WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1908.
THE HONGKONG MARU
SUCCESSFULLY REFLOAED.
(No Our Correspondent.)
“THE MACAO-RUN,
Purchase of a Stemmer.
Yesterday the Hongkong. Canton and Mac
S.. Company-completed the pur SHANGHAI, June 17.
chase of the river steamer Hoi Sang. The The Hongkong Mara was successfully sellers are Chi Wo and arid we learn towed off Blockhouse Islaud at two they have agreed to withdraw their other stemmer from the ran. The Hoi Sany will o'clock this morning.
mn between here and Macao.
It is believed she has only sustained trifting damage.
"KOREA DAILY NEWS.
SPOR FING.
www
Water Polo,
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE CHINESE SEAMAN, the loading aman failed to pass the
PROTEST IN ENGLAND.
(From Our Correspondent.).
London, May 19: The river Thames is not the most plea sant place in the world for Chinese sailors just now, yet according to all acounts there are several hundreds too many of them, and their presence is keeping the police busy. For things are bad just now both in ship building and among the men who go down to the sea in ships. It is the latter who are the kickers" along the Thames, and matters are so serious that boada come near to being broken every today or no-
mattor of serious concern."
DARING COSTUMES.
A Hyde Park Contretemps.
(Frora Our Corresponden!)
LONDON, May 19,
COMMERCIAL
langinge test. There was no legal obliga. tion on ownere to provide interpreters, but
The Post Magazine and Insurance care was to be taken by tlie superintendent
Monitor writing editorially on the Com- that the various clates in the articles of
mercial Usion Assurance Company says agreement were explained to the sormen by
"Operations lately have been on such some person competent to do so before they
The new Directoire costumes that scale that in the matter of premium income were engaged. He had nothing before him to prove that the crews were supplied tonished-Paris, at the Longchamps rane the Company now occupies the second by Chinese crimps but on evidence being meeting to the extent of requiring police place among British fire offices, and there rodead legal proceedings would he taken. sistaps to protect the wearers from their no reason to anticipate any slackening of "muy nãd" he continued, "that the attention of the crowd, have also affected effort after further advance. The requisi- rocent unusual incrense in the number of as here in London to some extent, and tipo of the Union Assurance Society last your Chinese Reamon shipped in the United incidentally they very nearly made Winston was a transaction of the first importance, Kingdom ports requires and is receiving Churchill loss another sent. The dressos ecounting for much of the increase in prompt attention, and inust be regarded seeling close to the body and are slashed at the tire produin revenus, besides bring. the side so as to show highly eminoidered an agency and branch organisation Mr Gladstone Home Secretary), in reply stockings. They are striking and utterly of great value to the life and accident to quaations, described how in moquence neuited to stout women. To the general departments. In the sccident section, of disorders the police mule way for nice mind they are dating. That, I suppose, the acquisition of the old Accident In- and representatives of the Tamar, which employing Chinese samen on home coming they did not knowingly arelude any British equestrings at the Hippodrome saw his to the advance effected. Apart al togather froin ataprptions, however, there took place yesterday afternoon, was in British craft. Formerly to Chinese weromora. In such cases of disorder there was change and eo Mademoiselle Titcomb set is freedom of movement likely to raišą | Birour of the Corinthians by 4 gals to 2. cursed mest vigorously by shipowners often difficulty in handling the situation. ont for a ride in Rotton Bow, in one the Isiness in all sections to imposing
sad I have often heard shipowners. and Mr Gladstone declared that the disorders gup as die went,
Next day, in reply, to further questions, of the costumes. Sic made the police proportions. In less than four years time The trial of Mr E. T. Betbell, formar-0 Friday the return match is to be played: well as hy seamen, but that time has gone
their defenders during the last few weeks had been exaggerated, but nobody agreed nach interfero, having soon
the Company will have completed half-s. Editor and Proprietor of the "Korea i
Lawn Bowls.
century of existence, some of the years. declaring that the reason in many case with him, and even as he was speaking queer costumes to be moved to rash to having been strangely eventful. Presenting Daily News," commenced yesterday.
why Chinese and not British seater were protest meatings were being hold at Cardiff, So the questionne became the observed a remarkable contrast to the results of the employed was not because of chaar wages Barry, Newport, Emansan, South Shields of all the riders in Hyde Park Among previous year, the fire department of the of food mainly, but because the Chinese and other places,
turned to look at her. At the same time 22,882,362 in not pretium, the incresso the riders was Winston Churchill and he Commercial Union in 1907- produced distinguished looking forsigner ons big being £521,310, the largest rise in one
MR BETHELL ON TRIAL.
