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position of the Moors world by surprise and their recorded in the "telegrams. serious set-back to France's Espira- tions in Morocco. In pondering över the statement minde by the Moorish Sultan, Mulal Hafid when expressing, the other day, his wish to abdicate, ane câùnot but admit that there is a stig tity in his language and apparently a courage in his attitude which con-
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A Loniton telegram to the Casks Ambl
7 lottery jisketa z man was finod" the sum : dated: the 25th, mìn statos that the 4) per -fo 8880 this morn
- vend. Japanese bonds, have advanced com siderably on the London Stock Fachange
Smoking concarta will take placu next Saturday at the Phoenix Club, and at the
asonia lab, Kowloon,
At the Magistracy this morning a Iurgo number of defendants were charged with sibling. Each was Buod 81.
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The silk or 0 S Ever, Chicago Maru pola one to admire him oven though which left. Hongkong on March 91 was tally opposed to his apparent belief delivered in New York un April 25, x.m.
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MONDAY MAY 8 191
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ine Saturday Maarnoon de Brad games, kutizipated. this caselein connection, irith the Bond" kons Tennis League took place. The
THE INTERIAT COMTENTION. The total output of the Chinme Entscores in the Y.M.C.A. v. Club de Bocraio Prastien for the Interport Rifle Match gineering and Mining Company's three mines.
match were as follows
commenced at the Balastier Range for the week ending April 27 amcunted to buat Dalmande Remedios and Gutierrez continued asch Tussday and Friday mone Hickling and Joseland (YMGA) Singapore, on the 28th ult., and will be 34,792 15 tons and the sales during the best Coper and Ivanovich 0-2: ing until completion. This year's tonna period, to 29,314.85 tons.
beat Pinna and Hyndman 2. S. will probably be selvated, from among the Le Breton and W. H. Vivesh beat following-The Bishop of Singapore, Dr.. Resently the students of the Aurora Dalmaudu Remedios and Gutierrez Fowlie, Messrs. Custer, Pash. Long, da Univolity, in the Avenge Dubail, Shanghai, 7-beat Lopes and Ivanovich Silva. Tan Choo Kim, Song Ong Siang, gave a very interesting entertainment, in hest Pinna and Hyndman 8-9.
Tall Soo Bin Howland, Galistan French and Chiness, including a scene from WUson and Davidson lost, to Dalinando Naughton, Covaney, Brown and Cuthberk. Moliere, the ghost scene from Hamlet, ste. Remedios and Cutierrez 7: Jout to Major F. M. Elliot will saptain the
pictures. The band of the Austrian cruiser | and Hyndmann, 4–7," Franz Joseph was in attendance, and The totals were.-Y.M.CA. 39 games, rendered a splaadid selection of music,
Club de Reerció: 40 games.
Queen's College defeated Chinesa R. oreation Club by 50 games to 49. For the former. Crook and Sutherland won
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to work out the destiny of Morocco. Kennedy Town Fosterday » Chinose, wae For the good of the people and the this morning soutenced to six weeks' im country, the all-conquering white man
prisonment. has established himself in Africa, as In celebration to-day of the second elsewhere, to purge out the unwhole-rssry of the acconto the throne some and lead up to a higher state of of M. King George V. the British war ships wore dressed and Royal Santo fred. civilization. His mission juded from
a certain and a narrow point of view may be considered to be selfish, even cruel; but the evolution of society,
The police made a raid upon a house in the contral district yesterday and found une Chinese in the act of gambling. This
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•The foal Organ Recital of the prose series will take place in St. John's Cathedral ab 5.30 pm, to morrow. The Programme will include Prelude and Fugue in G. Minor (Bach) "To The Seal (Macdowell), Te Carillon (Wolstenholme), "Night" (Karg art and "Concert Roads (Hollins). The violinist, Mr G. Vermeij, will play
Nardi od so. Intermezzo by Brahmi
the evolution of many other morni g the defaultants ware each fined $9. two movements, from a Sonata by Pietro
It is plessing to note, says the Shang hai Mercury, that Shanghai again rallied the Astor House management were amply well to a charity scheme on April 97, whan
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Shanghai, Racing.
