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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. Glasses are being used nightly--to see Halley's Comet.

Bathing and launch picnics are boing dis crassed now, The sultry spell during the week mado one year for the cooling dip in the briny Congratulations to Rear Admiral Lyon. The many friends he, his good wife and daughter have inade here daring their stay of nearly two years will be genuinely pleased to tear of the

looting. Now that the way is made plain Chinese gamblors, when attempting to escape from the police, need not do so at the risk of a broken neck.

REVIEWS.

HOW TO STARVE, WIRELY,

Each day brings further interesting com mants as to the value of the fasting care, re- commended by Mr. Upton Sinclair in an article quoted in the Express.

GERMAN TRAIN SMASH.

APPALLING · SPECTACLE.

Newspapers from Home contain details of the railway disaster at Mühlheim-on-the Rhine which was announced in our cable nows at the beginning of this month.

The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, APRIL 25rm, 1910.

sotur-tenor who imagines he loves her, and hòa. aho eventually falls into the arms of a better Mighty. Hunters, by ASHMOES ESSAN. MAD, whoss pursuit of her, in the first inrtance was prompted by passion, not by a desire for Loudon: Longmans, Green & Co. This is a book that will appeal to boys, The matrimony, must be learned from the authorem

One prominent West End physician nives the Writing upon this serial subject recalls to atmosphere of the wild and wonderful is in its pagos, There are two charming characters

professional pianiste, who following advice to those who think of following mind one of the first flying machines turned out pages, and the story has for its setting the wilds in the book, a

To the Editor of the Express by a Melbourne inventor. The place where the of Mexico. The book teams with hairbreadth "digy" with Linda, and comedian named Mr. Sinclair's plau:-

Marcia is a professed machine was expected to fly was made public, pes" and moving incidents by flood and Hughie Dacre,

Sir,-As one particularly interested in the Heart-roading incidents are reported from of the railway disaster outside and an exceptionally large concourse of people field," and those who enjoy roading of adventures maa-hater, and she acts as Linda's good angelfast cure, I can corroborate from patients and the geno nasembled to witness the ascent. The invention, and deeds of derring-do will get their fill However, she succumbs to Hughie's good nature. friends' experience much of what Mr. Sinclair Mühlheim. For some distance an oleotrio tran The authoress gives two terrible portraits of writes on the subject. One word of warning, line runs alongside the railway, and the whole nedod Preparations should be of the grid occupants of the passing car. however, ต

fragely was sanoted before the which ran on wheels, was taken to large from "Mighty Hunters"

London journalists, and says some hard things made for the fast by limiting the diet before-eyes of common, across which swept a good stiff breeze.

libol London journalism. She also bas it is as well, before entering en such a cure, to military train by the singing and laughter of

writes!

popular Commodoro's promotion, although they & motor ear was hitched on, and when this was The Four Candles, by HABBY TIGUE. London of the profession, which we hope sincerely, is a hand to two meals, then to ese meal, a day; also, | "Their attention was drawn to the stationary

will regret his early departure from the shores,

worked up to nearly record speed the machine was expected to glide gracefully into space.

I note that the only day this wook on which The car swopt noross the common at something|scription of life in a diggers' camp in waybank that section of Society known as "the smartare a medical man in order to ascertain the the soldiers, who were returning from their

the Post Office was approachable was on Wednes day, when there was a torrential downpour. The rain did not actually wash the stamp-baying ccolies away, but it was more than they could stand and they wilted away.

One theory of this stamp-baying has boon controverted by the Colonial Trasanrer, who danies that the Government are accepting this accamnlation of cents because they wish to withdraw the present copper currency,

they redeem this coinage they must replace it by another.

like fifty miles an hour, others following in its wake, while thousands of persons watched ex pectantly for a dark spot on the horizon. But the byplane, or whatever it was, absolutely re- fused to leave the earth, and the inventer attri- bated ils failure to the fact that there was not enough wind.

Fortunate Bangkok! There the coiner has no paradiso such as Hongkong appears to be.

John Long, Ltd, In this story Mr. Tigho gives an admirable, da,

Australia sed tells of the strenuous toil and hard lot of the miners who exile themselves from civilization in the search for gold. The work contains a romakable study in characters and the strange title is the preludo to an equally strange and interesting story. Dr. Dale's Dilemma, by G. W. APPLETON.

