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THURSDAY, Barch 2 :—-_
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WANCHAI ARSON CASE.
Prisoner Sentenced to Ono Year's Imprisonment.
At the Criminal Sessions this morning, before the Chlof Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, Frank Aquino caso, up for judgment hav ing pleaded guilty to a charge of arson at The Christian Union meeting on Man-Wanchai, sentence having been deferred day, the 27th Febranty, will be conducted on the intimation of the Hon Mr W. Roes by Rov. A. II. McKenzie. The secting Davies, K.G., Attorney Geniom, that it will be held at Rutherford fall, St. would be advisable to have the state of Stephen's College, at 5.30 p.m.
prisoner's mind enquired into.
NEWS OF THE DAK up the revenue derived from opium
Reduce pengur, fares are to comic they had no conception of the trouble into operation on the British section of the they were causing. They did not Kowloon-Canton Railway from March 1st realise that they were disturbing so far as Saturdays and Sundays, no con | the founilationis" of a very equit | verned.
able and "just system of taxation. The opiuni revenue was contributed by the larger portion of the com- munity nad iu such small individual proportions that no-one felt the burden. The liquer duties, however, shifted the weight from the shoulders of the many to the backs of the very few, and if that sense was lacking in strict equity. It is no nse crying over spilt milk. The former source of revenue has almost disappeared; the new source is found to be insufficient for our needs, and what we have got to consider during the next few months is some way of auraunting the difficulty.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911.
[CopyRian]: AMERICAN-JAPANESE
: TREATY
OPPOSITION FROM CALIFORNIA.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) ·
[COPERIT.]
MANILA CARNIVAL.
HONGKONG SUCCESSES IN
TENNIS.
(From our Special Correspondent.)
MANILA, February 24. Lieutenants Day and Sullivan, of the A message from Washington states K. O. Y. L. I., Capt.. Brierley and Mr
Losos, February 2-1.
that the Senate has deferred ratification M. Reader Farris constitute the second of the new Treaty with Japan! The round in the Carnival Tounis Cham., His Lordship said—I have lud enquiries | subject i will probably come up again ionship, the other competitors haring
been knocked out.
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We are asked to remind the shared into the state of your mind and I to-day. holders of the Hangkong and Shanghai don't think there is anything to make mo The Californian Senate has us Ranking Corporation that the half-yearly lenient with you. You are sentenced to meeting will be held in the City Hall to sorrow, commencing at twelve noen.
The future of the Lurdon Stock Ex- change on February 2, says a telegram to Rangoon, was the proposed absorption of the London, Tilbury and Southend Rail. my by the Midland Railway.: Tilburys rose twenty points.
Reuter understands, in reference to the report of the withdrawal of troops from South Africa, that there is no inten tion of adopting such a course until South Africa, following the example of other Dominicus hea a regalar military organis
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one year's imprisonment with hard labour.animously passed a resolution urging JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
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The Countess of Crewe has given birth to her first born son and heir. She has been married for cleven years.
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A cable received in Calcutis states that | the Russian Government has ordered 300 neroplanes from British atanufacturers.
Congress to dissent from the Treaty.
Note The chief feature of the Treaty is that it places no restrictions on Japanovo | immigrants, simply loving it to Japan to proven thin immigration of undesirable chamcters.-E..
THE ANTI-VETO BILL.
APPROVED BY COALITION VOTE.
(Reuter's Service.to the China Mail)
Loyoos, February 23, The Parliament Bill (which deals with the veto of the House of Lords), has icon read a first time, the division showing 301 votes in favour and 24′′
A telegrun announces that Mr James filler, ons of the senior partner of fears. Adamson, Gilfillan Ltd., has died ab-home after a fortnight's illnose with: poumonia. Mr Miller, who why living at PAGI Hill was about 70 years of age and was one of this old school of Singapore merchants. He lived in the Straits abous against. 30 years.
There was wild enthusiasm over the Replying to an address presented to him, coalition of the Irish and Government at Calcutta the Crown Prince of Germany parties. mid-1 shall never forget the delightfuj days I have spent in this wonderful country, and I shall not fail, on my return to Ger many, to do what is in my power to encourage the interest which my country- men already take in India and its ancient literature and antiquities. You may further rest as used that I shall alwaye
CRITICISED,
HOT DEBATE IN THE DIET.
(Independent News Agency's Servico to the China Mail)
Tonro, February 21. The resolution presented. to the Dist by the Kakuminto (Nationaliste) denouncing the Cabinet and its policy was yesterday afternoon discussed, a
A hot debate ensued and as a result the resolution was rejected by a majority of 100 againat 93, -
The Cabinet was defended by meur hers of the Seiyukai (Constitutionalists) who onde a compromise recently with the Government the latter abandoning the conversion of railways to the broad. guage system in return for the passing of the Budget.
