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BANK OF ENGLAND.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1900,

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

The following letter addressed to the Editor. At a meeting of the Court of Dice:ors of the Bank of England, Mr. Samuel Start Glad of the Times of Burmahsets forth an extraordin: stone, the present Govemar, was chosen to beary state of affairs :—- recommended to the Court of proprietors fus election as Goverbor, and Mr. Augustus Pre- vast, the present Deputy-Governor, for election as Deputy Governor, for the ensuing year.

HONOURS TO THE LAW OFFICERS

OF THE CROWN.

It is officially announced that the Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of a baronetcy of the United Kingdom upon Sir Richard Webster, C.M.G, MP Her Majesty' Attomey-General, and the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George upon it Robert Reid, Q.C, M., in recognition of their services in connection with the arbitration on the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.

HEAVY GUNS,

Sir, This is a case in which the parties concerned are all Burmese Ladies of high respectability who are loath to go to the court for redress.

f

too much?!

"Ah-1 th' ole king's a bad lot, be sure E11 look arter is own solf wull! E'll take good care of that, be sure."

It's all flat country out there, ain't it sir? No edges ter old yer up if yer've ad a drop $ 301" These 'ere Bores they ide theirselves's Then, as to aur own policy "They'll want ter goo strong an' clear em out afoor em; they got the main thing ler work round and take all the big towns. But they must "ave the force be'ind 'em 1"

fetching home with me. Just think, mother, your son is one of those men that have done the thing that the world are loudly, praising by this time, and always will. Dargai was nothing A Gordon HighlandeR AT ELANDSLAAGTE, to it."

The following letter, dated 28th October, from Pietermaritzburg, has been written by Private John Henderson, of the Gordon Highlanders, to his brother at Perth. The Mailer referred to is a son of Mt. Mailer, Dunning:--I wrote you The facts briefly are as follows:-

on the morning of the 21st, at Ladysmith, but From Mrs A Mrs B. borrowed a valuable

"Have many nień been called up about

never got it posted yet, as the bugle call for ruby ring to attend an "ablu" (a "buksbeesh")

here?"

action rang out, and we were all glad to march ceremony; and on her return form the "ahlu

"Not a great many, sir. Ther's the black-out in the afternoon and comticece the battle while undressing hersell, she placed the ring smith down by the alf-way ouse, 'e's ad ter of Elandslangte Fighting commenced shortly on a table among other jewellery. Mrs Ca

gon, Taint sery andy fur im-leaves is after two P., and was hot. up to the close, and tady friend, unexpectedly called with her pet business behind 'im, yer know, sir."

finished in darkness at about 6.30. Just at the dog. The latter unaccountably attracted by

spoke feelingly of the lack of hedges clear through the wrist. It has broken one bone the ring jumped on the table and swallowed it. They'll want you, Walt Wal is the gentle felpse of the fight I was shot on the left arm This was witnessed by both Mrs. R. and Mrs. out there. Amiable and courteous, he speaks and fractured the other a little, but I don't think C, as well as the owner Mrs., who was also little as a rule, but his wild, wild eyes and the I will have to lose my hand. Rather unfortu there at the time. To satisfy airs. A Mrs. Cviolence both of word and deed of which he is nate to get hit at the last moment, just as the allowed the dog to remain with the former capable towards the close of a Saturday night fight was over, but I never enjoyed anything 60 for ten days under close observation. Every suggest fires bound down within him. He has much in my life. Our regiment lost heavily- practicable means was adapted to

25 killed and 87 wounded. I fell in with one Bet served five years in the Militia.

1 Mrs. A the ring but they all praved abortive.

"No, they don't want us," bawls Wal. Then, of the Imperial Light Horse shortly after I got the owner of the ting, now presses Mrs. B for affecting the utmost fury, "But if / could get wounded, in the loor camp, and be, as it turn- the return of her ring: Mrs. B naturally refers at 'em ther wouldn't be many of em left

'ed out, came from Perth. His name is Mailer, her to the dog; Mrs. C the owner of the dog,

And the black beams shook again.. and he is connected with the family of that Gazette. which she values highly, would under no cir.

nanie, well known in sporting circles. Strange how two Scots from Perth district should meet, cumstances consent to kill the dog to secure

under such grim auspices. Mailer was without a scratch, although he was in the fierce the ring. How is this case to be decided to

charge at the finish with the others. He and the satisfaction of all?

