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The Hamburg-American Shipping super-Dreadnought Then the saving Company la building a 9,000-ton steamer of valuable space below deck, which | to be driven by a motor. the installation of motors or internal, caribustion engines menus is another
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NEWS OF THE DAY,
Late the other day, at Wamperin Dell, a motor car, at full speed, ran over a tiger on the roadway.' It was sighted, too late | to think of stopping. The "dropauta of the car drove on without ascertaining the fate of the tiger.
The rubber boom has alouded the pros. pasta of tobacco growing companies, în Jara. The value of tobacco shares om thu market depends now more upon the chances of the lead being put under rubber than upon the likelihood of getting fine crop of the leaf.
The rubber fover is raging in Bassein, India, where cultivators are looking about for moods of the best strains. Fabulous prices have been paid recently for rabber gardens in Burma, and there are indications that an extensive ares will soon be ander
rubber,
[COYTLIGHT.]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1910.
MUTINY IN SINKTANG.
THE ABSORPTION OF KOREA
OPINION IN LONDON,
Varying Views of the Press.
THE SITUATION SERIOUS.
(Wah Tu Yat Po's Service).
» Peking, August 25.
A mutiny has broken out among the soldiers in Sinking, and all prisoners have been liberated.. E. Wong Hau
(Reuters Service to the China Mail.)Ton, the Provincial Treasurer, is misa- ing and no trace of him can be found. The situation is very serions.
THE JAPAN FLOODS.
LONDON, August 26, In London the impending annexation of Korea by Japan is described as the turning point in Far Easton history,] while a fascinating question is how far Japan will go,
CHINA'S PRACTICAL
SYMPATHY
(Wall Tex Fat Po'a Service.)
· PERING, 'August 25, The Prince Regent has ordered the - Treasury to vote: 10,000 sela towards the sufferers in the Japanese foods.
The Conservative papers consider the change more animal than heal, ne they
has been merely a polite fiction. bold that the independence of Korea
The Radical Daily Nec anys that A large crowd of excursionists are the annexation is being carried out with making the trip to Macso on Sunday by
h ruthlessness which supplies a terrible the s.s. Heungahan in order to witness the
THE NEW INFLUENCE. funeral procession of the beare Portuguess foretaste of Oriental Imperialism. officer,,, Colonel Mosquita. A portion of The Times declares that it has been
(Wah Te Yat Po's Service) the Rajputs band has been secured plain for some time that the incorpor
· PELINO, August. 25. „(MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER's)... $20.80 its offensive and destructive qualities dians, that a you who had been charge-
It was reported to the Sleaford Gaar-sepply music on the run.
stion of Korea and Japan is the only
Prince Yu Tang and F.. Hou an occcatric character has been buried sound solution of many difficulties Shih-Chang, the newly-appointed Grand There is Ettle doubt that the experi-able us a lutic since February, 1862, and at Barton-on-Hamber. According to his ment will be watched with the keonest recently died. had coat the Guardians last webce, he was coffined in his best suit which have arisen sines Japan finally Councillors, have strongly advised the of clothes, braun bout, cans in hand, and abandoned her insular position. The granting of m amnesty to the revolu interest all over the world, for if it £1,360 for her maintenance.
up on head, watch in fob, with chain journal concludes: We are convinced tienists and reformers with a view Not-For Hongkong the above Fries will be increased by the smoput of duty eventuates successfully it means nothing The guaners of His Majesty's ship attached, and a low coins in his pocket. that Japan will face her larger destinies to putting in office thoss leaders whe @ayable-37.40 per Boxes.
short of a revolution in present ship-Natal here added to the existing fine The dead man, George Crowder, was for with that lefty, unfaltering courage may be of use to the Government. building methoda. aster speaks of tecords of British gunners, Firing many years potter at the Brigg Workhobse. always distinguishing her in high
with a 9.9 inch gun she made of hits in six
Mr Marcus Stone, B., who has just politics."
RAILWAY SQUABBLE. already as foreshado de eclipse of rounds, a ricocheting shot scoring the half.
celebrated his seventieth birthday says he the much-vaunted Dreadnought class,
(Wah Tas Fat Po'r Service.) The King of Portugal has accepted anis, pursuaded that the connection between
FERING, August 25.- which for the moment are demonstrat-oak sapling from Mr Lumedan, of Worces uncorseted mothers and long-lived sons of
Tang Sauk Chin, the General Manager ing in many Navies the high water mark ter. The World says it was grown from talent is more than accidental, and he be an scorn found in a pheasant sbot by King loves that the improvement to the race
of the Cheliang Railway, has been in naval construction and offensive Carlon during his visit to Wood Norton in caused by the mora sober and steady habitu{
degraded and prohibited from having of suca to day night be greatly advanced by (Beuter's Service to the China Ma.) anything more to do with railways. This" | manor costume on the part of women... ....
