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WAR MATERIAL FOR THE FEDERALS.
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HOME RACING.
THE OAKES STAKES.
Probable Starters and Jockeys
LONDON, May 28. Bautor's correspondent at Vera Cruz
Losbos, May 29. tates that the Basuria landed 2,000,- The probable starters and jockeys 000 cartridges at Puerto Mexico, and for the Oakes (5,000 soys.; for three. also 3,000 rolls of barbed wire for the year-old fillies foaled in ipit; st.; "Federals, who are jubilant The nominator of the winner 400
also believed that the 'piranga laniled an entire of war material,
LONDON. May 29,
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An Interesting Flan.
A telegram from Niagara'states that it in understood that the Mediators and Delegates are considering
piza for the transfer of she executive power of
sident, acceptable to all factions and who will be assisted by a Commission
sovs., second 200 sors, third 100 Mown. I about one tilg and a half; 303 entries) are as follows: --
THE PROPOSED SHIPPING
AMALGAMATION,
GREECE BUYING AMERICAN WARSHIPS.
LONDON, May M.
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MESSRS. WATSON &
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ANNUAL MEETING.
The Mutes.
SPORTING E
TUG-OF-WAR MATCH.
110 Stona Tham Tug-of-War Thu 29th annual dinney general meet 87th Co. R.GA and D.C.LI. was held all over, bost of 9 pulls, between ing of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Coat Happy Valley at 6p. last ovoning Ltd., was held this morning at the before a fairly good number of specta Hongkong Hotel. There were also pre to, and resulted in a win fer, the sent: Mr. J. D. Humphrey, in the D.C.LI. with two straight pulle, each
pull inating just over four minutes. D.C.L.I. started to go back steadily insh by inca until 7 men of the B.G.A. were
Col. O'Hara 'started the foam. The
few of their king drawing heaves which settled the matter, the anchoe man of the B.G.A. finding hinwelf the wrong
over the ling." The Cornwall's then tried
LONDON, May 28, The British India Stenmahip Com-chair, Dr. J. W. Noble, Mr. J. A. Tar tah. (secrataty), Muss. J. A. B pany announces that if the amalgama Sayer, D. E. Clack, F. Maitland, J. tion with the Peninsular and Oriental Wong, E. Seth, G. Hogg, F. T. Chapple, Steamship Company is confirmed, Lord | L. Guy and Capt. Rolfs Inclape will be appointed a managing er moving the adoption of the director of the latter company.
repors the Chairman said: The noecunts show an ingreased proät over 1813 of $17,330,30. That this increase has been
to line. After rest of five coincident with a reduction of stocks of minutes, the terms got on the rope again. nearly $30,000, i«.. I think you will agree. Tha R.G.A, now showed how hard they higirly satisfactory. We paid during had trained for the event, and appeared La Marquise (H. Jones), Was-
1918 $02.27.4 in mortgages and ad- an if they would gain some ground bud silissa (E. Huxley), Sunny (Prout), A telegram from Washington states vares, as stated in the report, and re the opponents still maintained the Miss Tents (F. Templeman). Lan- that the Secretary for the Sary, Mr.duced our local and general liabilities in training draw on the rope, which ap easter Lady (Donoghue). Arlette (F Committee of the Senate a proposal to withstanding an unusually large expendi R.G.. turning they appeared to gain Daniels, has submitted to the Naval the East and Americs by $25,346.19, not pours to be thrie speciality. On the Bullock), Sunwin (Wing), Glorvins all the battleships Idaho, and ture on new machinery and 3 an advantage, but the D.CL.I. turned General Huerta to a provisiona: Pre Rickaby), Saughty Girl (fellise), Misisippi" to a forsign Power,which launch. The item ea in bank shows with them, and proved the stranger on Belle Rollason). Santo is understood to be firmacs-for the an increase of $6,275.00. The loss on the turn. With two men to go over the Pretty Quarunta (Whulley), Curandtin original cost.
subsidiary coin amounted to $18,836.32ing the R.GA. made a brilliant effort Mr. Daniels, in a speech, said she Piper), Valice (Walter Griggs), vessi were only vesful for harbour chanel, with the approval of the consult to he denied and the signal went "all During the year under review, we pur recover, but the Crawall's were not Torchlight (Stern), Dolabelli (Clark), defence, and the proceeds would almosting committee, No. 1. Queen's Road Doly Tirl (Speur), Louvence (Saxby),.) suffice to build an additional Dread-Wash, and have since shifted our West wer. Sweetest Melody „(Est), Princess nought.
