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COLONEL Cody the inventer of the war kite. has crossed the English Channel from Calais in a collapsible boat, drawn by the kile:

H. M. SHIPS Challenger and Encounter will be commissioned for service on the Australian station under the new naval agreement.

THE appeal of Mms. Humbert and her associates against the sentences recently passed upon them in Paris, on charges of fraud, has been

disallowed.

FOUR Englishmen have been arrested in cont nection with the robbery of £16 000 From the Northern France Railway messengers at Paris in March 1900.

MRS. Booth Tucker. (daughter of General Booth) and Colonel Holland, both Salvation Army officers, have been killed in a railway accident in Missouri (U. S. A}

THE King has laid the foundation-stone of a sanatorium for consumptives at Midhurst, a small market town in Sussex. The building enst £60,000, and covers 150 acres of land.

THE King's Bench Division his granted a rule wisi in connection with the transfer of the iriat of Whittaker Wright (of London and Globe Corporation notoriety) to the High Court of Justice.

LORD Curzon, Viceroy of India, will return to England next May. It is understood that he will be re-appointed in August. Lord Ampthill, Governor of Madras, will act as Viceroy in the

interim.

QUEEN Alexandra, who donated £1,000 to start the Lord Mayor's Fund for the enlargement of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, E.C., has been appointed the first lady governor

AMERICA CHINA TRADE.

During the month of September the miscel laneous products shipped from San Francisco to China, Japan and Far Easteru ports, and including the Philippines, aggregated $1,030,904, against 8846,5 19 during the same month, last year, thus showing an increase of $1,275 For the calendar year ending De- cember 1902, the exports from Puget Sound and Willamette were $16,381,250 as against $38,047.625 for the two Californian ports of San Francisco and San Diego. in steam- ship tonnage, Puget Sound has risen to the position of leading port on the Pacific Ocean, no less than 52.049 having, entered, and 69,900 cleared in the month of February, as compared with 47-443 entered and 57,731 cleared at San Francisco. Portland and Puget Sound ports are restricted in their foreign export trade chiefly to, a few conimo- dities which are, iative products, such as wheat, flour. lumber and canned salmon, but, of late, a considerable quantity of fresh apples has been shipped from the former port to the Orient, where they find a profit-A FREsen her girl at Ushant (Frne) able market. A recent dispatch from that swam in her clothes to a boat contaioung six city states that the British steamer Alger has shipwrecked sailors. The men were in a entered the Colombia river, and will proceed perilous position in a fog, and their rescuer to the port to load 12,000 tons of flour and steered them to salety. wheat for the China poris. Apart from

A. S. WATSON & CO., the fact that she is the largest craft that ever crossed the Columbia river bar, arid that this will be the largest flour cargo that has left the United States, she is the biggest freight carrier that has so farvisited the Pacific Coast, although some of the Pacific Mail liners trading regularly between San Fran cisco ports and the Orient approximate very closely to her in size and carrying capacity, This denotes a healthy growth in the Oriental trade. It is said that Portland and Puget Sound ports are profiting materially this year in their grain and flouring shipments abroad of Cali

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EXPERIMENTS made for the defence of Ports-

mouth included the explosion of 10,0coll, of guncoron in Stoke Bay Many tons of fish were killed, and the shock was felt throughout the Isle of Wight.

AT a mass meeting of the employes at Lorú | C way has been selected as the port at whils Penrhyn's slate quarries, at Bethesda, in Wales, passengers from America by the projected fast!

Canadian service shall be landed. 161 of the men'avoured resuming work,

IT is believed in St. Petersburg that Prince Alexeieff, Russian Viceroy in the Far East, who is about to visit the Russian capital, strongly favouts a war policy.

Wane cycling along the Caine Road on Saturday, Mr. J. Dyer Ball collided with a coolie and was thrown heavily to the ground sustaining a severe shaking,

THEFE were 55-0: applications for 5,000 seats to hear Mir Chamberlin speak in Liverpool under the auspices of the Working Man's

Conservative Association.

