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TOLSTOPS LAST 'FRODUCTION.

"ARGUMENT ŻGAINST CAPITAL-PUNIRIIUENT

St. Petersburg, Nov. 15. The Associated Press received early to-day from Vladimir Techerkoff, literary agent of the late Count Tolstol, the last article written by Tolstoi It is entitled "Effective Monur." It was written by Tolstol in the Optina monastery On November 11, shortly after he began his self-imposed exile from home. The article was given the Associated Press by M. Techerskoft with the express with of Count Tolatel for dia seminating it to mankind. It says:

"I am Daturally anxiors to do all I can agalast evil, which tontures the best spirits of our time.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 101o

WHAT IT COSIS TO BE AN M.P.

PRICE OF TILL AVERAGE. PARLIAMENTARY.. VOTZ.

Parilcile intenst rtteckos at the pro'ont 'mest in a Bus-brok retura, haned by the Home Office, giving details of the exparses of every candid te atthe last genom election.

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NBWS FROM THE NORTH

[Specialty Translated for the frongkong Tecap]

AR. V. MORŒUVRES

The Army Advisory Council suggests the It is shown that in the United Kingdom boiding of moeuvres in the autume of next- 6.657.394 votes were polled end the total ex-year, All the Divisiors will meet to Peking teases of the candidates, including ita charges and the Imperial Bdy Cuard will be div.ded of the returning officers, cano 10,796.3'5, så into two companies. The To Chow has been selected as the base of operations. The Prince that the average cast of a vote was 19. sed.

Regent has been appointed to represent the Empirer it the mancovies.. It has been ertimated that the exproses which will be lc- carted in connecting with the pancavres will amcust to three million trets.

In England and Wales the 5,770,735 votes cast averaged 39:10 in Scotland 6766;o cast 45.5%. each, and in Ireland the average was 27. Ird.ou a poll of 220,519.

For the 60 soats there were 1,311 candidates, I think the present effective war against and the registers bore the names of 7,695 7 7 capital punishment dies not need forcing; electors. f the purpose of recording whras there is no need of an expression of indigus-vo es the country was divided into to.578.cis

tricts, with 15,5-ststing, 12,331 of which were tion against Its

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IMMORALITY, CRUELTY AND ABSURDITY. "Evory sincers, thinking person; everybody knowing from youth the sixth commandment, needs no explatation of its absurdly and morality, there is no need for description of the horrors of executione, as they only affect bacgpiso, co-men willmora unwillingly become oxecutioners and geveconants will to obliged to compensate them more dearly for their

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**Therefore I think that misit or the expes. sion of ledignation against the murder of our fcilswasen nor the suggestion or its horror is mainly needed, but aemaibing totally different.

"As Kunt well says, thera bra DELUSIONS WHICH CANNOT DI DISPROVED. and we must communicate to the delidad mind knowledge which will enlighten and then the

·delusions will vanish by themselves,

"What knowledge need we communicate to thedeladed humo mind regarding the ladispen. sableness.usefulness or justice of capital punish | ment in order that soid delusion may destroy itself?

"Such knowledge, in my opinion, is this: The knowledge of what is man; what his soiraunding world; what his destiny; hence what man can and must do and principally "what"tro caniatard-must not do

"Therefore we should oppose punishment by inculcaling this Ladwledge in all men, especially to bangmes's managers avd aymathizers who wrongfully think they are maintaining their position, thanks only to- caput punishment.

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OVER A MILLION EXPENSES.

PEKING HANKOW RA'LŴ_Y It is reported in Paking that tho,orgings of the Feking-Hanko Railway up to the present is Trels,12,003,000.

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SPORTING.

30th inst.

TOMORROW'S PIXTURES.

The folowing are the fixtures for lo

LEAGUE CRICKET. To-morrow being a blank day in the league cricket line, no erest has been fited for that

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THE DEATH SENTENCE OF "DR. URIPPEN.

ANOTHER' DESCRIPTIVE REPORT, '

The Morning Leader of the acth' ultimo con- talay the following account "df the solemn .....Icono concied on the occasion of the passlag

of the death seclercs on "D" Crippen

It was the last phase. The gloom of a dull October afierocon had meds estly twilight in the Court, wherein Justice, with esa band, was holding the scales. White faces lookeå down upon the teens from the galler; white faces pected below Row upon row of people -tease, coger, thrilled-watched the moving | drama, and waited breathless for the saapping of the single hair that held the sword.

