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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Yesterday the dond body of a Chinmo Dr F R. Sayers has been appointed was picked up at Stanley. Death in astri-medical officer in the Stmits Sattlements.
each other and to-day it seeme practically impossible for mything to affect the absoluta reliance which. each uation has upon the other. With-based to drowning. in little more than twenty anifes of each other's shores, surely nothing "could be more natural in those en
lightened days than that Britons anti Frenching should frequently vilt euch
Mr B. A. Stallwood, chief draftatuati
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of
There is a theatened scarcity of rios Public Works Department, Penang, In Japan, oportions on the Tokia Rigo been granted aleven months' loss Exchange having been suspended.
In connection with the proposed
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1912.
THE VERANDAL DISPUTE,
Tenants and Landlord at Law.
LA TWIN-SCREW « SHALLOTŲ“
DRAUGHT MOTOR LAUNCH.
The Taikoo Doakrand and Engineering Before Mr Justin Gomparts, Pulse Co., Ltd, Hongkong, have at present la Judge. Sitting in Summary Turladiction hand the putting together of a steel trini this morning, the bearing wan, again screw Motor Launch that has been built roramed of the action in which" Alexsoder-by-Mesers-Jahn-I Theraperols and Co Kotas, George Maidonis and Goors Ltd., of Woolston Works, Southampton
Old to the order of the British American Trautsacopulas, trading, at the Among those who loft for home from Post Office tobacco merchants Tobacco Co., Lt, and intended for river
abeanoo.
others' country, and it has been by Pasteur Institute for Bankok, up to May Shanghai on May 24, vil. Siberia, were ME alaimed from Li Hing.. tender, of 153, sorvise in South Chine, carrying this pro- . such visits being undertaken, not be 19 the sum of Tisala 19,95 had boon G. Warren Swire and Mr Swire. A large | Queen's Rond Central, $1,000 damages for gresive firm's goods into the romote
raised,
the
The cargo of silk shipped on board
"Polynesien," which loft this Port thord Ultime, was delivered in Lyons
on the 9th instant.
the favoured few, as in the old days Most refresting and palatable. when the "Grand Tour" was indulged in, but by the masses who are now conducted by a Cook's representative, a Gaze or a Luna, that the strong bond of amity existing between the
If a man hits you it is unlawful to countries has had such enduring effect. hit him back," said Mr Justice Coleridge The entente cordiale is a bond of at the Old Balley. It may sound un-
English, but it is the law **
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MEMO FOR TO-MORROW! Decoration Day (U.S.A.)
General Memoranda.
FRIDAY, May 31
7.30 Full Moon. Noon-Watkins Ltd. Annual Meeting.
SATURDAY, June 1
12.15 p.m.-A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.'s
Annual Genera) Meeting.
SUNDAY, MAY
2:-
9am.Excursion to Macau,
MONDAY, June 3
King's Birthday (1885).
General Holiday.
Parade of Troops on Cricket Ground.
The China Mail
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In view of the commercial expansion which is expected to take place in China, it is reported that additional British
Consular officials are to be appointed....
A. Yorkshire steeplejack, who has just" follod his one hundred and twenty-ninth chimney, chims to hold the world's record in his line. He is seventy-nine years of
4,50.
number of friends, including many of the staff of feasts Butterfield and Swife, assembled at the jetty to bid them farewell
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brassh of contract whorsby defendant interior regions. Much business can be" agreed to erect a vorandah on the premises done in this way in a country whora reds known as the Post Office,
Fare practically nonexistent, and Wilkins Mr Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr E.phrase. The rivers of China are her glory There was considerable merriment in I Grist, of Messrs Wilkinson and Grist, and no dountry can compare with her for the House of Commons the other pight solicitors, is appearing for plaintiffs; and her natural facilities of inland navigation," when Mr. T. P...O'Concor, in the course the Hun.. Mr C. G. Alabaster, instructed put an accurate appreciation of the ad- of an eloquent speech, brought his opes by Mr J. H. Gardiner, solicitor, for the vantage China kasoror other countries, in Bat down with much emphasis on the defendant.
'the briefeat and nesta-t of descriptions, rows of the top hat Mr. Healy was wearing.
Mr and Mrs W. R. Parkin-of Shanghai are homeward bound on the F. and O. steamer Paiawan which leaves here, to now. Mr Parkin has been for over thirteen years a member of the staff of the N. C. Daily News, and is now taking his Best bons lente.
Mr Eivin J. Dingle, athor of "Through China on Fout" and China's Revolution, 1911-12" formerly on the Staff of the
Owing to alterations being carried and in the Summary Coart-room the case, was taken in the Chid? Justice's Court-room..
