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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1901.

Mails.

U.S. MAIL LINES.

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO., OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL S.S. CO.

TAXING CARDO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE;

'GABLIC'

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

" ALQOA "* (P., M. S. S. Co.)..

"CHINA

"DORIC"

"PERU"

COPTIC "

· CITY OF PEKING

....................WEDNESDAY, 2nd October, at Noon,

On or about the 5th October. „SATURDAY, 19th October, at Noon. TUESDAY, 29th October, at Noon. TUESDAY, 12th November, at Noon. ....................WEDNESDAY, 20th Nov., at Noon.

...SATURDAY, 7th December, at Noon.

Vid MOJI, KOBE and YOKOHAMA,,

THE O&O. Company's Steamship #GAELIC," will be despatched for SAN FRAN

CISCO, SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, INLAND SEA, KOBE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU, on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd October, at Noon, taking Freight for Japan, the United States, and Europe. Passengers are allowed to break their journey at any point en route.

Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers, and to the principal cities of the United States or Canada.

Passengers holding through ORDERS TO EUROPE have the choice of the Overland Rail Routes from San Francisco, including the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL -WAY; also the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY on payment of £4 in addition to the

regular tarift rate.

Passengers holding Orders for OVERLAND CITIES in the United States have between SAN FRANCISCO and CHICAGO, the option of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC, CENTRAL PACIFIC, UNION PACIFIC, DENVER and RIO GRANDE, and other direct connecting Railways, and from Chicago to destination the choice of direct lines.

Special rates (First-class only) to European Points, are granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Consular Services, and European Civil Service Officials located in Asia, and to European Officials in the Service of the Governments of China and Japan.

TO UNITED STATES and CANADIAN POINTS, Special rates (ürst class only) are confined and will apply only to Missionaries, Members of the Naval and Military Services, and to Consular and Diplomatic Officials of the Governments of China and Japan.

Return Passage. Reduction will be made to passengers who do not hold return tickets, making the return journey between ports in the Orient and Honolulu or beyond, within twelve months.

Through Bills of Lading issued for transportation to Yokohama and other Japan Ports, to San Franscisco, to Atlantic and Inland Cities of the United States, via Overland Railway, to-Havana-Trinidad, and Demerara, and to ports in Mexico, Central and South America, by the Companies' and connecting Steamers,

Froight will be received on board until 4PM, the day previous to sailing, Parcel Packages will be received at the Office until 5.P.M. same day; all Parcel Packages should be marked to address in full; value of same is required.

Consular Invoices to accompany cach shipment of Cargo or parcel (valued at Stoo. Gald or over) destined to Points, beyond Sun Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Companies' Office addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco.

Merchant's Invoice will be sufficient for cargo or parcel (each shipment) when the value

is less than $100. U.S. Göld.

For further Information as to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Com panies, Queen's Building.

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Insurances.

"L'UNION".

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. (Established 1828).

"THE Undersigned, having been appointed Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at entrent rates.

Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office.

A. R. MARTY Agent.

Hongkong. th July, 1901

The Time to get Cake is When it is Passing."

The time to take life in surance is when you can get it. One day you are insurable-the next you caanot secure insurance at any price. Do you know when your day will come? Do you know that it isn't to-day?

For rates and full parti culars apply to

F. KIENE, .The... Equitable Life Assurance Society, Hongkong.

7120

1995€

Hongkong, 20th September, 1901. NORTII GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hoogkong, 28th May, 1895,

To be Let,

TO LET.

(From 1st August next)

(30

THE DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP CO.,

LIMITED.

The following is the Report for presentation to the shareholders at the eighteenth ordinary general meeting, to be held at the offices of the Company, Bufurday, the 20th day of Ser tember, 1901, at noon →→→→

The General Managers have now to submit to the Shareholders, their Report on the Eighteenth year's working of the Company, ending June 30th, 1901:

With regard to the Debit Balance of last year, to meet which a sym ́ equivalent was to be transferred from the Reserve Fund to credit of Profit and Loss Account, the General Managers, after taking counsel's opinion, found that the Anticles of Association did not permit a transfer from Reserve Fund to meet losses, except only such sums as had been expended in upkeep, maintenance and repairs of steamers during the year.

