INTIMATION.
abolished, that their stall-ronts be lessened, or that they themselves be permitted to clare jn this trade beyond market bounds. Careful study of the minutes appended to a translation of this remarkable document,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 25th, 1901
The now Russian, cruiser Gromsboy arrived in Plymouth Bound on Saturday, the 2nd ult., from Kief, and after cooling proosaded to Vay divostok, whither she is now op hug way.
TELEGRAMS.
DAILY PRESS" SERVICE:
by the fomise of the Queen Empress, Victoria of everlasting memery
GALNARDO, Governor."
It was understood at Bingapore early this THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN. the English peoplo in their dolour by the death
A. S. WATSON & CO., printed in extense in our report of the mouth that the Government had received in-
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formation that their Highness the Duke and Duchess of York were due there about the middle of April. This was of course before the death of Her Majesty. It is not known yet how this event will affect arrangements.
The Globe makes the following comment on the behaviour of the Ministry with regard to China:-There is nothing in the attitude of Ministers to inspire confidence or to suggest that they have the slightest appreciation of the magnitude of the issues at stake in the Far East.
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LONDON, 3rd January, 8.5 p.m.
UNIVERSAL MOURNING. Mourning over the Queen's death is uni versal, and business is at a standstill. The Press of the whole world pay the highest tribute of respect to the late Queen,
KING EDWARD VII.
The King took the oath of accession at a
With the greatest rotat prevent to your Excellency the expressions of my deep griot, and in the name of this colony I accompany all of Her Gracions Majesty the Queen Empres GOVERNOR of Mabao." For us as representing this colony it but mains humbly to lay at the foot of their Majesties, whom God protect, our expressions of loyal condolence, and for that purpose I pro- pass the following resolution: `·.
"That the members of this Connell have hoard with profound sorror the sad annonce ment of the death of Her Majesty the Queen, and desire humbly to express thele most heart felt, loyal, and respectful sympathy with their Majesties and the Royal Family in their boreavement.
The Queen uns gone down to the grave full of years, honour, and renown. She has gone down to smid the tears of her people. She will long live in their mosueries, he will long have a ruured place in their hourts of hours Lot to hemy trust that her ton, on whese, her royal muntis now fails, will receive in an equal degree with her the blessing of God and will prove in every way worthy of the splendid example, set him by». so great and so good a Queen,
her
last Board meeting, shows that there is an inexplicable diversity of opinion on this
1 ATTORNEY GENERAL (the Hen W. highly urgent subject of market space. Mr.
Meigh Goodman, QC) said May it please your Lordship, replying on behalf of the LADOS, despite his lengthy local experience, frankly favours the petitioners, and would
members of the Bar in lis colony, I desire to assure your Lordship of our entire coueurrenes have these shop-liconces rescinded, unsqui-
in the sentiments of profound sorrow at the vocally affirming that the markets are amply
death of our revered Queen, to which you have given sach eloquent expression. The reign of sufficient to deal with all phases of food
her rast personal influence WAN SO
Majesty was so prolonged and so beneficent, constantly supply. The Hon. Director of Public Works, who is also President of the Board, is much
The Hon. C. P. CHATER Mid-Your Excel. exerted for good, her life was so noble, that lency, as the Senior Unofficial Member of the her position, even mong sovereigns, was more diplomatic; and, without either ad-
personality so venerated and so beloved has mitting or denying that the buildings at our Lord Salisbury is landly eyalet, Lord Lans meeting of the Privy Council at St. James's Coanoll, the sad task lies upon me to formally unique. Hard it is, indeed. to reslite that s disposal are too small for our needs, thinks / downe has not been long enough at the Foreign Palace to-day. He announced that in ac-cond the humble expression of our grief which pasted sway, all suddenly, as it seems to u
Tour Excellency has proposed. Little could we but she has gone from as full of years and › 12.96 13 92 that any possible pressure on oxisting space Office to get to the map of China, and Mr. Bal-cordance with his beloved mother's wish he have thought but one short week ago that no onours, and has left behind her memory
'supposes" this and "supposes" that, in can be effectively controlled by the judicious the best style of official rescience. The Cabinet allotting of outside shop licences. The have long since voted the China question to be ... 18.60 19.20 protainent and undisguisible fact that, a hore, and they are not likely to have changed
at the present moment, every available their minds by February. stall in the markete of the Colony is bandsomely let, seems to render nugatory, and even to stultify, alike the statements of the petitioning tradesfolk and Mr. LADDS' minute thereto; while, at the same time, it gives both sharper point and added weight to the contention of Dr. CLARK and others, that increased market space ranks as one of our most pressing needs. There appears to have been unexpected difficulty in the proper supervision of these shops with fresh pork licences; accordingly, after discussion, the Board has recommended the Govern-reside within the palace walls, live luxuriously, meat to let the licences lapse without re- and dress expensively at the cost of the Civil newal. Meantime, they urge the building List, it appears more comprehensible.
