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SHIPPING NOTES.

One of the five now steamers which have been built specially for the Russian Voluntoor Fleet, the steamer Orel, a sister-ship of the steamer Poltawa, of 3,422 tons gross, arrived at Tsuruga on her first trip on the Tanruga-Vladivostock line.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PITSS WEDNESDAY. ** H 23RD, 1910.

THE OPIUM REVENUE OF THE

CROWN COLONIES.

munication with the Lords Commissioners of

GUNS THAT COULD NOT BE FIRED.

LOBB CHABLES BERESFORD AND

·ME,÷MOKENNARA

ME, ANDREW CARNEGIE.

KIS START IN LIFE

Lord Pirrie has purchased the late Bir Alfred

PREHISTORIC LONDON.. Jones' maritime intereste bat the details have

HISTORIANS RESEARCHES. FOR THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE not been made knows. In their almonce quite.

In the course of a dispatch to the Governor the meat Lotable steamship deal of recent date

~ The first stone in the Great Pageant of ting in bis fuzariously equipped private car, Mr Andrew Carnegie last month was travol- has formed the subject of limities speculation of the Straits Settlements, Lord Crewe, Secre

Mr. McKenna, sayes-London paper of the Londen, "Heart of the Empire"the central speeding to California, where America's great Lord Pirrie, oven before the recent bargain was tary of State for the Colonies, wrote on Jannery

11th last

Mikult was convicted out of his own meth feature of the Festival of Emple, to be hold at Ironmaster will stay for a few months pending concluded, was already very actively identified "I have to inform you that, in view of the House of Comics Yesterday of giving the Crystal Palace this summer is entitled his return to Sikibo Castio with shipowning. In the public mind Lord the loss caused to the colony by the diminutionerances regarding the efficiency of the The Dawn of History Chicago and found that the news of his coming He paused at Looking from the grand stand, the apestator had preceded him, one journal having even prè Pirrie has been chiefly associated with the ship of the revenue from opium, I am in comf battleship-pruiser, Invincible-which were not Japanese building achievements of the great firm of the Treasmy" with a view to the grant, trgh in Pack, Lord Charles Beresford has will see London as it was in the days previous 19. pared a supplement, describing him as "the According to official returns,

philanthropist, who has given to steamers numbered 1,653 at the end of last year Meera Harland & Wolff, of which he is possible, of some assistance from Lampecial funda ghalised his return to the House of Commons the coming of the Romans they will see world's great with a total displacement of 1,189,957 tons gross.chairman. As a matter of fact, he is chairman I have also informed their Lordships that in not only making the First Lord look Ancient Britons near their mud huts, the bilo ned over £30,000,000. That is more,

Bince the first announcement of this scene, In addition, there were 1,935 sailing-vessels, the of the African Steamship Company, and i my opinion the time has now come when the dionions, but showing up his astonishing mammoths areoping Isily among the rocks than £400,000 alyoar for every one of the zerebly. capacity of which is measured by loku, carrying a director of seven other steamship companies, arrangements with regard to the military.com. In a speech at Dartford on January 25 Lord some hundreds of letters have been received at

Charter Beresford sail

the Festival offices from correspondenta interest- 673,392 keku.

The Invincible was commissioned-listed in the early history of London and asking for March and from that day to this she has further particulars, Accordingly, one of the nover heen able to Ure her 12-inch -gans. It historical detail for Mr. Frank Lascelles, the mcat eminent historians engaged in preparing is oriminal. Someone ought to be bouled op Master of the Pageant, has forwarded to us the for it, and somebody will be hauled up,

The Admiralty knows as well as I do, and Prehistorie Remains in London

following actes concerning the discovery of all the officers in the Fleet know, that if there were strained relations and war camo, the freincible would be ordered to the lock

Fairplay, the well-known shipping paper, ap78 The question of the formation of joint Belgo-Chiness mercantile uary for ranning steamers between Belgiam and other European ports and ports of China is being disonssed by Belgian and Chinese merchants, and the Chinese Government is said to have appointed a Commission to study the matter."

