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Tho following talegrams appeared as an Extra after we went to press yesterday:—,

LINER ENCOUNTERS ICEBERGS. Where The TITANIC SUNK,

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Noisy Shareholders, Shareholders in the "Panam Rubber and Timber Estates, Limited, came to blows at their recent moeting at Salisbury House. Following a decision voluntarily to wind up the com- pany there was a great deal of noise. Shareholders called one another "dirty cads" and "liars," and eventually some of them came to blows, one man being koooked down and another aus-

taining a severe laceration over

the eye.

[Service to the "Tolograph:"1 London, April 28. The Allan liner Virginian, bound for Halifax, had to go dond slow for 11 hours through an icefield. She sighted, eight| monster icebergs almost at the Grand Cross for the Prince. spot where the Titanic foundored

The King of Wurtemberg has last year. The bergs were drif- conferred the Grand Cress of the ting southward across the trans-Order of the Crown of Wurten- Atlantic track. "

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No. 2, Park Road. 4 Room tho House of Commons mot last Commands splendid View of snonth and reappointed Sir George Harbour. For Rent, etc., please Toulmin, M.P., as chairman: An apply to-YAP HOK LING, No. inquiry was held as to the possi4, Ripon Terrace, London, April 28.bility of reducing the cost of Hongkong, 28th Mar., 1913. [264 CO., LTD. Mr. John Dillon, speaking at certain Blue-books, the issue of Rolleston County Dublin, de- which is pending, and it was clared that the Nationalists were stated by Sir Rowland Bailey, ready to moet the Irish Unionists Controller of the Stationery in a conferenca in the most Office, who gave evidence on the friendly spirit, if they were wil-mitter, that the work of the com ling to accept the principle of Home Rule, and consider what

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POPULATING THE COLONIES.

WHAT IS NEEDED.

London, April 28.

mitteo, chiefly in restricting the publication of urinecessary matter in official dacuments, had resulted in an actual realized saving of £150,000 a year.

The Jokers.

SERVICE MATTERS:

companies, notably the Chinese. Two specially satie- factory features may be remark- ed, First, although the old. Famous General's Death, age of fifty-six, of Major-General almost total lethargy, has dis

The death is announced, at the annual training, followed by system of a strenuous period of

Cecil William Park, commanding appeared for two years, the the East Lancashire Division since attendances at parade drille 1910, who led the famous charge this year wore actually far during the South African War. of the Devons on Wagon Hill batter than in the days

Two sorious-minded politicians, Mr. Austen Chamberlain and Afr.

of the annual training, al- John Dillon (writes an M. P. in

The Army (Annual) Bill. though doubtless many of the London Opinion," bavo just text of which was issued on April fect. Again, the smartness with The Army (Annual) Bill, the

men must already have been per- Mr. Watt, the Premier of Vic-mado verbal slips-one perpetrat-2, proposes to extend the power, which the sudden call for a toria, speaking at Brighton, said ing an unconscious pun, and the conferred by the Army Act, of turn-out on Thursday night was they wanted to see spring up other an unconscious "ball." under the Imperial Government Neither of them often allow and vessels in case of emergency on the keenness of the men than requisitioning carriages, horses, responded to reflects no less credit an organisation which would himself to be betrayed into a assist them in populating in joke, and the merriment was for quisitioning aircaft of all descrip-ed that the composition of the. so as to include a power of re- on the system. When it is recall- ense lands like Canada. South that reason the more pronounced. tions, Africa and Australasia. Without Austen objected to the Chancellor.

Corps changes yearly by as touching controversial questions of the Exchequer "ostentatiously" Colonel Seely has given the unit commanders sometimes by much as as 33 per cent, and of they felt that the British Empire distinguishing between him and strength of the Territorial Army more than 50 per cent., owing to should be more self sustaining and his colleagues on the Front Op- on the dates specified as under- they should trade more together position beach, whilet Mr. Dillon

men leaving Shanghai, there is in the essentials of life..

the greater reason to congratulate the Volunteers on their efficiency. The one matter of dissatisfaction that must have occurred to more

A "COMMON CONVICT.??

Imprisoned Editor's Claim for £10,000 Damages."

jas aģent

Mr. L. F. Moore, editor and

was heard to say, in connection with the Guilotine Resolution,

Territorial Army.