Lospus, August 95. is by reason of his telegram to the Grand At this resson of the year the tennia A St. Petersburg telegram says that Secretariat making certain allegations players in the Shetland Taleh take advantage in view of the speedy reconstruction against Sing Hang sun and the civil of the peculiar light known as "sof the Fleet, the Tear has ordered engineers engaged on the line, dim" to engage in one or two midnight
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"We're all single but one stray con- ple," said the spokeswoman of the party of over a hundred and sixty Canadian girl teachers on arrival at Liverpool, but we brought a ministor with us. He may be tenir parties. Quite receilg the Bellone Imperial Councillors Roehrberg, Roe- The decision has caused great in- handy."
Club bad their annual midnight party. The diger and Dulinieff to inquire into the dignation among the gentry of the "simmer dim" was hidden at 10.30 by administration of the Naval Construc- Province and a big meeting is to be Thomas Morris's centenarian, who distant clouds, but the game was started tion Department and the output of the held on the 28th inst. has died at Olabill, was the father of about 11 p.m., though fast play was out of twenty-one children. His total descendants the question. By 1 am, it was practically Imperial dockyards. The Councillors number nearly 300. In his young days broad daylight.
are also required to frame régulations trained a monkey successfully to blow the Morris was a wrought pailmaker, and be
that they may deems to be necessary as soon as posible. bellowe
ties. If so this very costly type of fight | 1904. ing machine has had a very short reign..
-a reign entirely bloodless, for none of ture at Nos. 1 & 2, Knutsford Terrace, them have been put to the test of action. But it is a trifle premature to speak of their supercession yet awhile,
we rasgine. There is such a thing counting one's chickens before the ara hatubed, and it would therefore be as well for us all in the new historic phrase of Mr. Ascurta, "to wait and 2.50 p.m.-Legislative Council Meeting. soc." The idea may even be improved 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farul upon before the new ship takes to the water. Besides, we don't know what
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, Aracer 6, 3910
NEWS OF THE DAY.
the world will, in 1913, colebrate the Admirer of David Livingstone all over
aentenary of his birth.
Them is no part which is safe for the aeroplanist in a stor save the solid ground and the worst of it is this ground la so terribly solid.--Saturday R.view.
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3 polico assault, heard at Wakefield, it was stated that in rapid arccession the defendant, a miner, burled a far-iron, pint pot, a jam jar, and a salt cellar at the officer. He concluded the bombardment by attacking the policeman with a coal rako.
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The statement pablished in a con-
Gianthorne," Kimberley Road, Kowloon, temporary to the effect that the raideber,
was yesterday sold for $1,600 and that a further Intind Lot at Kowloon was knocked down for 31,900 is incorrect. The sale does not take place until September 8th.
We understand that a concert is on thellapis at Macao in aid of the fonds to be davoted to the memorial in honour of the late Colonel Mesquita. It is probabia that the event will take place on the first Satar- day in September, and it is likely that the services of the Rajputs band will be obtained. If the preliminaries are satis factory the Sui Thi will be engaged to taki the band to and fro, leaving on the Satr day at 2pm. For the convenience of trippa special arrangements may be mada to enable the holders of return tarkets to sleep on board.
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GERMAN POLITICS.
ANOTHER SOCIALISTIC
VICTORY.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Loscos, August 25.
THE TROOPING SEASON.
The troopship Hardinge will bring thɩ 1st Battalion King'a'Uwn (Yorkshira Light · Infantry) from Cape Town to Hongkong in | relief of the 2nd Battalion, the Buffs, whe will proceed by the same rossel to Sing- spore,..
The dates of arrival and departure 'arè not yebto.band.
The 105th Mahratta Light Infantry will leave Rowloca about February 14th next for the fashionable rating centre, Poons. The regiment will be relieved by the 8th- A bye-election, at Zschopan to fill a Rajputs, who will, it is stated, come here vacancy in the Reichstag has resulted by the troopship Dufferin. Altor debark in a Socialist gain.
SOCIETY.
