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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION
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per year, i
and bear pinced with the Bokkert
of HARLAN and Wower for the
30,000 tons and serem
craf were canoe so that the mis
from Reclamation Stre
Tomorrow (Friday) unalar eclipse of the mun
additions to the fleet for that year sible ab sunrise in Hongkong, Whe
the consisted of Cincinnati and be up? Claveland
During the 24 hours ended as noon yesterday three further casor of plague ware reported, two being fatal. All were Chinero.
Colonial Secretary.
THURSDAY JUNE 1908:
TROMION Aming
Hon. Bir Hat Baskets ing Attorney General.
FC Ast
Hon. Mr F. N. E. Joxzs, Acting Direc
bor of Public Works.
Hon Mr. Mol. MESED, Acting Colonial Treasurur.
Hon. Mr A. W. BLEWIS, Registrar Gen
H. F. J. BADALTY, Capt. Supt.
Hon. Ba lan H
Owing to the pressure on our space wa have been obliged to hold over the int-Police. portant discussions which took place at the Legislative Council meeting this after noon.
Though the NDL also suffered deverely last year, it is instructive to mote that the statistics of passenger asfic from Europe to America, show. that the two big German companies still 'sturace the chief share of trans-Atlantic patronage. In 1908 cabin passangers from New York to Europe numbered 201,654, as against 251,421 in the pre vious year, whilst the steerage passengers numbered. 309,979, as against 1,096, in£5,000,000 9000 » 1907. These wars distributed as follows," showing the preponderance of travellers
Free delivery to all addresses ossible by the German shipping lines by messenger, including all Pesk, Kowloon and Quarry Bay residences.
Single coples, Daily, tem senta; Weekly, thirty cunts; for cash. Telegraphio "Address, Man, Hongkong. Oode, AB.., fifth edition.
@ TELEPHONE. No, `29. CHINA MAIL LIMITED.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Austion.
2.30 p.m.-Anction-of a Miscallinequa "Assortment of Goods at Mars Enghes & Hough's, Sales, Rooms.
General Memoranda,
SATURDAY, June 19 :----
1907, Cabin Steeraga.. Hamburg-Amerika Line...33,101 111,048 North, German Lloyd 40,753 195,785 Red Star Lino
11,755 53,857 Cunard Line
B 36. 80,514
Cabin. Hamburg-Amerika Lina...95,674 North German Lloyd,999. Red Star Line 9083 Canard Line
.20,510
Steerage. 33,625 38,755. 22,018
A Paris message state that the Franch Cabinet bas decided to curtail expenditure, The deficit in the revenue in ostimated at in consequence of the financial difficulties.)
During Tuesday night a thief entered Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, and stole 10 towels, 10 serviettes, three pillow-slips, a small table cloth and a charcoal iron, of | tha teisi value'of $20.
Hon. Dr He Kir.
Hon. Mr WXDX, Q.M.G. Hon. MORBORNE. Hon. Mr W. Hon. Mr MURRAT STEWART,
Gasson.
Mr. C. Cramer (Clerk of Councils)
of
[THE TRIBON" DEDIKANEM. Hon. Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill antitled. An Ordinance to amend The Prison Ordinanca 1800.
The Ordinance makes it an offence punishable on summary conviction, for an officer of prison to give a prisoner any article the nae of which by such prisoner in prohibited by the Prison Rules or Regulations.
The Rev. F. B. Meyer's meetings oned; and the Bill was read a first time. "0" Hon Acting Colonial Secretary second-
Wednesday at the City Hall were wall attended; showing that his Mission is in- crossing its appeal to the more thoughtful section of the community.-
The American community of Shanghai 32,500 will celebrate the national holiday this One of the hopeful signs from a year on Saturday, July 3rd, with a recup shipowner's point of view is the cessation at the consulate and baseball games, Dr Wilder has been aleetod chairman of committee.
tion of the rather suicidal war of rate-cutting which the diplomatic activities of Herr Bars has brought
THE TRAMWAYS ÖRDIJANCH, Hon. Actorney General moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend Tes Tramways Ordinance 1888.