ET DAY'S MULTS. Through the neurony of the Hongroog Club were able to publish tha
rearsed before giving to press
16 games, Bird suul Barlour 15, and Bir-rasalts of today's the alg beck and Brawn 10
Civil Servies defented Wigwam by 53 to THE -P. PAX Her's Cir
quarter of a mile
Kowloon beat Chinese YM.C.A.
Hongkong C.G. Tournament.
The final in alte Professional Paira, which took place on Saturday afbericou before a large attendance, did not quite come up to expectations although an en- not expected that Capt. Day, KO.Y.L.I., tertaining game was witnessed. It was
ngs, sometimes requires drastic measurca, The white man finds that hy is lestined as the pioneer of progress, of civilization, of justice Entries close for, Latwa Dovis Champion and where he comes to bring ad- the houseboy of a Hankow resident when rewarded for their generosity in providing and Capt. Crawford, RA, would secure
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ground-
T.
Capt. Day. 0.30 p.m.-Organ Recital at St. John's
Cathudai,
General Memoranda.
WEDNESDAY, May 8-
of a wildnerness and leads wavagery tok civilization, thus securing true happiness and progress.
The Hankos Daily News" warns people ngai at buying projectiles from Chinese without having them examined and has not already been done. On April 23 the charges extracted in cases where that
dusting a room over turned & auall shell, the servant. which exploded and dangerously injured
ball on behalf of the Titanic Disaster by seeing a large attendance anjoy itself to the maximum. When we may the ball was wall up to the standard of Astor House functions the description will be sufficient for all who have attended these pleasant gatherings during the season. It is believed
H... Monmouth and H.M.S. De fence left the harbour this morning at an In her aspirations of bringing civili-early hour, the farmer gring to Japan. zation, prosperity, and peace to Moroc- The Defence" is on her way to the Saddis 8400 will be added to Shanghai's quotą for p.m.-R.G. Knowles & Co. at Theatre will have, so long as the necessity/loe he will then proceed to Japan.
co France lins always had, and always Islands in order, to embark Vice-Admiral | the Relief Fund
The departure of those two ships leares. exists, the sympathy-active if neces-the harbour practically deroid of Men-of Non-International Petroleum Co's. 1st Bary, should the occasion" ever WAT.
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demand it-of dealing with the imruly Moroccans and lending them from useless barbarism to civilization and usefulness
NEWS OF THE DAY.
It is stated in Columb that the "big" south-cat monsoon will be late this year.
The Christian Union Meeting will be beld at St. Andrew's Churell Hall, Kow- loon, at 5.3) p... this evening.
A hms paper is drawing public at tent on by the recent rapid increase in the number of biccarat clubs and night
3 p.m.-Seevad Gymkhana Meeting at gambling "hells" throughout the West
Hace Course, Happy Valley.
SUNDAY, May 26-
Whit Funday.
Queen Mary's birthday (1867).
MONDAY, May 27:--
Whit Banday. Public Holiday.
The China Mail.
FONOKONO, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
MOROCCO AND MEXICO.
end of London.
Through the death of his grandmother in Strasburg. Tomke, the chief guanora mate on the U.S.A. cruiser Denver, has inherited £20,000. Saying that "the estate will keep he intenda to completo his service in the navy.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Freer, Director of the Barasa of Science The death in sanounced of Dr Paul C.
in the Philippines.
The Japanena First Squadron was expected to leave Maidagru on the 26th ult. for Hakat. According to the “Nagasaki Press", the new battleship Settsu will leave. Yakuanks on May 4th to join the Squadron
flagship of Vice Admiral Dawn, Com-to mander-in-Chief, who now fies his fag first Japanero Dreadnought" to be com from the battleship Aki. The Satthu is the
missioned for service.
Detroyer, H.M.S. Firedrake, was launch
The East oconn-going Torpedo Buat
Mr and Mrs F. B L. Bowley returned the Colony from Japan this morning.
