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SUPREME COURT,

Thursday, May 26th.

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BORE HIS HONQUE MR. W. BEES DAVIES

(ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE).

„VATAÍ. FIGHT AT TÄIKOO DOCES.

The trial of In Chau on a charge of murder at Saiwano on March 24th was continued. The jury empanelled comprised-Messrs. W. J. Rattoy (foroman), A. K. Rahman, J. H. Beth, J. F. van Kees, T. Barnett, G. M. Dalgety and C. H. Lyson.

Mr, M. W. Blado, K. G. (Acting Attorney, General), instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, sour., from the Office of the Crown Solicitor, appeared for the Crown, while the prisoner was repro.

sented by Mr. Eldon Potter, who was instructed by Mr. Davidson, from the office of Mesra Hasting & Hastings.

Mr. Potter, on the closing of the case for the Crown, said there was no necessity for the tannt of the Attorney-General that he woulil got the defendent off in any way he could.

The Attorney-General-It was not a taunt at sil

Mr. Potter-I took it that way, and if it was not I am only too glad.

The Attorney-General-Everybody in Court

benent of being defended by myself or a brother Conneal, The Chan lave put them- selves in thle dilemma they have said they don't went a verdict of murder, I fave shown 20 on the vidence that you cannot and a vord of of manslaughter, and by asking for thin vordiot the Crown has absolutely discredit ed the evidence of fur witnesses in your eyes, Without hearing the case for the defence, and without retiring, the jury by a majority of six to one found the prisoner not guilty of manslaughter. The Attorney General then withdrew the capital charge, and the senated was discharged.

THE WORLD-FAMED BOTANICAL GARDENS OF HONGKONG. The following article, taken from the

Christian Befence Monitor, is probably from the pen of Mr. S. T. Dann

The botanic gardens maintained for the last half century at pablic expense in Hongkong have the reputation of boing the most beautiful in the world for their stas. The extent is in all only some 16 acres, but the peculiar cond. tions of the climate make possible the cultiv tion almost to perfection of some of the mast charmning shrubs known to gardeners - Tho

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 27TH, 1910.

COMPANY REPORT.

A. 8. WATSON & CO. LIMITED. The report of the General Managern in as follows

Gestlemen, We beg to lay before you a statement of the Company's business, with a balance shoot for the year ending the 31st December, 1909.

The net profite of the Company for

she twelve months under review, after paying all charges, including the salary of the general managers providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and allowing for loss on *subsidiary coins, amount to. To which has to be added the balance.

brought forward from the previous your..

$36,163.66

Leaving available for appropriation $38,776.81 We propose to pay a dividend of 3 par cont. for the year, which will abearb To write off building improvements, furniture, fittings, utensils of trade, perated water plant, and machinery To carry forward to 1910 sccount...

"onfirmation.

$27,000.00

IMOFIT AND LOSS..

ENGLAND AND THE EAST.

To balance

$38,776.81

$38,776.81

NEED OF LANGUAGE STUDY.

Cr

CONTRA

By balance forward from 1908 By net prosta, Hongkong, Chint

and Manila

THE VALUATION OF SBIPS.

The official report of the Court appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the abandonment and loss of the British steamship

to

THE JAPAN.BRITISH EXHIBITION.

TER JAPANESE SECTIONS.

last war with China, with specimens of the armour of every period. In the same building. models of Japanese warships, from the time of Kubla Khan to the days of Admiral Togo will be seen side by side. the

$2,613.15

Sir Raymond West prosided at the aunivers- The success of the Japan-British Exhibition sry meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society in is already assured in so for as it will be an 36,163,66 London. Among those present were Sir exhibition of the arts and industries of Japan Mortimer Durand, Sir Charles Lyall, Sir Henry. It is probably no exaggeration to say that no $38,776.81 Trotter, Mr. Ameer All, Dr. Grierson, Dr. thing like the Japanese collections which are

Hagoplan, and Dr. Thornton. Min C. Hughes are not complete and in place at Shepherd' (aecretary) read the report of the Connell for Bush will ever have been en before by the 1909-10, which stated that the name of Mr. mas of the people of any country. The Shyamaji Krishnavarma had been removed under Emperor and the Government of Japan have Rule 107 from the list of members. There were tion to familiarize the Western mind with their

made a aupreme effort by means of this Exhibi now 694 members, as against 567 last year. The total receipts were £120 in excess of those of country both as it is and as it was, and so far as Fuga is concerned the moral affect of the last year, and the total expenditure of the year, Exhibitin in Europe will be subsidiary, if sub- £1,484, was £140 less that the receipts.

