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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1924.,

AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.

BIG ATTENDENCE AT · MATCHA

DUTCH IN INDIA.

Centenary of Evacuation.

FOSSIL TREE."

Interesting Find In Bengal.

*

October 16th last was the con- Calcutta-There has just boon of the evacuation of unearthed at the Asansol mining

Brisbane, Dec. 4-In pleasant tenary

-FRAUD ON TAXI DRIVER.

`Dramatist. Sent-To A Home.

waathor and with a parfoot wicket Chinsurah by the Dutch, under area a fossil tres outimated by weak Lechmoro

81, Hendry dat

-Reuter,

and O'Connor 10:

THE PEKING SITUATION.

INVENTOR OF PUNKAHIS.

oxcavation was

was

:

Was Very

murdored

ovor.

At the London Sossions in mail.

Worrall, 49 three thousara, poople attended a the terms of the Treaty of London scientists to be at least a million dramatist, surrendered to his ball and ploaded" Guilty" to a chargo match in which an Australian cloven which oxohangod the Dutch settle-yonis old. scored 209 for 5, Ponsford making ments on the mainland of India The 'olrcumstances which led of obtaining by falso protonces for cortain ooasions by Groat to the discovery of the fossil are from James William Badalow, a Britain in Sumatra and elsewhere, strange. One of a gang of ocolios, taxicab drivor the sum of £1, writes a Times correspondent. employed inextending the railway with intent to defraud. The result of this Treaty was line at Asansol, suddenly struck. Mr. Bonufoi Moore, for tho the rocognition by Holland something extremely hard with a prosecution, said the defendant- of the completo dominion of pick-axo almost directly under gavo Badolów a choque for £5 in. Grost Britain in India, the the surface of the soil. He struck payment of certain cab faros, and abandonment of two centuries of a socond time a little to one side got £l change from hini. Worrall allant struggle against it, and and once more his tool robounded. must have known at the time the disappearance of the tor Thinking he had como aeroas a that the choque would not, bo ritorial rule of Holland from the vast rock and that blasting would mot, WU PEI-FU A FUGITIVE.

sub-continent.

have to bo resorted to, he coolly

Mr.. Ecnost Wotton, for tho Hankow, Dec. 4.-The Central Chinsurah, on the Hughly, 24 asked his Europoan Euginoor for China Pust learns that Wu Pei.fu milos above Calcutta, was the directions. Further digging fol- dofondant, sald Worrall was a led from Loyang on Monday na site of a Dutch factory as early lowod and in an hour or two a very renowned playwright and the result of as ultimatum from as the year 1645, and bocame the rockod-like object 7 foot long and had made a great deal of money the Shonsi commander, followed Dutch headquarters in Bongal, 2 foot 311⁄2 inches in diameter was out. of his play The-Man who by a mutiny of his own bodyguard, though afterwards subordinate to lovored and crowbarrod out of its Slayed at Home. A few years ago.

had the settlement at Batavia, in bod. The discovery might have ha

nervous broak- The latter have turned tufci.”

Wa Poi-fu was travelling to Java. Tho administration at Chih-terminated hero but once more down. Someone ho Innkow, but returned to Cheng-surah consisted of the Governor, fortune was favourablo. The rail- font of Supplied to Manila Harbour Works, how on receipt of a telegram from: who maintained no little state and way engineer happoned to have in Russia, and this greatly ceremony, and soven councillorn. some slight knowledge of geology, upset him. There was no roal Heino You-non-Reuter,

Tientsin, Dec. 4-Bun Yat-sen has The Governor's salary was and, vaguely realising the value reason for the defondant to drive farrived and taken up his hendquar small, but his porquisitos worn of the quaint-looking rock, ho about in taxicabs in the way he ters in the Japanese concession. Honormous, and the annual ex-informed the Goological Dopart- did. Counsel suggested that the is expected to leave for Peking in pense of his household amounted ment of the Calcutta Museum defondant should be sent to s

to 30,000.rupeos. He had a body- about his find. The Museum sont home for a short time. two or three days time-Reuter

guard, and was ontitled to a Major Bradshaw to verify tho Hankow, Dec. 4-Renter learns salute of 21 gunų.

