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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. Whew! Isn't it warm!

Ito Hongkong University does nothing else, the scheme must be regarded as highly successful inasmuch as it has touched Chinese liberality to a remarkable degree and it has

shown Chinese confidence in the British authori. ties here.

a notice I HOW

ME. MEYER IN HONGKONG.

The Rev. F. B. Meyer delivered on Friday night in the City Hall, the second of two Lectures on the "Physiology of a Strong Pure Life." There was a large sympathetic and appreciative andience who were undoubtedly impressed deeply by some of the speaker's

attorances.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 14TH, 1909.

HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS."

{FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT}

London, May 19. MAY MEETINGS,

material for newspapers.

plastar.

A ROUGH VOYAGE.

THERE IS SKILL AND

Admiral Li Tsun, Tuotai Li Chi Chienn, ten THOROUGHNESS deputies and several merchants who have been on

OF CONSTRUCTION a visit of inspection of the Paracel Islands returned to Canton on the 10th inst. by the gunboats Fook Po and King Hong. The party (our Canton correspondent writes) loft ultime by three gunboats. They first called at Canton for the Parseals Island on the 21st Hoihow and remained for two days in that port where 50 labourers were engaged for prospecting purposes.

IN ALL

PIANOS

After learing Holhew they on- shelter at a place called Yu Lam Kong, where they remained for ton days. As the third gun- considered it unsafe for her to continue the voyage, so she was sent back to Canton, and the STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY Fook Fo and the King Hong proceeded on their

guardians and sexitractors going to jail for a INSPECTION OF PARACEL ISLANDS, considerable time. Well, Poplar is not done yet. A Mr. Watts of the Board has an iden that, where a man eat of work will go into the workhouse, his wife should be allowed ton We have been having the usual plethoms of billings a weak "out-relief" and two shillings May meetings of various religious decoming a week for each child. A little calculation will tions and their associated missionary orgonisa-show that, considering the number of children Aftor recapitulating for the sake of those, tions. Chinu has been figuring largely, partly some of these people have, the family squld rope One of these items into the bargain. They never would have Work carried out by the Government does who had not heard him the preceding occasion, because the Oriental castoms provide picturesque te pounds a week and have the father kopt not always compare favourably with private the chief points of former lecture, this speaker to which great publicity has been given was the had such times of prosperity in all their lives.

remarked that the subject to which he was then enterprise. According to the other day, Messrs. Jar dine Mathe.deveting attention mast nocde ceeasion pain and statement by the Rev. H. H. Weir at the The proposal las received such publicity that it annual meeting of the Society for the Propage has been dropped for the present, but it will son and Co's now uflees a tho corner of grief of mind to him whenever he felt constrained | tion of the Gospel, that an Oriental enre for come up again, and meanwhile the expenditure countered very rough weather and had to take. :

indigestion was to light a fire on the stomach off that, little district in London on peor law Peddler Street will be completed about thn to deal with them on the public platform. He end of September, although it is only about was however bound, at no matter whatever the patients. This, he remarked, was merely administration has ran up to over £200,000 a scandal were nearthed by the Commission twelve months since this work was commenced. personal cost, to wage war against this form of

appointed by the hated John Burns. There are The Government building on the opposite side evil, and there was evidence in abundance of the an exaggerated form of the familiar rapetard Fear, which is about where it stood before the boat, Kwong Kang, is a small vessel, the Áðmirul ̈ ́ has been in progress for years, and it looks as if it will take as many years as the other took good done by the statements he had been led to

At the 34th Syned of the Presbyterian Church whole streets of families kept by the rates in make in varions places.

But a black clond His reward was the friendship of thousands of England, helt at the Marylebone Church; the Poplar. It is the Mecca of all ambitious Weary way to the Paracel Islands, of young men, whom his testimony had helped Moderator, the Rev. Dr. J. C. Gibson, of Swatow, Willies and Tired Tims. to free from the chains of the most cruel slavery presided over a large attendance. He was the threatens, for auder the Bill that will be framed principal speaker at an evening meeting held in a man can be under - nttør sabjection to his own passions. Sometimes, as in Hongkong the pro- celebration of the fourth centens of the birth vione day, a man will write his thanks and of Calris. Calvin he said, waplooked upon by these Whether who were ignorant of his personality as a bigoted declare his resolation to amend. hearers acknowledge in this way the benefit Scotsman who invented the Shorter Catechism, them

