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for the Hongkong Fire Brigade made under the provisions of the Fire Brigade Ordinancs, of December, 1882, and published in Gordament 1868, (Ordinans No. 2 of 1868), on the 8th day Notification No. 473 of 1832.
1 importation of American products means a
large falling off in the revenues of the governor-in Council has cancelled the regulations vernment derived from the Customs, and the consequent increase of taxation from other sources at a time when the country cannot stand the increase in view of the fact that the economic conditions CO. worse than they have ever been." The object of the rider to the hostile resolution is declared to be simply "ts keep before the minds of the American people the desire of the people of the Philippines for the inde" pendence of their country." A Committee delegated to lay before the Philippine WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS Commission, the objections of the Assembly
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It is notified in the Gazette that Friday, the to the proposal appears to have failed to 19th instant, being a public holiday, and Monday, secure the endorsement of the Commission, the 12th instant being a Bank holiday, under
An action has been started in HBM's Supreme Court for China against the China Mutual Life Insurance Company, the plaintifï---- native named Din Lau-sai of Foochow bring. ing suit to recover Tls, 15,000 on an insurance policy. By leave of the Court evideos will be taken before H.B. M. Consul at Foschow; prior to the case being tried in the Supreme Court at Shanghai. Mesars, W. B. Fleming and F. M. Brooks, counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Loftus E. P. Jones, representing the defendants, have
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ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP WEATHERS A GALE.
RIVER STEAMER DISABLED.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
Tha los war is opportune. The warm days
It was rather unfortunate that so many Sensational reports were circulated in the sity official changes should have taken place on the on Saturday morning that the steamer San first of April. Suggests that somebody has Cheong had foundered on her voyago from been "had." Canton during Friday night and that many tion proved, fortunately, that those alarmist are coming and we can view their advent hundreds of people had been drowned. Investiga. statements were without foundation, the basis more comfortably when we rofoot that we man. being the fact the San Cheong had har stern tabs have more ive in our drinks than before. damaged and that she was making water so
The boys who chase the balls on our tonnis LONDON, April 2nd.
tadly that Captain McGinty decided to beach Count Zeppelin's airship left Friedhor, which he did off Castle Peak. The Hoi Tung courts have not advanood so far as those in distress and rendered assistance. This steamer club for a higher rate of componention for an o'clock for Munich. The occupants
took off the passengers and brought them to afternoon's work. They wanted thirty conta“ richshaven yesterday morning at nine coming on the soone responded to the signals of Manils where they have gone on strike at one instead of the regulation ten cents, but whether vainly attempted to land but were Hongkong,
1 the North East in When Captain McGinty, in charge of the there were bincklogs or whether they were made San Cheong, discovered the mishap to this to see wisdom they returned to business at the driven
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coming. The discovery was made of Castle boycott. So far we have been spared a labour. Peak and though the Hot Tung was two dispute of this sort, and we may rejoice in our miles off when the San Cheong's digants were good fortune, for would it not be terrible to observed, Captain A. C. Broadbridge lost no time chase our own tennis balls on s hot afternoon? in altering his conreo and making for the dis- abled steamer. On learning the nature of the accident which had befallen the San Cheong the master and crew of the other vessel devoted themselves to the work of taking the passengers LONDON, April 3rd.
off the injured steamer, a task which was eness. The Transvaal Legislative Asally accomplished. Thereapon Captain Mc.
a motion for a Ginty beashed his steamer, оп the Constitution sembly has rejected
question. referenduni
Sir James F. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A., South Central Pretoria, paid a tribute to the dignified attitude of the Dutch since the war,
Wards.
Who said Hokong was in a bad way Baancially? Let him retract. Let him eat the leak. Let him for ever hold his peace. We are not in a bad way. On the authority of the Colonial Secretary--and one would as soon think of disputing with a lady as with the gentle-
iman who presides over the Colonial Office-we know that we can spend the little matter of eleven thousand dollars without its affecting our mone tary balance. Revenues may shrink, but maskes! wo are always able to foot whatever bills are
presented, and keep smiling.