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These CLARETS are bought direct from the leading French. growers. The lowest priced are of exceptional value and guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juke of the grape, and are not artificially made us is generally the case with cheap
Wines.
of makeshift matsked markets on un.
The yearly expenses of the Household of the Sultan of Jebore have been estimated at no les a eum than six million sterling. Of this a million and a half alone is spent on the clothing of the women of the barem, aut £6,000 on the Sultan's own wardrobe. Nearly another mit lion and a half is swallowed up by presents, a million goes for pocket-money, and still another million for the table. It seems incredible, says the Straits Times, that so much money can possibly be spent in a year by one man, but when it is remembered that some 1,500 people
The survey vessel of the Indian Marine
service sestigator has just began to trawl on the Indian Coast at Caddalore and Point Cali- mere. Copt T. H. Henning, R. N., who com
occupied Crown property, in such centres of native population as stand most in want of TOUR CARNET then. We heartily commend this emin- CHATEAU LA CHATEAU RAUZAN, and CHATEAU ently sensible step, and trust the Governmands her, states that the depth of the coast in LAFITE are commended to the notice of mont will lose no tune in carrying out the Connoisseurs as high-class after-dinner suggestion. No great outlay would be in- Wines of a rich and rare character.
Smaller quantities and Sample bottles will be supplied at proportionate wholesale
rutes.
We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports,
curred-a few hundred dollars at most; while, as an offset, an immediate income in the shape of monthly rent would accrue to the Treasury coffers. As anyone
those parts varies from 600 to 1,000 fathoms and some interesting specimens have been se- cured in her nets though the catches were not so good as on previous occasions. In dishes, a very interesting specimen was obtained at a depth of 1,100 fathoms Chiasmodus niger,
would assume the title of Edward the Beventh. He respectfully desired to leave the memory of his father's name of Albert as the exclusive treasure of his beloved mother.
FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS. Parliament meste to-morrow to take the oath of allegiance, The Royal Proclamation will be promulgated to-morrow.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 21st January,
THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS. The bulletin issed at 8 am. said that the Queen's strength was diminishing and her condition was again nasuming & more serious sapoot,
Losvos, 2nd January,
The bulletin issued at 4 p.m. yesterday said that the Queen was slowly sinking.
LATRE.
The Queen is dend.
MOURNING FOR THE LATE QUEEN.
In a Government Gasette Extraordinary oir
data blow was falling on berlate Majesty'ssabonshrined in the hearts of her people. justs, or that losing.
