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HOME AND CHINA AFFAIRS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, July 27th. THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 20TMa, 1910.

off to join him, and in the absence of the explain their doings over the time concerned. couple the fathers noted as proxies at a Only when they have exhausted the old offenders. marzinge ceremony in Utrecht. A pair of white | do they turn to new possibilities. gloves were exchanged and the requisite documents were signed by the parents of the

family connections resident in Suffolk. How arrived in England to bring the news to

CANADA AND JAPAN MEGŪTIATING.

with a cosmopolitan crowd as this year, For whereas we have had sur share of the Wost in years gone by, this time there is a very fair

I understand that soon after the rotor of sprinkling of the East mingled with it. More than ever before, therefore, London is the Ottawa, negotiations of an important kind Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, to metropolis of the world. Last year the Ame affecting Canadian and Japanese commercial ricans were not so prosperous after their finan-relations will be commenced. The general lines elal panic as they are this year, so we now have of these negotiations have already been discussed them spread all over the streets, till one might,

men and Germans" in plenty, and no fower than throo Maharajaks, a whole "awara of Japanose, headed by party of politicians, and the officers, of the Japanese warship now lying in the Thames. One of the most striking matters for observation is the

difference in manner of sightseeing. Tho

Eastern visitors are so much quister than the Westerns in seeing the town. One could wish that our climate would have better than it is doing. It is no exaggeration to say that the wanther is suggestive of a mild March or October with plenty of wind and daily rain, Only in the extreme porth of Europe is the sun

A FRANCO-CHINESE DIVORCE CASE!.

ANTI-WOMAN. BUFFRAGE.

finding there is a big volume of public opinion ou their side and they are setting about raising by peers like the Duke of Norfolk, writers like £100,000 ass campaign fond. They are supported Rudyard Kipling, physielsus like Sir J. Crichton Browns, politicians like Mr. Chamberlain on the Conservative adds and Sir George White on the

NOTES AND NEWS.

AVIATORS TO FLY OVER THE ALTS,

racecourse are in

DEAD HEATS.

fairly clear that the women outside the roast

to a backer losing half his stukio transform that which

WASHINGTON AS...A CAPITAL Unlike London or Peris or

After a long trial, several times interrupted, the Paris courts have given a young French woman a divorce from her Chinese husband The decree was pronounced by default, for the groom neither appeared nor put in a defenco, When Oh. Kay married the pretty-Parisienne a little more than a year ago the event made quite social stir in Paris. He was a In student, apparently rich, and he assimilated European ways with a swiftuoses that delighted his French giving anything like a fair show.

friends. Mademoiselle Breteuil was delighted JAPANESE VISITOR ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. with her match and for a time lived One Japanoo has had rather a serious happily in France. But then the coaple adventure while a visitor to these incloent East and a different light came upon the ment shores. His name is Joshin Ito, bride. In court she told the sympathetic French and it may have been that he thought our judge that she had been persistently illtrosted, atmospheric conditions too much for say buman and at lagt, with the help of a French Consul, would proceed to bloodshed. The crowd was the kerb are inzi-cats, and i

and when

may the

eneral

new

HAIR GROWTH

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CHINA? The Londen Daily Telegraph of the 16th ult, The movement agaicut woman's suffrage is at dering project now tempting French Berounats. Botivities are as swarming and mysterions as

To fly over the Alps in an aeroplane is the has the following leading artice

What is happening in China, where new Never do I remember this old town so filled contrasting parties. Relatives of the bride have last taking something like definite shape prizo to the aviator who shall first fly fromthors of a Fa8ant-heap suddenly disturbed P

Bixty thousand dollars has been offered as a Though the programme is a negative one the Brieg, Switzerland, above the Simplon Pass to What will be the result of these movemente promoters, Lord Curzon and Lord Cromer, are Milan, Italy. It is said that M. Phulban, the upon world-politice, in the Middie King.

