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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Lady May will distribute the prins st the Kowloon British School at. 11 o'clock on Saturday morning.
One case of pligue has been notined alaco noon yesterday, in New Market strend.
HONGKONG TYPHOON BREAK
WATER. A
Hoa, AL E Osbarns at to-day a moeting of the Legislative Council, asked the following question. Da
(a) Whether a sastract for the now- typhoon breakwater has been let, and if so, what is the contract data for completion of the work?
ago for purely money-making purposes. Thess good folk are sure that if millions of American dollars are invested in the Philippines by the all-powerful bus iness interests, the fag will over come down. The Nation is not one
(d.) If a contract has not been let, what The balloon ascent, which was to have is the cause of delay in doing so of those fournals who allow settled taken place this afternoon, has been post
(d) Ou what dato did the facta to disturb them in the cultivation pened till Saturday next. See ndrestise Authorities finally approve the plans of the of their ideals, rather does it believe in į ment. making facts, even, the most stubborn,
We print on our insido pages to-day bend to their ideas of honour the annual report of the Harbour Mastor. Therefore more in sorrow than in anger It is crammed with most interesting facts
and bguze it writes:"Of the repeal of the organic law, which Mr Longs is now moving for,
The Colonial Secretary kindly intoria
brunkwater?
Hon. Director of Public Works replied As follows:
A contrhet bas mot yet been let. ( Proceedings have been somewhat delayed by the dilleulby experienced in negotiations with the lesson of 5. M. L
Modfications have been made in that portion of
of the scheme adjoining the above lot, which it is trusted, will remove those
Another
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910
CoryKTORT] MR FAIRIE WINS THE
DERBY
ANOTHER SUBMARINE"
DISASTER
"Independent Nates Agency & Service
to the China Mäta
TORTO, June 2
A Russian subitative torpedo-boat ja reported to have sunk in Vladivostock harbour
". The cause of the disaster is not yet known.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC
ARRANGEMENT,
Independent News Agency's Servier
a the China Vat)
Toxra June 2
we can only say that if it comes to pass, us that the Importation of deg from objections of dolny has been tho it will reveal anew, how Ermly the Bangkok has been probibited for six | unfortunate illness of Air Boulton, An agreement baa heen' arrived at |
Republican party is in the grasp of the corporate interests. As for the Filipinos, the repeal of the organic law and the sale of the Friar lands would be enough to implant the seeds of revolution in the hearts of all who bear of it. It
months from to-day.
How much longer are the decaying roths and, retire emblems to escumbs King's Edward's status? Is it nobody's business to see to this thing?
Two Monarhs celebrate their birthdays. morrowing Gearve of Britain and King Frederick of Denmark. The former
S. MOUTRIE & CO., would win a new motto: The Philip will be 43 years of age and the latter 67%
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MEXOS FOR TO-MORROW. Miscellaneous
Exchange Banks Close, Insurance Ufices Close, King George Ve Birthday, dies, RUN, King of Denmark's Birthday.
General Memoranda,
SATURDAY, June 1
Sales Rorme.
pines for the landgrabber, the exploiter, the Trust, the conscienceless corpora- tion." Our own opinion is that, though certain politicians may try to disguise the fact in specious phrases, America is in the Philippines to stay and that the interests of the archipelago will be best served by a continuance of the present line of administrative policy, Mr
11 m.in. Auction of Miscell-neous Ar-CAMIZON FORMES is advocating the tices at Messrs Hughes & Hough's investment of American money in the Neon Austion of Saltpetre at Govore islands from no sordid, "selfish motives
ment Gunpowder Depot, Graen Island. 2,30 p.m.--Auction of Miscellaneous but solely for the ultimate benefit Goods at Mr Gee. P. Lammert's Sales of the people over whom he has been
-Balloon Ascent si Happy Recalled, under Providence, to rule.
Rocmis. B.DI.
trast, Noon-Auction of Clothing & Travelling
Trunks at Mesars Hughes & Bougå ́s | Salon Rooms.
The China Mail.
BoxoxoNG, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910
THE FUTURE OF THE
PHILIPPINE
Sau the Philippines remain what ty have been in the main for centuries, the home of pensant-proprietors, bearing about them the stamp of Arcadian sâm plicity, or shall the great financial interests of the United States be allowed to-eequire finge estates in the islands, which they will exploit solely and whol- for their own exclusive benefit and
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
A
Lord Roadbery denies the assertion made by the Liverpool Post that he intend ed to postpone the moring of his Resolu tions in regard to the House of Lords until November 19.
A Decres has been issued ordering the dumissal of the Human Treasurer, the log Tastais and other officials; the degradation of the loading gentry and the decapitation of the Changsha riot landers.
