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"FLORODORA."

If theatrical companies visiting Hongkong could always have audiences so crowded and so enthusinatio as that which attended Mr. Bardmann's presentation of "Florodora " OB Saturday night, they would come oftener, and perhaps take more paius to please. It must have been encouraging, not only to the intra- preneur, but also to the players. That frivolous section of society which losas conundrums might here raked, had thay thought of it, how the companyre mbled Promotions; and the perhaps too obvious answer would have been that they from gads." The crice of "encore," sariously pronounced bat invariably insistent and sincere, lengthened what is usually

took fre

THE TRANS-ASIA MOTOR RUN.

of Barmera

THE JONGKONG DAILY PRŪSS, MONDAY AUGUST 5 cm. 1907

tion wo man already soo that the camal's coonpa- tion's gone. Nothing can stop the progress of Asis in these directions, When the motorists whose pine forests are said to hide the tomb flod past the mared mountain of Bogdanla, of Genghis Khan, they must have asked them selves whether the terrible geains of delatic conquest will not be mobilized again in some Tumuter generation by the inventions of the West

BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

CO-EDUCATION.

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

a long performance so that the chimes of mid- barbariok gag in a modern boitse-the folk from Loudon' and elsewhere to see for

night feand thenadianos unssted, not unseated; while the players, who opened the proceedings in a bored, half-hearted manner, were obviously warmed to their work. Thatken pursuit of profit which has founded the habit of demanding ten cents for a shot of advertisementscontaining in- cidentally the names of the cast prevouts us

A SHAREBROKER CASE.

Shanghai is much interested, and Hongkong will be, in a case at the Danish Consular Court at the northern port, Messrs. Benjamin and

Putta ana Gordius Nielsen for about twelve

thousand toels, said to be balanes due on

transactions in Dock Shares. The defendant who had offered to pay two thousand lasis, and signed a promissory note, pleads in part as follows:--

The promissory note signed by defend nt is the outcome of a stare transaction between defendunt as principal and plaintiff's as brokers, and was signed by defendant under a misspro. Lession, defendant, at the time f signing said zote, being auaware that plaintiffs were jobbers

well as brokers in abures contrary to in sad to the prejudice, great loss and ruin of many of their clients in lading defendant.”

Following are four lettors in the voluminens

the case- corpondence pablished in connection with

Shanghai, 20th July, 19%.

3

WINES.

AUSTRALIAN

H. J. LINDEMAN'S

"O A WARRA" CLARETS AND HOCKS.

PER CASE 12 BOTTLES

"

24-1/2

51

Tax ABSOLUTE PURITY or 'I'

SOLE AGENTS—

$15.00 16.00

WINES 18

GUARANTHED.

H. PRICE & CO. LTD.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

ARMY TEMPERANCE.

LORD KITCHENER'S ADVICE TO THE

BOLDIER.

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

THE

The Daily Telegraph says: Our Correspond- ont accompanying the motorride from Peking Paris has enabled the world at large to enter into the kaleidoscopic whirl of an unprecedented experience. Day after day we have had from him a series of compact and brilliant messages, written and despatched in strange places, and reaching their destination in nouae cases by meane unknown to their author, and surpris- ing to ourselves, There has not lately been a more exhilarating episode in the ranting of the Preas, which feeds upon marvels as on daily bread and requires an

at altogether unusual before

it can ho induced, like Kater- stimulus

t felto, to wonder at its own wonders. The sense

telegrams of rapid

Someone once said that the co-education semi-Asiatic barbarism, gleamis & in of the gostomly girls. An opportunity was afforded

contact between

in its

its old ayatom tarned out very ladylike boys and very potent panoply, and the pot

strikes apon imagination like the club on June 21 to a very large number of critical summons to the raflaoments of a themselves how far this very unkind cut Parisien menu and the latest topies of good was deserved. The cussion was the official conferas tion.