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Some years ago a programe was drawn up for lighting the coast of Korea. A start with the work was made in 1906, tad it is to be finished during the present feest year. It consisted of the erection of 52 lighthouses (including leading lights, post-lights and lighted beacons), lighted buoys, 88 beacons, boys and leading marks, and

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One of these is the International Mercantile Marine, more familiarly known as the Morgan Combine, of whose British committee Lord Pirie is a member. Another is the Oceanio Steinship Company, better known as the White Star Line, on whose behalf he is at present building two mammoth ships. Other companies of which Lord Pirrio in a director are the British and North Atlantic, F. Leyland & Co., the Mississipi and Dominion, the Ocean Transport, and the Wilsons and Farness Leyland Lane,

that the Lusitania has been fitted with tho

tribution should be reconsidered, and I have invited them to agree to the appointment of s committee, composed of representatives of the Colonial Ofor, the Treasury and the War Ollós ta coasidor da nove the whole question of the contributions paid by the Eastern Colonies. These questions are at present under the con sideration of the Treasury, but I trust that

Lordships reply to you." before long I may be able to communicate their

AVALANCHE DISASTER IN AMERICA.

LoAs of 100 LIVÉS,

Pacific Railway,

When the news of the catastrophe reached the town of Wallace, Bre miles down the canyon, church belle were rang and all the inhabitants turned out to assist in the work of resone. They found the deep ravine filled for the distance of a mile with tightly wedged masses of snow, boulders, and trees to the depth of thirty feet, # gigantio razor.

EVERIODS, A

From time to time, in the higher gravels of the valleys of the Thames, and Lea, in the neighbourhood of London; discoveries are mado

.of.

two lie has lived.

Mr. Leach, the superintendent of the Pall- than Palaos Car Company, greeted Mr. Carnegie at Chicago, and to him the Laird of Skibo banteringly said that it was a pity a couldn't pass through Perkopolis without private citizen, retired from active business, attracting attention,

Reporters attended to present their compli about pahlic affairs, but ho naked to bo, excused, menta to Mr. Carngoio, and invited him to talk beyond saying. The United States is a fine country,

end I don't want to go to hearen just

yard at once, because she could not fire hermals which belong to an earlier age of the " sail ono scribe, tell as how you

world's history tag

guns. This is a splendid instance of the frand of the laat four years." The importance of the evidence which we earned your first batch of dollars.

The First Lord took notice of this at the time, bat when his attention was drawn to it by correspondent, he leaned a reply saying -

Sae statemout roferring to the Invincible is mese sonsenso, The Invincible has fired her mans, can fire hor gnus, and would be able to fire her guns if there should be war

membered, one of our most powerful vessels, and is always classed in the Dreadnought category when calculations of our naval strength are being made with that of other Powers

IDLE FOR A TRAY.

Lord Charles Beresford was not satisfied with Mr. McKenna's explanation, and he pat a

Mr. Carnegie answered:

passate as to these animals, and to the conditions: under which they hired, naturally increased rith

Many year ago I was working for the overy fresh item that comes to light. The Pennsylvania Railroad, and a follow named latest addition to the volume of evidence on the Woodruff came round with a couple of subject has come about in the core of the little sleeping our modele wrapped up in construction of one of the Council's zerers At cloth. Why I said to him when I any various points botwom the Chingford branch of them, we're going to need those some day

