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MONDAY MAT 10, 1908.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
British Legation when the Parliament."
Strife and desertions are mid to be| *Mr” J. In MoPherson, averetary of the house was abelled by order of the S-breaking up the forces of the Mad" MulinhY.3.C. Janres to-morrow for a holiday said: "People in England talk of our of Somaliland. struggle as if it were an ordinary political struggle, such as you have here between
Three anses of pligte have been-not- fled during the last 48 hours, besides three
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Gowns, Paris Models in not know what life was in Persia under Eats and Toques, Laces, the Shar's despotism Ministers, gover Trimmings, Undercloth-nors, and collectors of taxes bought ing, Boots and Shoes, their positions by auction. The highest offices went to the highest bidders, and Hosiery and Gloves,
the `man who secured an appointment etc.,
was allowed absolute freedom as to the manner in which he collected a. auf- ficient revenue to make the post
he had bought pay him. And there was always the danger that someone else would come along and pay's higher price than he had done, in which case he was turned out; so you can imagine that he usually, set to work to make his money quickly. Horrible barbarities were practised by these agents, and it was this horrible misgovernment and these terrible exactions that drove us to
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Shanghai..
Among the departures from the Colony pu-Saturday ware Hrs and Miss Chatham, They go Home via Canada.
The British Government is prepared
The Hon. W. W. Rookhill America to relieve the British Cotton-growing Ashinlater ab. Poking, has been appointed sochation of the cost of experimental work Ambassador to St. Petersburg, in the Colonies.
Siquor Caruso, the famous tenor, is The Frankfurter Zeitung doctares suffering from stony of the vixal chords, that recent developments reader imperarest
Specialists advisa him to take two years tive the holding of an international confer- ence to define the rights of seronauts.
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Musical and neral circles will grently miss the Rev. M. Longridge, R.N., who As the result of a conference between" lift for home on Saturday by the Empress the South Africae Governments and the of China.
shipping companies, the latter have given considerable concessions in freights on pro.
duce..
Chinees visitors to the City Hall Library
There were 451 European and 258 and 198 Burupean and 3,62 Chincas visitors to the Museum during the week ending 9th May.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given Esmil- ton Colege, New York State, where Mr Root (late U. &. Secretary of State) was elicated, £400,000, to commemorate Mr Root's services in the snusp of International
penco
According to Kobe newspapers, H. I. H. the Crown Prince of Japan honoured the Yokohama race meeting with his presence last Saturday:
Cayton papers contain a Snes, tolegram announcing the death from cancer of Mr N. Lazarus, the well-known optician. He was on his way home by the P. and O Malwa
P
BRITAINS TRADE RETURNS.
DIPORTS INCREASE; EX
PORTS DECREASE.
(Beuter'a Service to the China Msily Copyright protected under "Ordinanca 3 of 1894)
Lamoy, May 8.
The trade roturan for April show that importe totalled £49,193,978, being an increase of £9,099,267, while exporte reached: £38,958,438, boing a decrease of £1,746,880.
SIR ROBERT HART'S FUTURE.
(Beder's Barvice to the China Maữ: Copyright protected under Ordinancí # of 1894)
LONDON, May 8
Sir Robert Hart has been invited by he Chinese Government to return to China, but he is not yet decided on thy Soint.
INVALIDATED ELEC- TIONS.
Mr E. D. C. Wolfe, who was seting BERLIN. SOCIALISTS THROWN Inspector of Schools during the absence ↑ from Hongkong of the Hon. W. Brewin,
The Army Council has approved of the early formation of a Territorial Reserve, and it is hoped thereby to raise 100,000 men from time-expired men, making the has gone on leave, departing by the Em- total strength of the Territorial Army press of China on Saturday,
Mr A. W. H. Bellingham, engineer to | the,, British Municipal Council at Tiontain, Jones, the American citizen who has has been nominated by the Chinese authoris boon standing his trial at Chefco ou à
ties to succeed Mr C. W. Kinder, late
400,000,
OUT.
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LONDON, May 8.
TELEPHONE NO. 2. revalt, and forced us to insist on the common rights of humanity. Our Par- lisment did good work. We had) dreadful evils to contend against, and yet, in our short life, we were able to convert a yearly deficit of £600,000 iato a surplus of $200,000. This we did not by increased taxation, Goods por Prins Eitel Friedrich unde-
A committee of the Prussian Diet han livered alter this date subject to rent. but by a stoppage of peculation and charge of having killed, a native sampan General Manager and Enginear-in-chief invalidated on technical grounds the maladministration. Pensions had bean coolie on March 28, has been found guilty of the Imperial Railways of North China, elections of four out of the six Berlin given for the most trivial and abof manslaughter, and has been sentenced Tongshan
to three years' imprisonment." 8.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furai.surd personal services to the Seat. BOU
ture, &c, at No. 9, Kennedy Road. Goods per Koranna undelivered after this Any singer, wrestler, or buffoon who happened to tickle the royal fancy was given a grant, and these payments, Wrung from our people, we stopped. It is these parasites of the Court who desire to see tho old order restored and perpetuated, who are constantly remind- ing the Sun that the Russians are his HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 10. 1909. friends. It is these reactionaries with
General Memoranda, Wannenday, May 19:--
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date subject to rent. FRIDAY, May 14:-
Goods por Denbighshire dos oleared on
this data at 8 a. m. subject to rant. 2.15 p.m.-Meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace at the Magistracy.
