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Eomox, May 13. in the Far East. The massage is of especial The House of Commaus has voted | Ready made day and evening at 811,004,128, or $1,143,845 more cupying exactly 91 days in transit
interust, to Hongkong Inasmuch as it inland taxes resolution of the Budget] by Gowns, Paris Modela in than was estimated in the previous We are informed that the total output dien bar that Dr Amos P. Wilder, who 500 to 118. Hats and Toques, Laces,
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in unnecessary to refur in detail to Dr. Wilder's term of office here in Hong- The Canadian Faciffe Railway Com kong: the whole Colony knows tha pany's liner Lake Champlain, from Livor-energy and enthusiasm bn always pool, has put into. St. John's, Newfound threw into his sctivities, whether coming not be adequately provided for, as land, with her bows store in by collision within the sphere of his official life or not, al matters in connection with that with an iceberg. The Lake Champlain The unselfish and noble motives on which
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At present. De Wilder is at Yokobama.. The reforar party in New York city, made up of nien of both this old parties, is It will be remembered that recently he left booming Ex-Provident Roosevelt for the Hongkong for a brief holiday at Home, mayomity contest to nucosed Mayor GeorgeHe had reached Japan and on the 5th inat B. McClellan. Mr Roosevelt has not yet was proceeding to board the as. Nippon
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[Note This is a case arising out of the the only man in the Colony, ontside the
of the information, which had reached the Russo-Japanese War and concate the American Consalate here this morning registry of the steamship Maori King, ranks of the official hierarchy, who believes that in this particular case Cabling on the 27th April the San when our representative, called round to which the British Court condemned to be
our wire. S. J. Fuller, the acting "the mere question of estimates does Francisco correspondent of the Musnicks amplify some of the facts contained in sold to meet certain claims-ED., C..
states that Me Tanaka, the Japanese Conau nct mean a reflection on British en-at Seattle, has asked the authorities of the Consul-General, had heard casually a gineering." Of course we are ready toYukon-Alaska Pacific Exhibition to recon- rumour that Dr Wilder was to be con sider their intention to employ Japanese as siderea for appointment to Shanghai, but make all allowances for the unforeseen jintikehamen. As his resson, the Conant the nows our representative was able to difficulties which have confronted the end that one cause of the anti-Japanese convey came somewhat as a surprise to him, We understand that as far as relative' movement was the American belief that
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LONDON, May 1 ations, treacherous hill-sides, unsuspect in the Exhibition was to remove suchambura, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and The House of Commons he adopted
four other appointments in the same grade Goods pur Oceana not feared at 4ped bridge strains, etc., but when all is misconceptions, the employment of Japa- Havana-and only two above, namely, by 242 votes to 22 a resolution in favoury
admitted, understood and allowed for, nose is inrikehimen would not be pleasing London and Paris, which carry with them
to her. Consequcotly, it is said to have a salary of $14,000 gold per annum, com.of the payment of £300 annually to Goods per Bendomemd andelivered after we must be excused if we refuse to pass been arranged that the jinrikshas shall be pared with 88,000 gold for the other places merabera of Parliament, The Govern
mentioned. Dr Wilder's apprintment ment readily accepted the resolution, His Excellency's condonation unchal drawn by whites.
is therefore simply a transference. experience at Shanghai will be of a some. lenged. To err is human, We admit, but
The hestafries at Peking are not the what different type to that he has had in JAPANESE HONOUR FOR we fancy that had the Colony foresten only ones to experience s boom in trade. Hongkong. Here where we have the largest what the
Kowloon-Canton railway There is another branch of industry which Port in the world the work has been mainly of a commercial character, but is, at the present moment, doing a roaring in his new post Dr Wilder will, not- scheme was letting it in for when Sir business, namely, the ammorous roulette withstanding the appointment of Judge. be more largely concerned with court. MATTHEW NATHAN first launched it in establishments in Telegraph Lane. Night work and specially the quesion of ex Council, lar greater caution would have after night these gambling dens are crowd:traterritorial jurisdiction. Although at ed with residents and specially touriste. Shanghai the interests are more cosmopoli been exercised in passing the pre-The roulette owners are making bay while tan than here, yet it is unlikely that Dr liminary figures, and a very differant system of building would have been adopted. Of course the thing cannot be altered at this late hour; it must proceed, cost what it will, and the Colony must The Colony has been expecting for some dip deeper and deeper into its pockets little time past a statement from His until the project is complete. Still the Excellency the Governor regarding the reflection cannot be avoided that there revised figures of the probable cost of will be nothing to be very proud of when
Prof Dr Nakamura, of the Tokyo Im the British section of the Canton-Kow-it is finished, from a financial and loon railway, and though most of us administrative point of view, And after Italy, making investigations there of the were prepared to hear that the estimates all we must sadly admit that in this very recent earthquake, and passes very in
teresting remarks on Italian architecture. first association with the Consular servico Richard Francis. Daly for the transfer to would be further extended few anti-matter we are bat following the good He says, according to the Jap in Times: Consul, from which position he retired license to sell by retail intoxicating liquors
was when
in 1800 he was sont to Prague as him from J. H. Newbold of the adjunct -- cipated that the figures would be old British precedent of "muddle. We The curthquake was of course of con- some 34 years later. Then in 1901 came on premises Nos, 29 and 31, Dea Vox
siderabla taagnitude, but not so severe as his appointment to Hongkong, after which swollen to the extent indicated on hage, as a mace, been building railways ¦ that in Mino Owari Province in 1801. The he went to Havana, where he remained Road Central under the sign of "The Owi
only about six months, eventually going to Thursday: Engineering estimates are all over the world these past fifty years incomparably great disaster to property Vienas, where he has since bean. ever fallacious: like the items in the proverbial-builders' bill-of-costs there is no finality about them; still the story of the estimates for the little bit pl railway for which Hongkong in responsible must surely establish a
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RAILWAY ESTIMATES.
