MONDAY, MAY 22, 1911.
[COFTIGHT.] JAPAN'S NEW TARIFFS.
AGREEMENTS WITH CANADA AND SWEDEN.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, May 21.
The Times Correspondent states that the Ottawa House of Commons has
passed a temporary Japanese Tariff
Agreement.
Laos, May 21.
It is announced from Stockholm that a Treaty of Commerce has been signed between Sweden and Japan, together with a Tariff Convention. Both are based on the most favoured uation
-treatment.
TOO RIGOROUS ?
VICEROY OF CANTON CRITICISED.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SELITIOUS LITERATURE CASE the amities of Chiun to that foreign Let
Tried By Special Jury.
THE MANCHURIAN SITUATION.
Loxson, May 8.; Ja St Petersburg the 'attortion of the public is devoted to the condition of affaien, At the Criminal Sessions, bafoth the in the Far East. The Reich states thas Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, at the Japan will demand from China tha pro-Supreme Court this morning, Li Hon Chi longation of the term: of the Isase of Kwan-
was placed in the dock on charges of offences tang to 100 year, unrestricted trade on
under Ordinance 15 of 1017. the Yale, the transferecee of the control
of the Tinkow Customs House to Japan said the prolongation of the term of ra
acquiring the South Manchuria Railway by China to 80 years. According to other reports negotiations are now going on be tween Japan and Russia to compete with the policy or other Powers-7 Shimano, Japan Herald.
NO COMPROMISE.
Los Box, May 9. Lord Morley, in the course of a debatu in the House of Lords, said it was impossi ble for the Gerarament to accept the Marquis of Lansdowne's bill for the reform of the Upper Huse. cror the Lords might sook to reform thoir own chamber they must accept the veto, limitation.
General," appaired to prosecure on be Hoa M.G. C. Alabaster, Acting Attorney
fly. Clann Solicitor, and F. B. L. Dowley, Ciawn Soliciter, and Mr Ellen Putter defended, instructed by
Mr R. A. Harling.
The following wore sworn in as special jurors-Mesars T. F Hough, foruman; G. H. Medhurst, G. C. Mesen, G. C. W. Pemberton, C. F. G. Grimble, H. Pinckney,
A. G. Gordon.
Government.
Mr Potter wald that ho called no
us
evidence. The case was a very important Dispense Your
both to Europeans and Chinese becausu Tart from publishing literature in the Colony anyone who imported articles in papers into the Colony criticising this Affairs in China might be liable to prosecu
less have realized how broad it was. It been roud to theis and they would doubt- tion. The section of the ordinance had
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recently discovered and is under Government of Hongkong to stop once for the Supervision of a all Chinamen and Europeans from ériticis": ing the Government of Chim. Of course PHARMACEUTICAL if they believed that no one could criticise China and Chinese subjects, then they would have
no difficulty in convicting
Mr Potter said that before prisoner pleaded to the indictment thers was une paint he wished to mention and that was that there was mithing in the indictment He added that bow.setting out the words upon which they man who was brought up on a Crown relied to prove the material which charge of that sort but they would remem- was calculated to excite tumult and dis
ber that Mr Brewin did not go so far as that because he admitted that he had not order in China. In other words the Crown tmnslated articles from that paper which must set out that portion of the documentadvented reform and that he wouki not on which they relied At Home it wonter a man to be prosecuted under that clear that in a prosecution for seditious ordinance if it húrly criticised affairs'in literature that the whole words would have
It way for them to decide
(Wah Tus Fat Po's Service)
Lord Morley's strong language shows PRKING, May 21. that it is impossible for the Liberals ever A memorial has been sens to the to accept the Lords' form scheme as an Throne stating that Viceroy Changfalternative to the Vato Bill, Ming-Chi of Canton has created a feel- ing of terror in the hearts of the people, since the recent rising through behead- ing many innocent people in order to obtain credit for his speedy work and thus secure official promotion.
to be set out wid the Crown would have to set out the inuendoes also. The reason he took the point was that it was not fair to the prisoner that he did not attempt to put on it sad therefore it enin know what meaning the Crown would harrassed his defence. In that particular case matter which it was alleged to be likely to cause tumult in China was contained in thirteen different newspers.
PRINCE CHING TO RESIGN.
