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SHIPPING NOTES.

Two new steamers called the Kilano and Tukivi, osch having on aggregats tonnage of 8.600 tons, will be placed on the Earopean service of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha One of the new liners was constructed in the Miten Dishi Shipbuilding Yard and the other in the Kawasaki Yard,

RAILWAY NATIONALISATION " IN JAPAN.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 18TH, 1909.

THE EMPIRE'S SEAMEN. CONSULTATION WITH MR, QHURCHILL

Wal

RUMOURED RECALL OF WU

TING FANG.

A PROPOSED JEWISH COLONY.

on an

The Jewish Territorial Organisation publishes The following telegraphic dispatch from the report of an expedition which it despatched Dr. J. Ingram Bryan of Kobe writes on this"

The Advisory Committee to the Board of

lished in America, but we need hardly say Cyrenaica for a Jewish territory subject se fallows in the International Review.

The progress of railway nationalisation in Trade, in matters affecting the Mercantile taburg has recently been extensively pub last summer to investigate the suitability of the leadership of Dr. J. W. Gregory, professor Japan is still in too tentative a condition to Marine has more than antified itself as

Because of his setivities in shielding two of geology at Glasgow University, and its other justify any definite judgment as to the success against the permanent officials of the card. there is no truth in the statement that HE. autonomous basis. The expedition was under

look otherwise, in reality these were the

to prominent Chinese arrested here recently for members were Mr. M. B. Duff, engineer, of the Government's enterprise in this direction. Official colouring might be used to make it Wn Ting Fang has been recalled :-- Up to the present, State management cannot be said to have resulted in either greater efficiency two forces which hind joined issue

5, party left London on July of public service or any economical advantage to determine which was to provalt That Mr.alleged association in a mining swindle, in surveyor, and expert on water supply; Dr. M.

botanist. The the Government itself. Defects in manage Winston Churchill, as President of the Board which their own countrymen were the dupes, D. Eder, medical slicer and zoological collector; British Consal When Le Si Ki, the imperial inspector of and renched Tripoli on the 16th. There they The Nippon Yusen Kaisha feet at presentment are attributed chiefy to the inexperience of Trade, had not been brought directly and Wa Ting Fang may be forced to retire from and Mr. J. Trotter, expert on agriculture and

of the authorities in this sort of business actively into touch with the subjects of dispute the diplomatic service on so extensive a scale, bracing as it does between the Committee and the officials comprises oighty steamers ranging between 700 al 8,500 tons, with an aggregate tonnage of more than a dozen of hitherte competing lines made quite clear by the attitude and utterances industries of Chins, and Yip Yon. his colleague, were introduced by the

of railway communication. Though most of Mr. Churchill at a conference held in White-avery wealthy man, were arrested here March General of Redjeb Pasha, Governor-General of sbont 299,300 in addition to forty stem of the complaints against the Government's hall-gardens, at which the President of the 29, pressure was brought to bear on Mayor Tripoli, who was very favourable to the project of launches representing a total tonnage of about management of the railways come from that Board of Trade and depated members of the George W. Guthrie and the police to release of a Jewish colony in Cyrenaica, and who sent as his personal representative Dr. Wei which includes the selected territory. It was 1,400. Besides there vessels, the company is large section of the population obdurately Advisory Committee were present, and at which the two distinguished foreigners. Wa. Ting provided them with letters of recommendation

hing You, second secretary of the Chinese largely owing to the friendly encouragement taking charge of seven steamers with an aggre. opposed to the State's monopolisation of public the Board's leading permanent officials also ang na telegraphed to at Washington, and to the Governor of Benghazi, the province The spokesinen of the Advisory Committee faraits allegedt are not without foundation Of

had a very plain casa to put before Mr.legation, to aid his countrymen in their plight, Retjeb Pasha that the investigation was under- gata tonnage of 27,291, which were prizes of utilities, it has to be admitted that some of the attended.

