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MISSION WORK IN CHINA.

The following letter appeared in the T

Sir, The interesting article by the Rev, Lord William Gascoyne-Cooil on mission work in China has for its conclusion the following paragraph:

AFFAIRS IN FORMOSA.

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PREFS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25r 1907.

FUNNELS AND FLAGS.

There was same jubilation in Germany that the "Lasilania in her first attempt left the "Deutschland's laurels Intact. But speaking at a dinner on board the Kaiser Wilhelm II Herr Heinekor, a director of the North Ger- man Lloyd Co., said that although the Lusitania had not broken the ocean record of such a vessel was not decisive, as the machinery the North German Lloyd, yet the first vorage of must learn to pall together. If must be given a thorough testing, and the personnel however, Horr Heineker continged, ribbon must be forfeital to Great Britain, it should not be forgotten that, thanks to the British State subsidy, they were engaged in an unequal contest. Moreover, it must be borne in mind that the practical remit of the possible

General Viscount Sakuma, Governor-General of Fortices, whe passed through Kobe recently **The mesenge. I think, the West should give on his way to Tokyo, recorded a brief interview to Chips, both by the month of missionaries to the Press at the Mikado Hotel. The Goser. und of statesmen, is that Western, knowledge with the aborigines, and his remarks will be without Western ethics will only shoo the

f of tyranny with iron, and that those athies particular interest in view of the revalt of the Are, esa matter of history, intimately connected aborigines, an outbreak which is arousing a

great deal of attention and founded on the teachings of Christianity."

In dealing with the

aborigines, asid the May I state, in your columns, some reasons

Governor-General, the Formosan authorities For lissenting from this conclusion, and more especially from that portion of it relating to have been dowly and steadily advancing the defence line, No accurate statistics as to the statesmen which I have put in italicsP

The objections to statesmen undertaking the population of the aborigines were procurable, rcle of propagandists in Chins are twofold--but they were believed to number between victory of the Lusitania was very small.

110,000 and 120,000. The tribes in the north theoretical and praction.

and

south were knowa to consist of from 5,000

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Have you ever visited Lord's when the stamps have been pulled up for the last tims and the next match is seven monthe distant, far away out of sight beyond the blne hills of Time? Tis a feast of daintiest melancholy for and there in the great windy and the tee of the English phim tre forsaken seats solitary workman Bilsally

go aretakers at a cemetery. The pavilion is about their business, which might be that of gannt, and nutenanted; ite windows aro 20 many blind, staring eyes. The famous fold is a blink, meaningless cipher; the scars of the season's play are already heating. There is no sparrows the Buy Loaden atreathawks whom stir of life in the wide green circle, Even the Viator Trumper once thr atened his bat as they finttored up to "silly

adj in the autumn strange wildfowl will be M.C.C secretary, gaw a braos of snipe inspect-saly beart. You should grow a lab-bowler there. On one occasion Mr. F. E. Laony, the The sun goes ing the central pitch.

of the daughter-lands, the cricket-loving demi-Englands."

Can it be seriously argued that it is a (0) persons, each. In some parts a number Kingetown of the London and North-Western seem to have deserted the place, Lattar on Part of the datins of a modern Government to to propigste. own typ

of religion within of tribes were assembled, but usually they were This made it very difficult to the dominions of another civilized und fud-pond- scattered widely. ent State? It is retrograde suggestion. The dispose of the auvages in cne action, so the

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most striking festaro of the superiority of authorities have has disposing of one, tribe ander which they have this power of levelling down, the solltary workers leave their work, the with a high delivery for uso against the men

after another:

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X of France djionary bigot like Charles régime the gallant Black-flag General Liu the amount advanced to £12,300,

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Charapinebip-I am deadly sick of the very word, Cannot gentlemen play cricket for County Championship competition *** cricket's sake, winning if they van, but as well ROBINSON PIANO

na henarable defeat as with D content with

CO., LTD. and other forms of counting madness I have honest violory? With the keeping of averages

an average innings, any more than there exists the

entity of an average man. The logician's keeping of one's average is the drenrigst form of TALKING patiero whatever. There is no such this a

introspection; the ion of Hambledon were not. in the habit of pulling their careers up by the they appealing against the light?" A The moon, which had been veiled in

route at the end of every match.

withdrów her light ⚫ltogether. For a moment darkness and a

palescent mist, now

first and best of oriokoting scribes had vanished.

