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General Memoranda,
TURDAY, May 21
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Japaness Curior, , at Mesata Hughes & Hough's Bates RoomB.:**
WEDNESDAY, M«y 92; -
10 am-Auction of Bundry Naval and Victualling Stores, at H. M. Naval Yard. 5.15
p-Meeting of Bowling Club, Ld., in Olub Premises. Transfer Booke of Feak Tramways to, close from this date to let May inclusive. Register of Shares of A. S. Watson & Co., Ed., close from this data to 28th inst., inclusive. Goods por Ocean-x not cleared at p.m
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Thursday, May 23
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2,39 p.m.-Anction of Household Farmi- ture, at No. 11, Humphreys Avenue, Goods per Kasate for undelivered
After this date subject to rent,
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1907.
learns. The reasons that wore ad Thin your being the fiftieth anniver: BY TELEGRAPH.
VICEROY SHUM.
D
On the Grand Council.
vanced by the joint owners of thosary of the Indian Mutiny proposals Spinam" (the Hongkong, Canton and were made that thero should be como Macao Steamboat Co., Mestre Jar.kind of celebration. The craze for. dine, Matheson and Co. and Mcegra functions of the kind sometimes leads Butterfield and Swire) and by the to events which have nothing but China Association explaining why the painful associations being colebrated
in a singularly inappropriato, manner. (From Our Correspondent.) British Government should afford every
It was suggested in India that there
PEKING, May 18. assistance, were based on high grounds.
Chu Hung Chi has resigned from should be a "Matiny Dinner This There was no desire en the part of the seems to us a most inappropriato, not the Grand Council owing to 40 ownera to profit by the penalty they to say improper, manner of celebrating unfriendly pasange-at-nama vrith Prince sought to have imposed. They pre the Mutiny. This opinion, we are glad. Ching. sented their claim as a measure of to see, was hold by responsiblo persons political consequence for the protection in India. Ona of the remaining sur- of British; interests and trade," and vivors of those stirring timce, Colonel
Viceroy Shum succeeds him on the," Council.
GUN RUNNING.
A Big Seizure.
(From our Correspondent.)
-VENTEIN,-May-18-
they wore willing that the money Mackenzie; who led the Mutiny rst- should be employed for some charitable eraus at the Dolli Durbar wrote last purposo. Only by penalising the month to the Simta paper us fóllows:-- I trust you will allow ine, ns one of authorities, the Foreign Office was in- |
the survivors of 10th of May, 1857, to formed, could piracy in the Kwang express the hope that the fiftieth anni Viceroyalty be abolished. One of the versary of that dreadful day may not strongest arguments which can be us commemorated by a dinner or any
A consignment of 8000 rifles and Goods per Bentomond undelivered after placed before a Government Depart- festivity. Whatever it is, it is best to
this date subject to rent,
ment in that a precedent exists for a
allow the occasions to pass in silence. 300,000 cartridges have been discover- SATURDAY, May 26;—
Doubtless a great majority of oured concealed amongst other, cargo in 11a.m.-Auction of Steam Launch Hung course which is being advocated. It
Indian fellow subjects are heartily Yek, on Board, at Causeway Bay.
the godown of a foreign firm at Tien- 2.30p.m.Auction of Oil-Printists, &c, was pointed out to Sir Edward Gray ashamed of the horrible crimea com
at Mr Gov. P. Lammert's Sales that in 1897 the principle of conse-mitted during the Mutiny of 1856 by
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tion of the British flag has ceased to axist on these waters, that a trade built up at heavy loss which was just beginning to pay had been checked and
that no genuine stops to make outtages
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BRITISH MINING VENTURE.
T
A Copper Find,
(From Our Correspondent.) - -
TinyT8IN, May 18.
Sir John Jordan has notified the Watwupu that a British syndiente proposes to develop a copper mine at
The capital is to be supplied by the syndicate and Chinese jointly.
