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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"Rambling" Notes will appeaE OF
Moodi
The Charity concert which was to days
The French Mail of the 6th July delivered in London on the 4th Aug, The programme of festivities in con the corruption of his local govern-section with the coronation of the King of ment or else sitting at home before Siam cover a period of eight days, his fire grousing about the rates It was one of the great disappoint ments of English education that though our public shools were models' to the world of what corporate life should be, yet that corporate feeling of the public school boy had never
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been held at. Motut Austin barracks to night has been postponed till Tuesday sommencing at the same time, 9.15
Collections at all. Church of England pamide services on Sunday, 6th instant, will be on behalf of the C. of E. Missions Home for Blind Chinese Girls at Foodbow."
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SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL
COUNCILA ELECTIVE BOARD ABOLISHED (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Surtarona, August 5.
The new Municipal Bill has been read a first time in the Legislative Council.
It replaces the elected Board by ani advisory body of five members nominated by the Governor.
SABOTAGE CONDEMNED, RAILWAYMEN'S STRONG PROTEST.
The total output of the Chinese (Beuter's Service to the China Mail.) Engineering and Mining Co., Lad's, thres
LONDON, Aug. 5. mines for the week ending 2nd July amounted to 30.568.99 tons wid the sale
during the period, to 21,094.71 tons:
1 tons
After a somewhat tumultuous discus-
aion, at the Congress of French Railway men, a resolution was passed by 262 votes to 26 condemning botage.
Certain Revolutionists who favoured
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1911
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TROM WINDON TO DIEPPE UNDER THREE HOURS.
(Renter's Servies to the China Afan,)^
LONDON, August 5.
FINANCIAL ARRANGE MENTE IN PERSIA
PROTESTS BY ITALY AND TRANCE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Huil. ):
-LONDON, Aug. 4
A Teberán telegram state than the
f. Vedrine has achieved a record, and three quarter hours. M Vedrises Representatives of France and Italy £ying from Handom to Dieppe in two crossed the Channel by way of Folkestone have addressed a Note to the Persian Government protesting against the and Boulogne
payment of their nationals who are emi- NEW HIGH COMMISSION-ployees or pensioners of the Persian Gov- ernment through Mr Shuster, the ER FOR SOMALILAND.
American Treasurer General..
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“LONDON, Aug. 5.
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E-BOX-On July 91. 1011, at M.6. Consulate, Shanghai, and after-
wards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the BOYD (widow of the late W. H. Boyd) to
Rev. F. Perry, HONOR MARIE BENNETT CHARLES BULBY KAYE.
DEATHS. Civic-On July 31, 1911, at the General Hospital, Sannghai, "Roan MORRMON CHILTE, aged, 23 years. (leser Barlow & Co.)
ALLEN July 31, 1911, at Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, ALFRED JAKES EDWARD ALLEY, of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, elder son of I. Winter
Allen of Shanghai, nged 40 years.
MEMOS FOR MONDAY. Bank Holiday
9.15 pm-Organ Recital at St. John's
Cathedral..
9.15 p.m.Charity Concert at Mount
Austin Barricks.
General Memeranda. TUESDAY, August 8 ...
11a.m.Auction of Unclaimed and Con
fiscated Goods at Las Central Police Noon.-H.K. C. & M. Steamboat Co.'s
Meeting."
Station.
WDAY, August 9:-
Non-Ordinary General Meeting of Hongkong & South China Steam Fish- eries Co., Ld.
5.30 p.m.-Annual General Meeting of
the Victoria Recreation Club.
The China Mail.
AND THE STATE
his outlook, and in municipal things, but he was narrow in his social life. He was content to look on and criticise when it ought to be the passion of his heart to be in the middle of the fight, helping and serving his species. He was content to look on at such sights as they Baw in Manchester and other great English cities, that social misery which was preventible, and all of redeemable, without raising any protest of conscience, without showing any compasión or movement of the heart, without striking a blow for social justice, without participating in an indomitable effort for making things better. He was content to Iock on coldly and indifferently, beholding the perishing of the poor. A system of education that had produced men capable of callous
No nomination have been received by the Registrar of the Supreme Court for
through the susignation of Mr A. Shelton Hooper. The time lor receiving nomina. tions expired on Thursday.
