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Hongkong, th May, 1901.

FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE. HE Steamship

THE

“NUERNBERG,"

Captain Mayer, will be despatched for the above Ports, on MONDAY, the zotli instant, at's P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office.

Hongkong, 18th Mary opet,

Isasc

THE CHINA AND, MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

"HE Company's Steamship:

"PERLA,"

Captain R. W. Almond, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the and instin, at 5P.M.

The Attention of Passengers is directed to the Excellent Accommodation provided by this Steamer. She is fitted throughout with the Electric Light and is supplied with a Refrigera ting Chamber.

A Doctor is carried.

For Freight of Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TÓMES & Co., General Managers.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1904,

15370

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY. LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

"YUENSANG," '

Captain Rolfe, will be despatched as above

on FRIDAY, the 24th instant, at 4 rad

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor..

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co

General Managers.

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Hongkong, 18th-May, 1951, PORTLAND AND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

Agents for and in connection with THE OREGON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION ·COMPANY, Operating the New First-class Steamships "INDRAVELLI,”-“ INDRAPURA," "KNIGHT COMPANIONĄ".

between

HONGKONG and PORTLAND (OR) Calling at SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, MOJI, KORE, and YOKOHAMA. THE Steamship

"INDRAVELLI,"

will be despatched for PORTLAND (OR)

about 5th June, 1901.

Coast Points and all Eastera, Canadian and Through Bills of Lading issued to Pacific United States Points.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901.

Co-day's: Advertisement.

"Strangest in the World"

ONE DAY

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In the life of almost every man there comes a day when it is impossible for him to buy life assurance at any price. To-day you may be able to pass a satisfactory examina- tion,

To morrow the company might decline your appliça. tion.

Yet hundreds-yes, thousands olmen say:

"To-morrow, Tomorrow" And hundreds of widows and orphans to fight, the battle of life alone, as a resul.. Can you afford to run the risk?

THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

F. KIESE, Manager, Hongkong.

For Sale.

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The Special Edition will be mailed to any address on receipt of 58 cents to cover cost and Postage.

Hongkong, and May.

Intimations.

EYE

SIGHT.

Mr. N. LAZARUS, Occulis:-Optician, of London and' Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTAGLES it 16 Queen's Road Central, (R, HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), Business hours :-9 A.. to 5.P.M.

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GREAT proportion of cataracts and diseases affecting those advancing in life occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of Eye Strain ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the siglit

The Hongkong Celegraph

THE scale of clothing and rations to be allowed SINGAPORE papers report that at 8.30 p.m. on to each Boer prisoner in India is issued and is f ́the rath inst, a Madura Javanese, named on an extremely liberal scale, the men being Hasan, staying at 18 Weld road, Kampong found much like British privates with special Kaporran amok, killing a Boyanese and HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 15, additional comfons for Officers Messes. The severely wounding three others, all inhabitants

allowance includes bar soap for the officers.

of the house.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE RUSSIAN LOAN.

LONDON, May 16th. The Russiari loan has been issued at 484, and is quoted in Paris at three per cent premium.

THE Siamese silver coins, tical, salung and fuang, have hitherto borne no date, but a decree has been issued directing that in future every coin turned out by the Royal Mint shall show, under the loyal coat of arms, the year (of the Bangkok era) in which it was hinted.

WE have received the following notification from the Colonial Secretary's office, dated

RUMOURED FURTHER RUSSIANekong, May 15th —

LOAN.

It is notified that a telegram has been received from H.B.M.'s Consul at Amoy that

cases occurring daily,

By a very sad coincidence the body of the late Master-at-Arms of the British cruiser Astrua, who was drowned over two months ago at Shanghai, was recovered on the 11th of this month, on the very day that his shipmates were organizing an entertainment for the benefit of his widow and family.

LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

SUPREME COURT."

CRIMINAL SESSIONS,

' (Before His Honour Sir John Currington; K., C.M.G. (Chief Justice),

May 18th. *Criminal Sessions opened at, ten o'clock this morning. Mr. Pollock, Acting Attomey General asked that the vitriol throwing case be fixed for Monday morning. His Lordship consented and the case was set down for that date.

THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. The Acting Attorney General stated that after careful enquiry he was convinced that there was not sufficient evictence against Mills, the Sanitary Inspector charged with man- columns, to warrant the case being proceeded with, as Mills was certain to be acquitted. He was therefore discharged by proclamation.

It is runicured in St. Petersburg that bubonic plague exists at that port, several | back one of the cheeriest and brainiest (to use slaughter, as previously reported in our

Russia is negotiating in Berlin for a further

loan.

THE PORTE AND THE FOREIGN

F

We shall be obliged if any subscriber on receiving his paper late or irregularly will write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ld, 50 The Porte has sent a Note to the Am Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will bassadors regretting its previous note demand-enable us to check the delivery coolics ing the abolition of the foreign Post Offices.

POST OFFICES.

SPEECH BY LORD ROSEBERY. Lord Resebery in a speech referred to the optimism in high quarters regarding the War, and expressed a wish that testimony in connection therewith was unanimous.

LATER.

THE KING'S BIRTHDAY. King Edward notifies that his birthday is to be observed on the 24th May yearly. MRS. MCKINLEY ILL. CONDITION HOPELESS.

Mrs McKinley, whilst touring with the presidential party in the United States was taken ill at San Francisco. Her condition is hopeless.

ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH NAVY.

The British Admiralty will this year lay the stocks of three battleships of 18,000 tons cach. They will be the largest and most powerful vessels afloat, and will cost one million and a quarter sterling each. "

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report says ¦--

On the 18th at 11.45 am the barometer has risen considerably on the E, coast of China, and is little charged elsewhere. A high pres sure area lies over the N.E. coast of China, and a trough of low pressure appears to be lying across the middle part of the China Sea. Gradients mode, te with strong N.E. winds, on the coast and increasing N.E. winds in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast:---Eresh to strong NE. winds; unsettled, rainy,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A GOOD shorthand reporter is wanted, vide

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of

running together; any of these symptonis indi- | advertisement appearing elsewhere. dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters

cate a deficiency in the form of the 'eye requir For through Rates of Freight and furthering Classes only to correct and cure. Information communicate with, or apply to

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.

ALLAN CAMERUN, General Agent,

or to SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

-1539c

Hongkong, 18th May, root.

"GLEN

LINE OF STEAMERS.

FOR NEW YORK.

THE Company's Steamship

"GLENARTNEY,"

Captain Warner, will be despatched for the above Port, on or about the zoili june, 1901.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

MCGREGOR ́ BROS. & GOW, Agents.

Hongkang, 18th May, 1901.

SINGAPORE:

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FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND

HE N.DL. Steamship

THE

"NUERNBERG,"

Captain Mayer, having arrived from

ADVICE FREE.

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A. S. WATSON & Co., -LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED AN. 1841.

THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS

or

MORE tents, to the value of seven lakhs of rupees have been ordered from India to South

Africa.

THE Hospital ship Carthage with same staff of Medical Officers and Assistants left Calcutta for Hongkong on the 29th ult.

THE Band of the Madras Light Infantry will play at the Hongkong Hotel this evening, from 8 to 9.30 p.m.:~~~

PROGRAMME.. -Ovenure..." In Filled Regiment "...Danizati. * -Walt..." Donan Wellesvansvice, 3-Selection... La Poupes" marzava 40-Air,

Favorite Songs". Mendefaulu. Clarinet Solo I. Marty!"......Kappty. -Polha. *The Deep blue sea"

...... BruNCY. "God save the King,"

THE Imperial infant was named on Sunday last, by the Emperor of Japan as Michino-miya Hirohito. The Grand Chamberlain, Marquis Tokudaiji, conveyed the document, bearing the name, to the Akasaka Palace, where the Prince and Princess Imperial live. Hirohito means "broad humanity," a name apparently sug gested by his Majesty's name, Mutsulito (amiable humanity).

