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FUNNELS AND FLAGS.

On the 11 inst a steel spar-deck steamer wan launched at the Kuwanki Dockyard, Kobe, for ho Osaka Showen Kaisha. The steamer has been named the Kagi-maru,

In view of the new mail contract service which begius early next year, the eulosalar and

Oriental Company have controled with Messre. Caird and Co., of Greauock, for sa express mail steemer for their branch service between Bombay and Aden, which is ran in conn rion with their heir China and Lastralia line. This vessel will be a

SATHIT

boat with a minimum of PRSKALOT cargo space and accommodation for nearly 300 first and second class passengers, whose sabing will ho, to a largare sent, on the upper dock, and will pass the most perfect ventilation. Tho tenange of the red will be 6000 tons, and her engines, of 10,000 h.p., will enable a sou speed to Lo maintained of 18 or 18 knots. She will therefore be of the type of the Isis and Osiris which Lave carried the mails so scessfally between Brindisi and Port Said, but will be nearly four times the size of those steamers.

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While there is uneasiness at the firm of John Brown and Company, Clydebank, having

PEKING TO PARIS.

MULE MOTOR RACH.

Following was sent to the Daily T legraph Our Italu car reached Kalgan this morning JJano 15 at cieven o'clock, and the others are

following. According to news brought by Mongolian muleteers, they passed the night at Kimini, 120 li in our rear. We fully anticipate that they will roach Kalyna to moricw.

He wore in advance of the time foreseoD, LS wo were able to use car motor for about twelve miles between Haaflei and Shimpanwan. After that we again used the engine for another

Kalgan twenty miles before satering

The journey was one of extraordiuexy interest. On June 12, at half past four in the mere we left Cha-tan-

mules and a-tan-chung, drawn by coolies. We soonreached the. mountain, leaving behind the summit of Nankou le spurs of the Yonjan outlined by the infinite ribbon of the Great wall. A real road does not exist. There are merely paths created by the usual traffle, and along these we dragged the automobils just as big guns are hauled into position, ench” izera- mert being regulated by a signal from our horn, It was hard work preparing a space for the lyres

The coolies and remoring boulders.

time with characteristic songs improvised for worked with alacrity, uniting their efforts in

the occasion, Pash, push" they sung. and then the fire carriage will run by itself.”**

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 18TH, 1907.

WEDDING ON SKATES.

HOCKS

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AND MOSELLES.

DIRECT FROM, AND BOTTLED BY LANGENBACH AND SOEHNE. WORMS-ON-RHINE.

about twenty of them with a motor. Thenoc. forward the plain, unless it is spoiled by the rsin, will offer as an excellent track about 1,000

AMERICA'S LATEST NOVELTY. kilometroa, until we reach Urga, which we shall to easily in four days, To-day we met Automobile weddings in America, with the our first Mongolians, in their characteristic red pastor tising the knot while the machines are woollen mantles. They sainted as deferentially. dashing along country roads at full speed, have Ont car, which was admirably prepared for already been described. Now we have a wedding the journey, has born its trials in an excellent oa roller-skates. This pleasing innovation was manner. A great crowd oomes to see it is successfully inaugurated in Paradise Park, SPARKLING RED BURGUNDY the courtyard of tho Russo-Chinese Baul Brooklyn, last month, and in view of the craze Lamas, mandarine, missionaries Baddhist for roller-skates which saw exists, rinks with

COME, thousands of fashionable patrons being establish priests and Russias marchants all impelled by the curiosity. The peopleet everywhere, it may become popular. even climb on to the neighbouring, reufs in order to look at and diss the strange engine.

The French and Hutch earu arrived here at They were delayed by the Uxatal tricar, whose eight o'clock this morning, in good condition. wheel could not overcome the deep ruts.

AKBUTHNOT AFFAIRS.

