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SUPREME COURT.

Friday, 20th June.

IN BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTIÓN,

BEFORE THE CHIRT JUSTIⱭ.

(812 FRANCIS PIGGOTT),

APPLICATION FOR KHURIVING ORDER. Mr. D. Stevenson applied for a rosiving sider in the case of T. A. Mitchell, Captain of "Fook Sang." The liabilities were $20,763 and the nasota $500 which had been paid into Court. Applicant was willing to pay $100 per month out of his salary. He attributed his insolvency to divores precedings in Scotland instituted against his wife, sad in being unable to recover damages from the respondent therein, owing to the imperfect legislation of the Colony,

His Lordabip granted the application.

RETIREMENT OF INSPECTOR. WARNOCK.

A pleasant litt function took place at the Magistracy yesterday morning when Mr. J. H. Kemp, in presence of a large number of police addroseed-Inspector Warnock prior to his sail. ing for home to-day. Mr. Kemp wu secom Fanied of the bench by Mr Wood: Second Hegistrato, and Mr. I. r. J. Wadhouse, Deputy Superintendent of Police. There were slso present Inspectors Haasan, Me Hardy, Withers, Cameron, Ritobie and Robertson.

LIFE ON MARS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 27cm, 1908.

solid or liquid-bodies, The objections are, it sooms, fantastic and anthropomorphic rather than real or legioni.

COTTON DUTIES IN INDIA. -

of the day, can soaroaly be prounced instructivo | reserved for the troutlets ay it not be form in the House of Lords. A the same

observation at least, be able to see what gou on

Thos. W. Kingsmill.. Yplang Road, Shanghai, April 9, 1909.

MARCONI PROGRESS.

WIRELESS MESSAGES BOTH WATS IT ONCE,

That wireless telegraphy has not yet exhaust- ed itertore of wonders and surprises was proved to "Daily Chronicle" representative in an interesting talk with Mr. Marconi as his London othes.

bis youth, revelationised telegraphy, in the One approaches this man, who, while yet in expectation of mesting a typical and rather uncanny wizard, who has but to wave his hands force, But here is nothing uncanny, and to work all manner of wonders by an unseen nothing to suggest study and midnight toil, about the tall, athletic, well-groomed youg man, who greets you in breezy fashion, and in que perfect English that his Italian name, is forgot, and you remember only (last his # he said, “I'll tell you what I'm trying to do, and what are my hopea, but plesse don't wake me seem boastful, and don't let us have too much of the 3-I—Î.

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is ordered by Lord Salibury in 1875, was (1) The abolition of the Indian cotton duties, accepted with delight by the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, and by his Finance Minister, Sir Strachey, who were both ardant free-tradors, coald blind him to the origin of the now policy But not even the fisant onthusiasm of the latter and in his well-known work on India (p. 175) he

wrote:-

of the principles of greater freedom of trade The application to the Indian Customs tarif might have been long delayed but for the accident that the interents of a great British industry were affected. Cotton goods were among the articles on which import duties wore imposed. The English manufacturers om- plained loudly that tho, practical result was to levy a protective daty to their detriment in favour of cotton manufactures rapidly growing

up in India.

(2) During the ensuing years success servido which the Marconi Wireless Telegraph duties in pursuance of the above policy; and Most people know all about the regular reductions were made in the Indian cotton Company is now maintaining across the Atlantic. the House of Commons, in which Lancashire It began in October last with the exchange of interests were very strong, kept careful waish messages betwees King Edward and EariGrey, orer the progress of the struggle, The regola. Governor-General of Canada, sad we are notions of July 10, 1377, and April 4, 1879, are sending about 2,000 words saruss daily. The well-known landmarks; and the character beth public can send messages at 714. per word for of the discussion and the vote on bolehote inclusive of land rates. Messages must be handed in at the London offices of the company Watergate House, York-buldinge Adelphi, or at 1,724, Notre Dame-street, Montreal

transmission between Loudon and Montreal,

We can send twenty-four words a minuts across the Atlantis, or forty-eight when we on use the duplex system. But at present, we can only send message one way at a time. If on operator tried to send a message noross while he was receiving one there would be great confusion, Marconi waved his hand to suggests grand one man. Bring against another"--and Mr. collision of language in mid Allaatio.