There has been nothing like opening by the Bishop of St. Albans of St. this scouring of the plains of Tartary since the George's Sobool, which lies just natside the

Private. fight of Mazeppa. Cur representative has a little Hertfordshire town of Harpenden. seat in the car driven by Prince Borghes",

The favitatio came form the directors of the My Dear Poth,-In, raply to yours of to- verbal rust, and day's date, and supplementing my which so fue has led they way in this strange Co Educational Public Schools

of St. cash into solitude, seeming often as track the headmaster

Gorge'a Schoot, remarks made at the Club to yon today, i Loga and illimitable the rea. Ne harean the RAY. Ceoil Grant, Mr. Grast is would like you clearly to understand my

The Ary Temperance Association old its ROBINSON PIANO being has ever crossed those regions before yuang man

anuust me ting at Simla, on July 5 whom. Lord I am anxious and willing to liquidate my this pace the emo grond has never

be bar ancepssfully ru school apa codebt to your firm now or before the 6th Augest Kitchener spoke at some length.

a

I thanked the Viceroy, in the name of the

CO., LTD. If no arrangement has been come to by the

me a receipt aboving that, I am no more in

thestency of the Army was that ranks your Brm's debt, I must leave you to recover

should be filled with subar, temperata mea, and what you think is really due in the usual in this the Army Temperate Association was way I shall decline to pay more thin is doing direct good. His Excellency went on to 2,000, which amount, I think, for reasona

refer to the temptations of a soldier's life, and TALKING to the duty which lies upon all to help bin to explained to you to-day, quile ample. I

to abirk my resist them by making his life jo Icdía

chee ful na possible. Lord Kitchener approved responsibility in this affair, but I think it w elesa to go over the ground again by explaining my

of the sys own that is being pursued of giving the direction of the Tte. 2,000. (only owe you

Auy Temperanca I claim to be on

Association's rooms into the bands of saldiara' ments and statements wide use of by you to.

This those things to the attines or to propis who will really swallow kind of nounen, but to really think that I am so simple-minded as all that is really too bad, my dear G.H.P. For the reasons I think I make a porf-gly honourabla offor in saying that I owe you Tia 2,000 only.

from distinguishing individual players with except on horseback, on exmels, or on foot. At agstem of co-educatiu wodded to the attitude in. the affair, which is as follows.

been

glory. Either faulty enunciation or the badversed since tho planot heaved out of chaos educational lines at Keswick. He has now gone latter date, that is if your firm has not given Army for presiding; for one of the main factors

acousticity of the newly decorated ball loft us very much in the dark as to who's who, though it was easy to see who's what. Mr. Cole's Hame is as unforgettable as his genial presence, for is he not a jolly old soul?" As nimble as over, by sheer impadunce and a obeerful grin he persuaded the audience that every time he opened his mouth they had to laugh, and they

The most important doubt hazarded in the to Harpenden, fathered by the directors of this experiment is already solved. The worst part trast, to make a great success, he hopes, of St. of the route is already behind the

motoriste,

ste, George's It is a new school, opened some and that their journey from the Pink City to months ago is very convenient school buildings the Seine is perfectly feasible may be taken as which have known two ventares already--the preradi Nevertheless, the dramatic interest of initial a private one, and the second when many the journey overpowers the technical Masepps boys from Westward Ho! College were trans- saw the forests rool, the steppe slide, and the ferred to it. St. George's, it is hoped, has coms stars hurry down the night like a shoal of silver to stay, and its official opening was delayed no scales in a fast current, as the wild horas in that doubt, that its masters and papils might have

now surroundings.

do not wish is

any way

we were certainly amenable. was too wild legend swept on. But our entomobilists found an opportunity of settling down in their † motive for satelligərt man, and tho arga

