POWELL'S NEW
"ARE NOW SHOWING
NEW
AND
INEXPENSIVE
DESIGNS IN
LACE & MUSLIN
CURTAINS
FOR THE
SPRING SEASON.
VICTORIA =
CINEMATOGRAPH
STILL A REIGNING
SUCCESS
and
OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR.
GRAND CHANGE
PROGRAMME
GF
UNIQUE EXCELLENCE & MERIT,
inluding their Eversified specialy
100
THE DOCTOR.
PIANOS
ON HIRE
$10
AT
PER MONTH.
Tuning and Regular
Attention Inclusive.
S. MOUTRIE & Co.,
LIMITED.
Hongkong. Apeli lá, 1907,
(b)
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1881.
WATSON'S
THE CITY.
* PEDI
.
PHONE
THE CHINA MI
ABIS, reported that the value of the exports of
36.
CLEARANCE
SALE
NOW ON.
€79
HEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Mesting. 2.15. p.m.--Meeting of His Majesty's Justices of Peace at the Magstracy, Miscellaneous
Gooda par Belgrado undelivued aftur
this date subject to rent.
General Memoranda, WEDNESDAY, April
£50 p.m.-Auction of Heat Plated Ware, at Mr G. P. Jammer's sales
rooms,
Goods par Devasha not chered at 4
p.m. on this date subject to st Goods per Benalder undelivered after
this date subject to rent. Thursday, April 8-
2.30p.m.-Anattar of Household Furni-
sure, &c, at Mr H. W. Bladesresidence *Taiping, No. 118, the Pask, FRIDAY, April 9:-
Exchange Banks Closed.
SATURDAY, April 10-
1 p.m.-V. R. C. Sports.
MONDAY, April 18 **-
Lusitano Athletic Sports,
goods to Chres Britain did not approach that of the gods of British origin, sent. to Belgium. Where the door was open in India and the Far East, in South America and in Africa we hold s commanding supremacy. Our trade was not carried on unprofitably. The reports of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue abowed how vast was the amount and how rapid the growth of the public wealth." So much for general trade. As for shipping, said Mr. Swas, the Chair- man of the London and India Docks Company at their half-yearly meeting stated that "what was satisfactory was that while in London, in their own docks they had had an increase in shipping lớn-1 nage of 61,000 tons last year, Hamburg had had a decrease of 264,000 tons, Antwerp a decrease of 126,000 tons,. and Rotterdam a decrease of not very much short of 1,200,000 tons." Coming nearer hoite, Mr SHEWAN, speak ing with the assured knowledge of a
man who weighs his words and delivers judgment only after having taken a wide and comprehensive survey of the whole situation, is of opinion that wo have at last reached the end of the winter of our discontent" and although
the spring which intervenes between
My Roosevelt when he touched at the Asores was received with all the honours."
Mr. M. Beak has been elected to the vacib seat on the Church Body of 80. John's Cablindral, and De Olark has been appointed Hon. Tresorer.
A band of Greek Indian outlaws recent.
ly went on the warpath in Oklahoma" and committed many depredations. On the approach of american military force they
at ones retired.
TRANSVAAL CON- STITUTION.
MONDAY, APRIL 5
ANGLO-DUTCH MUTUAL
TRIBUTES.
VARSITY BOAT
AWIN FOR OXFORD
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Ordinamon 3 of 18945)
Lquos, April
Oxford won the Univesity best
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Losbow, April 3.
by 33 lengths, the time being 19 minutes The Transvaal Legislative Council has 60 imconds. rejected a motion for the adoption of the Note this is the first win for Oxford referendum in connection with the fire lengths to spare. Last year Che 1905, when they home with Constitution. Sir J. P. Fitzpatrickbridge won by lengths, the kinger paid s warm tribute to the dignified bug 10 ttes 1b s
It will be soon that the Universitis dinner will take place this year at the attitude of the Dutch since the war, Hongkong Club on April 31st. Mosers while the Prime Minister (the Right Tester (Oxford) and Garrest (Cambridge) Hon. General Louis Bothm) said the wro the secretarios.
Dulch wers proud to be subjects of the Sreatest Empire of the world.
CHINA'S INTERNA TIONAL LOAN.
There were 490 Faropean and 215 Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 256 European and 2,044 Chinese visitor to the Museum daring the week ending 4th April.