Mr. Ameer Ali, in moving the adoption of sidiary at all, only to that of the Japantee 2,613,15 Kingswell in the Mediterranean Sea, about the report, remarked that the Soviety occupion victories over the arms of Russia

120 miles west of Cape Matapan. has been issued itself chiefly with ancient Eastern classics, and of fact, is, characteristically, the first to have its The Japanese military department, as a matier in London by the Board of Trade. The vessel suggested that, having regard to what was take-officit is stricteristically, the first to have ite had previously struck on the Galloper Shoal, ing place at the present time in the East, they to women's work there will be seen a series of North Sea, and was abandoned in the Mediter should apply themselves more to the study and fine tableaux representing famsus Japanese ranean owing to her having made an unusual cultivation of modern Eastern langages and to fights, down to the battle of Ping-yang in the quantity of water long being strained and promoting such study on the pare disa sith the the opening of some of the sostear butts to the East or having communication ander the engine-room tok The Court found East. They saw how the East was getting 10,000.00 that the striking on the Galloper Shoal was rundered from the West, and they saw also the 1,776.81 caused by the mareless navigation of the chief difficulties which had sprung up in India and

officer, but that the abandonment and loss of other parts of the East, with reference to

The magnificent Ro-mon, or gateway of the $33,776.61 the vessel were not caused by the wrongful not relations between Easterns Bud Westerne Kasuga shrine at the ancient capital, Naro, Consulting Committee:-The existing Con- or default of the master, officers, or chief en-

A good deal of this, he thought, was due to the has been reproduced at the Wood-lane entrance. climate is almost unique in this way that the sulting Committee consists of Hon. Mr. F.gineer, zuil were not contributed to by the ship's fact that nowadays as much attention was Here, too, is a platform where the famous No superintendent. The Court reprimanded the

tham. The Society should make itself a Osborne, Messrs. H. P. White, J. Scott-Harelief officer for careless navigation between the not paid to Eastern languages as used to be paid dance will be performed. Close by, the history of Japan is illustrated by number of very con and Sir Hormasjon Medy. The appoint- Gabard and Galloper lightships, and also link between the Eart and the West, and a striking tableaur; and in a gallery near the Mr. Potter- Everybody did not. Proceeding, duration. Shrabs and trees which grow wildmont of Sir Hormusjes Mody requires your reprimanded the master and the chief officer for courage the cultivation by English scholars of Shepherd's-bush entrance will be found an

irregolarition in connection with keeping the those languages which were now acquiring a ship's log.

certain predominance in Eastern countries. The equally attractive panorama of Japaus In an unex to the report it is stated that the examinations which officers and Government scenery, including the "beauty spots" of which

the whole nation is proud. Kingswell was of 2,355 tone gross and 1,514 officials going to the East were required to pass

As much art and care have apparently bean Steamship Company (Limited). The vessel osilence, knowledge of the principal Inngangen gateways as if they had been originals. Some originally belonged to the Kingwell Steamship of India would be of the utmost nas in bridging of these have been erected by the municipalitie Company (Limited), and in September, 1905, the gulf between Indiona and Europeans of the capital and other towns. Osaka, the was in collision in the Channel, when the which everybody was deploring at the present anstained extensive damage to her hows. She moment. Persian was the language of scholar- great monfacturing centre, has sent a large.

model of itself; the whole city, with 50,000 was beached near Hythe, when her hull ship, it was easy to learn, and there was no res separate houses, lies spread out before the generally was very severely damaged, the why these going to the East should not or spectators. In a separata building will be found dock plates being twisted and bout fore something of it. One method by which that society one of the most striking features of the ex- and aft. While being tower inta Dover might encourage the study of modern Eastern hibition-reproductions of buildings from next day she took the ground on three languages was to invite papers from Europeans Formoss, Korea, and Manchuria, which differ successive occasions at low water. She was sub-resident in India or Porsin, or other Eastern sequently repaired at a cost, it was said, of some countries, on the literature or people of those from the Japanese considerably, and not losst

