DEATH OF MR. E. W. MITCHELL. I
Youterday the sad intelligence reached Hong- kong by cable of this death of Mr. Edward W. Mitchell, partner in the firm of Mesars. Caldbeck, Maefireger and Company, wine sad spirit merchants, and the news will be received by all
wla kune kin with the most profound regrot.
Mr. Michel, necompatial by his wife and
family, loft for home in Ajmi last for a short holiday. Although he had læren in indifferent- health, noshing serious was anticipatal, and it
REVIEW.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13гn, 1906.
Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Oxford: Clarendou Pryss.
This is a second edition of a work by C. P. cas, C.B., but as it has been revised and brought up to data by I. F. Stubbs, B.A., (4 name of some literary cistinelion at Oxford), is doubtful how much of the original work British Empico having less sneh us to make
remains. The growth and expansion of the
any but the most recoat geographical work of cave as a shock to those of his friends who
of date, the necessity for this revised edition is learned that he bad passed away at Bradfoærk vas j the 7th inst,, the cause of death being apoplexy.tence apparent, and the author is to
be
OUTLOOK IN THE SHIPPING
TRADE.
EFFECT OF THE NEW TONNAGE,
The deepest sympathy is extended to the geratulated on having produced a einn remains that the production of new morabant : sdiaplace the seller craft, which inst-the-
sorrowing widow and tho children.
sister fatherless
It would
| owners of cargo.corrying foots were never sa j puzzled as they are now-with an amount of floating tonnage for which they can. not got
Vessels coming for froights and now
month by month to add to their Beats. In tory many cases the avoid The enormous output of now touange from rates that have to be accepted to our shipyards in the first half of the commercial idleness will not cover the expanses of the Тын is bad year bas, no doubt, its pleasing asprot from the Voyage, much less depreciation. labour and industrial point of view, but it is not enough for organizations well backed with It is, of course, true that the now smuller copartneries whose ships are bought on contemplate.
And there out for the long-suffering shipowner to capital, but it can only spell disaster for the tennage been
hy reason of the tauncles within s too many of such hollow concerns in the the past six months of warships built in private shipping trade. The smaller vessels, 100, are forms as bon, augmented in comparison with tong eredit gul are run se yards, and in June of the Lusitanin, for the badly bandicapped. The enlarged size of the Cunard Lite, whose messurement alone runs to. cargo trenges tends to depreciate rates, not only because a large steamer can carry at a lower fnet. -cost, por dundweight ton, but also bratis they mede for these exceptional incidents the over 2,000 tons.. But when allowances an
which will do me to arvale a deeper
as well as of the fore ge cmapeting in shouls elsewhere in order ondiaury. This fact to secure employment of some sort. interest on the part of the at home, in the of the tramp
liner "order, bus buen extraordinary. empʻzaleyond the sens. While one must agree is not surprising to those who recall the great be better if more resses were bid-up till trado will Kiding when he wrote "What do they rash of now contracts at the close of 15 and improves
improvement af trade in so for
ship: the beginning of 1905, and the still greater. know of England, who only England know."
ush of orders in the closing months of 1905. ping is concocted is meant a higher ratio of it has to be admitted that thtly of a roue The shipyards are now completing the contracte orchidiso to be carried in proportion to this tion like the one under notice will do mach to of the earlier period named, and daring the ship. That improvement will doubtless como correct the point of view of those whose cuflook remainder of the year they will be completing if shipown stuld ease from welding to their easen ondervoering to delay like a million and a half tons of now merchand dots and extend beyond the British Isles and to the contracts of the later period, though burors tota for a time. There must be now something
but there distant portions of our ompiro it a
ships in course of preparation in this country N dis al flut 1 is surprising what
lour, and the perpet is
some of proper proelive
1 the purchasers of
5 « Altá very gladly sell them at
could
Dow contract to supply lower prices than those at which builder present basis of material and labour. In other words, thes, os mers world rather in ko a capital continuing su naremunerative business. Ther loss now than risk both capital and intern ace few buyers, howeyor, ut either, now or second-han 1 ships, With glutton and wheat harvests in America thore will be an increas in the Atlantic trade in the autuma. the
1st in the autumn there will be more new ships in commaissian, wo there is not much probability of any material prement in the fight market this year.