Francisco and London. They leave Blake Mr and Mrs H. I. Dennys depart in the Chiyo Maru" at noen to-morrow for Sen
Pier at 11.10.'
Owing to ill-health, Mrs Arnold bas re-
short a time a win over Mr. H. A aber and Mr. H. R. Phelips. The winning pair played" ʼn mont consistent gun which was delightful to watch. feature of the match was some excellent short volleying which frequently brought forth: applause from the spectators.
Mr. Macgregor's The Bid (Sun) Me, Terms Back Up (Springfeld) Mir Higgy's Valhalk. (Burkill)
Tune. I at 3 anos.
THE CRITERION STAKEI,-- Ho mila. Me F. B Marshall's Willow. Tren,
Mr Argyle's Hankow, Mr Laverton's Marongs,,...
_(Buzki).
(Rowen) 2 (Alorris) 3
Time-Sun, 13 sea. This constitutes a record as Tur GIFYING PLATE, Three-quarters of
2,9zard firas.
mile.
Mr F. B. Marshall's Orange True
(Barkill)
Mr R. Macgregor's The Fler (Shaw). Mr Jortion's Clapham (Rowe)
Time. I. m. 30 sec.
The first set was won by Cap5 Day and Capt.. Crawford by 8-1, after a hard | THE CATILLY Cor. Om mile, and a half," tusale. The second set was equally Mr Marshall's Cherry Tres
atrenuous, and, although Day and Craw ford were losing in the first few gamen they managed to bring the were to six all, and, by excellent placing, won the marvellous recoveries on the part of two succeeding games, despite so
Nisbet and Phelipe.
In the final set Pholips and Nisbet gavs sono remarkable returns, but they found their opponents always ou the alert. The games in this set went as follows: 10, 20, 2—1, 8—1, 32, 33, 4-3, 3-1, and 6-3 in Day's favour.
(Burkill)
(Shaw) 9
Mr G.D. Coutts Carlisle...(Daigleish) Mr Faby's Assignes Time 3m. 141 80.
THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE. ALLIANCE.
The recent announcement that Great: Britain and Portugal had renewed the:
of the games is evidenced by the fact especially in view of the rumours which ancient alliance, which has subsisted be tween them unchanged since the middle of An instance of the orenness of see the fourteenth century in of much interest that on one occasion deuse was called have been current regarding the future of no less than six times..
Fortugal last month pablished in the Portugal's colonies The Premier of
-
The match produced three sets, all
ed on Tuesday, April 9, from Meares Vir. Bigued her post as assistant. miatresa at the of which went in the favour of the Press an extract of the Anglo-Portuguese
Mi
mw, and Company's yard at Glasgow. This Diocesan Boys' School after Efteen years tary competitors as follows:-First set: vesel is the first of throespecial destroyers service, and has been succeeded by Mrs4; second set: 8--6; third set: 63.
Giday. 250 fvet lang by 23 fost 7 inches beam, having a contract speed of 30 knots. The
The China Critic" Lazos from New propaling machinery consist of Parsonschwang that Mr C. E. Sargunt, the U.S. turbinas driving two shafts, steam being
Duty Consul, was bitten by a dog, and has gone to Dalny to take the Pasteur treatment. The dog is under observation.
supplied by ibrop Yarrow water-tube boilers filed for buraisg oil fuel only."
The following extracts from the 2012, are published fer information :-- "London Garcite," dated 5th April,
War Office, 5th April, 1912. The Egg has approved of the admis.
..
Bishop Banister, D.D., has left for Hu- nan. He will be succeeded as commissary and administrator for the Bishop of Vic- toris by the seting secretary of the local
(the Rev. G. A. Bunbury),
Treaty of Alliance According to the Treaty neither party will help another
On Saturday afternoon also the final cation in attacking either of the contract- game took place in the singles handicaping Powers, or give asylum to the enemies B" class, when, after five exceptionally of the other except to political fagitives or good games, B. Eenderci bent M, M. exilea. In case of war or invasion both Mess by 6-8, 6———4; 6-1, 1-6, 6-1.
