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miles up the Nigor, has been completed, The milway from Lagos to Jebba, 800 and the line is being pidly pushed on to
Kano.
It was one of those strokes of lurki|
An army order has been issued raising compounded, half of muddle-headed- the futiring age of Majors to fifty,*** ness, half of genius, which have done so much towards building, up, the April 7th Enormous crowds witnessed Jon of Ar was boatified at Rome on Ready made day and evening minds us, thirty-four years have
empire. As the Times of Caylow rethe ceremony. Gowns, Paris Modela in passed since "Dizzy" astonished the Hats "and Toques, Laces, world by his famous coup over Suez Trimmings, Undercloth-Conal shares, and Germnoy would find ing, Boots and Shoes, herself up against a very tough financial proposition indeed if she is going to Hosiery and Gloves,
make a bid for a large holding in the etc., etc.,,
etc."ditch." It cost Great Britain very nearly four millions. sterling to acquire
The fight between the ND.L. and the 176,602 shares out of the total of now China-Siamese line began in eargest 400,000 £20 shares, which was buying on April 19th, says the Siam Observer. The them at very little over par. To-day ND.. has announced a substantial reduc Great Britain's holding is worth thirty-teamers.
tion in fares. Both lines despatched full one or thirty-two millions sterling. There seems little difference of, opiniba now that it was Mr FEDERICK GREENWOOD,
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Auctions...
11 Anction of Nernst Electria Lampe and Accessorion, at Mesars Hughes & Hough's Salos Rooms, *9:30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni-
tore, at No. 19, Babington Path..
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The Shanghai Amateur Thematic Club celebrated the successful run of "The Yeomon of the Guard" with a banquot followed by a dance, at the Astor Hone Hotel on May lat.
Three pieces of rock Were thrown at the mail train from Cotacamund on 19th
April Dear Erode Junction, Madras
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1903
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL “
Rear Admiral Slade took over eenmand" of the East Indies Squadron from Bear Admiral Sir George Warrender on April 17.
Among the papers of the poet, Mr Johu Davidson, who disappeared from Penzance, been found that he contemplated suicide at tho sud at Mareb, clear inillantions have
owing to financial trouble and ill-health-
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AMERICAN TARIFF BILL. CRITICISED,
PRESIDENT'S REPORTED
DISAPPROVAL
(Renter's Service to the China Mails Copyright protected, under
Ordinance 3 of 1894.).
LONDON, May 4..
The Washington Senate Commitees'e The Babes Nieuwsblad conßrais, cur-abstitate for the Payne Tarif Bill is rent rumours that General van Hout, the being hotly, critised as excessively Governor-General of Netherlands India, Protectionist in character. will retire from the high office at the expiration of bis term of service in October..
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The death is sanonuced of the Most Rav.
It is stated that Presidens Taft dis- approves of the new Bill-
In anticipation of the enactment of, William Saamarez Smith, Archbishop of the now Tariff the Washington Gavera- Sydney. Dr Saumorea Smith, was chaplaiament has notified all countries with to the Bishop of M-dras from 1801 to 1983, whom America bas special tariff agrees boing then giromthe living of Trumpington, ments that these will soon be abrogated. which he hold for three year before being The countries afected include Great appointed Frincipal of St. Aidan's College Britais, Franco, Germany, and Italy. and Examining- Chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich 1990, when he was made Metropolitan of
This latter office he held in P. AND O. ENTERPRISE.
NEW RECORDS by EVERY 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furn
iture.da, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's the one-time famous "amateur casual" Soveral Europeans returning after the New South Wales and Primate of Australia
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and later Editor of the St. James' Gazette, who originated the idea of getting possession of the Ebedive's shares and holding them for Great Britain. He obtained some very private information Goode per Benarty undelivered after which caused him to hury off to Lerd
this date subject to rent.
Denny, who was Foreign Secretary," and he convinced that none too enterprising statesman that the shares were on the point of being hawked about the European capitals. Lord Dehur in turn influenced Lord BEACONSFIELD, and the deal was concluded before Parliament was asked to sanction it. It is a romantic page of Goods per thing andelivered at Noon history, and almost without parallel.
