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Taking into consideration "the economiotages in the Hupeh province more far-reach- and geographical gravitation" of certaining than the public apparently realise, not parts of the Chinese Empire, Russia defini-only a railway connection between the three tively engaged not to seek for her own treaty ports on the Yangtze river, namely, account, or on behalf of Russian subjects or Hankow, Sha-si, and Iclang, covering to of others, any railway concessions in the thirds of the distance westward to the Sze- basin of the Yangtze." Now ten years after chuan border, but also a branch line running this compact was entered into we sea Bassis from this main line northward to the formally communicating to the Waiwupu important inland port of Siangyang, once at Peking that in view of Russians interests the projected terminus of the Pekin Syadi at Hankow (where there is a Russian cate's railway, and thence eastward Concession), and also in view of her Peking-Hankow truck line." America has intercats in the tea trade of the Yangtze acquire a stake in the railways; Now comes Russia, and as other countries are region, Russian fluancers, represented by the Russo Chinese Bank, sball participate at present discussing the relation of invest ments to prestigo in China, we may possibly in the Hankow railway loans. Strictly
learn by and bye of other similar demands, speaking, of course, to allow Russia to participate in theas loans would not be to alienate" territory either "ander lease, mortgage or any other designation," nor would it be securing to her a railway concession in the sense the words were
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the time, and it will doubtless be argued that so long as Rossian financiers do not monopolise a loan in the Yangleze Region, Russia cannot be regarded as contravening the strict letter of the engagement into which she entered with England in 1899. But there can be no question whatever that the demand which Russia in at present making on the Chinese Government is a fagrant violation of the whole spirit of the engagement.
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Singapore wishes to have the oxample of Hongkong followed in providing more facilities for giving alarms of fire.
The year 1908 was not a prosperous one for mining in Malayn owing to the low prices pre- vailing for tin.
The Bishop of Singapore will be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, on or about the last day in August.
The formal opening of the new railway station at Shanghai, which is the terminus of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, took place last Saturday,
P.C. Adams charged the masters of six sampans with anchoring their boats within one hundred yards of the foreshore at Yaumati
Defendants were fined $2 mach
H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok is anxious to meet the desire of British subjects who wish to know their position under the Anglo-Siamese Treaty, and he asked them to meet him collectively at the Legation on July
12th.
The one hundred per cent. dividend just declared by the Rodjaag Lebong Gold Mining Company sinks into insignificance when com- ared with the distribution for 1908 ccently
announced by the Dordt Petroleum Company, which bores for oil in Java. Its profit, that
year, came to 4,306,000 guildors. The dividend declared amounted to 650 per cent! It stood at 550 per cent, in 1907.
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FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS.
LOCAL SPORT,
WATER POLO SHIELD COMPETITION.
Two matches in the third round of the Water Polo Shield Competition were played at the V.B.C, enclosure last evening in the presence of a fair number of spectators, and both games ended in a win for the civilian teams by a comfortable margin. In the first game,
V.R.C. V. HUFFS,
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the players were:
V.R.C.: F. K. Tata; A. E. Alvoa and A. H Carroll, L. E. Lammert, P. M. Bomedios and J. M. Roza Pereira,
LONDON, July 21st. ~ M. Artiste Briand, the Minister of Justice and Public Worship in the French Cabinet, is mentioned most Buffs: Barrand; McMahon and Burke:
beat such a prominent team as the V.R.C.. Cloak; Smith, Stiff and Vincer.
a consequently expectations were realised. The
N. D. L. STEAMER ASHORE.
raise money for the rolief of the distressed it is reported that he and several of Prince Ching is using his best endeavours to prominently for the Promiership, and
people in Kausn, Besides subscribing five thousand taels himself, he has asked Princes Su the retiring Ministers will form and Li and other distinguished mon to subscribe Cabinet. according to their means and has proposed to form a Relief Committee in Peking to raise subscriptions from all classes of the community. The unparalleled success of the Peking- Hankow railway sluce Its redemption has so impressed upon H. E. Han Shil-chang the advantages of having the railways managed by the Chinese themselves, that he has proposed to Peking Hankow Railway from next year for the purpose of redeeming the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
set asido a part of the annual net profits of the
It is reported that the Acting Viceroy of Chibbi is very anxious to recover the foreign Settlements in Tientsin. His Excellency Na Tung is now reported to have instructed the
the time she entered into the compact Russia without a permit during prohibited hours Tiontain Tactal to negotiate with the Commals
had a well-defined "sphere of interest" in Manchuria, which she completely lost es a result of the war with Japan. Had she been able to maintain the dominant position in three strengths, containing 3%; 10% and 20% she had acquired in Manchuria, she would
of pure carbolic acid.