idal of the Franch, is seriously considering dom be expected to

nascent reforming making the attempt,

naturef These are the

Glow in the Eclipse Stakes, remarks a contema correspondent

questiors of profound interrat prompted by

porary, inevitably raises the old question of what distances in the The dead beat between Lomborg and Neil have cocently

some notable interviews and articles which appeared in our columns. From happens to bote rande about aither of the doada must curious and

who la

las traversed immense we publish heaters. It is curious how many people on a varied fortunes of the anti-opium movement

interestisca wyj

account of the call the Strand a thoroughfare of Chicago. But by the Dominion Minister of Finance, Mr. W. Liberal banches, the Dean of Canterbury and oh circumstances, and the time is opportune, appeared in our columna the other day Sir Rob we are used to them. Also we have Frans B: Fielding, while he was in London rocently, Canon Hensley Hensen as representing the in view of the nomina

are in ignorance of what happens in in diferent regions. In a conversation whioli

Washington, has en instructed to desist women who do not want the vote. Now it is the and Mr. James Bryce, British Ambassador in Church, and Lady Jersey an representing the

on the English

to re-state the rule ert Bredon the Acting Inspector-General which is that in each case of Chizoso Customs, whose knowledge is now Canada in any way possible,

wagered is put together and divided second to none, gave a between backer and layer. As this is aapscle of the spirit of change now beginning to wide survey of different

clique who are over on the rant do not want the

for rete. Major Archer Shes, a London member, investment of a sovereign on Lemborg at start-

snd receiving the full odds to the other half, au been the Wastem world's idea of an immobile so long: au ago had has taken a poll of twelve hundred women in

empire. Whether the increased moral chaos his division. He got replies from 920, of whom

ing price (5 to 4) would result in a pretit of 24. belonging to a wonderful period of transition 6d. In the case of Nail Gow, who started at 6 will result in the solid evocation of a 792 were either indiforent or opposed, and only gain of fia.

to 4, the outlay of a sovereign would show a order as steady us, but more powerful (ban, the 128 were in favour of the vote, I have no

eld-that is the secret of the future. In any doubt that is about the trag proportion if the

onse, China is changing with a vengeance, whole country were similarly tested ExpenWashington is single-heartedly in the business to

though it is unsier to recognise the broad and, in- Berlin. deed, the unmistakable currant of progres than sused politicians ses no chance of the Concilia of being a capital," writes Collier's Weekly in a the rate of its flow or to guess whether it is the depth of the stream or tion Suffrage Bill getting through this side of a satirical note of Washington. That means doniral Election. Lite is flag of work for the that it attains to a great deal of guiety in ita majoatic volume, or toward in widening and

destined to quietly Autama session without that. And the militants at in double handfuls. Washington is a social na sooner or later it must, its smooth and navig

spare time, in a city whore's sparo time is measured dashed through buge entar nots before

attaining, baru sworn to raiso Cain if the Bill is not centre for many grades of society so, although able reaches. There is no problem so fascinating passed into law. I saw a little handful of the social senson for goki-lace aristocrata ends in the affairs of the world, and there is zone woman in Trafalgar Square the other Saturday after Lent, for the Rest of Us real gainty more important. It is not the immediate fature afternoon screaming that if the coto does not March and progresses with the buds and I

at the capital begins with the frst warm days of that will throw a full light upon the mystery. come this year she and her "suffering sisters" "In front of Washington's most pretentions

