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THE MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.

ADDRESS BY THE COUNTERA OF MEATH.

"No day without a deed to crown it," is the motto of the Ministering Children's League and the deed which crowned yesterday, and which will long be remembered by the children of Hongkong, was the interesting address given by the Countess of Meath, foundress and hon. central secretary of the League.

The express purpose for which this League

was founded was to teach the children of the rich to take an active interest in relieving the necessities of the poor.

Thoro was a large attendance, of ladies and children on the tennis court of St. Paul's Callege by the hour at which it announced that Her Ladyship was to speak te the children.

should have been here A

WYRA

Afternoon ton was nerved, and the prayer of the League was offered.

Her Ladyship then told the children that she was pleased to find herself in Hongkong. Not so long ago Mrs. May called to see her at home, and the Countess little thought then that she would have the plassure of seeing the children of Hongkong and kind Mrs. May in the place where that lady Lad been working so hard. She month earlier, but was glad of a delay which bad on- abled her to call at Japan and Shanghai, in both of which places excellent work had Her Ladyship been done by the League. continued in simple language, and with apt illustrations, to explain the objects of the Licaguo. She likened it to a young tree, the branches of which had extended north, south, east and west until brauchen had sprang up in different parts of Europe, Asia, Africa Americs and Australasia. She told of the pleasant homes of the League for the unfortunate, and took the opportunity of thanking the children present very much for their subscriptions. A little girl in Japan, said ber Ladyship, when asked what the League wak, said it was three and a half miles. She did not wish the children present to think that it zainistered only three and a half miles. It had to minister a great deal further; right round "Don't despise little the big, hig world. Deeds," said Lady Meath, "for you never know when a kind one bears fruit." When in Japan her Ladyship was very anxious to get hold of the English, French, German, Italian, American and any other children the League conld lay hold of with white faces. She found, however, that they were always coming and going to other places, and then she thought that it would be a She great point to start among the Japanese. was cheered to learn that there would be branches in Japan shortly. Not only were they going to start a branch in Shanghai also, for European and American children, but they had some hoje that in the course of time Chinese would be persanded to join their beautiful League, and help in making the world a little bit better and happier. In conclusion, her Ladyship reminded those present that when Mrs. May last went home farayeartha branch of the Ministering Children's League here practically disappeared. Shu trust. ed that such would not be the case again, und exhorted the children to carry on the charitable

work, nasuring them that their service would be

blent (applause),

Interesting pictures of League homes were. then shown, while light refreshments were distributed.

A PROSPECTIVE RIVAL TO MACAO,

LOCAL SPORT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24TH, 1909,

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE SPORTS.

The annual sports in connection with St. Stephen's College were hell yesterday afternoon on the Jockey Club ground, which had been kindly lent for the occasion. There was a large attendance which included Bishop Lander, and thus band of the Rajpate nader Bandmaster Cake gave agreeable selections during the

afternoon. Resalts.

Throwing the Cricket Ball,. (open)-1, Ho Wing Kin; 2, Tong Yuen Chenng: 3, Ho Nai

Chak.

Championship of the College, 100 yards,-1, H. W. Petersen (ser); 2, Wong Fo Kie (4 Yds); 3, Fang Man Sui (4 Yds). Time 11:

week.

COMPANY REPORT,

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY. LIMITED.

"The report for presenístion to the sharahollers at the twentieth ordinary general meeting is as followe

Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of accounts for the year ending 31st December 1908,

The net profit, after providing for depreciation en Baildings and Machinery, Launches, Lighters &e, and including the amount brought forward from the previous year, amounts to £364,756.74 which it is proposed to deal with follows, viz:

$1,000.00 To place to reserve fund... To pay a final dividend

of 50 cents per share $500,000.00 Add interim dividend of

Under Thirteen, 100 yards Race--1, Chau Cheong Nin 2, Chan Hai Nim, (1 Yd).

Senior Cup, 100 Yards-1, You Kara Fat (To yda): 2, Ho Na Chak (6 yun); 3, H. W. Peterson (ser) and Ho Wing Kin (4 ydu).

Junior Cup, 100 Yards-1, Li Ying Chiu, (r); 2, Chau Hai Niu (7 yds) ; 3, Ng Sza Ho.

(14 yds).

Senior Cup, 220 Yards-1, Ho, Nui Chuk, (20 ydn); 2, Ho Wing Kin, (15 yds); 3. Yan Kom Fat, (15 yda).