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cross a country in a day. By now they have St. Gorge's. The school-house is beauti. day are really an insult to any intelligent brokeritters, &.d spoke with appreciatin 1 of the

are taking even a shorter way with the world. They cover a province before brea fast. 'They put one Empire behind and have begun to Boamper over another. It is a demon survey of half the circumference of the globe,

excrnojstingly funny when he called another manfat-head;" We all rolled

in our Boats. When ho received Lelegram. and abpounced that it brought nowI of a friend being locked up for being drunk and incapablo; when, furthermore, he, If this is the character presented to our soined a tin pail and walked off with it, imagination by the long ride, what must be the effect apos the minds of the scholastio xaan- plaining that he was going to bail him out,"daries and pastoral savages who have seen these our case was hopeless, and we shed enchinuators inexplicable machines whitling into their ken? leaving Peking the motorists raced past After tears. Truly humour is potent. There were

the towers

rers of the Great Wall-aid to be one of other characters who tried to be fauny. This the four sights in the world which does not dis seems a hard way of expressing it, but that is appoint-as their confiares in this and other Mr. Cole's fault. No one can seem really fauny constries race past telegraph poles. Even

which beyond the venerable rempart the school

beside him; all others must seem to be merely

or

Thore is no suggestion of orank experiment in fully furnished. There is no idea of olimi. mating the fuer feminice 30aceptibi lities of the girls of molliceddling the boys. The play room of the grila is as beautiful and dainty as that of the boys is workmanlike and useful. For the rest they live a common existence. They sit in the same class-rooms and compete in the same forme They jola iu game, but it is recognized the girls' cricket is not boys' cricket, sad the quality of play is not allowed to suffer in consequence, Nor be it said are the girls asked to play Rugb football. There is a fue swimming bath, and

Youre truly, GORDICS NIBBEN, Shanghai, 21st July 19%,

which regimental officere were

the movement. affording to

Sir Power Palmer had mentioned at a previous meeting consumption of the Association that the annual of beer per non-abstaining British soldier was Was gind to be to quarts per day, and he able to say that now that average had been reduced to something more like two pints.

In 1901 the total number

ber of court-marjale in India consequent upon intemperance had been 545, whereas last year it was 217. He

recognised the need of additional accommodation in bar- racks for Army Tempersues Institutes and des cribed the measures that were being taken to meet this. He also

MACHINES

AND

RECORDS.

NEW STOCK JUST ARRIVED.

LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENI

toere are all the other properties of a good public who you bestandt has marios ao foily sity of temperanos sus, a qualification of thMUSIC:

Perfect freedom is allowed, and boys and girls may take their country walks together in couples It is intended that the school shall be

sistere.

Cole. The librettist of "Floroilora" would pro- almost branky flul ews of the service, like the home of one big family of brothers end! did you sign the promissory note for the amounting sivil employment, after leaving the colours,

RAMIE FIBRE.

DETAILS OF AN INVENTION SORMITƐRD.

I have boon so fortunate as to discover s

trying, joking with difficulty. Really some oflisis kept in sight of the telegraph posts as their jokes, carefully propared, were quite good: well as the towers. In offices which had not but if their authors hope for appreciation, they been asked for years to send a wire from any

one to any must firal arrange for the sanssination of Mr.

nywhere

of the apparatus where the

hud forgotten-aar Correspondent cou frouted the Celestial operator, found impassively equal to his duty, we have no doubt, with that mysterious form of Western deenment, a descriptira onblogram. Flocks of antelopes fed before the cars, de a school of porpoises sesttera from the bows of racing liner. The method of preparing rainie fibre. By it, the low sandbills, stretobing as far as the eye sieme, after they are cut in the folde, are at could reach like the waves of an arid and silently-moving sceau, weve round the travellereerstead through wills where they are the labyrinth of their stealthy curves. Our orasted just like sugar one.