Mr. Raymond Barrett and Misa San Pierce have the distinction of boing the first couple married on ruller-skates, and the Rev. officiated, was also on skates. Mr. Barrett, a George Dallos, of Brooklyn, the minister who wealthy young engineer, frst met Miss Pierce at Paradiso Park, whither she nsed to come to skating. He was enthusiastic about roller- skating: so was she, and in the course of time they became enthusiastic about each other. At the Madres Police Court, on Jane 2tform that when Mr. Barrett asked Miss Pirrce Both had the skating mania in such on route Sir George Arbuthnet was formally committed if she would be his for good and all he said to the Sessions in the Rejab Kishua Bahadur's she gladly would if he would keep his skates sae, the Equitable Assurance Co's case and on the charges made agalust hint in connection

cheating Rajsh Kishun Bahadur by inducing In the sumed he was charged with him to continue a fixed deposit of 34 lakhs by giving him

a cheque for in orest there for Rs. 17,500 knowing that the cheque would not se dashed.

Required an interest in Hurland and Wait termed to be animated by our will, and they with Industrials Limitet

p

(Limited), Ballant, it is believed that the combine will causa, more work to I placed in the Clyde yard. Details of the smugama. tion are not put forthcoming, but the fact

Their voices rosound through the deserted that competition will be tersed should prose ralleys. Now and again some palanquin dran advantage 19

Tho tiver Clyde is being by males or a caravan of osmele crosses the io enter to allow the luer Lusikain" deepened i

horizon. Every whero wo meet with a kindly to proceed to see, and this should be the means

reception from the population. They bring us of contracts for giant shit being placed at Clydebank. The announcement of the

fresh water from the wolls and ask as respect fully where we are going. When we baye preaching amalgamation has aroasol the koenent iterest in Belfast. Mers Harian utter to run the machine. We throw off ke pared the village of Tunugo we de ide to and Wolff will bo in tao position, onco the rehome

ropes, By our flig, and go off at mash speed, is matured, of procuring the major portion travorsing the path with comparative emo. of their raw material at first hand, and without. paying the profits of the middleman. The crest of the rados. Passing through the We cross threugh the deep mud and on to accession of capital to the firm (adds our little villages, wrs feel the indescribablo corresp adent) will enable them to extend, pleasure which comes from having done some- if it is found dosirah's, their plans at thing which seemed impossible for the est Southampton, where it is proposed meantime time. This race in the sight of Chiuves pugoda to sink CL1000 in equipping the new yard.

seems to be a dream, and we are compenssted for all our fatigas

But

Our Occidental pride reaches the apex of satisfaction.

From all houses there issue women and children-a picturesque crowd in their strango habiliments, more strange tho those of the Pekines. They form a rivacious throng along the wand walls of f the village. there is no sign of excewise wonder.

On th contrary, a tranquil and begerlent curiosity. Many of them stort out" She uncis" ("here Is the railway"). Countrymen at work often look at me, but without interrupting their occupation, as if they had neon automobiles all their lives. All of them know the railway by repair, as it is from here that the Kalgan Tine will be begun. Consequently they believe that they are witnessing the passage of the Gest train.

The OS K. st amship Fukusha Mara" in ita ecent trip from Fornios was ordered by that island Government to touch Crates an island iving between Swatos and Hongkong, with the object of rescuing nine Japanese who left Formosa for the island son time ago in a junk and have not on beard of sizce. They were Mr. Shinroker Midadani and tight companiens who went there for commercial investigation. The steamer was provented fr. u reaching the island by foul weather, and succeeded in teaching it only on its return from Hongkong. On the 13th inst the steamer spprotebed the alleged uninhabited island, Jurgo columns of white smoke were went up in signal of the survival of the sufferers, who, on a eloser view, were found yelling in delight for the reeus within sight. The famished party was goou taken on board the

in

by the kind o'tention of the and rerived

Their story was soon told.

crew.

On the evening of the 12th we renobed Sim. without incident. The machine was powan

the best condition, the only inconvenienes

en.

Ho mid he would not take them off for anything, and so they were married with their

Park to see the ceremony. skates on.

About 500) roller skaters gildad into Parslise all waiting for the Rev. Mr. Dalton and bis While they were skates to arriva the baud played Mendelssohn's Wedling March and Vesta Victoria's Wa aiting at the Church."

DIRECT FROM GUICHARD-POTHERET FILS,

SOLE AGENTS-

CHALON-SUR-SAONE.