But lately I have ben experimenting with an apparatus which will enableus to send a mess-- age in both directions at once. The experiments thras r have been quite successful over a distance of milan Pant in Dentaire, casticipate vynal success before long across the Atlantic.

reference to your wo leading artioles of the cccasions cannot be better deduced than by s following day. On July 12, 1877, you wrote:-

In support of ipis demand all the members from. Laneshire assembled together and vied with one another in their attemple to catch the Speaker's eye. Their eagerness was not edily. ing.

The interests of Lancashire, nat. the interests of India, brought so many to the House of Commone It may be well suspected that their scientifle zasl was animated against which they directed their attack was by regard for themselves, when the single item

that affecting the trade in the characterístic pre-

action of their own country.

And on April 54. 1879, you wrote:

If England is, the professes to be, the goardian. of Indian Intersass, thaimpropriaty we had almostreaid the patrage--is not lessened, besansi arguments which Indians would have refused to entertaiu for a moment were proposed only before Englishmen.

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Hongkong, 27th June, 1909 what she regarded sa paramount interests of her own though I may comark in passing that it was a protective policy pare and simple thai she was enforcing in her wo interests. I recog- hize with gratification that a higher standard of political mersity now prevails in our rela- tions with Indie, and that the wanton or uzashamed subordísstion of Indian to English interests. is now much less likely to recuf. I referred to this my argument that in any future modifications Lygone incidents-only to point of ber freal policy India is inspired by a not unnatarsi alarm at her own dependence; sod' that those who have any right to speak for her must see to it that she receives-as · England' will, I believe, bo prepared to give to her-fsir play.

setandishing assertion, via-that the 33 por sept. Mr. W. Tattomall proceeds to an even more Exoing was fixed upon British, cellous to the

The latter proposition le deabtless as true as it Association and ourselves (ie, Lancashire),' generalsatisfaction of the Bombay Millowners'

is explicable. "But when I recollect the earnest protests against the Exoise that used to reach me from the Bombay Millowners' Association.

their

during my Viceroyalty I must own that they chose a very peculiar way to expres

satisfaction

is now ready to join bands with Bombay in Finally, Mr. Tattorell states that Lancashire urging upon the Government the abolition of both duties and Exoise"a quite intelligible manufactures would then enter India duty free; attitude on the part of Lancashire, whose ostten

Ent one upon which I think that he would not most unwisely if he vera toʻcount upon the en

1 xoise and duties are accepted without further

osuse the revenue, amounting from both sourcOR able to India. The reason for which they do to 14 taillion starling par innum, is indispaná.

press for the abolition of the Ercise alone in because, as practical men, they know that, if the Excise were removed, Lenonahirs would de. mand the abolition of the duties alın.

operation of Bombay. The reason for which bath protest by the Government of India is bo

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

CURZON OF KBOLESTON. Hackwood, Basingstoke, May 20.

INDIAN ITEMS.

Barmene ivory carvers complain of the soar- city and high prices they have to pay for ivory. Most of the elephants tasks which come into the market are brought by Chinese tradere for

12. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

BABY IN AGONY

FOR SIX MONTHS

Torturing Eczema Covered Head, Face, Neck, and Arms-Parents were in Despair, Fearing His Death or Lifelong Suffering-Condition was Pitiful Baffled-Treatment.