KONUKONG CRICKET LEAOJE,

The following is the table up to date:-

P. W. D. L. Percent, Yorks.... R.E........ Civil Bervice Remanat.......... R. G.A

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Kawlconadas Hongkong

H.K. Police

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OTHER CRICKET.

PRINCE CHING'S RESIGNATION REFDSID, An Edict was isnod in the arst Jost; dd2 | Creigɛngover more clining to a ces the resígation tendered by Prince Chin, President the Grand Courcil. The Edict at the came time. related to recognise, has charger ficompetency regarding cerisiam itera trought by the National As embly, and the criticis by the Jatter, he eventualr plicerest of the Grand Council by a Cabinet is, as beretofore, the sols prerogative of the Emperor,

The candidates' expensen Ill lesboit of the maximum sc 11 hilowed by the Coriuat fractices Act, 18 3 -£1,208,665 Altage her the taming" officers' charget came to £235, but the payment, after the charges had been reduced by tara'ia and otherwise, were og 127.516 Tha dies, ballot papers, boxer, advertising placards, stationery, and crples of the registers accounted for £13.519, wht 49,90 was paid to presiding efficers, poll clerks, and ecun ing clerks. The preliminaties to the election-publishing "the netics and

Three members of the Ministry of Posts and preparing and supplying domisation papers-Communications have cabled to the Head necessitated the expenditure of £. So,

Office of the Imperial Passito. obtainin portant particulers of postal affairs in order to Fecover the postal adminis ration from the Customs Authorities next year.. A tumber of decu i's will be ordure to proceed to the poste offices is the various proviàces to make necta.

investigations.

The candidates' own expenses, upart frem thase of the returning officers, came to 1,068,825 The mest expers'va item was prinsing, advertising, stationery, pastazo and telegrams, which cost £470 512; whilst for agents 195,177 was paid ; c'eras and mettessary gets, £145,100; public meo 197, £13915; com». mittée rooms, C14,012; miscelinuosas niatlers, 493019; and personal expenses, 65,800.

MINISTERS' TX'ENDITURE,

POSTAL MATTERS.

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INT THE EUNUCHS.

The Prince Regent and the Grand Council havs decided to dismiss all the eunuchs next

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CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB 19, A.0.c.

This match will be played to thorrow on, the CC.C. ground at a pra, sharp. The fellowing will represent the U.C C.-L. E. Lammert, 8, H. Taylor, a A. Rosa, R. Thillips, W. H. Warrener, P. Currlo, H. Rapp, F. Rapp, C. J. Higginbotham, S. B. Battliwara nad K. Baso, Reserves-A, S. Eilia, A. M. Suffiad.

K.C C. SECOND ELEVEN 28. POLICE.

This friendly game will take place co-monow on the Kowloon ground at a p m. sharp.

HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB:24 UNITED SERVICES.

Lird Alverstone was falsbing bis summing up. it was 'n carefully weighed komorous cp- pral to the British jury who sat before him in Tarigos attitudes of trained attention, His Goal passages rang elter, like a bell; they

LEFT NO DOUBT

The customary inquest was conducted by Mr. Walter Schroder, and formal evidence was given by the prison gavereor and docter: Tha, doctor stated iħat-there was no sesistance or struggle, and death was instantaneous. The jury found that the body was that of Hawley Havey Crippen, and that the judgment of death fad been duly, exeçüted.

OPIUM-SMOKING,

REFORM AND NOT SUPPRESSION ADVOCATED.

The NSC, Daily News, in the courts of an sitic'e on "The Evils, ef Auth-Opiumism," peints out that reform and not the suppression of opium should take first place in the national... progressiva movement of the day. Our con. temporary remarks that a sense of propelan would not allow the level headed reformer to exhaust tha country's ressive of energy ib only one direction, and least of all in regard to what can only betermed a secondary reform "Given the completa abolition of opium this year, texty bebind them. They wore scrupulously fair, as

year or seven years henco, the country In befits the Lord Chief Justice of England; but

the nbronce of other reforms bids fale to ba as they were damning and terrible. Could there ill-gv.rued as it was ten years ago, its ra bi by drubt of that?

sources equally squandered, its people as In the half-light of the retumn aftertoon famine and riots. A reformed bureaucracy, on poverty-stricken and equally exposed to fisada, Crippen's meagre little figuio seemed to be thinking, obrinking; and though his face made the other hind, would not only seal the fate ef opium smoking, but would mean in don no sign, be most have known.

