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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

JOHN I.

THORNYCROFT

& CO LIMITED.

THE LEADING · EXPONENTS

ECONOMICAL ROAD TRANSPORT

HONGKONG OFFICE,

UNION BUILDING, 5th. Floor.

THORNYCROFT

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,

CHILD STEALING.

RICSHA COOLIE HUSTLED

INTO MARRIAGE,

DUTCH PARLIAMENT.

QUEEN'S SPEECH TOUCHES ON TIMELY TOPICS.

Hague, Sept. 18.

As the s.o. Tal Lee, bound for Kongmoon, was about to leave her

In her speech from the throne berth one day last week, a woman on the occasion of the opening of who had gone on board with a the States General, Her Majesty, small girl, was detained by the

Queen Wilhelmina, sald, that police and charged with kidnap ping the child. When the woman Netherlands shipping was suffor appeared, on remand, before ing from the surplus of tonnaga Major C. Willaon yesterday after-on the world's market. noon, an extraordinary story was Her Majesty regrotted that the told of her duplicity which, from International efforts towards the its Involved nature, required a reduction of armaments had not long investigation by the Magis led to more tangible results, but trato into the intimate relations was gratified that international. which the woman had with the co-operation was increasing in father of the child, “\-*-4

various spheres, especially in that jof economica.

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He, a coolle who pulls a private *** ricsha for a living, has been Her Majesty also announced widower many years, but is com; that a Bill to ratify the Kellogg forted in possession of a grown-Pact, wherein there was a new up son and a daughter. The boy guarantee of the maintenance of had taken up the trade of a cob-peace, was being placed before the bler, while the girl, who is only Housa shortly.—Router. 11 years of age, is left at home

to look after the household goods. *

The elder: Chan one day last him into this second marriage. week mot a woman of mature He said he was without the means years from Kongmoon, and, with to make a feast of it, and he, his thoughta etill cast to matri- sympathising, said she was not mony, was exceedingly glad to en-asking for anything else than what tertain from her a proposal that it would cost for food and clothes, they should live together. With She stayed with him for just two out further ceremony, she took up days, and then disappeared with her abode to the man's house, the child. Whereat ho was pros- Two days afterwards, she dis-trated and took to his bed, weep- appeared and with her, the little ing over the possibility of not see daughter of tho ricsha puller. ing his child again.,

On learning the news on his ro turn home from work, the coolie, It was said, was so stricken down that he took to his bed and wopt.

Replying to the charge, the wo- man said. It was not her intention to take the child away. She went on board the ship, in order to send word back to her people in Suá The son divining that the wow that they were not to worry, man would make for the water-about her as she had wedded the front in an attempt to take the coolie.

girl back with her to Kongmoon,

went on board the Sauning. Ho Turning to the coolio, she up- did not find them on board as he braided him for his want of faith. had expected, and went over to "Did I not love you, otherwise.why the Tal Leo, which was one of two should I have consented to marry steamers leaving for the Shokki you? You had no money, and was capital that day. He took up a I not willing to save you from a position by the gangway, and had life spent between the shafts with not been long on watch before the money I havo?" he saw the woman hurrying up the plank with the child. Ho seized the woman, being assisted by a fellow-lodger who had como aboard to hawk fruit.

Prostrated with Grief,

She reminded him of the long walks which they had together and which extended on one ocen slod up till three o'clock in the morning.

lie was adamant, and had no The ricsha coolie was ques-further remarks to offer to this tioned by the Court as to the cir-appeal.. The Court found the wo- cumstances under which he met man guilty on the charge of child- the woman, and he declared that stealing. She was sentenced to it was the woman who hustled three months' hard labour.

1828

At CLOVERDALE FARM

is a meadow ankle deep in rich clover grass. Cows are feeding in it, There is a shed where these cows are milked and the floors and walls are as clean as clean orockory and the cans like now pina. And

tho milk is carried swiftly to a white condensery set down in green fields, and you would think that the cleanliness of that condensery was cleanliness gone mad, except that milk cannot be too clean.

That is the way in which “Milkmaid" is produced, It comes to you signed and sealed, the rich pure product of chosen cows.

Willkmaid

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STOP

COUGHS WHERE THEY START/

EVAN to the root of the

IVANS' PASTILLES go.

trouble, killing the germs that lurk in the innenbost recesses of the nose, throat and chest.

Safeguard your health and. that of your children always by having them ready to use at the first sign of a cold.

„Made in England to the formula of the Ziverpool Throat Hospital and sold by Chevalete overyukera

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BRAND

EVANS' Pastilles

ANTISEPTIC THROAT

THE KING AND QUEEN AT COWES: RACING OFF THE R.Y.S. CASTLE.

White Heather, Shamrock, and Cambria, three of the yachts in the big handicap clase passing the Royal Yacht Squadron Castle on Saturday (August 4), in one of the races in the Royal Southampton Yacht Club Regatta.

J'ai

Mortimer Singer's, Astra was first, Bir Willfa, Berry's Cambria second, and his Majesty's Britannia, third.

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