High Jump. (Junior)—1, Li Ying Chiu, 2, Ng Sao Kwong : 3, Clan Cheung Nin.

High Jump (Senior)-1, Ho Wing Kin; 2, Yan Kama Fat; 3, Lo Ying Chuen.

Preparatory School, 100. Yaris-1, Wa Shing; 2 Chen Kit Nam: 3. Ng Sao Cheng.

Junior Cup, 200 Yards-1, Ng Sw Kwong (15) yds.): 2, Li Ying Chui (scr.); 3, Ng Chi Po (35 plz.

Senior Cup, 440 yards-1, Cheng 1 Kam (45 yds); 2, Ho Wing Kin (30 yds.); 3, Ton Tuen Cheung (20 yde).

Mathematical Race (Open)-1, Ng Sze Ho; 2, Chan Hai Nin.

1

2+

360.100.00

40 cents per share 160,000.00 carry forward to the credit of

3,756.74 next year's account Conwelling Committer-In accordance with

articles of Association, Sir Paul Chater, C. W:G, the Hon. W. J. Gresson and J. W. Noble retire, but being eligible, offor themselves for re-

election.

Andalor-The accounts have been audited by Messrs. W. H. Potte and A. O'D.Gourdin, who are recommended for re-election.

. AKBEAN, Toxes i Ca

General Managers. Hongkong, 20th March, 1909. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 1908,

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Interest Auditors' fees... Consulting committee'sfees... Amounts written off as bad debts Amount written off as depreciation

for 1908 Interim dividend Balance

931,116.04

600,00 4,000,00 10,618,49

106,428,21

$160,000.00 204,756.74.

Balance brought forward from 1907 Long Jump (Senior)-1, Yan Kam Fat; 2, Transfer fees...

Exchange Ho Wing Kin; 3, Ho Nai Chuk,

I dividends 1899 to 1906 Unclaimed

Balance from working account:

2501,982.99 Sales of coment Old Boys Race-1, Li Choi Chi; 2, Ho Less Lork on sales of

2,675.54 bricks, pipes, &o. ..... Wing Hung.

Half mile race, open-1, Cheng I Kant; 2, H. W. Petersen: 3, Ho Wing Kin.

Walking match, one mils, senior-1, Lo Kung Mong; 2, Chan Ying Wing.

De, quarter mile, junior-1, Ng Sze Kwong 2, Chau Hai Nin; 3, Ng Yip Huen.

Siamese race 1, Wong Po Kei and Wei Wing Lock; 2, Ho Wing Kin and Chau Tsun Nin.

Bicycle race-1, Tsui Tong; 2, Lo Kung Mong

Hurdle roco-1, Yan Kam Fat; 2, H. W. Petersen; 3, Ho Nai-Pui.

Pillow and pole competition, open-1. H. W. Petersen; 2, Ng Sze Kwong.

Wheelbarrow raco-1, Han Ying Wing and Fung Man Bai; 2. Chan Tann Nin and Ho Wing Kin.

Forms' flag race-1, Form IV.

Forms tug of war-III beat IV, VI beat V, III beat VI in the final.

Senior Cup-Yau Kam Fat, 19 points. Junior Cup-Li Ying Chin, 14 points, The prizes were distributed at the close by Mr. Lai Kwa Pai.

The officials were:--

President, the War den: Judges, Messis, G. A ̧ H, Hancock, A. L. Nairn, Ng Tin Po. Li Cho

Chi, Rev, W.H.Hewitt, Rev. A.D. Stewart, Tro See Hon Committee:-Wei Wing Look, Chen Ying Wing, Ng Sae Yuen, Yan Kam Fat, La Taun Ting; See Chong, Yeun Tia, Fung Nan Sui; Starter-Masers. H. L. Manderson, Ho Wing Hurg, Tso Shin Fas; Treasurer,→→Mr. G. A. Hancock; Hon. Secretary.-Mr. H. L. Manderson; Assistant Secretaries-Messrs. Tho Chi and. Wei Wing Hon.

THE PHILIPPINE SQUADRON,

The possibilities of creating a Monte Carle just beyond the New Territory has appealed to the imagination and to the speculative tenden cies of several Chinese who, it is well known, have bought property in Bamotun with a view to building gambling houses and hotels there. When the railway to Canton is completed, or the British portion to the (hinese border is finished and opened, it is expected that Samchun, a market city in Chinese territory close to the teams drawn from the Charleston and the

H. E. the Governor. H.E. the General Officer Commanding, and the Earl of Meath were interested spectators at the baseball

afte ravon between match yesterday

1 hose Cleveland.

the

:

BALANCE SHEET.

ench fully paid up Capital400,000 shares at $10 Reserve fund... Sundry creditors Company's bankers....... Balance of profit sad

loss account...

