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Cabinet Dimoulties Growing.
HOME RACING. -
THE "TERRIBLE MONTH.”
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Loxpox, August 10. tepay-turvy days, with THE SITUATION AT NORWICH | cleavages on various questions in almost (every sect and party, but of them all the
Theme
ST. LEGER BETTING,
THE CHINA MAIL.
Borden's, statomoot that Canada cannot and will not be “a mere adjunct of Great" Britain is this matter urgent.
-Lugd Esher continues Two conditions" ere essential: drst that there should be no
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concealment of policy or intentions between ARE INVITED
ime Minister of this country and the
the Prime
Prime Ministers of the Dominion.
The second, that no departure in for TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR
involving Imperial interests, in policy, should be taken without the approval of the Dominions.
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order to achiure these results som CIRCULATING
modification of practics in the govaramoat
Bouter's Service to the China Mail.) | (Bouter's Service to the China Mall 1 Į ministerialista sears to be in the worst of this country and of the Dominiums prouid-
LONDON, Aug. 31.
The latext betting for the St. Leger (to be run at Doncaster on Sept. 11th.)
9 to 4 against Lomond,
5 to 1 against Tracery.
8 to 1 against Maiden Eclogh.
9 to 1 against Hector.
100 to 8 against Pintarlonu.
LONDON, August 30,
The electric light at Norwich
been restored.
HARVESTING IN BOATS.
plight. They have given the country the most severa stirring up that has ever been experienced in the same number of past and the country in longing for penca. "I du
̈not attach my much importance to the
A
genocal election; but oven many Liberals
be necessary. Some concessions would have to be made; some serifce of old- fashioned pride an the one hand, and seas of faxaggerated independence abandonment
other. an thu
British ministers should realise that they cannot be frea and untrammelled in future to choose a foreign policy which may land the Empire in war, and expect material help from Canada: while Cana- disus should understand that, if they desire to dy the Union Jack, they raust face tha
to shoulder a share
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The river at Norwich has fallen five feet and the city is resuming its normal aspect
haseeping majority of north-wet Manchen- མ་ ་ most people 'do, for bys- #lections have
knack of giving The damage done to the city in governments hard knocks and then estimated at £100,000.
rovesting to their allegiance at the 'next
admit that if the constituencies have to be Power, and be ready to a
of the European berdoa." faced in the near future they hava vary The functious and potentialities of the fils prospect of regaining office. They Committee would have to be plainly ber and is entitled to exchange
first step to free com buoy themselves up with hope that they grouped, and sa a may be able to hang oa long enough for "unication Lord Esher suggests the Cans same for any other novel an dian and British Premiers should meet ia the Insurance Aot to get into fuller work-London every satames, after which the payment of 20 cents cash, Hong- As an example of the situation, the ing so that, as they put it, the people may Committee of Imperial Defence should kong currency, for every change, - (Bouter's Service to the China Mail farmers in the Peterborough district soe the bereits for which they are paying, meet, thereby zot merely settling toohnical |
LONDON, August 31.
are harvesting in hosts, the sheaves But, on the other band: there are those questions but tasting the strength of the
Imperial bonds.
The Rat Trap, by Daniel Woodrofa. The Hon. R. L. Borden, the being landed on higher ground. The who predict the woeful failure of the Act, After that Lord Faber taken a cut at the Haluyone, by Elinor Glys.
Office:
Spring Days, George Moore.
DEPARTURE OF THE CANADIAN PREMIER.
Premier of Canada, has left for Canada.
TTALY AND THE SUGAR
CONVENTION.
Accounts of the agricultural lovas throughout the East of England are heartrending.
men are mowing up to the knees in and these declare the longer the Liberals Colon day is not the distant" he may at Ames, by E. F. Benson.
wator.
