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TELEGRAMS.

The following telegrams appeared as an Extra after we went to press on Wednesday:

TERRIBLE WEATHER.

RUSSIAN STEAMER

WRECKED.

Another Goes Ashore.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, January 8. Torrible weather is reported

pastward.

The Russian steamer Peter Morch, belonging to the Northern S.S. Company, Ltd., bound from Calcutta to Vladivostok with tea, was wrecked on Friday on the Rhio Archipelago.

The s.e. Alexey Morch, belong ing to the same owners, from Vladivostok to Calcutta, light, went ashore on Sunday within 20 miles of the Peter Morch.

No lives were lost in either case

PLANTATION TRAGEDY.

EUROPEAN PLANTER

MURDERED.

(Our Own Correspondent.).

Singapore, January 8, Mr. Oakley, a planter, of Johore, has been murdered.

GENERAL NEWS

Another Chinese Graduate of London.

The honours list recently issued. by the London University includes the name of Mr. Yi Chen (Class 2 B. Sc. Economics for Internal Students).

An unfinished history of China.

General Homer Lea, theauthor of "The Valor of Ignorance", was, at the time of his death, engaged

U, S. and China.

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Green Tea Barred. An order was issued at Peking some time since by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry forbidding both the producers and the merchants in tea from coloring their tea, as criticism have often been heard from

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Foreigner Sentenced at Yokohama.

In the Yokohama District Court on. the 24th ult. sentence was passed on William Schop-locher, charged with fraudulently obtain ing Y45,000 belonging to his employers, Mesars. Raspe & Co. Accused was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment.

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INTERNATIONAL POLO. SIAMESE DIVORCE LAW.

Wile's Useless Application in English Court.

England's Strong Team to Meet

America.

in London by the challenge sent Great interest has been aroused

was mentioned in the Divorce A point in Siamese divorce law

by the Hurlingham Polo Club to Court London when a suit for the American Polo Association to judicial separation was brought play a series of games for the by Beatrice Countess Seni Bhidak America cap.

sgainst the Count Beni Bhidak, s Eight or ten of England's best Siamese nobleman. players will go over to the United Mr. Barnard K.J. said the States, so that in case of acoident petitioner was an American. She there will be plenty of men on first married a German, but the hand to step into any gap. The union was dissolved. In 1907 she team, under the captaincy of met the respondent in Germany, Walter S. Buckmaster, probably and in the following year they will be selected from Lord Wede were married at the "Kensington The examining magistrate at house, Captain G. E. Bellville, Registry Office... on the subject of the opium dens J. Hardress Lloyd, Captain R. G. Brest has concluded his inquiry Captain Leslie Chonpe, Captain there. Only four of the women Ritson and F. M. Kreaks, while who were charged with keeping Captain F. St. J. Atkinson and these places will be sent for trial, B. A. B. Scroiher, with one or two A warrant has also been issued

You are free to marry whom- The abuse of sweeping dusty for the arrest of one of the men the trip.

other players, will asked to make soever. I have provided you with floors, near the close of a working who provided the opium, who has

ample means. Best for you to day, before the operatives have led the country. It is thoughtful records. Walter S. Bucking more for you. Thanks for Some of the team have wonder-return to England. I can do noth- gone home, has been shown to that the affair of the opium dens be very grave. The American will come before the tribunal at Cantabs team, the winner of the

master acquired fame with the old police escort.. Association for Labour LegislBrest in a month. ation recently took under in- vestigation the number of dis- ease gerins in the dust of the

WHY WORKSHOP FLOORS SHOULD BE DISIN. FECTED..

Football Casualties: 16 Dead, 36 Injured,

for Singapore. The Count want At the end of July they mailed away with a Siamese lady, and sent his wife a telegram:

He also sent her an affectionate Hurlingham cup last summer. letter, which began: "Dear Captain Cheape was a great Baby." She returned to England,} Captain Ratson has a fine Indian a declaration that he had boen player with team of 1911, and and then received from the Count

reputation.

divorced by him.

