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PARIS, pats the announcement, as usual, into that what the leaders of commerce and the mouth of a prominent though industry desire is to see this area of ho is said to latitude conacerably curtailed. There
Tie Bank möbery, mentioned in the the average is little doubt that it would lead! China, Mast on Thursday night is still. Japanese business-men do not yet under to a considerable levelling up the bouded in mystery. In our endeavours to obtain some faces of the case, our stand the true value of comme
by securing of a greater amount of un-reporters have been met at every tara Ready made day and evening united notion. Guilds are formed for formity and thereby an improvement with difficulties. The few meagre de
Mr JB Tonsdale, Conservative Gowns, Paris Mouels inch class of export commodities, where in the general quality of Japanese Gaia wa dave been sowie da tre orening Member for Mid Armagh, anked, in the Hats and Toques, Laces, as all businessmen ought to be brought goods, but against this must be put of Wednesday, April 28, the cash was Elouse of Commons, whether the Trimmings, Undercloth- under ce control and so maintain a the loss of individuality and personal resuired from the compradore, checked, arrangement come to for the construction receipt givon and the money duly locked of the Canton-Hankow railway line close connection between each other initiative which Western nations prise in the safe, the two outer doors also being ensured that British Bras would have ing, Boots and Shoes,
In practice they do not work so highly. But different peoples require looked; all of which is the customary, the first option of executing orders for Hosiery and Gloves, well together, each having a strong different institutions and Japan no doubt yaton of the bank in question. On the materials purchased outside of China.
etc. spirit of egoism, and they are eager to in the end will equip herself with the checked on being handed over to the com- snatch small immediate profta. While business system mest suitable for her pradare the sum of $51,000 was foul to this state of things is allowed, to go on it ia difficult for business man to copo successfully in the markets of the world" with foreign merchants, who maintain strict discipline and control among themselves. It is incumbent upon Japanese businessmen to strengthen the union of their Guilds and act andet
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accordance with the agreement of September 9th, 1905
be missing
Mr T. McKinnon Wood, Parliament- During Thuraday we understand, the ary Under Secretary to the Foreign: local police wore informed and detectives Office, replied that the arrangement arrived at the bank, waking enquiries and contemplates an equal distribution investigating the case thoroughly. N
It is supposed the amount missing
sing was the orders for material among firing.
taken, in notes në large
The Rov. J. A. A. Bukaz.lins received probably in 8500 bills denomination, of the three countries participating. donation of 9250 from 'the Hongkong.
Sallors and Soldiers Homs.1. Rope Manufacturing Do, Tid, for the
At Thursday's meeping of the Legis
MAP OF BONGKONG AND THE PEAK.
A long-feit want will be met to-day
TO PREVENT UNEM PLOYMENT.
LABOUR EXCHANGES TO BE ESTABLISHED,
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Copyright protected under" Ordinanse 5 of 2894-)
LONDON, May 26,
anco further to smond the Merchant Ship- | Peak is now on sale. It has always boon under the direction and orders ping Ordinance, 1999, was read a third the complaint that the Foak district in par-
commanders. "Commerce time and passed 25
ticular was a waze for which a clas could! never to found that good luck, more must, bove
a commander-in-chiet,
than anything, entered into the finding of ".. staf officers, and scouts.. In times
friend's house situated in those cloud- In the House of Commons, the Right. DANNYBURD.On the 21st May, 1909, of victory the chase should not be lang,
altered: Mise Massey has provided a guide of the Board of Trade, sketched the wrapped regions. But this will now be all Him. Mr Winston Churchill, President and in times of adversity the morale
which should prevent many a stranger as well Labour Exchanges Bill, which will be should be maintained. It is for this
as oid resident from going antray either at introduced to-morrow." reason that syndicates or trusts succeed
ALICE, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs M. J. Dazenberg.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Auction,
Mesars.
Rooms.
**"Meeting.
12.30 p.m.-Mesting ef The Paris Toilet
Co, Ld., at Co.'s Office.
in their operation. Not truined in such
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... ́.... The numerous friends of Mrs Pearce, wife of the Rev T. W. Pearce, of the she id lying seriously ill at Victoria London Missiqy, will hear with regret that
Hospital the Peak.
IN
Temperance workers will be pleased to hear that Mrs Katharine Lent Stevenson, prominent supporter of the temperance pavement, who is passing through the Colony, has been asked to address a public
8.30 p.m. on Tuesday next. meeting to be held in the Wesleyan Church
at Micars Hughar & Hough sales regular operations Japanese merchants are apt to encourage the over-production of goods regardless of quality when demand for any particular line increases, with the result of a deterioration in the
E.M.S. Alacrity, dispatch vessel, ace quality and a possible flooding of the Otter and Virage, left Yokohama on May companied by the torpedo-boat-destroyers:
p.m.market: while manufacturers eager only 15. The cruzern King Alfred, Bedford.
