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All the tine aviators are still com- peting in the European Circuit Race
They safely recrossed the Channel
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It has been defnitaly settled that thera Britain's partion that is confining will be no elephant passion at the Delhi ourselves to ocean-going vessels
The report of the directors of which means an advance of 186 steam-
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Noon--Batraordinary General Meeting
of Geo. Funwick & Co., Ltd.
3.30 p.m.-Third Gymkhans Meeting,
General Momeranda.
MONDAY, July 10 -
The revenue collected by the Harbour Department from the New Territories during 1910 was $5,141:00 as compared
2,102.60 in 1909...
The gross receipts of the matches, against the South Africam played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, amounted to £4,865 The South African's share was £1,938.
tively; but the tonnage has generally" increased, except under Portuguese, Swedish, and United States. The loss ir numbers is due chiefly to Portuguese, where a fall of 55 ships The carpet used in Westminster Abbey involved only 14,655 tons, while that at the coronation ceremony was inde in under German, of 20 ships, was Glasgow. It took six months to complete accompanied by a rise in tonange of and was an Asminister. It set £3 54,193 tons. It will be observed, are yard or £9,700. therefore, that British shipping is more than holding its own..
The groen Revenue collected by the Harbour Department during last year was
$494,234,84 as against 8401,864.89 collected
of $92,970.02 or 7 per cent.
The above figures have to do with the general bulk of shipping trade. the previous year, showing an increase Coming to entrances only, it is seen that the total number for all classes of craft is 20,409 of 11,603,692
3 p.m.-Auction of Leasehold Property tons. These figures embrace Chinese
junks numbering 10,736 with
at Ta-kwa-wan,
TEESDAY, July 11-
8.53 p.in.-Full moon.
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year's businow amount to $7,805,4 With regard to the stocks, the directors recommend the following depreciations 2—- On stocks $16,328.83; on other items a par balance sheet and proft and loss account $4,747,10; bad and doubtful dobtá 89,433.99 and Singapore preliminary expanses 8505.66. These make a total of 823,414,88 and when profit an abovo has been deducted a dr. balayer is left of
$13,809.49.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL” De Fitzwilliams is at present spending brief holiday in Wei-ha:-wei,
Mr G. F. Nightingale, of Macao," is spending a vacation in Japan, returning at the end of September.
Lieut. Thicknesso, Sergt. Griffiths,
Sergt. Braminer, Corpl. Buatty and A. Br.
Jordan have quoted sa instructors" of manketry.
ANGLO-AMERICAN "ARBITRATION. TREATY TO COME BEFORE
The Forde downa's nutend
253 to 40 voten.
up the
Lord Selborne, in debate, stated that even if the Governmen were temporarily successful the would eventually recognise the stry of the Lords caso and make it prevail. These remarks are regarded as dicating that the Londs will yielde
TRADESTON BYE ELECTION.
PARLIAMENT.
{Beater's Service to the China, Mail,) LONDON, July 7 Sir Edward Gray, in reply to a question in the House of Commons” by Mr Devil Mason (L, Coventry) said The bre-election at there was every prospect of the Anglo (Glasgow) has resulted na follows American Arbitration Treaty being |- Hr White (55) ? ne aigned very shortly. He added that the
Mr Watts (U) Treaty would be presented to Parliament before ita ratification,
IBIRALF RETAIN THE SEAT.
(Reuters Service to the "China, Ja
יד 4
AMSTERDAM DOCKERS'
RIOT.
FIREARMS USED...
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail.).
Lorrox, July 7 There was serious rioting amongst Lieut: J. R. B. Codrington, Commander at submarine C. 38, proceed to Wei-hi-the dockers at Amsterdam last night, wei yesterday on HM.S. Monmouth, going revolvers being freely used.
The troops supporting the palice fired as the mob, wounding eight persona.
on leave.
Leave of absence, on private affairs to the neighbouring countries, has been granted to Second Lieut. H. Law, 1st Bn. K.Ö.T.L., from 18th July to 5th
THE AMERICAN HEAT
WAVE.
NEARLY 300 DEATHS.
