V. R. C. DIAMOND JUBILEE
THE GOVERNOR'S CONGRATULATIONS.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
Typhoon talk has boon on tap during the had to be Excursions have week-end.
To commemorate such an auspicious occasion abandoned and outside pleasures have been
as the diamond jubilee of the Victoria Boers considerably marred. It looks, however, an if we were to see nothing more than the signalsation Club, the committes held an aquatic sports meeting on Saturday afternoon, and a smoking concert in the evening, both of which were well attended. In the course of the after noon Mr. Frank Lammert, the hen, secretary, from His received the following lotter Excellency the Governor
this time.
#
History rapeats itself." On Thursday the Legislative Council kod under consideration the railway ordinance, and one momber wanted to know what would happen in the event of a cow or other animal straying on the liac. George Stephenson's famous answer, "It would be bad
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 12TH, 1909.
COMPANY REPORT.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED.
testimony of the appreciation of the audience. Mr. B. L. Bridger's dashing comic song "The Noisy Johnnie" proved an acceptable Stem, while Mr. Goldsmith's French song was also favourably received. Mr. L. E. Lammert obliged again with * A Jolly Old Cavalier,” and ones more the great applausn sccorded him was commenaarste with the worth of his song.board of directors states --- The concert ended about midnight, with the singing of the National Anthem. Mr. George Grimble noted as accompanist.
LIKIN AT CHINKIANG,
-THE-SYSTEM-BIDDLED-WITH-ILLEGALITY
AND FRAUD,
Mr. Pitzpios, the British Consul at Ching- The twenty-seventh annual report of the klang, has the following illuminating commenta
in his Report under the heading "Likin":-
"A few remarks with regard to this perennial burden on all trade may not do out
to small
following
The diresters now submit their report and statement of accounts for the year 1908.
The depression in
a?
mercial need of this and of
of the meru
for the 000," might very well have been quoted | to the members of the V. R. C. my most heard the smoking concort the great success they the fest, £55,358, 12., £80,000 has been taken the scoros of 'custom-houses along its borders.
Cattle straying on the railway was mentioned
at the debata on the railway bill on Thursday, and the explanation wna forthcoming that where there was no fonce the owners of cattle could not be prosecuted for allowing their cattle to stray on the railway" No fonce, ne flao," was the allitorative reply of the Attorney- General. He might have expressed it "No fenco, no offoLCO.
31
Mountain Lodge, Hongkong. DEAR SIR,-Will you be so good as to offer congratulations on this 60th anniversary of its inauguration.
Probably at no time during these past sixty years has the Club been tu a better condition than it is to-day, and I wish it every success and prosperity.Yours very tenly,
F. D. LUGARD, President, V. R. C The Secretary, V. R. G. Looking backward, it is interesting to note that the inaugural meeting at which it was decided to form the " Victoria Regatta Club 11th, 1849. At that meeting there were twenty six persons present, and the deliberations of these pioneer sportsmen gave birth to the V.R.C., the premier sporting club of the Colony and coming second to none in the East. For some
REVIEW
consequence
of likiu
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THERE IS SKILL AND
THOROUGHNESS
OF CONSTRUCTION
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have pleasure in Mr. P. Lammert, the Hon. Soonetary, which allusion was rada and Shipping, to multiplication of effects from this extent the Mr. C. Lesbizel and all others who took was intensified during 1908, and the year's remarks of my Heichonia-correspondent, tho an active part in making the sports and account show a loss of £33,255. 16s. 9d. To Rev. T. B. Grafton: The one great com
meet this, and to provide for the depreciation of dredging of the Grand Canal and the abolition of province is the
were are to be heartily congratulated open the
from the underwriting account and £10,000 from Could this be accomplished, the flood of ordera successful celebration of this important anni.
the general reserve fund. After making thess for foreign goods would make the wharres at As it is, in Chinking a sight to behold sppropriations, and meeting all expenses charge-
exactions kerosone versary.
able upon the year, there remains a balance of costs i del 10 e.. more per case of 65 Ibs. at STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY £15.162. 08, 8d, which will be carried forward.