The new gepius of narest is working in many WAY

at once is some directions for intellectual onsympathetic enough to laugh. As I had one-horse hacks. The taxi is for them; the tionary exclusiveness. The sigus are bewilder-

half of the conveyances that are 1 backed dup

enlightenment and technical improvement, in d the other half are others for

bigoted nationalism and a reac- seen her husband, a week little man, hanging hacks for the Heat of Us! The chief daty that ing in number and contradictory in character, a cottage by the sea, what time she ant the family wasking a few days before, at we ordinary folka owo to form in the capital is There is aniversal aspiration and offort towards that of smoking a gift cigar in the office of the better stato of things, but one misses that Representat ve from our Congressional district. cool, concentrated, dynastic, and aristocratio citizens how women are oppressed by men, I the city, to relish the general choor,"

modern Јарад was mers inapressed by her aunotincement. I

owen the greatest of her biorements. In China heredit have grave fears for that little as,

ary, nobility hardly exists, and where it does Heaven knows, he was doing his best with light. It appears that, in the

itara-role is merely honorifio, the A curiosity in conveyancing has just come

system which Mandarins that washing.

ure selected often pro- deces able and honest officials as well as corrupt 1860, Fear Welsh landlord granted the trustees of.

and incompetent ones; bat congregational chapel near Cardigan a plot of competitive examination, on account of their people promoted by land for a place of worship and a graveyard on academic attainment, are bound to range from

99 years' lease. few years

afterwards the the lowest to the highest levels of practical trustees, good men but excessively cautious wait-capacity and personal character, and are not on ed upon the landlord and

to him, the whole the stuff out of which born national I zusu Ever GOD.. says the London

leaders are fashioned. When correspondent of

Yuan Shi-kai temporary, that they were anxious lent the appears rection Day. The landlord met them in a hand- delnite impress upon a traditional situation, corpses might be disturbed before the Resurstrong reformer must if he is to make

proved himself as

as inconvenient as

some spirit, He expressed his willingness to in which inertic, corruption, and intrigue up the crops. Ho fined the growers and pau- was reported to him he sent soldiers to plough make the lease run to Resurrection Day, play the who were but be suggested that, as some of those thrown on any flimay

their several parts, he is promptly over-ished defaulting officials. In Yunnan`a similar baried

pretext. ried might be dilatory eron

sulemaly accused of X2ND, 64

B policy of probibition seems to have been par on that day, the lesse should

will be remembered, was

ofuod. The results are declared to be beneficial in rheumatism in the the

leg." The ablest and adopted by the trustees. A few days ago, where he is supposed to be unrsing the imageconenie gain is secured from the cubstituted afternoon of the day. The enggestion was

clearest-minded of Chinamon remains in exile, from a benumbing and degrading vien, bat an and every way. Not only are the people delivered

and that gentleman was good enough to maka a unemployed. Upon the other hand, the Chinese the famons fertility of its soil, wherein rice and the trustees of the chapel upproached the inary molady of lessor's heir with a view to a sale of the land,

of au incriminated limb. He is at this moment one

Szechuan, no doubt, enjoys special of foremost of the world's facilities for anti-opium operations, owing to gift

gift of it. In this

arising from this odd lease has beening ill with the methodical, slow, far-sighted instead of the poppy. There is no reason to way any chances of compliare nuwise and impatient to an extent contrast-wheat, indigo, and tobacco are new enltivated

perseverance of Japan. The Colestials are

being to stand. Anyway, somehow or other, he got up to Castleton in Derbyshire and shot himself in the land at the Nag's Head Hotel. Then he ran out on the landing and shouted

she had escaped." In China he was very, very "Chinese,” she said.

Was

and

hotel

to

A QUAINT LEASE.

leaves.

ANOTHER "ROUND-THE-WORLD TOUR." You will presently see another great assembly "Hello" in the landlord came. He was blood. of the rich men of the earth in Hongkong, if ranting round the country side talling sober After that we stroll out to enjoy the freedom of leadership, to which

the present plans mature, as they seem to have every prospect of doing. In September it is planned to start the Atrate, a imo vessel of the Royal Mail Steamship Company on round-the-world tour for a hundred or moro millionaires. Tho idual esadi. best known American 120 of many dollars into flons have already drawn sovural of the

the scheme, and they are forking vip 650 guineas

ing profusely from the forebend. After attending to him the landlord examined the bedroom ho had lot to Ito and ho found there a revolver with one chamber discharged Ito said he had tried to shoot himself because he had family trouble and his frionda had fallen out with him.

