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this in no carping or grudging spir
but merely with the idea of plainly stai- Magistracy, to day, in which evid
riven by P. 8. Bracl, stationed at Stanley, Mr F. A. Barsind. the Magistratë, - said.
Mavis section of that commectin
been publicly opened
it was remarkable that they scarcely evec THE AMERICAN TARIFE had a case from Stanley,
P... Bras said he had been stationed Sat Stanley for 14 months and only two de three very small cases had been dealt withi His Worship-No larceny at all, I believe
ing an uncontrovertibla fact. But there is a fascination about life in Japan which is wholly lacking in the life in led by the ordinary forsign resident in a Chinese treaty port or aven Hongkong.This file that for nisher the compensation for the very much malles pecuniary arda öbe sizable, för after all the averaga mer nulation at must admi dollars is not the be all and and al of existence for a rational human being who is endowed with any mental faculties at ath Riches bring many
Stanley there no grime whatev
IS IT IRISH ?
Called to give evidence in a case at the Magistracy, to-day, P. 8. Brazil was asked
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Witness-Brand Iball it, sir.
IS. MOUTRIE & CO Telegraphic Address, Man, Hongkong comforts and delights in their train by his Worship Mr F. A. Hazaland —Is
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it is true, but the treasures of the mind" are in the end more to be desired, These intangible gifts of the spirit are to be had in Japan by those ho are attuned to their appeal and
9.30 p.m.-notion of Household Furni
tars, &c., at No. 85, Seymour Road.faw must be the men and women who having once sojourned there, have completely missed the indefinable charm which attaches to the land and its people. Perhaps after all, there is Goods per Sith undelivered after the much truth in the old lagands of the
date subject to rent..
Goods per Prins Sigund undelivered
after this date subject to rent. Goods per B. F. Ferdinand undelivered
after this data subject toʻrecita
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SATURDAY, Joly 3::--
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Goods per Nippon Mart undelivered at blest isles of the sea we bear willing tribute to their supreme powers of fascination and we dan wish no batter fortune than that the years to come p.m.will see Japan the home of a happy, peaceful and contented people, while
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THURSDAY, July 8:- ..
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increase yet more and more.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
During the thunderstorms which have HORGROND, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1909. recently boon occurring in central Japan
ian persons were killed by lightning
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YOKOHAMA'S JUBILEEN
The conduct of the Labour Party in the House of Commona in publicly protest
His Worship (to Mr. A.G. Jackson, whe was for the prosecution)—You oughs to know, Air Jackson; it's an Iriah uame" in't it ?...
NO DUTY ON TEL.
Bruler's
THE BRITISH ARMY
(Rewar's fervios, to the Chinaquads)
June 303
General Sir John French, memorandum, reports that the field My Jackson--I don't think it is your Army of Great Britain is in a high state Worship.
of efficiency and well prepared to take bug
His Worship I think so.
Mr Jackson (to witness)'re you Irish the field at the shortest notice. It now Witrea-Tes.
numbers 10,157 officers and 265,516
A GRAND CO Mr Jackson-Well, I've never heard of me liable for foreign service, compared with 7,483 officers and 185,823 men in the name before
December, 1905
THE COMPRADORE ACTION.
The appeal was contmued before the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott and Me Justics Gompertz, at the Suprema Cears, to. day, againstthe decision of the Chief Justice in the action in which Mesara S. J. David and do, proseded against their compradore, Chan Ut Chiu, to recover #648,816.
Mesars D. MacNeil and O. G. Alabaster,
THE BRITISH NAVE
WHAT BERESFORD ASKS FORK
(Reuters Service to the
'Lord: Uharles
instructed By Mesars H. J.. Godge and A. at a meeting held Jackson, of Messrs Johnson, Stokes, and London, said he was Master, appeared for the appellants and ¦ maintain reti the Hon. Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., and Mr
THE SH
the past
THE OFFICIAL CHANGES.
of investigation M. W. Slade, instructed by Mr J. Scott Pending the findings of the committe Harston, of Messrs Ewens and Harston,
He urged an add represented the defendants.
the arist Mr Slade. in continuing his argumenting programme. of construction by
said that he had dealt with the law on which in 1914 we
the case and he would now go in detail additional ten through the documents. On doing so cruisers, and
counsel said that his learned friend, Mr This programme would cost Maeil, had adduced the obligation of
the commdure prior to the mortgage fifty-five and sixty milionin
STRIKE!
to perform the conditions set out in the provise for redemption. Not-mare- ly would those words not bear that THE FRENCH SHIPPIN construation but they were absolutely of the land. negative to any angguation Agreement having been reduced writing they could not consider any antece-
gorating to the system ne a Turkish To-DAY Yokohama begins the celebra-ing against official recognition being scoord-dant agreement and they could only con
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tion of its Jubilee as a trading port, and we presume that as the 4th of July falls on Sunday, practically for the rest of the week no business will be done within its bailewick, for the celebration
ed to the visit of the Car to Cowes is
universally condemned.
