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Noor--Meeting of Douglas Steamship
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8 p.m.-Auction of Pier Rights at the Public Works Department's Offices. 3.30 p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Cricket Langue in the Hongkong Cricket Club Pavilion.
TURDAY, September 27:--
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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Italian Consul General in Hong- cold. We look back, with cary, kong has been instructed by wire to to the glow with which those funny contradict oficially the unfounded rumours
about the existence of cholors in Naples. old Mid-Victorians would wave their lants madly "round their heads at the
The long continued drought and the sound of a word like 'Liberty, for in-consequent rise in the price of rice are re- slance. It is not that we do not stand for "ponsible for the exodus from Hainan. of
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
The English Mail of the 20th August was delivered in London on the 19th Sep. Combor.
English Watches and scientifle appar valued at £1000, have been stoler the Japanese-British Exhibition.
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Liberty' still. It is our Cause as much/largo numbers of young Chinese to Singa teagle which left are on the 10th August,
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as over. Only it is now to us no millen-
The South African Union Governmiant nial panacea. It has no Mesopotamia fas-has contributed £500 towards Captain
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1910.
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QUEUE
THE ALLEGED SECRET FOR AND AGAINST THE
TREATY
DENIALS FROM AUSTRIA AND GERMANY.
(Wah Tez Fat Po's Service)--- PRING, September 10. (Reuter's Servies to the China Mail) The advocates of the cutting of the
LONDON, September 201
quone continue their campaign, but· The silk ox C. F. R*° Co.'s «.." Mon
The Vienna and Berlin papers declare those who oppose the ides have request. Arrived in New York on the 18th Sept. that the announcement by the afatined the Empress Dowager to pats atop
of the conclusion at a secret Military to the movement: The damage done by the recent floods Treaty between Turkey and Roumania A censor has rent in a memorial to the effect that the weakness cr the lin and Vienna Governments is a pure evar to do with the queño. tone, Governor-General, has giren 450 to and 30,000 people have been rendered the fand opened by the Mayor of Pretoria.
invention intended to create discord In the course of manors in Hamp between Italy and her partners in the Naws from Tonkin report an outbreak ahird on September 9th the army airship Triple Alliance.. of convicts on August 28. Ou returning did splendid work, constantly and accurately from work they rom in revolt and killed a soldier and four prisoners who refused to join them. After setting fire to the bar mcka and carrying offs number of rifles they fled. Only one of them was captured.
cination for us. We have got it, to some Scott's Antarctic oxpedition. Lord Glad in Hsiuminfa is estimated at $8,000,000 ander "the" direct inspiration of the Ber strength of a nation has nothing what-
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ending wireless messages to headquarters
The assertion is also denied at Coa-
report is accepted in Paris as being of the disposition and movements of stantinople and Bakkarest, but the troops.
true in the main.
Router's Capetown correspondent says It is reported that Quebec and New that Lord fethuen, at the request of foundland will have the distinction of vaing General Botha and Mr Smuts, has agreed the first postage stamps issued for the new to remain in South Africa till April, to reign, King George having approved the feist the Commonwealth Government in stamp design for the former colony, and arranging the new defence scheme. the Go, stamp for the latter. Both stampu are ordered to be printed and isatrod im medistely.
degree; we know it from inside. And, while we mean resolutely to keep it, and' while we recognise as strenuously as ever its prime necessity for our well being, it is held by cool and grim reason rather than by any rosy enthusiasm Liberty means new obligations, now perils, new tests, now andeavour. Wel are toeing the line; but the race has yet to be run. That is why the sound of the same is not now to us so satisfying and so final. There is, we feel, so much more to be said before wa make it good That gilt, then, is off the gingerbread. The days are a bit moro dour and dark than once they were. But, after all, why should gingerbread be gilt? That is problem that I have never been able to solve. What we want is the ginger not the gilt. The gilt plays no part that I know of in our joy. I have never caten the gilt that I know of. It would be! On August 28, na, a gooda train on the Yunnan Railway was about to enter a ton very nasty. A vision is bound to be nel, a mass of rocks fell from the top of the humdrum as soon as it is attained. But later on the ralia. The traja got off the it may be are wholesome stud for all track, and foll into a ravine. Theros tire broke out and consumed the goods and the trucks. None of the railway men were killed but all of them were injured more or Jess seriously. "
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ENGLISH LABOUR DISPUTES.
