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NEWS OF THE DAY.
PARIS, falsified, for supplementary grants for Supply Services have since brought STREET.
H. M. S.-Astrea left to-day, for Mira the total estimated expenditure for Bay, where firing exercises will be carried She towed a huge target out of 6 36.
harbour.
Gowns, Materials, &c.
20%
TO END OF NOVEMBER,
Bu
To-marrow evening, Mr A, Bellamy Brown will Tecture before the Union Church Literary Club on "Love Letters of Kamons Men and Women.”
the current year up to £154,487,000.out. Hence, even if the revenue were in accordance with anticipations, the increase of £1,018,000, is expenditure would leave a deficit of nearly | £1,400,000: Unfortunately, the reveŇUS showed a heavy shrinkage of £1,418,000.
with the Y. M. O. A. on Saturday evening A concert is to be bold in counsetion
The Post Office officials are already very busy with the Christmas parcels mail which leaves on Friday. The number of parcels this year promises to be a record
one,
in the first half-year-against-the-Prius when an interesting programme haa bạan off everything Minister's estimate of a decrease of only arranged. Ladies are specially invited,
£2,168,000 for the whole year, and after allowing for the reduction in the sugar duty, we have a falling off in six months of £4.118,682, or more than double the estimate for twelve months.
Mr Arthur Chapisan has issued the Added to which the expenditure is fourth supplement to the third edition of £1,018,000 above the estimate. Even if the street index of Hongkong, which will the receipts in the last six months undoubtedly bo of vary great value to approximated to those in the correspon- ding period of 1907-1908, thers would
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Tender Closer.
11 a.m.-Tenders for Government Bills received by Chief Paymaster, Army Pay, Department.
General Memoranda,
FRIDAY, November 13:-
residents,
A boatwoman was fined $8 at the Marino Court, to-day, by Lieut C. W.
passengers while lying alongside Murray Pier.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1908.
THE CASA BLANCA”. DEADLOCK.
MATTER TO BE ARBITRATED,
(From, Oui Own Correspondent.)
Lomon, November 11. The French and German agreement
arbitration, has been signed. to submit tho Casa Blancs deadlock to
CHEAPER CABLES
MANY IN FAVOUR OF THE
SCHEMEA.
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Reuter,
ria Bombay) LONDON, November 10. Mr Henniker Heater, M.P. for Canterbury, has addressed a letter to The Times enclosing six columns of
THE KAISER'S IN- TERVIEW.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE
› REICHSTAG.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, November 11. In the Reichstag an exciting sitting. took place over the Kaiser's interview, Prince, von Buelow-beliover that the
Kaisor will be more reserved in fature) otherwise no Chancellor will necept, the responsibility of Germany's foreign re- lations with other countries..
In the meantime the Kaiser bas made an ascent in Count Zeppelin's airship.
{REUTER'S SERVICE] OUTRAGE IN CALCUTTA.
2,30 p.m.- Anotion of Japanese Carios, still be a deficit of over £3,800,000." (11) Beckwith, R.N., for refusing to take letters from Home and Colonial notables Sir Andrew Fraser white ascending a
& at Mr Goo, P. Lammort'a Sales Koms.
Goods per Sikh undelivered after this
data subject to rest. SATURDAY, November 14:--
11 a.m.-Auction of Choice Selection of Jowellery, at Mr Gov. P. Lamuert's
Sales Rooms.
9 p.m.--Smoking Concert at Engineers
Institute Room. First Athletic Meeting of HK, A‚‚Â
MONDAY, November 16 :--
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HONGKONU. WEDNESDAY, NOV, 11, 1908.
BRITISH FINANCES AND OLD
AGE PENSIONS.
as is already proved, the receipta con tinue to shrink as they hays been doing there may be a deficit of £8,000,000 for Mr. LLOYD GEORGE to face next April. On the top of such a delicit, there will be the unknown quantity of old age pensions, which is now variously estimated at from £10,000,000 to:
4
Governor-General Smith telegraphed on Wednesday from Mals to the Ameri- can Corsul-General in Hongkong:-Three cases cholera yesterday, no cases Sunday, Monday.
