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THE CHINA MAIL.
TYPHOON WARNINGS.
The telegram quoted below was recol rock by the American Commiate General, Hong kong, from the Manila Observatory: at
committees for the collection of funds with which arms may be purchased| and smuggled into China is not to be countenanced. It is assumed that these regulations refer only to Chinese 10.15 m. to-dayN DENG who may happen to reside in foreign | · Manila, July $1, 847 a.m.--Cyclone or countries whose Governments bare typhoon E. of Northern Luzon more than fully-accredited Ministers in Peking. 300 mile distant, moving N.W. or Another point dealt with is that of coolie emigration. It is laid down
that no coolies, shall be hired for Labour abroad without a public notification being given "to the Chinese officials concerned," and that if this rule is ignored the officials may go to the length of prohibiting the emigration. The despatch also gives an important instruction on the matter of mining, railway and other concessions. The Provincial author ities are told that if a concession is granted and its exploitation proves
N.N.W
A message despatched from Manila at 10.40 am. says the typhoon is moving
·N.W..
HONGKONG NAVAL NEWS.
H..S. Moorhen arrived at-Hongkong on Saturday afternoon.
Lieutenant A. A. Mellin, Transport Officer, of H.M.S. Tamar, bas rebreed to the Tamir after his cruise in the
Moorhea.
Commander Gregory and family proceed on a short visit to Weihaiwni, travelling to that place in the Buichow.
Mr Watts, Naval Store Officer, and
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. 9.30a.m.-Trooping of the Colours by
K.O Y.L.I.
3.45 p.m.Sanitary Board Mesting. Bantam Championship Boxing Match at
Circus.
5 p.m.-K.O.Y.L.I. Aquatic Sporta in
Naval Camber.
General Memoranda.
THURSDAY, Asgust Spee
King of Norway's Birthday (1872). 2.3 p.m.-Legislative Council Meeting.
SATURDAY, August -
12.30 p.m.-Mesting of Members of
Hongkong Jockey Club.
MONDAY, August 7 -
Bank Holiday.
9.15 p.m.--Organ Rocital at St. John's
Cathedral...
TUESDAY, August 8 ---
Noon.-E. C. & M. Steamboat Co.'s
Hecting.
4 p.m.-Sanitary Board Election in City
WEDNESDAY, August 9 :-
Noon--Ordinary General Meeting of
Hongkong & South China Steam Fish 'eries Co., Ld.
6.30 p.m.-Annual General Meeting of
the Victoria Recreation Club.
THIGESDAY, August 10:—.-- 10.55 a.m.-Full Moon.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, Monnat, Jury 31, 1911.
A NEW POLICY ! ·
haiwoż..
THE EXPLOSION ON THE PRAYA.
Bomb Theory Unfounded.
not complain or crbato trouble by demanding fresh rights. The mission- ary question is also mentioned. When difficulties arise they must be settled on the spot according to the principles of justice," and in no case shall there be political interconnection with the recent explosion er ference or force used by either of was not due to a bomb at all. The facts the Praya and it would now appear that it
the aggrieved partics.
We have given a brief outline of she despatch, and although too great value must not be placed upon it, we are pleased to regard it as a step in the direction of the uniform treatment of questions which are constantly cropping up the Empire
over,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
To-day's quotation for Para rubber, per Messra Vernan and Smyth, is 4s. 8d.
There were 440, European and 176 Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 151 European and 2,370 Chinese visitors to the Museum during the week ending 30th July.
*'
A cheme is under contemplation arong leading nembers of the Japanese community at San Francisco to invite uumber of journalista from Tokyo and Qula in order to make known the real conditions of Japanese here to the public in Japan.
Vigeroy Jul Cheng has placed an emburg on the sale of knives at Wuchang and Hankow. Anyone purchasing mora than five knives at one time is to be reported by the shopkeeper to the police, and all kuives are to bear the chop of the shop at which they are sold.
mad whirls at fashionable sessido resorts.
Careful enquiries have been made in
are that a travelling dealer purchased, in the course of his business, a quantity of the Chinese as Shek Fau, which are the josa sticka and what are known amotigat small packets of sand and gunpowder which
can be purchased for less than a cent onsh from any Chinese stall in Hongkong and which, on being thrown to the ground, ex- plode with a loud bang. The dealer got the goods at a village not far from Swatow
and they were brought down to Borgkong. The explosion occurred through the case being carelesly dumped down on the ground. They were being transkipped to a junk prior to being landed on the x.. Gregory Apear which left on Sunday for
Singapore.
