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Jingoistic spirit which has been exp itself offensively during the last few in the Western States of America: ing to the Times notice of the book, IxA shows the hopeless weakn army, the uselessness of most of the casat defences owing to their inadequate garriso the little dependence that can be placed upon volunteer and millitis forces, and the defence less condition of the Philippines, Hawai Bamon, Aleaks, and the Pacific coast. He describes the defects of Ainexican warships, the inadequacy of their bases, and notices E time which must elapse the great length of time before a fleet from the Atlantic can appear off the Western shores of the Union. He considers that the Monox doctrine no invites war, and he thinks that the future canal of Paname is fraught with so many possibilities of war that unless the United
States are prepared to supply, the requisite forces for its defence, it would be better left oompleted. In short, this competent anthority declares that his country has
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orrespondent write to us from Quarry that he observed the unusual Bay, mention night in the sky mentioned in our issue of the 46th inst. While coming towards Hongkong low about 7 p.m. on the 25th inst., he anticed,) down in the sky, just over Green Teland,
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BEVISION
TOKYO, January 27th.
Cirencester
Baron Komura, speaking in the Wokingham Diet to-day, assured the House that Ludlow the relations of Japan with foreign| New Forest Powers were most friendly,
In conformity with the open-door policy the Government had decided to open Port Arthur to the trade of all nations.
Referring to the scheme proposed by America for the neutralisation of the Manchurian railways, the Premier stated that the view of the Imperial Government was that important Japan- ege interests were involved. As the proposal came from a friendly Power it had been submitted to most careful While the Government examination.
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LABOURITES Normanton Monmouth (W.) Llandaff Cork (Mid) Down (8.) Monaghan (N.)
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Late Member Last Maj, Mr. RW, Eston Sir R. H. Hobart
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It is stated that the loss to Mr. Eoss by the recont evelons in the Cocos Islands amounts to something like 2200,000. The hurricane Laid low practically the whole of the coconut trees "' neither army nor military system, neither and the greater part of the buildings on the arme nor equipment, neither staff nor plans, islands The extent of the damage to the Company's quarters on Direction and, at bottom of all, a population capable of provoking war, but not of waging it," A Inland was in no way exaggerated, but by this time the necessary repairs have probably bean more merciless exposition of a nation's
completed with materials which were lately were determined to adhere to their Now Forest
avowed policy, and to uphold the Stafford (W.).. military weakness by one of its own most
principle of the open-door, it should Towosaler distinguished officers, we venture to think
Stowmarket be observed that the realisation from (5.). has never been published, and additional au thority is given to the work by the fact that
We Offe has of the proposed plan would bring prefaces have been written for it by General
about radical changes in the condition Darwen eu, der CHAVER and General Broxy. General Las
of things attended by serious con- confesses to a belief in the inevitability of a war between Japan and the United States
sequences. for supremacy in the Pacific, and practically concludes that Japan will have no difficulty GUINNESS' STOUT acquiring as much American territory as
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Another raneder charge is being heard at the Magistracy. On Wednesday three men were placed in the dock charged with murder ing a man at Taumati on December 19th. The deceased had roused the freof a number of ratan workers by not recognising the guild, his of tance being that he had employed certain labour to which the guild objected. Ho vis vited to at-house to discuss the matter, but on comin round the corner at the gasworks be war sffack od by several son with knives, who wounds to which he abseque The hearing wm adjourned.
Ashburton
Mr. H. D. MoLaren 878
Mr. T. A. Grove 322
Mr. G. & Hardy
LOCAL SPORT
SHIELD FOOTBALL.
Kowloon were at home to HM.8 Bedford yesterday niternoon in the first round of the above competition. Bedford were, frnt to be aggressive, but this did not hat long, and the home beaman zoon bombarding the visitors. Sowicon had the best of azabanges Not the sterling defensira during the tire tactics of Esnight and Hannah were too good for the attacking forwards, and the interval arrived without any sensing, Opening the second melsty strongly the home team should have Moored, but faulty shooting and a litloseness in front of goal nulled their best opportunitie MoNenghton being the worst defaulter in this respect. Bedford had's grand opportunity to get the load a few minutes from time, but Nell who wide, and the game ended in The return match will Naval probability – take place on
Vallay, but before then the Naval Recreation Club will have to provide some means for keeping the spectators off the touch-line, as this point le provided for by an addition to the rules of the competition,
LEAGUE CRICKET.
