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SUPREME COURT. Wednesday, 29oil November.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

BEFORE Mr. A. G. WISE (PurBNE JUDGE),

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ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

Wong Teci and Wong San Kwai wore charged with committing robbery with violence at the village of Sara Chung on 13th Faly and newulting Lay Yung Hei, Prisoners, who pleaded not guilty, were undefended. Sir Houry Barkeley (Atterpoy. General) prosecuted. The following jury were empanelled: Messrs. Peter Dow (foreman), R. St. Pierre, Campbell Glover, Donalil Furbos, Harry Eyro, Alexander Bain, and Paul Lowder.

The Attorney-General outlined the case for the Crowa. On the 13th July last about 10.30 at night the complainant Lay Yung Soi, a grocer in the village of Sum Chung in the Now Territory-whose unele was also living in the house-was awakeneil by siano perious attempt ing to get into the house. Subsequently three men officeted an entrance and attacked the two inmates, tied them up, and raided the house, carrying off $21, a musket, a revolver, two. umbrollas, articles of clothing and other things. Although the robbary took place in July, prisoners were not arrested antil October. Thu first prisoner was arrested on the 27th October in a lime host, in which was found one of the atulen antrellas. On the same night a party of police, acting upon information, went to the house occupied by the second prisoner and there found some of the stolon articles, notably a jacket. The second prisoner was taken to a village where he informed the police he had two zauskits, but although a urch was moudle in the house indicated they could not be found. It woukl be proved, however, that this prisoner hid the muskets at the back of the bonse

POLICE COURT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 1905.

Wednesday, 2nd November. BEYORS MR. F. A. HAZELANI) (FIRET POLICE MAGISTRATE),

ASHAULTING THE POLICH.

Captain Grevantiz, of the Gorman steamer Marcellut, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner and assaulting Constable Bowler opposite the Hongkong Hotel, in Des Vronx Road, on Tuesday evening.

The enso was rewanded until Friday.

ASBAULT WITH FIGHTING IDONE. Kwan Tak was charged at the instones of Inspector Collott with asaanting a compatriot in a brothel at Shoktoneni, West Point. A further charge of Laving fighting irons in his possession without the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police was preferred against him.

Berore Me. C. D. MELBOURNE (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).

OFIUM DUMPING. Chang Fok and Tan Choi, the former a boarding house rauner and the latter un- smplered, were charged with dumping opium iu a brothal situated on the first floor of No. 497 Queen's Road West.

Mr. Hogarth, Chiol

Excise Officer, prosecuted, and Inspoutor Collott watched the case on behalf of the Police."

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THE NEW BOMBAY DOCK.

A GIGANTIC BOHEME,

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GERMAN TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

In the opinion of the Dombay Gazette, the Mr. Consul-General Schwabool, of Berlin, is new Bombay docks will be the menus of afford-ons of the very select band of cousuls whose ing overy conveivable facility to shipping reporte can always be commanded to the notice of business men end students of foreign pasongors and troopships.

industrial condition. Himself a business man and of no mean ability, Mr. Consul-General Sobwa. tach is quito at home in discussing commercial topice, and is reports on commercial industrial developments in Germany have gained ladg goes, has only buen equalled by the reports distinction in a way that, so far as our of Dr. Frederick Hose on technical education.

know.

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in the opinion of the district boards of matinge- tion for the workinen. Committees, which They are further to act as boards of concilia

ment are not fitted for their tasks, can be dissolved-Commercial Intelligence.