ULTIMATUM TO COTTON
WORKERS. - -
MANCHURIA AND MON.
GOLIA.
THE INCREASE OF FOREIGN TROOPA.
(Wah Tax Yat Po's Service.)
PERING, Seqtember 19.
The Prince Regent and Prince Yu Lang (President of the Board of Wars have held a consultation on the question. of the increasing number of foreign
It is reported from Shanghai that the (Reuler's Service to the China Matroops in both Manchuria and Mongolia..
LONDON, September 20. The Federation of Cotton Masters has
aleamer Proteus, stranded on Drinkwater point at the entrance to the Yangtze, is The Pacific Cable Board in ita report now lying in a much more favourable resolved to close all the mills on October shows that the receipts for the year position and probably she will be got olat if the dispute at Fern Mill is not mounted to £111,723, and there is a credit the bank on which she is stranded in the balance of £17,958, leaving £59,558 paynext few days. able by the Goreramenta of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Tho number of words cabled to the press shows
an increase of 30,878.
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that. Gingerbread is the real. That is what we actually wanted to cat. If we bave got it in our mouths, for goodness' sake don't let us worry because it has
Arrangements for the Coronation are getting in hand. A high authority ways ceased to be gilt. That is the true in there will be a great pageant of Empire. ral, I expect. And we might apply it fivery dominion and dependency will be another world-word, which has gore represented, and the premiers of the Colonies and other ministers will be invited. through the same process as Liberty. The Imperial Conference will be immedi Democracy was once a spell to conjurately prior, or subsequent to, the Corona- with. We bad only to utter it, and the whole world was cheering. It hold all Mesopotamia in it. Now we have passed through something of a discip line. We have begun to see what
6.30 p.m.-Harbour Race for China Mail Democracy comes to as a working fact We have actualised enough of it to And,
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• The China Mail
Haxarova, Tursdät, Sert, 20, 1910.
WHEN IDEALS TURN DRAB.
Terng is no denying the fact that at the present moment the great mass of
lo! it is when once in action rather drab, and dull, and vulgar. It does not lend itself any longer to thrills It bas its can skw and clumsy ways of blundering. It makes heaps of mistakes. It is very commonplace and unromantic. It exhibita itself badly, stupidly, brainlessly. It takea dreadful lot of time doing anything, So many people have to be consulted, Such a long process of voting has to be
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Rumours were pretty prevalent in the city today that cholera had suddenly broken out in Macan, but es enquiry we learn that such is not the case. The mortality returns for the work show an absolutely clean bill of health as far as that disease is concerned while the other deaths are from quinor causes and were in no way infectus. •
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During the Erst six months of the year the importe of Great Britain were valued £279,000,100, compared with Germany £200,000,000, United States, £168,000,000, and Fiance, £133,000,000. The exports from Great Britain for the same period, amounted to £204,000,000, compared with Germany £164,000,000, United States £163,000,000, and France £119,000,000.
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The deaths are announced of Viscount Avonmore, the fifth Viscount who was born in 1886, and Sir Thomas Faller. K.C.M.G., born in 1831, for many years
M.P. for Capetown, editor of the Cape Argus, emigration commissioner for the
News from Tonkin tells of business
then settled. This declaration affects 100,000 operatives.
A conference between the boiler- makers and their employers has been arranged for Wednesday.
THE FIRE ENQUIRY.
To-day's Proceedings.
Before Mr J. R. Wood at the MagiBITACY this afternoon, the enquiry was resulted touching the deaths of seven persons who lost their lives at Nos. 98 and 100 Jervois Street during a Seo and subsequent collapse
improvement from capitalists in France interesting themselves in the gold, ti, zine, and coal mines in that quarter. Hitherto, says the Straits Timer, investors bave fought shy of Indo-China undertakings.. FRENCH EXPRESS COL on September 4..... Another significant sign is that Honkong capitalists have largely invested in a Tonkin company capitalised at 8000,000, which manufactures paper from bamboo.