Ground
Buffs meet the Suppers in a League match this afternoon on the Military Ground The
LE Capt. Addison, Et. Williams, Fower, Keone, Osman, MeGregor, Campion, Tavener, Harrison, Trew and Smith,
Buffs Capt Baird, Lts. Groan, Norman, Wedd, and Hart Sergt. Kelly, L. Corpl. Wynder, I. Corp Hill, and Pies, Miller, Willia and Cofeman.
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PEDESTRIANISM.
The Lusitano Becreation Club are arranging go..you please-race" for Sunday, Sevon
211 een competitors have entered..
Sir Robert Laidlaw 95
LYRMRAZ GAINA, MON
Mr. A. J. Butherford 25
Capt. Morrison Bell 659-
THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.
ENORMOUS DANAĞI,
LONDON, January 27th. The floods in France are a national
calamity, dislocating traffic and com- munications in Paris, and washing out
thousands of homes.
Besides, in the South Mancheria region affected there had grown up numerous undertakings promoted in the belief that the railway would remain in the possession of Japan, and the Imperial Government could not with a due sense of its responsi- bility agree to abandon the railway. A similar situation prevails in the Consequently they regretted that they provinces. The damage is officially
estimated at forty million sterling. were bound to reply to America on the 21st inst, announcing their ina bility to consent to the proposal, The death has just taken-
Referring to Treaty Revision, the Hof an old Hongkong rendent in of the book for Mz N. L. Sies, one of the senior
Premier maid it was the intention of Mezars. Biemansen and Cp, in his 70th year. The the Government to conclude Treaties
she is pleased to take. The Times reviewer says, "The sting of the book is in its truth It is down to every Intelligence Office that despite all the wealth and population of the A. S. WATSON & CO.. United States, the great. Republic is in
military sense a Colossus with feet of clay, and that the defenceless condition of American possessions in the Pacific is a fact, Nothing can alter this situation, so far as the insular portions of American territory are concerned except a feet stronger than the Japanese navy as a whole and per- manently stationed in the waters of the Pacific." Hence, the
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All letters for publication should be written on ane side of paper only
No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be
the American people would seem to be
By direction of the architect of the Foreign Office, the Quai d'Orsay has been evacuated.
The Louvre and the Tuileries, with their priceless treasures, are threaten-
HOCKEY.
A match between teams representing the Buffs and R.G.A.. will take place on the Happy- Valley this afternoon, commencing at 2.15 pm. The Butte will be represented Lieute, Potter Davidson and Brics, Lance Opis Hall and Smith, Private Holloway, Frios, Baldry, Ireland, Barker and Barrand.
WRECK OF A STEAMER.
The Norvegian steamer Oscar II. Last week
stranded on hoal in Sampat Bay, just of North at point, Palia Bintang the called
42%
the steamer Amherst to bez usaintance.
Capt Scott of the latter ship reports that ab 4 Singapore be
of sighted the Orcar II. Eying sigiha pm, while outward bound from vessel, which signalled, I am badly mahore, tree, and boro down upon the stranded Can you render me Immediate salavancer Can you take ma in tow With great diffenity, owing to the high sos running hawer 140 fathoms long toolted and the Amherst started towing 9.46 p.m. the Oscar I
while pumping out her ballast tanks, which had been filled to lessen her bumping on the After several hours of accessing but frutar effort, the hawser unfortunately got font of the Amhere's propellor, rendering her veemal to mig the hawser, which was immediate
done, Capt. Boott let go both adobers and asked the T. P. tug Farina, which had arrived
Editor not for publication busé as evidence "Don't provoke a war, until you are deossæd, who had been residint in the East for based entirely on the principle of reed. The military engmeers are workuumausgeable. Bignaling to the shaded
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prepared to wage it." Japan, we are conving ed, would not embark on any of the aggres sive enterprises contemplated by General LEA except under the greatert provocation But if ever a Japanese army did and on the coast of California, can we really believe that there
not sufficient homogenity among the people of America to produce such a response to the call of patriotism as would make the anneration of any portion of
went home two yeste
well night half a century. ngo, and the news of his death, which comured on Wednesday, was received with regret in the Colony, where he had been closely Identified with its commercial life, having been a director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking creation for several years and having on the directorate of a number of loom
les. Reveral firms halfarted their
yesterda
Mr. George E. Chamberlain, American Vies American territory imposible? We refuse Consul General at Bingspory, has been advised Washington of his promotion and appointment
to believe it..
by teleg
the State Department ne
ciprocity, e liminating all unequal en gagements appearing in the present treaties
The feature of the debate on Baron Komura's statement was the speech by Mayor Ozaki in which be expressed the opinion that the Government had blundered in its hasty reply to the American proposal, and was also of the opinion that discourtesy had been
ing desperately on a barricade.