in their gayer colour sokers. £900, the repairs being affected under Lloyd's countries. supervision. She was then laid up in the Toes until July of last year, when she was brought round to the Tyne, overhauled and repaired at a cost of some $1,700, and then sold to the present company for £9,000. No direct evidence was called to prove the exact nature of the inspection and the repairs effected, nor of her 269,288.55 actual condition at the time of her sale. A som

pany was formed for the purpose of taking over the vessel with a nominal capital of £7,000 in £1 shares, of which 24,621 was issued and paid up. The shareholders consisted of friends and business connections of the manager, and on August 26, 1909, the vessel was mortgaged to Lloyd's Bank to secure Wh account current and interest, on which at the time of the casualty about £5,000 was dus. - The vessel was insured for £14,000 all risks (£9,000 was placed on the hulland £5,000 on machinery). The rates wore 15 and 16 raincas per cent., no discount. In addition the manager affected disbursement policy on his own account for

Hagarding the seemingly high values some times placed on vessels for insuranes purposes the Court made the following remarks:Here was a comparatively old ship, with a somewhat chequered career a ship which had not boon continuously kept up to standard as regards her osudition, and whose market price under the circumstances detailed was but £9,000-actually insured for £15,000 The

zales in spring and early summer are probably without an equal,"

The striking instance of specialization to the Hongkong climate is that of the beautiful tros rhodoleis. Its large dark red clusters of flowers, scattered profusely among the glossy foliage, form one of the chief ornaments of the gardens, and they cannot be seen elsewhere, for all efforts hare failed, so far na the writör is aware, to cultivate the species outside Hongkong.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 25th May, 1910. BALANCE SHEET, 31 DECEMBER, 1909. LIABILITIES,

$900,000.00 Capital account Permanentroserve fond 300,000.00

Reserve fund to mest

contingencies or for the equalization of: dividends

www

25,000.00

-$1,225,000.00

demp, tropical sntamer is succeeded by a cool and almost xainless winter of about four months must have seen that it was not. Counsel stated that there were two ways in under.theso peculiar conditions, including such

Auditors: The Company's Becounts at the which a prisoner might be sequitted. Ona was, favourites as asaleas and camellias, will not thrive

and bloom quite so well in other parts of the Head Office have been audited by Mr. Francis when the Crown had not proved its case, and the other, whore the Crown had made world, and should be seen at their best in the Maitland and Mr. W. Hatton Potis, who offer tons net. aud she was owned by the Dipwood I did not produce any particular Buguistic ex- lavished on the great models of temples and out a case, but the defence called evidence gardens of Hongkong, where the masses of do themselves for re-election. which negatived the evidence of the Crown,licate colour produced by the various species of or la mised such a doubt in the minds of the jurors as would render it impossible for them to convict a prisoner. He thought he should show to the complete satisfaction of the jurors in this care that the Crown was a very long way from having made out its case. Ons thing they should bear in mind that was according to one of the finest rales of our fine English code of laws, a prisonse was in- nocent until proved to be guilty. In the oyer of the law the defendant in this case, when he stepped into the deck, was an innocent a man as anyone in the Court, and he remained so until the Crown proved beyond all reasonable doubt that he was guilty of the crime with which he was charged. In other words; the cans of proof was on the Crown, and before he could be called upon for his defence, the Crown must have discharged that one and left the case in the position that if Counsel called no evidence the jury would be prepared to consist the man of murder. It was the duty of the Cromu to lay a casa impartially hofors jury, when the jurors would lind a Terdlot of wilful murder, of manslaughter, or a third verdict of not guilty. It had been urged that it was possible for the jury to find a verdict of manslaughter, but Counsel had strenuously resisted that contention, and intended to resist it to the very end. After referring to Archbold's definition of manslaughter, Mr. Potter con

tended that this could not be a case of man- slaughter, and it could not be a case of murder after the evidence given by Inspector Collett, How had the Crown dealt with this ? It had stated, through the learned Attorney. General in open Court, that it could not safely ask the jury to find a verdict of wilful murder on the evidence.

The Attorney-General-That is my view absolutely.

Mr. Potter--I feel, after my friend has anid that, that I need not trouble the jury on the ques- tion of murder. The Crown does not ask for it, and you (the jury) are not going to Bad a verdict they do not ask for. Therefore, all I have to do is to satisfy you that this could not be man. slaughter. It appears that the Crown is afraid to rely on the evidence given by its own wit Debees. In spite of this, this wretched man is indicted for ourder by the Crown, and the

indictment is signed by the learned Attorney I cannot understand it.