Thus explains Mr. F. A. E. Klaring von Correspondent's vignettes of that region must

Dust Boerenbag, of Madian, Contrat Java, in a hare recalled passages from Sir Frank Young, lotter, which, according to a message he husband's book, "The Heart of a Continent."

addressed to the Editor of this paper, ha hag Mongolian shepherds, devoid of fear, but full forwarded to His Excellency the Governor of of amazement, entreated that the magic court this Colony. Mr. Beerenbugk goes on to my of the horseless chariots might be stayed; and that the invention should

especially the

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My dear Nielsen, sm in receipt of your letter of to-day's date. minst oonfees that I remarks in same epocially liquidate your debt and do not wish in any way to shirk your responsibility. Either you own the taoney or you don't, and if you don't, why

As a matter of fact, the shares on which

you owe na the difference, were add by Mr. Allanson of March for the agust esttlement (192). You resold the shares on 13h August: Bo you will see wenetually paid out the difference on your account. I am quite prepared to leave this matter to the decision of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, or if you wish it, to any three members of the Exchange. I don't antlerstand your remarks about my arguments being an insult to any intelligent broker. I bare been a broker 15 years and have never had such an experience before.

Yours faithfully,

G. H. POTT). Shanghai, 25th July, 1965.

My dear Potts-Sorry I have had no time the Tarias rode round in force exultatios, de-cuffoe-growers who have been obliged of late to

to answer yours of the 2lat iast, till now. This lighting,

will be my last on the subject. If you put it cheer imaginative sympathy, the triumph of spend. For these me of the bandon their estates, or to plaut other that way I may say that I don't owe your firm

products just as happened in Coylon. Ha

a cant. Nevertheless, I am willing to pay which grown coffes on the monopoly system, hoped. also, that the Jars Government,

you Tle. 2,000, which offer standa open would take sa interest in his invention, and, shall dooline

which date I till the 5th August after

All to pay anything at of the with this object, he wrote to the Director

BxDept if

Can you

force me Agricaliural Department at Baitensorgthe

The Committee Governor-General's residence-inviting him to so through a court of law.

of the Block Exchange or any other member of Mr. Boerenbugk then explains that his letter was taken no notice of by many of the planters a broker which alters the cass entirely.

the affair:-I was a principal at the time, not and that the Director of the Agricultural

On the other hand, as you seem to persist in himself as qrite willing to inspect the

of my indebtedness to your Arms is inadequat,

when Prinoa Borghese reined in the hippogrin sambers of planters gladden the hearts of

B

Private.

do

LATEST COMIC OPERA SCORE

AND

DANCE MUSIC

JUST ARRIVED.

Hongkong, 29th November, 1906.

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soldier, and referred to the practical advantage at which the soldier, who is member of the Tamper nos Association finds himself in obtain

over him who cannot show a similar resord of Bobriety

The Rord Me. Batson, the Suorsiary of the Association, gure a summary at the report, which is a most sucouraging one. Roughly. one-third of the British Army in India now belongs to the Association and there are a thousand more members this year than fat. He pointed out that a acidier, who drinks does in fames. The wind was blowing quite a gafe so more on account of faults in his surround-in the direction of the balance of the conches, inga than from fault in himself, and urged and it was apparent that most, if net all, would the need of providing got farther arrangamonts be burned. The engine was safely on the rails, to prevent men frem taking to trick from but it was on the wrong side of the fire to sheer lack of anything else to do. He claimed rouder any immediata nesistance, The engineer the universal testimony of employers to the at once ran into Lathom station and

gave in. affect that the old soldier who is sober is formation there of the dissator which had proving to be the best man in the labour happened to the train. An sagine market, and was able to show most encouraging hurried to the scene from Bassano, and it results in the matter of obtaining employment arrived in Lime to zave the dining car for ex-soldiers who possessed certificates from and the three sleeping care from the fire. Before the engine arrived, however, the express car had been barned, three cars and a tourist car The colonist car had been filled with Chinsmen, one of whom had his arm broken, and another, received slight injuries.

the Association.