London: John Long, Ltd.

A sensational story of a staid docter's first

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COUNTESSS-BRIBE

The sousational Venico murder trial which episodes of dramatic interest, the chief features opened on March 5 continues to afford exciting at the hearing yesterday being the allegation of the wife of a warder at

at Venice that the Countess Tarrevelen had offered her a bribe of £1,200 to connive at her escape, and evidence concerning Naumoff's youth and the hypnotic experiments

strangest things, his will power being apperently

The chief notors in the drama are gone.

Countess Tarnovska, a Russian lady, who is said to have instigated the murder of Count Kamarovsky.

strength, circulation, ato, of the individual.

In the meanwhile I can strongly advise what I have been teaching for years namely, two meals a day only Our bodies and minds are thas cleared from the clogging of which he sponks, and of which I have spoken and written for years

I am doing five times the amount of mental work on this dies I did as a young man, am lecturing and writing and working generally thus with infinite more satisfaction, while at the same time doing good ewes.

Right dieting will indeed do wonders for us

circles.

Old Burlington-street, W.

MD, etc.

Easter furlongh, in a mood of boisterous merri- ment. Many of the meu had stretched their hands out of the windows ane above the other, Suddenly the people in the team potiond the Genos express comin e rapidly round the sharp carre which the line takes just at this point. The appalling nature of the situation flashed upon them in a second. A cry of terror and alarm burst from their lips,

At this moment the driver of the express caught sight of the obstacle on the line in front of him. He reverb steam with such enddonness that the locomotive seemed to leap

The momentum of the express could not be reduced in time, and the driver and stoker were just able to jump down before the crash ozme,

Tho The shopkeeper lias not to ring every coin he experienco in matrimony. His wife elopes with practised upon him by his colleagues. When all, whether we are ill or not. I mean dieting up from the rails. But it was too late to BAFS object of such a courao is apparent, because if pacopts, and be European does not as a rule au afinity, and when marked by death returns to under the influence of love he would do the as it is understood in the most progressive the doomed train.

carry a quantity of spurious pieces which nei-sk forgiveness. The doctor forgives and buries ther tram conductor nor richa ooolie will her, then a twin sister appears on the scene- accept. The Siamese small coin is an alloy of nearly resembling the dead woman as to nickel, steel and other metals, and if counterfeit, deceive even das doctor. Her appearance is the can be detected by means of a magnet. introduction to an entrancing story which will Magnets, therefore, are in considerable demand. be read with absorbing interest. They are to be found in most shops, and are Thora's Costersion, by JAMES BLYTH. London: rather numerous in the police department.

Johr Long, Ltd.

The Government aroapparently powerless to control the Post Ofloo rush, but the police have shown a way whereby the oril may be minimised. Of lata weeks the excrescence has been growing until it stretched ancoss the footpath, barring the way of the passer-by, Polios offorts, apparent ly, could not hold it in chook until the happy idea occurred to Sergeant Parr that he should run a few of the units of the queue up to the Magistracy. They got off with a caution for causing an obstruction, but let as hope that the police will persist in this notion, and thus koop the pathway clear.

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Out of the mouths of babas and stokings cometh forth wisdom.. A schoolboy in Scotland, having heard the story of Ananias and Sapph ira, was asked, "Why is not everybody who tells a lie struck dead and replied, "Because there wouldn't be anybody left." Many an older men would have found difficulty in answering such a question

The disenssion at home on the subject of

diverco shows a divergence of opinion as to the advisability of reporting divorce cases. It is being suggested that even the results of matri- monial causes should not be published except at the expanse of the parties concerned-just as Birth, Marriage, and Death notices are ad- vertised at present. To have a Divorce section added to that popular column would no doubt bring considerable revenue to the recognised mediums for auch announcements in the event of other forms of publiclty being suppressed; bat it would be a poor rubstitute for the harvest of copper coins at present, resped by those newspaper propriotore who manifest a greater regard for the secumulation of £ s. d, than for the protection of public morality.