THE Kaiser, in presenting a cup for an inter. national trans-Atlantic yacht race in 1904. hopes to stimulate the building of a type com- bining seaworthiness with safety and comfurt.

ARGO ariving.to-day by the Japanese mali steamer Vawala Maru was a fairly large one. consisting of 40 tons lead, 100 tons fertiliser. 200 tons tailow, a quanthy of wood, and sundries.

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UNITED Simes diplomatists assert that Japan in 1902 intrigued with the Filipino leaders with view to obtaining coaling stations in the thi lippines. The Japanese Legation in London

denies this assertion.

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THE Governor of New South Wales has received letter from Admiral Kamimura, of the Japanese il et which was recently in Australian waters, thanking His Excellency for the hospitality received while there.

Miss Jackson and Miss Hande, who left Syd- ney and Melbourne respectively under engage ment to the Sultan of Johore as typists, and who went no further than Singapore, are now in Perth, where they have established themselves

in business.

THE kidnappers of Mr. Wenz, a Virginia millionaire, have fixed the ransom at £20,000, instead of the original amount, £2,000,

On the Happy Valley ground on Saturday, the Hongkang Football Club scored a decisive victory over the V.R.C. by 5 goals to mil.

It is stated that Governor Chou Fu of Shantung has chosen forty men of that province to leam the profession of minting. They have been assigned to the Tientsin Government Miat.

L'OPE Pius X has expressed his intention to proclaim a jubilee year on the occasion of the 6itieth anniversary of the proclamation by Pins IX on December 8, 1854, of the dogma of the inumaculate conception,

ARRANGEMENTS have been completed in Pre- toria to draft 500 native convicts for surface labour upon the Rand mines The convicts will be housed in compounds, as upon the Kimber- ley diamond fields.

LORD Rosebery has declined to be nominated for the Chancellorship of Oxford University (rendered vacant by the death of Lord Salis bury) in opposition to Lord Goschen, who held office in both Gladstone and Salisbury Cabinets.

With the object of fastering the growing demands in the tales for Russian goods, the volunteer fleet is organizing a regular passen- ger and freight service to ports, in North America. The service will be inaugurated by the steamer Smolensk, sailing shortly from Vladivostock

́. 118 third-class British cräisor Amethyst, thị first turbine-fitted warship, bas been launched from the Elswick Yards. The Amethyst was laid down in January, 1903. She is of 3,000 tous displacement, and her speed under natural draught 20 knuts, with 7,coo indicated horse- power. Her coal capacity at load draught la only 300 tons. She is to be fitted with turbina machinery by the Parsons Turbina Company, and will have modified Yarrow boilers.

CRICKET.

The following are the scores in the matches played on Saturday.

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IK. CC. V. THE NAVY.

11.X. C.C.

T. Sercombe Smith (Capt.), b Meaden 13, F. Maitland, b Moore 60, A, G. Ward, e de Paris, b Meaden 87, Major Chichester, c and b Silver, H. Hancock, b Meaden 33, W. C. D. Turner, net out 12, H. Arthur, not out 10, Extras 13. Total (5 wickets) 729, R.-E..O. Bird, W. Ross, Lieut. Rimington, S.F., and A. R. Lowe did not bat.

THE NAVY.

Mr. Irwin, R.N., L., b. Chichester 58, Mr. Rowe, R.N., run out 5, Mr. Barnard, RN, 1.b.w, b Smith 25, Norulk, R.Ne Turner, b Chichester 1, Eng.-L. Moore, R.N., (Capt.), c. Rimington, b Lowe 66, Mr. F. B. Batchelor, K.N., run, qut 8, Mr. Swan, R.N., b Rimington 5, Mr. V. de Paris, not out 6, ir. Meader, R.N., Smith 1, Mr. G Silver, R.N., Rimington b Smith 7, It. Forbes. R.N., b Rimington'o, Extras 13, Total 195.