It was a fortunate orrence that the steamer WAS on her return voyage. At this time most of the Chinese are preceeding to their ancestral homes to participate in the tomb-worshipping,
How curions! Pardon, dear reader, the pan is The San Cheong, which is owned by the not intentional. The exclamation was inspired and as a result very few were travelling down
Cheang On Steamboat Company, was sunk in on reading "An odiot, by the request of Im- the typhoon of 1906 and also had a bad time in perial Household issued yesterday appointing the typhoon of last year. She is a twin saree.. Shih Shu, the Grand Secretary, to perform for the Young Emperor on the date of the vessel of 692 tons, and is commanded by Captain the work of binding up the hairs to form a cus
expiration of the Imperial Mourning." Motinty.
and the Assembly therefore proposes to the Public Holidays Dedinance, 1875, will be gale. Cavalry were sent in pursunt vessel, and ascertained its serious nature, he old rate. Had they bees Chinese boys they appeal dirent to Washington through its observed as Government holidays. It is also The aeronauts landed at three o'clock | signalled for assistance which was soon forth.yould probably have combined a strike with a
notified that His Excellaroy the Governor has in the afternoon at Dingolfing. special represenativeat Congress. It strikes been pleased to appolut Saturday, the 10th the outsider as very extraordinary that the instant, to be observed as a public day The airship showed remarkable leaders of opinion among the natives of throughout the Government Departments, ex-stability in weathering the storm. the islands should have only now discovered cept the Police Magistrates' Department: objestions to a proposal which has bean prominently before the country for several When petitions were being signed years... in July last in all the principal cities of the Archipelago in favour of mutual free trade between the islands and the United States no voice of protest that we can remember made itself heard. Therefore, at this late hour, the news that the Filipino Assembly and the native shambem of commerce are opposing the measure must come as a great surprise to the Washington legislature. FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR. Whether the economic reasons now adduced against the measure are sound or not, there will certainly be a disposition to regard this audden change of opinion as dictated by the political consideration embodied in the rider to the resolution passed by the Assembly against the proposal. At any rate it seems too late in the day now to be advancing economic objections against a proposal which has so long been advocated without any indication of strong opposition, and it certainly does not enhance the world's res. pect for the capacity of the Filipinos for self-government to learn now that their previous approval of Free trade was due to the misunderstanding that it meant only the free importation of the products of the Philippines into the United States and not the free importation of American products
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HONGKONG, APRIL 5TH 1909.
THOUGH a large number of natives of the Philippine Islands on the Fourth of July last signed the monster petition in favour of Free Trade between the islands and the United States, yet now that the proposal is embodied in a Bill at present before the Washington Congress there appears to be considerable body of public opinion in the islands strongly opposed to the measure The Filipino Asserably has passed a resolution disapproving it, and the Filipino Chamber of Commerce has expressed the opinion that the free importation of American products
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A disastrous fire for the second time in two Wednesday afternoon with an intensity that swopt the Pace district of Manila last left a large part of the district in rains but oaused no loss of life nor injury. There started from a muse still unknown in tha interior of the district near the Concordis College and within an hour swept away asteral kundred nipa houses and about 25 residences of Europeans and Americans to the value of perhaps P102,000, besides burning the Santa Ans telephone cable, tying up the street railway system for nearly two hours, and potting the Paco fire engine temporarily out of commission.
Returns of the average amount of bank notes. in circulation and of specio in reserve in Hong kong, daring the month ended 31st March, 1909, as sertified by the managers of the respec tive banks
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China Hongkong and Shangbai wasaplar Bir or China,
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The appointment of Mr. Ho Kon Tong to be a member of Sanitary Board vice Mr. Fung Wa Chan is gazetted.
H. I.H. Princess Kuni of Japan is a passenger
by the N. Y. K. steamer Aiuta-Maru, dus here to-day. Her Imperial Highness ie on her way to Europe to rejoin her husband,
Total
Average Specie in Amount Reserve.
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8 3,240,913 2,400,000
WEDDING
The Rt. Hon. General Louis Botha the Prime Minister, said the Dutch were proud to be subjects of the Greatest Empire of the world.
AN ABORTIVE BANKERS' CONFERENCE.
LONDON, April 3rd. The final conference of English, French and German Bankers at Paris with regard to a proposed inter- national loan to China proved abortive.
Salvage operations were commenced on Satur day afternoon by Mesars Carmichael and Clarke, when the hole was plugged and the water pamped out of the steamer. She was patched and towed to Hongkong yesterday for repairs, Happily the weather was favourable to these, operations.
THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE,
The following Regulations made by the Merolant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance Governer-in- onncil under Section 23 of the No. 10 of 1899), on the 26th day of March; 1909, are published in the Gazette:-The Instructions for Owners or Agents of Infected Vesseis made by the Governor-in-Council on the 23rd day of November, 1908, and pablished
A fortnight ago I had a reference to the endless chain prayor which is boing circulated in Hongkong by soms misguided zealots. The subject has evidently inspired a correspondent who, I am afraid, is sarcastic, for he writes as follows:
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SNOW BALL SEELES NO 2. Oh, whatans Seim!
Oh, whatana Briam!
Oh, whatana Siam!
Ana Bism!
Tune" God Save the King."- The above extract from the Siamese national anthem should be sung, three times for nine consecutive days before breakfast and whilst fasting. A copy of it, signed, should be sentab nine different acquainteases, with a request to "Pass it on." The results will be found surpris-
We have had to admit that our lady friends
The Anglo-French delegates with drew their offers of a loan.
The German group, represented by 56,824 Never, concinded an agreement for the 1906, are amended by the deletion of Laing, the recipients being in cordial agreement,
for Instruction 2 of the following:- 2. In $16,897,173 15,400,000 loan on terms which do not include struction 1 (6) and by the substitution
those declared by the Protocol signed itdition the Owners or Agents aforesaid shall by residence here have lost the bloom on their by the three groups prior to the Con- pay to the Government such charges as the cheeks which first charmed our masculine eyes, his hand, may cartily to have been incurred by the faces that are so pallid Tread that a beauty ference to afford a minimum securityHealth Officer of the Port, by certifics to under but we may yet hope to see the rosy rod suffusing ing and disinfection of the vessel, or of the for the proper application of the loan. Government for medical comforts, for the clean
passengers and crew have been removed, and for the burial of the bodies of any of the passengers THE UNIVERSITY BOATRACE.madise on board of her, from which the or crow who may die in the Station. They shali also refund to the Government the cost of scavenging the Station at a rate of 3 cent per head per day of the passengers and crow.”
At St. John's Cathedral on Saturday the marriage of Mr. Kenneth K. Wilson of Yokohama, to Miss Lilian Mary Witchell, daughter of Mr. J. Wilchell of the Green At the Magistracy on Saturday Mr. F. Island Cement Company, was solemnized, the Haveland fined a native $100 for taking two Rev. F. T. Johnson conducting the ceremony. wore a beautiful gown of white ninan de soie, boxes of dynamite on board the U.S.S. Hulena. The bride, who was given away by her father, trimmed with Brussels lace and white ribbozi,
without distinct marks.
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Two cases of plague were notified on Batur day-one in Gongh Street the othor at Tsim sha-teis. This brings the total for the year ap to 25, which is about Are below the number for the corresponding period of last year.
and finished with a spray of orange blossoma. She was attended by Miss Edio Witchall (sister) and Miss Minnie Labort as bridesmanide, and Mr. L. J. Blackburn supported the bridegroom
LONDON, March 3rd.
Oxford won the boat-race by 8 lengths; time, 19 minutes 50 seconds, [Cambridge won last year by 24 lengths in 19minates 19 seconds.]
blush by an injection of harmless vegetable doctor has discovered a means of taktoring a
in its effect that the patient has been spending weeks in the sunshine, and, unlike rouge," the colouring under the skin. The process suggests
blush will not wash off. No need to mand the wife for a trip to Japan now when she she looks as healthy and a beautiful as the looks palo, Operate the tattooing noodle and when blushing Hebe she cannot have the hardihood to Ask the "man wot pays” to give her an oxcursion
ns best man. The bridesmaids wore beautiful THE CHINESE MINISTER TO (Ordinance No. 10 of 1999), on the 26th day of We have a fellow footing for the hero of the
ivory white silk dresses and Leghorn hate which
the
It was reported in Paris last month that extensive orders for guns, rifles and ammnui-were trimmed with forget-me-nots and daisies. tion are to be placed in Frades by the Chinese A reception was held afterwards at Government. Members of the Chinese mission Hongkong Hotel. were visiting the principal arms factories in this connection.
The British cruiser Andromeda which brenght out reliefs for several vessels on the China Station, left for home on Saturday. She took her departare at day break the sailors on board cheering and the band playing as she steamed out of the harbour.
JAPANE E JUGGLERS COMEDY COMPANY,
RUSSIA.