Mr. J. J. FRANCIS, Q.C., said-I desire to its august and beloved Queen. It is not for us now to dwell upon her royal worth as a non-press my respectful concurrence in all that arch, her thoughtfulares, her vere, ber soll has been so admirably said by His Lordship the Chief Justice and by the Attorney-General on eltade for her people. These things the past behalf of the profession, and to thank him for has verified to all, and the history of the future having so fully expressed our sentiments AS can only prove yet more and more the immeII – sity of our loss. To their Majesties the King the senior member and the actual, although not and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and the official, leader of the local bar, I crave per- the Royal Family wo tender, in the words of mission from your Lordships to address you ou the resolution, our most heartfelt, loyal, and this melancholy occasion, and to add a few words, on behalf of the practising members, to what respectful sympathy, and if what we say to-day has fallen from the learned Attorney-General. can lighten, though but for a moment, their Bet fret, I orave leave, as the solitary repre burden of sorrow, we, Sir, may venture to hope sentative among the members of the higher that we shall not hore spoken altogether in branch of the profession here, of the Irish race Tain. I beg to second your Excellence's re- and of the Roman Catholic community, to give
solution.
The Hon. Dr. Ho Kai said-Sir, as the re-expression to the love and respect and venera- presentative on this Council of the British tion with which Her Most Gracious Majesty Chinese subjects and the Chinese comminuity was and always will be regarded by Boman Catholics of all nationalties, from His Holiness of this colony, I and my college desire to the Pope downwards. No more fervent prayma azprom, on their behalf and on behalf of our selves, our entire concurrence with the seat. will second to hearon on behalf of Her Majesty ments which have been expressed by your Ex- and for the repose of her soul than will be cellency and by the Honourable the Senior poured forth by Her Majesty's Catholip subjects Unofficial Member. In the sad death of our Throne is a duty most strenuously enforced on from the highest to the lowest. Loyalty to the well-beloved and much-respected Queen, we
every member of the Catholic Church. In have sustained a great and irreparable loss Her Majesty's case that spirit of loyalty to the -We feel that we have not only lost a just Lugtist, and mighty Covereign, but also a kind Throne has only served as a basis to support and strengthen, to give force and consistency, and affectionate Mother, whose parental care
to the deep personal respect and veneration on has for more than half a century east a mantle
the part of her Catholic subjects of which Her of protection and peace over na and bar is late most Gracious Majesty has always been the land home. No part of the British Empire could feel the dreadful loss we have just us, object. The personal loyalty of Irishmen to tained more than this Far Eastern colony, and the Sovereign has always been conspicuous, the few contemptible exceptions only making sene in this isle could mourn her loss more the loyalty of the vast majority the more con- than her loyal Chinese subjects inhabiting it spionous. I rejoice that Her Majesty had in shores, sosing that this colony was born as
the last year of her life suck convincing proofs were in Her Majesty's reign, and brought up of that loyalty and devotion, in the valour of through the necessive stages of infancy and
can testify who has ever walked through a fish about 2 in. in length, whose character-calated yesterday morning there was published childhood under her fostering and wutokful | her Irish soldiers in South Africa, so frequent-
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a Government Notißestion to the following bigger than itself! Specimens of the fish have been caught in the North Atlantic, soo.
With deepest grief the Governor has to an fue collection of Holthurias was also made, as
nounce that Her Majesty the Queen passed well as Echinoids; poraba (Flebellus); Tunicates away at 6.30 p.m. on the 22nd instant, His worms, and a variety of crustaces. A large Excellency requests that the inhabitants of Echinoid was captured at the greatest depth the Colony will wear mourning for a time to the trawl was used in. There is a similar speci. be specified in a futare Gazette. men in the Calcutta Masenn, but it is a broken
care, and that we, Her Majesty's Chinees sutely and gratefully acknowledged by Her Ma- jects, ove our liberty, security, wealth, and Jesty in her own gracious and considerate happiness, and indeed our all, to her wise and fashion, and in the entislaam with which she was received in Ireland during her last visit benefloent rule. Truly, to us the loss is woo
to that country "Nowhere will the death fully great, and our sorrow and grief are proof Her Majesty he mors deeply felt and portionately profound. I regret, Sir, that in a great national calamity and afficion of this more sincerely regretted than in the ranks nature, our hearts are too full and overwhelmed of her Irish Regiments. Nowhere will her muny virtues be more highly appreciated to give appropriate expression to our sorrow, or and her loss more genuinely felt than in the to convey to those who, on account of natural tios, aro even more afflicted than we are, an
the time when either of the two chief daily meals is taken, the relief that such extra markets must inevitably effect would be most pronounced and most welcome. This done, and the stringency of existing A. S. WATSON & CO. market areas being thereby experimentally
more permanent buildings should be actively one, whereas the one secured by the Investigator | OUR LATE QUEEN-EMPRESS. sincere condolence. We can only say that we great Queen. Yes, My Lords, a great Queen
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On the 16th January, 1901, at Shanghai, HAR- RIET MARY, the beloved wife of Robert E. NELSON, R.N., aged 65 years.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD Cl. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
HONGKONG, 25th January, 1901-
Ir is over three months ago since we wrote in these columns of the extremely limited
is intact and a very large one,
Preparations for the national commemoration PUBLIC REFERENCES YESTERDAY. The Portuguese gunboat Zaire arrived from of Alfred the Great were proceeding busily in THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PASS
England about Christmastide. At a meeting Macao yesterday.