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If French newspapers do not romance, Miss Eleanor Alexander is an exceptionally lucky young lady. She is the fiancés of Mr. Theatore Roosevelt, jr., and one of the few who have played the douce with tho bank at Monte Carlo, At her request her father put on the number re- presenting her birthday a considerablo sum, and she rose from the table the possessor of 500,000 frames (£20,000). Here's a tip for the young ladies who go to Macso to woo fortune, and fail every time. Those of tender years onnot, of course, expect to have the wins of those plas agcé, always providing that fortune favours, Theamount of the winnings, therefore, to some extent, indicates the age of a winner.

RODERICK RANDOM.

THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND

In his latest production Mr. Blyth hits hard at the Suffragette. There is no question of sparing the rod of ridicule and spotting the female child-politician, The writer gives examples of the inclining of man-made laws in woman's faroar, anil trembles to think what a fallen woman would suffer if she were judged by women. The author, as usual, deals with the question of sex, and draws word pictures of the difference between marriages for love and marriages for money.

the counters.

Frilakoff, a Moscow lawyer, in love with Dr. Naumoff, who admits having killed Kamarovsky, and who was also in love with

the countess

**THE HEROIC CURD,” To the Editor of the Express. Sir,-As I was the first English writer to bring the dio etic rest cure before the British public five years ago in my book an" Batterment, individual, Social, and Industrial," and later by an article, I should like to explain the rationale of this beneficent provision of nature, which I dubbed the heroio cure.

Count Kemarovsky, said to have been aktont

Fletcherism has proved that the average man to marry the conates, and who was murderente nearly two-thirds too much, and does not chow it half enough; this gives rise to the worst of the doctor-bathing o

gcomplaints.

ed in Venice.

HYPNOTISM STÓRY. When the Kamarovsky murder trial resumed

examined.

The second. Bongini, said the Countess Tar. novska tried to induce his wife to connive at her escaping, promising a bribe of £1,2 0.

This statement was positively denied by the

countess.

There was a sound like an explosior, and at once the singing and laughter were changed into shrieke and groans. Some of the soldiers leaning out of the windows were literally de capitated, as the carriages crumbled together if they had been made of cardboard, and collapsed on the live in shapeless heaps of debris.

The express, which consisted of a couple of sleeping-cars and a dining saloon, all very strongly built, eaonped without serious damage and the fifteen or sixteen passengers who were tralling by it sustained nothing worse than

severe shaking. Nor did the soldiers in the an accident had scenrred till they heard the front portion of the military spesial realise that agonised screams of their unfortunate comrales, They then quickly descended to see what had happened

King Edited Intervenes, by ABABELLA

KENEALY. London: John Long, Ltd. A sensational story which has for its setting a rural English township. In this quiet and peaceful spot a Russian grand duke seeks to shield his wife from the fury of the Nihilists, There are two donkles of the grand duchess, one a little Irish typewriter and the others lace and struck the bottom with his head He and the poisonous products arising from the had come off unscathed were so unnerved by

MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. We are informed by Mr. Doble, the local mechanical wax figuro, Round this trie mys agent, that an interim dividend of 18. 6ters, comedy and tragedy circulate atul hold per share, free of tax, payable on Zud May, the reader's attention from cover to corer. 1910, on account of financial year ending A Legacy of the Granite Hille, by BERTRAM

MITFORD. London: John Long, Ltd. 28th February, 1910, has been declared by the directors of this Company.

A stirring story of life in African wilds which tells what happened to a man who met a lovely woman in a rural spot. The sensational

PLAGUE SCARE AT AMOY.

Wo have received the following lotter for is in every page. Hattles with savages, bair- breadth escapes and other moving soones go to publication--

make up an interesting story in which the attention of the reader is held from beginning to end.

Kulangsu, Amoy, 21st April, 1910. Bir,- With reference to the alleged out break of plague at Amoy, published in the Hongkong papers, I am directed by the The proposal to establish abures at Swatow Kulangan Municipal Council to inform you to prevent litigation must make outsiders smile that every enquiry has been made concern. It is almost as rational as attempting to stoping this serious statement, and only one dosth can be traced--that of Dr. J. A. Otte, who the waves with a broom.

The Chinese must be progressing. They have discovered that it is not advisable to allow soldiers to act as newspaper correspondents, and an ordor has been tavaod forbidding it. This Kitchenor-like act might induce some people to bellove that China had a great army.