It is hoped the flood will reach its to its the Olgar 1 to Low his veszed back to maximum to-night.
KAISER AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY.
27th
LONDON, January 2 H.M. the Kaiser attended a recep- tion at the French Embassy at Berlin
last night.
Singapore. While they were heaving on the suchors, the heavy swall cated both chains to man the "madhooks being
corak
I wa
The Oscar II. was bound from Saigon to Europe with a cargu of nice tour. Che resched the neighbourhood of Horsburgh Light in heavy rain on Tuesday night, and was unable to pick it up, though she was cruising about in the the Vichy for our time before engine
The owner of the vassal and the
over the Oscar IL and she is bumping heavily- Unless the Faruna, which returned to her sauce, is able to get her off soon, she is likely to go to pieces, as the rudder and rudder has already been done
wife are sboard. The seas are said to be decking
I may hava escaped the notice of many. As American Consal at Swstow, whace be will shown, the effect of which would be a visited the Embassy since the poet and gune and considerable other damage
readers that the Radical MP's who mont
abortly go to s551 arge, Who Straits Times
apparent in the future. The speaker Ghamberlain came to Bingapore
can Vice Consal was repeatedly applauded.
THE fashion set by Field Marshal Ear Conspicuously identified themselves in the shout four years ago as ·
last Parliament with the Anti-Opium Gener ROBBETS in exposing the military weakness of England has been followed in the United campaign in China and the British Colonies EFORE of the East have lost their seats. Besides States by General HOMES LEA, who has
COLONEL SEBUT, Under Secretary of State recently published a most remarkable book for the Colonies, Sir Rosner Laitaw, who bearing the title of "The Valour of Ignorat for East Renfrew, and Mr. BENNETT, who since" which has been widely discussed in
represented Woodstock, hays been ousted the Press of the United States and Europe. Bir BOBET LAIDLAW, who is a partner in
nder Mr. Wilbur, now stationed at
Has been
Kobe, Japan. Since the relis Haines a year ago, Mr. Chamb
oting Consul General at Singapore until only recently, when he was relieved by Mr. Da Bois by his dignified and conscientions local consular field, Mr. Chambe for himself many good friends who regret his going, but mo
From the reviews and, summaries of the the Eastern firm of WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW Congratulate him on his well-meri
author's opinious we have seen, we do
& Co. was a member of the International
not gather that the book has any Conference on Opium which sat at Shanghai
the
last year. Mr. BENNETT, formerly a tutor
* OUTRAGE AT TAIPO,
other purpose beyond exposing,
A shocking outrage has just taken place on on Tuesday unpreparedness of the nation for defence against attack by a strong enemy, unless it at Oxford, has viod in the House with the outlying island of Tai 9, whe
Bir BONET LADLAW in pressing the Sergt. Davitt came upon the body of a Clinizese
be to advocate by implication a reafirmation"
of the MNROOK doctrine, for the distinguished Government to extinguish the opium trude
the
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THE GENERAL ELECTION.
LATEST RESULTS.
LONDON, January 27th.
UNIONISTS
LIBERALS
LABOURITE
255
281
vistim," who" WE
NATIONALISTS
78
of
kaife
Total elected.. To be elected
597
73
670
him into the
dead
bon None of the
UNIONIST GAINE LIBERAT GAINS TABOURITES:
117
18
UNIONIST GAINS. Renfrew (E)
in the Eastern Colonies. But in spite of the
appareatly surprised at nigh General does not appear to think the prosant heterogeneous population of the United exaggerated descriptions they have given of robbers, who States is capable of being stirred by the call the trafo, both in the House of Commons wounds on the head and arms of the
and in their own constituencies, the question monk, tied his hands
is one which has not apparently gripped to the shore and throw is not known whether the imagination of the electore, as
he was throws into the sen did the Chinese Slavery ory in 1906, miscreants have been arre
MtFW Webb, formerly of Singapore, has heen sypainted to Lloyd's Register of British Shipping of Cardiff.
