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1HE BRITISH ARMY,
STATEMENT BY COLONEL SEELY.
LONDON, Mar 11.
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THE HOME RULE QUESTION.
TEU DINATE ·
THE MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES.
· MORE DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT.
A Fight With Pollos.
THE M. 00'S FINAL MATCH
LONDON, March-11
A telegram from Newlandse stater that the Marylebone C. C., Western Provinco match ended in a draw
This was the flual mateb of the tour.
We are informed that the blacklis Bank of India, Ltd., has to-day reveived a teingram from their head office stating that at the appmaching annast general meeting of the Bank's, shareholders, the Dirostres will recommand's final dividred of 4 par sano, fæss of facque cas, on the ** A* and **g** sharon, (making 8. per cant for the year); that $30,10 will be added to the roserve fund £100 to off cara pension fand 2. £9,000 be written off freehold bask premis scenant;, and that £94,600 be carries forward as undivided profits..
LONDON, March 10.. If the House of Commons, Col.
In the debate that followed MP. 'Seely, Secretary of State for War.
LONDON, Mar. 10. in introducing the Army Estimates, Asquith's speech, Bir Edward Carron
Alr. Pankhurst was addressing a sail that although there was a short-frankly admisted that some advance
gathering of Suffragettes at St. had been mada, Ha naserted that if Andrew Hall, Glosgow, when u age of 8,000 regulars, there was a surplus of 33,000 reservists. Cot the Government would remove the large farge of police, with truncheons sequently, there was no sause for time limit be would call an Ulster, rust into their midst. A| anxiety. The speeding up of the Convention to consider the proposal, was guarded by burbed wire, con-ILITARY OFFICER KILLED. maintainable by the Government? if
face fight comed. The platform
but not otherwine.
mobilisation arrangements had bern perarkable, and the cmntry had now an expeditionary force of 162,000
Mr. Raminy Macdonald, in the which would be able to complete all course of his remarks, aid-Let ta details. 50,000 of all arms could be have pesee if we can. If we cannot ready in a few hours to go anywhere. us have Home Rule. He added Measures were being considered to solve the problem of providing for that the Labourires did not wish for the elueation of those promoted from General Election until the Bill had the 'mnks, Since recruits had been | passed.
advertiset for, they fund wenry Mr. Tim Healy said he would rather 1,000 more than during the corres-
BRITISH AVIATION FATAL TY.
He fought at Magersfontein and elsewhere.
geall in towers. Tumblers, flower pots and chairs were thrown at the
LONDON, March 11. police, and stormers, pistols, al
The aviator, Captain Downer, fall miniature boinbs were exploded, while many women used clubs. This from a height of 2000 foot up the police used the baton right and left, Bivar Avon, and was killed, and eventually Mrs. Pankhurst was seizes and dragged off into a testi- Feb and convoyed to the police: station. A score of wornen and nny constable wore injured. Sub- storm the police station, but this was ripulsed by hundreds of police, 'fhounted and on foot.
Fonding period of 18 though the have no Bill than ne with the pro-quently an attempt was made to Territorials were still 36,000 short.posed modifications,
This year's recruiting was the largest Son record and there had been a gon- tinuous and a substantial increase in the eficiency of the national reserve, which was now over 217,000,,
The debata was then adjourned.
Press Comma o rata.
"War," on Bir E. Carson.
*
The Unionist Press generally takes
Suffragettes have declared war on Sir Edward Carson's standpoint that Sir Edward Carson, considering us the six years' lírio je impracticable, » unsatisfactory the interview he, ne- The Times Daily Mail, Standard,corded the women yesterday who and Daily Graphic declare that Mr. Waited at the door if his house in Asquith's offer is doomed to failure London since Thursday last..
LATER. unless he abandons the time-limit:
"THE TIMES" REDUC. ED TO ONE PENNY,
Lospos, Mar. 11. The Times unmounes flat in view The Morning Post says that Mr. of this grave importance of the poli-Asquith was simply maneuvring for
tient situation, the paper will be reduced in price to one penny from the 18th inst.
OBITUARY.
position in view of the inevitable ap- peal to the country.
An Outrage at the National Gallery,
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A VELANQUER
DESTROYED.