Jones.
The deceased who was 21 years of age was anducated at 'ppingham on desne to China in 1878, when he joined the firm of Thomas Rowe and 60., tea merchants, in Canton afterwards when it fit went into liquidation--
In 1 setting up in business for himself. he canie to Hongkong to establish the Lia: branch of Messrs. Callback, Mactireger & Ce, taking over the agency hold by Mr. Levotions are held by people at home regarding Since that time he has been in charge, audi prine to his doparture was thus senior amber of plus the man" marked rad," and that being a one realises what a value should ste the firm is the East. Abra fteen years age
to this histogend geography. la murid Miss Margaret Lean mort, and the aug of the union was five boys and two girls.
"
Voinne Elsen wolthe Mediterraneanout Mr. Mitcheh, about whom on y words of praise Eastern colonis Tulia is omitted as not falling
within its see Andepting the author sarratge are hard, bad a very winning preality, art, which is on 16 whole very convenient, the al who enne in contact with himeneaumbed to
render bugil be struck with the manne in the charm. Urban and kindly, never culled in temper, lio was a must lovable man who one of his admirem described to “one of Gals 45.**
No appeal for assistance was ever ma to him in vain, and many an individual
many a muse has borelled og his besteratas tions generosity,
di
Hix douth will curasy a great black in the social life of the colòng.. Koenig mud activdy interested in all sport he did match "good work for the V.R C., on the mitte of which sat for some time. He was the president of the Hongkong Cricket Club and furthered Bed interesting interport santeh a. steward of the Jockey Club, he was prominently associated with the various raw taetings, and at day at
which ba treat- He-subject. With an exendent
survey of the series in Europa and in Asia, ho is able to deal with such according to its vabur, Whale his witten ist Final hetes and descriptions of the varying features of rach tree mase the book extremely rentable and -remova is very considerably from the rank of] old style scholæstir text books. 10. is compre hasiko api liable and an one enn ved it without fadinge heroin fatal for thought.
We are begund magro with the author that nour of the dependencies mentioned in a
i
in many are in deliveries.
When reviewing here the position of the shipbuilding industry after the expiration of the first quarter of the industrial Frar, is pointed out that the quarter had been larger in performance thas it had been bright in promise. It was also intested that the output would pro- by tach high water mark within the manual to be dealt with during the au un and three or four months, and pro tanto seduce the winter-unless, of course; u new boot Rets to revart ngait to the
in this autumn as last. Scotch yards at the end of the first quarter of Locator three reading quarter. At
the year tlæso
showed su
an iner ses of
the ond of Jane the Scotch shipyards show a total of 50 tons, or fully for more than in any six months on reverd. And in the whols of that period it is doubtful if the now ponfame's booked come up to as much as 1. 00006 tons. In July, however, the orders mounted to 4008) jons, as against 31466 tons launcher.
The point to be noted is that the great ferin of cargo boats ordered last year are now coming into exiness life. As far as we can gather, with ouly about one buff of the tramps ordered so much hope are yet in the water, so that great as is the addition already made to our merchunt conge, it will be still greater before the end | „ de Lear And in dealing with werehast the seas which bas teen mulu a kone for the fenage it is, perhaps, to much the custom British people, and are also bound to airs tale cargo carriers, and are of such To ending attention to trampy, But the Finers that Britain has seedingly fortunate in dimensions that
in their particular in February of this year, his horse Zajeler obatinių pranebom such as those in the caurs brought him thene sucrester
54:11.
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in the teme sense of the word, Ce, a plus - beyond
an
24-
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Luotisseurs fer better prospects in the East.
LONDON'S LAST CAUSE CELEBRE.
WOW SPLEND CARE COMPROMISED
The ten days' inquiry into the state of mind of 61 » Marquis Tosinaisend came to an end on August 11th. The jury of twenty-one found that the Marquis je capable of taking cars of imest, at not capable of managing his business a fairs.