CRAIGENCOWER C.C. v. CIVIL SERVICE C.C. CRAIGENGOWER C.C.

A. O. Brawn, 1b.w., b Jackman, 38, J. D. Kinnaird, c and b Witchell, 6, J. P. Jordan, 1.b.w., b Jackman, 3, E. Herton, c Jackman, b. Witchell, à, L. Lammert, c and b Witchell, de L. A. Rose, b Witchell, 9, R. Basa, b. Jackman, 3. R. Pestorji, c Atkinson, b. Witchell, 3, J. Stuart, cand b Jackman, 2, H. Taylor, b Jack- man, o E. Ford, not out, o, extras, z, total 72.

CIVU. SERVICE C.C.

R. Witchell, Pestonji, o,—Jackman, b Brawn,

ADMIRAL Sir Cyprian Bridge, G.C.B., is ex- pected at Shanghai on the 16 h proximo and, THE Empress Dowager, hears the Universal13. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, e Lammert, b Pestanji, according to the M. C. D. News, his present Gazelle, is now indisposed. The is suffering 3 G. A. Woodcock, c Taylor, b Pestonji, 11, b Pestonji, o, W. Pitt, not out, 4 extras 13, total intention is to remain there through the winter from headache and sleeplessness. It is beliey-1. Deveney, th... b Lammicit, ro, L. E. Brett, and until the arrival of his successor, Sir Gered that she worries herself too much over the

Manchurian question and other matters. She (6 wickets) 38. F. T. Robinson,-Craig, H. J. and Noel, K.C.B.

Gidley, and W. H. Woolley did not bat. still continues going to Court, to avoid any criticism by the people.

H. M. GUN AT Britomart has been sent out to look for and destroy the wreck of the steamer Arnold Luyken in the Formosa Channel. The N. C. D. News says: Why one of the smallest .vessels, on the station should be sent to do such an important job in the N.E. monsoon is

VICEROY Tuan of Chili is said to have ordered, difficult to understand. through Governor En of Kiangit, Goyoo piculs of rice at Chinkiang. Deputies will soon arrive at that Port to take delivery of the rice and tranship it to Chihli.

AT the Happy Valley nest Saturday the fol

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Hongkong Cricket League will be played- R. E. 7. H.M.S. Tamar, Parsees v. A. O. 'C and Craigengewer 1 HK.C C:"A" team." "

AT the instance of the Scotland Yard authori ties, an Armenian named Krikoris, supposed to have been an associate of the munister of M.

Societ, in London, has been arrested in America as a fugitive from justice.

MR. E. B. Tredwen, of the well-known firm of Gilbert J. M'Caul and Co, and chairman of the Australian Merchants' Association, has left London for a trip to Australia and New Zea land. He proceeds first to Singapore and Hongkong. The iris in undariaken for huci. ness and health purposes combined, and will make Mr. Tredwen's fourth visit to Australasia.

THE rainfall in England for the past year is 344 inches, which is a record since 1824. As a result of the excessively rainy conditions, enormous damage has resulted to the crops and much of this harvest cannot be gathered. l'otatoes are rotting, and ploughing and sowing are impossible.

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ACCORDING to a report from Tongst a discovery was made of a gold mine along the Vericonl River, The vein that was discovered is said to be seven feet wide and the result of the assay shows that out of 400 poads of are they succeeded in getting from eight to fourteen pounds of pure gold, and that is at the rate of about thirty ounces to the ton.

THE Daily Express reports that a number of city men, acting on Mr. Chamberlain's New- castle speech, have registered the John Bull and Sons Syndicate, Limited." The object of THE new Army Entrance Regulations for the syndic te is to deal exclusively with the candidates to Sandhurst and Woolwich provide

IL.M.S. TAMAR" V. PARSEE C. C. H.M S. "TAMAR,”

R. D. Forbes, c B. Mehta, b Noria o, A. C. Butt, Cooper, b Noria 11, T. H. C. Smith, b Noria o, E. Crabtree, c Ruttonjec, b Captain 24, H. S. Holgate, b 1. N. Mehta 27, P. J. King, J. N. Mehta o, A. E. Olver, b Noria 10, Hawkins, not out.13. Yates, b Noria 1, Corben, not out 8, Extras ir, Total (8 wickets) 104.