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The Daily Telegraph declares, that A suffragette named Af Rich- Mr. Asquith has confessed that he hasardson was arred at the National Gallery for slashing a tines at a been besten by the Ulstermen.
famous Velasquez ** Vend that cost £10,000.
He
The
must go farther, or yieid to the de- mand for General Election. FONDON, Mar. 11. The death is announced of Ernest Government's prestige has been shat
* Dresden. well-known rachometered at the eleventh hour by the
owner.
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concession.
The Modern Vanus!”...*
Another telegram states that Miss Richardson. in`a statement, said she destroyed the picture of the most
THE SOUTH AFRICAN INDIANS.erament's generosity has exceeded ax-laautifid woman of mythology as a
Echo of the Troubles.
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LuNDOS, Mar. 11. The Rev. F. C. Andrews on his arrival in London was welcomed by a number of Indians and garlanded by the poetess Sarojina Naiou.
the aptention of the caginde in chargo of roads to the Insanitary condition of the fooqathe in Queen's Road East and other parts of the Wonchai-district which aro
with what resultd if not, will the Hond
ther Sanitary Department do so now! "(xi) Have any sanitary oficers called the attention of the engineer in obarge of roads to the insanitary condition of
Crask. Street, Wanchai, where musk, forg is sold, the buyers having to wade through neme of mud in showery weather? If so with what reauit? gif not, will the Head of tho Sanitary Department do so now 2.
The President replied that he had re- ferred the "first, right questions, be the Colonial Secretary and had asked for in formation upon them. The answer to the first half of the ninth question was Now recently, and to the second half; Yes. The same answers applied to
MR. BOWSKILL KELEASED.
LONDON, March 11. Sir Edward Desy, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, announces that the | Rev Mr. Bowskill, the English mis-
tionary arrested recently in Portuguesequtions 9 and 11. Congo, has been released on parole, pending an inquiry.
ANOTHER BYDNEY STRIKE, COLLAPSES.
LONDON, March 11.
الباور
Mr. Bowley naked if the information in answer to the first eight questions will by available at the next meeting?
The President was afraid he could give no undertaking on the matter, bub said ho would endeavour to obtain theen by that time and submit them to the Board.
REFERE ON THE FORESHORES. Mr. Bowley, in necordance with notice,
A telegram from Sydney states that the ironworkers on strike have decided | mared the following resolution -
to resume work on the old condition.
ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS.
LONDON, March 11.
-A telegram from Rame states that the Cabinet has resigned.
SOUTH AFRICAS INDEMNITY EILL.
The Daily Naves ways that the Gov,
Lespos, Mar. 10. The Indemnity Bill passed the pectations. It is the thick, not the protest against the Government de-third reading by 70 voler to 12. thin, ead of the exclusion wedge. If stroying Mes. Pankhurst," the most adopted, Irish unity will be severely beautiful character of modern his- endangered; if rejected, the country would be mere hypocrisy.
tory. Any outery, she added, will expect the Government to ad longer temporise, but severely repreus
rebellion.
The Nationalists.
!
Mr. Andrews, in a statement to The Daily Chronicle expresses its Reuter's representative, extolled the opinion that the time limit is not a chivalmus patriotism of Mr. Gandhi, very material point. during the railway strike and the beroism and enduranes of the In- dians. He also referred to the gener- cus and fair-minded treatment of The Nationalist members of the Eimself by the Government; and House of Commons have unanimously stated that he had been inmensly agreed that Mr. John Redmond should impressed by Gonem Botha's ster- ling character and simplicity. Gen-express their views in the debate on
eral Bothm assured Mr. Andrews that the proposals. he would do whatever he could to act
justly by the Indians.
[Mr. Andrews, it will be remembered, wwan wont lash November da South Africa
from St. Stephen's Church, Delhi to certain the gata and report on 'nituation."--El]
GERMANY'S ARMY.
Lospos, Mar. 10.
The National Zeitung says that it is reported at Munich that a new Army Bill is in prospect, authorising the rearmament of the Germany
Lord Miner on the Situation.
Lord Milner, in a letter to The Times ragarding Mr. Asquith's statement, says that the statement makes it im- perative for the signatories to the recent Coronaut to redouble their appeal to the nation to make it clear) to the forces driving Mr. Asquith that * more generous offer must yet be made.