♫

He was taken to the workhouse and put in the infirmary, with a nurse in attendance day and night. To the nurse he kept saying that ho was

ammed and he would make amends to overybodych, exclusive of wines and oximus, with a sub- lime indifference to money. The scheme is so for the trouble he had given as soon

money came from Japan. But it would have ranged that the party will be i summer goze hard with him if he had not had a friend, weather all the time. Sports and scientific Chichi Takayama, at the Whito City' exhibi.investigation-including, I expect, the sampling tion, who came along to explain things at the

of magnums of champagne-will ba the nominal object of the trip. The bluff on that side of the programme, anyway, is being well maintained, for there will be provision for private store- may store their specimens from oceans, seas, on beard, whore scientific collectors

continents, and islands in known and remote trips in the South Sea Islands, tarpon fishing

police court when he was charged with attempt od suicida. Takayama went to the trouble of travalling to Chapul-on-le-Frith to tell the mugis. trates that a sister of the accused was sending him £70 a year as allowance and ho was to study law in London. Dosides he was to was no pecuniary cause for the trouble. But he

rooms

.....

ATTACK ON SVEN HEDIN.

RAGING IN SWEDEN.

FIERCE CONTROVERSY

A force controversy is now raging in in which the well-known Swedish writer and Stockholm, over a series of norspaper articles dramatist, August Strindberg, attacks the famous traveller, Sven Hedia. clares that Sven Helin 18 rothing but a fraud M. Strindberg, who is very outspoken, de, and humbug-something in the style of Dr. Cook.

By means of old maps and reports from the all that which Dr. Hedin elaims to have ex royal library, M. Strindberg tries to prove that another Swedish orplorer, Remart, discovered plorod as far back as 1720, and that most of Lop-Nut district are borrowed from Ronark

In reply. Dr. Hedin has issued a violent de a wilful perverter, of facts known to every schoolboy. The Press and puble are taking sidies for and against the two opponents in a manner that threatens to develop into a national scandal.

B

to

to

by wh

n

rocdivs other monios from friends. so that there parts of the globe." Thore will be shooting Hedin's maps and tales of adventure in the ced. The Law knows no such thing as a

kicki

and

tho

стора

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had been ronding books and newspapers and off the coast of Florida, and a lot of other for | annciation of Strindborg, whom ho describes as raming to the Last Day would be suct, how,hawar their foreign crutches before the suppose that a similar process of substitution will

not going steady." On Ito undertaking to pay dung ideas on the American scale of thought all: the costs hus and incurred as soon as the Having crossed the Athatic and the Pacific, remittancoa came from Japan, he was allowed Yokohama will be made for, and when the *trate has been overhauled them your turn for to aspart with his friond Takayama.

pection and amusement will come, and then Among our visitors has been the Mayor of Malaya will see the show prior to n descent on Tokyo, Mr. Ozaki. This is his second visit to

British East Africa, where the millionaires are England, and after he is done with us this time to emulate the oxample of. Roosevelt and chass ho goes on to take part in the Inter-Parliamon-line and sach from their jungle haunts,

THE MAYOR OF TOKYO,

A NEW SWISS MOUNTAIN RAILWAY..

lease in perpetuity, and prestmably a lesse ever much it may saruur of an Irish ball to say that a term of years which is to reach its fin. ality with the end of all things is perpetual.

NEW GUINEA.

that

greater

hate well learned to walk. In other words, they local hindrances. The effect

not be carried

out chewhere,

ite of the operations of foreign capital, especially in and if in the end the pernicious habit-as c are rejecting the aid or delaying and frarassing

the moral vigour of whole

people will be

be marked- 20, as the latest ustion. They are even tinguished from the occasional medical use-of respect of railway

dis, tell us, obstrusting splendid

tarprise,

the Hankow-Szechuential Empiro, there is very little in the way

ting opium can be abolished throughout the Celes Railway, in of diplomatio agreements; and the Chinese nationalists have no more passion- the future may not achieve,

and of national reorganisation which the China of ate desire than to build, own, and work all their Bredon tells us of the transformation of Peking, New Guinea, the least known of the principal railways for themselves.

