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but to take to this is to admit himself a failure and hopelons and that the
'NEWS'OF THE DAY.
·CLAIM FOR MONEY LENT
BARGAIN parsuit of happiness is no longer the wis delivered in London on the 5th April. Supreme Court this morning. Laung Wing
am of his life. ` Tile principle is not FOR
therefore of universal application, or if it be argued that the London CASH!! costermonger who indulges in batting
in
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Flowers,
Millinery,
FOR
etc., etc..
AT
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AND
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$45.
upon a race horse, and the Chinsee coolie who spends his nights at the fantan table are really seeking bap. piness, however unwisely, then it leads' to bad courses and ought not to be the aim and goal of life.---
Tet the assertion is, of course, not so very far from the truth, and with some modification it may be possible to find a phrase to which exception cannot so readily be found. We are not going to assume that we have found a salation to the problem of life.) Like a scientific theory, it will have to pass through many transformations before it can be said to have been
The English Hall of the 8th March Before Mr Justion Gomperts, at the
Tong sund Ho Shun and others to recover $500 due under a promissory nota.
There are now 53,650 Japanese re- ident in Manshorts, 12,514, representing 81,976 live at Tairon (Dálny), !!!
4.
The silk shipped on board the M, M. 8. Armand Behin, which left this port on the 1st March was delivered in Lyons on the 5th April.
The Hoo. Tressures of the... Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals born to acknowledge with thanks the following
donation to the furds of the Hospitals:-
A. S. Watson & Co. ... "0. M.
850 G
The Ror. T. W. Pearce, the popular Superintendent in Hongkong of the London Mission, has gotte Home on furlough and will probably be absent from the Colony for some 35 months. He was badly need- ing a rest, and will be greatly missed by his numerous friends..
Mr F. X. D'Almada a Castro appeared for plaintiff and Mr Jackson defended the third defendant.
Mr D'Almada said the money was paid! to the Nam Sing ärm And Ho Sing signed for it.
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His Lordships--I suppose, Mr Jackson, your defense is that he is not a partner? Er Jackson-No, my lord, he is partner.
Mr Jackson rained & Eschnical point as to the question of the fugality of fonding money to partners and his Lordship
reserved his decision.
CORRESPONDENCEL 2
LIQUOR REBATE TO THE MILITARY.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1910
(Ootermans}"
ANOTHER FRENCH
STRIKE
SHIFFING PARALYSED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
Lostos, April 4.
**
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THE POPE AND ME. ROOSEVELT.
WHY AN AUDIENCE WAS NOT
[GRANTED,
The Naval Reservista Federation at (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, "April 6. Marseilles has proclaimed a strike as a protest against the arrest of the stokers
Cardinal Marry del. Val has explained of the liner "Moulouya," who struck that Methodists have been conducting work because Arabs were employed in a moet offensive and continuous cam- the stokehale.
paign against the Vatican, henes the Pope's objection to receiving Mr. Roosevelt in audience unless he gave the assurances asked for.
Shipping is paralysed. The Glovemment are taking vigorous measures, and are preparing to carry the mails on warships.
TURKISH NAVAL REORGANISATION.
ADMIRAL GAMBLE'S
SUEZ CANAL CONCES- BION.
AN IMPORTANT DEULARA-
TION
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, April 6.
"SUCCESSOR.
(Reuter's Service to the China. Mail)e
Loses April 4: Reuter's correspondent at Consta
Williams of the British Nary succeeds abide by the decision of the Assembly Rear Admiral Camble, who had been concerning the renewal of the Subs
Canal concession. appointed to reorganise the Turkish
·A· Cairo: menrage states that the-
solved finally, if it is ever to be solva has received notification from the Socre. Bagimont has drawn a cout of this rebate, tinople wires that Rear-Admiral H. P-Premier has announced that he will.
atal. But as an alternative, and one of wider application let us suggest that
S. MOUTRIE & CO., the main incentive to living is to be
LIMITED.
