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TELEGRAMS.

[FROM THE "CHUNG NOOI BAN ro."]

THE CHENGTU RIOTS.

PERINO, September 21st-

Tave re-opened and students have returned

1e the stools.

MACAO NOTES

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEST.)

Maran, 18th September, "THE LIGHT that FAILED."

-QOING BACKWARDS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1911.

is

THE DEATH OF SIR ROBERT HALT.

HIS LIFE-WORK.

Hart which will receive wide ondorsement :-

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have

THE HEALTH OF SHANGHAI

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CONTINENTAL AERIAL POST:

The first letter from the Continent to Eng land by sorial post was delivered on the 28th ult. to the French Consul for Kent at Folke. stone by the aviator Mars Pourpe, who flew across the Channel gn. Sunday evening. Tho Harbour Board, and, was written in E- •porante, its gist being that in the same way na fatfor was from the engineer to the Boulogne

marks the progress

of good relations between countries, so Esperanto is of valus in encourag-

mutual intercoures between nations,

aviation:

M. Pourpe returned on his excing Bleriot monoplane. the Pans day to France. He started from Davor at 5.30 ant, and though Lis machine,

sense of duty to cheristos toward China might have steeled him to publio protest; for no man know better that ander Chinese control the

Dr. Arthur Siantoy, the Heath Officer of casker of corruption may very soon eat into the core of the servics which is the monu. Shanghal, in his report for August says :----

The marked immunity from dangerous ment of his life. Long sssociation with the The owe regehus by telegraph of the donth in Chinese and a sincer sympathy with their preventable disease reported during the months controversy to reveal that ho had become over The works of the Macna Electric Company England of Sir Robert Hart, G.C.M.Q., who inspirations led hits at the moment of of Mar, June and July continued throughout are now standing completely silent. A notice since 1863 down to 1908 controlled the Chinese proficient in the art of yielding. We do not August. The summer has been a vory healthy

which he might ave absence of prolonged great beat. the possible consequences was issued last Friday that the public would not

on Tearo just over-

helped Robert went Home

With the champ sneer that- to prevent The revult is over in Chongtu. A shops Fbe snygrlied with the light until Sunday, but Imperial Maritime Customs service. When Sir blame him for bis predilections, but we fear for one, due largely to the frequent ratus and te Few besides him ox-st the let Sir Robert Hart became more Chinese, to be out in the Chaser two years ago. the fet ported that he would return to China. At than the Chinese we do not feel disposed to liek plague has again broken out in the Chips ourselves. Such ebarges are often wontonly district. Between July 22 and August 23 -eyes of the public, as a look round the factory this seems to be more like dust thrown in the shows everything of a standstill.

tact with Oriental rness, learn to discern and The Trone has sanctioned the request rusting iron is found on one side, id another that time the world's Press devoted many levelled at Englishmen who, by prolonged, con upwards of 30 cases, of babonic plague were soon after rising from the dangerously, he got eroded stendily in the direction of Folkestone. place is some coal, and a few brick pillars stand columns of space to a description of his re

relief of the Peking Legatious Sir Robert Hart Public Isolation Hospital. The area within He reached the latter place, about six miles of Shen-chan-fun, the newly appointedke monuments in a cemetery. What the markable career, and now that the veteran L-Glove theic fluer qualities; and the gibe is gener-reportal, 26 of which came under the direct in turning, appeared to dip

distant, in six minutes, and remained there until were discovered in The Times, will bear reproduction as being Comáissoner to Szechten, to release the future will be it is difficult to say, but it is not no more, the following article, which appeared ally wrong. It is true that willin a work of the notice of the medical inspectors, of the Chinese clear away from the western hoighta, and pro-

tment as a good Prisce Toon's appoints reading

his compass

defective, so, for the return, he au appreciation, and a criticism of Sir Robert was polising for the Manshu dynasty, com- whilatio

and saking is to conceive of the just beyond the Settlement boundary and about half-past niue. In crossing he had found president and vice-president of the Provin particularly bright.