At Montreal the bent wave his caused
153 deaths in two days. This includes
The two Chinese, who arrested some natives while in the act of robbing drunken man who was asleep under vurandah at West Point, have been awari od 810 cash by the Government. Mr FSeptember, 1911, inclusivo. ** combined tonnage of well over. Hazeland specially commander these I million. Not counting these, two men and maid be wished there were The new Gerzzan Minister to China, Herr
Ton Faxthausen, with Mra Von Haxthau (Render's Service to the China Main) SATURDAY, July 15:—
Britain easily leads the way here more Chinese like them in Hongkong, 1230 p.m. Extraordinary Geners!
sen, arrived at Shanghai on June 30th an
LONDON, July 6 Meeting of National Bank of China, with 5,374 vessels of over six million
Ltd.
On the 31st December last year there route to Peking. The party came by the tons, her nearest competitor being Germany, whose 7 vessels total were steam-launches (including 9 meter. German mail, and were brought up river in boats) employed in Hongkong harbour. Of the gunboat lits, accompanied by the 6 p.m.-Lecture on Christian Science by 1,200,000 odd tors Japan is re-these, 128 wert licensed for conveyance of German Consul-General: Mr von Burs and ↑ presented by fewer vessels-308-but pengers, &c., 193 were privately owned, Mrs. von Buri, who had gone to Woosung this country's tonnage is 1,341,000. 13 were the property of the Government to meet them. At the jetty they were Restricting our attention under this and 29 belonged to the Imperial Govern-received by a number of officials, and after. ment, comprising military and 18 naval. wards drove to the German Consulate, heading to ocean vessels of European
attended by a mounted Sikh escort. The type of construction, the result is a
now Minister romains in Shanghai a fow During last year' 267 permits were total of 734 steamers for the year, of issued in Hongkong under the provisions which 365 are British and 309 foreign. of this Sunday cargo Ordinance, as com- In 1909 the total was 704-336) paroch with 282 in 1909. Of these 94 were
TachSDAY, July 90:--
Mr McCracken in City Hall.
The Chime Mail
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1911.
A YEAR'S SHIPPING.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD, the exhaustive report of the HARBOUR
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THE facts and figures contained in
MASTER of Hongkong for the year 1910 must be viewed with feelings of marked satisfaction by all who have the welfare of the Colony at cart. We have been accustomed of lato years to hear so much of depressed trade conditions that it has been taken for granted by far too large a section of the public that the Colony is played out and is doomed, as the rears roll on, to sink gradually into a position of insigni- ficance among the ports of the world.
days before proceeding to Peking.
Herr Albert Ballin, the Director-General
146 children.
In New York the deaths reported numbered 26, Chicago 19, Pittsburg 15, New England 31, Philadelphia 9.
Tradeston
3,869 2,783
Liberal majority 1,080 [Noto - the Genet Mection the Liberal majority wha 1,674, the polling being-Mr Cameron Corbets (14) 4.811 Hr A. P. Main (U.) 3, 137 En. C. M
SINKING OF THE MAINE.
EXPERT REPORT.
(Reuter's Streice to the China Mail.)
Losnor, July 7.
It is reported from Washington that General Bixby lins written an expert report on the sinking of the U. S.- battleship Mame, which largely caused the Hispano-American war.
The report says that the sinking of the battleship was due to an explosion in her three magazines, the effects of which could not be produced from without. The cause of the explosion, the report adds, will never be known.
THE MANCHESTER LABOUR TROUBLES.
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS.
Troops Despatched.
SERIOUS EFFECT ON CHOPS. (Reusier's Service to the China Mai)
LONDON, July 8. The corn markets of Chicago and
with Attempts to move Jornes Kaassa became most excited on the provisions from the railway yards to the receipt of the reports that the un-markets and shops at Manchester, were precedented heat bad burned the frustrated yesterday by mobe throwing
British and 368 foreign. If the not used as it was found: unecessary.to of the Hamburg-Americs Line, on June 1 Oklabama crops and scorched the stones, bricks, ironbars and sticks,
to
foreign figures for 1910 are dissected, it is discovered that, next to Germany and Japan, Chinese steamers lead with 256, being closely followed by Norway, whose figure is 225. If it is desired to mote what extent the shipping trade of the Colony has expanded, this can easily be done by making a comparison between the returns for 20 years ago and those for to-day. la 1890, 2,772 British ships of 3,507,945 net register tons, entered the port, against 10,745 ships, of 12,112,010 net register tone, in 1910;
an increase of 287-6 per cent
work cargo on the Sunday and the fees in
such crises were refunded. The revenue
collected, under this head amounted to 830,475 as against $22,200 in 1909.