PARSEE C. C.

K. D. Mistry, c Yates, b'Crabtree o, R. B. Cooper, & Holgate, b Butt 11, J. N. Mehta, b Hawkins 25. J. D. Norin, c-Forbes, b But 8, J. H. Rutonjee, b Olver 6, D. R. Captain, c Forbes. b.Hawkins 1, J, M, Master, c1utt, b hawkins 3, N. B. Shroff, b Hawkins 4, B. K. Mehta, b... b Crabtree c, M. D. Vania, not out o, C. B. Morawala, b Hawkins, Extras 2, Total 65.

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doubtless taken her cargo of grain and flour for the Orient from San Francisco instead of from Portland. Several ships originally chartered to load grain at San Francisco fur

other foreign ports have been sent north for the same reason. But even in the shipment of grain abroad there is a marked difference between the business of the northern ports

and this, says the S. F. Chronicle. Since the movement of the new crop began San

Francisco has sent out forty-two wheat

SIGNOR Marconi, who, throughout the voyage

on the battleship Dancun from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, succeeded in maintaining constant communication with England, did but little wireless telegraphing in the day time, the sun's rays interfering with the transmission of his

messages,

Messes. F. Eckstein and Co. (representing

Wernher, Beit, and Co. upon the Johannesburg goldfields) are employing secretly-introduced Italian miners upon the mines which they control. The British workers object to the presence of the Italians, and threaten to strike work in consequence.

ing to the Daily Express, it is intended to form subsidiary haited liability companies in all the Britishcolonies.

must possess a preliminary qualification certi- ficate similar to a leaving certificate. Impor tance is attached to Science and Modern Languages. The age limit for entrance is fixed from eighteen to nineteen and a half.

Davies e Smith 12, Lillywhite

b Glassbroke to, Ribinson c Jackson b Bowyer McGibbin b Bowyer 2, Hatwell c Jackson b Bowyer 6, Rutter b Bowyer 1, Bradford b Glass- brooke 2, Burgess not out 1, Bromley Chesney b Glasbrooke o, total 64.

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MR. George Wyndham, Secretary for Ireland, replying to Mr. Asquith, sand that British ship.

REFERRING to the regulations recently pro- Lieut. Chesney c Burgess b Davies 24, Glass. ping in 11 years bad increased 18 per cent, while that of Germany had increased 46 per posed by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, and restrict-brooke c Burgess b Burgess o, Smith Webb cent. The chairman of the Liverpool Steaming Chinese students studying or to study in Davieso, Meldrum b Davieso, Jackson b Davies ship Owners' Association, has strongly appeal- Japan, the Universal Gazelle hears that two Bowyer b Bradford 10, Tooney run out 7. ed to Mr. Balfour for protection, owing to the

more clauses to the regulation have been added. Barett b Bradford o Callaghan not out o, Loader

disabilities and unfair competition British ship

ping labours onder.

Article I stipulates that all Chinese students b Davies o, Wilkie e Webb b Davies o, extins

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how studying in Japan must carry out the re- 1,500 to 2,600 tons, whereas from Portland and

gulations otherwise, the Chinese Government Astoria only five have sailed and from Puget

A MEETING of His Majesty's Justices of the will not take into account the merits of their stu Sound only two had cleared up to a month

Peace was held in the Justices' Room, at the dies. Article 2 says that in case Japanese ago. But it must be remembered that the

Magistracy this afternoon for the purpose of schools, public or private, fail to observe the considering eleven applications for Publican's regulations, the Chinese students which here. foreign exports of San Francisco, particular

and Adjunct Licences for the year 1913-1994 after graduate from these schools shall be de- ly those destined to Oriental ports, embrace