A novel soheme of amusement for bicy clists is proposed at Shanghui. It is the hold- ing of a paper haut on bicycles, the riding of which will be confined to Chinese-paths,
A Memorial Service will be held in St. John's Cathedral on the morning of the day of the funeral of her late Majesty, Queen Victoria The service will be choral. There will also be a service in Chineso in the evening.
The time of Her Majesty's death as officially
p.m., as our London correspondent's telegram
the verliest telegrams received in the colony announcing the death was dated "January 22 8.6 p.m." that is twenty-five minutes, if not forty, before the event took place.
of the executive committee at the Mansion House it was announced that the Queen hud
A VOTE OF CONDOLENCE. His Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry been graciously pleased to scoept two copies of Blake. G.C.M.G.) convened a special meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council for yesterday the photograph of the plaster cast of the colos afternoon for the purpose of submitting a fote sal statue, measuring some 17ft, which has
of condolenes in connection with the death of been exsented by Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, the Queen-Empress. There were present H.E. and-which is now in the hands of the founders the Governor, H.E. Major-General Gascoigne to be cast into bronze. It was also announced 0.M.G. (Commanding the Troops), the Hon. J. that the British Museum authorities had de H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G. (Colonial Secre finitely signified their intention of holding an
tury), the Hon. A: M. Thomson (Colonial Tren exhibition of objects pertaining to the King surer), the Hon. R. D. Ormily (Director of Alfred period at the British Museum during Public Works), the Hon. Basil Taylor (Aoting the early part of the ensuing summer, when Harbour Master), the Hon, C. P. Chater, C.M.G.,
at
houses of the Irish people, whether in Ireland adequate sense of our heartfelt sympathy and or elsewhere. She was a good woman and sincerely mourn with those that mourn and as well as a good Queen, and as such the world weep with those that weep, and that our united first and kugland ultimately, will hail her and earnest prayer will ever be May God bless Victoris the Great snit Good. Of her good and comfort Their Majesties and metabers of ness there is no doubt, All acknowledge it in the Royal Family in their sore distress and their various ways and from their defferent points of view. She was a pure, true woman, bereavement.
in all things womanly. As maid, as wife, a mother, she was above and beyond reproach, No stain of any kind rests upon her life or character. In her widowhood she was beyond praise.
His EXCELLENOY asked the Council to rise as showing sympathy with the resolution.
This was done; indeed all present rose, and the Council then adjourned sine die,
His Excellency, the Colonial Secretary, and the Senior Unofficial Member adjourned to another room to draft the telegram to be des patched to the Colonial Office.
In her relations with her people of all classes and grades she was most cordial
and sympathetic. Her heart went out to all suffering humanity. Bat was she Great? I say emphatically she was a great Queen ne wall as a good Queen, better deserving of the title than any to whom it has ever been given, and day by day her trao greatness will be more fully and fairly recognised as we come to learn more of her life and of her work.
