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then the sooner it is resolutely faced | by the parents the better for the nation at hole. Hay be -that this is, by-product of dirilis
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Ila Minotaux arpected to reactr Hongkong on Saturday,
The English fail of the 5th February was delivered in London on the 8th March. Owing to the continued spread of
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1910.
A BREEZY IN THE SUPREME COURT.
Corynos.] PARLIAMENTARY RE- FORM.
The Libel Å ation.
GOVERNMENT ADVOCATES' SHORTER PERIOD.
[Corrarent.] KING EDWARD IN PARIS,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, March 9. His Majesty King Edward the Seventh has arrived at Paris and
Britain bas strong competitors to moisie sad mumpe the Kowloon British gare judgment in the case in which the (Reuter's Service to the Chine Muizchanged visits with President Fal..
face in the struggle for industrial | School has been closed for a month.
and commercial
supremacy. She must see to it that the sources which
have in timos past supplied her with the wherewithal which has given ber workmen a foremost place among the mechanics of the world must be amply renewed and replenished with fresh material as the day's go by.
It is true that of recent years the educational authorities throughout
During February 9,33,130 eignes wet saipped bront from Manis, the grest majority of which went to the United State.
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The small people of Hongkong sto delighted to hear that the Bandmann Opers Company will put ca a pantomime during their stay, especially such a favourite as
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Mr W. Reen Davies, acting Chief Justico, - and Mr Justice Gomperie, sitting a Fal Court, at the Supreme Court this morning
LOSTOR, March S. President in Hongkong of the Basil Missionary Society applied for special leare The Rt. Hon. H. FT. Aquith (Prime to appeal to the Privy Council against the Minister), replying to questions with decision of the Full Court in the case in regard to the resolutions dealing with which they sued the Hongkong Sheung Fo the House of Lords, mentioned that they newspaper. Ltd., and Hong Wa, editor, to would include proposals to shorten the
duration of Parliamento rocong damages for libel.
W. Slade, K.C., instructed by | Sir Locker, represented the appellante, and Str Heary Berkeley, K.C., instructed by Mr Otto Keng Sing, was for the re spondents.
THE TERRITORIAL FORCE.
SATISFACTORY EXPANSION. The Chief Justice said:-Wo wish it wor in our power to grant the leave asked for,
"(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) but we are of opinion that this case is not
Losoy, March S. one of great genem public importance within the moaning of ruls 2 (b) and wo The Rt. Hon. R. B. Hallane, Secretary think that the Privy Council may, in the of State for War, introducing the Army event of cur granting leave to appeal regard Estimates in the House of Commons, is an au abuse of the power given to the
lieres.
THE BUDGET REJECTION. A LOSS OF OVER 28 MILLIONS.
(Renter's Serin to the China Me.) Loxtoy, March 9. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, estimated the loss con- sequent on the rejection of the Budget by the Lords to amount to £29,500,000 It was, he added, Impossible to say how much of this was recoverable.
GERMANY'S LATEST
BATTTESHIP,
A DISASTROUS JIKE.
LONDON, March (Reuter's Service, to the China Mail.}
At Kiel a fire broke out on the new
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bin. But a change is gradually taking | From Saigon comes news of a destrac
shop in February 13, and caught some has yet in. It has evidently been other shops.. It took three hours for the realised thut, what with school garden-engines to master the damas. The damage, Noon-bacting of China Fire Insurance in elementary science, cookery and estimated at over $110,000, is nearly all
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2.30 p.ro. Auction of Chinese Porcelain at Mr Goo. P. Tammort's Saies Booms.
General Memoranda. FRIDAY, March 11:-
9 p.m.-Farewell Concert at City Hall. SATERDAY, March 19:-
19.30 p... Meeting of Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Gudorp Co., Ld. at Mcars Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s 20-Anction of Bath Ponies at Kennedy's Stables. Causaray Bay, 9.m.-Bozing at City Hall. MONDAY, Marsh 14:-
Neon-Auction of Longshold Property at Messrs Hughes & Hangh's Sales
Rooms.
