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Hope deferred makath the hear sick. We had hoped to have been through the womb of our troubles to-day. but the foolish compositors and machine men still remain out on strike,
Last week there were nine cases of small-por notified in the Colony, night
BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH.
[COFTGRT);
[COPYRIORY.]
FIGHTING AT TRIPOLI ENGLISH CRICKETERS.
* TRALIAN. SUCCESSES,
ANOTHER PLAYER DISABLED.
being fatal. All wers Chinese and one(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) was imparted Thore ware three fatal casca of diphtheria (two Chinese ad one Indian) and one non-fatal occurrence of enteric fever (Chinese).
LONDON, December 2.
LONDON, Dec. 8 The Italians at Tripoli drova ofța con- siderable force of Turkish regulars and
Renter's Brisbane correspondent wires Arabeat the point of the bayout." The that Hitch, one of the English cricketers, The Rev. C. Silvester Horse, Liberal Artillery shelled the fugitives. The is in bed suffering from a severe strain of M.P. for Ipswich, has scared a verdict for Italian casualties were eight killed and the grain and will be unable to play in the £1,160 damage against John Bali and Mir17 wounded. The Turkish losses were match against An Australian Eloven on
the 8th inst at Brisbane.. Ball for having published libela stating that heavy. he had blasphemously bracketed"Mr."And" quith with God and Right in a hymn sung.
at a Thanksgiving Borrice after the last general election.
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On the arrival of the sa. On Leo from ́
TURKS AND ARAHS REPULSED.
LONDON, Dec. 1."
A thousand Turks and Arabe attacked Derna, but were repulsed by the Italian,
Kengmoon Chinaman was observed by the police carrying s canvas bag, the apartillery. pearance of which socmed suspicions.
NAVAL COMPETITION.
CAN BRITAIN STAND
THE STRAIN 7"
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LONDON, Dec. 3.
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When the man observed that he was being HUNTING FIELD MISHAP Renter's Berlin correspondent states UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS.
watched he dropped the bag andeados- voured to escape. He was arrested, how- Lever, and' the bag on being opened was found to contain also modern revolvers
and two rifles. At the Magistracy to-day Mr E 4. Ieving aantenced the man to six
BIRTH. CRAWFORD-On the 4th inst. xt" Tos eulum," Barker Rond, the wife of F. Mi.weeks' imprisonment in lieu of payment of CRAWFORD, of & 800.
$200 ine, adding six strokes of the "en"
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
6.30 pln. Organ Recital in St. John's
Cathedral.
pm The Eccentrics' at the Theatre- Royal
General Memoranda,
WEDNESDAY, Docember 8-
to boot.
THE REVOLUTION. ·
Hongkong Troops Leaving for. North.
In view of the continued unsettled stäte ef affairs in the North it has been deemed advisable to despatch a body of troops to Changbai from Hongkong, presumably to
9.15 p.m. The Eccentrics' at the be ready for movement to some of the more
Theatre Royal.
disturbed" centres should tho desirability make itself felt.
THURSDAY, December 7 :-
6.30 p.m.-H.K. Rifle Lengua Mooting
at Volunteer Headquarters.
FRIDAY, December 8-
9.15 p.m.-Philharmonic Concert.
The China Mail.
HONGRONG, MONDAY,
TODAY THE
"Szczмeen", 1011.
CHINA.
Accordingly thar leaves to-morrow by eno of Jardino's
steamer one Company of the E.0.7.L,L, 25 men of the Royal Garrison Artillery, 20 Royal Engineers and seven other units.
VOLUNTEERS CALLED OUT.
To Guard Headquarters.