The work of constructing the new dock has been entrusted by the Bombay Port Trust to Mosers Price, Wills and Reeves, who have previously exconted several works of a similar kind in England and elsewhere. The work is a represented in Bombay by Mr. C. A. R. Stuart, contract one. Mesars, Price, Wills and Reeves are and from the bustle and activity that prevails

In his latest report dated Berlin, Soptember on the grand it is apparent that the work in being pastel on as rapidly as possible. The 11), Mr. Consul-Gopera! Sohwabach trests of actual preparatory dams were commenced last the developments in the foreign trade, the white has not bo-n so satisfactory as cras expected. the agriculture and industry of Gorgany in the November, but from various causes the progress Jabour market, in social legislation, &c., and of Who completed the new deeks will materially first half of the current your. Apart from the miners' strike in January, Mr. Schwabach con- affect the welfare of Bombay, apart from its temporary disturbanes decasioned by the great Comparing the tonunge that entered the port siders that the general condition of trade and enhancing its value as a shipping port. 30 years ago with the imports at the present industry was satisfactory. The home demand time, it will be seen from statistics that it is was brisk, and the principal industries, such On the first chargo ho was contorend to two about eight times greater now. In the matter as the iron, unchas building, "lectrical, the' imprisonment with hard labour and six of revenue, too, the port of Bombay ranks third textile, and chemical, were, on the whole, trades which provide employment for up- taking hours' stacks; and on the second fined $50, the in the British possessions, London und Liverpool well employed, while the bailing and allied

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jutty last year, very aolive; the harvest prospects alternative being six weeks' imprisonment with deck when completed will be 2,000 fost warde of 2,500,000 hands, were again, it's

long and 1,075 feet wide, with hard labour; the sentences to be consecutive.

projcation into it 1,500 feet long ant 485 were on the whole satisfactory. The imparing wide, leaving a turning space for vessels condithas were also reflected in len 1,075 by 1,100 fact, the water ures thats of the labour market. The number of places obtained will be nearly 50 acres and the vacant way larger, the number of applicants for length of grays will amoans to 10,000 lines work relatively smaller than in 1904 while in both feet insisk the dock and 6,035 foot enteide along queriers the return of unemployed showed the the harbour frontage, The entrance to the small percentage of 16-a satisfactory figure dock is by a lock 750 foot long by 100 feet wide for Germany, and, of course, one that is ns- with two pairs of enotion gates at the outer end tonishingly low compared with similar returns water level there will in a depth of water of strike, having regard to the fact that 200,000 and one pair at the dock end. As at mean low for this country. The Rhonish Westphalian 30 font no the outer sill of the lock, it should men suspended work for a whole month, sebras to have caused much less dislocation of trade he seldom that any vessel need be delayed in

Among the principal events of the lilf year, advantageous in the case of the P. & O. Co.'s getting into the deck. This will be especially than might have been expected. boats as they will be able to come alongside the the adoption of the Prussian Canal Bill by the wharf that is being especially prepared for Prussian Diot mast be given a prominent place. lauding passengers and which will be in direst This Bill provides for the expenditure of the 116,728,550 on inhud Yet it is proably trus that it has communication with the Trank Hailway lines be able to go straight into dook whatorer the attracted less attention in England thus did the and after landing passengers and baggage wavigation.

tomber 5th, Mr. Swift MaoNeill draws the completed will be provided with hydraulis

attention of Earl Candor to the case of a may be recalled that €2,537,500 el, but cranes for unloading the cargoes. There will Canal was to be converted into a motor track. fogging in the navy. In a letter dated Sep- ther ship of the Mediterranean the Berlin-Stotin and The most important item in the construction will be spent upon the Rhine-Weser Canai boy on board the Formidable, battleship, use be 17 large warehouses und railway sidings project was diy wapped and detailed in

squadron," who is alleged to have committed connecting with the main lines,

suicide on Augu 1 5th, and asks whether at the of this dock is the building of the three dame waterway. Dir. Sehwabach points out that the

bo flogged. He further wishes to know if direc surrounding the whole area of the work. The Bill estalished & State towing wenepoly for the

tinus, expressed or implied, were given to keep length of dame to bo constructed is over two miles Phine. Wecor spter and the principal of tonnage time ho was under arrest and arder sentence to

as they are in some places as much as 15 dues for navigable streams. "Mochanical towing

this inattor from the knowledge of publie; what was the offenco for which this boy was feet in height and in 40 feet of water, some iba by private enterprise is prohibited, and spevin

