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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1967.
for which he has no inclination but BY TELEGRAPH, BY TELEGRAPH.
DEATUS. Canten,--On January Sist, at Work which offers him an alternative to starTM Kirby, aged 36, Nabil, wife of W. J. B. CARTER, of Shanghai, and eldest daughter ving in the street. Literally the Army
of William Blackbur
OHILAN-On 90th Jan, at Norfolk, J. Council is doing what Kipling held up ORGÁN, R.N.I.; late P. and O. Co. to scora in his jingle ---- Strlee, sped 72K DO DES
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General Memoranda,
PATCHDAY, March:
6 p.m.-Aretion of Racing Yachte Joan and Authore at Ah King's Bilpway, Wanchal
THE "DAKOTA"
FAMINE RIOTS.
THE INSURANCES INVOLVED, WEALTHY HOUSE PILLAGE
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Router, "
ria, Rombay.}
LONDON, March 6. The underwriters are largely inter-
Tommy this and Tommy that And lick him out, the brute. Poor Tommy has been having a bad time for years past at the hands of reorganising Secretaries of Slate for War and this is about the last straw. Mr Haldane, cowering under the Radioni-ested in the wreck of the "Dakota," Socialist whip, has out-Heroded Herod about £600,000 being involved. oul has taken, the most effective step to
Yesterday forty guiném was paid on are being pillaged.
Tranator Books of China & Stands Steam-complete the disorganisation of the
ship Co., Ld., dinge from this date to 15th March, inclusive..
British Army. Although unhappily MONDAY, March 11
proteats from this part of His Majesty's Dominions can be of little avail wo feel constrained to denounce this latesti attempt to injure that institution of which we are all so rightfully proud-
3.16 p.m.-Lecture at City Hall. Goods par Ernest Sonnunciamodafter this date at Noạn, will be subject to rent and landing charge Tuzex, March 12
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WEDNESDAY, BINTch 13
1a.m.-Hosting of China and Mantia Steamship Co., Lâ,, · Co.'s Office. Noon-Auction of Steam Launch "Apen-
rade at Queen's Statue Wharf. - THURDAY, March 14
· LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.
Governor Yang Shib-gang of Shan- tung has asked for Imperial permission to resign his post as he has met with so many
8.33 p.m.-Concert in St Andrew's Hall, impeachment He hopes thus to avoid
censure from the world. WEDNESDAY, March 20-
12.80 p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Id., at City Hall.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, THOzadat, Maron 7, 1907.
SOLDIERS AND FENSIONS.
Tus system of pansions bus in the past formed the subject of animated discus sion. By some it is held that the granting of pensions is tantamount to the creation of a privileged olas aud leads to various kinds of abuses. Others maintain that for certain descriptions of work it is absolutely necessary to give pensions to ensure the beat men being obtained for the performance of the duties. With the general question it is hot our purpose to deal at the present time. In regard to civil em ployment there may
he a great deal to be said on both sides of the ques- tion. But in regard to the naval and military services we are convinced that ⚫there is an overwhelming maes of opin ion that the pension system should be perpetuated. A man who joins either
re-Insurance;
PASSENGERS' DATE.
Vessel a Total Loan.
(From Our Correspondent,)
SHANGHAI, March 7; - The riots which originated song the famine-stricken people still continue and the houses of the wealthy in Yang choy-fu and along the Grand Canal;
TWO KWANG SOLDIERY.
The Estimates,
(From Our Correspondent.)
CANTON, March 6.
The Officials, of the Two wange bave been looking into the military expenditure for the current year. It is stated, that the this expenditure will amount to about | $1,760,000. Already this estimata hos been submitted to H, E. the Viceroy for
(From Our Cafesjrandent.}"
Yokohama, March Much of the mail on board
Dakota" has been lost. The passengers, of whom 43 are for Hongkong, havo arrived hero.
The insurance on the vessel amounts
his crating. It is divided out under three
hendings, and this expenditure is mid to
be alointely essential for the efficiency of the provincial army. One division
to Yun6,000,000 and the ship is refers to the exlaries of the officers, and the
The Philippine Journal of Science is total loss. seoking support among scientific men,
librarians, ato., in the Exat. It deals
general support of the mon. The second
comprises the purchase of uniforms for all cinescs, and also the medical ex-
with botany, catomology, ornithology, GERMANY AND PERSIA. perses of the axity. The third has to do
bacteriology, mining, etc., and also the resources of the islands, such as papar making materials, oils, coals, study of tropical diverses, ete, Paul C. Freor, Director of the Bureau of Science, is Editor.
Dreadnought," Cap-
The battleship tain R. H. 8. Bacon, D.-S. O., sailed from Gibraltar in January for Trinidad, to carry
A THREATENING DEMAND.
(Exclusive Service, mapplied by Reuter,
vis. Bombay).
LONDON, March 6.