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Baron Takahira, Japanese Ambaa-
the sun shiees, the P. and T. Times says, Wilder's labours will be as strenuous as
Over that ybe they will provide for him order of the Rising Sun on Dr Eliot
MAY and adds the following curious statement: they have been in Hongkong. But how-sador to Washington, has conferred the During the past fortnight, Peking has a now experience into which he will be sure formerly Principal of Harvard College, been inyzed by ambasadora, military and to throw his whole heart and soul as he civilian officials, merchants, respectable Far Eastern residents and their wives, globe trotters, male and female tourists, shop keepers, pedlars, Greek and Jewish grog shop, roulette, and gambling house keepers, and various ragabonds, nondescripts, and social pariahs.
has done here. His numerous friends in and has expressed the Mikado's appra Hongkong
deeply regret his departure ciation of Dr Eliot's services in the caus bat at the same same time will artend to him of education. Special reference ws. their congratulations en being selected for made to the many Japanese students now such an important office.
at Harvard.
It is gratifying to know that Dr Wilder's successor Mr William A. Rubles-is no stranger to Hongkong. He returns to the scene of former labours, for from March Sad, 1901, to September 15, 1902, be was the United States Consul-Genersi bera. He will thus ronew many friendships in the holds the poet of Consul-General at which he was sppointed in 1903.
LICENSING APPLICATION.
A-meeting of His Majesty's Justicos, off the Pesca was held at the Magistracy, this His
perial University, has just returned from Colony. At present Mi Ruble anaoternoon, to consider an application from
construction of houses in Italy. “It is and life is solely due to the defective.
quiba remarkable that the architecture is so backward in these districts where
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL............
there is a comparatively frequent earth, Mr H. W. Slade returned to the Colony quake. The external appearance of Italian to-day per Empress of India from Naga- buildings is fine. But an examination saki,
of the interior shova at once that
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there is no wonder in the magnitude of the Messra Pr. J. Grenson, T. F. Honghand disasters. The weaknes of construction is F. B. Marshall returned by the Empress a question of degree. But the flimsitions of from Shanghai to-day. the buildings in Messine in simply astound ing. Even the houses as strong as ordin CYTEARKS' HEADACHE CURE is 42 0x- ary houses in Ginza street here are so few pellent and ale bracer used the that they may be counted by the fingers. morning lol owing a night of "good cheer The fact that such houses remained intact It removes that listless, all-guas feeling. 29 storaksopers shows that most houses in Messina were extremely weak. I discovered that the Italian walls, with solid surfaces. con tained a case inside layer. Brick house in Japan have a very systematic layer of brioka, solidly cemented together. The walls of Monsina have inside layers of stones Inspector Langley charged the master of loosely heaped up. With a tremat of the the steam Iaunch Logan, at the Marine earth, this pile of stonas acts separately Court to-day, for failing to observe the with the brick layers and brings about rule of the red, whilst under way in the the collapse of the whole edifice. More- barbour. Evidence was taken and the czas over the foundation of the houses is sel-
dom hardened by concrete. The connes public were evidently to be let down
tion between walls is also de foctive, and the Two house boys appeared before Mr walle move separately in case of earthquake. lightly, lest it gybed and refused to. H. Kemp, at the Magistracy todayThore are many buildings in Momains continue the scheme, though the Colony charged with stealing twe gold rings value whose walls look like having been cut open $115 and 850 in money the property of with a sharp sword after the earthquake, could be no drawing back Very well sentenced to three months hard labour early collapse of many beings, the were by now so deeply pledged there Weigal of Bowloon, Prisoners were The mireu matapos contributed largely to the
were, at a very modest cost. Alas for the vanity of human anticipations. By Juna, 1907, a very different tale had to be told. At that date $8,003,612 was the full estimate prepared by the chief, resident engineer, and many months went by before the public learnt that even this did not include any provision for rolling stock or workshops the was dismissed.
then; a suitable time was allowed again each and three hours' stocki
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to slopes and at the end of the same year, The reclamation dispute case, in which people in time of earthquake are literally December, 1907, n further estimate was His Excellency the Governor is plaintiff jambed between the falling walls. At pre- submitted to the Council bringing the and Chu Ping the defendant, was continued sent the people are bally occupied in the la the Supreme Court to-day before the work of unearthing the două and cometrue, figms up to $9,860,283. But by Chief Justice (Bir F. Piggott). This is the | ting shoda. - The moanetzpet o the tow-
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