impossible for the future were being dead." Apparently this wise counsel. prevailed as there has been no notifi- taken. But arguments were of no cation of any festivity" having been avail. The Foreign Office did not held. deign to reply to the arguments ad duced. It merely repeated that it could not support the claims except
An office for the sale of Indian Mnnoy THE INERT FOREIGN OFFICE. for actual damage. This thick-beaded Orders will be opened in the Kowloon Fost
obetinacy on the part of the Foreign Office on May St. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. We have nover joined forces with Office-it is impossible to call it any- The exportation of armas and ammuni-Tung-Kwan-Shan, *
those who profess to see no real utility thing else is enough to make any tion from Honglong is prohibited for a in badies such as the China Associa individual or body give up the task further term of six months-Gorene. tion, On the other hand we have axpres of trying to inform it in despair. Büt serl the belief, which we believe is very the China Association, with really generally held by those who have more admirable doggedness, keeps pegging than temporary interests in the Far away and by so doing it puts its orities | East, that-without a body of the kind to shamo. Ceaseless dropping weare
Ships conroying Chinese passengers, British interests in and around China away a stone and the accssaut assaults under the provisions of the Chinese The Russian Empire holds the record would be even utoro disregarded then upon the Citadel of Red Tape, of which Barignation Ordinance, 1899, will not be of having under its sway sixty-five separate they are at present by the Foreign Sir Edward Gray is at present Com-allowed to carry them on the upper, or and distinct racial groups.
weather, deck between June 1 and Octo- Ofice. That these interests are disco-mander-in-chief, must have an effect, ber 15. garded cannot be denied. The bistory The China Association is deserving of
The shareholders of the Szechnen- of the denunciation of Tuan Chih-kuoi by of our relations with China is a record all admiration for the resolution with Hankow Railway have elected Seniora consor, and is propaned to ask leave to THROUGHOUT THE EAST of obstruction and indifference on the which it is carrying out its dishearton-Chief-Secretary Chino Shu-tan of the resign as soon as a thorough enquiry has
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The invitation issued by the Colorial Secretary to the public at large to
An entrance pamination for clerkships
The gentry of Anhui protested and
in the Hongkong Civil Service will be held demand that the concession be on June 10. Particulars are published in cancelled and the mine worked by the Government Gazette,
Chinese capital alone.
·
Prince Ching is displeased on account
Board of Education Genoral-Director of been made into Tuan's charge, the Railway Co., and the election has received Imperial sanction. In accordance · President Tren Chun-bauen his tuged with the memorial of the Board the Secre. upon H.E. Yu Shi-roni, the Provincial
vince, to go up to Peking in order to in their attempts to open up trade by
try is to retain his position in that board. Director of Flycation in Kwangtung Pro witness house cleansing seems to be a
Her Majesty the Empress Dowager discuss the reformed administration of the the apathy of the Foreign Office which
sort of guarantee of good faith. The highly oftented with Pu Ting, President Board of Communications, had the power but not the inclination, voice of the critic having reached of the Board of Finance owing to some, to afford assistance to the men on the Government ears efforts are now to be dissatisfactory answers he made, at nu
Lieutenant H. D. Belgrave, 2nd But Audionco with her, in regard to the! spot which would have been of incalcul monde to demonstrate that hardships establishment of a uniform currency in the talion The Queen's Own Royal West Kent ahle value. What assistance has been are not, or will not be, indicted upon Empire. Her Majesty has ordered him to Regiment, who has just taken up the ap the Chinelo. This is as it should be, report on the matter within five daye.pointment of garrison adjutant at.Singe given bar boen grudginglood belated. In
and the critics ought to go and. "look President Pu, frightened by Her Majesty's pore, in the for subator of the battalion, and he has held a conunission in connection with the "Sainam" incident
wrath, intends to tender his resignation, sea" now or for over bold their peace.
