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Memorial to Sir Alfred Jones,
A memorials of Sir Alfred L Janes, ereoted at the Pier Head, Liverpool, by ritizone, was unveil ed by Lord Derby in the presence of a large garharing representative of the commercial, business, and educational bodies in the city.
The Gift of an Art Gallery.
MANILA TYPHOON.
Railway Track Covered with Water.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913.
BOMBARDIER WELLS
How he Defended His English Title.
Manila, papers to hand give The following interesting no- graphic details of damage done count of the fight for the English by a typhoon last week. We heavy-reight championship, be- red-
Dna to the heavy rains wh'oh tween Bimbardier Wells und accompanied the typhoon in the Packey Maloney., is tik n from northern provinces during the "Boxing," This was the second Mr. Justice Ere, to whom an past few days, the Augo river has occasion on which Wells had won agreement for the provision of an overflowed its banks and inundat- art gallery made between the ed the country for miles around. the Lovedale talt trustees of the late Mr. J. A. 1). The Manila Railroad Company's Shipley and the Gateshead Cortracks above Dagupum are covered poration was submited for ap- proval recently auctioned tho e cation of the gallery and the payment of $5,000 under thh will for that purpora and for inain tenance of the building.
The Puzzling 1 ›mbardier. The Bombardier ha puzzled with water, to a depth of several feet for a distance of about 22 everybody ever since he won the kilometers and tallic on the English championship and n northern branch of the line has heavy-weight Lonsdale halt. And been interruptor,
it would reem to be his mission to go on puzzling us.
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"The stretches of track between A Clydeside Fire,
Popinto nad Biotin, and Min- A fire which nearly involved galdan and San B.bian are com- He wasn't half the man when he St. Andrew's Roman Catholic pletely under water and it will best Stor beck that he had been Cathedral occurred in Glasgow probably be several days before recently when
sevorul busi they will be in service again. bon le knocked out Iren Hague neis promises were "gutted" General Mnger H. I. Higgins or when he outpointed Porky in Groat Clyde atreet The; the Manila Railroad Company, Flynn, and side› then be flames broke through a cork left for the scene of the four seemed to go back by ginnt merchant's premises, to the Chapon Wednesday morning to strides. Fie lart speed, shed tor House of the Cathedrad and supervise the salvage operation; his stamina is lavish stiens, end burned out several windowa. Ao *The inundated shetches of official repo i places the estimat-track lie in a district which has went down in such comparatively ́od dainage at £10,000.
always in the prat suffered heavily easy fashion to men whom he had from fl oils due to the overflow-beaten to the world, to all intents Charge Against a Vicar. Sir Dewis Deldin, Dean of the ing of the Agno river. The tracks Arches board the arguments of were formerly on top of a con- and purposes, that a suspicion counsel in an appeal hy the Bis-inuous girth embankment which spread around that he was absol t was thought noted as a damn in utely incapable of taking any thing hap of Ely from a judgment of the Chancellor I the diccose dis keeping the fde waters from in the nature of a real punch.
for his corner. Mahoney was The Widening of Fleet-street. Alter missing a suit brought by the wing feels to the sea
slamming in and appeared well The widening of Fleef-street, A Ghent he was shop against Mr. Close, the the disa trous flnd of 1011, this
but the able to take all the jabs or hooks which has been carried on by the M. vicar of St. May how, Littlet ort, relob of railroad was rebuilt, faints & gbo of his old self; which might come along till the City Corporation, intermittently, under the Clergy Dissipline Act, treaties being put in at many man whom
he could have day of judgment, while the big for 17 years as opportunities co
fellow's stamina and receptivity cured is now almost complete, The vicar was charged points so ai to provide numerous beaten ten times in opening through which the
yet to be proved.. water could pass in so of an-sion inside, twenty
Wells went on jabbing, but two years previously. One fear. though a shade faster on his feet her lood arising. "It seem". hoxever, as though ed that he was all in; that lethau in the first round, he was acquired by the Royal Glasgow Some discussion took place at and more dienst ona than the ons
the present food were heavier had lost his nerve, his belief in cull unable to avoid Maloney's Technical College as a training, A London Country Council meet-of 1911 upon which the engineers himself, while it was couly ob did manage to sling them home. The 30 persons on board, inclu overhand brows, when Paokey for carlets, has been sunk off Ielny ing recently on a recommendation Ensed their plans. The openings vious that he no longer possessed Yet Wells took them more enely ding the crew and the cadets that the playing of golf should be permitted on Sundays at the the enlinkment have been even naar 'ogy for tiying power than he had done. Lle was box were safely landed.
.. little service and the water or endurance of any kind."
ing well within himself, and as standa over the tracks almost as
the fight progressed, his speed the tops of the telegraph poles high as in 1911, when it rose to
increased in fair ratio to his con- -fidence. which line the embankment.
"A Luge landslide, the result
1892.
with writing an inproper lever to a lady parishioner. The Dean of the Arches reserved judgment.
Sunday Golf.
Haines! golf course, and eventually, the matter was referred back to the Parks and pen Spacee Committee. The Itev Stowart Hen Hom "hold it to be
the duty of the Council tret of the deloge acce mpanying the example against the creation of artificial kits.
typhoon that swept Baguio heaped tors of rock
Ilford Council and
Modical Officer.
A Local Government Board inquiry was opened at Ilford into the causes of the alleged strained relations that have existed for the
of the coutinuous storm, while
succes rounds
had
(To be. Continued)
HARRY LAUDED
GOSPEL
want to tel!