REST A NECESSITY.

was

Few of us appreciate the blessings of rest as

Tae grave injury was that sust sined by the we ought. We dislike to go to bed early quite express messenger. He was standing at a as much as we dislike to get up in the morning distance from the car when the actylus Many of us go to bed as if we did it under

bably be the first to thank them. The gentle man who sang "My Dolores "Mr. Cole nearly made as forget that it was a magical piece, and not a pantomins burlesquo-bas a very ploscant voice indeed, well controlled, and though his stage maunerisms are not always appropriate, be gave the impression of singing with some feeling. He dwelle ou the verb "will" in the refrain in a way neither required by the score nor by the art of emphasis; and his voice is quite fexible enough to manage the attack without artifice. It is probably just a habit. The "Dolores" to whom he sang seemed a litle hoarse, but the audience found no fault-according the 'ady enthusiastic applause at overy appearance,

race that ones thundered upon Europe in a The young man who is the favoared suitor estaract of hoofs. The climax of these expori of the millionaire's daughter-those who were

suces, ind ed, was reached when the motorists entered Mongolia proper. present may recall him better as the young aered manning throughout the Bad hist world. At Urga-name of man who had spilled two roage pots on his the drivers of the Mazeppa sachines, bada cheekbones-also has a most useful voice, which remarkable reception. In this region, where his estate to inspect the process be had invented, the Stook Exchange have nothing to do with protent. It is a sort of sacrifios we make tojas tank exploded bai had the misfortun to be

three great races meet, the ralley of the Tula was mobilised by the advance ramour of the coming of the cars, Chinese carts, Russian telagas,

coloured mob br.stling with wespons anriosity. The town is a point of junction for Slav, Mongolian, and Chinese life. The different races live in Fortified quarters sar- rounded by palisades and guarded against each other liko ontzenabod campe. The soone was like a citadel of Medieval Asia, into which A paragraph appears in the Hongkong Daily Marco Polo might have ridden. The shoutings Freas of July 20th announcing the death, at rainbow tinted polyglot multitude was like a home, of an old resident in the East, Mr. vision of Kablai Khan's retainers Our Cerres- John Dodd, at the age of sixty mine, and refer-pondent touches the secret of that episode in a ring more especially to his journalistic con phrase which we veutare to think imemorable Aribations, but the following additional incidents

In the midst of t is grim Asiatic medievaliam, in his career will doubtless be of interest to

the moter-car appears to bo something Largo circle of his friends and contemporaries.

anachronistic, abstard.' Mr. Dodd arrived in Hongkong in 1850 to Join the old firm of Dent Co., to whose Jupiter out of the machine descended upon a founders he was olosely related; he would in Chinese Yamon, ite interested but impertur. course of time have been made a partner, but bable chief madarin would probably ask to be while still very young the firm went into taken for a trial trip to Olympus. The Chinesa process would ever be found out, so long as liquidation in the year 16 he was tha Governor, with great nerve and statesmanship acting their agent in Tamsui, mo, and continued to carry on the busi-for the fans of his feat will surround his

probably gets bettor chances of display in olher pieces. The whole entertainment ob viously and cnmistakably delighted the foll house.

THE LATE MR JOHN DODD.

Tha N. C. Daily News of July 30 says: --

He was at once

Tartar cavalcades jeled together in a MADY; Departmentvention, and even to sɔnd an / thinking that the amount I offer in liquidation If she is not obeyed, the guilty parties anffer the traiu as passenger, mod takon biok to

Then came the inimitable interlude.

and

If

expert to collect materials for a trestiso ok ramie abre extraction, but be refused to lay the letter before the Governor-General, or to ask

Straits Government.

the fovernment to sanction bis taking offcial action on the fibre question. Mr. Beerenbugk or pestad. he said, to be mere fortunate with the the Gorerner, and requested His Excellency Alr. Beeronbugk sent samples of the fibre to to take than invention into consideration, and to advise the King's subjects in the Culony and in ludis to grow ramie, and to get it ready for market by means of the invention. The in- ventor illuded to the reward of £5,010 formerly promied by the Government of India to who ever invented a practical rawis preparing pre- cess, and expressed the opinion that no such

Can

I cannot see but that there is any other course

open to you for the full recovery of the amount then by suing mas before a Court of law. I shall be quite willing to submit to the ruling of such court and quits able to pay whatever amount they may fix as my liability no lawyer, and that I will I will even promise you that I employ case myself, but I wars you that it will not exactly be a joke to be or savexamined by me,