In view of the condition of the local Treasury, and the reluctanceon thepart of the Home authorities to takeover the burden of the Military Contribution sa Imperial obligation, or even I to allow of a inore equitable system Faf levying this import;ve thinki
Excellency was right in the attitude he assumed in regard to the placing. of a public clock on the new Post Office. Undoubtedly "it woukl be n great public convenience; would give a splendid finish to our sen-front, and put us on a level with other ports of lesser magnitude. But it is not an urgent necessity and we can well afford to wait until better times
and Company that Mr Van Den Bom, a Charsh, will preach morning and avoning bring money into the Treasury which
well-known Belgian aviator, is to arrive in on Sunday text, February 26th, in the would justify the outlay. There are Hongkong with a great reputation having watch with pleasure the progress of the Colony on Monday next, bringing with Wosloyan Church, Wanchai. The service him three types of aeroplanes. Shortly after in the morning commences at 10 15, and in dozens of public works clamouring to preformed in most of the Australinn uusie | Calcutta and the prosperity of-its inhisurival he will proceed to Canton, where the evening at G. An early attendance,
bo taken in hand at the present time but all are hung up, for the same caurg-lack of money. Yet, some most surely should not be indefinitely postponed. Indeed, we are of opinion that it is almost to be accounted a crime against the community to delay much longer the enlargement of the
The Follion" had another bumper house last night. The programme was as dainty_and_funny as over, and although it was mid-night when the end came every body felt that the feast of good thing finished all too soon. Te-night there will
an entire change of progrmme.
Donnelly family make their debut whet
At the Empire Theatre to right the large nudience will no doubt give them a great réception. These artistes come to
a
did
hulla beaides being two years with Mr habitants. Richards, who is well known in the theatrical profession in Australia. Baby No man, nut even a Rothschild, Tony Dannelly is only five years of age more for Jewry than the lato Lord Sway. while his sister Elsie is two years older. thling. Bis berevolence was not confined The great film The inn" or "The dink" to the East End of London, but "extended is no to be exhibited.
Gentry Life, referring to a trade annual report, says it shows that a long
to Russia and orun to Jerusalem.
His
money came from the great banking house which he himself established, and which he directed until quite recently. His know
ledge un currency questions was unrivalled,
9p..Lectars at taion Church Liter-Tytam reservior, and we think it laten has been taken towards that wood and he was an enthusiastic "believer in the [
ary Club, VEDNESDAY, March 81⁄2--
9.15 pin-Annual Meeting astution Engineers and Shipbuiklers of Hong- kong. King's Building. Trinnar. March 9 --
Non-Meeting of Chin Fire Insee. Co. FRIDAY, March 10-
Noon-Meeting of H. K. Fire Insee.
The China Mail
cent. of our wood from Russia, and this
a
AVIATION AT CANTON.
Belgian Aeronaut to Fly.
We have been faformed by Mours Arnát
Aviation Moeting will take plec com.
WESLEYAN CHURCH,
WANCHAL
Bishop Lewis, of the Methodist Episcopal
menting probably' a fortnight on Saturday especially in the evening, is necessary in and lasting for three days.
Messrs Arndt and Company have obtained from the Viceroy the necessary permission to hold the Meeting, which will be under the firin's management. This will give the Hongkong public the
understand witness seroplane flights. Wrtunity of that Meeting in Hongkong is impossible.
THE GYROSCOPE.
order to secure a scat.
THE CHINO-RUSSIA SITUATION.
STRICT CENSORSHIP.
(Wah Taz Yat Po's Service) would be better if the Council could famine whose advent has long beer promotric system, which he just lived to see Professor C. H. Richardson, of the Univ An interesting lecture was given by
PEKINO, February 23. nad necessary is it for the welfare of
“Kungaun nas merunsad o "percona".arb!
The Civil Board has prohibited the. the whole Colony. Some people are sources of supply are becoming depleted."
Araba hut which has rotsity of Purdue, near Chicago, on the 1905. There is evidence too, that our ald
large at numeric tonefore the Empire of private messages in.com
despatch from any telegraph.office in. like the courtier of Carolean days For example, in 1908 we obtained 20 the high-water mark of Byron's genius." The demonstrations were of most The Taotai of Constabulary luus in- In the Fortnightly the American Thursday evening, the lecture being under notion. Ambassador speaks of Childe Harold" as the auspicies of the Old Volymes Society. who said he could get along without rose in 1901 to 47 per cent. There was Byron binaalf did not so regard it, though interesting charcter and member of the stricted the Viceroy to prohibit the
CANTON February 23. the necessaries of life, it was the grating trinkage in the supplies her, would be remembered long after Prufessor Richardson ally illustrated by a Chixuries that he could not do without from Sendinavia, Carada, and the United Childe Harold" was forgotten. Ber reply member of models the nis and objects of
the Guiccioli did. Don Juan," he told audience were invited to take part in the native Press from publishing any news We live, however, in a practical age Stats. The report points out that the was that the thought the fame of "Childe and it would be well, in Hongkongforests and the increasing demands. At the other poom. Sho insisted so vehemently very great service in the near future.