BIRTE.
NOLANA.. the. Government Ciri Hospital this morning, April 8th, the wife of N. G. NOLAN, "Chiof Interpreter, Supreme Court, of a son.
A. S. WATSON IMEMOS FOR TO-MORKOW,
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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
F
formed in the satisfaction feit in the completion of the daily round of work,
(To the Editor of the "Conta Max,") Sir,-Having read the vary interesting leader in your paper of to-night re the liquor rebate to the Military, I think that the Royal Engineers are very fortunato The American Association of China indeed is not a single man in the Buffy tary of State-at Washington to the effect neither do we know what has become of it. that the Miniator to Peking and the United I trust this may have the desired effect of States Consul General at Shanghai have haring it paid to us or at least of having the concino quedat for an extension of the Thanking you in anticipation. Yours been instructed to favour the Municipal satisfaction of knowing where it has gone
traly.... Settlement.
-Hosezeno, April 5,
→
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ITEMS AT THE COURTS.-
Navy,
-THE POLITICAL CRISIS..
This statement was received with- load cheering
A Committee
the Assembly recently reported objecting to the
PREMIER REFUSES TO DIS-immediate renewal of the concession.
ME ROOSEVELT IN ITALY.
RECEIVED BY THE KING..
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, April 4.
lery at Mosars Hughes & Hough's Artizan, clerk and petty merchant ràption is said to be shove the France. At the Magistracy to-day Mr J, R. Wood Conservatives “fusilladed" Mr. H. H.
Anction.JESE IamAction of High-class Jowel
Sale Rooms, 2.30 p.m.-Auction Valuable Bousehold Faraitare, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Sale Rooma.
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King Victor Emmanuel received ar- President Roosevelt to-day and had
CLOSE PLANS,
Fourteen Chiness" stole their passage (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) Loros, April 4. from Canton last night by the A. Heungs-
In the House of Commons to-day hau but were arrested on arriving here. ordered them to pay fines of $10 each or
Aaqaith with questions and interject- undergo 14 days' imprisonment.
ions regarding the Government's intent- ions respecting the Budget, the House of Lords, and the ministerial coalition. | three-quarters of an hour's convSISA- The Premier calmly faced the at- tion with him. Mr Roosavalt related
and tack, repeatedly counselled his shooting experiances. members that they must wait and see. He declined throughout to discloss the plans of the Government...
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION.
Ruments are float to the effact that and in the confident expectation of the new Convention between Russia and all men that in some way or ether it Japan has been agreed upon with a vict leads, surely though slowly to the to axtanding the scope of the nxisting Con attainment of an adequate and creation concluded at the end of 1907 and to placing the relations of the two countries portionate reward. This will, at least, upon a new and fraternal basis. It is to be include the, sane
and thoughtful sigood at no distant date. The now Coa Japan understanding in its importance and to be practically as good as an alliance.
Mesars Laigh, and Orange write to say The Commissioner of Customs at Amoy that the statement that they have obtained in a telegram dated March 31 bays that the contract for the Swatow Waterworks is the Tjibedas abandoned two steam launches incorrect. They say:-"We are not the which she had been towing, utar Alligator contracters for this work but are soting Rock (near Faochow) and that they trenow for the Swatow Waterworks Co., as their derelicts and dangers to navigation. They Consulting Engineers, and are now busy have no crows on board. making detailed survey with a view to preparing a contract which will probably The Japan Chronicle of March 23 mys: be let in a few months' time." The informWe regret to record the death of Lowes ation which is now contradicted was culled Wingfield Moore (Baron de Heer), which frem o Shanghai contemporary.
place early yesterday morning. The de- ceased, who was a resident of Kabe for Selig. Brodetsky, who was brücketed | aightear years, and well-known in the Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, has won foreign community, had only been III for
arther notable sucess at the University about a fortnight.
for we can hardly call him sane or thoughtful" why spends three-quarters of his existence in penuriously say ing in order that the remainder may be spent in ease or pleasure. It will also include the misaonary, the scientist, and the great majority of workers Nooz Meeting of Urion Insurance Soin literature, none of whom can look
ciety of Canton, Id., at Head Office.