Foxers BA, & kizi

of honourable prototype of limited by Haining Rowl, North Chokiang

half en bour start, he got away from Folkestone cial Connell who were locked up in prison

The departure of Six, Robert Hart from Mr. Holdeno's Territorial Army. We cannot Read, the railway line and the line of tho Nortlased the mail boat as a pilot. Giving the vassel-

with Peking practically termiuntos an official career

h these contentions; but we are willing Tibet Real, an nres haring a population of at 938 am, caught and press the mail ship. Is the order of the Viceroy: -

The advanced.

boat arrived as the monoplane was being hanled suggestion

up to its shed: Pourpé made the sea pasesgo of which is perhaps unique in the history of the agree For forty-five years Sir Robert Hart bas

thirty miles in 32mio. controlled the great service of the Imperial Chinese Maritiide Customs with which bis pas is inseparably associated. He did not found it, The celebration on the 5th October pzomis but he guided its development and enlarged its be be almost to sneb a degree that regarded

it is not its real creator. to be vary entertaizing. In addition to the pro- gramme already ekstched there will be a mili-only as Inspector General of Customs in China tory parade, in which the Macae Civil Force that Sir Robert Hart has received world. wido recognition and distinction. That posi

in A riot, has occurred in Bai-Lang in the will also participate. There will be all kinds that hits, he has becon truly said, "the per-

Inken! trustee of foreign interesİR of sports and fireworks, and the Chinese are throwing themselves with enthusiasm into pre China"; but he was much more than that. For many years he was the acknowledred inter. arations for the precession at night.

mediary between Western nations, and the Chinese Government. During a period of Europe was hammering at the gates of Chias, Bath, insistent requests, it fell to his lot to act as

The Scanda bold on extraordinary meeting on Saturday and decided to instal the old method Shen-chau-sum has inemorialized the of illumination by kurozone lamps This has

Throne asking to be relieved of the dute given great satisfaction to the public, as the relations of the Western world with the Orient | 10 Kapeet the spirit in which they wore xoma 10.000 goals. In this sɔma'aroı arose also and landed in Boniaguesandsut 10.10a.m. The

I

of going to Szechnen, the trouble being

practically over.

A RIOT IN KANSU.

PEKING, September 21st.

province of Kaust. Many thousands of rioters marched to Sai-Ling where they defented Dexoditis and captured the city,

THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY). THE LUTZOW."

LONDON, September 1911. The Lutzow, in whose No 3 hold a fire was discovered while unloading at Antwerp. is now discharging.

WHITE AND BLACK PREJUDICES.

LONDON. September 19th, Reuter's correspondent at Mombase. cables that a memorial signed by many settlers is being sent to England through the Governor deprecating the deportation of the Hon. Galbraith Cole as overriding legal trial

DEMONSTRATIONS PROHIBITED. IN PARIS.

Losuox, September 17th. Paris telegrama state that the Premier Jus

prohibited the anti-war and dear food demonstrations to be held in the streets arranged for Sunday.

BOY SCOUTS NOT WANTED

Loxos. September 10th. The Governor of Finland has dissolved the Finnish Boy and Girl Scouts, number- letter ing eight thousand, after receiving a from the Seinte condemning tym ement.

CANADIAN POLITICS.

Loxos, September 17th.

eve of Ottawa telegram-state that the ese o the polling finds both sides ecufident of victory. Enthusiasm is running highe

Sir Wilfred Laurier in addressing sever- al meetings at Montreal last night appealed to the electors not as Imperialist or Anti- Imperialist, not as a Frenchman or English- up, but is a Canadian above and befors

Mr, Sifton, the Ex-Minister, predicts victory for the Opposition, but the Liberals

streets are better lighted by these lamps than they were by the electric light.