E. B. Osborn.

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Events still on to point to the diversion to Railway Commay's North-wall passenger sorraling back obtained on Act of Parliament, sarvioo. The Dablia Pert and Docks Board

the dues in such a way as largely to incrence Western over Chinese civilization is the separ

Mount Morrison in the central mountain the payments of certain classes of shipping. The dows of starlight are falling; & ation which, thanks to Christianity, Las been established between the temporal power of the range, which stande about 2,000 feet higher Landon and North-Western Company formerly memories sighs over the darkling green, and State and the spiritual power of the Church. than Mount Fuji, was known to be inhabited paid about £10,000 a year in respect of their out of the shadow-througed pavilion come the (that live in the nation's remembrance) and A true statesman like Frederick the Great of by the most savage tribe, and the mountain still North-wall passenger and cargo abins. Then, shades of the good cricketers and trus men During the Chinese as the new Act gradually came into operation, walk arm in arm along the noiseless grass.

Bat on Jan

Who are all these while hastening shadows of Prussia respects this principle, and maintains retained unexplored. materialorder; a

of the three it, and the result is Ming-Tien sent an expedition to attack this 1 uozt, when the mesture becomes fully opern. revolution and the rule of his dynasty. The tribe, but was repulsed with a loss of 500 men. tive, the dusa will run up, so it is estimated, great names? One is the youngest lessons of history on this point are too plain to The recent bombardment of the tribes on the to £23,650. The Part and Docks Beard has Graces, who caught out the gigantic Bonner eastern coast by the war-skips was undoubtedly declined proposals for a conference, and holds from the loftiest skier in the history of the

it The practical objections are even more effective and aborigines, having learned the

sequently looks as though the company will of all historic batsmen at forcing the game on rain-rained wicket. A third is Charles forcible. The course of action which statesmen range of the guns of a warship, have shifted quantope of an amicable settlement. Cos-game. Another is Paroy McDonnell, the best

man out" ever, born eir abode out of range. The aborigines living withdraw their passenger service, and that the are now invited to take has been taken already, and the consequences have been disastrosas. In in the northern part of the bland are generally part of Dublin will kse a certain amount of Absalom, the safest

and brutal than those in the south. rerenue, which Kingstown will gain. There Kent, who once played at Lord's in a red shirt the British Commercial Treaty with China.all the local Governments started operations ought surely to be some method of arranging and in after years wandered throngletha West 1858 the following clause occure:

was adopted by the Spokane Indians under the Art, VIII. The Christian, religion, 58 pro. to dispose of the aboriginal tribes in the district this matter without such a dislocation of traffic earning a livelihood with bis naked hauds, and

name of "The-man-who-never-were-z-hat." fessed by Protestants or Roman Catholics, under their respective jurisdictions, and it was as is threatened. inenloated the practice of virtue, and teacher exproted that all the tribes would be brought

fourth is but the list of those whom the loved too wali sbait bo left to the reader's mau to do as he would be done by: Persons into submission at an early date. It seomed aes had been mostly imported from the mainland, but the impurtation of riff s vestand to have

gotten cricketers; for in a single heart's beat of largely dearessed of late, though mammunition

time they coms to the happy playing fields still continued to be smuggled. The rifles used

where they would be, and in the swiftness of their journeying this vast globe shrinks to a

it. cricket ball with spin on be by the aborigines were mostly Maneers, made in Germany. The authorities kept close watch against any attempt to smuggle arms, which was chiefly effected along the eastern coast, between Kwarenko and So-, of about 6 miles. Three precipitous cliffs run along the coast, and owing to the sea being always very rough it was very diffenit to approach the shore. To dispose of the aborigines, and complete facilities for communication in roads from the eastern to the western coast. Recently an exploration party was sent out with 25 natives as guides. The party anoneeded feet above the sea, and crossed the island from the eastern to the western · const. expedition would be sent out shortly, said the Governor (heneral, preparatory to framing * a scheme for constructing the necessary roads Across the mountain range,