H. PRICE & CO., LTD,

PRICE LIST on Application. TEIN PHONE No. 135. 38)

INTERNATIONAL ROBBERS.

GANG DISCOVERED IN JAVA.

WINE MERCHANTS,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

CHINESE CRUISERS VISIT."

ABSURD INTERVJEN" WITH A TŁOTAL.

invested in Government, I miscppropriated Rr. 20,294 which should bass been utilised in purchasing Goverunt paper and Rs. 14,272 which should have been utilised in paying claims American phras, frequently employed by foreign soldiers, who also had deserted from maromies, and though we are the last to

published a special telegram, sanonuring the The other day, says the Straits Times, we discovery in Jara of an international gang of robbers, some of whom had enlisted in the the Class Cruisers on their visit to the Straits The Tuotai Taui-Ting-kan. who accompanies Dutch army aud had been arrealed.

Stumments and F.M.9., gave his views in clue, which fod to the discovery, was unravelled Suim Opinion.

Further

particulars by mail show that the Saigon with great frankness, according to the

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of the during the time inquiries were hing ma lo in to

orate he is report-dio bara said i In the Equitable Asseraaco case he was

the circumstances of a daring robbery at a we wish to show one ships. They are few ell, we too, charged under Rections P6, 100 and 3 of the applauss, and, after a few fancy fourishes, Mr. been broken into at night. The burglar proved in up. Lok at these monkeys of Japanese, At last the minister arrived, amid deafening Government Treasury in Mid-Jars, which had enough in number. But wait: We are walk- Indian Penal Code in that on the 31st July, being entrusted by the Seein' y with Rs, 822 Daltor led the bridal party to the altar ut si to be a tioranu soldier, who had deserted. In what they have bean ulds to accomplish. Aud add for certain purposes, namely to pay claims goed clip on his skates. As be swayed and this possession war found a passage ticket to you it was beganso they had to do with Russians,

the boys said he cut a handsome figues, and swept and pirann-winged along the Hoor all Singapore,

When arrested, the German betrayed his them a brashing down.

who were pitiable, others would have given the girls said he was Just ton sweet for words, accomplices. Thoy turnal cut to be three more Still it was sun thing. Wo have slepi like In the case of the Industrials be in charge and Miss Pieren, on their skatos, and the best tion loft no doubt that those men formal part ward. Opium? The smoking of epiunt rast American ladies. After him camo Mr. Barrett their respective regiments. Further investiga wake up we shall not any longer be back at der sections 6 and 199 of the Indian Penal Code withs die hourst, misappropriation

maa, Mr. William Posner, and the tusid of of a gang which had committed many robberies and

Der in China. honour, Miss Kattie Monroe, on theirs. With in Java recently.

That must be at any cant verting to his own use of property of the Ludus out as much as ones falling all ever himself, bim, by promissory notes, the property of risk fat of roller skaters to a canopy at the end of They were all addressed from Chicago.

or wo are lost.We do como here to beg. It is trinin by paying a debt of Rs. 5 lukus, due by Mr. Dalton personally conducted the whole terman, Italian, and Spanish wers found.

On one of the men, letters in French, English, the English papers that have spread that repert Distrust the English Peass when it Industrials; by raising an ancersary loan of the room, where, without removing his skates, ke

10 lakhs on debentures and utilising 100 pronounced the solemn words that made Jr. year several members at a gang of thioros left arder to alter take advantage of us.

gives Chiness news; it wishes to is late us in meney for Messrs. Achuthriot & Co.'s purponce, Barrett and Miss Piereo man and wife. The Germany for Javo, where some of them joined cums here, as shewhere, as friends nuð to see and finally with lending Re 2 lakhs, the property there was a big spiral, at which nobody look of the Industrials the Mysore Sagar Coupary their skates off, and after it the happy couple for the purposes of Messrs. Arbutinat's when skated out to a carriage and began their wedding he knew the Sugar Company to be bankrupt.

Sir Honry King said he would file list of

journey to Atlantic City. witnesses within a fortnight,

RAUBS.

Cou-

Sharchokler" writes to the Straits Times-

Singapore, July 9th 1907.