The sum, therefore, of $57,288.31, which was the amount expended on this account during that year, has been transferred from Reserve Fund to the credit of Frofit and Loss Account, After paying all running expenses, premia of insurance, remuneration to the Consulting Committee and Auditors' fees, there remains a net profit of $101,087.78; arrived at as follows:

Profit on working for the year......$109,208.26 Add amount transferred from the]

Reserve Fund, being Cost of repairs, Upkeeper and Mainten- ance of Steamers during the year ended June 30th, 1900......}

57,288,31

$166,496.57 Deduct Debit Balance brought for-

ward from 30th June, 1900........ 65,408,79

Net profit

..........................$101,087.78 Reserve Fund therefore is now $173,899.07 after the transfer of the above sum of $57,288.31. The net profit, as above, it is, with the ap. proval of shareholders, proposed to appropriate as follows:-

To write off, $41,087.78 from the Book values of the Company's property on 30th June last, and to pay a dividend of 6% on the Capital of the Company, which will absorb a further $60,000.00

́ (5.) The number of prosecutions, if any, | tiplication, of sections, while it absolutely-

instituted as the result of the said destroys what possibility the obstrectionists qoquiries and

allow to remain of the rapid transaction

(6) The causes, so far as ascertained, which have contributed to the tum bling down in each case, and, if the collapse of any or all of the buildings In question have resulted from defec tive construction, will the Honourable Member inform the Council (1.) What precautions, if any, have been taken to prevent the erection of such buildings in the fature ? and ((2) What precautions, if any, have been taken to prevent a recurrence of a like 'calamity attended with such heavy loss of life as that which occurred in Cochrane Street on 14th instant in connection with buildings already in existence ?

business (by increasing the number of members who feel compelled to speaks at length on ovary subject so that all Parties in tha House may find expression of their views) is by many thoughtful persons believed to mark a transition in English Political Theory, Broad- ly speaking, considerations of internal policy and progress have been in the past, and are painally in the present, responsible for the distinction between the two great parties of the State.

In the not far distant future the cleavage will rather be between those who stand for the ex- pansion and development of the whole Empire the Imperial spirit politically and com- mercially--and those who desire to direct national effort and outlay, towards the protec

(1) Will the Honourable the Colonial Secretion and advancement of the British Isles only. tary inform the Council of the approximate. With the advent of this new departure, tha number of fishermen employed in taking somewhat pitiful brackets, which Lord Rosebery! coral and shells from the sea adjoining the recommended to the Liberal (Imperial) Party New Territory, and the names of the places will fall away, and an open and uncompromis where and about the extent of ground overing attitude on the fundamental question will which such fishing is carried on?

make for vigorous and for mutual respect all round, while men will retain their right to differ, and divide into "cross" groups, on matters in- ternal and nonessential.

S. Nolice of Question by the Hon. T. H. Whitehead:~

Will the Honourable the Attorney General lay upon the table a copy of the deposi- tions taken by the Magistrate at the en- quiry, held at the Magistracy on 30th August last under Ordinance No. 7 of 1889, into the death of forty-three persons consequent upon the collapse or tumbling down of houses Nos. 32 and 34, Cochrans Street, on the night of 14th idem, together with a copy of the Magistrate's decision or finding thereon?

ORDERS OF THE DAY. ́

2. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin ance to amend An Ordinance entitled The Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1885, (No. 8 of 1885).

3 First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin-

The General Managers and Consulting Comance to amend The New Territories Land

No. 3, ORMSBY TERRACE KOWLOON. mittes venture to hope that that the result will

Apply to

..PUN HUNG, 85, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 17th July, 1907,

TO LET

[761c

be considered satisfactory, in view of the low and unremunerative rates which have continued to rule on cargo to and from the Coast and Formosa, coupled with the high price of fuel.

During the year, several of the Company's steamers have been chartered at times to the

Court Ordinance, 1900. (No. 18 of 1900)."

4. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin ance to amend the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, (No. 13 of 1901).

5. Firat reading of a Rill entitled An Ordine ance relating to Copywright in Works of the Fine Arts, and for repressing the Commission of Fraud in the Production and Sale of such

The only point in the King's specchi prorogu-/ ing Parliament, except a question of grammar, which appears to excite more than common- place comment is the allusion to "my. dominions oversea," which is supposed to.in dicate His Majesty's determination to adopt. that form In the new addition to the royal title. THE WAR.