Paint branch there. The landlord of our of South Afries for two years before comf The D.C.LX. hold the Championship
Dorie (W. Huxley), Her Indyship
ob premises was continually putting uping to the station, heating the Wit our rent, and we bought No. 18 in selfshire Regiment, who had an unbroken Foy), Unsentel W. Smigtle).
defence. The parebao was subject to the verd for years and who since their existing mortgage of $13.000 at 7 per estarn to Engled bare won the Army cent.. which we expressed a wish to pay and Navy Championship at the Royal LONDON, May 29.
'off, but the moftzugess, refused to accept Army and Navy Tournament. Baron Henri Neufville and Baronpayment. When. however, it expires 1 Robert Neufvile, hende of the famous in September next; v
Their conch and trainer is Sergt. Paris bank bearing their name, have and hold this property nencumbered thought of Tug-of-War of today, said
shall pay it off. Roskelly, who, when asked
what bo been arrested on a charge of frandulea: The present year, 4 far as is as gone that the bit style of straight-back-and- bankruptcy The abilities are stated shears an increase in the mint of busi-best-arm, hear are out of date; sise- news done as compared with the onere signalling by the sad had become & ponding period of 1913, and it certainly science, which every inn in the taam
xik if the future has in stem-
mură destytand; and a good, tesen manat eru of prosperity for the Company.
be able to pull in the dark, Bo thought The adoption of the report. moved the R.G... n fue team and a greatly on the chair and weonded by Mr.improved one, and were well trained sad Chappel. was carried.
had a good future before them. -Con- tributed.
consisting of four members of the Cabides, who would prepare the now plections
Munitions from Japan,
A telegram from Washington atatze that it is rumoured that a consigment of munitions from Japan is due t port on the west coast of Mexico, and it is believer that the Japanese cruiser Idzumo," which has been at Mazatlan has gone down the coast,
INDISPOSITION OF THE KAISER.
!!
Losnos, May 29.
A great parade, which was so have saken place at Potsdam, has been poes. poned awing, it is reported, to thei Kriter having caught a cold:
LATER.
A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE.
Losnos, May 10.
A telegram from Sydney states that a violent earthquake shock, lasting three hours, was recorded by seismograph on the morning of the 20th inst. The earthquake is supposed to have occur. red near Tonga, one of the Friend's Islands,
100 AIRSHIPS AT SALISBURY PLAIN.
PARIS BANK SENSATION.
∙Liabilities £500,000.
to amount to half a million sterling
SIR E. CARSON IN WALES:
LONDON, May 20.. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Mountain Ash, South Wales, said that he gloried in the landing of 85,000 rifles in Ulster. He also said that if Mr. Asquith advised the King to sign the Home Rule Bill, with the peerminty that loyal Ulstermon must be coerced, he would be acting like
critairal.
Luxbox, May 2. Aeroplaties are concentrating at „Sadistory „Phine for the first air tuili-a HPY MARKOVIOS, It is expected that Another telegram from Berlin states | 1001 airships will participate.
Rumour Denied.
that it is officially denied that the Kaiser is indisposed. It is announced i that the parade hug been postponed towing to the cold weather,'
THE NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS.
LONDON, May 29. The Irish Party have given their odicial approval of the Nationalist volunteers,
VISCOUNT BRYCE.ON
CHINA.
LONDON, May 28.
ALBANIAN TROUBLE
Squadron To Visit DurazEO,
LONDON, May 29.
A telegram from Duazzo states that the Austro-Hungarian squadron, at present at Melte, will visit Valons and Durazzo,
(Wah Taz Yat Po's Service.)"
CANTON'S PROVINCIAL AT MINISTRATOR.
PERING, May 28.
Li Kwok Kwan, who is a grand nephew of the lata Li Hung Chang, has been appointed Provincial Admini Viscount Bryce, (formerly Britishstrator at Canton. Ambasador at Washington), was the guess at the dinner of the Central
A kian Society, and gave bis impressions
of his recent travels, Siberia, he said.
Parliamentary Oficials.
Lai Un lung, Vice-President of the was being steadily settled, and within | Republic, will become President, and
&EX or TO BEY
BANKRUPTCY COURT.
Absent Back Compradors.