Lawn Bowls.
Powers agree to assist each other with: ards, men, and ammunition when requir ef, and will also assist in the protection of each other's colonies by sending troops or
The Taikoo v. Kowloon niatch at Quarry | Warships. Should either Spain or France Bay on Saturday had a somewhat andanal attempt to make war against Portugal or result, insmuch as one of the rinks was her colonies, Great Britain is to intervene
From Shantung the "Peking Deision of the following officers to the Indian branch of the Church Missionary Suciety thable to complete the 21 heads before | #nd endeavour to secure, peace, failing
News" learns that ponies, muleu "and donkeys are to be obtained at about half
Army from the unattached List
the usual prices, owing to the trouble and
Second Lieutenauts to bo Lieutenants. lack of money or employment; and the-jabin, dated lat November, 1911.
Johnston Evelyn Shearer, 26th Pun. usual Liis held throughout the province this season are a failure.
Theodore Thompson Laville, 8th Raj- puts, dated 11th December, 1911
Tu conséquence of the Government action the Western India Turf Club has decided to apply for licencen for racing at Bombay and Poona under the new regula will be carried on at Bombay and Poons, tions, which practically menna that racing an experiment, for one year without
darkness set in, Two rinks had finished, which she will load the wssistance of her Wetherspoon, Taiko, boating A. troops. Great Britain's reasons for The wedding will shortly take place in dersen, Kowloon, heating J, Ferguson by se nos very obvious; baring regard to Milroy's rink by 25 to 15, and J. H. Hon. renewing an alliance of this character London between Mr. Philip Jacks, of three points. On the third rink, T. Scolt. Portagal's decadent position, but when it Majesty's Civil Service, Hongkong, elde son of Edmund Bowyer Jacks, of Plymouth,
Taikob, and A. Ramsay were engaged, the is azpiained that what has taken place in and Edith Elliott, second daughter of the former leading by 18 points to 13 on the merely an exchange of Notes onfirming Inte P. Kirkpatrick-Picard, MD, of St.play.
18th bed, thes leaving three bends still to an ancient Treaty, it will be readily as sumed that it has been done to remov John wood.
any uncertainty that may prevail as to
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The Hongkong League, matches were the continued existence of the alliance M.A., who succeeds the Rev. F. T. Johnson Saturday, A match in which consideralle A writer in a Lonion paper explains that
The-Rar. Vyvyan Henry Copley Moyle, started under favourable conditions on
now that Portugal has become a Republic,
chaplain of St. John's Cathedral, interoat was evinced was that b tween then their original form the treaties were due bere on the 22nd inst. by the Flirano Police and the Civil Service which took
will receive an address and presentation
ar The Rev. F. T. Johnson will leave place at Happy valley. The results were
at the City Halls Hongkong to-morrow, and at 10:45 am
4 Japancac youth named Katusaburo Hisane, hailing from Nagasaki Ken, made murderous assault upon his uncle Mr TO-DAY's telegrams give startling
Japanese trader of Chemulpo, on April 22, Kateahai Hisano, aged 62, a well-known news of a serious state of affairs in
and absequently committed suicide by two hemispheres--in South Ameri-bokkers. ca-in that hotbed of unrest, Mexico :
hanging himself in a godown. The "Scout Press" learns that Mr.Hisano was a very and in that equally perturbed quarter Singap re eating that the Highlands and saburo, being fraak from the country, was A telegram has been received in quick-temperer man by nature and Katau of the globe known as Morocco. Lowlands Para Rubler Company, Ltd. not infrequently made a mark for reproof Though the places have this in com-hara declared a final dividend of 15 per by his uncle for his dullues. For this, it mon that they have been for a con-
int, les-income tax, payable on the 25th in said, the boy grow to hate his uncle On siderable time past the centre of much been placed to reserve, bringing the reserva faolt with by Mr Bisano in connection Percival, which took place at 301 April, for the year 1913, that £10,000 had the night of the 21st be was again found bloodsbed and warfare, there is the fund up to £25,000, and that £7,800 and with a trifling mattor and it is thought that grent difference between them that in been carried forward.