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There is sa ditur down in the Straits who is vory outspokon on the subject of bishops, "We "They have no use for bishops," he says, nevar seem to us to fit in with the schuine of the Friend of the Poor. With the profession of an altruistio religion in their mouths, and the income of an ordinery, selfish, and very lucky human being in their pockets, they strut before us with their silly aprons till we want to shy something soft and sticky at them." Dear me, how dreadful!

The Matheson Money, by FLORENCE WAB

DEY. London: John Long, Ltd.

A tragic story of a crime which a detective would have gloried in naravelling. The intro duction is a terrible murder which. occurs in

In this direction will be found the cure for excruciating diseases, which some of over-eating ever-increasing insanity, and of cancer and other insufficient mastication of the starchy foods.

Fairlawn Park, Chiswick, W.

"ALL COURSE MEN. While the opinion of the medical world is

E. WAKE Cook.

Some of the occupants of the rear cars who

the shock that they fled from the scene as it possessed, and wandered about the town for hours in a dazed condition and bereft of their powers of speech Several members of the rescue parties that hurried to the spot were completely overcome by the awful spectacle,

The great discovery of Dr. Dawey, who

bis "no breakfast plan," was that we have on March 25th two Venice warders were introunced this system in connection with The first, Amico, said that Prilukoff's conduct all from sixty to a hundred days of what in prison was excellent, and he seemed to be very! I call stored up food capital, on which we

A ghastly sight met their eyes. In the fond of his children. The witnose also gave a can live while Doctor Nature is making

person may continue for sixty days, warm water neighbourhood of the shattered carriages the full account of Frinkoffs attempt to commit repaire, During the fast, which with a stout

only should be taken, as in orges of starvation line resembled a battlefield. Mangled corpses suicide.

it is cokl which kills through lack of food-fuel. and severed limbs were strewn about amil The strength tends to increase towards the and twisted bayonets, dinted helmets, and tattered of a fast and one music teacher, who continued fragments of uniforms. Bloodcurdling serrams her work all the time, sang better on the fortieth and pitiful appeals for help arose from under- A Russian lady named Akomatoft, resit day of her fast than she had ever done before. neath the piles of débris. Five men who were She said she A hopeless caso of dropsy was cured by a sixty-leaning out of the same window had been. jammed together by the collapse of the interior ing at Nice, was next heard. had known Naumoff since he was 10 years day fast, and the occupation of a baker was con-

of the carriage. Their feces were distorted old. As a boy he was almost too good, and tinned early all the time. was very impressionable, and spent all his time

with pain, and they were wailing for assistance.

bathing in the Velga, ho dived in a shallow

injured protruded from the wreckegu. reading and writing poetry. "One day, while

The heads, arms, and legs of the dead and

was saved by a friend, but was ill for a long time in the head. Ones later he was jamping over a afterwards, and frequently suffered from pains billiard table when he fell again, striking his head bard His colleagues and the students at the University used to hypnotise him, making him doanything they wanted. Mme. Akomatoff was describing one of the hypnotic experiments practised by his colleagues on Neumoff, when the latter, pleading illness, asked to be allowed to withdraw.

Permission was given by the President, and the Court adjourned till the afternoon. On the resumption it was announced that Naumoff had been deeply affected by hearing Mme. Akomatoff rating reminiscences of his youth, and his counsel said Naumo was desirous of remaining outside the court while the and vohappy. witnesses called for the defence were being eat our restaurant for one night I do not amined.

Continuing her evidence, Mms. Akomatoff said think he would advocate temporary starva that when the Countess Tamereka was st Orol tion. People never look happier than when where Narmoff was employed in an adminis enjoying a good dinner, well served and cook- strative post-his will was absolutely gone. In ed All their troubles seem to disappear after

Chefs whose opinions drank neither wine nor Bquears.

presentative asked appeared to the suggestion of roinntory fasting with scorn.

divided on the advantages of Mr. Upton Sinclair's starvation cure, there is one class of the com- munity who regard this food reform with disfavour.

The happiest of all our customers," said the manager of a large West End restaurant to an Express representative yesterday are those who see the me right through.

and fainted away.