bot now in all probability be concerning herself with railway loana in the Yangtare Region; but circumstances have evidently
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forced her to the conclusion that this is now the only means of saving her political influence from utter extinction in China. There does not appear to be any superfluous money in Russia for investment abroad indeed, in order to finance her own railway projects, which require an immense amount CARBOLIC ACID of capital, she ha to resort to foreign loans. The fact that the Russo-Chinese Bok, which is a State institution, is named as the
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Correspondents must forward their names and
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Editor, not for publication but as evidence of
good faith.
Special sermons will be preached in S. John's
the Missions to Sesmen. The Rer. C. E. Cathedral on Sunday next, July 25th, in aid of
Thompson, B.A., Chaplain of the Mission to Semen, will preach at Matine, and the preacher at ovoning will be the Bishop of Victoris,
One of two Greek prisoners extrudited from
singapore to Saigon jumped overboard when rearing Saigon and swam the river. A search was instituted and it was found he had taken refuge in a tree. Honger, hovovar, brought him down and he fell into the hands of the police.
An Indian watoliman engaged at the Mutual Stores reported to the police yesterday that somebody had stolen from his residence in 4 lane off Queen's Road Crol a trunk contain ing clothing to the val of $22, a promissory Supreme Court for 201 note for 840, and a de; it receipt from the
Three Chinese fishermen appeared before Mr. charge of Bahing with dynamite. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday on a Bergeant Brazil observed the man from a hillside near Stanley and despatched police to arrest them. The first defendant was fined $10 or foarteen days, and the other two were find $2 each, in default seven days' imprisonment.
bour-master, Captain Smeaton, of the steamer At the Marine Court yesterday before the Har- Shui On, prosecuted his chief offeer named Hanlin for disobedience to his lawful orders The offences were stated to have taken place on
for the restoration of the powers of policing the Settlements to China, which he considers the first step towards the recovery of the Settlements.
The honesty of Ynan Shih-kai is now assured, It is reported that H. E. Na Tung has tole graphically memorialized the Throne that from enquiries made among the officials he finds there has boon no misappropriation of the public but that the accounts of the Chihli Viceroyalty monies by Yuan Shit-kai or Yang Shih-king, are in a most confused state and are being duly investigated,
The following problem is being tackled in Ceylon-A shoots B in Kalutare on a Monday. B dies of the injury in Colombe on the Thursday following. B was, therefore, murdered. by A. On what day was B murdered? Surely not Monday, because he was alive on the Tuesday and Wednesday following. He was not murdered on Thursday either, because no violence was used on him on that day. Where was B mardered? It was not in Kalutara, because he was alive in Colombo, and did not lave it. He was obviously not murdered in Colombo.
LONDON, July 21st.
It was not expected that the Buffa could
fact cannot be gainsaid, however, that the Buffs are 匡 team of rare quality, and with more practico and a competent in- structor, the regimental name would stand very high in the list of outranta for the Water Polo Shield. There are some strong swimmers in the The attempt to refloat the N. D. L. team, and some compotent players, the conspi- cuous ropressz tatives being Barrand ́ ́and steamer Dorflinger" has been un-Cloak. The former, who was custostion of successful, and it is feared the under-the goal, inde some remarkably clever
SOVOS in the
of strenuous
oppo- sition, while Cloak, who had not the same taking will prove very difficult.
opportunities as in a previous match, still showed SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
that he was ̧.· P.- player of more than ordinary ability, and can whom the Bafls could not afford to lose. As already stated, it was practically a foregone conclusion that the VR.C. would win, but at the same time it must be admitted that the Buffs played an excellent game and deserved a better fats..
Finak: V.B:C., 7; Buffs, 2,goals.
SERIOUS FIGHTING.
LONDON, July 21st. In view of the situation in the Melilla Hinterland, Spain has decided to meet all General Marina's require- ments for reinforcements.
A despatch has been received announcing that serious fighting took place between Spaniards and Moors,
five this morning. The Spaniards lasting from six o'clock yestereve to
suffered considerable losses.