protection from the Arabs. He even offered war taken by the Navy, and two steamers with late the public has had to pat up with an

the indignity committed. a total tonnage of 8,452 belonging to the inorening inconvenienos of late trains, dirty Churchill.be Committee, which owes its As a result of this diplomatic interference the taken for he promised the intended colonists Believing, however, that the arreste were not the Jewish Organisation a grataitons concession for the opening of two banks, at Tripoli and Departinent of Agriculture and Commerce cars and unprecedented occurrence of accidents existence to Mr. Lloyd George, who, as President two men were released and apologies offered for fiscal and religious independence and military

that tend to reflect gravely on the now of the Board of Trade, established it as a con- These Government steamers, says a Tokyo regime. Not only so, but since the transference arquence of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1907 unwarrantably made and there was some truth

of gentlemen who represent every composed

Russian Jews into the country should be began management to Government officials, there is

Chinese, Becretary

The proffered concession was not. dispatch to the Asahi, are used in carrying of cargo to India or Australia. Owing to the has coms to light a wholesale system of interest shipowners, officers, and men-which to the alleged swindling operations of the two Benghazi, and urged that the immigration of unani- full explanation regarding the arrest of the accepted, and on the advice of Lord Rothschild, topression in the marine transport business stealing on the part of employés, resulting in goes to build up the British Mercantile personal interest in the matter, demanding, at once.

sof

Committee goods in transit. This simply Marine. After taking careful and

together,

Chinoso. This investigation, carried on through Mr. Oscar 9. Strans, and Dr. Paul Natha since last year the company has dire steamers means that when the employés found themselves counsel lying idle and not sufficient cargo can be five from the close scrutiny to which they were mously decided some little time ago that, with

of the higher up

The report consists of several sections, each obtained to load the Goreruncat vessels hold subject under the private companies, they took view to the betterment of the merchant servior, the initiative of the department of state, liss (of Berlin) it was resolved to send out a scionti- in test, thus adding to the difficulties of the advantage to relieve their prosent economic it would be wise to establish a Central Register, disclosed a number letters written in Wa Ting the commission to explore the land before dis

depression by praying on the public. It where the names and record of every seaman Fang threatening his follow countrymen, who, patching any settlers.

Celestials, with deportation company, which is anxious to return these cannot be said, however, that the authorities would be kept, and to take certain steve which it is said, were the duif they in any way of which is contributed by a different member first scientific survey of the great projection steamers to the Government. The Navy and live been indifferent to the incapacity of would lead to the more efficient manng assisted the courts of Pittsburg in obtaining of the party, and it is illustrated by a number

dis ships. The decisions at which, the Advisory

was conducted by of land on the north coast of "Africa" between The investigation crepancies of condast show any indica.Committes had arrived after zaxob deliberation any information which might lead to the re-arrest of photographs and maps, It embodies the Agriculture and Commerce Departments have the railway personnel, or that these

expert of the Egypt and the Great Byrtis, for access to no means of keeping them, however. No portion of becoming permanent feiinres of were duly transmitted to the Board of Trade, and possible conviction of his friends.

He declares that he this region has been rigorously denied to Turks Dr. local police force. chasers for the steamers willing to give reason railway management in Japan. The vigorous with the only resalt that the Committee were told ablo prices can be found at present. It has manner in which the Government has under that their recommendations could not be carried Richard Kelly, Chinese therefore been arranged by the company and the taken to suppress or remove the evils revealed out, The Advisory Committee, not feeling has unearthed several letters written by the Europeans. hitherto by Government that the steamers shall be retained by the reorganisation of the railway system, is disposed to take this dismissal of their advice Chinose minister to local Chinese merchants Gregory's party, after a few days' stay at Tripoli

by the company, and an allowance made hy the Government towards the expeise of mainten-

Ante,

extensive loss

doing mnel to regain the confidence of the public, and doubtless in time this department of communication will prove na eficient and profit- able as the anthorities anticipated.

the

earnest

of

lying down," appointed four of their members, including Mr. Norman Hill, their chairman, their wishes, in matters about which they know to interview Mr. Churchill, and to ask him why so much, were to be ignored. This interview took place in Whitehall-gardens.

took a

a

to be threatening in the extreme, hinting at who were prepared to appear against Lo Si Ki immediate deportation and severe punishment and Yip Yan The tone of the letters is said when the Chinese had been landed in a country where the power of Wu's band might be more effectually felt.