Do let us settle this baciness in a friendly mmuner. I think you make the mistake of taking me for a bit of a "softy."

oondust the

grannical Nature, and Nature is tyrannical struck at the groit by the top of the tank.

will not be trifled with. She demands receiving severe injuries allegiance, and the atmest fidelity to her deurons, cared for by two physicians who were ou BARBADO The doctors did everything that We have said that rest is essential to very medical skill could do to relieve his sufferings Many

Of course it is pergone.

Jason tial to everybody, but we mean that there are people and save his life, bat he died on the train.

We wore taken back to the station at Bassano who altogether forget this, or sppur to and remained there for twelve hours until cas do so. They are impetuona, ambitious, a track was cleared. At that time we were able to get ahead, to finish their resent taek, and to begin a new one; in haste to make to proceed. When we passed ho scene of the a name, a forinne, A distinct place for wreck on Monday morning, cars if tsh were Th place of the themselves in the world, and if they thick of still smoking and bening.

wreck is just eighteen miles to theast of rest at all they think "Oh, we'll rest where in the midst of a prairie country. There were a bare mado repulation and money," But when that time comes, health bay probably gone, and large number of as on the train most of the with it the power of enjoying the fruits of goseben being well filled. In the number were travellera from the Orient, who were returning would of labour. How much wiser it

A number to their homes in Great Britain. have been had the persons in question taken of the left the train at this city, and will Yours truly, their rest as they want along, Stoop, Nature's GORDIUS NIELSEN. sweet restorer, is often robbed of her share spend a day or two here before proceeding east."

The express merong r killed in the wreck Shanghai, 28th July, 195. of the work of recuperation. Men who keep Dear Nielson-Your letter of the 25th to their nerves at high tension, who don't throw Was William McKinley, of Orange, Oat, His body was brought east and will be taken to band. I must say it is impossible for me to

off their business cares, but keep them con- understand your attitude in the matter. With slantly in mind at home or abroad, cheat sleep, your memory, I send you herewith copies the view of bringing the transactions fresh to but themselves loss before the game is ended. Wo know man who carry their cares to bed with them every right of their

lives. your March and Augnet settlement acs 1902, When they put their heads on the pillows copy of a-o rendered showing balance das so October, 1902 Ts. 10,624.79 and also copy of they are thinking of what is to

of

years

be

dona to-morrow, or what should have been

Drangeville for interment-N. C. Daily News.

SAGHALIEN AND THE HOKKAIDO

The Kobe Herald reports that the Tokyo of the Osaka An hi hag

Mamm von

ple sought to discover the secret by do- corticsting the fibres instead of milling them.

The inventor hit upon the new proosms by pagoda-roof hat like a halo, and will lead ness there in his own name for a nem additional lustre to all the honorific buttons easily by passing the fibres through mille. The chance few months ago. It is carried out ber of years; he was the original founder that can be conferred upon him-asked to be of the Form sa te trade, which has assumed taken for a ride in the motor. His reequest immediately after they are out on the Helde. gum is thus pressed out of the stems such immense proporticus, bat be shared the

was granted with all the clearances proper The ironius offers his secret and his invention fate of many pioteers in seeing the trade

to his rank. Dreased in the greatest pomp,

to the Governor-General of India and to the your promissory note in which is amount Brst peas into hinese hands, and subsequently with his pigtail gying out like a whiplash, ha Govenor of the Straite Settlements. Any is acknowledged In making out the a-e on dono to-day. All night long they dream of their representative into Japanese, when he quitted the island made a tour of his dominions in the magic ear."