Reinforcements are leaving Madrid amid a tremendous uproar of the populace, who are opposed to the war. Spanish securities have fallen four points on the Madrid Exchange.
THE NEW GOVERNOR OF MALTA.
LONDON, July 22nd. * Lt. General Sir H. M. Leslie Rundle, K.C.M.G., has been appointed Governor of Malta.
THE PORTE AND CRETE.
LONDON, July 22nd.
the Powers protecting Crete, strongly The Porte, replying to a Note from
objects to the delay in the solution of
CORINTHIANS v. 87TH c. RO.. Nart to eu ar the suclosure were teams ro- presenting the Corinthian Yacht Club and the 87th Co. ILG.A., and the match proved an easy one for the Corinthians. The teams catered
were:
Corinthians: Summers; Witchell nud
Cooks; Forbes; Wilson, O. R. Chunyut and
Beriven.
87th Co. Brown, Ripley and Sale; Fielder; Nash, Baldwin and Robinson.
From the sound of the whistle the Corinthian umed the aggressive, and their superior play
baffled the gunners throughout Cooke was
especially prominent as an excellent shooter, scoring six of the eleven goals registered by the Jachtamon. Forbes added another three to the total, Wilson one and Witchell one.
Final
Corinthians, Il goals; 87th Ce., nil.
PRESENTATION TO CAPIAIN AND MRS. F. A. BROWN,
A large and representative pumber of the Wancbai Wesleyan Church congregation and friends gathered in the Sailors' and Boldiers'
Home on Wednesday evening to do honour to Captain and Mre. F. A. Brown, the Rov, R. Ellison presiding. During the evening Rev W. J. W. Anderson, M.D., of Fatalna, presented Capt. Brown with a silver kettle, stand, and lamp for his wife, a set of gold buttons for hin- self, and silver-mounted bair-brush for his sou parting token of affection presented to Capt. Max. The inscription read as follows A
and Ms. Brown by the congregation and
A. S. WATSON & CO.. financial organ for the purpose of furnish- ing capital for the railway enterprises in the Yangtze Region makes it additionally clear that the aim is entirely political. The Russian population at Hankow does not amount to one hundred souls, and neither Russia's interests at Hankow nor her interests in the toa trade of the Yangtze which is one and the same thing-would be likely to suffer through the absence of any Russian stake in the railway loan The Waiwapa's reply to the demand will be All letters for publication should be written on awaited with interest, though we see no: No anonymously signed communications that grounds for anticipating a dental, having have already appeared in other papers will be regard to what has already taken place. inerrted.
Orders for extra copies of DAILY PRESS The idea that was so confidently entertained should be sent before 11 am on day of a few years ago that British interests were publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supply for Cash.
politically unassailable has been ruthlessly Telegraphic Address: Purus.
exploded since China made known that she” Codaa : A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber, P.0. Boz., 31. Telephone No. 13.
was prepared to accept forsige loans for Talands, it is said, are about to open a large the purposes of milway construction. Great Chinese Commercial Bank and bare already United States may now see their way to grant interference in Crete will not be sums to be conveyed to Captain. Brown for On July 22nd, at "Goodwood," No. 5, Babing-Britain, however, never sought to ob'ain subscribed tem million dollars expital for, the
exclusive privileges in the Yangtze Region. I purpose. Their representative, Taotai, Li,ing the Japanese request. Since July, 1908,
one side of paper only.
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We published a Tokyo telegram a few days gostating that Baron Takahira, the Japanese Ambassador to New York, had been recalled. We observe that the New York Correspondent It is announced that Baron Takahira, the of the Times onthe 27th ult, cablad as follow- Japanese Ambassador, ie shortly to visit Tokyo with reference to the negotiations for the re Vision of the Treaty of Commerce and Naviga the trip from Kongmeen to Hongkong on tion of 1894, which, with the protocol regarding the 19th inst. The Captain asked several wit-passports and tariffs, expires in 1912. Japan is the Cretan question, and takes excep- kong, and by the members of the Wesleyan received from the defendant, bat his Worship empowering the American authorities to regn. nesses to speak to the abuse which he said he said to desire the elimination of the clausetion to the use of the expression Mission, Canton. July 21, 1909, " Dr. Ander pointed out that abuse was no offence, and the late the immigration of her labourarea clause
eupreme rights " instead of " sover. són also presented Mrs. Brown with a.pair case was adjourned until to-morrow,
which is regarded as unworthy of a great | eign rights "of the Sultan in the in the name of the Sewing Meeting. Later
The Chinese merchants in the South Pacifie
nation. The “gentlemen's agreement,” by which Japan undertook to prohibit such immigration, has been so faithfully carried out that the
The Chinese Government had all along been recently arrived in Tientsin with a view to only 2,650 Japanese, none of whom were
friends of Wanchai Wesleyan Church, Hong-
of beautiful drawn-thread work cushion coVOTS
in the evening the Chairman announced that some friends who had not been aware of
Note from the Powers.
