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Dy Hat goes on to my: Is it pot, however, significant enough that Herr vox SIDOW, who has, only just become Chancellor of the Imperial Exchequer, is already said to be tired of his duties and to have threatened resignation? Such rumours have been promptly denied, and they may be false, but they Berve to show how confused and apprehensive is the state of the public mind with regard to finance, and how uncertain in the future. To this state of uncertainty another factor must be added. Public confidence in the wis
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VOLUNTEER INSPECTION,
By Major General Broadwood.
SATURDAY, MARCH 27.
THE GRAND
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
Third Elst of Subscriptioni
At Causeway Bay this afternoon the en-Already acinowledged mal inspection of the Hongkong Volauter Wong Hing Corps, by His Excellency Major Gonomi | Man Un di Co: Broadwood, took place.
Po Un & Co.
There was a good muster under the com-Sui Kut Book ... mand of LiestColonel Chapman, Y. D. Kwan Mae Hong and the dress of the zien was that of march- Mr Tang Chi Ngou ing sidor :-Ehaki and putkiss, helmet | Mr Chiu Wah Sam with badge, waist belt with side arms and Man Cheung Un bouches, bandolier, coat in cont strapa, Cho Kwongan metin and carer, rifle and eling, water Mr Ma Ying Pui bottle, havansack and black boots. Medals Kwong Man Cheung wore worn by those in possession of the Tak Sing Hong......
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The inspection evoked considerable in- | Mr Wong is Tung tareet and there was a good number of Lam Elang Lun spectators present.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr W. Nicholson arrived back in the
dade & Ivorice, &c., at No. 13, Penk been severely shaken. by the complete/Colony yesterday by the as. Nubia.
Meeting.
Green Cub at the Club House.
Ámusements. p.m.-Boxing at City Hall.
failure of the so-called muller fuperial 5.45p.m.-Meeting of Kowloon Bowling finance reform measures which were inaugurated only two years ago, and of which the principal clauses are new to be abolished. And yet who can doubt but that it would be of the vary greatest im portance to the country, and especially for industrial and commercial interests,
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Losnów. March 26,
The French Chamber his debated the subject of the mismanages the Navy, and, while voting
A TRAGEDY AT YUNG-TING. CITY,
Fortunately it is very widom that Yung Mr Heury U: Ide, formicely Governorting ia startled with deeds so daringly General of the Philippines, will probably wicked and cruel of the which is detailed cottes of enquiry before granting
by appointed American Minister to Spain. Mr F. A. Hiszeland, Police Magistrate, has returned to the Colony after Home leave. Ho male calls at the Magistracy today.
The Right Rev. C. H. Brent, D.D., to know exactly and at once how the Bishop of the Philippines will preach at the
in the Government, agreed to appoint
credita
THE BALKANS,
PREVAILS.
below. This is the sesion when Bakks
dawn and with their burden poles and women may be soen loving their homes at
burden binders resting on their shoulders, with gras knives tucked behind their † MORE OPTIMISTIC FEELING waistbands, proceeding, in long shings, in Indian file along the narrow: paths. and on to the hills Two zimen were alone in a secluded place and me of them, twenty-eight yearsof age, had fasten ed her burden adjusting the pole and hör grass knife. She then came to whare her neighbour, a woman of twenty-five, was just completing her burden. She asked this woman told her knife for a few seconda, At the mesting of the Sanitary Hoard which she at once consented to. Os hand on Tuesday a letter will be read from thoing over the knife she proceeded to a little Government relative to thecretaryship stream wash her hands.
now scheme of taxation will look when Military Parade Servion in St. hn's Cathedral at 8.30 to-morrow morning and it passes into law? Let me quote only stao at the ordinary morning service st one instance the tax on artificial light|11a.m. and its appliances--to show how deeply interested large branches of industry must be in the coming legislation."
Details of the existing difficulties are and principal derkship of the Sanitary Done on to wel bar und The other wo
partment. A complaint against a Sanitary Inspector will also be considered.
An official lunch will be given by Consel General and Madame Leiris to the Captains and Officers of the Portuguese. warships in port, the Vasco da Gama, Patria and Dilly on Sunday at their residence "Duart," Arbuthnot Road.
stated by the London Economist, which says that already the Imperial Budget subsists on borrowed money. The new taxation will not cover the Prussian deficit, and the writer justifies Prince For Bugiow's counsel of frugality, although the Socialists answer it by pointing to naval and military extra-3・・ vagance,"
(Router's Service to the. China Mladi Copyright protected under
Ordinance 3 of 1894)
LONDON, March 26, Feeling in Visma is more optimistic. as the result of the Servian Crown Prince's renunciation of the mccession and Russia's unconditional ont las the annexation of Bosnie-Herzgorien. Lostós, Math 27.