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and he named the sum-a few hundred dollars give you an eighth interest," he told me,

would have to pay. I didn't have the money,

A good deal has been written respecting the effect on the speed of the Luntanta and Ar avalanche, the reverberations of which faurs anta of the changes made in their pro-wore hoard ten miles away, awept away on peilers. The Chairman of the Cunard Company February 25th the town of Maca, Idaho, bury in an interview refers to the fact that the modifing alive the entire community of one hundred This statement conveys the most absolute the Great Eastern Railway and Roding Road, in the railroad business," The outcome was tha 18 fog iguals, making a total of 155 altogether." option is in the form of the blades. He adde ouls, as well as ifty workmen of the Northern sssurance that the Tavincible is no effective a Homertou, at a depth sometimes of, noarly 25 the Pennsylvania Bailroad ordered a couple, and any other ship in the Fleet. Bha is, it will be refta in gravel which am been in ancient times Inter on, when I saw Woodruff again, ke sald deposited by the River Les, bones have been to me, You seen to be a bright young fellow, found of two such animals, the Mammoth and Carnegie, You shall have a homes, lowe (probably) the Woolly Rhinoceros,

business. ranged over this country it is Iniposable to say, Exactly how long ago it is since thess booste

All right, I said, I'm willing." "I'll but it i

tis generally oppooded that many thousands of ears have clapsed since that time.

During part at least of the time when the which draw from air. McKenna the following from the Continent, and the climate was so sazing odwission

The Invincible, fired her 12-inch guts or serere that the conditions are expressed by the mid "I guess I can let you have it."

use of the term Ice Age or Glacial Period. March 14 inst, and had not sines fired them till There is much uncertainly as to the onuses yesterday (Opposition laughter) when she fired brought about the Ice Age, and the length of all her carrets after being delayed for a contine during which it lasted, but it is known siderable time by bad weather."

that this part of the country was less affected by the arctic conditions than were the northern barge part of to war boroning warmer and when parts of the 'ritish Isles. It is possible that a

the melting of the glaciers and ice sheets could supply the great volumes of water by means

A new shipping line from Java to Bangkok Mauretania's first blades, and that he is told in contemplated. The well-known Royal Packet that the Mauretania would be glad to have them Company (Koninklijke Paketvaart Maat back again. Meanwhile, there have been com sohappij) proposes to run a regular service piled at Liverpool some interesting figures with between Bangkok and Java. Messrs. Distholm regard to the running of the two Cuaarders & Co., Ltd, have been appointed the Bangkok The tables relate to the time occupied befurion which had cut the sides of the mountain as with - question in the House of Commons yesterday mammoth Hired, hero England was not separate but I wont to my employer and asked him to

the landing-stage at Liverpool and the Canard Company's pier at New York, both on the outward and on the homeward run. The figures give the following comparisons:

agenta. The details have not been settled yet, but it is thought probable that the service will be fortnightly. The new lius, Bangkok paper says, will not compete directly with any existing line, but should be able to secure the cargo wish at present has to be transhipped at Singapore.

It is stated that a private bill has already been drafted and will soon be introduced in the Japanese Lower House providing that the principle of reciprocity shall be applied in the matter of the coastwies carrying trade. In other words, the introducers of the bill propose that any conulry which allows Japanese abipa to engage in its poaktwise trade shall be entitled to a altuiler privilege for its own ships in Japanese waters.

slumber. For several days past a rozza breeze

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which

lend me a few hundred dollars.

**All right, Andy; you're a good boy," he

"I'll pay you back $5 a week," I told it. I know I could save that out of my salary, which had just been raised te money, and that's how I got my start. I made 840 a month, so ho let me have the 2,000 off that stock, and later on got into the Pullman Company.

Avalanche came shortly before midnight when the village was wrapped in profound known as the " Chinook" had been blowing over the Rockies, loosening the perpetual snow cap of OUTWARD VOYAGER

the mountain peak. This was followed on by Days. H. M. rain. The villagers, untaught by the catastrophe Lusitania... Quickest passage ...

970 old on the forest to not as a D which years ago destroyed the neighbouring Mauretania... Quickest passage...