LONDON, April 3rd. The new Chinese Minister to Russia has presented his credentials to
the Tear.
A well-filled house greeted the Japanese
THE WARD COMEDY CO. Jugglers Comedy Co. at the Hongkong Cine matograph building (opposite the Central
The repertoire of Mr. Hagh J. Ward's Lon Market) on Saturday night, and there is not thoroughly enjoyed itself, for the performance the Theatre Royal on Easter Monday, 12th inst., the slightest doubt that the large audience dom Comedy Co. whose season commences at A is as novel as it is interesting and clever. The consists mainly of the latest English successes of Bachelor's Honeymoon" is described by the Wildly picturesque was the tattoo given by wonder of the evening was Professor Kikugoro the lighter comedy order. The first play
" comedy the Hongkong-singapore Battalion Boyal who turned ashes into curios, did the "lighting North China Daily News as Garrison Artillery on the ground of the United change-artist" tricks to perfection, performed which goes with a breathless rash, and it was fakes opsad hurrielbrough bysreally first-class Services Club at Kowloon on Saturday evening hat tricks which would have astonished, most difficult to accustom som what beduled exte Major Philips and the officers of the battalion cricketers, and crowned his exploite with the lightning dash with which the dialogue was were "at home" to their friends on the occasion what is styled the "Great Water Act. company. Shenghai's expectation have been
superlatives may
J. Ward and his Mr. James T. Du Boig has been appointed The Professor did not strike the rock reaed in their entirety, and plentiful stock over EM apparently empty bowl and a consul general of the United States at Singapors in this event, but he waved his wand Mr. Du Bois is a very well-known American
spray of water shot towards the telling
Two traders named Carroll and Wolf are
of
upan
The following Balas made by the Governor. in Council under Bub-section (8) of Bection 4 of of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899,
March, 1909; aro also published':
The amended rules for the conduct of examina- tions for certificates in the Mercantile Marine made by the Governor-in-Conncil on the lat day of December, 1908, and published in Govern mont Notification No. 912 of 1908, are hereby
amended
story told by Sir James Dewar, and though he is Seotch we cannot help regarding him as a brother, Sir James relates how when in the Highlands of Eastland one summer, he stopped at a farmhouse for a cup of milk. "What & superb place to live in," he remarked to the farmer. "Ou, nye," he answered, "it's s' right;
but hoo wad ye like to have to walk fifteen mile (a) by the deletion from rule 20A of the ke time ye wanted a wee glass o' whisky!" words "For the voluntary examination in "Why don't you get a bottle and keep it in the signalling, candidates must be able to make house?" Sir James suggested. The farmer In Morse and Semaphure signals at the rate shook his head sadly and said, "Whisky won't prescribed in Board of Trade Circular 1444" keep." Aye, we've all realised that, even in this
(b) by the substitution in rate 208 (5) of
part of the world." the words made by the Governor-in- Connell for the words (1904) issued by the Board of Trade.”
Can a woman lie? It would be a braves man who would answer the question in the affirmative in the presence of one of the fairser," though it does not require so much courage to make the assertion in the columns of a Lowe- paper as is being done in America. An Italian The brutal murder committed on the Peak professor is quoted as having said that "no
THE ABERDEEN MURDER.
to do jusce to gue drawn Boad last week is still shaded in mystery woman can get along without lying at least a
ollowing "A Bachelor's Honeymoon" on
The additional evidence gaffed by the police hundred times a day," but chivalrously adds
will in all probability prova a hard one to for in doing so I would condemn women: their
into the islands should be limited to agricuLand formerly editor of the National Republica Another motion saw another spray shooting Tuesday 13th inst. will to prevented the greatest has not afforded any valuable clue, and the case I never could bring myself to condoma lying, tural and industrial machinery and other
a Washington newspaper. He was consulat machinery useful for exploiting the hidden Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, and afterwards at wealth of the country. The Chamber, which Leipzig, He has been editor of the laws of the sprays of water shot up from all party Bold". This piecs is now nearing its 700th unravel. The murdered man was last seen in prevarications are part of the delicate comedy formerly favoured no limit to the free in- Department of State since 1901. portation into the United States of the pro- ducts of the Philippine Islands, has changed reported to have been murdered by the outlaw its opinion and accepts Ortain limitations Fikiria and his band at Siminor Philippine which are proposed by Congress, but asks Islands between four and six o'clock on the that no limit to free importation should be morning of March 16th, Siminor is a sai. | provided by the spectators into umbrellas. Not Positively huris you to laugh any more imposed on hemp. According to the Ameri. place on the Sulu Sea and is within the zone can newspapers published in Manila theof the outlaw's operations. Regulars and Cons
tabalary are working on the usse.
