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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

RESCUE WORK DURING DUTCH FLOODS.

Dutch marines are where soon going through the recent fhiods to rescue villagers whose safety was threatened by rising waters.

SINGAPORE LETTER.spice of competitive interest in

Astronomers Returning-

Rugby Prospects

The Gaverness' Lol.

(Our Chen Currispondent)

local Rugby. The season has just finished with Singapore holders of the Malaya Cup. It is interesting to note that the game. has been taken up by the Eurasian

SHIPPING INDUSTRY,

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London, Web. 13. "The depression in the shipping industry has continued Club in Singapore, and that an up-deepened during the past year." Country Chinese millionaire has | This is the opening sentence in the presented a cup for competition report of the Chamber of Shipping for the United kingdom. "The Whether depression is attributed to the ever take [continued existence communi-ships and fewer cargoes than before the war, whila freights however, were at a record low level and enough, were below-pro-war prices. Nine. teen cargo companies, with paid up capital of £3,000,000" were. wound up in 1925.–Regler.

Singapore, Jan, no. The various astronomien! Bamong Asiatic teams. peditions Are re-appearing in the handling code will Singapore on their way home, and root amongst the local all appear very satisfied with the ties is very doubtful, results obtained during the criti|The Bussins are keen cal three minutes mid ten seconds but they lack the physique, and, als "of 'totality. « Alt, that is to say, will for the Chinese and Malays, the the exepetion of the Dutch party open-mouthed natonís ment with who were located at Palembaný, on the east side of Sumaten, and which they who had very bad luck, the sun Rugby game being so obscured that they got

faded away. practically no results of any in- terest.

There were seven in the British expedition, which, includ- ed Professor F. W. Astongol Cam- bridge University, a seientist of

first watched The

has by no means

English Governesses, An Interesting correspondence has been running in the press re-

thal

as necessary.

of more

A proclamation by H.. E. the Governor extends the Mainten auce Orders, Facilities Far En- forcements Ordinance, 1991. to maintenance "orders made by courts in Somih Australia..

loft for Manila by the S.8. Presi dent McKinley were Mr. Fred Ellis, and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lainbort.

The Amalgamated StreeL Unions and the Chinese Rate-

have sent representativos ti payers Association in Shanghai Peking to ask the Foreign Office In-demand an, indemmily for the losses to Chinese worchants, said to be some than $10,000,000, since the May 30 affair.

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A warning received from the Manila Oservatory at 630 p.m. yesterday states that there is a cyclone or typhoon to the west of Balintang Channel, direction un- known.

world-wide fame, and the winner lating to the position of English-Amongst the passengers who of the Nobel prize in physics two mursery governeskes in Singapore, -years ago. It was really a very dis- There is no question but that these tinguished scientific gathering girls are frequemly paid salaries which assembled in the town of which selfrespecting Chinese Bencoolen, and if the Dutch com-Amah world, accept in these jense, munity had not opened their perous times, and the fart houses to the visitors there would they are treated have been a serious shortage of nuisances in the house makes their accommodation. There is one fittle position an even more limited an

than it ordinarily hotel in the place, and some lonely

There are exceptions. thirty scientists. British, Astra-would be. Han, American, Dutch, and Ger- of course, but generally speaking. mun gathered around its festive an English wirt would be ill-advis The Dutched to take a position of this kind board every day authorities, who were courtesy in Singapore, having regard to the itself, lenia pretty touch to the social conditions of the place, and international amentities by par- the status and salary which any ing Fort Marlborough, which was European expects out here. Our two filiary friends will not enjoy one built by the Engilsh Sumi hundred years ago, at the disposal paint that has been brought out of the British party. But Ben- The War Offee allows passages coolen is a depressing little place for gevernesses in the cases of at best, and all the visitors were officers going abroad, and these glad to get away, They return officers are occasionally the prip- to their own countries, however, cipal sinners in this respect, not only with scientific results of simply because they are ignorant They ex- considerable importance, but with of the conditions here.

of the reet to pay an English girl much very pleasant memories

A crystal set which enables Eocial ride of their stay in Dutch the same salary as she would re-

ceive at Home, and to treat her listeners in to hear radio musie territory.

"A fately significant erlipse" in exactly the same way, that and essages without receivers was the description applied is it is to say, as a social inferior. The and through a magno-box is said by Dr. Johé A. Miller, the head consequence is that the girl either to have been invented by a young of the Swarthmore College expedi- leads a mistrable and discontent-man in Tokyo. The inventor ist tion, which enticentrated on pro-ed existence during the period of Mr. Umekichi Ito, aged 28, in that blems of the corona and on a test her agreement, or, if she has the employ of the Shimbushi tran- of the Einstein Theory. They plurk to do it. promptly and

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were equipped with a positive bat scrupulously takes the first and batteries are not needed in tery of cameras, including one in-portunity of getting another job, strument of 6 feet focal lengtli. and, so far as can be told from eursery examination of the plates,; the results were good.

Theological Niceties.

A Singapore judge has been asked It will, of this work to decide the question course, require several months of when is a "Mohammedan not a Mohamedan. It appears that study in the observatory in order to discover the exact contribution there are in the town-followers of that this eclipse has mude to the one Mirza, who flourished about

available. Theory, the Swarthmore party

contrivance, and magno-hox can be used with it as in the case of high-priced "sels,, It is reported that ratio mussages broadcast, from the Nagoya Radio. Station can be heard in Tokyo by means of the new contrivance,

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As for the Einstein ular modesty to be an incarna picture gallery. After the death tion of Jesus Christ, Mohamed, in 1840 of Queen Adelaide, have left their Einstein "camera and the Raja Krishna. However. william TV.'s consort, who had He took the Koran as the basis standing, and in June they will of his teaching, and his desciples lived there, the building was used turn to photograph the same star say they are Mohamedans, and, in which had been forined by Robert field as that in which the sun, was fact, they are one of the most mili-Vernon, a man of humble origin at the time of the delipse, finant of Mohamedan sects, conduct who amassed a large fortune as VANCOUVER - MONTREAL the interval those stars have noting that astonishing institution, contractor for the supply of changed their places, it is redison-the Weking Mission, and missions horses to the British armies able to assume that the Einstein in the Dutch Indies. Neverthe

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