General Memoranda:
FRIDAY, May 7
12.30 p.m.-Mesting of Union Insurance Bociety of Canton, Ld., at Head Office, 12.45 p.m.-Meeting of China Traders Insurance Co., Id. at Head Office. Gooda per Scandia undelivered after this
date subject to rent
SATURDAY, MAY 8:-
on this date anbiedt to rent.
Easter holiday had narrow, escapos. No, and Tascoazia. In 1897 De Saumsren one was injured.
Smith was entitled Archbishop. The isis Primate had written largely, but his works. were all a theological character.
.
Lamelao, the Frenchman who a little in Europe by professing to be able to mare, than a year age treated a sensation
manufacture diamonds and who disappeared after being prosecuted for fraud, has been
arrested in Paris.
Frontier reports state that serious iator-tribal fighting has taken place among the Mushola and Mohmands. The Khyber is still closed to caravan traffic, as the Sarbang of Dakka is still truculent and the Mohmands recently committed a raid.
Mfr John Burns proposes to abolish the pauper disqualification in connection with the granting of oldago pensions, This will add 217,000 names to the list of
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.. HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN
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The police have received partionlars.of a case of highway robbery committed right in the heart of the city of Victoris. It appears that at about 4 o'clock this morning
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(Reuter's Shroice to the China Bfas
Copyright pročected under, Ordinance 3 of 1894.)
LONDON, May 4.
The P. and O. liners Malwa, Mantuw and Mores are being fitted with wireless. telegraphy apparatus.
MR HALDANE AND THE WRIGHT BROTHERS.
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail: cattle dealer from Kennedy Town was in Copyright protected under company with two fokis proceeding along
Ordinance 3 of 1894) Connaught Road and when near the Kwong
LONDON, May 4 Tang Hotel three men came up and The brothers Wright, of Saeroplane stopped them. They represented them-fame, have arrived in London and selves to be Excise officers and demanded conferred with the Right Hon. Mr R.B to search the trio in order to ascertain if
"Haldane, Minister for War. They hare"
Goods per. Manila undelivered after The last quotation of Suez Canal shares pensioners, and will increase the cost of they had any opium in their posacsaton also bean presented with the gold medal.
this date anbject to rent. MONDAY, May 10--
2 45 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- tre, da, at No. 9, Lyeemoon Villas, 5 pm-Auction of Valuable Postage Stamp, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Sales Booms, Gooda par Pathan undelivered after Per Cann,
this date subject to rent. $19.00 TuRay, May 11:
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The China ail
the pensions by £2,368,300 per annum.
A Tokyo.telegram to the North-Chin's Daily Ners saya that another scandal has which was rejected by the Dist laat session. Arisen with regard to the Butchery Bill One representative in the Diet, and a few Directors of the Osaka Butchery Company have beun apprehended,
1-2 of all
The anttle dealer accordingly opened his
bundle, and while he and his fokie were of the Aeronautical Buciety. crouching down the other, men turned or them and assaulted them with iron bars.. and fled. From the bundle they then extracted #700 MACAO DELIMITATION.
THE APPEAL CASE.
PORTUGAL WAKING UP,'
(Beuter's Parrics to the China Maj: Copyright protected under Ordinance 3 of 1804.)