Sentence was promulgated at Aldershot on Colour-sergeant Boury Trott, End King's Uw Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was tried by court martial for falsifying shoot- ing returns. He was ordered to be reduced to the ranks. The sergeant's friends point out that be had nothing to gain personally by his action, the only advantage being that his company would have stood a hotter chance of securing the Butt Shooting Challonge Shield.
Fiory indignation marked the proceed- inga at an extrunrdinary meeting of the Rubber Planters' Association at Saigon, on August 27. The meeting was called in consequence of a newspaper there, which caters for native zoudera, containing an article stirring up the people to kill all rubber plants on landa alleged to be grabbed by planters. The journalist in question was denounced in no measured terme, and a resolution was passed calling upon the government to punish those answerable for this call to crime.
A'sensational Customa soizure is re
LISION.
ENGLISH PASSENGERS
INJURED.
(Renter's Service to the China Mail)
The jurors were as follows:-Manóra P. Holm, E. L. Hughes and'F. Rapp.
Mr R. C. Barlow appeared on behalf of the surviving parties of Hah Hing Tre firm and for the relatives of Leung Cho Tow of No. 93 Jarvoise Street..
Inspector Gourlay conducted the case od behalf of the police.
Ma Cheuk. Lung, stated that at about 3 One of the Chinese shopkeepers, pamed
Losmos, September 19. Twenty-one English passengers sustained contusions and are suffering from shock caused by the Dieppe boatman September 3rd a servant boy came to his family house and told him of the express running at high speed against fire. Witress immediately went to Jerrola Street but found that, No. 100 had already the buffers at the Paris terminus.
collapsed. The premises were illuminated The engine was driven by a young by gas, there being three burners on the novice,
ground floor and two on the first. There wore no fire works or explosives on the promises.
There is increasing anxiety regard ing the frequency of accidents on the French State Railways,
This is the fourth' on the Western Railway in a month,
GENERAL BOTHA.”
WILL HIS PARTY RESIGN ?
(Beuter'a Service to the Chine Mail) LONDES, September 19. ·
the night of the fire he was asleep on the A witness named Lai Pui stated that on
groand door of No 93. He was awakened by cries of "Fire," and ran out into the treet Thero he saw that there was Gre in the Wah Hing Tal, but at that time there was none
on the premises be came front. Witness did not hear any explosion. He immediately ran and told iris master of the fire.
The master of the Ching Wah shop, 103 Jervois Strost, deposed that on the night of the firo he was on the ground floor of his promisos. He was asleep, but shortly after
The rumours that General Botha was awakened by a miss of the falling of a case of hooku. Es then told, the fokis light lampa, and while they were doing so ho discovered that there way will resign are little credited.
The Cabinet will meet on Tuesday a fire next door, smoke coming through into before his shop. As soon as he saw there was a
fire he ran away.
and nothing will be decided
ported from Saigon. A Chinaman, who and just aurived by mail from Singapore, tried to pass some packages as containing preserved pineapples. The weight of the packages aroused suspicion. They were then. opened. eight, in number, and found to aontain jewellery and gold leaf valued at CANTON-KOWLOON RAIL" out had any walle fallen down 1-No.
$40,0 0. They were neized. Shortly after. wards news came of a big jewel robbery at Singapore. The Saigon police think that this has some connection with the attempt at amuggling.
The Imperial authorities at Peking have ordered a thorough inspection to be
WAY.
NEW CHINESE DIRECTOR.
(Wah Tez Yat Fo's Service)
PEKING, September 19.
His Worship--Did you hear any er plosion
1-No.
Inspecter Gourlay--At the time you want
Mr Barlow suggested that the fall of the case might have been esused by an ex- plosion.
Witoss was questioned on the point, Bis Worship What made the case fall? I don't know. I was asleep when it fell.