that has come to them through the lecture or The most brilliant Frenchman was not Voltairs bere were jays. In the present matter Mr. are silent on the subject, it is sufficiently manifeat but Calvin. Scotland recognised two great men Hooper has shown that when the Crown Agents that large advantage to many follows from John Knox and John Calvin-but in Ecotland

ment Fund the sum of £250 year to provide the party inspected the Kan Island which was ordered Jeyes' fuld they, in the words of the plainness of speech such as the lecturer is ook some people considered the latter was the great-the trustees of the Oxford University Endor-named the Island Fook Fo. On the following day

Mr. Hooper Irishman, ordered something else. has thrown down the gauntlet. What coura-ing to employ. He counselled his hearers to geous member of the Government is going to study an ancient book-Leviticus, to find there. in a code of rules for pure living." I know" take it up?

said he, “no better book in the world as an all to purity."

months to finish.

Had it not been for the Bandmann Company we might not have been able to realise what potentialities for joking lay in the bother over Jeyes' tuid. As the clover comedian put it, the Saultary Board did not know whether the fluid was Joyes' or they were. That ia of coume unkind. No one who knew

would

suggest tant the

mem-

Discussions on railway affairs continue with little additional enlightenment thrown on a state of affairs which is not altogether satisfactory The crux of the matter seems to be whether the fire million dollar estimate with which we started was an estimate or not. At the time we thought it was an estimate, but now it seems we were

The lecturer's strong plea were for resene work in our great cities, for true chivalry among all classes of men in their attitude toward

-WONDON......

A CHINA MISSIONALY ON CALVIN,

est of Scotsinen.

FOUND IN THE DESERT.

on the recommendations of the recent Poor Law Commission the husbands, in such cases, will be made by rigorous treatment to realise that it is easier to earn the bread of independence than that of charity. 'Tis a oru el, cruel world.

JAPANESE LECTURESHIP AT OXFORD.

Next week the Congregation of Oxford University will sanction a decree accepting from

THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR.

WE IMPORT

While staying in-Yu Lum Kong the Admiral SUPERIOR VALUE Shin, Wan stating that a typhoon had swept received a dispatch from an official at Loung past that port; numerous fishing junkṣ had been

THIS CLIMATE. sunk and about 500 lives lost. They arrived at BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR the. Paracel Islands on the 5th instant. The party first landed on a small island called Lo Pot. This Island is almost surrounded by reefs excepting on the East whore the party were able to land. Before leaving the place the Admiral

Mr. Meyer would have full and fitting restitu- tion made in every instance where the code of mistaken in regarding it as such. However, highest personal chivalry had been neglected, next estimate laid before us for any great broken or ignored, and in his view the man, original owner who had an inscription put on it gave a luncheon party on Friday at the re-different islands to survey and make place. The

once bitten twice shy.

undertaking.

We'll watch well the

tainted with disease, should go into seclusion, for his whole life time in the wilds sul forests rather than carry that taint into the life of one he loves, and through her onward to faturs generations.

It is difficult to love things nowadays. This reflection is called for by the nanoucement that an interesting rolie has been added to the collection of the Royal Geographical Society. In the course of his recent travele in Eastern Turkestan Dr. M. A. Stein passed over some of the ground Dr. Sven Hedin had traversed four years before and in the desert he came upon tape measure on the spot where Dr. Svon Hedis dropped it. Dr. Stein restored the article to it. telling how it had been found in the limitless desert of Asia. It is now on show at the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

We have had a number of German Labour delegates over here for a tour, and their impra sions have been extremely satisfactory. They have corrected a good many false impressions of our country and our people, and have unlearned natione hava sedulously sown in Germany, worst slums and admitted at the finish that the Among other things they want the round of our

GERMAN VISITORS.

CO. LTD.

THE BUDGET.

