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other direction from the medial line of gravity, and for a time the abuses which had been the porquisites of the one section of society bid fair 1. he monopolised by the other. The Working Man was, in fact, at the top of the curve, and he erineed every disposition to make his neighbour feel the Iardship of class-rule as keenly as he him "self had been compelled to do in the early parts of the century. Fortunately better reason prevailed; the working man was after all but a man, and a. nu whore atarul talents were quite a par with his neigh bour, and sooner then the latter, be com
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IT is satisfactory to learn that this opposi
the part of certain influential tion on Chinese against the Petition, which wo mentioned in our last issue, has subsided
The chest foreign resident in Shanghai, Mr. P. II. Parcell, who has resided there for fifty-six years, is going home to Ireland.
In the interval between his two concórts at the Gordon Hall, Tientsin, on the 19th and 29th ult., Mr. Aloe Marsh went on to Peking and greatly delighted a very good audiencs.
recent Coastguardsmen, according to decision of the Admiralty, are to les trained to Elaborate preparations aro boļng maile aboard the hage Russian icebreaker Ermack, now lying work wireless telegraphie instruments at the various signalling stations fitted ap within the Tyne, for her forthcoming voyage to the Marconi's apparatus.
Arctic regions in search of the North Pole. The Ermach will load 4,000 tons of bankers,
The M.-C. Daily News of the 2nd inst. and given' place to sympathy. Their objec-annoutera-By the arrangements which we tion arose from entirely wrong conceptions have now made with Reuter's Telegram Co, a of the contents of the Petition and of faller service will be sent to Shanghai, and it the attitude of the petitioners, towards will given to all four of the English daily the present local administration and in pors here equally. dividuals constituting the Government. Therefore the opposition has been withdrawn, because the Chinese conccrued in it have taken the trouble to read the Petition in a goose which the Committee responsible would have all to read imately.
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A large and very ancient tomb has bou lis covered in Shantaug, with pictures of the walls, and iron entrance gater, but Chiness feeling prevents any investigation being mado into it, and Yuan Sulkai has merely closed it up and put a steno tablet marked "Ancient
Tub cuil.
official, as it covers twenty-one years of The French naval authoritius, according to a administration, during which period many
Daily Mail correspondent, are very well pleased ofleints have served. The Committee, which with the experiments male with the new was entirely representative of the cran-submarino boat Nereal, which has been to St. monity, has wopted a perfec: ly legitimate Male and back in a strong westerly wind and a and constitutional course, revognising, as all high sea. It is said that the submarine nost, must do, that the task of sanitary reform in escorted by several turpeda boats on the surface. is about to make a long trip in raid-Channel, ใน ไทย Hongkong is so slapenelons entirely outside the power of the local Govorament to accomplish. Whether the existing Government is done its utast in the interests of public sanitation is
and to endearer to go as far as the limit of English waters.
A foriner patty after of the Italian cruiser 1er Piani, named Merino, who had recent
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detention the vessel can remain in the Aretio for twelve months. Adasiral Makuroff and a scientiño party will join the Ermeets at Tromsoo.
and provisioning will be made so that in case of
The Marconi Rystem of wireless telegraphy was on use on the Cunard line Lucania on her last voyago to New York, Shonld the systom prove as successful on the Lucania as elsewhere, the Cunard Company will probably-insta) it on other slips of their foot. It is already in use on ships of the North German Lloyd and the Beaver lines. Receiving stations' are * already established on the British and the American consts. This has been done by the Marconi International Marina Communication Company, Limited. Arrangements are being made by the Communication Company. to establish their stations in all parts of the world on the routes of the important steamship lines.
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THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
* Suancitar, 5th Jaly, 7.39 p.m.
NEW CHINESE MINISTER TO
JAPAN.
Teai, who lately held the post of Thotzi at Shanghai, has been appointed Chines Minister to Japan
* Delayed in transmission,
SHANGHAI, 7th July, 7.50-p.m.
THE COURT'S MOVEMENTS. A secret Esianfu despatch states that the Imperial Court will not go beyond Kaifeng- fu this year.
FRENCH TROOPS TO BE RETAINED NORTH.
The French have notified the Chinese prace plenipotentiaries that it is intended to keep French troops as a permanent guard on the Peking-Faotingfu railway,
NORTH CHINA STILL DISTURBED.