Though there was no lack of willing helpers and a plentiful supply of axes and orowbars was immediately available, the manner in which the carriages had talescaped into one another rendar.

difioult. So much so that between two and ed the work of extrication extraordinarily It is the individual who packs at him food three hours elapsed before the first of the and diets himself on substances that would not sufferers could be get nat. Little pro. ress satisfy a sparrow who is the most ill-temporod could be unde till the tops of the carriages had been bodily remiered by means of If Mr. Sinclair had watched the diners oranes. One man who had been caught between the arms by splintering woodwork hang suspended for several hours before. he could be released. The leg of another was ao crushed beneath the ruins that it had to be amputated as he lay

contacted the disease from a native patient he house, the inmates of which would be classed as answer to a question, witness said Nonmof the first conirse." the Express re- and a twentieth expired during the night. Six.

was attanding. There is no truth in the rumour that twolve Europeans have died from plague, nor is there any outbreak of this disease either in Amoy or on Kulangsu

I am to ask you to give this denial as much publicity as possible, as if such a statement were allowed to go ancontradicted, serious injury might result to the business interests of this port, I am, sir, your obedient servant,

C BERKELEY MITCHELL, Secretary.

CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S FORTH- COMING VOYAGE.

It was reported from Christiani, on March 29th that about May 15 the Fram will sail on researches in oceanography as a prelude to the another voyage to the Arctic regions to make new expedition in which about Afteen seientists will take part

"above suspicion." There is a fascination about

The nert witness, M. Chafaloritch, a

previous witness statements concerning day at the story which holds the reader until the friend of Nanmoff's youth confirmed the

prisoner's impressionability. One

crime and its motive are revealed.

The Uncounted Coat By MARY GAUNT. Perm, he said, Wanmeff fainted after drink ing a single glass of champagne. At school London T. Werner Laurie,

he was regarded as an abnormaal Individual; In the opening chapters of this excellent he was fond of being alone, and used to say that story, there is a suggestion of Guida's "Under he would end his life by sniside. When as was Two Flags." It is only a suggestion-officer in love with a women, skled the witness, ho is "broken" in screening a woman's honour. lost his will entirely. A young lady he was anamoured of used to inflict all sorts of this instance, it is a naval officer who suffers for humiliations on him, even making him ran a thoughtless flirtation with a frivolous woman.behind her carriage. Joe Cunningham is made of the best material, however. He becomes a Deputy Commissioner on the West Coast of Africa, earns deserved honour and reward and eventually wins This good the love of a good woman.

When the latter expedition women has also " a past." Following out her returns with its results the great exploring ox-views that young people who imagine they are pedition under Capt. Roald Amundsen will sail in love should try the married state without the for the Polar regions, where it is hoped that remarkable disosveries will be made from bonds of church and law, she has been the divinity for two years of another naval officer... aciontific standpoints.

Dicky Bullen who happens to have been Cunningham's best pal when disgrace fell upon him or imagines she does, Chance throns them all together in terrible circumstances in

THE ITALIAN CABINET CRISIS..

A message from Rome dated March 30th states:

Mme. Rynkevitch, widow of the President of the Court of Cassation of St. Petersbarg, alap gave evidence concerning Naumors antecedents. She gave him a very good character, and said everybody was surprised at his crime, and thought he must have been under the influence of somebody.

Mme. Dembach, proprietress of a peusion at Neufchatel, called on behalf of the maid Elise Perriar, said the prisoner had been in herservice, and gave her a very good character.

THE SILVER MARKET, Subjoined is Masses Mocatta & Goldsmid's vircular

The Silver Market, in spite of the interruption the African jungle Dicky bohaves with the by the holiday, has been decidedly active during

One export, hand of one of the largest kit chens in London, was issuing instructions for the preparation of a dinner for 150 people when interviewed.

The aroma of simmering delicacies seemed to make the question of a starsation. “cure” singularly out of placa.

Starvation is only necessary to those who "as he wrote ont a recipe for a delicious sauce, do not understand the secret of eating." he said, "The arrangement of t menn is of far greater importance than those who only have the pleasure of consuming a meal appreciate.

"I could arrange the menn to-night if I desired in rech a way that the diners would ons and all want to starse to-morrow.

The serot of eating lies in harmonising the various consSSS, *If I send up

rich, the next course, anything you may be sure, will be something to time the previous conres down aga

These people who sat one rich conres after another without using any discretion are the ones who would banofit by Mr. Sinclair's treat ment."

