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GENERAL NEWS. "

Snake and its Tall.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necess arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph"]

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To the Editor of theTM Hong- kong Telegraph."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913.

A TALE OF TWO TRAVELLERS.

A. Trip to Anuam and Cambodia as Told by Themselves.

(Continued from Friday.) Chapter X.

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A snake about eight feet long entered the mess room at the Siam Electricity Co.'s premises, Bangkok, a few days ago. A cot in the room won seized and orushed, 1 death by the snake,

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Puntry, Kitchen and Be.vants' No. 59 The Peak. 6 "CAM-Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with one entering the room. The snake Golf Links at Fanling-(which, ready to start for the more distant ERON VILLAS," Mount Kellet. English Baths. Kitchen has En- immediately left the unfortunate by the way, can only be used by ruins lying away in the forest. To let or for sale, GLEN-glish Cooking Range and Hot cat, and as it left the room was a favoured few)-while the Bath. One can go either by bullock cart SHIEL, Barker Road, No: 124, Water Boiler Electric Light doprived of his tail by a smarting Place at North Point, which or by elephant. The former is Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, throughout. Immediate Posse blow with a knife.

is bow proved to be such a great the least uncomfortable mode of 1913.

Blon. Also NEW FIVE ROOMED President Wilson and the

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shelved; thrown out as it were you up quite as much, and you rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. for occupation. Apply Washington, June 12.-Rev. for private enterprise (!) have always got to be on the loɔk,

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ESTATE of the Philippine Islands, bad a Crovernment appropriation and hanging branches. We chose the 30th September. Immediate pos- half-hour conference today with promise? Outside the question of bullock carte. It is necessary to session.

Alexandra Buildings. President Wilson Bishop Brent prefit which the Government make an early start as the bullocks

Hongkong, 22nd May,, 1914. 1387 said he was in favour of a hopes to derive (ideall-its go very slowly and the distance is progressive development of the other schemes at money-making) considerable and one does not won ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-T VILLAS G3 OR MSBY O 3, "ORMSBY Philippine people until they have from the lease of the land to to be out in the blazing sun of land Lot No. 1154.

Kowloon, fro.n 1st August. the capacity for self-government" the golfers, it seems strange that midday longer than is necessary. No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View ICAN PROCURATION, No. 2, end with the same delicious taste and aroma.

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should be contemplated for. the A new scheme has been devised latter place, to be developed out by the Advisory Committee to of public funds. Has the Govern- the Board of Education for the ment goae goli mad?" superannuation of the terching The scheme in question seems staffs of those Universities and to me to be but another bit of University colleges in England class legislation for which the which now receive Exchequer Government is making itself only animals, so that their catt'e could

feet in beight, some having most as well. The walls are usually pierced by four gateways, one in the centre of each side, placed facing the four points of the comHongkong, 27th, June, 1913 pass. No doubt this wall was built as a protection against wild

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having a salary of £36.3, while community ne 8. whols and not At the present day all the settle. Hongkong, 9th June, 1913.

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provision is made for the parti-golf-mad Peskites alone, the lamenta or Kampongs in the forest cipation of those having smaller tor. There is so much special! are surrounded by a strong stock- salaries and of memlere of exist pleading behind the golf cleme ude for a similar reason. We got TO LET-Furnished or Un- ing schemes. It has tren decided as to more or less discredit it. away in the bullock carts about: furnished, 3 rooms with use the 10 per cent. of the salaries) By the way, now that the an. when it was just getting of Kitchen: highest level; good will be sufficient to provide the Government is eo ready to stand light and after proceeding single view. Reasonable," Lecessary funds, and that not money on golf, where are the file along, the roughest of rough.

kong Telegraph.". more than & iar cert is to be public links that were promiss tracks, through the forest, we provided by the 'bneficiries, one months ago? No doubt come across a high boundary

The annual dinner of the En-has ́ ́en abelved.