Previous busking Mr. Clark to move the re-election of the auditors at, a re maneration of $700, the Clisimman said the he wou'd like to say a few word«. the auditors had for many years past | been in reeipt of 2500 a year. A few
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AN OUTRAGE AT TAI CHAU
CEO.
days to they sent in en letter request- ing that their remuneration' should, be increnseil, as the work was very heavy. From the village of Tai Chan Cho in the There was ♬ doubt that" Watson's audit New Territory comes the story of An wer one of the largest if not the largiat armed robbery on a fishing boat. Early in "Hongkong. The act of letail on Wednesday morning while it was still why
the dark and the fishing bant was at agehor on enormous. my cupied
the foreshore at Tai Cha Cho, two other The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gompactz full works of the auditors time. Under boats draw alongside and made frut Five sat in Bankruptcy Jurisdiction in the those remnstances the general manaman boarded the tehing bosh, seizing the
master and stealing, hi
and purse girdlo Supreme Court yesterday nitaruoan. Mul the consulting committee re- A. E. Carpanel attended Official commended that the inerva be granted. containing cart They then facced
him into the bold and Mr. Clark proposed and Mr. Seth
nailed down the Receiver,
His foki, who was on hard, ha sesandra dhas JP: F, MMTUisut und Mr. AND
and assaulted.. > of the | H.. Brown, A.61.3., be re-elected auditors miscreants was armed with a
opper, and at an annual meration of $700, which the others had their fates hidden was approved.
bebind handkerchiefs. While one of the [ robbers kept watch, the rest of the men went to the matter's house and, kicking the door, demanded of his wife where the pigs were. Being able to locate the pig, they stole two geims and a pair of brown cotton trousers, valued together at 83,8), The women raised the alarm, and the men rushed to their boats and escaped in the darkness,
ADS TO INDIA.
The hearing of a petition by a credito was asked for ogsinet Chesing Pni Kai formerly compradore to the Mercantile Bank's local branch.
Mr. D. Lesis appeared for the petition. ing creditor, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin for the attorney of the debtor.
Mr. Lewis explained that the previous avening he received a letter from Mr. Gardiner, who was acting on behalf of Mr. Alim Khan. The petitions served under an order made by his Lordship. Mr. Alim Khan had the power of
the letteri
zi wa tha biashaws,
THE STEAMER FINNY.
Sequel to the Gun-Roaring,
Two torpedo craft were sent out fron
come under
AMERICA CUP.
The Defending Yachts..........
in Hangkong for the debtor, and Kiel to inquire into the business of s rition by Me. Gardiner asked if he (Mr. steamer which had been lying of the ould consent to an adjourment island Fehmarn without any obvious of the hearing of the petition so that bis purpose, and bed sa client could get into communication with picion of practicing espionage. It was the debtor. He gathered from Mr. Gardiner found that the ressed had borne a Dulch เล
debtor was in the North-west Provinces of India.
name on her stern, and a Russian name
New York; May 4.., Mr. Jenkin said an endeavour had been on her bat, but that both had been The exccessful launching of the America made to get into touch with the debtor and painted over. As the captain stated that Cup defence candidats Resilute and the letter beam at ones or extend the he had no papers, the steamer was search have awakened Americans to the fact that
had been sent to him in India, ask-
ürat test, bold At Bristol, Rhode Island. scope of the power of attomey so thated, and was the found to be the Fancy, the great international contest to decide the attorney could oppose the petition. which had returned from her gun running the yachting surrency of the world is Bir Hban Wax advised that the present expedition to Ireland, and was being of three American boste to be launched
rapidly power of attorney was not wide enough for restored to her normal condition.
approaching. •Resolute in
| Wong Ta Shi, Vice-Presi-lent of the ling
Petroleum Discovered.
discovered in Shemsi province.
An excellent petroleum weil has been
The Tutuhs Going.
him to appose bankruptor processings.
in the meantime Mr.
and
WAS meeting Inegulating with creditors and that day
bad
SAFETY OF ST. PAUL'H.
I settled a claim of 80,000 by Mr. Lam mort The only debts were debts of this description. In the
the interesta of justice he an adjograman that debtor
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the
which will Bght for the honour of meeting Sir T. Lipton's challenger Shamrock V next Sipfamhen A five-mile run down wind yesterday demonstrated to all that Resolute is an especially fast bost in light *inds. Her trial was a severe one under An early decree is expected from the might be apprised of the position. laying of the foundation stone of St. Paul'sib topil. President abolishing the office of Tutuh There was nothing in his being in the Cathedral, and it is expected that a great completed for yndicate of New York, Fone 21 "will be the anniversary of the full xil, including a big sab and.
tupenil
throughout China.