CURED IN THREE DAYS

BY CUTICURA OINTMENT

"My little son's eczema, started when he was seven weeks old his head,

face, shoulden, neck, and arme suddenly bo coming red and rough; just the way one's hands turn if one dab blea in water a great deal. A doctor saw, it was eczema, und did his beat for six montha, without avail The child's condition went from bad to worse, the affected parta, bo coming one solid sore. He was a pitiable sight, crying nearly all the time ind quite ex- hausting himself in his effarta to allay him torturing skin by rubbing and scratch: Ing. We were almost despairing, Chink- ing it mannt mither death or lifelong suffering, but Cutimura Ointment was ot last applied, and within a few hours Mrs, Cooper wild she noticed a change for the better. After three days' treat- ment it was quite apparent that a com- plate cure hid been effected. In a weok his skin was perfectly clear. Really, I should never have believed if I had not seen it myself. This was two years ago and my child has rever had the slightest: return of any skin irritation, and is now the perfect picture of health. I cannot too strongly sxpress my gratitude for what the wonderful Cutleura bas done for us. I am only too pleased to show the child to any one who calls to verity this marvellous cure. Williams Cooper, 946, Murchison Rd., Leyton London; N, E., July 4,19075"

The following appeared in the Time :-- The result of any intelligent sourse of resson- Bir-Premure of other work has provedted The following letter in the sondamy deurves ing seas to lead to the condition that life, me from taking earlier notion of a letter by My. special note on sooɔmat of 'íim xuthorship like shergy, is quiversal," One of the grealeat, W. Tattersall, which appeared in The Times, SirThe public mind has recently been ex- if not the greatest absolute generalisation of the of May 26, in reference to some remarks made ercised over a controversy which, for all that it nineteenth century was the doctrine of the myself in the recent debate on tariff re has attracted some of the most scientific minds indestructibility

to place on a time I do not think that statements so ex- nor even legies. The question raised : Is similar footing the conservation of life! We aordinary and a little founded should pasa Mare inhabited The real and logical question may sever its connection with the partieslav altogether without demur,

explained the be: What manner of life mass of matter with which it is momentarily In the dabate. I had should of coury This furuse would imply associated as we may alter the form of energy anxiety of Indi: in relation to a policy of fantastic and scientifically satinable ruggestion momentarily astusing it, prevails ou

Wo may transform preferential trade within the Empire as that amidst the many millions of sotually ex

hent into electricity, or either or both into morising from... the manner in which-her final isting celestial bodies, of which our earth is lecular motion. We may burn down a huge policy in respect of the cotton duties in par- ticular had daring the past 30 or 40 year seemingly one of the most insignificant, it alone forest and leave but an insignificant mass of has been fitted with the apparatus suitable for blackshed stumps, but we do not destroy the hoer shaped in Manolenter rather then in maintaining physical lite. The idea seems, life sit in there all the while, ready to form new Calcutta, This statement Mr. Tattersall de- when we inquire into particulars, so monstrous ostions of carbon and bydrogen and soribes in your columns as not true.

Fortunately or aufortunately, this ie a ques- as to have passed over the dividing line and ba- oxygen, and, when the time arrives, wil appear some ridiculous. Nature, said the old philloso an té actuating ose of just auch another tion that osanot be decided by the spre dixit of combination of the same elements; it may be in say one, however puitive. It is a question of phors, abhors a vacuum; and however we may eurolo, it is more holotees tho once, so far as our quarter of the globe, if it be that, like its proto-political history is required to know that over imile orer the brginal application of the suppos the same place, or it may even be in another set. Only the smallest acquaintanos Bmited a experience on this parit gees, that, whers type, it has not actually left one small globe ones, India was ordered to abolish for Customs ariff in 1875 (to be reimposed u 1894) it has Nature has and moved to the furthest limits of space. 's practical opening for life exists,

been in the main in response to Lancashire stepped in and Bled it. The earth as a plazet

pressure that the successive readjustments of does not occupy a very distinguished position;

this palis have been introduced, and in the face she in, it is true, the leader of the second olsa (f

of Indian public opinion and sometimen with secondary stars revolving round the ann. Young

the utmost relgotanes on the part of the Indian is rory little lemin size, and only a little le in

Government that they have boon passed. mass, so that the conditions of gravity are very moob alike. She is a little warmer, yet not-so-