Change is due to the gradual depletion of Barold" preferable to the immortality of the gyroscope which is dustined to prove of affaire. the same time, the foreign markets show a that he suspended the composition to please at the European Y.M.C.A at night before, Professor Richardson repeated his lecture continually increasing demand,
He afterwards rosumed it, however, a large attendance which included His and the resumption may be taken as one Excellenay Sir Frederick Lugard... proot among many her hold over him had lecture before the members of the Insti To-night Professor Richardson will begun to decline oven before his departure tate of Engineers and Shipbuilders. to join the Greek insurgents.
at least, if in the way of public improvements we lixed our attention HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FessCary 24, 1911. for some time to come upon the real necessities of the place and let the luxuries fend for themselves,
CLOCKS AND OTHER MATTERS.
and we suddled ourselves with the
ITEMS AT THE COURTS.
Two mendicants for begging from Earo- panne were fined $5 each to-day.
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out of
Mr Grist, for onu plaintiff I understand ho han property and money.
in connection with Chino-Russian
YUAN SHIH-KAI'S REFUSAL
(Wah Taz Yat Po'e Service.)
PER, February 23. Treply to a telegram Grand Coun cillor Chu Shi Chung, His Excellency. Yuan Shih-kai has declined to enter official life again."
COMPLAINTS.
(Wah Tez Yat Po's Service.).
PEKING, February 23. that the whole of the Peking Military The Grand Councillora bare suggested
Guard should be despatched to suppress the Hang-hu-tse bandits in order to present further complaints by foreign Powers.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
At the opening of Parliament tho It was the Knight of the Rueful
King, wore a naval uniform, almost covered Countennice who lugubriously ex-wind this morcing and the thermometer There was quite a chilly nip it the
with nu ermino mantle and purple ro claimed that life was full of dis at the Peak was down to -17%
I understand this case has a great The Queen was in black and wore a large Yat Shing before Mr Justice Hazeland at Three clace wore mentioned against Chin appointments, Fit his experience is
dufence," said Bīr Gardiner at the Supreme full crown of diamonds, unlike Queen the Supreme Court this morning. Mr H TO PREVENT FOREIGN Court this morning before Mr Justice Alexandra's anal small diadem. The appeared for defendant in all three cases "not" singular.” “When the Colony waA At Courville.un February 14, an express
Hazeland when a case was mentioned.-Mr Queen also wure the Cullinan diamonds. and waid he was prepared to consent to brought face to face with the question train travelling at full speed from Paría to
Grist, for defendant-The man does not The King, ina resonant voics, read the judgment. He thought this was a case in presented by the gradual extinction Brest, dashed into a goods train, and simul
awe the money at all. (Laughter) The new Accession Declaration, testifying that which his Lordship could very well exercise, of its opium revenue many people taneously a third train crashed into the
case was adjourned,
he was a faithful Protestant and would his judgment and, make an order for small imagined that a fairly satisfactory, others. Ten persons were killed, and ten
preserve the Protestant auccession. Then, instalments. Defendant FURNITURE. if partial, substitute has been provided were injured.
Hu Hongkong and China Gas Co., Ltd., putting on his cocked bat, he read his employment, and his friends were sued R. 1. Whittaker to recover $24.11. Speech slowly and emphatically, so that pared to pay $5 a month." liquor duties Indeed, one sanguine italists Juve become interested in a spper Mr P. W. Goldring defended, the trying ordeal was most admirable.
At Teglon, in South Java, Mr E. J. Grist appeared for plaintitis and every word told. The general opinion is SEE WINDOWS:-
that the demeanour of Their Majcaties in Councillor was under the impressionniise, the are from which has been favour. Goldring said he consented to judgment that the new duties wott bring in a has just acceeded in forming a company to compeition had been made and plaintif ably reported up. One of the owners
but asked for a stay of execution. revente to the Treasure of ten lakks work the mine. with capital raised in of dollars. The Government, how-Hosie
were the only cuditors who were not ever, in drafting is estimates was not
present at the meeting.A stay of exe. cution until March 31 was granted. - prepared to go quite so for, and so
The Dutch authorities are busy with put the liars down at $726pur preparations for establishing a wireless tolegmple station at Sabang. Every But from a remark dropped by is steamer from Holland calling at the port Excellency Sir FREDERICK LARD brings materials for the installation, which at Thaslay's meeting of the Legis-is expected to be ready in April. lative Council we learn that even Wm. Powell, Ld, the figure is in the rating British Hoet was entering Ferrolon February cases of dynamico; one containing ten, boxes Italian, ene Hungarian, & Croole, & Jurass
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Mr HoHe does not look like it. His Lontship I anderstand he has already been arrested and his friends have paid $200 in one case.
