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OUSTED BY CHINAMEN.
BRITISH SAILORS EXCLUERD FROM DEITISH BHIPS,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1908.
ABIL, AND CHINA TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
NATURAL RESOURCES OF AMERICA.
BLACK & WHITE WHISKY, THE POPULAR SCOTCH.'
THIS IS WHAT THE MEDICAL "MAGAZINE" SAYS ABOUT THIS WHISKT:- “IT IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY SAFE SPIRIT FOR ORDINARY USE.”
Mr. Wilson holds that the evil is a greater | EASTERN EXTENSION," AUSTRAL- one than the public realise. The news that Chinese can be signed on in London at £3. month, he declares, is causing them to "jump."
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT 36033/ELT. or desert their ship in Continental ports, be Came they get only a month on them.
Washington, May 13th. The 9th half-yearly general meeting was The result thas the Bust-and is getting crowded
Sir J. Wolf the President received the Governors and This morning at the White House the When Chinaman is employed in a Sonth
with the yellow men, while English sailora held at Electra-house, London.
Barzy, who presided stated that the gross delivered an illuminating address on the object Afrion mine, the heart of the Liberal gous cut are starving. to the "unhappy slave,"
of this unique and historio gathering. Nearly When a Chinnu an is
the coming inlo foro of the new fod scale," amonei, in round igares, to £304,000, being very Governor was present, the Governor of
Before the beginning of the new Act and reveni for the year ended December 31 last employed by a Liberal shipowner to the exclu sion of a British seams, it does not matlar to aaya Mr. Wilson, the employment of Chins-au incase of £5 000 on that for the correspond. Alaska and Hawaii making long journeys to say member of the Government majority except men was absolutely confined to the regular ing period. This result might be considered attend the conference, The East Iron of the liners trading on the west of China and in the satisfactory having wened to the general de White House was ponverted into a lecture room, Mr. Havalook Wilson, the sailors M.F.
It has been well known for some time that East, which have employed them for years. pressios in trade which had recently pron with plaifrom from which the President Chinese sailors are being daily exploited in the With the advent of the Act I should say 100 or in the fat East and cleowhere, and to the kean delivered his address,
On his right at the mombers of the Port of London to the exolasion of Englishmen, more tramp steamers are carrying them, trad. competition which still continued between the but no Liberal has ever raised his voice in protest.ing exclusively in Western water, including Government Facile cable and the company's Cabinet, on his left the Vice President and He was the members of the Supreme Couri. Before In the House Mr. Havelock Wilnod asked the
the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and to ystem for the Australian trafße.
bowave, happy to my. that they continued to
President Roosevelt Home Secretary "whether he has received any America
called the conference SOLE AGENTS: notwith report from the police authorities with regard Mr. Wilson added that a great demonstrs hold their own in the competition.
of the yaat continent intermingled and to the disturbarcos which have occurred of the tion of protest, in, being arranged for London, standing the strong pressure brought to bear to order, members drawn from all parta chatted together. The Presidential possi. Meroptila Marine Omee, Poplar, in consequence, Frasessions will march from Canning Town upon is commercial community by the loes! of the contemplated engagement of crews of Station, Laman street Station miles gather: Pacific route, and the fact that nearly all Go Fairbanks, and Knox-joked and cheffed each authorities to forward their telegrams-by the bilities, Brysa, Hughes, Johnson, Cartilyon, Chisamos for the steamships Zambesi" and combining at Victoria Park. A similar gat vernimmt telegrams were mant by the later route.ather in the most friendly way. Nothing gould
and that as a great British company, they were
*Strathness."!!
The president of the Board of Trade anza 10g will be held in South Shields on the Zor, He could not but think that this was very unfair, more completely emphasize the fact that there
Chiness boarding house keeper bad not and would not be allowed neces to Board of Trade premises for the purpose of supplying crews of Chinamen to British ships. He was not aware that it had been the practice for many years to prevent British asomen and others from naing the waiting-rooms of mercantile racine offices unless
could prodman sertificates of they disebarge to prove that they were bona-fide seanien. The waiting-roome were open to all persons desiring to sarre...