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The French cruiser Redoubtable, which was offered for sale at Saigon by auction, having failed to realise the limit put on her by the authorities, has been withdrawn, the highest bid being one hundred thousand
francs.
The Straits Times my that it is
anticipated that the first hearing of evidence the prosecution against the directors of the Ayer Panda Rubber Estate, Ltd., will be taken by Me Firmstone, senior magis trato, on August 9,
the hall before the vote was taken.
THE LONDON STRIKE,
ARBITRATION. PROCEEDINGS
ENDED.
(Reuter'a Servies to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Aug. 5.. The arbitration proceedings in con- nection with the London dockers' strike have been concluded, and the award will be announced at a meeting to be held in Trafalgar Square on Sunday.
There are over 20,000 workers in- valved so far. The position is serious. The unloading of ice-ships has been delayed, though arrangements have been made to unload supplies needed
We are requested to state that owing to inclement weather the e.. Sui An will not leave for Macao at 7 pm. to-day as previously advised. Weather per mitting the 3.8. Rengshan will make in the hospitals.
excursion trip to Macko to-morrow caving here at 8.30 a.m. and returning from MacLO at 5 p.m.
When the M.M. steamer Tonkin arrived at Columbo on her last voyaga
MALTA AFFAIRS.
COMMISSION TO ENQUIRE.
(Reuter's Service so the China Mail) Lopos, August &.
isolation was a system of education from the Far East it was found that one that stood condemned. It was, of the first-class passengers, a Fr ochman unfortunately, only a too true descrip-of Bau kok, who embarked at Singapore, [~. Mr N. O. Watt (?) the Right Hon. Mr. tion of the great majority of boys a suffering with plague: The attack, it Russeli Res, M P., and Sir Mackenzie attending public shools that, having *ppeared, was a mild one and the patient D. Chalmers have been appointed Com- was practically recovering from it when he missioners to enquire into the financial been born with silver spoons in their arrived at Colombo.
procedure in Malta. mouths, and having formed, and been trained to form, expectations, the never learned to do things for themselves."
The annual report of the Sun Invar» anes Office with which is united the THE FARLIAMENT BILL. Fatriotic Assurance Co., of which Messrs John D. Hutchison and Company, are the agents in Hongkong, shows that the total income for 1910 was £1,674,837, the tota funds at the end of December being 23,106,071, as compared with £2,200,310 in 1900.
A deluge of rain on July 31 at Shanghai fooded many of the streets there. The Public Recreation Ground was a sheet of water.
ATTITUDE OF OSBINET.
Renter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Aug. 4
The newspapers state that a meeting
|
ir Horace A. Brutt, has been ap pointed High Commissioner and Com mander-in-Chief of Somaliland,
Note-Mr Homce A. Bratt roseived the African general service medal 1898-1900
for Somaliland in August 1905). became Aadstant District Oficar in November of the same year, and secretary to the admini stration the following year Ex. C.M.]
GERMAN SOULPTOR
DEAD.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Aug. 4. The death is announced of the German
sculptor Herr Begas.
دو خود
DREADNOUGHTS FOR CHILI.
BRITISH FIRM RECOMMENDED
FOR CONTRACT. '
(Reuter's Service to the China Maü.)
LONDON, August 4.
A telegram from Santiago states that the Chilian Admiralty recommends the acceptance of the tender of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., for the construction of Dreadnoughts of 28,000: tons each, armed with 14 inch guns.
TO. COST TWO MILLION. Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
Loxton, August ↓ The Port of London Authority bas decided to construct immediately a deep water dock coating two million pounds in connection with the scheme for the improvement of the Port of London.
CHINESE POST OFFICES,
(Wah Tex Fat Po's Service.)
PEKING, August 4. The Board of Communications has decided to take overall the Post Offices in the Empire..
OPIUM LICENSES. (Weh To: Yat Po'z Service.}
PEKISO, Ang: 4. The Civil Beard intends to stop all the licenses for purchasing prepared opium and commence a house to house investigation besides distributing pill for the curing of the habit to all opium. smokers.net
BLAKE PIER REGULATIONS
Regulations made by the Governor is Council relating to Blake Pier are published in the Gazte as follows-No person skull sit or stand, upon any part of the railings; no person shall put his feat on er lie upon any seat; no kites shall be flown in or from the pior; all persons using the (Reuters. Service to the China Bail.)pier shall conduct themselves in a quiet,
THE ARBITRATION TREATIES.