I went through the Boer camp to see what could be picked up, when almost one of the first things we came across, amongst other stores, was a case of John Dewar's whisky, doubtless commadeered from, some store in Johannesburg or Pretoria. Never was" Scotch" hailed with so much pleasure, as after the heavy in a sorry state, and the finding of the case was fight, and the night cold and wet, we were ali a lucky one for 115. We, along with some other 1.LH., Gordons; Devons, &c., drank to Eland- slaagte and Dewar, and for once forgot our

INTERESTING LETTER FROM A

GORDON HIGHLANDER.

The following extremely interesting letter has been received by the relatives in Leith of a Gordon Highlander :-

A naval correspondent, writing to the Times from Natal, sends some interesting details concerning the naval guns at Ladysmith. He says; From the first it would seem that what In my opinion, Mrs. C cannot be held was wanted was long range guns which could responsible personally for the action of her dog, shell the enemy at a distance outside the range which has never before been known to behave in the manner he did in this instance. Mrs. D. of their Mauser rifles, and the captain of the Terrible, therefore, proposed a field mounting also cannot be held responsible because there for the naval long 12 pounder of 12 cwt, which was no neglect or carelessness on her part in

"CAME, LADYSMITH, November 10th, 1899. has a much longer range than any artillery gun placing the ring on the table with ather

"I now take the opportunity of writing you. out here. A pair of waggon wheels were på ked jewellery. Mrs. A, on the other hand, cannot up, a baulk of timber used as a trail, be expected to lose her ring on account of

unforeseen and extraordinary circumstances: I could not write when I wrote to, but new and in twenty-four hours a pounder was ready for land service. Captain Scott then None of the party entertains the slightest doubt i have time, and am writing with a Boer's pen designed a mounting for 4.7 inch naval gun by as to the voracious dog being the repository that 1 got when we routed them out the other day. I shall tell you all about it never want of the ring, since they themselves were simply bolting a ship's mounting down on to

to be in the like again. Dargai was a picnic four pieces of pile. Experts declared that the all eye witnesses to the fact. Consequent-

2-pounder would smash up the trail, and that ly, I am of opinion that the following decision to it, and we fought well shoulder to shoulder. the 4.7inch would turn a somersault; the de- should be fair to all parties concerned. The makes one proud of oneself to think that one signer insisted, however, on a trial. When dog was guilty of an act which caused the loss in a Scotsman and fought as we dith, seeing cur it took place nothing of the kind happened, of the ring and Mrs C, as its owner, is neces-comrades mowed down by our side as they except that at extreme elevation the 12-pounder sarily under an obligation. Mrs C must either were at mine. The Boers had a splendid Gordons" fame travelled faster than we did. shell went good yards, and the 4.7 inch (lyd-pay the value of the ring to Mrs A (through position, and they fought well, but the Mrs B) if she sa highly values her dog: or dite) projectile 12,000 yards. Captain Scott was,

We got about fifty or sixty prisoners. I got must stand the risk of submitting her deg to therefore, encouraged to go ahead, and four 12-

a surgical operation by a skilful hand for the two. Then we got three more between two of pounders were fitted and sent round to Durban in the Powerful, and also two 47 inch guns. extraction of the ring in question, if other furus, and one of those 1 got was adjutant of the force we fought against. He asked me how People say here that these guns saved the ther means fail.

I would certainly, under the peculiar and we got through the fire, and I told him dis situation at Ladysmith.

unfortunate circumstances, opine it fair thatcipline and courage. He said he felt honoured to be taken prisoner by one of the world fained the three ladies should suffer in common for Gordons. The Boers mostly all speak English, the loss, were it not for the fact that the ring is a very vainable one and the dog, though itself in fact they told me that there was more English valuable also, is not unlikely to survive the spoken in the Transvaal than Dutch, and it is my opinion that a lot of these prisoners and operation suggested.

the most of the men we fought against were either English, Irish, or Scottish, but I am sure there were very few Dutch amongst them.

FRENCH PRESS AND GREAT ̈ BRITAIN.

SCURRILOUN ATTACKS, THEIR CAUSES AND SIGNIFICANCE.

.

PARIS, 24th November. The issue of La Caricature that has appeared in the kiosks to-day flaunts hefire the passer. by the most grossly obscene and insulting drawing that has as yet been inspired by events in the Transvaal-and this is saying much. The drawing is entitled "English Correction." It is impossible even to hint in decent language at its more revolting details. It is to be hopes that the British Embassy will demand the sei- zure of the paper, unless, as is not at all impas sible, the authorities intervene on their own account. Some time back a special edition of the Rire-a paper, by the way, which this week devotes a most infamous special number to the English-in which the German Emperor was outrageously insulted, was suppressed by the police, who, however, have since winked at the open sale of the issue.