• The
Aakow.
when the Colonial Office should be His Little Girl, by L. G. Moberly. The river Welland in Lincoln-put off the fight the harder will be the He received a most cordial farewellshire is literally choked with hay being
blow they will receive.
relieved of the affairs the Dominions. The The English woman, by Alice and Claude Moreover, little canidenes is now fult Colonial Office, in that sphere, is an carried seaward.
in the new land programme. The moneyed shachronism. Every consideration points The that Woman Do, by Florence to the Bureau of the Prime Minister, ta Liberals are against it and even the ballon the Secretariat of the Committes of Im Lord and Lady Kitty, by L. T. Meado. MR BURNS VISITS NORWICH' that was sant up by its aderentes perial Defance, we the suitable machinery Judith Lee, by Richard Marah.
has shown what a bopelean split it would for keeping Great Britain and the The Missing Miss Handolph, by Marie 0. The Right Hon. John Buras, Pre-produes in the party. Then the retirement Dominions in touch, and as a means of est. Leighton.
Ablishing more e
niore conádestial, ad more bind. Stories Without Tears, by Barry Pain. ing relations between the (Reuter'a Servios to the China Mall.)sident of the Board of Trade, visited of the Chief Whip, the Master of Elibank
Mother
Zorah,, country
by Taj. and the drooping majorities in the House and the Dominions, which very shortly will Fan's Garden, by Algumon Hiackwood, LONDON, Aug. 31. Norwich and conferred with
in po have added to the gloom, and eron the they do already in area and extent. In A Semi-Detached Marringo, by Margaret And wealth Sam Briggs: Hin Book, by Richard Marsh. population irrepressible Mr. Lloyd Georgs took order to federate more or less independient stops to have A resolutiom оп the land question withdrawn from the programme before the Midland Li`eral Foderation. To that must be added the fact
the
A telegram from Romo states that authorities regarding restoration area
the Italian Government has notified) aures. tha: Italy will withdraw from the Segar Convention on September 1, 1913,-
THE BRITISH NAVY..
IXPEDITING DREADNOUGHT
BUILDING.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail,)
Loxpoy, Angust 31.
The Admiralty are expediting the faunching of the Iron Duke at Ports- mouth this month, which will enable the alip to be thus earlier available for
a larger Super-Dreadnought,
THE "STEAMSHIP'S CENTENARY.
INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN SCOTLAND.
{Beuter's Servies to the China Mail.)
LONDON, August 30. Glasgow is celebrating in a very elaborate manner the centenary of the steamship. Comet "
At the banquet, members of Parlia
HOUSES TO BE DISINFECTED.
Doctors are inspecting the flooded hoases, all of which will be thoroughly disinfected.
ENTERPRISING SHOP- KEEPERS.
that any delay on the part of the govern ment now means giving the Labour party time to organise their plans to extry out the new scheme of forcing a triangular contest wherever they consider they have a sporting chance of success. True, the labour men are split too, but so long as the Shopkeepers are already announcing triangular contexts are there, that fact does not make the Liberals more cheerful. But salvage sales.
for the fact that the Conservatives are without a good fighting policy, they would be in a splendid position.
THE AUSTRALIAN.
SALVATIONISTS"
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
TITANIC RESULTA.
surpass
her
groups of the same race and speech, some The Go-Between, by My Coulson Ker
neance is required to their pride and independence,"
KAMMER AS COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER,
is a splendid commercial traveller. The There is no doubt about it-the Kaiser latest inatence of it is in the securing, by the Vulcan Camping of Hamburg, of the contract for the construction of a Greek cruiser in the face of keen British
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the Germans But how competition. got the order is curious. Their first price was £1,400,000, while the lowest British offer was £1,187,350 for a larger and faster rensel. Tat the Germane were allowed to cat their tender down and finally got the order at the price of £1.114,000.
Yet in its last report the Vulcan Co. said- A continuance of the existing conditions, which for the building of war The brst business of the House when its ruinous, can only lead to bankruptcy at and merchant ships can only be described rosumos will be the discussion of the Titanie Report. There are two amend ments on the paper, identical in terms, in the mmes of Mr W. R. Pringle and Me The Salvationists in Melbourne Basil Pato, asking for the appointment of held, an imposing procession synchron- [a -Select Committee to inquire into the ising with the funeral of General working of the Marine Department of the Booth in London,
Board of Trade, and to report what changes fought to be made in its organisation.