Sir Robert land masece, is, netto Greenland, the largest

Neither politically, where broad macadamisel roads have replaced of all islande. Lying just under the equator, technically, nor toancially are they read

foul, and pestikent highways, premature at where In view of the doings around Macao it may be tourists who prefer seeing soonery to passing mangrove and baboo and interlacing caringo many years the adequate opening up of their formerly swayed and jostled as it would, what

covered with missmatic jungle, anch a tangle of tapt to monopolise would only postpone for lamps, where that

whore electric

police control the trafle that the debates with great interesi. "On the interesting to your readers to learn that the through tunnels. link has been added to the progress in exploration, whore every step must be

of lianas that a mile a day is considered Empire by civilised means of transport. Yet bronghaus and rickabos Lave largely Budget day," he says, "I was most interested in Maials here in a week or two to arrange chain of Swiss mountain raumays, and one of Wen by the axe. In the inner land lie master problems of industrial development, poses, where now exista a modern water supply

good that tesk mast be officiently done before the

fore the placed males and donkeys for passenger, pur. inmult closer political unity, and Imperial defence can instead of surface wells, and where new hotels mu most as a debater. I am not speaking to the voto of the Cortes, in, the next two years, beautifal valley of Engadin over the Bernina has shown many of these porks to bo hikA8938—absence of strong national leader: are to be found in which Western travellers can

be successfully grappled with. These are the are Bervina Railway has been opened after a fone lodge is restricted almost wholly to the distent

view of knowy summits. Triangulation such as Japan has always enjoyed, and an like mushrooma, though in the provinces

at their ease. Newspapers have sprung up -

Mandarins have buying

tary Conference in Brussels, While here ho has visited the House of Commons and heard

of a private company, but the fares are very low. A passenger can travel over the whole system-and there are over 120 miles of lines- for a poury and a small tax of about a far thing,"

THE PORTUGUESE NAVY,

Portuguese government is sending, two

A WAVE OF CRIME.

Correspondence describes a new Alpine rente the coastal plains of New Guinea are denselynge a responsibility, and their ID 50 the old ratio, ebt has ousted the dim oil-

A letter from Zurich to Berlin Continents which is likely to have great attractions for

The writer says: In these days a new

msters,

of

of the

problem is all

impatient

the

live

remotest

onth

We

in

lis

up

what

to the

the

day; and every year increases largely the puni

regions, and the penetrates t system throughout China.

Above order her of Chinese, men and women, trained enthusiasm for education is spreading day by

estern knowledge and aptitude. The four

more than able to hold their own, if need be, dom may be slow iu realising their possibilities as a nation. That in the end they will prove against the world, there can be very little reason

RIOT ON A RUBBER ESTATE.

POLICE REFUSE TO ACT.

tho speeches of Mr. Lloyd-George and Mr. John Redmond, and when Woman's Suffrage contracts for developing the navy. Ten exceptional importance for foreign visitors. The of mountain chains, of which geographical know- was being discussed Mr., F. E. Smith impressed millions sterling will be spont, socorling years' period of construction. It leads from the view of their opinions, but purely as to their and the programme includes both large and pass to Voltlic, and therefore connects the than the Alps or the Rocky mountains; some are foreign assistance which our allies utilised to the all censorious journal, staste for

famous resort of St. Maurico and Pantrosion believed to rival Mount McKirloy. Explora- full in order to come sooner to the stage when free Press is by no means altoget

tendency to repel and oxpel the ability in debate." Asked if there were small ships. Three millions sterling has been aigns of a suffrage question in Japan, he approprinted for the coming year's expenditure, line is the A special feature of this Alpinetion is not an easy task when prevision has to ther would be able to dispense with it. It will it seeme, Railways extend in spite of all

with Tirano.