The New South Wales Government is giving the Commonwealth notice to quit Sydney Government House, which has bon the official residence of Governors and Governors General for sixty years. It will
completed: 25 years' service as a lender of his company, and the Emperor Wilhelm has sent him a lotter in his own hand writing expressing his acknowledgment and
best wishes, and has further handed Harr Ballin the brilliants of the Royal Crown order, first class." The board of directore has resolved to have a marble bust of him
placed in the board room of the company, the Senate of Hamburg is naming à now quay on the River Elbe Ballinquay,
bo converted into an art-museum. If the whilst the Technical High-school at Char Now South Wales Government persists, lottenburg has bestowed upon Herr Ballin Lord Denman, the Governor-General- the dignity of a Doctor Engineer honors Designate, will have no official residence incanas. Sydney.
Further news regarding the murder of Mr Ashe, the Collector of Tinnovelly, whe was shot dead recently, shows that the murderer, a Brahmin, travelled in the same in train with Mr and Mrs Ashe who were
COOLIE EMIGRATION.
Big Exit from Hongkong.
Daring last year 111,008 emigrants left
Asbe in his compartment. He then com.carried in British ships and 31,207 in for increase, canspared with those for 1909, of
Kansas fields from end to end
Prices at Chicago rose 17 and Kunsts & paints,
WELCOME RAINS.
LONDON, July 7
despite repeated charges by the police, at some of the latter being mounted sud
waving their swords
A Chicago message says that corn has dropped over three points on reports of main, being received, while oats änd wheat have fallen in sympathy.
From New York it is reported that cotton has shumped from three to four points on the receipt of similar reports.
THE ALBANIAN CRISIS.
SERIOUS OUTLOOK.
Troops being Mobilised
LONDON, July 8
A mesenge from Constantinople states
Altogether there were a hundred casualties on Tuesday and Wednesday,
A squadron of the Sects. Greys, 400 man of the Staffordshire Regiment and 300 of the London Police were sent to Manchester last might
GAMBLING SUP- PRESSION:
(Wah Ten Tat Fo's Service)
PEKING, July 6.
An Imperial Edict has ortiered, that the criminal law framed for the punist- ment of gumblers be ratified by the Board of Justice
WANTED A NAVAL PORT.
Happily, this belief is not held. by numbers and of 2452 per cent in going to Kodaikanal, and, when the train Hongkong-for various places, se against" (Bester's Service to the China Moak)" everyone, nor even by the leading tonnage. These figures include ocean stopped, Manyachi (the assasin), whot MF (37,490 in 1999. Of these, 79,861 were commercial and financial men of the and river steamer and ocean-going mitted suicide. He was accompanied by go ships. These figures show the large that so the negotiations with the (Wan Ta Yat Po's Service.) Colony. Rather is it the view of antling ships (not junks). In the another Brahnsin who succeeded in getting53,628 (or 43:4 per cent.), which is secount. Albanians are not progressing, pre a glib-tongued aggregation of pestame way, foreign shipping during away. A rotard of Rs 1,000 was offered ad for by the largely foressed emigration purstions are being ordered for a general Prince Thai aur, the imists, whose best service to the the same period bus increased from for bis apprehcasion community would be a practical re- 1,442 ships of 1,385,788 net register
to the Federated Malay States to provide mobilisation, and leave granted to will accompany Admiral Labour for the rubber plantations, Thereofficers has been cancelled.
B, 808 port near Hai cognition of the truth contained in tons in 1890, to 5,646 ships of Ruberts attended speech day at Wellington to have been brought to Hongkong from Nicholas ordered a mobilisation of seven
The Duke of Connaught. and Earl wore 149,664 returning emigrants reported A Cetinje despatch states that King investigate its suisbility as a naval
part the adage that a still tongue denotes.