The recent unusual increase in the number of Chinors seamen shipped in United King- don portare question, and must be regarded and searching be regarded as a matter of serious concern
"Any case in which sufficient evidence is available of a boarding-house keeper having supplied ore, Chinese or thire, will be considered with a view to legal predings."* Mr. Havelock Wilson was not satisfied with this and he questioned Mr. Chgrahill more closely
"I have nothing to prove that the crews in these aanes were supplied by Chinese crimps," replied Mr. Churchill, but if any evidence of an infringement of the Mar- the chant Shipping Act is forthcoming question of instituting legal proceedings" will be considered."
A meeting ment of Chinese en British ships was bold at Cardiff, when Mr. Henson, of Barry, do- olpred that instead of the Union Jack the Cardiff offers of the Shipping Federation
at which Messrs, Michiel Joyce (Limerick), T. Hummerboll (Sunderland), J. W. Taylor (Chester-le-Street), Jenking (Chatham), J. Havelook Wilson (Mindlesbrough), and other members of Parliament will speak Questions to the President of the Board of Trade have been placed on the Horso of Commens papers.
CHINESE TELEGRAFHS.
The Ministry of Posts and Communications
bae now practically decided to buy one of the mercantile shares in the Imperial Chinese Telegraphe Administration in order to secure full control of the sorvos. The following ren
us, for this decision are given ---
mad
"The
SEE THAT YOU · ARE SERVED WITH THE GENUINE ARTIOLE, INSTANCES ARE KNOWN THAT OTHER SPIRITS ARÈ PUT INTO BLACK AND. WHITE WHISKY BOTTLES AND SOLD AS
BLACK AND WHITE WHISKY,
H. PRICE & CO., LTD.
TELEPHONE No. 135:
Hongkong, 12th June, 1908.
IN ALSACE.
WINE, SPIRIT & CIGAR MERCHANTS,
entitled to an equal share of the Govers mentaisis in the United States to-day no distinot THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S CASTLE | busines. The working exposes had amounited, party on lines other than at the White House this morning. Friendly difference there may in round figures, to $54,000 or an increase over b, but from the moment that the wonderfully
Berlin, May 13, thess for the corresponding period of 1906. of
With a display of pomp and circumstance £15.00, of which 418.000, was owing to the magnetis wan, the President, mounts the plat- faot that cable repairabad been far moro aume form, those assembled the most widely repre-worthy of the heyday of medieval pagentry the Emperor to-day put the finishing touch to the rons during the half year under review than sentative assemblage erer gathered ingether in
restoration of the ancient castle of Hohkönigs- the history of the country-were of one mind. they were in 1906. The company had to spaud They were earnestly and enthusiatically with burg, on the lofty aminence of the Vosges over #1,000 in connation with s elsim
sladt. upon at by the owners of the Agincourt President Roosevelt in his efforts to conserve Mountains, near the Alsation town of get
The ceremony as conducted in the fool that steamer Lanchers and chain when Always the moral welfare for the President presence of the Empress and representatives of for poequential damages arising out of the the moral and material welfare of the nation.
fouled one of the company's cables in the never forgets that, and did not this morning, the Reichstag and Landtag, and a large number Tang-te-kiang River. The directors sppealed woond to the moral wolfare, President Roose trominent offcial sad unofficial personages in
the the Imperial provinces, againe Mr. Justin Bray's adverse decision, and clained a "Danimous decision from the felt adroitly declared in his opening ramarka, Judget order, and doblaring that the liability urred when President Roosevelt, referring to Lords Justices of Appeal altering the learned which were wildly obeered.
The dramatic incident of the morning oc- of the company was limited to making compel Congress, said that the co-ordinate branch of sation for the sacrifio of the anchors and lost, bit not further to pay damages resulting this Government had refused him the small 4. To constract new lines in Manchuria,
from sh sacrifice, The notion was eventually appropriation to continue the splendid work of The Waterways Commission. Then he paneed, Mongolia and Tibet and also in some places in China proper for the general improvement of settled on that basia Any other resnit might and with a very emphatic aside for which he is those Lords defled from Schiettetade into their
have won most damaging to the interests of all those who had laid and were work-famous, and every word of which was distinctly ing flagraphio cables, The laying of the audible, added: If they don't vote the appro- Java priation I intend to continue the Commission
taybow." company's now diret cable between and the Cooon, Ishode had been success
Then followed deafening cheers and applause
1. To convert the administration into a Chiness Government department.
2. To increase its capital to at least Tl 8,000,000.
To repair thoroughly all catle and land lines where necessary.