$364,756.74 Loss interim dividend 160,000.00

Green Island, Macao

chinery as per last Building and ma

statement

Less depreciation

Since expended

Coment and HAW stock valued at Coal in stock valued at Stores in stock valued

$457,130.98 27,427.86

364,756.74

$ 517,519.48

85,078.16 5.00 297.77 12,831.10

499,307,45 $515,516.48

MY MUCHACHO,

Of all the muchachos that I came across in Munile there was none more intelligent than Bonifacio. Quick, active, versatilo, a jack-of-all trades, who could with equal ease

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long illness Bony nursed me as only a sister could. He moved about like a phantom in the room, silent and watchful, ministering to wy wants with a tender solicitude to which the modest tasu of science paid in high tribute drive afterwards. I say, Ashton, that mnohucho of a turn yours is an nequisition. I really believe that earrings and pair, or take at the kitchen when the ook was away, which but for his splendid nursing you wouldn't have When I became convalescent I found to my was very often the case, a clever musician, spalled through." linguist Bonifacio was my factotum, and had

delight that even my cherished orchids had not rendered himself almost indispensabla to me.

Not that Bony, as I need to call him for the been forgotten. sake of brevity as well as because the name suited him on account of his leanness, was a perfect specimen of human nature. He had faults, and which of us have none? His beset- ting sin was the love of display, and to satisfy his whims in this direction he would go to the length of being wicket.

I was once driving on the Luneta-Munila's famone drite-at an unusually early hour in

Phalaenopsis Amabillis, bueno, sonor, Vands Sanderians, better."

*Intermedia, muy bueno. Schillerian, many fowers." And he ran to the garden and brought back a plant on which there where no less than eighty lovely flowers on drooping spikes,

THERE IS

THOROUGHNESS

OF CONSTRUCTION

IN ALL

PIANOS

WE IMPORT

AND

But there was another disillusion for me when I was quite recovered. My gold watch had disappeared. When I accused Bony of the theft ho did not deny it. He said that he the afternoon when Bong imagined I should had pawned it to buy medicine for his little boy | VALUE have been somewhere else. Whom should I who had died of typhoid fever while I was 111. see but a young gentleman in a mit of My first impulse was to hand him over to police, clothes that very much resembled the one I but his grief seemed to be so poigaunt and his ordered only a few days before, wearing a

rapentanee so sincere that I finally forgave him. glossy hat that looked very much like my own,

At dusk when the bells were ringing the Ave ant twirling a walking stick that I would swear belonged to me. That gentleman Maria, and the sun was sinking westwards like Hony himself, and his whole outfit was mine, a ball of fire, its dying rays gilding the iron from the crown of his hat to the soles of his cross of the little chapel at Singalong, a figure thining boots. When I approached him, he knelt on the stone steps. Bony was praying, covered his face ostrich-like with his silk hand-whether for his favourite rooster or for forgive-

ABOVE

PRICE

kerchief which, between parenthesis, was also ness of his transgressione I do not know He ROBINSON PIANO mine, and probably the lavender water with is a grown-up child, and so he will rensin.

which it was so strongly scented formed part of

a bottle that was lying on my dressing table. On that occasion I said nothing to him, I came to know afterwards from the cook with whom he had had's quarrel that Bony said I was a fool because I did not recognize him.

F. MONTALTO DE JESUS.

ABE HUMMEL.

NOTORIOUS LAWYERS'S DEATH IN NICE HOTEL.

Paris telegram reports that Abraham Hum- mal, who was formerly a New York lawyer, bas died at an hotel in Nice, where he had been staying for some months.

Abe Hummel, or" Little Abe," was for many years one of the most prominent figures on the right side of New York.

He had another weakness. I do not think that the word thrift existed in his vocabulary. No sooner did ho receive his wages which I paid him punctually on the first of every month, than be would find all sorts of ezeaser, stoop to every kind of subterfuge How he spent his money to get away.