And new, gentlemen, consider your verournal also c.iiisss the recast memorial course a prosperone Chics." The Shanghai dict 1"

to the British Gaverament from the World 'Missionary Conference. "A largo tum. to do with Iudio, Ching ber of tha remonialista have nothing or the British Empire. Not one, we ventura" to (birk, 'bad the lest seose of administrativa réz pnasib lity in sigalog the document. They Lord Alverstone stalked cut with black dip ignore the fact that the British Govern and white glaves crossed togather in his handszent is committed to the suppression of the and with the tension removed for a while, the opium trade, and only stipulates such margin Cour: boke out into a clatter of edir'acte cap al time es ii consonant with the interests of versation, !

many thousands, who are dopsodent on the trade-until recently regarded as honest and legitimate. Tosiro a concern is that oplam smaking should co so, and they do not pretend to give any thought to practical details in connection with to suppression.''

It cost the Premier 27 21 to re-anter Parlia. spring as soon as the period of the atonal row at 1.45 p.m. and will be co tinued on Maz-a

meat, his 5.742 votes conting 34, tach, wheress the leader of the Opposition and Sit Frederick Tadbury bal in spoud £1,618 tach to get re- turned to the City of London. Mr. Balfour's 17,997 votes averaging tre, each.

meurning expites.

CHINA'S BUDGET.

The Geard Council has held a conference en the question of the Budget. The members have decided to repiest Duke Tail-tre to call at the Senate to explain the difficulties attend.

'THE PEOPLE'S IMPATIENCE.

The Gaversor of Kiangsa, H.. Ching, bas memorial'z d the Throat requesting for the

Mr. Lloyd George had to par £19, but his volet averaged 39. 31. eịch, Mr. Churchill'sing the question. teal cost him 49,1, nad bis 10 717 Yts aver aged 1. 9. cach. The cost of Mr. J. Keir Hardin's Fest was £813, or an average of 13.

d. pir vote; but at John Redmond's ex-speedy establishment of the new cabinet and fesses are röt given, even shota jocurted by a

the appointment of a President. He stated cosdidate unopposed, the record simply stig in his memorial that in foreign con ries that there were 3,104 electors in the reg'ster the people raised disputes with the Govern and the maximum excesses allowed £40, with mentarer political matters for the purpose of the note "urable to furnish retten.”

In the Remfoid and Wandsworth Divi.electing greater improvements in ite system

of government.

* 1 know this is not an easy task. The EMPLOYERS AND APPROVERS OF HAIGMEN with the Instinct of self-preservation feel that this knowledge will make impossible the main tenanec of the position which they occupy, Hence out gely will they themselves at adopt it, but by all means in their power, by vit l-ace, deceit, cruelty, and lies they will iry to hide. from the people this knowledge, distoning itsions, two of the largest, the exmenus of Sir and exposing its disseminators to all kinds of John Bethell and Sir Henry Kimber, the privations and sufferings,

successful candidatos, were respectively £1,440 "Therefore if we wish readily to destroy the (ga. 1od, par vote) and 61,675 ((s.ied per vote). delusion of capital punishment and if a e pos- Whitehaven, which, wibit electorate of 3 050 ress the knowledge which destroys this deļu. is the smallest division, cost Lieut-Col. J. A.

sion let us is spite of all menaces, deprivations and sufferings teach the people this knowledge because it is solely the effective means in the fight,"

Leo Tolstoi, Option Monastery, Nov. 17,"

FENG-SHOL

Jackson, its representative. 40, or es much as 6. gd. per vie.

ULTIMA THULE,

Mr.J. Cathcart Wason, who, ampugst the islands of the Orkneys and Shelläød, has a task. which few people would envy, did not have to pay quite so much to might be imagined, Lit 4,117 vates averaging 5s gå, each, or a total ef 1,86, The Inwest average per vo'e was Ed,

AMNESTY TO POLITICAL OFFENDERS, The Governor of Shantung kas memorialized the Ter na 1equesting that a geceral amoesy be grant if political offenders. He sinted that it is a pity that these men are compelled to reside abroad at a time when China badly aceds storg man to tike chuige of the ad ministration of Constitutions reforms,

TO INDIA IN A WEEK.

ITISH SUPPORT FOR THE HU STAN SCHEME Inquiries in London show that there is so evidence of political hostility to the proposal pientative for Half x, wan palled 9093 cutlined in this jeant last week for the lick- votes, and whois bill was £93. Mr. blog op of the Indian and Rudrun sallways by Whitley, the senior member. Lad a bill of £84, means of an international lice through Persia.