sentenced to be flogged; what were the num- can be obtained of the magnitude of this, which permits are required for the use of these water- is only a preliminary and temporary part of the work, for theas dums will all have to be removed ways by vessels propelled by their own motivo

opoly was adivoented as pans of abolishing the ber of strokes to be inflicted; whether the administered was a cane or a birea, and whether! the sentonce was imposed after trial by railways are practically at State-owned) and prevailing competition between railways (the instrument by which the fogging was to be court-martial or summarily by a commanding officer. He quotes a forwarding service on uniform lines with

passugo from a speech by Lastly. waterways, and a means of organising a

Mr. Prety man, the Secretary to the Admiralty. fise deliveries and froight rates.

in the House of Cormous on August 7th, which the towing mooly will able the Govern

he alleges bears the interpretation that boya ways and railways. It remains to be soon. gentenced to be flagged in the Royal Navy were ment to extend its tarif policy both over water

watched both before and after the infliction of this degrading punishment to prevent them add, whether the substitution of the State man-

thodvacates sof expectations aised by

from committing suicids. Acknowledging refuses to admit as correct this interpretation of Mr. Protyman's speech, whose this letter on September 9th, Earl Cawdor eau in no sente be construed as meaning that Бода

sentenced to receive strokes with a birch are watched before and after punishment to prevent them from committing suicide." The following is the reply of the First Lord

inimese

of

FLOGGING IN THE NAVY,

Semo correspondence bar passed between Mr. Swift MaoNeill, M.P., and Earl Candor, the

In the charge-room la admitted that he had West. The farmer questioned the defendant, state of the tide. The quays of the dock when anfounded rumour that the old Basingstoke First Lord of the Admiralty, on the subject ofį

committed tho robbery, but denied it when before the magistrate.

Lai Yung Sul detailed the robbery on the night in question. The first prisener was armed with a pole, the second with a bludgeon, and the third was doarmed. They tied his hands bobind his back and fastened bisquata to a beam.

Going to the shop they took gel in money and afterwards raided the bonse, carrying all

number of articles.

Bath prisoners made statements in defence, protesting their inaucence.

His Tardalip summed up, and the jury, without retiring, found the first prisoner not guilty and the second prisoner guilty.

The latter was sentenced to five years' hard labor and to receive 24 strokes. In the other two charges the Astarucy-General did not offer any evidence and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in each,

The first prisoner was discharged. This concluded the basiness of the Sessions. FATAL TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. At the Magistracy yesterday afternoon before Mr. F. A. Hezoland, eitting as coroner, and a jay, sa inquiry was held as to tho cans of death of an unknown Chinuman, who was killed as the result of a collision with tramcar No. 24 in Dos Yoas Road, near the Central Market, on the 10th instant.

Dr. John Bell, Superintendent of the Govern. went-Civil Hospital, deposud as to examining the body of descasod and finding that death was due to a fractured skull. Balag knooked down by a tram might have caused such injury.

Lakong Tang Yan said he picked used up from the tram line. He was lying in front of ear No. 14.

Mr. Hogarth stated that the first defendant, Chung Fuk, reported at the Opium Farm on the 21st instant that illisit opium would be found on the first floor of No. 487 Queen's Road correctness and was suspicions as to the of his information, as the defendant told the farmer that it would be aseloss to visit the house before 7 p.m. as before that hour the opium would not be there; if he went later, however, it would be sold. An excise cfficer visited the house at the hour mentioned, and found four and a half mace of opium on a shelf in the kitchen. Tho opium, the infermer and

the inmates of the brothel were then taken to tie Opium Fom, where farther inquiries wore

and,

it

£2,650,000

11 posi

mado. Chung Enk was then taxed with placing again after the work on the dock proper has power. The introduction of the towing mon-

Ho donied

completed.

