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ment a week ago, are entirely eliminated and instead is set op a new whitby though it breaks wit
the old traditions of the port, atawers all the requirements of the rime, and secures fair and equitable treatment for all classes. The scheme is outlined in the following
resolutious-
(1) Thât a duty be imposed on
all Foreign and Chinese alcoholic. liquora imported and consumed in this Colony. Liquors supplied to ships, ja unbroken cases for consumption on beard, and liquors re-exported, to be exempt from duty.
That arrack and spirits of wins be treated as alcobotic liquors. (3) That all licensing fees be
based on a valuation of the, surual turnover of the business of the licences."
(4) That in the event of the preced
ing resolution being adopted the issuing of adjunct Sconces be discontinued.
(5) That all places were liquors are. sold by retail for consumption sa the premises be required to: take out licences. (That as to the method of collect- ing the import duties a spirit farm is undesirable.
خواه
Kong,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr AE. Wright has been added to
The Gostile containe regulations în re-
ferons to thostres and public performances in the Colony.
SATURDAY AUGUST 21.16
fis eloquent of this, and we therefore see no reason to elaborate the paint further
MILITARY POWDER England, however, is not the only the list of authorised architects in Hoog- MAGAZINES EXPLODE. sufferer: her ally, Japan, is suffering quite as badly at the hands of the writere on the Yellow press. The New York American, one of the journals wned and controlled by Mr., R. Experiments in-abrasion conducted at a French mint have proved that aluminium Bramer, is a conspicuous example. In coine will be loan rapidly worn by use than recent issne id dealt with the forth-coins made of guld, silvos, or even broup coming cruise of the American Pacific squadron is Asiatic waters in the following pacific strain:-
We hope that the Government will
The American navy exists to lift the principle of the Square Deal above the level of a domestic policy and apply it to the wide fields of international law.
And this adventure toward s nai- versal equity carries with the thrill of great faith the faith that the laws of the universe are moral laws. A
Cynics will neer" and sentimental reformers grean"-but the warships of the American navy will go on their 'misaïon.
They bear the mandates of a chival rous people, mailisted to meet the meanness of the world."...
Just now the question is of smooth- ing the wrinkled front of Japanese diplomacy.
geometry.
:
LOSS OF LIFE.
Independent News Agency's" Service
to the China Mail.)
Joxmo, August 20. A tremendous explosion occurred in two military powder magazines at
tearing of the success of M. Bieriot, Hirakatamachi, Osaka, early this morn Baron de Forest has ingrossed his offer of ing £9,000 for the first cross-Channel flight by Many people were injured Four Britou in a British built neroplane to soldiers were mortally wounded. Many buildings in the neighbourhood were £400
destroyed or badly damaged.
The amount of powder which
The monoplane on which "M. Bleriot rossed the English Channel has been ex- hibited in London for the benefit of the Loned was 12,000 grammes. - don. Hospital. With its wings folded, is copied the space of a medium-sizeá motor sar.
A permanent record of the Imperial
explod
GREECE AND THE PORTE.
POWERS.
Pros Conference has been propaved. Lord WARNING FROM PROTECTING Rosabery has contributed a remarkable preface, amphaaiting, the aliens features of the conference, especially from the standpoint of Imperial aspirations.
The Japanese are a kind and clever eee its way to adopting these snggespeople. They generally mean well.
Mr William Henry Neville Goscher, And they can fight, by the book of of, Musers. Frubbing and Goschen, has tions in toto, so that they can speedily be
But their diplomacy is underhanded joined the Bond of the Chartered Bank incorporated into the law of the Colony
and circuitous. I Manchuria, in of India, Australis, and China, in place of by ordinance. The suggested disco Hawaii and the Philippines, at Peking My Honry N. Gladstone who has retired in PARIS, innance of the absurd adjunct license and at San Francisco it throuens the consequence of other Fusiness, engage
peace of nations. STEET is a distinct step forward and one which
These wrinkles of Japanese political ments will remove a glaring grievance from intrigue need to be flattened to the level
of the common right. our licensing system: In regard to the question of a Spirit Farm, there is still room for a difference of opinion, but
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CHEAP SALE. doubtles before the Government makes a final move, public opinion will have crystallized upon the point. For our own part we do not see the peces sty for a Spirit Farm which, though great convenience so far as the collection
20%
OFF EVERYTHING.
BUSINESS NOTICE
RATES OF SUDACEIPTION **
(Payable in advanco)...
Casa Matz (daily) $1.00 per mouth; Including postage, $5.50 per month.