HE Wei Han has resigned his posterne of the fire spoke to bearing a lond A cook who lived in a lane adjoining the as Director of the Chinese section noise caused by collapsing houses. He told
of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and his fokis that houses were falling but they
huanity is feeling very dissatisfied one through. There is such a dreary Cape Government, general manager of the made of the condition and efectivanosa of Chao Hing Wa is to be appointed as need not fear. Later how a fire break with iteel and with the world at large,/ deal of machinery, and such a waste Union S. S. Company in South Africa, the several forta throughout the Kwang bis successor, ..."
It is not the "diviac dissatisfaction" of power in silly committees."
But Canon SCOTT-HOLLAND would] which precedes an era of moral reform- ation and revivifed energy, however, but have us be of good cheer though the gilt FABRICS. the dissatisfaction following upon las has come off the gingerbread and the situde and disappointment. Men and clouds of glory of the oarly morning women approaching middle age ure con-have faded into the light of common scions of the fact that the "rosente bues day. He is convinced that if one cares Cloths. of early dawn" bave quite faded from to look backward, it will be perceived their horizon, leaving but a sense of that progress has really been made drab monotony behind. All the high Public opinion is evor in a state of hopes which men of the English race flux, now running inordinately high in indulged in forty years ago when the the channels of great expectations institution of a system of elementary now dwindling to almost nothingness POPLINS, etc.
education-whereby every child was to in the shallows of despondency. So be given a chance of entering upon the Canon Scorr-HOLLAND is right in Patterns on Application pleasant pastures of knowledge, was reminding us that as a living entity started, are now seen to be vanishing man is really moving along the patha into thin air. This is the age too that make for advancement. At the wherein democracy is supposed to be present moment we have, perhaps, only cuming by its own, yet shrewd beervers temporarily, lost the sense of vision; of the trend of current events already when that returns we shall recover our perceive that democracy is fated to
spirits and our courage, make many sad failuresere it gives place, QINEMATOGRAPH THEATRE, as it must cae day, to something else in the way of a social ideal. This, we PREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY, believe, is a fair representation of the Opposite Central Market. state of public opinion at the present moment. Of course everybody does not entertain these ideas: it would be very bad for the world it they did. Canon Scorr Hotaso, for instance, in the Con
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tung province. Soveral items are asked for, and information theroon insisted upon. First, the kind of gun 'now in uso at the Since the 1st instant a storm has been several forts, and the velocity with which
aging over the whole of Formosa, reports the Jupan Gazette of September 7. Up to the 6th upwards of 130 houses bad bean destroyed, damaged and washed away, 2,200 houses were submerged, thirteen persons drowned, five others injured, and some were miesing. Buldinge other thas ardien wolling houses, and railways bare both 'damaged. Seven als have beca wrecked, and fifteen damaged.
The actor Loraine, who made the phenomenal Bight at Blackpool a little while nze, started on September 12th in an aeroplane from Holyhead to Dublin. He during the het ball hour of the flight and hundred yards from Howth Head. The finally came down gently in the water two
scroplane turned turtle but Loraine dived underneath and swam ashore. The zero. place was picked up by a passing steamer andawnged.
was in constant trouble with his motor
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aut on the premises. Then he and his fokis left.
A lukong stated that at 2.80 a.m. he passed the promisoa. They were then all right. Scon afterwarde he heard the sound- of collapsing houses; the sound was like that of big gun. Later, he saw that the.. they will eject a missile. The percentage of old and now cannon must be stated. The (Wah Tas Fat Po's Service.) place was on fire, and then he blow his
whistle. PERING, September 19. countries from which the guns were
Witness got up to the upper H.E. Shih Leung, the Viceroy of floors of adjoining buildings and rescued s originally obtained is demanded, and the prices at which they were bought. In Manchuria, has proposed that foreigner of mates..
P.O. Clarke atated that on tho morning. formation on all these points is asked for loans to the extent of one thousand in quest was standing at No,
when he heard a report, which be and east be forwarded at once. Whether million dollars be concluded with the guza in use on the so-called men of was view to railway construction through are also to be reported upon does not out the Empire. appear quite clear.