An
said Mr. Justies
This is an extraordinary and antiparity paintal ens,”
Lauri Townsheral, fan sail, was a "youn
Mormyrer, he was Mediterrani an'in the Red Seas, which offerimey take up to much of the cago Huskii, in summing up.
the
at whatever freights they can get is tu a generous supporter of the Royal Hongkong wood bave her ofparatively little worth rare little over for the tracaps. Moreover, Yreat Club, and in a nord, was one of the mod | hað
soms of the liners-especially in the East Tho Ah- mspret of affaire not
aolonger cuntius the Ives ip that may be active patrous of sport in the Colony. Bat ik been changed by the opening of the Sues calo liner ports, but now, in search of cargo, was in connection with the Amateur Dramatic Canal. An interesting partibel between the resort to ports formerly served entirely by
Theronel Club where his greatest work in goral life wee
-dependencies in Europe and in Asia is pointes steamers of the tramp older.
selous rantter for nut by the water Tag were all obtained by nts of the liners are
-owner, In what will you ? A Trung ongiet de leg ned, not by simple sottoment. Tig steamer arust be filed as well as a sms while those in. As a have a further point in one, and if the liners are being expensive in their movers it must be remembered cormon, that in practically every nose the
that the bumps bare also beer me expunzivu tresessing of an Khud neur forandioland or offis ir dussions. Tramps of 6000, 7006 a perenskia Ens 'sound, socher or later than 899 1ons are now common enough, and extension of Bitch influence over the neigh. they form a serious factor in the situation.
Thus the
Then, with regard to fritish shipping, theru Musing
is a point to be noted which is not apparent to the man in the strol adenpation of 4 has led to an extension of
the relations of Er inference at only on the Arabian coast,
the now freeboard the bad-line has been so severanes Lodge of Fees masous. He was a Put alsover the M. cedi euust, arross the Straits altered that the currying deadweight capacity of our ships has been increased. The ingresso and thugh he took a ken jutersțin heral
No matter how un'de or potentias then producticas attempted by the A., it was staanped with: his peraotiality, Asustipa mauaja e ho had few coals. His fuel and ability easured jurarile sucress and his pentas enabled him to overcome all dificulties Et is moleky fact that since las met with a mishap bist New Year's. Ee by tripping over a fourlight ar falling on his head he had never be a fias asum, Mr. Mitchell had als een P.3. of the Por.
will not be rusity filled and whose less will be mourned by many on tho Chica consi.
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nobleman of forty with a spletul inheritanes which, when he came into it, was of no real value. If there was anthing else in the case. be wald not be surprised at his wishing la Bod a desirable wife who was aber an heiress, so that the charges on his estats might be retacyed.
But the first painful feature was that, if the evidènes were trio Lady Powrelt busied herself to find Ford Townend a worthy wife, and she nut Mr Dunne, a Serart House gierk, who might have roomy friends of wealth,
asies lims in the arch for a wealthy wit and introdues has slip et ta Mrs. Suthers, arranging to give for Cam share out of aliy ce mi-son, las caure,
Ms. Setherat enigested her own daughter, Land if ther
tie was any ora who knew that Mr. Sucherst was unt malischarged bankrupt it was Mr. Sutherst
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AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.
WINE MERCHANTS,
"A.D.L." write in the Népression August #101-The question whether an English Tekan will go to Australia is still in abeyance pending this fia decisions of the M.C.C. on the following eable, through Renter's Agency, from Sydney. it !!
yestrday
The Board of Control of Australian cricket has cabled to the Marylebone Club stating that the various Australian cricketing bodies and the public are anginus for an English team to visit Australia this year, alurging the Marylebone Commites to reconsider its decision.
It is evident from the shore that the Aur tralian authorities are taking strenuous efforts to
Horange for the visit of an English term. A boos in Colonial cricket would be the result, and it woull do muel to such down the polities and controversies over the local manage,
... of the
game.
zezat.
The roply of Mr. F. R. Lucey to thỏ nhovo ik follows
The M.C.C, Committer have already decided that it is now too into for them to secure a The president in Elo suafter, hat I tariffs een far Australia this year. I am think it most likely that they will be able to alter their desision.
The whole blume rests on the Australians who, torn with dissensions on the all-ituperiput paint of coatrol, hate wasted valuable time, kredī gone on from werk to work in an irresponsible tot interesting was dragging on the dispule, so far as we are concerned,
Hasing patebod up matters they are anxious to appea«lical public opinion by arranging Visit after all, and they wil have a bad time
it if they fril
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While quite endorsing the attitude of the MC4, in practienily declining at the eleventh heur to muster up u team of sorts in a inery, one might venture to suggest that they should, inded, makeupreme effort.
