is conceded by all parties that never has there been a more mising class of citizens out as eandidates, and as the majority of the electors are considered certain to vote for men as men rather than attaches of certain parties, something in the form of coalition gov-rament is likely to follow the closig of the polls. It is not improbable, say political observers, that the Liberals will be returned to power, with the Conservatives com. ing second, and the new Provincial which was sold in Japan, the officers returning to England;' and many well known residents of China and Japan on their way to the British Empire Exhibition. Dr. C. Jones, who is 75 years of age, came in by the R.ALS, Empress of' Asia on his return to his home at St. Paris, Dr. Jones was a passenger on the round-the-world cruise of the att. Laconia and was foreed to leave the ship in the Orient on account of illness. He was necompanied by his daughter, who has returned from here to Canton. Dr. Jones is widely Known on this continent for his treatment of drag and alcohol adits.
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