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REFUSE DISPOSAL IN HONGKONG.
MA. BOWLEY'S CRITICISMA.
A Plea for a Better System.
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Thath the opinion of this. Bonad step unld be taken to collect and born in situ the debris which has been deposited by the aetion of wind and tádo em the beaches 'of, the Colony suns. munding the ares of Cow-ee-Chow, where the refuse of the urban districts is dumped into the seo from the Sani. tury barges."
Mr. Bowley said that Hongkong was no an entirely desirable place to spand the summer in, but is had certain com. ensaticam. One of the most popular of these compensation was sea-bathing.. what could be on delightful or more refreshing, after sweltering in the office all day, than to match up one's bathing boskes when tha clock strikes five, and to hory down to the waiting launch. motor bent, or sailing craft, and speed away to the nearest sandy beach-to dive overboard and swim ashore through the to the silver clear, pellucid waters strand; for the children to mms races or build castles on the sanda; or, if one was not disposed to such vigorous pare
Isis extimated that the picture At the fortnightly meeting of the times, to stroll along the beach and huat has depreciated in value to the ex-Sanitary Board hold yesterday afternoon for shell, sea-anemones, and other marine marvels, o, to gather feras and Bowens tent of £10.000. The repairs to it F. B.. L. Bowley called attention to
froca the nearest fillaide, returning to the the unsatisfactory systern. of refuse dia.
boas to enjoy a good tea and cruise posal in vogue in the Colony, and on his motion the Board adopted a resolution home in the gloaming, after having spent expressing the opinion that refuso wash-very pleasant two or three hours? Such The National Gallery and the Waled up on to the various foreshores should were the possible pleasure of life in the lace Collection have been closed he collected and burnt. until further notice.
Galleries Closed..
CHINA'S MINERÁL RESOURCES.
STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
LONDON, March 10.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Tim Healy put a long question in regard to
the concessions to China.
Mr. Acland, Under Secretary of
good old taxes before the days of sans- tary barges and ashes buoys,, but now things were very different. If bathers went westward, post Green Ealand to Launma, Pokfulam, or to Silvor Mines Bay, or the sands of Lantao, they had very likely to pass through mossca, of floating debris and, on swimming ashore, to find at high-water mark, instead of
Thowe present at the meeting were: The President of the Bourd (Mr. D.. W Tramar) in the chair), the Acting Vice President (the Hon. Mr. A. F. Churchilly Colonel Irwin, Dr. Fitzwilliams, Mr. F. B. Bowley, Mr. Ng Hom Tsz, Mr. Chan Kai Ming, Dr. Francis Clack Medical Officer of Health, Dr. W. W. Pearse (Assistant Medical Officer), and a-weed, ida-diells and sea anemones, a rotting mass of stable sweepings pep ME. W. Hamilton (Secretary) -
Mr: Bowley asked the following ques-pered wil dead case, bed onions and tions standing in his name:
How many of the sewer flushing tanks mentioned on page 23 and 24 of Mr. Osbert Chadwick's preliminary port on the sanitary condition of Hong-
pumelos skins the unrecorded exports. of one of the greatest shipping ports in the world. Sea-bathing bad boon the sub- jeci of much discussion in recent years, The Colonial Secretary, had advised all
artillery at a cost of £25,000,000 General Election before the 30th June State for Foreign Affairs, replied that kong dated 10th April, 1902, are now in phoolboys to learn to wwim; a body of i has risen from fifteen to thirty guins His Majesty's Legation had for the "peration?; and how many additional Son Sootits has been forined, and motor
sterling."
WAR AGAINST PLUMAGE.
Laxbox, Mar. 10.
In the House of Commons the ..second reading of the Bill pròhibiting the importation of plumage was car- ried by 207 votes to 15.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
A Puzzling Bliuation.
LONDON, Mar. 10.
within a week,
LATER.
Date of Resumption of the Debate.