REPUBLICAN TELEBRATIONS,

VIRP.

rod, not long ago, that in the arid haste for

Roferring to the cases of plagas which cuur. the case of plague reported on May 25 last. - red within the Northern district of the Bottle-

he special danger or plague th the part of the Settlement was apparent even at the begin- to the constant introduction of plagna-infected ning of the year under review, and attributable rats from the Chapei district, on which it borders, where no measures have been then, BROWNING'S

INTIMATIONS

been formed betont fast grids had already OLD TOM

On Sunday fire broke out in Barra Street, trauṣition gametimes with gnas, always / Jonng Chinczo should complete their moral edu- forward as rapidly as circumstansea will permit and had it not been for the service of two Chiness pumps the outbreak would have reached con- siderable dimensions. The service of these two plomatic buffer and to lessen the impact of knowledge, he was not intentionally reactionary, proptel in this part of the Settlement

pumpe should be recognised, and the authorities should rescind the order prohibiting pumps from participating in fires.-

V.R.C. AQUATIC SPORTS. The annual aquatic sports meeting of the Victoria Recreation Clab-oponed in the Club

bath yesterday before a Largs attendance of

spectators, when the heats in a number of races were swum off and other events competed for.

Results are as follows:-

Two LENGTUA KURDLE race: First heat-1, A. A. Alves, receives 3 sees; 2, B. C. Witchell, scratch. Second heat-1, 4. G. V Ribeiro, receives 4 secs; 2, II. E. Sarer, receives 2 secs.

TEAM RACE, tro lengths: I. C. Souza's

medy a shock. He w

Was

during

that the best Enr opeens in China develop in themselves, after long reaidence the convolations of the Chinese and absorb the Chinero admosphere to 1 hind,

them, in a facile but misleading way of explain ing a very natural process. Such en come to werkings of the bettor side of Chinesa life realise deeply and comprehensively the iuser They reach an understanding which can never be tont themselves with noting its serface regains ints by the Chinese authorities." etiaineil by those of their countrymen wito con

In anticipation of this danger a barrier of at- ars objectionable. When Sir Robert Hart

between the plague-infected spot Marlites-with special attention to things that Western education the ethical procente of and the rest of the Settlemont. The work of Confucius should not be neglected, and that extending this harrier was and is being pushed ention before turning to Western thought and 348 Chinese houses have been permanently rat He was only lying stress on the dangerous the month, bringing the total number of houses пл eo dealt with to close on a thonsaml. As it is tendencies we described. article on Western education and Eastern found that these rat-proofed henses hold no marels. Throughout his career Sir Robert rats and that the new rat-proof refuse re-

advocacy of the Chinese, if sometimes Hart's

the ent of sustenance for vagrant rats looking in discrimination, has book ardent and captacles in the alleys afford Do devoted. They have not had no many champions atchers and poisonere have been withdrawn that we need grudge them this one. He has from these honses and the staff and sanitary wrought order out of chaos, he has helped to apparatus correspondingly reduced Although tench the East that the West an appreciate the initial cost of permanent rat-proofing is Its ideals, and, if his sympathies sometimes have comparatively large, yet, if adequate building quite are promulgated and new houses built in sanitation, not only will it be possible to grad- accordance with the requirements of modern nally reduce to extinction the present large plague prevention staff. but this measure of per manently ra proafing houses forms the greatest insurance against plagas in the future and is, in fant, the only permanent safeguard, A house permanently prosfod is ant only a healthier ane to live in but is no almost certain guarantee! against bubonic plague to the inmates

been too exclusively defccted towards the dawn- ing light of regeneration in China, he had yet given us one-more proof of the great work single resolate man still can accomplish in the dark and tangled places of the Orient.

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means

the constant and con fidential advisor of the Chinese authorities, and negotiate permitted erea treaties and conventions. He made terme of of Franco aftor (le war pence with 1885, and bis was the proponderating voice when the Chefoo Convention and many another in- ternational agreement was drafted. The poi lion he occupied was diffleult and delicate. Though the trusted counzeller of China, he was also regarded by foreign nations. The rights by Great Britain, as a cestodian of their and privileges. If in the condnot of diplomatic negotiations be sometimes chose to consider that primarily be oned duty to his Chinese associates, we are not now disposed to eriticise bim on that account. It was natural and ineri-

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY. table that the warm sympathy with the Chinaso race, which he received very early and has. never sinee withheld, should remain the pre- OLD AMERICAN ROUTE CONSIDERBO, HATIN-

That the dominant influence in his mind. possible consequences of bis att tale were long misunderstood in England is clear from the.