Dr. Hyslop said he had oxam-. enginoor's information, and very TRUE TONE from official sources that Himo

little analysis of the rock showed od Worrall and found him in a One of the Dutch Governors of him that it was part of a petrified due to insomnia. Ho had very highly nervous state, apparently Yin-nan has telegraphed. Wa Pel-ful advising his retirement in view of Chinsurah is said to have boon troe of great antiquity: There little control over his bodily 100- the present situation. Wu Pei-fu tho first inventor of punkahs; upon further has replied to the effect is that he is about the year 1799. But the undertaken in the same spot and chanism, and was in as

wrought condition. so doing, and resting indefinitely at principal survival of Dutch rule at length a whole treo 70 foot long,

Sir thore is the octagonal Dutch iying, horizontal with the ground,

Robert Binyungchow.

Wallace, K.O. (Chairman), said the defendant The Central China Port learna church containing escutcheons was dug up.

of the successive Governors and The scionfic theory propoundod must be sent to a home for two that Was Pei-fu arrived at Sinyung other memorials. This church was as to how the tree, which is a months, and sontonco would dhow early this morning, Chang built in 1767, and there is a come-different specios from those in the be postponed for that time. Fu-ini's twenty-fourth division have tory with tombs dating back to neighbourhood, reached the spot If he did not stay there ho reported that they blew up, tho Yol-1743, the year Clive was appoint- where it was found is that many would be immediatoly brought low River bridge at sinthiely on od a writer in our own East India thousands of years ago it was back to the Court and sont to the night of the third-Reuter. Company's service. Clive's dra-brought down by a river the prison. "The ublic must bo matic attack on the Dutch at course of which has entirely dis- be protected and this sort of Chinsurah in 1759, and his whist- appeared, and deposited in thing stopped," he declared. His table order to Forde, are familiar shallow backwater or lake. Heroit Lordship added that ho would to all acquainted with Indian found a soft sandy bed and the expect at the ond of the two

influence of tho water and tho months history..

a report on the do- The last Dutch Governor of the hardoning of the soll through the fondant's mental condition and to colony was Daniel Anthony Ovoragos converted it into a solid hoar that the money owing to tho With "Direful Voice,"

book, to whom on October 16, 1824, rook.

cabman had been repaid. The fossil has been transforrod Cornhill Mazagine for on his departure for Batavia, the

Mr. Beaufol Moore mentioned inhabitants of Chinsurah present- to the Indian Musoum. Calcutta.' October is particularly strong. Its features include, in additioned a massive silver cup. Tho That it will prove of immense that there were similar charges to the hitherto unpublished letters inscription on the cup, in the value to geologists, helping to panding against the defondant, of Gladstone, a lively account of Dutch language, tontifios to the determine the nature of the soil and his Lordship said he would the deposition of Prempeh, by Sir reepoct and affection in which he of India of dim ages boforo man take them all into consideration Robert Badon-Powoll, an account was hold: Thio cup, with cover inhabited the earth, and what hor when Worrall appeared before full of colour of prospecting in and salvor. weighs over 700z. troy. vegetablo growth was, cannot be him in two months' time. Northern Queensland, and It has been offered by its present doubted. dolightful essay by Professor 1088888or as a gift to the museum Latham on The Cabinet of Smiles, of the Royal United Bervice country. Governor Overbook had

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Motal costs and frocks wovini A romantic story no son, and his oldest danghtor There is a good trade union story, Tho Greatest Good to

the concerning the legendary "Over-married a young surgeon in the with fine threads of gold and Oreatest Numbor. Mr. L. F. beek curse," au estate in Dorset Bengal Army, Rice Davios silver are among the novelties of Salzman has an amusing article shiro, and the establishment at Knight, into whose family the the winter season in London. To on modisoval beasts. Of the cat ruinous exponse of a leading cup ultimately passed. It is an heighten their effect of gleaming he writes:

case in English law-attaches to interesting memorial of the end splendour, the gowns are treated

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for the the coming of the sup to this of the Dutch power in India. Баук much strongly marked and unchanging| indviduality of the cat that thoso extraordinarily inaccurate por- sons who wrote on alleged natural history in mediasval days have, for tho most part, hit off her oharacteristics with unusual' fidelity. Two writers have between them anticipated in briof the story of the Cat that Walked by Itself, the one stating that "Once cats wore all wild, but afterwards they rotired to houses," the other adding that "He doth delighto that ho on- joyoth his libertio": in which two santonces the whole of Mr. Kipling's story is condensed. Naturally those two outstanding features of the cat, its oyos and its voice, conie in for their share of attention. "Hor eyos glisten above measure, especial- ly whon A span cometh to see them on a suddain, and

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