General Memoranda, SUNDAY, May 28
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foods per Namur not cleared at 4
on this date nabject to rant. Goods per Socotro not cleared. at p.m.
on this date subject to rent..
MONDAY, MAY 24. :-
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thin days subject to rent.
TODAY, May 2
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the Peak, orar in Kowloon, or in Victoria. itself. Hor Map is as plain, her directions explicit sa auch things can be and we congratulate her heartily on the general success which has crowned her labours. We anticipate a ready sale for Misa Massey's Map, while we do not hesitate to affirm that she has proved her right to be described as a public benafator.
THE BUFFS DRUMMER'S STORY.
Bill establishes a uniform national avstem of labour exchanges, with a cen- al clearing, house, at an initial cost of £200,000 yearly.
The Government contemplates in 1910 associating the exchanges with a system of compulsory insurance against-unem- ployment, to which the workers and en ployers of the State will contribute.
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LONDON, May 21.
for large orders, will accept more than and Kent left on May 16 for Nagasaki, and
the Astros, accompanied by the torpedo, The police are becoming moru sceptical can be executed, forgetting the import-bost destroyers Hart and Whiting, will as to the truth of the story told by ance of maintaining their crit. This leave on the 25th instant:
Drammier Collyer, of the Buffs regiment, who recently reported Having been bound result in a lack of uniformity in the
A letter has been addressed to Mr with ropes sad gagged, while in a latrine, quality of the goods, and leads to Asquith signed by thirty-five banks and by four Chinamen. It will be remembered breaches of contract. In this way the mercantile firms, including the names of that the soldier also informed the police. credit of Japanese manufacturers and Felix Schuster and Mr G. B. Goschen, mec. Pursuing enquiries, the man from Society, Mr Kato, Ambassador to Creat Rethschilds, Barings', 'Lord Avebury, Six that he had bean robbed of $10, by the
goods abroad is damaged. A marked director of the Bank of England, protesting increase was for a time shown after the against the Budget, and stating that the
2.30 p.m.Auction of Household Form.
war in the export of timber dad pore-writers aro alarmed at the increasing dis Itare,&c., at Mr Gao. F. Lammert's kin to China, but the trade has now small clasaca."
proportica in the burdens imposed on the Baleg Rooms Transfer Books of Pack Tramway Co., hrgely fallen off. For this the circum
Register of Shares of A. S. Watson ✯ Co., Ld., close from this data to let Jane, inclusive.
Goods per E. F. Ferdinand nadelivered
after this date subject to rent.
WEDNESDAY, May 26
At the annual dinner of the Japan
whom the drummer alleged he borrowed Britain, presided, and Prince Fushimi the 810 of which he says he was robbed
that he had a conversation that night with
he
has been traced, but he flatly denies having and Mr Hayashi, Japanese Minister advanced any money to Coilyar. He admits to Rome, were also present."
The Chinese Minister, is proposing Collyer, who complained of a diffealty he the toast of the Society, paid a tribute to
the toot
Ld., close from this data to And June, stancas above mentioned are chiefly re Lady Sarah Speacer fell from her donkeyfurther states that when Collyer left him countries a knowledge of JapanSEAN · While riding at Algocims on April 17 in over a sum of 910, but that its success in propagating in western Goods per Luetzoie undelivered after sponsible. The present depression in and fractured her log. Rear Admiral he said. Good-bye, old chap, and added the export trade to China cannot be Foley, who was with the party, went to that he must not be surprised if he heard
inclusive..
this date subject to rent. THURSDAY, May 97-
Goods per Kemo Maru not cleared on
this date subject to rent. SATURDAY, MAY 29:-
11.30 .m.-Meeting of Feak Tramway
Co., La., at Registered Offices.
Noon-Meeting of A. S. Watson & Co.,
Id., at Co.'s Oce. Noon-Meeting of Watkins, Ld., at Co.'s
Oce.
The China Mail.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1908.
JAPANESE SELF-CRITICISM.
accounted for merely by the decline in har to a usar-by hotel. On rejoining his her Ladyship's assistance and conveyed suver. Japanese goods are generally companions Admiral Foley also fell from his regarded abroad as poor in quality, and donkey and he is now in the Colonial Hospital at Gibralter nursing a fractured thigh.
lacking in naiformity. At the present stage in the progress of manufacturing industry in Japan such resulta ate unavoidable; goods are manufactured in small quantities by small firnis, and
"A Shanghai telegram to the Manila Cateness, under date May 17 says:- dispatch received here indicates that while the State Department has transferred
the extent of the matta. This man
ex day that his (Collyer's) body was found floating in Causeway Bay,
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
The master of a licensed steam launch was fined $10 at the Marine Court to-day, for throwing rubbish into the harbour.
