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taking propositions, the more it is looked ponderosity of their mental processes inte ester are the objectious, which To avoid such tragedies in the futu arise to militate against its workability- then, we must elimiante the Jikk, for be The New Territory aullers from a ck has ceased to represent the majesty of of roads, to begin with, secondly, the the law in Chinese criminal eyes, and we farming system fallowed there mostly must replace him by the European, who wret crope are mised is entirely dif- embodies the necessary qualities most ferent from that pursued on the veldt inefficiently and successfully. Of course South Africa. We introduce the com-this is a costly ping which we are ad parison because correspondents in our vocating: but the Colony will find it to columns bare urged upon our readers its advantage to adopt such a course consideration the system of the tape the police are to adequately deal with Mounted Police as a worthy medef the problems, presented by the Chinese imitate in reorganising the police forces crimians who find refuge and asylum of the New Territory. What is within our territories.
pently suitable for the wide-Hang sandy spaces of the Cape we are afraid would! prove very much of a failure in the paddy-lands auf pathless farm lands lying at the back of the Kowloon hills The circumstances being so different i would be folly to sat op 2 force whose MANUFACTURES ONLY practical utility time would quickly show
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NEWS OF THE DAY,
Forty Chinase and two Japanese have sucuonibed to cholers at Newphwang since the outbreak of the disease.
Manila papers are discussing the rumour of a direct line of steamers from America to the Philippines.
Proskiont Taft, following the example
next month..
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909.
[CorvRRET]
FRIL
LORD ELIOT DEAD.
ND. I DERFFLINGER,
FOREIGNERS IN
IN PERSIA.
BRITISH SENDING RELIEF.
(Ppm Our Own Correspondant.)
FOUND SHOT IN A GUNECOM.
PROCEEDING BLOWIE.
(Brom Due On
The N. DLstasmer
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, August 25, LONDON August 26.
Lord Eliot, oldest stm of the Earl of in Hongkong on-the The Tur correspondant at Teheran wires that bir Wright of the Ball St. Germans, was found shot dead inlling slowly owing ton damaged pro- of Farsia, and Mr James, of the Indo- the gunroom of his father's country the Needles in the English Channel European Telegraph Company, are in seat. He had been in ill-health for when she started her present royuge, grave danger ata villge fifty miles west some time.
of Kerman.
"Eight hundred-robbers are attacking a tower wherein the people have taken refuge.
The British Foreign Oflice are taking all possible steps to send relief.
MANCHURIAN PROB-
LEMS
By it's provisions. Japan recognises Chiontao as Chinese territory nader Chinese jurisdiction, and it is agreed that the railway may be extended north wards of Hsinmintar after the negotia-
The scaffolding in front of Me aration of detaile Jardine's new offices was finally cleared way today. The building links very handsome and substantial.
We have receivest from the & merimo
Consulate-General in Hongkong two copies
Japar has agreed that the Fushun and Yentai Collieries shall be treated, as concessions, Japan to pay a royalty on the output to China.
otoDucensed, who would have been years of age on August 30th, was hair to about 19,800 seria, în Cornwall and abcestershira-En. . .]
THE COTTON TRADE.
A
COMBINE
(Reuter's Sermod to: the Chie's (fail,)
LONDON, August 25. A Manchester cotum trace meeting, representing three or four million spind
The decision only affects spinners of Ameriean colton.
THE SINKING OF THE COLUMBIA.
A PANIO AT NIGHT.
CHINA AND JAPAN' AGKEL.
(From Our Otch Urrespondant).
SHAGHAL, August 26. Sizce the new far came into love An agreement was signed by reprees, has resolved to form an association, use. The great majority of the in-one million Manis cigare have so far sentatives of China and Japan yester the members of which will bind them- babitants of the New Territory afectored the United States duty free.
day afternoon.
