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SUPREME COURT.

Friday, September 13th.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,

FUNNELS AND FLAGS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PREES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14mm, 1987.

The American Consulate General received the following Typhoon warning frem, the Manila: observatory at 9.45 a.m. yesterday Septem- ber 13, 1907, 8.90 m. typhoon Gressed Bouth

BEFORE MK, AG, Wise (PUISNE JUICE). Guam last night,”

W-CHECHIN'S.....AFFAIRS...

The matter of Lá Chi-chin was again men- tioned. It will be remembered that lie Lordship held this defendant to be a partner in the Tak Li Lung firm, and as Buck 26' judgments were entered against him, and on the application of his solicitor, Mr J. H. Gardiner (of Messrs. Bratton and Hett), exeonti on stayed pending appeal.

Mr.F. X. d'Almada e Castro, who appeared For some of the plaintiffs, informed his Lordship: that security hd boon submitted to the Rogistrar and he was considering it.

THE DESTRUCTION OF HAKODATE.

OROWN AGENTS.

CRYLON' CRITICISE OF HONGKONG- MERCHANTS' ATTITUDE. From a Yokohama lady, who arrived at Hakodate on the morning after the fire, the Hongkong refuses to join hands with the following description is given to the Japa-Ceylon-Chamber of Commerce in the matter Gazette of the scone when they approached of reforming the Crown Agents system, and Hakodate on board the N.Y K. 5,5. Surga under the circumstance it is not easy-to woo what further notion can be taken at pressat. Captain Bandai of the .. Tipants reports maru: having encountered a typhoon abortly after On rerobing the deck we saw what

reamed

A more remarkable letter than that from leaving Kushinotau. The toffrails of his

the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce we have steamer were carried away, and one of her

rarely seen, says the Tong of Ceylon, in lifeboats was damaged, but otherwise the vessel

dealing editorially with the Crown Agent arrived in port sound.

system, and the entire absens of supporting facts

to be a very big des in the lower part of the town. No one seemed to know exactly how big it was or how long it had been borning, Fre sently a sampan came alongside. and from the sen lo we learned that most of the town had been destroyed. It had started about hins the night before and, owing to the strong wind, had spread rapidly. The saman was soon crowded with passengers from the ship and taken alongside the little wharf near the station at Hakodate.

The typhoon zqaslik, so well known to residente in the East, courred frequently yesterday, and the signals buistou denoted that a typhoon sras within 300 miles of the Colony. The Chinese ors ft took early opportunity to get into the fage, and the harbour had that deserted

We landed and walked through streets and to it when the breath of appearance common the mid typhoon" is not far distant. The e. streets of ruins. On all sides there were houses Taan, whicharrived in port early in the afternens barning, and here and there smouldering heaps, Mr. R. A. Harding, also representing a from Manila, ported bad weather and a heavy As we went along we met carts coming loaded number of plaintiffe, asked that the security be sea throughou The waves, according to the with furniture that had been saved In some put up in cash, not in guarantees. He underreport furnished the Harbour Office, were brank carts drawn by horses whole families were over Waglan Lighthouse. The Friage of sitting on top of what aloue remained of, their stood the defendant had effected a sale of certain typhoon must hava struck the Colony shent homes. Clocks, tatami, screens, getas all mixed

in among futong and kimones. „ for a violent wind and see Bros, property this week, and had the proceeds.

His Lordabip-That is a question to go and and the Prase was so impassable that the electric cars were stopped soon after. The Star Ferry boats hour were also stopped at a comparatively early last laurob being unable to make Kowloon had to run for shelt r. Berend the capsizing of a few rishas, a number of hoardings

argue with the Registrar.

Mr. Almada Will your Lordship is time for the Registrar to get the security?

His Lordship -I can't fix a time for the Registrar to make up his mind. You'd better

go and see him, and bring the matter up in Chambers. There are two more eases to day I

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The amount these two plaintifs sought Both proved their to recover was 51,008,62. claims, and judgment was entered for each with costs, and as in the other cases, execution staged pending the appeal.