PEXING, May 10. Prince Ching sent in his resignatica on the ground that he is not well qualified to discharge the functions of the Premiership, The Prince Regent was reluctant to accept hie resignation and informed Prince Ching that his resignation may be granted after the lapse of saveral months. Tokyo rahi HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK is cach?
EXTENSION.
DAIREN, May 11.
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FORMATION OF SOCIETIES.
(Wh TM Tat Po'i Servier)
PEKING, May 21, The gentry and traders of the Pros decided to establish a branch at Chanchung The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has ince of Hupeh have formed an anti-and to appoint agencies at Dairen and other foreign-loan society and have approach important places in Manchuria. Nicht ed their classes in Kwangtong, Szechuen | Nichi. and Honan Provinces with a view to combining in the movemen
HE Sheng Kung Pao, Minister of Communicatione, has requested the ~Minister of Civil Attire to issue taroc-
tions for suppressing the society.
RAILWAY LOANS.
NEW AGREEMENT SIGNED.
(Wah Te Yat Po's Service.)
PERNO, May 21. The Loan Agreement for the Yuet Han and Szechuen Railways was signed yerday.
HAPPY SOUTH AFRICA
*Care Town, May 4.
In an interview with Rauter's represents- tive on the eve of making für London,
General Botha eulogised the spirit anima- ting all parties in the Union Parliament, especially the complete absence of racialismo.
His Lordship--In it the same publication
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Mr Potter-Oh no, my lord, they are different-Fle did not know what particular inuendoer the Crown attached to them found that the tiger was talking to a spirit The first was a story of a tiger and they
but there nothing calculated to tunfalt so that the Crown was forced to put somermeaning to it, such as the Emperor was the tiger.]
cause
His Lordship-It is unfortunate that seditions is mentioned here. It is not seditious at all.
Mr Potter-The only point is whether the Crown must set our the portion er portions on which they rely.
His Lordship-Yes. I fully see that. It
He was going to England, he said, with ais merely whether certain words are likely light heart, knowing that he represented to cause tumult and chime in China, all sections of the South African com- munity at the Imperial Conference.- Times of Ceylon.
DERBY BETTING.
Lesbos, May 5. The betting on the Derby is as follows: 2 to 1 against Sunstar: 8 to 1 King Wil
Mr Potter-Where you have a story of a tiger and a spirit the Crown is forced to go further and show in some way that the tiger and spirit refer to some people in
China,
His Lordship-The jury will have to discriminate between this tiger and the tiger we have heard so much about in the English newspapers.
It is based on the draft drawn up by the late Chang Chib-tung, saTE that the provisions in respect of branchiam; 100 to 8 Pietri and Phryxus; 20 to 1
Sobielski and Adam Beda; 28 to 1 Fermors; Mr Potter Yes, my lord. We Have 100 to 5 Bird of March; 49 to 3 Adamite-heard a good deal about tigers lately. Times of Ceylon.
railway privileges and remunerations are cancelled.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
HOME CRICKET,
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Lapus, May 8. The Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror publish no sppeal for £12,000 to enable Leicestershire by ten the Australasian expedition, under the explorer Douglas Mawson, to start in June Essex beat Yerkalire by 131 runs,
in order to make a chart of the Antarctic. Warwickshire beat Lancuabire by 137 fawson is to take with him an aeroplane.
Times of Ceylan.
LONDON, May 15.- The M.C.C. beat Kent by 94 ruAS, Surrey beat wickets.
FUTA.
The match between Hampshire and Somerset was drawn. - Straits Times,
U. S. WAR MINISTER VACATES OFFICE.
Loxons, May 15. Prisate business is officially assigned so the reason for Mr Dickinson's resignation; but it is believed to be connected with the cabinet's decision to permit the passage of Koauitions of war to Juarez.-Straits Times.
RUBBER DIVIDENDS.
COLOMBO, May 13. Information is to hand from London that Tromelbye pays an interim dividend of 10 per cent, and that Golconda pays a final dividend of 30 per cent., making 56 per cent. for the year.-Straits Times.
ARAGONIA STILL ASHORE.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15. The Hamburg-America liner áragon was still ashore on Blenheim Shool yester day. She was not able to get off at high tide.