As there are a great number of people inter sled in this Mining Company who are entirely dependent on the monthly reports of the manager of the mine for eutimating the value of their shares, I am sure that the Diretors wonk

to greatly oblige the shareholders if they were to publish in their monthly statement

of output

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Fince the famous equestrian bridal breakfast at Newport, where every guest best rode a horse, thore has been no such diversion created ae by Mr. and Mrs, Barratt's nuptials,

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

The Globe gays;-

The "Sourabaya Handelsblad" hears that last

the army, while others found employment in civil life. Other members of the gang went to Ameries, They all had to love Germany from fear

detection. They kept up a correspond once which showed that the arrested memberm had led a career of erime in Juva. The names of the whole gang are known as well as their false names.

of

The police investigations tavo resulted in the discovery of letters written by hitherto unknown Kiembers of the gang. Theses letters have thrown mach light on the affair, and may load

to further discovering and arreste.

CHINA TEA AGAIN.

Pescadores en April 2nd, and left, the being the ease in which the motor heated owIDR what faller details us to the result of the fat some "mestus vivondi" by which future rotioad how mush more Chins ton is as ed for

tures days 31. Fisher Island beanse of the weather. ing the island on the 5th, they had to seek refuge in Ilongkdu again from foul weather. and reached their destination on the 21st, and have remained there ever sinco causing satisfy to the Formosa utherities, expect dly they f und an old Chinese couple

Lorde shell to the mainland. These showed the aimast kind- mess to the sufforire, but refused to allow them

to the continual effort to overcome hard plast But everywhere there was un abundance of fresh water to slake our thirst and that of the engine, We start again on the morning of the 19th, under a starry sky, once more drawn by mules and coolies. We shall remember this day us the richest in fatigues and emotions,

A bundred

stood

We

bacuma insupportable, and would like to boop us our compatriots. The Japanes? They bare

lady; we are a nation of merchants who should in tutelage. We do not wish an, thing of any be on good terms with all the world. Still as we havo boflieg

neighbours, we must be able to should have to fight against the Fapanasi, or reply to them. In ten years from now, we passibly Russia will fall on their book agniu. It bovesty. is not possible to live with them; they are without

said appears in French in

The Ta-tai spoke in English, and what he 1:0 Opinion. from #bich we have transited, says the Bangkok Times, We presumes that he way misunderstoo, and that he did not uses term: «f insult towards any antion.

INDIAN RAILWAYS.

who make it their tradottiving there times we rau the risk of seeing the automoti's gold mining. I would suggai the publicstiona agens to keep them. It is in thien it was five to ten years ago. In 1967 matter of communications than are Persia an

were obliged to live on fish and fowls and muby leaves, when the rescue came just in

fall over a precipion or be drugged down by recht or get kriod in mud.

In the neighbourhood of Ebro-buai laen he crossing it the car became buried over the axlex. It was also held up by the immeuse roots of

further. Wahad, therefore, to work with axes

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Sir Edward Grey was interrogated in the House of Commons yesterday us to the uego- tiations between ourselves aud Rasaia, relative to Central Asia. The relicance of the Foreign

The man or wow in who takes a daily onp of Minister was natural. From his reply, however,

ton in the tea rooms of London has probably we learn that the sole object in view is to arrive month's working in the same way as the

conflicts and diflculties in these regiona may be

to-day, then it was five to ten years age. And fo Directors of the Dutch Mining Companies avoided in the future. Such negotiations, if

necertain what likelihood there is of our going Rejang Lebong, Ketamon, and Totok me in satisfactorily completed, will be approred of by luck to an almost excluso use of China tea, a the habit of doing. The present reporis srall. But it is one thing to draw up a

Treaty

Westminster Garde representative has made in. toe technical, and can only be properly under quite another to abide by its provisions, The quiries in and about Miucing-lans. The general by those who have actual experience it fet is treaties, generally speaking, hold good pinion of tea heckers in that the consumption bug as the parties noncerned so that if although the smount eut ring Britain is tus of Chins to is decidedly on the increase, the following detaile

The total visibla ore reserve in tone, with respect that the great difficulty in dealing the weight of the approximate averags of gold after cash with St. Petersburg has always been found. 1314303b, while in 1906-6 it was 19,6-6,4771b. China fos imported was to share their sock of rice, so that the parfymin bad formed a veritable morass, and while mouthralasia dollars of the monthly output.