General Memoranda,
SATURDAY, April 9:---
9 p.m.-Boxing at City Hall.
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tura, at the Residence of Bishop's Lodge (South) No. 5, The Peak.
from this proposition to Bay that happiness consists in work success fully accomplished, and even in un successful work, provided that
The China Mail.
is
not altogether hopeless, but that work, HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1310. disassociated from hope, leads to the
IN PRAISE OF WORK.
In the racst readily accepted conclusions there is always an element of falsehood. and it would be possible to maintain the thesis that the greater the element A Blend of the Finest Pure of untruth the more generally is the Malt Whiskies distilled in conclusion accepted and neted upon, We will take as an example the state. Scotland
ment so often made that the twentieth
OF
AND
in the Isaac Newton scholarship, tenablo
The case in which an ex-compradore of
MK BOŇAR ĹAW'S POINTED CRITICISM
Refer's Service to the China fail.)
Losoon, April 4. Mr. Asquith's motion, that the
direst calamities alika to the individual already holds the Marmaduke Levitt (£40% mentioned at the Magistracy to-day by M- House, go into committes to consider
and the community.
NEWS OF THE DAY.....
The greater portion of the Autang- Makden Railway reconstructed by Jupan has been completed and opened to traffic.
for three years, the emolument of which is
wanted by the Chinese authorities at £200 per annum. Brodutsky thus adds the .a. Bujun Maru, named Li U. Mui, is another to his long list of scholarship. Shanghai or a charge of kidnapping, was the Anthony Death (60), the Fishmon, L. Dennys, who stated that he had gers Company's (250), Trinity minor received information that the witness and (£60), and a Trinity major (£110). Sure-papers would arrive here on the 13th inst, tal of these have two years yet to run. The esse was accordingly adjourned to the
14th
11
Dr Kustner, who fing just been awarde ed the covered gold medal of the Royal U.S. SeDate has confimed the Astronomics Society, mainly for his dis The nomination of former Governor Genasal covery of the "variation of latitude," was Smith of the Phillipines and the other mem. led to suspect that phenomenon while bers of the recently created Customs Court.measuring the apparent displacement of certain stars due to the finite ratio between
the relations of the House of Lords and, the House of Commons as well- as the question of the duration of. Parliament, was carried without a division, after the Opposition amend mant had been rejected by 357 to 125 votes.
PRINCE TSO LEAVES JAPAN.
"Independent News Agency's” Service
Ito the China Mail.)
TOKYO, April 6. Prince Teo Teni left Tokobama to-day for America by the sa. Chiya
Maru
The warships Tsukuba and Tak- achiho accompanied the distinguished visitor out of harbour.-
́SUPPOSED REVOLU- TIONARY PLOT,
ELEVEN BIEN ARRESTED.
Sun A. Wan, who recently appeared at the Magistracy in extradition proceedlings,
(Walk Tea Yat Po's Service.) after haring appeared twice at the Supreme
PEKING, April 5. Mr. Bonar Law ridiculed the fuss The directors of the Board of Interior Court on a writ of habeas corpus, was handed over to the Chinese authorities on about the Lords when there was have arrested eleven persons, suspected. Unionist Government of being concerned in a revolutionary Monday by order of His Excellency the certainly Governor, Chief Detective Inspector Han
Nationalists represented a mandate to PRINCE REGENT'S LIFE. destroy the British Constitution.