There is plenty of cricket talent about. Many
and be chosen to worthily represent England. We have had a long dry nou on what are batting strongth was never wore fornitalle preticulis Australian virkets, mal surely sur Why, Kentions would have a chanca" maz
be heard in that
of Babel Manded 1 wk og las absorbed a fue about 2 per cent, in an ordinary cargo for a quarter of a milinan hurdy I called Professionals wonkt like the choner of adding to atlairs he never allowed hinis-lf to bomimtongasireable extent of territory on the monialandunt to I per cent, or even more, in a large person ei anaith," raid his lordship, luckiz. their income, and sufficient good amateurs whe -for a seat on either of the goveraing chedies of 4 hina; the possession of Labuan has resalted Certainly Mr. Michell was a man who plan a British faotectorate over all that part of Borneo which was not atrody in Dutch bants; the control by great. Bussin of the Southers part of the Malay promenla Las Coliowed from the exitos of the Bitch Colony of the Straits Settlements, and hostly, the leased territory of Weihaikei includes, in addition to Time Sind of tinkies a strip of mainland, Several important proposals are made in the
Die f survadami by a larger area in whic's Great report of the Select Comisii ten of thes Leads on the question of the spearing of Bei jeb | Bitain besleven, zu engelyed to possess special policyholders in Foreign insure com unies, || rights." Tlatieport was ignod on Aug. 11th.
This Committee, which aiginated in the disclosures use early this your with regard to certain American mapatties, declared against making it compulsory un fo eign insurance companies to depeal funds here is
as a security for their Ditish policyholders
Refering particularly nd the chapter on Hongkong, which we are in a bett position to criticis, we must alter that the author is
how
Account
The judge continued] :
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that the query, was not a diet invitation.
Assuming that response was satisfactory, possibly the males of a good team would be Thera, which could sexily bo added to within a
But Mr. Satherst --I suppose oni piarpaio, and I am not going to apologiso to bira if I drawing a won inference, in the cirenean sort space of time. of the insa-luongth' about the inte dynion of his daughter and saving very gally that he was considering her interests, mailed that he drew up these three agreements
drow
expressing the opinion that such a course would | chronic. He regards the enormous growth put from 24 to 5 per cual, more cargo into, bis day pear to hoya bean signert before the players who have promised to go to New Zea
the Board of Trade. This sam it is permitted to withdraw when it premium te me hos
reached City DIN
he marriage articles, which Mr. Suflorst of the mariage. The other domments were net signed until after the marriage.
The judge's soict. bevama sterne is he added:
are:-
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
BABY QUIRK'S
SPEEDY CURE
Terturing Raw and Scaly Eczema - Grew Worse Under Two Doctors" Treatment for Three Months-Face
in Terrible Condition.
ANOTHER MARVELLOUS
CURE BY CUTICURA.
"My baby was aflicted with a fostheome running cozema. Twyloturs treated him for three montis, but he grew worse and his face was a sickening silt. We then started to use the Cuicara Womedies, and noticed an improvement at once. Within a fortnight the running bal reased with the scabs were incarty aff Tried off, and in a month has perfectly clear. You are at Henty to use this statement, as i should like all to know of the value of Cuticura.-William Herbert Quirk, No, t West End Coting Kaywood Road, N. Southampton."
STILL ANOTHER CURE Baby Raw With Humour Suffered Agony, Mother Discouraged.
"A terrible soré and humeur hroke out on my Laby, Inking like raw fest, and CHUNG thú elill unild agony. My physician could not help him, and I was discouraged. Then I tried Cadieua Soup and Cuticura Ointment with altnost in mediate success. Before Die secopil werk the songuess was gare, not leaving a trace of anything. Ms. J. II. Black, 281 Rose- dale St, Rochester, N. Y."
AND STILL ANOTHER
"At four months old my baby's face and body were so covered with sores and large scales you could not tell what she looked like At last we Cuticur
spert Soup and Ointment. The sores began to kezi`at oure, and she could sleep at
right, and in one month she had not one sore on her fave or hedly, Mrs.