Time after time successful negotiations have been concluded hot ween

But, asid an export, y must retaaber idreres

and that we now import far less Chias toa for trees, which prevented na from drawing. it any and the furnish dobit bilance in the Buck, Russia Wa remember the reiterated asserthe Continental markets than

tions of the Russian Foroiga Miristor in 1869 that the Czar had no intention what do. Where Continental countries used to get of extending his frontier towards Afghanistan try air for through us, they now gut or Feris: Within a few years, however: British sailing tea clippers of the phat being the whole of it direct. Owing to the Russian troops had crossed the Caspian and by far the fastest of their kind, we got & 5021 laid claim to Turkestan, Then a little lutor of monopoly in that way, and it was kept up Merv was occupied, despits Mr. Gladstone's threat that each action would be considered a to the steamship days; but the peoples of the casas beli. For the present it is only necessary

Continent aco now bringing their teas in their own steamers, so that what comes into the to lay stress on the fact that no matter how advantageous a Faaly with Russia may appear on paper, the changes of its being carried, aut are, and sliers have been, very doubtful. Moreover, as ragards Central Asia, the tempta- Lion on ha part of Russia to break through any treaty obligations is very great Negotiations way retard her march in this direction, but the maty has yet to be drawn up that can stay be natural impulse.

time.

The report does not toll what became of their junk, but we surmise that the craft was unit for e after being knocked about in the rengh water.

They found the isnud however full of rich natural products, specially in sulphur rev. sufferently paying the investigator's pains „Topon Irines.

working apital," Furthermore, it would be of the greatest in to cut the rusts away and got it.free with testereat to all the shareholders were an explanation pe to efforts. But worse experiences awaited

to be given in the said statement of any ux in crossing the valley of the Haar River. depreciation in the quantity of ure crushed The road pasur over a mountain, and bad on during the mouth, our left side a pri sipice and on the right a wall of reck

It was like gotting up a regular staircase qui in the rock, and every moment we ran the MUEDER IN INDIAN MAIL TRAIN. boulders which lay in our path, and which were danger of breaking the engine on the great

EUROPEAN POLICH INSPECTOR'S STRUGGLE FUR LIFE,

On the morning of June 24, intelligenen reached Chittagong, India, bat a terrible murder Lad taken place the previous uight or early that morning aboard the Chandpur mail train, Luspector Crabbe of the Government Railway Police being the victim. The discovery of the crime took place at Shabatali, the next station to Chandpur

practically navoidable. Sometimes the real alcost disappeared between narrow walis, giving the impression that the automobile was abou Intuly closed in and could usi her advance nor

recede. Sometimes our beatta nendly stood still with a feeling of fiscouragement and foar that he delicate machinery could not Bland the immense strains that were put upon it, under which the wheels created and groaned,

and

hills were precipitous, and to overcome them we attached teng cords to the front of the machine and the coolies placing their weight behind, we proceeded itch by inch with the brake on. The heat of the rocks, warmed by the sun, was tremendous, and this rendered our fatigues all the worse, especially when we had to work with pick and abovel in order to smooth our passage. A good twelve miles were passed Ju this manner, until we entered the and Lille

Shio wà-fa sent oủt two horse soldiera lo meet

There has bon, on ocenia, as big a difference of 1,000 tour between one month's crushing and the next. No reason for this has been given, and in consequence the shares have at once drolined in price, Were a full explana- fion published at once, it would tend, I am stree, to strengthen the position, and di couat any

unctuation in the price of the shares.

If, therefore, the directors could see their way to publish the details and the information I bave suggested, 1 feel sure the ordinary shareholders was led be better able to judge of the saine of their shares, and would no longer walk in the dark as regards the position at the mise,

EMPTY FORMS.

SIR IAN HAMILTON ON RIPLE- SHOOTING

On the necasion of the prize-giving after the rifle meeting on Salisbury Plain, Lieut. Geo. Sir Ian Hamilton delivered the follow ing remarks on the value of the new short rins and on the relative merits bayonet

of rifs and

gumption.