Hatchoutu than at Chinklang Lumber, boih nutive and foreign, has become almost impossible The later reports from China have been of a
to got. I have now (October 21) on the road moro reassuring character. Freights in many from Chinking two boat-louds of humber that SUPERIOR VALUE directions have shown a considerable improve-were started about Sepember 21, and have as ment, and there is reason to hope that this yet heard nothing of them, though they A committee should have arrived wooks ago. This district has improvement will be continued.
house roof beams, which now can be brought of the board has been for some time, and still is, always depended on southern pine poles for BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR closely considering the heads of expenditure with up only with the greatest difficulty and expense. This also compuls the use for building purposs
THIS CLIMATE.
demoralising the fuel markets and causing be found possible,
great distress to the poor. It also affects the price and supply of fuel used for barning bricks; enco bricks are exorbitantly high with few bayers."
at
Sir Robert Hart: The Romans of a Great
London: Hutchinson & Co. The life story of Sir Robert Hart published the present time in book form raus perhaps some risk of being neglected under the impression that it cannot conceivably which the newspapers and magazines have so lavishly provided for ther reading during the past twelve months or so. But the ruinance of the great career of the Inspector-General of Imperial Maritime Customs in Chino, as it is
Career. By his nieco, JULIET EBEDON.
providing for the administration of our little was held in the Hongkong Club House on July add much that is new to the information'a view to effecting any economies which might what is ordinarily sold for stove wood, thus
It looks as if business were meant when our Legislature has been asked to pass a railway bill venture on the Kowloon sido.. I am told that there is a possibility that in the conduct of the railway we might have to face the old problem which has worried the police and the mag istrates for years, namely, When is a man drunk?
The new ordinanco contains certain provisions years after its formation the V.R.C. was purely told by his niece, is truly a fascinating book; for dealing with intoxicated persons, and Iam in a rowing olub, but latterly it has embraced for biographies of men of to-day are so well doubt worth reading, and Miss Bredon has clothed the formed that the query of one official member as all kinds of sport and there is no to whether it was intended to provide medical men that its members include many of the finest bare bones of historical inoidente with a wealth for each station in order to have them handy to athletes in the Colony. A cosmopolitan club of anecdotal illustration that makes the reading decide whether a passenger was drunk or nettted with an excellent gymnasium and possess light, easy and delightfully attractive. was not taken seriously. Wo remember it was ing numerous advantages not to be found in asserted that a man was not drank if he could other clubs, there is little wonder that it is in walk straight, but this test was felt to be too so flourishing a condition. Its membership now Bevore and it was declared that a mun need not numbers some 400 members, and the roll is be- be considered intoxicated if he had the savvy to ing increased weekly. The oldest member of the He in the gutter and hold on by the korb. But Club at the present, time is the Hou Sir Paul possibly we may not have so much trouble in Cluster, who was enrolled as far book as 1865, while Messrs. F. A, Hazeland and G. A. Caldwell this.direction as is anticipated. After all wo have to remember that it is the drank Occidental joined in 1879, Mr. A. Rodger in 1880 and who gives most trouble. The obfuscated Celon Merers. J. J. Leiria, A. Denison and . P.
Lammert in 1881. tial is extremely rare.
THE AQUATIC SPOTS,
|
-No additions have been made to the Company's fent during 1908, and no building contracts have been entered into.
During the present year advantage has been
taken of low rates to cover the bulk of the insurance on the fleet, ontside, instead of carry ing it in the company's underwriting account.
The retiring directors are Mr. W. Paterson and Mr. W. W. Dickinson, who, being eligible,
offer themselves for re-election..
Messrs. Turquand, Youngs & Co., the Auditors, retire and will be proposed for re- election,
By order of the Bourd.
A. G. WELLS,
Secretary
29, Corabill, London, 19th June, 1909.