When the American orgineer Parsons sur- ary at Peking, which was made to him in 1085 for the China Development Company of Now The good sense and save judgment which have York, which held the concession for the co- generally distinguished Sir Robert Hart's struction of the Ime, he marked out a vast neng Haining Road to the Wuaich contact with public affairs wore never seen among the foot-hills from Wachang to Yoshow to better advantage than when he decided to as the first section from thie and. Mr. A deoline the He preferroil to retain his Collinser, the engineer who has been place in nost under the Chinese Government; and no charge of the construction work by the Chinese Oriental nation was ever more loyally or more authorities, tras inot returned from an inspection scrupulously served. We wish we could think of this route. He considers it on the whole that the abounding value of his work is pre suitable, though he will make some slight perly appreciated in the Middle Kingdom: but deviations. the painful labours of the European in the East are too often set at naught by those he seeks to benefit. Frequently he builds but for des traction, and that may, after all, be the ultimate outcome in this glittering instance.

FACTORY.

Notwithstanding this barrier of rut-proof

team comprising F. L. da Roza, J.M.R. Pereira.less offer of the post of Minister Plenipotenti veyed a route for the Canton-Flankow railway houses, it was considorod advisable to erect also!

H. O.. Whito, G. W. Sewell and B. W. Bradbury

Two LENGTH (scratch). Open to army nary and polien: 1. Bugler. Harris, K.O.Y.L.I., 2, Pte. Smith; 3. Bagler Barross.

LONG PLUSGE: 1, A. S. Eli, 531ft, 2, R. C.

Witchell, 58 feet.

100 YAY DB HANDICAP-First heat; F. L. d

Scoond Roza, receives 12. Time-73 secs, hont: II. C. Sayer, receives 11. Time-72-4/5 Third heat-1, R. C. Witchell, received

Becs.

11 secs.

400 YARDS CHAMPIONSHIP, T. Logan

AA. Claxton ...

1

H.

SOLE AGENTS.

GIN.

H. RUTTONJEE

Settlement boundary line ext ading from rat-proof corrugated iron barricado on the Kaifong Rond north to Haining Road and then Monsalem. provided with rat-proof rates to An Ideal Drink for Surgmer.”

more effectually cutting off permit traffic and to be guarded at night for the purpose of infection by rais from the plagas infooted, area The Chapel district has a population telimated in Chapel just beyond the Settlement boundary. at upwards of 50.000, mostly of the very poorest conditions of almost indescribable filth. There is Going out from Wachang, the railway lase living in bamboe and mud hovels ander no line of separation between this insanitary. ronte striken Haining, an important towa

of liveli area and the Settlement, The source where the London. Mission has a branch; the Pachi, where there is a Baptisthood of these poor wretches can only be found Mission; then Yanglotung, where there is within Settlement limits, so that the whole noigh- Sir Robert Hart's control of Chinese Customs large Bassian tes factory then the villages of bourhood may be slescribed as a parasitic growth dates from the period when the cent al provinces Lakao sad Yunist and the city of Yochow. were in the throes of the Tai-ping rebellion. This section measures a hundred and fifty miles Mr. Collinson, and the district engineer, Mr. In the class caused by that gigantic revolt, when even the native city of Shanghai was Deis, had the opportunity of seeing the country the hands of the rebele, the now service was born. in one of the worst floods, and sa were abla The selection of the young Consular offer to judge exactly what provision would have to be direct it almost coincided with the opening of made for protection against the inroads of the Beveral new treaty ports, and the service began river. They found that it would be to expand at once. Sir Robert Hart brought to to make viaduce here and there for the libera- his task an unusual combination of

a

necessary

while their rovennes expanded, not a tael stark hope to get back from the trip by the end of

& SON,

of a peculiarly malignant type on the body of WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. the Settlement that exnnot at present be either remored or cured.

NAVIGATING THE YANGTSZE GORGES.