He was a member of the firm of Howe and at gambling, on dusky maidens or in the coek pít, I am not aware, but he was chronically Hummel, the most famous criminal lawyers lu the States. When Howo died in 1902 it was bard up. Only's fortnight before I had lentown from the records that the pair had had him ten dollars, and he was already indebted to 900 murderers as their clients. me for a larger amount. On that occasion ho $4,000,000.00 alleged that he required the money to defray 12,000.00 the funeral expenses of his mother who had 81.350,79 just died. A week afterwards he esine to me 640,065.32 for another loan, and told me that his mother was very ill, and he had not the wherewithal to buy medicine for her.

204,766.74

$4,988,172.85

$429,703.12

32,607.90 8462,311.02:

material in

$3,126.02

29,331.30

"Now, Bony," I said "how many mothers have you got? Only the other day you told me that your mother had just died."

"Si, señor," be answered quito seriously "that time it was my mother; this time it is my wife's mother".

I had come to the point as I thought of under. standing Bony's character. I knew that he would not shrink from telling a white lie to cover a multitude of sins of his vanity, his extravagance, hat there were events of daily occurrence 232,784.02 which I could not piece together. His inordinate affection for a piece of bamboo of the length of 32.457.32 my walking stick, of which at least once he had been guilty of taking illegal possession, but Hok Un, Hongkong

which in comparison with that bamboo was Land as per

1,091,394 square feet valued at 1,231,968.88 only of secondary importance puzzled me. What could he do with it? Why should he bestow so Buildings and ma

much care upon it, cars, that was almost reverential F

at

-

last

chinery as per lust statement

Less depreciation

Since expended..

statement

$928,825.28

55,955.84

$872.870.44 163,470.65

Cement & raw material in stock valued at Coal, casks, and gan- nies in stock valued, at

$ 58,760.92 Stores in stock valuedat 163,200,16

Cement on consign-

ment valued at

Deep Water Bay Works: Land as per last state-

ment

Building and machin

ery as per last state- ment

teams have reached the border, will offer facilities for the gambling final stage of the tournament, and as the best which can only be enjoyed at present by a trip of three contests decides the winners of the cap, to Macao. The railway will take people there from the colony in a very little time and, if interest has been stimulated in the competition Less depreciation accommodation be provided, it is not unlikely by the fact that the Charleston and the Cleveland

that a big gambling centre, will devolop in the have each a win to their credit. The Cleveland Since expended...

wen on Monday, but yesterday the Charleston had rather an easy victory by five runs to nit,

comparatively nuimportant little city.

Sach. schemes are certainly contemplated. Whether they will be allowed to develop cannot, of course, be said. It is not unlikely that a condition of affairs which existed prior to the taking over of Kowloon City may be repeated. Then launches used to run daily to Kowloon city and to other parts of the peningals but principally to the former place, where fairly large gembling houses were allowed to flourish. On Saturdays and Sundays the launches were invariably crowded by people eager to have a **flatter," and it became so noticeable that the Hongkong authorities made representations to the Chinese authorities to repress these houses This was done, but, as not infrequently happens, the ban was ignored occasionally and the evil developed again to its original extent when. representations, were again made and the housed wore again closed,

There can be little doubt that should the gambling houses be built at Samchan they will be largely patronised from Hongkong. Many people who cannot afford the time for a trip to Macao will easily make the journey by rail to this city, enjoy their excitement over "yat, ye, sum, aze," and return to Hongkong in

l side however having two hits. The Charleston pitcher did not give the cleveland batsmen a look in, and they were unable to make a single run. The final will be played on Friday afternoon..

£

INDIAN HUNTING SCENE.

$191,825.96 11,509.56

$180,316:40 38,004.86

Bricks pipes, and tiles in stock valued at.

cd at On consignment valu- Coal in stock valued at $ 2,418.10

Stores in stock valued

at

Steam lighter, steamer

launches. lighters, junks, &os per last statement... Less depreciation

Since expended

2,455:90

$182,35202 10,714,86

$171,637.16 59,368.49

BRITISH OFFICER INJURED. Lord Minto's recent tour in Assam was' marred by an accident to Colonel Victor Frocke, the Viceroy's Military Secretary. A rhinoceros charged the elephant ridden by Colonel Brooke, darling that officer against the howdah se violently that his right arm was fractured in two places. The Viceroy, alone, was shooting the rhinoceros, and Colonel Brooke was attempting to take a photograph of the Value of premis on unexpired

policies... shot, and also to turn the charging animal.