I solicit your and others opinion on the

Yamethin, 30-11-99.

matter.

HODGE AND THE WAR.

E.

Rural England is seething with patriotism. Hodge is debarred from bowling at music balls; he cannot stand before monstrous gram ophones, they also hoarse with patriotic fer vour; nor can he with twelve shillings a week, half as many children and a wife, subscribe to funds for Thomas Atkins in the field. None the less, Hadge is stirred. He hungers for news; he will cheerfully walk a mile out of his way to intercept the newspaper train and secure off." At dinner-time, bacon and beer done with his halfpenny daily before they are all "snatched and.cutties" started, the "scholard" of the party reads aloud the war news and. Hodge These insults of the French press are at pre-

sils round with a far away look in his eyes, And sent of daily occurrence. Nothing can be said at the remote "Polecat," where we only get in excuse of them. With the rarest exceptions Friday's imprint of the penny weekly, the they are destitute even of the saving quality of landlady looks for the war first and murder and wit. An outrage on good taste and decency, divorce accond. On the wall hangs a draper's they are the mere scurrilous autpourings of a

map of South Africa, embellished with portraits press that finds it pays to truckle to the Anglo- of the leading soldiers and politicians on both phobia of its readers. The virulence of these sides; under the mantelshelf are posted publications must be estimated, however, at its

pictures of a Tommy in khaki and of Mrs. proper-worthy and it may not be uninteresting-Kruger, cut-out-of-the-newspaper

"We avead some dain's up 'ere about this to say a word or two as to its cause. Nothing even

lere war," quoth Mary of the " Polecat." "We've pretty nigh killed all the Bores. Sometimes it's the Bores an' sometimes it's ther Inglish, but we're allers extrermanatin' some on 'em. What do you think about it, sir?"

I

"But i am telling you about the end of it instead of the beginning. Well, here goes. About one o'clock the day of the 21st October I was sitting writing a letter in pencil to you when the captain came past shouting, 'get dressed quick, C Company-we have to be out on the velit in an hour's time. The enemy are there.' We all laughed, and said it would likely be like the last turn out. We did not meet them, and had all our work for nothing. However, we got a hint that we were going for them, and we were dressed and ready in less than an hour's time. We then marched down to the station just in time to see the Devon Regiment going out by train. We got into the minutes from the time we marched into the next train, and were steaming off in about ten We had only about 450 of ours with station. us, so I can assure you it was a quick move, We travelled along the line. until we saw the artillery and cavalry on the road. We slowed down to let them move with us, and went on like this for about half a mile. entrained about eight or nine miles from a station called Elandslaagte. The Devons com- menced the advance, the cavalry, scouts in front, of course, the artillery on our left, also the 5th Lancers, all in extended order; on our right we had the Imperial Light Horse, a corps got up for this alone and a line brave lot of men they are. Thus we advanced slowly,

Then we dis-

At last our scouts exchanged shots with the enemy's scouts, Then we extended to single rank. The shells commenced to whistle over our heads and plough up the ground around us. Then we got round on the enemy's flank, and changed it for them. It was here our first man feel-Bobbie Hall of B Company A shell knocked his head off he went down very quickly. Shortly after this we got into rifle to fall. We started to run short distances then fire, and then the music began-the.men began we threw ourselves on the ground behind stones, and fired at the enemy. I could not feel, but it was awful. Our Colonel and every one of our soldiers behaved splendidly. Just about this time the Colonel, who was on the right of the line from me got hit, and I heard someone say the Colonel is down,' but when I glanced to the right I saw him risc, with his jacket arm covered with blood. He shouted, Go on, my lads, and waved his heimet in his right hand.

wounds. Part of the case we retained for those

hit in three places, but only one bad, and that in the arm. I shot five Boers down at close more heavily wounded and near at hand. I was

quarters just before I got hit myself, so am have another go at them before it is finished. For three and half hours on Saturday after. pretty well satisfied at present. I would like to

noon, 21st October, it simply rained bullets and

their shells did not burst till they struck the shells. The enemy's artillery did splendid work. They scattered our regiment three times, only

