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Mr. Taft for U S. Supreme Court?

Washington, January 11-Pro- minent inwrats all over the comm try and the different bar o ciations are urging President Wilson to appoiat Mr. William Howard Taft to the supreme court bench, to fill the vac C created by the recent death of Justice LamaN,

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The Queensland Government has definitely decided to enter open the hotel business. It i proposed to tele crer the hotel now in contre of erection at Mount Cuthbert, and to acquire the hotel at Kalkadoon, near Mount Cath- bert, while an hotel at Babinda has been practically taken over. American Securities ia England. *There is the best of reason.” a very well known English fia- ancial critic writes, "for believ

Foreiga Population of Osaka. ing that in the aggregate the

According to the Istest officia! English holdings of American Becurities must run into some figures, says the Asahi, there are hundred millions of pounds, in the city of Ossks 1,380 Chinese even when allowance is made for residents, 75 Americans, 37 Bri- the sales which have been effected tab, 16 French, 16 Germans,

Swine, 2 Portuguese, and a Dana during recent months.”

German Sent to Gaol. For entering a prohibited srea without permission, Habert Julius

a Hollander, and a Belgian

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(Extracts from the wa? HERE CON- faimed in the Hongkong Telegraph of Jamary 20, 1915.) Britain's Financial Resources,

Fresh is ass of capital must be approved by His Majesty's Trea All conditions must be sabordinated to the husbanding THE HONGKONG LAND IN-

VESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd Hamer, 64, a German, was at A Case of Rinderpest at Jijiko. of the financial resources of the Ahead of the canle imported country for the successful prose- Liverpool senterced to six months in the second division. He had from Seison (Tsingtao) on the 20th cation of the war. No issues will represented himself to the police alt developed symptoms of a lever be allowed for undertakings out as an American citizen and the on the 2nd fast, says the Man side the Empire, while overseas owner of estates in America worth churia Daily News. It was pro issues will only be allowed where $18,000,000, and was at the docks nounced a case of zinderpest and urgency and special circum inquiring what vessels were sail was billed. The carcass was re- stances are shown. The abore

duced to ashes in the carcass restrictions do not destructor recently installed at the Treasury Bills and other short There have been numerous re- Marine Quarantine Station, Jijiko, instruments of Colonial govern- ferences of iste to the Russian The working of the new destructor ments or manicipalities port Archangel, which is now dewas complete and left nothing to clared to be open for some weeks be desired. beyond the usual period, owing

ing for America.

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Labourites v. Catholics in Australia

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Turkey Still Losing Badly. * The parait of the Turks who tion- were bestem at Karaurgan c0D- tinues. After a two days' battle | DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD., at Jenikier, the Turks again fled

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Homaby Ackroyd Oil Engine Non Plus Ultra Melbourne, December 24- try are little recognised. Yet the According to staremena made losses. Three hundred Turks were TOLET. - Ravenshill East complete with and coupled direNon account of a Norse trading ex-members of the Catholic Feder. killed and wounded in a single rooms, 3 bath rooms, servants rent pedition there in the ninth cen- ation, the central executive of charge made by the Siberian quarters, &c. vacant 1st Novemb

More Russian Successes. tury was described, or translated, the Victorian Politics Labour Cossacks,

We made a night conater-attack by no lean a personage than Alfred Council has decided that delegates the Grest, and the modern town to the sanual conference of that dates from the visit of an English body, not only from branches of sad re-occupied the lust trench voyager, William Chancellor, in the council but also from affiliated at Guzmine All the Germans in the middle of the sixteenth cen- trade anima, will not be admitted the trench were killed. Two Gar- TO LET-First Class shop in tury. Soon after that visit an to the conference if they are mem- English factory was established, bers of the Catholic Fateration, a fort was built, and around this This is said to be really an ex the towa grow up-Laily tension of the prohibition against members of the federation belong Chronicle

ing to the P.L.C..

Riotous Soldiers at Honolulu..

14- January Honolula, Soldiers of the Ninth Cavalry re- giment, en route for Manila on the

Chater Road, whole or part man counter-attacks were made, lane at reat. Apply Clarke & but were fruitles. The enemy Co. alan atempted two night attacks at Gulki, but was discovered by our searchlights and routed. Fresh attempts by the Austrian heavy guns to bombard Tarnow have

been baalked by our sutillery.

Drugs £8 an Ounce...

German Aviatoes Captured. Some of the most importanct

German seroplanes flow over transport Sherman, created a dis-drags have become so scarce that turbance here last night and had doctors are greatly handicapped, our positions in the Champagne to be suppressed by the Second especially as it is difficult to find region and were received with aeroplanes descended in our lines, Infantry, which was called out to an betitutes for some of them. This gun-fire. Two of the German near Bar-le-Duc. The machines quell the riot. It is not known scarcity hat resulted in exception

are intact and the four aviators Just how the disorder started, but ally high prices. Atropine is 3d. the rioting was fierce and general, and 40, a grain (£6 to £8 an

were captured. There have been cannonades and and when order had again been ounce), while eserine (poisonous intermittent restored the Tenderloin district of alkaloid) is worth more. Both fusillades in Argonne sud snow Honolulu was a wreck and many these drugs are indispensable in and tempest have been raging additional patients had been taken ophthalmic surgery. The car between Argonne and the Vosges, to the bospital. The soldiers on city of stropite is due to the shore lears also looted some of dearth of belladonns, the raw

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the stores and houses. The arrival material from which it is extract has been appointed Quartermaster of the Second Infantry soon quell-ed, which is obtained from Central General of the German Army. ed the disturbances, —— Mamla Europe. Phenacetin, a popular headache and neuralgia remedy, is now twenty-two times the price Tod Sloan in America. New York, Dec-James Tod- charged before the war. Aspirin, hauter Sloan, the former Ameri- another very popular drag, can jockey, who has been living now twenty times dearer than it abroad for seven years, returned was in 1914. Salicylic acid and to-day on the White Star liner alicylate of sods, remedies for Adriatic having been deported by rheumatism, are worth eighteen the British Government sa an times their pre-war prios.de Working Hours of Women in undesirable, under the defence of)

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