The quantities of these two items which will amount to:-Maset ry 700,000 exbic yards together form the bulk of the work to be done and scavation 4,000,000 cubic yards, from which figures it will be readily seen that the the same time that the dams are being built contractors have no light job before them. At the Ballard Pier is being extended 200 feet to

the opinn where it wax fonul. doing this, but blamed his friend Tam Choi, whom he volunteered to go and point out. An excise officer was despalclied with him to tho hous, where Jam Choi was found and arrested. The informer was also taken in custody.

An inmate of the brothel gave evidence to the effect that Tam Choi went to the house Join eu to thë mols at which the P. & O. stenors Rgement for private enterprise will fulfill this wat

nhont 7 pm. He was smoking a cigaretta when he entered. This be put down, and went into the kitchen for the purpose, he said, of getting

are tu berth.

the mon

a bowl of water to rinse out his mouth. The je blue basalt; which is found in lurge quantities tho State roente complaint with regard to

opit was found on a shelf near the barrel from which he had obtained the water.

After hearing further evidence his remanded the easy until Thursday,

BRITISH METHODS PRAISED.

Worship

Some of

apply. Its ndversaries point out that the Intity policy of the Government may be influnced more by fiscal than by economic possiderations, which is a

It and hardly be added that the potency of these anul considerations in the cas railway rates makes the new. monopoly seem full of menace to foreig jafand navigation is particularly neglected in this country.

obtain

board the Formidable-

or

words

Admiralty, Whitehall, September, 13th, 1905, Dear Sir-I have made inquiry concerning the case to which you called my attention in full particulars placed before me. It appears on beard HM.S. that a boy, first chees Formidable, was on the evening of August 4th, found by an alle man of the same The boy admitted having taken it, wher upon thei seaman struck him, and the boy absented himself. from the master for inrning in for the night. meas to be wearing a flannel belonging to him.

On inquiry the incident of the flannel was. who put the boy in the report for being in brangli to the antice of the officer of the watch, unlawful possession of the seaman's flannel, in order that the master might be dealt with next

It is intended to construet the walls of the cock in rubble aneury, the front of the walle being built is "composito facing." The store that will be need both for face work and backing

dock, such as pointing ills and the hollow

ata., in the Borbay district. Special parts of the quotas of the gatos, face-work of calverts, will be constructed of granite which will be obtained from Great Britain, or in some casar exportera. But it is not Germany's fault that of the Admiralty as to the case of the boy on from granito quarries in India. the granite stones weigh as much te 12 as the pointing PHYSICAL TRAINING OF NAVAL tons and others, such

MEN.

wills and hollow gains, require very careful dressing, as on their accurate fit to the gas and Saar Rivers in West Prussis, and the your letter of the tb inst.. and have had the which cross the 100 fest lock, the water-tightness of the dock depends.

In consequence of this work the bulk uit installations Rear-Admiral John C. Watson, U.S.N., who

will have to be removed; nud has returned from Europe, where he made an extensive study of the physical condition of the arrangements have been made to accommodate vision has been made for a piar to carry the the methods employed in their training and enlisted men of foreign navies, together with then at Sewree on a suitable site, where pra maintenance, states that there has beat recently communication pipe line out to a deep water a great increas of official interest in the herth, where the tank steamers will discharge. The motorman of this car stated that on the physical welfare of the enlisted fores. The Thla will necessitate a built-bank 8,00 fost long aval authorities, he says, have learned, though and a special pier about 3,000 feet long being According to the terms of the contract the 16th instant, us he was going West, he saw rather tardily, that naval efficiency requires constructed.

fardy, well-fed, contented, and properly trained par coming in the opposite dircation, Near the

crews quite as much as it requires large abips contractors, Mosers, Price, Wills & Reaves, entrance La Pottinger Street, ho saw a

before the expiry of the year 1912. From ran babind the other car and in front of bis and powerful guns, and that in all the movies are expected to fully completo all the works ho inspected there is increasing effort to aset As soon as he saw the deceased, his car collided that requirement. It is remarkable" (says plan of the whole Bombay harbour it may be 1882 was 1,998,000) and 965,000. By 1903 it had fastened to his neck from a grating near the