The Daily Mails correspondent at out a series of experimental trials in West Teheran, Persia, etates that Germany Indian waters. The vessel will leave demanda an indemnity of £5,000 for Trinidad on March 21 for Shecraces, where she is duo on March 31, for service as flagship of Rear-Admiral F. 0. B. Bridgeman, the Commander-in-Chief of the now Home Flest,
British Traders enlegised.
We are so accustomed to reading in the China Consular reports about the con-
servatism of British truders, and manufve-
the recent marder of a missionary, in addition to the execution of the mure
derors.
If the demand is not complied with, Germany will occupy land near Bag-
dad.
[DEUTER'S SERVICE. } THE`BRITISH NAVY,
turors, says the L. and D. Expres, that it is quite refreshing to find an American Consul pointing out England as a bright and shining oxample of up-to-dateness in commercial methods... *Lek," he says, American firms be guided by the German and English firms and manufacture such things as the Chinese want, instead of shipping over here the customary American an Admiral articles, and the business can be done."
with the purchase of sundry arms, the building of barracks, the support of a cavalry, and generally all the thousand and one things that go to make up the eficiency of a fighting force. When every economy. has been practised, and every available source of fegular income has been taken into consideration, there appears to be s big deficit staring the officials in the face, This deficit is stated to be probably not less than $400,000. The various officers of the provincial department have therefore boon
instructed to look into matters and ser
where there is any possibility of increasing their quota to the general funds, so that this defiotency may somehow be met.
TAKING OUT A DEBT.
How It is done in Canton.
(From a Curvespondit.)
CANTON, MArch B In a street on the outside of the Heung A Now Admiral:
hoty, there lived a man named Tsoi, who kept horses and let them out for *LouDON, March 5. hire. One evening about a week ago. The Prince of Wales has been gazetted a friend of his called and stayed to supper. happened that this friend some day
The general attitude in Russin on the Being on the spot, and knowing something eve of the opening of the Duma, to-day, is of the Chinese character, the Consul makes possimistic, and the only question discussed
dissolved.
it pretty clear to his countrymen that mere is how long it will ho before the Dums is hustling will not do. Ha reminds them that the Chins of to-day is not far removed.
fashion and by Oriental methods. Very good advice, which might well be taken to heart by our own.traders.
the Navy and Army undertakes the from the Chins of a thousand years ago; it duty-the highest duty of ang-of pro-Oriental, business must be done in Oriental is Oriental, and so long as it renuios
tecting his country and his countrymen. To qualify himasif for the proper dis charge of this duty he undergoes a rigorous training, cuts himself off from many of the comforts and conveniores of life, and for this be receives ridica lously inadequate payment. Moreover
Factory Life in Japan.
THE UNITED STATES.-
LONDON, March 6.
Congress is closed." The appropriation voted during the session aggregated £200,000,000, ting a record.
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
before had some altercation with a yamen runner over some payments about a gambling House, and he declined to pay up all that was demanded. W
The yamen runner somehow discovered that he was taking his evening meal at the house of Mr Tsoi, and an soon as the pair had sat down to their rice, there was a big noise heard eutade the house, and im
constituraediately more than ten men rushed into the dining room. Those men were all Jaman runner. They did not speak ona word, but they seized hold of the guest, and beat him most unmercifully with the butts of their revolvera, and with the rough backs of their knives, till he was covered with wounds. They then as suddenly
Mrs Frederick Parrott, M.A., M.D.,
LONDON, March 6. recurtly visited a large spinning factory in Kobe, where over three thousand people are Me Churchill, raplying to Mr. Acland employed, and she contributes an interest: Alley, said that, Lord Elgin had informed
he has to be prepared to spend the beating article entitled "Among Japanese the High Commissioner of the Malay States decamped. When one of thegoutry brought Factory Children" to the February number that the practice of partly paying the of Bible Society Gleanings. Two thousand Chinesa nunare in oplum must cease.
years of his life in some far away garrison, often enough in a climato that speedily sucks' the virility out of him and leaves him at the end of a few
of the employds in this instance were from
the country, says the writer, and livad on THE JAPANESE CONVERSION
the promises. "They are fed in relays, and they misnage the sleeping in this way.
years forer-racked and feeble. Is there A thousand of those living at the factory work at night, the other thousand working
acy fair wieded man who would deny
this gallant fellow who has worn him self out in the pursuance of his patriot
ic duty, of a small pension Probably
world
by day, and thus the factory, owners need
LOAN.
Lowbox, March 5. The Japanese loan for the conversion of
only supply alosping, room for half the the two 6% losna, mentioned in the tole people living on, the premises. In a few gram of the 2nd inst. is for £26,000,000,
Tie loan will be issued next week at factories the children are made to work almost like slaves. Inspectors have often half in London and half in Paris,
The Hongkong Directory and Chronkle
the master to the notice of Magistrate Cheng, the latter said that he was about to rolinquish office, that he had practically closed his affairs, and therefore it did not concern him. The man is not likely to get any redress.
