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view put forward by M. CHERADAME, who attributes the step to the advice of the KAISER WILLIAM II, whose Pan-Germanic tendencies are becoming from year to year more marked. It was, as we'remarked, not
intend to disturb the peace of Europe Surely, said Mr. Aequin, that ought to be enough for any reasonable man. But those who knew better than the House of Commons the pulse of the country saw that the nation
Mr. Danman Fuller gave an organ recital în John's Cathedral last night to a large and "puregiative audience. The loist was Mrs. Hadley, who was in fine voice and rendered her
several numbers most effectively,
Mr. E. M. Hobart-Hampden has been, ap-
pofabed Japanese Secretary to the British TELEGRAMS. Legation at Tokyo,
We notice that a télogmum translated by the Shanghai papers from a Chinese Journal in that H.E. the Governor, together with H.Eerament has granted to the American firm port says it is learnt that the Hongkong Gov- Major General Broadwood and staff, dined at which recently applied for it a monopoly of tha the officers mess of the 13th Rajpats last night, A guard of honour and the band waloomed the distinguished visitors on their arrival.
'',
The Viceroy of Foklon has, upon the petition of the Chinese Chamber of Commosce in Indo Chins, requested the Waiwapa to negotiate with the French Minister in Poking for the Abolition of the poll-fax on the Chinese thero.
so much the fact of the formal annexation did not share these puny views; and felt within the dual monarchy of the principali-that to lose the command of the Seas, with CO. ties that startled 'Europe, as to what was to an insficient army, meant the extinction as follow from the method in which the act a Power in the world of the British Empire. was done. Europe had come to look with The growth of returning reason was slow, out jealousy, if not with actual approval, on but it has been steady; and at the last Austria's administration of the two princi- moment even the worst and most unsym palities; and there is little doubt that if pathetic Government that ever has been in Austria had reported to the Powers, who office has been forced to yield; and, unwill originally put her in possession, her desire to ingly and with evil grace, set about recover- formally take the step of amalgamating them ing lost ground. The effect of these new in the Empire, she would have gained her conditions on the continent was curiously Wood at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge Thirteen natives appeared before Mr. J. R suit almost, `if not entirely, unanimously.
and unexpectedly swift. Austria found she of gambling at No. 289; Queen's Boad Centrul What the other States, with the exception had to husband-her resources, and was not The defendants were found guilty and the twe of Germany aloue, found occasion to cavil
disposed to go on in such a hurry with her keepers of the same game were fined $100 each, about, was that Austria in a matter closely proposed Dreadnoughts; more markedly the and each of the players $5. The amount found affecting the European balance had essayed late Chauvinistic Press of Germany sud-on the table, $592, was confiscated, to act exclusively on her own initiative.
deply began to think it might be advisablo The Rey, A. R. Faller, of Nagasaki, hus boen This feeling, while the position was still to listen if England made overtures, as, after appointed an. Organizing Secretary in England under discussion, came to be seriously all, shipbuilding was expensive. The curiof the Church Misa onary Society. The nowe aggravated by the fact that Germany when ons part of the whole of this, which even has been received with sincero regret in appealed to in the regular way, not only the man in the street could interpret, was Nagasaki, Hr. Faller having been stationed refused to join with the other Powers, but, that the really effective point of the there for more than twenty years, only leaving
needlessly out of her way to whole was lost upon Mr. ASQUITH and his for home on furlough in April lust,
concurrence infriende, who fondly conceived that the chang Austria's flouting of the public sused face of Germany was really brought about ceptibilities of Europe. AM. CHERADANE by their own appeals to an imaginary code points out, this has led to an uneasy of international ethics; and that Mr.. feeling throughout the Slavonic States; WINSTON CHURCHILL'S appearance at the and in his article referred to he compares Gerraan military maneuvres as the apostle them with the Germanie States, and shows of peace had actually won over, the hard how vastly the Slavonic peoples out-number heart of the KAISER to the cause. "the Germans. Not only is this trus at the
As we have scen: abore, the Kamer has moment, but the natural rate of increase of had very much more serious things to pou-Edmund F. Callaghan, of the firm of Callaghan The engagement is announced between the Slavoninus greatly exceeds that of the der over than Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S and Co., eldest son of the late W. E. Callaghan, others. For many years it has been notori: doctrines of international ethics and the of 13, Roland-gardens, 8.W., and Mrs. Cal ous indeed in the States under the control wickedness of war; and not the least laghan, Parkside, Ravenscourt Park, W., and of the dual monarely, that white the of these is the very unpleasant predica Kathleen Louise (Keils) Noble, younger Slavonic peoples were rapidly growing, the ment into which the following of the advice daughter of the late G. E. Noble, of the Hong Germans showed udency to decrease both has led his newly-found ally Austro keng and Shanghai Bank, and Mrs. Noble, 37, in nugs and influence. In Bohemia this Hungary. People wiser than Mr. AsquiTH
Inverness-terrace, Hyde Park, W. crease was very marked, and even in the have suggested that the renewal of work at
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Rogrot will be generally expressed that Dr. J. C. Thomson is leaving the Colony at the end of the year through ill-health. The valuable services which he has rendered to the College of will be acknowledged on Friday afternoon when Medicine during the past twenty-three years he will be presented with a piece of plate from the members of the Senate, the licentiates and
the students.
