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POWELL'S
THE
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW...
Meeting. Noon.Meeting of The Hongkong, and
City Bail.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE.
It senn that the airship the voyagers going further than wishing him better Fis will entrust theniselves to is the success in his present venture. Amerion, second in size to only the luck may have changed. If it has then famous Zimus craft. The balloon he may be able to make a great step was built a couple of years ago for the forward in the science of aviation. express purpose of carrying WELLMAN to the North Pole. That mission, ps everybody knows, was a decided fizzle, the balloon coming to grief before she was fairly started from Spitzbergen. She was then taken apart and rebuilt on a large scale, improvements having been suggested by the Spitzbergen flasic.
A description of the balloon may be interesting, even if it does not do better than during the Spitzbergen expellition,
A Generous Donation
The Bishop of Victoria has received from KF. Dr Wu-Tinging the promise of
a
NEWS OF THE DAY,
The Great Northern Telegraph Col Ltd, report that the Japanese landlines are now rubored.
Shareholders are reminded of the half- yearly meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to be hald at the City Hall ik noon to-morrow.
The South African Union Governmeal- has decided to uke over Groote Schaar, the residence of the late Mr Cecil Rhodes, the Union Prime Minister, in Capetown, The catata will ako be maintained by the Government ou similar lines as hitherto for
[COPTRIGHT
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1910,
CANADA'S LABOUR
PROBLEM.
PLEA TO RAISE CHINESE
POLL TAX.
Beter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, August 19. The Timex Toronto correspondent
(Cortout. [
SINGAPORE RUBBUR
AWARD.
HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS ·
SECURE CUP.
3
(From. Our Own Correspondent.).
Singaroy, August 19.
At the Agri-Horticultural Shew the".
wires that a deputation representing champion cup presented by the Plantars" donation of 85,000 towards the proposed ne the official residence of Genaral Botha the Laboar Unicas of Vancouver has Association for the most successful rub- asked Sir Wilfried Laurier to mise the ber Company has been awarded to the Chinese poll-tax from 3500 to $1,000, and has urged that all legislation. Highlands and Lowlands Company.
Extension of St. Paul's College.
NEWS OF THE DAY,
the public boneft, in accordance with Mr Rhodes' will:
It is feared that the activities of the unghates in Macchuria will prevent the horse-dealers sending the usual supplies of or even buils to get beyond hailing disponics down from the north this year.nes? First of all, she throws her spell or
Shanghai is greatly interested,
tance of the American coast. The 298 fest over all in
The reason that Karuizawa was isolatTM America is length, with an extreme diameter of 52&l during the rent floods in Japan, was feet. The tatal lifting capacity of the wing to the collapse of one of the 28 tunnels which autrice the railway over the gas bag is about 12 tons. The car in Usui Pass. Eighty workmen were caught which Wellman and his crew, instru. by the collapse. menta, motors and supplies will be stored is made of steel." It is 156 feet long, seven feet wide, and weighs two and a half tons. Steel cables with tensile strength of 30,000 pounds will hold the car in place. The gas bag is wade of three layers of cotton and silk,
benceforth abali, tend towards "the exclusion of all Asiatica,
How do we go to sleep? How does Mother Nature sharm away our conscious those centres of our bodies that preside over the muscular system, causing one group of muscles after another gradually to Canada besides the peculiar Inbour collapse Thorsfter, various powers of requirements of Bätish Columbia. mind succumb in regalar order. First, we
Sir Wilfried Laurier replied that the} Goverment were forced to consider the diplomatic phase of the relations in regard to the general welfare of
foss attention and judgment. Ther memory
ANNEXATION OF KOREA.
DIEN TO MEET IN EXTRA
SESSION.
(Independent News Agency's Service to
the China Mail:
Toxro, August 19.