(From Our Correspondent.)
SEOUL, June 17.
The Judge is Mr F. S. A. Dourne,! Assistant Judge of H. B. M. Court for China and Korea.
The result of the practice, match tween the Corinthing Yacht Club's teato
On the ground of the Police Recreation Club, at Happy Valley on Saturday after Supernoon, a team representing the Police will oppose & Civil Service team, in a match, which will commerce at 3.30 p.ro. Should the weather be favourable an interesting encounter ought to be witnessed.
THE TATSU MARÙ.
CHINA DENIES INDEMNITY ASKED.
(From Our Spela Correspondent.)
CANTOS, June 17.
The statement regarding the negotia- tions hetsreen Jupan and China with respect to an indemnity in connection with the Tatsu Marn incident has been denied by Thorai Wen, who states that no bill has been presented to China by Japan.
HEAVY RAIN AT CANTON.
Rice Crops Damaged.
County Cricket.
THE COMT69ITION TABLE.
It all arises out of the growing custom often Chinos who wished to sign on bot their charm. The Press agent of anonco Company also contributed material. ¡
but they did too MANY
The
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EQUIPPED.
VICTOR
were to be depended upon, they did not. The watchfuluasy continues, most of the get drunk with such amazing regularity and newspapers expressing sympathy with the they did not vanish when most wanted in white sailors. There are a number of word some awkward port,
reports allost to aggravato the Britishers, Even the Scandinavian milors have been such as Chinese being taken to the ships inopping or even slackening speed he too xurance company in the United Kingdora. | given the go-by for the Chinese in many dosed canziages, and vessels being on the turned to examine the rider's garment. It Equally striking bowever, was idu! was thus that he rode full tilt into the drop in the losses, which at £1,429,000- vessels, and in Cardiff na well as in London was from Hanbarg and Antwerp to the rejected of Manchester and the hero of showed a diminution of £441,032. Aided there are colonies of Chinese: in Glasgow Thakes with hundreds of moro Orientals, also he kas his regular boarding houses, It is no wonder surely that this evidence of Uhinese, ascendancy has got on the serves of sailormien with white skins, and the danger lies in the fact that many of these white skins have a knack of ighting with other weapons than hara fiate when it comes to trouble. For they are not all 70 27+ 10000 British, by a long chalk, even if they are
brown stallion galloped along and without gear ever reorded by any fire fa DEPARTMENT
▪དྷ
The following is the County Cricket Competition tablo up to the watches played on June 14 and succoeding days
luding those omitted yesterday.
County.
Yorkshire (2).. Middlesex (6) Sussex (13) Surrey (4) Kent (8)....
Nutts (1) Lancashire (6)
Drawn
Per | Centage.
2 9 2 2+100.00
3 0,4 2+ 100.00 1.4.64 75.00 1 1 2+ 50.00 R 1 9 24 50.00
2 3 1 0 220 (
2 4 2-2 12 1-1-3 1 2 1-1 2 4 2-2 51-4
found in British ports,
Still, in London there are at this moment hundreds of unemployed British sailors who are cot of the opinion that the Chineso have suddenly become models of deport Worcester (2) Leicester (11) ....
33.33ment on board ships. They put it down Essex (7)
merely a question of cash, the Chinese Hampshire (12) ...
33.33 being cheap and easy to iced. Northampton (15)..
