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GENERAL NEWS.

Penang Will Case.

Penang, Aug. 25-Judgement has been delivered by the fall court of appeal in the Cheang Ah Quee will case. Tau Ah Loi olsimed the status of a “tsip" of secondary wife sud share in the entale of the late Cheang Ah Quee. The claim in the court below was rejected, it being held that there was no marriage cere mony. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal.-Singapore Free Press.

Cholera in the Philipplaes, Iloilo, August 29.-A monster mas; meeting is being held in this city to-night for the purpose of raising funds by popular sab Ecription to carry on an effective campaign against the cholers. At the meeting resolutions will be adopted for the sanding of a telegram to the Governor-general arging that orders be issued com- pelling the pravidoial authoritien to co-operate with the officials of the Phillippine health service, something which they are stead- 'fantly refusing to do at present. The nativer are taking absolutely no interest in the fight being! made against the disease, and sa a raulf the cholers is spreading rapidly.

HM.9. "Malaya.”—Cinemato- graph from FMS.

Tae organisers of the fand for Comforts for the Crew of H M.8., Malays have received a letter from the Captain of the Battle- ship, Captain Algernon D Byle, acknowledging receipt of the first instalment of £100 cabled"Home early in July. Captain Boyle had held a representative meet- ing of the map, who had decided to suggest the pur obase of 8 cinematograph. for which the sum sent Home would suffice. Capt. Boyle writes Thia would be an enormous boon to the men, especially in the long winter evenings, and would be much appreciated,"

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Thras-roomed From the platoon standpoint it Flate in Humphreys Build- may be a colossal lark or a tangled inge. Kowloon,

WANTED.Cantonese horror; whilst, from the High Four-roomed flats in May Road, Teacher wanted; quick re- Staff standpoint, the main im with every modern convenience, sults desired. State terms; one The following has been written pression may well be one of including English baths and kitch-hour daily.-Apply Box 1267, by a wounded trish officer, arriv.mathematical nicety, perfectly en ranges, hot water and water c/o Hongkong Telegraph." Death of a Canadian Alcman. |ed in England, in reply to a dovetailed detail, sad smooth carriage system. A few flate specially designed to accommo- Fight Sub-Liontenant Douglas request for real pictures of the working precision. To give you date three bachelors at reasonable

an instance F***

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Manuscript of every kind 24 yours, while Bytag, a Bristol "Let me tell you, sir, as one scout one-sexter seroplane, was not wholly devoid of practical mightly near to paking, in a Terrace and Salisbury Avenue, accurately and neatly typed at short notice by Englishman. killed in Tasnet on July 20. literary experience, that what warren of Boche trenches we Kowloon.

looking for is sook outside Longueval. Noth-| Two roomed-flate in Nathan Terms 30 cents per folio. Com- When at a great height, the pilot you

mercial correspondence in Eng- We've all seen Road, Kowloon.

heh for Chinese · business. appeared to be attempting to loop simply not to be had. The baai-ing much.

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crashed into a cornfield, & fatal sexplane, accident occurred in Southampton Water on the same date, Alarge vessel was outward You can get little bits; yes, and You know how carefal our chaps and they very soon had the poor] UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. bound, and the machine, which much good they will do you. Alato, with their kindly sense of chap on his way down to the was one of three seaplanes flying mout any one bit- written is decency. Their first though is to dressing station. Bat I feel ante unusually low, swerved in its calculated to mislead the innocent. cover a dead Boche's face-give one won't ever see him again. course and crashed into the main- Why? Because, taken by itself, him some decent dignity, even if You know that hopeless yellow mast of the vessel. The mest it

antras, they're not able at the moment to pallor. was shivered and the wireless It's only

seen give him decent burial. English, "I was back that way within a installation and rigging wore as it is seen in reality: one chip Irish, Scots, Canadian, Australian, quarter of an hour, and there was carried away. The machine fell in a mosaic. Looked at all on its South African-all the British, of own section, you know. on the deck with a broken wing. lonesome, it is essentially false, troops are like that. Well, they rolling a cigarette in a bit of "Why, if you'll believe me, hadn't had time to clean up here, newspaper, having just finished the Colonel of the battalion nex and these particular Boches had the bacon. His half-filled canteen ours borrowed a handkerchief been done up pretty nasty, ss of tea was alongside the bresier, Mr. Cyril Norwood, M.A., from me to blow his blessed nose they say. Some of our heavy which lay now on its side; upset, beadmaster of Bristol Grammer with, in the middle of one of the stuff most have landed right no doubt, when the shells came School, has been appointed Mas: bloodiest little shows that ever among 'em. They were in the indeed, it was half-buried. But ter of Marlborough College, in was. 'Got a bsockerobief to mouth of a dug-zut,

told me the broɔn bad been succession to the Rev. 8, J. B. spare,' he said, in a caenel sort of