The Japanese Government are report
Today is Dominion Day in Canada and flags were dying in kunour of the event on the Empress of China, which is the only Canadian vessel in the harbour. But of the American National Holiday is one what a splendid representative she is of the events of the year in this particular town of the MIXADO'S empire The city of Yokohama has sprung up within fifty years from the lowly position of an obscure fishing village among the reedy swampe near Kanagawa to the proud position of the premier part of Japan This cas been principally due to its commanding position, in the silk trade, ever more than to its Close
RENEWAL OF THE CONFLICT
(Reuter's Service in the Chind Mail.)
LANDON, July
sider the agreement in writing. The action of the parties was that they should have. the pledge of the property before they The shipping strike at Mare
has been renewed owing to retained him.
Mr McNail replied and the case was owners refusing to adjourned.
scratch crews.
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
The Government has appointed board of arbitration which
| deavour to arrange matters.
& St. Louis despatch to
374 Chat
Ford-Inteligen
ed to have cedared the weavers of Niabjin, Charged with obtaining three gold rings Kyoto, to make a large piece of ornamental from a dative woman by false pretencer,
sent to the Fesde Palace founded by Mr $20, a Chinaman, was, at the Magistracy Deville, deck brocade, which it is their intention to road with endeavouring to defrand her of Carnegie at The Hague, The cost of the to-day, sentenced to six months' imprison- into, the vault at mid
ment and six hours" stocks. brocade will be about Y60,000.
to place: valuables. Shapron, the - maila clerk, entar, closed the door and
According to a telegram from Terran, the Shah has ceased to oppose the pro- Two Shaukiwan✨opium divan-kaspers tarpmsoning Bonneville, posed extension of the suffrage. The new who hammered a fellow countryman in a who knew the vault com Election Law provides that the property quarrel arising out of an allegation that he neville pounded frantically qualification for the suffrage shell he attempted to steal a quantity of the drug sult doors und), Miss Cors
botel's telegraph operator, seats shall be based on population. El each and ordered to pay 30 apiece compen- agreed to by all the Provinces
NOTAL FURDS in Slam Dacaraz, 1901, Turkish Bath Salt proximity to Tokyo Though not undoned and that the distribution of were, at the Magistracy to day, 6 cod po
Authorised Capal 23,000,000
showing the material development which
Boftans the water, and imparts a delights Hongkong and Shanghai can boast ajasty will sanction the new Law if it issation to the injured man.
Bubscribed Capital £2, 760,000-adbanger Paid-up Capital -Fire Frock £687,500 0 0
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- 818,116,894 12 1 A, B, WATSON Beredne Fire B250,659°13) ▼
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Tire & Amunity 1.847.224.18 4
Brancheme Sinking Fund Accoun8,382-5-0
of within the sume period, Yokohama
is still a very pleasant place to live in. 00 Its streets and thoroughfares for width
€4,152,159 16 11 TELE HONGKONG DISPENSARY The Accumulabid Funds of the Wire and
AND KOWLOON 'DISPENSARY. ilfe Departmente are free from Hablity in maspect of such othm, "207 20
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Agmis
Dentistry
CHAS, FONG ZDENTIST,
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timarioan graduate with Granite YORK.Espalanca The praction of Dynitatry, xymetallat for want Mangkong, April 18, 1909
DR.
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WEEKLY NEWS
The
tended
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the Grand
Tuan was Loo Imperial Tun Fans
The recomman Tung that
KYOW is the timi
was former telegr
cewage to him on penknife
Pars courte have awarded 1230 to For halling to observe the ruins of the po le Bernheim, a well-known actress, for Gladiator was fined $20 at the Marine he Bosstrekening damage done by a dish of green, poan to Court,-to-day. At an mquiry into the and surface qualitien leave much her shoulder and dress. Mile, Barabelm circumstances attending the charge defen-
to be desired; its sanitary arrange was standing in a restaurant when a waiter dant had his certificate suspended for six
ments are primitive in the extreme; it lacks the stately buildings which adorn Shanghai and Hongkong for with the exception of the Specie Bank and s lew modern, trussens often
in the forei
ing strie
upsot the peas ever har They completely ruined her drass, and her shoulder was burnt. The court valued the dress at £88. and the shoulder at £24.
Accord
the prere news has been rece
that the Gera toreis modest dynamite from Hambu
FOR HOME in the extreme, so that it cannot vaunt Vladivostok and
The Overland China Hall
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