There were present :--Messrs. T. Sercoinbe prived of the special privileges offered them by The British Admiralty has ordered three 221-Smith, J. H. Kemp, I. Dyer Ball, Captain the Chinese Government. The Waiwupu has. a great variety of miscellaneous products, knot cruisers from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Lyons, A. D. C. Wolfe, A S. Hooper, R. H. duly notified the Governor of Hupeh of the besides grain, flour and canned salmon. Un the last voyage of the mail steamer Siberia Whitworth, and Co., Newcastle; Fairfield Craig and C. D. Melbourne. Publicans licences two, articles in question.

she had a miscellaneous cargo, the major part of which consisted of California manu WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. factured products valued at $380,255. Es

cepting $6.427 destined for Honolulu. the remainder of this valuable cargo was shipped

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Shipbuilding Co., Govan; and Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow. Four 25-knot scouts have also been ordered, and shortly orders will of three he placed for the construction 18,coo-ton battleships.

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were applied for by Harry Haynes, Hongkong Hutel: Alexander Moir, Peak Hotel; James Wm. Osburne, Kowloon Hotel; William Krater, Rose Thistle and Shamrock Hotel; Annetta Papier, Colonial Hotel; rs. Esther Oliver, New Traveller's Hotel; Fred. Hoggard, Praya for distribution in Hongkong, Japan, the PRINCESS Radziwill is suing the trustees East Hole; and adjunct licences by Anthony Philippines, India, Straits Settlements, Java, of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes estate for Milroy, Sailors' Home; Mrs. Marilda Moore, Sumatra, Singapore, Korea, Manchuria and £1,400,000, basing her chim on Mr. Rhodes' Pelhain House. The police having no objections PHOTOGRAPHIC other ports on the Chinese coast. Puget alleged agreement in June, 1897, and notes into make, all these applications were grinted.

DEPARTMENT. Sound is, of course, the logical gateway of his handwriting. She declares that the proceed- ings at Capetown were a miscarriage of justice, the United States to the Pacific Orient; for, and due to the fact that South Africa was at the most direct route from either Say the time under martial law, Francisco or San Diego to Japan or China, instead of being westerly by way of the Sandwich Islands, is northerly past Puget Sound and the Bebring Sea, and is, in fact, shorter by about a week's voyage for a fifteen knot vessel and nearly nine days for a twelve knot vessel. Hence, it is possible that in the near future the large output of goods destined for, the Oriental. market will arrive in China in less time than our huge liners are at present bringing it across the Pacific.

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THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

WHILE hunting at Blindheim, the Kaiser sank in a bog up to his shoulders. He was rescued by his suite.

THE Cologne Kolnische Zeitung says that there are many signs of Mr. Chamberlain's utimate success.

THE Beer to drink in the is Bere

I made it the tropics- SAN MIGUEL. Trade in fing tropics-SAN MIGUEL

BACKED by American capital, a German cx- pedition of engineers and miners was to leave early this month for Portuguese East Africa to begin the development of what are THE sale of two well-known steamers of the P. believed to he King Solomon's Ophir gold and O. line is reported The Massiliu was mines. The expedition will be headed by disposed of for £9,100 to Mi, Pittaluga, of Dr. Carl Peters, the well-known German Genon, and the Parramatta was sold to a colonial expert, who is confident that he will succeed in lecating the El Dorado, of Bombay firm. Both steamers have heen on the Hongkong fine, and the Jussila, it will the ancients in the northwestern corner of the Panuguese colony, close to the border be remembered, was fitted out here as an

Operations will be begun armed cruiser during the Russian war scare of Rhodesia. some years ago.

simultaneously at three paints contiguous to the Zambesi river-Inyakafura, Inysbanda and Umlalia. Dr, l'eters believes he has discovered unassailable archæological proof that this was the region where David and Solomon obtained the fabulous wealth they brought to Jerusalem. One of the rediscovered mines has been echristened "Von Moltke," after the famous Prussian General. As evidence of the Semitic antecedents of the region, it is stated that the natives are different from any other tribes in Africa, being of distinctly Hebraic type. Their dialect contains many traces of Semitic origin.

