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GENERAL NEWS.

Too Ignorant." My dentist, saya n writer in the Chronicle, has a pretty tale to tell of a navvy who came to bim (the Gae," dontist was a boxer).

was the advice. "It will hurt a bit," said the dentist, "Burt!" exclaimed the navvy, "you esn't. hurt me." It was a difficult). matter. And towards the end the two of them quarrolled and fought, until the dentist, granned hie mas, sad hel up his trophy between the forcepe. "1 was only joking," said the honest natry. "It didn't hurt. No one can't hurt me. I'm too ignorant for to be burt."

A. Pamous Blind Man, A remarkable man has passed away in the person of Sir Francis J. Campbell, who for so many years was the Principal of the Royal Normal College of the Blind at Norwood. He was, per- bsps, the most famous blind man of his day. When he began his labouts in London in 1870 it was at sted that not one in 250 blind mus oians cald earn. his living, wborese nowadays 89 per cent.

of the blind students who issue

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"Ormsby Terrace" Kow- breanno Amerioan ohildren are.

An interesting article upon the tenure may fairly claim to be loon. Apply to:-SPANISH WANTED. -Englishman de

sires a position in import: permitted too many outsito pl-as-

ant business, as Chorros- Tres, it was stated by Mrs. Ein above subject by Mr. Justice spccessful if, in the country where DOMINICAN PROCURATION

jponding Clerk or Fragg Young, uperintendent of Innes appears in the July number it obtains, litigation regarding

Depart LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. tillo t land or intereste Chicago sobola The condition of the Journal of the Society of

E., No. 74, Mount Kellett German & Spanish fluently & was revealed be a survey jus Comparative Legislation. The in land may be carried out TO LET "LA HACIENDA mont Manager, Speaks. French, CHATER & has had thorough general businesa completed of Ubicago schools. writer compares the local land in a few hours and without re- Road. A

American children are devoted system with that of Australia and course to professional assistanco MODY, No 5. Queen's Road training-Apply A, R., P. O. Box

Canada and enumeratsa those Judged by these standarde, Central. to too many outside attractions which thoir parents seem unable features which are paculiar to the the land law of the Federated to cu-tail." Hid Mre. Young, Malayan system, In commenting Malay States, no far as it concerne "They mouopolize their strengih upon the absence of an arsurance security of title and facilities for and attention and as a roul fund here he says; "The need of dealing in land, must be con- baer extra- there is a large proportion furance fund has not been eidered to have overgrown buys and girls in the felt in Malaya bacauce the land ordinarily successful.

After desoribing in detail the eighth grades in the American Harvey has been good and the

ystem of secret conveyancing in Masim Registor system Mr.

concludes districts,"

force in England has never been Justice Innes motinallowed to take root in that followe:- of Domestic Lane bas lately ses country."

An Encouraging Report. The Suciety for the

The success of the lead polioy The learned author is no doubt of the Federated Malay States a ciroular telegram to the ChinnŔ

and up Chan, Governors and newsp per right on to the excellence of the in its early stages

present fime ig of all the provinces to the effect quality of the survey, but in one till the that since the inauguration of important respect the survey has largely due to the fact that ILA originator, the late Bir this Society telegrams and letters deserved adverse criticism, name have showered in with expres-ly, its inability to keep pace with William Maxwell, who was an experienced land officer as well as sions of appreciation. At the the alienation of land.”

a lawyer, and who might appro last meeting more than 2.000

pritely be styled the Torrons of Malaya, realised that an umpler scheme of registration (the Mukim Registor) than a olose

even

Naturally, para of the article men were recent and an amount appeal rather to the lawyer thun of $3,000 000 was raised on the the layman but the following two p. This shows th the compassages are, we think, of interest fidence the people, have in the to the general reguer :- Government and the patrioti-m The land system of the Feder-adoption of the Australian Tor- of the pooplo. "It is still expected stod Malay States deserves the rens system was suited to the that you gentlemen will do you tention of those interested in requirements of the small agri- beat to raise the fall amount of the land legislation of the British caltarist of Malaya. Now that the loan just promulgated. Dominions, Colonies, and Depen- improved means of communica

depcies, because it furnishes the tion throughout the received from Pledges

白 uniform and almost provinces are so lollows: Kinng-i, only instance of the adoption by and $2,000.000; Shantung, 81,500,- Eastern Ucuntry under British complete land survey have been 010; Kiangen $1,200,000; rule of the Australian Torrens achieved, it is possible that steps Shansi $1 70`000"

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system of registration of title might with advantage be taken to Navy at Spithead, when the Fice With the exception of the Swift. almost in its entirety, and it restrict the use of Hakim or lay in eleven lines stretching from that the Government considers the fact that the experiment has the scope of the general register, to Cowes-a distance of eight of five of the alips present co-toveri The Skuntien Shih Pao reports claim to attention is enhanced by Parish Registers and to amplify eastward of spitbank Fort almost all the destroyera have been launch-

el during the last four years. a modification which is already nine miles unique in many £2,000,000. Thes are the Lion, the suppression of the White been successful.