It is generally believed here that an
goes and imagination wander away in SAILORS AND FIREMEN, extraordinary session of the Imperial.
reveries of its sun. Idens of time and spac cosse to control thought a gentle sloop- M-A. P. Wilder, the American Consul-the nurse of our life-draws nearer. Then comes the tura of the special senses, Goneral at Shanghai, is endeavouring to beginning with eight eyelids close and are the lives of two Chinese monks at eyeballs turn upward and inward, as it to Seochow, who hare been accused of drug but out all light, the pupils contracting aging a peasant's tea with intent to commit robbery, and who have been condemned to
death.
more and more as slumber stáila over'us..
PROPOSED UNIVERSAL EUROPEAN STRIKE.
11--
Diet will be shortly convened for the purpose of roting the annexation of Korea.
Nate-It is interating to oberve that tha Japan Mail, the great supporter of the Reuter's Service to the China Majd.)
Lostoy, August 18.
Japanes Government, does not use the word anexation when discussing this Reuter's correspondent at Copen-matter. It prefers to say amalgamation The power of hearing indes amy. The ages reports that the leader of the instead, a much daintier sounding word. -
ED. O.M.J heart beats and breath is drawn more and Sailors and Firemen's Union announe- International Congress
A dinner was held at the King Edward more slowly. Temperature falls by peres tint an impregnated with rubber, the resultant Hotel on Thursday evening, at which Siro degrees, and the body loses three will be held at Copenhagen on the
Henry May, the Officer Administering the times less heat than when a wake. Shanghai Banking Corporation at the composition being an invention of Bald-Government, was present, daring which the win, the famous balloonist, and being objects of the proposed Scout company of
the H.KV.C., was fully explained by Mr|| known as Baldwin's cloth. Two gas. H. Ross, Covers were laid for seventy fine motors will drive the balloon and much enthusiam developed. through the air, and a third will be used to work the air pump and maintain
Miscellaneous.
9 p.m.-Aquatic Fète at V.R.C.
General Memoranda.
SUNDAY, August £1:—
3.14 -Full Moon.
9 am-Excursion to Macao by ss. pressure within the bag at a constant
Sui-a.
MONDAT, August -
11 a.m.Auction of Cordemned and Obeplete Stores at Central Police Station's Compound.
level.
A telegram to the .. Daily New reports that thirty-two persons were killed! and afty úvo injured by a collision between an excursion and a goods train at Saujon in Though the combined efforts of the the Department of the Charente Inférieure, in the South of France, The first two two mentors would-suffice-to-drive the coaches of the excursion train, which were at a rate of from full of a party from a girls' school, were balloon through the air a
12 a.m.-Auction of Furniture & Miscal
laneous Goods at Mr Geo. P. La90 to 25 miles and hour, WELLMAN Calplintered sad the cccupants mangled. mert's SaleeRooms. Nood-Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld. Meating at Company's Officer, Queen's Buildings
2.20 p.m.--Auction of Household Furnt
cure at 3, Kastsford Terrace, Kowlom. TUESDAY, August 29;~-~-
11.m.-Anction of Manila Cigars stift 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Fural tare at Glenthorne, Kimberley Boad, Kowloon..
Goo. P. Lammort'e Sales Room
WEDNESDAY, August 24:-
lates on using only one, which will give
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Colour-Sergt. Birrell has been promoted Sergt. Major of the 2nd Battalion. The Buffy.
Louts. Day, Brown, Buchanan and Gibson, Royal Engineers, have been placed under orders for Hongkong.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Merewether, who died last month in Kashmir, was the eldest son of the lata. Major-General Sir William Lockyer Merewether, C.B., and a brother of Sir Edward Marsh Merewether,. Chief Secretary to Malta. Born in 1867, Many and curious are the grounds for Colonel Merewether entered the Army in hima kpeed of from 12 to 15 miles au divorce in America, but a petition fled in 1879, and to a subaltern served in the hour. He calculates on the prevailing the Courts of Vienas bears the stamps of Afghan war, 1879-80, and received the originality, A husband socks divorce from madal. He also served in the Buzzese winds at that time of the year helping him along at the rate of an additional are miles an hour, so that 20 miles an hour is estimated as the fair average
2.15 p.m.-Meeting of the Licensing At this mate he would make the trip in
Board. p.-The Band of Buffs in Botanical Gardens,
THURSDAY, August 26 :—
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni
Sales Rooms.