WHAT HATTENED 10 THE R.A. "SEUTUNG.",

150

Chas. J. Gaupp

& Co.

Hate JustReceived

Selection of Goods from

New

was grace. The Kwon in rapidis canted by MAPPIN & WEBB,

Time-6 min. 18 3.5 secs. - The 440 yards race for the Colony was the principal event on the day's programme, and brought forth fire starters. They were, T. Logan, A. A: Claxton, F. M. de Cruz, Begler Barrass and Bugler Harris of the KO.YLI. Logan established a lead from the start, and gradually increased it as the lengths la posaosed indomitable Industry, inexhaustible tion of overdow water; but, as the listar great », this furally of deal of banking will have to be done. No patience, abrowd perception, t out after

A gentleman just arrived from Chungking! dwindled. The buglors fell

electing good subordinates, a talent for or tonnels will be needed on this section. about might lengthe, at which time Crux ganizatiou, and a love of order and mathod which Mr. Collinson and Mr. Deis returned (says a Hankow comtemporary) gives the

exsunication of railway atudents, was hanging to Clexton. But in the was in strong contrast to the casunt character of for the concluding lengths the latter's pace proved too the Chirese Administration, Heinsisted on dis to take place to-day at Wachang. They following account of the wreck of the a.. warin und Cruz fell tank. Logan, however, cipline, and, above all, Le exacted the strictest expect to get away again next Wednesday Shutung, which skip ho visited on his way dowu

floancial probity from his staff. In an atmes to complete the survey to the border of Kwong river. ended with a dash boating Clarion by more

The place where the accident occurred is called phore of stagnation and corruption, the Imperia! lung. They will go first to Chesglingchi, the tin-half a leapth.

Maritime Customs grew to

to be a shining example

Kwan Yin-tan, near the city of Chungchow on Yochow. It has yet to be decided wheth port of The sports will be continued this 'ternoon.

of official honesty, promptitude, and just treat or the roata will be followed to Changlingchi, de north bank of the Tangise. The steamer

The e engineers

was upward bound at the time and the water st ment.The Chinose marvelled to discover that but probably it will go that way. A WARNING TO OTHERS.

of any person in

October.

two edges of rock which stretch from the Before Commander C. W: Beckwith, IN, ille ritimately to the fingers

porits.

Customs the

A contract has already been let for the office shore out into the stream, and at high Their situation water

ara submergel,

to at the Marino Megistrate's Court yesterday, of foreign trade, Quel get was a caufticate guardian, la tontract has already los intento comer shor

It was an abiding object

strmetare, 190ft, by 84tt. This sad the terminal and character was perfectly well-known of Chiness interests.

of the line will be at a point below Wuobang Captain Plant, and it was no fault of his that It gained the implicit confidence of Powers, and its revenues served as a Boond Tsohibmen station of the Poking-Hankow line. the current on the apper river I at its swiftest The building will be for the Chief Engineer the Shutung has not enough power to stem the sopurity when the time come for China to borrow. nationalities. Itsgrowth

Later a building will be put on. Stake Hill centre of the rapide and is compelled to hug the

shore. Sometimes she bas had to wait till ranks able meu of was steady and

imports alone increased i

oocasion, when Captein Plant reached the Kwan were down. At 8 pm. witness found that valve from less than £20,000.007 to £67,00,000. and his staff.-Central China Post was tied up for eight days at Feartu. On this Yin rapid, he got every ounce of steam on t'e the defendant was absent without leave, and against It lit the costs of China, and it compiles

boilers that they would stand and sailing up statisties of foreign trade which were the equal

in les of the rook made a dash at tha the orders of the ship, and when be returned on of any in the world So efficient was the Cas.

ient distance to clear the danger. Tuesday afternoon he did not report himself. toms Administration, so ample was the faith re- in it that many extraneous executiva Witness inquired why he had left the ship were entrusted to Sir Robert Hert, He without leave, and he replied that he had been to buy provisions, and threatened to take all the med out of the ship. He used this threat of two occasions with insolence.

charged his No. 1 Chinose fireman with absent. lesson in a laud rotten with mismar end almost directly across the river from the steamer landed in the top of them. When

Hugh Hunter, chief engineer of the 8.8. Lacrfex, ing himself from the ship without leave.