of patriotiam. He writes of the population an in these terms
High and low, the ambitions of the hetar ogeneous courses that now run riot sad revel within the confines of this Republic only regard which no materially helped the Liberal tide
GERMAN EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY. it in a parasitical sense land to batten on and grow big the whom resources are not to be to rise at the last election
Yesterday was the Bfty trat developed, and conserved for the furtherance of
the birthday of His Majesty the imperor For the Republic's greatness, but only to satisfy the larval greed of those who subsist on ite fatness
Germany, and in honour of the coosalon all the warships in port dressed ship, and a salute was General LEA's book is in two parts. In
Ared af zoon The usual caveption was Held at the German Consalito, when representatives the first part he treats of the rise and fall
Kowloon util, harus the ovarcost thief erroalloney the Governor and the of nations, his aim being to show that the thieves A boarder at the Kowloon Hotel now Common Troop called to bender cons greatness of a nation is dependent upon its reports the loss of his overcoat from the hotel. Intions. The reception was also attended
A most of the foreign Consuls, numerous offici military progress and that the hour of
His Highness the Dubos Johann Albrecht of and dylians A special sertion was held desolation will surely strike for a nation Mecklesburg, Eegant of the Dachy of Branson board the German cruiseki Kreona
rigation whose wealth and luxury stand in inverse walg, com paised by EL H. the Duchess, and the morning, and at noon Commandar
Captain Schroeder and the officers held reception on board. The day's celebrations com ratio to its military strength. In the second suits came out in the German Mail steamer part of the book he applies these deductions Forck. They left the ship at Singapore en routs eluded with a linger at the Gerand Club in the
evening, which was largely attended to the concrete case of war between the to Bangkok.
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LIBBRAL GAINS.
Burwen
This is the first time His Majesty
Morocco dispute.
NAVAL GUNNERY.
LONDON, January 27th. The returns of the heavy gunlayers tests in the Navy show a great im provement compared with 1908. The China Squadron is first, with nuclea divisions of the Home Fleet second and third. The first division of the Fleet, contriaing the Dreadnoughts, is ninth on the list.
GREEK POLITICAL CRISIS.
LONDON, January 27th, The Greek Cabinet bas resigned.
[TROH SOUTHERN PAPERO.]
THE NEW COMET E
The new discovered
LONDON, January 22,
is not Halley's It was the 17th Johannesburg ers at Cambridge and
at Gibraltar P&O BUY BLUE ANCHOR LINE
Loxnos, January 22: The P&O Company has purchased Lund's Blas Anchor Time of steamers,
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Haldane have The Bank Line Ltd, Aymeric arrived been re-elected.
Ashburton
et Beatde on the 25th Inst..
Ons account mentions that the Captain of the Oscar 11, was in command of the Bagnor when she was wrecked at the Parssels some months B29,
BRITISH SURNAMES.
An interesting report on surnames in Irs- and, fed by the Registrar Gamerst for that country points out how much light is thrown by family nemenclature on the early employ- ments and castors of s people, as well as the sources from which they spring. It ep. pears from the table of surnames that the fire
of
common names in Ireland as compared with England and Scotland tre
Ireland Murphy, Kelly, Suliran, Walk
Braith England-Smith,
and
Jones Willam, Taylor
and Darios
Beotland Smith, McDonald, Brown, Them- son and Robertson. Although the
my of the Smiths is shown to predominate in Engisait and Scotland and almost in Ireland, it is pointed out that all Smiths do not belong to the one family. The name is derived from the most common and important of all early trades, and in Ireland and Bootland the name in many, if not mosk, cases is a translation from the Galio equivalent.
ILLEGAL ARREST IN THE SHANG HAI SETTLEMENTS
The latest issue of the Municipal Gazelle at Shanghai contains the following paragraph:---- Attention kad already been called to the illegal Arrest in August last of a man Ng Aldat by am on the Markham Road, in conection been ascertained that with this essa it has now been the man Ng All and bus koruko ant in this City Tamda, where he has been on Various occasions brutally beaten by the orders the City Hegistrato: The fans of the case have been clearly proved. Attention is once more called to the fact that such no stronger term, ill-treatment, to in tolerated if not encouraged by the higher Chinese authorities
at the same time, ordinary corpora
ately administered under the
Court trennod.ly objectad
Chimano – authorit
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