The China Flail.
PERSIA,
MATTER are clearly moving to a crisis in Persia and unless the Snap can make terms with the Nationalists within a
The fimucial statement of the London County Council shows that the income last year was £10,514,887; and the expenditure £10,829,984, including £5,615,114 on edu cation. The surplus on the tramway account.amoupted to £44,557.
The goat of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company Ltd, informs us the mines for the week ending 24th April, 1909, the total outpat of the Company's threo
amounted to 29,227.96 tons, sud the mies during the period to 27,587.43. tong,
*
The Director of Eduestion of the Straite Settlements, and F.3L.S. has receiv.
whom we quarrel. They take an at- titude that cannot be comprehended by Western minds. One of their leaders, AMIR BAHADUR JANG, "once said: Toned instructions from His Excelloney the might as well say a shepherd has no right to do as he likes with his flock as
For the Bath, Toilet and few days, Russia will convert bessert that the Sun has no right to do
Household, Promotes a healthy action of the skin counteracte all effects of perspiri-
ร
Socialists returned on June 6th, 1905. Governor Gederal James F. Smith, who These were the first ever returned to the set sail from the Philippines on
Diet owing to the antiquated suffrage. Saturday, arrived to-day by the a.a. Nikko, Maru and is the guest, along with bis A.D., Lt. S. DOVER-CALAIS TRAIN A. Greenwell, of Sir Frederick Logard, at
FERRY. An official dinner Government 30, will be given at Goremment Housejou Tuesday evening.
Reuter's Agency is informed that the new Treaty with Siam establishes ore
instead of the two hitherto existent. Eur. system, of jurisdiction for British subjects, }"
porns will be entitled to trial before a Kuropean judge, and Asiatic and British Rubjects by the Siamese courts, with a European adviser watching the proceedings The jadaments of the Court of Appeal must be signed by two European Judges.
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Governor, to the effect that no more Queen's scholarships will be awarded after
examinations before the seliolarships are 83 at the Magistracy to-day. the results of the one to be held in January'," 1911, so that there romain only two more
Gually abolished.
ITEMS AT THE COURTS:
Twenty-six gamblers were each fined
tion, and is as refreshing and invi/only be left to her own devices sha/ussia, as well as England, desireded at South Shields last summer for uso failing to exhibit the regulation light on
gerating to the system as a Turkish Bath.
WATSON'S
threats into definite action and move
as he likes with his people. If the
Two masters of fishing boats were fined down with considerable force into the distracted kingdom. Yet if Perai could SHAH were once really convinced that
The floating dock which was constract 95 cách, at the Marine" Court to-day, "for
that Persia should be well and peace. Caline, has arrived at her destination, their boats.
and underwriters' risks upon her are now ably governed, and if he thoroughly at an end. The towing of this vessel has Inspector Dymond prosecuted a native, understood that he could expect no only been accomplished with mach difficulty, at the Magistracy to-day, before Mr J. H. assistants or countenance from the end on the voyage of over 10,000 miles Kemp, for stealing a silver watch and chnin there have been several sorious accidenta. with gold appendage and 85 from a fishing Russians, he would come to terms In the Channel the dock broke away from junk at Taumati. A sentence" of two at once. This is all we want Weber tugs, and narrowly escaped founder months' hard labour was imposod.
ing and later on, after arriving at Monte don't want to do away with the Suan;
want him to govern properly." Russin shall intervene in the domestic It is not to England's advantage that
affairs of Persia, and, it is to be hoped that the Sea will be forced by the
would speedily work out her own - salvation. The Nationalists are growing stronger week by week, while the reac tionaries are deserting the Ban day by day. As we have before pointed out in these columns, the SKA" would' gladly recall the promises made by his. late father and reluctantly wrung from Highly recommended by himself or the day of his accession to the Medical Profession grant a Constitution to Persia, for ever since he came to the Throne he has
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Video, one of the two tuga was carried A native was charged before Mr F. A from bar moorings and permanently disHazoland, at the Magistracy this morning, andered overdus between various calling implements for preparing opismer abled. On several occasions during the with having a large quantity of opium in past eight months the dock has been cous his possession, besides all the necessary ports, and she has hardly at any period zeland said that the case was a very bad one and inposed, a fine of $500, or three months' haril labour. been off the overdue market at Lloyd's,
Mr
HOME GOVERNMENT".