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down and the smashing off of tree branches, we hear of no damage at the hour of

going to press.—

Before Commandor Busil Taylor Marine Mr. R. Harding Yes, my Lord, and I appear Magistrate, at the Harbour Office yesterday, Constable Downie, prosecuted the masters of for the plaintiffe,

three cargo boats for unlawfully lying along side the steam launch Lee Chow in such a manner as to prevent the free access of other vesels to the southern fairway. The defendants pleaded not guilty, remarking that they did not know the harbour regulations, and were told by those aboard the Lee Chow to go along side, Prosecutor informed his Worship that the Macao steamer Sri Tai was learing the barbour whi's defendants cargo bosts were Taking in sargo from the launob, he had not room to pass, and had to slow down. The defendants were fined $5 apiece, the alternative being fourteen days' imprisonment.

Mr. Gardiner informed his Lordship that security would be given to cover these two

CASON.

His Lordship-Let's go into original now.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION."

BEFORE MR. Á, 0, -WISE (PUNK JUDOR),

BROTHERS IN CQUEE

Li Po-lung sued Li Pak to recover the sum of $10,587.20, being money paid by plaintiff for defendaal at his request, and interost thereon

We left what bad once been the town of Hakodate, and turned into the forests that lie on the slope of the hill at the back. Here wa raw people completely exhausted stretched out asleep prong smouldering tree-trunks and debris, while others were hurrying to find their effects before going down into the rained town.

On reaching the residence of Mr. B.J. King, which adjoins the US. Consulate at the summit of the bill we found everything in contation Families wero camped out in the garden, on the rearandah and all around the house. Both this house and the Consulate seered to bare escaped with very little damage if

or arguments renders it impervious to attack. Hongkong, because we are bound to believe that the Chamber of Commercs ra. facts the generat sies of the business com munity, is satised with the Crown Agent and extravaganos a fresh lease of life. system, which will probably give ineffaiency Singapore very different to Hongkong It is weiry to den h of the Crown Agents, and, like Ceylon, asks for wholesale reform of a satiquated system.

Our contemporary reproduces a Singapore The fear of jobbery in the supply of .com- view of the question, and proceeds:

public departments modities and materials to the is held by a good many people; but there could be no real danger if the Crown Agouts were admitted to epea competition with local firm.

the same in the case of the Crown. Agents, the The principle for which Ceylon is fighting is Consulting Engineers, and the Colonial floe we have developed tremendously, and that the of Wo went recognition of the fact that wedding clothes which serval a useful purpose enough in the years gone by are a ridiculous from ef attire.nom.

Ceylon is suffering from a very bad overdose of Downing Street, Crown Agout, and Consalt- ing Engineers just now; but we hope we are on the eve of hotter things. A great deal of discontent has been caused in Ceylon by mis management in Downing Street. Everybody in Ceylon know that the fine to Rataspura had to be built sooper or later. Why then was the stait allowed to

to go, for the Colony to be let in eventually for so much expense in the way of a new staff! Now the marking time polity la showing itself in an endeavour to cheapen the Ratnapure Railway, which we do not want. We do not want sharper curves and greater gradiants than in the original trace, because we know from our own sad experience that this is a bad policy. But we may have them forced on to us. Who is to pay for the blundering-over our raiveys? Ceylon had no voice in it, but Ceylon will have to pay. How many lakhs of rupees have beon lost? What would have happened had a private business been so mismanaged na Ceylon has been? These are all questions, which practica! men in Ceylon are asking themselves and have been asking themselves for a long time. There has never been one single sound reason pat forward procrastination towards Ceylon. The account ing dificulty was the most miserable of red horrings ever drawn across a trail, and did not deceive anybody. The fearsome despatch from Downing Street in which we were collectively birched as a parcel of extravagant nincompoops and sent away with the advice to set aside five millions as a rest-egg to provide against im aginary future trouble was no batter.

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CLEVER INFERENCE, JUVENILE AND ADULT

It wasn't really necessary for Kipling to tell the children. his Just So” stories. "No one who likes to study the youngsters can have inference. If, as with children of the larger failed to notice their amazing faculty for growth, their inferences often result wrongly. who can regret it? We rasoms the following iple of intelligent juvenile inference from a

of alleged howlers."