WEATHER REPORT.
The following notice is issued by Mi Figg of the Hongkong Observatory
On the 7th at 14,50 -8, ~~~~The barometer has risen in E. Japan, and fallen quickly over China:
A depression is moving Enstwards over Shantung
Pressite is now highest over the Pacifo
in the neighbourhood of the Loochoos.
Light or moderblo variable winds may,
moderate to light monsoon the Chino
if the matter were put to them, thus had occasion to interfere on their behalf. But this was not the case at the factory I and & plebiscita of the British people visited, which is in thi lands of wise men, THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY. were taken en overwhelming majority some of them Christians," Mrs Parrott would be found in favour of passione later points out that last year one of the colporteurs of the British Bible Societies That is no certain as anything in this asked permission to sell Scriptures to the for the Far East, issued from the Daily
1 can be, but in January the Army workers as they passed through the gate. Frea Office, is larger than oro and the be expected in the Formosa Channel, and Council fraved an order which practi: The manager nes only allowed it, but valuable nutter contained between itse over the
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours end- bought a thousand copies of the Gospels to covers has been amplified, and brought cally rabs 90 per cent, of the mon in the give to his people.
thoroughly up to date. The presenting at I am today, 0.00 inchce
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon volume is the forty-fifth issue and cach to-morrow British Army of the right to earn
FORECAST DIST
DISTRICT Recently letter was received final a Fest an improveulent la being shown on pension a right, be it marked, which in Philadelphia, Addressed to the the preceding ones. The publication of
1-Hongkong and Neighbourhood E was one of the inducements held ont "President of the Chancery Courts, con directory such as tho ono to which wonde, moderate to light fair.
Formoso Channel Variable winds, taining a romantic story of an unclaimed to them to enlist. The result can easily fortune of 60.000 this as the writor put refer is by no means an dasy task and the moderate or light:
3. South, cast of Chino
between Hong- 16. The lady explained that the original compilare have an enormous amount of be foreseen. All the able men, those owner of the property, a rolation of hors, work to do to get the book complete wong and Laniocks: Sanie as No. La
4South coast of China between Hong who had determined to conduct them and think she felt sure the fortune was all the mass of information it supplies of the Long and Hainan: Same as No. 1.
different ports, and places in the Far East. in Chancery." selves well and thoroughly qualify them in pala kam
An important section is that containing
had died at Birmingham in the year 1851,
intret
development for the formation of
selves in their profession so as to scoure THE walking-leaf insest is a curious example 1 the most important treaties concluded with a project is in proossa of private their pension after the conclusión of of tropical life, allied to the focust, which Chins and Japan and this has been revised Mounted Infantry adjunct to the Bangalore so resembles a loaf that the closet scruby and brought up to date. The maps which Rito Volunteers, and a large number of genrally fails to detect the difference,
their twenty-one years' service, will loso
no time in obtaining their discharger and engaging, in coivil pursuite. The
others, the "wasters," the sluggards, with too little intelligenes or unbition
RHEUMATISM CAN BE CURED.
torturo then thegmatis and thora, is
the voluine contains are also corrected and names have been noted for enrolment with improred, while the alphabetical list of out canvassing the Corps itself. The HERO to no disons which indieta niste mes of forsiga residants in the Far East, oxample has been set by the labe Flold Volunteers, who have now a highly. probents to dish for which mich varied containing something in the neighbourhood shufent Mounted Infantry section, and rolgo lot of remedia have been sug of 20,000 namos, is a special feature which gealed. To say that it cho be cured in increases the value of the book immensely. therefore a hold sintment to unke but
KOCRACK
disocce
WHOOPING COUGUE to wish for more than present housing,
Chamberlain's Pain Bali, which enjoys an As a directory of the Far East the Daily TBE is relief afforded by Chamber- clothing and food will remain in the extensive sale in this cianity, has met with Pren production has no equale. It is the lain's Congh Ramely, in ose of
In the treatment of this
TEKMER whooping cough, makes it a favorite with Army, and now, recruité will be of ■.
It has boom-telt. Dre on two book of roferouice and the care that has the mathera of small children. This re
making its applicaties of this: linjatint will fours boan extrvised in its compliation is op wed, liquifes, the tough macun, tro paio and duderde of mufferers front
red and countertots any tendency toward this diganto focus to pesinanept core by parent in the freedom from crois, which ler to expectorate, keeps the crush loose its use. For sale by All chemiste and stora, cad as a rule so easily be found in a tome punonis. For mis by all chemism and keepsie..
of this dosertion.
BUILDINGS, similar in No-aro will remain in or enter the Army uoless, he is a failure Hongkong, February 20, 1907.
driven by necessity into a profession