He expressed the 19th inst. Ellis made a mistake. 1 several tasks, and when the morning comes they had an interview with Baron

refreshed to sixteen years ago to reside in North Wales.

go for the same round Soliwarzenstein, the German Ambassador to We hope the photographer's lens has seized reward will do for bim It was during his residence in Formosa The graphic immortality of this scone, and that

the awake! willingness to come to the Straits or to Indis enolose herewith a corrected a on

jar his recent visits to Hokkaido that be distinguished himself in company with the late Mr. A. E. Margary (whose memoria Hnstrated history will preserve the image of with his will and apparaten to show their showing balance dun as Tla. 12,336.9% I have of restless labour again and again. Such mee Japan, who is represented to have spoken as fol-

Lke Governor in his glory speeding round the working and give all necessary explanation. ala disclosed the names of the buyers and sea doing nothing to lengthen their lives. They lows

Fowlling this the inventor goes into details, stilors of name send longthen their lives third take and Singhalien

The impressions whick I column now stands in the Public Gardens at

walls with his pigtail streaming in the wind like concerning his mill and points out that he is March and August settlement a-os évolosed, needed rest babitaally, for it is habit that kills four weeks, Journey, in i derived during my Shanghai) by saving ten crew of the French

noha Sibylline index to the past that Asia is leaving confid at that, by his

From what we have said you will mathod, growers

You will see that the shares were bought by or sures, bargne Aisle, which had been driven on the rocks behind. There, Indeed, in the significance us at Kelang and broken in half in the typhoon of well as the humour of the matter. Even in

lary out fibre worth £40 to £100 you from B. Lennox Simpson, and Chinn naturally conclude that many dealbs are caused carefully observed the places and people, bare Mr. D dd swam off with arope, by the fitfal Chins, whether the authorities of Peking mean

aton. Straila Tmes,

Commercial Ca for March, yout res ld them by sacritice of rest. You will be right in so treatly strenghtened my appreciation of Japan, 1942 amphor fire on shere, and gained the to pourage progress or not, the forcon

for March to W. Allansou who turned them concluding. Many lives might have besu pro- Everywhere, too, I was most cordially treated seemed to me over for you for Angust (8950-2 0.80). Thes part of the ship, but found the crew were

progress are on the march, and they are pone

It is rich in mines are fuests, indisputable facta. Perhaps you will dues. Many persons die years before they to all huddled together in the forepart; in crossing trating with a host of invisible influenced into

its soil is very fertile, and the climate the breken part of the ship, he was badly hurt every part of the Delestial Empire. Those who

remember that at the same time you put Erick ought to, and beesuse they do not appreciate pir's of Germany.

goed. Lu my opinion the prospects for in the back by some loose timbers, but managed i shrank with superstitions horror from the| Line) beft Manila for this port on the 3rd and Wolder in for Docks also. Wolder the necurity of rest.

paid us the diffuence, Bricksan has been

Paying

the enltivation of fruit, patateer, and whent, to resol the grow, and was then joined by Bar, thought of railways built by the foreign devils

us ever since and his a-c is almost liquidated

and for cattle breeding are very bright I also Margary: these two brave men passed the

I cannot understand how it is possible for you are now anxious to constract and work the

noted that beer brewing, e ka production, spiu trembling Frenchmen one by one to the shere lines themselves. In the Middle Kingdom the

to think you or as only Tls. 2,000. I hop and eventually followed them in safety; for this railway must come into general nee; it will

the papers I erdose will satisfy you as as to th act of heroism each reusived the Albert medal extend, more or less rapidly, everywhere, and,

real nature of your Hability. I have no desire f the First Class, as well as the Human as in India, it will work more revolutions than

to go to Court. Our firm has never sued any Society's gold medal.

are intended by anyone. But the locomotivo

of our clients. But I take you for an honest is less perplexing to the Asistio mind than the

man. If you still think you only owe us Th motor. The railway engine is an iron machine

2,000 you may sand us the m uey. that drage a train of carriages in a compara

Yours truly, tively intelligible manner. But the motor is a The NY.K. str. Wakamiya Mary (Bombay

G. B. POTT mystery. It is unt confined by steel lines to a Line), left Moji for this port on the 2nd inat..

The eneo is to be argued some time next fred course. It is pekad to a burthen. It and expo'ed here on the 9th inst.