33.8. Since Saturday. week the troubles have. Somerset (14)
66.66 heen getting worse. It began with the Derby (16)
1 G 1-5 71.42 sase of the British steamer Zambesi which Warwick (D)
Đ 4 34100,00 Gloucester (10)...... 02-3--- 100.00
on her last voyage carried a British crew. The four county matches set down to Numbers of British enflors gathered at the commence cat May, 14 were all dawn, offices of the Mercantile Marine in search Owing to heaty rains and the coaving to interruption by rain. Gloucester of jobs and then loaned with indignation sequent rising of the river the streets had the better position against Survey; that Chinese had been signed on.
Warwick and Sussex were fairly lovel; along-Shaki-have been inundated to a depth of seven inches.
(From Our Specie Correspondent)
CANTON, June 17.
Traffic has been dislocated as a result. The rive crops have also be damaged' by the untimely rain and fears of a famine are arising
The Viceroy ha lunate $10,000 towards the fund for cheapening the price of rice.
TO DEFY THE LORDS..
A Subtle 'Scheme.
Essex fund an revintage fer Leicester; and there was little to chomu between Not and Northants.
On May 18 Surrey best. Worcester by 14 rous, and Notts beat Leicester by 217 eans. On the 21, 22 and 23, Sussex beat Somerset by an innings, Marylebone boat Worcester at Lords by 88, thos, and the matches Yorkshire, v. Essex, Lancashire Dotbychiro-and- Surrey . Warwickshire were drawn,
The seamen hare arranged a big demon-Dundee. M- Winston Churchill is, how-by the connections of the Erion assurance stration in Victoria Park for Blay 31, but ever, expert in saving seats by now and he Society, the Commercial Union's life da managed to regain his balance. The for:partment carried to complation last year they will have to wait awhile, whatever eigner failed. He swung for a moment 2,790 policies for £1,721,978, is compared they my, for the Board of Trade officials and then when his horse roared he slid with 2,298 for £1,507,68 in 1906: with me engaged on a leisurely inquiry, and forward and travelled a half mile or so with 1,003 for £850,008 five years ago, and with even when that is completed their report his arts around the neck of his runaway for £580,073 in 1897. Io the marine will be leisurely drawn up, and then the stead. Somebody stopped the horse then. department the Commercial Union upheld House will still more leisurely proceed to The equestrianne rode about for an hour.ite reputation for successful underwriting. make groctments designed to stop shoes, it was a great neore for the Preau ngent. or at any rate pacify the demonstrators | with the idea that such is the case.
BENDING THE KNEE.
Touch of Native Life.
A few days ago a native passenger boat was canning between Shinhang and CAD ton, being towed by a steam launch. On board, amongst the passengers, was an old woman and a maiden, and it was suspected that the former was a crisp, and that her victim was being taken away against her Whoo thin polat was decided get the passengers, they induced the pain to wait awhile at one of the land places, and a native sampen was called
will.
OUTBREAK IN ANNAM.
Three Hundred Killed In
a Skirmish.
The troubles in Ansam have reseliod a stage at which the Government has had to resort to military force with grost loss of life to the rebels.
try once again producing a satisfactory. surplus. There was a rise in the preiniums last year of £19,640, making their total £247,471, the losses, also shoving advance of £14,707 and amounting £140,151.
AT THE COURT OF KING EDWARD.
(From Our Correspondent.)
to
LONDON, May 19. The Chinese Minister, Li Ching Fang, was received by the King at Buskinghans
The Agitators at first tried passive resistance by uganising crowds to protest against the hewiness of the taxation, levied. Bat, as the Government contented itself with dispersing the assembled mobs, and Palace on Saturday morning and the pre. only resorted to force when driven to it; vious Ambassador Wang Ta-sigh, who has
MACHINES FROM
$2 per Week.
STOCK or 10,000 RECORDS.
CANADIAN AUXILIARY NAVY,
Preliminary Stopa,
UTTAWA,"May-17. Commander C. E. Kingsmill of his Ma jesty's ship lininion, after being promoted rear-admital, comes to Canada at the end of the month to take charge of the marine ser vica of the Canadian Government, including all the protective cruisers and similar vessels in the Government fleet. The appointment presages the further development of the project for the naval training of both officera and man by Canada on her own ship. The first Canadian naval cadet will be appointed soon for training on the Government cruiser Canada, marking the beginning of the pre paration for the future Canadian Auxiliary Navy; but in this matter the Government will proceed slowly,
The deadlock in the House of Commons continues, hut the opinion is growing that
a compromise on the Elections Bill issue
ti seditious movement grow in strength returned a special envoy to study the will be rescited soon, thus avoiding a dis-
BE ON THE SAFE SIDE.