ting "Pro Bono Poblico" it wall which we skirted for some TO

distance; much of this wall was tont Cordiale Society was held If the Government is intact but here and there great at the Trocadero Restaurant. Sir anxious to make money, it should pieces had fallen. We shortly John Cockburn, in proposing the way so and not poso as a public arrived at what had been a gate-Road. the toast of "The Society," said benefactor; it should call for way but unfortunately much of it that the visit of the French Presidenders for the building of an had been destroyed by fallen ent had given pleasure to the whole up-to-date bathing place. It may trees, only one arch out of English people: Alluding to the then make some return for its probably three still remaining. proposed construction of a Chan- philanthropical action, ray 25 per nel, he said that the opposition cent to the tunnel from the point' of view of defence very short-sighted view. Lord Brotherham said the construction of the Channel tunnel was a non-party question, which was being taken up in the Hours of Commona by influential members, and which he hoped would very soon be taken up very notively by members of the House of Lords also.

was a

An M.P's Prophecies. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., in the Methyr "Pioneer," says: "The Government is being smothered in Marcpui mud, avd at

the

moment

of writing it looks UB though nothing short of a miracle can save us from an election in the autumn. Should this be the case, then we

Next!

You's faithfully, COMMON SENSE.. Hongkong, July 10, 1913.

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came upon a road paved with in carving. We also noticed tically intact. It is deeply elaba, resembling more a quarry here windows with the curious moulded and of bold appearance. than a road. This was the roa balustrade-like bara. In this Almost opposite it is a large to Ta Prohm, which must have temple the most importantinscrip- artificial ebt of water about a a large building as the tion yet discovered was found kilometer long by a kilometer wide debris covers a considerable area. written on store in Sanscrit. It the barke ing far with stone. It is much overgrown ereepers and forest trees; on one of Jayayarman VII. It gives his the people being of Indian ex- with was inscribed during the reiga The theory of its existence is that wall a large tree of some 16 feet genealogic accounts of fighting traction were rica and fish eaters girth was perched 20 feet from against the Champa, gifts and and during the dry season the the ground and its roots ran in all honours bestowed, a register of big lato "boing dried up, there ordinary Milk and can be used for any purpose for directions. Many of the vaulted furniture necessary for the temple were no means of getting fish, en

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corridors still exist, but it is different cerenonies, rice consum- those masts and large lakes, which ordinary Cows' Milk is generally used. difficult to follow the plan of the ed per annum. Finally a list of of which the stove was only building as buge masses of stone buildings, possibly of those built one of many, were constructed and lie everywhere, and from the by himself. We returned to our stoaked, thus providing a supply amount of large stones it would bullock carts through the same of fish ready to hand throughout appear as if one or more forest path we had come by, ac- the year. They also no doubt towers have fallen down de-companied by the shrill shrieks of were artificial stores of wate for stroying the rest of the building, flights of green parrots who soem-irrigation purposes. It was now There are a considérable number ed much annoyed with our dis- midday 'so, we returned to the of atatues of goddesses and danc-turbing their forest abode, and bungalow through the same Acting Superintendening girle but some struck one, as after a short drive arrived at the forest path by which we had

being crude and appeared to be eastern gate of Nanteai Kedel, come.

(To be Continued to-morrow.)

Walthert Peaceful, Benthuy. 2528, 3293, Ningpo. “ 0628, 3088, 4639, Amoy Polínovsky, Paris.

J.O. Gough.

should be witnessing the greatest Hongkong Station, 11th July. political tragedy of modern times, and Ireland would once more be

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Mr Keir Hardie foreshadows a great Marconi campaign by the Opposition, in which Home Rule, Tariff Reform, Conscription, and everything else rre to be put eside, and a demand for dissol- ution on the Marconi ecandal is to go forth. The Government, be says, may break the force of this by dropping all business eave that which is absolutely indis-Irland, pensable-that is, finnne 3 and the three bills which the I ords threw out last year, and closing the session about the end of July.

School of Oriental Languages.

London, June 13.-On the Re- port of the vote for £436,570 for publio buildings in Great Britain not provided for in other votes, Sir J. D Rees expressed disap- pointment at the fact that only £1,000 had been devoted to adapting the London Institution to the purposes of the School of Oriental Languages. The extreme leisure of the Government in Herr Kripping, late Consul this matter compared very General at Tientsin, who succeeds unfavourably with the enterprise Hers von Buri sa Consul-General of other European capitals. Mr. for Ge many in Shangbai, arrived

Kwongchonglong, Singapore. L. O. Morse, Manilo. Lowthuan Chop Chengwak Thaichowteem, Taiping, Perak.

Penang, Bombay. Penghihong, Tegal, 8752, Hankow. 2310, 2703, Tientsin

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