"The young horses bare leng legs, so that it might keep up to its mother when wild lions like the lion and the tiger are after them to devour them."

at the rate of 10 per cent, per sanum, In this stepped, looked closely at the excited old man tour through the island to Sapporo and Oier from Downing Street in defence of ita policy of senttling away in the dusk, and set himself

case, and in the succeeding twe, Hon. Dr. He Kai, instructed by Mr. J. H. Gardiner (of Blessra, Bratton and Hett) appeared for the plaintiff, the defendants being sent and without representatives,

Li Po lang stated that on January 17th, 1905, kn brother borrowed the amount claimed from the Bank of Taiwan, and he became surety. The money had not been repaid.

His Lordship gave judgment and costs for the plaintiff.

In the second action Li Poloog claimed from the Lak Yeung Wo Ke Bank and Li Kea-tong the sum of 221,803.45 due on a bill of exchange which plaintiff paid on behalf of the defendent. On plaintiff swearing that none of this amount had been repaid, bis Lordsbiy gave-judgment and costs for him.

From the verandah we were able to overlook the town, and aw fresh outbursts of fire, which

A no one seemed disposed to extinguish. godown full of kerosene oil in as part of the town blazed up and all night long terrie explosious followed as the oil caught fire in different places. In another part the contents of a coal godown famed up is fiery fary.

It was impossible for us to remain in Esko date, even had we so desired, for every corner of shelter was required by the refugees, and. dubls were raised as to the efficiency of the food supply. When we left, Mr. King. agunt for Mr. Leo, was endeavouring to trace all the foreigners in the town to fer them what skolier and comfort he could, being ably conded in his efforts by Consul Miller, who happened to be in Hakodate at the time. Of other Yokohama residents Mr. and Mrs. Bagnall were also in the place, but lustead of returning to ckobams they proceeded on the

We left the house at about five o'clock p.m., they bed originally planned, carrying our luggage betwem us, and walked down to the whart through scenes of desolation ju some of which lay the scorched-romains of animals. We pissed the corner where the Hospital once stood, and among the ruins saw not only skeletone but also burnt charred human boties. After walking for about an hour we reached the part of the town where the fire ori- A Malay named Mohamed Noor, a native ofginated and finally reached the little wharf where Sambas, arrived at Singapore from Chrittmes wo had landed that morning. When at last we got on board the 8.8. Sunumurs, which was to Island recently by the Islander. This man has been shipwrecked off the coast of Borneo take us back to Aomori, we found almost every. anful and has undergone some terrible experiences. one bad on shore all day. It was so He gave a representative of the Free Press yet magnificent sight to watch a whole town in details of his adventures. He was the mastor Rames, bilined, surd the gleaming reflection sheer to the water front: the and owner of a large prahu, of siztean keyan sky was and left Sambas for Sarawak in bie vessel with six other Malays. Kuching was reached in safety and the vessel was loaded cargo of rice and paddy. The ran then made Pulau Sarasons but when twe

As Admiral Lott Charles Beresford stepped on the landing-staga af Liverpool at the begin ning of August to pay his official visit a very ohl man slipped through the cordos of police and stood before him. "Lord Charles" he aried, and held out his band. The Admiral and at the four medals-on his breast. "Is that you, White" he said, "Yes sir," answered the old man," it is 1, sir. Lord Charles laid a hand on the man's shoulder and shook hands with him "And what was the ship we were on then

The Sutle, in the foilic, sir. "Wait till I come Back, and have dinner with me," the Admiral said, and passed on.

hours out from Kuching a squall-

in the water was wonderful, When we left Bakodate at 3 m. on Tuesday morning the

town was still burning, a pall of smoke hover thening, above the town,

In a third action against the Luk Qeung Watrick-bor. The prahu capsized immedi Kee and Li Pak, plaintiff deposed to paying a amount of 23,181.54 at the request of his brother. This amount was stili due and owing. His Lordship entered judgment and costs for plaintiff.

LOCAL SPORT.""

LAWN BOWLS.

The representatives of the Thistle and the Bhamro coll try conclusions on the Police

Club this afternoon for silver spoons.