It may be noticed that we are publishing a gazette of interest to the shipping community "generally, giving the names of officers on leave, promotions, transfers, etc. We imagine it will be found useful by many shipping people here, at the time. We shall be much" obliged for who can see at a glance where their friends are

any information from our readers tending to keep the column up to date.

:

We learn, says the China Garelle, that the N.Y.K. will shortly put six magnificent new steamers of the Kaça-mara type upon the Hongkong Shanghai-Scattle route. They are now being built and will be completed during the year. The service will then be made a fortnightly instead of a monthly one. With six 18 knot steamers of this fine type the NY.K. will shake up the now somewhat antiquated and slow-going C.P.R. Boats.

SURELY something could be done to prevent the assembling of gaping crowds whenever a plague case is being removed from a house or the place is being disinfected. The Chinese crowd round, jostling one another and the inimates of the infected house, and if the place is being cleansed and a lot of filth thrown into the street, coolies are often to be seen picking it over, and this must aid the spread of infection. Cannot the police take some action in the

matter?

NOTHING is yet settled regarding the sending of any more British cavalry regiments to South

·Africa from India, says the Bombay Gazette of the 27th ulto. In the event of their going it will be to replace an equivalent number of men and horses sent back to India. It is under stood that the IV and XXth Hussars have CZAR NICHOLAS is intensely interested in min-been selected in India for the purpose. Should ing operations at the present time, but not as a promoter. The Detroit Tribune. THE Director of the Royal Indian Marine has been ordered to charter ships in India to proceed to Hongkong, in order to bring the Ulwar and Bikanir Imperial Service Infantry back to, that country. L'indo Chinois ¡hinks that if De Wet is really. mad, jt would be a good thing for the British Anny if it employed a few men suffering from the like insanity.

We suppose it means artificial, not natural fools.

Cape Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby ÆRATED WATERS Kisen Kaisha contemplates the construction of

requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before to AM, TO-DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be

IN THE FAR EAST.

QUR NEW FACTORY, feing

landed into the Godowns of the Hongkong the sea at the PRAYA RECLAMATION, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown CoLimited is constructed with every attention

and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain to the best principles thanitaly ing undelivered after the 24th instant, will be science can suggest.

subject to rent.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.

HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE, Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 18th May; (got,

15360

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM BOMBAY AND SINGAPORE,

HE Steamship THE

"MELPOMENE," ·

It is stated by a Japanese paper that the Toyo

two additional liners of over 10,000 tons gross

obtained by means of a foreign loan.

NOTICE.

one or both of these regiments be despatched the most probable arrangement would be that the embarkation at. Bombay of the Indian corps and of the relieved troops in South Africa should take place simultaneously. Does the typewriter affect literary style? A writer in the Boston Transcript thinks it does. He says: "As a general thing the typewriter produces a sort of staccato, disconnected, jerky style; to change the metaphor, a fleshless and bony style, and awkward withal, What is written with the machine seldom has the case and expressiveness that the same authors handwriting might have possessed. The special word-by-word planning that goes with it, be it ever so slight and even unconscious,

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ARMED ROBBERY.

Pang Mow, Pang Loi and Pang Pi Powere charged with armed robbery and burglary at. Sai Kung on 25th April.

Prisoners pleaded not guilty and the follow ing jury was empannelledMessrs. G. G. H. Atzenroth, David Gow, A. R. Lowe, A Cameron, E. M. H. Schubart, A. Ritchie, and H. E. Moon. Mr. F. Smyth was also called, but was excused from serving on the ground of of his being Reuter's Agent and having to attend to the receipt and despatch of

press telegrams.