DEFENDANT'S STORY.
by Mr Potter, said he took two years The defendant Li Ring, cross-examined ease of the Old Post Office and engaged My Hazeland to draw plans of alterations he wished to have carried out. These Mr Hazrinud was to show to prospective terants. verandat, was included in the plan as part of the alterations contempted and as such would be shown to them. Defendant thought that the verandah
This twin-sorow mótor launch named “Ronette”, after man of the firm's m popular brauda, of signdation, was required. to have a fair, tora of "speed, and the draught when loaded with 2 tons of cargo wna wod to exceed 1 ft. 3 in., on-socount of
the shallowness of the rivers. Her length, morogver, was not to exceed 58 ft.
Living quarter and galley have been arranged aft for the Chinese grew and for wind for the Company's representatives, and a certain amount of bulky cargo can de Carried midships. Ou trial in Southampton Water, the "Rosette "fulfiled all that wan
"Pleague is still very preenient at Wear Straits Times, leaves for Home from could be built for 8800 or 8900, and required of her, a speed of nearly 94 kunta
Paint. A lad, ten years of age, died very suddenly yesterday. It seems that a few hears previous to death he appeared is very good health.
Shanghai on May 2let. While in the old country he will be married to a medical lady who has juo returned from Yunnan
being obtained no 1 ft. 3 in. draught when loaded with 9 tons,
countries that is appreciated not only by the two natious most interested, but by the lovers of peace the world over. Like the Constitution of the dear old Homeland, it is more effica-" cipus and more enduring in what it does not specifically state than it could be if it were so "nocinated in the bond" The entente is a blessing to both countries, and a greater blessing lies in that fact that both countries
the plan shoving it was shown to a number of people in addition to the plaintifs. He
The general ataugement is as follow ground floor premises more valuable, but A short deck is arranged forward for work- realise its power for good. There is no
agreed that a verandah would make the he did not know that it would make the ing anchors, warpa, oto. A saloon for four need for a formal Alliance between the
Mr Thomas Fraser, one of the Lendou ground four promises easier, in let. He Europesin fitted with bertha, chests of two countries, as he been on more one occasion advocated, and is at ning for eighteen months and losing over managers of the Chartered Bank of India, would charge the mue runt whether bere drawers, lavatory basics, table and writing present again being discussed. No 80,000, has consed to exist. The Tribune was married at St. George's, Hanover-wera a verandah or not. His total rental desk. Ooming off the saloon and galley Alliance can make the feelings entert over a quarter of a million before it square, on April 22, to Mrs. Leask, widow from the the top floor was $235, and there are pantry one side, bath and W., C. the of the late James. Leash of Bombay, and were brea rooms unoccupied for the other. Amidships is fitted the cargo hold give up the straggle.. tained by each country for the other
daughter of Mr Gordon, of Ballater, bottom floor he was getting a total of divided into two spaces and fited with more friendly than at present and
for respective One of the missing stokers who went Scotland, Mrs Leak in sister of Mr $1,003, made up of rents of $380, 375, aliding doors,
8180, 840 and 848 such an alliance would probably dowi with the Titanic was a poor protégé Gordon, manager at Delhi of the Chartered portions. He spent peveral bllousand space, and abaft that again is
dollars in interior repaii's and alterationspace for the craw, fitted with banks, bring about complications that of the Church Army, whose signing on an Bank of India.
and in fixing the rentals he naturally took | W.C. and ralley. The house over the The name of Mrs. Lacy Violet Saepe, this outlay into consideration, and also the accommolition is carried right out to the night impede the freedom of both
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lennard, estimate of 8600 or 3900 for the cost of the ship's side, and to provide a passage fore countries.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Fifteen tons of coal from Riwang have been shippel from Penang to London in
HONGEONG, WEDnbarat, May 2), 1919. order to be tested.
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There were 347 European nd 14 ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS. Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library!
Chinese and 144 European and 2,610 visitors to the Museum during the week
The tower of strength and the ending May 26thE.
S. MOUTRIE & Co. splendid moral effect that have at tended the entente cordiale existing between Great Britain and France has been of such a nature and hus
LIMITED.
Hongkong, April 18, 1907
Powell's
BATHING
SEASON
LARGE SELECTION OF
LADIES
BATHING
COSTUMES,
OAPS and
SANDALS
ALSO
continued from the first with so much unabated zest to the mutual advantage of both nations that it may truly be described as one of the finest lessons
By the U. D. L. steamer Derflinger
this morning there arrived 11 soldiem and 14 sailors, relief men for Macao. These men are to replace & bateb going home by
the r., Buelow on, Saturday.