The petitoner, fashionably at- tired in black, gave evidence in support of her counsel'sstatement. "Mr. Richard Dudley Craig, a barrister, said the declaration was valid dissolution of the marriage. In Siam a marriage could be dis- solved by mutual consent or after three: months' desertion by the husband.

His lordship dismissed the petition, remarking that, he was satisfied the marriage had already been put an end to.

average workshop. That there America's record of a 1918 Ten dead and 36 injured is are countless billions deposited football season, Last year there upon the floor, everyone knows, 14 deaths and 67 injured, accord- Under the new agreement the but while on the floor they are ing to statistics compiled by matches will, it is understood, be comparatively harmless, while, Chicago newspaper. Of the fata- played between June 1 and July flying through the air, they are lities three were high school 8, or as soon thereafter as the breathed down by the worker, players of other teams. No college weather permits, so that the often with serious consequences players were killed during the British team will not have mucha It needs but little thought to year, for the first time in several time in Amerion before the see the injustice of sweeping a seasons. Of the injured seven matches are played. floor and raising a cloud of dust were college players, nine high The Duke of Westminister, when there are, thirty or perhaps school players, two grade school who will defray the entire cost a hundred workers in one depart players and, eight members of of the British team's visit to ment of a factory, when, by athletic clabs.

America, always has possessed a sweeping immediately after the

U. S. Postoffice Sending out

good stable. He has, however, operatives had gone home, the

added to it by purchase during Exposition Stamps. only people who would be sub- Washington, November 25.- the season and is still on the jected to the dust would be the The distribution of 240,000,000 lookout for more good ponies, sweepere themselves and they Panama-Pacific Exposition stamps while it is probable that others would be endangered in any to the 60,000 postmasters will be lent for the Anglo-Ameri-

throughout the country was be- can matches. Many of the large English gan to-day by the Post office H. Payne Whitney and other on 7th ult the steamer Neator, factories, acting upon a famous Department. The Bureau of American players were in Eng. which has been built for Messrs. experiment in the printing trades Engraving and Printing is sand-land during the summer and were. Alfred Holt and Co. in London swab their Boors with ing wagon-loads of the stamps said to be on the lookout for good -C, P. R. Addition. a reliable disinfectant, for it has daily to the department, which is ponies. The papera made an been found that this renders the shipping them to post offices appeal to English owners to give number of gorma.so small that as rapidly as requisitions of the Dake of Westminister the the dangers are almost nil. In postmasters are received. All the Grst refusal of any they had for these carefully managed places, stamps were distributed by Dec- sale. moreover, the floors are not swept omber 20th; but they were not to until all the workpeople have be placed on sale until January gone home.

Case.

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Mr. Bosworth, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, has left Montreal for Eagland. Before sailing he announced that the company would certainly add one, and probably two, vessels of the Empress of Asia type to its Pacific service.

Melton Mowbray, Pork Pies, Beef,

B. 1. Bost Sold to Japanese, The British Indian Steam Navi- On the same basis, it is pointed Philippine Assembly Approves. gation Company, Limited, have out, the officious Pullman car por The secretary of the Philippine sold their steamer Aska, of 542 ter who wants to" brush you off," Assembly has cabled to the tons gross register, to Japanese or the bootblack who does the resident commissioners in Wash-buyers. She was built at Troon Mution, Gam, Veal and Ham pies, same thing, is a veritable spres-ington the following: "The in 1889, with dimensions 100 ft. Small Hot Pics always on hand der of disease. Bacteria and ba Philippine Assembly, in its by 20 ft. by 116 ft., and is at cents Esch. oilli are harmless as long as they session of December 10 loat, present in Eastern waters.

are sticking to the cloth of approved a résolution asking

one's clothes and brushing them Congress and the President of the

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some in-sident commissioners, that the fection. It is pointed out that Jones bill be approved in the tailors especially those who have coming regular session, and that a great deal of cleaning and pres- in the event that it could not be sing to do are unhealthly and done so the President be asked to

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Music and Politics.

In the house, where sweeping At the request of Mrs. Oliver and dusting are constantly recess H. P. Belmont, Titta Ruffo, the ary, it is advised that the broom famone baritone, with 100 other be damped with a disinfecting members of the Dippel operatio fluid. Industing, materials should forces, have organized

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