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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1478, 1910.

IN BORNEAN WILDS. EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERICAN NATURALIST"

HE ALL-BRITISH EXHIBITION,

GREAT IMPERIAL SCHEME.

DANGERS OF JUXɑLE LIFE.

The main outline of the soheme for the great When a man gets ont lute the wilderness with a big gun and a bag of ammunition, there All British Exhibition, to be held in London in is sure to b some considerable mortality araeng 1915, has, in provisional form, just been issued the animal and bird life. When he returns by the Union Jack Industries League (the amm- with his ammunition bag empty and his game party organisation formed to support home and bog fall, ka seads the latter home to the curator Colonial prodnats and manufactures by encour of the museum in his natito plass and lots the

of British made articles) from its temporary fact be known to the newspapers. That moo is aging the systematic demand for and purchase bed a distinguished unfuralist." offico, 79, Park-stroot, Grosvenor aquara. The thereapon dabbed Sa alto is the gentleman who sits behind a sheine has been ander consideration for & con- Esegelopedia of Natural History and

past,

bat the first publie announce specimen-t

men-tickets identifying pile of iterable bina vacant

of it was made st mont of d

st & meeting of the shot bespattered carcases for what it.w-or

held at Krusisytou last March, when League, ought to be. In the fulness of time, the first the subject was referreal to by Viscount Hill man comes to sie bis violins adorned with their chairman of the Council of the League, and by tickets and baras what manner of strange things he has shot,

of the GE

Strange things they may be and valuable Bat additions to the collections they enhance. what more Could either the gentleman with the gas or he with the auopolopolia add to the s of existing knowledge by their motherls? It is not enough that a rare specimen should be shot and olsa fled, The is no more than a very subsidia y element in the study of natural and it is only the man who indies the Apocimen in life, in its own anrionment and | in its own habite, who fulls the demands of

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ir Pieter Stewart-Ham (a vice-presidentscene attending the granting of Magna Charta. ord I will shortly roturi to London from Interesting episodes in Colonial history would Canada, where he has been making the solone also be represented with a view to encouraging known.

the study of the bistory of the constituent

Two roemt Exhibitions bold in London, one portions of the Empire. Popular amusements of Bouth African products, organised by Sir is great variety will be arranged for, including fieter Stewart-Bam, on behalf of the South cricket and other gamen, rifle shooting, inter African National Union, a patriotio organisa. Colouist competitions of numerous kinds, and trow in that canutry which has for its displays of ruimlo naval warfare.

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the other, which was held by theị Union Jack Industries Longae, an All As rarards the founding of the enterprise, British Exhibition, representative-though early steps will be taken to mise a guarantee Bach a ruan is Mr. C. William Borbe. When a small scale of industries of various fond. The exact amonut which it will be he was in Singapore recently mention of Mr. portions of the Empire, hare both sorved to nessary to mi-e hat not yet been determined, stimulate public interval in displays of home and bat it ia provisionally estimated at £500,000. Boshe and his work was rende in these columns Colonial merchantise. Between now and 1915 ppeal will be made to the Home and Colonist It was then glatail that he was engaged in a sindy other displays of British goods will be held Governments for support in this as well as in of what may, unscientifically, be termed the under the suspicas of the Leagan, the object other directions, and in order that British sub- pheasantry of the world, in which he hope to

prepare the public and work up its jects throughout the world may become peresa- gather material for a standard word ne phon-enthusiasm for the climax five years lenco, ally associated with the enterprise it is proposed sants of ali arecies and countries. When it when there will take place the greatest exhibi- to open a public subscription list. Ample funds comes to be written the work wil raak

the

only one of its kind, and will bo no less affractive is confined to products of the capital and

MAGNA CHARTA ANNIVERSARY.

a literary effort. In previous years Mr. Labour of British subjects over held. Boebo-always accompanied by his wife-m exhaustive researches into the ornithology of the jungles of Venezuela and British Quiana, and the chronicles of them expeditions, put lished recently under the title, "In Search of a sufficient proof of the literary Wilderness," are ability of both Mr. Mr. Beebe.

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based the the Oversen Dominions, are ultimately ent taartoon Drake. In this they proceeded up the At a Balleh river, and, finally, the Mujong

apon Magna Charta, which soreover, conferred much perturbed by the rumour that the famous spot far up the last river thor halled for three upon the industrial as well as upon the leaning tower of Pisa had moved still farther The commission of weeks and accomplished all fast they desired other sentions of the community privileges from the perpendicular and was in danger of Specimens

of three of the four known pheasants which had not been previously safegaurde. It collapsing altogether.