6 18 0 barrier to any snowslide. They paid for this Longest passage Lusitania Mauretanis ... Longest passage i

confidence with their lives. The avalanche hit 5 21 0 Lusitania. Average passogo 5:21 35 the edge of the precipice after a fall of 1,000ft. Mauretania... Average passage

from the mountain peak, and with appalling momentam tambled into the village; bringing was given by the then first Lord of the of whisk the river valleys were deepened, and that the general impression that he had always with it gigantic boulders and hundreds of buge Admiralty to it the Invincible with turrets to large quantities of sand gravel carried from the longed to be a great ironmaster was incorrect.

HOMEWARD VOYAGER

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5 16 49

5 15 30 5 5 0 5.22 .0 5 17 0

Mr. McKenna then proceeded to give the Lot Fred her grams told my lost to misunder. following explanation why the Invincible hind

As this reply by itself may lead t standing, I would like to supplement it by detailed explanation. In May 1995, approval

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be worked aleatrically, turrets were carried ont in October 1908, what The firing gun trials of the Invincible only a few defects appeared, which were found

the were

hills to the lowlande. Under such conditiona led the mammoth and thinoceros whose hopes

The maminoth,

A New York correspondent writes:*** A short time ago I was chatting to Mr. Carnegie in behalf of The Daily Telegraph in bis New York home. Homentioned incidentally

As a youth," he said, smilingly, “I always wanted to be a reportar."

I congratulated Mr. Carnegie upon the def at

ar trees,

t was impossible to escape the onrush, Houses and railway cars, where afty work men were coping, were all crushed. 5 19 22 When the rescuers approached the song a remedied, and the second trial for a repeated them in the possession of a coat of long, thick profits to be derived from journalism would not

Lusitania. Quickest passage... Mauretania. Quickest passage

Longest passage ... Lusitania Mauretania Longest passage Lusitumia Average passage Mauretanis Average passage

At might be expected, the best runs were made in the months if July, Aagnat, and Sep- tember. It is the winter season that pulls down the averages. The Mauretania, it will be soon,

shows herself possessed of somewhat superior storming ability, her average outward passage being nearly fivo hours shorter, and her average homeward run seven hours quicker.

miners lodged, was ales destroyed.

exd

on.

of his early ambitious, explaining that the

have enabled him to present many libraries to a Bratofal public.

have been found, whilst resembling the modern to, bo. of minor inportance. Those were elephants in all essential respects, differed from 5 32 14 furious blizzard was raging from one

of the canyon to the other, Yet, as deres was carried out in March, 1909. The hair, and the woolly rhinoceros bad, a sindler digging twenty-firemen and women out of the The reports state that there were no very than in Eatape, and in the frozen sail of the vices just received state, they succeeded intuets had been made by two firms, and one protection against the rigours of the climate,

turees of each make was teled,

Roth animals survived till a later time in Siberia

WEALTHY CONGRESSMEN. cabins alive.

The total number of deaths cannot be ascr-serious hitches during the trin), but that north gradiently andre bodies of the ozareth

there were numerons minor defects, espel have been found. The presence of the hairy HOW THEY MADE THEIR FORTUNES. tained. It considerably over 100. According ally in the mounting of one of the Arms covering in both forms has been proved by the to one report the Standard Hotel, where 300The ship was commissioned in March, and totaal remains, but in the case of the mummoth

The United States House of Representatives There was a soccal aralaschio next day. It joined the Cruiser Squadron. While working we have also the evidence of prehistoric man has always had among its members many multi. struck the town of Burke, ailing scores more at the gan layers test numerous defects himself, who has left behind in the caves of millionaires, but the present body has more to the list of fatalities and barying the greater cecurred, and on June 1 the furrots were Francengravings on bons sad ivory, and pain wealthy won than at any previous, poried in its examined by Admiralty officials and represantsings on the walls of the caves, in which the history. Une of the fifteen richest men in. part of the town of 500 inhabitants, wang tives of the firm concerned, and after discussion mammoth and his hairy cost are clearly re- Ameries, saya the Boston Courier, is a repro- had been issued some hours before, with the

prosented.

sentative from Youkera, N.I. His name is Mr. result that the majority of the women sed from certain medications ware doritled

"Preliminary to those modifications being **There were many other animals whose bodies | John E. Andrus, and his wealth is estimated at their homes with their children to places of carried out the ship was with the Cruiser were sometimes swept away by the floud-waters $60,000,000. H a chemical king, controlling safety.