The Chinese merchants at Newburg
to his that the principles being preached to his would first of all injure his own person: he, however, also found that the liberty of association that had been denied to him in the beginning of the century could not has given up unless he meant to give up all that be had gained. But the habit of
A New York telegram of the 2nd ult. to the association adopted by one class could not he dropped by another without danger, so
Daily Mail says: Richard Bidwell, the writor and lecturer, lost his life yesterday afternoon That organisation and counter-organisation
by leaping from the central span of Brooklyn estoe to junetrate every cluses and every
Bridge. Bidwell recently wrote a book entitle? The Reign of Mind. He blieved that mind tion of the eqummity. The habit once established was not confined to one interest | another mutter. It has, unfortunately for been reduced to the ranks for misconduct.
was superior to mattor, and that a man would for one departament. The same generation its "own" repulirion, certainly never, pro-di-serted his ship at Shanghai, and a warrant perform any font if only he had enough con-
The was issued for his arrest. On the 1st inst, a
ftenen in himself: He leaped from the bridge that had declared working men's assovia sented any serious evidence of it. tions legal alse come to legalise joint stock petitioners simply state from official attempt was made to take him in Nanking to test his theory. Before doing so he swathed
Road. Shanghai, when he cat his throat with himself in towels and old newsp pers. pat ou associations with limited ability for the documents only The existing lament
With assistaues, however, to wastobeit, und earried an American dag In each † have ordered their Shanghai agents to abip diseringe of business on a co-operativeable stute of affairs, ned show by amored to hospital, and hopes are held of his hand. Only a few people saw him loay from nothing for the North, as the country is Isis, as naturally the powers of corpora-such quotations how the repeated recom-
the bridge. He struck the water 135 feet tions became extended; towns were granted nendations of colonial medical officers, and of means of self government which to a pre-even special commissioners, have been evaded Evious generation would have appeared and ignored. The Chinese have at last entirely revolutionary, and these meastires come to understand this and to recognise that were followed up by the creation of not only the Petition is not intended as an indictment country - but also of parish and ruralgiast nuy local officials; indeed; many of councils. That all these measures tended the latter, including, we believe, H E. the to increase the comfort and health of the GovERson himself, base privately commend country could not be denied: neither goulded the objects of the Position, as pointing it be denied that new sources of national to, the only possible solution of
It should be well wealth bid been tapped, or that the nation
very grave situation. was under the new regina prospering and understood that the Chinese have not So the nineth tutury as a body been asked to sign the Petition: closed. Enfortunately like every revolutio à may have come forward and done so, but the new system of operation had its their signatures wew not, as far as we know. deforts, and ine of these was soon found to solicited. It was believed that the prayer of be the diminution of individnad responsi-the petitioners would be successful with- A. S. WATSON & CO. Blity, and with the decrease in individual out the signatures of the Chinese; and it
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A Dalziel telegram of the 2nd ult. from Paris says that the official French version of
A noutroversy has arison in Yokohama on the recent affray between French soldiers and sailers and British sailors at Nagasaki has come the subject of the doctrinal views and practices to hand to-day. According to this account of the Rer. Aubrey L. Sharpe who has best the British tars were the aggressors, and acting as incumbent of Christ Church sinna. thrashed a number of the French artillerymen the former occupant of the post-left, and who with sticks, injuring them very severely is now suggested as permanent pastor. A cor This was in the morning. In the course of respondent signing binselfRaspico Fitn the evening the English resumed, their inalt- sut u letter to all the Yokohama papers ing behaviour, and at last, losing a patience, stating that Mr. Sharpe declares himself to the French throw themselves upon the tars.be in favour of auricular confession, the clang, Sanguinary encounters ensued. Three of the British lost their lives, while the French bad several men wounded.
Ammican Consular Gaol for the past wiple of
ing of vestments during Communion, the use of light candles on the Communion Table, and fasti, al has amcanced his determination to refuse Communion to all persons who either Lave not been confirmed, or refuse to be so." Considerable correspondence has ensued in the Yokohama press. No Yokohama Kosit has appeared on the scene as yet, but some of the better-writers appear to have the saine oast of
mind.
The Mercury of the let inst says:-Captain Toudmann, who has been an inmate of the may be mentioned that the few Europeans year, having been sentenced. it will be who have not been able
to sign the remembered, to life imprisonment for having sym-shot a Chinaman on a river steamer of which Petition, have expressed
The signature Captain Tolmann had command, near Canton, pathy with its objects.