selves to severe financial pennities if peaceful, law-abiding farmers and peas-
they sell yarn under the minimum (c) hats, men and women who have come of Me Rosevelt, will long American ter
prices fised by the association. to appreciate the blessings of tran-ritory, when he calls or President Diaz quility which has followed, the equitable PARIS, administration of law set up by the STREET.British Government. But there are among them masterless rogues whose instincts are wholly criminal, and these are ever on the waich to break the law' whenever opportunity presents. TR them come from across the border many criminals and vagabonds" fleeing from justice for the too close in- terference of Chinese triboons or their that the threatened boycott of British The North Chine l'a'y Newx, lens myrmidone. Now the only way to steamers calling at Kluking has bagen keep these lawless and feckless men The China Merchants are benefitting most within the orderly limits of the and next to them come the Japancso
hunts. King's pence is to show them that the Government has at ita disposal
The Fog Loug Agent of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd., informg a thoroughly efficient body of Europe
Ius that the total output of the Company's police who are read at any moment to three mines for the week ending 14th Aür. repress my acts of lawlessness. We190, amounted to 209,574.44 tour and the spent advisedly in this matter. The sales during the pariod to 13,144710 tons. Average Chinese criminal of the present
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RATES OF SUICENTION" (Papable in advance). Omiya Mask (daily) 8:00 per month
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por year.
Free delivery to all addresses accessible by mexer ger, including all Peak, Kowloon and Quarry Bay residences..
Single copies, Daily, ten cents; Weekly,
thirty cents; for cash.
of a map showing" the exact desiguations used by the Manila Observatory when issuing typhoon warnings.
ay
city.
The Japanese and Chinese stations st Mukden are to be remored inside the (Reuter's Servire to the China Mail)
LANDON," August 25. The Newchang-a-shib-chen line is to
The latest reports from Monta Video be continued der Japanese working,
ed int the Settlement: China agreeing to the line being extending the collision of the N.DL. lizer Schlesign with the Argentine excursion sterner Columbia state that about eighty persons perished when the Columbia went down, the rescued being mostly sailore
A PROVINCIAL REVOLT.
TROOPS SENT TO REPRESS REBELLION.
علم
Most of the passengers were sleeping at the moment of the collision, when a wild panic casted, and the vessel sank in five minutes.
"(Wah Tez Yat Po's Service.)
SHAXONAL, August 25, The inhabitants of the Tan Yang District in Chiukiang-fa, Kiangsu pro- Įvince, have broken out in rebellion. The North German Lloyd has sold its They have demolished the district day has fan absolote contempt for the steamers Bayern, Shehnen, and Presasenyamen.
city gates have been. lukong and the Indian constable: that of 11,800 metres length, 1,371 metres closed and the Governor of Kinngan
breadth, and 0.45 metres "depth, 3.142 has sent a large number of troops to SOME DETAILS OF THE MAN- cubic metres and 3,000 indicated h.p., con suppress the rebele..
has been demonstrated again and again
in recent years. These types of police may still have their uses in the central
Telegraphic Address, MAL, Hongkonstricts of the Colous--though we must
Code, A. B. C., fifth edition."
CHINA MAD, LIMITED.
structed in 1886, to Italy. The steamors
were engaged in the made to the Far Farb
Mr Attorney-General Wickersham is
TELEPHONE NO. 27. confees that after a close observation of engaged to working out amendments to bo
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Auction.
こ
2.30 p.m.Auction of Household Fursi- tbrs, at No. 3, Blus Buildings (Orst floor).
Miscellaneous
GENUINE AGE 5 p.. Military Gan Practice.
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CHANGE OF PROBRAMME-
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MAGNIFICENT FILMS.
ANTİKTEN I
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Goods per Prinz Waldemar undelivered
after this date subject in rent.
General Memoranda”
SATURDAY, August 28:-
Beat the Hongkong Milling Co.'s premises, Junk Bay.
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Aue interstate commerce law. The Attorney-general is of the opinion that he can remodel the law in such a way that it will cover many of the alleged abuse by the trusts on which it has been impossible to get a conviction heretofore..
The
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
}}
General Sir John French is to advise Canada as to the defence of the Dominion,
Foking despatel reports that Thng Sluxe-yi in seriously ill at Tientsin, and is being attended by American doc örs.
THE
peller, The Derffinger wen
HIGH SOCIETY WEDDING.
BRILLIANT FUNCTION AT
SINGAPORT.
From Our Own Oorrespondent)«-g SINGAPORE, August 2 The marriage of Miss Anderson, daughter of Sir John Anderson, Gover nor of the Straits Settlements," was | most brilliant afair Five hundred Malays in their national costumes ware present. The bridal carriage was escort- ed by footballerer 1980
COLONIAL NAVAL EST-
ABLISHMENTS.
HALIFAX AND ESQUIMALT TRANSFERRED TO CANADA,
(Reuter's Service for the Chino Mail)
Lotor, August 26. The Colonial Naval Establishments Bill has been issued. It authorises the transfer of the naval stations at Es quimalt and Halifax to Canada" and legalises similar transfers in the future in other Colonica.
