Singapore, September 12.
The "Birmingham Post" reports that contracts have been signed in Germany for the building of seven shallow steamers to be used partly on the Yangtze and partly on the Min River.
Tue Fire Brigade was called out at 10.55 last night to deal with on outbreak of fire in a bookseller's shop in an alleyway off Canton Road. Three native houses were destroyed.
Fon illegally disposing of a girl to a house of ill fame in 1906 a woman was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at the Mixed Court yesterday. The girl was sent to the Door of Hope.
Ah-kin was sentenced to seven prisonment. at the Mixed Court yesterday for passing food and cigarettes to prisoners who were being escorted "back to Wayside Station the preceding Poared for the prisoners, who remanded until this morning for tal fore Mr. Pao and Dr. 8 P. Bede Ar the Mixed Court yesteres, famed was brought up apis, charged with keeping a gambling bos st 172 North Szechuen Road, last hearing, on August 6, sonsd 1 remanded on bail of T 500, denied that he was a Chinese silt Mr. Curtis now stated that actual: father was a Filipino, but be wut registered as an American citizen we did not register when the Spusib American War was in progress. cused was born in Shanghai, Br. Cuts asked the Court to impose a fis. Barchet said that accused should bin ascertained his nationality beler. I he liked to claim Chinese protection could do so. The Magistrate, howe, said that as accused had been diser by the American and Spanish Cotsh and others he did not want to bare thing to do with bim either. Mr. Cais said his client undertook not to rej the offence, and eventually accused wis fined Tls. 100 and ordered to prdee security for his future good bebario A VALUABLE MAGAZINE, The thirty-eighth volume of the "Journal of the North-Chine Bras of the Royal Asiatic Society cools several articles of sterling wert of great interest to sinologues and stdets of things Chinese in geveral. The opening contribution is " discoxion Morse of *Curreney in China, This article, which oceupis sixty pages, is, perhaps, thorough dscossion of ths cad the ost There is much diversion of opi as to the operations, especially the fighting in close formation at short ranges. Some extraordinary cavalry charges took place—Kzelusive Service.
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