We have not heard that any of Hong- Long's punters were lucky enough to draw a horas in the Calcutta Derby sweep this your Lord Rosebery's entry, Neil Gow, not even finding a pince has caused some
disappointment to local brither Scota."
His Excellency the Archbishop A. Agius, Paral Delegate for the Philippine Islands, bas kindly consented to celebrate at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Holy Bass with General Communion at 7 a.m.
The Hon Mr E. Oubornu and Colon the 3rd inst., being the Feast of the C. W. H. St. John, C. E.; hare joined the Sacred Heart. Church Body of the Cathedral;:
Church Notes says: We have heard of the Dev., F. T. Johnson's safe arrival at Moscow. We hope soon to hear of hin from Ireland.
Friends of fr J. W. White will be glad to bear that he has recovered from his
recent illness and is now able to resume his duties as Cathedral Organist.
Viceroy Yuan Shu-ksiin is said to have signified his desire to resign his post at Canton unless he is authorized to abolish licensed gambling in Kwangtung.
It is rumoured that Miss Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army
Seal Capsule 19.50 1.65us transform the archipelago forces in the United States, is engaged to }
Finest Pale Dry, Nutty."
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tropical replicas of harsh, material America? That is the question which the New York Nation aeks itself in the course of a recent lead
be married to the Rev. Dr. Chapman, the learned and world-known evangelist,
senior Ambani.
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For a father and his nine children to hara passed through one university is re markable, even in Scotland, and in these days of higher education for all. Such a casa came to liebt, however, at Aberdeen University when the bonorary degree of D.D. was conferred on the father of the academical family..
ity
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Asst. D.P.W., who was engaged on the preparation of the plans and specifications and who was abliged to depart for England on the 15th April leaving the work insome
„pleta.
between Russia and Japan" regarding through traffic for freight on the Man- churian oilway. The date on which it
Matter are now in a forward stato and tenders will be called fur withly 3 weeks comes to operation has not yet been
6xed: from the present time.
(c) On the 28th January, 1909
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DRAFT APPROPRIATION
ACCOUNT.
1909 was laid on the table at the meeting The draft appropriation account for of the Lagislative Council this afternoon. The abstract of additional appropriationa required are as follows Post Office, $62,354.99; Harbour Mastor's Department, $11,852.65; Observatory. 8836.63; fis- callaneous Services, $45,342.55: Police sud Prism, Departments 81 478.18: Public Works Extraordinary, 3186,852 75; Pen- sions, $6,035.39 making a total of 8314,633.57.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE DROUGHT.
(To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.") / Su The following figures taken from the returus pablished by the Hongkong Observatory may be of interest to your Teaders. They enable a comparison to be made between the three most Bevare droughts we have experienced since 1884
Winter of 1890-91.
1.94 inches rainfall
September
October......... Noramberanta December..............
January February March April......................
101
"
137
.01
11
1.33
37
2.58
3.16
Total 8 months ... 9,34
Winter of 1901-2.
3.80 inches rainfall 2.51
17
og
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.10.63: Winter of 1900-10
October
September
·November.com December...... January February..... March Aptil..
Total 8 months
The much larised Water Author. must have viewed with satisfaction. the aspect of the skies when he rose this morning. Hoavy clouds rolling in frota the South-west soon spread a pall which November bore every promise that rain why not far December..
Japwity, distant, and by 10 o'clock the long needed February moisture was being precipitated.
March April... May
Long ago Society unanimously decided shootin." Now, it is my duty to reveni, to drop it's g's. We went huntin', ridin'.
I
Beginning with successful stook špica- lation in Wall Street in his sixteenth year · with the determination, publicly announced. that he would be a millionaire before he reached the age of twenty-fre, George Dals who colebrated his rentrenth
.06 inches rainfall
.00
.80
.41
1.05
Total 7 months... 7.62
11
The winter of 1800-91 followed a fairly wet summer, that of 101-02 followed an exceptionally dry summer and caused the
Both of these droughts wore effectually
Your faithfully.
L. GIBBS.
PRINCE CHING RE- CEIVES
JAPANESE MERCHANTS. (Independent News Agency's" Service to the China Mañ.)
Texxo, June 2. The Party of Japazeso business men now tearing in North China were to day received in audience by Prince Ching. This extraordinary treatment at the bands of Prince Ching augers well for the bonds of good-will now being formed between the two countries.
BOARD OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.
PRESIDENT TO RESIGN,
(Wah Ter Yat Po's Service)
PEKING, June-1. Liang Tun Tau, President of the Board of Foreign Affairs, has decided to resign his position on the expiration of his sick leave.
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THE SALT REVENUE.
(Wah Taz Yat Po's Service.)
PERING, June 1.
It has been recommended for the approval of the Throne that the salt revenue of the Kwangtung province bo in the form of a monopoly granted to the marchants.
IWEMS AT TELE, COURTS,
NEIL GOW UNPLACED.