LIABILITIES.
of
The following illustration will show that the whole system, inconsistent even with its own ROBINSON PIANO low standard, is riddled with illegality and
fraud, calculated to fill the pockets of in- dividuals to the detriment of the revenues of the Empire.
A
d.
&
CO., LTD.
SHANGHAI TRADE.
(36
Messrs. Ilbert and Co.'e Piece Goods Market Report says
The interval has shown a gradual return to better trading conditions, and mest outlets are stock that they have been during the past few somewhat more anxious to secure supplies from weeks, the rise in values in producing markets to the higher value of the raw matorial having no doubt stimulated enquiry to some extent. The northern markets have been quite 011 important eporsters in native-made cloth, which in turn has a firming effect upon the yarn market, while these outlets have also shown now also is showing signs of shaking off its interest in other goods to some fair extent. long all of apathy, and is beginning to wake offers at impossible figures, which may however, lead to better things later.
Under the regulations governing transit cargo, inspection should take place at each barrier, and if the goods are found to correspond with the description given in the transit poss, they should be at once released without may payment asked or given. Bat, in the busy season, when mach cargo is passing inwards and outwards, the strict enforcement of these regulations would entail ocagestion of traffic and consoquent delay
B consequence a practice has
officers whice is a source of revenue to the likin and a convenience to merchants, while at the it reduces the transit trade regula same time tious
to a farce. Who cargo is approaching barrier, the person in charge of it
groen ahead of it
to the barrier, presents his for passes
sxamination, and illegal fee called pase inspection fee," whereupon
the officer in charge of the barrier atasaps the passos, and when the goods arrive they are passed through without any inspection whatever. Many so-called detention can arise out of a refusal, on the part of persons who have gone ahead of their cargo to get
their
passes stamped, to pay the 45,000 265,825 0 0 inspection fee," whereupon the likin stations vulnes beyond reach of would-to buyers from
official falls back on the letter of the regulations and insists upon examination. This is repre- sented to the Consul concerned as a detention, the Consul communicates with the Chinese authori- tion aud I is informed in due course that there was nodetention beyond that necessary for the Law-
To share capital: Authorized £',200,000, divided into 120,000 6 per cent, cumulative preferred ordinary shares of £5 back. Subscribed and paid up-
49,589 cunnla.
The story begins with a description of the simple circumstances in which Sir Robert began life seventy-four years ago. The household grow up under the bracing influence of uncom- promising doctrines; it was no unusual thing, we are told, for one member to ask another at table, "What have you been doing for God to day?" Though it does not appear that young Robert Hart was greatly impressed by his BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1908. surroundings at home,he was "a olover scattered-brained imp of mischief" long after his school career began, the strength of The strings of flags floating above the commed character he inherited from sturdy old Pari. He was gud. ious club-house of the V. R. C. proclaimed a gala tan stout soon developed. day, and those who nesembled at the enclosure denly turned into a serious student by the in the afternoon to witness-the-wwimming fits slightest of excusething more than a must have been well pleased with the afternoon's resolva conceived in a spirit of pure mis- sport. The swimming races, the diving and chief to defeat a schoolfellow who was confid- the plunging were well worth seeing, but the ently reckoning on gaining the Scripture prize. most amusing event of the day was the duck Hart, to the surprise of the school, gained the hunt. The second duck let loose upon the victory. "Now you see what you can do when water led the many competitors a long and you try, Hart," said the Governor of the school. trying chase before it was caught by Mr." Why don't you try?" He accepted this new A. 5. Ellis. The swimmer succeeded in corner- idea as a challenge; it was the turning point in ing the bird at the junction of the Praya wall his life, and he stadied with an enthusiasm as Miss Bredon and the entrance to the VB.C., and as the thorough as it was endden. duck dived Mr. Ellis followed and brought it to remarks that "Surely, if ever a boy was led an the surface. The different events resulted as the Wesleyans say, to do a certain work, Robert under
Hart was that boy" There is more than one reference in the book to Bir Robert's own belief in Providential guidance,
The little discussion that took place at the Legislative Council on Thursday siming at the preservation of the public right to bathe at Stonecutters has recalled to the recollection of old residents an amusing incident which Gecurred nearly thirty years ago when landing was strictly forbidden on Stonecutters Island by the military authorities. One of the first offenders was Mr. A. J. Lesch who at the time was Attorney General. The military police man beiry no respecter of persons, or, like an asylum warder, not given to believing all that is told him, promptly conveyed the protesting A.G. to the Yaumati Polios Station, where, of course, be was recognised at once and immediately released from custody. One of these days, when the verbal assurances given at the 'oncil
TWO LENGTHS HANDICAP-First hest, J. meeting are forgotten, an Attorney-General may get lugged out of the water at Stonecutters Fenwick; Second heat, H. W. Petersen, 1; A. aut be taken over to the Taumati Police S, Ellis, 2; Third heat, C. A Rodrigues, 1; P.
