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Erom France, Eussia, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, the 

 United States, Chili, and Peru various items of news are given. 



25. The Indian telegrams are next copied from the Straits 

 Times, relating to the war in Afghanistan, and the paper is brought 

 to a close with the latest telegrams of the week, referring, in this 

 instance, to the Bolivian Republic, to Ireland, and to Eussia. 



26. In the majority of cases journalistic terms are expressed 

 by their English names written in Malay characters, or by their 

 Malay equivalents, this being effected by a slight process of para- 

 phrasing, but in some cases the Arabic equivalents of these techni- 

 cal phrases of journalism are employed such as : — 



Editor 



Mualif 



uJtll^o 



Subscriber . 



Mutaliah 



fijlk. 



Notice 



Ah hi a 



M 



27. There is another useful little work which is attributable 

 to the " Jawi Peranakkan 1 ' Company, and it will not be out of place 

 to notice it here : it is a Mahomedan and English Comparative 

 Calendar, which shows at a glance the corresponding date in the 

 Mahomedan table of reckoning to that used in our Calendar. This 

 Table, sold at ten cents a copy, has, it is stated, a very large circu- 

 lation. 