Lespos, Angust 30.
At Sydney a memorial service at the Town Hall was attended by an enorm- ous gathering.
LATEST RUBBER QUOTATIONS.
Messrs.. Verucu and Smyth, stock brokers, slate:--We hug to advise you
no very remote period". Best of the German yards paid no dividend last year. But the Kaiser in this last case was de Auxis to get the order, and was so lighted that when he succeeded he gave nearly twelve hundred pounds for dis tribution among Greek charities. Every time he takes a tour some big commercial seems to follow and this Greck case is no exe ption.
Mr Pringle at through all the inquiry
A LEVEL HEADED CABINET. as the representative of a union to which
Level headed-let me hasten to explain Lord Mersey for some reason did not see
-not as my personal opinion as to their fit to allow representation, and as a con- capacity, but from the strict hatter's stant and skilled onlooker he saw perhaps
point of view. This, anyway, in the of the game mere
fact-the lende of than
the Master of many of those curious
Elibank, Mr Lloyd George and engaged in it. It is the opinion of a very
Asquith Large number of members on both
baka the same size and shape of hat axactly. Rider of
the Bus that the Report This has only just been discovered, tos fails in candour in dealing with
nobody to look at them would the
uld suppose the fact. When Mr Asquith made his rapt Marine Department o the Board fact.
Mr
the
meat and the City Councillors eulogised that we have this morning received the All the painstaking fairness of Sir Refuerous entry into Dublin the other day some i
the Inventor.
were
the common
Isaacs does not make it less unfortunate dent Hibernisa, annexed his hat as a fellowing cable quotations for rubbers.that by the rules To-morrow a general holiday will be ete.. fröin our London agents >—
memento. So he borrowed the headgear rules on which the inquiry was conducted the case for the plaintiff, which of the retiring Chiclete
Chief Whip and wore it with held throughout the West of Scotland, Sheil Trausports, 165/6 buyers: Palung was the nation, and the case for one of the serenity and complete comfort all the and a great shipping pageant will take Consolidateds. 10/6 buyers; Eastern chief defendants, which was the Board way back to London. A day or two
of Trade,
and the Chief place at Greenock, in which warships International Trusts, 21/6 bayers; Rub-Nor ha conducted together. later the Chancellor
ber Trusts, 1. Prem. buyers: Gula condones the leniency of the Report on and went off in blissful ignorance of the talk which Whip happened to go to a meeting will participate, while avery town in
together. Mr Lloyd George left frat Kalampongs, 3019 buyers: Langgis, 33/- the ground of the recent retirement of the fact that he was wearing the hat of the district will join in the festivitios,
the buyers Anglo Malays. 18/8 buyers; into head of the Department much to re-
of Elibank. When the meeting United Serdangs, 117/6 buyers: Pegos. commend it. The question is not
neraly Maste
was over the Master took the Chancellor's 47/3 sellers Kamusing, sellers: Trado's Marine Department went to sleep the fact till ster on he met the than bygone one of why the Board ANOTHER ADVISER FOR Allagars, 3/5 sellers; Cabus, 11/- wellers;
of hat and wore it, without any discovery of in 1834
And till the sinking of the
y'ept CHINA..
Kapongs, 16/6 sellers; Merlinnas, 4/4 |
Titanic woke it, but
cellor agniu. what steps are going to be taken to ensure its not going to sleep exempted from the rule of standard sizes. de: Parn Rubber, 5/1) per lb. sellers.
again. It in
It is highly improbabia that in
the circumstances, and in view of the un. His bead in the biggest of the lot, and his doubted appors on
both sides of the Appearance asually suggests that he has OARSMAN LOST IN THE RIVER. House for the amendment proposed, the had great difficulty in find a hat big enough
to enclose his craniu. Government will be able, or will desire, to resist the appointment of a Select Committee,
(Reuter's Bervice to the China Mall.)