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aved to

it

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country comes almost entirely for home cun.

Without a doubt, I should say awakening tasto for China tea,

that the which certainly less harmful thru the ludiau even the Ceylon tous, is largely due to such places as the A. B. C. and Lyon's deply the same time, the other teas. hare and selling good China tea at choup rates, At

a porceptibly decrease in Consumption. Whether or not we are going to see a general return to the drinking cf China tes is another matter. On the one hand, some of the tes- growers in Ceylon are growing more and more rubber-trees, to the exclusion of the tea-plaat, because their soil is a suitable to rubber, which pays them better than tea; so that the day may be coming soon when there will be no Ceylon toas

apoils the look of the balance shoot.

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been deputed to enquire into them specially, of the plain of Shin-wa-fa. The mandarin of the Emperors Kien Lung and Tao Kang the pest interest and, not monsterally perhans, aconetomed to the stronger favour of Indian extended. Then the net profie earned, and

There has reently been complaints of Hefts, which decurred almost nighty, from first and second class coaches on trains running between Lakran and Chandpur. A correk pozdent of the Englishman wired that Tapeotor Crabbo seems to have received some infor- mation concerning these robberies or to bare

rate he went up one night towards any Chandpur stating that he would bring the criminais back with him, or at least find oot who they wal

What happened during the night, or more probably the early hours of the morning can only be furtaised.

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India possAsus today close on thirty then- and miles of railway open, and to this each year that passes sees the addition of about arou

Yet there was a time, separated- hundred miles. generally speaking was little better off in the from ours by scares two generations, when India,

in the ersation of the Indian railway systera a Afghanistan to-day. There has bean insolead capital outlay of two hund od and seventy-three million poundsterling. The profits derived from the working of the railways in the year an der review paid not orig all DIDOSOR, inter- est charges, istarat on inds under construs to the sinking fund, but assisted in the reisf tinn, and added a hundred lakhs of ·ERP999

of taxation to the extent of two hundred and foaty s ro and a half (52 to be exact) lakbe The coal proft on the railwaya was 310.18 lakhs of rupes, as the profit and loss socount should not really inel de the amout contributed to the reduction of capital. Another itsur that ought rally to go To capital

account, is interest on lines ander construction. This under our Indian system has been made practica in the pyne of the actuary, but it FOTGEUS charge. It may not be a very regaine works well, and red how the capital lead, though ever there should come a very lean year the regular practies might be rerorted to. But the adyout of a lean your is not vary likely This is now the seventh year in succession that Tadia's railways have shown a big surplus. Every year as their capacities increase. The growth is all kinds of traffic has ben constant, and every year deas to sources of A recent Peking Deores rund: To ad

revenue tapped. The railways are becoming minister people in peace and order there is no

State property, and an asset of enormone better way then to hare proper ceremonial.

value. In time the a

ospital debt will be so have proper ceremonial and teaching of matter Thaa car ancestors have all indeavoured to

On the other hand, it is our firm belief reduced as to be almost negligible, whilst at the I have watched your shooting with the that the British consumer has grown so wsch same time the system will be very greatly of primary importance. During the reign of

I watched my own competition most narrowly teas, especially amongst the working-classee, applied to the reduction of taxation, or the unification of ceremonial was effected fre of all. When I saw your teams of four rasu that the more delicate China teas will never furtherance of ns, who bad the appearance of briganda. They

necessary public works will be of looked us over, and then went off at a gallop uently throughout the Empire. At present over the 100 yards, and in the space of a few past them. Mind, thore ia lot of low-class astonishing magnitude. Many grumbles are.

there ere ceremonials for students, for the seconds knock down the four tiles not much