- (Reuter's. Service to the China Maily:
LONDON, June 1.
The Derby rented as follows in
Lembarg...
Greenback Charles O'Malley
.LATER.
Fifteen ran. Lemberg won by neck, Noll Gow being fourth.
The betting was
to against Lemberg.. 100 to 8 against Greenback. 33 to 1 against Charles O'Malley. The time was 9 minutes 35 seconds, being a record.
Nota-The Derby Stakes of 6,500 BOT by subscriptions of 50 sovs, each hit or sovs only if declared by the last Tuesday is March, 1908: for entire cote anay foled in 1907: bolts Sat, and dilies Tat Bibs. About one mile and a half-484 entries. Clowed July Slat. 1908:
It
"According to ̈ Rauter the betting. on the day before the race. was to 4/ aminst Lemberg. 2 to 3 against Noll Gow, while odds of 10 to. I against wore offered on the rest of the fold. will be, abesrred that Lord Rosebery's hos Noll Gow was not eren placed. —Mr Fairio's, Lomberg is a brown colt by: Cyllene-Galicia." Ha rap. second to Nail Gow in the Tro Thousand Guizon,
Sir John Thurshy's Greenback is a brown colt by St. Frasquin-Evergreen
Mr A. P. Cunliffe's Charles O'Malley in a brown solt by Desmond Goody Pro Shoes
at
All these horses are entered for the St. Lager. which will be run Doncaster on September 7th, as also- is Noil Gow.--En. O.M.]
-THE KAISER.
UNABLE TO ATTEND GAR-
RISON PARADE.
(Raster's Service to the China Mail.) -
LONDON, June 1. The Crowd' Prince took the place of" the Kaiser at the Spring Parade of the- Berlin Garrison.
Prince Taai Teo and members of the Chinese military were present.
AUSTRIA'S ARMY AND- NAVY.
HEAVY EXPENDITURE.
(Reuter's Service to the China 'Mail)`·
Losmos, June 1. Beuter's Vienna correspondent- tele- graphs that the Minister of Finance - has announced a freaks permanent military expenditure of 37,500,000 kronen, owing to the increased number" of recruits, and a naval constructions
For being in possession of a quantity of expenditure of 12,500,000 kroner. prepared and dress cpiuma astiro as
fized $310, in default two months' im | JAPANESE VISITORS TO prisonment, by Mr E. R. Ellifax, at the Magistancy to-day,
Willam Albert Ellis, engineer" of the 5.s. Pembrokeshire, was fined $10 at the
M
most
PRUSSIAN DIET.
(Reuters Service to the China Ma)
Loscow, June 1. Prince Tokugawa, Baron Ours and
OKAMBERLAIN'S COLIO, CHOLERA
AND DIARRHOEA REMEDYU
we are threatened with the mutilation of After a very enjoyable visit spent in the adverb (says the Bystander). Hongkong (during which several vegetarian should be swfel glad to come if it wasn't worst water famine in the last 20 years. Magiatmay_to-day for being drunk and Mr Sengoku, listened to the debates" ing article. We gather that our cou-banquets were given in his honour by these frightful far," writen the gilded youth. broken by heavy mine in May. The present disorderly and assaulting the polico. When in both Houses of the Prussian Diet temporary is not wholly pleased with Italian and Japanese Consuls and others) "I'm absolute sick of this utter boring dought has, so far, only lasted aron a Jukong attempted to place him in a
H. E. Wa Ting-fang has left for the North. play," says Lady Hortense in the stalls months instead of eight and has a further rickshaw on the Prava Eng defendant yesterday.
redeeming feature in the exceptionally struck and kicked 'bim, while later at the certain developments of the administra- It is quite on the cards that he will be We are fearful pleased" and "terrible heavy rainfall of October 1900, just before Police Station his language was The following Wines, imported in
The magpifcent film depicting the its commencement.
abusive.
procession in Shanghai to the memorise bottle, have been specially selected tion of the Hon. CAMEROK Fonus, the appointed to be head of the Wa-we-pu, disgustod and procore from Masers GEO, 0. predent Governor-General, neither is it though Peking gossip also say that the
service for the death of King Edward VII" In the case of two natives, who are is to be shown at the Empire Cinemato SANDEMAN, SONS & Co., of Lomos, pleased with the attitude which President Regent wishes to send him to Tibet as
charged at the Magistracy today, with graph Theatre on Friday evening. The Ter has taken up rin-a-vis the sale of
A HONGKONG DROUGHT. "Chorro, ASD SURFA : ----
being in unlawful possession of 20 bags of many admirers of Little Sadia will be To Paris Suled in a recent leading
coal, a lukong stated that he was acting on pleased to leam that a return visit is certain large slices of the Friar lands to
(To the Editor of the 44 China Mar.") article said May King Edward's succes-
information received when "ho arrested the arnounced. people who really represent the United or find, in the example given by his father, birthday anniversary, only a few days you gave your readers last night that defendante, bolding that a lukong mast
SI-I suppose it, was for a joke that man, Mr. J. R. Wood discharged the pr Light Dry
$14.00 $1.20
States Sugar Trust. The Nation points the knowledge and strength pressary previously, killed himself with a bullet in tract from Mr. Thomson's book regarding Solera
20.00 1:70
out that the late Senator Host was to protect public liberties and the his home, at Hoboken, recently. His suicide the braak-up of a former Hongkong have grounds for suspicion, before arresting Very Pale Dry 20.00 1.70 responsible for the clause in the organic chical principle, and to preserve is attributed by his parents to melancholia, drought. The clever writer of that story anyone on a charge of that kind.