Writing in the country. I have not access to musk so bat that her Arai rogions, to all

very referanse but the following will be appearance, are covered with foe and mow

mmcient for my purpose:- Wh should she be wasted? Is it not folly to suppose that she was only put where he is for the purpose of desating the scalar motions of the earth, and by altering during long periods the eccentricity of her orbit so changa ber Mr. KEMT mid-fpspector Warnock, I have momentary luate that in diforing ages bor of asked you to come to the Court this morning companion may become a initable

plas that I may hate an opportunity qf saying a few residence for alleruntive forms of life Sack words to you. Mr. Wood tells me that I may where we can see her workingtin close quarters; le certainly not the habit of Nature in cases also speak for bim, as well as for myself. We and there is no reason to believe that she works congratulate you on your retirement on differently in localities so little removed. Of pension, but for ourselves we deeply regret course we can never, with our present cons of your departure. I may say how I greatly in Venus, though, for the matter of that, her appreciate the help I have had from you por distenes botimes in less than twofifths of that of Bonally, as well as from the other members of Mars, but the fault lies in our thick and misty tha Police Ferre. I think that perhaps the atmosphere which eo refracts and reacts, and public don't quite realize the good work done by generally distorts the light in the neighbourhood of the sun, thats clear definition of her earface the polios, both for the defence and the pro-

has hitherto been impossible. Under the airam- secution, I should like to refer to one of the staunes, and very properly so, the attention of highest qualities a police offloer can possess, our astronomers has recently been very much certainly one of the most diffoult of attainment, directed to Mars.

Mars to the astronomers of the earlier part of and one more valued than anything else by the last century seemed in a particular so Magistrate, that is Impartiality of mind and like our earth that it was a not danatural con- fairness towards the prisoner I remember dusion that he should be inhabited by beings many years ago when I was roting hem before, much the same as our own orb With the asergeant who was charging a prisoner, showed instruments then in use we 5s, or though we saw, ocean and continent; when turned away way clearly that he was anxions for a conviction.

from the sun his polos were markedly white, as

· *| The case Wis not a strong on and I if covered with snow, and his ruddy colour suppose he saw that I was wavering in my womed to demote an atmosphere not unlike our decision, and I began to think aloud, and ex- We knew for certain merely more than one thing aboat his surface, but that indicatod pressed my views, and in doing so, I evidently difference; gravity on him was leas that one- missed some practical polat in the evidenos or eighth of that on the surface of the earth must not have given it its proper value. It told. How that sected living beings we had no in the prisoner's favour, yet the sergent told Mars should be giants, soms saw them si

means of knowing; some folk thought people in sis of the protical point in that evidence. Imias. Seemingly a man, were ie there, could convicted the prisoner, and I found that the eight times the amount of work possible on -sergos"± had two or three previous couvictions earth, and, it so it seemed possible that, if we sgainst the moon and I bave found ever since looked carefully, we might find some evidence.

He was not always immersei, like Ven that I could trop that sergeant absolutely, for the solar glare, and definition was fairly good, Jairusts towards his prisoners se I know that and our telesopes might be Inroad out any evidonos in his possession in the prisoner's indefinitely in power. Naturally it is the favour, would be brought forward. Imly want unexpected that ever happens, and when the astronomers commence to use their new and to say that I know how difficult it must be to more powerful telescopas they began to find realize that the otherside may be right after all, out that if Mars had an ainosphere at all it and for one who is engaged in the prosecution for most be an infinitely this one; so likewise a number of years to bear an open mind, and I could be little moro substantial than ordinary

a5 per cent, tariff upon all imports into India (4) In 1894 the fancial embarrassments of they found he had no oceans, aut his fos-saps

India compelled a reversal of this policy; and think that the members of the police force have

hoar-frost. Then they found what the first succeeded in that. I think you have displayed absorvera were convinced were great canals