On their complaint to Mr Havelock Wil son, M.P.. that official of the Seamen's Union went to the Mercantile birine
The rebols mustered in great numbers; constitutional system of the United King solution in the near future, as EMBU Offices and interviewed the superintendent, entering a protest against the engagement in which, the elt same was sent ahore, in the Provinties-of-Khay hoa, and took dom, was also presented to his Majesty.likely last week. The Government will Legislative programme announced for the of Orientals on the ground that they had The maidon was then taken in charge by post at a place called Pha-yon. There Wang Ta-sich is to give as much Weaters the be able to carry nut the importsut been supplied by boarding masters the esptain, and when the boat had reached the troops met the enemy and defeated light as possible to the authorities in Peking remainder of the session. crimps and could not speak or under one of the important intermediate ports of them with heavy loss, the killed alone to guide them in the initial steps towards
We are, in fact, getting a good deal of TOUR physlelan may be busy or unt of English. Sure enough the superintendent call, the girl was taken to the central police sting to 13. This happoned on Chiar cstitution.
May 28. The latest news is that the station, and the case explained.
careful attention just now from the East town just at the times me member found on the test being applied to one or
Meanwhile, one Bir Chan went to the district was quieting down.
of your family bas an attack of colie cr two that they could not pass the language station with the maiden, and appeared to In the Province of Quisbou, where the for several Japanese notables to say
fatal before a doctor can be summoned or examination. It was decided at last to wish to further explain matters. The movement started, the bloodshest as simply nothing of the merchants and journalists diarrhoes. Suob.esses Frequently prove eign the Chinese on to Cardit anyway, but Chief of the Police, however, seemed to enraged the discontented people, and there who were here ten daya ago. bave testified medicine procured. No physician can pre- when they arrived at the Surrey Cora-sume that the man had something to do is no chack to the agitation. The mare that in their opinion British methods are Lord's, Middlesex v Yorkshire.
mercial Dock they found two hundred in the matter, he ordered him to kneel andersie-section-still hope for justice infinitely better worth studying that those Northampton, Northamptonshire v Der British sailors aboard the Zarabesi. These the ground in order to be ozamined. This from the Government by lessening the of most other countries. Mr Sagimura, **** who headed the merchants and journalista. byshire.
were also backed by the dock labourers so he refused to de, saying that he was a weight of the crushing taxation. the owners" rather than force further Androi, er s man with a literary degres.
The leaders sco clearly that passive de spoke of solid London in contrast with
"unstabla New York." trouble took on a British crew instead.
This stubbornness irritated the police monsttalions will act beneft them, and. Monday brought a series of anti-Chineseoffor, and he retorted, that it was a that arowed resistance is out of the question, demonstrations at the Docks. A number matter of indifference to him whether he and they have taken to a more formid this of seamen stood guard round the Board of had a degree or not, or whether the degree weapon-tle boycott.. Trade prices and whenever an Oriental put was that of a Sanbei or a Kuiiyun-one in an appeatinco he was chivied back again degree higher, kocel be should.” to his boardinghouse. Tuesday the same tactics were employed but scarce a Chinese left cover during the day.
VEXTIRES FOR TO-KOKROK..
Tonbridge, Kent v Essex. - Worcester, Worcestershire v Hampshire. Leicester, Leicestershire v Sussex. Birmingham, Warwickshire v Lancs shire.
Oval, Surrey v Cambridge University;
Rifle Shooting.