I will write you a full account when I reach my ground, and then they did not do much damage. destination, some way about the Cape. Bad fuck being sent to the coast at present. I don't knew where I am going to, but will write you whenever I land—Scotsman,

M. DELOASSE'S SPEECH.

The speech delivered by M. Delcassé before the Chamber of Deputies as a defence of French foreign policy under the Ministry of M. Waldeck-Rousseau strikes us as one of the most level-headed and sensible utterances. delivered by any French statesman for several years. M. Hanolauxalways struck us as slightly Machiavellian; he had studied Richelien so mach that he had come to adopt the spirit of his policy. M. Berthelot meant well, but was, rightly or wrongly, regarded by the people of France, as too weak, and perhaps as too he is an accomplished man, and he is honour- ably free from the spirit of Chauvinism. The es- amateurish. But M. Delcassé knows his ground;

sential point made by M. Delcasséis that France needs a policy of consolidation and peace rather than of perpetual expansion and embroilment. Through eins of conquest and diplomacy France lias secured enorinous tracts of land in Africa, and the ultra-colonial party in France, in spite of the fact that African possessions do not "pay," and never have paid the French peopic, want to go on still further in a career of aggression which has already involved France in immense difficulties, and which, if pursued, may land her in war. To this party M. Deicassé points out, that France has already, to make use of a vulgar expression, "bitten off more than she can chow. What France chooses to do in regions still unoccupied is, to be sure, none of our business; nur is it the business of any other foreign critics. But, as

bas of fact, France absorbed matter immense territories which she is not likely, judging from precedents, to make use of; and a wise man would say that she has probably gone far enough. Let her now look to the economic and social condition of the lands she quests. Such is the opinion of the impartial has acquired rether than seek for new con- eritic, and such is the opinion of M. Delcassé, Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry. And it is worth reflecting, we may suppose, the views of the noting that this statement met with the ap- proval of a majority of the Chamber.

Outward-5th Deceme

Paris of whose very existence the great majority of.. Frenchmen am probably ignorant The

December →→ Glengarry), K*—— correspondents in Paris have so little to do and sach a desire to provide their newspapera Araru, Yowariva 12th Decem with "copy" that they have telegraphed over Westphalia, Stentor, 15th December Accounts of stupid and impudent anti-English san. 19th December-Canton, Epson, Live cartoons and articles which should have been bank, Sachsen, Aeolus, Burdon, Cathay, and best left alone. These things are of no value December Babelsberg, Kanagawa Maru. in any sense, they make against any entente, 30th Dec.-Asturia, Benvenue, St. Jerome, and they give gratulous advertisements Indus, Dart, Lostakkeu, Lysrowan, Olysapa to sensational and contemptible journals,

Homeward 30th December Gloøskiel, Suevia, Annam, Machaon. and why on earth Mr. Chamberlain in lis speech at Leicester should have committed the flagrant indiscretion of basing upon them, what was almost a threat of war, passes the ordinary understanding. Let them be ignored and for gotten as far as may be. The present French Ministry has done well, it has deserved well of Delcassé it has earned the respectful approval France herself, and in the declaration of M

done to cause it undue embarrassment. of foreign countries. Let there be nothing

Economist.

NOTANDA.

CALENDAR..

JANUARY. Meteorological means based on fifteen years' observations to 1598.

Barometer Thermometer

.30.18:

Humidity. Rainfall

.63.4 ..64 ..0.985

TO-DAY.

WEATHER REPORT.

On date

30.19 52.

79

0.13

95

TO-DAY.

Barometer... Temperature Humility Rainfall,

On dafe

4.

30.12

Wednesday, 3rd January, 1900. Chinese-3rd of 12th moon of 25th year

Kwang-sil.

Sun-Rises

Sets

High water-Morning-

Okr. 30min.

shr. 22min.

johr, gồmin.

Afternoon ..... 9hr. 47min. ....hr, 25min. 3hr. 5min.

Low water-Morning --

Aferning.... ANNIVERSARIES,

Shipping.

Arrivals,

ROSETTA, British steamer, 2,039, C. C. Talbot, R.N.R, 3rd Jan.,-Yokohama 27th Dec, Mails and General.-P. & Q. S. N. Co TAMSUI, British steamer, 1,000, Brown, 3rd. Jan.-Canton and Jan., General.-Butter- field & Swire.

SAINT IRENE, British steamer, 2,437, W. Attree,.

3rd Jan.,-Moji 29th Dec, General-N P. Steamship Co.