Within the last month five shiploads, numbering 1,500, of Punjabi Mahomedans and Sikhä, have left Calcutts for Hongkong HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL Many assert that tony will go to Californie, whence relatives have written that they Serious bread riots have broken out have found good-land. They add that at Bari, the capital of an Adriatic Italian A mother, whose son is miner, had province. The hugs mob of 7,000 starving met with an resident, exclaimed in broken people marched through the town sacking tones: Aye! when he was carried hame and riotlong. The mobs was composed of We do not imagine thathay reneonable could perform the operation they had to soap factories, for which the town is noted, he wasna conscientious, an before they the employees of the cotton, silk, linen and
man believes that the new type of wargie bim gloryform." ship which Reuter's telegram informs
NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS.
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Plans, are now afoot to provide the us the British Naval, authorities have Jewish community in East London with i decided to constractill be the last playhouse of their own, and the all in word in mvat development" Soch Jewry may participate in the venture word as finality does not yet apply to raise £12,000 the necessary capital
limited liability company is being farmed to
the mental offspring of the human brain much less then to matters connected with the things reen lauch upon the sea Such a ship as our telegram breaks
has for some time been foreshadowed
of
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ation the 13th Rajputs will embark on the trouper about. April 18th, being das to arrive at Bombay on the 50th, whence they' will proceed by rail to Ages, where they will believe the 3rd Brahmins. The latter corps proceeds to Singapore.
AMERICAN POLITICS.
President Taft said to be:
Tired of Squabbles...
The following Washington telegram ap pcars in the Callekeus-American, of
We have received a copy of the Schedule other Projabs are so preparing to for the 1911 Flower and Vegetablo Show emigrate. The American Consul-General of the Hongkong Horticultural Society. at Calcutta states that noms of the men The Schedule is on similar lines to previous visited his office. They will probably be ones. Among the few additions we had
then cross the land, frontier. He believed should be appreciated by the strictly Bisnis:The Republican Party is in refused a landing at fan Francisco; but the that four classes have been introduced for habit of sich is to go on to Canada and those who do not employ a gardener, This
as well as dock banda,
that the United States will make represente amateur horticulturista. stions. All the emigrants, who are not, Chinatown in Cardiff was the scene of taking their families, belong to the fighting
police and watchmen.
disturbance on August 11. The Chiness castes, and hope to obtain employment as inhabitants, who for some time past have been the subject of much criticism, 'broke out and lox some time were extremely riolent. Eventually a strong force of police
Let us remember," writes Mrs Florsquelled the riot. arfesting fourteen of the Annie Steel, the novelist, in the Timesteaders.
that every map is half a woman; overy woman half a man: that which is avanes
cent-or female-in both will disappear;
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The Bishop of Victoria will preach at the Paindo Service in the Cathedral an Stinday
H
TERMS AT THE COURTS.
Ten harban who were caught gambling with Chinese playing cards at West Point were to-day fined $3 each.
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A Chinaman found sleeping in an unused verandah was to-day charged with being
condition bordering on demoralization President Taft is described in the dir patches from Beverly sa tired of politics and ** floundering.". The conservatives sta bewildered by the re-entranos of Roosevelt. into the "ingargent" wing of the party- and bis activity. Some of them himine the President for not making a greater effort to save the organization and others criticiss-- him for the efforts he has made.
The President's private secretary, Mr Norton, who has entered actively into the since he began his duties, relieved his chist movement to harmonize the party and has
Major Chitty, 105th Mahratta "Lightgns and a vagabond and was sent to cf much of the political management of his
Infantry, is the visitor to the Detention Barracks for the ensning week.
prison for three months.
position, says the President, is distressed over the failure of the ousting of Ballinger, For causing an obstruction by placing insurgents and sppease Pinchot and step Aldrich, Hale and Cannon to satisfy the ber of big wooden boxes in the street his slaught on the Administration's a silken costed Chinese shopkeeper was to friends.. day fined $15 by Mr E. E. Bailifax at the Magistancy.
Thirty years ago the number of shoop that which is permanent-or male-wili in the British Empire was, roughly, 120 a vessel without masts or funnels, endure."
millions of which Australia contributed --- just under 50 million, "A recent comp driven by either interal-combustion
The Belgian Consul in Hongkong has In an article on boy cricket in the Istion gives the flocks of the Empire 'as enginca "armotors. Mr JAES MOKECHNE, Saturday Bericw, the writer saya: "It is about 200 millions, of which the Australian notified Bandmaster Coke, 13th Rajpath
The latest saation in the political world- Jia & demand from Roosevelt fint President delightful to hear the confident cheen Commonwealth provides close upon hall. that in Majesty the King of the Belgian
·W.1.N.A., & little while ago, lectured on which barst "invariahly, from the boy This calculation includes Australia, Canadaas been graciously pleased to accept a ↑
| Taft break with Vico Freddent Sherman. such a possibility before the Institution stands when the last batsman, with a Cape Colony, Ceylon, India, Natal, Orange ed to him.