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one in which an. Imperial Conference will inquire into the stability of the famous inwer able photographs and paintings were secured,

sufficiently reassuring. All and it is ass" said Mr. assemble, for the opportunity would therefore has now ismod its report, says Le Nouvelles, good doal of

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The next day, the old man was it mong come to the cance and see us. He wanted to know that we were after and by showing him pictures of pheasants we made him understand. He sent his men out there and thon to make a half-mile line of leash for traps, and the result was that we got a good many pheasants thera- quite the best we succeeded in securing."

EVIDENCE OF BAVAGERY.

B

OBJECT÷OF THE EXHIBITION.

of the scil to

for joint displays will be male, the object of the foundations are insufficient, being surely 11ft whereas they were thought to be 26ft. is depth, Univa Jack Industries League being that over while the sight storeys of the tower represent single Possession hating any industry capable total eight of 184ft. of representation should take its part in the

thoroughly What more particularly threatens to disturb undertaking in order to make it representative of the Empire. The plan of the the equilibrium of the tower is the presence, at Exhibition would afford visitors the opportunity the very bottom of the foundation, of a ranaing of, figuratively speaking, touring the Empire spring of water, which renders the soil vary soft Mr.that is to say, its geographical distibution and pe meble. An attempt si drainage was will be followed as far as possible (scattered tried in 1839, but it did not meet with much islands being the principal exception).

In 1829 It was found that the tower's inclina.

We

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"Despite the ropatation of the Dyaks,"

we found them most hospitable Beebe stated, and helpful. Wo saw evidences of their feroci y

Among the many intersting features of the everywhere, but they showed always the reversa of ferocity to us. In every house we entered Exhibition would be a Fabos of Empire, with tion amounted to 864 millimetres par metre, or were hung the dried-up heads of enemies, • Compress Hall and Art Gallery afinched, roughly one in 11. This inclination bas only would sit down below these rows of heads and In the Congress Hall meetings would be held for increased 63 millimetres in 80 years, the present of Imperial inclination being 92 millimetres per metre, ar fake tou and overy time we looked up-ghastly the discussion of numerous subjecte la rida shout one in 10. The centre of the tower at the One of the Dyaks attached to our party wai 2 interest, the object being to increase big man who had once killed sight men in one of mutnal intereat between all portious of the top has actually become displaced to the extent day. Yet he was the jollieat follow in the bauch Erapira. The social side of the Exhibition would of about 10 feet since the tower was built.

An to the canse and the date of the increase in and was greatly attached to Mrs. Beebo. He be provided for by means of an Empire of the tower's inclination, pinions of experts vary. would cut trails for her, carry everything for and the commeroin! by a Glaneral Bureau

All the her and do countless litle services,

Information with an Emigration Offes attached. The view generally held in that the active agent bas been the gradual and continuous subsidence natives, in fact, took an interait in Mrs. Habe; It is too early yet to give a classification of ex- she was the first white woman seen in that part.. hibits, but it is is tended that they would be of of the soil On the other hand, the Italian

the I have always found that if there is a lady in a wdast porsible runge in order to represent geologist Leopoldo Filla is of opinion that the party, the

party gets on much better, for the very feature in the indors rial life in the British inclination Is due to wome accidental canse, such native women taks an interest in their white Empire. One important class would consist of as the earthquake in 1846, which was felt very sister, and through them, of course, the men are exhibits designed to popularise the stady of social strongly at Pin In suy cases, when it is re. membered that the first stone of the famone dam influenced."

conditions at home and aversen, and illustrating mer The fact is, that in such expeditions there the varion- movements now on foot-the Garden panile was laid so long ago as the year 1174, the sidered small indeed. It in true that the tower in mare dangar to be feared from natural sle-ity movement and others--for the betterment increase in the tower's inclination must be con- inquire than from human beings. The rivers of hygiene and the condition of domestic life. is not completed until two centuries after the

The recent revival of interest in pageantry were every night a dosper to us. Th gometimes rise twelve feet in a night, and our in this country will be utilised in connection first stone was laid, but when all is said and Dysks would have to stay in the water all night with the historic anniversary which the Ex done, it seems probable that te celebrated and efforts leaning tower of Piss, which has defied the will commemorate, in order to ward off the dead branches and eavy hibition floteam that came down and threatened to dan will be made to arran & for a representation laws of gravity so long, will continue to delight ave the boat. Hat the greatest danger in the (at Runnymede itself, if possible) of the the eyes of tourists for many years to come,

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DRIVEN B CK BY CHINESE. On his actual work Mr. Beebe does not enlarge. Ho found, however, that the pheasants of Berou, as gradually dying.