FOOTBALL.

The Annual Meeting of the YM.UA Fortbeli Club was bold this week when the following officers for the ensuing season were elected Hon, President; Mr. W. D. Braid- wood; President, Mr. J. L McPherson Secretary, Mr. R. C. Barlow; Treasurer, Mr, T. G. Turnbull, Captain, Mr. A. Hamilton Vice-Captain, Mr. A. Tierey; Committee: The Captain, Vice-Captain, Messre. Bishop McCub bin and Raveu.

LAWN TENNIS.

The First Pound in the Doubles Handicap in the lawn tennis tournament promoted by the Craigeugower Cricket Club resulted as follows:

afely and the roast was carried away.” One man was killed by the falling mast and another was drowned, bei g draws down by the sinking prahu. Mohamed Neor clung to a piece of grackage, nd he saw four of the others hang on to the mast. The men on the mast drifted away and the master lost, sight of them. He says that he clung to a plank and drifted about at the mercy of the sea for ten days: He had nothing to ent except a few fish, ikan and devourer alive. One day the smoke di merah," which he caught with his hands a steamer was seen in the distance. When 1a was in a state of despair, a steamer piok. ed bins up sad took him to Christmas Island, and from there ho we sent on to Bingapore "Ged helped me," he said, "and apated my life.

He will return to bis home as soon as possible. It is probable that the authoritise will send him back, Mobamed Noor cannot say what hap pened to the four men that he saw clinging to the mast. He was not injured in any way with the exception of a few cuts on his hands caused at the time of the accident. He says that from being so long in the sea, his skin peeled off. He was not attacked by Usher. The man looks very well considering all he has been through.

NAVAL NOTES.

The cost of marking ditty boxes, &c., is not to be charged against men entered since March 31st, 1907, who are entitled to the issue of a free kit.

THE ANTI-OPIUM MOVEMENT..

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In matters so vitally effecting the prosperity of Ceylon we want to be able to set our own bouse in order, and to be saved from the de- bilitating influence of grand-motherly advisors in London.

ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE. DISPUTE

IN ARBITRATION,

Now, the person who discovered that regarded it as a houler and nothing more. His a titude. towards it was that of Wordsworth's bumpkin to the priminse. He even tacked on to it suver at the result of modern `educational What a myopic view to take of it! methods. To the child who evolved that bypothesis, we doff our hat in all sincerity. He or she has a future of distinct promise. He or she has a thinking brain. Who that has watched a foal stumbling beside its dam has not noticed ite a legginess that comparative legginess, maturity canses to disappear. Why should juvenile horse have colector 10, Sorrent than horses? The chronio e querist, a carefai adult observer of natural phenomena, au absorber of information, used his mind and put two and two together. That he made five thereby does not entitle him to be laughed at. He is no worse than that eminent naturalist of great scientific attainments who noticed the rabbits to answer the probleme, Why is the under (exposed) side of a rabbit's sout white He set his logical mind to work, and pre-" gently hit upon an explanation to square with Nature's notorious utilitarian ingerüily. In the cask, enemies are not so easily visible, and the rabbit's only chance in hasty flight. The first rabbit to discover the danger races in off. Its white senf, bobbing up and down the gloom, is a danger, signal to the rest. Verk clever, indeed, thie, which we have dag from a heavy and soriong essay on the protective devices of Nature. It is, however, just as much of a howler as the child's explanation of the legginess of the foal. Rabbits do not depend upon sight at all in sach circum. stances. They depend upon the Ansen of bearing and smelling. It is obvious that some of them would have no opportunity of seeing the rear of their fleeing friends, until the warning would be too late. The watchers base a trick of thumping the ground with a bind leg, using it somehow ss the schoolboy uses his thumb, in projecting a marble. Up go a sumber of ears, and many muzzles, and the result of these investigations does not need to be com municated from one to another. The ways of such small dear, and even the bowlers of children, are sometimes more worthy of study than the sententions logic of adalls,