almost complete almene of tunnels. be made, for the tropical jungle and the distinct take many years, indeed, Bofors the psychologi. The people use their readily, and production replied: "No, we have no woman's suffrage That, as a matter of fact, is a big sum for the By a cleverly chosen roundway and a succession class of alpine perils. question yet, but it will come along. The impoverished land of King Manud.

of bridges the drawback of Alpino travelling This continental mass bas opposed effective orente shy thing like a national organisation the case of the cabbages in the northern dis

cal renaissance amongst the Chinese people can and politicians of Japan have not yet formed any

"A RECKLESS REFERENCE."*

the many and long tunnels, with their resistance to the waves of migration swelling complete suoagh sad pow

exchange flourish consequence. Take opinions on that subject, becauso they have not

Next time F. W. Mackie, formerly. Fronok avoided. We really get the fine views of the found in the dwarf races of a population próbasert its own to stand alone and to trist, formerly left rotting on the ground, but

smoke and bad air-has been completely eastward from Southern Asia. Remnants are the Middle been asked to do so by the women of the country. Consul at Penang, is naked to write a reference higher regions, and are not enclosed in darkness ably autochthonous, now drivea into the higher sible, though we hops otherwise, that there may postal service is admimble. It

powerful enough to enablo

now carried triumphantly to market, and pay of view. It is always posing thousands of faels in railway rates. The "How does London compare with Tokyo?" | for a lady in search of a desirable house, he will where the sconery is most attractive for the the klang grass prairias lying immediately wi.

the lands of the interior. The coastal "Ob, everything is quite different. We are no shy about doing it. A Mrs. Emily Christen the more creditable to the enginders, because thin the liftoral alluvium ara densely popuittedly regenerated, reorganised, and rearmed China

pedestrian. The solution

SLU be huge internal tumalta, and even renewed comparatively poor. city, with a population of gave him as a reference when she wanted a house the difference of the level between the station by a fairly homogeneous race of Papuans Lit of the fature becomes as it will surely become

international disturbances, before the thorough syst two millions, and we cannot spend much money in Camden Town and be wrote to the solicitors of Poschiavo to the height of the pass amonatsing in small communities each at enmity, theas-one of the mightiest factors in the world's in London. Our tram service is in the hands her a desirable tenant for a house at £70 a year. meters above the sea level, and when we arrive sufficient outlet for their energies they wuge said estimo, the tendencies, as we have hundred millions of people in the Middlo King We have not got municipal trams like you have that he had known hor for years and he considered oiles. When we leave Poschiavo we are 1,000 manners. When defensive war does not offer

to 5,000 fort within a horizontal distance of six

Papsans

voracious appetites and very bad

Yery bad politics. As a matter of fact the lady turned out to be at the Bernina Hospital the mark shows 2,309 pusse established themselves in Now Chaines andonhted progress, and, again and overywhere,

on larder account. campaigns on smart at getting clear of houses just before

presaid, are plain. However long it may take to consummate them, they mean progress, and quarter day, and had a long record of successes Another great advantage of this line is the they have held it for their own against all com- progress. Take the anti-opium question in that direction. Mr. Mackie went into the no shaking of the carriages are to be complained tlement of Melnuesia; they have loft but seanty gestion of such a crusade, which was often a

elocirib traction resorted to. No coal dust and able shores and, beaten back swept on to

ars. The black races best upon the inhospit Formerly, box when he was aned for damages for giving a of despite the short carves It is, by the way,

experienced and nubiassed persons to doubt. to the set-

rogarded with supreme scepticism the ang- ANTIFATRY TO CHINESE SAILORS, reckless referance and declared that he had acted the highest electris railway in the world.

traces in New Guinea The island served as a Mr. Havelock Wilson, M.P., the Seamen's re- in good faith, but the jury found for the Splendid exploration curs add to the comfort to split the advance of the light brown dian competition in order to favour internal subtle diplomatic device for embarrassing In- presentative in the House, is all roused up this plaintifs and assessed the damages at £40.

of this new line.