The China Mail.
23rd inst, when he will propose a fortnighe strike. by all European sales and firemsen.
He declares that this is necessary the desperate conditions owing to under which, ailors and firemen are warking. The Union, however, is willing to negotiate with the ship-
owners.*
HUNAN-HUPEH RAIL- WAY
+1
WAI-WU-PU IN A DILEMMA.
(Wah To: Tat Po's Servics.)
PERINO, August 18..
A grave error has been discovered
ALLEGED ROBBERY AND KIDNAPPING.
Chan Wan Chow was charged before Mr E. R. Hallifar, at the. Bagistracy, this afternoon, with armed robbery at Chà Nu Tsu Village and with kidsapping a small boy.
Mr H. L. Denny, Jr. appeared to. prosecute.
While the master was away in the- country, defendant with others, it was alleged; broke into his house and stole a number of articles and then kidnapped his son, for which $800 ransom was demanded.
Evidence was called' and the case was adjourned.
PRISON REVOLT AT KO IU.
We recently reported a mutiny among the prisoners at Ko In though no very
full information was then to hand explain. big the outbreak. We had now that there
are two explanations offered. The district
is if on these grounde: He is her expedition of 1884-88, and feceived the in the translation of the Hunan-Eupeh fourth vanzare, and he complains that she medal with two ciaspa. He got hix Railway loan agreement.
It is alleged that the persons who magistrate,, in reporting to his superiors, ignores his remonstrances, and persists in captaincy in 1800, and his subsequent steps decorating the chamber with the portraits to major and luutenant-colonel were made drew up the agreement and were said that the prison all fell down. The in 1809 and 1944. He had exchanged from anxious that the scheme should go prisoners therefore work the opportunity of the three defunct spouses. It remains the Torkabire. Light Infantry into the
the prayer of the petition.
.
speed of the America frdin port to port to be seen whether, the Courts will grant fadian Staff Corps, and in 1997 bocaine throfigh, purposely misinterpreted theto escape. Forty sine meu are reported..
meaning of the loan in order to deceive have cleared but of these thirty have been rescrested, The official in his the late Chang Chih-tung.
derpatch says, with becoming maivietes The four Powera concerned have that those who gut away, and whose arrest- approached the Wai-wa-pu and demand is at lost problematical, were all mess ed satisfaction in accordance with theo had not been condemned, and terms of the agreement. The Board is therefore it is not known whether at a loss what to do in the matter.
commandant of the Harian Lancare. In sight days or less. Nevertheless, fool
March of last year he ceased to be employ- The trial of the three men and tweed, and had since been residing in India. women charged with delivering German
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
and gasoline to last for 30 days will be
ture, etc. at Messrs Bugbee Houghs taken along, and the margin of safety is military secrets to the French Intelligence by no means to great, since a strong Department at Nancy has been concluded
P. Pickford sued Palmer and Turner head wind might easily drive bim alat Leipzig. The woman Ano Zarlenga thousand miles out of his course in a was sentenced to six years' penal servitude, in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction for Albert Luck and Alois Weinskopf to four 301,50, and the case was fixed for October day or so. Moreover, a scaking rain years' ench, and Earl Luck to two yours 3rd. would adversely affect the lifting power pedal servitude. The other women in of his gas bag, and would render, useless plicated, Pauline Rauch, was acquitted. previoss calculations.
Boxering, FaIDAY, Acöuer 19, 1910.
AVIATION.
the
One of the chief problems of the adventurers wall be to keep the balloon
The highest hotel in Europe, the Kulm Hotel, on the Gorgergant, aboro Zermatt, has just been completed." It stands at an
In the Court of Summary Jurisdiction to-day the Oriental Brewery Company sued J. Lafferty for 89.1 The case was allowed to strad over for "week. "
RECALL OF CHINA'S. STRONG MEN:
(Wali. Tez Yat Po's Service.)
PEKING, August 18.