The interchange of telegrama betweeEN London and Vienna continues with hopeful prospects, but Great Britain and France will not follow Bussin's cample in assenting to the annexation of Bosnia-Herzgorina in advance.
any warning attacked her with the knife, knocking her senseless.. Then she proced. ed to anatch earrings, bangles and hair gear, etc. The injured woman came to and at once grappled with her vicious axilant and inflicted serious injury on her age and face. But she was re match for her opponent who used her weapon most callously. Having sturned her victin and THE RUYAS ENTERTAINERS. getting her own ong with all the personal. ornaments(valued at $60 perhaps) sheisked
Patrons of the Theatre Royal are promine her if she could speak. The woman replied, ed a treat with the coming of the Atopa "yes" "Can you recognise me "a tho Entertainers, an agiregation of musica next queation and on being auswaged in comedy artisten and to be one of the beat the affirmative the aretsbed vixen deliber over to visit Hongkong- ately seized the knife and cut her victim's
The company is headed by Mine Yozma thrash, then quietly proceeded home with Ferries and Mr Ernest Brinkman both of her burden. People who met her sawblood whom have created a favourable impression on ber dress. On arming home she at throughout Inda and Australia, and they once proceded to the over to wash her are ably supported by no Icas, then soyar- garments brasnaly in the presence of other teen siker performers. worden. In the evening hor husband noted
The opening ploco will bei che of tho
Scenes, the principal comedy poles being
en Baron and a pious clergman whe become tangled in fanny situations in an their being Behed the Coones. Booking endeavour to explain away, the fact of
Moutrice
It is notified in the Government Gazette that an additional rate of 8. per A few illustrations may be cited from cent. per annum, to take offset from the The Economist of the difficulties in Im-1st of July, 1909, is to be levied on the villagers of Chai Wan in consequence of RECTE informed us last evening that perial and State finance. The Imperial the destruction of trees in that place and the sensation of the hour in Europe is Budget is only balanced by a Inan of
neighbourhood. the breaking up of Prince vor Bozo's | £10,154,000; and without the proposed
From the Straite Settlement Casdf famous Bloc, by which in recent years new taxation the deficits for the next
we learn that Captain James Williamson be has carried his policies through the five years would be suuue £20,000,000 who is well known in Hongkong as having hier strange demeanom, her wounded eye isbest Tandon his entitled, behind the Roichatag. In consequence of their in annually. The Prussian Budget a few beer for many years captain of the steamer and scratched fan and aked her what was ability to find an exit from Germany's years ago showed large surplussa; now Telemachus anning between Hongkong the matter. She told him he had killed financial tangles this political coterie there is a deficit which will not be and Saigon, has been granted a licence to so-and-so. The poor man was horror
act as a pilot at Singapore.
struck, knowing the awful consequences, has fallen to pieces and has thus wholly covered by the: £8,250,000 of
Ho is a well known men and is com set loose rumours that the German new taxes, proposed by the Prussian
A party of 14 American evengelists fortale Fircumstances. On hearing his Chancellor will have to give place to Government: and the Finance Minister headed by the Rev. Dr J. Wilbur Chap wife's statement be at once collected his WHISKY Count Your WEDEL... Prince VON BLOW has declined to contemplate the burden man and Me Charles M. Alexander for valuables and got them way in the sight; then taking his son with him, after leaking Torrey-Alexander Mission fame) have left the big door lost his wife should eampe, ho has been so frequently dismissed from which would be entailed by the refusal to conduct a series of missions in Austalileft for other quarters, In the meantime A Blend of the Finest Pure office of late by the journalists of of the Reichstag to wipe out and the Far East. Amongst other places search party found the murdered woman to-day, fined $50 for storing dynamite on
Europe that we are rather sceptical outstanding stricular contributions in they will visit Hongkong, Shanghai, Can and suspicion foll at once on the guilty his boat without & licetion, regarding that portion of the cablegram 1909. If this relief is not forthcoming, ton and Peking. Amongst the party will person. The authorities with the relatives dealing with His Excellency, but the Bavaria will have to increase taxation soloists,
Würtemberg sume cannot be written concerning the by £1,000,000 a year. financial crisis which now confronts the shows a heavy deficit, mainly due to German Empire. It has long been education and the rise in official salaries, known that while the prosperity of the The smaller and poorer States, of whose nation has advanced very greatly, the domestic affairs we seldom hear any