San
ders, 700 Spring St., Conuđen, N. 74
Cullen, Oinment And Pilm wire and throughout Degustaci kanalian, 1975tion pter korupa mj, Hera Jain;
As alia. B. Tower & body.
Pater Ding Chem. Carp, stun, C., Au Sol Proje
Montre, low tu Caru daler Bunnuttzv."
EASTERN CADETSHIPS,
mended, making the deyemil pæretourvni. The There naub Hittle doubt that Eur. peaus living with the actual and prospective increase in the pro essional advies ut haip which Mr. Suchers cricketers Fast night, I met with the general¦ whom the majority of the Cadets are drawn,
The Act, the Committee propuses, should be
ut £29, vault. of CCRIPT,
FO
but a small way towards mating the list-rational course of life have less to fear on
lities of the larger forviga fushaten com- poies deing business here, but it would be an absolute guarühlen British
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Folie holders of being always able to proceed i necessary against such companies i in the Britis conrtx.
the ground of malalties than they ones land; but a: the best Hongkong can never be a health resort.
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helt r-deck Lat, Ан (zact
average is his bond, although it den times appen inusible to define, but it would not be that persons in that position live as wealthy xivagant to wame that the new freeboard prop-hear they do it I do not know, and I do adds fulig 2 por cont. to the competitive steam cut care," tannpo under the British Bag. Thus, hen,
The third painful point was that if Mr Sat. it not sufficient to look to Lloyd's Register erst did say he was a bankrupt, and did not
It might be suggested that, perlups, forty Bock for the meus of cur increase in effective leat others to u lieve he was a man of wealth,
legrams inmediately sent to prominent u the latest issue of that shipping
Lord Tovushend's letters proved that he, at uskant |
book the total merchant tonto of the work sy rat, Ad : know Sutherst was a bankrupt. players asking them whether they would be is given as 37,554,117 tous, of which 17,611,00€ If that was so, Saborst deceived hire. He alsssailable if necessary, but of course, intimating tons are on the British and British Coloni dreived M. Dan registers. The steam toutage on the British, regater is 15207,410
but we run-t
is ef that toonsg
about པ perut, greater carrying capacity than last
It would be understood in Australia that wo Ime! to make Birselection in a seratel sort of yer. In her ads, our effective tonnage this year is being increased unt rely by the
While success wond bring extra crolit mount of new viseris launched, but also by the
way, and this would lessen the regret of failure, large amount of cargo all our vessels can now
The following are some of the names of the dingly well fered even the discovery lawfully arry. At first thought it would seem
It will readily be seen that of iron, and the Kowloon radway project being an advantage to the shipowner that he can now
land this winter they des met in Any way stand in the way of an imply, a waranter by the tiritish Governura of the Chinese population bere as u pred vessels than he could do under the old rules,
Lut there is only abertair amount of merchandis
England team for Australia. The six amateurs of the solvency of such convenies.
C. E. Do Trafford (Leicestershire), Captain : A WARNING TO INTENDING; CANDILATES. ' It is
however, that the Act of 1970 of the confidence felt in British administen to be carried, and the more che areas of
Mr. Salberst is a member of my profesjon Le made suplicable to foreign companies tien by ow of the must re's-rvative of Eastern transport ure increased the less mans by the
A notice in the Gaerween Guzelte states doing business here. By this Aut every British reces," but he seems to be in doubt as to whether remuneralinu. Thus, if our ships can now which profess, and hus, thank Goil a large H. Simpson-llyward (Worcester); P. R.
Curry an
more, they will freight per ten for number most, I hege-of bourable me. Ho Johnson (Com ridges. Unversity and Somer
set; P. R. May (Cambridge University and that an examination for Eastern Cadetships: insurance company has to deposit with Hongkong should be described as healthy or what they do carry, Sothe advantareef the lower must have known it was his bounden duty sa
Curwenxford year it is highly desirable, says the Foơng althy for Europeans Vigares recently toad-line is lost in the multiplication of the man of honour to all the man who was going to Surrey), G. T. Beanston (Natts and Osterd will be held in London during August next
marry his daughter that it was his duty to go to uiversity; and W. J. 1.