As advertised in another column, a comoert will be held in the Engmeers Institute on Saturday, 17th inst., at 9.p.m. A los of excellent local talent has been secured.
A Vladivostock message says that the captain of the German steamer Loongmoon, now under charter to the Russian Volantear Fleet, on the Vladivostock-Twuroga line, has beep fired 4,800 reable in sonnection with a case of smuggling by the crow.
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AN ABORTIVE CONFERENCE
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LONDON, April 3 The final conference held in Paris by English, French, and German bankers to discuss the proposed international loan to China has provéd abortive.
The Anglo-French delegates withdrew their offers of a loan, but the German Mr J. Dickie (of the China Sugar group, represifted by the Deutsch
Altogether Oxford have now won 35
of the races and Cambridge 30, there being a dood host in 1877.
This year's crown Ward' - OxfordGladstone (bo) Barker Cadmore, Kitchin, Mckinnon, Galle Kirkby, Bourne, and Ikonkin (pox.)
Cambridge G. E. Fanburn (bow) H. E. Swanston, G. L. Thomson, E. B. Kitching, EG. Williams, J. B. Rosher. E. & Horridge, D. U. K. Start, and G. D. Cumpatan (cox.) --EN. C.M
From Our Chan Dorrespond
Lomow, April 3. Oxford won the boat race.
CHINESE MINISTER TO RUSSIA
(Reuter's Service to the China Max Copyright protected under Ordinanca 8 of 1804)
Laos, Aprit ONE The new Chinese Minister to Russo
that dreary period and glorious Sam. Refining Co., Ld.) ser a residence in the Asiatische Bank, concluded an agres has presented his credentials to abs
mer
may prove a time of varied, wayward, and sometimes of tying
Far East of 22 years leaves Hongkong this
ment for a loan, the terms not including Tear week for Home. He was for those declared in the Protocol and signed charge at Swatow, and for a number of
9 p.m.-Opening night of Ward Comedy and perverse conditions, still the years las boon manager of the Bowrington by three groups prior to the Conference
Co., at Theatre Royal, City Hall.
The Chinx Mail.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL & 1909
THE OUTLOOK.
a
corner has been turned and we can with confidence anticipate those 'prosperous gales” which lead on to fortune and ripe content. "We have," Bay Mr. SHEWAN, "scen bad times and worse before, and will see them again, I suppose, but we have also seen good Ma Ronzer Sazwas, from the mand-times and will see them too again, and WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. ing position which he occupies in the before very long, I think." There is
commercial world of Hongkong, is an note of good cheer in this statement and authority whose public utterances carry the tune is pitched in a key that more than ordinary weight. He is able will not be lost on the acute scani- to lay his finger on the puke of so bilities of the marcantile community. mony commercial and industrial under-
Hongkong did not meet her troubles takings in which the investing public halfway; stout of heart she shouldered are deeply interested, that he should, her burden never doubling that the fickle if any one can, be able to diagnose jade, Dame Fortune, would weary at fairly successfully the condition of Far length of keeping her face averted and Eastern trade and its future prospects would look this way again when time and Mr SIEWAN, speaking on Satuny at the circumstance fitly served. "Let us hope mesting of sharehdders of the Chins that the signs of the revival of trade and Manila Steamship Conspy, once which Mr SHEWAN already discerns will again declared himself to be ranged on
soon become visible to men placed in WHISKY the side of the optimists. He said that
less commanding positions, men who have also been scanning with anticus
E
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Ungkong. March 6, 1909,
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#Prices, 60 conls and 25 cents." HITURDAY,” Si April, st 4.73 MATINEE for Children. Hagkong, Janasty 25, 1909. -
GRIAT CIPARANDE SALE NEW MIELINERY
and until further notios
LF PRICE
ROAD
117
Scotland
OF
he expected to be twitted fr taking this stand by those who held that he
Refinery.
Fer the second time in two years the Paco suburb of Manila has been devasted by fie. Twenty hoses escupied by Americans and Europese were burnt, along with hundreds of nips bits, the damage exceeding PF.100,000. The fre occurred on March 3.
As we mentioned the other day, the Hippodrome Circus and Menagerie will be here shortly. We advise our readers to have a look every day at their advertise. ment, which will be found on another page, for the announcement of the opening night.