of

previously travelled through the country, and set out for Benghazi accompanied by Professor who acted as chief spokesman. From Benghazi Nahum Blonech, of the Sorbonne, who had they sailed to Derna, on the eastern extremity caravan to conduct their exploration in of the projection, whence they set out with n westerly direction. They marched to the famous Fountain of Apollo and the ruined city of

of Cyrens. Further exploration followed, and Cyrene. From this point Dr. Gregory and Mr. Buff descended to the coast at Maran Susa the party returned to London on August 26. while the others investigated the neighbourhood The extent of their march was 250 miles, which enabled them to survey 55 square miles, 9 cent of the tatal area of 6,000 square miles of Northern Cyrenaica.

per

The expedition started out with great koper, but returned disappointed. Dr. Gregory sams up his report as follows:

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THEIR SCALPS IN

A DREADFUL STATE

Four, Children Suffered a Year with Terrible Ringworm - Hair ... All Came Out in Patches Leaving -Grew Scalp Dry and Scaly Worse Under Various Treatments.

ALL CURED BY TWO

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CAUSES OF MAL RIA

THE DIGNING THEORY DISCUSSED.

In his report on malaria in Mauritius, Pro- fessor Ross under the healing Is Malaria due deals with various contentions to the soil

As yet, however, the nationalisation of railways is far from Batisfactory from a financial point

It was in every sense a frank and healthy of ries For the appropriation of the seven-

Kelly's position regarding the guilt of the The Philippine Commission hay killed the teen private lines now under its control, the interchange of opinion. The members of the Assembly bill prohibiting the employment of Japanese Government had to pay bonds to Committee, Bruly and clearly gave the foreigners as captains, engineers and sistant the extent of some 480,000,000 yea, which, at reasons which had guided them to their con- Chinese and of Minister Wu's complicity in He says it is his belief that the engineers on steamers in the constwise trade, te per cent. interest, means an annual outlay clusions. Mr. Norman Hill spoke with the tast shielding them from deserved punishment is of 24,000.00 yen. But the net pret on the and force of reasoning which are always at his fortified by the attitude of former Dirsator The object of the bill is to forour seamen who railway lines last year was only about 3,000,000 command, and in Captain Tems, of the Morchaat of Public Safety Lang, who was retired a week are residents of the Philippine islands or of the ven more than the above interest, which Borrico Guill, and Mr. Havelock Wilson, M.P., 4go.

to Hil, speaking of the proposed Central Register, Ki and Yi Yen to justify their arrest and for A reserve fund, wasdevoted United States as opposed to thom who owe al proft, after dodneting some half a million he found excellent coadjaters. Mr. Norman police had sufficient evidence against Io Bl legiance to foreign conatries, and is the resultertension and improvement of the lines. Over said that they had not only reason and expedi. that he is prepared to stand by Policezian of the repeated efforts that have been mado on against this, the Government has to face the ency on their side, but they had also Kally to the last degree. Last Friday the part of Filipino engineers and officers of fact that the Budget for this year requires the exdating law, which had been allowed to hang sent a number of detectives through As to this point there can be no two questions. eight hinese who declared that they received

We found Cyrenaica disappointing in spite amount of not less than 29,100,000 yen, which rosal to get legislative preference over those for railway extension and improvement a total lie derelict by the officials of the Board of Trade. the Chinese quarter and they quickly found. Section 252 of the Merchant Bhipping Act of letters from Minister Waadvising them against

It is known that Secretary of State Knox of its many attractive features, because it is not owing allegiance to foreign countries. Accord means that at least 21,600,000 yon will have to ing to a report made by the bateau of naviga-be obtained by loans. As the prospect of fur- 1894 expressly says: The Registrar General siding the administration of American justics. tion, there are 217 steamers operating in these thor borrowing is wholly inconsistent with the of Shipping and Beamon eball by means of docu

financial programme of the present Cabinet, it meats transmitted to him in pursuance of this possesses a full knowledge of the circumstances so accopied as we had expected, and its present islands, the total number of available engineers, remains to be seen how this money is to raised. Act, and by any other means in his power, keep the alleged fraud, the reason for the arrests inhabitants would prove a serious dificulty to Since Baron Goto, late president of the South at his office a register of all persons who serve and the influences that were brought to bear to its closer agricultural settlement. After, our including general engineers, first assistant, second assistant and river and harbor engineers, Manchuris Railway, assumed the Portfolio of in ships subject to this Act. To this state- save the Chinese from the grasp of the law. Journey through the country we could under- js-457, of whom 12 are Americans, 422 Filipinos Communications in the New Katsura Cabinet, ment Mr. Churchill took ne exception, and he To-sight it is seriously said that because of Wastand why the Turkish authorities would o there has been a marked improvement in the enbsequently made short work of an objection Ting Fang'a activities in guarding his country-warmly welcome help in their endeavours to and 23 foreigneCF.

