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Auctions.
10 a.m. —Auction of Naval & Victualling Stores at H.M. Yaral Establishman Non-Auction of furniture, Fixtures *Birgo. P. Lammert's Salos Rooms.
Rod Goodwill of the Gorman Tavern,"
Meeting.
3.45 p.m.-Skultary Board Meeting.
General Memoranda, WEDNESDAY, August 17:---
10 ..-Auction of Naval & Victualling Stores at H.M. Navai Establishments. THURDAY, August 13:--
Emperor of Austria-Hungay's Birthday
(1830). 2.30 p.m. - Legislative Council Meeting, 9.30 pm-Anction of Household Farad
ture, &c. at M: 0eo. F. Lammen's
Sales Rooms,"
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Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong and Banking Corporation at the Shanghai City Hall.
9 pp-Aquatic Fête V.RO. SUNDAY, August '21 :-
3:14 a.m.—Full Moon.
THE CHINA MAIL.
moth Sir Thomas stated chat, in the pnat twelve years, an article in such widespread use as angar has risen in price by early fifty per cent.," and cheese in the same proportion; hams, bacon, and hard have more than doubled; while butter is also much dearer, Out side these items, with which his pany was especially concerned, the head of every household was painfully aware, as he gazed at the swollen size of bis weekly,
or monthly bills, that ment also was much dearer than of old. while poultry threatened to join pigs "luxuries, or even maritica
as
NEWS OF THE DAY. German Statistica abaw that the cor duty par£10,000,000 into private pockets, while to pits £8,000,000 into the Ex cheynor.
No five shilling pieces have been minted since 1902, and it is stated that no more
will be issued. The last four shilling pieces were made la 1887.
Soap musking is declared by the British
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1910.
(COFYÜGRT.)
TION.
Telegrams from Pretoria state that Mr THE AIRSHIP IN WAR.THE" PAMPHLET SENSA J.C. Smuts, Minister for Defence in the South African Ministry, in the course of speech advocated the military training of citizene on Swiss lines.
There was
2. BIG ORDERS BY FRANCE,
.
LIEUT, SUTOR RELIASED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, August 13.. Lieutenant Sutor, RIGA, who was
(Beuter's Servics to the China Mail)
Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, 963 European and 135
Losbox, August 15 The French Minister for War is to And 152 European and 1,879 Chinese order 50 aeroplanes of various types from visitors to the Museum during the week credits during 1010, and he will also arrested for publishing a pamphlet entitled "The Army System, or why we duning
Cenaul to be the most important industry ended the 14th August..
organise a Legion of Avintors.
A.credit of 2,000,000 fmncs for the] above purposes is to be asked for in muddle through millions
prace. has been released from close arrest:
the manufacture of so called "religious remarkably good. Last week there were in Jerusalem, and next to it comes The Colony's health continues to ba articles.”
1011. oply two cases of communicable disonses The .. Heungañas, the excursion notified, one fatal of plague (Chinese) and steamer from Hongkong to Macao, on Sun-one non-ištai of enteric fever (Indian), day, very nearly collided with the gunboat Macna in Macao harbour, duv, it is be lieved, to the state of the tide at the time.
The latest free of nature to arrive in the Colony is a pig with we perfectly formed bodies, eight lege and only one had. It was brought up dead from Hoihow and is presertad, in spirits of, wine.
ม
|GRECIAN CROWN PRINCE. The Chinese Engineering and Mining (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) Company, Limited, report that the total
LONDON, August 15. cutpas of the Company's three mines for the week ending E0th July, amounted to,
The Crown Prince of Greece is to 27, 375.67 tone and the sales during the return to Athens on Friday period to 20,314,98 tons,
”
DEATH OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Lesbos, August 15.
The death is announced of Florence
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..
The death is announced of Lieut.Nightingale. Ceneral Sir J. Clerk Rattray,
12
The death is announced of Captain Hard go, R.N., brother of the Viceroy. designate of India.
The pamphlet, which is selling freely, is in great demand.
LATEST FLYING RECORD..
ALTITUDE OF OVER 8,000 FEET.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Losos, August 13. Mr Drexel attained an altitude of
Meeting. This is an official world's record.