The new away in and pollen 9,504 vales (an average of 11, (c).

An important move has been made by the Board of Communications recently in its degin the cat of Mr. James Perter, the junior siun to draft legutaions for the disposal of the deat. The Board has realized that the present method of d sposal of the dead is prodre ive af a tremende us waste afgoed laad, for the grives of a bousthold rapidly špieid over the original

The highest average was 12 os. 64. for the

This two days' event will comnience to mar

day otro am. The gimp thou'd prove of great interest and should draw a large crowd of spectators after the grand display of cricket put -up on the last-acc.6.on.

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LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

First Division. Kowloon Cricket Club re. Royal Garrison Artillery, on the Kowloon ground, at 43/p.m. Military ground at 4.30 p.m.

Royal Engineers vs. Neval Yaid in the

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The gentlemen of the jury were shepherded out of their pan by the vsher, who mado onih to keep them in charge in a chamber and they disappeared one by one through a side door. Dr. Cripptu was

WHISKID OUT OF SIGHT,

A FEELING OF AWE,

The micutes flew. · Half an hour pused 1ke handful of seconds; and then the jury cams back, walking softly on tip toe to the's appointed plices, as though they were feaf.1 of disturb og something. Their faces were hard and set. Self-conscious and nervous, their eyes wate cast down and they weio iftat es50.

The judge came in and took tis rest. He was followed by the chaplaln—a tall, spierd d figure cfa man with silver hair thashimmered as the fairy light in the domed roof were fished on. The Clerk of Arraigen stood up ard turned to the foreman of the jury.

"Are you agreed upon your verdic, gentle. maa?" he asked, and there was a sudden

Second Division, 87th 'Co., R. G. A vs. B. O. C., on the Mill-bush in Const. tary ground, at 2.36 pm. Referee: Sipzer Best."

83rd Co., R. G. A. er. 83th Co., R. G. A on Lyemua ground at 4 p.m. Sergt. Giddy refiree. their match against the F. Co., R.G.

The following will represent the B,9.C. in White, Abbas, Stammers, Chunyet. Khan, Jex. Heigb, R. A. Carvalho, E. L. Brago, JV and D. Bastia Receives: Schoepel

and Cordeiro.

FIXTURE FOR MONDAY.

CRAIGEHGOWER CHICKET CLUB VF, WATSON'S, This friendly game of Cricket will take place on Monday akteraeon at 1 45 p.m. on the C.

C. Ground

Watson's tram :-E. W. James H. H. Tay. far, R. Phillips, J. A. Terraut, H, S. Spurge, C. Johnson, H. Rapp, E. W. Dawson, 0. 5. Williams, 13, fr skett had 4. 1, Other,

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"We are was the reply. "Do you find!

Where

Lord Alverstone held up his hand is the prisnser ?" he said. The dock was empty i the judge, sternly,

"Bring Dr. tippes up at once," ordered

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There was accufie down below, the stund of quick, muffled vo'ces, and Dr. Csippen was whisked up just as be hal tern whisked dowa

30 minutes before. He almost ra to the front of the dock, and sathastilyinh's chair at the very mement the fo.emsn uttered the fateful word. "QUILTY 1!

THE GRINA MARKET AND JAPAN'S CARELESS

MANUFACTURERS,

Mr. Totokawh-Rifkel, rola Contre ller of sha Mitsu Bishi Kaith, states that noder present circumstances America is doing berutmes: 10 invest funds in China. It is regrettable that Japan cannot follow the example, but her poor finaccial cord tion precludes it. Some short time ago the Oriental Davel-pment Company Works, bor owing the money from the Kit advanced Yr,200,000 - to the Harkıw Water ·

Bishi Bank and some other sources. "Thà

sama Comp:ny has been asked by Chinese for. small amounts several timer, As, however, the Company has not yet wafe any satisfac

the Chinele concerned, the requests have been refared. The fact that America bas

ry investigallen into the fioancial standing of

INVESTED LARGE AMOUNTS IN CHINA will not fail to prove advantageous to Japan; Japat foreign trade increases it the rate of *he two’werdṛrs at his right and left hauled about Y1:0,000,000 per year. This year, the in up, with a hand rpan each arm, and there total trade will amount to about Y900,000,000, be stood, blinking, but steady as a lock, whilst te county's chief customers being China and Inda. Chica is the greatest customery -The the chaplin fumbled nervously for the black fact that E obe's share of the country's foreign cap-fumbled and failed to find it, to shit the Lord Chief Justice must needs put it in his hand. trade lacreases with greater rapidity than Yoke- Then, tnd then only, as the tall clergyman trade is in end about Csakn. Such being the hama, abòws tha: the centre of Ispio's ferzigu best to adjust the sombe emblem of death, did the murderer bench, and bow bis head.