Fas once again mroduced. But when the mach-needed wafar that quality in a romarkable degree. You have conveying

over the

ladian Government, not annaturally, proposed shown other qualities, slso ability, tact and died up ovutments, and the user

sharply pulled up by the Secretary of State, to include cotton goods in this tariff, they were energy in the performance of your difficult plausibly attributed to the efforts of intal- Now the existence of

Lord Kimberley, who thus explained his action ligent inhabitants. oven water is denied, and the

in the House of Lords on July 20, 1894 :-- excels are alleged to be mere volanic

They (.. a deputation from ancashire) told shall probably, with the progres of observation ifte spreading Across the arid plains. We

we that without distinction of party there was not a man among them who was interested in and perhaps the utilisation of other meats of

these manufactures who would not nge every investigation a yet undreamt of, come to know

possible mesas at his disposal to agitata giust In the near future what are really the coditions

and destroy say each measure (ie, of inclusion) on the part of the Government. It we not At present were to bare sufficient evidence to shew that, although

merely the effect that it might havo on the the Martial tabernacle of self-conesions, and, it

Government of the day; but we had to popsider may be, intellectual life, be composed of the

the effect it might have on the relations between same elements (carbon, nitrogen, bydragen,

this conntry and India. oxygen, calcium, &e.) na on earth, their whole

Again, on the following day your comment form and mode of combination must be entirely

The thras bad the effect it was intended to different, so different that are cannot form even

have the deputeticas were assured, there would a conception of the probable result.

not..be a reimposition of the obnoxious duties. There is so fpg on land or sea which can but a minor, almost insignifcant part of the But Venus, the earth, and Mars together form

Indian believo, righily or wrongly, resist our nor dispalling device." is a claims solar system, compared with such ginals as

Lancashire. that it has been orified to the juterests of made by Senator Perkins of Californa, on be Jupiter and Saturn, not to mention Uranus and

f of himself and one of his constituents, and Neptune. What reason other than anthropo-ts. es is that there are 10 wires to eat. The

(5) On this occision a widespread agitation he has persuaded the hazy Department at morphic have we for believing them anin-

srose in India against the manner in which Washington to give the device a fair trial on habited ? We know too litth of any of theus oivilised tribes, cat of ignorance or mischief, rdinated to English claims; end it was to meat Indian internets hd once again been sub- Gost Island, San Francisco Bay. The renator '8 to venture on anything beyond a crade guess. constituent declares that he has established "We have actually never seen Jupiter, which is, as always been a diflenity. In Chins, too, this agitation that Sir H. Fowler proposed the world's record" in dissipating ing, which makes nevertheless, the best known to us of the lot, where we have fire stations, this same point compromise of import and Bicise duties on just the third world's record claimed for Ameri- We know that he is surrounded by an atmo-

holds good, especially in view of the fact that cotton, both fixed at 6 per cent, with limit ca during the past month. If the hopes of the sphere thousands of miles deep, which has its superstitions dread of shadows falling on of exemption for Ladinn yarns fired at 296. joventor are realised, the device will dispel fog own period of rotation, and from a peep nor and contra graves has often led to the removal of vice 243. Well do I remember the Lancashire The Administration Haport of the India" sta radius of three miles in all directions, by then through a rift we have reason to believe that we should have been spared if the besieged concession (as it was regarded) to Indian ing resing and information. During the Fear wires and poles, Think, too, of the auxiel; agitation that was started against this undue Railway Board for 1907 contains auch interest- ΠΕΡΑΣΑ of a carbide generator,

of the planet itself is at least red it has been divulged that the only ubise con- any organic compounds of ourbon with which, have communicated with the allied European member, myself. Nevertheless, I absolutely truffle, no less than 924 miles being added bas telegraphed to the Hongkong guilds re-

Details of the invention are kept scoret, but hot. As such a temperature would dissociate Legations in Peking, a few years ago, could interests: for I was at the time a Lancsebice considerable ad litional mileage was opened to nected with the device is a muffled blast at at least, we sto, acquainted, we must look for Beets by a system which no wire cutting could declined to vote in favour of Sir Honary to the total length of line, bringing the and questing them to use all possibls influence to intervals. The carbide, generator, by means of life in some other combination of the elements;