twenty-five years,
wireless telegraph business in the port for This announcement in premature the Government still has the application under consideration,
“A two-days' sale of rare postage stamps took place last month at the Arbitration Room, London, when the following price was paid French Colonies, Pakhui, October, 1896, the mint not complete, e, I to f. 10 (these stumps £2 15s. The attendsace was good at the Argyll being the originals, not the re-issue of 1908) Galleries on 2nd inst., whon Mosers, Glendinning disposed of a number of scarce unused postage stamps, in mint state, formed by a well-known American collector. A History of Postal Stamps of Imperial Japan, 1896, fetched £8. 1902, 15. blue on quadrillo paper, mint and The postage stamps included China, Hoi Hao source, £1 133., and Hongkong, 3c. on 5e, on 1c. llac, mint and very scarce, £2 84..
The Legislative Council of the Straits Settlemente has passed on Ordinance imposing a tax of five cents per gallon on petroleum The tax is expected to add $300,000 per annum to the Colony's revenue. The products taxable are irhat are generally known as the mineral oils, but they do not include any liquid or sub- stance which has a flashing point higher than out of a vessel, on which it has been fanported, 150 degrees Fahrenheit.. All petroleum taken. will, unless intended for transhipment only, be taken to what is termed a dutisble petroleum store, loensed for the purpose, and when removed from the store, otherwise than for There are aight gallons of kerosene oil in one export, it must pay duty of five cents per gallou, esss. The tax por case wil therefore bo 40 cents. By rules which the Governor-in-Council is empowered to make, a fine may be imposed for breach of much rules not exoosding $1,000 for each offence, and an addional $50-for-actr day on which the offence continuas.
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NEW AMERICAN MINISTER TO CHINA.
LONDON, December 7th. A message from Washington states" that Mr. Calhoun, an eminent lawyer, has accepted the post of American Minister to China.
HOME POLITICS.
LONDON, December 7th. The Liberal newspapers regard the Trafalgar Square demonstration on Sunday as being one of the most hopeful indications of the extent to which the country has been aroused over the action of the House of Lords anent the Finance Bill.
LATER. The Liberal campaign continues very active.
of the Board of Trade), Mr. Herbert Mr. Winston Churchill (President
Samuel (Under Secretary of the Home Office), Mr. Macnamara (Parliament-
and ary Runciman (President of the Board of Financial Secretary), Mr.
Education), and Colonel Seely (Under Secretary of State for the Colonies) all delivered speeches yesterday.
The only notable Unionists who
the 13th Rajputs will play the following pro-article is printed in French and in English. Walter Long, and Sir R. B. Finlay, By kind permission of the officers the Band Line commenced publication in Paris, Each spoke were Baron Rothschild, Mr.
gramme of music at the King Edward Hotel, An address to readers in the first number says, K.C. during dinner, to-morrow (Thursday), weather-All travellers in Eastern Countries have boon permiting:
struck with the inferior state in which our March Overture."Maaniello Pemposo"
....ord Hume trade is as compared with that of car rivala, D. F. E. Anber not only in their colonies but also in our own Va.." Gold and Silver"... Fran Lebar possessions. This is deplorable and dangerous Bong........Sing me to Sleep"... Edwin Groene Piccaroon Piccolo Solo Donizetti from the political as well as commercial point of Selection..."Mikado"....
