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GENERAL NEWS.

Australia's Population, The population of Australia at the ond of June was 4,644,239, an increase of 42,000 for the quarter. The natural increase for the period was 18,240 and the net immigra- tion 23,641.

Oplum-smoking in the

Concessions.

The Concessions are lately be- ing used as refuges for all kinda of tagrag and bobtail, especially by opium smokers, An opium den in Hankow was raided last week by the police in the German Concession. Hankow Daily Nowa."

SERVICE MATTERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913.

The Transport Plassy. The transport Plassy arrived at Southampton on November 24 from Bombay, Among the officers on board were Lient. Col. J. S. Green, and Capts. F. A. MoCamTM mon, E. W. M. Paine, and G. H. Stevenson, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

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Gibraltar.

Treasure Trove in Sarawak... A box containing a quantity of gold was recently washed ashore near Tarjong Sirik, Sarawak. The finders promptly divided the spoils, but have now been order

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What sufferer from dyspepsia but recalls vividly his fear of eating on account of the suffering he knew was in store for him, whether in the shape of nauses,

H.M.S Agamemnon.

An important prehistorio nd Food that Nourishes and Cures in England has been causing Ordered to carry out her annual great excitement among scientists. rofit at Chatham Dockyard, the An anthropological student, ex- battleship Agamemnon has been cavating in Sussex, unearthed detached from the flag of Vice- fragments of human skull, which od to return everything to Govern- Admiral Sir J. R. Jellicoe, com- are being pieced together. A ment pending enquiries. It is manding the Second Battle detailed description was to be believed that the box is the pro-Squadron, to proceed to Sheerness, given on December 18, at a meet- vomiting, pain, flatulence, heart, perty of some ous on the schooner where she will discharge her Waring of the Geological Society. Sri Padang which foundered in Department stores proparatory to August Inst

Death of Otto Brahms. Dr. Otto Brahms has died at the age of 57. He was the director of the Lessing Theatre. Born at Hamburg, and educated at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Strassburg, he had been director of the Berlin | Lessing Theatre since 1894. He

The New Siamese Flag.

burn or the other distressing Experts declare the akull that symptoms of a condition whose going into Dockyard hands. The of a paleolithic man, and the earli-secondary results are often very Agamemnon has completed a eat undoubted evidence of man in alarming. two-years commission, and before the country. It was found in resuming duties she will be paid off and recommissioned with a now crew for a further period of service:

New Navy Airship.

association with the bones of one of the most ancient types of eleph anl. The stratum in which it lay was the beach of a very old river bed.

The skull belongs roughly to was the author of many works on The firm which is building the the same age as the famous the drams, and made several not-now airship for the British Ad-Heidelberg skull, and is quite as able stage adaptations of the miralty is the Astra Airship Com- early as anything which has been works of Ibsen, Schiller, and pany, of Billancourt, near Paris. found in Europe. others.

Work has been proceeding on the It resembles the Neanderthal dirigible for some months, and it specimen, but belongs to a much Instructions have been received is now nearing completion. Al- lower and more primitive type of at the Singapore Siamese Con-though many of the constructive mankind, even than that. sulate that the design for the details of the new airship are Before this discovery the ear new Siamese flag will resemble confidential, Mr. Blin Debleds, liest skull found in England was the diplomatic enrvice flag, with lecturer in aeronautical enginee- one dug up near Ipswich last the difference that the figure of ring, at Sheffield University, in year, but the conditions of the the Garuda, with wings out an article in the "Daily Ex-Ipwich find leave a loophole for spread, on the consular fing, will press," is able to explain its gene-doubt. not be surmounted by the royal ral features The Astra-Torres, crown. In the design of the ox- isting consular flag there is no representation of the Garuda..

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The preparation and the way it acts are thus referred to by a dis- tinguished physician, writing in The General Practitioner, who says: Sanatogen undergoes rapid and complete absorption in the healthy stomach, and a pre-N. cisely similar result is seen in diseased conditions."