The Attorney-General-I am the person who wigued that indictment. I take the whole responsibility of signing it, and then have there I shall deal with

mat

personal attacks made on me. the matter in due course."

Mr. Potter It not a personal attack, and "say that the only possible reason for indict- ing this

for murder is that the learned Attorney-General had not sufficiently sppreciated the evidence given by witnesses at the Police Court. If he had, he would not hare indicted the accused for murder. Con- tinuing, Mr. Potter said that to all intents and purposes the prisoner was now indicted for manslaughter. The gravity of the offenes,

Like many others, these botanio gardens present to the thoughtful a proof of the underlying unity existing between the civilized nations of the world and between their

colonies, for it is hardly possible to mention a single tropical government that is not re. presented by trees growing here as the result of friendly exchanges of seeds during the last 40 years. The palm collection particularly ox- emplifies this point.

Local and general liabi

lities in the East and in-Amorios

.. $244,694,76 Lecal and general liabi

24,693.90

lities in London

Mortgage en section E

...848,000,00

of Inland Lot No. 19. and the buildings theroon Mortgage en Marine Lot No. 2o. and the buildings thereon .. 125,000.00

I Lot No. 1208 and the buildings thereon Advance against Sea Jacinto Property, Manila

The gardens are situated on a apur of the bag, Kowloon, mountain. They lie at about the centre of the town of Victoria, immediately above the grounds of the British governor's official residence. Victoria Peak, towering above them with its crags of granite rock, forms a striking back- ground on the southern sido. Northward ties the harbour, and looking down through openings in the trees visitors may catch charming glimpses of sparkling blue sea, with the mountains of the mainland faintly purple in the distance.

The gates are open from dawn until dusk, and, as this gardens are bounded in many parts by a low wall only, the publie have access to them practically at all hours. Considering this frequented during fine and that they are weather by crowds of the various rationalition which have established themselves on the island, it speaks well for the appreciative attitude of the visitors that casas of dawago or any disorderly actionare of extremely rare occurrence, A favourite time with the better aduanted Chiness is just after suuriss, when friends mest for a stroll on the quiet terraces in the hour of

morning calm, and-for-converso upon-the- simple practical aphoriams of their classies, a their fathers have done for countless generations before them. It is, however, after the day's work that the greatest onmbers congregate Then it is that working clothes are changed for abŝidran, brightly clad as the rainbow, with hair silken gowns of blue and misure, and that

elaborately brushed and tied, are brought to play around the goldfish pool, and to watch the fountain's spray. Youths at that time bring out their favourite birds in gilded cages, and some- times lot them enjoy a short period of freedom Among the trees and flowers.

THE COTTON TRADE.

A moeling between representatives of the employers and employed in the Lancashire cotton spinning trade was held on May 2nd in Manchester to consider the employers' demand for a 5 per cent, reduction in wages: Mr. C. W. Macabo preside

25,000.00

24,328,66

Bill Payable Hongkong, China

and Manila Unclaimed dividends Security deposits from staff Front and Los

Forward from 1908 8 2,613.15 Net balance, 1909. 36,163.66

¿BLETS.

Total stocks in trade... Building im-

A

provements furniture, ft. tings, and trade utensils, at Hongkong, Manila, Can-

ton,

Amey, Shanghai, Han kom Tientsin, and

Native Branches per last

&

Eccount ..155,241.13 Amount written

off for depre- ciation in May, 1909

11,145.05

$144,096.08

10,876.87 $

-154,972.95

Added during

1909

Aerated water and other Ma- chinery and plant at Hong kong, Manila, Conton, Amey, Shanghai, and

As

Hankow :-

Last

account 129,139,18 Amount written off for depro- ciation in May, 1907. 8,854.95

$120,284,23

3,880.68

Added during

· 1909

124,164.91

boat and water bosts -6,06 ).70

Good debts die from customers Sundry debtors Cash in hand

$18,132.77 Cash in bank

5.098.53

Fire insurance premis and licences

unexpired- Section E. of Inland

At the close of the conference, which lasted two and a half hours, the employers secretary, Mr. J. Smethurst, issued the following however, was very little minimised. All that report