The Inspector M. Remedios, 2. Station in bathing suit.
dim. in charge might then have more RUNNING HEADER-M. A. R. Boaza, 1; F. culty in recognising the prisoner before B, Sive and H. W. Peterson tied for second him. The reflection that occurs to
me place. in this connection is that the public right to FOUR LENGTHS HANDICAP-A. S. Ellis, 1 bathe within one hundred years of the foreshore T. M. Remedios, 2. Time-2 min.
•
For the story of his long and eventful career in China we must refer the render to the book Itself. No summary of its contents can suggest the engaging interest of the narrative. We obviously have here the reminiscences of Sir Robert Hart himself as he has described them in the family circle, with many good stories and
in the blasbooks, and the result is a charming volums.
at Stonbutters daght to have been expressly. Two LENGTHS TIME RACK--L. E. LammertHittle sidelights on history which find no place stated in the Bill. Succeeding Generale will know nothing of the disenssion in the Council Chamber; they will only have the Ordi nncs before them, 2-
and H. Jephson tied, each aan. covering the distance in one minute thirty-one seconds, while the time fixed was one minute thirty seconds.
PLUNGINGA. B. Ellis, 44 feet, 1; J. M Raza, 43 feet, 2; F. K. Tats, 42 fest, 3.
WATER POLO MATCH.
And so the statue of Queen Alexandra is to be
DUCK RACE-Won by . S. Ellis. brought out of the gedown at last. Possibly there
TEAM RACE-Won by a team composed of were good reasons for the delay, but even we in the East who are not accustomed to nadne haste W. J. Carroll, Silva Netto, M. A. R. Souza, might be pardoned for marvelling at the time it P. M. O. Remedios, F. J. Roza, A. J. V. Ribeiro has taken to bare this permanent memorial of and A. V. Barros, the coronation of King Edward put up in Royal Square. It was three years after the coronation before the order was given for the status to be sculptured, it took three years for the scalptor to complete his task, and it looks asif it will take another year before the statue is erected. I say, I have no doubt there are satisfactory explanations for the delays: I am only pointing oat the delays.
The sports concluded with a scratch game of water pole between two V. R. C. teams, the Whites and the Blues: The sides were well matched, and the spectators watched a fast and exciting game which endod in a win for the blues by one goal, the final scores being:
... 2 goals I
Blueя Whites
421
441
THE "SMOKEE,"
.
Only one quotation we will permit ourselves. It is from one of the early pages in the book, and we chose it not only because it indicates the lasting influenes of an early impression, but as serving the purpose of showing the attractive style in which the book is written:---
"At the impressionable age of six or there- abonts an aunt fired the boy's imagination with stories of the departed glories of the Hart family. She used to tell him how their ancestor, Captain van Hardt, came over from Holland with King William, fought at the Battle of the Boyne and greatly distinguished himself how afterwards, in recognition of his gallant services. the King gave him the township of Kilmoriarty as a reward; how the gallant captain settled himself down there, kept his horses, ate well, drank deep, and left the place to bardoned with debt that one of his descendants was obliged to Bell it.