The week's war news is of considerable in- terest, including as it does-Lord Kitchener's long despatch dealing in great detail with

1. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin- | the operations, respecting which he has hither- ance to apply, a sum not exceeding Three to sent only brief telegrams. The chief value million Seven hundred and Forty thousand of the document lies in the final peragraphs, Four hundred and One Dollars and Sixty-one which present, in a few blunt sentences, Cents to the Public Service of the Year 1902. the view of an experienced soldier on the nature and quality of the Boer resistance, and which indicate tolerably clearly, that in his. opinion the enemy should no longer be con ceded belligerant rights. But South African affairs have been within the last few days illustrated by other means than by Lord Kitchener's despatch. Following on the suggestion that Mr. Kruger should authorise privateers to indulge in a little private naval brigandage, on his, and their own account, come details of the negotiations of Dr. Leyus. and his entourage for the purchase of all the French guns now on view at the Earl's Court Military Exhibition. The manufacturer has 6. First reading of a Bill entitled An Urdi-paid down, and the Exhibition authorities allow expressed himself willing, provided his price is

nance to amend Onlinance 15 of 1887, and to him to cancel his contract. It remains to be remove any doubts as to the validity of any seen if either of these conditions can be fulfilled, matters done under it.

and if so, what the English Government will have to say in the matter. Finally, after all

remain the question, by what means guns could

The publication of My Life's Record ' be landed for the Boers in South Africa?

gives a most suggestive insight into the devious methods by which the pro-Boer Press campaign has been conducted, and such little affairs as this of the French guns arranged, by those who regard all weapons, as lawfully to be used against an opponent. These confessions, as the book might well be called, of the Transvaal

NOS to 8 WILD DELL, WANCHAI Government, to which fact is due a very large Works.

ROAD.

Apply 10-

SANG KEE, 294, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, 5th September, root. [976c

TO LET.

7. Second reading of the Bill entitled-An

solidation Ordinance, 1887;

AO. 1, STEWART TERRACE. THE chow line, thereby cutting into the Company's Ordinance to further amend the Jury. Con these difficulties are disposed of there will still

GEORGE ECKLEY, Acting Agent.

PEAK.

Apply to

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Hongkong, 25th September, 19or,

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COY.'S ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.

SAFETY.

SPEED.

PUNCTUALITY,

THE FAST ROUTE BETWEEN CHINA, JAPAN AND EUROPE, WA- CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

*

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(CALLING AT SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VICTORIA, B.C.J Twin Screw Steamships~6,000 Tòns-10,000 Home Power-Speed 19 Knots.

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG. EMPRESS OF CHINA.Comdr. R. Archibald, R.N.R....WEDNESDAY, 23rd October. EMPRESS OF INDIA ...Comdr. O. P. Marshall, R.N.R... WEDNESDAY, 20th November. EMPRESS OF JAPAN...Comdr. H. Pybus, R.N.R.........WEDNESDAY,

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THE magnificent Twin-screw Steamships of this Line pass through the famous INLAND SEA OF JAPAN, and usually make the voyage YOKOHAMA TO VANCOUVER (B.C.) in 12 DAYS, saving THREE DAYS to a WEEK in the Trans-Pacific journey, and make connection at Vancouver with the PALATIAL TRANS CONTINENTAL TRAINS of the CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY which leave daily, and cross the Continent FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE ATLANTIC WITHOUT CHANGE. Close connection is made at Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, New York and Boston: with all Trans-Atlantic Lines, which passengers to Great Britain and the Continent are given choice of.

Passengers Booked through to all principal points and AROUND THE WORLD; Return tickets to various points at reduced rates, Good for 4, 6, 9 and 12 months.

SPECIAL RATES (First class only) granted to Missionaries, Members of the Naval, Military, Diplomatic and Civil Services, and to European Officials in the Service of China and Japan Governments.

The attractive features of the Company's route embrace its PALATIAL STEAMSHIPS, (second to none in the World), the LUXURIANCE OF ITS TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAINS (the Company having received the highest award for same at recent Chicago World's Exhibition), and the diversity of MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAIN AND. LAKE SCENERY through which the Railway passes.

THE DINING CARS and MOUNTAIN HOTELS of this route are owned and operated by the Company, and their appointments and Cuisine are unexcelled.

For further information, Maps, Guide, Books, Rates of Passage, &c., apply to

Hongkong, 25th September, 1901.

D. E. BROWN, General Agent,

HAMBURG-AMERIKA

NORDDEUTSCHER

Pedder's Street..

13

LINIE.

LLOYD...

OSTASIATISCHER FRACHTDAMPFER DIENST.

(Taking Cargo at through Rates to ANTWERP, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, CopenHAGEN, LISBON, OPORTO, LONDON, LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, TRIESTE, GENOA, PORTS IN THE LEVANTE: BLACK SEA and BALTIC PORTS: NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS).

PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

SUBJECT TO ALTERATIONS,

`STEAMERS..