Polynesian

hords; one stream went north of time shout the inflix of Chinese sailors. Talk-

a connecting link between existing lines, New Guinen on its eastward way, the other top. It is no longer possible to doubt that new railway the new

the wonderful movement for rooting out a ing to a crowd of sailors at Poplar a night or

great importance. Up to

went through the Amfora Sen and Torres Strait What a wave of crime we have been having the present the fameus Albala Railway onded to now home in the contral and eastern Pacific. moral by the Oriental equivalent of an Act of pornicious national habit, and making a people two age he had some straight talk to unload on to be sure. Even with the police apparently

abruptly. Now it has connection to the south, Not more than may be numbered on the fingers Parlament, has been attended with very con- the Liberal government. "It is all damned straight ou the track of Dr. Crippen, the

a good electric railway carries us of one hand are the spots where it is possible to siderable success. The peeesat poppy cannot as from Tirano bypocrisy," ho shouted, "for this government to American who murdered, dismembered and

along the backs of the Como Jake directly to

to find in New Guinea any trace left by them in make such s howl about the Chinese in South buried his wife in a cellar in Kentish Town, Aries and yet to allow the Chinese to be there are sundry other criminals ambling round while travelling comfortably will not fail to use have bold them off. The white race has won less dependent than some upon the condemn. kepala informed M. Ledine to Kuala Kedah fore will not be used much for rapid traffic. alsewhere masters of that sea, have sought in afar. In certain provinces the growth is re- July 33 amongst the sinkels, of whom sixteen Milan, It is not the shortest ronte, and there passing. For a score of centuries the Malays to press at billahere it is cultivated at all

it spreads in brilliant fields, conspicuous from that the trouble started on the evening of But who wishes to enjoy a spley did bit of nature hores. Black races, and "brovin; the Papang ated to be almost as wide and glowing-threatenod, and two ustually assaulted, a kepala

vain to 'dumped · down, right here in this country." among me and we none of us know what the Bernina Railway.

to effect a lodgment upon those forbidding pre Continning, he declared that last year 2,400 will happen

Bat in other provinces perhaps whe was attempting to restore order. The дет. Од the Chinese were signed on British ships at Poplar, cote the Churchill prison reforms that are to top of it

no more than a fo

foothold.

Ledeboer, ed harvest-the plant appears to have of New Guinea, as we now almost extirpated

bean whereas their standard W04 80 low no make prison life more educative and considerate LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. German colony and Pepus, the new designation perhaps for purely fiscal reasons, perhaps on requested them to arrest the sinkebe who had

have is

almost wholly of the eastern half, the territories, very little scoms to have been done, stables, with whom he went to Surgel Muda and

In Shansi and Kansung

station and obtained a corporal and four con- government ought to allow them in London and let the ticket of leave mon free from police at All. "Shipping

of the British holdings on the south coast. Foderation treats supervision. Some parts of the reforms are ni-

West of the 141st meridiau lies the Dutch count of the personal weaknes of the local committed the assault. The police, however, white men liko slaves, but the Chinese are animously approved, especially those that affect left Moji for this port on the 17th instant, and other civilised nous inhigh was acknowledged by people, unable to turn in a moment to other was

The N.Y.K. str. Bingo Maru (Bombay Line) sphere of influence,

Mandarine, or the stubborn resistance of the declined to take sotion, placed on a

that it halling pedestal and are never medically youthful offenders. The chaplain of Worm-is expected here on the 22nd instant,

races 1828. It remains a blank

a malter for the estate employees, an agricultural livelihood. But Thereupon The N.Y.K.. Yezta Maru (Australina

ware of gaining an examined by bullies" was another goz of wood Scrubbs the other day tested three lan-Line) left Thursday Island for this port vis land to remain unexplored. Its tropical regions marvels are wroEght.