(From Our Correspondent.) -*
LONDON, May 19, "Thear that sir Henry Campbell Banner- man's policy agumas the Lords his been dropped by the new Cabinet and metabers are not to be encouraged to attack that House for the presents The method to be adopted to dist the peers is much more ingenious and subtle. In future, when the House of Lords throw on a Bill, it will be adjusted as far as posillo into the Government's financial policy and Empire Day competition of the fourteen 19 the
no leading teams rauge from 824 to 780. All Horse of Lords has control over fuance, it will be passed of them are South Africa and Australians in defiance of the Peers. Next year's apart from two English.
Budget will provide for the taxation of
land values in Scotland and England and
so the emasculation af tlie Scotch Land
Bill by the Lords will be avenged.
Similarly, if the Licensing Bill is thrown
THE EMFIRE DAY COMPETITION. Final scores in the Daily, Mail"
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The man was then beaten unmercifully, and his borty was covered with bruises, and farther his neck was Inden with chains in this state ho was thrown into the cells
Meanwhile the thing was noised abroad,
DUMA'S LENGTHY SİTTINGS.
Internal Misgovernment.
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They gave the order, and at once all this! markets in the distarbed districts were
ST. PETERSBUno, May 15. forsaken, there being neither buyers nor sellers. Guarda pasted on the roads turn.
During the last three days the Dama has been sitting from eleven in the mor- back all the dealers. All Luisiness rai Mr Havelock Wilson addressed an open
trade have stopped from the strict ouferes ing until uidaight, and has been engaged air demonstration of the unemployed sailor
ment of orders not to sell anything to in proving that Parliament exists in an and said there were five thousand Chinamen and the people of the place wore greatly
regation. The ver result has been practi for Europeans. siguing on in British ships in London now: disturbed at such endnot on the part of Frenchinor and not to work on any account etymological sense despite M. Kokoriff's in six montba time the Board of Trade | the police officer, and all the degree-man estimated there would be 10,000. He of the place, and the neighbouring country-
It is, in fact, a fiorog war waged to starve only to extend the right of the speaker to charged the Glasgow shipownors with side were toused to a high state of rage out all the French residents, and to ruin go to wider limits thou has hitherto been The the case in the third Dom. The subject being the worst offenders in importing the at the insolence of the police offiem.all the colonists and merchants. Chinese and very few of them could speak Several of them therefore met together and boycott is a real thing, and those who of discussion has been the vote for the Level and Storage of Water in Reservoira English. Though most of them had been signed a pulition and sent it in to the refuse to jain receive no merry. For Ministry of the Interier, and it has been cunning enough to give Hongkong as the district rongistrate at Shining, and fus instance, at Tara Quang, & crpenter, who made the text of endless dissertations on place of their birth they came from every ther they appointed the sixteenth day of persisted in working for a European, was the misgovernment of the country, but it other port along the Chinese coast.
The the present month, when there is to be a seized and behosded. Several boys and is noticeable that M. Stolypin, the Premier.
fins generally approved while the attacks Bennett. wage for Chinamca," declared Mr Wilson, big gathering of the literati in which they coolics who remained in the employ of is £2 month while the British ssilor has are to discuss what they can do to wipe Europeans have disappeared altogether, it £4 and demands better food as well out the disgrace that has been heaped being conjectured that they have shared
In the meantipio another vess), the Streupon one of their own order. So now the the fate of the carpenter thness, signed on Chinese so Mr. Wilson high officials will be involved, and pro- The Saigon Opinion" says that the decided to have another try at Parliament,ably there will be a long lawsuit, and rebel movement rauaged by clarer in spite of the recent debate and the pro- bitter animosities generated, and yet, first leaders who seems to obey orders, issued by
ise to have tho lengirago tests better of all there was but any adequate reason 274,076,000 - 75,500,000 enforced and the place of origin more why there should have been trouble. ait
a Supremo authority. 181,879,000 searchingly established,
Tall P500.000 8,093,XXX
Before he could do so the Chinese board-
CITY AND WILL DISTRICT WATER WORSH
LIVEL
1K8.