The Porte reiterates that Greek the presentation had banded to him several
tolerated.
HONGKONG OPrice: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD well aware and had more than onco intimated getting the co-operation of the merchants is labourera, have entered America, and 6,000 ha***THE DAILY MAIL" EMPIRE Mrs. Brown to the Wesleyan Church.
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of Tientalu Chamber of Commerce, who has China, and has been entertained by the president also invited the local influential merchants to meet him to discuss the matter.
returned home.
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY..
WAI-WU-PU BUBscribes taxle 10,000.
We are informed by His Excellency the
that they recognised "the great importance that had always been attached by Great Britain to the retention in Chinese possen sion of the Yangtze Region, now entirely hors, as providing security for the free employment in a West Point mill on Wednes
A. Chinese rice-pouuder secured temporary course and development of trade," and it day, but after a few hours of toil he did not RUSSIA has never had a reputation in the was simply an assurance of the maintenance satisfy the overseer of the mill, and was repti- Far East for the faithful observance of of the statu gue that Great Britain asked for diplomatic agreements, and the demand in 1895 and obtained. At that time rail she is now making at Peking with the way concessions were granted outright to object of extending her influence in the foreign syndicates; and China did not have Yangtze region will do nothing to rehabil the same regard for her "sovereign rights" tate her reputation in that respect that she has to-day. Bailway concessions Accentuating the policy which had are no longer granted. The lines are over in the sum of $100 to keep the peace for Committee amount to $201,200. Jed her to shield the Yangteze at the constructed by China hersolf---as the British six months. time of China's dispute with Russia about China Association many years ago recom- Kuldja in 1880, during the war with France about Tonkin in 1834, and again during the War between China and Japan, Great
Governer that he is in receipt of a telegram manded for his idleness. The upshot was a from the British Minister at Peking, Sir John quarrel, in this course of which the overseer Jordan, that the Wai-wu-pa (Chinese Foreign struck the man with a bamboo polo, and inflicted | Omos) has subscribed Taels 10,000 towards the several nasty wounds. The former appeared Endowment Fund of the proposed. Hongkong before, Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of assault and was fined £4 University. or fourteen days' jail. He was further bound
CUP.
LONDON, July 22nd. The Cup presented by the Daily Mail" for rifle shooting on Empire Day in the Colonies has been won by the Bathurst Civilian Club with a score of 808.
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the purchase of books. Dr. Anderson in a speech full of feeling and sparkling with humour dwelt on the invaluable services rendered by Capt. and
recalled the fact that in the early days before the prosent Chapel was erected a weekly follow- ship-meeting used to meet in the house of unbounded hospitality which had been extended Capt, Brown, Dr. Anderson also eulogized the
not only to lonely civilians in Hongkong but siso to numerous members of the Army and
Navy. Referance was also made to the pro-
minent part taken by their departing friends in the Coffee Bar opened in 1895, which now had developed into the presont Sailors" and Soldiers Home in Arsenal Street. In the inception and development of the Home, Capt, Brown had given ungrudgingly of substance, time and
The subscriptions collected by the Chinese Francis-Joseph of Austria represent him influence, while Mrs. D had endeared her
FREE TOWING
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.