The
abject of this Bill is to compel Parsons travelling by Tram to produce their of & Tramway servant. and to bring within the stops of soetion 89 of the Principal Ordinanin offenders against the preceding sections 81 and Ole and the Bill was read a first time.
Hon. Acting Colonial Secretary seconded;
TRANSFERENCE OF OXYICERS. reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance Hon. Attorney General moved the second to transfer to certain Officers of the Public
{{Raulandır Serviós lo
Earoos, June 18
The Tientai Pul tow
railway loan of two mill
has been issued, of this £1,200,000 takan up by Germany, and the remain
def by the Bangkeng and Shanghai Bank. The London list has closed and the quotation is now of one per cent premium.....
à Pa
DECORATIONS FOR JAPANESE VISITORS.
(Brular'a Survior to the China: Most.)
Lamar, Jane 16- It is notified in the Casettes that Prince and Princess Nashimoto have had conferred upon them the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order-
Prince and Princess Kuni have lunch- ed with President Fallieres.
TRIANGULAR ORIOKET
CONTESTS.
ENGLAND, "AUSTRALIA, `SOUTH AFRICA.
(Beuters Service to the Ching Mail.) LONDON, June 16.
At a conference held at Lords, cricket representatives of England, Australia
ciple of triangular contesta and South Africa approved of the prin-
-15
It is suggested that the first match
Noon--Auction of 7 Pointer Pups at Mz | about. The North German' Lloyd and of the Japanese Police force, was stabbed | Service certain duties at present performed under this arrangement shall be played
-Goo. P. Lammert's Sales Rooma.
by other Officers.
"Or Monday evening, says the Hankow Mayoffth inst, Superintendenti Nakamura
to death in his residence by a police sergeant, who, after committing the deed, Hoa. Acting Colonial Secretary second in 1918. Goods per Maloppo undelivered after cluded an important agreement.agamat jumped from the verandah and commitredod, and the Bill was read's second time"
after Mr Howeté had protested against hara-kiri. He however did not succeed in whittling away, the power of the Sanitary killing himself and is lying now in the Board. hospital in a critical condition.
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surrounding Country, and is fitted through Household
out with Morrie Light. Hot and Cold
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January 14, 1900.
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70
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MANAGER. Hongkong, October 2, 1908...
Ammonia-
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on this date subject to rent.
TUESDAY, June 29:---
rooms.
T
THE PATENTS ORDINANCE. Hon. Attorney General moved the spend roading of the Bill entitled An Ordinace
ammd the Patents Ordinance 1899.
and the Bill was read a second time. Hon. Acting Colonial Secretary second-
the Eamburg-Amerika Line have con-
rate-cutting, and a similar under standing has been arrived at with the 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furai-Cunard Line, the latter to subsist for
tore, &o. at Mr G. P. Lammert's sales
#three years. Other lines to South
The Poplar proposal to give paupers to Goods per Torch undelivered after this America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, etc week has aroused attention throughouted
relief which may easily amount to £2 s
have also agreed among themselves on London. The proposal is that women conditions which will allow of re-hose out-of-work husbanda enter the work- house shall receive 15e. a week from the munerative passenger
guardian, and 45. a week for every child services.
between the ages of one and fourteen. This is in addition to the husband's main
date înbject to rent. WEDNESDAY, Jone 23:-
$ 2.m-Auction of Valuable Leasehold Property, Mr Geo. Pj Lammert's Sales Rooma
J
Goods par Perasa andelivered after thla
date subject to rent,"titl Goods per Mishima Maru not cleared
on this date subject to rent.
The China Mail.
and freight
Another hopeful augury is furnished by the emigration statistice. These ...showed a substantial increase for Jan- mary, whilet the figures for the two following months were still more Horoxoro, Thursday, Jusz 17, 1909. favourable. The increases during the first three months of this year, as THE REVIVAL IN SHIPPING.
compared with the corresponding period of last year, are shown by the following table:
For England, from Germany, from Japan comes the cheering news that the aigua of reviving activity in shipping
tion, and is as refreshing and invi-circles are gradually strengthening and gorating to the system as a Turkish that a marked improvement in all Bath.
branches of the trade is apparent for the first four months of 1909. The year 1908 will long be remembered in the annals of shipping as a "lean” twelvemonths, and more particularly by the great German companies who have their beadquarters at Hamburg
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1908, 35,284 19,533
tenance in the worklodse.