Thousands of physicians have. endorsed the valun of Suuntogen for those suffering from dyspepsia, Experts will not venture anno matter what the age of the he says, differs greatly in appear opinion as to the date of the sufferer may be. Thus one doctor ance and in construction: from Sussex man, but he most probab-writes: "I have used Sanatogen in any of the other well-known types ly lived millions of years ago.

à case of atonic dyspepsie, in s of airships. Its envelope is not

Chinese Duped.

patient aged seventy-seven years, Society Lady's Pet.

circular in section, but is tri-lobal The sight of a lady with a fair that is, the envelope consists of inserted in s

An interesting advertisement with very good results. The pain Chinese daily, and nausea disappearod and the sized spe on a lead but allowed three lobes running the whole Min Li Pao," about a fortnight powers of assimilation increased." to exercise among the branches of length of the airship and joined the trees in Regent's Park, Lon-10 each other. Where each lobe go by a foreigner, under the Sanatogen, which may be, ob- don, canses some evcitement daily meets the other there is a strong more than two hundred innocent success in dyspepsia to the tast pseudonym of Dr. Wei, duped tainod of all Chemista, owes its She carries small bags of sweets tied up with string, which the rope running from the dose to Chinese who aspired to be dis- that it puts no tax on the digestive

tho tail of the airship, and tosses to the ape. Mas. Farrar as there are three lobes, there pensary compounders. The ad- organs, but is absorbed easily and Baynes states that he has had are, therefore, three ropes. These the applicants $20 per month sensation of strength, while it vertisement in question promised rapidly. It gives a wonderful the ape, which she calls "Tunko,"

ropes are so inter-connected by while being trained as a com- ensures perfect rest to the stomach about six years. It was given to smaller ones that, when the pounder. As days went by over and other digestive organs, and het when young by the sister of envelope is inflated, the ropes two hundred Chinese applied in so enables them to recover their an Eastern potentate.

form a triangular girder, which The Rance of Sarawah as a ensures that the shape of the person at Nos. 14 and 15 Avenue health and tone.

Paul Brunst. "Dr. Wei" asked Musician.

envelope should remain tri-lobal.

them to pay down $1 each for The Ranee of Sarawak, was to When deflated, the airship in

examination fee and December conduct the ladies orchestra at non-rigid, but when inflated the 29 was fixed for the date of Lieut. Col. J. C. L. Black,

funicular or rope girder just des- the Theatre Royal, Windsor,

examination. The applicants Army Service Corps, is to bo trans- where the Windsor Strollers were cribed gives the airship the giving their annual performances qualities which belong to the in the first week of December, rigid type of airship. The Astra- as pointed. They found that the mouth this month The Grey Friars Orchestra, which Torres system thus combines promising doctor was gone with Lieut.-Col, E. I Ward, who goes she started some seven or eight the advantages of the non-rigid over $200 soft money in his to Egypt- years ago, ie entirely composed with those of the rigid type of pocket. The "Min Li Pao" office It is true that on was asked to explain the Mystery of amateurs, in grey habits, with dirigible. cords round their waists. The account of its tri-lobal shape the and beyond the evidence of the name was taken from Grey Friars, penetration through the air of the advertisement there was nothing the Rapee's house at Ascot, where airship is reduced, but this dieto show they would likely be the orchestra meets for rehearsals, advantage is compensated for by trained as compouders with a cants Each.

the fact that most of the suspen-wage of $20 per month. sion ropes supporting the car

Russian Influence in Urga.

A Native paper says that the and proceeding from the Urga Rseudo Government has sido funicular or rope girder allowed the establishment of Rua- sian branch banks. Everywhore are in the interior of the en- therefore offer Russian bank notes are in circula-velope, and tion and China notes are forbid no resistance to the motion of the airship. The three lobes for

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