LONDON, August 20.
The Debats (Paris) announces that General Brissant Desmaillot has been Appointed Military Adviser to China.
AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE.
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But Mr Winston Chuchili, must be
INDO-CHINA.
Indo-China figured largely at the con- greas of the Association for the Advance. ment of Science which has just been haid at Nimes. The monetary experiment of
Mr R. W. Gostze, a meniher of the Lysander Rowing Club, was drowned in During the inquiry, by the way, Lord the Thames near Hammersmith Bridge Mersey raised the question of whether recently after the expsizing of a sculling compressed air bad beau considered as w int in which he was going on the river. on board
The
in the vessel's aide as the discussion natong such varied topics as the Hammorsmith Pier, but suddenly Bank and result of a collision. I understand this utilisation of high altitudes for agricultural all efforts to recover the body were unsug method has been employed frequently and purposes
the boat mathod of getting rid of successfully in salvago operatione; and the
J | superfinous
tha OF Departmental Committee recently appoint of light bathe," and the effect of ultra- face, the virtues ed by the
the President of the Board of
of Trade
on bachpride. alvise on
on the water tight atth-lizision
Kreatust interest was taken in the
varsmas began to swig towards being madip in the event of n brenol Indo-Chins was wedged in as a subject. for i
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.eful. It is supposed that Mr Goetze
was attacked with cramp. Loxtos, August 30,
A Melbourne cable stator that the Hon. Mr Pearce, the Minister for Defence, is calling a conference of
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ww to amplify calculations in system the cargo-batches are closed absol- |(wh until the return of De Wilder. While the utely, while all other openings, such as also the current French system.
where the yen is worth ten monos) and whole community will join in congratulating companions and port-holos, are also sealed. opini
The bir Dorsey upon hie promotion, says the As a matter of fact, the vessel from the have made the yuan" equal to ten monos, opinion was expressed that Chios should N. C. Daily Nows, the nows of it not be meat. Then boses are attached and the and French eninage ints harmony.
main deck is one gigantic airtight compart thus bringing American, China, Japanese AMERICA'S EXTRAORDINARY received without an equal feeling of regret pressure of the air pumped into the interior cidentally it was mentioned that British at the prospect of losing one of the most forces the water downward and out money cald come in, the sovereign being popular consuler officials in the port. Me through any holes that
the hull,
a condition to be dry dock. Compressed air raised to
to being to re LONDON, August 30.
saron years, and during that time he has the cruiser Gladiator of the Isle of Wight ene xxpiaN COMMANDON, Although this State Department at has filled the position of Acting Consuliner Minnebata may be given. She was Indian civil administration inquiry, will
won golden opinions from all. Twice he and among many other in tances of its e
the example of the Atlantic Transport donald, who have accepted seats on the Lord Ronaldshay and Mr Ramsay Mar. Washington does not authoriss a state- General, and on those occasions has shown in fact, ifted of the rocks at Scilly and probably go into residence in India in the ment to this effect, it is understood the utmost capacity for his Querous duties, steam, with no patches on the great rents parliamentary duties in the summor.
proceeded to Southampton under her own next two winters, returning to their that the Administration will decline to His transfer from Shanghai will be the made in her bow and nothing but the air the meantime Me James Parker, Labour permit the question of the right of the loss not alone of the American but of the to keep the water ost... United Stator to relieve American whole community. shipping from tells for using the Panama Canal to be arbited. It le atated, however, that this position of
(Reuter's Barolov to the Okina Mall; } Dorsey had been stationed here for six or towed leaving her in be in the equal to one hundred, mnonos sad the shilf
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Cobe, Chalara and Diarthoes Remely has been curing cramps iu the stomach and never loan known to fail to give relief oven Empire. bowels, dysentery and diarrious and has the Colonies to be called to the Council of It is estimated that persons are in the most severs and dangerous case.
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