Touching the cost of railways once more, I notice that notwithstanding Hongkong's ex- erience, Mr. J. M, Barry told the members of the Royal Society of Arts that 30,000 miles

We should, in respect of our new departure, of railway in Chian would require a ospital of be as the band of men who once had been con- £200,000,000. That works out at £6,665 a mile.victs, and who were engaged to take under the The Shanghai Nanking Railway was constructed flag of France an enemy's citadel in Morocco, at a cost of £9,661 per alle "including · land i These men put into their assault the passions much that trouble makers between the two for the advancement of the arts, especially commercial centres in several of the larger and tolucco, nor do we dwell on the fact that the

construction and equipment." I don't know how many miles of railway we are going to have in Kowloon. The Hon. Mr. Murray Stewart at the Legislative Council last week mentioned that we are to have "many miles of sidings at the terminus." Let us be generons and allow for four miles of sidings to 21 miles of railway, and we find that our 25 miles of railway "including land, construction and equipment" is costing £40,000 per mile!

The desire of His Excellency the Governor to preserve song birds in the Colony is a very

formerly used in sin and crime, and by so doing, planted their flag on the summit of the citadel. Thus can we change our life by the help of God, giving to him our best strength and energy and help to save men fer parity and clean living, At 5:30 o'clock on Saturday there met in the City Hall, a considerable company of persons, associated more or loss directly with the Bunday School work of the Colony, their purpose being to hear an address from the Reverend F. B. Meyer, who, as the first President of the World's Sunday Scheel Association, has had experience well nigh unique in certain of ite as pects of Christian and Church effort in As respects the this particular sphere. attendance of adults the Chinese and non- Chinese sections of the audience appeared to be in fairly equal numbers, Among the young people present there was a proponder. ence of Chinese.

Holders of game Konces are laudable one. naked to destroy magpies whenever opportunity offers. The notice makes no discrimination between the two species of magpie found in the Colony, so I presume that as enemies of the song birds there is not much to chose between them. When I heard a friend express surprise

Proceedings were opened with devotional that this charge should be laid against the magpie, I looked up an article on the bird life of exercises, followed by endeavors on the part; of singing ability Hongkong, written by Staff-Surgeon Kenneth Mr. Meyer to test the H. Jones, R.N., and I pass on the information and proficiency of those present, alike

ВП and as entire company that there are two kinds of magpie in Hongkong in —the common magple, one of the best known of There was also recitation by the audience in the all the Hongkong resident species, and its near various languages and dialects represented in relation the Chinese blas magpie. It is interest the hall, of well known passages of scripturo.

Mr. Meyer commenced his address by re- ing to note that the Chinese consider the common magpie a bird of good omen. It is marking that he would speak first to the tame and confiding to a degree rarely, if younger persons assembled and afterwards to ever, to be met with in other countries" their elders. He wished to have at the outset The Chinese bine magpis, however," Is one of the earnest attention of these who are or caght the noisiest resident species in the island and to be learners in Sunday School-and whom he

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worst we have to offer isnct half so bad as it had been painted to them. There is no doubt that these exchanges in visiting parties between Germany and this country are doing much to dispel any still existing feelings of animosity.

The following in the full text of the letter of

To the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, protest against the Budget addressed to Mr.

M.P., First Lord of the Treasury

London, May 14, 1909. Asquith by prominent bankers and business meu.

SIR,-We the undersigned, bankers, mer- chants, and others largely interested in the trade and commerce of London and of the country, desire, irrespective of party, to give expression to our opinion that many of the finance proposhis objection. And in no lping we confine our now before Parliament are open to grave comments to those questions upon which we can speak from experience. We do not, therefore, disones the proposed taxes on land, heer, spirits, income-tax is to be raised without any attempt.

remedy its present suequalities. to

regard the proposal to alter the law with respect to the old Sinking Fund as a dangerous innovation, and we are convinced that the to raise the established principle ander which the surplus revenue of each year is automatically applied to the reduction of debt is the only sound one. direction proposed would inevitably tempt a Government to under-estimate revenue and to over-estimate expenditure, for it would be Any departare from this principle in

comparatively easy to obtain the consent of Parliament to the allocation of realised surplases to purposes for which it would not have been We realize that the increased and increasing penditure of the country necessitates addi- tional taxation, and of this we are prepared to bear our full share; but we view with alarm the prepared to vote fresh taxation,

increasing disproportion of the burden which is Mexican

100 being placed on a numerically small class of the 8.00 to $16.00

12.00 community.