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Trouble has arisen between the Milsni Bussen Kaisha and Messrs. Howling, Chaste and Co., London as to dried sardines to be used as fertilizer, reports the Japan Mel. The Japanese firm imported, on March 19th, 20ch and April 27th, 191 tons of fertilizer from Bombay through the branch office of the British arm. Ou landing i', the material was found to be in bad condition, and farther the gasfity ad inferior as compared with the sample on which the business contract had been made Upon this the Milani Bassan Kaisha presented protset to Mesere. Howling, Chaste and Co., and since then negotiations have been

to him. When his shirt was an bo put on his conducted between the parties. Finally the shippers agreed to pay to the consigness five

dressinggown, while three valets infastened his the allegal damage. The J-panosu

There was recently published an article waistbelt and keee-bre ches, which fell down to hundred pounds sterling by way of making good

firm, however, alleging that Japanese at Tientsin were his ankles, and in that garb, scarcely able to insisted that the extent of the damage could not defrauding residents with imitation reels of walk with thors ridiculous fatters, he would be covered by the proposed amount and decided cotton. The Japeness were unjustly blamed, shuffle round the circle of those in waiting. to submit the affair to arbitration as stipulated sccording to the following paragraph from the When the King had had enough of it, he in the centraet. The Mitsui Buzsan

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shofled backward to an arm-chair which was farther asked the Osaka Chamber of Commerca We are pleased to be able to state with pushed into the middle of the room, and dropped to investigate the extent of the damage, etc. reference to the recent sales of aparious reels of into it, lifting up his lega. Two pages on their The Chamber of Commerce appointed Messrs. cotton, that three of the Chinese defaulters have knows immediately saiz d his legs, pulled off the Katayama, Hada, and Kawaguchi, the well-been arrested by the B.M. Felice, and sent to the king's slices, and let them drop with a prasi, known chemical experts, to conduct the in- Chinese Authorities where they have been duly which was a pint of etiquette. As soon me he Festigation requested. The principal points of punished. It appears that the man concerned heard the noise, the asher opened the door, their findig are that (1), the drying of the 'banght up all the cld reels they could get saying, Gentlemen will please was imperfect and ammonia was short by 3 per hold of from tailor's shops or slawhere, Those present went away, and the ceremony cept, from the s'andard set at the Osaka and round these they fastened paper, was finished. However, the person holding the Industrial Testing Office: (3) the sale of material stuffed with sand, on the top winding one layer candlestick was allowed to stay if he bed any might be diflcult; the cost of the merely of cotton. One good reel bas sufficient, selton thing special to say to the King, and bezce danaged portion must be leasoned by per to cover seven spurious ones. The two leading the value that was attached to this strange cent, at which discount the fertilizer was sold to men who manufactured these reels are Li Chin favour. Kanaziwa Nibe; the average price was £8.50; Choog and Liu Da, the former was sentene d per ton; and (3) if the material is stored for a to one year's imprisonment with hard labour. long time the quality will be further damaged and there is fear of spontaneous ombustion.

JAPAN IN KOREA.

The Japanese apparently will not soak to danroy the position of the Korean Royal Family, By several tresties they have pledged thomeelves to respect its safety and dignity, and it will probably be a prudent policy to render the

hty blows of the bamboo, the latter siz hard labour, and eighty blows. The agent, Wang Ten, received six months' impri Ronment and eighty blows. Any resident who detects the sale of these sperians goods would do well to communicate with the police, as there

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Some of the perils attendant on the use of pate t medicines were alluded to the other day,

The Times remarks that it was, of course, essential for the Chinese to give practical proof of the sincerity of their intentions in order to btain the consent of the Indian Government to restrict, with a view eventually to excluding, the volume of imported opiom. A statement by Mr. Morley a few weeks ago showed that from India will be steadily diminished during this consent has been given, and that tho the next few years. Whether the trade will be finally suppressed is to depend on the mannor in which the suti-opium cae pain is commer! in China. This concession represents a consider able sacrifice, both to the farmers in India and to the Government, and it is made from a spirit of friendship to the Chinese and from a sincere desire to assist in relieving the nation from the incubas of a pernicious and demoralising That the final extinction of the Indian opian trade is to depend on the reality of the campaign against the vice in China is a wise provision. It will, we may hope, tend to prevent any relaxation of effort. How far the movement against the vice will be effectively carried out is still a matter of doubt. As yél. only the very first stops have been taken, he closing of the opium dens, of itself, will not do much to extinguish the use of the drug. In the wyalations inned by the Peking Govorn. ment it is decreed that the land sown with the poppy is to be registered and reduced in area each year; that all smokers under sixty years of age must be licensed and must steadily diminish the quantity consumed; and that all shops selling opiume are also to

an inquest with reference to the death of Alfred rogistered and gradually reduced in number.