The British Realm,-March, 1901, says: "The Hon T. H. Whitehead has just returned to Hongkong after a long spell in the old country. Everyone in China will welcome

a Yankeeism) men in China. A gay bachelor of some 49 years, he is as full of life as a young marching," sub," throws his whole soul into whatever he is on, be it banking, palo, lectur ing on China, or entertaining at "tiffin" in his Hongkong home, the leading lights on the island, stationary or otherwise. I remember meeting him at a dinner last season given by one of the most popular governors England has ever sent to the shining East, Sir William Ro biason; the only other guest was Mr. White- head's rival banker, Sir Thomas Jackson, as Irish a man, as the former is Scotch. Mr Whitehead has just issued a pamphlet, entitled,

Mr. Pollock, Acting Attorney General, *Expansion of Trade in China," which will be published in current and two following months explained that the prisoners were charged on. three counts; first with armed robbery; second Mr. Whitehead, returning to his first love on

with burglary and third with receiving the January 31st, attended the Hilary Term, atestolen goods. He went on to say that on the the customary dinners, and has after long years 25th April a house at Sai Kung was broken been admitted a member of the most honour into and the goods mentioned in the indict- ment, consisting of clothing, crape, a watch, etc. able Society of the Middle Temple. Good stolen. luck to you and bon voyage is the wish of the "Globe Trotter," and a safe return to England in 190 as Sir Thomas Whitehead, K.C.M.C.; a better deserved title and a more popular one in Hongkong would be hard to imagine.

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

HONGKONG, Friday, May 17th. Messrs, Benjamin, Kelly and Potts, in their weekly share report state:

Li Kang Kin, sworn stated:-1 am a married woman living at Sai Kung. My hus band's name is Lum Kum Fuk. On the even- ing of 25th April' I was in my house at Sai Kung, in the New Territory. My aunt, Tang Tsal Mui, was in the house with me, with her two children, the boy aged 8 and the girl aged three. slept in one room and my aunt and the children in another. The rooirs are connected by a door. My husband was sleep- ing about three doors away. He does so now and again. I got up about midnight, on account of the heavy rain, and heard soine- one knocking, at the back door, which was bolted and also had a piece of wood across it. I shouted to my aunt to know what was the matter, but before I could get an answer the robbers broke. open the. door and came in. There were four of them. Three of them seized me round the body. Two of the robbers had revolvers and the others knives, They said, "We have come.in to rob you; don't make a noise; if you do we will shoot you to death." One of the men pointed a revolver at my forehead. "They also bad paper torches and burnt me on the knee. I saw the torch produced found by the police after the robbery.

The torches were shown in His Lordship.. They were made of twisted paper soaked in peanut oil.

Witness, continuing:-Three of the men went into my room with lighted torches, ran-. sacked the place and broke open my boxes. One was in the room itself and the other in the cocktoft. They took away the contents,

A little weakness has been noticeable in the share market during the past week and busi nees has slackened off to a degree, but apart from the decline in Hongkong and Shanghai Banks and Indo Chinas, rates generally remain steady. Banka.-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks have weakened and a small, lot has been disposed of at 385 per cent. premium, the market closing with sellers at 382 per cent. premium. The London quotation is 62. Nationals are unchanged. Marine Insurances Unions have advanced to $335 without lead ing to business. China Traders are enquired for at $59. Cantons have been fixed at $180 and have further sellers. Fire Insurances, Hongkong Fires have been sold at $360. China Fires have changed hands at $85) and more are to be had. Shipping-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboats have been booked at $344 Indo-Chinas have been negotiated at $135 and close quiet at $132. China and Manilas are obtainable at $65 and $53 for the old and new. issue respectively. Douglas Steamships have again been done at $54. Star

told the robbers, "I would rather die than Ferries, are in the market at $24) for the old

see you take away my things," but they threatened me with death and, being fright- and $ro for the new shares. Refineries →→→ China Sugars have been parted with at $134 atened, I dared not interfere. The robbers -Punjoms have been dealt in at $2 and $71. in copper and four or five ten cent pieces. which rate more shares are offering. Mining. took from me two round dollars, two dollars Charbonnages lave enquiries at $325. Raubs The money was taken from the box and are quoted at $20. Olivers B' can be placed is my property. They also took two bundles Wharves and Godowns.-Hongkong and at $14. Jelebus are procurable at $5.30. Docks, of clothing; a pair of trousers, a pair of bangles, two pieces of crape, a clock and a silver watch Whampoa Docks have strengthened their posi belonging to me. tion and sales at $317 have been effected. Kowloon Wharfs are in demand at $104. Wanchai Warehouses have buyers at $63. New Amoy Docks can be sold at $221. Lands, Hotels and Building-Hongkong Lands have been placed at $198. West Points are enquired for at $56. Kowloon Lands are on offer at $30., Hongkong Hotels have been booked at the improved rate of $130. Humphrey's Estate have been purchased at S14 and China Providents at $93. Colton Mills.-Show little or no change. Cigar Com- panies. There is no business to report in stocks under this heading. Miscellaneous. Green Island Cements have fluctuated to some extent and transactions have taken place at irregular rates between $21 and $zo. A. S. Watsons have been bought at $17. Watkins are reported sold at $9. Electrics have ruled steady with sales at $12 for the old and 363 for the new shares.