Mr. HoHe went to Canton.
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Me J. H. Gardiner-I aho have claim
other of Mms. Bartheloni and the Baroness The death within a few days of each Alphonse do Rothschild recalls the famous "Dinner of the Twenty Beauties," in which An order for $20 a month is the fr both the deceased Indies took part. The case was mails and 810 each in the other dinner was offered to the Emperor Napoleonto III by the Empresa Eugenie is fulfilment can't get bloot out of stone.
Mr Ho-He won't be able to pay. You of a lost wager, and the invitations were te the most beautiful women in Court. It way a cosmopolitan company's Dine. Haetholoni is that at 1.30 .in. b-day six 1000, one women, Jime. de Gallifet, who was Eng- and the Maréchala Cantobers, both Scots armel with a revolver, broke into a fish, Princess Anna Murat, an American, --A Madrid telegram states that as the magazine in Hungbyist and took away two ton Frenchwonien, two Russians, one 14 the battle-ship Collingwood touched and the other nine boxes, of the total (the late Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild),
Tho-police-have received a report of an alleged that of explosives.to which they do not attach much creilonce. The story
the Empress aloDO BUFFÍTOS,
the net revenue from this source of 2 store in. Divers are patching the ship, stolen six boxes of detonates valued at $13 nient possibility of a deficiency in ground, and thirty-six armoured plates were value of 80%. They are also alleged to have and the Empress herself, a Spaniard. Now I Tiklis. - Morally, of course, we are glad which will go for repair to Devonport. dagen hilat entering Ferrol Harbour. H. M. S. Agamemnon was ale slightly each, and some clothing. The Deiti-li navigating uffcors any that there is not charted but the Spanish thurities maintain the contrary and the Hydrographle Committee is enquiring.
that it is su Italws that Hongkong has quite the outlived the reputation it erroneously earned in the past and that Sie FREDERICK LUGARD governs a very much more sober community
At the time of the loto Elf Au caster's death, a contantporary-drew-atton- tion to the fact that his wife had been
A certain section of the community known successively as Lady Evelyn Gordon, lus recently been removed from Ship Lady Evelyn Heathcote, Laly Aveland, Street to Cross Street and Saipan Lady Willoughby de Eresby, and Countess than the world, and even some Addressing the grand jury at Liverpool acvex so prominently before the public, Hestworth Lambton bids fair to rival the Street, where they do not obtrude thora of Ancaster. By Lady Mour's will Lady 9.15 to 11.90 p.3of its own component parts, believeci. Justice Granium dulerod a long and this has given rise to onto resentment Dowager Chante, for before her marriage
But from the point of view, of defence of his conduct a judge in tha the Colonial Treasure? the Airing Yarmouth, election petition of 19 prariously crowded the two latter tliorough Marrying Rar! Cadogan's hair in 1802, sho on the past of Chineno hawker who she was known to the Hon. Mildred Stort. is lisappointing for it points to the vigorously denying political partianship fares and will now be given marching became Fiapunters. Chelsen, fixteen years later, she was widowed, and nine
TO-NIGHT, DEBÜT of ha DONNELLY FAMILY.
In Songs, Dances and Shrutelics.
INN (or the Drink) after E. ZOLA
(novel) L'ASSOMMOIR, .
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GRAND MATINEES: Saturdays and Bundwyn, as 4, PO3, AT REDUCED PRICES,
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necewity of devising fresh means MeNeill and Sir Henry Campbell order. For the past few nights these Lof taxation or
trenchment inministrative ex-attacks on bim in the House of Commons, pleasure by throwing bricks through the Admiral it only human, she will shortly a colerable re- Bannerman on account of their subsequent hawkers have been showing their munths ago was united to Sir Hedworth:
Lambton, a surname which, if the gall penditures. Both reappalatable: Mr Asquith said that the obligations of the windows of the now-emer, and kat might exchange fur that of Mour, whio as Sir the first from the taxpayer's point Bench to ignore politics had been wingularly. they commenced to turn their attentions Hedworth is a berther of the third Earl of of view, the other from that of the best means of dealing with what was
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