TCE DAY, March 15
Noon-Meeting of the China-Borneo
Co.. d, at Co.'s Office. FRIDAY, March 18-
2 p.m.-Action of Household Farmi-
Jan Mor, Penk Read. ture, &c. Sp.m-Performance of Bandmann'e
Co., st City H Saturday, March 19:--
11.30 a..-Meeting of Green Island
Cement Co., L., as Co.'s Odices. 12.30 p.m.-Mesting of National Bank
of China, Ld. at Bank Office,
2.30pm-ion of High-class Jewel lary at Messrs Baghes & Hough's
Sales Rooms.
COL SEELY FINDS A SAFE SEAT.
JAPANESE CAPITAL IN MANCHURIA.
The silk shipped on board the M. M. the country have been grappling. Nera, which left Hoogkoog on the 1st Februry was delivered in Lyons on the with the question. The school 7th instant. A slight delay was caused by master of twenty years ago would the foods in France. hardly know where he was if put It is said that the American syndicate, in charge of a modern Council Mom McRae and Force, have been Court. We regret that the limitation said the Territorials were recruiting at accesssful in getting a contingent of Dyaks which, in our opinion, must be placed on the rate of a thousand a week and were School. The number and variety of together from the interior of Borneo to the rule prevents the appeal in the fine for SS3 per cent, of the full establish-1 anbjects raught or endeavoured to proceed to Amarica. Mr Force as gone instance to the Privy Council but it willment. The most pressing mead was
he as desires, for special lease to appeal thero was a deficiency. He anucunced for three tours. It will take several under the rules and we trust that the the establishment of an Aeronsutien1 weeks to repair the damage. place again. A mild form of reaction tive ure which broke out in a piecegoods Privy Council may see exceptional grounds Corps in the Regular Army.
for granting the application.
Mir Slade said that the decision of their lordships would prejudice them in their application. Most strongly he would ask thinking that it was of great general im- them to kindly state their reasons for not portance so that the Privy Council would be domestic economy, the ordinary school
able to judge the grounds upon which their eurriculum has been greatly over.
The 38th issue of the list of lighthouses, lordships exercised their discretion under light-resols, bouys and beacons on the coast the rule. He believed their lordships were crowded that, in fact, attempts were and rivers of China has just been published willing to help plaintiffs and he asked them grant the appeal unless it was apparent on being made to specialise before the by the Imperial Maritime Customs. It is to do so as the Privy Council would not most excefully compiled and contains nine the face of it that they had exercised their ground work had been properly over-coloured charts: showing the position and discretion upon wrong grounds.
So there has been a gradual, kind of lights.
TheChief Justice-There is nothing norel come.
in the point of law and it cannot be re-(Under Secretary of State for the Lower House of the Diet that the and to car way of thinking, a most
During the week cruded February 21,garded as of great general and public Colonies in the late Administration) has Government fully recognized the neces-- curtailident of technical the roughest weather
importance. on record was necessary
Mr Slade Might I point out to your been elected, the figures being:
Seely (L) ... instruction in the elementary day experienced on the route from Bangkok to lordships that after Siz. Henry Borkaley was waiting to reply to the
Wright (U.) schools. The policy now being pursued wings carried off in the storm and had to our cailed Singapore. One local ateamer had her now had finished
had raised and your lordships Dever called upon me to do so. is to carefully, instruct the coming seek shelter in one of the ports of the The Chief Justice-We thought that you Mr Siade-Normally it is proper to call generation in the basic subjects, to Peninsula, whilst other local steamers had had said all you wished to say.
to put out to sea, rather thau risk the
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give every encouragement to talent in rhataror form it is revealed, and to pass the scholars by a natural process into the secondary schools which have sprung up in such great numbers during the past five or six years. Here they can specialise to their heart'e content. The fruits as yet can not be asen; we must await the verdict
of the years. Side by side with this method is springing up the idea of the catablishment of institutions which shall essentially be trade schools, while, as
covered by insurADCE.
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down by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty is The delimitation of the frontier as laid
proceeding space. Colonel H. Milbourne Jackson, R.E.. (Surreyor-General, F.M.S.). the president of the British Commissioners, is at present in Palis where the British and Siamese surveyors have commenced work. Major-General Phyn Narend, the chief Siamese commissioner, is now in cap.
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LIBERAL MAJORITY
REDUCED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai)
Lopes, March 8.