Mesars Cruz, Busto & Co., of Hoog- kong and Canton, have been appointed
£15,000,000, and there will be some agents in this city for the Netherlands £4,000,000 extra for the Navy. The Lloyd, Fire and Marine, of Amsterdam
and Batavia.
prospect, therefore, is that a deficiensy will bave to be met of shoot. $22,000,000, and this with bad trade, labour troubles, the winter coming on, and an income-tax still on a war basis! Altogether one cannot envy the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer when he comes to make up his next Budget. The legacy of old-age pensions which Mr
The final tie of the Olympic Games Rugby Football Tournament was played in the Stadium on October 26th' when the Australians host the United Kingdom by 32 points against 3..
The social event of the Calcutta sorson will be the wedding of Lady Violet Elliot, Charles Fitzmaurice of the Royal Dragoons, the Viceroy's youngest daughter, to Lord which takes place in January.
The Hon. Coinmander Basil Taylor, RN. has been granted three weeks' leare of absence. He left by the S. S. Kamakura Mora today, for Singapore, to meet Mra Taylor, who is returning to the Colony.
sur so gleefully banded over to him when passing on to higher office, would of itself have been a staggering burden even in un orditary year, but coming it does at a time of extreme commercial depression, it is more than crushing. And the trouble is that this burden which Liberal statoomen love so hastily been awarded £23,000 against the Daily Blessrs. Edward Cook and Sana hare
thrown upon the already bowed. Murid and the Prening News in connection shoulders of the nation will incraise The case against the Daily Minor was with the campaign against the Soap Trust.
In connection with the Papal Jubilee celebration a concert is to be held at St. Joseph's College on Enturday evening when
LONTON, November 9, Calcutta reports that Lieut Governor
who are in favour of a scheme of andaia to give a lecture in Calcutta, Was inter-imparial penny-a-word cable rate ruibed at by nyoung Bengali who or at least sweeping reductions in the thrust & revolver close to Sir Andrew's body, pulling the trigger twice. The prédení rates.
revolver missed fire and the assailant was arrested.
THE DALAILAMA
RETURNING.
(Wah Tu Fut Pa's Service.)
PERING, November 10. The Dalai Lama will return to Tibet on the 22nd inst
BIRTHDAY - HONOURS.
LONDON, November 9, No now Peerages have been conferred. Six baronetcies have been conferred, Bir Mathew Nathan receives the Grand
Croas of St. Michael and St. George, Mr James Stewart Lockhart; Commie- sioner at Wel-Hai-Wei, and Capeala. Arthur Young hive beso made Knight CHINESE MINISTER IN Commanders of St. Michael and St.
JAPAN.
DENOUNCES SUPERINTEN-
DENT OF EDUCATION.
(Wah Ta Yal Pơn Service)
PERING, November 10.
Wu Wai Tak, the Chinese Minister in Japan has denonseed Chan Shui-ki,
students in Japan, to, the Throne, for Superintendent of Education of Chinese
several offences.
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.
George. Twenty knighthoods, including Rear Admiral Eardley Wilmot, and Mr Law, Chief Commissioner of the Malay States, have been conferred.
THE FRENCH NAVY. *
LONDON, November 9. The reporter of the French navy.- estimates indicates a deplorable condi- tion of the navy, which is mainly s paper one, a comparatively small num- ber of abips possessing war value. A lack of ammunition and stores requirai
over ten years. an expenditure of £40,000,000 sprend
TURKEY AND BULGARIA.
LONDON, November 9. The Turco-Bulgarian railway negotia tions are at a deadlock, the BulgarIAN delegates refusing to treat with two
an elocutionary contest for a gold model CHIEF DIRECTOR TO PROCEED parties, while the Company insists on
will be field
The competitora will be drawn from the senior students of the College
mon,
The balance sheet of the Society of
NORTH.
REBELLIONS IN TIBET.
participating in the negotiations with
the Porte
FUNERAL OF A JAPANESE
OFFICER IN PARIS.
www.m
LONDON, November 9.
The remains of the Japanese Captain Koshyiams, lately serving with the French army, have been transferred to Paris for cremation where the funeral took place with full military honours, a French General leading the cortego.
THE CASABLANCA AFFAIR.
LONDON, November 9.
(Fah Ts Yut Po's Service.)
