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LOCAL AND GENERAL
On account of Chinese New Feir the formers. The first duty of on Opposi- CHINA MAI will not be published next DONNELLY. On January 23, at Ningpo Rond, Shanghai the wife of A .tion is admittedly to oppose and the Monday. Donnelly, of a son (Bullborn),
་བས་ Progressives certainly cannot be accusid
MARRIAGES.
This evening the chair of St. John's' ROBINSON-Boruwens-At Union Church of falling in this regard. They bitterly Catchal give a concert (invitation only)
programme is a very good one.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1908.
A NEW TUG,
The David Gillies Launched.
The new tug-beat. built by the Hong kong and Whampoa Duck Company to replace the Robert Cooke was launched yesterday in the presence of a number of
Hongkong, on 20th: January, by the Royaltack, the Constitutionalists for their at the City Hall. We understand the spectators, ang whom were the follow- C. H. Hickling, assisted by the Rov. C. Bune, the Rev. T. RODINSON, Wesleyan]"weak-kneed foreign policy" and for Mission, Canton, to
the methods by which it is proposed to meet the deficil.. But criticism of this and is very eney. The simpleat thing
London Mission, Hongkong.
issued by the Financial Board Bauk in A quantity of paper notes aro to Poking to autors the stringency of the
REPPERN-JOSE.--On January 21, at the British Consulate, Ningpo, afterwards at the English Mothedist Church, by the Rev. J. W. Heywood, HEREBY, STANLEY RED in the world is to destroy but to con- money market, says a Peking' mmper, FARK
M. Sc., son of the Rev. W, Redfern, Rochdale, England, to MARGARET BLARGH struct calls for genuine ability. The MELVILLE JONZA, (late of Chungking), daughty of the Rev. J. Jones. Apexin, Progressives take advantage of every Judia.
"PRISENETTE-LEHRS. On January 24. al opportunity that presents itself to the German Church, Shanghai, by the Res, denounce the Government for its past W. Rahmer, ADOLF Frisenotte, ofthe Great Northern Telegraph Co., to Miss MARIA AUGUSTA EMILIE LOURS, eldest daughter of the late Mr W. Lthrs, I. M. Custom.
+ DEATH.
-
RAGGARTIGE.-On January 25, at the Municipal Hospital, Shanghai. JAMES Banged 48 years. Much respuet ed and deeply regrettod.
General Memoranda. MONDAY, February 8:-
Exchange Banks Cla ed, Insurance Office Closed. Register of Shares of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation olose from this data to 15th February, in: clusivo.
Gooda per Socotra not cleared at 4 p.m.
on this date subject to rent, TUESDAY, February 4:~~
actions but they carefully avoid stating what they would have done had they been in power during the last year. As a result of this bitter antagonism to the Constitutionalists not being backed up by a definite statement of alternative policy has evidently not commonded itself to foreign newspapers in Japan. We read in the "Japan Gazette"--"It certainly seems to the outsider that the Progressives are missing a great op-
portunity of popularizing their party! throughout thecountry and are acting so
It is rumoured that a sharp drop has taken place in four prices in Australia. At present there are about 50,000 sacks in Hongkong, and 1,300,000 sacks of Ameri-
can.
ing Mr H. P. White (Chairman of Directors), Hon. Mr Honry Keswick and Mrs Keswick, Mr W. Parlane and fro Mra A. G. Gordon, Mr and birs Gibbs, Parlane, Mr and Mrs Silverstone, Mr and Mr and Mrs Fiddock, Mr and Mrs W. C.
Jack, Mesra Mitchell (General Manager of the Dock Co), A. Fuchs, A. Donion, P. Smith, A. Sinchir, J. Hand, T. Nesve, J. Lambort, W. E. Clarke, J. Gray Scutt and others.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE IMPERIAL
PARLIAMENT,
Asiatics in Africa:
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Feuter, -
vies Beanberg)
LONDON, January 30.
The Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerzano, was absent when
the Houre of Commons assembled
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
As the tug slowly moved down the ways after the recess and Mr Asquith acted Mrs Keswick porformed the christening ceremony, bestoring the name of David as leader. The King of Siam was present in Gillies on the tug, amid the cheers of thusa porson at the funeral of the late Mr assembled. Au adjournment was made to Edward H. Strobel, General Adviser of the the reading room, where Br White propos deprecated any discussion in regard to Siamese Government, which took place one the health of Mrs Keswick, remarking the treatment of Indians in the January 17.
that although the jasperity of the Dock Co.
a
Reports against the dupenese in Manchurin reachi Peking almost daily, says northern exchange. They are said to be arming the upper hand in every thing at Fongtien mnd ignore the Chinose officials whenever they can.
The band of the Cameron Highlanders will render a number of selections during dinner at the Oriental Hotel on Monday evening next, commencing at 7.30. The cries of à bas this and that will un-band programimo and dinner mony appear doubtedly be carried abrand and are apt
in que advertising columns,
Dan Recital in St. John's as to injure it abrond. The Progressives
Cathedral.
THURSDAY, February 6-
Gonda par Benglee andelivered after
this date subject to rant.
FRIDAY, February † :-
9. Performance at City Hall. Regalia Dance at City Hall. SATURDAY, February 9:-
foods per China undelivered after thin
data onbject in runt,
MONDAY, February 10-
Transfer Books of Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., La.. dose from this data to 24th Feb., inclusive.
to be roiaccustrned there as more re- presentative than they are. On the other hand the Progressives coukl do much to get their noms strongly as ciated with the championship of po- pular needs at home. They could in- vestigate and publish the result of their investigations on the arcessity for a Non-Meeting of The Hongkong and vision of the tariff, of the incidence Shangbai Busking Corporation, at the of taxation, for the enactment of a City Hall.
factory law, of a workmen's insurance MONDAY, February 24:---
Noon-Menting of Hongkong & Wham-law, of an arbitration board for be
poo Dock Co., Ld., at Co.'s Offices.
settlement of disputes between labour
SATURDAY, February 15:-----
NOTICE.
depended, to some extent, upon the Transvaal as the Imperial Government adversity of other people, he was sure they had the bost grounds for hoping that wished body any hiyo, but they boped
that success would come to the David Degotiations which were proceeding' Gillies both as a tug and a salvage bat. would remove all just cause of grievance Mr White presented Mrs Keswick with a
without the Transvaal having to gold watch ne a memento of the occasion.
On behalf of Mrs Kowick, the Her, bir sacrifice the policy which it had H.. Keswick repiind thinking the Dock | Company for the bonour bestowed. The adopted. spanker enlogised Mr David Gillius - after who the int had been named-und condially expressed the hope that the tug would bare a long, uwful and prosparous
career.
. Mr Grubom replied må behalf of the Further secret orders hava bean dis-Dock staff, whose health had been proposud patched to the commander-in-chief on the by the Chairman. Yangtze to prepare his troops for any emergency which may arise, and similar orders have been sent to Chao Ech-bau. The nature of the expected emergency is
not stated.
At Singapore it is evidently intendoù
ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF
COURT.
In the Supreme Court this morning be- fore the Chief Justice (Sir Franc's Piggott) | an application was made this afternoo!!
(REUTER'S SERVICE.] FRANCE AND GERMANY,
LONDON, January 29,
At the Kaiser's birthday banquet in Paris, the German Ambassador said Franco-German relations were becoming gradually moro cordial and he rejoiced at the rapprochement to which President Fallieres, supported by his Ministers contributed.
The increase of the German navƑ,
to discourage the use of morphix. Two that Kwan Ko Sue, otherwise Kwan Tao he said, was à guarantee of peace. persons found guilty of having morphin in | Shoù, "Poeng Heung, Chan Lok Choun, their possession were recently bined $500 and Shay Fat Ming, be ennemitted to ASIATICS IN THE TRANSVAAL
$250 respectively with the alternatives prison on the ground that, in breach of the of six and four months' rigorous imprison prohibitory order mado in an action on
Doc. 4th, 2007, betwear Keg Chứng Tang, - trading as the Tai Tak Tong bank and the Wing Shan firm, they did sell the goods mentioned in the prohibitory order, and
went.