the regiment for the past seven years, the Foreign Office has been living up to
Of the three new Colonial Governors exactly, having got his commission in May, its worst traditions. The circumstances
There is a chance now for Mr May whose appointment is announced to-day 1900, from the 3rd Battalion (West Kont surrounding the attack upon the "Saito make a name for himself. A few new (says the 'estminster Gazelle of April 17), Militia) then combodied and doing garrison" nam" and the murder of the Rev. Dr fire fighting appliances aro necessary, Sir Frederick Lugard (who goes to Hong-duty in Malts. He joined the 2nd Queen's and there's that typhoon shelter! Onong in succession to Sir Mathew Nathau) Own at the front, and sawn grent deal of is the best known. As long ago as 1870 he hard work in the operations in Orange Macdonald are still fresh in the mom-these subjects the replica given by the was serving in the Afghan way, while more River Colony, including the detion of Wit ory of readers. The owners of the Government to Mr Pollock's questions recently he has dono splendid work in tebergen, and in Cape Colony 1900-09, for vessel asked for "consequential dama in the Legislative Council are unsatis- West Africa. He saw fighting and ran which he received the Queen's medal with: ges"a claim which from every point factory. Mr May abould decide to other risks and perils there also. Pochops, two clasps, and the King's medal with two
indeed, he never took a greater chance clasps.-Z. and C. Fxpress. ufview is justifiable. In tho uble abandon the red tape regime, and try a than at the time of the occupation of new Kue of Government. What is Borgt, which he put his life absolutely
The Chase habna says that various dis wrong
with buying necessary fire on in the hands of Etams, the king, who had tributions of the Japanese Mercantile gincs and putting up the now typhoon been plotting to kill him a few days before.. breakwater? Fire alarms are useless in But the dating step succeeded, and the extinguishing fares, and more plans king bemnic his fast friend. will not protect the poor sampan man The Governor's Address. when a typhoon is about. If there is The address from the fesidents of thy
memorandum by Me R. 8. Gundry, Presidout of the China Association, upon this claim, vehich we published on Thursday oveuing, he points out that the result of the British Government not supporting the claim involved
for small ship-owners who, after the war, found themselves in possession of vesscla for which no lucrative employment could be found. By small slip-owners" is eat the mon engaged in this business out-
Marine hayo resulted in easing the situation
a shortage of money Mr May might case Colony to His Excellency Sir Matthew ide the rauls of groat companies, such as
a distinct and continuing loes upon public anxiety by clearly setting forth the Hongkong, Canton and Macao the exact position of affairs. Steamboat Company, As he infers
Nathan was despatched to England by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Osaka Sho to-day's P. and 0. Mxil. The address was son Kaisha, and so forth. It is not quite encased in black wood covers, on which clear whether the distributions spoken of the Colony's scans were mounted in gold; were chiefly brought about by the
the forbearance, of the British Govern- Quite recently somó person shocked ment is a tacit invitation to the pro- the Singapore community by declaring For the past few days the address has been assistance of the larger concerns, but the that seventy por cont of the male on view at Messrs Kolly and Walsh's book results are aid to be the following:- vincial authorities to continue their
storo, and this firm has reason to be proud Twenty-one ressols, aggrogating: 55,260 lax administration which has rondered home at night in a state of intoxication.
population of the place sought its of the fine piece of work they turned out tous, have been placed on the South San lines sixteen, aggregating 27,470 tons, on the Mauchurian and Coreau lines; eix, pirusy apon inland waters possible. The Tince of the southeru Colony
2
Caylon is the hotboek and North-West
·British Ang floate over.
ggrogating: 7,820 tous, on the Vladivostnok
line; four aggregating 6,100 tone, on the Me Murray Stewart also emphasised declares that in spite of the foolish Canada the coldest possession that the
Shanghai line; sovan aggregating 6,040 the point that the failure of the declaration it is an undoubted fact,
MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN tons, on the Saghalian line; and three, Government to support the
the claim verified by several "oldest inhabit
nggrogating 11,550 tons, on the American SHINES", ante, that sobriety and moderation, if
THERE is a lesson in the work of the lino. Moreover, charters have been found not total abstinence from alcohol, are
thrifly farmer. He knows that the for 40 vessels aggregating 65,000 tons. more practised in Bingapore to-day bright sunshine may last but a day and he which will be employed chiefly in damastle than
was the case within the recolles prepares for the showers which are so waters. The Realius af oxcessivo tonunge
likely to follow. So it should be with
A. S. WATSON & 00. made by the owners. would lead to further disorders. Experience has LIMITED
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ALEXANDRA
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Hongkong, April 27, 1007,
every household, Dysentery, diavelipea has thus been moved, sad the result has treated leniently, they mistake the tion of living obsorvera. If the assor and cramp could may attack some member been a gradual increase of freights since the: Chamber beginning of March. The Nicht Nich, motive and consider that they have tion that 70 per cent now got intoxi- of the home without warning Diarchoen commenting broadly on this improved or
Remedy, which is the best known medicine
gained a sort of moral victory. Time sated nightly pan bo substantiated lain's Collo, Cholora and aftor time this has been shown to be Singapore must have boon a pretty warm place in the early days of the the case but the Foreign Office never
oldest inhabitants."
for these diseases, should always be kept at ganization, calls attention to the fact that land, as immidiate treatment is necessary, the South-Ses contingent of vessels are to and delay misy proto fatal. For sale by all have their headquarters at Hongkong. otomists and arckéepers