N.C.O.'B Officer and

Men. 9,710 260,800

these bonds and gags, which Feb. 25, 1910 ... were invented by the Tory party March 1, 1011... 9,663 262,567 than one spectator on Saturday. for the coercion of Ireland, have Feb. 23, 1912... 9,380 203,024 in looking at those well drilled now come home to ronet," March 1, 1013... 9,201, 252,091 well found lines, is that their Australian Squadron.

Sallors and Cats on the China Station.

About twenty years ago, when

vices of the Corps, it may well feel that the burden should not proportion as it valuce the ser-

be borne one section only.

It is rather late in the day, amber are not double what they proprietor of the "Livingstone i was resident in North China call attention to the neglected Shanghai is a large one, and in are. The foreign community of BAYS the "Malay Mail." to Mail," who was recently impri-(writes. a correspondent of the condition of the Australian sque soned in the Belgian Congo for Spectator "), the British squad-dron in 1911. Anyone who was in an alleged libel in his newspaper ron, then in Far Eastern waters, Hongkong at the time when the upon a resident in the Katanga, was steaming out of the port of revolution broke out in Chins, la claiming 10,000 damages Chefoo, when a little black cat when two of the small cruisers from the Belgian administration, fell overboard from II.1.S Wanvers detached to strengthen the and has forwarded his claim to derer. At once the ship stopped, British Naval squadron in Chine the Foreign Secretary,

signalled to her consorts Cat

se waters, will remember how

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A statement issued by Mr. E. overboard." and the entire squad- they limped up from the south BEST OF ANCIENT CHINESE D. Morel, hon. secretary of theron came to a standstill. A boat like broken winged ducks and had CURIOS, JADES, ORNAMENTS Congo Reform Association, says put off from the Wanderer auto spend months in the dockyard. that Mr. Moore's main contention rescued puss, who was swimming And their condition we were then 72 Queen's Road, Central.

AND JEWELLERY. that the arrest and prosecution for dear life after the ship. The told was typical of the rest. were illegal, inasmuch as the officer who told me the story said offence was committed in British the sailors would have been

Torpedo Boat Collision, ⠀ territory; that the offence itself furious if the little cat had not while the torpedo-boats belonging

Late on the night of April 1,; was not a crime according to been saved for not only was she a to the Nore Defence Flotilla were British law, and that jurisdiction great pet, but they firmly believe exercising in the Thames Es did not lie with the Belgian that dissster would follow if a tuary, a collision occurred in

No. 1 & 3 D'Aguilar Strest. Courts - gains in force from the black cat was allowed to drown. Prince's Channel between t.b.'s fact that, the British Government Mr. Austen Chamberlain's Parlis- Nos. 18 and 114, both vessels Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, For The Turco-Filipino Cigar

THE ALEXANDRA · CAFE, not having officially recognised

mentary Majority. the Belgian nonexation of the

being damaged, the former hav Bread, Cakis, Confection ery Mr. Austen Chamberlain coming her bow crumpled and the meals with Wnes & Liquors. Congo, the Belgian Courts, pleted 21 years' service as mem-latter receiving an extensive rent strictly speaking, can have no her of Parliament for East Wor-on her starboard side. No, 18 was possible jurisdiction over "cestershire last month, having in no danger, her foremost bulk- British subject.

"There can be no doubt," says 1892. At the by-election which other compartmente, bat for a been first elected on March 30, bead keeping the water from the Mr. Morel," that the action was then took place he wae returned time No. 114 was in a perilous inspired by the Belgian Adminis- unopposed, but at the General condition, owing to the inflow of tion itself, which has been fiercely Election the same year he defest-water, and but for the precau ariticised in the Livingstone ed Mr. Oscar Browning, his old tionary measures adopted she Mail.'. Indeed, the Public Pro-college tutor, by a majority of would probably have sunk. secutor who conducted the case 2,594 He has been loss troubled denounced the general criticisms than most members with Parlia of the "Livingstone Mail.

upon

mentary oontests and in each

the Belgian Administration."

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The annual inspection of the Mr Moore was under arrest for well into four figures. His only all its usual smoothness, says the instance his majorities have been Volunteer Corps pissed off with eight days and in prison for twelve days when the fine was have been Mr. John Morgan and the opinion of many qualified to opponents besides Mr. Browning" North China Daily Nowe." In paid (by publio subscription), Mr. Hilton Young, After his judge it was the best march past A Run away Ring during which he was subjected election in 1895 Mr. Austen that has been seen; and such to forced labour like a common Chamberlain was appointed a small contretemps as occurred

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