AT THE SUPREME COURT. In response to an invitation issued by the Chief Justice (Sir John Carrington, C.M.G.) the members of the legal profession in Hong. Kong attended at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon to show their respect for the memory But enongli is known now to enable us to say of our late Sovereign. The Court of Arms above that she possessed all the elements, all the es sentials of greatness, in its best and treest
market space of the Colony. At the same reported was 6.30 p.m. on the end instant, time, we strenuously advocated the erection though the time on the announcement posted a few loans of articles of Saxon workmanship the Hon. Dr. Ho Kei, the Hon J. Thurbarn, the Chief Justice's seat was draped in bluck. On of a temporary matshed structure on un. up at the Mansion House was given as 8.45 will be accepted for exhibition... A letter was the Hon. J. J. Keswick, the Hon. R. M. Gray the bench wore sested the Chief Justice and the sense. She was grest in her devotion to duty. & day, unless when absolutely unable to work, Smith). On the bench below the Court were Jeased inad, in order to do away with the stated. It may have been noted that one of ƒ read from the Mayor of Southampton, con- the Hon. Wei A Tuk, and Mr. R. F. Johnston Aoting Puime Judge (the Hon, T. Servom Her successive ministers tell us that never for
Ranting to call a meeting early in the spring (Acting Clerk of Councils).
Southampton with a view to furthering the
Rented Mr. J. W. Norton Eyshe (Registrar), were her duties as a sovereign neglected or proposal for the navel display which it has boon the Council having been formally adopted as a
The minutes of the previous meeting of Mr. J. W. Jones (Acting Deputy Registrar allowed to fall into arrear. Her duties were and Appraiser), and Mr. J. Xavier (Acting numerous and important and she was only able. suggested should be sold in the Southampton correct record.
Deputy Registrar and Accountant. One end to get through them by great self denial and of the barristers' table was occupied by the At- self sacrifice, and self denial and wolf sacrifice Water during the week of the Cowes Regatta,
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR said-torn-y-General (the Hon. W. Aleigh Goodman, are the essentials of greatness whether in the which it is considered would form an eminently Honourable members of the Legislative Conn-Q.C.) and the other by Metsre, F. A. Hazeland, field or in the cabinet. She was the first fiting portion of the commemoration, when it cil, I bave summons you today to make to sad H H. J. Gomperta (Acting Police Magis truly constitutional Sovereign of Great Britain, at the Magistracy). The barristers occupied the who took as her Ministers and officers improved the build of ships, but was the has ever been nude during the existence of this front of the table and the solicitors were seated the nominees of the nation and hot her own a constitutional sovereign on which to modal" originator of the English Nary, A letter was colony-to announce to you that our revered behind them. In the jury box were seated, nominees. She had no previous example of written in support of the application of the and beloved Queen is dead. During a long Mr. Les d'Almada e Castro. (Second Clerk of
and other junior officers of the court. Mr. V. A role of Constitutional Sovereign and was the corporation of Winchester in their wish to ac- reign begun before any member of this Connell Court). Mr. J. &. Suffod (Registrar's Clerk) herself he Servated, if I may so speak," the quire a portion of the grounds of Wolvery was born, Har Majesty Queen Victoria, the Sales (Clerk and Usher) was in his usual place first to play it it was a great role and she Castle for the public.
purest and greatest monarch of historic times, alongside the jury box. The rest of the Court played it greatly. Her Majesty had grest natural ability and cultivated it to the most. was open to the general public.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, on taking his sent, said The extent of her knowledge astonished her Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Crown Saliciter: Ministers. She was a student to the last day havo invited you here to-day to pay respect to of her life. Ehe had sound judgment, grast the memory of her late Majesty Queen test, unfailing, knowledge of men and a strong
atrength of Victoris, and to testify our profound sorrow with your length of intellect and
the various local
some years ago.