The owner, in the meantime, had been in Canton, and from a well-informed source it is understood that he was able to give a satisfactory account of the contenta of the packagis, the particular box in which the explosion occurred having been made in Hongkong and the goods packed therein. The particular picem of pottery which undoubtedly caused the damage to the individuals in the immediate vicinity, were portions of an earthenware jar.
THE KINGLY LIFE.
Children's Amusing Essays... ..... Writing ander date of the 12th inst. our London correspondent saga -
We thought we had covered all the details of the life and habits of King George from the Fleet Stret point of view, but out of the moths of babes and sucklings we are confounded. For the other day a clase of Board School children were set to write an account of the Royal life ander the option of George V of England."
The results are such as to make us feel we have hitherto known very little of the intimate life of our rulor, for one boy mys "Between his meals the King walks op and down his garden path, making his lawe up in his head. For breakfast. he has livar and bacon." I fear liver and bacon
[COFTROUT
THE POLITICAL BATTLE.
UNIONISTS STILL DIVIDED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail:)
LONDON, July 29. Lori Waldegrave, Lord Roberts, and Lord Churchill deny that they attendid the dinner to Lord Halsbury, although their names were published as being
Fresent.
DEFYING THE "DIS HANDS."
[COFERIGHT.]
MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911.
INDIAN FOOTBALL
SHIELD,
WILD SCENES AT NATIVE SUCCESS,
(Renter's Service to the China Afat. )
Lasnoy, July 31.
[COPTRIGHT.)
PERSIA'S EX SHAH
A FORTUNE FOR HIS CAPTOR
(Reuter's Service to the China Mask)--
LONDON, Jaly 31.
Telegrams from Teheran state that the Mejlis has decided to offer s BUNS.
Smaller suma are offered for the
A Calcutta message says that the of £16,500 starling, being the amount Bongali football team Mohan Bagan, of the pension forfeited by his return, whose prospects hare engrossed Bengal for the body of the ex-Shah, doad or for weeks have won the Football alive. Association Shield by beating the 2nd The Daily Mail and other norrs Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment by goals capture of his two brothers, gire prominance to the resolution at the to 1.
Eighty thousand Bengalics, who had Birmingham Conservative Association assuring Mr. Balfour and Lord Lana-assembled at Maidan, when the result was announced tore off their shirts, downs of their unflinching support.
The Liberals interpret the resolution waving them in the air. They also sa defiance to Lord Halsbury.
cheered the losers.
NO SURRENDER."
LOSTON, July 30 A moeting was held at Grosvenor House at which Lord Halsbury, Lord Selborne, Lard Willoughby de Broke, Lard Lovat, Mr. Wyndham, Mr. F. E. Smith, Sir Edward Carson, and Mr. Amery were present.
The European spectators were in: good humour, and an absence of racial feeling was noted.
THE OPIUM CONFERENCE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, July 31.
A message from Washington states out all the great Powers have agreed to participate in the opium conference at The Hague on October 1st.
A letter was read from Mr. Austen Chamberlain urging that whatover the policy of "no surrender" and save happens they should firmly adhors to the party from the disgrace of disaater. THE FISHER INTERVIEW.
It was decided to hold public meetings in London.
PROSPECTS OF THE HILL.
LATER
It is anticipated that the Lords amend mants will be considered by the House
Commons on Wednesday..
of
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S
REPUDIATION.
"Brutal and Monstrous.”
(Reuter's Service to the China "Mail.)
Louios, July 30,
Mr Fisher, the Premier of the It appears certain that the Lords will Australian Commonwealth, who 18 ultimately pass the Bill, partly by travelling homeward, was informed an wholesale abstentions of the Opppostion arrival at Colombo of the sensation and partly by sufficient numbers of the Opposition roting with the Govern mans to out-vote Lord Halsbury and the other so-called "Die hards."
A REMODELLED S: COND CHAMBER.
LATER. As a result of a meeting of Unionista at Grosvenor House it has been decided to issue a collective manifesto.
caused by the "interview" published in the Review of Reviews. He was agitated on bearing the nature of the statements credited to him and describ ed the interview is a grotesque miere, presentation.
He has cabled to Mr Stead (the editor of the periodical) that the report of the interview is grossly misleading,
PRINCE OF WALES AS MIDDY.