Squadron, going through the ordinary exercises of the Themes and Lea, and whose bones, to a great extent the production of medicinal and gaining further experience in the working separated by decay, were widely scattered and drugs in the United States. Nearly all of the During this period other defects deposited in the gravels of the valleys. Amongst pepsin manufactured in Ameries comes from such animals may be mentioned the reindoor, his mills--whence the uuang Old Chewing still found in the arctic regions, the brown bear Gam" applied to him jokingly by his fellow. and the grizzly bear, the hison, the beaver, the Congression, though, is matter of fact, ho wolt, and other forms such as now live in pats on the market no such commodity. He temperate climates, though not in this country began life without a cout, and taught in school sovorel animals that we still have with ns, such for a living for four years in New Jersey. as the otter, the fer, the horse, and the hare; and species of lion, hyena, and hippopotamos, whose madera representatives live in tropical or warin climates, though it must not be imagined that all thees animals lived here together at the same time

Mesara. Bolan, Moyor & Co. write to the Singapore papers as follows: With reference to the various discussions in our local papers with regard to wireless telegraph stations in Eastern Asia and wireless telegraphio installa tions of steamers coming out to the East, we think it will be interesting for you to learn that the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, bea nader

An important undertaking to establish a new consideration the equipment. of all German. zamil steamers running on this line with wireless steamship service linking up the eastern pro- telography. The first steamer fitted in this vincos of Caunds with South Africa, Australasia, way with the now improved System Telefunken and Now Zealand has just been negotiated is the steamer Kleist, Capt. O. Pahnko, which between the Dominion Government of Canada passed through Singapore on the 5th inst. on and the Now Zealand Shipping Company. In her way outward. The results of the powerful May next the New Zealand Shipping Company installation of this steamer have been very satis-will begin a monthly service of steamers from fast ry. The steamer Kleist, for instances, whilst Montreal direct to Australesia and four Now steaming in the eastern part of the Mediter. Zoaland ports. On the reate the steamers will zanean, was in permatant connection with the call at Teneriffe and the Cape, thus providing wireless station at Norddeich (near Emden in a direct moans of communication between South North-East Germany and received twice a Africa and Canada. It is stated that in the day telegrams over a distance of about 1,550 winter months, when Montreal is closed as a miles. The wireless System Telefunken of this part, the service will can from St. John and steamer has been supplied by the company for Halifax, At the present time there is no direct wireless telegraphy, System Telefunken, Berlin, steamship service froin the eastern side of which is said to to superior to the Marconi Canada to New Zealand, and all traffic now pro Bystem.

neods by New York. In effecting the arrange ment into which they have entered with the company the Canadian Government are now ensuring an all-rod bine to Australasia for the traders in the older provinces of Canada.

The new President of the Chamber of Ship ping of the United Kingdom (Mr. Edward Hain), addressing the annual mooting, said that they were not without some evidence to show that the worst of the depression in shipping had

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THE NEW WHITE STAR STEAMERS of the g

"OLYMPIC'S LAUNCHING DATE FIXED.

The Belfest correspondent of the Times writes-Splendid progress is being made at the shipyard of Mosers, Harland & Wolff, Ltd., with the building of the new White Star liners Olympic and Titanic. The first named vossal is now sufficiently advanced in construction to permit the date of launching to be fixed, and less something unforseer happens she will be sent into the water af eleven o'clock on the forenoon of October 21.

wore da in srother part of the gear.