THE PLAGUE. sheets will most likely be collected to died at the General Hospital yesterday of un morrow, so any residents who have not yet affection of the liver. Deceased's incarceration,
During the 4 hours ending the noon on signed and who desire to do so should sign thanks to the kindness of Mr. John Goodnow.
Consul-Gearial, had been rendered as little Saturday there were reported 3 fresh cases and to-day.
irksome as possible. He was employed chiefly | 4 deaths (all Chinese). as a writer, andbad múdo himself a favourite with all who had any business to transmet with hiv
Fira destroyed a contractor's "matshed at Wongneicloung on Friday night, the damnge amonating to 50. The Fire Brigade was in attendance, and prevented the outbreak from sprending.
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The lastest report concerning the condition of the European patients still at Kennedytown Hospital is that they are all making good progress.
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Loxocs, 5th July, 10 35 p..
KRUGER'S GREAT HOPES. In a proclamation to the Boers. Mr. Kruger informs them that he has great hopes of a satisfactory cad to the War, and advises the continuance of the struggle.
THE COMMANDANTS DECISION.
A mesting of Boer commandants, incluf ing De Wet, Boilin, and Doluray, has resolved that no peace shall he made, nor conditions accepted, which end the independence or
national existence of the Boors, or which fail to protect the interests of their Colonial friends.
GENERAL NEWS.
Lastos, 5th July, 10.85 p.m..
BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAMME. -
Mr. Arnold Forstor, Fecretary to the
responsibility au accompanying effect in the diminution of individual energy. A man's work as bead a society came to denote
·lows personal profit and less personal loss than when the same in lividual was acting nerely for himself. The conserjnence, was that it selkan found him so whole-hearted. He had other interests besides those of which he was the netsinal head; he found that in doing the work of others he.
and recreation Yest
that be never would have dreamt of in undertaking
A Dalziel telegram of the 2nd ult. from Cher- his own, that on the whole the some
borg says that now heavy, gans of the latest energy and the same ambition to be in the
pattern have now been mounted there, and Honakong Office: 14. DES VEUX ROAD forefront were not as a rule forthcoming,
The agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway tested successfully. The new weapons have en that the Portugnose boy, T. Thomas, was taken LONDON OFFICE : 131, FLEET STREET, E.CAs long as things went on all right this was Co.'s Royal Mail Stomanship Line informed 18 effective range of over ten miles. The strictest but little noticeable, but when competition on Saturday that he was just in receipt of the mensures bare been ordered to prevent peoplo from outside came to be felt it was discovered! following cable: The C. P. R. Co.'s Royal from approaching these and other defousive to the College since August last. We gladly three Ittleships of 16,000 tons each und
Mail stormer Empress of China from Hang works. All the arseasi permits have been called ONE of the most marked features of the In chemistry not very long ago her experts Nagasaki, arrived at Vancouver at 4 a.m. on
that England hnd insensibly dropped belund kong, which tras detained in quarantine atin, and new ones will be issued, it being feared that we did not make it on our own authoritr, with a speed of 18.5 knots, six armoured. latter end of the nineteenth century was led the world, but she dropped into a lazy Thursday the 4th inst., all well-having made
that a number of the old passes have falion into the marked decline in individualism. I mood: research in fresh delds so far from the run across from Yokohama in 103 daya..