England from having to pass through the following a too close study of the complex must have composed the narrative purely Tall Golden"
surely have known that no Hongkong folk 24.00 2.05
selling of more than forty acres of land which social order and notional greatness to realize Eis ambition.. y
would accept his yarn. The worst time
ROBBERY. Hongkong experienced nine years ago was Pale Dry Nutty 26.00 3.25 to an individual and of more than 2,500 perished with public liberty,"
Andent. Itxly has not yet rusdered up in the last winter months, not in blazing all her secrets. During the past few weeks July as Mr Thomson would have it. Long About 8 pm on Wednesday afternoon a Fine Old Brown - 36.00 305 acres of land to a corporation, the in-
Bir Patt Ridge, whose marriage to the Professor Momo has doing across some in- before July came round, we were out of our fck! from the Chan Kwong Co., in Queen's
troubles, tention being in prevent a capitalistic goragost daughter of Mr Cut Hestschel teresting and valuable relics in the Abrua returns for that year will show, Ent there. Sincere and Co., with 89,000 in notes, within control and perhaps save life, er at reference to the rainfall Road Central, was on his way to Mesars or two of this remedy will place the trouble exploitation of the islands and to lasungunced, has been described as "Thesis. They are earthen domestic vessels, the brilliant man of letters merely wanted when he was seized by the throat by least a doctor's bill. It has never been render all the more easy the turning over Modern Dickens," and undoubtedly be bas painted and affording a glimpse of Abruz. to paint a word-picture which should thrill ruffian while in Des Your Road, However known to fail even in the most severe mad an appreciation of the humours and the zian civilisation in the mists of antiquity.render who never were within ton he managed to free himself, He called for dangerous cases, and its cost is not beyond prices will be increased by the amount of the Archipelage to its own people capathus of life in the lower middle classes The locality in rich in those remains, thouato miles of Hongkong, so what did the police but apparently none were in the the means of any one. For sale by all
it matter if he played fast and loose with fictity. The ruffian escaped. sa the United States of North which, in its literary expression, has much Within's week of this and Profesor Mosso the eternal verises. All the same
In common with the great novelist 3r lighted upon an eutice prohistoric village people will see his joke in the right light. America find a suitable opportunity. Fett Ridge bad published several works of and it is thought his isbeers at Conopali
Years to sincerity, Attorney-General, WICKERSHAM, however, fiction before he made his name, with will be richly rewarded." --
HAPPY VALLEY. Hongkong, June 2
THE CONSERVATION OF WATER.
NOTE For Hongkong. The above
of duty payable $360 per dozen.
小
law of the islands which forbids the convulsions we have entered from, in conditions of the atock market in his effort Ataerican consumption, for ho must
8. WATSON & CO., has decided that the organic law does not apply to the Friar lands, and hence
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"Mord Em'ly" twelve years ago, and con written about his effort by following it up
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a block of 55,000 acres fins passed the next year with A Son of the Stato," into the possession of one purchaser.
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In a return just issued by the Treasury it is shown that the experiment of tobacze growing in Ireland is on the increase, the largest grower in the past your being the Earl of Dunraven, who, un only 30 acres of
The plaintive cry of Mr John D. Rockend, raised 29,765 lb. of excellent tobacco,
I hope
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(To The Editor of the CHINA MAZ.") Sir,I am glad to see the correspondenes
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WHEN you fail to provide your family
with a bottle of Chamberlain's Oolia, Cholers and Diarrhoea Remedy að this season of the year, you are neglecting them, as bowel complaint is sure to be piza- valent, and it is too dangerous smalady to be trifled with. "This is especially tras If theraars children to the family. A dose.
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All Smokers of Turkish or Egyptian Cigarettes should exercise great care in thinkers have thus, according to our
[This was. Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, while land, has cultivated 22,32018, during the to waste at present. I do hope that returning on the Lusitania efter attending year. He has sent a large portion of it to rock of our loading on can be indeed to selecting their Brand, us more FAKING and addition of acenting hotter-s
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