If the ship had been required to go into action while the modifications were taking place, she would have had four of her 12-inch guns eficient and the other four could have been worked, though at a rate considerably lower then the normal. Meanwhile, in all the other respects, fall advantage was gained by keeping the ship with the squadron with mou and officers nuder training."

The Invincible carries only sight 12-inch guna Sho would cut a pretty figure in nation with has the colossal effrontery to describe Lord half of them uecloss! And yet Mr. McKenna Charles Beresford's statements as mere nonsense.

the

been reached, and that they might now look for mont of the City Line of stoamers ia to be at the rate of twenty-one knots per hour, or Tary close attention of all who are interested in slicient enough to enable him to overcome such 26,000,000, he does not pursue the ways of idle-

ward hopefully to a better state of Wings. It was in Eastern waters chiedy that shipping was meeting with most encouragement, and the entirely new trade, scarcely more than a year old, in the carriage of soya beans from Manchuria was giving employment for a number of British steamships. Australia, after several years of

One of the most remarkable men in the pre- sont House of Representatives is Mr. Daniel F. Lafeen, of York, Pa. He likewise was a born fortune builder. He starteti în life as driver of a coal part at 81 a day. Every cont -ho-possesses he has made for himself, and his Boro important, from our own stanilpoint, wealth to-day amonnte to not less than than all these animals, was man himself, whose $3,000,000. He owns milk mills, banks, dairies, rude fint implements have been found in and automobile factories; but, indcstrially The gross tonnage of the Olympic and Titanic will be roughly 45,000, or 12,000 tons more

great numbers in the gravels from which the fossil bonos have been taken. This period of speaking, he is chiefly conspicuous as the candy than the great Cunarders Lusitania Bad

STRAITS RUBBER PLANTATIONS. Mauretania. They are 810ft long, have a

man's history is spoken of as the Old Stone king. Mr. Lafean owns candy factories in beam of 90ft, while the top deck will be 60ft, AND THE LABOUR QUESTION. (or Paleolithic) Age, and it affords the earliest Thiladelphis, York, and Lancaster, employ

ing 6,000 or 7,000 people. above the water. Following the policy hitherto

certain eridence that we have of his life and

Mr. Butler Ames, of Lowell, Mass., another activities. Ho was no doubt a hunter, though member of the Lower House, did not make his pursued by the Waite Star Line with uniform

Labour questions, says the Straits Times, in it does not seem probable that his weapons were aneness, the vessels will not be record

own fortune. But though worth $5,000,000 or It is announced that the Liverpool manage breakers in speed. They are designed to travel the coures of a leading article, must engaga

huge animals as the mammoths, with their thick

ness by any means. In moments not occupied the planting industry, for it is certain to be hair and tough hides, foar knots less than the Zusitaria and Maure

He may have had long wooden spears, how. by legislative tail he devotes himself to invent- transferred from Mesir. Alla Brothers to Bir tanie. This lesser speed will mean of couens. come serious in the near future. There ar

automobifo

muls by himeelf, and he is building Jolin Ellerman's Liverpool offices in that port. less driving power, and the space thus sared will indeed, a good many estates already which could ever, ma it is possible this, he attached some of ing things. He rides about Washington in sa Sir John Ellerthan is the proprietor of the City he need to provide berths for first-class fpassen available, and Java, hitherto one of the beat his fint itaplermonts to sticks or poles for use a flying machine on a pattern of his own.