Cadet Ship Sunk. The stamer Vivid, recently
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convinced him that he must take rising cups was the best thing which ever happoned to him, himself in hand seriously if he and entertained any idea of remnia- earth upon Benguet road sting in the profession. And he kilometer 10, about two-thirds of would certainly seem to have the way from Camp Ons to the taken the right course at last. summer capital,"waya a contem-
We advised bin long ago to porary, dated July 30.
the Muller Harry Lauder addressed un "The inner harusuruf Manila is experiment with 1ast two years between the Urban fast becoming crowded with System, which has been audience of about twelve bun District Council and the medial
tried and found efficacious dred people at Casio Green officer of health, Dr. O. Foreign freighters, uunble to work
by scores of men in every Congregational Church, Bristol, Stovia. The council some months ago and get away on recount walk of life, and in the desperation recently and took as his subjour ngo appealed to a Board for the sheltered by at Marivela is of defent Wells at last listened. the power of boobility. sanction for Dr. Sovin's diharbouring a large fleet of ships fortnight, and as a result entered the home circle,
IIe has been Mullerising for a' Ile spoke of the sociability of missal. The doctor had alleged outward bound, that dropped in the ring at the National Sporting you, as a man of vast experience, negligence on the part of the
to anohor yesterday and the day council to enforce by-laws in before, pending a moderation in Club a fitter looking, healthier, he declared, "that there is no regard to drainage and the build the weather.
more composed person than ever social lile to be compared for ing of houses. The inquiry war
"Ouly one steamer ventured to we have seen him. He was calm effectiveness and beauty to a adjourned.
Desa itself in his corner, while bonny home circle, proceed on her northward course Hay Snake Story,
He said he had no patience yesterday, the Toyo Kisen Kaisha confidence remet ha a poor A
The Unly European remarkable anako storyliner Chiyo Marn, which steamed word to apply to his expression. with boys who "checked" their comes from Pontyprol, Mar-
and father. ** [. Optician in D'Agullar St. mouthshire. As M. A. J. away from pier & ye-tarday after Has Weils Lost His old Spred ? mother
Telephone. 1292. Burgoyne, a contractor, of Pon-Poon, after waiting three houre
On the other hand, he was am proud to say I have a typ:ol-road, was mowing a hay-for the army transport Thomas undoubtedly much slower at the who never spoke back to bes fiold recoutly, he 10 Kit out from the way. The start of his contest with Packey mother or his father. To begin something which "appeared to Thomas left her berth at pier No. Mahoney than he has ever be in with, if he had then Mr. he a tennis ball," When the 1 Monday noon and anchored en before. He got back from severs Lauder shook his bead grimly. moa ing machine passed, however, close to pier 5 that Captain Green of the Irishman's rushes, but there but when the audience began to the object vacurled and disclosed of the Chiyo thought it prudent was a lack of sprightlines about laugh he joined in heartily.
18 Located in The Healthiest to await a clear way before under- his, movements which was very
"I have always lived on the District of Kowloon, and Supplies Probably engered by some injury, theaking, to manceuvre out of the noticeable during the first few sunny side of the street," he
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EGOS, "All the pictures 1 VEGETABLES, anako darted at Mr. Burgoyne's harbour. The Thomas got noder rounde. Moreover, he seemed to declared. legs and puncfmied the skin. Mr. way at half past two o'clock for be quite unable to fathom the have shown you I have exper- POULTRY. Burgoyne at or ce made a tourni. Mariveles, where she expected to mystery of Mahoney's overhand fenced-from mill to mine, from The Farm is under EUROPEAN quet round the limb, and, light-shelter for the night and proceed thump for quite awhile. mile to stage, from stage to SUPERVISION and every atten- ing a cigaret'e, coolly proveeded today on her vorage for Ssa
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"The typhoon was last reported shown in his training-quartea room to cutle-all the way up.”
Packey should not have been able! The comedian sang during the STOCK. Try Our Delicious Twice Married in a Week. yesterday afternoon. <ff the coast to lay a glove on the holder unless afternoon "The Children's Home"
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notions were not going to go by Latest additions to Circulating the hoard once more.
sworth, Derbysbite, and Miss Ash, Skipper Green determined to be whether all our preconceived of Matinck. They were married on his way and the Chiyo started at Matlock but wont through the at 3 p.m. with her fifty passengers ceremony again later for the cheered by the prospect of a lively purpose of allaying the doubt Toyage of two days and then quiet which has arisen as to the legality Hongkong until August 7, when repose in the snug harbour of Owing to the Primitive Metho the vessel will proceed on her dist Chapel at Matlock being in trans-Pacile rou to San Fran the hands of the decorators the Bisco," permanent minister solemnirad The Chiyo Marn arrived at the wedding in the adjoining longkong on July 31.
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Maloney's Over Hand Thumps gratifying to see that Packey The Crystal Stopper,
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By Maurice Leblanc. wallops. The Irishman took a Ducks & Drakes, few jaba, esasyed a charge or so,
By Marie C. Leighton. wes trought up short by left jabs Averno. By Bertram Mitford Carnacki, By W. H. Hodgson. and then, boring in sent a left, to Margaret Dent," the face and a right ewing to the chin. Welle looked to be surpri-
sed, and took another left hand right to the face before he could facts of the case were forwarded The Hammersmith Borough get clear. The Bombardier shook to the Registrar General for his Council decided that they could visibly and clinched. But it was decision.
not entertain the proposal to take only for a second. Driving a This had not yet been made over and maintain St. Peter's right to the body, he worked known, but to make assurance doubly certain the young couple quare as an open space at the around, and before long had his
left going again. expanse of the ratepayera. A poll decided to go through the legal of the ratepayers will be taken on part of the ceremony again. the matter.
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