Godfrey view, political interests being closely bound up God Save the King.
with the commercial ones. Does this state of
GUINNESS' STOUT streets of Vienna the preponderance of the the British dockyards, and the very plain of
Slavonic element has become very marked. indications given by the country at large Russia since her estrangement from Austria that it was not prepared to hazard the has undoubtedly been trying to take advan-existence of the Empire on a cast of the tage of her altered position with regard to dice, or the little more trustworthy indice A. S. WATSON & CO.. Germany to spread her influence amongst tion the word of an Emperor have bad the Slavonic peoples-more especially in really much more to do with the change of LIMITED,
the Balkan States, which being in close face then all the Utopian doctrines of that contiguity to the Austro-Hungarian Empire very exemplary young man, Mr. WINSICH can influence very seriously her own subject CRORESILL. We have, however, now arrived
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Correspondents must forward their names and addresses with" communications addressed to the Editor, not for publication but as evidence of good faith,
returning reason and heedless folly. The contest is the most serious that has befallen England for three centuries, but it is not meet for him that girdeth on his armour to boast as he that taketh it off.
A great interchange of posts and many pro things depend upon superiority of the
CHINESE VISITORS IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, December 7th. The Chinese Naval Commissioners have paid a visit of inspection to
ALLEGED CHAOS AT THE BRITISH CUSTOMS.
populations. That this is the ease was very / at the crucial point of the contest between motions in the Japanese Navy were announced foreign merchant over the Fronch? We do not Messrs. Armstrong's shipbuilding
on the 1st December. Six new vice-admirals believe it. The French merchant's activity, Admiral Togo has been appointed Naval On the other hand, the French article is always and fourteen rear-admirals have been created, affability and honesty are recognised everywhere. works at Elswick,
Councillor, Vice Admiral Kamimura Com and everywhere, prices being equal, proferred to mander-in-Chief of the First Fleet, Vice- the foreign article. If the Frenchman does not Admiral Shimamurs Commander-in-Chief of the succeed where ethors drive a thriving trade, it Second Flest, Vice-Admiral Ijoin Chief of the is because the others are best informed of the Admiralty, Vice Admiral Uria Commander-in-needs and of the tastes of the native. The Chief at the Yokosnice Naval Station, Vios abject of the review is to make known Frensh Admiral Dewa Commander-in-Chief at the products to Eastern buyers, Sasebo Naval Station, and Vice-Admiral Kato Commander-in-Chief at the Kure Naval Station.
apparent during the excitement that accom- panied the first steps towards annexation, when the whole of Bohemia was thrown into & ferment, the non-German majority openly showing their sympathy with Servia in its warlike measures. At the time Enssia, hoping to be able to persuade Austro- For assaulting a tukong Mr. J. E. Wood at All letters for publication should be written on Hungary to accept the proposed conference, the Magistracy yesterday ordered a native to sne side of paper only.
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MARRIAGE.
On the 7th December, by special licencă, ab Hoogkong, CatWTOTHES BERKELEY MITCHELL, Captain-Superintendent of Police, Kulang-u, Amoy, to MAUD AGATHA, widow of the lato E. W. DE TUNJELMASH, Surgeon, B.N.
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posals, and Bussia withdrew, giving open expression to her chagrin. The result has been a revival of the Pan-Slavonic agitation which some twenty years ago was agitating Europe, and was the inspiring cause of the so-called Triplice.
One of the first effects of this revival has
For stealing an umbrella from a passenger an the Frach steamer Charles Hardouin, Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday sentenced a coolie to fourteen days' imprisonment.
The total ontput of the Chiness Engineering and Mining Company's thres mines for the week ending 25th November amounted to 24,813.73 tons and the sales during the period to 26,885.50 tons,
A report is current that Count Wolf
tingor Sirest on Monday night, was ordered by Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday to pay a fine of $5, the alternative being ten days' imprisonment.
SUPREME COURT,
Tuesday, December 7th,
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONOUR NE. W. REES DAVIES, K. C. (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE).
UNSATISFACTORY RICE CONTRACTS.·'
The nation was continnet in which the Hang Sing firm sued Mesara, W. B. Loxley and Co. to recover the sum of $4,274, being balance dine
The annual meeting of the Porak Sugar Company took place at Shangkat laat week. At the close of the meeting Mr. W. D. Little proposed and Mr. R. H Gore-Booth seconded the following rosolution:That out of the amount carried forward the sum of Tis. 2,000 be appropriated for the presentation to Mr. W. V. Drummond of a testimonial, in whatever form he may choose, this as a mark of the share
services to the company," Mr. Little referred counter-claimed 83,727.44, for breach by the
Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. R. A. a period of 27 years. The resolution was carried Harding, appeared for the plaintiffs, while with seclamation and Mr. Drammond made a defendants were represented by Mr. M. W. suitable reply.