It has long been a source of dissatisfaction in Volunteer circles that with the garrison stationed in Hongkong, the Volunteers have been completely (overshadowed when any local trouble has arisen and they have not been called out as is their due in most places where no military are stationed, and
is frequently the case in Shanghai. It is alau thought that this is it' a measure responsible for the smallness of the nutcher
sre Siemsscn's The shooting of Meal, because he compradore at Shangving supplied the was suspected of munitions of war; Imperialists with Corps of girl-fighters,
of those who join the local carpa. "Happily the raising of a of the Amazons of the services of the garrison or the Volun ole models-which have al tours hare been rarely requisitioned in the ready appear the councils of the Colony for nuany years, but now with the trouble ja Chinn an opportunity has bood revolutionists; the indecisive fighting offered to the corps, if not to distinguish at Hankow; the fall of Nanking themselves, to at least take part in the work for which they have been spacially and the light of General CHING-trained. The condition and physique of these were the outstanding features of the men, coming almost straight from the the situation when the week closed annual camp; can be said to be at its best so that the extra duties imposed upon them
M.P. INJURED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
Loxner, December 2.
that the influential Conservative organ,. the Post, opines that Britain, and not. Germany, has reached the end of the THE BEST tether in the matter of naval construc tion, and questions whether Britsin. is Sir Bandolph Baker, the Conservative able to carry out the principle of two M.P. for North Dorset, while hunting, keels to one if Germany should lay down was thrown from his horse and licked.five capital ships yearly, without enlisting He sutained a slight concussion of the foreigners or resorting to conscription.
brain.
AN ILL-FATED FAMILY.
MARQUIS OF WATERFORD
DROWNED,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Dec. 3.
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“The Marquis of Waterford has been found drowned in the River Clodiag near his residence at Curraghmor The Marquis remrned from hunting, paid his customary visit to the keanels before dinner, and then disappeared." "After a night-long search his body was found next day in the swollen river be. tween the kennels and the house: The aight was a very dark one. »
CONGO, REFORMS.
A SEVERE INDICTMENT.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Dec. 3.
Reuter's correspondent at Brussels asys the Socialist leader M. Vandervelde has introduced & Bill in the Chamber providing for a Parliamentary enquiry into the question of the enforcement of reforms in the Congo.
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go unpunished.
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The deceased's father and great. grandfather met violent deaths as the result of accidents in the hunting field.
ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN
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THE GERMAN NAVY.
HUGE "VÕTE CONTEMPLATED.
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LONDON, Dec. 3.£18,000,000 for naval expendituro, the In hot sunny weather, tempered by a sum to be spread over a period of six breeze. the M.C.C. resumed their match against Queensland at Brisbane. The wicket was perfect.
There was
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years.
OBITUARY.
TEZAROTE No. 41.
Gremax Managzes,
The victory of the revolutionists at of guarding their van Headquarters, at innings yielded 275 runs, of which Mead (Reuter's Service to the China bail) THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
Nanking should liave the effect of night will be cheerfully borne by the cored 79 and Rhodes 64 not oat. In hastening the negotiations which active giards, The sentrios take up their second innings Queensland scored
their positions from to-night commencing 66 for the loss of two wickets. YUAN SHI-KA! ia" supposed to be with No. 1 Company, which will be sub- Holding with the leaders of the revolt;sequently relieved by the other companies, for it looks very much at present that should be continued each mau will have so that if it is imperative that the guard neither side are going to gain any his allotted alate ae night guard. very material advantage at Hankow.
* | The fortunes of war seem to 'ebb and flow there very much after the style
NOW OPEN
A
CLAIM FOR ACCOUNTS."
At the Supreme Court this morning,
of comic opers fighting, though in before the Chief Justice, Sir Francis 14g. saying this we would not belittle the gott, the Fook Lung frm eued the Yan Wo valour shown at times on either side. rim and Chan Kit Shan for an account to
be taken. Still very little has been accomplished
Hoa, Mr H. E. Pollock, E.0., and the
STRAIGHT TALK.
LIBERAL GOVERNMENT
DENOUNCED.
LONDOS, December 2.
The death has occurred of Sir Henry! Barben, President-of-the-Prudential Assurance Company.
