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GENERAL NEWS.

Holland's Money Matters.

This sum of £11,000,000 voted"} for rabbiliation expenses in the| Second Chamber in Holland, is nearly spent, and will not he * Bufficient in any caso it depub.I-', ination is not ordered before April | 1. The burden is, à heavy one for a nation of fawor than six: million people.

A Singapore Wedding.

The marriage arrange between A. J. Ferguson, Singapore, on of Mr. and Mea, Macneil Ferguson, Miuelen, and grandson of be late Very Rev. John Ferguson, Dean of Moray and Ross, and Copetanca Allen,' elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Dalshaple, Elgin, will take place at Singapore at the end of April.

Chinese Students in Paris,

According to Chinese studerte ho have recently returned to be East, there have never been

so many Chinese studying in

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY MARCH 19, 1916,

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A message from Cairo last night man Emperor has appealed to reported a renewed attempt made force, and peace can only come at daybreak on Wednesday to when that force has been destroy- Cross the Canal at Tusun byed. There can be no hedging means of rafie, but this attempt with this curse of militarism: it met with the same fate as that must be trampled under foot, like which overtook the previous one any other vice which has to be on Tuesday night, the Turks be conquered. As in the Napoleonic ing again defeated, and this time war, so in this war, economic The first owner of the famous with considerablo loss, eight pr asure will weaken the enemy's Kobinner, "Mountain of officers and numerous men being free, and correspondingly streng- Light," diamond was, according left dead on the field, while 28 then that of the Allies, but it to legend, the "Mahbbarata," unwounded prisoners fell into won't be a deciding factor in the whoissaid to have carried the great (our harde, The British loss was problem which the British people, stone some 5,000 years ago. The 2 officers and 13 men killed and in conjunction with their Allies, Kohinoor, brought England 58 wounded, A simultaneous ve sat themselves to solve. The from India sixty four years ago, and attack was made at Kantaro, and solution will only come when we presented to Queen Vicaria the repulsed with a Turkish loss of have killed force by force, and following July, made it first 21 killed and 25, wounded, 25 briken the military power of the authentic appearance in history prisoners being taken. This for enemy beyond hops of recovery. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fób. 7.-A in the fourteenth contus, when ther report shows that the actione The task is a hard one, but until earrier pigeon dropped from the Abaed-dia carried it to Delui. At yesterday were something more it is accomplished it is of no use roof of a building bare nad Fred that time it was said to have than mere advanced guard affaire, to talk or think, about pesos, not Jacobs, who found it, discovered weighed 703 osrats. It appeared the Turks having brought up because we don't long for it, but a paper tied about the bird's neck, in the great diamond market of 12,000 men, and six batteries, because pesce on any other terms which evidently was a message Goiconds in 1550. The lack of kill their intention evidently being to tion those laid down by the of a German suldier in the Bal of a Venetian lapidary, Hortensio fores the passage of the Canal Prize Minister will be nothing gium trenches to bis wife. Borghese, reduced its weight to and get possession of the railway more than an armed truce, and message read as follows: "Dear The 270 carate. After the mocking of junction at I-mailio.

the last state of Europe will be wife, I am alive and well in the Delhi in 1739 the diam nd went The suggestion is that the to Alghanistan, and it belonged whole of this raiding force, for worse than the first.-Daily News. trenches of Belgium, but your

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Pigeon Crosses the Ocean.

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Dockers' Wages. The Port of London authority pigeon showed evidences of long

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repat soon afterward, and now Tuesday and Wednesday, organis. IF you have lost your appetite and the date line of the paper ene of the big variety of was Saxony, December,, the weighs 102 carats. It is beyond ed by the Germane, not with any dainty dishes at the ALEXAN-day of the month missing.. price, although $10,000,000 has hope of success, but merely with DRA CAFE le sure to tempt been given as a fair valuation; the object of neutralising a large you.

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