A mew Ministry is announced this ever callantry and bravery one expects from the past week, and the price gradually advanced managers of the European banks have held a

bat still unofficially. It is as follows: Signor Luzzatti

The Post Office icke is appreciated in other Colonies. A Straits writer provokes a smile with the following:-"When a Chinese coclle smiles, le doen it, as well as other things, broadly. Day by day round the General Post Office at Hongkong there squats a whole army of Chinese coolies, smiling with the smile that won't come of It is not rabber, for that comes. not into the coolie horison; but they all have a real fat thing on hand at the expoma of the Government which they milk artfully from dawn to dusk. It is known in Hongkong the "Post Office Joke," and tho attrac tien to sight-seers is very much like that upplied by our own daily comedy of The Arsations. Those pig-tailed speculators, armed with copper cents nearly up to the legal limit, purchase stamps. Then they oxolange The Marquis di San Giuliao is generally these for paper dollars, this giving them any-mentioned so the anust likely Minister for hand.

Foreign Affairy, and Signor Rainer and Signor

Signor Fani Signor Sacchi Signor Credaro

Signor Tedesco Signor Prota General Spingardi Signer Cattolica...

struction

Premier and Minister of British officer--but we must refer the

the Interior

reader to the book itself for the defalle of Minister of Justice Minister of Public Works & soul-stirring tragody. There is soms Minister of Public In good writing in this book, and the narrative is developed with case and natuminess which betekens an intimate knowledge of the Navy and of jungle Life on the West Coast The two female characters are somewhat sketchy, hot the male portraits are drawn with a firm

Minister of the Treasury Minister of War

Minister of Marine

been

from 23 to 241, which was reached on the 31st nit. To-day there has been aslight reaction, considerable purchases made for shipment and we quote 245 per oz. standard. There have to Indis both this week and next, and dealers in Bombay appear now to have become quite re- conciled to the oxita timport duty. There was nearly £100,000 shipped to China this week, but China during the last few days has been more of a saller than s buyer, and this shipment was brought a little while back. After next week's settlement steamer has left for Bombay we can hardly expect India to centibus buying at the market is distinctly good, and prices seem likely to remain at about their present level.

Messza. Samuel Montagu & Co., in their circular dated April 1st states

THE CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.

The New York Herald publishes a telegram. on March 30th from Pekin: stating that the conference for the prpose of taking converted action in urging their respective Governments the authorization granted to the Chinese gentry to take a strong stand towards China regarding of the provinces of Hupeh and Human to organize companies to undertake the construction of the Canton Hankow railway indiaregend of the pre- liminary loan agreement signed last June.

Although the disagreement between the finan cial prompe has, for siz months, been responsible for the failure to consummate the proposed loans, the bankers, the message continues, are displaying mash indignation at the latest move, upon the Waiwapa to explain the exact scope of the authoritization, which is not altogether clear. While the provincial agitators claim a complete victory, end declare that the authoris The price of Silver has now more than retion means death to foreign loans, the affionis of the Board of Communications assert that it is covered the level at which it stood before the porarily unsettled the market. It was feared not necessarily affect the development of the

the imposition of an increased date in India tem merely a temporary measure, and that it doos

amo telegram states in vertain quarters in India, especially in native billing industry, list this nor factor tional Banking Company has purcliased would have a prejudicial effect on trade between

thing between 6 to 28 conta proft on every Cioffalli, are expected to receive the portfolios Red Love. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH- | rate they have been lately, but the tone of the and have decided, as a preliminary step, to call

dollar. And the transaction continues" act infinitus. And the smiles widen, as these "Copper Kings" add profit to profit. This ringing the changes between copper and aliver seems to be quite the popular game of the day in coolle circles in Hongkong. It is confidently believed that it mover-well, hardly ever took place in Singapore.