gere. The owners waited until the last possible

as axes or tomahawke, javelins, or spears. Most fe is caly 38 years old and a grandson of the Line, and, in taking over the Liverpool agoney moment, before deciding on the method of pro- soarces of supply, may be closed at any moment of the implemente do not appear to be well late Gen, Benjamin F. Batler Preferring now for Mayan rocraiting. We observe that adapted for shafting, and any shafts or wooden West Point to a civil college, he was appointed from the Allan Line is terminating a businesa pulsion. Eventually they decided on a com

mittes to report upon proposals for establishing used have long sinos decayed. His had arrangement which has existed. for 40 years. bination of turbine and reciprocating engines. the Planters Association has appointed a com- weapons the men of the Old Stone Age may have a record-lieutenant in the infantry, afterwards Messrs. Allan Brothers find established a trade One of the advantages of this method is

a big reduction in the consumption of conlanting buren in China, and that is quite a mosticated animals, and the vegetable food with resigning his commission. Since entering Con-

prudent step to take. Bat surely the time haa

chase was such as Nature provided. That sentative to his private secretary.

Another millionaire representative is Mr. passenger accommodation. The new vessels,

of e advocates of "free labour," and advocates he clothed himself in skins is highly probable, Evaria A. Hayes, of San Jose, Cal. Many years with their nine steel docks, will possess impay the indentured. There are seen a few men especially in view of the fact that many of the Le

BgG became features calculated to make the task of crossing to be found who do not speak evil of the implements found are like in form to those used deposits of the Gogebic range, in Northern ame loterested in the wonderful iron the Atlantis a distinct pleasure. The roller Goxerament immigration department and in aldim dressing by modern hunting races, such Wisconsin and Michigan, before many people elater will find on one of the upper decks a firk,

had come to know the wealth that might be which will sien serve the purpose as ocession farour its continuance. For our own part, we

For the purposes of the Prehistoric Scene în should like to see that department abolished the Ealimo.

derived from them, From this source ho drew demands for a ball-room, a sun parlour, or a pro-

Btate is to assist to the

the Fageant of London, it is probable that a large fortune, and since then he has been ex- menade. A large swimming bath will also had The function of

ments have shown that when the elephant is in California.

To

do

depression, was exhibiting distinct signs of to Calcutta and Bombay in the 'sixties by their and the consequent saving of space for me for deciding on some general policy. There which he no doubt eked out the products of gross he has given his entire salary as a repre-

revival. The prospects in India also were con- sidered excellent, and with those and other Eastern trades operating and relieving the con- gestion of tanninge in the River Plate and elsewhere, shipowaora might, he thought, roa sonably expect to attain to a higher standard of freights.

sailing ships. Mr. G. R. Nicholson, who raamaged the agency for Allan Brothers, also

goon over to Sir John Ellerman's offices.

THE BOYCOTT, OF JAPANESE GOODS

a place on the vessels. There will, in addition, utmost young indue des which cannot do every

tha

Nothing has been heard for some time about be a large and wdi-equipped gymussium. On thing for themselves, but as far as the rubber veral elephants will be requisitioned. Erperi-tensively engaged in the fruit-raising business

against the Japanese, or find their

also be in feature.

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE,

The complaints of British shipowners that the the boreet in South Chins, but, according to the sun deck passengers will and a complete business is concerned that stage has been passed, made-up by a theatrical "properties" expert surplus income from the Suez Causl had been the Asahi Shimbun of Tokyo it is still actively garden, which in the winter season will be and the duty of the Government now is to it presents a splendid imitation of the mammoth. It is proposed to select all the Ancient Britons devoted to the shareholders instead of towards prosecuted. Singapore is now the chief centre. covered with a glass roof. A palm garden will stand quite apart from the plantors and their methods of recruiting and dealing with labour Out of the 70,000 inhabitants of that place fally reduction of canal du were ventilated at the 30,000 ors Chinese, and the Chinese community

When the Olympic leaves this side of the that they may see that even-handed for this Prehistorie Boons from the borough of all concerned, without Hackney, where most of the important Palmo

lithic discoveries have boon made. annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. comprises a large majority of the wealthiest Atlantic on her maiden voyage she will have justice is done to The President pointed out that in sains recent men in the place. Hence the influence of

on board the population of a fair-sized Irish being mixed up themselves in questions of the

