has just been established in this city. This is another milestone on the road to civilisation. Slowly but surely we are Fore greatly on Native' photographers. are multiplying. Prices are still rising. The braves "are receiving semi-foreign drill. How strange it sounds to hear the drill instructors on the parade ground shouting, "Wan, ttn, teli" ("one, tivo, three" makin tial-ma ('mark time"), fo-so (*fours,") ete., or to be saluted by an overweening sergeant in pidgin Russian, if one may be allowed the expression, "Ta-ra-si, Ko pi tan" (* good morning, captain") Truely we are on the up grade?
THE PREFECT AO LING, at the instance of the British Legation, has been once more removed from office. He got plenty of "face" by being four months in power and by the Governor giving it out that his time had expired.
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