The demand is based on the evidence that march "Loyal au Roi" written and dedicat
The case in which Mrs Maria Uschmann has been adduood in the Congressional mel E B. Shepherd to recover $178.53 investigation of the bribery charges of of Naval Architects, and ever since average of thret, steps forth to deal with a'
situation which requiros a century.”""
Biver Colouy, Transvaal, New Zealand, articles in the service papers, and in the
The following officers of the Royal was adjourned sine dhe by Mr Justice Senator Gore, connecting Vice President and the United Kingdom. The total
Sherman's namo with the Indian land graft ponderous though deeply interesting
In their annual report the Commitive number of sheep in the world is about 480 Engineers have been ordered human from Hazeland, at the Supreme Court this scandal and his associations in New York. of Council on Education in Scotland state millions, so that the British Empire con Cake, Hongkong; B. L. Eddis, Singapore;
Far Eastern garrisons-Lieutenants B. Foting. Wm. Powell, Ld. books devoted to naval affairs, have of Connel ge Kako bare ben ostablished taime shost. 49. per cont, of the world's G. E. B. Dobbe, Singapore; C. R. Shan-
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mind. As "Blue Teter" wrote in the he credit of the 48,834 depositors at the decades ago.
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A German named W. Hoghatade was | Buchanan, A. F. Day, A. W. 8. Gibson, wonderful fighting apa are always
yesterday walking along Dos Voer Honda F. L. Brown, for Bangdong Taonten- being invented, the greater, percentage
It is stated that while the Grand Duke West when a native snatched a pocket book I F., Berns Stanley, Zed Battalion. from his jacket The former immediate Middleser Regiment, Singapore, has been of which are obviously impossible, but their visit to Filty, a Prea photographer However, he saw a Chinese calmly walking and is ended whilst so employed. and Duchess of Hess were bathing duringly looked around but found no one running transferred to the Army Service Corps, still the remainder may embody the mapped" them. The Duke, however, along with the note book, tocked away | Lieutenant Skóans Exanley He spent spes nucleus of a suggestion which in the espied him, and putting up, his hand, ho under his arm. He gave chase and caught Janney, 1906, in 14 ) Middlesex Regiment. hand of a skilled architect can be made shouted, "No, no." The Press photothe thief, whereupon another native ran to materialise into a powerful engine of graph, readily destroyed the negative, and blong policeman" and saked that be should grapher, although he had taken tho' photo up with a police whistle and exclaimed, "I
war."
apologise to the Grand Doke, who came take charge of the culprit, The German, There is little doubt that any design out of the water to see bimod, in the wores, refused to part with his med until a uniformed lekong appasted on the which reduces the top-humper of was exceedingly nice."
words of the photographer, the Grand Duke cene. In the meantime the other mag takes over the command of the 13th fighting ship will be bartily welcomed
Wirelem telephoning from moving by all mavicu. It will be remembered train was accomplished on July 28 forms that in the battle of Tsushima the first time with complete succos DE Japanese portmanteaux, as the Bus Three Bridges on the Brighton Railway stretch of railway line between Hurley and
sians humourously called the big shells spoke to an inspector in a signatbox asan. be depended upon is an expression Travelling by last train a silway oficial fired from Tono's vessels, barst on clearly and easily as if the tain had boce U wa all like to hear, and when it♬ Coming in contact with ever a for- box. The fact which distinguishes Mr von Colie, Cholers and Diarrhoea Remedy it stationary-and connected by wire with themed in connection with Chamberlain's
nel' guy, doing tremendous damage, tried in England or America is that the dysontery, or bowel complaint WOLFES AROMATIO SCHNÉPS Kramer's system from any othar previously maps that it over fails to cars diastboos Bo it will be readily soon what a electric impulses travel between the bridge plonesni, to take and equally valuable for "distinct advantage the entire elimins an open-air space of 18 in.
on the marriage and ground wirow through children, and adulta. For mis by all
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had made himself scarce, and there can be little doubt bot that he was one of SADS of thieves of which the captured man, was
also a member."
'SOMETHING RELIABLE.
On November 13th next Major Camilleri
Rajputa vice Colonel Prior, whose time will then expire. Major Walling, 16th Bajpets, Soins as second in command.
Captain Beasley, the well-known cricke and tennis player, has left the com end of the H.KSERGA
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