case, it is regrettable that lha Tepiness manu- fecu'es netto China via Koba and ́U:Aka"are" At last the chord had been struck!. There was failing off is quilty. This bad tendency must ond poignant memebt for the miser-ble inte be discontinued at once unless the japiresa man-a dreadful moment, and the blast of it truck bim ful. Twice he was asked if he and exporters wish to tos their business decrease Children's sports will take place on the anything to say; and when at last he spoke it Should China's purch" slog capacity increase lo above ground at 2.30pm, and at the conclusa brave effort at the acconcern he fought to cons:quence of the it flow of Americau money, mui.tain to the cod. The words ran together Japan will be in the best position to take M. Zvegintsef, the member of the Russiansion Lidy Lugud will present the prizes to

like the speech of a drunken msn-" stilledvartage of the fact. The Oraka besivera Dama who bas bien entrusted with the task of the successful competitors.

maintain that I am innocent 1" Three times men ought to be very careful about this, enlisting British support for the scheme, thus

be nodded his head. outfices the proposition :

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partrimony to such an extent that the livelihood4ft voles cf Mr. H. G. Jellicae, one of ite de and iba money is to be gathered in every

of the living is 'sacrificed to the convenience of the dead. This in question on which we have more than once. biè very emphatic, and wa are glad to note that the Bjard of Commuelea. tions in taking up the matter. The special potot of view from which the Board regards li is that bolt present practice, involving considerations of feng-shut which cannot long survive in no Balightened people, puts

́-SERIOUS HINDRANCIS:

in the way of the spread of railways and other means of communication and trans-

feated candidates in the Walton Divisjon of Liverpool, whose kill was £9:3.

Í GERMAN KOTEKPRISE IN

YUNNAN.

· L'Avenir du Toxlix (Haiphong), referring to the vrrival of a cargo-boat with Germon mater al destined for the installation of a blast fur- naco at thả tín mites in the neighbourhoog of Mergize, semarks that following upon this there had arrived from Hongkong more. Ge ip in

European cipital, Already the idea has awikibed thi koenest interest in London' fancial circles, and support has been pro mited

KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB,

CHILDREN'S DAY,

POLICE RECREATION CLUB. The Folice Recreation Club will havo go: all

JUDGE'S TERRIBLE WORDS, day's cricket match betweeo members and later. There was almost a de fiat flash_from-be- og in the afternoon a programme of sports will-hind the gold-rimmed spectacles." It seemed be gone through which is given below. At ibe to say, "I will die game!and the frail figure, mas tres for children will be distributed The shattering climax. Band of the 13th is cuts uzder Bandmaster Ocoke will also be present..

SHANCHAL FINANCIAL

SITUATION.

port, and thus males against the economic material destined for Yuorao, "It is always that of India, thus förmlog an uninterrupted i conclusion'e fibe sports prosents from a Christ- so trim in it dandy freck coat, stiffened for the ber of Commerce; Tantal Chow Tait-piac, at

the gitat house of Carlowitz," says the fournil, ibal does business with the mandarins, the merchants and the mauufacturers of YuanAD, They bring in

MACHINES AND MERCHANDISE FROM

GIRMANY,

development of the country. There is so doubt that the Bond is quite right. The presence of family burial grounds has caused serious obstruction even to the few rail. ways that Chiza heady has, in some cates necessstating deviations from the most suitable route and innumerable cases in.. but never from Francs. That important bruse volving the payment of a purchase price far has already developed a large business in Yan, above the market value of the land boubt. In nas. It furnished more than 20 millions one notorious instance illegitimate profits were war material which pasted ivoogh Ezechoan made by the purchasing agent of a certain tall-to get to Yannaolu telore the railway was way, who, by arrangeniout with the owners of opened to traffic; it has delivered more than this land, along the surveyed route, dumped 300,000 francs worth of field glistes and optical down hundreds of ketorese cases which he instruments and all the saddlery. recessity for promptly called coffins and af er having these the stillery in Yernin. The journal goes on to say that when the Getman blast furences gel to work,

COVERED WITH LOOSE„DRICKS Added fifty per centum to the purchase price of the land, dividing the extra cost between him rell und the landowner, not always equally by ny means, Qata spart however from this. illegitimate proceeding the presence of graves almost invariably involves both trontla and extra cost in land purchase, even though the owners of the butial g

I grounds have not bitterin taken much interest in the graves themselves. la a recent tip lu Chekiang we found graves falling to pieces, the remains of their occupants

fully exposed, and in some cases scattered about; and yet the moment a proposal to carry a railway or a highroad or a line of ttle raphe through such places is brought forward there is.