From Messrs Kelly and Walsh we the speed of the earth in its orbit and the son condpeted the prisoner to the Pavailable to restore the veto. It was plot. They will be tried later. century bas, settled down to the belief have received the Colonial edition of Mr velocity of light. That was twenty-two | from whence he was conveyed to a Chinonnan outrage on 'decency to suggest that| GENUINE AGE that the pursuit of happiness is, and Putnam Wale's now novel, «The Web of years ago, and most scientists wars inclined genbest in waiting which immediately left the acquiring of the roles of the
Life," which way recrzały roviewed in the to be credulous when Dr. Kusiner declared for Canton. ought to be, the spur and aim of humanhing it. I who would like to get an that within a year the latitude of Berlin existence. Here, of course, everything insight into the mysterious working of had changed. A chain of observatories depends on the meaning of the word Peking official life are recommended to round the globe were then asaigned the task of carefully ascertaining their latitude, A Washington wesign says that the with the result that the periodical variation and pleasure, either present or in anti-matter of the two Japanese spies arrested was established, an increase of latitude at by the military authorities at Manila is one place always baing accompanied, by a cipation, and leads to the arrumanlation still in the hands of Secretary Dickinson, decrease on the opposite side of the earth: The trial was concluded yesterday at of wealth at the expense perhape of The latter is directing an inquiry as to The cause is now known to Be, morement Swatow of Constable J. W. Cross, tormerly the possibility of punishing the men under of the earth's Polsa, hitherto believed to be attached to the British Consulate at Swa
FINE MELLOW happines, and it is indeed a wide ore. buy this book..
FLAVOUR.
With some it means physical enjoyment
THE CHARGE AGAINST CON- STABLE CROSS.
Sentence of One Year:
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Mr-Lloyd George said the Govern- ment only asked for fairplay. The partisanship of the Lords was perfectly intolerable.
COMMONS GOES INTO COMMITTEE.
MORE DYNAMITE FOUND.
(Wah Tim Yat Po's. Service.)
Pemuno, April 5. The Board of Interice had forbidden the newspapers of Paking to publish the report that dynamite was found in the Palace of the Prince Regent MICK2 8, "Another call box containing dyna (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)."
mita has been found in the Palace. It Lostos, April 6.
is believed that it was placed there by After hearing the evidence, the Court The House of Commons has gone some persims desirous of doing harm to feand prisoner guilty, and Mr Justice into Committee the anti-vete the provincial representatives who are Lindsey Smith, in passing sentence, asid
Robert Porter & Co.'s health, comfort and the present erjoy the laws of the Philippines and will not act immovable, round a circle of some 20ft tow, who was indicted on a charge of
redina, in a. pariod alightly longer then
BULL DOG
ment of living. With others, it may mean the laborious acquisition of know-
Last evening Mr Denman Fuller gave- ledge with the view to future, the last of the series of monthly organ
even only posthumous, fame.rocitals in St. John's Cathedral.
act that question is determined.
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year.
There
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was a fairly large congregation prezent, and
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
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Guinness' Stout
IN TINTS AND SPLITS
May These are the aristocrats of mankind.
the programme comprised seven pieces With the great majority of men, alas, played by request. All were given in Mr
A brother of Lord Dalhousie and a sou it means nothing more than the obtin- Fuller's customary good style. A, vocal of Lord Eldon have recently been, ap- ing, the means of cartinuing an existence quartatto, "God is a Spirit." was well painted to the staff of the British
rendered unaccompanied by Mrs E. G. Lagation at Peking. already suficicatly miserablo. To the Jordan, Messrs, H. J. Best, H. B. Ayris poor and laborious classes the pursuit and R-E. Whito. of happiness can be no spar or guide.
aambazzling a sum of $5,700.
ha had taken into consideration the fact resolutiona... that prisoner had refunded the money and had assisted the palics in the inspection of
on
petitioning for a National Assembly.
As a Consor has obtained information the books. He would be sentenced to one that four men in the establishment of Wu Ya Shan, a Grand Councillor, has year's hard labour.