a barber's shop at Aberdeen, where he called for of life." But the courtesy of the Italian is far performance in the capital, and it will be interes
sshave, and another strange Chinese followed eclipsed by the Attorney-General of Tenessee. up from an assistant's hood, and subsequently London snocess of the day" When Knings were of the stage, slackening or increasing in ting to local playgoers to learn that Mr. 1.force at the Professor's will. The lady juggler Hogh J. Ward secured a complete replies of the did some very olover work with the mysterions original product ex at Wyndham's theatro by him into this shop, leaving again just after the When a woman swore that her husband charged production is "The New Clown" of which alleged to have stolen a razor from the barber, question, afterwards, on being confronted with change box, while the Professor's assistant arrangement with Nomos Jose: The third visitor from Shanghai. The second man was with murder had been at home on the night in brought forth a score or more of umbrollae from The Englishman, Calcutta, said :——
hostile attitude of the Filipino Assembly towards the Payne Bill is inspired by the
a small piece of cloth, and turned handkerchiefs
It
Larou
It is a painful play After half an hour it but this the latter denied. The murderer chose her husband's confession, admitted that she had At as the place of attack an elevated part of the said the thing which was not and begged leave close wil postess the fest thirst in Peak Road, from which he could see a long to amend her testimony, the Attorney-General distance in either direction. It also happened gallantly repudiated the insinuation of a barris. Society the least interesting item on the programmo the world".
Mr. Kopkinson", a satire on English was the famous Cherry dance in which six from the slater pan of B. C. Carton, follows on to be a quiet part, and on one side of the road ter that she must bare told an antrath and was a steop precipice. There were indications declared I want to go on record as ́ssying Japanese actresses took part, receiving quite a Thursday 15th and is said to be a cattə sil
that the assailant had attempted to throw is that a woman cantot lie. It is abhorrent to Mr. A. W. Pontins, of the American Con.oration from the audience. Altogether, the who love legitimate comery. On Friday 16th
drama entitled The Fencing Master,
more difficult than he had expected owing to mistaken or misled." With such conflicting in which the true acting qualities of the Washington, en route for Swatow, to which appeared in the Colony, afd requires to be seen
mcipals will be revealed, white on Salday the dense scrub, and probably being in a hurry opinions, the mere man may wonder "where '# 17th the audience will be entertained by thosuo- the prospect of the attainment of indepen-place he has been appointed us Consal. Mr. to be thoroughly appreciated. dence for the islands. This fear was, in fact, Pontins came to China several years ago, and,
the afternoon of Saturday 17th the body by the roadside, partly concealed by would like to be described as a prevaricator metibe of "The New Clown" will be given, stones. The motive of the murder appears to she would not object so seriously to being told expressed in a rider to the resolution passed after studying in Peking as a student inter
ceaful Landon extravaganza "The talk of the depart from the scene of his crime, he left are," but it seems to me that though no lady The C. & M. str. Zare left Manila on the to which children will be admitted at hall have been revenge rather than robbery, for a that her infirmity is not dishonesty but merely by the Assembly, but it is denied by mem- pester he was appointed Vice-Consul-in charge
Por IQ.M. str. Prins Ludwig left Shanghai Price to all parts, The box phins for these number of subsidiary coins and two pawn tickets mental obliquity.
performances will be opened at 8. Mourie & Co's Ltd on Wednesday morning.
idea that the Bill would detrimentally affect anler Service, reached Shanghai Inst week from performance is the best of its kind that has the Company will spear in & new comedy;victim over this precipica, bat finding the task nature to believe that she can: she may be..
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
bere of the Assembly that this constitutes at Tientein, and afterwards Vice-Consul-in-3rd just, and is dus hore to-day at 6 pm. their predominating objection to the pro- charge at Nowchwang. Ho proceeds to his new
post after a week'e stay in Shanghai. posal. What they say is that unlimited free,
on the 3rd inst, at 8 pm, and may be expected here to-morrow at 7am.
Town.
from Canton were found on the dead man.
RODERICK RANDOM,