THE OPIUM CAMPAIGN. Singapore is filt throughout the whole southern town. It is estimated that in ordinary circam quality of the coolies imported. But it would developments there were indications to show regions, and there, appeur to be some persons stances the vessel will carry 5,000 persons be wise thing for the planters to form somA

PROGRESS IN BEECHUAN. that Great Britain wasabout to resume, to some has been established

A correspondant, telegraphing to the N... Pittsburg, ertent at least, her ancient route to the East gray in tabooing Japanese goods. Violent } ments, which are separated by heavy bulkheads method behind it. For our own part, we believe vessel is being divided into 33 steal compart in Ceylon. There should be a policy, and a by way of the Cape Steamers had been rentars are said to have been agaiu distributed These doors can be closed by one operation from that the indenture system is the only one that Daily News from Tarohon on March 15th, beon working at a salary of £3 a. week in the

In the course of a journey extending over chartered for the long voyage to Australia iu on a large scale, so that the Japanese tradesmen, the bridge owing to an automatic dorite, and by gives a reasonable degree of control over the reportadore

class of labour required, but the conditions of ballast to return with their wheat-cargoes to not In Singapore alone, but also in Hongkong the aid of coloured electric lights the ulcer on this country in each case via the Cape, and it and Canton, are mach hampered in their the bridge will be able to tell at a glance whether indenture must be laid down by the Govern. 900 miles in Szechuan, the route of which lay

business It is calculated f' at since the Talsu

or not the doors are closed, Similar diaborate ment and it is right that Government officers entirely through areas formerly devoted could not be doubted that some quite probable Maru incident in 1908, the ooycott has cost the arrangements will be made for the prevention labour is all very well where the labour Rigid inquiries absolutely confirm the previous purpose at his mines and plantations at

should see them faithfully carried out. "Free" poppy, I have not seen a single poppy plant. improvement in marine engineering in the Japanese several milions of yen, and unless the of fire and the ortinguishing of the fames should

is indigenous but when importation-is-neses reports that the growth of poppy has been direction of greater eccnomy in the consump Chinese authorities can be persuaded to take an outbreak unfortunately take place.

n more sotive part in quelling it further heavy

It will be at least six months after launching say it is certain to break down. A few abandoned. As a resals, land has depreciated

ful and cheap. IN YUNNAN.

account

A romance of real life, in which the heroin e is Miss Bessie Goldie, one of the most popular of this season's - debutantes, and the hero Mr. Antonio R. Guimaraes, & Brazilian millionaire, is (says a Daily Mail telegram of February 28th) eausing intense delight among society in

For several months past Mr. Guinaraas has

shops of the Westinghouse Electrical Company. He was desirous of proving that he could sen his own living, and at the same time of learning Pretical electrical work which he could turn to

io Preto, Brazil,

At a church meeting, where he was known

es of Miss Goldie. It was a case

of acquaintaics of love at first sight. Not until yesterday, after the publie announcement of the betrothal, had Another correspondent, writing to our cou Miss Goldie the slightest ides that her fiancéa was other than a mechanic with his way to make temporary from Chaotung in Yunnan, saya- The growth of the opium poppy seems to have in the world. Mr. Guimaraes then explained been affectually stopped in this distriot, but its | that it had always been his desire to find a lady

tion of fuel, would cause shipowners to give the losses must be anticipated. It is question- before the Olympic goes on her trial trip, and estate managers may think that they will always twenty-five per cent. and food-statis are plenti. only as a simple working man, he made the

preference to the longer ses voyage to the East

rather thay incur the heavy charges levied on | could be entirely successful in this matter. The in the water. vessels passing through the Suez Canal These Tatry Maru affair even though supplemented

factors in the general situation undoubtedly

by the Mukden-Anfang Railway complication,

(nament ha vuosidad na anathing mora ihan

good price, but the kind of competition which- would be brought about by one estate bidding against another can never be very satisfactory It will raise the general level of expense without