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The Admiralty is studying the con- The warships of the Pacific fleet are struction of several swift first-clas the end-irons of Uncle Sam sent to armoured cruisers, equipped with the most launder the ruffled shirt-fronts of Orien-powerful lang-pe gaus. The object of tal diplomacy.
the construction of these cruisers is the In another isane we find the Ameri-strengthening of the existing means of cua declaring in very black type: protecting the oviness trade. "Japan is far too busy seeking influence in Maschuria to suit the Washington Government, and it is credibly rumoured that the United States intends not long
It will be remembered that it was
ently wrongly announced in the Govern ment Guzette that the proposed new schedule of licensing fees Had been adopted by the of the Gutte contains a paragraph to the affect that this notification is now can-
fled.
(Reuler's Service to the China Mail,) LONDON, August 20.
THE HANKOW ZOHUAN LOAN
AGBEEN UPON.
Wall The Fat For Service.
Pakino, August 30,
The Hankow-Sephun, Railway, loom has been agreed upon and the agree ment signed. The loan is for £6,000,000. and Great Britain, France, Germany and America take equal poršíme.
TO FURNISH NAVAL FUNDS.
(Fan Ti Int Po's Service)
PERING, August 20.
The expenses incurred by the Naval Reorganisation Board are to be defrayso from the reserve funds of the Board of War
THE MACAO BOUNDARY
CHINA WISKES TO HASTEN 'NEGOTIATIONS.
(Wah Tar Ya Po's Service)
FIXING, August 20.
A Constantinople message states that The Board of Foreign Affairs has the Protecting: Powers have presented a telegraphed to Viceroy Yuan Shu-fan Note counselling the Protecting Powers directing him to confer with in mergetic terms not to push the Commissioner Kad Erh-chen, with a relations with Greece to the extreme view to coming to an early understand libuit and thereby jeopardize the peace ing with the Portuguese Commissioner of the Balkans.
regarding the Macno Delimitation ques tion.
THE DUKE OF CON- NAUGHT..
MR. HALDANE EXPLAINS HIS
RESIGNATION.
CHANG CHIH-TUNG STILL SICK.
(Wuh: To Tat ··Fa's Service.)
PEXING, August 20..
H. E. Chang Chih-tung has received an extension of six leave of 20 days.
(Reuter's Surette to the China Mad.). LONDON, August 20; The Right Hon. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Minister for War, stated in the House BRUTAL DOUBLE_MURDER. naught had ceased to serve on the Fallon Escort Attacked In New Selection Board because it was con-
of duties is concerned, might prove a Bence to warn the Mikado that he must Legislative Council. The current issue of of Commons that the Duke of Cont
source of irritation to large sections of the Community, besides eptailing a further and unnecessary drain on the resources of consumers.
"
SOME SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
give back to China complete sovereignty and perfect freedom of commercial relations,"
And yet again
It is notified in the facedle that the following fees will be payable to the San "Concerning the State Department's in tary Department for the removal of sistent demand that there shall be abso late freedom of commerce without special patient in an ambulancs to or froin ang privileges to Japan and Russia, Ameri- private hospital or private residenc-82
a
sidered essential that the Board should
Territory,
"News of a shockingly brutal double
consist of officers in active military murder has reached. Hongkong from the employment.
IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
OVERLAND CHMA Mart (Wackly) $15.00 READERS of the daily newspapers may be can diplomats to-night point ous that if for any removal on the lower level; 84 for CANADA'S DECISION AWAITED,
per year including postage," 17.00 per year.
Free delivery to all addresses accessible by meme ger, including all Peak, Kowloon aad Quarry Bay residences.
Single coples, Daily, lan canta, Weekly,
thirty centa; for cash.
Telegraphic Address, MAC, Bengkons, Code, A. B. C.. fifth edition.
fl
TELEPHONE No. 2. CHINA MALL, LIMITED.
MEMOS FOR TU-MORROW.;
Miscellaneous,
pardoned, somewhat they develop a habit of cynicism. Thursday ever
ing Reuter informed us that the Yellow prese of New York was engaged in the apparently congenial task of trying to stir-up bad blood between various great nations by utilising several of the inci-
(Benter's Servics to the China Mail,)
LONDON, August 21,
New Territory, The victims are respective- ly an Indian polies, sergeant and an Indian. constable, who were in charge of an escort conveying a sum of 3400, representing Crown rent, from Au Tau to Taipo
So far as can be ascertained, the escort- consisted of a number of Chiness who were carying the box containing the coin, thèse- boit in charge of the Indians referred to,- who wore fully armed with loaded siffes. It - was early morning and as they passed along the main thoroughfa to they suddenly The arrangement between the Im-saw eight Chinese emerge from, x gap.
the treaty between Japan and the United removal to or from private hospital or re States. ie arranged amicably the Man-lenco situated above the level of Bowen necessity. It can be repeated, however, churian question will disappear Rasd. that both the Japanese treaty and the
Mrs O. P. Belmont has inaugurated The Imperial Defence Conference has Russia with their privileges in Mancho-sufrago for women sumpsign and pro-closeri. present selfish policy of Japan and ria, were the controlling factors for the poses to proes the question in the United sending of the Pacific shipa to Manila States on much the sante, Vines that the and that neighbourhood;
influence in her sou.
