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GENERAL NEWS.

"Manobos Plead for Schools The Manobos of Walos and Alangasan (Philippines) have requested that schools be estab lished in their towns, a con- atabulary report says. "The Manobos are not accustomed to living in settlements and it has been rather difficult to keep their children in school. The opening of schools in the settlements is one of the inducements for the Prild. Manoboa to live in town.-- Bulletin.

Investigating the White Wolf Trouble.

Owing to the recent retura of the White Wolf brigands, from Katsu the Government bas been wondering how the brigands could force their way back with- out being bauiked by the troops and ho could the brigande obtain their ammunition and food supplies. A delegate is said to have been sent to Honao and

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The Rev. Charles F. Burney, Natural Versus Synthetic Rubber. cotton-growing and its improve- MA., D.Litt., Fellow of St. John's College, has been elected to the Oriel Professorship of the

The King, who is patron of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Orford. He succeeds Professor International Congress of Tropical Cooke, who has been appointed Agriculture now meeting in Lon- to the Regias Professorship of don, recently sent a message of Egyptian cotton, under irrigation TO LET.-- No. 3 Seymour Ter- WANTED. Godown, in Cen- LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

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The President's Address.

being made in cotton cultivation in India:

THE After referring to the oil- yielding trees, the President spoke of the remarkable incressa in the production of cocos on the Gold Coast. An output of 11,407,6481b. in 1905 had risen After pointing out the aver-

to 45,277,6081b. in 1910, and läst whe growing importance.of the agri- whilst of unedund

cultural productivity of the this country now, he said, stood year it was 113,239,9801b., and tropics, to which the temperate first on the list. The cocoa in- world had now to look for num- The one hundredth anniversary of the organization of the Mary-erous materials necessary to life dustry of the Gold Coast was a

mind."

M. C. C. Centenary.

among

and to industry, the President which had been brought to suc- notable example of an enterprise labone Cricket Club, the enprome discussed the problems connected legislative body of the English national game, was to be cale with the most important of these cess as a native industry aided, Government, but without pres brated last month at Lord's, the tropical products. The first be and to some extent supervised, by club'e headquarters in London, touched upon was rat ber.

Since the last Congress four Bure or coercion in any form.

Recent developments indicated The club was founded by Thomas Lord, a well known cricketer of years ago, he said, an immense that certain kinds of tobacco those days, who acquired the impetus had been given to the might not only be grown, but grounda at St. John's Wood, cultivation of rubber, and a rapid which now bear his name. The and unprecedented rise in the successfully cured, of satisfactory first recorded match on the market price of the raw material quality in a number of new areas, them Canada, South grounds was held in June 1814 followed. Rubber trees of every Africa, including Rhodesia, and

were grown in tival was opened on June 22nd.ations on a large scale, of which The first match of the festival Heves, Ceara, and Castillon were the most important. Certain con was between tho English Cricket eleven which visited clusions were already definitely indicated, but two questions re- South Africa and the team re- presenting the Rest of England; mained. One was the maintenance while the second match, which it of an amplesupply of cheap labour was anticipated would beattended for the plantations of the Eastern Biplane and Airship to Collision. by King George, was between tropics; the other was the quality the Army and the Navy.

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