JAPAN
AND AMERICA.
THE VISIT OF COMMERCIAL
·MEN.
{"independent Netci agency's" Service to the China dail}
TOKYO, August 2x
A Cousalar telegram from Seattle says. that immediately on the publications of the names of the Japanese commercial visitors (who are headed by Baroz Shibusawa) they were welcomed by the Seattle Post Intelligencer, which editori
A heavy sea was running at the time, ally remarked that such a distinguished party of commercial representatives had CHINA-JAPANESE never before visited America. Ameri COMPROMISE. cane throughout the United States must recognise ite importance, for its effects would be far reaching.
CHURIAN AGREEMENT.
(Reuter a Service to the China blait) Losus, August 26. s
A compromise was reached on Tuesday on the main points of the "Manchurian questions, except those of jurisdiction and the Foshan and Youtai coal mines. The arrangement provides for the retrocession of Chientno to China, and
As Prince Ching,, Grand Councillors an undertaking that China will not Chang Chih-tong and Lu" Ch'uan-lin are butid a railway in the vicinity cr
o sick-leave, state affairs are mostly parallel to the South Manchurian rail left to the decision of H. E. Na Tung.
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both Chinese and Indian constables extending over a fairly reasonable period of time we have been reluctantly forced to the conclusion that even in the city of Victoria itself their powers seem fading. away into the blankness of atter in- eptitude-out in the New Territory & air presence is worse than useless,
What is most urgently needed at the present time, is an increase in the
also that they had no trial or warning. The Bar in January this year, is returning to 11.30 am.-Auction of Cement, Asphalt, European section of the force. The Acting assistant executive secretary the Shanghini, where he will take up legal;
Chinese residents of the Colany and the Philippines said that, the men were for the practice..
most part bad charactoza and by no means New Territory have a
A marriage will take place in September thorough and the respectable merchants they are said to wholesome respect for the European have been. They were landed by the between Hatry, youngest son of Alfred Hancock, late of Hongkong, and Ethel, Yaensang at Amoy. policeman. He is really the man who'
Margaret Seymour (Madge), elder daughter must be obeyed, and they obey him
of William Wright, late of Clifton, Bristol. with an alacrity bad a thoroughness.
Viscount Tredeger, the man who rode strangely at variance with their "be
down the Valley of Balaclava as Captain haviour when a Chinese Inkong or an crew of the ss: Syria were charged at the Godfrey Morgan and rode out of it the Indian constable is concerned. The Marine Court to-day, before Lieut, Bock- senior officer of the gallant Siz Hundred, moral is plainly to be read even by those
with, RN., with wilful disobedience while *Ppeared at the Welsh National Pageant in Cardiff on July 26 as the rebel chieftain who still cling to the idea that the
Owen Glendower. Everything went off Capt. D. C. Gregus stated that the well. Six hundered fairies danced drysbod picturesque Sikh or Pathan is the ideal refused duty from the 21st to the 25th of the green, 600 footballers stormed Gooda per Nile not cleared st&p.. on policeman for the Far East. Whatever August, and in spite of being twice logged
and fined they again refused to obey uzilers Cardiff Castle, sad nearly 4,000 Welsh scheme the Government may be matur-hile in dock. They assaltad the artiller men and women appeared in the grand ing in the way of retrenchment to meet in charge of the refpigerwing machine, aid finalo. The York Pageant began the same the depletion of the local Treasury, it for this also they were logged and fined would be nothing short of criminal folly had to be separated by the officers...
but they repeated the conduct ister and
Interviewed by the représentative of the Cablenews American, the Chinese Consul-General at Manila acknowledges tant the deportation of the twenty Chinose Mr Michael Hughes, Intely H. M. Consal referred to in our issue of yesterday, was at Nerchwang, and who was called to the made at his request. He acknowledged
2.30 p..Auction of Household Earni tare at No. 3, Gomes Villas, Kowicon. Bp.,Boxing at City Hall Gords par Mongolia undelivered at noon
thie date subject to rent. Goods por Flintshire not cleared on
this date at 3 p.m. subject to rent, Monday, August.30.;-
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farmi- turs, &c. at No. 56, Wyndham Street. Goods per America Mari undelivered at Goode per Sileria undelivered after this.
