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TaipeDep. 735

Taipe

Market.Dep. 720

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989 10.20 19.30 1,53

$53 10.33 12.43 1.49

4.98 5.48 7.43 450 6.00 7.55 5.04 6.13 8.08

5,09 6.17 8.19 -5.18 0.27 8.33

-5.23 6.31 8.28

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9.07 10.15 10.591 1.02 2,07 3.09 9.13 (10,91 10.38 1.09 2.13 3.15

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8.10

30.23

8.25

7.07

8.03 10.34 11.27 13.47 2.58439 | 5.47 6.42

Sheungthai. Dep a 8.11

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7.30

Taipo Market. Dep. 2,40 8.28 Taipo Shalin

Dep. 2

10.41

10.47

10,57

8.31 11.01 Dep. 7.57 8.44 11.14 Isumati Dep. 8.1 9.58 11.98,

Kowloon AT 8.179.03 11.22 18.07

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11.08 3.01448 | 5.54

17.00 3.06 4.50 5.58

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THE ADVENTURES OF RALPH

RASHLEIGH.

A PENAL EXILE IN AUSTRALIA.

HORRORS OF THE CONVICT 'HULKS.

LIFE AMONG THE NATIVES IN THE BAD OLD DAYS.

frightfulness of these days at Ema Plains would be almost too much for the modern reader, but there is

"The Adventures of Ralph Rash; as erimiant exiles in a distant land, eigh" (by the Rt. Hon. the Earl and never more to set foot upon the

coil of England: uf Birkenhead, Cape, 78. 6d.) is the

***Another homily from the worse to come. true story of the son of London chaplain, impressing upon the shopkeepers of devers rank; he prisoners the necessity of faking

received a sound education and wasupan their knees and giving shanks bushranger, Philip Foxley, who is to God for sparing their moet u afterwards articled to an establish worthy lives, interrupted ed conveyancer in the neighbour roughly by Rashleigh's companion.

If ever I do pray to God,' he hood of Chancery Lane. Like many said fercely, all his hate and de- ather young men he found his fiance of society concentrated in salary inadequate to his expensive his voice, it will only be to beg tastes and an obliging friend put that I live to see you banged, you prayer-mabling, sanctimonious old bim in the way of supplementing wine, taking pleasure in hitting at bis scanty income by passing spuri-poor bs when they're down Go

to hell!' cs advereigns.

ment

apprentied to a farmer and then After serving his time Ralph is falls into the hands of a notorious the most distressing character in the book Bushrangers were men who had escaped from the penal estab lishments and they were prepared to go to any lengths rather than be recaptured, but there cannot have been any of them so utterly pitiless and resolute as Foxley. When one of his old warders tell into his hands, he killed him by binding him and leaving him to be eaten by ants. A treacherous confederate was hang The Sheriff failed to suppressed and the innocent daughters of a cleric out of the ceil." a smile he followed the angry harmless settler were raped.

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Foxler's career of cruelty wa worthy of the progress of a Tam- burlaine and it is not surprising that evestually his prolonged feast of horrors unsettled his brain. Once again Ralph was captured by the authorities and actually brought to the sold but his attempts to save one of Foxler's victims fremt the last degradation stood him, it. good stead and the sentence was. reduced to the comparatively mild

For some time he lived as he wished but ultimately was arrested nt Maidstone on a charge of utter.

A Flogging at Sea. ing counterfeit coins and was eca-

Ralph's experiences in the hulks tenced to twelve monthe' imprison

are not reading for the squeamish In those days, although and there is an account of his prison discipline was severe, free flogging which is given without speech was not banned and Rash undue emphasis on the horrors of the thing and is all the more tell leigh put himself to school with the ing for the restraint employed by old hands and diligently acquired the narrator. After the punish all the criminal, knowledge they rent, which lasted for more than

that he an hour, the prisoter was brought Punehment of three years at the could teach him,

penal settlement of Newcastle, to his senses by the simple pro-where the commandant was barely emerged from prison a master. craftsman of his illegal trade. The cess, of rubbing salt into the anne on the subject of corpora!!

wounds. This treatment was re-punishment. account of the experiences that be

One poor boy was detected by feli him when he attempted to put Peated daily until they were heal his theorice into practice is thrilled, and Ralph, having curvived this him in the act of stesting the but terrible ordeal, was able to look termilk kept for faticaing the pigs, fing in the extreme.

upon the voyage to Australia in a and the commandant immediately convict ship of five hundred to roared out for a constable to fetch burthen with something like the scourgers, and Jack the culprit equanimity.

yas immediately tied up.

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Captured by Smugglers. After a highly successful coup at Winchester he chanced to be in the New Forest one evening when be was captured by muggler who decided to hang him to ensure his

The passage to Australia was no eventful one. An attempted mating was suppressed and the Magnet had an encounter with a Portu-

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From the moment that Ralph and his companions in misfortune laad ed their troubles began, and Ralph himself was soon sent to a place optimistically described as erament agricultural establishment at. Emu Plains. Here the unspeak able tortures and punishments in ficted by the warders almost drove him to suicide. "Long before Tues- day came he longed för death, and The Sheriff and the chaplain once in his torment ran his head violently against an angle of one came into the cel and informed one of the sheds in the hope of accom- unhappy wretch that he would be plishing unconsciousness, if not executed in fourteen days' time. Then they proceeded to deal with death itself. His strength was ton Ralph.

The Sheriff addressed far spent to enable him to indict him and his remaining cell-mate more than Bumbing bruises on his jointly, pompously announcing that, skull."

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He then ordered another flog. ger to stand behind the first, with orders to lash the scourger if he did not do his duty thoroughly. Jack endured the first four or five ashes without wince or cry, and the commandant fairly danced with

Harder, sir, harder yet, he roared, and ordered the second scourger to flog the first,

"Still the boy endured his

the commatidant seemed to ga punishment in silence: at which He ordered a third quite med.

scourger to log the score st without effect upon the boy's grit; and in the end he had six scourgers the ad, while he himself lashed at in a file scourging each other and the sixth man with his riding.whip. in the exercise of his Royal 'pre-

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