-communications.
of protest gaiest the employerial sanction. The President is conferring fully complished, and the line had been load enough and long enough to reach the the armour, irms, and other equipment being
ought to ly the Chinese fag."
A large number of unemployed British amor assembled at the offices of the Mercantile Marine at Poplar, where a drew was to be engaged for the British steamship "Zambesi," which on her previous voyage arried a Britielz crew. The British seamen learned with indig- nation that Chisamen wore to be employed" on theship. A deputation waited on Mr. Havelock Mercantile Marine offos and interviewed the Wilson, M. P. and he proceeded to the anperintendent, entering a protest against the engagement of the Chinsmen on the grounds that they had been supplied by boarding mastere
5. To reduce the charges, which sro now many times higher than in foreign countries
II.E. Chêng Pi, President of the Ministry, is preparing a memorial on this question for Duko Tsai Tei, President of the Ministry of Finance, as to hor fand may be raised for the purpose, Some bigh authorities in the Cepital du not favour the computery Furahass on the ground thist the Government will lose condence in the matter of future industrial enterprises, if Chimse merchant who have hares in the telegraph lines are sompelled to all them, as the service is a payir por corn though not so prostable as it might be, on
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The great feature of the day was a pageant intended to reproduce a scene which took place into their new possession. The Emperor Maxi- in 1533, when the Lords of Sickingen entered millar, who was constantly in pecuniary diflenities, had pledged the castle to the sons of Frans sou Sichingen, and it was with a prond bearing and a proud following that new honte. The prosession to-day consisted at 11 historio groups in which students, officers, and artisans represente medieval halberdiers, lauce-bearers, and other more or less martial ROBINSON PIANO Co., LTD. followers in the costume of the time, much of oponed for trafic sins the close of the Capital and Pennsylvania Avenue, where Bena-originals from various museums and private The lagth of the one was about 778 cautiosl mile, and the cost. wenld be sharged against the tore Foraker and Rayner this hot day are genere reserve fund during the current half-expounding the Constitution and proving to neeful alternative rate for their Far East year. This now opmmunication should form & trafic, and had it be in operation when the sentrike occurred among the Indian Go. verket telegraph employes it would have sesiste in relieving the congestion occasioned account of heavy working expenses and other during the early days of the strike. The be difficult to imagine. The arrangements were Indian Government authorities shortly after reasons which can only be guessed. In foreign the outbreak fortunately for the cable som countries the Governments give certain subsidies in such big enterpriws: but in munitions passing in transit through India
arrangs with the Eastern and the Eastern telegraphs as well as the C. M. 6. Company land-lan. from China the practice is quite different, for the tenton Companies to work two of their the cable stations at have to pay royalties to the Manchu Government Body and Madres, and in this manner in return for its protection! I am informed on
kout Tle, 300,000 annually as royaly from these two companies,
Both companies
are complaining of bad business and appear to need overhauling, H.
and crimps" who were not licensed to supply good authority that the Government received they are able to forward the Trana-Indian bimself, from reading aunenncements to giving giti by rebuilding the castle in its original form. |
their own satisfaction that such talk is trea furiats do not seems to comprehend is that, while. sonable. The difference which these learned they are hopelessly struggling to interpret the Constitution, the President is carrying by storm the kind of aambiaga that makes Constitutions. A more auspicious opening conference it would perfect, and the work will predsed during the
- Carnegie follows this afternoon with an ad-speech to their Majesties.“ remainder of the week in the White House. dries on ores and minerals, as he saile in the Bitio to-morrow for England. If properly managed tho I'resident seems to be managing trafie torose India with satisfactory results to full instructions as to the relation of the the graphing public and to the Indian mathod of procedure the Conference is bound Govenment. When the strike was over the to be productive of much good,
In concluding his speech on the natural re- land-Juss were again worked by the Govern E. Sheng Kung-pat was one of the principalment, but they were in communication with the sources of the country, Fresident Poorelt
Indian authorities with a view to obtaining, if Band They had assembled to consider a vital
the weightiest problem, now before the
ment of Chibli during the Clino-Japanese War-N10. Daily News.
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THE "MERRY 'WIDOW". HAT.
FEMINING POLLIER,
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Although one item of the wardrobe-tbe. Merry Widow" hat-hus assumed such large
smart woman's toilet have decreased as much as headgoar bas increased in size.
The clinging serpent" skirt is curious "design which was so popular last sensor, contrast to the ombrella "..