ATTITUDE.
(Renier's Servies to the China `Mad : Copyright protected under
Ordinance 3 of 1894)
LONDON, May 9.
The Right Hon. Mr Winston Chur- chill, President of the Board of Trade, has promised a deputation to do all in his power to advance the Dover-Calais train ferry scheme and has suggested a Conference being called 'for the purpose-
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KING EDWARD'S RETURN.
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King Edward has arrived at Dover.
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LOSTON, May 9. A 'bill introduced in the Houso of
The Privy Council has refused a new Commons by Sir Georgu Eskewich, pro- Glenturrott, was charged, at the Marine trial in the case of the Lai Hing Firm poses to enable Church of England and Court to-day, with absenting himself with-
Edward Smith, chief steward of the x.a.
been heard to say that "he would prefer the Nationalists, instead of calling in the Nonconformist preachers to exchange pal-out leave and sufficient reason. Defendant of Hongkong., Ccats on either side har
to be a Russian vassal with absolute power over his own people, rather then ORIENTAL
s constitutional monarch with a limited Turkish Bath Salt authority over a free people." "With that end in view he affects Russian
aid of his all-too acquisitive northern neighbour. But he is a stubborn, narrow minded man and to one of his disposition and upbringing the maintenance of the old system of unbridled autocracy, even if it involves futurs vassalage to Russia,
pits, under certain safeguards. The bill no in a long rambling statement said he did been refused.
Nota-We were able to publish this should ask for leave. Defendant was decision sa s news item in our Saturday's doubt has its origin in the inhibition of not consider there was any reason why he Canon Henson by the Bishop of Birming sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and to issue. ED., O. M.] ham from preaching in the Free Church forfeit six days' pay. Institute of the Rev. J. E. Jowett, Bingham, owing to the protest of the BELIEF FROM RHEUMATIC PAINS. A POPULAR AMERICAN REMEDY. vicar of St. Gabriel's. The Bishop said THE great pain relieving power of
Fred. C. Hanrahan, a prominent that he himself favoured churchmon
Chamberlain's Paio Balin is clearly
druggist of Portsmouth, Va., U.8.4 thenation, both of which are extremely the Persians in his heart of hearts he must seem infinitely preferable to the preaching in Nonconformist pulpits, but shown in cases of sciatica and inflammatory: "For the past six years I have sold he was obliged to enforce the right of an painful but ons application of this liniment and recommended Chamberlain's Colle, chastened joys of restricted constitue incumbent to prevent another clergyman gives relset and enables the sufferer to Cholers atid, Diarrhoes, Bomedy. 16 de m A. B. WATSON & 00.really dreads Russian" intervention. tionalism. That is the danger point in preaching in his parish without leave, leop, which in m By Instances he has not great remedy and one of the boat pabeat?
With the exception of the district the whole controversy. Observers of/Canon Hanson ignored the inhibition, and been able to do for several daya. For al medicinas on the market,”; For sale by
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and Persia are now engaged in best ing out to an issue identical political "questions. In Turkey's case, so far as we can see, constitutionalism has won the day what the outcome of the
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The Bishop of Liverpool, in the course. of his triennial charge, delivered recently, gave some excellent advice to his clergy. Why should it be thought necessary," he aska, “for a man, to whom God has given strong and melodious voice, to cast aside ite natural use what he draws near to pray to God? Why should he suddenly"asáums
well and peacefully governed, by the Nationalists who are pressing for the inauguration of the Constitution. The raising of the siege of Tabriz-an armistice it has been called in Beuter's telegrams-has evidently set free struggle in Pernia will be it is very an unnatural tone and a rapidity of portion of the Nationalist troops; sad it.
difficult at this time of writing to utterance which are apt to surprise erën is evidently to check their advanes on
his most intimate friends when they boar accurately forecast. the capital that Russia has despatched
them for the first time! Our forefathers put abundred Cossacks and two Maxim The Duke of Norfolk has sold on a proaching voice in the pulpit, and they Bolbein's famous portrait of the Duchess were rightly told to be natural, and before to hold the Kharrai river
of Milna to Mosers Colnaghi, the at the just criticism of the few the preaching approaches to Teheran. The question dealers for about 260,000. The Times voice has disappeared. Why should wa of the hour thon is what possible terma says that Mowers Colnaghi would con adopt in the roading desk, on the ples of I can the SHAH now make with his tributo liberally if a national fund wore a musical service, a praying voice? To the
started for the purchase of the picture. outraged and offended people?
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