Defiance, which in Until west Provinoce
now bring of 'India; he had ant absconded. Deltor was formerly com Masonic service will be bold in the Boston, and Philphia rachtsmen, is pradore at the Mercantile Bank and his cathedral during the following week in launched on May 19, sad Vanitie a little position there την Taite
all right; there support of the Cathedral Preservation later, ameful compurisons cannot be made. were no defalcations at all.
Fund.. place for Chinese to go to, don't you think,ay include the Merchant Taylors marer on June 2, and are. Awaited
already yachtsmen here, His Lordship-It is a rather strange
however, The chief subscribers during the last pick Resolute as the altimete defender of The elimination test modes.com- province of India
thirty or forty years the population Chan Yi-ut (Parliament, ) probably would be quadrupled. Re- -ferring to Chins, he said never' was there a stranger thing in the world'e history than the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty without au voior being lifted in support. that it had been replaced by a republic in an effective sense was farcical. Yuan «'-Shib-ksí might keep going so long as he had money to pay the troops, but who would come after if the Central Government collapsed? They might,
Sir Richard Dane has explained that ane China broken up into separate principalities, as was the case 2,000 went agater for the sale of calt as the years ago. This would mesa great merchants wished to raise their prices. bloodshed and a dislocation of trade, As the rohants are now not to persistent he advises the abolition of the present systems at an early date
The Powers should support the Centre! Government as affording the best chance of future peace.
FINLAND AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
Russia's Arbitrary Action.
LONDON, May 29 telegram from Helsingfors states that as a sequel to the triumphs return of the famous runner Kolek, mainen from Amerios, the Rosie a Government has decreed that Finland will not be allowed to participate in Bite'own'namo,
The Finnish! Olympic Committee will probably be dissolved,
The Salt Administration.
the cap
ie opposed the cancellation of the pre- the north-why, my Lord i. There are, Company, 1,050; the Goldsmiths Camkeen interest dr. Charles Fa
THE SALT-REVENUE,
FERINO, March 29,
Mr. Jenkin
Chiness there and he may have gone on pany, 500 the London County and business. If he rrally wanted to abscond
seed only have gone into Chins. M. Westminster Bark, £500; Mears. Lazand has been told that he went there and Company. 105: the Bank of Aus private business
tralasia, £100; and Martin Bank Ltd.), for six 252 2037
The hearing
Among the collections resucitly redoyed www.cas taken on board his Majesty's The Official Beceiver said that this whip Vanguard Tang Ng applied for discharge. The aarplus from the salt revenue,
an adjourned application. Debtor, son- after meeting the foreign, loan instalented to judgment for $900, and be would
ask his Lordship to grant the application
ment, is stated to be Tie. 13,000,000. on those terms. The petitioning creditor That the Kaiser, of all people shoul
Adams
a
of Boston. will Revolte. He is graduate of Harvard University, and comes for his great-great grandfather was Prom from a long line of prominent Americans, dent Jobu adams, wora pacce
wacceeded: George Washington - his great grandle her was the its nited States President, Jatin Quincy Fancis Alling Ualled Bates Minabuy" ter Adama; and: hin grandfather was - Charlen
Great Briti
** Mr. Adacos, owes moet of bis- szpart Tachting knowledge to English training. ∙la 1989 he went to Biglanit, and was takau
bught him $21. season's sport and ready abroad did more Mr Adams an apost ratanding of gushting than anything
This includes the amounts collected up agreed to this course. Debtor, who was a be: crificiard, by nationaliaise and grim- bythebad by your, hospitable comtntryman),
to March 19. Bit Richard Dane, the gaszautor, wished to be discharged so that marians for the quality of the Harman Belt Commissioner, is reported to he he could enter into contracts, pleased at the prospettoCIAL CUSTOM.
ANOTHER BIO LOANDAN
The discharge was granted.
inliis farewell latter sto Stätialtar of
The Emperor foun
・is well known
In the case of Foong Tal the hang of me the petition was asked for
o
Mr. Book who supeared for the bioning creditor,aid that the Perixa, May 29,
Receiver had come to the It is stated that the second, late the use should be adjourand Joan for £25,000,000, for which the weaks, And he agreed to Chinese Government is negotiating of the position of the catal
they would will be completed mocessfally within
The Offold the next few days.
chief managing
have
void 'confusion and daisy
ibed by one. follow" (he, ichty:
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