HE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropica-SAN MIGUEL,

THE sleamship Lyra, which arrived at Tacoma from Manila on 25th ult, took the largest gargo of hemp that ever crossed the Pacific ocean in any vessel, aggregating 2,142,000 pounds,, and being valued at $734,com, making it the most valuable cargo brought to that port by an Asiatic liner in many years. Besides hemp, she had over 9,000 Tells of matting to discharge, 1,500 bags of rice from Borneo, a consignment of tea from Ceylon, and a consignment of pep per from Borneo..

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MR. E. W. Cole, of bookselling fame in Sydney and Melbourne, has been in Japan for several onths. Mr. Cole does not believe in keeping out the colored man and has published a small hook, entitled "A White Australia Impossible." He has come to the East to arm himself with Stronger and more destructive argumentative weapons. Australia has made a mistake-a grave mistake, he said, and now that he ha. seen with his own eyes what the Japanese are

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE. French (Salasie) to-morrow. Indian (Lightning) ta morrow. Tacoma (Tacoma) 4th prox. English (Stula) 5th prox. Australian (Chinglu) 5th prox. Indian (Kumtang) 7th prox. French (Australien) 8th prox. German (Kinutschou) 8th prox. American (America Maru) 8th proxi Canadian (Tartar) 9th prox. -Tacoma (Victoria) 13th prax. American (Korea) 15th práx. American (Garlic) 23rd prox.

The Glen Lines.s. Glenshiel left Shanghai on 28th inst., via Fonchow and is duc here 'on 3rd prox.

The B. T. B. Co's 5.5. Lyra sailed from Tacoma for the usual ports and Manila on 15th inst.

The A. A. Co.'s e.s. Hermiston left Foochow

The C. & M. Co.'s s.s. Perla left Manila yesterday, p.m., and is due here on Wednes day, at daylight.

The Glen Line s.s. Glengarry from London, *c., left Singapore on 28th inst., and is expect ed here on 4 h prox.

The N. G. 1.S. S. Co.'s &s. Capri left Singa pore for this port this morning, and is expected

o arrive here on stir prox.

The Imperial German Mail 3. König Albert which left here on 26th inst, am, arrived at Shanghai yesterday, at 7 a.m.

capable of he has come to the conclusion that the Colony will live to rue the day that she passed such foolish legislation. Whilst in on Sunday afternoon, and is due here on 1st Japan Mr. Cole spent most of his time prox., p.m. interviewing the leading men. The hand of friendship was held onto Mr. Cole, his wife and daughters who accompanied him, and he was the gurst at many a public function He did as much as he could to promote the causeofthebro heihood of man and endeavoured to force it home to the Japanese by having 'medal's made and distributed bearing the follow- ing inscription: "All men are brothers, The people everywhere that we do not know are as good as the people that we do know." Mr. Cole had 1,ore made of nickel, which he distributed amongst school children, and∙rco made of silver, which he gave to leading men. The Japanese took on to the idea well, and made nuch of r. Cole and his family, the vernacular papers in particular booming bim up in regulai theatrical style. Mr. Cole is now in Java taking a snapshot study of the coloured question there, and thence he will go to Australia.

THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Peer mads in the tropics-SAN MIGUEL. ›

The H. A. L. ss. Ambria from 'Hamburg left Singapore for this port yesterday at noon, and may be expected here on or about 3rd prox. The P. & 0. S. N.; Co's 8.5. Simtia left Singapore for this port on 29th inst, at 5 pm, with the Outward English Mails, and is due here on 5th prox., at about noon.

The Imperial German Mail 9.1. Kianschou carrying the German Mails with dates fom Berlin of the 10th inst., left Colombo on 28th inst, and may be expected here on 8th prox. THE Boer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

made in the tropics-SAN MIGUZI,