University).
dazole, that before this examination is held, quest arigat som to show that the reputation amount of available tonnage. This is an in-
Telephoning to Faveral prominent county the young men at the Universities from amtag which the clay ce but is now deserved pectant consideration, taken in onjunction his family solicitor, to give him that proper
Eumber of vessels seeking employment.
to have taken care to have seened for hope that the MCC Committee should adopt should be informed at the exact condition: under live, the valuvin Straits When treating of the shipping trade at the busf.
they will baye I did not mention it to Lord Townhoud, a popular attitude, and at only creats some which beginning of the present year we remarked
bat 1900 would have been quite a good year for thought (here his lordship spoko rather atreet in 1 ganse during the winter, but or Hongkong carrency of the salaries they
of living in the Far of Control, or matters may drift into a worse and the general insy to do it himself. shipowners bad it not be for the large scornfully taut it was Lord Townshend's bad come to the assistance of the Australian Board draw, the real pore power of the amount of new toonuge pot into the water in
than that of a few weeks guce.
East. We have frequently written on
this sub- It shone beadded that the value of this 6.ok 1964; und that the inite quani falu off a the marrings day, sut Mr. Sutherst at the
there marriag" icketers with influence would, indeed, do ajset in the past, and the not of waraing which articles were signed by Lord Townshend before
if is enhanced by a autaber of good maps.
shipping then being prepared would take a
could make we-sounded has been reproduced in Truth and large amount of the gils that might have been document in his pocket, leaving the other two gord turn to the galo controlling body in other papers. If would be well if the University England to seriously endeavour to a wide vergiting we to boycott the Service, on the fingerbread of the coming year. Events agreeurs unsigned.
th 1 question, for, if bave
justified cur prediction. The
together. Really, there is ample time, for 'tia ho responsibility I fare-the conduct boom
in the international carrying trade, i lede - I say it with overy know-
M. Suthers in this outer red-ce little not a vital matter, after all, if we h beaton. the Government would be forced to revise its. unticipation of which shipowners gave at their of
It is not matter of life and death, but it may scale of lari and to give at least living orders so freely vine months ago, ham kot gime, credit on kinase and on his procession.
down under There in &B
of oeru trafic in is ab immense
Mr. Dan and Mr. Suthep brought about in this to cricket the marriage, his berdakip added, and 3
WEATHER REPORT. Satherst had been obliged to admit that if be did not know the exact terms of Dannes mission role, bo kew something about the The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued
the following report com abominable marriage brokerage.
On the 12th at 13.35 .m. -The barometer has Taruing from the jury to the burch where the Marquis ant Marionass sat, the jalge risen over Formoss, and the S.E. and E. counts A circulur depression appears to have formed, marriage so inspiciously begna should not
The Marquis and Marchioness returned the Southward of Hongkong, probably in from 18."
to 20. Lat. of the restored Cauton-Hanzow trunk railway botel at five o'clock, after putting on an
Pressure
remains high over E. Japan anl Reviewing a the strange circumstances in in contradiction to the agreement concluded elaborate afternoon goru, und after inquiring did not last long, and the stats of shipping in suile,
to the Kaulbar now appreciably worse then it was at the close between H.E. Viceroy Chang Chib-tung of of the hotel porter the
of last year. The Eastern markets are deplor-the Marquis dealing with his prop-rig-theo to the NW of China. The most in- Huhuang and H.E the Governors Bougkong resideze walked down the boulevard. Whable, and the American markets, which were way in which he gave money away when portant departures from the normal are shown, regarding the loan for the redemption of the
from the entrance to the paint the redeeming feature of last year, bave been ho had nons to give judge pointed over E. Japan where pressure is from 0.2 to 0.3 rights the American Company,
She drer reticule.
