SATURDAY, "AUGUST 12, 1911.
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THE VETO BILL DEBATE.
THE CLOSING INCIDENTS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, August 11.......... During the Veto debate in the Home of Lards the Archbishop of Canterbury said the callousness and levity with which some Poors contemplated the creation of five hundred now Peers caused him to support the Clovernment.
Lord Lansdowne and bis followers walked out and watched the division from behind the Throne. The Bishops emerged first from the Government tobby. The Bishop of Llandaff, walking] with the aid of crutches, was the ârst on the "No Surrender" side and the Duke of Northumberland last.
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HOME CRICKET.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, Aug. 12.
County Championship cricket matches commenced on the 10th inst resulted na follows:-
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Essex. Notts at Leyton)-win for Essex by an innings and 26 runs.
Sarrey Middlesex (at the Oval)- win for Middlesex by an Innings and 24 runs.
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THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.
(Reuter's Sercion to the China May,)
H Iespos, August 11. P. Mead has accepted the invitation of the M. C. C. to accompany the English
It was noticeable that Lord Selborne cricket team to Australia. sank in his seat with a geature of disgust as Lord Lucas whispered the] result to Lord Haldane, who smiled
A TURF INCIDENT."
triumphantly. When Lord Lorebu JOCKEY MAHER SUSPENDED, read the figures of the division there were great cheers followed by hisses from the "No Surrender" party.
CLERICAL SUPPORT.
LATER.
The two Archbishops, eleven Bishops, and 17 Unionists altogether voted with the majority on the Parliament Bill,
The Bishops of Bangor and Worcester voted with the minority.
NEW PAGE'IN HISTORY.
The debate in the Lords is regarded as opening a new page in the Constitution- al history of the country. It certainly was the most dramatic within the memory of the present generation.
FIGURES CAUSE SURPRISE.
The excitement was maintained to the end, for the result was uncertain, and the figures of the vote came as a great aurprise. It was not anticipated that either side would have mustered so many supportera.
"NOT BLUFFING."
The decisive factor was Lord Morley's emphatic announcement which was road twice. Be added, in view of the
Router's Service to the China Hal.)
LONDON, August 11.
After the race for the Tower Plato at Ioicester the stewards called upon Maber, the jockey, to explain his riding of Sallust, which came in second. "
They were not astiated with bis explanation and suspended him for the remainder of the Mecting, and resolved to report the case to the Jockey Club,
THE STRIKE SITUATION.
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PARTIAL SETTLEMENT.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, August 11.
The strike of the carmen, which"E" the crux of the situation in Londen, was settled at one o'clock this morning. The number of men concerned is 30,000.
Now the grievances of only 12,000 lightarmen and stevedores in London remain unsettled
Ten thousand troops at Aldershot are in readiness to proceed to London. Last night some cavalry actually entrained for the scene of the disturbance.
HOPEFUL SIGNS.
LAZTE
The partial settlement has been wherres and on the rivers.
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VISITING EXILES.
(Wah Tss Fat Po'e Service.)
PEKINO, August 11. The Board of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce has memorialized the Throne that an official should be deputed to visit Chinese in the Southern Ocean and has submitted six schemes for the purpose. The Throue las granted all the proposals.
ABCONDS.
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PERIO, August 11.7-Surgeon W. B. Hastings'
Auchandolly, 150 lbs Tsai Nai Wang, the degraded Tastai
6-3r M. D. Bishop's Sonny Jim. of Shanghai, has absconded, together with two of his concubines. His wife, Mr Hickman's Raffles (ate Drinel) one concubine and two daughters-in-law are still résiding in the house,
The present Tastai of Shanghai has naked the Viceroy of Nanking for directions.
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THE PLAGUE IN
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CROWDS STONE POLICE.
(From Dur Own Correspondent.)
SHANGHAL, August 12. «.
At the end of the Settlement in the district of Cha Pei the plague infected streets have been barricaded.
A great crowd stored the Shanghai Municipal Police last night.
The police of Cha Pei failing to con trol the crowd necessitated the police in the Settlement fixing bayonets at the point of which they drove the crowd about three hundred yards into Cha
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OTHER INCIDENTS.
The Daily Telegraph says that the immediate sensation of the annoquce- ment was "as if the trampling footsteps of the invading host were already audible in the corridora."
Lord Rosebery's intervention
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The Lords took the amendmenta pariatim and agreed to them without a division and did not insist upon those relating to money bills being referred to the arbitrament of the Speaker, division was taken on the so-called Lansdowne zmendment excluding from the operation of the Bill all measures involving great changes such as Home Rule.
THE FIGHT AHEAD.
LATER The Conservative newspapers exprose the hope that Conservatives will bow amite to continue the great struggle lying ahead.
The Morning Post, the organ of the Halsburyites, joins in this hope, declar- ing that the Halsburyites have fired. the party with an oathusiasm which is bound to lead to victory against single chamber domination, but the Unionist Peera who betrayed their trust must be called to account.
Batches of strikers have returned to work without waiting for a complete
settlement.
Her Position on the Rocks.