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teaching, it or professing it, therefore, shall that the arma in the possession of the aborigi operation in sudden fashion, operated very gination. Happy are these dead, half-for, thunderclap of silence-whan it was all over the alike, be entitled to the protection of the Chinese authorities, nor shell any such, peaceebiy pursuing their calling and not offending against

interfered with." The laws, be persecuted or

At the time when the above message was de

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century livered by the statemanship of ago China was in the midst of bloody and a Christian devastating rebellion caused by a convert. During the period that has sinos elapsed many anti-missionary disturbanese bave occurred, culminating-in the latest and most notable of them the Boxer uprising of 1900. Gunboata have been employed to enforce the right conferred by the treaty on missionaries to

distance

OFFICIAL STATEMENT,

reside and proselytizo mongst a people who the island, it was essential to construct, wide part of their cargo at ose Australian pory route to the nearest exit and took off my hat the fact that the regular income only amounts |

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bad good cause to dislike them. Money hars been exacted and territory bas indemnities hars been seized from Ching consequence of anti. missionary outbreaks. Bitter hostility has bean engendered between Christian converts and their fellow-citizens in consequence of the foreign protection which the former through the semi-political status of their mis-

pastora. And in the face of thie da- plorable record of failure, friction, and disturb ance, statesmen are gravely naked to repeat the blunder of delivering a propagandist message again..

If any confrmation were required of the id expediency of such a step it is furnished by the contrast with the course of missionary work in Japan. In that empire there have been neither

outbreaks, blottlehed, indemnities, nor friction, seizures of territory as accompaniments and of Christian propaganda, Why? соовениенеев I confdently assert becsuse there was no mis-

to

in crossing a range of mountain rising 9,000 port a few days later, The Federal Governed by the brightening of his smile, sat down ; £62,070,000, and it is suggested that Japan

Another

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- The new battleships are to displace 19,250 Lons-not quite the anticipated twenty thou sand, though very near it-of 550 tons more than the Temersire and Rellerophon. In the matter of armour and armament, teo,. they will be £0 Advance their predecessors. As

pet, to details remain be settled. The many Admiralty are not so owing broadcast information sionary clause in our treaty with Japan. The about these now battleships; consently, it is treaties with the two Oriental empires were made in the same year; and the attitude of diffeait to get more than a general ides of their design. It is understood, however, that they will amount the now 13.5-inch gne se main Japan towards Christianity was the same ze that of Chins. For enturies

previously Japan had been, and still is, a pupil in armament, and will carry anti-torpedo guns of & similar type to those to bo given the the elitical school of China. But by a fortunate accident, which I need not now stop to explain, Bellerophon and her sisters. Some improve there was no treaty interforencs with her will be effected in the method of freedom in spiritual concerns. The result has placing the guns, and the vessel may bean as fortunate for missionary activity, and be given a little higher speed or a somewhat for international goed will as the nowise greater sea-keeping capacity than the Dread interference with Chins's spiritual liberty has bought, whose superior they will be in many been pernicious, The contrast between the two resp.cla, After these leviathans is to come a class of ernisers of moderate dimensions. During cases after half-a-century of trial, constitutes, in fact, a erucial political experiment, and the past few years we have bailt many big statesman are not likely either to misnoders end ernisers, some of them battleships in all but name. A-naxy composed wholly of leviathans the lesson or to ignore it.

I may now glance for a moment at the marenge

PERFORATED SAILS.

A STRANGE BRA-FARING THEORY.