Tholog-of-matton" Bleeve would hardly recoguise any resemblance to itself in the modest style which sts to the arm like a glove and is drawn in gaat gathers to the wrist.
Fuusbrdes resemble the minintare parasols which were affa ted by our greatgrandmothers. They will barely over one of the enormons bats, and are carried on a long lender stik.
collections: Fifty horses were also in the and rider. In the group were even obäplaina, precession, with trappings and accoutrements
All the neighbourhood was in festive attim, female asmp followers, soullions, and children.
antiquariona
had and historians, architects, and vied with each other to produce a scene onlenlat ed to make the occasion memorable. There was the usual prologue of trampeters, and fife players reproduced the favourite march of the Sicklagens, and the Imperial Sserolary of State for the Interior delivered an appropriate
The rains of the carlle were pressuled to his Majesty in 1899 by the local authorities, and his Majesty at once decided to do honore to tho As his Majesty considered that the country as well as himself would benefit by sneh a reators- Besmer, and that the Chinese could not speak
tion be asked for a giant of balf the costs from or understand the English language. When
the nation. This was voted, though with con- the Chinese went in to sign the superintendent
considered that the money could be better tested one or two and found that they sould not
siderable reluctance, ss several political parties ques-employed in the interests of the people, and it pass the language test. It was then decided to "tounders of these two companies about thir satiafitory terms could be arranged, the top, because the natural resources of the sympathise with anch a use of public money. proportions, the remaining accessories of a
eatinot be said that the people whole years ago when he was in North Chins noder sign the men on consting articles to proceed from London to Cardiff, but when the Chinese elate Viostoy of Chibli, Il Bung-chang,
Much ridicule has bear passed on the scheme in the Press, and the architects entrusted with the arrived at the Surrey Commercial Docks they But both were taken from his hands in 1905 by Exterion Compania, as they were convinced entry, the final basis of national power and found about two hundred British embjesta on H. E. Yoan Sbil-kai for ftkhola ends. That nob, an arrangement would be for the perpetuity, were in course of rapid exhaustion: board the vessels Thess rare upported by the Viceroy Yang be anctioned the memorial of dock labourers, and eventually & Britisk are Tastai Li, Director of the Foyang official advan-ge in speed and accuracy of all the Already the limit of unsettled land was in work of restoration have been reproached with was taken on. At a meeting at Poplar resoluat. Tientsir, suggesting that the watrol of the nounties they servei. Another quinquennight. They had begun with an unapproached producing a buildingthat is not a copy of the tione on the subject were adopted and ant to Chinese telegraph lines in Manebaria be taken meeting of the International Telegraph. Con. harit ga af forests. More than half of the mains found among the ruine point to the
now being held at Lisbon, timber was gone. They had began with the local members of Parliament.]
fact that a fortress of some. Kind has existed on coalfields more extensive than those of any back from the mercantile telegraph offoe in the ferens was
other nation, and with iron ores regarded as the summit of the bill from time immomorial, A later account says:--
French concession if that Treaty Port because Judging from what appeared in the news
fow weeks
considerable paper
ago, For the presente European sailors and the lines were built by the Provincial Govern misapprehension appared to have existed on the that the end of both iron and soul was in Twelfth Century. The Hohkönigsburg played. izexbaustible, and many experts now declared bat documentary evidence dates only from the firemen of the Ent-end have triumphed in their
the chambers part
of commerce sud tele-
under various Bers opposition to the signing on of Chinese crews
the so sight, The mere increase in their consumption an important role While Westernera ave unable to find work.
grapling public generally as to tion Governments and oable companies at of al during 1987 orar 1906 exceeded the throughout the Middle Ages, and after suptsin
ing a six months', sage it was captured and In anticipation of new efforts being made to
burnt by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War, Gloves have naturally decreased in length ass whip the Chiness who were driven from the SEEING THROUGH A BRICK WALL. the snference in regard to the use of total courumption in 1876. The enormous artifical words in sode telegrama; but the stores of mineral oil and gas were hrgely gons,
In 1845 heroics again came into the possession the sleeve.rept down to maaf them. They only publiation of the Postmaster-Gonoral's letter Their natural waterways were not gone, but
of the Sickingen family, from whom it pissed boast two Futtons, and are made in every colour: to the chambers of commerce on the subject they had been so injured by neglect and other would have. Dade it clear that it was not causes that there was less navigation on them leto private hands. In 1884it was purefused of the rainbow ined with Baqgds.