watchmez armed

with oratory. Hinting at a general European strike dred youthful prisoners and found that raont of: Manils on the 18th instant, and is expected nya believed to be rich in rubber; its slopes called a province, but is really a wealthy and ing attitude, but the watchmen

Commercial needs will not long suffer this wild when a strong provincial ruler is found, there rifles, Mr. Ledeboer and the assanitet kepala

Our Correspondent proceeded to the coolle he said if all the ports could be hold up Europe them had been street traders before they fell into, here on the 29th instant.

where the men lines, whe Instances the great State of

which Azechnen. dard into

were not at work. The mon assumed a threaten- would soon demand a sotilament of the scaman's jerime and none of them had over learned a trade.; Vancouver on the 17th instant p.m., for Heng. These suppositions are based upon explorations is a Mazdstín of herolo thoroughness inkobs rise up and refused to give the

thrust upward The CP.B. Castr. Empress of India left are undoubtedly clothed with a wealth of timber.

temperate zone of altitude o grievances. Finally, be said he intended to That seems to suggest a remedy. But the police hong via the usual ports of call.

populous ani-Empire counting

milions are Seventy

men tempted the arrest of the two sinkehe, whereupon thirty or of people. At the head of its affairs there forty. demand from the Board of Trade a stricter experts, while they are glad they won't have to

pushed at several

men up. Mr. Ledeboor and his party retired application of the provisions of the Merchants' keep the ticket-of-leave men under observation

the eastern half ita into the inner lands of whas moral energy would have delightedcked the kepala, who fell wounded and bined

towards the bungalow and the sinkehs repeatedly According to letters received at Portsmouth activity in England in theexploitation of virg

The present Shipping Act.

Chik-tang. In his sphore so closely, are of opinion that if the men are not from the China Station, the flagship Minotaur The report of the latest Datch exploration of ed in Szochuen last year owing to the prohib ordered his watchmen to fire, three bullets tak rubber forests in reaching out to New did not ese a single poppy Biots ocaine to the ground. The Ures of the kepals and

our Correspondent, journeying, over hill

in MARRIAGE BY PEOXY.

bound to report themselves regularly there will has made a shooting "rycord" with her 92 gane. Western New Gainse will soon be made known, itive price o be more undiscovered crime.

party being put in danger, Mr. Ledeboer days the police method, when a crime is re-rounds at a target 1,500 yards distant while the settlement will follow close upon the blazed up by adroit apeculation. The Viceroy, Chao dead. The jaw of another man was blown away. For nown- The foremost turret scored seven hits in eight and it is reasonable to expect that commercial ply decreases the cost of what remains is forced the ballet coming out of his mouth, and he fell of the deng, for as the natural sup, ing effect. One sinkah was struck in the side.

suping marriage. Her husband, Mr. H. Vrolyk, holds ported, is to look up all those known to be ship was steaming at 12 knots. The time was an important position in Java and his duties addicted to that form of offence and make them 1 minute 31 sec.

trail of goographical reconnaissance. Thus will the fang, was resolute e beheaded the and a third was wounded in one of his arms, made it desirable to stay East. So the bride set

pore inte light almost the last of the dark ringleaders of the riots. Whenever the exis. The wounded men and the kopala were taken to spots of earth-New York Bun.

tence of a flowering field of the forbidden plant! hospital

Mies Johanna Rensee, of Utrecht, Holland,

is now on her way out to Java after a curious

1.

Such

isley

upon the latest mape.

of the island. The

Ways

the late

'A serious afray pecurred last week on the Mr. Ledeboor is the visiting agent. Mr. Sungei Mada rubber estate. Kedah, of which Ledeboar's estate adjoins. The l'enang Gazetts

the

five

Mr

who on the