APPOINTED TO HMS..
·HINDUSTAN.
(Resiter's 'Service to the China Maid}
LONDON, July 31. H.RE. the Prince of Wales has been;" appointed as Midshipman to HMS Hindustan.
Foto-The Hindustan is a inst-cla battleship of 16,350 tons displacement and in attached to the Home Floot. She is six years old.-Ed. 4.31]
COUNTY CRICKET.
THE LATEST RESULTS.
(Beater's Service to the China Mask.):
LODON, July 30. Following are results of the county cricket matches commenced on the 27th inst:--
Kent. Surrey (at Blackheath)--win for Kent by four wickets.
N
Notts . Giencestershire (at Notting. ham-win for Notts by 289 runs.
Sussex Lancashire (at Eastbourne) drawn.
Yerkshire v. Warwickshire (at Harro- gate)-win for Warwick by 198 runs.
Middlesex e. Essex (at "Lord's)--wis for Middlesex by an innings and 211
"TUDO.
ANOTHER ·BTK-
ELECTION.
MR MASTERMAN WINS.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mat.).
LONDON, July 30. The by-election-nt South-West Bethnal Green has resulted follows:-
Mr Masterman (L) .....2,745 .2,561 Mr Hoffguard (U).... Mr Seurr (Soc.) ...........
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Mr Fisher states: "I told Mr Stead in London that Australia's objective is peace among nations, her policy effective Mr. Balfour in a letter to his defence, and her sim. the unity of the constituents ways it is mistake to use Empire. It is Mr Stead's 'interview","| language saggesting that the Peers not mine. It never entered my mind possess weapons with which to continue to use the expression about hauling to fight the Parliament Bill, but the down the fog. It is my ambition to! country ought to realise that Unionists keep the flag flying with all its best regard an appeal to the prerogative by traditions. I never harboured the idea modern Minister as not less fatal to that Australia would break away from Liberty than the ancient abuse of the the Empire, nor would wish to escape prerogative of the King. They will not the duty of defending its honour. 1 and cannot acquiesce in a new gare Mr Stead soren minutes only. I proof of the interview. volutionary system, and intend to rever Bow & substitute therefor a remodelled second The expressions credited to me would, chamber with direct appeal to the con- if true, not be disloyalty merely, but in sanity they would be brutal and stituencies in certain cases.
| monstrous.""
[Note-At the General Election -thạ Liberal majority was 682, the polling On arrival at Colombo Mr Fisher,(V.) 2,086.—ED. O. 8.]
being-Pickengill (L.), 2,768; Hoffgaard
GOVERNMENT INDICTED,
LONDON, July 20.
LATER.
interviewed by Beater, repudiated the
Mr. Balfour has written a letter to Mr Review of Reviewca interview in its Hewins, the Unionist candidate for the entirety.
Saya Japan paper:-Cicadas hava begun to sing. Do not blame them for their noise: such is summer's music. They HONGKONG ie naturally vitally are, at any rate, more bearable than the interested in the question of inter- bellowing, illamell ng, and dust-raining ational intercourse with China. For machines of civilised locomotion, the this reason some details of an official automobiles, and more poetical than the dispatch recently forwarded from Peking to the VICEROY Of CANTON
Iloilo is to have an annual fair. An ociation is to be incorporated and about on this matter will be welcomed.
P20,000 of slock issued. It is the inter- is the favourite delicacy of that student. Middleton bye-election, caused by The communication as it is outlined tien to hold the fairs annually at each Another account declares for the same | Sir W. Adkins having been appointed in the native Press is somewhat date in advance of the Manila Carnival as dah and adda......“Els his bis dinner at Recorder of Nottingham, in which be ambiguous on a number of points, to allow the directorate to select the best night, "not like us. I think he se veal states that both foreign and Imperial but sufficent can be gathered from it exhibits for uxhibition at that time. Great and lamb-and thick gravis which is trimmed affairs afford abundant TERSUN
with parsley and is on a silver dish; after to indicate that Provincial authorities interest is being manifested. in future are to proceed on certain fixed lines in dealing with questions | in which foreigners or foreign interests are involved. This we conceive to be
www.
The stagnation in the sugar market at Cobo which caused great concern recently has been effectually broken by the mle of 8,000 tons of sugar now stored there, which will clean out the warehouses. A feature of the sale was the extraordinary high price a reasonable conclusion to draw from obtained for 5,000 tons sold at P8,60 por the document, for although we have picul, which establishes a now mark, and not read of similar instructions being making a uale of over P5 0,000.