Trecautions which have hand to be ad- opted by the Water Authority on account of the threatened "shortage of water are already being felt by the Chiness. The
assures came into fores yesterday.
Fifty-five tins of opium, valued at more than a thousand dollars, were discovered on buird the Manteagle, at Vancouver: The drug had been placed in a suit-case, to be carried off as the baggage of a Chinese.
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The London Evening Tivics, after run-
one of the crew was to have been bis Srat step to a new Ife.
to England.
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The motor space in abaft the dango
The nine men who are charged with of Widley, near Godslating, a stewardvernodair-Afterwards he found that the and aft a battened platform 2 ft. wide is
tampering with the Shanghai Gas Co.'s meters appeared at the Mixed Court and after further evidence had been advanced another remand was ordered.
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on the Titanic, has not yet appeared among
the list of survivors. Additional pathon cost of the verandah would exceed the Mr Putter In the negotiations with attaches to the case from the fact that, estimats by about 31,000. bereaved. only last July by the death of her husband-Captain Shape--the young the plaintif you told the plaintifs that if the Government granted a permit you The Jewish World states that among widow, then only just in her twenties and
would Wold a verandah -No, I did not tell them this. those whose names appear as eligible for loft with a baby girl, obtained, in order to service in the French army is Pierre Drey- | earn A living, the stewardess's position fas, son of Major Alfred Dreyfus, and by through the good offices of the local M.P. strange coincidence, also that of Jacques She bed until that time resided iz Sings Zols, a son of Emile Zola.
The prevalence of small-por in Hung
pere.
The Hon. W. C. Micholi arrived on May
Did you tell them anything concerning a- verandah ?--I said that because a verandah was shown on the plan they must not take it that a verandah would necessarily be
built.
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built out at the side, supported off the
ship's vido by means of tube stays. Round the after deck rails and stanchions, are red A bridge deck is arranged over the icon and is provided with ́s carast awning and side screens. The grepelling machinery consists of two sets of "Thorny craft", M/4 type of motor using patatin sa foul and atacking on petrol, or if & blow lamp is used, on patatin. The motors are designed specially for marine work and are Etted with standard vapouriser.." The motor drive solid propeliers of Thomy- croft bronze, working în tonnels, through standarti combined clutch and reversing gear. and access can be had to the pro- pellers through screw down hatches undur Cuscaden, A.S.P., is drawn up at the prepared to build a verandah if the water for cooling is strained through spon At Sotheby's Burn's manuscript of Pier. A large number of peuple went on erst had not execeded 8800 or 2000, and held between perforated places, as the "My Nanie's Awa!" sold for £103. There board to welcome the new Resident it was in fact, ortiered by Mr H zeland from rivers along which the Rosette will
Councillor, ne.ong them being Messrs Mac Donnell of Kowloon. Ha Kringed porte are very muddy. are sixteen lines in the manuscript, so the A. V. Brown, W. Feel, the Hon, A. R. with Mr Hazeland that if the verandah amount relised was nearly £7 a line, or its
Adams, the Hon. R. Young, DeR. Dane, uld be built at the estimated cast and "word. Acharacteristic letter of the poet
Opley, A E. Pringle, MoArthur, it would be erected. written in December, 1786, to a friend atent Cater, and Meners R. T. Reid, pornit was granted by the Government with both propellers working hand. With
Craig, H. Oxenham, W. A. Bicknell, Kilmarnock, sold for £23.
Why did you show it on the plan There was a bathroom apstairs, and I was going to have it taken down and a verandah built so that people could walk about.