James's famous motion in the House of

tot up to 30,000 miles. 290 miles were sanction-pni in end to the present inflax of Chines inte a chemical process, forms gases, which explode but there is no logical reason in our state of

At

the present time a Bill is before the mos ia February, 1895, Fairing in favour, of ed during the year and, up to the end of Marcb, British Columbia. Thirty thousand circulars apon coming in contract with the air, and absolate ignorance of lilo steal why we should talian Parliament for the purchase by the the Liberal Govenment, and being prepared 2,516 alles were nader construction or gautioned, are being printed and are to be sent to Chins these explosions, it is said, continue with not consider this as

prefectly conceivable, Government of the Marooni station at Baci, to speak on the same side, had I been able to The amount provided by the Heilway Board, for by the next mail steamers for distribution st decreasing force for a considerable distance

Bat our solar system is but a single noit

Dear Brindisi, which communicates with Mou-attend the debate. Upon this almost solitary 19-7-8, for rolling soek was Rs. 568 likis and the treaty ports, The circulars declare that from the apparatus. How this condition is

tenegro across the Adriatic. In his speech, tha cocasion India enjoyed a feeling triumph in contracts were placed in En. lnd for 2,900 the Chinese are bring misled by transportation brought about is not explained by the insenter, orgst known willions of others, WE

Minister for Ports and Telegraphs said that the Hedia of Commons. There is an interest covered and 1,450 open goods wagons. The agents, and strongly advise them not to come bis desire being to keep all details secret until now, immensely greater, others, we have every rrason to believe, greatly smaler. So far as wa

this station had, in its three years working ing passage in si W. Hunter's Life, under excess in cost eves the amount provided by the here the Government has taken over his enterprise can reason from the known to the unknown, given proof of its efficiency and reliability, and the date March 4, 1895, in which ho wrote, Board will be met by an additional sum of The notion of the Board of Trade is the result

Mambars of the Lightbongs Board said that every one of these has its own attendant planet-

he proposed its purchase with every coufidence, with reference to the above controversy —

million pounds sterling, sanotioned by the of representations made by the agent of the This

our system the invention might prove of great importance ary system, so that our carthe, our Mars,

of course, very Finished my wekly article for The Times, Secretary of State, Passinger trifto showed Ottawa Government, who has been quietly to shipping interests throughout the world. our Jupiters must be indefinitely multiplied. Navigators my that a sewer may be steered Are we justified in reasoning that our eith in

Then with a sigh over the fact that business mainly on the Budget and oction duties. The large increase on the year previous, sap cially working here during the last six months, in an with reasonable prospect of safety if 100 yards in the batter of life the bus roption in the cares had for some tile kept him from his be struggle is between India and Manchester; and in the third class, which increased 32 par cent. effort to throw oil on the troubled racial waters. I havo hnd anxious work. in steering clear of and yielded an additional Rs. 125 lakhs. Therace problem has again enddenly and unex- ahead can be seen, and this clearance in mere entire universe? Having gone so far, we are loved experiment, to which he will shortly our millowners and yet, securing Justies for

peatedly become scute owing to the remark- obild's play for the constr's constitumi, The justified, in

1 in carrying the argument still further,rature, Mr. Marooni brought the interview to Indio. latter goes to the extent of expressing the belief If we must fairly allow Jupiter to hate hiaolest.