Admiral Watson, in an interview published in atmersed that the Carnac Basit will divide Leader) "that so the new docks from the Frince's al Victoria the Piuladelphia Public abolition of sail docks. On the docks being faished they will many years elapsed power before the nations had eyes for the rank among the best and finest in the world." fact that the modern armour clad provided insufficient substitute for the hardy mascular development of the older seamanship. The training of the modern man-o'war's man has been along technical lines mental schooling that more or less reglects the requirements of physical development and resulted in a wide- The Her. W. Bridie, late Wesleyan chaplain. spread agitation. This has led to beneficiat nad Belgium gives official notice of a dering ably with these for the first half of 1904, owing the boy not being under sentence of any punisk-

would not say that the United RN of Hongkong, writes thus to the Naval results. and Military Record regarding this subject States has much to learn; int in at least

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with him, and he was knocked down. The oxmergency brake was at once applied, and the car stopped.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

THE TENURE OF WEI-HAI-WEI

REV, W. BHIDIE'S VIEWS.

have come to the conclusion that it was highly England.

As the result of the agitation

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THEFT OF A BIG CHEQUE, The following advertisement appearing in many of the daily papers of England, France. train robbery To Bankers, Financiers, ill Notice is hereby given that a cheque Brokers, and others. Notice of lost or atolon No. M.23,874, dated London, the 7th September, for Fee. 1,502,000 (one million two

eheque.

HOW,

Although already committed to so vast an expenditure on canals, the Prussian Dist also fuvcars the canalisation of the Mcsal, Lubu, constraction of the Masuric Conal in East Prussia, Mr. Schwabach observes that the canalisation of the o tributaries of the Rhine benefit in the first place the iron Sieg district aul, by thus oubling them coal and oxes at cheaper rates competitive their increase industries of Lorraine, Luxemburg, aud the to thou manufactures are to a large extent exported. power. The Lorraine and Luxemburg iron Tha impotus given to industry by the great improvements in the Rhizomavigation is exom- plied by the astonishing growth of the tonnage and bruisborg (tadt-Hafen). The tonnage in of gods handle at the thine ports of Rubrot grown to 8,3 5,000 tons and 6,163,000 tops, su increase of 316.7 per cent. at Rahrort and 588.7 of the river craft has, of course, greatly increased per cent. ut Duisburg. The average formag during the same period. Mr. Schwabach gives some interesting analyses of the returns for the foreign trade, but into these it will not be necessary for us to enter. Salles it to any that with few exceptione Germany's export trade in the imptant branches was well maintained. The total Geares, however, compare unfavour- to the abnormal development of the goal trade Amorg legislative measures recently adopted resulting from the miners' strike, the Consal-General mentinus the Prussian law

Our responsible anthorities in the Far East one particular wo might take a lesson #ince 1907 and ninety-two thousand franes) for the protection of coal miners, which 27th, says it is perfectly clear that this

there has continues

to the

was some thought of restoring the place to the methods of the Swedish physical culture, and of London, on the Credit Lyon et ling of tracky ant felle touted or contain King's.ekip, as revealed in Earl Cawdor's letter,

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BABY SCREAMED

DAY AND NIGHT

From Pain of Terrible Itching Eczema --Unless Hards Were Tied Would Scratch Till Face Was Raw Mother Could Get No Rest.

FACE NOW CLEAR.

CURED BY CUTICURA

"For over two years my little baby girl suffered with a raw, itching, and paintnt eczema on her head and face, the pain causing her to sercam day and night, and my wife could get no rest. We tried sev eral doctors, but without saccess. Unless we kept her hands tied she would scratch until her face was like raw beef. One cake of Carticure Soap and two boxes of Cuti- cara Ointment completely cured her, heal- ing her face without mark or blemish." (sigued) W. J. Morgan, Orchard Town, New Lambton, N. S. W., Australia,"