LONDON, Aug. 4. Washington telegrams state that the Anglo-American and the Franco-Ameri can Treaties were signed too late for submission to the Senate yesterday, but they will be submitted to-day
The Senate has received numerous petitions for and against the ratification
of the Cabinet was held yesterday when of the Anglo-American Treaty, but the it was decided to return the Farliament Bill to the House of Lords, without general opinion is that it will be ratified.
decent and underly manner; no persone not jelly and properly, clothed and shod shall occupy any st
ORGAN REUTTAL.
The following is the programma of the organ recital to be given by Mr Dunmar Faller on Monday in St. John's Cathedral at 3.15 p.m. This will be the last of the popolar programmes. The regular series
LATER. of afternoon recitals will start next month The text of the arbitration treaties on Tuesday, September 5th, at 5.30 p.u.
Chinese residents took advant- | creating new Pears, in the expectation age of the opportunity to give their that it will be passed by a small ranjority. household furniture good washing. Only It the Bill is defeated the Government will not be pablished until they have and will be continued on the first Tacaday une accident was reported. In the West will immediately create numerous Peers. been submitted to the Senate of the of each of the winter months as in former. United States of America, but it is reers. The items Shepherd of Souls" Hongkow district a number of coolies had sought shelter from the rain, under a wall,
extricated, but it was found that he was
APPEAL
LONDON, Aug. 5. : In response to Lord Marley's issue of a most urgent whip to the Liberal Lords in which he took the unnenal course of saking for a reply as to
saking for s whether they will attend when the Bill is returned from the Commons, seventy eix Feers, including eight Ministers, have announced that they will support the Government.
OPPONENTS OF LORD HALSBURY.
understood that they will follow ger- from the "The Sign of the Cross," and erally the lines indicated in the tele-Ora proNobia," have been arranged by Mr Denman Faller for soloist and charts, the gram of May 18.
soloist being Mrs Stainer. [Note The message referred to was në 1. Grand Choeur (Guilmant follows: telegram from Washington Adagio from the Moonlight Sonata states that the State Department has au- nouneed that President Taft has approved (Beethoven), & Shepherd of Souls the draft of a General Arbitration treaty. (Ed. Jones), 4. Marche aux - Flam-
The draft is not the result of negotiations beaur (Sertson Clark), 5. Two Song with any particular country, but it will be without Words (Mendelssohn), 6. Om pro submitted to France and to Britain. The
draft represents what the United States Nobis (Piccolomis), 7. Hallelujah Chorus Government behaves to be a sound basis (Handel), of negotiations for an extension of the scope of its Arbitration Treation-ED. O. M.]
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CORRECTION.
LATZE
There is a great deal of truth in these observations, and the longer an Overseasman wanders about the Old Country the more he perceives that the upper and middle strata of the so-called middle classes are thear HONCIONO, SATURDAY, AWorst 5, 1911.selves greatly to blame for the loss of much of the prestige und the ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS political influence they once held by right of social service. They have ENGLISHMEN may reasonably feel
shirked their obligations wherever proud of their public schools, especi. possible, leaving the petty, every-but before many minutes had elapsed the RESPONSE TO LORD MORLEY'S ally when they consider the develop day work of the state to others masonry collapsed and one of them wa ments which have been brought instead of bearing a hand themselves. partially buried under the debris. He was about during the past decade. They Fortinately the evil has been per rather seriously injured and had to be were--more especially the older cived in quarters which can bring a conveyed to hospital. Scare port DEPARTMENT. foundations-slow, perhaps, to move powerful corrective to bear upon gave the amount of rainfall 3.8 in. in altering their curriculum to meet what otherwise might develop into four hours. tho demands, the insistent demands, a calamity of cankerous potentialitica.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.. of a quickly changing age, but once The Heads of the great Public
The collection will be in aid of Commander G. V. W. Carey, at present having realised what was required of Schools have awakened to a sense
the general expenses of the Cathedral them, they one and all resolutely "set of their responsibility in the matter serving la II. MR. Vous, has been ap
It is hoped that the members of the pointed to H.M.8. Tamar vice Commander their house in order" and to-day and are devising ways and means Acton. He will arrive at Hongkong per
Cathedral Choir will give a concert in air of the Organ Fund early in November, they are, with only a few exceptions, of inculcating a higher ideal of public P. & 0. Delbs, das on 23th September.