QUITE AN OUTCRY.

If the Board of Communications can take measures to prevent the farther spread of this sort of thing it will have accomplished a most useful piece of work,--Nath:m:İ Revicz.

CHINESE ACTORS, IN ENGLAND.

Mias Gertrude Kingston has arranged for a Chinese compasy lo appear at the Little Theatre, eays tre Daily News of November 28 Just to Get Married" will be temporarily withdrawn over the Christmas holidiys, and -the ren razumed in the New Year

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& gr up of Russians Interested in financial and railway enterpr-s1 bas come to the conclusion that the time bas arrived to unito the Ines of the European rai way system with

thoroughfare between Western Europe and Southern Aais, and inangursting a system which would only be comparahis to the Sure Canal, Trins-Siberian, and Trans-American liacs.

8 DAYS FROM LONDON,

"The idea of Luch à lise was first started by M. de Lets'ps. It is proposed to take from Baku, the most rantberly station on the Res- sian rilway system, a direct line through Persia, vin Selston, to Noshki, on the Anglo- led na tystem. The main line would follow the shortest ou e, with branches to the Per- sinn Gelf, and to Teberan if it is found that the direct Ina would not go through the re- sian capital.

PROGRAMME,

1. Dacoanut shy (Ladies only). 2. Botton "awing ( - 3. Egg and Spaar (

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4. Boys' Race (Handicap) over 40 years." 4. Boys' Race ( do Yued to jetre, -6. lofint Race.

7. Girls Race (aver to years of age) 8. Girls' 8kipping. 9. Veterans' Race, 10. Gents' Race.

For once the imposing dignity of the Lord Chief Justice as judge was lost in the emotica of the Lord Chief Justice as a simple human being like the rest of n, with a heart to feel and a mind to realise the doleful ta edy of the situation. His voice brota and quavered

Ale stid

"The ghastly and wicked nature ofite crime I will not dwell open. I only tell you that you most extertain`zo`"expectation or hope of escape from the consequences of your crime, and for the lost tima implore you to make your peace with Almighty God,"

The sentence followed, zinzing like a knell through the Court. With bowed heed the chaplain whispered "Amen!" and the two great worders swung the prisoner round so

such a grip) that he was out of sight lo a flaib, His cart-tails whirled as he went down.

Though the interests of Rust, England and Pertia must be predominant, yet French. COTTON CULTIVATION IN SIAM, tu idealy (for he is a mere feather of a man in German, and Belgian interests and the inter-

ent to lavest will be most beartily we'comed. There is no a'on whatever why the Rogdad Railway should not 'profit.bly efl.c: a junction with the new line.

THE HOUSE OF CARLOWITZ, having been the importer of the machinery, will become the exporter of the industrial press of cay other gre p that may find co-venk ducts of Yunoon. They have already been Inquiring not only of the French companies but of all componity at Hongkong to freight charges fortte.metals el ey will foon be s id- ing to Hamburg and Anvers. All thesa things the feed for greater activity na the part of the aro cited by our French contemporary to show French meich n's in a county which by reason

of the giant secrifices of human le and monty France has made in constructing the railway to Yusnap ought to be a zone lo which Freach izfidence is paramount.

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DEATH OF MR. L. A, MUSSO.

We prently regret tɔ nuncunce the death of Mr. ALL Musso, a well-koowo and old resid- en of the Colony," The deceased gen leman had been suffering from an abaçeselä the liver | |for the last three months and liday yesterday, it'was apparent that the end wịn very coin. It came at abent ten o'clock last night at the Peak Hospital, whers the deceased had been admitted as an inmate from the time ko was At- tacked with the disease to which ha seccambed last night.