Lieut-Colonel Vistor Reginald Brooke is

a Sundry debtors very well-known and popular officer. He is a Cash on hand son of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, third bar- eret,

Property at Canton as per Inst

statenient

Every morning as soon as day broke Bony would come to my bedside, tuck in the mosquito curtain, and after having convinced himself that 1,004,341.09

I was asleep, would take hold of the bamboo and 759,697.81 stealthily leave the house, leaving at the same time the street door open at the mercy of avery wide-awake burglar. It was a riddle, and I determined to solve it. As there was no 221,961.08.Sherlock Holmes at hand I became my own detective. At three o'clock in the morning 83,029.00 when the frogs in Camp Wallace, which at that time of the year was ahuest inundated, were 3,500,00 oaking with all their might, when the contine! cock began, to crow, call answering te call in every direction, thousands of them in this Iand of cocks, I got up, dressed myself, which Pas an easy operation, my toilet consisting of a white linen coat and trousers, get into bed again, and waited for Bony who was snoring in

218,321.26

57,785.79

4,816.25

4,874,000

42,500.00

11,881.79

the other room.

Presently he awoke, rubbed his eyes, lighted a cigarette, made the sign of the cress, turned down the lamp, and walked into my room tip toe. I snored; be smiled, took his bamboo and was off. In his wake I followed. Twenty yards away in front of my friend the Major's house, he stopped..

Mr. W. F. Howe was an Englishman and an ex-convict, with a big, loud-voiced manner. Ha wore preposterous clothes, a gold-braided yacht- Hummel, on the other hand, was a quiet ing cap, a red cravat, and a blazs of diamonds. little dark-haired man from Boston, who started life as office-boy to Habets Corpus" Howe,

In addition to murder, the firm of Howe and Hummel made a speciality of divorce, and they wore in every celebrated divorce mit in New York.

While Hammel was conducting a merciless cross-examination of a witness-solicitors can. appear in the higher courts in America-Howe would wipe copious tears from his eyes with a gorgeous silk handkerchief.

It used to be said that there was no sort of evidence that Howe and Hammel could not procure, and District Attorney Jerome declared that Hummel had been "a menace to society for more than 20 years."

It was a divorce suit that finally brought him to ruin, for he was sentenced in 1905 to a year's imprisonment for conspiracy to procure false evidence. Mr. Charles W. Morse, the Ice King," had married a divercad woman, and Morse's uncle paid Hummel a large sum to procure fales evidence that the divorce wa invalid too. favalid, and therefore that Morse's marriage was

For a long time he evaded going to prizon, and during the interval he was called in the Thaw trial. Evelyn Nesbit Thay had sworn that an affidavit bearing her name was concocted by the "notorions lawyer Abe Hanimel," and he gave evidence that she did in fact make it.

When he went at last to prison in 1907 he was allowed to drive there in his own motor. Heserved his term in the prison bakery, aud when he came ont in March, 1908, announced that the rest had done him good.

It had been anticipated that his conviction. would result in disclosures affecting many pro- minent New York divorces, for his office teemed with scandals, but he held his penco.

TIBETAN GEOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS.

At a meeting of Fellows of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, held in the Theatre, Burling ton-gardens, last month, a discussion on geogra phical problems concerned with Tibet was opened by Dr. Sven Hedin. Major Leonard Darwin, the president, who occupied the chair, said that Dr. Sven Hedin had written a paper which had been cireutated among certain experts, and he himself proposed to address members upon it.

Dr. ven Hedin spoke on various Boo graphical problems which had been raised in his paper, but dealt principally with the new mountain system to which he has

Transhimalaya, A given the

zame

name

One which he asked the society to confirm. reason he advanced for adopting it was that it had been used before by British officers in India who had given their lives to the study of the mysteries of the forbidden country. Lord Minte, too, had also approved the name. The one of the greatest Transhimalaya was mountain systems, if not the greatest, in the world. The range was something like 2,000 miles long. Nowhere was it a single range; there were several ranges more or less parallel with each other. He had given names to various main reads. In undertaking his second and what he had to do, and in due counse expedition he knew exactly where he had to go he would publish the results. He had thousands names for the nomenclature of Tibetan

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be compared with the latest information sach a name for the new mountain system a obtained by Dr. Sven Hedin. He suggested Paa Kangri, or the snow mountains of Tibet, or Pen The Kangri, a free translation of the snow mountains of Southern Tibet.