A little while ago the British barque Afon- Alaw reported to Lloyd's that on July 16th when in the Tropice, she had spoken a French Boiling ship, "with artificial holes in her sails. To the mere landamant the idea of a sailing vessel purposely having holes in her canvas must appear very strange. The explanation, hero, is that the captain of the French barque was undoubtedly a believer in what are known as perforated sails This theory is not general adoption, although there are a number of British sailing ship masters who firmly botiere in its advantage.

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In truth it is John Nyren," he said, in answer to my look of interrogation, "and the man is still dend.

We of the older generatione must be content to sit bere and warm ourselves in the moonlight, and watch the deade of the yourger Ghosts. It ie many a long year since I saw the Umpire's armi lifted against me.

Death at the wigket stands watching life's play In his long white robe he has pinned the Rose Of Love, still fading, though enger to stay,, When he lifts his arm, the fusticat gove,

Night after night through the winter I watch the younger and dearer daid at their sport in this Delphic plessance, and agad! I have eat unseen for many a maniere afternoon and admired the doings of your living champions.

I suppose

e you find the game much changed,

Mr.

shoold

itself which statesmen are advised to give. Isrealty for some kinds of work. The scouts under the command of Captain Holmce. This marvel that your ladies (Heaven send them

it substantially current and trae? 1 venture

think it is not. Western ethics are of

which

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JAPANESE IN VANCOUVER.

Mr. Edward W. Matthews, Secretary British and foreign Sailors' Boeisty, Passmore Edwards Sailors' Falsos, wrote to the Times as follows:

The new Australian tariff, which came into harshly in the case of a considerable number of steamers. Thus the Land liner Natraag was actually entered at Port Adelaide before the new tariff came futo fores, but bacause her manifest could not be lodged at once, and the

Bat who was the silver-haired veteran in a entries of datiable goods be made, her cargo came subject to the new sohedule: The result in the particular case is not alated, but another tall hairy top-hat and brown clothes, of an old- is mentioned, in which a frm kad on board a fangled out, seated ball-way up the Monnd stand? Surely f had seen his portrait in the ressel arriving in Australia consignment on

Mr. Wakatanki, Japanese Special Finance LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT which, owing to the inpse of a few moments, book on the Hambledon worthies lately pablish £3006 had to be paid in duties, instead of ed by Mr. F. V. Laose, Surely it was John Commissioner in London, has given the follow between £400 and £500 Another curious Nyren, that good cricketer and true friend of ing statement to Beuter's Agency:

It is often declared that there is a deficit of situation was that vessels which had discharged all good cricketers and little master of English

So I stopped on the upward slanting £18,000,000 in the Budget, this being based on prose found the rst liable to the higher scale of

£42,000,000, while the expenditure is duties when discharged at another Australian to the cheerful, harmless Ghost; and, snerung

within arm's length. The full moon bad now might experience dificulty in mosting this. ment was asked to show a certain amount of consideration in these esser, but it declined gathered rufficient light for the game to begin, deficit. The fact is however, that this sum of and the field below was thronged with busy, £42,000,000 is only the ordinary part of the to make any concession.

whole revenue, while the ram of £62,000,000 white-clad Shades.

as expenditore represents the total expenditure

both the ordinary and inlouding traordinary. The ordinary revenue, to be more exact is about 243,000,000, in more than enough to cover the ordinary expendi tare, which totale about £12,000,000. The extra- ordinary revenue is only a trifle less than sufficer to meet the extraordinary expendituro. It is thus clear that the whole revenue, inclusive of both ordinary and extraordinary, just balances with the whole expenditure. The extraordinary part of the revenue cannot be left out of 300.