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State has found increasing diffeulty in thing, must be suffering even more keeping expenditures down to the level severely it is on some of these that the of receipts, with the result that every crisis in the kali industry comes year a defcis hus beez created which heaviest, and it seems very doubtful if none of the official financiers have had the strain will be relaxed. Under these the courage to tackle. But a mais circumstances, it is hardly surprising $16.50. has now arisen, for the financial that Prince. yow Burow should have troubles of the State have led recommended retrenchment and a return to troubles in industrial circles to the old Prussian babite of occorry, According to an article in the Frank- both in private life and in the public Robert Porter & Co.'s weer Zeitung, many industries have service. The full report of his speech
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come to a standstill and many banks shows that he advocated adminstrative hovo failed during the past year, while economies in both Army and Navy." thousands are out of work. There have We firmly believe that Germany will been large failures in various treden emerge from her present difficultion -building, textile, pottery, and the stronger than ever, for wa feel sure that ohemical industry. The great potash she can find within her pale the then (kali) industry has been heavily over who will straighten out the inducitl capitalized. There has been a serious tangla and est her feat once mors on the depresion in the prices, profits, and path of untrammelled progrem. But dividends of various bali compartes, all this of course lies in the future. Retaliatory tarifler have increased the Meanwhile the embarrassment of Prince duty on iron and hampared the exports von BCRLOW must be very acute and the of butlery and steel goods.". All this stops which he will take to extrate the makes Tory gloomy reading, and the Imperial Budget will be watched with
aimpression
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„FTEMIS AT THE COURTS:
&Chinese bostman was, at theMagistracy
be **galoon evangelists" and several of the doomed, were nolu at her doot, mud An Indian was food $90, with su opčins
removed her at once to the yamen where, of six weeks' imprisonment, at the Magh in the usual Chinese fashion, the wastoreed tracy to-day, for behaving in a disorderly As advertised in another column, the to tell the facts of the mase. At first the manner.
World's Championship Prize Fight be stubbornly refused but the lictors rods
Four boatmes of an unlicensed – brat tween Tommy Burns and Jack Johnsen, ware too much for her and she gave a com
Sare fined $2 euh, it the Marine Courb fought at Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney, on plebe account of the whole deed. Boxing Day lost, will be shown on a secom This unfortunate wonen, it seams deve- to-day, for using their boat-ithout at at the theatre, City Hall, on Monday, Toped a crise for gambling and to salafy it being licensed.
Tuesday and Wednesday. Next Monday will she ventured on this atrocious course.
be is special ladies' night. We are told People say she frequently tried to inretzle 7 For stealing 14 brass tapes, the property that the pictates, which are originals taken women to go to the fils with her. It of the Admiralty, a native was the at Sydney during the fight, are exceeding was only now she got the favourable Magistracy_tonij, clear and distinct There will also be opportunity to put her oril designs into months' imprisesnect other pictures and other scenes thrown on execution: She is in prison loaded with the screen.
heavy chaise awaiting he doom.
BEWARE OF FREQUENT COLES
Two boatwoman, ve kesako, kad kww- mastern of fibsnad bosta were fried (103 at the Matine Court bo da Koch, in his popular lectures on Eandrology, calls attention to the fact, that at the dispersion of the great groups of the A cold simmst pertain to aid in
Saceision of calds or a protracted keep the yules of their boats out of car human race, ach group carried from its promo carbs from which fow pusobe over wholly recover, tivo every cold the ancestral home a particular kind of rose. attention to deserves and you tap avoid CITEARNS HAVE way, both est and west under inumer. Cough Remedy famous for its enres of kunde of how fish The Aryans had their own which found its this agreeshle disease - Chambers' N on the nerver able forms. Ta none of the descendants of cold, For me by all charist and store-mono bat Selam
Keeper. these primitive peoples has love for the
trying rose ever been lost, but it is among these who drifted westward that it is most pro- Other flowere, have had their nounced. time of popularity and have passed out of
fashion, but the iso has to-day s stronger hold than ever on all the European nations.
We wish to remind our readers of the auction of rare sud valuable curios to be
hold at 15, Fisk Boad (Upper Allway) on next Monday and Tuesday Afternoons. This probably the finast private collection
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