PERING, November 10. At a conference between Herr Kider
are still some rebellions in Ta Chin Lo former repeated the German demands Chao Erh Fung reports that there Minister, and Mr Cambon yesterday, the len Waechter, acting German Foreign
steadily and surely. The pension settled, appetite is never glutted. Like the daughters of the horse-leech it over cries "Give, give." The record of the United States in this matter is open to everyone to read, and yet so cager woze' the politicians who at present guide the destinies of England to keep their
(Wah Tex Yat Po's Service.) grasp upon the reins of power. that}" The Portuguese Ministry of War have.
PRKING, November 10.- decided to adopt an automatie pistol of the they ignored the very plain example Parabellum type (calibre 0:301 in, weight'
H.F. Chang Chih Tung has asked that was
to be furnished for, the Son) for the use of mounted offers and Sir Chun Tang Laing Chang, Chief
The order for a first supply has asking across the Atlantic and fung boen placed with the Deutsche Waffen und Director of the Canton-Hankow railway old-age pensions to the people in the Munitions-Fabriken, of Berlin. : to proceed north to meet and inform bim hope that they would win votes and
of the present position of the railway. The programme of the pianoforte cnabled thus he
to retain offica
rocital by Professor Koehler at the Theatre for a little while longer. So far Royal to-night, will include Beethoven's this pious bopa of the Liberals has "Moonlight Sonata," "Minuet," Mozart, Piano dust, Hungarian dances, by Professor Been traile returns make anything been sadly damped at each successive Kochler and Mr Denman Faller, andaungs FINE MELLOW but cheerful reading nowadays. Month by-election. The ungrateful proletariat by Mr. Gaff.
by month throughout the past nine are dissatisfied at the size of the dole months the same tale has been told a given and, sparing the land that would St. Vincent de Paul, Hongkong, shows falling off of exports, a slump in revenue caress them, cast their votes for the balance in hand of $1,870.28, after paying returns-and the record goes from bad Opposition. Perhaps another explane- all expenses of the year. On the first of well as in other places in Tibet, and regarding Casablancs. Mr Cambou ad- to worse on this wear advances It is all tion may be advanced, however. A per-October, 1917, this society had a balance in Jasks that alone fles Hoke directed
bered to the French refusals Herr "of $2,000.92" and subscriptiona, in-
A he Dond" Félor" very well for publicists to assure us that ception of the truth may be breaking in
terest, etc., brought the total receipts up to
to leak an army to join him. such things must be, that the history of upon the minds of the more observant 85,205.90. Out of this sum 2,133.80 was economies is full of these alternate ap- of the working classes that the State has spent in weekly allowances to 42 families WORTH REMEKEERING.--There are not N unwelcome visitor is beadsobe. per bickets and 35 families in cash, besides
nearly so many people coughing Comen when it isn't wanted, and DOW as there were before Stearns Wine stage till it gote ready to leave. But if you prosperity is invariably followed by a ever justified in incurring.
Be that
expense, which Ives a balance in hand It stops the cough. Remember that 11 in a torry. downward plunge. We know that it is as it may, the outcome of the situation is as stated. ao, but the knowledge does not make at present a tantalizing uncertainty.
Telegrams from Cairo state that an the situation any the more palatable, Meanabile for those who are study-interview is published with Sir Eldon nor help us out of the mire. But the ing the British trade returna as Gorst, who, in denying the rumours of the person who must be feeling the crisis abown in the latest figures to laud, the etablishment of a British Protectorate most acutely is undoubtedly Mr. Love immediato outlook seems darker than: Turkey and Europe solemn pledges to over Egypt, said that Britain had given- Geom, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lever. Not one muy of hopeful light respect the Sultan's rights in Egypt. It We see that the Daily Telegraph, an iš visible on the murky horizon, would be folly to think of unrestricted opponent of the present Government Conüdonce, that plant of slow growth, Parliamentary Government for the Egyp tians, who were still unfit for self-Govern certainly but still a fair and condid seems to be almost unknown at present meat. If the present experiment of the critic, gives à gloomy picture of the within the four corners of the British participation of the Egyptians in local stato of national finances, and estimmtes falée.
affaire proved ancoonfal, the enlargement of the power of the existing slcotive bodies might be considered,
the matter to Prince Buelow.
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