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LONDON, May 16. In the House of Commons, the Primo Minister, Mr HAH. Asquith, said that the Opposition was profoundly mistaken in thinking that the popular hostility to the Lords was due to any aversion to the hereditary principle.
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had a practical test now that there had been a great disorder in Canton, the Peak District and Kowloon to excite Chinese to join in a revolt, several times daily. whether that sort of writing was calculated Dealing with the English papers, his Lordship said that the English newspapers were wrong, they would come within the law and if they did not come within the law that was no reason why prisoner should not come within the
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In beautifully clear moonlight the steamer CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS, S. N Co., and the C.M.S.N. 8.5. Kung- ping (Capt. Ross) collided while well out in the channel of the Yangtaze on the 17th inst. The Teh Hsing was proceed- ing from Hankow
to Shanghai "and" the Kungping from Shanghai to Wabur-PORE Going down the river, the Teh Hsing His Lordship did not allow the objection.on sighting the other stenruer biow Mr Alabaster said that prisoner was her whistle, but no answer was received. charged with publishing literature which Toh Hsing blew again upon which was likely to cause tumult and, crinus in the Kingping replied.
When only no, all and sundry to come into the colony is stated, the Kungping began to swing Chinn and while we allowed, and rightly a couple of hundred feat distant, it if they lived in peace and while they offered and soon after her "green light began this Colony as an asylum, they could not to show up and before anything could allow it to be turned into an arscual under be done to avert a collision the two the protection of the iw to stir up strife in vessels crushed together, the heavy izon the neighbouring empire. Under an earlier bows of the Kungping cutting into the side ordinance newspapers in the Colony had to of the Toh Hsing just abuft the bows He registered and on July of last year shifting the forecastle deck over to star defendant entered into a bond in which the board by at least a foot, as well as tearing newspaper was described as the Chung Kok away the guard at the water's edge for Yet Po, which was sometimes called the about forty foct. The lower deck was Chinu Daily News. After that there crumpled up like a card board box for E Bandmann has been able to strange a After considerable difficulties Mr Maurice was that it would be stiff rod stern. As which are situated the first class passenger spersan Company from the
A declamation made in the paper about forty feet as was the middle deck on visit of the famous Batheson Lung Shake- gards the articles themselves there was accommodation. The Kungging at once Theatre, London, and it is hoped to play Lyceum not muck in them but he must ask the jury hacked of and began to swing round with
in Hongkong from February 2nd to 16th,
"We are quite contented with the principle," ho continued, "where, as in the case of the Monarchy, it performs efficient functions in the Constitution." China, N.-C. Daily News.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SURPLUS. LONDON, May 17.
Mr Lloyd-George proposes to take from the Budget surplus £1,500,000 for State
Famous Shakesperean Co. Coming.
which is in store for Hongkong theatre- We are able to announce a great trent goers, who, however, will have to exertise, the sovereign virtue of patience until February next.
The entire Lyceum Theatre productions sre to be brought out, and the Company's, repertoire will include The Merry Wives
Windsor." "The taming of the Shrew,"
to regard them as a series leading up to the result that she again struck the 1912. point and that taken together they were Tab Hoing this time just abaft of amid- likely to cause tumult and disorder in ships, tearing the lower and middle deck railings away. The lower guard was also torn away while the decks were driven ap against the side of the deck houses. The angle irons of the guards were twisted and bent out of all shape, and in addition to
pilot on the bridge and the helmsman to the upper works of the upper deck, the this there was a good deal of damage done
Mr Alabaster then deal exhaustively with the various items, pointing out that they referred to Chinese officials including the Viceroy of Canton.
Evidence was called.
eral, was cross-examined by Mr Pattor Hon. Mr A. W. Brewin, Registrar Gen
Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "Othello." In Mr Matheson Lang Bong
and also Miss Hatin Britton, Mr.Lang's kong will have a chance of seeing one of London's most clever and popular actor,
Sanatori, a similar amount for the Decel and testified that he had seen the tana having narrow escapas from falling. to the leading lady. It will also be heard with Intions and from his experience he would deck below through the hole left, by the pleasure that Mr Charles Vane will be
opment and Road Improvement Fund, £250,000 for the Uganda railway, harbour, will be used for the redemption of the and water supply loan, while the remainder National Debt-N.-C. Daily News,
THE VETO AND REFORM. The 'sistance of strong tuga from Singapore may be necessary, or the cargo
LONDON, May 17. may have to be loaded into lighters before In the House of Lorde Lord Lore she can be moved
burn, the Lord Chancellor, said that not None of the carge was jettisoned till pntil the Parliament Bill became law would yesterday.-Straits Thres.
the Government be in a position to can LORD ROSEBERY AND THE VETO sider proposals for reform of the House of
Lords. N.-C. Daily News.