China tea used in blending. It may be that heard, some reasonable, such as those arising towards the town. Here, however, we perceived military, and for guests. Then smoagat bigger than a man's head, and just visible at 203

we shall see the middle and the upper classes from the inadequacy of rolling stock, some a curious cavalcade coming in our direction. formed et old citizna, farctionaries, and soldiers,

general public there โดย unified, namely funeral service, rituel a fine war weapon we possessed in our new

are things to yards' range, I could not help thinking what turn to drinking China teashes Ceylon unreasonable, such as the complaints of thous bas ceased to prodhues a marketable quantity who object to increased expenditure on railways, desirces of In the same frain were travelling a Bengali machine in ing the mysterious foreign service, ceremony on the occasion when one rifle. I saw one team of R.E. enter, armed that will sell alone-because of their finer tasto ;

motion. The multituds surrounded attains majority, marriage

In the meantime the railway system grows, poslal superintendent, and a Europeat jutefactor. as, and bad to be dispersed by the soldiers with Weous and clothings are fas well a special with the long title. Before they could knock while the working-clara-n will base to depend improvements of all kinds are constant and expo Both these perrous have teen robbed. I he robbers blows of their sticks. This we made our

dow ti single one of the files opposed to them, entirely on Indian and Indian blends.

repid The Board of Bites Eas

And this autooratio Indian Government then turned their attention to the compartment triumphal entry into the sabarb, where we establish a College of Hites and presented wa

the whole four of the tiles facing their rival

proves itself constantly the mod successful and where Mr. Crabte was travelling alous. They

the night. passed

long sighted of socialistic organisations. Some secured his despatch box, which was fung out The crowd kept with us until late. osling to fore we hereby grant the speedy establishment the plans and system of that college, Thero

day the railways and canals of India, with the on the line. This they did ovidently before he be allowed to see the machine run. We satisfied of the said ocilogo and the presidents and the aut perhaps for the more old fashioned style of the following report:-

I think, of the superiority of the new short rifle, The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued ground rent, will supply enough to cover the awoke. Then followed a terrible struggle, as them by taking a turn round the courtyard of

whole of India's ordinary arpos.diture. shown by the state in which the compartment the inn, in the mid-t of camels, pigs, and dogs, ice-prouidents of the said Board shall super competitions which consist u firing at On the 17th at 12.25 p.m.-The Japanese

intend their subordinates was when examined by the stationmaster at until the police arrived, who dispersed the

and investigate a ball's-eyo under oppstoral conditions, observations of yesterday afternoon, received Chandpur. Mr. Crabbe evidently fought fiercely, theng and mounted guard around the auto-as to establish a new uniform ceremonial and petition 1 thought too, how

customs and menter, ancient and modero, so bat for war: As I watched this com- here this morning, show that a depression wa though evidently surprised in his sleep, for To-day our journey was an easy one. We trave publish the same for the tue of the general our men shoot than they used to do, and returus both from Japan and Formosa, are

he mobils.

much better lying then to the . of the Ecochros. The was a fairly powerful man, and had a revolver

public in the Empire to meet our desire to also than the men of any foreign army I know. la king this morning. with him, which be did not use and which fa s:d about eighteen miles of deep sand, drawn as missing. His axilants must have numbered before by coolies and mules. After getting thus enable them to be ready to propare for a Russians and Japanese bobbing up and down and remains low, about 0.15 inch below moral have proper decorum amongst the people, and In Mancharia, for instance, I have been The barometer has fallen lightly over China two or three. That they wore desperate through a mountain pass, we again started the constitutional government. ruffians is shown not alone by Mr. Crabbe's motor, and were off at twenty miles an hour.

out of their tronches or cover, not at 200 yards, over the coast generally. It is also about 0.1 murder bat by the fact that one of the garg There was no other incident except getting

bas at a yards, and at that range go on missing inch in defect over the Philippines. dropped a busober's knife in another eccond

puce more stuck in a mors, which delayed s

one another for so long that at last they took to Unaoitled, squally weather w cent'nue to class carriage which they had visited.

for an hour

the bayonet and to the batts of their rifles as prevail in the Formoss Channel, and the N-polies in Manchuria and Mongolin, On account the only final solution, Theorists have since part of the China Ses.

of the government dominating the invested doduced from this the amazing argument that Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending interests from Irkutsk to Vladivostok, the

administration of

of the amalgamated railways bagoals and sabres and lances are all coming at 10 am. to-day, 1.51 inches. man lazier back again into general use.

will it is held by Harbin townspeople, be a Don't you believe

The forecast for the 24 hours onding at noon

barrier ugainst foreign trade, and therefore they demand free und porpitaal gift, with the right of self-government, the site of Hongkong & Neighbourhood(*).

