Darwent. Miss Daisy Lay was the bridesmaid and Mr, Geo. Cooper was best man. The bride, who wore a charming costume, was given away by her brother, Mr. W. G. Lay, of the I. M. Customs. "The church was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and Mr. J. M. D. Thomas officiated at the organ and played the Wedding March.
Tar str. Meilee, which arrived here on Wednesday from Hankow and ports, reports the str. Cores de Vries ashore in Round Channel.
Tr will be learnt with general satisfaction that news was received by wire from Peking on Thursday that Mrs, Mayers and Mr. A. E. Eastes, Student Interpreter, both of whom have been suffering from typhoid fever at the British Legation, are doing well Dr. Wordsworth Poole, M.B., C.M.G., physician to the Legation, succumbed to the same disease on Friday last. He was a most able man_ and most popular in Peking, and the invaluable services he rendered during the siege in 1900 are not likely to be forgotten. It is noticeable that just before he was taken ill he had determined to make a thorough investigation of the drainage and sanitary condition of the Legation.
the case of the Bank of China and Japan, the Supreme Court of New York has handed down an opinion adverse to the Bank. Inthe Kobe Chronicle" of the 8th an outline of the opinion is given, and it appears that the decision of Mr. Jernigan, when Consul-General, as well as his argument before the Taotai have been substantially sustained by the New York Supreme Court.
Tae White Star Line Ca. has presented the sum of £20,000 to the charities of Liverpool and Belfast in memory of the founder of the line, the late T. H. Ismay, who died on the 23rd of November 1899.
Tam silk which left here per Empress of Japan on Saturday, the 21st ult., arrived in New York on Friday, the 17th instant.
Ir is infinitely to be regretted that the remarks of Mr. Chamberlain should have been misunderstood as they were in Germany, and evoked such angry comments from the German Press. In British Colonies and Settlements abroad there has always reigned hitherto the most perfect cordiality between Britons and Germans, and any interruption of this cordiality is 'a misfortune for both parties.
Iw a case heard at the Mixed Court on Monday morning, in which three men were charged with being loafers, a report of which appears in another column, the Inspector conducting the case perpetrated an musing bull, which, however, was in one sense very truthful, He said that "a good bambooing would not hurt the men." To anyone ae quainted with Mixed Court procedure and punishment, it is well known that on several otocasions prisoners who have been sentenced chambooing and who have been able to
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