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We think that The National Rees, of Shanghai is advancing a sound aga ment when it arges that China. immediate necessity for a big and powerful Navy" the many able judges" it says, all that Ching needs, is likely to need for t generation, is a small fleet for the pohction be granted to them at the port
ing of her own seas, for the suppression
of piracy and other fos of sen crime, and for the patrolling of her rivers and estuaries. Such provision as this could
bo met out of current income, if that
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Hongkong. April 16, 1907.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Miscellaneons.
10.50 am-1st Quarter. 11:30 am-Lears by Els Loriship the
Blahop in Peak Church,
Auctions.
11.m-Auction of Manlia Cigara, etc.
Mesa Hughes & Hough's Salsas
Rooms
· petitioning king, praying that Cona
England and Gorizany are
each sant to the Chines
a model of the men of war:
structed for the Chinese an7g.
are of the size of an ordinary room.
m
Tha Singapore Sports Club has
the money
a soheme for a now building whi basis and collected in a lea extravagant coss in all $60,000. It is recomm fashion, whilst all the financial re that the work should after the Octobuz mont organization of which China is capable would not make provision for a big fleet for a long time to come. It therefore behoves the centml Government to re-consider, in the most serious way whether there are not better ways of
using such resources as the country has
will be mainly raised by debentures.
The Echa de Chine calle attention to the adulteration of rabber by Chinese traders at Singapore. It is alleged that they cost heavy balls of wood; stones, and oven iron
with rubber of varying thickness and pass it off as the genuine article.
During the recent Chinese strike st
Ende
MONEY IN JAPAN
"A DULL MARICET
"Agency - Sura to the China Mais
The money market in Linges dull The 10,000 tarnal laun receally floated was opp for three times over
ABAD WEATHER-
The shallow depression whichaë
19.30.-Austion of 8 Fointer Pune than in embarking upon a scheme that Bangkok 389 arrests weromado, Out of those the Balingfang Channel and theR
at Mr.Goo, P. Lammort's Sale Rooms 3.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Fumi- sure at Mosse, sghes & Hough's Sales Rooms..
General Memoranda. FRIDIT, July 1
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Fural
tur, &o.at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Balen Boom...
Monday, July 42.
Anniyomary of Declaration of American
Independence, 1776. Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Ice Co. at
Morera Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Office. | Jeffries-Jebaston Fight. TUESDAY, July 8:
Sanitary Board Meeting... WIDNESDAY, July 65 g
2.16 p.m.-Meeting of the Licensing 9p.m.-Band Concert in Public Gardens.
Board
The China Mail
HONGKOND, WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1910
"CHINA'S FUTURE NAVY.
HE CHANG JEN-CHING, formerly of Canton but now Viceroy of Nanking, has been stirring the dovecots at Peking
were banished by order of the King, the at, after serving three days imprison ment, were released. The banished meu are mostly Cantoress, with a sprinkling of Hylams. opinion
in less than a year has cost the country twenty millions of taels, for which there is very little to show. China is at this time seeking to win the good. and respect of the great Powers. She could not win over to her side those who would undoubtedly be her best friends more easily and surely than by a careful and deliberate re-consideration of this problem, and if it were decided to postpone for the present the organiza tion of a great navy and to confine per- sent activitica to the provision of a small but effective establishment for police purposes it is certain that the country would never bara cause to regret the adoption of such a policy.
The reorganization of the Chinese Navy is a pet idea with many of the high offciale in Peking, hut as it is
the wealthy Chinese com among munities in Australia, Java, and the Straits Settlement, but we do not see how their magnificent dreama can be realised so long as that very
CIGARS by a memorial to the Throne in which necessary adjunct, hard enah, is wanting
de Luxe
pecially
manufactured from the finest selected Hanila Tobacco
Lolitas
be scathingly denounces the special, Board concerned with the reorganization
Far better would it be for Chinato attend to the matter immediately at hand,
The Facing Daily Nesti say there are plenty of grounds for believing that the elpires glo-Japanese lanco, which two years hence, will not be renewed. we are inchined to think that in this instance our contemporary's wish is father to its thought
making its way aross the China Sea shoal came a little nearer that was as first expect
very welcome supp inchos falling up til 10 o'zinek The barometer, after
and 4'clock on maded practically stands through the night, while the wing, gusty, was bever very stro the typhoon signals were changed. black south cone alone being hoisted, “for by then it was thought that the centre of disturbance was about 100 miles south of Hongkong and apparently, heading for Kong Chau Wan; though at 10.15 o'clock the ball war again sent up. Cyclonic gales espected between Hongkong and Hainan daring the next 24 hours
Captain Hanter of the Ban Hin has nutired from his odmmand. He will to Dantzig to superintend the building of
aro s new boat for his company, Messrs Thong Co. Captain Watson who tok the Netherton home same time ago, after being burnt out, will take over the command of the Ban Bin Gua
The Tokobama ofics of the £. PR. be in receipt of a fire pRN) sigm from 20
RM.f. Emprise of Vinovas on the roping.
and that the Com reporting "all" mauder expected to teach Yokohams on tha" 29th, inst; Ab, the title the above
message was despatched the vessel was 200 miles distant from Japan.
S
Of course the harbour has been
price of God
and declare I do make this dOCIET Levery part thereol in the plain
sense of the words reset unto me as - commonlz, undantand by Raglan. eburg antwichouk- any, ovis equivo
ar momcta
any hope with this any person new blood.