devoted her life to the welfare of her coun-;
reason for taking such a step, because we here in
leah i much the
always, subservient to
how much England owes, bow
extensive illicit sale of uncured pork and fresh fish that goes on daily, to all practical intents and purposes unchecked, in many parts of the native quarters. This illegal open-air trade is alike detrimental to the
The Universal Gazette says that the peace buyer, who has no guarantee that the terms, that is the various subdivisions of the meat thins furtively sold is net diseused, and original twelve articles, have now been sub-is borne in mind that King Alfred not only you formally the saddest announcement that / trates) and Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne (First Clerk the first who knew no will but hor peoplos to the Government, which, with open eyes, mitted to the Chinese Commissioners by the neglects a splendid opportunity of legi- foreign representatives. Some days ago it was timately and easily increasing its revenue. noted that this presentation had been deferred Nothing however has been done to remedy owing to the illness of Li Hung-chang. We are now told that he has regained his usual what is, without the slightest, shadow of a doubt, a most disgraceful state of affairs. state of health, and that, after careful.com- ference with the Yangtze Valley Viceroyi, The community has recently been again he has finally given his assent to the twelve
Correspondence regarding the movement of the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements for try. Never was monarch more faithful, never forcibly reminded of the hopeless inade- articles.
wus monarch more beloved. In her letter reclassification and incrementa, te salaries was, quacy of its merket accommodation. At
To-night at the Theatre Pollard's Lilliputians laid on the table of the Council on the 8th inst the 27th January, 1893, when acknowledging the last Sanitary Board meeting, a peti- tion, addressed originally to His Excel. produce the charming innkice! comedy The Lady A committes has been appointed to consider in touching and noble words the expressions of Jency the Governor, was submitted from Stavey, in which Miss May Yohe, now Lady the matter, and a detailed scheme has yet to loyal and loving sympathy from all classes of at the newn of of her death. I think we have constitutional restraint. We simll not know the lessees of the fresh pork stalls in Francis Hope, played with success in London be submitted to the Secretary of Stats. The the empire on the occasion of the death of the this court stood to the Queen not only in the for many then was to that strong, patient-
mark is. It is not
To-morrow afternoon at 3.30 claim of the civil servants to consideration is Duke of Clarence, the Quesa wrote :-" My { ordinary rélation of her subjects, but we also artful woman, riving up all pjesadred 10% des
in the administration of the law, she being, in p.m, the last matinee will be given, here too based on the increased cost of living, oa the bereavemente, during the last 30 years of reign, stood to her in the relation of persons engaged performance of her dation, England has Great long since the vending of unsalted or
The Lady Slavey being the play selected. greater prosperity of the Colony, permitting have indeed beer heavy. Though the labours, the words of the old law book, the fountain of Brown from a kingdom to a Empile and
Ever since we took to the study of great Empire under her guiding hard. uncooked swine-flesh was illegal, except Parents should take advantage of this last of more liberal compensation allowances, on anxieties, and responsibilities inseparable from justice."
us, and I do not know myself how we shall be great cinquests erected in all belle enter
prise. Bhall not abs be caled truly great under within the walls of the public markets. Licen-matines to let their little ones see these clover the disproportion between the officers in the my position have been great, yet it is my the law the Queen's writ has been familiar to eeds have been done in it, great victories win, come. reconciled to the absence of her name whom and in whom maine all these great things ces for the sale of this class of meat have young performers. Children, amshs, and schools, lower classes of sppointments and these in earnest prayer that God may continue to
as well as soldiers and sailors, will be admitted the upper, and on the peculiarly hard position give me health and strength to work for the from our proceedings, This is not a time or have been done, and who dominated and con quite recently been granted to as many as
of the junior members of the service, who good and happiness of my dear country and place for me to pass a formal and elaborate trolled all the wise and good men by whom they
will only say were accompliabel, b
bing herself thirty-three outside shops-mainly tsáp fo at half price.
ends meet, cannot save ompire while bite lasts." And God has granted paaygerie upon the late Queen.