The Board of Communications is | strongly opposing the suggestion.
CHINA'S SENATE.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
May Yohe, the American actress, while
singing in a city restaurant in San Fran cisco, was seized with a paralytic stroke.
Mra Cudahy, wife of walionaire packet with one dollar alimony, on the ground of in Chicago, has been granted a divorce,
incompatibility of temper.
The prospects of the re-cotry of Yuan Shib-kal into the service of the State are not improving. This fact is attributed to the growth of Japanese influence and the opposition of Na Tung and a part of the Court cliques working against Yuan Shih- kai.
(Wah T. Yat Po's Service.)
PEKINO, September 10. The Prince Regent will attend the opening of the Senate and will deliver a speech.
Station how to
looked in the direction of Bonham Strand took to be the report of a big gun. He and Raw the reflection of a fire and heard the sound of police whistles. F. C. Hedge rang the fire-bell and witness me in the direction of the is. When he got to the spot ho w that the back part of the buildings had collapsed and fallen into a lane near by. Operations were soon commenced and the fire got under by about four o'clock,
Further evidence was called, and the enquiry was still proceeding when we woot.
to press.
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The fifth edition of the index by Mr Arthur Chapman, Government Assessor to tho strenta, house numbers and lots of Victorin, the Hill District, Wongusichong, Shankiwan Road, Tai Hang, Tung Lo Wan, Telegrams from Washington state that Quarry Bay, Saiwanho, Shaukiwau, Pokie Marsh, United States Chargé d'Affaires fulam, Aberdeen, Kowloon Point, Yaumati, Panama, has been recalled, apparently Mangkoktaui. Taikoktaui, "Fuktsunheung, owing to an intervies in which he said that The State Express Cigarettes, Virginian and Turkish Leaf just been published and as usual contains President of Famama, the United States Hunghom. and Kowloon City Road, hasif Vice-President, Mendoza were-elected
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·THE COLLAPSE. More Bodies Recovered.
the collapsed homes in Morrison Street The work of removing the debris from still continues. For a time at least the adjacent buildings have been shored up so be of the utmost mine to residents in the would be compelled to occupy or to annex
prevent the danger of injury to the Colony.
coolies on the not.
the country.
Blends, are recognised as the Standard of Purity
and quality all the world over..
Sir Caraw Machin, who is stated to Quality combined with cheapness is the motto bare, retired from the editorship of the
Ardath Tobacco Co. Dunder Advertiser, has been a considerable
Last night at about 8.30 o'clock a farther Work on the battleship Kawachil, which body was recovered, from the ruins, while is being constructed at the Yokotika Naval this morning shortly after 10 o'clock an arsenal, has made fair progress and the force in Scottish Liberalism. He was the opliraistic side. He is not diamayed at other wan takon nut. Previously four launching ceremony is expected to be held editor of the Scottish Leader, the paper Prices for State Express Cigarettes to be obtained from Anding the gilt worn off the gingerbread. bodies had been removed and two of the on the 10th pros. The keel of this battle which the Liberal Party ondeavoured to injured had died in hospital. So, the total ship was laid in April of last year. Her establish in Edinburgh after the Home death-roll eo lar is sight..
No doubt, he says, "some of the great watchwords of the last century have lost their gilding. That is part of the secret
"A'DANGER AVOIDED.
displacemont is 20,800 tons, langth 480 Rule split, and which had the present Sit eat, breadth forty eight feet, and draught Henry Dalziel as it London'correspondent.
of a winin depression that bargeraspting rose a wound when Chen with ten 12-inch guns, ten d-inch quick expenditure of money, Sir Carlaw Martin, THERE is Do dansez from blood poison twenty-sight feet. She is to be squipped When the Leader foundered, after a great heavily about us. The sting and the berlain Fain Balm is applied. It is an tring guns, wolve 4-inch quick firing guns not then knighted, went to the Dundse
antiseptis iniment, For sale by all and five tarpado tubas.
Advertiser, upon which his writing had rapturo have gone out of our great chembets and storekeepers.
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TELEPHONE No. 135.