management and general efEciency of the coming from one of the permanent of men the department of state may address to the develop its resources. We found the country,

and the country is better suited for pastoralis produced by digging is of sufficient local in- Japanese railway system. The first radical ficiale present that the suggested undertaking minister of foreign affairs in Chins a diplomatic moreover, less fertile than is reported, for though urged against the anopheline theory. The para- than agricultural occupation. I am forced to terest to be reproduced in full. Professor Ross the conclusion that owing to the scarcity of

In section 1 we saw that the theory of the In the enquiry hold at the British Consulate, change instituted was the complete separation would involvs" expense. If it will promote quest that Wu be recalled.--American Ex- the soils are excellent they are very patchy, graph in answer to the contention that malaria

of the railway finances from those of the State, the strength and efficiency of the Empire's Merchange,

water the country never has supported and

marsh miam gradually grew into the tellurie probably never will support & dense population." Kobe, with regard to the stranding of the so that these might be placed on an independent untile Marine, then the cost will have to be

The scarcity of water is not due to a poor hypothesis, according to which malaria is caused Indrani on Mashima Island, the finding of the basis similar to the working of a private corpora forthcoming" might be accepted as a paraphrase The general trend of what transpired could

In the Financial Review of Reviews Sir John rainfall, but to the porous soil, which makes the by poison which exists in suitable oil and which Court was as follows: That the stranding tiou. To some extent this more was a candle of Mr. Churchill's words and meaning.

How to public opinion, as there had been a

(mė time President of the conservation of water a difficult and contly nu escapes from it when it is disturbed; and instances was das firstly to the under estimation of the distinct demand for it during the past twe're not have been altogether agreeable to the

very dertaking. Dr. Gregory found that the whole which apparently support this idea are still cited. speed of the ship between Takaikams and mouths. The public mind will now be relieved permanent officials who happened to be in Rolleston, at Mushima, the estimates made of the distance from the complex operation of having to follow attendance, At all events the letter written Sarvayors' Institution, contributes

that in nearly limestone, at least 3,000 feet thick, and that many of them are probably only relapses as a siare. Docurring among previously infected workmen; quite clear that all parts of the world have been constantly the whole mass is as porous differing greatly, the pilot's estimate being over the progressof the national enterprise through the to the Advisory Committee giving a direct

in its integrity. mate of Budgetary revenue and expenditure, and negative to their proposals no longer stands He ways at while land values i mars, plates of Cyrenaica consists of a vast block of Frops what has just been said the reader will gather 104 miles and the Third Officer's 8), whereas be able to see whether public ownerskip can

Secondly, to justify itself an its own merits. This means that what is best to be done under all the increasing, land values in England have simal. The rain sooks quickly into the ground while other may quite possibly be caused in the true distance was 141 miles. nu unusual set of the tide to the N.W. in the henceforth the Government railways will be organistances of the gase will be settled by taneously been on the decrease Agricultural and any that is not lost by evaporation probably the usual way by anopholinos bred in marshes neighbourhood of Mashima, not anticipated by managed pretty much as they were before their closer personal relations in future between the land has fallen, up to 70 per cent. of the flows into the sea through submarine springs, plose to the spot where the soil has been dis- the pilot. The Court is satisfied that the Popriation by the State, and that all profits President of the Board himself and the members former value, and "the market in urban land is "Even if the wells at Merj should prove prolific," turbed. Both of the explanations are ex

aceraing from them will be deveted to the of the Advisory Committee. For the present absence of soundings being taken did not greater efficiency of the railways themselves. all that need be said on the subject is that the conferences will probably lead to sound and contribute in any way to the accidant, there The entire railway system of the empire is now last word has not yet been spoken. Further being no change in the depth of water, and that to be apportioned into sections, och under

division superintendent, after the manner of satisfactory developments. the errors of the standard compass were American and Canadian railways, implying a In these cir- striet enforcement of supervision down to the correctly known and applied. cumstances the Court hob that the Master, huablest employé of the roads, With these ampler facilities for supervision, and the Captain Macfarlane, must be held free from all management of the lines se an independent blame, but it considers that the pilot committed enterprise, there ought, with the progress of an error in judgment, seeing the conditions of experience, to be no difficulty is expecting the weather, in not ordering the Master to suchor general satisfaction which the Government before approaching narrow waters. The Court promised when it determined upon. considers that the 3rd Offeer might have used monopolisation of the railways of the empire.