as in the
her and shiv lappá-in different parts of the city. According to the N.C. Daily News a Hang- cannot make both only their passage hour, her prayer, for to the last the Queen preserved Shie, that go for at my snowledge goes virado nos os diasm in his manifold knowledge. in line This essentially reasonable and business-like show despatch to hand at Shanghai states that and cannot hope to marry at a reasonably early dom and foresight which w✨always exercised of history there has been no sovereign who has was a grest life, greatly lived; an exalted pas those marvellous powers and byal gifts of wie illustrious as hers. Certainly in the whole range courage, in her energy and in her will? Here proceeding originated with the Hon. F. H. all guilty oflcars concerned in the Chichou MAY, presumably while he was Acting Col. Massacre in Chékiang last July seem to have
the Secretary of State in the main agree, in the interests of the peace progress of commanded in the same merenre the respect and tion, still further exalted and adorned by the admiration of the civilised world. I think pro manner in which the filled it, Royalty is a s odial Secretary, and was intended to relieve combined to lay the whole blame of the atro-
and suggests a comparison with the recent the world. And now the gracious monarch
whole range of history been no sovereign whe the acknowledged congestion in the markete, cities upon Pao, ex-Tactai of the said place, and scheme for salaries at Hongkong. He also of the greatest nation on earth; the perfect bably too it may be said that there hat in the anchor the dig at the eyes of her people as well as to reduce excessive prices. In make him a scapegoat for the lot. The inten directs that the position of the cadets in the Queen, the stainless wife, the devoted mother has won to the same extent the respect admira came to the throne and because of her. Kingly The Queen is dead, int the Throne is more colid, more durable, more respected, more powerful, terested stall-holders, however, from the tion of the Governor (Yün Ten-yi) therefore, Native States should receive special considers has entered into her rest crowned with the tion, and love of her people as Queen Victoris rule is taken from a new lease of life,
Laurente said of her
moze demstitutional than ever it was before in says our contemporary, now seems to be to tion, to compensate for unavoidable slowness triple dinder of strength and truth and parity. It is now nearly 50 years since her great Poet outset, stoutly resented this, to them, un-
May you rale as long! memorialise the Throne recommending that of promotion; and that the position of higher and enveloped in the loving veneration not
England because such a Queen has lived. warranted encroachment on dearly-bought
And leave us rulers of your blood Pao Taotai be banished to penal servitude for officers outside the cadet service should also be alone of all the peoples of her world-wide em
As noble till the latest day! privileges, because it appreciably decreased
life on the military postroads outside of China considered. Detailed recommendations are also pirs but of the great mass of the thinking peo
May children of our children may, their sales; and, emboldened by the oft-re-
She wrought her people Issting good; oper; while the hereditary rank of Baron of to be made for the clerical service, say the ple of the world. Within the last hour I have
Her court was pure; her life serene ! the let class held by Pao be taken away from Singapore Free Press. The civil servants ask-received the following two telegrams :→
"In the name of the people of Poring dese
God gave her peace; her land repose: him and given to his eldest son to preserve theed for a reduction of the age limit for optional
A thousand claims to reverence closed family rank and name to uphold the honour of retirement, but neither the Governor nor the Endia xud caine, I present to Your Excellency In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen;" the ex-Tactal's father, the late celebrated Secretary of State sees any sufficient reason for the of our heart-felt grief for the great suppose the post hardly realised to what lons the noble British nation has sustained extent that aspiration of his would be fulfilled.
peated assertion of those in a position to know better, that our markets are not overcrowded, they combined and complained
of this competition. The gist of their prayer
is that these outside licences be forthwith General Pao Ta'mo.
age, so the memorial says. With these points,
this.
and of the civilised world than it was when sho
... Mr. F. B. L. Bowier (Crown Bolicitor) mių On behalf of the junior branch of the profes sion I have the honour to represant to-day, I beg leave to express entire concurrence with the remarks of your Lordship, the Attorney General, and the learned counsel and to ex pross our sorrow and mourning to-day for the loss of our beloved Sovereign.
The Court then adjourned sine die,
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