by the lown of Sohlileindt
Handkerchiefs are all enough to tipkinto The Grand Dake of Baden gave a gala propted to withdras the privilege, bat only toner than there had been 50 years ago. Finally, onderour to have mora clearly deflued the con- they had began with soils of nucrampied for
five-thilling place. They are wraps of lawa ditios as to the "praounceability" of artificial tility, and they had so impoverished them by dinner in the Emperor's honour at the Castle tha parse and do not take up so muclear as
in judicions use and by failure to check the Karlsruhe last night. His Majesty and the and lace, and the most expensive designs are word. In many see code makers had recog erosion that their crop-producing powers was Grand Duke exchanged cordial, toasts. The hand-pailed with clusters of thing dowors, € nited the importance of avoiding combinations which were of debtful pronounceability, but diminishing instead of increasing. It was unpar Grand Duke referred to the ties of closs paints being treated by sonic special process in Ride Orges an unreasonable use of the enabla for the nation or the Stats to permit relationship by to the Emperor was unitod that will wash,
eto avoid exaggeration further cutting of timber save on a any conosion bad been made. It would be readily which would provide that the next ten to his He and reared, the proofs of his The whole tendones ist Mr. John Walialey Lyun, the inventor,
friendship which his Majesty had given in the with thuexception of bate," a West End rediste claims that he has proved by actual experiment undertood that a legraphist could deal more should see the timber increased rather thin days of last, Detobbe who the former said to an "Exptore" representative
rapid and easily with a pronounceable word, that his instrument will:--
fashions in dress that make the latest millinery (1) Allow people in London to so say one inlic could be more quickly grasped and diminished Irrigation and drainage would add Grand Dake died. Balon, he declarede seIt is possible the simple and moderate
remmbered while
i was being transmitted, as enormously to this extent and value of agrion!- true to the Emperor and the Empire, Amerios instantaneously,
tural land, and transportation facilities could be His Majesty, is reply, said tust a few days look so very overpowering. (2) Redect any written messige at once to compared with an arbitrary combination of enormously ingreased by the canalisation of the ago be had stood with the Grand Duke in the The modern woman boarsa olose résom-
lettes requiring a separate effort of attention the most distant places.
(3) Enable any person to see right through for ach letter. Thus graster speed and rivers so he to complete a great system of water are inspiring pressige of the Emperor Francis blancs to a Japanese parasol this season, with any human being or solid anbatances as if they sooney, which were what the public required, ways. But all these various as of naaral Joseph, that inspiring example of monarchies berniender Agary in its sheath like gown and
were obtained, and there was less need for resources were so blagely connected that they fling and principle. The late Grand Dake her gigantic hat, were not there.
The lynnoscope consists of three distinot repetitions and corrections. It was to be hoped should be coordinated and should be treated as had been sach supther pattern of loyal devotion instruments," said the inventor. They are that the condition to pronounceability would part of ous coherent plan and not a haphazard to duty. He fonadad, continued the Emperor,
and piecemealf shion. ve
"barween our Houses friendship which I used in refeeting images like a mirror, and are at the conference be more clearly defined, in
Finally, let us remember that the on heartily traat re unit contine: We desire to heirs of the great generation that These instruments are(1) The operator. toninoy. There was, however, no intention of gravest problem of to-lay, is yet but part of las representaive that he had proof that the
adoping other than a wide and even generour provisions of the naw Act, and of its diet scale, (3) The transmitter (9) The receiver." were being habitually evaded, and expressed The operator is like a large square box, with interpretation, which would cover the, great another and greater problem to which this ferma, Fatherland, and to devote all our conviction that the claim to to British subjects hole at ecob and mounted on the end of a bulk of the codes at present in nee, Spyskmgion is not yet swake, but to which it will wergies to obtaining that respect which is dae put forward on behalf of the Chiness was telegraph pole; while the tracemiller is a similar genually of the present report, be thonghian, awake in ting and with which it must hereafter id us in the conseils of the nations. This we
It contains, however, a telescopic ar- it might be considered fairly satisfactory. He grappleef is into live-the problem of national pan only do if prinses and peoples stand fast an Indian revolutionist who is shpresont unfounded.
ciency, the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety together." *These men, it they were British subjects," rangement
which focusses the image from the condided by moving a resolution for adopting and continuance of the nation. When the people he serai official Norddeutsche Allgemeine student in London, and well-known in Socialist
the sport and approving the dividend and bonus of the United States consciously undertake to fuitung states that the Emperor sent a tele- he declared, "would have what is known as operator.