The bands of foreign agents. The secret. police force has heen reorganised, and has been warned Whereas at the beginning co-operation was being encouraged was really deprecated, steadily repressent, as a thing inimicable to experiments cost money and were dangerous,
The returns of the average amount of bank to keep a vigilant look-out for suspected society, by degrees combinations commenced so experiments were left to German chemists nos in circulation and of specie in reserve in persons. to he made first legal, and then by degrees who were willing to take wider risks. In the managers of the respective Banks -
Hongkong during June are thus certified by to be actually encouraged by every possible | iron-working the same indisposition to noke
Average Specio in Amount Rueerve. means. During the first quarter of the changes was felt. Managers did not fiel century, not only were the laws opposed to themselves justified in risking their share-
Hoxdxoxa, 8th July, 1901
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The remains of the murdered German Minister Freiherr von Kettaler received the last hours before being sent home on the 15th rit. at
trade unionism, but the public feeling of holders' money, so the work of experimenting Hongkong and Shanghai Bant 2,809,495 1,600,000 Peking. The ceremony which took place in the
the nation held that the only way to was left to the manufacturers in the United compete in business with the rest of the world was to keep the working classes, as the phrase at the time went," "in their places." Meetings for the purpose of co-opera-
States. In electricity at the period England was at least on a par with her neighbours, but here a government that had undertaken to do the best for everyone, and had been
7,905,367 5,000,000
412,279
150006 Tot $11,156,34 6,754,001
News baskarf received from Tringkinagp`n, on the Grand Canal, says the N-. Daily News, to the offect that the "Great Sword" Society
garden of the German Legation was very impres- sive. The diplomatic representative of the dif ferent nations in Peking, and the Military officera of the carious troopsstationed there word present. China was represented by Prince Chun, brother of the Emperor, and the Chinese peace com- ultioners, Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang,
Mr. A. J. May, Acting Headmaster of Queen's College, usks us to correct the statement to the Government Civil Hospital from Queen's College. Thomas, Mr. May adds, has not been contradict the statement, but must point out but were so informed at the Sanitary Board office.
CORI ISPONDENCE. (We do not load ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.]
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THE SANITARY BOARD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILT PRKAS." 6th July. SIR-I have read with much interest your vurious leading articles in favour of Sunitary roforms in this colony, and trust they will Lave effect in due season. One of these reformu must be a ver Sanitary Board. The present Sub-Governmental Department has more achi.
Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons that the new Naval programme includes
cruisers of the Monmouth class and with a speed of 23 knots, and ten improved torpedo. boat destroyers of the 30 knots type.
[The Monmouth class of cruiser ure of 9,800 tons displacement and 22,000 ihup. Their sida armour is 4 in. thick. They are hemel with fourteen in. breach loaders and 13 amall quick-firing guns. They can carry 800 tons of woal in their bunkers, and hava Belleville boilers.]
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 4th
THE FRENCH NAVAL MANŒUVRES. In the French navat manoeuvres the aposeas
tion were considered as dangerous to the studiously repressing individuality, stepped the parent of the Boxer movement-is get as well as by several other high officials. Thatrary power than it knows how to nae properly. State, and any attempt at combination for in and threw so touny obstacles in the way, ting more and more powerful and is daily procession to the railway station was witnessed in SB. Form No. 4 ald in other ways. We the purposes of raising wages was a capital that for three years not a single enterprise gaining eruits and adherents from not only by thousands of Chinese, who crowded the line hare no objection to confer on a proper Banitare of the submarine boats has been most striking. offence. The cateral result of these ill-of any kind was attempted. The conse. the Resene Armies" of the various Central of Danch: German infantry and cavalry actet Board all the arbitrary power that may be They approached the squadron unsuspected,
through representatives the community and and considered measures was a war of classes.quence was that when at last England and Southern provinces passing through Tsing. gards of honour on the way, and a contin. required, but that power must be exercised passed the entire line, torpedood the ironclads, England, and in a lesser degree every woko up to the fact that improvements kingp'n on their way home to be disbanded, geut of American troops performed that duty not through nominees of Government as at European nation, was divided into two in daily use abroad were entirely absent but
prezent, who are a law unto themselves. We also from the inhabitants of Northut the railway station. on her soil, it was discovered that the soul Kiangsu, who are suffering from drought and a monument in honour of the martyred minister would sweep away the whole army of inspec-
The
It is rumoured that
tors, who have neither the power nor the technical knowledge requisite, and appoint &
escaped unobserved and unscathed. THE YUNNAN RAILWAY SCHEME. The French Sonate has agroad to the Yunnan. Bailway schema
LONDON, 3rd July.
STEAMSHIP SUBSIDIES. The Bristish Consul at Nagasaki, testifying before the Steamship Subsidies Commission, arged that a subsidy be granted for a British service to Japan, which he said offered u spisudit.