Tym, 14 21 10.5 ft. 10 in.below overflow
1907.
below overflow Tytaru Eyewash 30
130 1
out or seriously crippled the situation on the lat June, 1998--- will be ct by a gradanted, scale of taxation, sufficient to yield á monopoly value, on licenses. The Education Bill can be brought under incide some what like these by giving grants for the building of Council schools in areas where the Church party at prosent are not dis posed to accept the Government terms for the control of their local schools. Tie
in below overdo te tins below or how Tytem Intermediste...... 2 it. 11 in below aylution Fokfulam, 8 ft. 6 in.
belog Overfo,211.2 in. below overdow Wong Na(Chemie, EST.
Now orelow 3. below overlow..
idea is that it may not be necessary to ge very far with this policy in order le frigh Tytam Bygwash ten the Lords and so secure better treal ment on such things as education and
the very corner stone of their existence.
ATORADE GALLÖKÉ.
1907,
Pakturaeru rublandni
5,012,000
58. $20.000 27,552,000
1967.
Н
-1008
20,600
Her Fadyship of the Season, by Alice M. Mary Janes, by Archibald Marshali. The Missioner, by E. Phillipe Upperheim The Statue, by Eden Phillpotte and Aznold
have been directed against the local repres By Their Fruite, by Mrs Campbell Traed. who should le, ally be subordinate to the The Heart of a Child, by Frank Denbi Haulatives only of the Imperial authority, The Shadow Between, by 8. E. Hocking Premier. By general agreement the tune The Hall Smart Sol, by Florence Warden. of the speeches of the leading member of Come and Find Me, by Elisabeth Robins, the Cadets and Octobrists, and even of the The Odd Trick, by Allee Mand Maidowe, markable feature of theen lengthy sittings The Speculator, by the Author of the Sout Afoderate Rights, has been the most re A Poppy Show, by H.B, Marriott-Watzon which have borne the character of political Marker
meetings rather than of a Legislative As A Devil's Bargain, by Morchee Warden. sambly. One consequence of the tension The Rugged Fath, by Charles Garire. One thing certain is that the guiding or political foeling has been a crop of The Primsalonna, by F. Marion Gravfent. spirits who order the boycott and compel rumours of resignation by various Ministers, The Willoughby Affair, by U. W. Appleton. Borvants and workmen to leave the employ of Europeans, are Nationalists who have which is not surprising after the Kolossen The Pauper of Park Lace, by Wal. La bera to Japan and have been fired by the incident revealed that paitry grounds ?uay Coenz
Lililax O. David- et Millionaire, by Japanese ritories over Russia, Matters servesty official to threaten to resign. The Loet b are indeed so bad that the proclamation of Bat no resignation will be accepted until
the Budget has been passed,
In the Face of Night, by Dick Donovan, Bit Hilton's Sis, by Geo. Manville Fann, martial law is now urged.
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Tylam Intermediate Wong Nil Cheong.....
Totalt SEGORO,ADO 301,600,000 licensing. but as to the land, the Lords are
9.000 ing master in Linehouse was ordered to MANCHURIAN NEGOTIATIONS. obdurate and intend to fight for their Consumption of Water in the City supply to a vessel a crew of Orientale, privileges, for they ragad handbolding, as and Dill District during the month of but he failed to carry it out, for the
The Chino-Japanese negotiations on hoardinghouses were all watched sad to venture out was for the Orientalsouring post-balient questions in Manchuria dangerous experience, rotten eggs heing a gradually drawing to a close, says tho
"N. C. Daily News." The pourparlers in £200,000 FOR 300 DAYS' WORE. the softest and the least injurious thing
regard to Japanese fisheries off Kuantung
The retirement of a popular bull-fighter. (Liaotong) and the Chino-Japaneso ex- picitation of forests on the Manchurian in Spain creates almost as much sergation Figg of the Hongkong Observatory side of the Talu have been already as that of a Prime Minister, The Intest to concluded. Postal transmission is going from the ring is Antonic Fuentes, has fallen rapidly on the coast of Chus on without any hitoh, without awaiting one of the finest swordsmen in Spain, owing to a depression which is moving to
KOREAN RAILWAYS.
A Projected Lino.
80,100
206,700
May. Conspor 199,366,000 145,580,000 gallons Retimated population ... Commation per head { 16.8 22,4 galip
per day MPLA
Intermittent supply, by Rider Mains
up the 17th May and Cesstent supply in all districts to the end of the mon 1907. Constant empply in all districte during May 1908,
The return of consumption is subject
directed against them.