SPECIE BANK'S. LATEST SCHEME.
("Independent News Agency's" Service to the China Mail)
Tore, March 9. Yesterday Marquis Katsure, the Pro- A breelection has taken place at mier, explained to a Committee of the keston (Derbyshire), and Colonel Seely
Liberal Majority
10,201 6,871
3:333.
Bity for a Commercial Bauk in Man-- churia, buz regretted that the time was not opportune for starting a bank with big capital there. He announced,
[Note-It will be remembered that Cel:however, that the Yokohama Specio Seely was defeated in the General Election Bank had decided to advance about " at the Abereremby division of Liverpool Yen 3,000,000 to Japanese in Mon- Apparently Sir W. Foster, who was return-
"Sir Henry Berkeley-You said you would reserve your decision and toy friend oughted for Ilkeston, resigned in order to secure churia on security of landed estates."
4 Col. Soely's return to Parliament. Tho to have said he wished to reply.
Mr Shade Your lordships might just as well hare beard mo, and I could hare demolished my friend's arguments.
The Chief Justion-Whist is the paint you want? If we graut save to appeal the Privy Council might think it ap abuse of
our power.
It Sladefboatedly)-I beg your lord- ship's parden. It was a falacious argumont
Mr Justice Gompertz-We shall not alle you or your diant to lead us into an abuse of our power under the Privy Council
The Chief Justice-I theaght you had! A soldier 'bolonging to the 88th Cusaid all you winked to my R. G. A. has been missing since February 18, on which day he was seen in Caine Rond
and Im Bis description in as about p.m. follows-Height Bit. Si in.: complexion, allow; blue eyes; dark brown hair; we indicated in opening, there is also small brows "moustacho, aged 35. Bo is an Irishman and information as to a very considerable demand for a rehas where bouts will be thankfully received BONORONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1910. Vival of the old apprenticeship system, by the authorities.
pure simple. There can be no doubt |
An expedition from H. M. cruisor AN INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM,
but that the latter suggestion has Hyacinth and the troopship Bardinge land.
The China Mail.
The Chief Justice The words of great general and public importance are rery significat.
figures at the bye-election were W This new scheme would come into. Foster (L), 10.632; Mr F. St. John operation in May. Morrow ( 6,432 Liberal Majority, 4,200.-ED. . M.]
ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL AGREEMENT:
IS GERMANY EVADING TER
JAPAN'S NEW TARIFF.
BILL PASSES LOWER HOUSE. ("Independent · News Agency's" Seruteg
to the China Mail,)
Toxro, Marah. The bill providing for the new Cus tomas Tariff has passed the Lower House, with but slight amendments, and those a discussion on the Navy Estimates suggested by the Seiyukai
QUESTION?
(Reuter's Strace to the China Afail.) Lostor, March. 9.
A Berlin message alates that during
Mr Slade The points decided in this in the Reichstag the Socialists declared case met upon no authority, it is in that the ommission of the Chanceller MANHOOD SUFFRAGE IN. absolutely novel application.
to mention on the 6th inst the question Sir Henry Berkeley-My friend ought of the limitation of armaments justifed fo have mid he wished to reply.
Mr Slade-I never asked for your lord-British mistrust.
ship's sympathy. I asked you to apply. Admiral von Tirpitz, Becretary of the power which your lordships have the Navy, denied that the Government
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a speedy and efficacious remedy, TRx question of à revival of the old, much to recommend if it could be fed at Jask, on the Persian Cusat, under 48 this decision affects a large number had evided the question of natal (Independent News Agincy's" Servise-
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of Britain's elementary educational
of corporations bero..
The Chief Justice-I don't think it: affects them.
Mr Slada-It: your lordships please, your lordshus, I am sorry to say, have failed to approdate my paint, that where a corpora tien aufera dimago by reason of such werds according to your lordships judgment it is
to the China Wail) the command of Colonel Delamaina, march-
ciso with Britain. He agreement thoroughly carried into effect. Thereed for seven and a half hours, and attacked
Toxro, March 9. denied that the German programme is nothing like thoroughness in learn- an arms depot at a Lascar village on the
Tho genehal suffrage bill now being was being accelerated. ing, and whatever else can be said of Jagin River. The position was taken, and
Several English newspapers, while discussed in the Diet is being opposed 760 rifles, besides bayonets and gunpowder, the system which has now fallen into were destroyed. The British losses tera
reciprocating Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg's by the Goverment which declares that desnetude it has to be admitted that it nil. Three Afghans were killed. The ex-exceedingly unlikely that they can recover(the German Chancellor's) sentiments such a measure is still premature in
amity, insist that the building of Japan. pedition re-embarked at Jaak on Jan. 28.