(6) Lancashire, Eowever, declined to acquiesce The Governmost of India has issued the able number of Chinese who arrived last week that he could master Londen fogs, even those inhabitante framed on an entirely different London particulars" for which Bugland, not model from those of our small earth, can we

In the reverse, and continued to proset report of the Commission appointed to in. and who are coming in other vowels. Several hundred came here in the Empres of Japar, America, holds the world's records. This elsim, refuse to allow inhabitants to the sun, or Sirius,

vigorously against the alleged protective charac-vestigate the alleged grievances which gave rise tor of the Indian datieg, which were modified by to so much ill feeling some time ago and which of over 300 of them paid the $500 (£100) head fax The Asiatic Exclusion League, in conse- however,

in debatable.

or even Canapas, the biggest sun with which we

quisice, is again manifesting activity. The Ben 1or Perkins and his friend bars son mist are as yet acquainted P Tree, as we noticed in

The str. Katharine Park kom South Ameris the new Secretary of State, Lord George resulted in so mach delay and less to the mer-

Hamilton, who reduced both the import and the cantile community owing to the delay occamond Chise who Are now coming in pay and various forms of obscuring vapours in thair the case of Jupiter, the form must be entirely on Ports and Honolulu, arrived at Yokobs Excise duties to 3 per cent. (at which Ggarethey At the same time they have runde public this the head tax ont of their own pockets. minds when they speak of dispersing all fogs on different, bat bere, again, we are not justihed in on the 24th iust, dias here on or about 6th prox. have sinee stond) and exempted all arus. This resolutio

on the Commission's recommends. Previously it had been paid by the land or sea, and they are rot aware that London patting any limit to Crestive Fower, We The FM. str. Manchuria will be due to all decision was not carried through without violent lions. They recognise that. In a country like guilds. This is taken to indicate that large particulars," to quote Mr. Scott, of the English know that, in element, silicon, eg, is nearly as pptrorological. Office, convint chiefly of "certain protean za arbon itself, and we know that due to arrive in this port, from.. San Francisc probeats in the ardian Legislative Council at Indis night work le very trying, but at thembers of Chinese are becoming acquainted.

Calcutta

same time they believe that the new scheme of with the advantages which British Columbia vis mal ports on the 7th prez. main of in the composed Howe's of combustion," otherwise smoke, the

The above narrative, though far from comple- hours initiated by Mr. Newlands, when in India offers them. Americno shipping interests seem practically the same elezzonts, as our earth.

Le, is sufficient to establish that the history of the that they have determined to retain the fifty

Mr. Mackenzie King has begua an inquiry They sted by the reported discovery, and there in nothing contrary to our experience in How To Be BeautiFUL-Keep your com- Indian cotton datis is a very different thing hours week, with the modification that sis into the Chinese claims on account of damages the bave ned special officers to watch the supposing compounds of from and silices, for plasion, Mira. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait from the picture of it now drawn by Mr. W. hours sight work shall count as sight and six resulting from the riots of last Eeptember. The

and. Every year the Atlantic instance, assuming definite form snd earpo at

hours night day and night duty's seven houre. Chiano. suffered for more heavily than the steamship compan. love thousands of pounds terperatores equal to that of the sun. They Charmant will enable you to do it. Hay ample justification for the remarks made by me Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre Tattersall, and that there was, alas! only too.

The recommendations of the Commission were Japanese, but their claims are much more because half a mile of any often bars a ship from may not be solid, they may be gaseons; but Specialitice for the said of the study of a in the House of Lords. These remarke wore sot come to in consultation with members of the moderate. Chinese officials from London and antering Now "Tork.

this we can remedy, and high more,"

enstor Peiklus ways surely there is nothing inconceivable in imaginetins. A 8. Waters & Co, Ltd., Sole Agente made with a view to revive old controversies, signalling staff, who fally agreed with their San Francisco are here to take part in the pro-

ing life controlling gaseou any more than

522 or even to blame Lancashire for the defence of findings

odedings.

duties and carried out thoroughly the traditions of a body of men of whom anyone may be proud to belong as a member. I have nothing mor to say but to wish you a safe and pleasant voyage and a happy retirement in the Home country,

Inspector WARNOCK replied-I thank you for the kind words of which I feel unworthy. have done my duty to the lust of my ability.

NEW FOG DISPELLER.