Loxton, May 5-
was 4,000 francs per 500 francs share and the block of 500 shares reported to invo" been acquired by the German Government must have cost something over £90,000 if purchased at this price. Besides the 400,000 shares of £20 each, there were originally 100,000 founders' shares. Since the formation of the Com- pany additional obligations have been incurred to the amount of £8,110,567, As showing the remunerative nature of the Company's business the gross re (ceipts for 1907 were £4,801,710 and the "expenditure £1,745,700, whilst the HONGLONG, WISMZaDay, May 6," 1900. amount to be distributed, in dividenda was £2,855,436.' After 5 per cent. interest has been deducted all nett earnings that remain are divided in the land with reference to the Mullah and that catate of the Hip On and Yang Sing after following proportions-71 per cent, as D ́SUPERIOR PALE DE.... 19.50 The Liverpool Journal of Commerce, dividend to the shareholders, 15 per of March 24th, gave great prominence cent to the Khedive, 10 per cent, to to the following 'telogram which it fad the holders of founders' shares, 2 per cent. to the managing directors, and 2, per cent, to the Company's employes Looking back over, the years and with
At the Supreme Court, this morning, Reuter. wires from Suez that the im- before the Chief Justice, Sir Francis portant discovery of an oil-field at demseh, Piggott, and Mr Justice Competz, the
The Portuguese Government has or on the African coast of the Red Sea, is appeal case brought by the Hip Ondered General Joachim Machado to start confirmed. A shaft has been sunk and oil Exchange and Loan Co., Ltd., and the has been struck at 1,250 feet. The labost Hongkong and Manila Tuen Shing Ex for Macao immediately to assist in the estimation of the daily production place it change and Trading Co., Ltd, appellanta, delimitation negotiations. at 300 barrels. There are indications of whe moved that the decision of the Chief
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the existence of oil at a shallower depth.
Sir Francis R. Wingate, who is going Aden as soon as a warship is available. ona sporial mission to Barber, proceede via
Besides undertaking thin special mission, he will investigate the situation in Somali
general military position. There is no beyond protecting the British position and question of an ozpedition or of anything safeguarding the friendly tribes.
Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, be reversed in the action with Li Po Yang respondents, in certain instances, was continued.
Lordships might fally appreciate the posi
Mr Slade said that in order that their
tion created by the taking possession of this
the decision is the court below, he thought it advisable to recapitulate shortly the
SOCIALIST TROUBLES.
HUGE STRIKE AT BUENOS AYRES.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mziks Copyright protected under Crdinance 5 of 1894)
LONDON, May 5. Serious Socialist troubles continus at Buenos Ayres, the capital of the Argentine Republic.
facts and legal position of the parties before and after the judgment of the court below. Counsel then detailed the facts. In order The campaign against the brigands in that the consequential affect of the judg. as hand heon expected, ant an agitation has was appointed and in order to defeat that Upper Tonkin does not proceed as smoothly mens might be given offect to a Receiver began urging the extermination of the out Kwok Tik Ting went voluntarily out of the tramway care are upheld.
Two thousand troops have arrived to 1) reinforce the Garrison.
The work of the port is paralysed and
The strikers are estimated to number
defined in the affadavit of Mr Bowlay. 200,000 They took up the possession with the consent of Kwok Yik Ting,
A nisa of a hundred franes this week in Suez Canal shares, following upon the execution of an order to buy five the knowledge we now possess, it seems laws before summer sets in, when the possession and the position was clearly hundred shares, has led to much speculation as to the identity of the scarcely creditable to the much-vaunted mountain country becomes unhealthy, for purchaser. The order was given by a well-known Frankfort firma, and Dalziel's foresight and perspicacity of English the troops in the field. The brigand chiefs correspondent is able to state that the men that even after the Empress pastmasters in mountaia warfare. Un are quite at home in the wilds, and are purchase is made on behalf of the ECGENIE had opened the Canal, the happily, remarks & Haiphong paper, the German Goyerniment:
There is often a considerable amount general bulk of English opinion firmly French military commanders have their of quiet speculation about Suez Canal shares on the Paris Bourse, and it ja held to the belief that the affair was on
hands tied for humanitarian and dolítical still supposed in some financial circles doomed to speedy failure. Time often here that the order in question, although
right to me that Krok Yak ng wont voluntarily out of possession as there was Sir Henry-Berkeley said that it was not
nothing in the affadavit to that affect,
Mr Slade maintained that Kwok Yik Ting went voluntarily out of possession and
A PROTEST FROM CHEKIANG.