(From Our en Correspondent)
LONDON, August 14. The aviator Drexel atmained an altitude:
"AMERICAN PEACE:
[Note-The death of the Lady of the Lamp will be mourned the world of 6,750 feet at Lanark, which con over, though it has long been know stitutes an oficial world's word.. that she has been in feeble health. Indeed, in so weak a state was she that she was not informed of the death of King Edward, for fear the shock should. prove Ental To keep her in ignorance was not difficult, vitice she no longer read newspapers, and none outside of her imme- diate cízelo of friends at that time saw her.
SOCIETY.
Thers is little deabt that this acndition of affairs will of necessity
By the Prinz Waldemar proceeding to lead to a general readjustment in the New Zealand, wele Mr Bruce, Inteohiofofficer standard of living for a great many of the P. and O. Oriental, and Mr Moare, people. Such a change is unavoidable who are in charge of 18 Mongolian ponies
and 21. Siberian dogs to be used in Capt. recommissioned for another spell of duty The despatch ship Alacrity is to be where so many are in receipt of Sentt's Antarctic expedition,"
with the Chim Squadron, and Commander wiges or salaries that can not possibly
The steel screw steamer Manila handlexander Lowndes, he has been her THE LADY WITH THE LAMP 6,750 feet at the Lanark Aviation be augmented to meet the advance been sold by the Ps and . Company to off and recommission her,
skipper since February last, will pay her in food-prices. Of course we musa Italian irm for breaking-up purposes. not forget that the curtailment of The price paid in stated by the Grestock
Tal-graph to be £6,000. The Manila, al food supplies from one quarter of the vessel of 4,000 tons grow, was built at earth may lead to enhanced quantities. Greenock in 1809. being produced in other directions, and that high prices of farm products bave a tendency to cause additional.. capital and energy to be devoted to the cul tivation, of the soil and rearing of live- stock. Again, it must be remembered that progress in agriculture has beet much less rapid than in manufactures, probably because these latter have for over a century attracted the best brains by more tempting rewards. But even so we must not lose sight of the greatest factor of all in the present situation. That is the enormous production of gold within recent times.. It has beer calculated by competent authorities that the total golden store of the world has been more thau doubled within the last twenty years. This nest inevitably make it effects felt, sooner or later, by raising the level of prices all round. For to speak of an increase in the
9 8.m.-Excursion to Macto by 5.8. price of commodities is to speak of
Sui.ab.
The Chas Mail.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1910
THE COST OF LIVING.
is
a decrease in the value of gold-the
terms are practically interchangeable That this value can maintained at its former level, when the supply was less by one-ball, is contrary to economic thecry, and to the lessons of past history, We shall see no reduction in prices, we
downward scale be considered possible.
command of the cruiser last Tobruary.
reap.
Replying in the Roure of Commons recently to Lord C. Beresford as to what
was the strength, according to latest information, of the German naval forces the Chin Station, Bir McKenna stated as follows:-Scharnhorst, armoured cruiser that the ships on the China Station were
Nurnberg and Leipzig second-class protect ed cruisers, four gunboats, two destroyers,
day.
to the Wai-wa-pu, left Peking on the 24th Sir Walter Hillier. Iste British adviser July to visit Japan, via Shaughai, on his
way to Elighed.
Y
етет
PRESIDENT'S DEATEL
"BRITISH CRUISER STRANDED.
OFF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
(Reuter' Bertice to the China Meil.r
Loxoox, August 13.
Captain Bardress Lloyd will take an English pole team to America next spring H.M.S. Astrae, dying her homeward to challenge for the American Cup. bound pennant, has come down from Shanghai. Sta proceeds to Colombo to callers received by Mr Joseph Chamberlain by the soldiers dying in the trenches ab
Sir Frederick Lugard was one of the few The Angel of the Crimes" she was called (Reuter'a Service to the China Mail)- receive her new crew who are coming on the occasion of his seventy-fourth birth-romained to the last one of the sobiest Sebastopol, and Angel of the Crimes sho
LONDON, August 13. at on ..S. Charybdis. Captain Edward B. Kiddle has been.
Englab woman of all time.