tive ordinary... £247,945 0 0 49,689 deferred-
ordinary... 247,945 0 0
To first mortgaga debentures
£345,000
First laste of Subscribed and issued Also £50,000 issued and lodged with bankers as security for temporary loans as may be required
To balance of underwriting no-
count... To sundry creditors in London
1 China... and
17
495,890 0
0
*
pays
An
K
148,891 18 11 instion of the goods as the regulations pres-
78.823 13 8 19,000 0 .0 To loans... To deposits
19.095 15 9 To balance from revenue account 15,162 0 g £1,042,688 90
ASSETS. £
B. £
By steamships, hulks,
ferry boats, &o....988,054 18 4 Les depreciation written of for this year ...
55,358 12 0
By coals and provisions on doord
ships and gedowns
By office furniture
rik
By sandry debtors in London and China Agents' balances, fraights, &c. By caah in London and China By expenses of der
benture issue.£18,240 12 9 Less written off at the rate of 10 per cent. per
printing
..... 1824 13
be
cribe. To avoid the delay attendant on this routine, the system of paying a pass inspection fee" has become a regular custom, and as long as the normal rate of extortion is adhered to, no complaints are made,
There seems to
no ramedy for these abases but the abolition of likin altogether. Suggestions made in the past that transit dcargo inwards should be put under batches by the gastoma and be allowed to go through to destination without being ex amined so long as the seals are found to be intact, have remained barren of result. Apart from official opposition, the build of the boats is a difficulty. They have no hatches properly so- mallod, but are divided into compartments which are covered over with the narrow transversi bosnis forming the deck of the boat.
932,696 6 4 10,895 7 0
581
70,016 10 11 12,605.11 5
16,416 11 6
£1,042,688 9 0
REVENUE ACCOUNT.
For the year ending 31st December, 1908.
Dr.
£8. 2.
£. B. d.
To
general charges.
sud telegrams in London and China, including directors, trustees
and auditors fees 6,607, 17 4 Te general interest 4,698 4 2 To detenturo in-
terest
12,636 10 6 To expanses of de-
benture issue, amount written of 1,824 1 3 To loss on working of steamers for the pear
7,429 2 6
Somo of our American friends tako thorn. The spacious gymnasium, where budding selves very seriously. Two of them, a lady and athletos generally assemble to exercise, was gentleman; wore making inquiries last week-end given over to scenes of revelry. It had been
"When I'm a man, the little fellow would as to the Fourth of July celebrations in Hong completely transformed, mainly through the
tay solemnly after hearing these things, I kong, and the lady socmed quito perturbed artistic abilities of Mr. C. Lesbirel and Mr. C. bay back Kilmoriarty and IT get a title too, because only one hotel celebrated the occasion E. Parkinson. The room throughout was
Of course she laughed at him quietly, thinking Her companion sought to comfort her with the nestly dressed with a plentiful supply of te herself how time and circumstances would remark, "Well, I guess it isn't a European bunting, while the entrance to it was lined with separate the nut from the goodly company of his celebration anyway." Which of course Was Chinese lanterns. On the facade of the Clab. ambitions. Yet, after all, he saw clearer than quite right. To ask as to celebrate the Fourth house the letters Y.R.C. and the figures 1849. she; he never wavered in the earious purpose July is twisting the lion's tail with a vengeance. 1909 were depicted by fairy lamps, and shone formed before he reached his teens, and he To balance transferred to balanco
actually did buy book Kilmoriarty when it came I notice that the Manila Coblennes-Ameri. brightly out in the darkness of night.
on the market years afterwards. As for a title, can doesn't quite believe the Daily Press
be gained a knighthood, a grand cross and a baronety-thas fulfilling the second part of his
Our copy of the book comes froru Megats."
when the latter asserted that the attempts to
Mr. Frank Lammert, secretary of the Club, presided over a comfortably filled room, and "knook Manila "on the part of the China spout Philarmonica for an opening selection. Well-
called upon the orchestra of the Sociedade promise grondly"" newspapers existed only in the faxoy of certain merited applause succeeded the music, and Kelly and Walsh. imaginative writers down in the Philippines. other equally pleasing items were contributed
the evening by during
this talented combination. Had the audience not
the good kumdur, of then been established
have certainly would
it most
been
To depreciation account --On
steamships, &C....
shoot
Cr.