8,810,585 net register tons; an College the other day. Lord Roberts the several places to which they had em thousand troops on the fromer yester THE RAILWAY TROUBLE. a wise head. Our own opinion as increase of 2913 per cent in numbers, when handing a prize to a boy intending igrated, either from this Colony or from
the future of the Cold and of 535-8 per cent in tonnage,to join the Indian Army, said that if the coast porta, ma against 144,821 in 1909. of day, but postponed it in view of Turkey
(Wah Tes Fat Po's Service) are distinctly optimistic. May-
These are eloquent figures. They boy would make friends with the Sepoys those 108,346 arrived in British ships, and probably extending the amnesty be days when fortunes could be
and learn their language, they would readily 41,213 in foreign ships.- speak for themselves.
follow him. The bravest deed he over asw we performed by a Punjabi Mahomedan at Lucknow who vabolted the door of a walled enclosure, though he had both hands cut off in duing so,
to
Wicker and Coloured rapidly piled up within a few brief
Upholstery
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Department, Souther railways, are more perfectly
NEWS OF THE DAY..
The proprietor of the Central Hotel reports to the police the loss of a watch And chain and between 3600 and £700 in 1
sada
V
Prazo, July 6- LATEL
The Cabinet has instru It is understood in Vienna, that
IN THE COURTS.
Turkey will extend her respite for the Fang, Chang Han Han and Loong submission of the Albaniant and will Cheong, the suple of the
Hankow-Canon Sergeant Carroth charged native utile the time by conducting furtheres all the digmeatio before Mr F. A. Hazeland for using an negotiations, though meanwhile military! shareholders at the Governo abatruction in the street. When asked by
of nationalisation
years will never return, but we soc, none the less, every reason why the days abend should be marked by s sound and steady advance in the rol. ume of trade passing into and through me. He suspects his boy, as he dissp the Colony. Indeed, when China's pured the same day,
The imports of sugar into Hongkong understood that the cost of this institution Before Mr. Justice Gompertz at the linked up. we foresee great possibili bast year showed a considerable decrease of will be borne jointly by the Bengal and Supreme Court this morning, the can wa ties for Kowloon in the part it 93,529 tone or 278 per cent, au against an Imperial Governments. Meanwhile the mentioned in which Mela Singh sued FM. will play is a distributing base and incase of 89,760 tons last year. This Government of Bengal has been asked to de Sou to recover $40 Mr. J. E ALEXANDEA BUILDINGS even, perhaps, as a producing and to be due to an overstocked market work qut the details of the school, and Gardines appeared for defendant and said
with prices ruling low. || manufacturing centre also. This, in
turn, will be reflected in greater The total number of vessels surveyed VICTORIA THEATRE. shipping activity.
for passenger certificate and bottom in To come back to the point ation in Hongkong in 1910 was 189 vessal 449,731 gross toga 71 "bring which we started, there are a number surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 30 at Taiko of outsanding features in
the Dockyard and four at Cosulitan, one on 9.15 FM to 11.15 P.M. HANSOUR MASTER'S report which Chiness owned slipway, the remainder are worthy of emphasis Most being surveyed in the harbour on bottom THE FINEST and COOLEST
striking of all is the fact that the certificates previously granted at Hongkong
or Shanghal HALL In the COLONY,
total shipping has gone beyond all UNPARALELLED SUCCESSES OF Previous limits in the history of AN OPEN SECRET,
ANY ask the rosson for the cyatanned
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The scheme for the establishment of abis Worship if it was correct, defendant Preparations are to continue..
outlined by Furgeon General Lukis last it was so A fine of $25 was imposed. cold weather, is now being matured. It is
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THE FAR FAMED
ambaiit plans, oral estimates. It is hoped that he had paid the interest but not tlie that the school will be started by next cold weather when a post graduate course will principal The case was adjourned, be open to medical men in India.
Mr D. W Tratman, Superintendent of Considerable comment being aroused Exports and Importa, charged a Obinasa in Manila on the ruling of the Court of before Mr Y. A Hazeland at the Customs Appail that direct shipment from Magistracy this morning, with being in the Philippines to the Umibod States does not nonessarily meanshipment in one vessel 33,000. It is believed that defendant passation of 150 lbs of cocainë, ‹ value but rather shipment, covered by a through intended waggling it-Into Amoy De bill of lading. Along the views přblínfect by the Adamla-Times is the following by Mowrs Bonth, Beli and Co. Fat Trananip.
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Hongkong, being ahead of the hither and increasing demand for Chamber and to foreign shipowners; sa mga to best returns by no fewer than sin's Calic, Cholers and Diarrhoes Hemedy could be shipped at any time Australian Huxham Trio 15,000 vasols and 600,000 tons relief, The Middle aged men off to thy either to or from-
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Comparing the years figures with remember it as the-ramedy girun tham by other ban
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