Too master of a licensed boat were fined
literature, art, science, and industries.
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The papers have been fall for weeks past of reports emanating from the
sro collected from different roanufad Consul-General Donby to Vienna it has 35 at the Marine Court to-day for causing eastern counties of the appearance
Wuder of Hongkong will come here and that not been fully decided that Consul-General an obstruction to Wing Lok Street steps.
there is a possiblity that Consul-General Willard Straight of Mukden may be appointed to Shanghai,
turers. It is thus impossible to expect maiformity in the quality of Japanese goods as in those of Europe and America, where articles are manufactur ed in large factories by machinery,
night time of an airship, which has A recent traveller talls Manila been termed scoffingly "The Scare paper:-Fow sights have I son to equal ship." The stories received a fillip the magnificent panorama of the city and yesterday on circumstantial reporte harbour of Hongkong from the Peak, and being made of the sighting of an in three atrengths, containing 5%:10% and WHATEVER may be urged in detriment Cotton Bannel and other cotton goods of Harvard Observatory,-believes that it interesting as the one on-Bowes Road,hill near Cardiff. The airship renacend
Mr W. H. Pickering, sesistant director for walks have I taken that were so airship agmund at the sammit of a
of the Japanese it cannot be said that produced in Wakayama are an exception, would be possible to signal to Mars by And the people, themselves in my mind's ed quickly they are deficient in the courage their uniformity being attributable to cost of these would be £2,000,000, and the hard-working cookie and his equally hard- means of a series of revolving mirrors. The eye. I shall always see the poor patient
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required to criticize. themselves and the progress made in the use of when Mars would be Bra million miles orking mate; the dirty, little ragged boys to resign the Resident-Generalship of their failings in public. Ever and chinery. Uniformity of quality is a nearer the earth, than at other times. Ms each with a tiny little queus dangling from Kores in favour of Viscount Sone and that anon we find in their newspapers sine qua non for furthering the export Pickering thinks that if there are in the crown of his bead and having about as he will take the place of Marshal an address, an after dinner speech or of Japanese goods. This renders the telligent people on Mars the light would an official memorandum frankly dealing strict examination of commodities in return an answering signal. But would & CURE FOR BOWEL TROUBLE.
immediately attract them and they would with the national shortcomings and tended for export a matter of extreme they? couched in such terms as no foreign importance. But in practice, if is found According to a Washington telegram, a Uolic, Cholers and Diarrhoea Ramady blood builder and toplo-sdchan Bhengus" eritic would venture to use. Other these periodical exordiams effect is very poor. In not a few cases they are at the Ways and Means Committee on the Whethat the ability of some of the inspectors lively debate was precipitated in the House of Representatives over the majority report any good we are not prepared to powerless to give a satisfactory explana Colton Tarif bill. Representative Francis say. Indeed, we rather fancy that their tion of the result of their, examination B. Harrison, Tammany Congressman from effect is almost nil, for the nation has when a protest is lodged, while other New York City, started the House by a get so used to them by now that they no inspectors are eager to carry favour with declared that the revision of the Philippine more act as an irritant to the public the rich and influential, and are liable tariff should have been left, exclusively to conscience than does water poured over to act theraly in deference to their views the Assembly In this way, and in this way only, he declared, could the bill have been the proverbial duck's buck. But be and wishes. In this way a stringent and drawn to prevent the exploitation of the that as it may, the babit of pointing out impartial examination is out of the ques. Tolands and keep the Americans in and out of the inlarida from, being benefited by the the national failings is one of the tion. The evil is known to exist even in
mekeure. Representative Harrison enter prominent features of modern Japan, connection with the examination of mated at length into a discussion of the Philip and foreign observers derive no little fing, which is generally assumed to be pine problem. He declared that thera is bat one way out of the difficulty in which insight into Japanese idiosyncracies in carried out fairly"
the United States finds herself by the pos consequence. At the present moment the It is in accordance with the ordinary sesion of the Philippine Islands and that is
islamula, as he calls it. Mr Harrison pro means likely to lead to an expansion of chant quoted above should lay stress on poses to give the Philippines the same the export trade and Marquis Katsura, the advantage of combination and co-status that the island of Crote now pas this Premier, is said to be seeking advice operation. The basis of Japanese national Cableneur remarkaThis is a status that www.Commenting on this news, the
from business men on the subject. The lits, fallowing the Chinese model, is the would hardly suit the independists newspapers are natumlly doing their family, not the individual as it is with
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