TIENTSIN, British steamer, 2,555, F. J. Fox, 3rd Jan-Bombay 12th Dec., and Singa pore 27th, Cotton and Twist.-P. &.O. S. N. Co.

HS PING, Chinese steamer, 1,264, W. Mc-

Farlane, 3 Jan:Chefoo 29th Dec General-C M. S. N. Co.

Clearances at the Harbour Office. Tamsi, British str., for Wuchow, Aferionethshire, British str., for Nagasaki.

Vuchowe, British str., for Wuchow. Kongnam, British str., for Canton. Saikong British str., for Samsui. Fuensang, British sin, for Amoy. Apenrude, German str., for Canton.. Haitan, British str., for Swatow.

Nippon Maru, Japanese str., for Shanghai.

Hakuni Maru, Japanese str., for Amoy. Diamante, British str., for Manila.

of

Glenfalloch, British str., for Amoy.

1777-Battle of Princetown, 1839-Lin Tsubsu appointed Commissioner. 1851-1 Sing-yuen appointed Imperial Com-

missioner in Kwangsi. 1857-Assassination of the Archbishop of Paris. 1880--Decree in Peking Gazelle sentencing

Ch'ung low, ex-Ambassador to Rus sia, to death by decapitation." 1897-The is. Chusan towed into Hongkong. with 3 blades of her propeller broken. 1898-Collapse of flooring in City llall, Londori, Ontario, 28 killed soo injured.

TO-MORROW.

Thursday, 4th January, 1900.

Independent, German stt, for Saigon.

Benlomond, British str., for Kobe.

Kwai Lumi, British steam-launch, for Macao.

Departures.

Jan. 3. Kingsing, British str., for Canton. Jan. 3, Frene, Chinese str., for Canton, Jan,

State of Maine, American ship, for New

Bork

Jan. 3, Mary Cushing, American ship, for

New York.

Jan. 3, Nippon Alaru, Japanese sir, for San

Francisco.

..

Jan. 3, Diamante, British str., for Manila. Jan. 3, Yuensang, British str, for. Manila. Jau. 3. Indrapura, British str, for Shanghai Jan. 3, Loksang, British str., for Bangkok Jan. 3, Apenrade, German str., for Canton." Jan. 3, Luyal, German str., for Canton.

Passengers-Arrived:

Per Rosetta, fram Yokohama-Mr. Keeble, Mr. and Mrs. Symons, and Mr. McCine, 12 Chinese-th of 12th moon of 25th year of Capt. Udo Pockles, Li, R. Ritter von Liebeg,

Europeans and s Chinese in steerage.

Kwang-s Sun-Rites

Chr. gomin. Sela

in 5hr, 23min. Moon-In Perigee kr, am. High water-Morning .......... thr. 36min. Afternoon sohr, zamin. 5kr. 5min. Afternoon, 3hr. 54min. ANNIVERSARIES.

Low water-Marning

185-The Amazon burnt. 1870-Great Fire at Tokio.

1884-First election by the Hongkong Justices of the l'eace of a member of the Legislative Council. 1897-A Deputation of the Court officials con-

gratulated Sir John Carrington on his knighthood. Massacre, of British Officials near Benin. 1898-Kiaochow leased to Germany for 99

years.

AGENDA.

TO-DAY.

JL.K.V.C. ORDERS 5.30 p.m.-Company and Carbine Drill for

Recruits of all Units.

5.30 p.m.-"D" Coy. Company and Arm Drill. 6p..-Practice for Unenroiled Drummers. 6 p.m.-"E" Coy, Company Drill 6-7 p.m.-Band Practice,

TO-MORROW,

Indo-China steamer Kumsang leaves for Sin- gapore, Penang and Calcutta. 4-15 pm-Meeting of the Sanitary Board.

for 3.30 p.m.-Regular meeting of the Jubilee

Lodge.

4.30

II.K.V.C. ORDERS.

"..

p.m.-Range Finding class-with Meko- meter, for men from F.B. "A" "B" and "C." 5.30 pm-Trumpeter's class. 5.30 p.m.-F.B. Company Drill, at Kowloon

Docks, 3.30 p.m.-"A" "B" and "C" Coys., Com-

pany Drill, at East Point.

FRIDAY, St. Cargo ex Karlsruhe subject to rent.

...V.C. ORDERS.