55,358 12.0
15,162 0 8
£103,776 8 5
£ g. d.
By balance brought-
forward from 1907
23,632 1 5 Less dividend
paid 14,876 14 0 amount_fraus- ferred-From general reserve fund....
.. 10,000 0 0
account... 80,000
AND WHEREAS!
"Do you know what a recital is, gentleman?" By romarkod Mr. Justice Darling to the jury in case at the Old Bailor. His lordship was refer- ring to an indenture, and continued, "The
. ង
15,755 7 5
90,000
000 0
21 1
£103,776 8 5
sealed
Though the transit trade is liable to exactions of this kind; it is still at such an advantage se compared with trade carried on under the native likin system with its incalenlable uncertainties. and verstiens, that it is actually found advaatu- geons to osport Chinese raedicines, in which there is a large trade, to Ha gkong, so that they may be brought back as foreign goods and be distributed under the transit pass system.
MARINE INSURANCES (GAMBLING POLICI S) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this Bill in the House of Commons last month. Air. W. Rutherford (Liverpool, West Derby,
As regards the home isarkets, the rapid advance in price of American Cotton has put this side, advices being to hand that the market is advancing owing to unfavourable crop news. That the acreage is 4 to 5 per cent. less than last year appears to be established, but it is of course the weather which makes the orcp, not the acreage, and if next season's is to be a short worse than last year, the price of cotton is likely to be maintained at a high level. The monsoon weather in India made a favourable start about the 10th of last month, wisco which it is reported that beneficial rains have fallen and that important market may therefore become a 'good buyer from Manchester and enable the manufacturers to get back some of their lost margins of profit as the year progresses,
crop, while it is improbable that trade car be
TIENTSIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
There was a large attendance of members at the special meeting of the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce on June 18, to consider what further action should be taken with regard to the debased sycos circulating in Tientsin. Mr. Banthcott was in the chair, and sovie sixty members attended.
The Chairtoon made a long speech painting cut the serious impass that had been brought sbent by the circulation of debased sycee.. Ha stated that it was essential that the debased aycee should be recalled, romelled and replaced with sycee of the established fineness of 992, and that steps should be taken to maintain the standard of sycee at the proper fineness.
A lending banker pointed out that at any moment the banks might be forced to say they could no longer finance the trade of the port as the debased sycce had been demonetized by pro- lamation by the Haikmaatne and by notifies- tions of the Commissioner of Customs, and nothing had taken its place.
Opp.) protested against the Bill, which, he raid
In the discussion that eamed, it was decided would interfere with a large number of policies to aujours the meeting for two months, and if which were effected for the convenience of the before that date no progress had been made to business community. It might that in each
recall and remelt the debased sycee and no steps of these transactions it was not convenient to
had been taken to control and maintain the. explain, either to the insurance companies, to
ayces at the standard fineness of .992, the mem- Lloyd's or anybody else, what was the precise bera of the Chamber would consider taking very interest an individual Lad in taking out a policy, seriens steps which were proposed and dis- and it was a common thing for policies to be enssed at the meeting] in order to secure the
interest admitted," in order to! affected to prevent say posible question being raised as to required control and maintenance being 98-
tablished. the nature and extent of the interest. This Bill Resolutions were adopted embodying the made expressions of that kind absolutely void, above, and protesting against the inaction of and made everybody concerned in such trans the Chinese authorities. actions liable to penalties of a very serious description. He denied that there was any serious scandal to be remedied; but in order to put an end to what had undoubtedly occurred in one or two isolated cases in which gambling policies had been taken out, a serious hinw would be struck, if this Bill passed, at legiti. mate business. He protested against the Bill as a most abjectionable measure.
The Bill was read a second time..