Slade, who was instructed by Mr. F. D. L. Bowley (of Messrs. Dennys and Bowley).
Mr. Slade was proceeding to indiente in detail
the shipments of rice under the contract, when His Lordship enquired whether Mr. Potter sitmitted that the number of bags was correctly sat forth in the schedule.
To-day the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Cathedral, which
be officiated this morning by the Right Rev. bears the same name, is especially decorated for this occasion. A High Pontifical Mass is to Bishop Pozzoni, assisted by the full attendance that this was the actual rice received in South Mr. FotterYes, my lord. Subject to proof Africa I will accept the shipment.
become apparent in the rational drawing Metternich zur Gracht, German Ambassador holders recognition of his long and valuable for rice sold and delivered, while the defendants HONGRONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux BOAD ( Į Together of the Balkan. States outside the in London, is shortly to be succeded by Baron in complimentary terms to Mr. Drummond's plaintiffs of the terms of their contracts, LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. EC immediate rule of Austro-Hungary, and this Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ambassador at connection with the company as Chairman for i
has finally ended under Russian influence in Tokyo and formerly Minister at Peking.
Anunemployed master mariner named Baukiu, the formal agreement of Bulgaria and Servia to enter into an alliance, apparently offensive who was found lying drunk and incapable in Pot and defensive, against Austria, in which the other States, though not as yet formally, LAST month we drew attention to the the formal alliance has been establislied on openly sympathise. Though at the moment remarkable shift in the political centre of peaceful lines, the revival of a Pan-Slavonic of Hyoge and Osaka and the head officials of The Japan Chronicle states that the Governors gravity of the entire Continent of Europe, agitation is hardly less dangerous to the seventeen Government offices in Kobe and which has followed the conclusion of the peace of the world than the Pan-Germanic Osaks have subscribed for a presentation Russo-Japanese war. Though the change league fostered in Berlin, should its control Batsuma to service to Mr. Honry Bonar, of the clergy. The choir of St. Joseph's has followed quickly the close of that war, fall into unwise or over-ambitious hands. Consul General at Kobe, as a token of respect the Sanctuary will be occupied by the clergy and though the retirement of Russia from Meanwhile it is instructive to notice that its end esteem, on the occasion of his transferone and the minariste. The most attractive an actively aggressive policy in Eastern immediate effect has been to moderate the
to the corresponding post at Seoul.”
festurs on the main altar, which is richly Asia consequent on the conclusion of the aspirations of the Pan-Germanist party. It
We chaarre
that Mr. F. Cloud, the dressed, is the twelve massive gold stars that war has been one of the factors bringing must have become evident, even to the more American Consal at Mukden, who acording to surround the head of the huge status of the about that change, it has by no means been ardent upholders of the latter party, that the Tokyo telegram we published yesterday as Immaculata Virgin, and these reflected by the Germany unassisted could not afford ben recalled, was last week at Shanghai, and profusion of candles produce a brilliant effect. was to have left by the Korca fer america on
The evening service will start shortly after. carry on much longer the beggar-my-neigh Friday last. According to a paragraph in a Quarterly Review for October, M. ANDEX bour policy of building up a navy capable Shanghai contemporary Mr. Cloud has been
5 o'clock. CHEBADAME, has taken up the subject from of over-shadowing England. The present transferred to the State Department at Wash
the only, nor even the principal, cause. An able and well-informed writer in the
College will sing during the divine service and
all the rice both in respect to the claim and the His Lordship-Aud this schedule applies to
counter-claim?
Mr. Blade-Yea, my lord.
LONDON, Decomber 7th. All the papers deny the assertion of the "Daily News" yesterday that there is chaos at the Customs.
Mr. Laurence Guillemard, Chairman of the Customs Establishment, says the new arrangements are working with surprising, smoothness,
The Daily News" reiterates that there is confusion developing into anarchy, and gives as an instance that yesterday twenty thousand pounds of tea were admitted duty free.
MR. FAIRBANKS ON BRITISH COLONIES.
