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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 64, 27 October 1900, Page 4

-The Trouble in China.

Hong Kong, October 23. The anti-MancJiu rebels wefe trelcoined everywhere, and 'South )hina treated them as guests. Tie allies agreed to -acquaint M lung Chang that the joint demands or the punishment of ringleaders nusfe follow the lines indicated in ,he German Consular Note. October 24. The Germans and British at Shanghai are jubilant over the igreement. Colonel Lordee Campbells force 3aptured Poifang, which 1000 Imperial troops had evacuated. They found at Menanhsien Prince Tuan's letter ordering Ihe extermination of the expedition among the marshes. PARIS, October 23. France is sending 3800 troops from Tunis to -South China. October 24. "" Le Temps " explains that France prevented the threatened exclusive British military occupalion of the Yangtze Valley, and jtbat Germany hastened to "negotiate the prtsstsnb'agreement, fearing that access to tb.B Yangtze markets would untimately be closed. Clause 3 is intended to enable Gr - eat Britain and Germany to in ituali^ partition the Yangtze tf Russia annexed Mancuuna; but Kussia has not annexed tLat territory. Washington, October 23. Mr Hay has instructed Mr ConfrcT to demand the abolition of L-e rsung-Li-Yaunon, and the appou t ment of a Minioter of Foreign Avail's. London, October. 23. The Standard's Berlin correspondent reports that an AngloGerman agreement applicable to other parts of the world is impending. -October 24. Reuter reports that the agreementis not Aimed at Russia, and that she Manchurian railway concessions have not been affected. The main object of the agreement -is to unite the Allies on the basis of upholding the integrity of China, without reference to railway arrangements. The Odessa correspondent of the Daily £fews ieirns that the Chinese Ambassador at St Petersburg, and the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Lam^dorff have arranged preliminaries for a Russo- Chinese agreement; Berlin, October 24. It is st -ted here that tl c Governments of Russia and France assent .d to the agreement befona its "publication; hence the annexation of Manchuria has been cancelled. It is also understood tha 1 ; GorniS/ny secures commercial facilities in certain British dependen3ies.

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Johannesburg has fallen. Pretoria is won ; But still it faeems there's something .Remaining 'to be done. Though Buller is advnnoing. And Hunter fighting yet, We daily read they can't succeed In stopping off De Wet.

The spring has long been over, The .summer should be heie ; But sun is at a prennura, And clouds by no means dear. Fine days, or even fair ones, Are very seldom met ; Oh ! that indeed we oould succeed In .stopping off ll de wet."

We can't have peacp in Africa, Nor over here at h jrne, So long "de wet " is thus allowed , Ab ufc the land to* roam. Tjs most unwibe on anything To venture with a bet ; Much tnore so on how Jong we'll be In mopping tip " de wet."

-About' the only' kind of hoods used ie '- summer -are falsehoods. A great game in a small -compass.-* "ij Cncket on the hearth. i ■*Tf a gas man -were to write poetry would;.! hid rueter be correct ? *j The mission that brokers are anxious!? \ seesmg. — Commission. * What's in tinatW? About 1 thte hotieit country on the globe ia CiiiJi. t Patient $ and long suffering seetn3 to b* '\ the motto of a good many doctors. \ Age-is venerable in man— and it wonld ! be in a woman were she to become old. -; Words resemble sunbeams — the mow > they are condensed the deeper they bnrn. \ Sometimes a man has no confidence in \ other men because he has none in himsmi' j Ending in a modern novel — " And *>$j they were divorced and lived happily &<*! after." J Grace (whispering)-: "What lovely boots your partner's got !" Mary (ditto)-.'| '" Yea, unfortunately he shines at ft*j wrong end." Troubles and thunder clouds usually «eem very black in the distance, but gro* s lighter as they approach. -"". When a young man saya that he ctf j never love another, he means, of conn^ not for two or three weeks. . - ' |