The operatives, who having asked for the Crown in its leniency said wis that the witnesses were substantially corrost, and that the meeting were the first to speak, the man struck the blow in the best of the fight. said, "We respectfully request you, as the em- Steam tonnobes, cargo

ployers

representatives, to waive your proposals But unfortunately for the Crown, and for a reduction of wages for 12 months fortunately for the prisoner, that state of affairs from this date, and we acting on behalf of the was not borne out by the witnesses for the operatives affected, undertake that no application for an advance of wages shall be made during prosecution. The Attorney-General never in.

the same period timated to the speaker that, he would not ask

The employera

replied, "We cannot agree to the jury for a verdict of murder.

your proposal. We have received definite in His Lordship-Surely it amounts to the structions from our members to secure a 5 per Rame thing. It the Crown state that they are cent. reduation in wages, and beyond that we cannot We are, however, prepared, if you prepared to scoepta verdiet of manslaughter, I agree to accept a reduction, in order to meet should think that meant the withdrawal of the your views as to the losses sustained by the

working operatives through short-time other charge.

recommend that it be not. inte operation until the first day in Beptember, 1910,"

The operatives representatives replied: rocaired instructions from our Yes we cannot accept any proposal

Mr. Potter-I did not. I have fought this case all along on the ground that if the Crown could get a case of murder they would take it;

go,

to

if not, they would take a verdict of manslaughter involving a reduction in wages. Have you any

The Attorney-General-In this Colony further proposals to submit." Connel are assigned in a case of marder, bat The employers having nothing farther to not in a case of manslaughter. In a serious submit the conference concluded.

charge like this it is always fair to indict for murder. To my mind it is a right and proper thing to do; indiet a man for murder and give him his chance of being defended,

A

Lot No. 19 and the buildings thereon ...9 60,000:00 Marine Lot No. 2s and

the buildings thereon 165,000.00 Kowloon inland Lot No. 1,208 and the buildings thereon. As per last

account...$52,33!,00 --Expended-

for reola- mation in 1909

27,500.00

959.50

nga.

53,289.50

34,473,62

mittes was to be held next day, when it was San Jacinto land and

special meeting of the employers COME. expected that steps would be taken to give a buildings, Manila month's notice to reduce wages by 5 per cent. Extra Concession-Lot The height of the crisis will be roached No. 78 and the build- Akerefore, early in Juno, about the time the ings theroon, Canton Mr. Potter I may my that that - never

Annual International Cotton Congress is due to occurred to me. The reason why this man is be held in Belgium, unless • settlement is indicted for murder is that be may have the I reached, and of this there is no hóps at present.

9,066,00

222;329.66 £1,000.

151,798,39 14,490.46 18,250.00

58,775,81

In the open sir, the two great Japanese Professor Barnett (British Museum) seconded. gardane, with their lakes, rockeries, and islands · Dr. Hagopian, in supporting the motion, crowned with quaint pavilions, add greatly to suggested as a reason why so much attention picturesqueness of the grounds. The painted was given to ancient Eastern classics that per acons surrounding one of these pleasances is haps in the hurry and skarry of modern life more than ordinarily realistic, the pine treen iterature in the East was not characterised bystanding out most deceptively from the canvas, the same care and elegiance as in former times, and close by the other stand two miņisture when it was more liberally rewarded.

gardana, sant by the city of Tokyo, containing many of those extraordinary dwarf trees, some of them 160 years old though only a foot high, which only Japanese gardeners have had the art and patience to grow. In a neighbouring hall, the Japanese steamship line, Nippon Yueen Kaisha, has reproduced a charming hit of woodland, with cherry trees in fall blossom and the maples in all their glory of crimson autumn leafage.

The Chairman referred to the enormously increased intercourse now taking place between Europe and the ramster East, and said that in view of the manifest and growing importance of an Empire Uko Japan, and of the great destiny which awaited Chim, if was the interest of all mankind that the literatare, customs, and insta tations of those countries should be made familiar to European statesmen and European scholars, Those who had the means of affording such in-

The Japanese sections of the exhibition are so formation would acquire honour for their nearly finished that the Japanese workman are country and benefit mankind generally if they already beginning to leave for home. There took a little more trouble than they had done will, however, be plenty of their fellow country- hitherto to bring it home. The development of men left to farish the White City with an thought and iterature, especially in India, call. Oriental population, skilled omftsman practising ed for much greater attention. The Asiatic their native industries and arte, jugglers, and Society had already taken a very active part in athletes and oven a group of the aboriginal getting more attention paid in this country Ainus.. to the vernacular languages of the East, especial