the stipend of a lecturer in Japanese for three afterwards named Mo Hok. Here the party hoisted ROBINSON PIANO years. It is decidest that Mr. John H. the dragon flag, fired 21 guns, and named the ter After the ceremony they Gubbins, CMG will be the first lecturerritory East Island. under this arrangement. It is the first lecture went to the opposite island and named it inspected the Mak Island, which is the largest ship in Japanese to be established in an English West Island. On the 7th instant the party island of the the group, and named it King After a mourning period for the late Emperor Hong. There were several febing jonks speaking country. and Dowager Empress the Chinese Legution anchored in the bay of the Island. Bereral staff here are returning to social festivities. surveyors were amongst the party, and during The popular Minister, Lord Li Ching-Fong, the three days, these men were detailed to the

more or less densely, wooded, and the vegetation decorated and renovated Legation in Fortiand group comprises of more than ten islands, ell being of Limerick, Major E. H. Elliot, Sir Fredrick on them is luxuriant. Coral is found around Place, among the ghosts being Isabella, Countess and Lady Dixon Hartland, Sir John McLeavy many of these islands. There are also pearl Brown, Mr. Créenleu-Javal, and Mr. Ivan Chen, oysters in several bays and nunoreas kinds of the First Secretary of the Legation. Last night fish abound in the waters of the Paracel Islands, the Minister was the principal guest at the The soil on them is said to be very rich and The Chinese Government propose to create second annual soiree of the London Salon at the suitable for growing vegetables and fruit. musi, nad is onder the chairmanship of Sir islands, to push the fishing, coral, pearl, salt and Piccadilly Hotel. This salon is an artistic society

agricultural industries. It is the intention of MR. ARTHUR BALFOUR.

the Government to send Colonel Ng, Magistrate Alfred Turner.

Politically the man of the hour is Mr. Balfour. Lan and other officials as pioneers to the Paracel Islands to promote their development. small potatoes as critice of the Budget, but Mr. They will, of course, have All the rest of the Opposition are proving very Balfour is as another man to the former listless necessary tands in Canton Brst. In the dilettantes politieisu. His speeches are brilliant neantime, the surveyors nes drawing up plass that he has been suddenly re-possessed with a resources will be given in an official report passion to regain power. He is a past maater which will be ready in a month's time. and his renewed activities give the suggestion of the islands. Fall partioniers as to their of the tactics of the House and he is seldom

the comment of the clube

ubs of Cook's Agency is conducting another interest absent. This ing band of tourists through the length and both sides of politics that Mr. Balfont seems against the Government just as Mr. Gladstone breadth of Great Britain. They come from to be bearing the whole brant of the fighting Japan and consist chiefly of business mea and bore the whole brunt of the advocany of the students. They are et present in Scotland, Home Rule Bill. Keir Hardia profosses to see where special attention is being given to in the Budget the means of amassing suficient social reform and he predicts that the Govern Glasgow and Edinburgh, previous to a tour of surplus next year to cover a whole range of the lochs, the Trossachs, and the Forth Bridgement will stick to office till the close of 1911.

tenacions as limpets on a rock. After they have exhausted the natural beauties Woll, prophesy is rush, but they certainly are home by way of France, Italy, and Rumis. and the industrial localitise here they will go

A FRENCH TRAVELLER IN WESTERN CHINA.

A French traveller, Commandant d'Olone, has returned to Frames after spending two yara in Western thins and North Eastern Tibet, at the head of a French expedition. On his interesting discoveries he is to lecture to our Geographical Socisty shortly. He traversed the appor valley of the Hoang Ho, among the warlike race of the Heifani who ran a sort of The Commandant cheerily comments independent buffer state between Chins and Tibet. on the religion of this tribe. They have made a salad of several theologies, They practise simultaneously Buddhism and a primitive 12

COOK's-TOURIST-PARTY FROM JAPAN.

AIRSHIP ENTERPRISE IN GERMANY.

ZEPPELIN COMPANY'S PROJECTS,

STEEL MAKING IN CHINA. One of the advantages which the Chinese that of the wages question, The company in Hankow employs some 20,00 hands and the Foundry has over its Foreign competitors is monthly ages bill reads approximately a

follows per month.