THE PLAGUE,

The trousers were produced and recognised

by Witness.

Witness continuing:-The robbers also stole various other articles belonging to my husband from the boxes. The robber were in the house about an hour. They went into my aunt's room. Before the robbery the second prisoner was a travelling trader. I had not seen the first or third before the robbery, All three I identify as taking part in the robbery

By 1st Prisoner-I am certain the trousers are mine. I have not only lost that pair but many other things, you were not only there but seized hold of me.

Here Prisoner challenged Witness to try the trousers on lo satisfy the Court that they were hers and did not belong to prisoner's little daughter, but His Lordship remarked that there was no occasion for it. They were quite a new pair.

By His Lordship. The first Prisoner was the one who buroi me. I am positive of it.. It left a scar.

The scar was then exhibited to His Lordship and the Jury.

each. The money for the new vessels is to be does get in the way of free expression; and Number of cases reported Chinese .........20") on the 30th April.. My husband went to Sai

Our Special Edition is now on sale and may be obtained on application. Price fifty cents. Intending purchasers are advised to order early. See advertisement appearing eleswhere. The King and Queen of Siam, accompanied by their Sulle, lest Singapore for Java, in the royal yacht on the rith, inst. Before leaving Singapore the Queen of Siam visited the General Hospital in which she takes consider

there is a tendency in the writer to think out his sentence less thoroughly, and even to use stereotyped expressions, which fall in more conveniently with one's practise." It might require generations, he adds, for typewriting to become instinctive with civilized people as handwriting is.

Jules Verne has just celebrated his 73rd birth- day, says an exchange. He has writled a novel for every year he has lived, although his first book did not appear until less than 40 years A perfect Systom of Filtration is | able interest.

ago. It was "Five Weeks in a Halloon," and it scored an instant success. At that employed guaranteeing Absolute pur-In compliance with the request of the Govern time Jules Verne had never travelled, but, ment of India, Lord Kitchener is sending though he had seen little of the world, he ity

specimens of captured Mauser rifles to that had an imagination which could carry him country. It will then be seen whether the arm

at once to the moon or the bottom of the His imagination has made him one sea of the most famous men in the world, and yielded him a fortune. His stories appear serially in five countries before being published.

The Machinery used is of the Latest is suitable for the equipment of frontier levies,

militia, and military police. Type:

A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS having arrived, Consignces of Cargo are herchy attends to every detail of the Manus

informed that their Goods are being landed at

their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong facture. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.

The Waters produced are of the

Optional Cargo will be discharged here, unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Gddowns, and all Claims must be highest class and excellence; as testi. sent in to the office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 24th instant, or they will not be fied to by the best English makers.

recognised.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the -24th instant, will be subject to rent."

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by.

SANDER, WIELER & CO,

Pais Agentsigarantiiga si

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY

Hongkong

Number of cases reported.(Chinese ....É.. 5oğ Witness, continuing The Prisoners also up till noon of the 17th Other Asiatica 5 slapped my face and threatened to chap me with May, 1901

Europeans..... 6 a knife. I heard the robber had been arrested

Other Asiatics-1 | Kung Police Station the day after the robbery, the robbers bad not then been arrested. Ife Europeans 0.

went again on 30th April and I went with him. I then saw the prisoners. I picked them our both at Sai Kung and at the Central Station.

during the past 24 hours

Total number of cases reported to date: 541 Number of deaths reported (Chinese 4831 knew who the and Prisoner was at the time

Total number of deaths recorded to date 50% The cases for the week ended at noon today number 121, being 117 Chinese 1 other Asiatic, 3 Europeans. The deaths during the same period, number 112, comprising 109 Chinese 2 other Asiatics and European.