ARABIA

Sachs

KOENIGSBERG.

Christiansen

BAMBERG

Jacobs

› DESTINATIONS. HAVRE and HAMBURG,

· (Calling at SINGAPORE and. COLOMBÓ), HAVRE, BREMEN and HAMBURG, (Calling at SINGAPORE and PENANG), HAVRE and HAMBURG. (Calling at SINGAPORE and ColquBQ), HAVRE and HAMBURG. (Calling at SinoAPORE and PENANG).

HAVRE and HAMBURG, (Calling at SINGAPORE and COLOMBO). For further Particulars, apply

SEGOVIA

MARBURG yon Bidzer

Hongkong, Jath September. I

SAILING DATĖS.

5th Oct.

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO, LE, Hongkong, 31st July, 1901.

I709c

TO LET.

ODOWN-No. §a, DUDDELL STREET,

Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 31st July, 1901..

A

TO LET

HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE,

part of the profit now shown.

A keen competition is still carried on by the steamers of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, who have, in addition to their steamers running to Formosa,-placed a regular boat on the Foo.

trade with that pon. The General Managers have front time approached the management of this line, with the view of advancing rates on the coast and at Tamsui, but up to the pre-1897, (No, of 1897.) Bent no satisfactory arrangement has been come to,

The steamers of the Company have been maintained Iri a state of thorough efficiency, and are in first class order,

The amounts appearing as freights due and

Ordinance to amend The Probates-Ordinance, 8. Second reading of the Bill entitied. Ar

9. Second reading of the Bill entitled Ab. Ordinance to amend The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance, 36 of 1899)...

sa. Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to aniend the law relating to the

[8224 accounts receivable on 30th June, bave all manufacture of gunpowder and of fireworks, agent Mr. Reginald Statham, should be read he

been collected, with the exception of a sum of $13727:16, still dge from the late Amoy Agents, which is gradually being reduced, and against which the Company has ample security.

CONSULTING COMMITTEE,

-

,

"THE RETREAT." MOUNT KELLETT. Apply to

Since the last General Meeting, the Hon. J THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

3. Keswick, and Mr. J. A. Mackay have re- Hongkong, 31st July, 1001.

(200e signed their seats, and the Hon. J. J. Bell Irving and Mr. C. 1. Thompson have en invited to fill the respective vacancies on the board. The Committee now consists of Mesara,

For Sale.

A SPECIAL SALE

WILL BE HELD AT THE ITALIAN CONVENT, on behalf of the poor Orphans from the 23rd instant, at 2 P., to the 28th, of Ladies and children's underclothing and other useful and embroidered articles suitable for birthday presents &c.

The prices will be marked on every article. The Superioress hopes to receive and merit a large share of public patronage.

ITALIAN CONVENT, 20 Caine Road, Hongkong, 9th September, 1901.

FOR SALE. EVERAL MODERN BOOKS on En;

gineering Subjecta. For Lisi, apply

"STEAM, C/o The Hongkong Telegraph Hongkong, 10th August, root.

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FOR SALE, CHEAP. COTTAGE PIANO by BORD, of PARIS, Three years old; in Excellent Condition. For Price, c. apply to

THE ROBINSON PIANO CO. Hongkong, 27th May, 1001.

13635

THE.

ROBINSON

PIANO CO., LIMITED,

Freight, Freight and Passengers. Freight.

Freight,

BEST VALUE IN

19th Oct

2nd Nov,

16th Nov.

30th Nov. Freight.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE: HONGKONG OFFICE

• No. 7, Otteau's Buildings

PIANOS

MONTHLY PAYMENT

SYSTEM.

Hongkong, 19th August, 1901,

R. Shewan, C. S. Sharp, C. H. Thompson, and the Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, who all retire in terms of the Articles of Association, but, being eligible, offer themselves for reflection,

AUDITORS.

Mr. J. H. Cox, having resigned his "position" as auditor, Mr. W. H. Potts has been asked to fill the vacancy. The present accounts tave been audited by Mesars. W. H. Gaskell and W. H. Patts who retire, but offer themselves for re-elecion.c

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO., General Managers,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council will bebeld on Thursday, the 26th September, at 3 p.m.

BUSINESS.

and to regulate the, sale and conveyance everyone desirous of understanding the inside. gunpowder.