It is rumoured here that following An action in which Mr H. J. Gedge ued the appointment of Tang Shao-yi to Gentlemen's Outfitters. thing interesting in the science of
HARDLY a day, passes now but that some at a constant distance of between 200 altitude of 10,200ft overlooking the Gerner Mr E. M. Hazeland for $137.85 was aviatica has to be recorded. Perhaps water. A few hours' sus would expand installation Magnificent views of the Registrar,
and 000 feet from the surface of the glacier. The hotel is a first-class one, and tioned in the Court of Summary Jurisdic. the position of Acting President of the contains eighty rooms, with every modern tion this morning. It was referred to the Board of Communications, the services of Yuan Shi-kai will be called upon in it is a phenomenally long or speedy.
In the Court of Summary Jurisdiction the near futura. flight which some aviator has achieve; hydrogen in the bag and thereby Matterhors, Monte Rose, and ether Alpine
shoot the balloon high into the heavens, giants can be obtained from the bedroom to day, before Me Justice Hazeland, a claim 4 greater altitude perhaps has been
while a soaking rain would have the windows in this aerial residence, which is for $600 was brought by J, W. Bastowe! reached than ever before; perchance it
now open to visitors--and Alpinista; for against Tsang Kin Ting. Mr P. S. Dizon opposite effect, had would demand the is a fatal nocidert, for aviation is taking throwing out of ballast. Ordinary
defendant. The latter stated that the heavy tell of human life at its present when weight is once thrown out, it
evidence had already been taken de bene stage of development. But whatever
A peculiar question has arisen betweenerse and it was now simply a question for remains out, and is not to be had to France and Portugal. A tan extradited his Lordship as to whether an action lay.
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ན་
DEATH OF ME SCOTT
TM HAYWARD,
CHINESE NAVAL
ORDERS.
(Wah Te Yat Pos Service.)
PEXING, August 18.
The Minister of the Naval Board has
they were guilty not. Perhaps there was a special providence..watching ovar them and the wall fell down, so that they might be released! Meanwhile there is another version of the affxir, which seems much more in harmony with things as they go in China. Soon after the district magistrate sook over the duties of the place... he rue reported upon to the Viceroy on count of some malpractice in connection
with a restaurant. The Viceroy degraded
him for three years, that is, took away his button but left him it charge of his duties. From that time Ng's devotion to the public.- service shows that he felt the ignominy greatly, for he seemed to care nothing about. his work. Indeed, it would appest, that. he spent the best part of the day and. night playing cards. All business he hand- ́ed ayar to his seorstary who, being a man-
of some parts, managed to keep things going, and so no apparent harro vas done..
Bometime before the prison ontbreak the
necessary to find a substitute. The magistrate selected one Ma, a relativa of
Mitsui and Kawasaki, for the construesecretary went away for a holiday, and it. tion of one gunboat each, and has also given an order to in American firm to build oze cruiser. A
him! This cost was most inefficient, and things gradually got out of hand. When's a farantable opportunity came the prisoners.
the item, it is found to be something out throw out another day; but balloonists from Portugal has been sentenced to death and for the jury to fix the damages. The placed orders with the Japanese firms, of the ordinary and testifying toho have done something to solve the is no death pensity; conquently excep
by the French courts. In Portugal there bearing was Bied for September 28, keenness which animates the men who
problem of cuting your cake and having tion is taken to the conviction, on the are bent on adding the conquest of the
ground that as the offender could not have beca subject to the death penalty in Por uiz to the long list of successus which
tagal, it would be ultra pirn of the existing With great regrat we announce the trestice to paforce such a sentence in news, received by wire from Fort Buid Last WOLFE'S AROMATIO SOHNAPRS were able to consost a scheme to burns out he submitted to arbitration, both France Hayward, who died at sea on Monday last France. It is said that the question will night, of the death of Mr W. Scott and Portugal agreeing to state case for while on his way Home on board the the decision of the English judiciary. Pembrokeshire. Mr Hayward came to Hongkong quite racontly and started, a
it too: Their device is the guide rope, known of old, and improved by Mr. bumankind has won at the expense WeiLaus. The guide mpe, is, in the of nature. Aviation has now passed case of the America, a series of jointed from the purely experimental stage and steel cylinders, in which gueoline will very great progress may be expected be carried, and through the centre of within the next few years. Every one which a steel rope will hang. One end
In a communication to the Field Mr branch of the Belfast Hongkong. Marine, of the leading nations has taken it up of this rope is in the car, the other is ca Savage English gives to a species of Engineering Ltd. Ailing on the way out and though some bare pursued it from the ground, or rather on the sea. As Tasmanian 3th a waighty, testimonial as he got worse while in the Colony and was a sense of the more military aspects and the balloon rises, it lifts the rope, and English as bimself applied it for two aam. which institution he was sent Home, destroyer of the larvae of the mosquito. Mr ordered up to the Peak Hospital, from possibilities of the science, still all are tho pull tends to bring it down, and mers to destroy mosquitoes in a tank where Our sympathy goes out to his two sons here now and all, his other contributing to the grues sum of general conversely, as the balloon sinke, marehe grows water lilies and he testified that who are knowledge.