The latest accounts of the old Emperor being in the best of health. A book dealing with this wonderful all-bat-octogenarian-Hi seli to all by her willing service rendered week Imperial Majesty is 79 on the 18th of August by week in the Temperance meeting and the A Chinese beggar, who has been carrying on
next-is just about to be issued by Mr. John mended that they should be constracted-bia calling in Pedder Street for sometime and
Long. The author is the well-known French Sunday Evening Gospel mesting. In closing Dr. Anderson wished them God-speed, and writer, M. Henri.de Weindel, a partner in the with foreign capital, attracted by provisions making himself a general anisance, appearoil. An inquiry, was conducted at the Hon. Translator Mr. Philip W. Sergeant, former editor would be followed by the prayers of the con firm of Felix Juren, and the assured them that in their life in Canada they for foreign management under Imperial before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy Office yesterday by the Harbour-master (Hon. translator Mr.
of the Hongkong Dally
"The Real control and Imperial guarantes. The Yesterday on a charge of importuning. His Basil Taylor), into the charge preferred against Francis Joseph" claims to be a plain unregation and the blessing of the Triune God. British view has always been
Capt. Brown thanked the friends on behalf withered arin, which appeared to excite the Chung Taim by Messrs. hewan, Tomes and varnished tale; but dealing sa it does with the that commercial enterprise can
compassion of Europeans, stood him in good. Co., of having used the launch Itha de Dom Joes most remarkable family, the Hapsburge, royalest of his wife and himself and said how he had been be left to stead until he was omght in the act of solicit for towing spans and other small craft to of all royal houses, illustrates the ancient maying greatly encouraged by letters which he and his compete with Yangtsze to any other Power, whether under private capital with private capital, three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, the owners' authority and when the launch was may expect some very piquant extracte from These told how the writers had been cheered commercial enterprise. ing. His. Worship sentenced the defendant to the typhoon sheltor at Causeway Bay withane about truth being stranger than fiction. In wife had received from many parts of the globe lense, mortgage or any other designation." but the operations of grent State banks and on the expiration of his sentence he will be urgently wanted at 3 p.m. on the 20th inst. in the history of the Viennese Court.
Britain obtained from China in 1899 a
promise that she "would never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the
the waters of the Colony..
r. Alex. Gordon spoke to seeing the launch
The defendant said he was taking a lighter towing about ten sampans to shelter. from Deep Water Fay to Cauroway Bay and
tending readers of "The Real Francia Joseph
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and strengthened amidst the temptations and home-sickness incidental to life in the East. :- To know that he had helped his fellows was to REMAINS.
him a enfioient reward.
During the evening a five musical programme While some men were engaged in quarrying was rendered by Mrs. Jonghin, the Missed. stone in the large quarries of Kamenetz
This provision tended to give tothe doctrine cannot be rivalled by private finance either banished from the Colony. of "spheres of interest," much discussed in regard to promptitude or daring. If at that time, a concrete meaning, and it it is private capital that is offered before Mr. J. B. Wood at the Nagistracy yes- Dr. Balilios prosecuted one of his houseboys unquestionably conveyed to the public by Russia for investment in the Hankow terday on a charge of atesling & $5 bill. As mind an impression that British interests railways, there seems no reasonable ground Mrs. Helilies liss been missing small sans of the sumpaus hooked on. He told the crew of Podolski, near the Galician frontier, they Baker, Mr. White, and the Ror. E. Ellison, Mr were politically unassailable in the Yangtare of objection. State capital, how ever, money recently she decided to lay a trap for the lighter to clear them away, but as son brought to light the petrified houd of a huge Peel acting as accompanist, After "Auld Lang Region. In the same year, Notes were constitutes and has always constituted the the thief, so took the ammbers and initialled as one unhooked others hooked on. He did not exchanged at St. Petersburg between the main ground of the British objection to en. all the notes she had in the house. hortly take the numbers of the sampans. They all diplomatic representatives of Great Britain croachment in what used to be called the afterwards one was found to be missing. The cast off, however, when he drew abreast of Taim and Russia with regard to their respective British sphere." It can hardly be called as found on the defendant. Padore his Wor
police were called in, and the missing $5 bill -tzu-taui. railway interests in China, the two Powers, British sphere" any longer. Dr. MOREL ship passed sentance Dr. Belilios naked him not him to order the sampahs to cast off, and he remains of fishes, or fragments of strange Charmant and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre
* One of the crow stated that the coxswain told being "animated by the sincere desire to son has recently informed the readers of to place the culprit in the stocks His Word did so. avoid in China all cause of conflict on the Times that by the contract signed on ship soutonood the fouth to three weeks questions where their interests meet." Juse 6 the German Bank secures advan-imprisonment with hard labenr.
The case was adjourned sine diz.:
animal that hitherto has been quite unknown Syne" had been sung the meeting closed with Paleontologists were summoned at once, and the Benediction. animal or oven to classify it according to the they declared they are unable to oxplain the
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