5.30 p.m.--Signalling at Head Quarters.

faintly resenibling these scandalous caricatures and diatribes would be possible in England, and the Englishman in consequence, unaccustomed to exhibitions of this kind, stands aghast at their violence and feulness, and fancies that he has been singled out for a quite

I returned an equivocal answer, and she went unexampled campaign. This is not the case.

on unchecked: "I suppose I don't know The methods of the French press in attacking nothink about it; up ere we don't seem to England are those it has come to employ on

'ear 'alf o' what's goin' on outside, but I do every occasion. When dealing with internal

think it's a lit rough on they Dores, don't questions and with its own countrymen it resorts you, sir? 1 allers puts down Inglish people to the same unbrited scurrilousness as against to be covetchous. Inglish people seem to me to be wantin' ter poke their noses all the foreigner. The matter may not seem enc to be laughed at, but it has become a standing over the blessed shop. That's the way bles-

Press controversies have come to be

sed well looks at it. If was ther ole Bores, joke. habitually su violent that no heed is paid to the

and sows, over there I'd make 'en; sit up a bit most vivacious exchanges of Billingsgate.

But Mary is a person of singularly indepen-

This decision is founded on good sense for After two journalists have exhausted their

dent judgment, besides being a woman. More vocabulary of abusive epithets and accused one

over, her view.may be coloured by the tinge

several reasons. In the first place, France, un- another of every conceivable abomination, the of generous scorn which she always professes

like England, Germany, and Italy, has no reader merely shrugs his shoulders, as he

for the intellect of her clientile. They, at least,

surplus population to provide for in distant whether this fact is good for France or not, knows that it is only some difference of opinion may not be doubled; they are fiery patriots

lands. We will not go into the question of on perhaps, a quite petty question that has set

to a man. On Saturday night and at Sunday

upon which much has been said on both sides, The next time I stopped, a man tried to them by the cars. In a recent play a character dinner-time the atmosphere of the tiny tap-room

The fact is so, and that is enough. In the next step over me to get in fruat. Ile only got one was asked whether he intended going in for

grows thick with patriotism and shag smoke.

foot over, and saved me being shot in tlie left place, so long as france maintains a high politics. "I set too much stare on my reputa "What do you think about the war, sir?. Do

side by receiving the bullet in the side of his Protectionist policy, and forces this on her. tion," he replied. "With our channing press, you think they'll come out all right?" the day after you have announced that you are They'll have all their work cut out; they're left foot. He told me he was hit when I asked colonies and dependencies, it seems difficult for her to expand her colonial trade as she him why he sat down on the top of me. a candidate for a constituency, you will read in

in a bit of a hole at Ladysmith." half a dozen papers that your mother was a

"They are in a tight 'ole," allows Hodge the I told him to shift and I would dress it might do under a Free-trade or a low tariff baggage, your father a felon, and that you patriot, but they'll get out of it. A man 'e the best way I could. He did so, and I cut his policy. In the third place, Frenchmen as a yourself spend the money you made as a receiver of stolen, goods in the vilest forms of says ter me ter-day: Ther English 've found spat, shoc, and sock off. I found the bullet whofe prefer a stay-at-home life to the that they're in the wrong. I says to 'im: 'Áve had gone right through his boot and foot kind-of existence involved in pioneering in Before i could get away again. I had to wrap now lands, Whatever be the reason for this debauchery." The papers that think it perfect- ly natural to print the most disgusting calunnies you got a white feather in your tail?"

Of the origin of the was, the military, and up three others, one in the arm, one in the and it was not always so-the fact prevents 9 p.m.-Concert at City Hall in aid of the about the President of the Republic and general-diplomatic mistakes that led up to it, the pra thigh, and one in the chest in two places, God fenchmen from carrying on a very success- ly to drag the public en of their country per procedure at the present moment, the char-alone knows how I escaped without a scratch ful colonial policy. In the fourth place, Cargo ex Aferionellishire subject to rent, through the mire naturally do not mince their

want a place under Government rather than words when disposed to have a fling at a foreign acteristics of the Boers, and a hundred apposite After I had bandaged up the fast one I saw such Frenchmen, as do leave their country questions, Hodge has been at pains to inform the Colonel being led by Sergeant Forbes. I

the life of a settler working hard at the develop. C. & O. steamer Strathgyle leaves for San shouted to him, 'Do you want assistance, sir,' himself perfectly.

ment of the country. For these reasons a and he replied "Thank you, my lad, get to the front again. I turned and ran as hard as I could, moderate and restrained colonial policy seems the right thing for France, and now the French and just got up in time to be in the first charge, but the Boers would not wait for our Ministry has discovered and proclaimed this 3

