police. The distance

The men were sloven o'clock at night.

across the street is about 26 feet. They wore and armed with kaires and revolvers,

making that much noise that they kept my threatened the complainant if he did not children awake. I do not know that the police

He endeavoured

are rather down on the defendant. The inmates declare where his money was.

were making onough noise to feel happy. They to put them off, but they searched the house,

For the defence Mr. Stephons called and in one of the drawers which usually over- bang a Chiness be they found and appropriated were not quarrelling.

sum of $50. They then ransacked other parts,

AT MANILA:

The committee arranging for next month's calebration at Manila desire us to call the atten- tion of the Americans resident in the colony.

British.

is being dous, They send the following infer- mation:- Manila's Fourth of July celebration A rat catening coolie in the employ of the

this year will be a cosmopolitan one. Sanitary Board was placed before Mr. G. N.

French, Gorman, Spanish, Chiness and Filipinos One at the Police Court yesterday on a

are all represented among the organisers. And the scheme of commemorating the adreat of charge of accepting or obtaining a bribe of

American independence promises one of the $18 from a shopkeeper st. Shamsuipo. Evi-

most brilliant spectaclas ever witnessed in the Orient. In addition to the time honoured parade does showed that the shop of the complainant had been washed out the day before the

moth stock of Greworks has been procured from muster that the Portuguese forma grid and found a quantity of clothing. As their G. Coulson, who said-I am s marine engineer and orations, shooting of oraokers, etc., & main efforts to extort money had proved unavailing, residing at Morrison Road. On the 18th last.

the United States for the night show on the they took a different daad, and asked com- I had supper at defendant's house.

Luneta, The entire city will be gay with decora- plainant what had become of his son. He at windows were open, and the shutters closed. first refused to tell them, but their threate There were six people at table. There was no tions and bunting by day and countless pretty Mr. R. T. Laffin of the now eventually made him take them to the school singing, shouting or screaming. Three gentle-lamps by night. house where his son and another boy were men were sleeping upstairs, and said they had street car line is providing the electrical anergy for these illuminations free of charge. sleeping. They took the son up country where not been disturbed.

Mr. Stephens, addressing His Worship, said Gibbs, an aeronaut who has already made they held him to ransom, first demanding 5,000, then $3,000, and eventually handing On the night in gnostion the defendant some wonderfat ascents in the Philippines. him over for a sum of $720.

had a few friends to dinner including a has been engaged to soar through the clouds in Evidence was fed and the case adjourned.

captain of the French army who had the largest balloon that has ever left earlle eust

the shop was not properly cleaned, and be wall have to take all his gonds out and get it Iinwashed again. If the master would give the ratcateher one or two dollars he would foreman and get the shop to the

The muster reported the mutter speak sumptad. to the Police, nud Sargeant Gordon handed in a marked dollar, which he told hina to give the coolie if he again called and

asked

for money. The coolie called on the following, dy, took the dollar, and was leaving the shop when be was arrested by a detective,

JAPANESE RED TAPE.

to all

The

just arrived from Haiphong. They wore at sup- of Susz of west of the Pacific alope. Whos the per when a lakeng opened the window and said balloon is out of sight he will leave it und

In the issue of the Hongking Daily Prem something is a rade way which the defendant descend in a parachute. Many other novelties As great events may from little eauser would doubtless be allowed. We certainly

The con informed His Worship that he

for May 31st there as two telegrams which objected to. She told him to close the window are included in the arrangements. It will be a spring, we make no excuse for referring to regarded it as a case for a re-hearing under the fluence of sumahai, and that' were dispatched from Kobe on May 2014 and but he refused. Then an English constable fiue opportunity of seeing the American

of what Lise is ። the case of a humble Chinese workman, but

re-hearing when he got out of the shop he found the thus took something like twenty-four hours to came to the window; the guest walked out, and military, navy, marino and insular forces at

travel from Kobe to Hongkong. apparently uneducated China:man, unless which seems to us to involve serious questo an

gdlar had been placed in his pocket without ving been purposely delayed in order timi the constable took him by the arm to the station. thoir best and the presence of Admiral Enquist solicitur?s knowledge.

the report sent by the Japanese Government to The Police were very severe, and the officer and the officers of the three Russian warships tions of principle. We refer to the prosecu he has the assistance of

The nows mado a formal complaint to his consul about which lie at anchor within the breakwater of His Worship held the charge proved, and the Consulate should arrive first.

He (Mr. Stephons) maintained the harbour, will enhance the imposing array of tion, or persecution, of a Chinese pressman To a man who earns but $22 a month, the

feil the defendant St. or the alternatire of in the telegrams was merely a forecast of the his treatment..

official intelligence and, appearing side by that the tranquillity of the neighbourhood had land and son bighbors. Mr. Herbert N. Gale, in the employ of the Daily Press office who valuable and indispensable assistance of a

site with the official dispatet. were has this work been fined $50 with the alter soliciter is as unattainable as the moon; and sk weeks' hurd intour,

interts and purposes valueless. It would be not been disturbed. It was merely the police, who secretary of the organization, extends a cordial interesting to know exactly what right the wight have warned the defendant before taking invitation to Americans and others who desire native of two months' imprisonment for

so he goes his way, smarting under a penalty

Censor or anybody else had to delay these such a stand against her. She was leaving the to join in the fetes. The stemnship companies leaving his previous employment without which would probably have been reduced to

messages. There was nothing whatever in house, as she found the police gave her so much offer special facilities for travelling, and once in them to which the most experienced Consor trouble by espionage that she would not Manila the visitors will find themselves proper udice. It is easy to conceive of

more just proportions had he been able to

In a lecture at Shanghai, a report of which could have reasonably objected, and it is