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The Marquis of Anglessy, Sir James Bevan Edwards, Sir Cornthwaite Rason, Mr Bon Morkan, and Dr. Harvey Hilliard, have raised £18,000 to erect la Vincent square a well-equipped Imperial hospital to provide for patients from the Oversea Deminions and English provinces at mode Lord Lansdowac and Mr Austen ate charges and afford moro ad- Chamberlin were the chief speakers at equate facilities for operations than
can be anaured. In a Unionist demonstration at Derby."
private nursing Lord Lansdowns said that with the homes. Special consideration will be afforded patients recommended by the
(Reuter's Service to the China "Mail)
LONDON, Dec. 3.
Splendid Selection there during the past six weeks from antifts, instructed by It C. v. H scattered lavishly, with the most muna. Agents-General. Ferty beds will be pro-
OF
Toys, Games, etc., etc.
a political point of view. The des-laintiffs, Mr E.
truction of the city, the wanton misery caused to hundreds of thou sands of people in the three cities of Hankow, Hangyong and Wuchangis another side of the picture, and one that does not bear dwelling upon,
INSPECTION INVITED, though Chian will eventually have to
WUm,
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travis; and Mr M. W. Slade, K.O., appearerons and most arrogant bureaucracy-
1 for defendants, instructed by Mr A. W.
aver known, the Government was start- !olborrow.
The claim was that an account be taken ing on a frenzied career of revolution the amount due to the Fook Long Grary legislation. The Unionists, how- Com defendants in respect to the sbåre in ever, were determined to preserve the
e defendant firm belonging to the Fook union with Ireland and to re-establish Lang firm. Plaintiffs also claimed that the constitution.
account be taken of the monies had and aoived by the defendant firm for the ass
i plaintiffs in respect of a licenas to uns laintiff's trade mark, or in the alternative
foot the bill But what people are complaining about to-day is the in-lalati claimed payment from the defen- dant firm of the sum of $10,000, dus and terminable delay in coming to some
payable to them by defendant firm as conclusion or other. Of course we money received for the use of plaintiffs in know that time is all on the side of respect of the trade mark; the appointment
the Imperialists, and that the longer they can keep the situation open the
of a receiver; the payment of such modies as may be found, due to the Fook Lung firm on the taking of the accounts; an in junction to restrain the defendant firm
VICTORIA THEATRE. greater the possibilities of their cou and Chan Ki Shan from selling or other
DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
7.15.P.M to 8,45 P.M. AND
ing out on top, for every week sees a wise disposing of the property of the
wider divergence of view on the part of various leaders of the revolution. 9.15 p. to 11.15 P. Meanwhile the civil unquiet grows throughout the land and if something is not speedily done we shall sea conflagration which neither side in the present dispute will have the power
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Miss DAISY - LUNDY. PRIŠLA DONNA SOPRANDI
DY-OLASHICAL SELECTIONS,
MATINKES AT&-1ND SUNDAYS,
defendant firm
Italoussbald pro; including perty, boing Inland Lot No. 1.239, and from removing the business books, chops and other documents from the business premisos of the defendant firm aftaste at Na. 189. Banham Brand and No. 2a,
Claretly Streets: further and other relief and costs of the actions:
Hon. Mr Fallock asid that the Yan Wo
·
fire did large business in opfam both in Hongkong and Macio. On the face of the pleadings he submitted that he was entitled
to put down. Then will come fotoship-Wam's that point decided reign intervention. That is the danger which now confronts China
in Chambers
**Hr Pollock--No. Your Lordship Laid- that the matter had gone beyond the region of sammary judgment because there - had been a atafecient of chimed RAN
Further Argument then took
A.telegram received from the Manila Observatory at 12.30 pm today says His Lordetilp made an order for an o *Manila, Decembar 11 11,40 mm) count to be taken, arsinat the defendants Cyclans or typhoon 3, of Goam direction stay of execution for fourledo days was "with the exception, of Chat Hil: ShaD, “A
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