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AN AMERICAN INVENTION,

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** That in one of my latest experiments, shore, or another ship in a fog, to determins Another is to enable ash pepproaching the actiy the position of the wireless station on

if he is able to knew, not only that another ship shore, or the course of the other ship. Yon can see, of course, how it will help a navigator is approaching, but the exact angle, the course of that ship makes with his own.

"It is perhaps a little diffionit to explain the idea to the general reader, but here it is roughly, and Mr. Marooni sketched rapidly on his blotting-pad while he spoke. We get, you ase, a sosen with a small hole in the direction from which the other ship, or the shore station, is koovi to be telegraphing, until the ringing of abell, caused by the waves ontering the hole in the sarees, shows that the exset direction from which the wave is coming has been ascertained. I shall be carrying out experiments on thess. lines in the Mersey in a few weeks The idea is being specially weloomed by shipping authori ties on the St. Lawrence River, whoan fog no often binders navigation.

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"At present the Transatlantic service, freza Clifden, Ireland, to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, distance of 2,200 miles, is the longest regular system, bat I see no reason why the most dis-

Colonies, the posibilities are enormous, tant parts should not be tbasconected, and to a constry like Great Britain, with fur far-off Jo undeveloped lands, too, like Africa, its future seems assured. Ons of Its great advan

cutting of telegraph wires by savage or ball-

binder.

Bramony

LATEST STEAMER MOVÉMENTS,

from Yokohama on the 27th inst., and will be

abolished by Lord Ripon and Major L. Baring. (3) Finally the cotton dutire were opticaly

(now Lord Cromer} Ta 1882,

wee both candid and saustio:-

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shipment to the Birsite or by natives of India

keep stocks on band they have to pay heavily to be want to Calcutta. The requirements of carvers are stand, and as they cannot afford to

for the small pieces they want for their basi-

Dess.

During the first four months of 1908 1,061,807, tons of coal were shipped from Caleutia as compared with 821,120 tons during the corres-

parding period of last year. Bombay took the biggest helping of thetal, namely, 308,328 tons Kancher, Rangoon and Madras following in the order Damed at very long intervala. Banker seal supplied to steamers for fore gni ports totalled 164,622 tour, and for Indian ports 197,939 tons. **

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from an official report recently issued it would soom that the flourishing wilk industry in the

Meldah district of Eastern Bengal, has received endden chick. Mr. J.C. Stack states that for two years the rainera of cocone made na. precedented profits, the demand for silk both in India and abroad being exceptionally good. In 1907, however, there were bumper soccon crops in both China and Japan, and raw silk was Indian Engineering" has the following in imported in great quantities into India. Loml its latest issue--So far, wa are able to announce prices dropped; the inland demand fell off that the 2,400 square feet of Val de Travara owing to famine in Upper India; and the Asphalt laid down in Dalhousie Square, East. American financial crisis osused s lessening of Calcutis, bas admirably stood the heat as well foreign demand for manufactured silk goods. as the wear and tear of the heavy trafle which Last autumn the drought seriously affected has passed over it sinos it was opened to the operatione, no malberry leaves for the silk- public on the 15th of February lak, and we are worms could not be got except a high prices. assured by those who have tested the capabilities Inferior cunbons were raised and the quality of the Asphalt in other cities that if it can stand of the raw silk was poer. Altogether the the test of ons het weather in Caloutta, that industry passed through a very trylog season, it, in other words, if it will laat, is its present but it is satisfactory to learn that there is condition, until the 15th Jane, it will be good every prospect of a remunerative crop this for another 20 years to come, The Macadam year. It would indeed be disappointing if the is said to be impervious to rain, which does Maldah trade, which had made such good sagges both in Cairs and Alexandria, where Bot soak through it. It has proved great pregrise, should not continue to Bourish.

Pioneer." the principal thoroughfares have been coated with the materia! is question.

CANADA AND ASIATICS.

CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

Vaucouver, May 31, The Chinese Board of Trade of Vancouver

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