the

his discretion in warning the Master, after heTHE ATTITUDE OF THE MANCHUS. had gone below for his breakfast, that the

The following lottor is taken from Chine, the weather seemed thicker. The costs, amounting to 86-18-6, were ordered to be paid by the Mus. quarterly record of the Christian Literature ter, as being a party to the proceedings in Society.

Court."

The Cunard Steamship Co report for last year shows that the profits for the year, includ ing £109,882 brought forward, amount to nearly £300,000. To this is added nearly £100,000 from the insurance fund and £50,000 from the

reserve fund. After debiting income tax and depreciation for ships and wharf properties there ix only a balazes of £3,582, which is carried forward to proft and less. The report states that the financial crisis in the United States depreciated freights and disorganised the west bound third-classtraffe, the number landing at New York and Boston falling from 2,116,000 in 1907 to 835,000 in 1908.

According to the Japanese newsapor Hocki, a certain party interested in marine insurance is reported to have stated that, during the Russo Japanese war, the Japanese Goverment chartered for campaign purposes many Japanese vesicla, with the consequence that the number of ships disqualified for registration with Lloyds through unfitness has largely increased. This has had a disastrous effect by post-bellum marine trama.. portation operations. These vessels being unfit for Japanese constal voyages, wrecks cours frequently as to make it appear that the ships

Bir-Recent remarks in the papers attribat ing the disgrace of Yran Shil Kai to personal jealousy or to Manchu reaction seem to ignore the circumstances under which Yuan rose to power and the personality and laudable ambition of the Regent's elder brother, the late Emperor, whom he betrayed and suppressed, and whose followers and associates were surrendered to disgrace and death.

HONGKONG AS THE GOOD EXAMPLE.

Hongkong, remarks the Calentta Englishman, has afforded other places more than one valu able lint in the matter of municipal and other regulations. Not very long since we invited the atttention of the Bengal Government and the Calcutta Corporation to the successful campaign against promiscuous public expectoration that was being carried out in Hongkong. We sug- gested that it might be imitated with advantage to the health of this city. A propos of the Hongkong spitting regulations, is to ongo gari ng the Tataeeting to impress the necessity for cleanliness on their clients. All their cars now exhibit a noties:-- Gentleman will not spit; others must not, in English and Chinese. But this is not the only ordinanca that Caloutta might with ad- 7 of the Hongkong Regulations requires every vantage copy from Hongkong. Article number boatman, or other person, to render every sistance possible to a drowning person, and severe The traditions of the Imperial family are not penalties are inflicted on any who fail to obey reactionary ner here they shown themselves The Hongkong paparate land report the pros. verse to taking lessons from other nations. tion by the Harbour Police of a bostman who when they conquered Chins, they adopted the did not take prompt measures to rescue a sailor Chinese system of government, and admitted the who was drowned in Hunghom Bay Chinese to an equal slunce with the Manchas, 28th. There is need for a similar article in ible to the and the Monarch has often been more suscept the Calontta Harbour regulations. It will be of the missionaries than remembered how, when the Austrian steamer arguments

Triests touched ground off Garden Reach, re- his ministers,

There Why then should not the Regent, himself one cently, and heeled when turning an unfor

tunate steward fell into, the river of the most enlightened of his race, seize the present unique opportunity offered by the death were a number of dinghies and other country of the late Empress, the discredit of the Boxers bouts around the spot, and several boatmen sow and reactionaries, and the triumph and modera- the lad fall in, whilst their attention was also tion of the Powers of the West and of Japan, to called to the drowning man by members of the guide the Empire on the path of reasonable and erew. Not one of the boatman, however, attem- moderate reform, retaining the helm in the hands pted to rescue the unfortunate Austrian. Had of progressive members of the Manchu race, and an article like section 7 of the Hongkong re- like his brother oaling in the assistance of gulations existed, fear of punishment might

have induced the men to be humane. foreign-trained Cantonese?