M. Delcasse's speech makes for peace and steel. It was here that I disarmed one Boer, fact through the mouth of the Foreign Minister, and 1 remember seeing the enemy doing their

One of the Imperial Horse against internal upheaval. Evidently some 4 best to get away, called out, For God's sake, men, don't retire,' great colonial conqueror or administrator makes and some mistook it for Retire and the line for some kind of dictator at home. His co seemed to waver. One of our drummers rush-quests may not be great in themselves, but in ed to the front and sounded the regimental the absence of any conquests in Europe, they Call' and the Advance' Then we went would be utilised (as M. Marchand's adventures came near being utilised) by the French reac That M. steadily forward, and again the Charge

Delcasse's doctrines make for peace is obvious, and all was over, but it was a stubborn fight on sounded. The Boers put up the white flag, tionaries against the Republic. both sides, and the Boers are just as brave as Apart from the Eastern and the Franco-German. we are, and fought a good battle and lost-butüfficulties, there are practically no European they are not to be despised for all that.

nation.

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"Why, they Bores 'ave got ammanition enow terlarst'em-seven year. Fancy that!" This was a swearing ex-dragoon, a hearty, kindly-natured man whose every word was gory, "that's it, yer 60:: they've been gettin' ready fur it ever sin 18B1."

WE's dead now, ain't 'c?" (News travels slowly out here),

"Yus," from the gory one, but 'e ain't cold, thiough; leastways, it 'e is, he didn't 'ought ter be."

MORE REVENGE FOR FASHODA. So manch for the methods of the French press. They are execrable, they are deplored by all sensible Frenchinen and by almost every Journalist worthy the name, and they are likely to be the object of repressive legislation at an.

"That's when we ought ter a stopped an' lowt early date. As for French animosity to Eng land at this juncture it is due to two principal "Ah, that was ole Billy Gladstone spoilt that causes-to bitter memories of Fashoda and of the Dreyfus affair. This, of course, is not the fur us. place to discuss the Fashoda incidcot on its merits; indeed, it is, perhaps, futile in any circumstances to discuss on it merits a question in which sentiment plays the main part. The essential fact is that the French are still smart. ing grievously under a sense of the humiliation they consider they sustained at Fashoda, which has supplied them with a modem variant of the famous "revenge for Waterloo." With regard to the Dreyfus affair, is it necessary to explain the bad feeling caused by that very lamentable business? Fer month after month a large portion of the English press held up the French as a byeword among the nations, declared their generals to be a cuterie of rogues, and levelled much choice and unres -trained abuse. at various individual officers, Doubtless this newspaper chastening of the Anti-Dreyfusard sinners and their idols was

"Is Joubert dead, sir??

troubles to cause war. The causes lie outside

SATURDAY, 6th Noon-P. & O. sicamer Parramatta leaves,

with mails, for London.

N. P. R. steamer Saint Irene leaves for Victoria

B.C. and Tacoma.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.. Dock.

No, that was a mistake, and it may be just as well. He's not a bad sort":

"Better nor ole Kroojer. 'Ope they'll make My other adventures I shall tell you, if Europe, and so far as these extra-European am spared to come home. This is merely an complications can be got rid of or reduced, im pay. "E's worth five million, an' lives on a

or rather illustrate it is a consolidation as against expansion in Africa only way I can explain, o undred an' fifty a year, an' his wife makes 'er outline of the fight, and nothing more The place fe more definitely assured. If the doctrine own clo's, does er own washin', and dams is socks,"

machine guns firing into us as hard as they have no ground of serious quarrel with our What do you think of Kruger, George? by saying that it was just like seven or eight is adhered to by France, we, for instance, shall Isla de Cuba, Well, sis, I don't'ardly know what fer think could without stopping One more thing. French neighbours. Botti countries have per- on 'im, and I reckon there's a good many others Every prisoner--searched had, I found, laps been too bent on adding acre to acre,

and one man I bath have been 100 little concerned with in don'know what ter think on in-neither Ahl religious tract in his pocket,.