Who'dhe thought of an ordinary common and garden thief being the first in Hongkong to load the way in the matter of aeronautics. Jayan and Bangkok heve hair dying machines, and in northern ports Chinese are experimenting with balloons. Hongkong, however, remained behind the times until last, week, when a native of Yaumati utilted a large umbrellas & parachute and made a graceful descent from the second floor of a house which he had been

of Agriculture and of Posts and Telegraphs. respectively, but these last three are uncertain, Beyond the fact that the Cabin tittle cor strong Radical element it calls for little com

ment,

JAMES, London: T. Werner Laurie. This is a shilling edition of an exceedingly readable story. The title holds out promise of something lurid in the way of love-making, but when it is explained that "Amour Rouge" is the name of a seaside bungalow rented by the heroine our readers will understand that cothing very shocking may be expected. In these days, when a titled lady, the sister of a countess and

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The Ben Line str. Bermoly from Antwerp and London loft Singapore on 22nd instant for this port 23rd inst, and is ans here to day at 2 p.m.

The C. & M. str. Bubi left Manila on the the wife of a baronet, is not ashamed to apposti zilla sud Chins, bat the fact that the Chins extensive sites in the heart of the Legation The T. & 0. str. Delhi left Singapore for at the halls" as a barefooted danicar, we need exchanges and the price of liver stand sa tveir handsome headquarters for Américas Snancial

this port of the 23rd inaant, at 10 mm, with not be astonished at the daughter of a colonel disposes of this opprehension. Until today

The 1.G.M. str. 1 raz Sigismund, which left here on the 28th ultimo, at 4 p.m., arrived at Sydney on the 23rd lustaut, at 10 am

interests.

with a to the construction of

How To BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your cam- scale, having been affected by the holidays, the outward English Mails, and is due here on earning her livokhood as a consesse. Linda hasiness has been a comparatively small the 27th instant, at 5 p.m.

Horniman is an impressicuable young women which closed the Eastern markete as well as plexion, Mrs. Fillen's Creme Charmante, Lait who is craving for love. She does things which those on this wide. The tens has been distinctly Charmant and Special Blan Tonio and Poudre each day offerings were eagerly Chamant will enable you to do it. Her are very indiscreet, but she does them in the good and t

snapped up, chiefy for the Indian badan The Specialities for the Bkin are the study of quotation to day for cash and two months are elame, A.6. Watson & Co., Ltd., Bais Agents.

467 innocetine of her heart, DE BO MỪ condone them - How the ia trestað

onsd Thore-thons fred a week ago.

The LG.Mstr Bucoes, which left here on the 21st instant, at 6 am, wrival at Shanghai

on the 23rd fastsat, at 2 past

Nineteen of the soldiers were killed outright, more are ret expected to recover. Seme forty or fifty others are seriously injured, while the number of those who received arts of leve grave nature le estimated as high as 150.

The collision is understood to bave been due to the express overrunning a danger signal, and the driver has been arrested.

HOW HERBACEOUS ASQUITH QUEERED THE PITCH.

Mute at the Liberal Council, And mutely flowed it fears; Behind it fumed the Forwards, Before it laced the Peers." Out spake Herbaceous Asquith, His voice was cold and thin

In yon straight fight, I four me, We do not fight to win.

Now we war het on platforms; In battle we wax cold.

Observo, we brag not as we brogged Before the votes were polled. Alas! the sacred Budget! We've candled it to rest.

It was the People's Charter, But-second thoughts are best. And, lo! the holy Horseflest That was of such avail;

And, lol the blessed Black Bread, Both grow extremely stale; And then the Irish vete-trap We baited with green cheese. Hath snapped and caught our fingers (Spite of X. Safronins Pense). Therefore, ah, Liberal Fathers, Since we cannot win the day, Let us queer the pitch for others Ere we have to go away,

And how can man go better- Than in playing duckce and drakes With the treasure of the nation For his own and partners' sakes?". Then out spate Rufusmondes, Hibernian proud was he

"I loath your ill-framed Budget, Your Trade you missall Fres}" Your Education nostrums

Are hateful to my ve

Lo I will stand at your right hand Ang queer the pitch with yon."

Their out spake Kelrious Hardie,

A Labour Lord, was be "I trust you, O Herbaceous, Ne farther than I see Tour democratia leanings Methinks seem scarcely true Lo, Ilahide on your left sido "And queer the pitch with you." Then were the nation's taxes. Pat by upon the shelf,

And what the State required It borrowed from itself. And of the Coalition.

Might these words the aims express: Though it wasn't epoch making, Tet at lost it made a mess."