The length of line to ba hujit to connect

the exit iny Russlao and Iudina tines is

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and a lough survey leads to the conclusion that for the sum of £21,0700: the lite could eight days of ordon," be coa pleted and Enaway brought within

Thus, when the railway is completed, the man with only three weeks holiday and plenty of money in spire-will be able to tiks à quick, trip to India and back, and slay a wrek in the country. He will have travelled 5.7.0 m. las in eight days, and the price of his ticket will have been £40

THE SON OF HEAVEN.

A mignificent mansalerm is to be built to mark the jetting place_of the lata "Son of Heave the Chinese Emperor, Kwang Hi The forests of the Oient were searched for the The late Mr. A. L. Musso was 010 of the best and most durable w:01, and after much competition a Manila lemter company has Its place will be laken on December 6, by ellest residen's of the Colony, having sent

won what is described aw the retest com Madam Chung and her company of celebrated almost all bis lifa in Hongkong he was only players direct from Peking, whom Miss Kings- about 40 years of age at the time of his death mercial prizs of rece t years in China. The ton will present for the firt time is Europe,ned that he should have ben cut off in the preliminary contract for the material has bren Madam Chung, who has been likened to the prime of his mapbood, will make his loss signed by two of the Chinese Imperial Princes, famous Japanese actress, Madam Sada Vacco, felt all the more keener amerg his friends and, says the New York Tribuad, it provides in will appear in a characteristic study entitled and relatives, To the greater panin ef the first place for the shipment of socos feet of

The Dragon of Wrath," founded on an an bis numerous felends and acqualolenceB,

I hit ppice hard-word. Co is triival at Pek lng work is to star: on the mausoleum among cient Chinesa legend.

te was known as no ardent sportsman end he particularly identified himself with the the tombs of the Ming dynasty, near the cap war cos sporting ever is promoted by the V.R.Otol. For the huge pillars of the masso'cum and always took a prominent patia the rowing giant trees will be taken from the Mindanao Contrata. Onmorethanore occasion he brought forests. Bome of them, already out, are to feet his men ell with flylog colours after a hard high and four feet in diameter, weighing over tussle and his loss, therefore, will be falt net a 17 lon

Although a tragedy In miniature, it gives ample scope for a delineation of Chinese life wrestling to the combat for the hand of the Princess, For Eastern music and singing in the betrothal (stivities, and some quaint dances by slavo girls probably never yet seen outs'de a Peking place.. The second act terminates the tragedy 6th a' forceful display of her art by Madam Chang, why diss in. the arms of her. husband, while her would-bi betrayer, the dis loyal Princi, killed by the Dergon of Wrath, The programme will include two abort onu, act pieces by European authors

tile keenly among the sporting members of ane ol Hongkong's oldest initiations, The flag of the Club-Sepse wa: half-masted to-day aa mark of respect to the memory of the de- cessed.

The fateral is taking place at 5 o'clock this

FORMATION OF J∙PANESE JOINT STOCK COMPARY,

he promising condition of cotton cultiva. tion in Slam has given sise in Japan to the formation of a joint steck company styled the Yea 5,000,000, repasis the Japan Times. The Slam Cotton Company with a capital of about promoters are Haren Shibusaws, Kessis, Yasuda, Hibiya, Kakinuma and several other leading men to the Teploese spinning circles. A com mittee is being sent to Siam to Investigate the Prospects of cotton growing there. The com milites will be accompaled by Mr. Foju, medi. cal advisor to the Siamese Court, who le la terested in the industry. The commitee will the Siamese product can compete in quality stny loTM Siam till next sping. Itis said that with the Indian cotton and the climatic condi. Bons of the country are favourable to the calll. vation of the plant. Siamese catton is import- ed into Japan through Shanghal and is highly appreciated by Japiness splening conceres.

CHINESE CONSUL PROTESIS .AGAINST DISCRIMINATION,

ALLEGES THAT JAPANESE AND OTHERS ARE NOT VICTIMS OP THE TREAT- *MENT SUFFINED BY CHINESE.

THE EX CUTION.

The next:ace which was carried out in a thick fog, occupied, according to the evidence at the inquest, oly sixty seconds from the death of the corsare cattle time the executioner entered the cell until the

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The preparations were cartled out qu'ally in order not to disturb Crippen, as his quarters were only a few steps from the scaffold shed, Ho retired to rest

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AGITATED AND DESPONDENT, and when aroused hal evidently spent a rest less night. He looked haggard and pite, and seemed to have lost all bis fortituds.

at the trial-and was served with a bleikfiat of eggs, bread and batter and tes; hot this was pectically untouched.

He dressed in his own clothar-those be ware

arms.