Prisoner arrived this morning in charge Prince Kung, the chief Anti-Opium Com suggested that the travelling chair of of Detective-Sergt. Terrett by the missioner, are still addicted to opiam the Prince Regent be enclosed in an
Gael, where he has commenced his term of incarceration.
Raimun and was taken to the Victoria smoking, he will present an impeachment iron network in order to guard against
Sheng Kung-pao, who is at present in The six illegally deported Chinese who Shanghai, has been summoned to Peking, A Canadian paper contain particolars "A" 8. WATSON & CO., They have hope, of course, but it cenare now making an effort to establish their in order to assist the Goverment in carry of the death of Dr Jane Hannay,
LIMITED.
not be based on the success of each right to remain in the Philippine Islandshaping out his proposal about a currency re of St. John, an eminent literary man, and filed suit against the Governor General, the form, submitted to the Throne last year. individual's own exertions. The coolie. Chief of Police and the Chief of Dotectives. the Ministry of Finance is expected within His appointment to be Vice-president of
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
THE NEW
EMPIRE CINMATOGRAPH
THEATRE..
...
the hewer of wood and drawer of water, The suit. is filed in the court of first instance the next few days. can have no reasonable hope of be and is for the sum of F120,000, being coming more able to indulge in the F20,000 for each of the six cases. They
one of the leading cities of the Provinca
of New Brunswick Daring his long careers
ba
had merited national recognition as
writer of a History of the War of 1812."
It was in 1857 that his first book appeszedi
*The "Captivity of John Gyles." Then
The Grand Council contemplater ze tollowed in rapid succession a long row of
picasures of life in the future than he also sak for a preliminary injunction appointing H. E. Wu Ting-fang to Wash publications, of which the most notable
against the defendants to prevent them or ington and transferring II. E. Chang Yin: are: "Hutory of Acadia," "Story of the
is in the present, and, failing a reason thoir agente from illegally deporting the tang, the new Minister, to deal with the Queen's Rangers, & Tafe and Times of able hope, seizes upon an unreasonable again or threatening to do so. The last of Tibetan question. H. E. Wa. Ting-fang fir Loonard Tilley, Ballads of Acadia,” PREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY, one and looks to luck to supply that which the six cases has boat heard before the was recently ordered to proceed to Paking and this year, his long autod. "History of Das Taux Road ÜZNERAL,
Opposite Central Market. honest endeavour fails to grant him, board of epecial inquiry of the division of without delay. It is scarcely probable that New Brunswick." De Hannay was in his
immigration. The board ratarned a verdict, he will consent to return to Washington, sixty-eighth year. The Chiness are admittedly given to of two in favour of the man remaining in the however.
Performances 7.15 to 9 and
4
of the Emiport Soubretta
MISS MAGGIE FRASER “
9.15 to 11.30 r. gambling. Can we wonder thereat? It islands and one against. Three of the
The Rev. P. Gabaldi, Rector of the Ro GRAND SUCCESS
is sometimes said that ingmined in the Chinese were previously unanimously voted
upon by the board es being entitled to man Catholic Cathedral, desires us to state Chinese character there is a love of remain while in the cases of the two others that owing to his hurried departure from games of chance, but it is not so. Being the board stood two for remaining and one the Colony, due to his serious illness, he of a particularly logical race he is against. The findings of the board in all has been unable to bid farewell personally driven to them by the necessity he feels six cases have been referred to the collector to his friends. At the same time the Rer Father wishes to thank all who have for some grains of that hope of in
odquired after him and for their many proveable circumetences which he can of PLEASANT SOOTHING HEALING. kindnomes while in Hongkong. Ha ez find in his natural environment. He DROMPT relief in all case of theout and poete to return after e rest in his Mother has one other resource, the opium pipe, Cough Remedy. Plewant to bike, wadh Catho
again at the in which he may find tempomry oblivion,ng and healing in affert az alej by all
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