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CANADIAN POLITICS,
A NEW DEPARTMENT.
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LONDON, NOV. 25. Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa wires that Me Dordon, the Prime Minis ter, will take charge of external al airs, which will be made a separate department of state.
age of the Chinese untion. If, on the AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN. other hand, they neglect this chance, there may result one of those fright- ful upheavals from which the Empire
has so often suffered. China will
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ADVANCE OF WAGES.
THE WEST RIVER PIRACY.
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MINISTERIAL DISSENSIONS.
(hester's Service to the China Afad;)"
LONDON, Nov. 25. Altogether 71 Liberals voted for Mr Ramsay Macdonald's motion in the Blouse of Commons on the 23rd inat zagrotting the refusal of the Railwng Directors to meet the man and calling on the Govern went to arrange a confererca.
The Unionists construe this and the abstention of the Nationalists from voting as evidence of Ministerial dissensions.
THE GERMAN ORUISER AT
AGADIR.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail
Loxoay, Nov. 24.
LONDON Nov. 25. Reuter's correspondent at Melbourne, FRANCE AND GERMANY. pass again through the melting-pot, Australia, telegraphs that the Feder to emerge once more, as on all pre-a Arhiiration Court bas granted the vivus-vezusions,paritiert samen an advance of wages and an
eight boars day. *** strengthened by the process."
The revolution las" not materially altered the facts of the case. The events of the next few days will show whether YUAN SI-KAI will be able to command the situation and the Manchu dynasty safely. outride the storm; whether China will have to go into the melting pot or seek regen- eration along quieter grooves.
THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY,
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His Record of Service.
The now Colonial Secretary, Mr Chuad United Statos, Thanksgiving Day,
p.m.St, Andrew's Ball in City Hall. Severu, whose appointment we notified yesterday, is 42 years of age. With the
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Further details of the distressing piracy on the West River, whereby Mit 9. J. Nicholson, chief officer of the Shiu On, lost his life, show that the whole affair lasted less than half an hour, but that during the time the little steamer #35 being pirated the most exciting scenes oc- corred. It appears that vo sooner had the vendel grounded than, a regular swarm of native craft gathered found her and before the etizers had time to realise what was huponing moscore of tobbars acped with villen were climbering on board.. The captain and the chief officer atones.rushed off to get their arms and for some time they were dodging about picking it whenever the opportunity was presented. Mr Nicholson in Maid to have shot at least four of the desperadoes and as he was tak
aim at another he was struck in the ab. Loipen Johnson had a remarkable espnpe, Several attempts wery
fteater's correspondent at Faris wires that the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber has drawn the attention of Mir Delcasse, Minister for Foreige Affairs, to the continued presence of the Gervin cruiser at Agadir."
CANADA, AND THE EMPIRE.
(Reuters Service to the China "Mai.) LONDON, Nov. 21.
that Mr F. D: Monk, Minister of Publis Reuter's Ottawa correspondent wiree Works, whose inclusion in the Cabinet Sir Wilfrid Laurier denounced on the 21st inst.. has declared that be voted for
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"It is, thought that the Chinese pilot may be implicated in the affair, especially the whole thing semed pre-artanged. He and the twe native quartermasters have be a detained by the polic.
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The late Mr Nicholen was an excded. ed Assistant Secretary to the Resident
(Reuter's Service to the China &al.) also, appears from the press of Messrs General of the F. M. S. From April to ingly well-known an up and down the China const, having been connected with
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Ula Langat holding this position from Easy on the run from Hongkong to Bang that the German newspapers comment sinologue, Prof. II. A. GILES, December 1906 to April 1907. In Alay of kok prior to the disappearance of this at length on Herr Riderlen-Waschter's
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A good deal of indignatio is manifested amongst the Britishers in of a Chinese boycott or strike is the Canton with regard to the piracy on the absolute fidelity by which it is obs. Shiu On and the shooting of Chief served. If the boatmen or, chair- coolics at any place strike, they all strike; there are no blacklegs. If the butchers refuse to sell, they all refuse to sell, they all refuse, entirely con- fident of each other's loyalty.
"Foreign merchants who have offended the Chinese guilds by some course of action not approved of by those powerful bodies, have often found to their cost that such conduct will not be tolerated for a morient
appointed first and gunnery officer of the Lieutenant Henry Grattan has been Kent on recommissioning. He has been in the servien since July, 1894, and was promoted lieutenant is Juus, 1902.
His Honour the Chief Justice of Hongkong contributes a brilliant article to the November Nineteenth Century and fier entitled "An Emperor's Waterway.
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The London newspapers unanimously ridicule the rumour that Sir Edward Grey will possibly resign. They point out that though the more extreme Radicals are suspicious of the Govern Leave of absence, ou private affairs hnament's foreign policy, there is on over- been granted to Licnt : V. S. whelming sense that Sir Edward Grey Skrimshire, R. G. A. from 29th November, should be supported by Parliamentaction 1911, to 31st March, 1910, with permission in a trying crisis, and that any ether to visit British Columbia.
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Captain Langford of the China Navi- gatien steamer Hoihow has received the Appointment of Lieutenant in the newly formed Australian Navy and resigna shortly to keep his new appointment.
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The funeral of the late Mr. H. J. Nicholson, Chief Officer of the 8.8. Shui On, who was killed by pirstes on Thursday evening, took place at Happy Valley this aroning. There was a large gathering of friends to pay last mark of respect to
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