Rollers, on hälls

Assistants, on furnaces Steel Melters (open hearth) First Assistants... Second Amiatants Blacksmiths Boilermakers

enters, on furnaces..

thi

The great increase and graduation of the .8.00 to 10.00

12.00 Death Draties already materially raised but two years ago and of the income-tax coupled with the super-tax, will, we are confident, prove seriously injurious to the commerce and in dustries of the country.

9.00 8,00

... 15.01 to 100

15.00 to 20.00

a

a

Coolie labour ranges algus 14 cents to 20 osats When the Reichstag met at Berlin, on May per day, women being also employed at as low

rate as ten cents per diem. The boolies are as a 17, the President, Count Stolberg, read to the

new gang are taken on the following morning. House the following telegram, which he had rule paid daily and either the same men of have an airship at disposal during the forth-This is a necessity for people of this class live just received from Count Zeppelin "A I coming Whitenntide recess, I beg to invite the from hand to mouth sud must have the cash in presiding body and the members of the Reich order to procure their daily fool.

limited number to make an ascent in it, on June 5 nt Friedrichs- stog to inspect it, and

great excitement among the members, and was hafon. The reading of the telegram produced Herr Coleman, the director of the Zeppeliz greeted with hearty applause.

Construction Company, read a paper at

The Chinese, foreman and gangers get from $40 to $60 Mexican per month and their duties maximum of work is produced for the minimum of wages. entail the driving of the coolies on that the

Practically all the coolie labour is in the hands of contractors who undertake the various jobs,

We are aware that Death Duties are said to be a

e a form of deferred income tax, but our experi-

ance is that they are really paid out of capital, There is therefore a danger of capital boing reduced below the point necessary to the trade in which it is employed.

We feel that the prosperity of all classes hinz been greatly due to the fast that this country bas sorded indisputable safety for capital, and in any way weakened. we should deeply regret if this conviction were

produces a perfectly amazing variety of sounds, hoped would one day become teachers--and ligion not unlike that of the primitive Greeks Strassburg recently on the future of serons appoint their own overseers and hire their own thus in the long run diminishing employment

engaged in teaching.

from harsh guttural chuckings to beautifully having spoke to these, he would thereafter modulated Ante-like whistles amounting at speak to those who are at the present tims times almost to a song.". Though Surgeon

Methods of Sunday School service most Jones has nothing that is bad to say against the common magpie, he says of the approved in the home lands and probably not Chinese bine magple that they are great roh unsuited to conditions in Eastern countries like China were then elucidated. certain pointe -bers of the eggs of other species and the ap occupying more or less attention as the occasion

seemed to demand.

pearance of the blue magpie in the vicinity of the nosts of the magpie robin or the blackheaded

As a result of the proceedings, a resolution was passed at the close commanding the subject bulbul is the signal for an immediate attack on of Bunday School extension and consolidation

a

and Scandinavians, worshipping the spirits of the plains, rivers, and mountains".

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION,

*

I hear that the completion of the Couth African Union, resulting from the Conference of South African States, will soon bed to important changes in London as well as in South Africa. Three Governorships will be

tics, in which he made the following statements.

int

A

and

Arbuthnot, Latham

Co.

Chas. Hours & Co.

Felix Schuster.

L. Currie (for Glyn. Mills, Currie, & Co.) Goschen.

J. Spencer Phillips. Edward B. Merrinan. Jas. L. Mackay. J. 8. Purc Arthur J. Fraser.

0. A. Benueke. Arthur Hill. Vincent W. Yorko. Cocil F. Parr. F. A. Bevan, W. T. Brand. Richard I. Martin. J. Fortescue Flannery. Thomas Sutherland C. V. E. Laurie.

In conclusion we would point out that though the taxes to which we have taken excep- on will in the first instance fall with excessive severity on capital, they will also, in our opinion. tend to discourage private enterprise and thrift,

and reducing wages. N. M. Rothschild The Company has decided to construct airships

There can be no doubt but that theechanical

and Sous. not only for military purposes, but also for ability of the Chinese employed in the Hanyang

Baring Bree The establishment of a regu- Iron and Steel works is of a very high standard.

Co., (Ed.) lar airship service is not contemplated for the The Chinese seem to have a natural instinct for passenger traffic.