The dismissal of the President of the Cham-

be instance of the Foard--of, Gommerce in Feking, still further complicates a 'sitasilen which was already full of difficulties. The dis missal was brought about as the result of lo

aries made by the cachow Governer, H. B.. actions of the former Shanghai Total Tsai Chen-in connexion with the financial trans- who was degraded a couple of mon hs ago. It. failure of three loral Packs which were as-, will be remembered that, at the time of the. ociated with Chin Yee, the Shanghai Tactal. Tsal, fogeiber with the President of the Chin- ese Chamber of Commerce, Chow, procented. to Nanking to interview Viceroy Chang, who after a conference with them, asked for

IMPERIAL AUTHORITY,

with the forcle Banks of Shanghai, for the sum through the Grand Council, to negotiate a loan

of thrin and a half million tatls. This loan was made for the purpose of strangikening the market and restoring confideres lo Chinesa Bank orders, all of which threatened to he

gulfed to the discredit brought upon the crders of the thres insolvent Banks. Nearly one and a half millions of this laan were used

the payment of Bank orders le the hands of *the foreign Banks and foreign firms, and the

balace of the low was pot on deposit în Chi-- ise registered Ben's It was in conrexion: with the manner of deprs tag this balance of two millias sasis that accusations ware brought ogsfost the former Shanghai Total, Taal, and as a result of the charges, his degradation. was accomplished, The Provincli Aarembly. at Nanking has strongly opposed the action of Viceroy Chang in the matter, and it has

FOUND VIGOR US, SUPPORT

in Governor Chen, where lavestigation of the matter has had the farther effect of removing Mr. When the executioner Ellis, and his assist. Chow from the presidency of the local Chamber act appeared at the cell door, fast bafors of Commerce. It is understood that the recom- pine, Orippen rose slawly from bis seat and mendation of Governor Chen has been to the quielly sabmitted to the pinioning of bis effect, that the former Shaughal Tantal, Teal Birthended ard collarless, he was should be held personally, rerpens ble for the escorted from his co'l between two warders, repayment of the loan if three and a balf mil- who asti ted the condemned msn on to the lions. This Memorial of Coreroor Chen bas drop. The goose and while cap were adjusted that the fipal ice of the matter is that the bota notified to the Board of Fimapre, so quickly, and a moment later the bolt Central Government of Peking has at ens time drawn, and Crippen had explated bis crime. At the last, according to an agency report, his FACE HAD LOST ALL COLOUR,

· Chinese Consul Geroral Li Wung Yew and and he was on the point of collapse. a committee from the Chinese Six Campanica No bell was rung ester the execnilon, as threa made a formal vis't to Anzel island quarantice other men in the priso) lay under sentence of station recently for the purpose of protesting death. agairs: indigollies which they said bad bien At 9 20 the following notificati wis posted perpetrated aron Chinese in the examinations on the pristni gale by the doctors for the bookworm

Commissioner Steward and Dr. Glover ex- plained that the Chinese received the same treatment as that accorded to immigrants of THE export of bean cake from Blanchuria to other pationalities, The committee complain. Japan during the masih ef October last totalled ed that the Japanese and oben were not treat 635.540 pieces, against 415,000 places la tho ed to the same way as the Chinese and the corresponding month of fast your 1830:0 Hindoos. Ha proposes to notify his govara, pleces, that is, more that g2 per cent of the ment of what he considers to be an injurious abaya total, wero chipped from Nowchwange = | diegrimlantira corned membora of his race,

We, the undersigned, hereby declare that the judgment of death was this day executed on Howley Harvey Crippan in his Myjmy's Frison of Pentonville in our presence (Signed) F. Kynaston More Me, Under She da; D. E. M. Davis, Governor Themis Caray, Roman Catholic Chiplato, The surgeon's certificate of death was also made public. It was signed by Dr., Parker Wilion, surgeon of the peloam,

"pproved the, making of this loan on the re commendation of Viceroy Chang, and at any athor tims has approved the recommandation of Governor Chen to the effect that ex-Totai

TSAI SHOULD DE HELD RESPONSILLE

for its repayment: That matters cannot semain in this position will be evidert to all, and futora developments will be awaited wilh much fas

restShanghai Timis, p

| A GANG of convicts liave discovered & heap of diamonds worth £3000 st Kimberly. Thay were removing the hedge of a disused cemetery when they made the discovery, a remarkabla feature of which is the fact that there were lodications that the dismands hid beongsing when they wera found for years, within and of a public road,