When passing through Vancouver in the sideration merely on account of its being of a temporary nature, for the extraordinary part of early part of this year I was particularly sträck the expenditure is also temporary, and will cease with the Japanese workmen and servants I saw. to exist in the course of a few years. There is The Japanese were always pictured and no reason to apprehend a deficit even in the cartooned as very little men, but in the largest fature. In the case of the present year the lumber and sawmills (I suppose in Canada) I am no laudator lamporis acti, sir, Japanese Government has provided an extra there were Japanese so sturdy, so well set up, It is trae that some of the istter-day castoms ordinary revenue to meet the extraordinary with much magnificent physique, bandling the It was an Italian skipper who first hit upon

Beem to me nearer the ridiculous than the expenditure, For next year, and for snooneding timber and doing their work in such a way that the idea that it would accelerate the speed of his sublime. When Jemmy Aylward, one of the years, too, it has a plan of supply for the same it made a man proud of the race, quite outside a region so vaxt ship if a number of holes about six inches in diameter were made in the square saile, as well best bathers over when on Broad-Halfpenny. purpose. The Budget scheme must necessarily of nationality, I felt that

eailed for a lemon when he had been in but a shape itself according to the cirumstances as British Colombis, waiting for both capital and labour, and all under our glorious flag, such as the fore and aft canvas, The object of these little time the whole gr und laughed at him which it lies to meet.

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"Another misconception conists in the sup help would be of real value to the country. holea is to permit of the escape of the wind," and to ensure that the wind is always cin.380 the good old farmers leaning forward

on their tall old staves and bowing down for position that sa appreciable part of the Then in the hotel where I was a guest, the exerting its power direct upon the canvas, sn

sher excess of Homeric merriment at what Japanese expenditure is caused by Government genial but businesslike proprietor told me that other words, it is claimed that the perforations

scomed a piece of finnikiness to such simple and anbaidies and grants de industries that are the Japanese clerka were steady, ready, reliable, British trados. trustworthy, and good. At Victoris I said to absare that the wind is always doing its work, and that its power is not lost, owing to the carve homely Feomen. But what had they said to directly competing with

your tay interval? Were it a question of Apparently many items of subsidies and grants the hotel manager, I have a quantity of of the Bail being filled with a cushion of "dead"

ber. noble bear that would put the souls are set forth in the Budget, but the aggregate Nalion copper souvenirs, and I cannot look amount of money for these charges does not them all up, and I see ron have Chinese wind. would, however, not be suited to the needs of

Some years ago a handsome ship named the of three fast bowlers into the golfor, I

show any appreciable increase over that of the servants." He instantly replied, "You are nothing. But tay Sir, I do not Bay Great Britain. Medium-sized cruisers are a Cimba came regularly to London form Australia,

previous years. Most of these subsidies are, quite safe, I over lost a thing yet." I was proper husbands!) are all of one mind to steal indeed, of the nature of a State contribution to glad of this, because men are keen to pass over have practically re-placed the third-class vessel had perforated sails, and on one occasion,

and next year car Fleet, cruiser 12

ear when sailing down the English Channol, a test your hate, neckties, shirts, and other randing municipalities for waterworks, sewerage cou-virtues and show up an unfortunate vice. say they were such we are to see the commencement of a type of was made by plugging the holes with rand-bage.age and desire, some among them to sit instruction, harbour improvements, and so forth. Coming up the Pecific we took in at Honolulu

your very breeches on the well-cushioned seats Thess subventions do not prejudice British several Japanese, and I must vezeel designed to take the place of the second- With the gail holes closed the Cimbs list speed,f your House of Commons. And I mest needs trade, but on the contrary, as in the case of the that any master needing labour would jur

At Brisbane, Queensland, passed on its teasbinga? The great moral truth and class ernisers now sargin upon obsolescence. thus clearly showing the advantage of the theory think that your men are too obsequions to the improvement of barbours, confer a benefit upon them. masims of the West are founded on the experiWhile at Elswick Sir Philip Watts showed of perforation. Like many another old clipper, sin-compelling Jupiter. A sprinkling of it. Enbsidies to shipping seem to have especially Chinaman who had paid his 109 for the in to onlţivate the soil. My coming each with its soul of sunlight, did excited tinessiness, It must be remembered, how privilege of som ence of mankind during the long ages that elapset that he could desiga cruisers that possessed good the Cimba is now cwned by foreg of the not antice to drive the Hambledon players to ever, that these are the result of a policy which Australian friend and host sold to me, I showed

mindrops, before Christianity or its progenitor, Judaism.