AN OVERLOADED
GRAMME.
wore attacked with knives and heavy blud- geons. So sudden was the attack that- the Indians could not 60 their
PRO-weapons, both being instantly felled to
the ground. The Chinose members of the sacort fied, finging down the box of treasure, and some of them later informed.
Bight for garage is being carried on by the perial Government and Canada in The Chinese members of the escort ware On the top of all this we road in our English agitatore: Mrs D. P. Be moat reference to the creation of a Canadian allowed to pass and then as the Indians dents in the Hankow-Szchuan railway Tokyo service of special telegrams that formerly Mrs Vanderbilt. She belong to Navy only awaits ratification by theme to the approaching men they loan affair to drive home the suggestion Mrs Tars, the wife of the honoured the New York 400 and is of considerable Canadian Parliament, that British diplomacy in the Far East President of the United States, and Goods per Palma not cleared at 4 p.m. bad received a serious setback through other ladies of light and leading are
Dr Chler has stated that the question on this date subject to rant.
America's recent insistent demand to anxious to have Japanese cherry trees than the liquor question. No doubt much of preserving the teeth is more important share in any money-landing transactions planted in the newly planned. Washing dyspepsin is due to decayed and defective that may be going in China, and point ton Park on the banks of the Potomac, tooth, which preclude complete untication ing out that Japan and Great Britair therefore the City Council of Tokyo of the food. Dentists, like doctory, are now beginning to realize that their true Goods per Nippon undelivered after this were always banded together to thwart have resolved to present Washington on nut ** general rebuilding China and her good friend, America. Park with 200 Japanese cherry trees,arstom," but a systematic and well-consid The suggestion is too naire to need re- ten feet high, as a mark of the good-ered effort to prevent and overcome tha Tuting, and did we not know by bitter will now maimating the two nations" decay, and loosening of human teeth.
MEMOS FOR MONDAY,
Meeting- Nocn--Mooting of Hongkong & Wham
pog Dock Co., LL, at Co.'s Office. Miscellaneous
date subject to rent.
General Memoranda.
WEDNESDAY, August 25:-
+
2.30 p.m.Auction of Hoanabold Font experience that a certain section of the Can one wonder that the cynic smiles?
Foods.
tare, de. at Mr G. P. Lammert's zalos, American press je always seeking for Goods per Australien anclaimed after this trouble in the hope periventure that
date at noon will be subject to rant it may obtain something that may ad- and landing sharges.
Goods per Kanagana Maru sob cleared vantage itself while fishing in the med-
onthis date subject to rant..
after this data subject to reat.
Goods per U. Ford, Lasis: undelivered dy waters, we would pass it by with the contempt that it deserves. The New
THURSDAY, August 26;-
11am--Auction of 2,500 tons of Austra-Fork Herald. of late Lus "gone a great
lian Coal at Raumati Police Station. Goods per Bentaters undelivered after
this date subject to rent.
FRIDAY, August 27
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr William O. Jack, M.I.N.A., of Hong Rong, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institure.
Mr W. G. Reibling, chemist in charge of
GOVERNMENT DROPS 18 BILLS, the police of what had happened. With
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) Lowson, August 21. Mr H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, in a statemnant on public business; stated
all dispatch the police proceeded to the spot where they found the Indian sargbant with his head battared in and bis left shoulder deeply cut. He was quito dead. The other poor fellow bad crawled away to shelter, but he died before the polies could bring him is
So las no arreste have been made, andę
that the Government intended to pass it is surmised that the Irigands have ten Bills, including the Finance Bill,aped over the border into Okinam
territory. The final dimensions of the great the Irish Land Bill, the London Elec We would like to state that there is nớ drydock which the United States Davy lotions Bill, and two Naval Bills dealing foundation for the report that this
ticular escort used to be in charge of bulding at Pearl Harbour, in the Hawaiian with the decisions of the Imparia-European officer, and that in deference to Islands, show that the America Govern Defence Conference. Eighteen Bills the recommendations of the Atetrenchment meat is wisely building for the future. The would be dropped, including the Welsh dock will be 1,163 feet long from the coping Disestablishment Bill to the outer sill, 110 feet wide at the top, and will have 35 feet of water over the entranco sill at mean high-water level There will be a sill at the middle of the
OFLAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY. HS is a medicine of great worth and merit. Try to when you have a tough
Committee this officer was withdrawn. No European officer has ever been detailed før this particular daty.