Money has becoming so tight at New. chwang that prices are rusen 20 per cent.
and capital, etc. These are only a very A prominent cause of the stringency is the Appropriated the proceeds of the eale, and few of the more crying needs of the number of false notes on the market. disobeyed the order of the court.
Letters wlating to demiures abould be valdlegan-
country that do not call for immediate ed to Tur MasaGTR,
munications relating to news should def expenditure of money but demand an early and exhaustive expenditure of patriotic tirue and thought. The course
| addresses) to The Entor.
Correspondents must formed their na and addresses with any coumanientious ade dressed to the Editor, vid for publication
ax cxidener of guni jaith
of the Progressives in the present Diet will be watched with interest, but they
Ait tetters for pubiration shonje? be written may be assured that they would do an me aide of the paper candy.
No waymundy rigere communication tutore good to themselves and their
Orders for vatra esgára of the "Vuisa Man' should be wat before Home the day after pulčivation. After that her the supply limited: Cash it. Credit 20 rt. per
copy.
Alterations and addijums to Advertise on Pages 1, 2, Gend 7, dentál be sent to ver Gfire et 5 Wyyiham Street at later than am. Ngge Advertiserserts skapid be ment to WHISKY aus gra. Queen's Hood Central before
has been attained by its
CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE OF QUALITY.
IT IS A
BLEND OF THE FINEST
censure
notes are principally Japanese and it is made the application on behalf of the Mr Slade (instructed by Mr D'Almada); estimated that there are sixteen thousand pitis; Mr Pullock (instructed by Mr lollars' worth of this discredited paper in Leuker, of Messrs Looker and Deacon) circulation.
| appeared for the first three respondents, and Sir Henry Berkeley (instructed by Mr Bowly of Mosers Donnys and Bowley) appoared for Shum Pak Mong.
According to a Vladivostock despatch, tho Tras-Baikaling district is experiencing melt below that of an average year. soost severe weather, the temperature being
large number of deniessi ainials have
drifts.
Mr Slade said he would not continue Atho action against Sir Henry's client us ha
use to duny partnership.
The order was discharged as against Shum Pak Ming, and argument as to conte was postponed.
The case for the plaintiffs was that they had obtained judgments against the Wing Sham fim and attached certain goods, Instructions luvve been issued in the which were afterwards sold,
afternoon.
provinces that the presence of all sulphur
mines must be notified with the extent to
of War will have to take cognizance of which they are being utilized, as the Board
them, the mnem being required for military purposes and the manufacture of
Argument was continued during the
A NIGHT WITH WHITTIER.
The Union Church Literary Club last
LONDON, January 29.
In spite of Mr Smutt's denisl there is a strong belief in Johannesburg that shiution of the Asiatic deadlock is impending.
RUSSIAN NAVAL PRO- GRAMME.
LONDON, January, 29. The Russian navni programme pro vides for an expenditure of £15,000,000 per xunum for 12 years for rebuilding the navy.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.
The King's Speech.
LONDON, January 29. Parliament was opened by the King, who said in the speech from the throne that the visit of tho Kaiser and the Empress of Germany was a source of great pleasure to him sud to the Queen, and that the cordial reception by the people was warmly appreciated by their Majesties, and cannot fail to confirm.
hare already appeared in other papers will be country by concentrating on a few boon frozen to death. The railway traffic invested.
important questions demanding con- is occasionally suspended by heavy snow structive domestic legislation than by adhering to their present whole sale destructive programme. The re- sult of the recent vote of shows that parties are fairly even in the Diet. A general election is looming in the near future and probably there will be no actual change of government until then If, as is thought probable in some quarters, the Progressives are returned to power at the general election Japanese politics will become innich
mero not by any monts been a source of revenue touch and sympathy with the aims of the The condition of Macedonia was a interesting to foreigners. With a Jingo to the authorities, sanction has been given poet, Mr Wilder bringing to his addross an serious cause of anxiety, and his Majesty Administration at the head of affairs a company, composed of thirty-nine atmosphere of Whittier's country and had hope that a friendly reference to
#pan.