The New York philanthropist, Mr pointed to the command of the Astrae on
Florence Nightingale was born in the Robert Treat Paine, who was 51 imongst others recently elected Fellows Italian city from which she took her President
the recommissioning. He was appointed to the of the Royal Colonial Institute was Mr Christian name on May 12, 18201 Her
of the American Peaco F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor of fortune whe, having no sont, took a par
father was a man of ancient family and Society, is dead, in Hongkong.
ticular delight in giving a clasical educa- tion to his two daughters, Frances, and for Flocence was Florence. They travelled widely, and be
ascended the Nile to its remotest cataract. beard of. by the tawspaper-rending public she had,
Frances, the elder sister, was married to It is stated that Mr J. C. Dyer, formerly beautiful girl and naturally much admired, Lord Verney, bat Florence, though a of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has appeared .to be mara interested arrived in Shanghai to taks up the position travels through Europe it was the hospitals Philanthropy than in society, and on her of Manager of the Cathay Trust, Ltd.. that cacat attracted her. She came to the Edinburgh stranded during fag on At the conclusion of the J. A. Wattis and Co.
under the general management of Memors conclusion that nursing in the right sense ledge off. St. Catherines Point, Isle of Manonvies new crews were to be selected
of the word was unknown in England, too many of its practitioners being of the Sairey
Wight. to Chila to join the sloops Cadmus, Capt.
Rhine, and hero she tock & course of ges at the Naval Dept, Chatham, for paasaga
amp type. There was, however, a famous Her position is, considered dan- nursing hospital at Kaiserwerth, the B. L. P. Eoard, and Clio, Commaniter Bombay and a phthisis santorium and instruction. Or her return hans she wrote Hongkong, where they were joined by their sabacribed is R80,000. The Punjab has revealed in her reorganization of a home (Renter's Servics to the China Hail) C. T. Barrett, which will be paid off at convalescent home. The amount already inter her administrative apseity was about the Kaiserwerth hospital. A littlo present cross on September 24, 1908. ab adopted a large hospital scheme, and for sick giverneises. Commander B. Lynes will succeed Capt. the naogat already promised in 16,00,000. Heard in this commonlid of the Cadmons and Commander H. R. Veale will recotamission the Clio.
The Hamburg correspondent of the the scene of his life's labours nost October Barbert, her friend, and the Minister of
four rivar ganboats.
Committee has decided on a hospital for The Bombay King Edward Memorial
With other Englishwomen she was horri- fed by the story the London Times ona
The
British cruiser Duke of
REFLOATED.
Lostos, August 15:
day printed about the terrible condition of
The Venerable Archdeacon à. E. Moule,
The Duke of Edinburgh has been B.D., who has nearly completed his jubilee the sick soldiers in the army hospital at refloated. It is understood that she is of mission work in Chiris, will be leaving sat at her desk writing a letter to Sidney undamaged.
Scutari, and it is a coincidence that as she HERE in Hongkong, nselsewhere through fear, till the world has digested its, and 0 Express says: les from for England. Although it was originally War, volunteering to go to the front, he built in 1904 and has a tonnage of 13,600. (Note The Duke of Edinburgh wa cut the world, the cost of living present plethoric supply of gold. Not export circles at Hamburg that business his intention to remain in China until the was at hie desk writing her to ask if she She entries 16 guns and her horse-powar would take charge of the Soutari hospital. 25,600 forced draught. Her speed is still steadily mounting upwards, and in till then ran any readjustment on a with China on the whole in pat yet favour-spring, Archdeacon foala has decided upon With. Max Bracebridge and thirty-eightia 32,33 knots, Sho is attached to the the despair of many the expanding
orders from this source increasing, especially able. Only for some fow articles are the earlier return to the homeland. zurses Miss Nightingale set out for the Fifth Cruises Squ-dron and is commanded-
Information has been received in Shang-rounded from Inkerman, begate pour in...O-Ed 0. M.).