Mr Justice Gourpertz-If this Ccart ils the German. Navy was proceeding on to appriciate your argument it is your duty an unjustifiable scale for defence and Possessed this "recommendation in a
to put it before us properly,
consider that the existing friendsbip naked degree. The question is whether
The Chief Justice-We thought you had is costing Britain millions every year said all you wished to my and if you wished for a doubtful advantage.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alco Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to
the damages.
said f
Sir Henry Berkeley-When I sat down
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TO VISIT ENGLAND. ("Independent News Agency's" Service?
to the China Mail)
Toxro, March 9. Barca Cam, the Minister for Agrical
Sa rele a man will feel well antisfied if ture and Commerce, will leave Tokyo-
Mir Sudo-I was sitting do to hear me. A be a hobble around on arutches in on the 26th inat. for England.
Would your lordships put in your decision two or three weeks after spraining hu the grunds of your decision and that in aankle, and it is two or three moniky, b
belom
10 caso cf libel like this the individual can ho is fully recovered. This in an aveces!
which Chamberlain's Pain Balm I bou
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ofren fta, dises. It always rẻ-, The Chief Justice-The object of the promptly and freely applied complete had the moulding and administering possible to revive the old and important
rule, which is a new rule, which has just cora has been effected in laus than ore sufes from a cold or from an track of the heen paised is that this application cannot week's time, and in some cases within grip. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy quickly order to drive out the floode in be regarded in the category of one of great three daya, Pain Bain is most widely cure these discuses and subteracts any part of the system of intimate relations Paris it will be to up preumonis. Isis made roughness of the skin.system did not worry about arysning between employer and employed. At rebuild Hewers, reconstruct pavements, your abiection we propees to add, "the team. Bot wais by all chemists and store especially for Esau ate and storekeepens
remedy was for the individuals to sea for keeper. more formidable than "the three R'." any rate, the movement is being heartily and turn miles and miles of atresia upsidedor for the corperation to bring the They left the question of preparation taken up and the bigger companies are the damage done to business by the stosing Sir Henry Berkeley. The application-is
down. It to this talerial damage is added | action for libel.":
dismissed with costs? A S. WATSON & CO., for any one particular trade or calling to be canvassed to aasist in the cam-of shops, that caused by the destruction of
Mr Sisde-I now apply for a stay of severely alone. But these were times paiga. To secure
the continued stations, which will have to be rebuilt, and execution until we make an application when practically every lad on leaving development of trained skill is one that the losses to private persone, the sum of to the Privy Council on the ground that £60,000,000 appears, anys the Telegraph, to the defendant company has now died its school was "bound" to an employer. must commend itself to all who wish bransonable estimate of the loss of Paris Loro if we pay over these costs we shall
petition and in liquidation. It was here that he learned the secreta Britain well. Its maintonance is the alone, without calculating the damage to navor get them back again. of skilled and specialised labour. And life-blood, as it were, of our great the devastated country. It is the cost of in the main the results were certainly industrial nation. The ultimate result.
Since that time, of-the movement will be looked for Capt. Cayley has established bimeolf in no power in the maker, in learned most satisfactory.
the confidence and respect of the ship's friend. had now no legal remedy in company of the Minotaur by the spacch that court or that colony and application apezial leave. The matter being at an end which he made a few days before she init must be made to the Privy Council for Portsmouth. He emphasised the import in that court there was no jurisdiction in apes of all ranks being inspired with a that court to deprives successful party of souse of duty. He appealed to the men their pata.
Mr Justice Gomperts-Are the solicitor to keep sober, and cheerful and to calti-
willing to give an undertaking! vato the qualities which made for good gir Henry Berkeley--Ada zaatter of comradeship, and asid that in such aims fact they are.
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