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MEMOS? FOR TO-MORROW.
Auction. 11a.m.-Aurtion of Linen Fibra, Rattan Chairs, do at Messrs Harris Keeney's Store, Pedder Stresi,
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5.80 p.m.-Organ Recital in St. John's
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Goode per Turane unclaimed after this date at Boon will be subject to rent and landing charges. •. Goods per Flintshire undelivered after
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General Memoranda,
WEDNESDAY, May 8:-
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Elestels
Oo.. Id., at Co.'s Offices.
her model? In view of the fact that Ruselan officialdom simply reeks of
corruption the suggestion, if it is meant, is not without humour, The officials of China are drawn from practically all classes of the people. Consequently
they represent the people. If the source from which they are drawn way
not corrupt they would not be cor rupt. The reformation which is really going to revolutionise China will not begin at the top. If it over comes it will commence in the schools where a
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni
tore, &o,, at No. 1, Seycanut Terrace, newer and better teaching of the duty Goode per Glenaam not cleared on this of every man to his country, will pro-
date subject to rent.
Goods per Devanha not cleared at 4 p.m.bably be introduced before long. The
on this date subject to rent. THURSDAY, May 0
2,30 p.m.-Auction of Japanese Curtos her young people.
and Silk Lasbroiderire, do, at Mr deo.
P. Lammert's Sales Rooms. Goods per Bentedi undelivered after
this data subject to rent.
Goode per Prinz Waldemar undelivered
after this date subject to cont. SATURDAY, May
9 p.m. Concort on the Volunteer
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WEDNESDAY, May 15:-
9.15 p.m.-Concert at City Hall. WEDNESDAY, May 22:-
10 4.m.-Auction of Sundry Naval and Victualling Stores, at H. M. Narel Yard.
FRIDAY, May 31:--
Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at the City Hall,
SATURDAY, June 29 -
| fùturo of China rests in the hands of A good ethical education for the rising generation would bon million times, more effec- tive than seeking to reform the man- darin. A country generally possesses the government it deserves and as Boon as the rank and file of the Chinese are honest, honourable and patriotic so soon will the wandarin develop these virtuos. But those who think ho is to be reformed in a "while
you wait" sort of way by some sort of
burlesque Parliament which, assuming that it comes into existence, will re.
MONDAY, MAY 6 1907.
·LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.
The English Mail of the 6th April was delivered in London on the 4th May.
The Viceroy of Shonsi hus doqatched a deputy to Shanghai to buy banknotes to the amount of 400,000 dollars, with whicli he hopes to relieve the scarcity of sucnoy in
Shousi
BY TELEGRAPH.
SZECHUEN VICEROY-
SHIP.
Chiu Erh Chin Appointed.
(From Our Correspondent.)
PEKING, May 5.
There wore 380 European and 167 Chinese visitors to the City Hall. Library.
On the recommendation of ViceroyTM and 186 European and 2,951 Chinese visitors to the Museum during the week Sham Chun Hisen, Chiu Erh Chín has ended May 5th.
been appointed Viceroy of Szechuen, The Japanese Department of Educa|vice the former. tion has made a present of 30 ym each to 1,139 contuon school teachers throughout the Empire in recognition of their service daring the late war.
The Naboya Municipal Assankly has
that city in 1910. The appropriations for docided to open industrial exhibition at
the enterprise are one mifilou yes and tho site of the exhibition is Nagoya Park.
The Portugueso Minister has com municated with the Waiwupa that Portugal intends to establish Consulates in Tiestain and the three Eastern Provinces, and his been informed that the Consulate in Tientsin must be discussed with Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, and those in the three Enstorm Provinces deferred for the tinė being.
Gentry and Merchants of Shansi have decided to construct a railway hetweon Puchou and Tatung by their own capital.
VICEROY SHUM.
Promoted to be Minister.
(Chiness Mail's Service)
PEKING, May 6,
By order of HIM. the Empress Dowager; Viceroy Shum Chun Hisen has been appointed Minister of the Board of Posts and Communications,
It is rumoured that Viceroy Sham likely to join the Grand Council.
is
The high post to which Viceroy Shum has been appointed is not at all guexpected. Being a favourite as well as friend to the Empress Dowager in her hour of distress, Ehun has overy reason to hope for.
higher oficial appointments, and the rumour that will be called to the Grand Council is- be remembered not improbable. It may be rem that during the Imperial fight to Heinfit.
Noon-Meeting of the National Bank of somble the Tower of Babel, are exhi.The Board of Agriculture and Commerce. She had shown unbounded loyalty
China, Id., at the Bank Premises.
The China Mail,
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1907..
THE CHINESE OFFICIAL
CLASS.
Ir is customary with most of those who seek to enlighten the world about
biting a lack of knowledge of human nature which will entail for them con- siderable disappointment.
has given its sanition to this as a commercial undertaking but it is to be superintended by Government. A Memorial is to be sent to the Throne for the grant of realy..