THE BRITISH SECTIONS. ly those of India, and he hoped an institution Since the exceptional character of the would be established in England to deal with such Japanese exhibits became generally known the languages. If an institution of that kind were es- British sections, though many of them are not tablished, and a scholar of undoubted eminence yet as representative as they ought to be, have were placed at its head, it would be of inestimable grown more rapidly than at one time had seemed ` €1,939,93298 premiums for the 12 months amountal to some benefit. Large numbers of highly intelligent and likely. The photographic exhibition, for £2,200, and were payable in advance, and nearly cultivated men went to India, having passed in example, now promises to be the finest the whole of this was provided by the the languagar in which they mast pass, and then ever Seem in thin country and ship's insurance brokers, to whom bills were had very little time in which to work up a space wiginally allotted for it has been con- given by the company to cover the amount scholarly acquaintance with other languages, siderably extended. Bir Ernest Shackleton' advanced. It is fair to the manager to say that The man often worked under minats and un- Antarctic photographs and the cameras with be made some attempt to get the vasoi insured | favourable eriticism, which was a source of much which they were taken will be shown in this for a rather less amount, but unsuccessfully. sanorance, and under other adverse circom section. The exhibition of women's work will "The system ander which Lloyd's and other stances, and so long as that was the case only in be, as it nearly always is at these comprehensive insurance agencies ineure old vesseln of this selected instances would scholarship be highly exhibitions, one of the most typical and interest- character at a figure for above their market cultivated.

ing features. Queen Alexandra is contributing value is, in the opinion of the Court, most The report was the alpted. The meeting an exhibit of the work of the Eandringham pernicious, and is, in effect, a gamble. If such agreed to the following appointments Mr. Technical Schools, which will dires attention vessels were insured only for their market value, T. H.-Thornton, Honorary Vice President to the gotivities not only of such schools them- and there were not the chance of a total loss'

Bir Raymond West, Director: Sir Mortimer selves, but also of the various bodiles which resulting in a handsome profit to the owners, Durand, Vice-President and Professor L D. foster the cottage industries of rural England. the certainty that it would not pay to keep Barnett, Professor D. S. Margoliouth, Mr. An important exhibition of clocks and calculat them afloat, and they would be acrapped." C. Otto Blagden, and Mr. A. G. Ellie ordinary ing machines appears to be assured in the section

members of the Council.

of applied arts, but in the furniture, aliments- tion, and electrical sections there is room for moro ambitious and scientifio effort than has yet been made,

...1,015,854,77

SINGAPORE AS A NAVAL BASE

BRITISH FLIER'S FEAT.

the

Conspt-General James T. Da Beis, U.9., calls attention to the continued growth in importance SEVINTY MILES AN HOUR OVER WARSHIPS ing and in soulplare it promises to be really of Singapore as the docking and shipping contro of that part of the world. He says

...

A daring and atecssalul fight was performed Singapore, it is said, will be the beadquarters by British Aying man at Bheerness on Batur- of the western division of the Pastor Flest day, April 30th. The whole dockyard, town Alrasdy Blakan Mati Island, just south of gazel skywards in amazement as an aeroplane Bingapore, is the embryo of what may become red overhead at an altitude of some 500ft, an important naval dopot, and the newly arrang. The visit was a complete surprise. ed Kepple Harbour machine shops will even.

Although the day was gusty the seroplane ia tually be equipped with everything necessary dookyard repairs. The new docks now under travelled with the speed of an express train, construction by the Tanjong Pagar Deck Beard coming across the Swale by the south over Minster village, and heading straight for the will have when completed one of the largest dry. It sailed over Sheerness garrison, keep. dooks in the world, capable of accommodating ing to the left of his Majesty's dockyard. It the biggest ship afloat or any that may be travelled above the residence of the colonel built for many years. It is of the type at

In the Fice Arts Gallery, the British collec tion is happily almost complete. Both in paint-

worth seeing, both for its own sake and for the sake of comparison or contrast with the artistic treasures contributed by Japan.