WEATHER REPORT.
The following notice is issued by Mr
On the 17th at 11.40 The taromster
In the House, Mr Churchill, the vistar of Dundee and the new President of the A railway line is to be constructed in
Board of Trade, was sympathetic, though South Koren to connect Kepan and Makpo
ho did not accept all Mr Havelock Wilson's with the Seoul-Fusan Railway at Taityoug,
statemente se correct.
RONA
a supplementary convention. As to the Fuentes in conformity with tradition, has wards NE over the Lower Yangtze, halfway between Seoul and Fusan, the line!
The slight depression lying over the E He denied that Chinese boarding house | menufacture of salt by the Japanese ju tanning southward across Chyang-chong to error owing to the difficulty of ecuate keepers had been allowed access to the Kantung an amicable settlement is just out off his coleta, the lock of hair, part of the Sea of Japas yesterday, has And Chol-la provinces, The survey of the meaauyament whilst the extension works at Board of Trado premises for the purpose/asured. Such Japanese products aro' to worn on the crown of the head, which is moved into the Pacific, and the barometer route and investigations into the probable Albany Filter Bods are is progress.
of supplying crows of Orientals to British be parolined by the Chinese salt menopolyvaly cub when the bull-fighter has givan has risen fuoderately in Central and
authorities.The question of Japanese ships and if it could be shown that a mining tights along railways in up the ring once and for all. The celebrat Northern Japan, Chinese boarding house keeper hat so Manchuria depends upon the future of ed malader is not yet 40 years old, and of the route between Molpo and Kunsan Kowloos Gravitatin, below very supplied a crow he would songdder whether auxiliary lines. As to the ownership of made his debut at the age of L. Since proceedings should not be taken under the Chiontao, Japan recently gave the branch then he has figured in about 800 bull-fights, ofle of the Rosidonoy General in that Martbant Shipping Act, 1894. He denied alstrict is disputes permanens status and Taste something over 200,000 out of also that any bat loafers were excluded order to counterpoiss the establishment of it. As each bull-fight lasts only about Kowloos from the waiting rooms of the Mercantile 4 Chinese adminiemellys office, so that three hours Fuentes has worked 300 days Marina offices, which were open to all without further question of ownership of eight hours for his £200,000. persons désiring to obtain employment on to develop Chientas.
Tapan China are then prepared jointly
board merchant ships whether they pro dood oortificates of discharge or not.
goods and passenger traffic were hagun in
September last by experts, and the survey
was completed by the end of last year,
ver
„KOWLOOK WATER WORKS.
LATT
· 1907.
The survey of the route to Tattyong was Kowbon rat commenced in April last, and the work is oxpected to be complstad erly in Auguel It is hoped to begin the work of construct ing the line by April or May next year.
CITEARNS' WISE OF GOD LIvan Oz
1907,
1908
#16,500,000
Consumption of Water during the month of May,
Depaamption 15,635,030 89,961,000 gallar Retinated popsiatim Jan 19,850 Donammation per head
zu gallons
most valuable remedy in dinilata. The Government, Anslyst reports that health. If you are feeling morosa and the water is of excellent quality, Hotless you need a good general tonic
Remember there is nothing better than Stastna Wine of God Liver Oil;
WOHNTHAM,
Water Authority.
Presente retains high over the Pacifie to the neighbourhood of the Bonins,
Strong W. winds may be expected in the Farmoss Channel and along the North- ern shores of the China Sea L
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours end- ing at 10a.m. to-day, 0.35 inches, w
Fococast for the 24 hours ending at noon
to-morrow:
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all the many bendsche remedies so in his forthcoming visit to South Affes had been drawn to the excitement attend ably with Stestne Headedbe Cars. It is so authorities with regard to the possibility
ing the signing on of crews on the Zambesi side to take giver och ontain resulta, and of linking up, the British and German South coast of Uhina, between Hear
and the Strathness and he understood that in fese from bad effects.
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