SOLD THE WORLD OVER,
have in stock many colla sad W dinerhuss, moiicines, anyu Bu d
deul out of its way to plice England and the English in the most unfavour, the cement and concrete testing Inbotaboru i dock, for an intermediate caisson whick or cold and you are certain to be pleased White, #prominent merchant, of: Turtle"
of the bureau of science in the Philippines, will divide it into two docks, 575 feet, and is coming to Hongkong to spend an inder. 532 feet long respectively. inite period at the works of the Green
able light zis-a-vis China. It has left 2.30 p.m.--Auction of Household Furai.
ture, at No. 3, Elbe Buildings (Erste stous naturned to show what a really floor). Goode per Prins Waldemar undelivered despicable and ruffianly nation we are,
after this data subject to rent,
SATURDAY, August 28:-
8 p.m.-Boxing at City Hall,
MONDAY, August 30 :----
Goods par America Muru undelivered at
Noon on this date subines to rent,
and always have been, in our relations
with the Middle Kingdom, and per con
Goode per Mongolia undelivered at noon tr what paragous of virtue; refinement
this data subject to rent.
and unblemished probity the Americans have always shows themselves to be. Now fair fighting, we can understand and appreciate; the tactics of the New York Herald, however, are not fair, and we hesitate entering the liste against an opponent naing auch despicable wen-
The Chim Mail
Island Cement Company."
The English Mail took sway to-day bir
5. W. Beton, who has been a prominent member of the Parsee community of Hong.
SPORTING
Water Polo.
The final games in the seventh round of kong for the last 6 years. He returns to the Water Polo Ebield Ties ware decided at India in consequence of his firm, Masers the V.R.C. yesterday afternoon.
Phirozshs B. Petit and Co., haring closed The Lusitano Rereation Club soratobed their establishment, here owing to the da to the Corinthian Yacht Club, thus giring pression in the yarn market and the virtual the CTC. other win and adding two extinction of the opium trade. Mr Setna's more points to their score. departure is deplored by all who know - The Rt. Es. sosly defoutsd the 37th Co him, either in busingss or socialiy
FG.A by 4 goale to nil The play was
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, Avovar 21, 1909, fons as those which the New York ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
paper habitually employs. It used to be a reproach justifiably levelled against For stealing a quantity of bacon, the pro- American school-books that history, so party of Lane, Crawford and Co., a coolie was at the Magistracy to-day sentenced to
THE LICENSING QUESTION.
Tax resolutions passed on the 18ths far as it concerned the relations between three weeks hard labour. lost. at a meeting of the unofficial America and England, was.
members of the Legislative Council distorted within their pages, the result
Thres wesic imprisonment and
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wroze a native for stealing * quantity of paint, led at 75 chats, from Taikoo Dockyards
Erant Two Darelative to the amendment of the Liquer being that generation after generation hottes stocks was the sentouse imposed on
Licensing Ordinance, will, we feel sure, of American school mcat with the approval of the general brought up to hate the English, and all public. The glaring anomalies and that pertained to them Happily those
thing of the inequitable differences which disfigurs school-books are now our present system, and which would But the legacy which they have Maturdays and BUNDAYS, & P.M. have been intensified que hundredfold by behind is all we
SISTERS, MADAME HARRISON, MATINEESA
Hongkong, Barchi by 1800,
53. the scheme impounded by the Govern. She
Ván two hisipen man and R WOOLATE withr Fraudulently obta
4 in the birds of the R. E team.
A friendly game was played between the Boys' Own Club and the Buffe, which proved a very even and interesting contest. "The result wa
Baf76 goals, B. O, C. 4 goals, et, qonda kadag
the Court of Arches, the Dean of the Arches Bir L. Dibdin) had given judg. ment in the ault promoted by the Blahog of Oxford again the Bay, O. P. Heply, lacumbent of Wolverton St Mary for alleged offences against the peclesiastical law of the Church of England in regard to the reservation of the Sacrament, the nee of sabut unwathorised critesandoremo and discbedienos to a monition of the The Dean found that all the against the defendant had been and thai la natat pe sentanod to dep tion, but adjgamed', the turtber-boura
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