As in former years the first part will quite abreast-in some cases a little service in the impressionable, plastic Mr A. K. Warrack, sub-accounfant of
The message with regard to the consist of sacred unaccompanied music, and the second part of selections freut ahead of the times. But if the material which, under Providence, the Chartered Bank, Bangkok, is going
general arbitration treaties yesterday light opers. The sum of nearly $3,000 le system is good and capable of turn- they are called upon to mould into home on leave shortly. This popular
Viscount St. Aldwyn presided at a should read Franco American instead of yet required to complete the repairs and ing out just the class of finished shape. That they will receive cor- gentleman has made many friends in Siam
since his arrival theme, who will wish him meeting of Peers who are opposed to Franso German treat
alterations to the Cathedral' organ. pleasant holiday in the homeland." product which the nation requires dial support in this endeavour from
the policy of the Halsburyites. Lord follows A General, Arbitration Treaty at its hands, provided, of course, that very high quarters is ehown by the
&DANGEROUS DISEASE. The Bangkok Dady Mail learns that Cromer and others spoke. Those present between France and Gemany was signed in due advantage is taken of the reply which Kiss GEORGE made the
thara had been no previons 1.TERY is 1 dangerous díseisa affect that as
but can be cured. Chanıberlain's opportunities presented, some misgiv- other day in answer to an address there is a movement on foot, in certain felt it impossible to bind themselves to Paris to-day. We added note to the
basiness circles in Bangkok, to induce the individual action but unanimously intimation of the likely conclusion of an Colic, Cholera and Diarchoss Remedy has ing undoubtedly exists in the minds presented to him by the Kings Denteche Asiatische Bank to establish a decided not to attempt to organise
Arbitration Treaty between France and been successfully used in nine.epidemics of Germany, we thought the reference should dysentery. For sale by all Chemists and of many that the average public Scholars and Oppidans of Eton branch firm thers. It is expected that party to vote with the Government. be to France and America.--En: 0.M.}, "Stereksoper. school boy, in after life, does not Said His Majesty :--
The British Empire requires at
THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. at present return to the state an fadequate portion of the talent" the present time hard service from entrusted to him for use and service. all its sons. It requires the bardest The doubt was given expression to service from those to whom most Wm. Powell, Ld the other day by Mr J. L. PATON, has been given. Your will, I am sure,
the High Master of Manchester Gram-in the course of your lives lose, no earlier life as the Duchess of Machester. mar school, no mean antherity in the opportunity of rendering service to circle of public school life. He said your country and to the nation that the public school boy-speaking, These opportunities occur in times of of course, subject to many briliant peace us often as in times of war. By seizing them and turning them to exceptions, but still speaking of the fullest account you will be able two years before Queen Victoria succeeded in Berlin though it is admitted that In cases of sickness 20 Years Old Brand with milk will be found to have a in the main had many good qualities; yet."when they considered what the to take your part in the work which to the throne and lost her husband 4
youre agu; so that she must have been one advantages of his education had been, my people have to do all over the of the oldest links with the past in and when they considered that every world, and so continue to send out England. thing that wealth could provide for
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this will be realized in the near future.
The death is announced of Louise, Duchess of Devonshire, as the result of ai
LONDON, Aug.
heart-seizure at Sandown Park races The OUTLOOK MORE HOPEFUL decensed lady, who was the widow of the Reuters Service to the China Mail, )
LONDON, Aug 4. late Duke of Devonshire, was better known
Note The message, received. WAS - LO
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Sir James Outram, the Bayard of Bengal Germany is purposely wasting sime.
this Brandy will be found to be the and one of the great heroes of the Mutiny much more hopeful tone is apparent Lady Outram was married 76 years ago -
considerable time must elapse before the conclusion of the neg
MONEY IN THE COLONY.
The returns of the arenage, amo banic notes in circulation and of spec Those words have flushed through reserve in Hongkong, dong July, a pro DONNELLY TROUPE woefully disappointing. In the first the British Isles and have been certated by the managers of the
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