Sone give orders for placed in their hands. As experts in tampering Fred, Huth and Co. present. Only "sport" trips will be made. handling foreign tools and in the production of

Son. The Ministry of War has informed the Com-metals they for marely in the Photion of Antony Gibbs, and pany that it does not intend to the reason being that the advisers of the Ministry now by intuition the crucial moment when to the construction of further Zeppelin air cruisers, metals they have but few compere seemingly to J. Hambro ani abolished and one Governor-General will be are themselves inventors and constructors of air.

In that most difficult branch, the handling of and Co. left as the direct representative of the Crown, ships. The Zeppelin Company is advised to turn apply the various processes. In London the four Agents-General, who all its attention-to the towns, and to the invest the electrio plant, the Chinees have also proved Cocks, Fiddialph, &

ments of capitalists. This has been done, and themselves to be more than competent. have enjoyed tempting emoluments of offer in Cologne has expressed its readiness to parti- tribute of the highest order is paid to his the would-be robber." The bine magpie is s to the sympathetic attention of the local church quarrelsome bird fighting for its right to and missions through the quarterly meeting the past, will be supersaded by one High Commis cipate in the establishment of airship lines to Chinese staff by the mechanical engineer of the Brown, Shipley, & Co.

Association largely representative

sioner, while tach province in the Union will the extent of £25,000. The Town Council of Works, Mr. B. Durchecker: He stated to Form Co

Düsseldorf has passed a similar resolution. By visitor that he was absolutely astounded on one. F. Malseim

& Co feeding ground both with its own kind and with of

(through the resident ministers and missionaries

keep its own commercial agencies in this the spring of 1910 the Company will have to occasion when all the parts of a locomotive arris- and others) of these institutions. the common magpie," The blue magpie is a

Frühling & Goschen, Yesterday Mr. Meyer preached in bluishooloured bird, with coral red bill and legs

morning at the Union Church and in the country. Bir Richard Solomon, who was form airships reatly at Friedrichshafen, and four could, ed without the working plans. Naturally the

Cunliffe Brothers. and a most disproportionately long tail.

evening at the Wesleyan Church, there being erly Attorney General in Cape Colony and be ready by May of that year. Each such air assembling of the machine was not to be under-

Avebury. able to carry twenty passengers. Powerful inform his Chinese foremen of this. Shortly Hongkong in stirred to its depths. The good congregations on both occasions, At the the Transvaal consecutively, and has played ship would be managed by five or six men, and taken until these came to hand but he forgot to J. S. Morgan & Co.

the political motors will be employed so that a very strong after he was astonished to see the engine run- Hiding line on trial runs.

FLAX GROWING IN INDIA. old-fashioned cocktail is threatened. You see it latter service he declared that the Church of God an important part in all

wind can be overcome and at the commencement ning up and down is this way. Authorities on food-and drink- / was universal and a man did not need to be developments in South Africa since the war identified with any particular denomination

both-before-and-since he came to London as Friedrichshafen will be the starting point of all It had been assembled entirely without plans

should have discovered that the original cocktail with to belong to it.

that a Zeppelin airship.

Mr. Durchscher remarked, "I would not-The cultivation of flax in India is still in its At nine o'clock he addressed a well attended Agent General for the Transvaal, is expected to trip. The military authorities consider it and had been correctly done. its cherry or olive was calculated to please

Now it is decreed that dry meeting at the Theatre. He took for his text receive the appointment of Firah High Com- participate in this year's Imperial mancouvres. have undertaken to do this without the drawings, infancy, but experiments made have so far been the eye only.

The first airship line that will be opened will, and I do not think many engineers would have very promising In Behar, Mr. Vanderker--

khore, the Belgian expert engaged by Govern Two air. appetisers should be the order of the day. Genesis xxxv, 1" And God said unto Jacob,

Africa. The bonds between Briton and Boer be between Düsseldorf and Lucerne.