PREPARED OPIUM ORDINANCE,
Hon. Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance. to amend The Prepared Opium Urdinance 1891
Y.
ROYAL HUNT CUP-
(Reuters Service to the Ching Mai):
LONDON, June 17, The following in the result of the Royal Hant Cup, run at Ascot yester day :-
Dark Ronald
Christmas Daisy.
AMERICAN CAPITAL FOR CHINA.
STATEMENT IN LONDON, (Router Service to the China Masl.) -
LONDON, Jane 17.
Mr Whitelaw Reid American Am
Hon. Attorney General expisined that the Bill restrictions upon the con sumption of oplum; and that by it the opium livan would ceased to be recognised. The whole of the uncficial, members At the 47th annual general meeting of opposed the second reading, and urged that the Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., some definite interpretation should be given recently held in London, it was reported of the Secretary of State's promise to sak that the profit and loss soocant sloedd Parliament for aanbetaatin? contribution with a balance of £166,305 s. 58. carried through the action of the Home Governador to the Court of St. James, has - towardy the lom sustained by the Colony
the directors recommended the payment of forward to 1909, and out of that amount ment.
His Excellency the Governor said it submitted farmal representations for! dividend (free of income tax) of six was impossible for him to adopt the sag- shillings per share, making, with the Reation of telegraphing to the Secretary of participation in the Szechuan railway
State interim dividend paid in November last, Glase asking what proportion the Home han, bat in view of the fact that no twelve shillings per share for the year he really meant it, or whether the Home desire to participate was evinced by 1905. This was approved,
Government intended to evade their pro-American capitalists when the negotia mise. He thought the Home Government
1003. 15,534 ..11,523 Still more significant are the figures a for March alone
Hamberg Brement
1005: -1000. 4,595 14 812 4,785 21,248 Judging from a recent speech by Herr TEGESS, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hamburg Amerika line, the year 1909 premises to be financially more successful than its unlucky pre
The Jiji Shimpo publishes a paragraph, we learn from a translation in the Jupun Mul, avowedly based on official information, to the effect that the action recently taken by the Japanese authorities in regarding Pratas Island as territory for purposes of voyages thither by Japanese ships, is not to be construed as an adus ission claimed that the island belongs to herself. of China's ownership. Japan has never
or septention is that its ownership is encertain, but naturally she treats it as
Highly recommended by and Bremen. As a correspondent of decessor; the non-payment of a dividend cataide her own territories. China's asser
the Medical Profession the Standard reminds us, the harbours. of these great cities were characterised Aley and Well Farnished Roma, Every in three strengths, containing 5% 14% and by an exceeding great dulness all
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tion of the title of ownership, mast be
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had made a reasonable concession to opinion tions were in progress in 1905, it is in the Colony by allowing the divans remain open so long, and the words to hoped in London that the claim will not promise ware, he thought, anclear, precise, be pressed, although future participation and distinct at the English language anald of American capital will be welcomed make them,
A motion that the Bill be read a second tims this day six months was defeated by left in Committee. 7 votes to 6, and eventually the Bill was
FINANCE COMMITTEE...
then bald under the Presidency of the Hob. A mooting of the Finance Committee was Colonial Secretary when the following votes
were considered and passed
OPRENE COUEZ
A sum of 8155 in aid of the vote, Judicial
Office, other charges, incidental expenses.
TAFT RECOMMENDS INCOME TAX.
CORPORATIONS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED..
(Reuter's Service to the China Moil.)
Losmos, June 17. President Taft is preparing a special
has strengthened the reserve, funds of distinctly proved, and that is what China is and Legal Department, Land Registry message to Congress in which he
now endeavouring to do.