An Interrupted Tea-Party. saved, and in some queer way, Wynne-Willson, now Dean of way. I used mine tying up e "Bight. Two minutes later I the tes. So he bad bad-'s whock. Bristol. Marlborough is to be feller's arm, back there. I gave came upon as homely a little and, as well as his own; and congratulated on Mr. Norwood's him my handkerchief, and he piotars as you'd find in the as he rolled his cigarette in the socession to the mastership, for blew his nose comfortably, and neighbourhood of any peaceful serap of Banday newspaper he few living schoolmasters have shoved the rag in his breeches Irish or English village: three of was humming Keep the Home shown a greater natural beat for pocket, That's better,' says he, pur lads crouching over an old Fires Baraing the teaching profession or have and hurried on with the advance. brazier, on which they were mak "Hell and Heaven, "

"Yon can no more hope to get been more successful. It is 10 He was with the rear company of ing afternoon toe, if you please, years since Mr. Norwood went his battalion, and the way he frying a scrap of bacon sad boil the Pash described for folk who to Bristol and in that time he managed to get in and out among ing the water for tes at the same haven't been out than you can has raised the Grammar School bis men, cheering them on, was time, and stirring in their own hope to get the world described, to a foremost position among the wonderful.

lorable Irish blarney with the or haman life explained, on a day schools in the country, its He was rather badly wounded cooking all the time, I took it in, postcard. The pen may be ever nambers having greatly increased Ister on, in hand-to-hand fighting and passed on pondering the so mighty, but, believe me, it has and its academio successes having with four Boches who had cor queerness of the whole business, ita limitations.

**What's the Pash like ? It'e bren notable, Mr. Norwood, who nered two of his men in their I wasn't more than sixty or seven- was born in 1875, did not begin second line. But he's all right 1 ty paces away, when three Boche like everything that ever was, as life as a schoolmaster, but he was think. Men were, dropping all abelle arrived, like a postman's well. It's all the struggles of life from 1899 to 1901 s first-class round us in that advance. It was knook, somewhere close behind, crowded into an hour; it's an olerk in the Admiralty, after he on extraordinarily bloody basi Jast three, and no more: one of assertion of the bedrock deosnoy had taken the first place in the noes, and had been for thirty the flakes of the day,

and goodness of our people; Home and India Civil Service hours and more before that, "Something made me turn and I wouldn't have "missed examination; he then reigned

Beauty and Terror. biok and go to take another look it for all the gold in Lon- and became classiczi sixth form "Suppose I set out to depict at the 108-party. One of its don town. I don't want to be all humanity we're fighting for, master at Leeds Grammar School, something of the shapeless, grisly members had been instantaneous-killed; not a little bit. But, bless whether lifes to be clean and where he remained until be was horrors of it all. God knowe ly killed; his head amashed to a yon, one simply can't be bothered decent, free and worth having appointed to Bristol.-Times. there's enough of 'em. What's pulp. Another had been terribly giving it a thought. The killing or a Boche nightmare. You can't the best effect I'll produce, mauled, and was already being of odd individuele auch as me, is describe it, ba: I wouldn't like to especially on anyone who's never attended to by a couple of so tiny & matter. My God, it's the be out of it for long. It's Holl been out there? An effect of stretcher-bearers who had been fatare of amenity; opnation and Heaven, and the Devil and shapeless, confused, purposeless resting in a dag-ont within sight millions all the laughing little the World; and, thank goodness, horror. Well, is the Pash no of the party, sad themselves had kiddies, and the slim, straight we're on the side of the angels-

and the sweet women, decenas, not material more than that? You bet it is been covered with earth sad last young Why, looked at from one point all from the shells. I lent a hand, and the man that are to some,

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