He further illustrated the carefulness of ment, has supervised the growth of the fibre on ships will he required for this and a third to Cherries should be avoided. The squeezing of Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make missioner in London for the new United South

an altar unto God."

have grown steadily stronger since free institu.sncircle the Rigi. Lines may eventually be detail which the Chinese display by remarking a selected plot of ground and has also given a piece of lemon in the drink is all wrong. Why?

tions were conferred on both after the war, and opered between Friedrichshafen and Munich, that the clerks in the drawing office, in making advice on experimental cultivation at Pusa. The

of those of 1907, the straw produced bein Well, it is mid the oil floats on the liquid and

better both in quantity and quality. According the prospects for the whole of South Africa are and between Friedrichshafen and Berliu. Each tradings, copy even the blots and accidental results obtained last year were much in advance the height of about 230ft., and with three: The Hangang Iron and Steal works are taking a strong turn for the better. When I trip, it is calcainted, will take four hours at markings, from the originals, mentioned the wiping out of the numerous sirships making altogether about six hundred The N.Y.K. str. Mishima Mark (European Governorships to a man who has had a wide and trips in the year it is estimated that the practically in the handla of German eng to a statement in the "Agricultural Journal,"

will be £85,000. Towards The ascetic life does not Hourish in Hong-11th instant, and is expected here on the 16th varied experience of Crown Colonies, in the Colin Airship Company will contribute. Rupert is general. Manager and Mr. F. P. Bengal and Assam also sufficiently good results

being the first thing to rouch the palate, remsins there, preventing one from tasting any. thing but the oil for half an hour. Woc is mo! Another delusion shattered.

the

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The C. & M. str. Zoftro left Manila, on the 12th inst., and is due here to-day at 6 pm. Line) loft Singapore for this port on the kong-at least among the foreign community. instant p.m. The idea of prayer meetings at six o'cloak in the

East and elsewhere, he said all he had to com.

The I.G.M. str. Luetrow left Shanghai via plain about was that I was not announcing to morning may "cotton on" in other parts of the Foochow on the 13th inst. at 2 a.m., and may him the removal of the Crown Agents

be expected here on or about the 16th inst

The C.N. Co.'s str. Hangchow left Chinking

world, but I can understand those to whom the proposition was made in all sincerity the other day looked down their noses and övinced no enthusiasm for the innovation. I believe a compromise was arrived at-7.15 am. Now if it

were training for the race meeting! But that is a different matter.

RODERICK RANDOM.

POOR LAW BELIEF.

I

We have a few wonderful things in the on the 11th inst, and is das here on 16th inst.

The N.V.K. Btr. Sudo Maru (European country to prove that we are wealthy. It does Lina) left Kobe for this port via Moji and not really prove it if you are of an investiga: Shanghai on the 12th instant, and is expected ting turn of mind, but if you accept saperfloat

hero on the 21st instant.

You have heard of The N.Y.K. str. Yebochi Mari (Bombay facts you might think so. Line) left Moji for this port on the 10th insty Poplar and its extravagant regime and hoodling scandals that led to a string of and is expected here on the 26th Inst.

this the

dono se either.'

naturalized American

T. G. Robinson.

R. Martin Holland. Stanley Baldwin.

Mr flax in Bebar is expected to yield a profit of Rs. incers and Durchscher being the chief engineer. Mr. 74 per acre in an ordinary season. In Eastern $25,000, and a meeting will shortly be Soisson is managing the steel plant and rolling were obtained in 1907 st Daces and in Cacher Assam "It is said that other conditions being held to devise a means of obtaining the rest wills. European foremen are in charge of the to justify further entended trials this year iu The receipts will consist of, it is hoped, a sub- vention from the militarr authorities and the open hearths and the wills and direct the operas), the absence of lime in the rotting water tions throughout. H.E. Sheng Kung Pao, is fares paid by passengers, although it is uncertain president of the concern and H. E. V. K. Lee, would probably enable Assam to produce, a director general, with F. V. Trang as his sub-higher grade of brethan Behar. Arrangements whether sufficient passengers willtravel to cover

have been made for experiments with fax in considered adequate for the director It is

Mr. Lee gained much experience in morica, Bombay and Kashmir, and it is possible that a visiting many stoel foundries in that country, now agricultural industry may spring up presunt if shelter sheds are erected at Friedrich-

A Commission appointed by the War Office before he took over obarge of the Hanyang Iron in various parts-of-India As the services of shason, Munich, Strassburg, and Lucerne.

farther terms of five years, there is every chance Its claes in China-Peking Daily News.

of practical progress being made. is following very closely the whole question of and Steel Foundry the premier institation of Mr. Vanderkerkhore have been retained for a airship construction and employment.

expenses.