Mr. Fairbanks in an interview at Ceylon and notivity we saw at Hongkong and struck said: "We were greatly pleased with the life with the solid way in which Grost. Britain has developed the place. We were also much interested by our brief visit to Singapore. The
Britain understands the work of Colonial Gov- observed thexi, are evidently prospering. Great -British Colonies in the East, so far as I have:
ernment most thoroughly. We were very
do not think it is generally understood how much struck by the development of the tin and rubber industries in the Malay Peninsula. I
large a share of the world's supply of tin is pro-- daved there, There were some 500 tons of block tin taken on board by the Delhi at Penang. The rubber industry seems to be in an exceed ingly Hourishing donlition, and there are
Mr. Potter-All I am concerned with is that my friend should identify the rice we put en board here as the rice received in South Afries prospects of very great development in tko
Mr. Blade- Do you admit the transhipments ↑ | future." We have all the bills of lading.”
Mr. Potter-That is the whole point. I certainly do not.. You want me to admit the trusshipments, and then you, will say that if it
Port Elizabeth...
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued
a French point of view, and his conclusions, Government by its nerveless and revolu- ington. Apparently this transfer was directed Observatory, in a lecture last week, toll how the was all right up to Durban it was all right up the following report:-
tionary policy at Home, supported as it was by a reactionary House of Commene, elected on false protences in January,
before the publication of the report by Mr. Cloud which has been so much criticised in Japan.
Father Algue, the Director of the Manila
work of the Jesuite, who have been, foremost in that ulasa of studies, had commenced, in the Philippines in a very bumble way in 1865, by Padre Faura, the inventor of one of the most modern barometers in existence. Speaking of
to
On the 7th at 11.55 a.m.-The barometer had risen moderately on the N.E. coast of China,
Mr. Slade-If it was all right on board ship and over Japan excopt in. E. Hokkaido, the
it was all right at Durban. Mr. Potter-Not at all.
Mr. Slade My friend is apparently wou tending that the rice was shifted on the route.
Mr. Potter-No I am not.
Mr. Slade-Do you admit the marks on the
Mr. Potter-We admit that a Chinaman pat
agreeing in the main with our own, add one er two further points of interest, which havo, moreover, come prominently to the front in the short space of fun that has elapsed
1906, gave Germany overy hope that Great
overy hope that Greatshop A Hodrick, of the discess of Cebu, since the publication of the article.
We alluded to the practical effect of the Britain, tired of empire, was not prepared died last week of cholera. As many as sixty the work that has been nocomplished within the
to incur the necessary expenses for uphold. Noromber 30th, and of these 52 were fatal. A fact that the Jesuits there hold the world's bags ?
cases of cholers were reported in Cebu on walls of the Manila institution, ha mentionail the shift in having practically isolated Germanying her superiority at sea; and would permit, Manila contemporary ways:It is believed that record for the measurement of clouds at high al- from the surrounding nations, and to the without an effort to counteract it, the up- the walls on the other side of the city hare titudes, cirrus clouds having been measured in same stoucil marks on the bags, but we do not immediate ecause of this having been the limited expansion of the German navy, become infected and stops, have been taken to 1897 at an altitude of over 67,000 foot. He told admit knowledge of what the marks were,
So far as the Government and the present the third time in a month that the disease has formed, of their destructiveness, of the number ance or anything else. House of Commons is concerned, this hope appeared in this sudden and virulent form, in a given time, 594 having occurred since 1880
Mr. Potter-Ton may call it blissful ignor as well founded, and neither would of its gathering in such numbers daily." The latest up to date, and of the time they generally visit you like, it is quite immaterial.
Mr. Blade-Bland ignorance, we will call it." own motion have intervened. Had not the reports show the epidemis to have subsided as
Mr. Patter Substitute any other adjective German Emperor told them that he did not suddenly as it came.
The hearing was again adjourned.
forcible. annexation by Austria of the
Bosasun principalities. This step, we men tioned, was “suggested, if not altogether engineered, from Berlin," and it is note worthy how absolutely this agrees with the
cleanse and thoroughly disinfect them. This is how the violent storms known as baggies are
the archipelago
Mr. Slade What blissful ignorance!
depression Laving passed to the Pacific.
Barometric changes are slight in the South.
Pressure is high over: N China and Man. shuria. It remains low over the S. Philippines and adjacent waters.
Fresh monsoon may be expected in the Formosa Channel and the N. part of the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am today, 0,00 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as followi Hongkong & Neighbourhood
N.E. winds, fresh fine. Formoss Channel Apetreten. Bame as No. 1. South coast of China between
Same as No. 1. Hongkong and Lamooks, South coast of Chins betweon
Same as No. 1. Hongkong and Hainan...