Noon on this date subject to rent..
date subject to reuti
TUESDAY, August 31:
2.30 p.m.Auction of Household Furnt tora. at No. 5. Clifton Gardons (25, Candait Road)...
this date subject to cent,
Famar, September 3:
8 p.ai-Masting of Cottam & Co., Ld.
at King Edward Hotel.
9 p.m.-Performance üb the City Ha TAX, September 7 :-
3.15 pm Mecting of His Majestys' Justices of the Peace at the Magistracy
The China Mail
:
TROUBLESOME LASCARS.
Twenty-seven lascars constituting the
at seh
11
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day, when a company of 3,000 persons reproduced the history of 2,000 years of the capital of the north."
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
to further reduce the European estab- Evidence was also given by Charles Dear. bishment of the police force. Instead, the boatswain, who deposed that he had atopa should be taken immediately to who had repeatedly insulted the chief had great trouble with the second tindal,
For being stowaways on board the a 2, strengthen it in
every way and expoci- officer and also threatened to kill him as Mausang from Bandakan three men were Hoyokong, Termsday, August 26, 1909, ally in the New Territory. The amount well witness. Four of the man were find $25 each at the Magistracy to-day.
the ringlendern. These incited the crew to be of petty robberies now taking place, the insult the officers nud refuse duty also. A shop keeper of Queen's Road recently POLICING THE NEW TERRITORY. great majority of which are never cleared daring witness to give. any further orders want to Canton leaving bis four fokis in to the lascara in pursuit of his duty, charge of the premises. While he was up, should convince the Government of
The Magistrate sentenced the second away they looted the place and got off with The weakest link in the administration the urgency of the question, while such tindal to 12 weeks head labour, and $780 worth of goods. No arrests have yet of the Colony and dependencies of murders as those reported last Friday forfelt 12 days per are ringleaders to been made. Hongkong is undoubtedly the police demonstrate the crucial weakness of the feiture of eight days pay; and two others
eight
weeks' imprisonment with the for
At the Marine Court yesterday the ystem of the New Territory. It is Indian policeman when confronted with to six weeks imprisonment and surrender curswain of the ferry launch Southern Bar altogether too inadequate for the geeds a sudden emergency. Their "orders" of six daya pay. Hp told the others to go was fined a nominal sum of 32 for failing of the time. The dreadful murder of had evidently not contemplated, any fing to do so he ordered them to be venting collisions at aca. As the result of
back to the ship and work, but on their to observe the roles of the road for pro two Indian policemen engaged on thing like the possibility of an ambush, imprisoned for four weeks ash and to wrongly altering his course he excised escort duty near Taipo has caused the eight incoat-looking Chinese forfeit four days pay as well. considerable discussion in the Colony squatting on wither side of
and the suggestion has been revived of roadway presented nothin MADAME HARRISON the advisability of raising mounted their unrel
unrefective TEL police force for the Hinterhand of therefore ma Kowloon. At first sight the suggestion ruffians rose and
but lite many other lives
MATINEES:
ER SATURDAYE and Bundays, aÐ Á PIL Hongkong March 5, 1969,
Seems
janksto glide into the ferry pontoon.
While serving a notice qu'a pagpbroker. DON'T IGNORE BLIGHT INJURIES, in the Central districts European copatal
CONT
Donglegt giving every
brulee prompt attenties
polton may appear and an
all dhagnesi, avoided
all cheudata and stori
slative wall id with " quanti
clothing which be
dently «walzg” – Ou soeing copped the bene
way, nor will she extend the Hsiumintun railway northward without consulting Japan.
AVIATION.
BLERIOT BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai} ... LONDON, August 26. Bleriot has beaten the Curtiss
[Noto-Daring its trip through America the party will be personally conducted by Mr C. F. McWiliaus, the well-known passunger agent of Tokohan.-E. C.M.
CHIENTAO.
RUSSIA AS THE FRIENDLY ADVISER.
(Wah Tu Yat Pla Service)
PERING, August 25. "The Russian Minister has drawn the attention of the Japanese Minister to the fact that the action of the Japanese in sending more troops to Chientas ie s breach of the Russo-Japanese peace treaty and he has asked that the Japa rese troops them be immediately with drawn.
JUDICIAL REFORM
(Wah Ter Yat Fo's Sermes.)
Perisa, Angust, 26. The Peking Gaverament has issued Hying record, monoplaning ten kilome orders to all provinces that steps should ters in 8m. 42/5 secs, at a spoed of be taken to establish a judicial depart- forty-six miles per hour:
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