Prosecuter informed the Court that at 10 p.m

anticipate large gains among the farmers of on Sunday crders were given to raise steam The service was well paid. and attracted to its and the Managing Director.

the west and the maritime provinces.

OBITUARY.

LONDON, September 21st- The Rev. Robinson Duckworth, D.D. Sub-Dean and Canon of Westminster, is dead.

THE WRECKED STEAMER

"FIFESHIRE,”-

A HEAVY UNDERWRITING LOSS. Through the stranding of the vessel under- writers stand to lose quite £250.000. The bull is valued at £50,000, while £25,000 is effected a freight, disbursements, and totallos policies. The sergel louded cargo at Brisbane, Rockhamp- ton, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. While

on the main boilers, and the firemen were put

bia

the

en regnlar watches until the typhoon signals and 1906 the matinous, for between 1864, for the Director General of Railways, Tuan water falls as on the previous trip when she

in

Fa

(Hankow.).

A FREE PARDON" FOR EARL RUSSELL

ZONO OF A REMARKABLE TRIAL AND

CONVICTIONS:

backwater

rapid at a anfficient

His Worship took into consideration the previous good character of the defendant, and sentenced him to 14 days' imprisonment with impression upon the Chinese officials who were that the Clerk of the Parliaments huil received | apres and carried them on to the upper hard inbours an oxemple and warning to othere

WHAT EXCHANGE MEANS IN

CHINA.

As an indication of what excharge means in

LONDON,

Comprising

SILVER CUPS,

PRESENTATION PLATE,

TEA SERVICES.

TABLE WARE,

CUTLERY,

and FORKS,"

The current, however, was too swift, and he was PRINCES PLATE,

performance be repeated carried bark. This several times and then tied up to wait till the was asked to organize a postal service, which be

London, Ang. 10. did with admirable subcons; and at one time it

water fell abit. When it fell to eighty-are-foot at seamed as though half the direction of the

The minutos of the House of Lords for yes which height he had ones pused this place before, The ship just reached the top of Chinese Empire would be thrust upon his vi

FISII KNIVES the rapid, when a sadden "fu sbuí" is great shoulders. He was always at his post, and terday, issued to-day contain the following he tried again rarely left Peking. He high conception of his interesting item

The Lord Chancellor sequainted the House billow of water which seems to some Imbbling from the boltom) lifted up-the steamer and sibilities responsi

cannot fail to have made a deep

from the Secretary of State for the Home hor wont to

seek his counsel We can scarcely believe that the Chinese Department, in original, the free pardon which ledge of rock. The barge which touched was Customs Service is destined very long to main has been granted to John Francis Stanley Earl cleared, but before the atoumor got away an her down right on the top of lodge number two. tain the reputation it enjoyed in the days when Russell in respect of a conviction of felony other fa shai" gave her a second lift and set Sir Robert Hart directed it with the powers of regarded against him in 1901."

The

proceedings in question arose out of This was done so gently that no damage on sutocrat, and brooked za interference. Its

lad not Earl Russell's very complicated matrimonial ensued beyond the oracking of two plates which fatore

dominant will become apple and pliant. Experiences. Ho married the present Countess have since been mended. No one was hurt, no his

Iguldanco. snd

het she loaded at Melbourne, nor the whole of import and export matters in China, it is said dominant chinese ingenuity, a scheme † in America while his first wife (now dead) was cargo spoiled, or any other mischief done.

that most of the Chinese geoda exported to the Whop which really ended the preotically alive, and before he had been legally divorced Having accomplished this feat"

POSITION OF THE WRECK.

The

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were

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verb.