AWFUL SUFFERING

Baby's Face Solid Sore Would Scratch and Tear Away the Flesh-Cured by Cuticura. "My baby'a face was a mass of sores. The doctor called it eczema, but Els treat- ment did no good, as the child was getting worse, the disease eating the flesh away from his nose, and spreading to his body. Neighbours said it was the worst case they had ever seen. His suffering was terrible, and he would scratch and teor away the flesh. We then used the Cuti- cura Remedies, one set curing him con- pletely, and healing his face without scom or blemish.-Wm. Cridland, 35 Winches- ter St., Pentonville Rd., N. London, Eng”

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engine room, A. Natal Court of Inquiry was 6.30 a.m., the boy was found hanging by a rope

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Mr. Swift MacNoil, in a reply dated Sept. unfortunate boy committed suicide "to avoid the alume and degradation of a public flogging." sdcisable, if not imperative, to retain possession in the last two years instituted a raleshle

coal mices, abolishes the cangel. He thinks that the incidents of life on board a in Paris, extra shifts of Wei-hoi-wed.. The half-constructed forts on Admiral Watson, heen the intend of Liu-Kung-tao, Port Edward, may courss of poysical training. It is based on the drawn by the Yokohama Specie Bank. Limited, regulates the hours of laboar, avertime, and

order of Kretzschwar, was

will be appreciated to the fall by the public. A Bill regulating Ho further contends that the punishment of be taken as an evidence that at one time there weet

has had most succesful results with the men

by, or stolen from, the payes, on the 13th dross, liuits the lines, and makes work men's not passed 1of the British feat. In this country, apart nese, There is, however, anther-and 1

September hast. Payment of the said cheque committees compulsory, Chinese,

defended for the believe the real-reason for that arrested work. from athletic sport, there has been given scunt

A bourd has has been stopped. Bankers, Financiere, and the shutting down of coal mines was

receiving

of the offender and with a view to bis reform. 20% of Plasmon and are more easily digested After we had spent £100,000 it was found that to attention to physical culture.

ditions detrimental to health is

They are invaluable to persons of weak diges- defend Wai-hai-wei a forra of 20.000 men would been appointed, however, to make an exhaustive others are warned not to negot ate the by the Penesis Dist, but the protection of dogged as a punishment inflicted for food A PLASMON BISCUITS. They contain be necesary to man the fortifications when they inquiry. In Germany two seral officers have above cheque. Arthar F. Farish, Woreastor workpeople thing in factories under cou-

Plasmon Biscuits are made in four varieties were built That being the ease, it is easier, recently been detailed to study the ruthods of House. Waibrook, London, EC., Solicitor to abearer, and more effective to rely on the flost physical calture in the German Army, which the payee." Mr. Ernst Kretztetizar is a prom increased attention, An Imperial ordinance has The case is cited of a boy on beard a warhip, and afford greater nourishment and sustenance and having extensive business interests in the contruction and working of lead works, and disgrace from the Royal Navy, to the rain of tiou, Travellers, Cyclists. Athletes and others.

Hold by for defence. There are two valid reasons for ng long had a fine and thorough system. The lacnt German merchant residing in Berlin, also been ismal this your regulating the guilty of theft, being oondemnel to receivo 24 than any other.

H. BUTTONJEE. continning to hold Wei-hai-wei. The first is results of their investigations will be applied Far East, In the beginning of September he compulsory werkmen's committees are being his whole life. The tender mercies," he adds,

was in London and learned that the Tokolans introdueal for the Prasian railways by the

No. E, D'Aguilar Strest, the presence of Germany in the Shantung to the men in the navy, in France, also,

punishment to which they alone are subject) the Credit portant departure was. Mr. Sobwatach

teem somewhat cruel."-N. and M. Record. prince. Compared with this our tenure of mossares of the kind have been adopted. In

36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon.