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11. Third reading of the Bill' entitled" Ar Ordinance to validate Crown leases heretofore made of Foreshore and submerged Lands with in the territorial waters of the Colony for reclam ation and other purposes and to legalize and facilitate the making of such leases hereafter.. 12. Third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws

relating to Stamps and Stamp Duty in the

Colony of Hongkong..

of that agitation on behalf of the enemy still, in arms against us, which has disgraced a por tion of the British Press, and scandalised the whole watching world. Here is a man with... admittedly a criminal record behind · him accepted as a member of the Liberal Club, notwithstanding that he came to London in the pay of the Boer Govemment to advance their cause by any means that might come to his hand.

The Pro-Boer Press opened its columnato him' he beld immediately after the Council.

A meeting of the Finance Committee will with infinite joy, and through the Daily News,

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(Frein:Our Own. Correspondent.)

LONDON, August 23rd: PARLIAMENT.

the Daily Chronicle thefore its regeneration) the Morning Leader, and the Manchester Guardian, -- he poured out a continual stream of lies and mis-atatements, which not one of these papers attempted to check or verify prior to publica tion. The excuse that the Club and the. Pro- The conclusion of the first. Session of His no dubt true, is in itself a condemnation, for Boer Preas were ignorant of his identity, though. Majesty's first Parliament came with hardly it shows that little if any inquiry into Mr. less satisfaction to the public at large, than to Statham's antecedents could have been made the weary legislators themselves. There can be by these responsible for Club or Newspapers, little doubt that the general dissatisfaction over since they permitted a paid agent of the enemy the conduct, or rather the misconduct of the to pass before an sususpecting public as an national business, which has characterized the unbiassed critic of passing events, In a word deliberations of Parliament during the last year the book is truly described by a London Daily or two, is steadily increasing. Whether it will as "The most sensational exposure of the Brit- -And expression in any reform to be introduced Fish Pro-Boer agitation ever published"

next session, by His Majesty's Government is

The verdict of the public is no less emphatic. difficult to say, because the Cabinet itself has

THE ROYAL TOUR come to no decision. The introduction of a The visit of the Duke and Duchess of Com Redistribution Bill, having for its real object wall to Natal and Cape Colony has been suo- the reduction of the existing disproportionate cess ful beyond the best expectations.

iTho representation of Ireland, would possibly, re loyal Dutch have vied with the English popul ceive the support of a section of the Radical ation in the heartiness of their welcome to party, because it would almost certainly involve the heir to the throne. Der Land struck the one the abolition of the Universities' seats, nine in discordant note, by hoisting a Transvaal fiag number, and all held by Unionists. Whether over the publishing office, and in consequence this is so or not, a considerable number of the editor and staff came in for some rough Conservatives have unofficially expressed their handling and the office windows were broken. anxiety that for the present all schemes for the Perhaps the most suggestive feature in the pro- > Questions by the Hon, T. H. Whitehead reform of Parliamentary representation should gramme, apart from the pathetic, groups of stand over even at the cost of more wasted broken mer, who having made history during time next session. Under these circumstances, the last two years, are now returned to thely unless the country speaks with no uncertain somes with impaired health, shattered bodies, voice, the projected Redistribution Bill may and lost prospects, next to them in human, ie, not be introduced till the Autumn session of terest came the native Chiefs Lerothodi and next year.

his brother Selo Khama and the Queen of the Mr. Chamberlain now counts on the support Kekibi tribe attracted most attention, and near (a) The names of the owners of the aid of some fifty members of the Opposition on ally all the natives brought some present of

buildings

1. Financial Minutes. (Nos, 57, 58 and 59.) 2. Report of the Finance Committee. (No. 9.) 3. The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Fifty thousand Dollars (550,000) being a Government Grant in aid of the Queen Victoria Memorial Fund.

4 Report of the Public Works Committee, (No.5)

5. Banitary Bye-laws(Prevention of Epidemic, Endemic or Contagious (Disease).

6. Sanitary Bye-laws (Disinfection of Infected Premises),

(r) Will the Honourable, the Director of Public Works lay upon the Council table, a statement showing

(1) The number of buildings. In the Colony, which have fallen down, from 1st January, 1895 to 16th instant

, (August) {

(3) The number of death

thereby i

caused

The number of Coronera enquiries, held in connection with such deaths

GIRAULT for TABLE

South African questions for, despite the Reform Club meeting, Mr. Asquith, Sir Edward Gray and their following are clearly dissociated from the remainder of what calls itself the Liberal on all Imperial matters. This mul

GIRAULT: TË MAILS

which the Duke and Duchess, must now have a considerable number. A delightfully buman touch about the Capetown, reception was presentation of two perfect little Basuto for the two eldersons of the Duke