The Tokyo Press discredite the rumour
that Amerion will support China's prop and plots out that the agreement between to refer pending questions to abitation, America and Japan for the maintenance of the open door and equal opportunities in Manduria was conluded on the under standing that rights and interests already stablished should be mutually respected.
to afford a minimum security for the proper application of the foon,
ALLEGED FORGERY OF PROMISSORY NOTES.
AMERICAN TARIFF REVISION.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE
(Reuter'i Fervice to the China. Mast- Oopyright protected under Urénance 3 of 1804.)
Loon, April 5
The committee of the Washington
Tot Kar, of 13 Lyndhurst Terrace, tod Chang Tin Krn, otherwise Chung Chik Yu, of B6 Hollywood Road, for $7,621.15 and intere tus the rabs of 13 per cent par month, on account of sonia protoistory Somate appointed on the 17th of March, noten, before the Chief Justics, Bir Francis report a maber of proposed amerit- Piggot, at the Suprence Court, to-day mente to the Tariff bill, including the F de Alunda e Castro, appeared for the
Mr H. G. Caltrope, instructed by Mr striking out of the duty on ten. plaintiff and the Hon Sir Harry Berkeley, K.0, instructed by Mr F. C. Dizon, defended.hg
The statement of claim stated that on January 21, 1901. Chang Shin Koo lent the defendant $300 upon a promisory interest at the rate of 1 per cent. note repayable on demand together with per month. On November 21, 19045 two promissory notes at the me rate, and further aum of $1,000 was also loaned on on March 7 1905, 3190 was also lent. Ou February 8, 16, Choting Bhun Koo,
DEATH OF ADMIRAL CERVERA
(Reuter, Service to the China Mai: Comright protected under
LUNDON, April 5% Admiral Cervera, who took sich
brother of the plaintiù, for consideration Prominent part in the Hispano-America valte received and with the consent and war, has died in Paris knowledge of defendant daly endorseil the notes in favour of the painolii.
died in Canton,, ind who curied on busi
A meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace will be held at the Magistracy,
Mr Calthrops said that the plaintif bad at 2.18. g. on Tuesday, the 13th day of some money left him by hi father who April, 1909, to consider an application ness in Canten. He came to Hongkong from me, Arthur E. Gaguan, for a publi-sous-four or five years ago and made the can's licence to sell by retail intoxicating assistance of Chang Shun Koo, After he had known him for some time, Chung Shun liquors on the premises, No. 2. Pak Su Ku who was in need of money, Came
the dates given. Ás to the notes for: $100, and 8800 defenfant denied ever having
them, sunde and with regard to the two Two American traders named Carroll notes for $2,000 each defendant denied and Wolf are reported to have haan murder. ever having made them.
had no grounds to go upon. But he bareyes the distant horizon and readin Wan, ander the sign of The Belle View to the plaintiff when the money was lout on
x sufficient answer for his crition. "Facts," as he reminded his lenrere, in
chiels that winding," and be forth-
Hotel."
the way-down figures on the com- mercial barometer for well nigh three years until they have almosted by the cutlaw Jkitis and his band at Sir Henry Berkeley --Ho mada two the words of the old Scots proverb, are despaired of seeing a change, Mr Siminor between four and six o'clock on Promissory notes but not those ones,
Mr Calthrope-He does not deny they SEWAN says that the good times will the morning of March 16. Siminor is awers not these notes, and he denies har- te with us yery soon. We sincerely small place on the Sulu Box and is within ing made the endorsement and further the zone of the outsw's operations. He denied having sent the plaintiff and "did
not know him at all. trast that he reads the signs of the times palew and Constabulary are working on Bir Henry Berkeley obje
objected to the notes produced being called promisscry faright, for "hope deferred naketh the case.
notes As he said he had not seen them.
GENUINE AGE with quoted a fer of these stubborn
AND
things to prove the soundness of his contention. First of all he read the
FINE MELLOW following from the Inrestor's Keviers of
FLAVOUR.
PER DOZEN..
February 27th: "Last week's revenna figures were again good, incowe Sgġre- gating £5,256,127 Reckoning fram Houday last there are thirty-three work- ing days of the fiscal year remaining, and
heart sick
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
The master of a steam launch' was fined 93, at the Marine Court to-day, for falling to observe the rule of the road
A fine of $10 was imposed on a seaman of a fishing junk for disobeying the orders of the Harbour master, at the Marine Court to-day.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr Pontius, the American Consul at Bwator, will shortly take up his position.