Variable winds,

with land city of Harbin, together Formosa Channel..

mod'te or fresh. which is now controlled by the railways for South coast of China betweenĮ

expansion, and are forming a soheme for Hongkong and Lamooks

Saat as No.1. gelf-government for the purpose of attracting

foreigners. South coast of Chins between 2

As all interests at Harbin ara Saxons No. 1. subject to the Russian administration, the Hongkong and Hfajuan

opening of Harbin to international trade is looked on us a farce and the position of the foreign conmuls is regarded as absurd. Pending the deministration by Chins, fossis and ather powers, of the political ownership and status of Russian soil the Fronoh and Amerleau ooneuls the boundaries of Harbin, claimed to be ou ignors Russian jurisdiction, while the Japanese are temperizing with the railways administra tion.

At the train entored the points at Shabatali the points saw European fall from it. Il says that this is all he saw. The door opened and the body pitched forward on to the bank ment, rolling down a little. Het

once rushed

and informed the Babu stationmaster, who went to the spot, where the supposed accident had bappened. He recognised Inspector Crabbe, and though he made no examination be say from the way in which the dead man' bonds had been lacerated, and other wounds on the face Inco and front of the bed look at the ca

that a osime had pastment confirmed this suspicion. Putting the corpse into the train again be wired to the stationmaster at Chandpur, and the mail went on its way. The stationmaster at Chandpur eramined the body, and found that Crabbe End met bis death from a knife wound in the bac He then wired to headquarters, and a special train with ofloors, was at once sont up to the

scene of the crime.

of another country, and we feel that, if we are

the

memorialized to

St.

LAZY MAN'S ISLANDS.

Bermuda in the West Indies and Michael's in the Azores made s than in any other places on the earth, accord-

Hamilton, the capital of the Bermudas.

team

out

the

were lying talloned ground. This is a very good practical proof,

left to put a cartridge into his rifles, and who

The man with the bayonet or sword can only an adversary bent on using a bayonet or sword got in if the man with the ballet gets flurried

and loses his head."

WEATHER REPORT.

At length we reach Kulgan, with its ancient triomphal arches and picturesque pagodas. It is a noisy full of curte and camels, and piles of merobandise coming from Mengolin.

The zuburbs have etrosdy the abaracteristics jng to my experience, said John ( Hart of / word of it. No man who has still coolness to-day is as follows:-- not near the borders of the Chinese Empire, we The climate in the Bernadas is salubrious bas xhot through these competitions yesterday are certainly near that of the Chiuose macr and adapted to re-1. The people interest them. and to-day, need bare the smallest anxiety about

The town is dominated by the Tun-tai-pingselves in a delightful society which has a ebarm e autein, which we shall bare to traverse by all of its own. But the ofimate is unch that the roads which, according to all accounts, are island in only a place for rest. worse than those we bare already passed. So St Michael's, some distance off the coast of

difficulties are not yet all over.

Spain, is much the same in climate, only more This morning, on horseback, we explored the so. There a man cannot help living the simple A pes issue of stamps for Indo-China iv road which we shall have to traverse in order to life. The Portugueso people live a happy life, almost ready. It differs altogether from the reach the Mongolian high plain. We found it and are so simp'e that we who live in this present issue in size, ornamentation, and setting. better than had been described. We crossed modern world can hardly understand it. They Tho designs will typify the native races of the the narrow valley of the Shi-shu-hu, and then leave their doors aul cked every night and climbed the heights of the last mounisio, to never fear prowlers. And a man who staya Colony. The only drawback to the now stamps descend between grassy slopes to the plain. there for any length of time just sleeps and arises from the value being expressed in fraass We shall have a mountainoans thirty-five kilo.sleeps and sleeps antil bis muscles grow soft, and centimes, instead of in dollars and cents, the meires to cress, but we shall be able to do and vigorous work s ems very difficult.

Dor

local currency.

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