The circumstances attending in contemplation.

Whether it was a Fleet Wolf Brig: nda as a brilliant

sufficient to the Empire's needs Princes Royal, Queen Mary, Iron military feat of the Lepublic, the economic growth of the States Some days ago the Authorities have been of a kind to put to a The journal in which the was a question which must have Duke, and Marlborough; but in held a conference proposing that savure toet the merits of the land above article appears contains a presented itself insistently to the no case has the cost reached £2,100,000. The smallest ships It review of Mr. Innes' treatise on mind of every thinking person the History-Compiling Bureau policy of the Guvernment, should be ordered to write a was not till the year 1801 that Registration of Title published who saw the ships. There were present were the destroyers Rahy,

Bil-mao,

and Sheldrake, which historical record of the campaign this policy received legislative last year. The review concludes 210 men-of-war of various sorte, are 240ft. long and displace 720

destroyer which the Government has sanotion in a scientific and definite with the following passage: but including the directed against the wolves in form. At that time the land "This timely little work is a flotillas, which wore moored a few tons, The Lord Nelson, Launch commemoration of the extraordin-officers of the States had only to welcome addition to the literature miles up Channel, and the sub-ed on September 4, 1008 (seven ary achievement involved. A concern themselves with the needs of registration of title, now ex-marines, which were attached to months after the Dreadnought) ordingly the Chiang Chun of of Melay agr.cn urists, Chinese tending to all parts of the British the patrol flotillas of the Second was the last pre-Dreadnought Shansi, Shengi, Honan and tin-miners, and a mail number of Empire; and it shows even in Fleet, no fewer than 463 vessels battleship launched for the British

Navy. Nearly Anbui have been ordered to tapioca and coffee planters. Only British Dominions where the were mobilized. The enorm Dreadnought battleships can fire submit to the Government reports a few scores of houses were to system has a clear field it has size of the Spithead review may on the various engagements be seen on each of the sites now still to reckon with the opposi be gauged from the gross ton-4,000lb. of metal on the brod fought between the soldiers and occupied by each pópulous. and tion of ideas and principles based nage of the ships there. This side. The Iron Dukefires 14,6001b the brigands, and the taction the flourishing towns Kuala on the older system of private reached the colossal figure of of metal on the beam from ten government troops employed in Lumpur, Ipoh, Seremban and conveyancing, rogarded by the 1,011,033. And the fleet boss'ed 13 5-inch guns. Ships of this class suppressing the outlawe. As soon Taiping. Yot the original scheme author as out of place in the of well over 2,000 guns, The Have two 3-inch guns for attacking as the Government receives these of land registration formulated countries where the State oreates largest vessel present was the aircraft. The oldest battleship, Queen's accounts, the same will be referred by the late Sir William Maxwell a uniform title, the recognition of Queen Mary, batile oruiser, which prosent was the Magnificent, to the History Compiling Bareau has proved suitable to the needs which neccasarily subordinates in 660 feet long and displaces launched December 19, 1894. to be embodied in the above-not only of those cleases of the interest of the individual on 27,000 tons. The Lion and mentioned commemorative work. landowners

..

provided

B8

A Howler.

all the

NOTICE.

pro

Apollinaris

length, but only displace 26.350 tone. The designed speed of all three is 28 knots. The fantent ship present was the Swift, which was launched in 1907

"spesial type destroyer." 1-

classed us a "dili"THE QUEEN OF

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as ú

for which

it equitable grounde to the general Princess Royal aro of the a me WHA first designed, Technical Details.

but benefit of tlie community." Dr. Barru, of H ptux Univer. Thos

satisfactory aity, quotes in Bcience Progress fm of title and an adequate the opinion of a writer who finds machinery for dealings in land to the "Aria in Asharp" of Schubert several now and different cluence "of a delion green colour." The of proprietors. Thus, the trans.

but is no tint is not so surprising on the fer upon sale of one of the very key. But authors have ever been valuable sites, upon which a

leader," Displacing only 2.170 uncertain about these trobnió 1 banking or large commercial

Among the "howlers" per-tons, her turbines are of 30,000 detaile. Was it not one of Ouida's house in Kuala Lumpur or Ipoh potrated by Indians at the last borso power, and she has a heroes who spent hours it "the stande is generally as easy and B. A. examination of the Punjab designed speed of 30 knots," The organ playing the grand old simple a matter un was the sale of University is the following:-Swift and all the other destroyers maken of Mendels-obu"? Audu pidifi-ld twenty years ago, and "The Panama Coud is being out present burn oil fuel exolu-ively. another novelist piotares a Beot the original sobeme for effecting from Delhi to Bombay in order to and all are driven by turbines, tish Highlander sitting by the transfere and incumbrances of facilitate the speedy pamage, The light cruiser Amethyst, w roadside singing a Jacobite song land by means of statutory home of persons going on short ship of the commodore command dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- and "accompanying himself on forms and registration has since leave from the new capital of the dolls, was the first man DRA CAFE in sur to tempt- the bagpipes,"

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