(2820 Wei-hai-wei is a very anal affair indeed, for the mattor of the moral surroundings of Specie Bank here had forwarded him to Berlin Minister for Public Works The latter im "of the Admiralty to the children of the poor-sweet, plain, wholemeal, and celery,

on-Maine, and Cologne. The committers are naval base. At this enlisted men there is a very satisfactory candi cheque for 1.1,292,000 on it is little more than

shops. gusworks, and similar branches for which gise that base and retire to Hongkong, Weston, a philanthropic spinster, has interested where he found the cheque awaiting him.

ke, carried in committers already exist, Separate committeey 1,300 mile to the south, would not tend to promote herself with so much success in this matter Sept. 18 he sat out for Paris with the cheque to represent the meu not employed in the work- the interesis of peace. But the chief reason, that she is called the Mother of the British in his possession. He placed it in

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issned from my point of view, is that Wei-hai-wel is Navy The International Committee of the red leather wallet, which

the following report:- men in the respective a splendid sanatoriuma for the Royal Navy YMCA. in that contry have confined that, the inside breast pocket of his coat, and will be appointed for the trafle, engine and in his pocket at Air-la-Chapelle, he separate committers will be formed if there is a

On the 2nd at 12.5 pm. The barometer bas One well able to judge said "it is worth a so long as the lives, the association's efforts in he believes the wallet to have been safely management departmenta For every station

in the morning. sufficient number of In Wei-

that direction will be superogatory.

he arrived there at bine million pounds a year to the navy." hai-wei I aw men when I had visited in the work corresponds very much with the valuable During the stoppage he left the train for sonic section, but joint committees may be appointed

The anticyclonic area has spread Eastwards, unval bespital in Hoogkong, where because of efforts of Miss Helen Gould in this country refreshment, and returned to his second-class for a number of stations. Committees wil risou much over E. Japan, and fallen moderately

with a cup of coffee in one hand ad only be formed for at least 100 men of each over China their progress to recovery was very slow, but in accomplishes results by her influence on public

of the train a man collided with hira. Some more than 15 members, who must be at least the highest pressure now lying over the Yellow Pressure is lowest to the N.E. of Japan, and! the dry and bracing atmosphore of the sortli sentiment.-N. and M. Record.

ballot is seret. These committees will trans- little time later, when the train had started. Mr. 30 year old and five years in the service. The Sea and the B. part of the Sea of Japan,

over the Southern Philippines. - they were rapidly improving trae of all chest trouble. Not only for climatic As is well known, the residents of Shanghai Kretzschmar found that his wallet was not in wit to the superior oficer petitious, wishes.

Gradients have decreased, and the monsoon is reasons is it wise to keep Wei-hai-wel as a navol hava elected to be called "Shanghailanders," his pocket. A thorough search of the carriage ns. The island of Lin-Kung-Tao, whore only and will have none of Shanghaipas." We was usde without resalt, sud at the first stop and grievances, accompanied by their opinion the men are allowed to land, is sumparatively note with dismay that a post in our contemning, plase, warsing, telegrams were sent to thereon; they are also to give their opinion or

ForecastModerate N.E. winds; cloudy, free from these vices and templations, the in- porary there has coined a word in referring to Aix-la-Chapelle, Paris and other places. There general questions concerning the workmen, likely to moderate in the Formosa Obannel and dulgence in which playe snek havoo among our the ledy residents, whom he calls. Shanghai is but little chance of the cheque being tuch as new labour ordinances, measures for the N, part of the China Eaa.

institutions for workmen and their families. some light rain. men in Chinuse and Japanese parts, and for landrosses" Aslangy-minded critic entertains negotiated, safety lying in the largeness of the she prevention of accidents, and charitable those ressons I am thankful that there is the opinion that "this won't wash." probability of our retaining Wei-hai-wei.

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strokes of the birch and to be dismissed with

eritien! time of settlement and adjustibett to, tion in the mary of Great Britais. Agnes Lyonnais in Poria. He hurried back to Berlin, the outcome of trials muds at Berlin, Fains on board the King's ships (for Bogging is a |

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the high temperature and moisture of the air She Incks Mies Gould's resources, however, but ring to eat in the other. In the corridor section, and consist of not less than thres, nor?

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WEATHER REPORT.

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