aptin came into existente. Christianity, like Jand

Inverurie Knother British-barque, Firmly adopted them from its predecessore sad olothed displacement. The cruisery bailt under his Captain Holmes now bas command

supervision at Elosiek, for the Japscome

were not manaikins worked by a pastrycook are by no means a new introduction after the and he took this waste land, and for bringing them in a vestmont of theological doctrine Government were much superior to any lips convinced of the value of sail holes, it was bis the shelter of the tent:-our-brawa-£oosd ckaps Japan has followed for a good many years, and this Chinaman a little kindness when he came, in barley-sugar. And I dislike the row fashion recent war. It is only natural that an island vegetables to the utmost persfection he is which is now dropping away in rags. Moreover of corresponding size in the British Navy. Bat intention to carry out the perforation of the

Sail perforation has step beau in nge on the of ironical applause. In my day Sir Horace ompire like Japan, which is so new to the unsurpassed and a past master. He loves his land all one hears be true, the projected second sails in his later ship if class oruisers will be most admirable little chips. Sa perioration in mastod barques Look Maun would have been amesg the silly ignorant world, should have jasugarated her new policy as a man dosa bis wife, and the response is Submarines are still very uob in the ex- Torridon and Fort Jackson, both of which are chaps with his daisy-cutter of a cane, or, it by assisting in this way her own means of incredible, You see he has not forgotten that might well be, would have sent his body servant traffic. Even these subsidies, it must be added, little kindness years ago.". The sin of it all is parimental stage, although the newest boats

to Bick sense into them. Nor can I tolerate she is going to withdraw, for the Government that millions of acres are crying out for sach Captain Pattman has had comm nd of the Loob

the incessant ontory for match-cards. Such of has repeatedly told the Imperial Diet that its delicate and prolific atentions. A boatload of judgment the educated intellects of Japan bave added to the British Rotilla are highly eficient. now lying in the West Indis Dock, London. concurred for more than two centuries, aud and very much ahead of those owned by any Torridon for about a quarter of a century, and

as as dire not trust to memory, Mother, of the policy lies in the direction of reducing sub-facts are worth a shipload of fears, envies, &c, still concur. Both Chinese and Japanese other Pawer. But is possible that before

sidies year by year. With regard to the Oar working, men have entered into a great prefer human experience as a hasis for ethics to we may see a boat launched whoo many years ago ho dopted perforate in Muses, wald cut their match cards out of the

That the Loch arridon is a speedy ship is an alleged diving revelation. As a moral type advent will be as epoch-making in ite evidenced by the isot that pro rest she was the next bodge. But 1 ami glat to know you have chartering of foreign ships there is no reston inheritance, purchased by our heroic sailor

to suppose that Japan, by no longer employing forefathers and Colonial Empire builders. a cricket-poeta lusty, open-air poot, of s

Vancouver, Victoria and other ports to be and teacher they consider Confucius superior lo

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war first to arrive home from Australia out of a fleet joued countenance and skilful at tongue-play these vessels, is seeking to drive foreign shipe Christ. For Western statesmen to give to under water as that of the Dreadnought of thirty-nige wool-laden ships. She did. theYou might write verse as had as mine, quoted from her seas, for they were chartered only still opened further north will be filled with Chios the message in question would, therefore, we apon ships that fight on the surface. So

to meet the sudden demand caused by the shipping, doing business with the mighty

empires beyond the sea. The Japanese war be as useless as ploughing the sands of the far og ope can gather, the information obtained passage in sighty days, while the last to arrive

it was a pleasant Busiver. seashore. The lesa missionaries in China

sailed from the Clyde to Adelaide in serenty-

"With regard to the Army and Navy ex- Gulf Stream comes over to wash our Canadian But, Mr. Nyren, you sail the game would from staff with a Holland boat is being utilized two days. Equally well known

readiture in this year's Budget a comparison Paciflo sborsa and, in doing so, starta what the por statesmen to help them the better it will by the experiments cartiad. out by the torpado tock 27 11ys. The Loch Torridan has also to thread-papar olark, but could you sell

has been made between the expenditure of this Indians lovingly call, ent often pray for, their be for both.