While dwelling on this aspect of the question, they'd ke ter find out where'e is, wouldn't they, took some letters from. He asked them back proving that which they already passessed. sir? Is'pose they'll bring 'Im ter Ingland won't as they were from his wife. I asked him why

be did not stay at home with his wife, and heye can hardly forbear saying a word on the Excellently meant, and ought to have been they, if the rl's Court," suggested travelled said he was forced into it. I called him a liar. 1 ugly attitude taken by the Press of both Powai gö

Put'im in

catch im

received with angelic humility and profound gratitude. A nation, however, like an individ Mary, "take 'im round the country in a Gospel van - My wouldn't some people run to see ual, does not always kiss the rod with a good.

im; they might make a pile o money grace-Af Gateite.

Isla de Luzon, H.I.G.M.S. Hertha........ H.M.S. Algerine...... Sungkiang Katsuyama Maru ...' Aung Ping Triumph........

"I have got some loot, amongst other things countries We think that too much has been D. Juan d'Austria the commandant's revolver and the adjutant's made of the stupid and vulgar abuse Afenmuir water-proof mackintosh both of which I intend contained in a few newspapers published in Airlie...

at Kowloon

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From.

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Wakasa Maru.. Holsatia

Singapore

To-morrow

Singapore

To-morrow

Singapore

Jan. 6th

Singapore

Jan. 7th

Japan

Jan. 9th

Japan

Jan. 17th

Singapore

Jan, 11th

Jan. 15th

Jan. 18th.

Valetta.. Glengarry

Preussen

Coptic

Sachsen

Miike Mara......... Bombay.... America Maru

Tacoma Bisagno

San Francisco...Jan, 18th

Tacoma

Bombay Jan. 18th

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Ship,

Abergeldie Afridi.... Airlic....

Algoa..... Ambria........

Destination.

Portland, &c." New York

Date

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Ok. desp

Sydney, &c....Jan, 6th

San Francisco, &c. Feb. toth Havre, &c................. jan. 18th :

America Maru...San Francisco, &c.fan. 27th

London......

Jan: 23rd Antenor,.

Straits, &c.

Mar. 7th Bayern Belgian King ... San Diego, &c. ...Jan, 20th

London..........

Jan, 25th Bombay Breconshire. Victoria, B.C. jan: 20th Canton....... Shanghai, &c.Jan. 21th Carlisle City......San Diego, &c. jan. 15th: Carmarthenshire. San Diego, &c. ...Jan 31st Catherine Apcar. Singapore, &c....anoth China

..........San Francisco, &c. Mar. 3rd. City of Dublin, Victoria, BC. Jan: 12th City of Rio.....San Francisco, &c. Max. a7th Coptic

San Francisco, &cjIan. zoth Cowrie

London...Jan. 3ist: Dardanus

Liverpool. ...Jan. 11th

Jan. gih. San Francisco, &c.]Mar, ioth Vancouver, &c......Jan. 17th

Fob: 14th Mar14th

Diomed............London...

San Francisco, &c Feb, 13th Shanghai

Straits, &c.

Havre, &c.

Jan, 4th

May 16th

Feb. 8th

Doric......... Emp. China

Emp, Japan...... Gaelic Emp. India'

Hakuai Mara Hamburg Hongkong Mars San Francisco, &c. Feb. 22nd Holsatia Inaba Maru... Marseilles, &e......Jab. 14th Indravelli.........New Yorky Jan. 18th Kamakura Maru. Marseilles, &c.Jan. 26th- Kansu ....... Samarang, &c. Karlsruhe

Kinshiu Maru...Victona, B.C..

Jan, 17th

Straits, &

Jan. 24th)

Jan. 15th.

König Albert Straits, &c. Kumsang Singapore, &can, 4th

April 4th!

Jan 5th

Jan 7th

Loosek..........Singapore... Máidruru Maru... Swatow, &c. Mazagon

London.......... th

Feb

Menelaus.......London.

Nippon Maru Oldenburg

Parramatta Preassen Prinz Heinrich Rosetta....... Sachsen Saint Itene

Sarnia Silesia

Strathgyle... Stuttgart-

Sungkiang Taiyuan....

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Valetta

Wakásx-Maru

Weimar

San Francisco, &c Ok desp.. Straits, &c.

Feb. 21st Jan. 6th

Europe, &c.

Straits, &c... Straits, &c. Japan

Jan, roth

May 30th

Jan: 6th

Straits, &

Feb..7th

Victoria, B.G.

[fán; 6th:

Havre, &c.

and 17th

Havre, &c

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Jan. 15th

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Jan. 17th

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Manila

Sydney, B... Marseill

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Yokohama:

Straits, &c.

Wittenberg. Barre, &c.

Yawata Maru. Thursday fe,