Answering further questions by 31
kong and the necessity for prompt. com. 18 at Penang from Singa; ore by the F. mencement of compulsory vaccination of and steamer Oriental to act as Resident all immigrants on arrival the subject of Councillor, Penang, during the abruce.on
letter addressed to the Government by leave of the Hon. W: Evans, . A guard-of- | the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce honour of 64 Sikhs) under Mr R. L. Patter Li Hing said he would have been the stern dock plates. The circulating
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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce,
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At her tris, the Rosette" proved very handy and turned in a very small circle
one rooning ahead and one astern abo
f practical politics that has ever been taken part in by two great nations. Great Britain and France lead the
Mr Petter: It being bir Hazeland's duty turned practically in her own length. Over world in many respects--- Great Britain
Lowa. W. T. Chapman, Gilman, H. C to point out the rerandah as part of the the measured mile. running with the port in industry, France in ideas-but in
Acording to the veroncular Press, has Sell . E. Culman, F. Aerin. F. Talterations, what ought he to have old pre-engine only, a speed of over 71 knots was nothing more than in their convincing
Kinder, J...H. Phipps, Heim, C. H. G.-pectivo tennats about it ?--Ele would have obtained. There was a noticeable absence telegraphed to Peking asking that some Cincke, R. B. Osborns, J. D. Scully, C, G. to explain to the tenants acceeding to the of vibration. manifestation that peace should be the
special recognition of the services May, H. G. Sarwar, Ballantyne, B.Did you ever tell the plaintiffs anything
As soon as the Taikoo Dookjard & En- desideratum of all nations. A decade unusually severe this year, a special service
The plugue in the colony having been formed by Mr A. W. U. Pape, general Onraet and the Rer. Father L. M. Duvele about a verandah I told the interpreter gineering Co. Ltd., have re-erected this manager of the Shanghai-Naoking Railway On landing Mr Michell inspected the in Air Hazeland's office that he should not verset, she will be launched have another ago, anyone who had had the temerity is being held at the Roman Cathon during the revolution, be accorded to him guard-of-honour, and afterwards motored expect a vérandah on the ground for betrik rum in Bougkong Harbour and then
Cathedral to-morrow at 7.30 a. in hunger of St Roque, to whom the Romas Catholic community, pray for deliverance from epidemies.
to predict that the relationship between Great Britain and France would for years be one of mutual confidence. and unalloyed esteem, would have been kuked upon-and not without
se-as a visionary, if indeed some ore uncomplimentary term were not addressed to him. For centuries England and France were de- sperate enemies. That was in the bed old days" when the passions of nations were "much more easily stirred to enmity than they are in these enlightened times. In those
of
The death is reported from Hankow Mr Alexander C. Tweedie, Secretary of the British Municipal Council there. He was found in a state of collapse in his chair at the office un May 20, and died of heart failure soon after arriving at 1's residence, The Hankow newspapera apoak bighly of Mr Tweedie's seven years service to the British community.
Soveral Chinese bave been charged in London with disorderly conduct. Members of the rival White Lily and Eastern Nautical Progress societies have been fighting each other with iron bars and hammers, and thirty police constables, had to be called to quell free Eght in the West India Dock road on one occasion.
A DARING KOBBERY.
Audacious Thieves.
It is said that Me Rocke'oler, the A robbery, the facts of which show much millionaire, is very superstitious, and for cunning on the part of thieves, was per. das but few individuals belonging to years has carried at eaglestone its his pel rated Inst night at Braeside, Macdonelly either nation seldom net except on his pocket. This, says the Advocate of Read, and resulted in the intruders do. Chilarens Bathing Suits the battlefield, and they met there India, is of brownies color, bollow inside, camping with ratuulile booty
mich too frequently. With increased with some loose pieces in the cavity, which facilities for rapid means of communi- rattle when the stong is shaken. They are d to be a charm against disaates, cation, however, the absurd notionshipwreck and other calamities. England and France held regarding
ALL SIZES
From 50 Cents Each.
Mm. Powell, Id
-suppos.
to the Residency with Mrs Michell.
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AT THE MAGISTRACY.
POSSESSING OPIUM,
At the Magistracy to-day a Chinese was seed for being in possession of a quantity of opium. Asked to explain how he came to have it, defendant said that it was given to him by a friend. For some time he had tried to give up the habit of opium smoking?' ·
DIE UTE"OVER "WAZKE, Yo'arday, while a number of men were taking water from an bydrant in the stress a dispute arose among them As the result & lukong arrived upon the
scene, nud, being threatened with violence, a had the men taken into custody. This morning each defendant was fined $2.
· BRIBING" A CONSTABLY.;
Cause it was shown on the pin which you pus into service.
Was that the only occasion on.
mecliumod toe varaudah to them Yes.
The plaintifs, hvo
you promised
to erect the verandah if you
you got a govern. ment permit I did not say that.
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CORRESPONDENCEL,-
AMATEUR §. PROFESSIONAL
Mr. Hazeland, witness continned, did n tell him at any time that the defendants were continually asking him, after theagrec
(To the Editor of the CHINA MAL" ment hisd been signed, about the verandah.
DEA SIK-In glancing over two of the He did but, nor did anybody on his ba alf, promise Mr Sternberg a rerandah
The managing clerk to Mr Hazeland said kl paper's of the 27th inst... I noticed a when the defendants first negotiated with correspondent asking. What is an Open his for a smaller portion of the premises Race?" The letter was signed by Mr atuted principally
Pudder Street, beester of the Royal Engineen. In reply,
be built mentioned that a verandah might in Queen's Road, but no promise was made..
