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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

·BEN"-LINE OF STEAMERS;

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

A.8. "BENLARIG," FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, AND

STRAITS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby informed

that all Goods are being landed at their rísk into the hazardous and/or

extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., whonce and/or from the wharvos delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 21th inst. will be subject to rent,

All Claims against the Steamer must be ore. sented to the Undersigned on or before the 31st inst., or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will bo examined on the 24th inst., at 11 &,M.-

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agonta Hongkong, 17th December, 1907. [1993

NORDDEUTSHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Turs- DAT, the 17th inst., at NoDN

No claims will be admitted aftor the Goods have left the Godowas and all goods remaining undelivered after the 24th inst, will be subject to roat

All broken chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will

be examined on the 24th inst., at 9.39 à‚.

All claims must reach us before the 28th inst..

or they will not be recognized,

No Fire Insurance will be effected.⠀

Bills of Lading vill ha countersigned by the undersigned.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

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Agents. Hongkong, 18th December, 1907.

"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMELS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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STEAMSHIP "LENNOX."

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STRAITS.

CONSIGNB being landed at their

ONSIGNEESof Cargo are hereby informed

risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, wheuse and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowne, and all Goode remaining undelivered after the 27th Dec. will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or before the oth Jan., or they will not be recognised,

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

saamined on the 27th Dec., at $ r..

No. Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., LTD..

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THE BONGKONG DAILY PRÚNK TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24ru, 1907.

MARK TWAIN ON OXFORD HISTORY

the daughter of Jamas Page, who had been cut off from bis relations for marrying into a Roman Catholis family. The last of the Pagan Trustees liave been in possession of the estate Henry Page, dod without direct hairs in 1939.

Mark Twain, in the latest instalment of his autobiography, talle us how the enchantmentsorer sines the death of Henry Page. of Oxford upset his moral viewpolut of history. This account is probably the Arst be has given, without the mediumship of the interviewer, "of bis recent proud" moment, the" proudest," he declares, since the time when as a boy be de liberately became infooted with the measles and "lay dying, the center of attraction, with the are piously closed upon ho testing vanities of this life-an sroellant effect and the ethar open a crack to observe the tears, the torrow, the admiration of his relatives surrounding the bed. Oxford, as a dream of the Middle Agar, ho goes on to say in The North Aerican Review (October), was net in our time complete until the days of the pageant last June. The mcaldering old buildings, and the picturesque throngs

MRS. TANQUERAY IN REAL LIFE,

sdrifting past them, were in harmony" and the persons "gretorquely and offensively and criminally out of place ware mich persona as aomo intrading along clothed in the ugly and adians fashions of the twentieth century." Further:

The make-ups of illustrious personages seemed perfect, bath as to portraiture aud gestume: one had no trouble is recognizing bbem. Also, I was apparently quite easily recognizable myself. The first cornar 1 turned brought me suddenly face to face with Hedry. VIII, person whom I had bez implacably dislisking for sixty year; but when as put oat his hand with royal courtiness and grace and said, Welcome, well beloved stranger, to my century and to the hospitalities of my realm, my

old prejudices vanisaed away and I forgave him. I think now that Honry the Eighth has been over-abased, and that most of us, if we had been situated as he was, domesti

ally, would not have been able to get sloug with as limited a graveyard as he forced himself to put up with. E fent now that he was cus of the nicest man ja history. Forsonal vontest with a king is more effective in removing baleful prejudices than ia muy amonul of argument drawn from tales and historias. If I had a child I would name it. Henry the Eighth, regardless

of

Jez.

A New York correspondeat says:-A tragedy which is causing the Esenest embarrasimout to one of the "flusst families" of New Eaglind endled in a sanguinary, startling denouement, A policaman patrolling the streets of Naw Bocholte, the fashionable subarb of New York, tised smos isning from a handsome villa belonging to Mr. Nicolas M. Saith, a wealthy morohant and con of a well-known banter in Baltimore

He

sounded the alarm and roused the houss. Mrs. Smith were lying in bad in a pool of blood. hold only to make the discovery that Mr. and Mr. S nith, shot in the head, was already del; his wife, with a buffet in her breast, was still faintly broathing. The bouse war floded with petroleum and bat for the intervention of the ire brigade would have been utterly dostroyed, together with all the savants and the bodies

and mistress. tho mustes

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Mrs. Smith was known to a large, oircle of. Balseley, Li-utenast Governor of Connecticut. friends as Grace, daughter of the late (neral

But when the ore er notal, the Balkeley. family of the death he was astonished to learn that the real Graos Balkeler was alive and welk in Hartford, where as the wit of, Mr. Vau Shank the plays a distinguished part in Now England society. Inquiries which the authori- ties fratitated late last night revealed in Mes. Smith a problem of a character compared to which that of the Second Mrs. Tauqeeray is simplicity itself.

A woman of extraordinary beauty, she 'was - many years ago, a prominent figure in ortaia. circles in New York.

She lived in grand style, owning magnificent carriage and horses. But growing weary of wealthy admirera abe suddenly disappeared from New York to take the position of a nures la an in asylum, where in the character of Grass

Do you remember Charles the First and dy she excited the love of a t

his broad slouch with the pizme in it ? and his body clothed in velvet doablet with lace sleeves, and his legs in leather, with long rapier at his side and his spurs on his hosis? I encountered him at the next corner, and knew him in a as I should he him a perfectly and a vividly

moment-knew au

Eaglieh

already

named Robert Acton, married, the parse accepted the addressas of the estor and they were wadded. In 1900 Dr. Acton dis, aud the widow at unos journeyed lo London, where she lived for some time with the parents of her late husband, from whom the Kot £600 for the erection of a magnificent tombstone.