in getting out designs for a new of Jackson, the ocean training ship, of which being of the innovation of bowling Surbiton, Bept: 11, J. CAREY HALL,

"Give a dead man leare to have changed his year under this head with that of last year. warm Chinook wird, which they say eats up Enbmarius that will be larger even than the Captain Maitland has recently been appointed! lhe hoight of the shoulder or above

This iron clipar do report in ten mind, I thought so once, but think otherwise Taking both ordinary and extraordinary ex- the terrible frost and now, and not only gives Riviera climate in coldest winter, but steals days. When running her essting down".

game of the aurea meliaritas of soblo, and the extraordinary expenditure of this year over softly inland between the Rockies and Selkirks, Oron again the Admiralty are: findings

between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, dignified gestare. You have bowlere as majest that of last year appears on the surface, for spreads over plains and enables cattle actually difficulty in enough artizan ratings for with a burly westerly galo behin, sho basioal as David Harris, and batters to oppose them that of last year did pot come to any appreciable to live in the open for winters together without the Flook There is, at the present moment, a

done over fourteen knots. It does not,

amennt. Critics have, therefore, jumped to the artificial food.

So may it be by wise statesmanship, British, actificers, and reorui. shortage of engine-room

conclusion that this increase must be owing to not degenerated, as I once feared it Cricket has t this is course, follow that sail perforation is directly as magnanimous in their art as William Baldam.

a vast increase of armaments and to Japan's Canadian, and Japanes by interobauge of for the good speed of these sailers, accountable in Tokyo, dealing with the threatened boycott to a great extent due to the dislike

as soon watch MacLaren or the third of the aggressive intentions. Here I would point out commerce, by those magnificent. Č.P.R. of Japanese zaguri silk, the Japanese Conant the EAs regard, the scheme for training ships would not have sdopted it were they not

satisfied of its utility. The value of such Fosters, or even that self-muda artist. C. B. Pry, that Japan bas lust many of her powerful men steamers, and the developments yet to come, by General in New York states that on the 4th mechanicians on the Service. This, and the instant the members of the American Silk establishment of boy artificer school ships, the perfomations is a debated point among ship. Silver Billy at his best or any other of my of-war and had to waste a considerable part of her self-restraint, informational courtesy, and co- Lural that she should endeavour both daring and honour, trust, and love come over the 92 and Tradere Asociation, considering the enres E.R.As look upon as a move towards making

the opinion that in certain winds it is not bowlers of to-day whom I could name seem taken by the Usui and two other silk reeling the Admiralty independent of the Tyne, the master, but a well-known London captain holds sontmporaries. Hallam, Fielder and other armonzuents during the war, and that it is only na operation, may God's own Chiroos of mutual improbable that an additional ball knot would to me aa truly elegant in addressing them after the war to restore her defences to the same spread over that great and goodly land, one of companies in Gumbs Prefecture as prejudicat Clyde, and other districts, which now furnish the

the Hamble the 7 complebe gained by the adoption of these holes in the selva. to the attack and in the not of strength in which they were maintained before the richest gems in the Imperial Crown.

war: For the year 1966 this cost of repair- to the general principle of competition in trade, bulk of reoruits for the engine room

bowling as the greatest

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. adopted a resolution to discriminate against the ments of the Navy. No doubt, that is what

In question as far as practicable. This lordships have in mind, and though the Braile

The holeing of the mails is done on the follow. donions. In the past season the dawn of ing and replenishing her forces and feels was raw silk in resolution was communicated to the Japanese may retent it. they cannot very well preventing plans the fore and all canvas one hole a new age of bowlers has been dimly descried. met by money out of the Extraorditary War