are still a considerable unaber ou the market by Dr. Walde, the City of London Coroner, at As yet little or no attempt has been made to

Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. so the local agentsJames Clark, aged thirty-seven, a carman, lately provisions, and their execution

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mow's Hospital. presents difficulties that might well battle the

and they have been anxious to have the living at Dalston, who died in St. Bartholo The widow sisted that bor husband bad been most efficient administrators. It would be idle breach with the past as narrow as possible and originatore of the fraud discovered and

& martyr 10 indigestion and had been in the to pretend that afficioney is a obaracteristic of to make a wise use of the influence of the punished.

hospital since July 19. Before this be had the official class in China. Many, perhaps a Throne. Henceforward there should be very

taken a proprietary medicine which was said to majority, are notoriously lux aud corrapt in the little hindrance in the way of introducing the discharge of their functions. And as the reforms so urgently required by Hores. Taš

be good for ind gestion. The Coroner: Did of the

THE DIVINITY THAT HEDGES KINGS!" he take any other secret medicines, quack. administrative system of the Empire is remark importance of this task, in the

Not that 1 nostrams, or pills? Witness: ably lacking in cohesion and effective organisap parques Ito, the first statesman of Japan, themselves, may be gauged by the foot ation it is weldom that the Government at that

Among the most piquant and interesting of know of. The Coronet: He was deluded into Wit- revent memoirs are those of the Comtesse de, the idea it would do him good, too. Peking en enforce its will in the provinces, and the man to whom more than any other har it is probable, therefore, that the spirit in marvellous advance-is-du- bas-talon-sbarge of Boigne, whose family, the d'Osmonds, were neat; He used to say be felt which the opiom regulations are observed the desti ies of Korea. if Japan is to be the among the refugees who scaped the guillotine The Coroner: I may tell yon, gentlemen, that I in such province or district will depeud, very dominant. Power in the Far East, the mannerin and took up residence in London. Madame de get a number of these cases, and stace the

to put o no Govern largely on the cha sotar and fuelinations which she discharges her duties in the Hermit Boigne describes with pitiless fidelity, the in eighties, it has been thought necessary of the local offeinle This, in-fat is the Kingdom is a question of anpreme interest.timate life of three successive Jégimse, them of the label of these quack medicines

ise at present Reports from various parts of The capacity and vigour of her official have been Louis XVI, Bonaparto, and Louis XVIII mont guarantee," as it was found that poor people China show that in many places nothing has been already established. It now remains for them From these glimpses the manners of the were nuder the impression that the Government done to demamenco the campaign against opiam to show that they can win the trust of a Bourbons, despite their centuries of breeding, guarantee the contents because of the Inland

subject load

have been a whit refined Revenue stamp: The warning, however, is really With reference to the revised silowazoes of In one city the populations are posted up and sibert on and flat to stagante, along the appear to have baglaon. The followings, for of no sure, as it is printed in such small print tbat torpedoboat destroyers and torpedo-boats in oves this step has Im where observers who have lately visited Korea hove XVI.

read it. The poor are torri ly deluded in this The Final ended: Baes and Vincenet best F. commission with nucleus crews, the proposals be remember lips not been taken. It must also path of progress and enlightenment. Some example, is a description of the coucher of Lonis people can hardly see it, and poor people cannot

The King's cost, waistcoat, and shirt were received from the different ports as to the superficial appearances are often deceptive declared that sufficient ware has not been taken

