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GENERAL NEWS.

Paizer Getting Into Form.

A FEW MEMORIES

OF LORD ROBERTS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912,

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believed the war was over. «I suppose that in a life marked by many great moments that mo ment was the greatest of them

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Everyone can speak of the other twelve months, and that he Lord Roberts. I am far from books mau's mistakes. It is easy enough will visit Sind (North-Western and diaries, but this is what I re-to oriticise campaigns from a dis tance; still easier to oriticise India) early next year.

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The first scene was during the them when they are over. Bat big maneuvres of 1898, when the when I saw the old Field Mar

shal once again last year, inspect: Al Palzer, who, so boxing Duke of Connaught was com experts are inclined to believe, manding against General Buller, ing a little brigade of veterans in can beat any man, black or white, and both armies engaged upon the Surrey paddock, it was not of has buckled down to business to astonishing tactics that brought mistakes or of criticism that I fit himself for a long winter disaster in the following year. A thought. There he stood his blue campaign, says an exchange correspondent so the "Daily eye noir pale almost to whiteness, TO LET No. 119D the Peak, from middle of April until end of Palzer has been on his farm all Chronicle" I was tailing up a but his little figure still erect and

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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee.

Isaiah, rxvi, 3.

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when a runner passed through the I recalled that inoident the day

Gladstone once was asked what blackade of Ladysmith and kept him so serene and composed brought Sir George White the in the midst of his busy life.

"At the foot of my bed," he news that Roberts had been ap- none to the command in South

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December of 1890. Cheerfulness morning, are the words: "Thou with a taste for driving-as alieled of his son, consisting of oil secur- and capacity were the two things wilt keep him in perfect peace pupil or otherwise.--Address" O.P.Q." ities that were then valuod

For, indeed, whose mind is stayed on Thee, careof Hongkong Telegraph." approximately at $300,000. On we wanted most. his son's death, in 1911, after an almost unvaried gloom was because he trusteth in Thee."

It is to be wondered that more

It is not necessary that all twenty-one years, the market settling down upon the besieged value was, roughly, $1,050,000. army, and devoted as was the at-men and women do not stay their In his lifetime, he drew from the tachment of the staff and the men minds on Him whose power to faith be similar, but it is neces- to General White himself we had give peace is as unlimited as the sary that faith exist in the heart natural doubts as to the capacity offer of that priceless gift on of man. To seek an explanation

other generals, to whom alone we Him who stands ever near and for this is like trying to analyze GREEN ISLAND CEMENT could look for outside help. The roady to warmly grasp the hand light. And just as light is neces news that Roberts was coming held out in faith; to light dark eary to physical being, so is faith acted like a revival. Light and lives with His lova and "wipe necessary to spiritual existence, strength were restored, and for away all teare."

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On one occasion-whither it was maat fall some days be dark and However mysterious the rela

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So, as the work goes on and the need for help increases day by day, rest from thinking eo many needless and fruitless thoughts about things temporal HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN. and stay your mind on Him who alone can give perfect peace..

Attack of the Boers on January borne these burdens, we ander Being, there is nothing whatever 6th or at a later time I am not sure stand them and see that they to be gained by denying the power cabled to Java on the 6th instant he sent the garrison a message acted, in many instances, as safety of that lafinite Being to bestow that information had been recoved of praise and congratulation by valves. We see how they have strength and peace. Generation Hongkong, 18th August, 1901, (8 that day from the assistant helio. I remember writing that "steeled our souls with patience" after generation has proved it Resident of Simbas stating that the message was worth a fresh and taught us great lessons about beyond all peradventure. Mil- two Chinose tax-collectors whilst brigade to us. By that time the the life admirable; the life here lions upon millions of lives have going their round had been garrison was horribly reduced by which can be made to reflect in evidenced it, and hosts to-day, are

so doing, murdered by compatriots towards hunger, sickness, and douths, but euch large measure the virtues of

In return for trusting Him, or the south of Mount Koping. the message was worth a fresh divinity.

In every life the greater purt born of our trust in Him, comes a Anonymous Chinese placards brigade.

of the struggle is to gain peace,sense of peace which cannot be have appeared in Mampawa threatening death to taxpayers. In the following May I was in the factory, the home, the heart

MARTIN, peace that passeth all under- In many places there is ferment ordered to leave Natal and join of the individual. Always this is got in any other way. It is a amongst the Chinese; great the advance upon Pretoria. It one of the chief goals. Always standing." Yet, do we under- many of them have refused to was a hard task, for Roberts we are looking for waya and stand love or electricity?" pay the tax. Tho provincial moved fast and had already start means to this end. And often, military commandant was mared from Bloemfontein. To catch very often, we overlook the one derously attacked by a Chinamanhim one had to go right down to sure way. in broad daylight. He was Durban, round by sea to East We overlook God. arrested and immediately punish London, and all up the weary and Some of us think we cannot ed. To be prepared for any broken line to the Free State. By honestly subscribe to this or that eventualities the resident asked riding 30 miles a day from Bloem-form of belief, and some pay for immediato military assistance. fontein along his track I came up little or no attention to matters

New Governor of Western The 330 soldiers at Pontianak with the main army just before it spiritual, thinking that mere

Australia. are required there for the protect entered Johannesburg. A few days morality is the full measure of

The King has been pleased to ion of Pontianak and the surlater we were encamped at a man's higher attainment,

Mere morality is no more s approved the appointment of roundings. A company consisting suburb called Orange Grove, and of 450 troops with 100 prisoners the wide view to the north show substitate for spirituality than is Major-General Sir Harry Barron, and a bospital staff of 20 was ed line after line of fire across the learning a substitute for wisdom. Governor of Tasmania, to be to be despatched from Batavia veld at night, for the Boers had Howeverupright may be the nature Governor of Wealern Australia to Pontianak by the Mastsuiker. hoped to delay our advance by and dealings of any individual, in succession to Sir Gerald Strick- "A Treaty with Mongolia, destroying the grass. Early in that person's equipment is sadly land, K.C.M.G., who becomes The determination of Rassis the morning I saw the little lacking in an essential if faith be Governor of New South Wales

next March. to treat Outer Mongolia as an au- General again. He was riding lacking. tonomous State despite the active quietly forward with his staff for opposition of Peking has become fical advance upon the capital, apparent, says the "Times" of No which throughout had been his vember 8. Since M. Korostovolz goal. That night we camped arrived at Urga he has formally about five miles from Pretoria,

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