mon lb. ea volition of its own, its a acerto The N.Y.K. str. Iya Maru (Europesa Line),

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Mr. Dodd was a sportsman in every seas of the word, he was far le princeps in riding, rowing, shooting, etc., as well as being a most enthusiastic volantoer; as the latter he was the first adjutant of the Hoogkong Corps, he was extremely popular and ready to join in anything, Aud

being forward, be had consequently hosts of

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seems to bave a

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LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The N.Y.K. str. Kusano Maru (Australian Instant, and is expected here to-day a.m.

The sir. Bubi left Manila on 3rd inst. 10a.m. and is dus hore to-day at 5

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The N.Y.K. str. Hakata Maru (European Live) left Shanghai for this port on the 2nd instant, and is expected here to day.

The P. & O. str. Barmore left Singapore for this port on 3rd inst, at 9 a.m. with the outward Engish Mails, and is due boro on the 7th inst. at about 4 pm.

Toxy hospitable, generons and straighathra is like the nightmare of the spirits of left Singapore for this port on the 2nd instaar

and admirors; bed he entered thermy, for which he was better fitted by nature than for quiet mercantile career, be would bave made splendid soldier, being absolutely fearless even to rachness on many necasions.

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This brief tribute to his memory is now writ ten by one who was his closest and greatest friend for nearly forty-four years, and who can testify to his worth and charming personality.

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longed if their owners had given 1p her just by the Japanese authorities, Hokkaido

close reemblance

A TRAIN MISHAP.

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Two Shanghai residents gave the following ning, and other industries are waking great progro.. As to the scenery, the country at asuunt of a recent goldent on the C. P. R. Jozsakai, Qautas park and other places i so We had passed Bazsaho station," said two beautiful that I stayed in Hokksi o several had intended. I proce-ded

of

the gentlemen who were on the train, to the day's longer that I Free Prass," and were approaching Lathon. to Sagbalion by a N.Y.K. steamer, going

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These points are located just half way between first to Maoka and Korsakoff and afterwards

We were sitting Calgary and Medicine Hat. quietly in the sleeping or when we because travelling by rait to limiculks. In spita aware that there was something wrong, from of the fast that it is only a very short time me into Japan's poɛɛer- the manner in which the train was runing since South Babghaben ■

sion, everything is in very good order.

The aml from the Round of

bap rapid manner in which towns have been built on the ties. A moment later the rear wheels of the sleeping oar in which we were seated up surprised me very much. In my op nick alipped from the rails, and a moment later foreign diplomatists ought to make themselves well acquainted with the lands and peoples of the train Came to a standstill the car, but brief as the time was which we toms, etc., of the various parts of Japan by par. As quickly as possible we all escaped from the Powers to which they are nooredited. For

this purpose, intend to study the scenery, eus spent in making our way from the train, the

the night, and the buge headlight of the end is expected here on the 3th instant. machine, and the ogra-oved vision of masked The LG.M. str. P. E. Friedrich, carrying the

How To Be Beautiful—Keep your was. fases behind the driving-wheel, must suggest German Mails with dates from Berlin of the plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait to the Celestial infants, and even to mandarins, 16th alt left Colombo ou Friday the 2nd fus, Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre the animated apparition of the dream-dragene and may be expected barn on or about Monday, Charmante will ezable you to do it. Her from a porcelain jar. The ease with which our the 14th inst. automobilists have traversed the withered F1-

Specialities for Le Skin are the study of a The I.G.M, str. Ben which left here on-time. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents fire which bad burst out in the express cat was Bonal inspection as far as my duties will allow, panse of the Gobi argues that the motor is Wednesday, the 3rd alt arrived at Genca

quicker still. No sooner had we passed from I am looking forward to further journey destined to be the ship of desert, and in anticipa on Friday, the 2nd inst. at 6 n.m.

the train than we saw the express car enveloped through the country with great pleasure."

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