The second reading of the Home Rale Bill will probably be resumed on
the 30th inst.
boats were multiplying. The waters of dushing tanks are now in operation for the Calary had been scoured far and wide, last eleven years taken, and would con- the City sewers?
for desirable bathing beaches caly to tinue to take, avery opportunity of (11.) In the sport shove mentioned Mr. and in a good many cases that the sui impressing upon Chins the necessity, Chadwick offered to consider the quotary coolies had been there fast. This in their own interests and those of further when a compléte plan of the the refuse of the city was dumped and |tion of fushing the storm water drains
nuisance was of recent growth. Formerly China, of developing the mineral re drains was bafore hum, footnote states burnt at what was now known sa Kennedy sources in accordance with the Mackay that the plan was then (in 1902) being Town and thus: talom over in junks, to Trenty. The Imperisi Government, prepared was such plan, prepared and Gin-drinkers'. Bay, where it was deposited having considered the question of mail submitted, to Mr. Chadwick ? if not, why on high-water mask and burnt. But it way and industrial development in the
not?: if yes, what further recommende
was found that in calm weather, when
Yangtze, and the claims to which their fiom did he submit?; and to what extent there wino wind, many..the dust boat |
predomionat commercial and economic interests there entitled them to, a com› munication to that effect had been
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THE MEXIOAN CRISIS.
did not reach Gin-drinkers Bay, but emptied themselves in some mysterious. LONDON, March 10.
(i) Is the water of nullabe used for tico en route rather lima go all the The case mentioned yesterday that made to the Chinese Government. Aditing the storm water drains bé, re-way to Gin-drinkers, and soything that The alleged Russian warlike inten- Bir Cecil Spring Rics had ordered to regards the working of the mines and commended by Mr. Chadwish not could anat returned and deposited itmit dious, says Reuter's Berlin corres-be investigated is that of the Roer ex-industries covered by the Szechuan why
on the foreshores at the harbour. In was given prominence to in an article leader, Mr. Bayman, locally called Charter, the 'Imperial Government wat drains been filled up recommended by the tides and the currants, and it was HJMONADE for me. Yes and that's what we've
(ir.) Have all unnecessary storm water røder to remedy tale i watchs was seb, pu pondent, towards Germany, which
in the Foel ische, is. beginning to be "General" Enyman.
the chief topic of public discussion,
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got and not only that it's WILKINSON'S be one and only GENUINE TANGAN on the
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on getting the Genuine Article in future.
awaiting a communication from Chian: as to whether they would make iny Mr. Chadwick? found that rubblak, dumped 16 the
(4.) What mess extat of fushing and Ashes" buoy near Cow-es-Chow fresh offer of compensation for the The Berliner Tageblatt declares A List of Sixty-Three Outrages. cancellation of the concession. City in the dry season? and what steps point was selected for the esse
cleansing the store water drains of the no wished back to harbour, and the that Germany and Austria have too
arrangement could be made with Chius
dumped Asteem launch i'and Tong yielded to Russian menace, and In the Senate, Mr. Fall, a Republican for the modification of the original are being taken in the day passem to any further encroachment must be Senator, read a list of 63 outrages contract, or an exchange for another flush and cleanse such drains?
Larges ware sequired to tak contract, the Imperial Government(),What officer or officers are now
out to this spoo sad du The Lokalanzeiger as that the which had been committed on could see no objection thereto instead in charge of (a) the maintenance and persistent poisoning Russian Americans in Mexico, and urged the of pressing the claim for compensation (b) the cleansing of (1), the wors and gue
(2) the storm water
of the City for the opinion against Germany may ulti-use of American forces to protect
oh what staff se employed for sacose, ing Sta mately result in the exhaustion of foreigners.
•works }} Germany's patience.
15(viL) When was the covered nullah forerbors
met with an absolute veto.
A telegram from St. Petersburg states that an offeïal communique denies that f. Pourtales or any member of the German Embassy in in any way connected with the Roel- nische article,
-President Huerta's Order,
President Huerta hastalı
order to all Federal som manders in the field to begin an
The Times, in an editorial on the not-Russian campaign in Germany, says that the net that the agitation the rebels in the nort
ution that
from Jast
AMERICAN LABOUR TROUBLES.
LONDON, Mar. 10. Three hundred deputy sheriffs (vi) (says & telegram from Sacremento), water drain Armed with pickaxe handles, fought six hundred of the unemployed, an
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