Mr James T. Di Hoia has been ap pointel Conaal-General of the United States at Singapore. Mr Du Bois is a very well known American and fermerly edited the National Republican, a Washington newspaper. Ho me pomul at Airda Chapele, and afterwards at Leipzig, Ha
ben slitor of the laws of the Depart
$16.50. if the revenue for the period wer to come at the same daily average as lat week's receipts gave, March 31st would see the Chancellor of the Exchequer passed of
For cansing an obstruction to Wing Lok ague £2,000,000 more than the catinate street steps to master of licensi, bostament of State wines 1901- of last April. In other words it would were fined #2 each, at the Marine Chart,
to-day
Robert Porter & Co.'s
BULL DOG obly require a daily income of less than
BRAND
STOUT
£820,000 to fully cover the estimate, Dora Jackson, of 51 Des Voeux Road.
was brought before Mr J. H. Kemp on a whereas last week's daily average charge of disorderly moduct and, was foed receipts amounted to £876,000 Then $10 at the Magistrney today. Mr SHEWAN was able to quote Friday
For whealing two gondensing tubes from evening's telegram in which Rentar the & Machson, & naro was bored told us that the Ential reveste deficit two main bard labor and six murs aboulim, ut this bragistrany to-day, by Mr F. for the year which closed on the 31st | A: Hazeland.
in Pints and Splits, Hazel instead of rinning into willions
Rainier Beer
LIGHT wholesome, and
invigorating
For stealing a sino downspout as 53 was only £926,000, showing that trade Elain Street, occupi by Mr Asga was really beginning to revie in there was beurtenced to three
prisonment by Mr J. 8, Kemp, it the United Kingdon
Magistracy
Again, for the benefit of the. oroakers who at fully persuaded that England's tada, colonial, is on the high road to ruin, the speaker quoted sque encou
Undoubtedly the best Bear tences from the address of the Prod
brewed in America.
8. WAISON & 00.
TYMINO
ALEXANDE, BUILDING!
of the
pierce, del
2nd We
The Sultan of Morocco has appointed Raisul, the former tandit, Goremor of the province of Djebala. Haisuli has promised to Pengunce the ransom paid on behalf of Sir Hary Maclean the former Sultan's
military adviser, whom Raisah held as a prisoner in 1907. The bur Goramor promises to fulfil the duties of his office honesty and not to oppose Europeans.
· Bar Admiral George Albert Convarmi, USN, whose death is
at Norwich, Vermort graduated: from the Nay In 1865 and bogna carrion in-
, вид
THE ANNEXATION OF BOSNIA
POWERS CONSENTING:
(Reuter | Service to the China Afall Dopyright protested under Ordinance 3 of 1894).
LONDON, April 5
It is understood that France and England have ecosented the concall |ing of the twan
of the Berlin treaty referring to Bomma.
78.3. SAN CEL FONG; TO PORES
Meters Carmichael and Clarke, on Satur-
If you bring a comic song into. Court you lay afternson, commenced, sal could not call it promissory note, added tons on the ais. Sed Cheong
Sir Henry Herkely NO
Mr Calthrope mid there had been inspec
beached at Castle Pal
tion of the notes and the Court trazaltor morning oring to the stern had certified them as promissory notes, damaged, it conseq warns
Sir Henry Berkeley The Inspection vessel was making took place last week after the pleadings The hole having been had been closed for weeks. PODRA
His Lendship —It is imposable for me
and "the water
to simit on the pleadings. When the case ill-fated vessel was tored to as beleze mas two days ago in Chambers for repair it was simply one of forgery. Evidence was then oalled. The hearing was adjourned.
Mr Reader Harris for the defendants submitted that the plaintiffs had nos mowed that the novidant could have been avoided, His Lordship reserved his decisión, 25.
by the Chung On 5 ml Lon
was sunk in the typhoon of i
roots the
Headache Cits will take the head good as man to bat
SUPERIOR CHIANTI WINES
Chianti Stravecchio
Per Case 12 Quarts
$16.00
Chianti Vecchio
Per Case 12 Quarts $13.00.
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