overborns by the immense supply of hungry out that the jary. if they found Lord inch in excess, and in the neighbourhood of HE. Viceroy Chang has also wired, the bomb, which sueded with a deafening report, ge
Townshend incapable of managing his affairs Hongkong where it is in defect about 0.1 inch
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending Sams on the hut the girl wiraculously escaped injury. She Waiwage protesting against the
The situation is calcalated to suggest a good must find that his incapacity rose from ground that the ena for the restoration of the immediately turned and ran back into the hotel,
trunk line to China was solely for the sake dashing upstairs and into her room before the deal of anxious thought. It is not worth while unsoundasss of mind, as distinguished from at 10a.m., 16-day, 0.17 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon of getting rid of the Belgians who are supported polios could overtake ber. Before they reached bore going into quotations of freights which business incapacity such as sane persons might
may be seen in the regular market reports display. by both the French and Russian capitalists, her room, there was another report, and on
I shall not be surprised if you come to the to-day is as folleva :----
CN.E. winds, page. conclusion be can manage bicoself,” be said, "so There will be trouble if Belgian Engineers are
but everywhere they bear evidence of the results of the super-abundance of tonnage. emplored over constructional works of the
And these results will be to get der a very large that he may live with his wife, and, I hope, be Hongkong & Neighbourhood fresh to strong; Lequally, showery. important railway which concerns three
N.E. winds, amount of capital unproductive this year. very happy. The best person with whom he Provinces, cot only Kwang-tung alone, etc.
Owners who secured time-charters early in the can live is his wife."
...strong. Thus the engagement of the
Belgian
The jury retired for about a quarter of an "Engineer (Mr. Dadot, lately of the Peking
year may be happy enough, but those who have not much engagements have now considerable hour before returning their verdict. Hangkor line) will probably be dropped, gays
difficulty in securing charters that will make judge grsuled them ten years" exemption from our contemporary.
ends meet. It is probable that managing jury service.
All emporter, it is recommend d, whether British rig, zinuld be compelled to turuish the Band of Traits with a full retura of their econuts, lichiding revenue valuition, and expenses of management, it is also prov poret that the securities held by an insursuTH company shoud be valued in this return at their market price,..
THE "BELGIAN ENGINEER AFFAIR Yesterday's Canton Daily News states that IBM. Consul General at Canton has wird to his Honour Lancelot Carnegie concerning
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A remarkable tragedy took place in Odeses progress, but the supply of shipping has
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on Aug. it wherein a young and beautiful Cresteg af a greater ratio then the trade. More disturbance of international trade has been girl, who failed in an ant to assasinate caused by the disorders in Kussia than is | General Kantbare, committed suicide in her ca
hotel before she could be mrest the gener lly realized. There is, certainly, consider. police. The girl, she was apparently abost abiy Irre occupation for ur ships in carrying In the earlier Twenty years, and was beautifully dressed. to and from that coautry. arid that morning a
activity in the freight markets and the German miser strike did canse for a while a consider.
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wage to its effials. We would suggest that some members of the Civil Service shald write to the Granta or the Zaís with a view to warning those ondergradustes who contemplate compot- ing for the Eastern Cadetships,
SAN FRANCISCO.
the employment of a. Belgian Engineer to act. Petersburg, which is near General Kaulbar of the year there was some uount of sini'ed, and subl‹bat he saw no reason why the of Chin", and is little changed élson) ere.
Engineer-iu-Chi-tof the Kwungtog portion / pale on in the Nicolai Raulavard. She left theable demand for coal carriers But the activity,et bo, a very happy one, and be hoped it would. | er to be forming in the low pressure trough to Promotion Committee.
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opening the door, the girl was found lying dead on the four with a revolver in her eat- stretched hand. The girl was evidently an agent of the revolutionaries, and was sent to Odessa for the express purpose of assassinat ing General Kaulbars. When she came to the hotel abe gave the name of Golupkio, which is believed to have boon assumed.
The
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South coast of China between Hongkong and Lamooks South coast of China between 2
Hongkong and Ilsinso..
An interesting" bulletin of progress" in San Francisco his be published by the California The progress made in rebuliding the city during July was as follows:-
Buildingpornsite issued, 470. Value, £702,804.
Valos of building contracts recorded, £55,501.
Firms doing busineša in burned district, 6,10.
Temporary buildings under construction, 4,500.
Number of men doing construction work, 25,000. Average nawber of cars of debris removed from the oily Caily, 190.
Bank clearings, £32,126,358. Increase of 8 per cent. over July 1905.
The number of peo, le receiving relief in San Francisco has, according to the balletin, boog Same as No. 1. reduced from 223,000 during the firet wook
after the disaster tá 17,000.
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Boven theatres are playing to good houses every evening and others are being built..