The 1.G.. steamer Prins Ludwig with the the Consul General

the scheme from succeeding.

a special account. Now for this year, this thing. For the moment your Twentieth-Cen Ambasador in Washingtoes raw silk pro-curions, though, that the Admiralty should have is out in each sil near the foot. In the larger 46the saying is, from Africa siways some new Experies get aside from the General Budget as

New York, and the

square sails four holes are out, and in the

repairing and replenishing has to be met by 24th inst., and may be expected to arrive here ducers and dealers in general, with a view to obose just this moment, when skilled artisans suuller ones, such as the royals, which are the tary art of batsmanship lina croubled into special account having been closed, this cost of next German Mails left Singapore on Thursday,

class before the weird, intriguing deliveries of inducing the three silk-reeling companies in are in short apply to issue orders that the

The M.M. str. Tonkin with the next French question to reconsider their action and discon- Channel and. Allautic Fleet ships are to make highest sails, these brein. perforation: Sohwa: 2, Vogler, and Faulkner; even your money out of the Ganoral Budget, there being on Monday, 28th inst., at 2 p.m.

solidest masters of defence and offence, Hay-ne other source to fall back upon. The Linue the new arrangement.

good their own

rown small defects, so as to lareon the Another advantage of this sail, theory is that it

and the rest, cannot play them with any apparent inoresse, therefore, of the ortraordia- Maile, will leave Saigon to day at 3 p.m.. for The Consul General adds that the resolution work thrown upon the dockyards. All big tends to relieve the strain on the gear aloft...

The Apcar str. Lightning from Calcutta left was adopted only by a a section of the members warships bave well-fitted engineering shops,

HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com show of elegance. But your mon vill learn; ery expenditure for the Army and Navy for this port.

must learn. Even so, like every other this year is only a budgetary method of dealing and tot by the Association officially-as-a-body, and Whitebail evidently intends that the plant The majority of thore present ad the meeting these contain shall not be permitted to rust plexion, Mrs Ellen's Urns Charmante, Lait inlottal are, uricket has its vicissitudes of were dealers, in twisted-thread. The raw silk out. But unless the ongineering complements Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Pouder dealers generally most warply supported the of the ships affected ars to be strengthened, Charmant will enable you to do it. Her resolution, but the weavers showed indifference, it seems hardly fair to lay all this entrie work Specialities for the Skin are the starly of The Miteni Busan Keisha and the Kiito Gome upon them. The wisdom of the action is open lifetime.A.B. is Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents Keisha were also represented at the meeting. to question, too.

to

of course, intimately connected with Christian

ity; but are they, as a matter of history, founded

Chinese scholars are by no means ignorant of

the Christian system of ethics. They have studied it and compared it with their own, and have decisively rejected it as inferior: In this

THE SILK TRADE

rely

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE THRE TENED

AMERICAN BOYCOTT.

artsmect

oraft

moderate

intended to

and

'sin s'I

the Port

war.

" class, will have twin screwe, four torpedo on to have sailed 1,500 knote in flee to-day. The now bowling ass not deprived our penditure for this purpose, a great increase in

inbes,

and

get got outed considerably in excess of any

of a submarine bost.

of

In a telegram addressed to the Foreign Office tag for this rating is slow. Noth which On the other hand, the captains of the would, into a rongh, eoarse horseplay. "I would

It is rather

654

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ward

show

jump at

after the war, and for this parpess has The str. Glenfarg which left here 30th Aug. style, but it always-odieket. None the less I use taustion. It is gross mistake to Singapore on 23rd iast, afternoon, and may be If he were living now David Harris would be suddenly increased the extraordinary expandi for Calleo, Iquique via Japan ports, arrived at blame you for not seeking counsel in the past.se that Japan has adopted an aggressive expected here on or about the 28th inst, p..

her destination. not the least of your fine bowlers-I am very ture for the Army and Navy." sure he would wear the Bose of England on his