an enterprise What wonder then if in sack there should be found no place for the half- hearted Honuose, and no opportunity be offered: him of repeating the treacherons coup d'etat ?— Yours, etc.; :

LAO KWANTUNG,

ADMIRAL ROJESTVENSKY'S WILL,

are but instruments for casting cargoes in theThe defence of Admiral Rejestrenaky, written sea. The marine insurance companies have y M. Semanoff, was translated into French by been thereby so hard hit, as to have concerted mesaures to drive these vessels from the field. One method has been to refuse insurance on the hull, insuring the cargo only, at the same time This resulted in a raising the prominus. decrease by half of the number of policies effected last year, as compared with the previous year; but with a proportionate decrease in the number of shipwrecks.

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WIRELESS TELEGRAPH AT THE PHILIPPINES.

P170,000 has been appropriated for the bureau of posts for the constraction of eight wireless stations in the archipelago at the following points: 1aasin, Leyte, Surigao and Mambayo in Missis, Cayo, Calion, and Puerto Princesa in the province of Palawan, Bojeador, Ilocos Norte: and, Basco, Batanes Islands. The construction of these stations has been proposed in order to give.telegraphic communication with points between which it has been impossible to maintain cables at a reasonable cost.

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the Commandant de Balincourt, a Naval captuit The late Russian Admiral was touched very much by the work of the two officers referred to, and as a small tribute of his gratefulness to

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THE SINKING OF LAND VALUES IN ENGLAND).

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perhaps exposed to much fatigue and to the practically over." The building trade is in a concludes Dr. Gregory, the total population fremely probable in the case of large opera. portion of the agricultural land that changes at least for fifty years, to exceed half a million, hundreds of native workmen are crowded hands in these days does not recoup the and probably at least one-third of that number together, housed in rough tents or hats, and state of stagnation. He declares that a great which the country would maintain is not likely, tions such as railway and canal works, where holder for the cost of the improvements. He is already resident in the country."

In view of the discouraging naturs of this attacks of many mosquitoes, But nevertheless grants there are exceptions, where land becomes mere space with a pressure of population. Then report, Mr. Zangwill, president of the Jewishmalaria may be caused actually by the digging there is an increment, but these spaces Territorial Organisation, states in his preface though not in the way suggested by the tel- are small in proportion to the whole of that the Council has decided by a unstfmous laric hypothesis, I believe that this point was no further sation should at present first cleared up by my own observations made He osanot in connection with the Sierra Leone railway most urban areas, only a small quantity of vote that land boing covered annually. Why thon tax be taken regarding Cyrenacia."

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In

RAUB GOLD MINE.

IMPORTANT DIBOGVERY OF QUARTZ,

in

à value that is often a minus quantity Sir resist baing Excetious at his own expense; and in 1899. Severe malaria had occurred along morable puddles full of the larvae of snophe- John goes on to declare that to hold up land as remarks: "In the most painfully literal sense the course of the railway while it was being lines by the side of the railway embankments, against a willing purchaser la such a bad financial of that much-based metaphor, the project did made. On visiting the same we found inau operation that it is seldom effected, except not hold water."

which the L.CA

the "borrow pita" from which earth had been by public bodies, in

lead To tax building land,

taken for building the embankments, and even HOW LESSEPS FOUND HIS WIFE, these in

under the railway sleepers." I saw the same times unproductive, ot the takes the already would be to help in the ruin

1901, and near the Greek village of Moulki in communica common Moirories of ms Spare Time

1896 In fact the matter has now become a students of malaria. error" that the land is a necessity Why is ted to Blackwood, tells this romantic story:

commonplace with speculative builder, and to kill the goose which General Sir Henry Brackenbury, in "Some thing in connection with the Logos railway

A Frenchman living in Réunion was.com--

Hence we must end by admitting that distur land a necessity? he asks. People in this layathegolden egg. He objects to the country are fed by other countries. The loss of polled by the illness of his wife to take ber to our market for our own agricultural production Brando. He sailed with his wife and two young tones of the soil is really apt to cause malaria, ness, far, he sdils, "I am sure that anyone ran short, and when their voyage round the Cape tellaria miasm, but by encouraging the brooding does not appear to be balanced by an era of cheap daughters, but theyjancountered storms, provisions but that it may do so not by liberating any will agree that for a poor man France is a ended, the wife had succumbed to the hardships of snophelines and the occurrence of relapses cheapor country than this, and that the that had been incurred; the husband was among workmen. charges for living there are on a considerably sorrowing widower, his children were orphans. reduced scale." The writer must have penned Some time afterwards he called on M. de Lesseps, on that long sea voyage, and expressed a wish to this paragraph before the Government Report told him of his misforinnes and of his sufferings appeared which shows that for a poor man the

ance of the construction of the Suez Canal.good discovery might be made in the Anderson in England.