this served to infame him to commit the the former place the trouble is. Near Stockton-on-Tees, on April, & an'
erire Mr Tisado is in a critical condition, brought about by the Mexicans them- entire mail train, travelling at a speed of 30-milde-na-bout, jumped off the falls, and
selves while in Moreco-the-upheava
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It is with regret we notice the death of
CIVIL SERVICE Blower
Dawson
Fincher
follow-
POLICE
Chrke
Cooper
Withers
McIver
Pitt
Fisher
Fanton
Diggins
Pilo
Cameron.
Bond
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Holly
Spillett McLennan
Brett
Thornhill
Total 72
March at her ren dence in London. She. Gerrard resided in Shanghai for about twenty yeas 2nd was the wife of Mr W. S. Forgival, who for a number of year was Cleric of the There was a good attendance of Mowat, wife of Judge R. A. Mowat, for Supreme Court. She was a sister to m
Saturday afternoon to witness
the
Mercury.
pingiel up the pertinent way for adults and children at the Matines on tasty years Asistant: Jadge bure, and is the result of outside interference, quarter of a mile before it came to a The Mexicans indeed seem to be stand-till on the edge of a precipitions wonderful performance by the grant Chief Justice in Japan.—* Shanghai even more volatile than our friends embankment. The carrings remained Raymond. Need easto my, the little folks, the French in their desire for frequent rest and in consequence tho prengers, onjoyed themselves inimesely, and wera changes of Government, with the
A though shaken, were not injured. delighted and mystified by everything they The collection of birds and rault that scarcely a month.
Awakened by the nise of fali ganimale taken from the ark was a marvel prisses but to an annsed world the news 39, Hilldrop crescent, London, formerly the zoning, and the whole performance must crockery, Mr S. McNab, the occupier of to them, as well as to any of their is flashed that another outbreak has Tovidence of Crippen, went to the kitchen, be described as being exceedingly claver occurred in Mexico, to the effect that and was confronted by a loft. python, and it certainly marited a much larger the position of the President has been Afic. The soake, which had swallowed the evening performance not
which he had brought home from fouth shero of petrange than it recour
usurped by the machinations of an ex-President, who, in turn, is en- deavouring to counteract the alarm
Mr MeNab's black kitten, resisted capture motion, was caused by an and injured his owner's wrist.
incident occurring. The lenge to the
eeting of the Sanitary Board vil able to free
matz for
Faven with
K18 L. EVERY EVENING 9.15 r..ing tactics of a fresh aspirant to be held to-morrow. The chief a WE BRING THE WORLD BEFORE Whatever glory may attaub to the
YOUR EYES
to
position of the so-called supreme: reftirs to the coutro of Mexico. Unhappy, indeed, deafi rstizia intret lie the lead of the supposed whether supreme authority of Mexic
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Before the departure from the harbour HEMA Defence ad fatality op
Appears that ou Saturday, Thumas ble-bodied seninga, was in the one of the bonte when's
MeHazdy.
Interport Rife Practies.
early as much dynastic as national, and indeed one of them-the Treaty of Wind- 307 of 1388-definitely pledges the parties to is to help each other against their respod tive rebels.Jia the circumstances it will be readily understood that the present- Republican Government in Portugal were in some doubt as to whether the treaties had not collapsed with the pestaños of the Bragama
dynast
matter of fact, the writer says, the coat view was held by Hosty's Govern sent, and they were fortiflet by & mante of Camping, drawn up in 1926, in which, bealdea arguing at the treaties must be interpreted by the circumstances of the time, pointed out that if the guarantee was dynastie thes Portugal had virtually terminated the treaties by the alliando with Cromwell in 1854. Nevertheless view of bites renewala Fof tassoom pazzied by any doubt might well be
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The attendiques was not large, cumo re în regard by Thas
to the somewhat short Portugal which got people hard-
spolation of the Dulonial & đng and to the farely discussed in connection with the
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