front, and arrived on the night before the by Capt. the Hon Robert F. Boyle, process seems to have no appreciabie
in iron and hardware for completion of hai of the resignation of Mr Arthur Bassett, She made her beadquarters in the. limit. In America the Senate bas been
stocks. The orders coming from Hongkong District Attomey, U. S. Court for China. barrack hospital, building containing great are fairly satisfactory, also from Tientsin Mr Bassett, it is said, will resume the were already crowded with the
four miles of corridors. Those corridors holding a widespread enquiry into the A hig fire broke out about 4 o'clock this there is some business to hand. Very practice of sw, settling in the City of dead and dying All was chass stores of sick, the causes for an economic phenomenon Point. The Fire Brigade were called out district, whence no orden have come remarks the Mercury, that Judge L. R. delivery of such sa were at hand, and the morning in a godown in Sai On Lane. West unfavourable in the condition in the Yangtze Mexico. It is also interesting to note, under ammunition. Red tape delayed the food and medicines were lost or packed which presses "very hardly upon the and experienced great difficulty, particularly This is caused by the unsatisfactory condi-Willey, late of the U. S. Court, has been trail of the galting contractor spread over frontlemen's Uutfitters.great mass of the people, but although with regard to the narrowness of the street tion of the rice crop, which suffered severely engaged in a hig mining suit in Mexico all. The death rate was. 50 per coat of Ither find that in the United States which considerably retarded their efforts by floods, and by the circumstance that which he won, his fee, it is said, being
The godown, which was stocked with general the high tariff wall is not responsible m-rchandies, was soupletely gutted and the the price of rice is kept very high by the $185.000. they do not come to any satisfactory brigade readerei invaluable assistance in cornering of this article."
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NEWS, OF THE DAY.
Cable communication with Macao is interrupted.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
the wounded.
DEATH OF EARL SPENCER.
A NOTED STATESMAN.
(Reuters Service to the China Mail.) Louvor, August. 13. Earl Spencer is dead. Note-The late Earl Spencer, who was .
Miss Nightingale wrought a revolution in that terrible hospital, and established at Sentari in one week the first sanitary hospital in the wozid for wounded soldiers. stood that the godown is covered by ining through the post is opened by the England is not Lodged round by asurance to the extent of $7,000,
The lives she saved strengthened the the fifth holder of the title, was 74 years of British ranks like the arrival of a fresh age. Like his forbears he gained consider-- authorities as a matter of course. Indeed, Ocuneèil is to be held on Thursday.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative way corps. For twenty hours at a stretchable distinction in the political world. Fie The she was known to remain at her post, and Viceroy of Ireland on two occasions, the postal authorities of every country orders of the day are:-.
there was no baur of the night when she the first being from 1869 to 1874, and the have experts who have rained letter open-
First reading of Bill satitled An the wards, her little lamp in her hand. filled the offices of President of Council might not have been seen stealing about second from 1882 to 1885. He accessively ing to fine art. Eome kinds of paper can Amendment Ordinace, 1903,
Ordinance to amend
the MagistratesTo accomplish her great work, the sacrificed and First Lord of Admiralty, while he wa bestaamed open without leaving any
her own health, and she returned to Eng-also the keeper of the Privy Seal of the traces, and this simple operation is finished Ordinace to secure the better training of Since then she has lived in retirement, Victoris University down to as late a date First reading of a Bill entitled Asland at the close of the war, an invalid. Duke of Cornwal and was Chancellor of by rebarashing the flap with a bone in Midwives and to rugulate their practice. strament Is the case of a seal a matrix is Ordinance to amend the Kellet. Lalanding praise and honour upon her. In 1907 1861, sed subsequently to the Prince of
First reading of Bill entitled
catching hardly a glimpse of the public, 1907. In hus taken by means of new broad before break-Ordinance 1838
that has never let an opportunity of hessis-Stole to the Parly days he was Groom- It is estimated that one-fifth of the ing the war. When other methoda fail Second toading of the Bill entitled AD your later received the Freedom of the City acres of land and is succeeded in the title
she was awarded the Order of Morit and & Wales. He was the owner of over 25,000. Ordinance to provide for the scgregation of London.-D. A. M.] and treatment of lepers.
by dis half brother, Viscount Aliberp, who Second reading of the Bill entitled An
là 63 years of age and who has also bad long Parliamentary career. Some twelve- WOLFES AROMATTO SCHNAPPS es ago Earl pencer visited the Far
$14.50 per Case.
Fast and roade a memorable speech in AGENTS,
Tokyo, advining Japan to build a big MAOWEN, FRICKEL & CÓ. Nary as her best defence.—Es. C.M.]
both are experiencing the same var plensint symptoms of increasing cost of living all round." There is a good deal in the contention that one explanation. can be found in the rapid increase in the world's population and the failure of food supplies to maintain an equal:
The German Mail of the 14th July was delivered in London on the 13th Aug.
mtio of increase. To-day practically French crops have been destroyed by the envelope is placed between pieces of
recent storra".
the United States is hard pushed to it to provide for the wants of its own
A new crater in in uription near population, the buge surpluses of other dormant geyser at Maimanga, New Zealand, years which it used to ship abroad and is ejecting mud and boulders. living almost entirely ceased to exist.