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way that they were likely to have an effect on tearing way of the dock close up to the excits persons to crime in China. It was the Chinese mind and would be likely to wheol where the pilot was standing.
As
THE POSZTION OF TIN.
with the Company, playing second to Mr Lang. The whole Company will number on his direction that the passages on which sat in among the passengers, who were Bandmann's enterprise in this matter.
soon as the collison occurred a panic almosture the Hongkong public will appland Mr 25 talented actors and actresses. We feal
this prosecution was based were translated awakened by the shock. The officers of all except one.
the ship did everything possible to Mr Potter-in your opinion, de the allay the excitement and the crew boing- English papers affect the Chinese mind 7-under admirable control the fears of the Yes, if they can read them.
passengers were calmed, and prepar And extrnetu áre put in from English tions were made for lowering the boate if Penang, May 13, 73-The Penan
A telegram to the Btrails Tince datai necessary. The wells were wounded and rette states that the last for dayı kare papers ?—Yes.
Would you coquider that the Chinese it was quickly so that the vessel was not newspaper owner ought to be prosecuted making any water, all the damage witnessed what appears to be the long for advocating reforms in Chine i..
fortunately, being sboru the water line expected upward movement in tin shares Mr Alabaster-That might be a quastion | As soon as the collision occurred the The better class of shares, viz., Tronohs, for the law officer of the Crowd.
Kangping, which was in charge of a Lahate, Kintas, and Tekkas are in very Mr Potter-As the head of the Chinese Chinese pilot, anchored to ascertain what strong demand both in London and the community in Hongkong lu you think that damago had been done, and po lungStosits. The same papar hours, on 01- consent to a degrading existence under Hongkong Cricket Club that the Interport think that is for ane to answer.
We are informed by the secretary of the China ought to ly prosecuted I don't? Esing sinking, the Kingping, which Tronch will asinish even the most sau- a Chinaman, who advocates reform in that there was no danger of the Tak cellent authority, that the May output of Lord Courtnoy said thint he hoped the team for Shanghai will leave on Friday at Government would encourage the scheme daylight and uro duchack about Tresday he could be. I think Mr Brewin la entitled His Lordship-It is a question whether of reform and would not treat it with Jane G ridicule.-N.-O. Darily News.
JJ
BILL.
Loston, May 18.
In the House of Lords Lord Rosebery asked what the composition of the House would matter when the Parliament Bill
had became law. Who, he asked, woati
those conditiona?
COUNTY CRICKET.
Loxox, May 18.
In the matches played on 31ay 15, 16 sud
27: The M.C.C. best Hampshire at Lord's
SPORTING.
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but slightly damaged about the bows, gains of optiqueta and that the profits Hsing proceeded down river under hier own coded on her way to Wuhu, while the steam and later arrived at the Chinese Bund, Shanghai, where she was quickly
some lower priced shares, viz., Kramat considerably excoed April's record. Fokis, and Fasing Bahrus, are being
improvement scams tơ be the order of the
Mr Potter any take it, Mr Browboarded by refiresentatives of various quickly absorbed and an all round general
that from your wide knowledge of China docks. The damage done is very extensive day, and of the Chinone, that you will admit and as soon as ha cargo is discharged she China wants reforming 1-Well, I have will be docked and it is arpected that it authority for saying so, hinde
You would not prosecute a moderate will be about six weeks before slan is again
It is hoped, says the N-U. Daily News, team they will iso, e in past year, send reformer under this ordinance that when Hongkong send up their cricket by one wicket; Yorkshire best Derbyshire ap a number of lawn tennis players. These
at Sheffield by an innings and 47 rune annual lawn tennis matches between the His Lordship Mr Browin did not say
•Lancashiro beat Northamptonshire at Northampton by 246 rusa; Burney beat Axiond University at Oxford by 141, sus and Notts boat Leicestershire at Notting ham by ten wicket.. Daily News
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