Advertisements andī Kukarrizzianx which are nd ordered furn fired series will be continued Iwutil countermencical.
Telegraphic Sildrews Mail, Hangkong." Telephone No. 22.
The Chim Mail
"BONGKONG, "FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1908,
POLITICS IN JAPAN..
things are likely to happen. The peaca
of the East which so unay glibly assert_
The death in nanounced from Shanghai |
sumunition.
night afforded morbers and friends an opportunity of sponding an enjoyable hour
or two with Amarien's lyric writer Whittier, the friendly relations existing between The Cheloo pajor reports that since The poot's fine cimracter was outlined by the two nations, the chasing of the opium dens in the Chi-Mr Consul-General Wilder in that gentle.
Mention was made of the Anglo. under official control,,bat as the depot bas that they wero influenced into a closere the integrity of Norway. nese town, the end of the drug has been man's happy style, and the audience felt Russian Convention, and of the treaty
dealers, allowing it the monopoly for tulostime that was eminently delightful. As
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dead in a church, while attending the
a
His Majesty hopes that proposals for
better provision for old age will be
[Mr Wilder explained Whittier was a poot the flague of the question of the New On the 91st ultime, a death took of the people as arur approach to Burns foundland fisheries now pending between is in no danger of being broken for a long place at Colombo in extremely distressing Ercan Burns that the boy of a New England move a long-standing source of difficulty. as America has produced. Indeed it was Great Britain and America would re time to come may be suddenly disturbed circumstances, Mr W. A. Kelly dropped farm got his inspiration to curse. He was But possession of power generally wedding of his son, Mr A Kelly, of the of Quaker stock and wore their garb and
spoke their spegel always. Ho had the Frw Europeans resident outside of Japan carries with it a sense of responsibility. Morentile Bank. The ceremony had just burden of a New England Conscience, submitted to parliament in connection PURE MALT
heen cutapleted, and the bride and bride- know much of the politicul divisions and this will no doubt prove to be the groom had left the building when Mr Int the sweetness and charity of the with the year's financial arrangements. inta which parties in that country are case with the Progressives.
Quaker faith and practice moderated, the Kelly, senior, fell down in the aisle and virtuous harshness and unlovely precision the licensing and education laws; to The speech announces bills to amend WHISKIES split. Probably it would be true to go
died immediately of heart disense.
of the unmixed Puritan. He was shy as regulate labour in mines: for the still further and say that but a small
Prinze Sah. has arranged with the boy and lived out his unassuming years housing of the working classes; to extend proportion of the foreigners who resident the comparatively early age of 48 of A Grand Council to try and get a consus ofly. His "Snow Round" was published in
on the Amesbury farta, simply and modest-University education in Ireland and James Baggaridge, who for the past twelve all the people in each province who have 18- the American Cottor's Saturday: within the Empire could define the years had been nsspointed with the firm of beef cured of the opium habit, together Night," and there were ten editions of his
to establish Port authority in London. GENUINE AGE diffocence between the Constitutional Messrs A. S. Watam and Co. Last Fri- with their occupation, etc. The Governors works in 40 years. Loudon had an edition Party, which is now in power, and the day (Jan. 18) the deceased, who had been of each province will be required to furnish as early as 18650 and John Bright was in the best of health up till recently, was those facts, but the Government must not especially drawn to the poet Whittier. Progressives, who are in opposition. seizul with an attack of small-pox and had be disappointed if the grand tolls are. He was a poet of reforms. Quaker that he Some difficulty in defining the difference to be conveyed to the Municipal Hospital, accepted with a considerable amount of was, he had in his fibre the spicit of city was visited by a thunderstorm,
where complications setting in he died on salt, as anch Gorornor will usturally send Taulay (Jan. 23 Mr Baggaridge was in as long a list as possible, and, well, we of our Tokyo contemporaries recently.
a native of Bristol, and when quite young know what we know, remarks the "P. enue out to the East. He was for several and T. Times." declared that there was no difference-be-years in Calcutta and afterwards travelled
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STORM AT MACAO,
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Macao, January 30 Between 1 and 3 a.m. this morning the
..