Boys and Girls, despatched to other Provinces, there
:
is no apparent reason why Kwang- tung should be singled out by the $1.50, $2.50, $3.50, Peking Government for special
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that he has appel pie, "erswberys and anxiety. The refusal of the Government to deal with Colonial preference threate- dream; after that be has forty winks before ned to disintegrate the whole system of (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) ho goes to the theatre."
"If the King invited me to tes I should commercial treaties. The Government.
LONDON, July 29. expect to see all kinds of confectionary had shattered the Constitution at the A St. Petersburg telegram states that and jam, peaches, groens and all kinds of bidding of Mr. Redmond and growly owing to the failure of the harvest in fraith, but there is sumthing I should not abused their position as advisers to the South-East Russia and the Siberian like and that is oncumber and onions. Sovereign. Surely the time had come steppe region, the Government boa when every citizen should awaken to decided to sell corn at cost price and to the realisation of such dangers?
"If he invited me to diner I should expect to see a leg of maton and onion saure and, haricot beans and potatos sud green; they are all what I like. Tha breakfast and the super the same as the tea and there is current cake, barm loaf and plum and plain cake."
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EXPEDIENCES.
(Wah Yat Tim Po'a Servico.) ·
PEXING, July 30
The Military Board is destrous of despatching a big body of troops to Makden and Kirin in case any unforesen
circumstance arises there.
MANCHURIA'S LATE VICEROY.
(War Tm Fat Po's Service.)
Peroso, July 30, The Prince Regent has direpted B.E.
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LONDON, July 30.
Admiral Togo, in a mesingo, written on the eve of his departure, said ha would carry back to Japan unforget table memories of the Coronation, and
It is suggested that he should join the Imperial Advisory department.
20 YEARS OLD
BRANDY,
bill of health last week in the Colony. Al- "Is the merning the King goos walks treatment in this matter
together there werell occurrences of plague, { up and down the garden parth till his than any other centre. In the nine of which onded fatally. Since Sator-meals come again. Sometimes be pauseS : absence of knowledge to the contrary, day there have been five more caso, one bit time away sitting on his throne reading. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
He has some children who does not go to therefore, in may safely be assumed The year's total is now 240, with 210 Sunday School, so he spends his time that the despatch is typical of others dantha
singing hymns, in the afternoon to them forwarded to the remaining Provinces.
**The King rides abou in a gold carriage every day and sleeps in a golden bed. He Thedocument instructs the VICEROY
wears a satio suit, jewels as well, and has refvot aboca with milk towere on them and of the cordial treatment accorded him that when foreign demands are not There was a big house at the Theatre brade. On Sunday he wears a crown by the Government. "I was greatly as supplied by us will be found to be the best Brandy to take in this favourable to China all reasonable Royal on Saturday night, when the Band- og his bead and some of his men bring him impressed with the loyalty shown to opposition is to be shown Whitmann Company put on the over-welcome money be got wages every day which their Majestice," he said, "and comid constitutes "reasonable opposition,"
Waltz Dream." The play was splendidly come to £6.000 every week.”
"George V. gols up at fire in the morning not restrain from crying in my heart, produced and its weaith of humour and ita however, we are not told. In the event musical atractivenoms were admirably makes his laws, but he has to think Banzar for Their Majesties and the
zhout them, a great deal, before ha rites nation.!!! of serious questions cropping up which emphasised. The whole performance their down; some at his rules he gote out
are likely to lead to far-reaching results, these are to be referred to Peking for settlement by the Foreign Office. The despatch then goes on to state that it has been-mutuaisy arranged that no facilities shall be permitted in foreign countries for the amuggling of arus into China, neither
a brilliant success. Mine Badge Vincent
gave a tine interpretation of the part of Franzi, and Mine Dorotica Temple was irreprochable as the Princess. Other
outstanding studies were those of Me Bubby Roberts, Mr Fred Coyne, Mr Motirath and Mr T. C. Maxwell
To-night "Ia Cigale" is to ba given.
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ROYALTY AT COWES
Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, July 28.
The King and Queen have gone to
It could hardly have been improved upon for intimacy of touch by the Americas journalists who have done the Coronation
though the ceremony was held in bonour Cowes: of John Hayk Hammond, the Amerianu onvoy, before a gathering composed solely of American peererad
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