The London County Council has undertaken to oceny 4,000 square fest with its exhibita, which, appears from the schedule,

of a various and worthy character. There ba no attractive sound about the main drainage scheme, but it is one of the greatest works of its kind in modern times, and from sectional models Londoners will be able at last to wes way this undertaking, necessarily out of sight, has been in process of completion for so many Farry and why it has cont so many hundreds of thousands of pounds. There will be models also

Gibraltar and Malta, but larger and better than commanding the Sheerness garrison, and many of Battersea Park, the County Council cottages either. Its length is 850 ft.; entrance, 100 it, officers ran out to je n the throng of people in and tonements, an unimproved common lodging- bouse by way of contrast), and the new wide, and depth of water on sill at high tide 35 the street.

Then swooping down to an altitude of thoroughfare of Kingsway. ft. As the largest war ve launched this year the Neptune, with 20,000 fous, is only 480 ft. 400ft, the serial craft dashed across the harbour-As usual, the machinery section will be the long, with an 86-foot beam, the now dock on the at its widest part and passed diesetly over the most British in the Exhibition, and the great blocks will have 380 ft, to spare, with a clearance destroyer Saracen The aeroplane then turned engineers, on the whole, are taking precautions to preserve the national credit. From Lanes 285,198.56 of 14 ft. at the dock entrance. As the draught and made a circle round the armoured cruiser shire the cotton manufacturing machinery 222,617.37 of the Vanguard, of 19:250 tons, is only 27 it., Naful, afterwards slipping back and doubling which is known throughout the world, and not

31,411.11 it is not likely that the Neptune will exceed down the Medway at a great height:

23 ft, so there would by 7 ft. clear under the Officers and seamen swarmed the decks to last in Japan itself, is being rapidly set up keel at the dock sl. These facilities for docking witness the passage of the ship of the air. at Shepherd's Bush and of textile machinery 23,231.30 large ships will mean much for Singapore in On board the warship the flying machine was generally, there will almost certainly be a great the near futuro, for the increasing status of brought within bearings by the range fladors, show, in this section the manufacture of 12,290.75 Bingapore as a naval port will tend to add to the and it is known that one of these recorded English gloves and. English carpets will be valus and importazes of the port ass place of Mr. Grace's altitude when he was over the seen in schaal operation. Now power transmis

sion

а пож typo

of coal conveyor call for the mercantile marine, It will be a harbour at 600ft.

will be shown. The shipping companies and soon ts As he left the harbour he wa natural base for the coming Australian flent, and

the railway companies (including the owners of bundle of A

as a port of docking and fitting it will naturally be drops package. This wES

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the proposed Indian feet. The proposal letters, with a request that the finder would the London tubes, of which thers will be an to obtain one cruiser of the Indomitable type, post them. The strong wind behind bore him interesting sectional model) are sending exhibits. three second-class cruisers of the Bristol type, quickly away to the southward, and when last six river gunboats, and three submarines seen from the town he was heading for Easting the scheme for the British dress section,

which is to illustrate, for as dress

may, with Church. sonstitute the Australisa nuit, together

means from the cradle similar Ladian and China units, would

It was ascertained some hours later that the progress of a woman of constitata

to her ultimate position in the sammanity. The latinum exrtarm feet of 39 ships, and Singe aviator was Mr. Cecil Grace, neing a Short pore would become the natural Easo, certainly

nly Wright biglane, built by the fine of Messrs perfectly drossed woman is to be shown in

sorios of life-site pictures representing one of the most important. Singapore is the gateway Short

their Majesties Courts, Goodwool, Henley Owing to the wind, Mr. Grace was at times for all ships steaming from the Osvident to the Orient and mes vera, and it is believed that the faand with very grost difficulties, but he managed Regatta, and other fashionable feetiyafə. * Australian,

Indian, and China squadron may in to attain a height of 1,500ft. The fight of the future constitute & great eastern fast with forty-six miles occupied emctly forty-one headquarters at Singapore. The work of build- minates, and at times Mr. Graos was dying at a ing the great docks is proceeding with energy rate of over seventy miles an hour. Over $20,000,000 will be expended. Singapore 349,329.12 Iready ranks as the eighth greatest port in the

world, and the new construction will give it a $1,939,932.98 ans docking facilities as any part in the East

Mr. Grace made a successful landing after his plucky journey, although when nearing the aerodrome his engine stopped when he was 800ft up. He planed very skilfully to earth.

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