Chao Ech-sen, Tartar General of Australia was long regarded as the Mukden, who is to be replaced by Tang most sporting country in the world. Shao-gi na Civil Governor, has wired to the Nearly every visitor who published his Throne that owing to his ill-health, ha impressions declared that Australia wishes to retire from official life. The Government has not approved this petition,! was dangerously devoted to sport, that and has informd Chao that he will be the more serious things of life were appointed to another high position. disregarded. Now the pendulum bas swung far back the other way. The The following is the programme to be Governments of New South Wales and given at the Organ Recital at the cathedral to-narrow afternoon-1, Fantasia and
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, China to place the discredit for all her Victoria have passed laws which Fugue in G minor (Bach): 2, Prelude and
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practically prevent any wagering ex-Lux Christi (E. Elgar), Mrs Bolilios; 3,
torrads his sovereign by keeping gard both day and night at the Imperial Cham- her. Viceroy Slum has made many friends and enemies, but as long as the Old Lady is alive. Shum has everyth ing to This may account for his.
gain. persistent refusal to proceed to Yunnan when he was appointed Viceroy-ED.. [Q.M.]
CHINA AND JAPAN,
Mikado Distributes Honours.
-
(From Our Correspondent.)
Toxy, May 6.
The Mikado has decorated Ch'n
ills upon the shoulders of the unhappy cept on racecourses. Pravious efforts. To the Spring, (Grieg); 4, Quartet, "Hung Chi (Minister of the Grand official. One authority wrote just had been made to dobar bookmakers como overy one that..thintetli," (Mondols Council of State) with the first order
after the conclusion of the Boxer out- from wagering in any place other than sohn), Master J. Stuart, Mrs. T. L. Per of merit of the Grand Cordon of the
kins, Mr E. B. Ayris, Mr E. S. Carruthers, Hymn 143; 5, Recit and Aris, "With Rising Sun; Lion Fang (Vice-President Verdure Clad," (Hayda), Mrs Belilios; 0,
break, China can never recover, can a racecourse but experince sliowed that nover restore order in place of rebat- the word place could not be defined so lion, or toleration instead of fanaticism,es to debar bookmakers from carrying The Storm, (J. Lemmens): 7. Recit and of the Board of Foreign Affairs) with on their avocation, if they stood on Double Quartet, "For He shall give His the first order of the Sacred Treasure, angels," (Mendelssohn), Master J. Stuart, Perkins, Mr S. Moore, Mr B. B. Ayris, Mr E. 9. Carruthers, Mr C, R. Crispin 8. Toccata, (E. d'Evry).
so long as the present official caste baxes, or on wasto lands.. The new Mrs J. Kew; Miss Spedding, Mrs T. and sixteen other officials have been
remains what
Camera Piends in Japan...
it has been. The man-Victorian enactment, according to the darin, with his spurious education, his Daily Mail, leaves no loophole for intolerablo conceit of himself, bis escape. It declares a place to be ignorant prejudices, and unfathomable "any place whatsoever, whether with- of in a building or not, whether upon land corruption, has been the curse
A telegram to the dah states that China; and if she is to have any future or water, whether defined as to area only one of the two strested foreign ladies or not, and whether private property who unwittingly photographed a fort in the worth considering, if she is to hold her
or otherwise." The future Victorian nighbourhood of Yura, near Maizura, THROUGHOUT THE EAST own against the force that presses bookie will have to conduct business is English, the other lady being an Aust-
upon her from the North, she must get From an aeroplane. rid of the mandarin." This sounds convincing enough but is there not rather too much cocksuredness about the diagnosis? Do any of the "authorities" speak, with the fainese
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SHANGHAI'S RACES.
An Unpropitious Opening.
(From Our Correspondent.)
SHANGHAI, May 6.
icin, As the result of the oxamination at the Miyasu police station, it was, aa- When Mr and Mrs Henry Keswick left certained that the ladies had no malicious intention in taking the photographi. The Shanghai they were accorded a most hearty send-off by a large gathering of friends, objectionable negatives were confiscated The Sikh troopers under the command of and the ladies were released after being Trooper Sergeant Spottiswoode escorted cautioned by the police against taking Heavy rain fell during last night, tof rendering the race-course heavy.
of knowledge which alone can warrant them to the jetty, whither a number of Photogmphs within prohibited areas in having the t
future.
PLAGUE NEAR CANTON,
(From Our Correspondsat.).
CANTON, May 6.
SHANGHAI RACES.
The First Day..
The following results have been received. THE SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFIN PLATE
them in giving a prescription? We women also followed and the arrival of Mr and Mrs Keswick on the tender was doubt it and we are confirmed in our the signal for a desfacing bombardment of doubt by the humiliating refutal of so bombe and orackers, in open defiance of the Municipal regulations, from two junks many of their confident predictions moored closo at hand. As the bonder
In the districts of Tsingsing and Fayun, when they are put to the test by actual moved away three cheers were given for Mr not far away from Canton, an outbreak of events. The lucky author who and Mrs Keswick, and the noise of the bubonic plague on an alarming sale is re- ported. The inhabitants of the afflicted; crackers became more deafening than ever.