Unfortunately there is little good news from the stranded Empress of Opina, al- though 48 hours have gone by since our laat report, says the Hobs Heald of July Sist. The Mitau Blahl Coy. salvage
on the 28th for the scene of the disaster and should have arrived there Mr D. M. Ross' Glengarry, 160 hs the 30th. As much cargo 4-Mr Godge's The Worn (late Early carly
Bird), 158 lbs has been discharged there should be some ground to hope that the presence of 6-Mr D. M. Rows Tomahawk, 150 lbs. the Arima Mars, confparatively light. Downfant's "Chibby, 150-lbs... draught steamer, with powerful pumpe, 7-Mr. Brutton's. Odcombe, 146 lbe... The merchants declare that the effect should throw, a new and a more hopeful -4.50 of the strike will be felt for months.light on the situation. Through increases in prices varying from 20 to 50 per cent, the poorest of the people have been hit the hardest.
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LIVERPOOL
LATER.
The shipowners at Liverpool threaten a general lock-out on Monday unless the striking dockers return to work.
A detachment of 200 Scots Greys has arrived at Liverpool.
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SOLDIERS ON BULLY BEEF.
There is a shortage of supplies at the Woolwich barracks as a consequence of the strike The soldiers are existing largely on hully beef, while the horses are placed on hall rations.
The London Otsibus Company has obtained a full hupply of petrol
RESUMPTION ON MONDAY:
LATRE.
On July 30th a Yukobama resident returned from a visit to the stranded Empress and gave representative of The Japan Advertiser the following accouub of the ressel's positon
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The vessel when you see her first, looks to be merely anchored, but as you approach nearer you can see the ragged teeth of the | 2—Mr E Humphrey's Seaweed, 159 reefs all about her, and the diver report she
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she would sick at once. She lies with 5-Bir M. D. Bishop's Sonny Jin, Mrs M. D: Bibop 184lb. a list of 9 degrees to starboard No water has as yet reached her engine-Hickman's Raffler (late Dusel), Miss roops or stokehold, but in the after hold over two feet of water has been 7-Major W.BL. Withycombe's Tregos, allowed to enter and worse still hold No. 2 the water has a depth of feet and is increasing at the time. The Empruse lica within easy reaching distance from the short, and differs from the Dakots in this 10-Mr Brutton's Xmas Daisy, Miss respect. The latter steamer was wrocked near Bhirahama, while the Empress is on
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It is expected that all sections of the Authorities. All oficers and passengers are MD. M. Rows' Glengarry, 155 166.
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FOOD SUPPLY GUARANTEED.
In the House of Commons Sir H L Samnel ented that the Government will The Daily Express publishes a black safeguard London's food supply in any list of Unjonist peers who reted for the eventuality. He added that he was hope betrayal of the Constitution." ful of an early settlement of the lighter Mr Austen Chamberlain in a letter to men's dispute, whereupon work would Me Walter Long regrets that any be generally resumed. remarks of his should be interpreted as
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FLAT RACE. HANDICAP-For all China officemand crew are all on board, the la.gage
Ponies. and cargo will soon be taken ust. One hundred and fifty bars of silver bullos valued at yen 300,000 were transferred and are now being guarded by the polica load is their praise of the hospitality and eagerness of the Japanese inhabitants to do anything in their power to aid the work
sgent, At one time Mr W. T. Payne, the thought by means of long puntoon bridges ahe night be floated off, int it is believed 6 Mr Hickman's Kerry, 145 lbs, this idus has been abandoned. All agree 7-Mr T. F. Hough's: Highland Klog. that the heavy fog that shrouded everything
* 140 lbs. .i pak when the vessel struck, made it impossible to me they were so close in shore, nad if, 8-Mr Britton's Odcombe, 142 lbs. instead of running obliquely on the rocks, 3-Mr.Downhams Clibby, 150 the they bad gode head on, the bows of the 10-Mr T: 5. Forrest's Alacrity, 156 lbs. is no telling how many lives would have Empress would have been crushed and there been lost.
According to the Asahi, the place where
By kink permission of the Officers of the tha Empress iki 500 Tarduff King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry the Shirahama village and about half a mile Band of the Regiment will play the fallow nestor the beach than the spot where the ing selections during the afternoon. ill-starred Dakota ank sevckal, penta aga.
which he differed from them was even | APPROVAL OF THE COMMONS. She lies with her bow toward the land.
now passing into history.aad nobody wished the differences to be prolonged.
FREMIER RECEIVED IN AUDIENCE.
LAZER Mr Asquith bad a brief audience with Hi Majesty the King at Buckingham before attending a meeting of binet torlay
(Reuter's Bervices to the China Mail.)
LONDOS, Aug, 11.
The House of Commone has passed a resolution providing for the payment to members of £400 a year. The voting
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Although n diver was engaged «be wi-. unable to ascertain the exact extent of the damago. A large crowd of wight scers collects daily on the beach. The villagers are co-operating with the p lies to seep watch over the ship. Keeper of the Nojims Lighthouse state the lo commenced, to enabrouil, the sen at 5.45 am, on Wednesday and Insted till.. This fog was thickest about 6.30 when the ateship ran into the roof. Th BUT respondent reports that the ship: 15 practically-besieged by a chain of Tuck-, 's that if she is to be towed of, a war ul great length must be used, as no vessel could get near
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B.S. KAIFONG IN TYPHOON.
The British steamship Kaifong arrived at Manila on the 8th inst. from Hongkong bringing a double barreled story of suicide at on and of one of the worst typhoons experienced for many years by local ressalt. Before the vessel was well into the typhoon, one of the Chinese acazien. jumped overboard and was not seen again. He had been sullen and neglecting his work since the departure of the vessel from Hongkong and it is supposed that one of those queer streaks timt ran in the Chinese when they run smock, led him to take his life.
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