Lesseps gave him an appointment at Tamailis, and shaft of the Raab gold mine, and, as will be cost of living in Frenos is much greater than dedicate the remainder of his life to the farther. It had been anticipated for some time that a employment was found in one of the workshops seen from a perusal of the general manager's there for hindaughters. One day Lesseps was visit report for the four weeks ending April 24 lost, ing the staker, when his attention was attracted is it now announced that the expected lode has by these two girls, with whom he entered into been struck, and that, at the date of waiting Mr. ave to each of them a flower, saying that they wide and worth 10 ewt, to the ton. From the conversation. He came again the next day, and Martin was able to state that it was sixty inches should frame a wish last thing at night, and fact that Mr. Martin sise states that a now head. that if in the morning they found the towers gear is in course of constraction at this shaft, had opened, their wishes would be granted. and that a considerable amount of work has been, Next morning he came back to the ataller, and and is being, effected in and around this particu- be that and He asked the canse of her sadness.covery of valuable gold bearing quartz may the tears. "My flower has not opened, "Tell me your the precursor of other discoveries, found one of the girls smiling, the other in Ir spot, the inference is that the prament dis-

h, to you least of all men can I tell it," was a not very far distant date. Indeed, it is gener- wish, that, if possible, it may be granted." output of Fanb may be accordingly increased at discovery in the Anderson shaft is that it con her answer. Lesepe married her, and so berally believed that the chief importance of the firms a theory formed as to the direction taken wish was granted.

by other important gold bearing seams, for which reason shareholders and others will no doubt await the manager's next report with more than the usual amount of interest.

LOVER'S LONG CHASE The following story is told by an American exchange-

the U. 8. S. Chattanooga, while in Manila April, 1907-Ensign Walter Jacobs, attached to forms the acquaintance of Miss Winnie Dunlay, sister in law of the prosecuting attorney of Manila. They becon.e engaged to be married.

him,

the Chattanooga and sends him on a trip around the world. Miss Dunlap laments her May, 1907-Uncle Sam detaches Jacobs from betrothed's departure and decides to follow June, 1907-Miss Dunlap sails for New York, hoping to great Jacobs there, but Uncle Sam's fine hand is in evidence again and Jacobs is sent on another chase back to Manila Miss Donlap follows. June, 1907 April, 1909–The merry game of tag between the two lovers continues. Neither eatches a glimpse of the other and both travel around the world, Jacobs on the battleship Illinois on the famous round the world'ornise and Miss Donlap on the first atcamors follow ing the fleet.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

THE DERBY.

The Bikk ex M.M. str. Caledonien which left this port on the 13th ultimo, was delivered in The 1.G., str. Prins Sigismund which left Lyons on the 15th instant.

The following was the Darby betting on April 24- 16th instant at 8 am. on the here on the 22nd ultimo, has arrived at Sydney

2 to 1 against Bayards. The M. str. Sydney with the French Mail April, 1909 Ensign Jacobs secures a furlough, of the 25th ultimo, and mails from London of

and while Uncle Sam in unable to intervene

the young couple arrange to be married in the 24th ultimo, loft Singapore on Monday the this city. Jacobs arrived from the east yoster 17th instant at 3 p.m., and may be expected to day sad is at the Fairmont, Miss Dunlap arrive here on Monday morning the 24th inst., will arrive here on the transport Sheridan, and will leave for Bhanghai and Japan on the accompanied by her matron of honor, Mrs. same afternoon

The C.P.B. sir Monteagle exrived Nagasaki Joseph S. Evans, wife of Ensign Evans. The

at 6.30 am. on the 16th inst, and left again at wedding will be solemnized in a few days 4 p.m., same day for Kobe where she is due to Perhaps.

arrive at 6 am. to-day.

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Diamond Stud.

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Glasgerion and Electric Boy.

Bayardo and Minoru have both won good

The race takes place on Wednesday the 26th

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