Thed, again, the medicine is partially

which sho Tesaals, have been approved by chiralty promise and performance. The recurglari musrontour posse adventurers and that the reaching-and-rubbing himself as if he had composed of upiun and will be embodied in the establishment for featurs of the situation is that in many places military authorities Have, on occasion, acted in been alous, in the presence of this white Court Fold under the careful supervision of a quantied

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chemist. I should like to see this stamp done and oflen arbitrary fashion.

strangers of distinction. many Net practice will commence at the Craigen-Versals with reduced crews now in course of popular feeling appears strongly in favour of the

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eradication of the opium vive, and that the fumembered, however, that the Japanes

The first valet hand, d the night-shirt to the away with. The Government have made leaders in this tendency are the studenty who hardly yet had time to establish effective control most highly qualified persun, to one of the £300,000 a year out of it, but they ought to flod

of Üheir atten. wil be the future leaders if the nation. The over the country, and that ch

priotes of the blood, if any were present; this something else. I am convinced that quack HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your.com Devonport Reserve Division of the Home fleet,

Deron con el sofrega, battleshilemo ito suppression, would be a tremendous achievement, tion has been occupied by the necessity for coun. was a right, and not a favour. When, the medicines have been responsible for the codes plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Créme Charmante, Lait together with the other "special sorvien ships'

if accomplished, would supply a remarkable tering the intrigues of the fallen Emperor. parson was ine with whom he was on familiar of numbers of children, and in many cases of Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Pouder in the Devonport division of the home deet, was testimony to the character of the race The The Japanese often declare that Lord Cromer's terms, the King would often play tricks while adults, and will continue to be so while the Charmante will enable you to do it. Her recently stripped of all mess-traps, and reserve experiment should be closely watched, fox the administration in Egypt is the model which they putting it on, stepping on one side to make the tax Inste

Dr. Reichsfart then gave evidence that death Specialities for the Skin are the study of a provisions on board were returned to store. It success that attends it should demonstrate the intend to follow in Korea, and Englishmen, who bolder run after him, accompanying these lifetime. A, S. Wateon & Co., Ltd., Sole Agent is thought that she may be employed on capacity of the Chinese for national reorganican well realise the difficulties of the lask, will charming jokes with load guffaw, which was due to bemorrhage from sneurism of the

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regard the work of Marquis Ito with sympathy greatly vexed those who were sincerely attached; heart, and a verdict of "Death from natural

Canses was returned, and appreciation.-Times.

A new arew for the "Powerful," flagship of A. E. Asger and L. A, Rose, a bye; S. E. Green Vice Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawker, Cem and L. F. Lammert, bye; & Evans and Wmander-in-Chief of the Australia station, wie to A. Brand boat A. O. Brawn and M. A. Razack, leave England early this month. 6/2, 8/6; R. Basa and L. Vincenat beat J: Toppia and R. B. Cooper, 6/1, 4/4, 62; L. d'Almada and F. Loureiro scratched to F. and H. Rapp; J. D. Kinusird and F. Crawford beat E. Irving and H. Lyson, 6/2, 6/1; R. Pestonji and F. Drnde, a bye; J. Pestosi and R. W. Pearson, a bye.

The Second Round resulted Asger and Rose beat Green and Lammert, 26, 60, 6/3, Bass and Vincenet beat Evans and Brandt, 6/34/6, 6/2, F. and H. Rapp beat Kinnaird and Craw ford, 60, 1/6, 64; Pestonji and Pearson beat R. Pestonji and Drude, 6/2, 6/3.

The Third Round resulted: Baes and Vincenet beat Asger and Rose 5/7, 8/6, 6/0; Pestonji and Pearson scratobed to F. and H. Rapp.

and H. Rapp, 6/4, 1/6, 4/6, G4, 8/6,

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If is directed that in the case of the bands of port admirals, Royal Naval Barracks, and gun- sy rehols, music to the value of 13 will be supplied by the School of Music anually on demand at the expiration of three you from the date of original issue.

An Admiralty order has been circalated to the effect that officers appointed for surveying duties in a ship commissioning or repumisaion. ing at home, or for gervice abroad, are to draw the surveying pay attaching to saob appoint ment, from the date of joining the ship. The of certain officers affected by the new rule will be adjusted accordingly.

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