Many writers in the States indeed sayį grave digging in Pero la Canise, Paris, Sappers, guarded by trups, have been that the national family has outgrow owing to a trade dispute between grave- ite larder, but that is erring on the side diggers and undertaker,
of extravagance of statement. Englandį
lines.
wood with elge projecting one-twentieth
is
of an inch. The edge of the envelope Brst fattened, then roughened, and Enally slit open. Later a hair line of strong white gura is applied, and the edges united under pressure..
Bad Co., Ltd., of Yokohama, bu had a very
Mr A. E. Bateman, af Messrs Dodwell
from drowning whilst
parrow escape
area, 1976 amend the Marriage Ordin- WOL Ordinance to provide for the narrowing, Third reading of the Bill entitled An topping up. dirersion, turning or altern tion in levels of Highways.
...TTEMS AT THE COURTS.
Mr E. R. Hallifax sentenced two defen
Consort from 1869 to
KUPPER BEER ON DRAUGHT.
swimming in the Kisoupna tiver, ear dants to three weeks' imprisonment with We have just received a consignment of the fresh Kupper' Beer-
SADO.
Mr. Bateman, in compay with Mrhard labour each, at the Magistracy, for
+
Fossilised remains of a hippopotamas for the last seventy years. has been have been found at Barrington, Cambridge Cantley and Mr A. Trey stealing some bags of sugar from the Sugar dependout upon outsiders for its hire, where remains of the rhinoceros, Woodward, while visiting Sano tecided to Refinery principal food supplies, so it is there elephant than the mammoth have recently entered the river the water wa running the same misgistinta on a charge of stealing bison, lion, hyena, and an older variety of 80 for a swim. At the point hore they
Two soldion of the Buffs appeared before fare not wonderful that when these been discovered. fall off in volume that elie has to pay
very swiftly owing to the prozinity of a two albome; ona defendant was sonterced waterfall, and after swimming for bout ten bigher prices for whatthe can secure. In the case of Hongkong the rise is
The Bishop of Stapney says home life minutes, the Japan Gaulle stes, Mrbour and the ether to three weeks. It to aix weeks' imprisonment with bard esaging and cannot contians on the old Bateman decided to go farther in the appears that defendants went into a Japan ainly due to the stendy and continuous with delicacy If it is still to keep that when he was caught by an eddy, and, being took an album to the door presumably in The home will require handling river. He had proceeded about fly yards eso curio shop in Arsenal Street when one fall in the value of the silver dollar strength of power and attraction, that overpowered, began to sink, Tvice he order to get a better look at it. Instead which forms the base of our commercial elerating and binding fored which should shouted for help, but his companions he bolted and his companion likewise pick-
belong to it. polity.
thought he was simply playing a jog upon ed op snother album and made of... We notice that S THON LIPTON had
tham, and did not go to his asistand: 'It": Shanghal is greatly troubled at present wasnot until Mr Bateman called desperately Li Yu Min, lato compradore of the 8,4. one remarks to make on the subject by grant bondo of undesirable women, third time that his companions ralised Bugan Maru, was committed to prison this the other day when addressing his gang of villainous men. Hongkong can to his assistance. Fortunately, both her, ellenoy the Officer Administering the Gov- mostly Russian, who are battened upon by the seriousness of his position, and afternoon pending the decision of His Ex- shareholders. His company is feeling sympathise with a sister port for it by Cantley and Woodward are powerful stim: erament, Sis fleury May. The Chinese the pressure of enhanced prices through But in Shanghai they cannot remors the about ten minutes, Mr Balaman was 84 sought prisoner's extradition for the but lately that we were similarly troubled. mors, and, after an heroic sort, Inging authorities, through Mr. Dennys, the falling off in their ales, the turn-festering so so quickly we did, for brought to shallow water, but by this ne alleged kidnapping of several child:on. M over i bacon alone diminishing By there sixteen consals and a Municipal managed, however, after song time to Edou Potter defended, instructed by Mr
all three were in a state of bollapse... Over Lo thousand tons in a twelve-sometimes they don't all pall together.
Council have to be taken into account, and regain their strength and the three reached P, W. Goldring, and the care has been
Yokohama later in safety.
going on for about three months.
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Hongkong, July 25, 1910.