Dis. A books, containing their discharges At the other end, where the image is to be recommended. Lord Tweeddale seconded
raise themselves as citizens, and the nation and gram to the Imperial Chancellor expressing his a cruel blow to the pioneers of Indian indepen- from other vessels, and an entry showing their refl sted, is another box-like arrangement. At moten. Ia raply to Mr. John Newton, the the States in their several spheres, to the great satisfaction at the successful activity and
મો nationality. They declare they were discharged one end it has a large brass fannd like a phono- ebatman stated that the company mast cordially from foreign vessels, that they have lost their graph, and at the other screen on which the supported coding under all reasonable cond highest pitch of excellence in private, States, patriotic condnet of the Reichstag, gratefully dence, and in all likelihood have put book for a tious. It was for the good of the world at large and national life, and to do this because it is recognising the tireless effor's of the Chancellor considerable time our chance of a general rising -books, and that they were born in Hongkong, image reflected in a looking glass.
"To escape the fate of our arrested Caloitta or some other British territory. If they said "All that is necessary in sending reflections andet the company that ending should be carried the duties of true patriotism, then, and not till and his collaboratort, and expressing the hope
ontielly, and one great reason in favour of that then, the future of this nation, in quality and that they would conduct to the welfare of the comrades, it will be necessary for the other they had been discharged from British ship, any distance over land in to fix a transmitier
in time, will be assured."
Fatherland and encourage the Keiobatag to branches of our organisation to dissolve and systo was that the capacity of the cables was the Board of Trade officials would get socess toon the highest available points hill-top or a
complete auccessfully its great impending destroy their records and stores, tower-and the image is correctly reflected in
Imid. It was therefore desirable that thos
taski-Ex. her papare, and check their statements.
whorished to send long messages should be able to put them into a small number of words, so that the cables.could deal with the traffic.
Board of Trade offices in East India Dock road, strong body of white seafaring men plekoted the offeag again. A large number of police were in attendance, under a superintendent and two inspectors. Mr. J. Havelock Wilcos, M.F.. and other officials of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, were also pissent,
Mr. Wilson promised the Europeans that when the yellow men were tested as to their knowledge of English, or their British oiligenship, as required by the new Merchant Shipping Act, would beat them personally on the former point. Bat the boarding-house masters and the representatives of the shipowners had made other arrangements, and the man wasted to make up a crew for Cardi had been quietly moved to the railway terminus and want on by train to the South Wal-a port. It is not clear bow this will settle the trouble, for Mr. Wilson
at once wired to the agent of the union there, Mr. Dann, and it was confidently expected that the language test would he rigidly insisted upon, if the men were taken on board to sign
степ articles."
The marvels of the lynnoscope, the invention by means of which it is claimed any one aan see round the world, were explained to an "Express" representative by the kvontor..
All the old difficult problem of making brick wall, people invisible seeing through and corresponding direct with friends in New York are solved If the lynnoscope fuifls all its promises
During the morning Mr. Wilson informed ast connected by wires or worked by electricity. order to put some wit for the future to this servation of our natursf resources, though the led na We wish (o be proud of the
"It will be posible to present an actual resetion of the Dog being rar to an audiease
The Aot says that the superintendents the receiver. shall cause the agreements to be read over and explained to each seaman, or they shall ascertain that och eesman understands the same before signing it.
the
at a matinée at any London thestre. I do podarig the busy hours of the day or night. He mean a living cinematograph picture, but an actual reflection of the event.
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might say that 95 per cent. of the company work was coded and only about 5 per cent unded, The Eastern, the Eastern Extension the Western, and the Associated Companies had done everything in their power to help the genul publio to code their social message!; Thomotion was nanimously adopted.
This is how they apply that. They get hold of a No.
I bare seoured porfect reflections at s 1' fireman, or a leading seaman, and if he can understand a little English, they distance of 186 miles, and I have photographed ak him to explain it to the others, I have scenes sighty miles away. men some of them, and they could not under I experimented at Backingham Palace, and stand more than a very few words of English, the lynnoscope made a lady who was present and to ask them to interpret long legas niece of Mr. Frith, the veteran artist- document like a ship's agreement, with its apparently invisible. regulations and fines and diet wcale, is simply useless.