protest-and wherever there was a good accompanied by copious rain, sod a wind war he was in it with his pea. White ho quite cyclone in character. It is probable makes no appeal to the intellect, there is the that the development took place in the lyric quality to make him a kinsman if not neighbourhood, as the barometer fall out a brother of Wadsworth and the singers the approach of the storm. yond the fact that one party was in in the West Indies and through the States. By kind permission of L-Col. N. S. embalmed scores of legends in ever-popular the needle moved down to 20.69-23
| and aunt& from his poems with a purpose, ho
At 8 a.m. tho reading was 20.78 and ab power and the other out. This, however, He then joined the service of Messrs Rich and Officers 2nd (Queen's Own) ballads, told of the peace of farm house degrees below the height sat down for the Watson and Company in Canton, where Cameron Highlanders, the Band of the life, and touched many veins of homely outer limit of a cyclone for this month o $16.50. is not quite accurate. The Constitu-ho was well-known, and was afterwards regiment will play the following programme human sentiment in a way that wins say the year. At the tinis of writing (2 p.m.) tional Party bus as its principal political transferred to Hongkong whence ho came at the Oriental Hotel, 2 Queen's Rand, readers who confess that poetry as much is the barometer is still sinking; weather,
FLAVOUR.
PER DOZEN
dull, with an indoor tempomaturo of 64 degrees.
READING is rond, ascing is better, but drinking Imperial Draught Boor is best.
plank national consolidation and de to Shanghai about two months ago in Central, dering dinner on Monday, the 3rd sealed book to blient. Whittier was velopment. It considers that it is more charge of the fastery in Nortlr Szechen February, 1908.
profoundly religious; his crood was one of Itond Extension. Although here for only a March Italinn Tattoo Drescher kindness, subinission, unbounded charity. A. 8 WATSON & 00,, desible for Japan to set her house in short time he nudo a wide circle of friends, Lucidentul Music Mens Beaucaire Rosse order than to assert herself among the and his funeral which took place yester Selection. The Goalpliors......Sullivan
Waltz Wienor Bun-Bona...Stars and unwavering faith. LIMITED,
The Rev. C. H. Hickling ably expressed uations. The Progressives on the other day was largely attended. He lovos a La Tour Merveilleuse Fahrbach his admiration of Whittier ne the poot and Try it.-ADY.
Standee Cibulka hand are the Jinge party; their prin “Shanglini Mercury,"ar
wilow and infant sou to mourn his luas. wolte... 'Mondnroht auf der Alster' Fetras the man, and those, not familiar with the
HOW DIPHTHERIA IS CONTRACTED.. cipal organ the. "Hochi Shimbun" whe
Two Step.....* Indians 'Cromioux work of the post were assisted to a The Selestions The Blue Moon renlisation of the beauty of his lines by Siroid caught a sovers cold which NE often are the expression, Sty howling for American blood when the
Rubena & Talbot Henry Berkeley, Hon. Mr. Follock, Mr developed into diphtheria, when the truth Idyl....... Hearts and Flowers Tolani T. E. Dosly and Mr Hekling who gave was that the cold had simply left the little San Francisco trouble first arbee. But you would ho immune from disease, Waltz... Gold and Silver Lola somo selections from the poot's published one particularly susceptible to the wander
keep the system healthy, Each sur Galop. Vivat ko works. Mrs Stubbings also Bang, one ofing diphtheria geras When Chamberlain the Progressives have not fan courage of ressivo cold wenkens the constitution and rendare infectious disense mora Hable. policy. They know that these is Chambornin's Cough Remedy will oure
Cough Remedy is given it quickly curea Whittier's hymns. The Roy. C. Bone was the cold and lessena the danger in the chair, and altogether the evening thoria or any other germ disease being con growing sentiment in Japan against your cold promptly and testore the system WHAT is more welcoins and practical
its normal condition. For calo by all than a cask of Imporial Draught Boor was one which let some of the gold into tracted.. For esto by a chemists and store expenditure on armaments and they are phoists and storekeepers,
keepera the neutral tink of Hongkong life.
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