Hs purchased a fins residence in New Rochelle, and the two lived surrounded by every luxury and in perfect happiness until the moment arrived whos Mrs. Smith was unable any Inngar to conceal from her husband the lie she was living. She had informei him that she was the heiress to the sixth part of the estate of her father, valued at £1,500,000, which was to be distributed. this month.

Rather than that be should discover how

grossly he had been decaived, eh, after parting from him in the most loving fashion on Friday night, shot him in the head as he slept. Then she sat fire to the house and shot borself; vidently being that all truess of the crime

bo destroyed by the sondagration. Next to the bad the police, when they broke into the house, discovered a copy of Mr. Bulkeley's will and the matte beautifully worked in silk,

‘Lows ons soother.”

Grand Chain in the Missis- sippi if I should see it from the pilot-house after

In the later stages of her daraar she mada all these years. He beat his boy and gave his the acquaintanes of Me, Nicolas Smith, whom hata swoop that fetched its plume within sa iach it appears.she loved passionately. Nine mouthe of the ground, and gave me a welcome that want ago the couple where married. Mr. Smith, to my heart. This king bas besa mach maliga. believing that the wife had been deeply wronged ed; I shall understand him batter hereafter, sod by her family, 'mide, no attempt to approach abali regret him more than I have been in the the Balkeleys. habit of doing these fifty or airly years Ha did some things in his time which might belter haro boca loft undone and which cast a abudow `npon his name--we all know that, w all moncada itbat our error has been is regarding them as crimes and in calling them by that name,. whereas I perceive now that they were only indiscretions. At every few steps I mit per- -spun of deathless name whom I had never encountered before outside of pictures and statuary and bistory, and these were most thrilling and olarming encounters. I had hand-shakes with Henry the Bond, who had not been seen in the Oxford strenta for nearly sight hundred yeats, and with the Fair Rosamund, whom I do believe to hire boon chaste and blameless, although I had thought differently about it before; and with Shakespeare, one of the pleasan test foreigners

ever gotten apoyuainted with; and with Roger Bacon; and with Qason, Elizabeth, who talked five minutes and

- fack which gave m a ntw and good opinioa of her sad moved me to forgive her for beheading the Scottish Mery, if she really did it, which I now doubt, and with the quaintly and ancient ly old young King Harold Haratoor, of near sine hundred years ago, who came flying by on a bicycle and smoking a pips, but at once checked up and got off to shake with me, and also I met bishop who had lost his way bacause this was the first time te had been inside the walls of Oxford for as much as twelve hundred years or thereabouts. By this time I had grown so used to the obliterated ages and their best-known people that if I had met Adam

uerer swore

have

TOO PATRIOTIC.

Tost the Imperial visit to England may be followed by a real im pavement in the relations between Germany and Frauce minat be earnestly desired by all friends of the two countries; but it is permissible to doubt whather that and would be brought any the nairar to attainment by the adoption of magg stion regantly made by one of our contemporaries in Berlin. According to the German journal, "the hagdreds of thousands of Germs tourists who visit Paris ought to la sist upon nevar speaking anything else than their mother to gue," order to constrain the Parisians to bow to the force of circam- stances and learn Garman. Easy enough,

to

I should not have been either surprised or emrepiles one of the Paris daily papse, in theory, barrassed; and if he had some in a racing autom bila and eload of dust, with nothing on but his Big-leaf, it would have seemed to me all right and harmonious"

THE PAGE MILLIONS.

By the P. and O. steamer "Britannis," which raached. Plymouth last month there arrived in England, from Australis Mr. Georga Horton, Morris, the claimant to the "Fage millione," The Page estate (now in the hands of trustee) is said to have an area of sixty equare miler, stretching north and west from the Marble

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Interviewed, Mr. Morris said his otsim was based on his contention that he is grandson of a brother of Henry Page, who is believed to have been the last holder of the ostale as such. He, claims to be entitled to at last one: balf share of the estate.

Mr. Morris stated that ho was born in Lon- don, and went out to New Zealand in 1862,

but not so easy in practice. Easy enough atk for a bedroom or a baaf-ateix, a glass of beer or a picture postcard, in Verman; bat how is the German tourist, fost in Paris, to find his. kolel if he partists in asking the way of the "Kapuziner Bollwerk' instead of to the Boulevard des Capucines, or get to the Folias- Bergères by telling his cabman to drive him

the Bohaeferischen

Verrucakibsites MP Patriotism is a grand virine; but the Berlin Journal suggestion reminds one of Talleyrand's judicious observation that "everything which is aggerated is iosiguiffosat."Daily Graphic.

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Bevan or eight years ago he worked his way Carbolic Tooth Powder bome sa aleward on the Aberdeen liner Australasian," with the object of pressing his snit, but his stay here was of brief duration.

Mr. Morris went back without having mala mach prograss with his case. Ha troubled vary little more about the matter mail March of this when it was reported that the Hocze of year, Commons was like to be called upon to osnaider

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Then his brothers, who reside in London, Bis- mingham and St. Albans, communicated with hite and he got in touch with some friends ju Australia who formed a limited company with capital of £10,000 to enable him to pursue his olaite.

Mr. Jobson a Sydney accountant, who accom panied Mr. Morris, told the representative that he represented the syndicate which was backing Mr. Morris. He expressed the epiai n that Mr. Morris had a fair fighting chance of securing bat deolised to disclose the

the fortune at

plan of cam at this stage we are really on a visit of investe London will be

thing we shall do ou

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direct descendants. His mother was Elisa bath Page,

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