LITEMS AT THE COURTS,
The master of a junk was charged, at the Magistracy to-day, with running into a beacon light in the harbour near Yaumati
the ERAT, whilst the ND.L. will soon be in a better position as the result of a through the year, and as the months
financial reorganisation. went by shareholders in the Hamburg.
As the big Amerika Line and the Norddeutsche shipping firms of Great Britain and Lloyd began to grow anxious. As we Japan have also learnt the lesson set know, no dividends were paid by either them in 1908 and have put their re-and thereby doing damage to the extent of the Hamburg-Amerika Line or the North spective houses in order we think that 8908. The case was remanded. German Lloyd. The earnings of the the shipping prospects for the current. former company last year were only year should be considered as distinctly £792,760, is against £1,367,659 in encouraging all round: 1907, whilst the North Germs. Lloyd earned only £400,000, as against £1,834,860 in the previous year. These figures show how hard hit the two leading German lines were by the
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German Lloyd, indeed, being compelled
BOCIAL AND PERSONAL
It is understood that Mr Geo. HL Seid- more, U.6. Consul at Nagasaki, had been offered the post of U. S. Consel at Kobe, rendered vacant through the resignation
of Mr Snodgrass. Mr Beidmore, who is a brother of Miss Scidmuro, the well-known to draw on reserve funds to make good Consulat Casks and Hyogo, mince
writer, fitat went to Japan in 1884 as Vice when he loesea. In this connection it is has filled many positions in his country's worthy of note that amongst all the servise
The case
MAGISTRACT
advocates the authorising of a tax o the net incomes of corporations and
A sum of $80 in aid of the vote, Judicial advocating a constitutional azcendment and Legal Department, B.-Magistracy permitting a federal tax on private other charges, incidental expenses.
COLIC AND DIARRHOEA CURED.
FTER an hour's suffering from gramp A colio or diarrhoea, the best remedy obtainable can not give relle! too quickly. batcher was charged with conducting a the It Aways giros prompt relief in which a Kowloon City Chamberlain's Colic, Chaleza and Diserkons Barsed Is the beat medicine in use for lottery, through saning 10 cent tickets to avan in the most severe and dangerous competitors wishing to guess the correct once, and you can zich afford to allow your weight of a piece of pork in order to secure home to be without the very best. For a chance in winning a goose, came before sale by all chemists and storekeepers. to-day. His Worship held that the com- Mr J. H Kemp again at the Magistracy.
petition could not be considered's lottery.
PRESENTATION TO MR. H.
SYKES
Welcome to the Rev. L. P
Adams Crafton Ag
Bearing the inscription:=-**Presented to
Hamburg shipping lines those running The wedding of Major Nathan, R. E., M. Sykes as a token of the affectionate to Australis obtained the best resulia the popular agent and general manager of regard in which he has been held by the last year, and were able to pay a the 0.2 and M. O., and Miss Evi congregation of St. Peter's Church during dividend of 7 per cent, whilst in 1907 Doring, the eldest unmarried daughter of his yours of office to organist," a hand- Mr and Mrs Detring, took place at St. presented on Wednesday evening to Mr H some blackwood table with silver plate was 8 per cent was paid.
Louis Church, Tientsin, on the 15th inst Bykes, who recently retired from the Pater's Church
The Overland China Mall No wonder then that the orders The bellsgrom is a brother of Sir Matthar position of organites of B
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Grawr Decor you love so you may roce
a while.
went forth in Germany, just as Nather and remain faithful to the pru The interesting they did in similar case in Japan iples of the Jewish faith, while the bride
and Great Britain, that every possible economy was to be effected.
is a Roman Catholio. ?
Bus, of the HAI saw to it that at Bhangh the zumber of voyages of the steamers under, his control" was reduced 10.50 per
Frotated
Phat the stalls, were 1 and
Kat; the Thomson,
50
incomes.
SECOND TEST MATOH.
EASY WIN FOR THE AUSTRALIANS.
(Reuters Bervice to the China Maiz)
LosDON, May 17,
The Australian. Eleven won Second Test Match by nine wickets.
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