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GENERAL NEWS,

Bequest to China Inland Mission. Considerable bequests to re- ligi us objects have been left by Mr. Charles Waltor, of Lyndon House, Ewell-road, Eurbition Hill, Surrey, including £300 to the China Inland Mission.

A Rubber Director's Will. Mr. Andrew Oliver, a director of the British Malay Rubber. Company, limited, and of the Oriental Rubber Company Limited, left estate valued at £14,920 gross, with net personalty £13,880.

Interesting Marriage. A marriage has been arcangod, and will shortly take place, be twoen William Bowes, son of the late James Lord Bowes (lon. Consul for Japan) of Streatlam Towers, Princes-road, Liverpool, and Eram Beatrice Krell, elder daughter of the lato 0. O. W. Krell, of Liverpool.

New Peruvian Consulates. Senor Juse M. Sanmiguel as been appointed. Consul for Poru for the county of Kent, with head quarters at Rochester. He is one

SERVICE MATTERS.

Appolated to the Merlin. Lieutenant C. A. Browne has been appointed to the Merlin, surveying ship on the Chins Station, to fill a vacancy in her complement. Lieutenant Browne is a cadet of September, 1905,

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H.M S. Beaver's Accident.. H.M. destroyer. Beaver, which went ashore off the Norfolk coast of twelve or fourteen Consuls on December 21 and refloated,

Health of Bangkok,

A VIRGINIA ROMANCE.

Eloping Pair's Escape.

An exciting experience was that

appointed to various centres in arrived at Portsmouth on the of Lee Armentrout, of Clifton Great Biiuin by the Government 23rd ult. for overhaul and repairs. Forge, Virginia, who eloped with of Peru with the object of bring. She sustained some damage, to and was married, to Miss Lulu ing about increased trade between her bows, but not of a serious Stombach, the daughter of a we- the countries.

cheractor, and made the journey. round under her own stean, bealthy farmer of Bath County, The following is a return show-ng taken to the tidal basin of Virginia. After journeying twenty ing the number of deaths from the dockyard as a preliminary to one miles over rough roads to communicable diseases, which being placed in dry dock. his aweetheart's home, Arment- have been notified as occurring in The China Commands.

It is stated that the military rout helped the girl down from the City of Bangkok during the week ended the 4th January distinctions between the North a second storey window at three Chins Command and the South o'clock in the morning, and they

'hina Command are to be hurried away in a buggy. abolished and the commands

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common centre. This is said Forge two minutes, too late to **Culture_Policy" in China. to be some of the results of Sir catch the Chesapeake and Ohio Writing under the title of fan Hamilton's last tour of inspectrain. They determined to go to German Culture Policy in Chian, tion in the Far East. Whilst Sir Buchanan, Virginia, fifty miles a contributor to a Bremen conan was in China and the Far

temporary contends that the East.he very carefully went into further on, in the buggy. The circulation of German literary the question of the existing de horse, however, was fast giving. work is suffering in China owing fence schemes of the chief ports out, and they had not gone far to the present conditions of the thero and the provisions made when it died. book trade there. He advocates, generally for a naval war.. therefore, the establishment of a book distributing organisation that shall really introduce the products of German literary work to the people of China.

Famous Duel Recalled,

China and the States.

Colonel Koe.

As the lovers were debating Lieutenant-Colonel I. O. Koe, what next to do an automobile commandant, Legation Guard, overtook them to Buchanan for Peking, who has been promoted

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more than a hundred miles ahead of ne, with constant fear of the dotectivos.

**Several times officors had boarded the train and had search- ed the cars. At East Radford another got on, with a telegram, seeking our arrest. Two more officera got on at another station, but the fact that we were riding in separate cars, with an elderly man acting as Miss Stombach's companion, threw them all off the scent.

"When the travelling man a lighted from the train at Bristol with Miss Stombach none of the waiting officers suspected that he was shielding a bride-to-be. I laft the train from the smoking car, and was evidently taken for a travelling men. We did not feel safe though until after Mr. Baroughs had tied the koot."

A BROTHER'S HEROISM.

Skin Orafting Operation.

An operation involving the grafting of one and a half square feet of skin from the body of a brother to that of a sister bas been successfully performed at Lincola Country Hospital.

Some time ago, the sister of James Strawson, who was em ployed asa cook at Gainsborough Grammer School, was severely barat while dozing in front of a fire, where it was taken to the hospital at Lincoln, where it was fund that the skin had been taken off from the shoulders to the knees. The girl recovered from the shock, but the skin would not grow. The medical staff could think of only one re medy, that of grafting, as the three skins which cover the human body were entirely des troyed.

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with a punch on the appointed to his present post in

"Wo boarded the train feeling nose, which was sufficient for the January, 1911. He has the Duc de Grammont,

Soudan, Hazara, and Benin ex- that we were then in little dan- peditions to his oredit, and was ger," said Armentrout, in descri-

bing their adventures, "but it Her brother James, a Gains. Peking, January 13.-A move severely wounded in the latter. "ment has been started here to

The Naval Manning Problem was only a little while before we borough workman, then went to bring about closer relations be- During recent months we have saw detectives hunting for us. I the hospital and placed himself tween China and the Uaited referred to the naval manning went into the smoking car and at the disposal of the surgeons.

"The skin crop of the brother," States. Former President Roose-problems on many occasions, says struck up a conversation with an

He was said Dr. W.FL.B. Brook, who velt and former President Sun"The Globe," and the assurance elderly travelling man.

operated," was taken from the Yat-sen have been nominated as of the Prime Minister and First going to Bristol.

"Texplained to bim the plight whole of the front of the thigh honorary presidents of a society Lord of the Admiralty that a con- that is to organize and promotedition of the Canadian gift is to we were in, and asked his help. on both sides, and it was grafted the movement. The plan finds be that the ships shall be addi. We decided that the best thing to on the sister's body. The plant- many adherents but it is explain- tional to the programme of the do was to have him play papa' ed' strips have taken on, are ed that naither Roosevelt nor Sun Motherland makes the manning to Miss Stombach. Going into growing marvellously, and the Yat-sen has been consulted as to question on important and urgent the other car, he calmy took a girl is doing remarkably well,”. his attitude toward the plan and matter. We are afraid that so far seat beside her, and told her of its promotors, and there is some as the present recruiting system in the flan. She was more than

For Best Meala just try the doubt as to their willingness to Canadais concerned it must be pro- glad to call him 'paps' in view of

nounced a failere. Considerably the foot that there was a ride of ALEXANDRA CAFE CO. Chinese Suffrage. more than 50 per cent. of the men Approximately 5,000,000 Chi- engaged in Canada have deserted ness women living in the province or otherwise left the Navy. They and within the jurisdiction of prefer shoro to ship life, in a Canton were granted auffrage by land where high wages rule and the provincial assembly just be the freedom of the subject in the fore it adjourned, says the "San backwoods is almost without con- Francisco Call" Immediately trol. This means that the mann- OUR after the Manchu dynasty was ing question has to be solved by overthrown the women of Canton, the Mother Country, for Austra- especially those in the city proper, lians are not coming forward for took steps toward the enactment the naval service in the numbera of laws which would give them that it was hoped and expected There is a the right to vote. White women, would be the case.

The Great Splendour, By Gertrude members of the International shortage of applicants, and a very Centene, By H. Graham Richarda. Saffrigo movement, who were in large number of men who leave Rosaleen O'Hara, By Joraph Canton several months ago, aided when their first short engage

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