With

Gallery

at

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the water

Ite

Wax

www

rock

the Adelaide cargo was known in London, the

United States that is, uative goods purchased

was devised

leval when our informont passed Vine of the cargo accounted for was roughly

the interior and forwarded to the United ev

Sfig-six

Бо that the steamer feet, General, Sir Robert Hart did not davul Register: estimated at £150,000, which, since the remain-

Inspector G

much ancient and picturesque cere likely to be worth less than States for use of Chiron in the United States independent control hitherto exercised by the from her. The trial is thus recorded in the retired and has Feen falling ever since. ing cargo

is vot

enter the lists in defence of the great institution ogs the total interests up to a quarter-are herdled with practically no other 5000, briDS There have been à num. Į

to the widdleman than the wall differenc

Westminster on July 18th, 1901, by nearly thirty feet above the level of the of a million

he sought refuge in certain bar of heavier bosses he had built up with so much foil. With meek morial, Earl Russell was tried in the Royal standing on en even keel on the top of Insurance Market, but it is certain to be one of the standard silver dollar, or paper dollar arquicornoon, which to guaranice. bis peers for bigamy. He pleaded guilty, on the water, while the foot of the rock was calling for a silver dollar, as recognized by assurances which for people acquainted with advice of bis counsel but stated that he bad nosome fifty feat from the edge of the river. Erst-class importance.

banks dealing in foreign exchange.

the facts were prepared to accept Pra intention of breaking the law, believing, as he Arrangements were being made by Captain to relannab the steamer, but it is admitted and defended by had no done, that the divorce be bad obtained Plant, and an engineer who had joined him from

Changking, From the first the yjew formed by the under. | producers in the interior are paid the same chich are at seriance will the solemn and the ceremony of marriage with Molly Cook writers of the possibility of slinge wag of amount in 20.cant piard dollars

In chundertsking of China in 1898 that only an or Somerville which he had gone through in an undertaking which is likely to prove ticklink and may involve much waiting. Meanwhile Nerads were valid by the laws of England. Ba Inspector Englishman shall be employed ea may be pronounning sentence of three months' impris Mrs. Plant he joined her husbsud on board. ing and similior charge. A prominent firm of Gezerul. The letter of the pledge may the senzaent in Holloway on Lord Russell, 16

The water may rise again this year and it may brokers which handles remittances from observed, but its spirit will be Chinese

Chinese

of notorious Chinese officials, as now cellor (appointed Lord High Steward for the It is entourageing to learn that, in the opinion the United States and Australia for residents there sending money to relatives in Inspector-General is allowed to become a nere, prisoner of the first division, the Lord Chan-not, but the party is fixed there in the weantime. Foreign Offles is more actively rigilent. If Birthe "extreme Förlure" which he had suffered not the River's. With two hundred more China, and which remits to the relatives in subs

been negotiated with perfect once. sidiary cein the sums it receires in standard seems likely to be the case unless the British occasion) stated that account had been taken of of Captain Plat, the fault was the steamers, silver dellars from abroad, reports that often 518 Robert Hart did not feel impelled to consider during a long period of time" in his marriage horse-power he raid the difficulty could bare commission thus obtained will amount to 8 per the large British interests involved, at least the with Mabel Edith Scolt cent of the remittance-U.S. Consular Report.

the buyera in America a very gloomy nature, and the opinion was are charged with e strengthened by the following report received gold exchange, except, of course, freight, from Aden on the 16th ult.

"Ship lying hard sandy bottom and coral in 19 feet water, broadside or to very heavy-brell, Water in hold No. 1, 174 feet; hold No. 2, 12 feet; bold No. 3, 3.7 feel, held No. 4. 34 fest, fore. geek fall bumping heavily, boilers lifting three inches. Fee breaking aboard. Prespect salving Large number natives along

Bnfavourable.

side."

DRESSING CASES with.

SILVER FITTINGS,

LEATHER HAND-BAGS,

and WALLETS,

RAZORS,

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BROCKETT'S

PRIVATE HOTEL.

FOOCHOW. EXTITHIN two or three minutes' walk from. the Band, ander New Management.. Excellent Cuisine. Every Attention.

Terms Moderate.

other excursious. House boat trips, and

arranged up the river Min, which is anrivalled for beanty in China.

J. BLACK

Manager.

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