I beg to state that ay Committee were
At the second interview defendant was compelled to refuse Mr Lester's entry for... ant fer, and he said it was his intention the following reasons to build the verandah; but be was, not cer- tain whether there would be one or sot
(1) Owing to Mr Lester admitting hime
at the interview in July at which matters self to be a professional, when our sports were settled nothing was said about it.
Judgment was reserved till Friday next at 9.80. a..
PLAGUE RETURNS.
Nearly A Thousand Deaths"
wore held under the Rules of the A. A. A
And (2) owing to his entry fee of 81 not"; being sent to me, which he asserts having sent in his second letter.
To the correspondence he mentions that. he is willing to challenge anybody in the Colony for any distapen, for any
The unner in which access was gained to the honte demirnekiated considetable daring, and was evidently not accomplished without forethought, for it somed that the
For being in unlawful possession of 45 only possible way that the thiores could catties of rice and for offering bribe to Lite entered the building was from the poi co unstable, Chiuere was this morn A return showing the number of cases of amount of musey and that hailing each other faded away, and gradually. An in generally kuorn, totis the King rindsh
ing convicted on the second charge, being communicable diseases, which bare been to back himself. This sufficient there came a keen desire on bolli sides and Queen hold very pronounced opinions Apparently the Arst apartment enter-fined 810 or, in dufanit, one months, notified as occurring in the Colony, of proof of his being a professional rider,
imprisontnent. on the question of the position guilty ed was the bed room occupied by Mr
Hongkong during this week ended May for an amateur.carino", "neder for a thorough understanding, and a parties to a divorce action should occupy Harding, solicitor, whose clothes and sundry. ALLEGED THATE OF $200 NOTE 280h, states that there have been 103 cases stances sontorer, shallonge. more civilised method of settling to wooluty. They have her wet an
articles war interfered with The barglars and of Bubonic Plague and 168 denile there ren for money in big is done thr
- An Indian was charged with stealing a disputes that might arise between the strictly dabarred from all Court functions, coolly examined then, extracting articles promissory note, value $200, from from. Of the 199, 197 were Chinese amateur would no longer be able to cla
But a current scandal in the Army has to the value of about 500 frous the pockets in a house No. 47. Cains Road. The cams Mainy, and 1 Tadias. In the city of amateurship, but would enter profession- two peoples. The great advantages used His Majesty to consider the imuing Froza, tbance it some that they returned was remanded Mr Reader Harris appear Victoris 121 ones pourred, and in dis aliam also wish to mention that t that both would derive from such an of a stingent regulation with regard to to the verandab, and hoticing a pair of ad for the prosecution.
tricts other than the city there were 783 Louter 18 husfotely wrong in think og te Only two chase of small por are recorded, bu cutry was refused because others Army officers who are corespondenta in a
both concerning Chinase, of whom one have entered wore afraid of being bester
The total number of cases of plague this above.
Bilon Scenic Theatre, nderstanding were, of course, quite veros petition. It is to the affect that, Bold sleeve liske, left them in their place, MN
FLOWER STREET.”
SATURDAY, 1r or JUNE, 1912, LAST NIGHT of the present Season Closing during the Summer Months
OPENING SATURDAY 22th REPTENLEIGHLEY
but not without depriving them of valuable
BRAKE STEALING WATER." Two Chinese who were charged with
pemon to
obvious, and, indeed, in the minds of directly the ass as proved they should many were doubtless of paramount Immediately be cashtored. The King jude stones which were cleanly and akilially stealing water from the Western Market accumbent. The just ressons for the refund are given, year has been 1009, of which number 1048 I desire the public to know that our importance. Still, we believe what decision is being debated very freely at cut out, à cigarette case, a pencil case and wereach fined 30 cents and were cautioned,
wake a few other things did not scape their
Me A Grant Conk committed whinese and 11 persons of other sports were not inaid in order to give y might be described as the sentimental Alderson a
attention,
micide is railway train in Ceylon by aistis nationality. European Lara o special persen, the opportunity of winning staca hat, was atsistly confined to jaké point of view of the understanding
GET IT TODAY, IT MAY SAVES
Emio the remandah, they want to the shooting himself with a revolver on May 9, far been anffected. was also a powerful stimulas in bring
roon of Mr Búston, a goltioman living at: The deceled had been in the ten trade all
The camber of deaths from "plagae nobi- ; mannor-
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