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GENERAL NEWS:

Kipling MSS.

Mr. Alexander Pollock Watt, of} Haninge House, Norfolk-street, Strand, and Abbey-road,St.John'e Wood, literary agent, bequeathed the manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling and the despatch box of Wilkie Collins, with the contents, to his son Alexander; and the manuscript of two songs of Robert Burgs to his son John. The value of the property is £50 828.

Old Chinese Customs Maa's Death,

We (N. C. Daily News) regre:

to report the death of Mr. Charles Deighton Brayaber, a very old member of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service. Mr. Deightor-Brayaber, after a long "period of servico at many of the treaty perte in Chins, retired some five years ago. He died at Ash- ford, Middlesex, on February 14, in his seventy-eighth year.

Dutch indies and Code Wires. The lodian Telegraph Depart- ment notifies that the Dutch Indies do not sccept private telegrams in any code. Pivate telegrame in code for Tado-China must be in A.B.O. code, 5th edition, or in Leiber's code, but in telegramA' from French India offices the A Z code will be also permitted. Telegrams for Inde-hion İÐ. above codes will only be accepted if tent by cable,"

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able from friendly vessels that the majority of the crew and passengers were saved..

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acta' of German submarines in Convention ananimously adopted R.LS. Manuscripts. Particulare to hand of the asle British hospital hip and upon

making torpedo attacks upon a at the Hagua in 1907 is that of His Majesty the German Emperor, in New York of the second por- British merchant vessels without King of Prussia. tion of R.L.S. letters and MSS, warning. The Committee has Enemy Merchant Ships. and other Stevensoniana show that further given careful thought to

The universally established £280 was prid for the MS. of the situation which Arisee practice of civilised nations, in "The Hair Trunk," the author's in view of the declaration of dealing with merchant ships Poak, furnished or unfurnished No. 1 Gough Hill, No. 100 The first seriona attempt at novel the Chief of the

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vesel found in this region

his own war erift in the proces-, will be destroyed without its Before destroying a merchant always being possible to abip the safety of all persons warn the crews or passengers on board must be adequately of the dangers threatening." Povided for. The capture of (b) "Neutral ships will. algo erobantmen by vessels like

incur danger in the military Drea,"

in London, The Fair Trunk MS. Tans to 146 pages, while 36 draft pages of "Wer of Hermis ton" fetched £228. at Saheby' in July last. Eren higher, to latively, was the £39 bid at the same sale for four lines of auto- graph verse "To My Wife," a price of more than a sovereign a Bord; while a single autograph' note sold for £101,"

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marines, which are unable to fulfil these conditions, was never contemplated. The principle has 1807, is printed in the FM.S The Navy League fol that they ever been departed from by any Government Gazette. The Bill do not need to emphasise the billigerent in medern times pre- is designed to increase the revenue gross and criminal vilation of alivious to the outbreak of the derived from stamp duties by the recognized lewe of civilised present war. Ita observance is zaling the dolg piyabe in warfare of which Germany stands essential to the maintenance of respect of the estates of deceased convicted in making an attack those rules of conduct in the persons and by raising the duty

upon the hospital ship Asturias relationship of nations which payable on promisstry notes efl Havre on the 25 h January, mark the triumph of humane con- with the same olject in view it 1915. Convention Nr. 10 finally siderations over the barbariem of also requires stamps on promit- sgreed to at the Hagne Pacetimes mira remote. Modern sory notes to be cancelled at Conference on the 18 h Outo justice ould only regard ossimple Bain office instead of by the ber, 1907, loya d wa

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