places are fleeing to Canton. No measure departed in auch haste for the seat of At the Extraordinary General Meeting ofis taken by the Chinese authorities here to Three-Quarters of a mile. Value, T. 200. war as a correspondent that he had no the Ewo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., chock the epidemic from spreading to Can Second Pony, Ts. 50, Third Pony, TIs. time to correct the proofs of a book Ld hold on April 29. Mr H. Koswick. ton, snd if the great city is involved, there 25. For Subscription Grifins of this Micot- in the altair, Mr A. Maloud said this is no saying what might happen to Elonging. Weight for inches as per scade. on Manchuria in which he had con was probably the last meeting for Kouitary authorities at Hongkong Should As a precautionary measure, the clusively shown that there could be no some time over which Mr Keswick would took out that no cases are imported.
posido in Shanghai as he was going war has ang saliber of other conto Hongkong: Mr MeLood felt that he was only roicing the feelings of founded prophets to keep him company.
MORPHIA OR OFTUM ?
Farmer.
Entranco, T. 5.
More Oswald and Hunter's Plenio... (Mr Burhill) 13st. 1 lb. Mosers Nephew and Robson's Rheingold. (Mr. Hayes) 12st. 3 lbs.
Mr. Jasper's Spilt Milk...
142
(Mr lovers) 13st, 3 lbs. 3 Time: 1 min. 37€ secs.
THE CRITERION STAKES-One mile. Value, T. 400. Second Fony, Tia. 100.
In the Full Court this morning, before If five or more starters, Third Pony Ta
(Mr Mollor) 13at. Sibs. I
Those who know. China bost maintain the shareholders when he said that since Judgment Against the· Opium | the management of this large concern bad a discreet silence. Si
Sir Robert Hart ishpon in the hands of Mr. Keswick he had the one foreigner who could spent dono orerything it was possible for a man
to do to achieve success. (Hear, Hear) their Lordships Sir Francis Piggott (Chief 50. For China Ponies.Weight for inches with the full weight of authority. He They all wished him bon voyage, a pleasant Justio) and Mr A. G. Wise (Puise Judge) sa por sole. Entrance, Tie, B. declines to speak on the groand that stay in the Crown Colony, and hoped that
he would, before long, return to his labour judgment was given in the appeal regard. Mr Quoto's Ruria....
(Mr Hayes) 1st. 11b, 3 after sponding several decades in here. It had been Mr. McLeod's pleasuring the seizure of certain cases of muriate Mr Beverley's Bruckton...
of morphia, China ho feels that he is utterly unable to len motaber of Boards of Directory over
Sir Henry Berkeley, K. C. (instructed by Mr John Pael's Cotawold
(Bir Johnstone) 13st 2lbs, which he had presided and lie was sure Mr J. Scott Harstou) nppowed for the TIME 2 mins, 10 secs. to accurately interpret China's aspirabat, speaking for the directors of this owner of the morph, Mr Hoffman, and
THE GRIFFIN'S PLATE.--Three-Quarters tions. "All I can say about China company, they bad received most courteous
[of Mile. treatment and Mr Keswick had always the Hon. Mr H. E. Pollock, K.C., and
Value, Tis, 400. Second Pony, The 100. ho told an interviewer, is that she is been ready to give thom nay information Mr M. W. Slade (instructed by Mr R. D
Third Pony, Tis. 50. For Chum Padies and assistance. They one and all wished Atkinson) represented the opium farmer,
that have never run of any Meeting. atterly aulike Great Britain. We will him and Mrs Keswick and their boys bon
Banto. Entantico, voyage break but never bond, China will bond follow in the footsteps of their devoted as Boized under a warrant in the gudownaght for inches as)
and they hoped the boys would It will be remembered that the morphin
(Mr but never break." This is a happy father (Applause). Mr Keswick thanked of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Mr Brues Robertson's Stirrup Cup
Burkhill) 13at. 3lbs Mr McLeod and the meeting for their Godown Corayway at the Magistrate
Mr G. H. Potts Manchu King (Mr enough expression but it does not en-kindness.
issued an order for its forfeiture.
Cumming) 19st. 91ba Sir Hoary Berkeley argued that the Me Quoboo's Classio (Mr Moller) 13at." lighten us as to the cause of her back
morphis was not opium within the mesning Time: 1 min. 341 scos.
3108.... wardness and her failure to figure more
of the act and that the magistrate's powers. of forfeiture only extended to opium not in
THE CATILAT CUP, Ono Mile and n
MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN
THERE is a buson in the work of the A S. WATSON & 00., advantageously amongst other nations. thrifty farmer. He knows that the the possession of anyone, whorout this Half. Value, Tls. 250. Second Pony The authority we quoted at the com- bright sunshine may last but a day and ho pium was in the possession of the Godowa Tls, 76. If five or more starters, Third Pony, Tis. 50. For China Ponios. Weight menesment of this article declared Pipes for the shower which ara su Company, sa agents for Mr Hoffman.
So it should be with Sir Henry's spplication for a writ of a for inches as per sculo. Griffins at date of
entry allowed be. Entrance, Tls 57 that Chinu would never be able to very household. Dysentery, diarrhoen artiori was granted with costs.
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