LONDON, 4th July.
hostile ramps, who hated each other far more intensely than either disliked hostile of the art had disappeared, and that her famine. Tsingkiangpu is said to be one of the and maring is to be erected on the spot where countries, and kings and rulers readily electric engineers who had been the pioneers principal centres" of the Society, whilst his sody had rested until its remoral lice-in
returning soldiers "from the war" are eagerly addition, to the Chinese expiatory memorial.
trained Sanitary Surveyer, and an assistant if united in an unholy alliance to repress the of progress in the world were now incapable welcomed by the Society chiefs on account of
The death return for the mouth of May shows necessary, to every Sanitary district in the liberties of the lower orders, however mildly of undertaking the simplest works.
the modern arms and ammunition they carry.
that then died during that period 47 of the colony, men whose professional standing would Anserted. The pendulum of human affairs first year of the new century has emphasized
The N.-G. Daily News reports that the crow
European and foreign community (2 from the ensues respect for their dictum, and who would can by no amount of combination be made these facts. England has ceased to take the
of the steamer Cores de Vries, commanded by civil population. 3 from the Aney, and 2 from co-operate in an intellegent manner with resi to stand still, the very is inertie that it lead in the iron-markets, and has had to bad gained by its enforced swing in the undergo the humiliation of having to Captain Hou, inet with some rather exciting the Navy) and 963 of the Chinese community, lents desirous of promoting trne sanitation, and
adventures on a recent voyage up the river to Chest affections claimed 107 victims, and fever consign to oblivion' the present unsatisfactory, national investment. direction of repression by and by began to give contracts for her principal works Honkow. Supicions being aroused, proparations 622, of whom 557 died of plague and 52 „red-tapa, nonsensical system which is beneath 1
The principles underlying act in the contrary direction, and one abroad.
were made to meet probable surprises, when one inalaria. Of the plague deaths 19 were in the the contempt of even the Chinese and helds by one the artificial barriers to co-opera-successful combination have been forgotten, of the engineers saw some men, who had shipped European and forviga civil community, while back the co-operation of the community, who will tion began to disappear. It was found and in the struggle the individual has gone aboard as passengers, trying to secrete a box of
The result of the race for the Princess of that the dangers supposed to be inherent. I to the wall. Not only in trade is the defect money, he gave the alarm and a freo 6ght No. 2 division of Victoria, 75 in No. 4, 61 in piled on ordinance and summonses to the police THE PRINCESS OF WALES'S STAKES. in the nature of the working classes were apparent, but in the world the same strange Boxed between him and the roffiens. He No. 9, and 54 in Kowloon. The principal court for trivial sanitary offences, which do accidents of the position, and by no means absence of the individual element is to be defended himself for some time with a knife, percentages in the different registration districts not even touch the fringe of the great questions
Lard Rosebery's Epsoni Lad were-British and foreign civil population 54 at issue, the greatest of which is the present inseparable; and that after all human regretted. An attempt is being made to and then received assistance from the rest of the
His Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Lord Cadogan's Bidus nature, whether in the person of a justice of govern on the co-operative system: every era, who were aroused by the nuiss. The per 1,000 per annum; Chinese community, Vie ystem of drainage, which by general consent Is the peace, or the working man charged adjustment is referred to a board of which men were eventually overcoms, but most of toria, land 50, harbour 398; Chinese, whole quite un uited to the requirements of the colony with the perpetration of the then hideous every member is blessed with a different them succeeded in escaping from the ship and Colony, land 44,9, boat 25.7, land and boat, 25.7; and is hot under the control of the Sanitary COMMERCIAL CRISIS IN GERMANY.
later on the leader of the gang slipped the whole civil community, 49.7. It may be noted authorities. I may say that may experience of
There is a commercial crisis in Germany crime of mesting to discuss affairs with balfides, and no one stands out beyond his hardcuffs which had been placed on his wrists that the boat populations of Bhankiwau, Aber. the colony is a longthened one, and takes in the
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. a dozen of his fellows, was really nucl the neighbour. The machine of state amongst and jumped overboard, swimming safely ashore. deen, sud Starley, estavrated at 1,990, 5,314, and life of the present Satetary Board and its following the failure of the Leipziger Bank. same, and that each sought after all the so many experts gradually works slower and The captured men, two of whom are old 70 respectively, had much lower averages: various phases, practical and comical-Yours,
Sir Michael Hicks-Besah, replying to same and of advancing himself free from slower, or occasionally as in China comes to offenders, were placed in the Hankow municipal the oppression of any other clases That, in an entire standstill. Such is the result of a goal.
Aberdesa 11.2, Stanley nzl.
NON NOBIS SOLUM SED OMNIBUS. questions concerning the probable date of the
among the Chinese, 78 died of this disease in
never become moral sanitarians by ordinance
Shankiwan 19.2
per 1,000 per arnum, etc.,
Wales's Stakes is as follows:--