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The C. & M. str. Zafiro left Manila on the 10th inst., and is due here to-day.
The IGM str. Yorck left Shanghai via Foochow on the 10th instant at midnight, and may be expected here on or about the 14th inst: st noon,
The Austrian Lloyd's str. Silesia left Binga- pero for this port on the 9th instant, and is due here on the 15th inst.
The Russian Volunteer Flost str. Kier left Singapore on the 9th inst, and may be expected here on or about the 15th instant m.
I have no wish to join in the controversy, but my own opinion is that the China coast jour mals instead of villifying Manila simply ignore it. And it is this fact that atings. That a pushful people like the Americans should be ten years in the Philippines doing great things, and not after hearing Mr. L. E. Lammert's song recital in the part where it keeps on saring And From anderwriting- have the Orient ringing with their praises "I claim you mine," for which he was whereas. It sets out all the things that have acome inexplicable to them. But however deservedly envored Professor Gonzales' voto an estate in fee simple in such and such a. By transfer less.
happened. And whereas Eo-and so is entitled unpalatable it
it may be to our American friends it le pone the less true. At the time of the solo "Scene de ballet,” was u rare musical | 10
property. And whereas he mortgaged it for ac Carnival when the Hongkong journalists were treat, and there was little wonder that his much, And whereas that mortgage was paid off, hospitably received in Manila, certain of the auditors were emphatic in their demand for an And whereus he remortgaged it t
it for so much, newspapers remarked that the China
encore. Mr. White's rendering of "Tho Night hands of So-and-so, And whereas it is now in the And whereas that mortgage passed into the
The Danish sta. Indien loft Port Said on tho Watch" was much appreciated, and Mr. W. G. hands of So-and-so, And whereas he has requested HOW TO BË BEAUTIFUL-Keep Your com- 5th inst., and may be expected here on or about Worcester proved at admirable comic singer. somebody or another to make him a further plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmante, Lait begining of August, His singing of "Topsy Tarry" so delighted his advance. Now this indenture witnesseth. And Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre The C.P.R. str. Empress of India arrived
earers that he was twice recalled. The that in the particular point where the indenture Charmant will with you to do it fer Rob at 5:30 pm on the 9th instant and left English Rose" was a song suitable to the fine begins to have operative effect," added Mr. Specialities for the Ekin are the study of a again at midnight same day via Nagasaki for Justice Darling. The jury was subsequently lifetime, A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Bole Arenta, Bhanghai where she is due to arrive at 7 pm tenor voice of Mr. E. B. Ayris, and the allowed six years' examption from service at
[453 on the 8th inst. flattering reception secorded him was ample the Old Bailey-
fair ple would now "discover that the
Donet
Philippines was on the map," and therein we note the American feeling of disappoint. ment that they have not received the recogni. tion they expected. Neither they nor their fair city of Manila nor the lovely Philippines have been "knocked." As a matter of fact they have been loft severely alone.
RODERICK RANDOM.
The C.N. Co'a atr. Sunghiang leures Iloilo on the 13th inst., and in dine here on the 17th inst.
$
-359-WARSIFIPS.
FLEETA MONILISED FOR THE MANGUTEES.
Some 350 ships of the Home, Atlantic and Mediterranean Flests engaged in the recent manoeuvres. They include:
Battleships
Armoured Cruisers ... Protected Cruisers...
Scouts
Destroyers... Torpedo Bouts.
Torpedo Gurboats Minelaying Vessola... Depot and Repair Ships, &e. Submarines
40
350
Total For the purpose of the manoeuvres the naval forces were to farm three foots-"Red," White," and "Bluo-the areas assigned to thom being respectively: Red, East Coast of Sectland, Blse, West Coast of Scotland; and White, a defined area in the North Sep.
The task of the White fleet (commanded by Rear-Admiral T. ; M. Jerram) was to attempt to form a junction with "Blus," without being brought to action by Rel," one of the condi tions being that "White" can only pass through Penthand Firth or south The the State
L'over.
Telegrams have informed us that the task was successfully accomplished
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