it does its work well. In fact, he Ends relations, relatives and friends |and more of the weight of the rope rests that if one be left with an unlimited supply We must own, bowever, that we were on the water and tends to lighten the of larves it will over-eat and kill itself. The hardly prepared, notwithstanding all balloon. This guide rope, equilitatire trout." though la size, colour, that has recently taken place, to rend
made this month to cross the Atlantic in a dirigible halloon. Buch, however, is the case and Mr WALTER WELLMAN, who
80 por
fish in question in knows in Tasmania' as
THE BRUSSELS FIRE
The destructive fire, which has devastated
once hoped to reach the North Folstored in the cylinders and carried as a the ** native trout? gous periodically to the splendid position.
reserve.
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of prison before sty due so much an ear- MiciWEN, FRICKEL & CO. pected that'a plot was 'in the wind," '-
TANSAN
HAS RECEIVED THE HOHEST AWARD- GOLD MEDAL
from a Committed of critical judges at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition which testifies to its excellence and party.
Beware of Bogus Imitations. No Tansun is genuine unless the label betra.
the name of
J. CLIFFORD-WILKINSON.
the other day that an altempt will bar, is made of stoel tabing, so that it and habits it moro noirly resembles the Brassols International Exhibition w
will ride upon the surface of the water, lanew. It goes about in shoals, freevidently one of most serious disasters which quenting the quieter parts of rivers, and have befallen such an undertaking. Situated and of its total weight of 3,000 pounds backwaters, and forms one of the chief our the Bois de la Cambre, at the top af Tansan
cent, is made up of gasoline, items in the diet of the troub proper, the well known Avenue-Louis, about three introduced from England. Small as it is miles from Old Brussels, it occupied a The British, French sea Scientifically it is known as galaxia and Belgian sections which have been attenuatus. Me English advisos the entirely wiped cut. wers among the most troduction of the Tasmanian "native brout" important in the Exhibition, as a glance pl to those districts where mosquitoes are the pluri will show. The Brussels Ker-
messe, which was a reproduction, of Old BOLT known to be discass carriers.
Brussels immediately facing the British section, has sise been destroyed, involving vary considerable loss. If the fire spread A TIME SAVER.
beyond the French buildings, then the Kan antiseptic liniment and and the sections devoted to the United eop Chamberlain's Pain Baim on hand. Halle of Industry, the machinery exhibits causes wounds to heal in less time than by States Spain Turkey, Japan, Heypt, any other treatment. For sale by all Dentinark and Rain were involved. I ha
been a very great calamity indeed.
3.15 11.30 by means of a balloon, is the loader of the five seronauts who will essay
Of course Mr Wear is sanguine the task. They expect to follow the success and speaks positively of track of the big Atlantic liners, so reaching England. He wys he has that il disaster balls they may be made his calculations so carefully thit within reasonable hope of rescue. The they cannot. miscarry. We fail, howeyer, start will be from the American side in dismiss from memory the high horts and the landing, it is hoped, will be he entertained each time he starter for made in the neighbourhood of London, the North Pole and so refrain from cheiate and storekeepers,
The Infantile Actor LITTLE PERCY.
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