by out, killed Dyaks or deprived of their babitations by the The advance of the industrious Chinaman. pheasants and the Draks are retreating side by zide, and every more cleared by the pushing yello plantor is an acre lost to the aborigines. Ona unique experience Mr. Beebe doen, men- tion. He was very anxious to photograph the dancing place of the Argus pleasant, and after much patient search he accomplished not only but he saw the pheasant at its weird

this,

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Mr. Beebe's task is not yet done. At the presen! moment ko bas just completed a tour in the wilds of Java. He now in ends to "do" the Malay Peniarula, making Kuala Lumpur his headquarters. Thonce his pursait takes

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THE AUSTRALIAN MALI, The I.G.M. str. Prins Waldemar left Sydney on the 24th ultirao, at 11 am, and may bi The E. & A. str. Empire. from Sydney, &c., expected here on or about the 16th instant, left Port Darwin on be 11th foat, for Timor, Manila and this port.

THE AMERICAN MAIL. The P.M. str. China left Yokohama on the 9th instant for Hongkong, and is dua hero or

The P.M. str. Manchuria mailed from San

via Honolulu, Japas and Manila, and is das to Francisco on the 27th ultimo for Hongkong, arrive at Hongkong on the 28th instant.

The T.K.K. str. Chigo Marx sailed from

San Francisco on the 4th just for Hongkong. via Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai, and is dus to arrive at Hongkong-on- the 1st prox.

The P.M. str. Aria left Ban Francisco on the 11th instant en route to Hongkong, via Hono lalu, Japan ad Shanghai, and is due to arrive at this port on the 8th prox.

THE GERMAN MAIL. The I.G, M. str. Princess Alice, carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin of the let ultimo, left Colombo on the 9th inst. p.m., and may be expected here on or about the 20th instant.

THE CANADIAN HAIL.

The C.PR Co.'s str. Monteagla arrived at Nagasaki at 4 p.m. on the 12h lust, and left again at 6 s.. to-day for Shanghai, where he is due to arrive at 9 a.m. on the 15th inst.

The CPR Co.'s str. Empress of China Arrived at Yokohaws at 1,30 pm, on the 12th instant, and left again at 4 pm. same day for Kebe, where she is due to arrive at 4 p.m. on the 13th instant.

MERCHANT STRANKES, The North German Lloyd str. Bornen loft Sandakan on the 8th instant pm., and may be

The Bank Line str. Kumeric mailed from. expected bare to day p.m. Manila on the 11th instant, morning, and is due here to dry.

The Magal Line str Sikh sailed from Singa

The P. & A. SS. Co. str. Selja sailed from pore on the 9th inst, and is due here to-day pm. Manila on the 11th instant, and le due to arrive at this port to day at daylight

The Barber Lina str. "Suruga sailed from New York on the 21st ultimo for Hongkong, via the Straite

The T.K.K. str. Hongkong Baru sailed from Cailan on the 3rd instant for this port, via the usaal ports of call.

The Barber Line str. Shimosa sailed from New York on the 6th instant for Hongkong vis Straite.

The Austrian Lloyd's str. China left Binga- for this port on the 10th inst, and is dus pora bere on the 16th inat.

The P. & O. 8. N. Co's str. Japan left Singapore for this port on the 11th instant, at sed is due here on the 16th instan, at

7.

8.70,

about noon.

The G.N. str. Minnesota left Kobe for this port via Nagasaki and Manile on the 8th Fast., and is expected here on the 21st instant.

The 0.8.K. sir Chiengo Mars from Tacoma left Yokohama for this port ris Kobe, Nagunk! and Manila on the 9 instant, and is expected here on or about the 23rd instant.

The Eng Hok Fang 8.8. Co.'s str. Persia sailed from Guaymas, Mexion, on the 27: alt. p.m., and is due here on or about the 25th inst.

STEAMERS PASSED THE CANAL.

Beptember 23rd- Kawachs Moru, Namur, Patroclus. 27th-Fenarnn. Konang Si, Suevia, 30th-Orestes, Prinzzes Alice, Seneca, Torkin. October 4th Aki Maru, Braemar, Bre-. eenshire, Erzhertog Frans Ferdinand. Glenroy, Boronia 7th Ceylon. Kintuek, Ville de la Ciotat. 11th-Albenga, Bencleuch, Benmohr, Renang Si, Lenne Laetion, Memnon, Nubia, Westphalia, Yangtare.

ARRIVALS AT HOME.

October 11th-Benvorlich, Carmarthenshire, Chasee, Indien, Daufa, Sleator, Wray Castle. 12th-Sunda