WEEK OVERDUE:
FEARS FOR THE TRIESTE:
(Bouter
to the Chian MalY
kanan LONDON, June 28
log that Tsin de cane God or mina of any part tha. Pope or any other per POWER WAAISoeren should; armu? the "sama-tztech and void from the
The proposed barn. atsad of asserting tanti storation of the trich saint and, the auth the Church of Raums: idolatrous
superstition
The Anstroyd Far Eastern for
seven days overdue it is also Bis thought probable
machinew bag broken down
“SUNGARI DISPUTE
WE ENDED
CHINESE DESIRE-RUSSIAN:
#FRIENDSHIP
deadded of all mall craft, and work (Roter's Serence to the Chma Van,) among the shipping was, suspended nearly all morning, the benvy rain procluding any possibility of cargo-working till: After mid-
The Tenn. Capt. Outerbic Punual for kisnila on Tuesday,
PERJURY. CHARGE,
The Attorney General Moves.
at the Magistraty s morning, Mt E. I Hallias, the case in whic
Owing to the beary rains which fell during the night and this morning the library of the Supreme Court was Booded. Stag, one of the witnesses in Many valuable law books were saturated Taiken murder case with water and had to be removed. This jury was again
of the Chingee Navy. Es points out the efficient policing of her wondrota and the want of accommodation for solicitors appeared to proce thet sines the establishment of the Naval network of rivers and lagoons, the and the Press in the summary court shows ton defended, and office about a year ago a sum of twenty patrol of her coasts, etc, which require the necessity for hastening the completion presented the million thels has been spent and yet not costly Dreadnoughts but fotillas of the New Law Courta, there is practically nothing to show for of handy little gunboats and light-
in boxes of the per 100 it. So far as the outside public can draught steamers China would be
In Exquisita Smoke #5.60 $11.00 gather the only thing which the naval well-advised indeed if the proceeded roorganization scheme has achieved, has along these modest hues of practical been a series of pleasant jaunts along ility A big Navy of battleships. the Chinese costs and an expensive craisers, and commerce destroyers can tour through Europe and America for be left for the future to provide..
El Tamarindo
tu boxes of
vory find Digar in akcellent condition
par: 110
68 on a younger brother of the FRINE RECASTY.
Martin's Tweenies
Per 100:
$4.30.
who of course tras accompanied by a large and distinguished site upon whom descendet a shower of decora tions of
of every Court they visited. When
A TRUSTEE'S - ACCOUNTS:
The Chief Justice Sir Francis Pratt, delirored judgment in the Bankruptcy Court this morning in the case of the Ki Cheung Firm. The matter arose on the
--Me Denny-
perjury charge: bad The Paris Matin states that by 1913 the defendant, and French serial feet will comprise twenty structed to stand
General and to ha
The Attorney Gener whater
suita, namely, fourteen cruisers dad siz scout The War Minister is at pament concentrating his attention on the reaza- tion of the seronautical progr Twenty special airship stations will have to they had been comm be provided by the sama time.
Factual notice since
the matter.It 316 31 prosocation log Gaas! certain
There is immenso satisfaction in "Germany, over the epoch-making gura tion of passenger tablp service from ment Firedrichshafez to Dusseldorf.-Thero wat
upon no bitch, although the weather at the start -wan unfavourable. Count the forecar and comtean parsons were Khoazie the two other "GLES, WES
The May pimber of the University of Wanking Magazie takes the form
Guide to Nanking, and the Exposition
nected with the famous city
spitals and dis
this roving Commission returned home, prosentation of a report on the trustee'sly decorated buffet at after having had a really splendid time scenunt. Mr B. Johnson represented the treatments were supplied.. of it in various European countries, and trusten.
His Lordship said he could not profess to having had the finest dockyards szd
be satisfied with the action of the trustees WATSON & CO., shipbuilding establishments in the world.
in that case. They had not complied with freely thrown open to their inspection, a the requirements of the ordinance bat bad LIMITED,
report was presented to the Throne. done their best in the matter. Thero had There the matter has practically ended been no damage to the estate in any way ez moss, missions
cept in investigating their own bankruptcy, for the all-suficient reason that the Go and those costs they must refund. A rernment in Peking he hardly enough second bill which was nomid income these days to keep the wheels had been practically paged by Air
Wakeman, Oficiri Racirer, and sith of the ordinary affairs of state duly run it had been taxed he would order ning, and therefore cannot entertain any relaxed and the differance betwem the OF THE COLONY, grandiose suggestion involving an ab by the tristocr
normal outlay, The roseate visions which order he could
Mr Fleto Europe and
exandra Buildings.
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SUCCESS
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MAY LEWISA
the Chinese Naval
Iding progr
saditure of
Efrat tization and the second,
in the sequel of monemtion
bmission of a big
into the
calling for the ex
Mr Fletcher milions have so is being you cordingly vanished from the schuing of beallowed to
been
sain, they must
BOCIA
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THE MEDI
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COMMAND
UNURD
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China'. Haily
stand of stato
on wiba
granted
hope of such
reference to the
the simple assertion made without any disp dispersită
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REVOLUTIONARY PLOT.
PPED:
DESIRED MINING CON-
CESSION.
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sledanded
SHERRY