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Thomas Lipton and other gentlemen have interested themselves in the invention, and bave written expressing themelves perfectly satisfied with the experiments.
The statistics-d crime in the German army horn steady decrease in the number of convic flow for illtreatment of inferiors, which have "I have been at work on this invention for fall from 770 mees in 1901 to 408 in 1005, nine years, and was working all the time on a Condering that the number of non-commi pre-concaired sebemes A curious accident, sign officers is around 80,000, this represents however, belped me to the solution.
a setantial improvement. In the same period css of insubordination bare decreased by 20 parent, while sots of personal violence on the part of the mea have dropped from 1,656 indices in 1901 1,341, in 1906. The record of tty thefts in barracks also shows a tendency
"What good is such a crew in emergencies, when the leading man, or serang, might be in bed when an order was to be given to avoid disester F
What we ask is that there shall be oflola! interpretera, without bias, to explain the agree
was working in my study with my sppa- menta. I have seen officials allow the very orimp who has procured the men to act as ratus, and looking through it ear what appeared interpreter of the agreement to them Whas to be a hole in the place of the for. 1 found to they shir English sailors they want to see their my surprise that I could see right through book with twenty or thirty ditebarges in it. carpet and floor to a transmitter in the cellar,
I have been awarded diploon at the Eaven But they will ship 'Chiraman without any guarantee that he has eve; best, to sea sa stions Exhibition for optical discoveries, and am willing to show what I can do lṣfore, any som- sailor or fireman."
mittes of scientific experts.” -
to decrease..
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 16th at 11.55 am The barometer has fallen moderately in E. Japan, and risen slightly in W. Japan. The depression, which appears to be shallow, in lying over the E. part of the Sex of Japse.
The barometer has a ten tency to fall over 8. China and the Philippines.
Pressure is relatively low over the continent tetween Tongking and the Yangtze valley. It remains high over the Pacific in the neighbour. hood of the Bosios,
Fresh S. monsoon may be expected in the Forsioss Channel and the N, part of the thins Воз.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours eading at 10a.m. to-day, "0 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours siding at yoom to-day is as follows:
ODE TO AMERICA.
MR. WILLIAM WATSON'S TRIBUTE TO
L'UNITÉD STATES.
"Evon-boots and shoes are less conspicuous. The wide:Gibson tits, with their enormous battery bows, are not nearly so popular. Narrow shoe laces have come into vogue again."
CONSPIRATORS' PLANS.
BITRAORDINARY INTERVIEW,
An Evening News representative interviewed
cirolee.
"The discoveries in Caloutta," he said, "are
and revolution.
"Our grievances in a nutshell are that we are governed by a foreign Power, and subjected to foreign lawa, administered by white judges. And what we are aiming at is a maited LadinD Empire governed by Indians and independent of any foreign Power.
"At the beginning of the year the League of A New York World" special sumber isaned Patriots, formed some two years ago, had well recently is one of the most remarkable achieve.over 200 branches, ments in modern journalism. It consists of 200 pages, and contains messages from distinguished Americans and fro enticent men in Europe, Tho special aumber marked the twenty.fifth anniversary of Mr. Palitzer's ownership of the "World,"
Amoar the contributors is Mr. Wm. Wet- con, who has written a stately ode to the In. vincible Republic," from which the following lines are quoted
In peace to-day Thou sit'st between thy scene; but when Fate 8. wiode, fresh Was at thy making, and ondowed thy soul Hongkong & Neighbourhood, or strong With may gitta and costly, she forgot qually showery To mix with these genius for repose; Same as No. 1. Wherefore a stng is ever in thy blood, Formoss Channel... South coast of China between Bans as No. 1. And in thy marrow a sublime uoreet.
Hongkong and Lamöcke.
And thus then keepest hit the forge.of life, South coast of Ubins between fame as No, 1. Where man is still re-shapen and re-made,
Hongkong and Haivan....
With fire and slingour,
"All: over India there was a complete net work of groups well supplied with explosives manufactured at home by native scientists.
"The leaguers were now wailing for their alance, which lay in a successful rising and invasjon from the
north,
Then came a double hitsb-the rising in the north, although well prepared, was a failure, and a premature bomb explosion in the south brought the police on the tracks of the league.
"Thus au elaborate and well-prepared plam was ingloriously wrecked."
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