The President in closing the discussion, said the question of the name of the range would be settled on the principle of the survival of the fittest. Dr. Sven Hedin had done magnificent in the book of geographical discovery to the work, which would stand on record for all time honour of their distinguished guest('heers), Dr. Byen Hedin afterwards replied, sad the proceedings terrainsted.

WEATHER REPORT.

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-

On the 23rd at 11.55 a.m-The barometer Jias fallen over China and W. Japan owing to the depression which has moved into the Eastern Sea to the South of Shanghai.

The depression in the South which apparently wards over the S part of the Philippine remains shallow, seems to hare spread West- Archipelago.

The area of high pressure is now shown. over E. Japan.

"Bast! est!" "Best" within answered the call. The major's muchacho also appeared with a bamboo. The affair was becoming interesting. **Sart!*! "Bust!" and in a very short time men, muchache, be had recruited a dozen 231,005.65 cochero, cock, all sorts of men, and they walked two abreast until they reached an open field where they began to drill. As soon as he spied 3,371.23 me he took to his heels, and in the twinkling of 331.564.66 an eye had disappeared. When I reached home he was already there, and judging from the 34,938,172.85 expression of his face, anybody net conversent

with his ways would say that he had just finishest of the part of Tibet which he traversed. He had 1.200 specimens of rocks of the district. his prayers,

The Transhimalayan range consisted of very What were you doing this morning, rascal?" hard rocks, as a role granite of different sorts.

Colonel C. F. Chose read several letters. Bir I asked him at the breakfast table.

Thomas Holdich, wrote giving several reasons for not liking the term Traushimalaya, and suggesting Bongbs. Bir Clemonte Markham Sir Henry Trotter expressed the opinion that wrote approving of the name Transhimalaya. for the newly discovered mountain system a Sir Mintin Conway said he did not think the Hodin called it Transhimalaya it would be called name of the range mattered, but if Dr. Bren Formosa Chatinal

by that name.

THE PATRIOTIC FEELING IN

ENGLAND,

of olebrooke, county Fermanagh, and uncle of Sir Basi Brooke, the present baronet. He is in his 37th year and has been in the Army since 1894, when he joined the Ith Lancers from the Militia. Colonel Brooke served with Lord. Methuen's force at the outset of the South

As a signal instance of the patriotic feeling Mie Senor combate los Americanos" African War, and was present at the battles of Belmont, Enslin, Medder River, ond Jaegers created in England, The Daily Mail announced answered So I came to know that beneath his fontein. He also took part in the operations that one of its readers, who does not desire his in the Orange Free State, including the fight name to be disclosed, hins handed Lord Esher a placid exterior Bony was a rebol at heart. for £10,000, anconditionally, to assist From that date I kept my rifle under look and

The wind will probably freshen from N.E. in the Formosa Channel by to-morrow Moderate or light E. and N.E. winds may be expected along the northern shores of the China Sea.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.00 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows :---

(E. to N. winds,

..

good time, Moreover should a man lose his all, i at Paardeberg. Later on he was member of the London Country Territorial Association in key lest one fine day I should miss both gun most appropriate name was the Transhimalava Hongkong & Neighbourhood- light or mod❜te;

he has always the consolution of being able to walk home if he did not take the precaution to buy a return floket! Possibly the Hongkong Gorernment may be induced to take action if the evil should become too pronounced, but, of course, it is rather early to discuss the happenings of that time.

Lord Roberts's staff during the advanco od the Bloemfontein and Pretoria. He was slightly recruiting the full numbers required for the and muchacho. Apparently he only wanted a wounded during the war, was several times men- Country of London regiments. This muui- tiened in despatches, nud received the Queen's ficence illustrates the spirit which is abroad weapon to flee to the mountains and fight the medal with four clasps and the King's with two, among the wealthy citizens of Louiton. It will soldiers of the United States... and the Distinguished Service Order. In 1904 Colonel Brooke accompanied the special mission to Kabul and he was appointed milliary secretary to the Viceroy of India in June, 1907.

be applied, says Lord Esher, in giving prizes At this time I fell ill. It was only a slight for shooting and defraying the expenses of re

cruiting in Territorial units, items for which ailment at first, but finally the case was diagnose

the Government makes no adequate grant.

ed as one of typhoid fever.

Captain Rawling laid before the meeting the South coast of Chins between moj veney in 19045, in order that they might

Through that his journey

fair...

Variable ta N.E. winds; light to fresh.

Same as No. 1. Hongkong and Lamooks. Hongkong and Hainan.... Bonth coast of Chins between Same as No. 1.