We regret to hear that Mr. Kummiskey of the Naval Yard, succumbed to the disease yesterday afternoon.

THE MANILA COMMISSARY SCANDALS.

up till noon of the 17th Other Asiatics 4 of the robbery and knew his name; it is Pang May, 1901.

Europeans...... 2 Loi. I did not speak to him, I only called out Number of deaths reported (Chinese ... Iz save life." It was raining and nobody heard. Other Asiatics, o Tung Tsut Mui, sworn stated:÷lama relative. during the past 24 hours

Europeans...... 1 of last witness and live with her at Sai Kung.

· About Fidnight on 27th April I was sitting on my bed with my two children when I heard a noise as of someone breaking in the back door. called to my relative and then saw four robbers come in, three of whom seized her. Two had knives and the others revolvers which they pointed at my relative. I saw one of them bum her kneevith a torch. After de manding her money they gagged her with a piece of cloth. Three robbers then searched my relative's room and broke open a box. They also broke open a box in the cockloft and took away various things. They came to my room and, among other things, took away A VERY fine genuine specimen of the Irish bull

five jackets, which have since been recovered, The Fifimes of the 14th and 5th inst. The jackets produced are they. They were in comes from Dublin. A member of the Dubliain book form, and the author turns them out gives the following judgements of the Court a big box In my room. The box was not Corporation, in speaking on the electric light with astonishing frequency. Yet his work is the case of Sylvester Fletcher and Sergeant locked that night. I tried to prevent them but they pointed revolvers at me and I was afraid. question, said, "You are standing on the soge not easy. He writes and rewrites his books Woodcock of a precipice that will be a weight on your before they finally pass from his hands. Once

Sylvester C Tletcher, the civilian employee recognise the three Frisoners as being necks all the rest of your days."..

they are published, however, he sees no more of the Depot Commissary, has received the amongst the robbers, I have seen the first and sentence of five years imprisonment for the third two or three times before the robbery and THE- absurdities of the returns showing the of them. He lives at Amiens, and there, every charges on which he was recently tried by the have known the second as a travelling trader number of persons and cattle killed in the day that he is well, he rises with the lark-military-commission presided over by Major for two or three years. His name is Pang Loi. I picked the three out of a row of men Punjab by wild animals and snakes during Work is to me "he says, "the only source oftrue Bishop.

at Sai Kung.

By First Prisoner. I do not know that you 1900 are as striking as in previous years, re- happiness." When he has pished one book Commissary Sergeant Charles Woodcock, marks a contemporary It is still considered he is unhappy until he has begun another, U. S. Army, having been tried by a general

court martial convened at these headquarters are married and, that your wife and mother necessary to inform the world by means of Idleness is perfect torture to him. He takes and found guilty of Larceny, la violation of use similar fackets to those produced. three special columns in the returns that wild his ideas with him to the top of the tower the Goth Article of War, and of Selling public Lum Kum Fuk, the husband of the first wit elephants destroyed neither man nor beast, nor attached to house, and there, surrounded property, in violation of the 60th Article of ness, was called by his wife after the robbers did man por beast destroy wild elephants. No with charts, Tectrical apparatus, maps and all War, sentenced to be dishonourably discharged had left the house. This was about midnight

from the service of the United States, forfeiting on 30th April. He went round to the house.. birds were flying in the air, there were no birds sorts of scientific Instruments: Jules Verne all pay and allowances due him; and to be and found the back door forced. There were to fly. The explanation is satisfactory, but weaves and unweaves the thrilling plots which confined at hard labour at such place as the paper, torches lying, about and he found the delight millions of people all over the world. reviewing authority may direct for three years, house had been robbed. Two pieces of cloth. hardly necessary,

in