(Wuh Tn Yui Po's Service)
PEKING, May 4 submitted a serious of authorities in supally protested against Wang Tab Sieb,
The Province of Chekiang has form».. part of bis argument.
large, was given for speculative purposes confounds the forecasts of the wisentres Country is one of a series of proposals for Australia's recent offer to the Mother These Wines are specially recom- only. This is not, however, the case, in this fashion. But harking back to Nasal defence submitted to the Admiralty, mert where the Chief Justice directed that being appointed Vice-President of the mended, being of superior vintage, old, and the purchasers will give notice in
Hon. Mr Pollock referred to the judg. formerly Chinese Minister to London, a management. wish to state that on and thoroughly maturel, and in fine due course to take up the ebares at the the telegram quoted above, though we which will continue until 1913: The present the Register in the Land Office be rectified Board of Communications on the ground
condition.
close of the account.
The Chief Justice anid that he had consthat his management of the Soochow As there are probably nothing like
see no reason why Germany should not agreement provides for the maintenance of five hundred Suez Canal shares on the buy Suez Canal ebares if she wants 10. Australia will provide a force of destroyers Onlinance and would never have made the make him generally unpopular.-
a squadron on the Australian station,sidered the question of the Registration Hangchow Hailway was so bad as to SINGLE BOTTLES market, the result of this intimation we think that she is scarcely propared for local defence, disciplined like the order if the title was effected thereby.
will almost certainly be to make the price rise still higher. The German to put up the money required to place British Navy, but controlled by the
Mr Sloda:It gave noise of the effect. Government has acquired this large her in a position to be the pre officers from Great Britain to train her
Commonwealth.
The Chief Justice: The word registra 8. WATSON & 00, represents an outlay of £100,000. It dominant partner on the Board. The force. If the force leaves Australia it will
block of shares at a price which
tion "to some people carries title.
Further argument ensued and the case LIMITED.
has done so in view of the prolongation outlay would of the Canal Company's concession, and
was adjourned. be enormous. The be under the command of the Imperial Commander of the station. Furthermore,
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of the intention of the Company to shrewd, hard-headed financiers of Berlin Australia will maintain a base for the usa increase its capital in order to build, and Frankfort do not offen part with of the Imporist Navy. second waterway parallel to the existing
canal. The concession will shortly be their money for sentimental reasons, we extended, if the extension" bas nct,
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Theizty-fourth annual issue of indeed, already been actually granted, now, neither do they believe in paying Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory con- forty-five years. The capital too high a price for a thing, no matter wists of nearly 600 pagos, and is sold for required for a lateral canal will be offered for subscription to the present how much their Karen and his advisors maintains the reputating of this standard the equipal'sum of two shillings. It woll shareholders only. It is understood the may desire it. But to acquire a small work of reference for socuracy and com- new shares will be issued at a price block of shares for the purpose of getting been Indispensable to perspection of pleteness. It is a book which has always, varying from two thousand to two FOR HOME. thousand five hundred franes, and that a vote on the Suez Canal Board is quite media of the greatest value.
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the German Government will profit by
its new position as a large shareholder another matter.
to obtain sufficient of the issue to give ita preponderating voice over other Powers.
tisers, who find its help in the selection of In the Colonial Faction there in, in addition to articles on the impart trade of the Colonies, showing the chief features of the principal Citama tarifs in a ésbalsted Just when the R.M.S. Marmors was form any of referonce, a special article about to draw out from the quayside at which trouts of the desirability of a central. taking her departure for the Eastern States, tad by Mr Edmund Powell, M.L.A., Cape Fremautie, on March 30, preparatory to South Afrim. This article, which is writ national Government being established in
are at the back of the latest little deal it was discovered that the usual belated Town, elacuistes the chief arguments which viitor from the shord had failed to land. support a policy of national unity an afford-
ramedy for the political disanion which has
There may be solid grounds for the surmiss that the German Government
in Suez Canil shares, but such a moveTae gangway had been wheeled away, The Ling the most effective, if not the only,
need cause little surprise. Germany randy wit of the Fund O Officer, however, cost South Africa so dearly. now ranks next to the United Kingdom- was quickly apparent. A few words rapidly
spoken to ona, of the scars caused the
as the largest user of the Canal and min to spring to one of the bydraulic
what more natural than that she wishes
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