remain there any longer. At the present hospitably entertained, circumstances under which the imposition have his case properly presented. That con-

we have to-day adapted from our cortie u manifestly unfair to the journals whe

Mr. John Macleod represents the British of such a penalty would be fully justified, clusion is irresistible, and it is one which

contemporary. Dr. Arthur Smith suggests that serving the public interests by paying large day you surely do not, what to make Hong-

sms in eable fees and to those who hand in kong like Norman England, with the ringing of merchants on the general committes, and the but in the present case we think the ban carries with it the conclusion that a man in

| day Shanghai may be the Loudon of Asia

the messages that their time and money should was unjustly treated from beginning to end, the dock is liable to suffer as much for his Bwords to that effect.. Its city fathers are thus be wasted. If & telegram is of such a the Curfow bell. If the polics were to go British managers of the various steamboat.com- and we sincerely hope the case may be an ignorance and poverty as for his crime. As already finding the need of more elbow-romature that it cannot is dispatched the sender round town they might find many houses panies and of the Manila and Pagapan railway man was in the first place arrested withous employers of Chinese labour, we are the There is a pretty rural resert popularly spoken should be informed, and if it is "publishable" lighted after midnight and with the windows are lending hearty assistance towards the

isolated rather than a typical one.

The

a vestige of legal sanction, and by what we at present regard as a most improper sub. terfuge. A Chinese detective sergeant of police entered our office without permission, found ble man, and asked the manager if the man might accompany him to the police Per station "to answer some inquiries."* mission was, of course, readily given and the man went away with the police officer, not suspecting for a moment that he was being arrested. There was to our know ledge no mention of arrest or apprehension. As he was absent much longer than seemed necessary, inquiry was made by telephone art the information was elicited that the man was detained in custody on a charge of leaving his previous employment without proper notice. Though, as the reader is aware, to leave employment without notice

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EXTENDING SHANGHAL.

CHINESE EEPURE GOOD ROADS

Chronicle.

ale

fas the Hills, to which at present access is had it should be forwarded without delay,-Japan.

canal. the native roade being so bad. Shang- proposes to make a goud road thereto, but

the Chinese, ignoring the fact that they also would benefit, as a good road to the Hills means good road to Shanghai, are stupidly opposing

the work.

WORTH KNOWING.

three-minin

least likely to encourage Chiness servants to breaches of an Ordinance designed to protect employers; but ne considerations of self-interest cau ebut our eyes to apparent injustice. This poor Chinaman was inferui- ally arrested, in contravention of the Or dinance; and, irrespective of the whole circumstances and merits of his particular ease, was punished to the maximum extent

as a warning. We appreciate the value manners. A good deal of excitement and alone is adopted. of any suitable case heing used as example, hostile feeling" is reported as a result of the but British law is meant to punish delin-arveyers' visit. quents, not to penalise scapegoats.

in the Journal of Tropical Medicine" there is a communication by Dr. William Hartiga in which the use of offlin in spre is highly recommended. It is given in The people of Tingpoo (or Chingpu, as the doses in the form of palatinoids, with the most inologues spell it, a place to the wost of the satisfactory result. The great advantage Model Settlement, do not seem to regard good giving gliin is said to be that it enables the semunications as a blessing; and their very patient to resume an onlinary, though restricted, il communications have cerrupted their got diet much sooner that when treatment by riiet

The rain seems to have stopped the plegas, There was another blank return yesterday.

A MINT AT CHUNGKING.

They have petiti nen the ....... Shanghai Taotai, who has apparently reported A dispatch from Chungking. Su., states that to Viceroy Chen Fu of Nangking, who is in the well-known Tuota Tsai Naihuang, Director turn told the Waiwaga, who are expected to of the Chongtu Arsenal, has lately arrived at devrand of the British and American Ministers Chungking to start a Goverment Mint in that city. The new mint, quotes the A.-C. A Peking that "all further encroachments" Daily News, will not only be able to turn ont The Philippines Government is advertising be stopped. And still the missionaries tell silver coins of various denominations but ais for bids for railway concessions, open only to us that wonderful change is coming ten and re-cash copper pieces, these last being American subjects or companies. Bids are to over China! This objection to good roads especially needed in Buechuan province, owing &

the lack of the ordinary copper cask. be accepted until November Ist.

snacks of the same old China.

open

summons.

mplete success of the holiday scheme of Sergeant Garrod, reculled-Thero has been no jubilation. The secretary of the general con- noise in the house since the issue of the mittee in charge of the arrangements, Mr. Herbert D. Gale, extends a cordial invitation to Americans and others in the colony to go-to Manila and maka merry with the hundreds of thousands who will join in the fetes us, the anniversary of American independence. The steamship companies offer special facilities to witness the celebration, and elaborate arrange- monts have been made to accommodate the large

His Worship-The evidence is very clear and I order the defendant to pay a fue of $5, als to enter into a personal bond in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for the next twelve

af months.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued influx of visitors expected. the following report-

On the 23rd at 11.55 s.m. The barometer has risen over China and Luzon.

Pressure is above the normal over China generally, and is highest in the North. It appears to be relatively low over Tongking and the N.W. part of the China Sea,

Gradients aro moderate to slight and fresh or moderate N.E. to 8.E..winds may be expected in the Formosa Channel and along the northern shores of the China Sea,

Forecast:-Fresh or moderale E. winds equally, rainy.

Among the numerons signs of vitality in the Church of England at the present day "not the least significant is the development of strength filling high positions in her hierarchy Half a and individuality of character among those century ago the main qualification for ecclesias tical promotion almost seemed to be blame whether any profession has displayed more less mediocrity, But latterly it may be doubted varied instances of remarkable of individuality of character.-Nation, New York

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