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nevolence might be diverted to the fund} organization was such that these storm were soblom available when needed. The employ raised to help the victims of the devasting ment of female nurses was disliked by the inundations in France in 1857. The money military authorities, for the experiment had subscribed was devoted to the foundation of been tried, and it was given inevidence by the Nightingale Home for the Training of Nurses. Miss NIGHTINGALE after her retura Secretary of State for War, before a Com-
was confined to her home by illness for mission of Inquiry into the conduct of the
sovoral years, but she had the satisfaction campaign, that
"the class of women of seeing the seed of her labours in the A 8. WATSON & CO., employed as nursas had been very much Crimes begin to bear fruit in reforms addicted to drinking, and they were found of a permanent character in the army. She even more callous to the sufferings of had not only been instrumental in effecting soldiers in hospitals than men would have great improvements in the military hospital boen. But as the war progressed pressure system, but bad accomplished much valuable was brought to bear on the War Depart-work during the last months in the Crimea ment through the Press and other channels by providing useful occupation and rearea tion for the convalescent soldiers and the mean camp by furthering reforms in the
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loop ended yesterday in a complete vistory for players and these of Cinb da Regreto at Kow- TELEGRAMS the visitors.
It is stated that Mr. J. C. Dyor, formerly of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, has arrived, in Shanghai to take up the position of Manager of the Cathay Trust, Ltd., under, the general management of Messrs. J. A. Wattie & Co.
Before Mr. E, IL. Hollifax at the Magistracy
yesterday two soldiers from the Buffs regiment wore convicted of stealing two albums from a Japanese curio shop in Arsenal Street. The defendants entered the shop, asked to be shown an albam aploos, and suddenly dashed out of the shop. The frst defendant, who had a previous the second to three weeks, both with hard conviction, was sent to prison for six weeks, and
labour.
The hearing of the application made by the Chinese Government for the extradition to
Shanghai of Li Ya Min, formerly compradore on the sa, Bujur Maru, on a charge of kidnap ping, was concluded before Mr. B.-R. Halifax at the Magistroy yesterday. Mr. H. L. Dennys, senr., acting Crown Solicitor, made the applica.
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GREAT FIRE AT BRUSSELS EXHIBITION.
THREE SECTIONS DESTROYED.
LONDON, August 15th,
sections at the Brussels Exhibition The British, French and Belgian
have been annihilated by fire.
Others have been partly destroyed. Twenty or thirty persons have been injured.
The British loss includes a loan collection valued for insurance pur poses at £100,000.
THE VATICAN AND SPAIN.
DISSATISFACTION AMONG THE
CARDINALS.
LONDON, August 15th. There is marked dissatisfaction
CITIZEN SOLDIERS.
LONDON, August 11th. Telegrams from Pretoria state that Mr. J. C. Smuts, Minister for Defence in the South African Ministry, in the course of a speech advocated the military training of citizens on Swiss lines..
COUNTY CRICKET.
LONDON, August 8th. The following are the results of the cricket. matches played on August 4, 5 and 6:-
Kent beat Gloucestershire at Canterbury
mingham by 145 runs. by an innings and ninety-six runs.
Warwickshire beat Derbyshire at Bir-
Lancashire beat Northamptonshire at Northampton by 112 runs,
Sussex beat Leicestershire at Leicester by two wickets,
Surrey beat Middlesex at the Oval by two wickets. Nottinghamshire beat Essex at Layton by three wickets
The match between Worcestershire jand Yorkshire at Worcester was drawn.
LONDON, August 11th.
The following are the results of the cricket. matches played on August 8, 9 and 10:--
Surrey beat Northamptonshire at North- ampton by an innings and ninety runs,
Kent beat Somervatshire at Bath by 471
runs,
Leicestershire beat Yorkshire at Leeds by
Gloucestershire boat Worcestershire at Cheltenham by an innings and sixty-three
The Venerable Archdeacon : A3, Monle, B.D., who has nearly completed his jubilee of mission work in China, will be leaving the scene of his life's labours mart October for England. Although it was originally his intention to Moule has decided nipon au corlior return to the Cardinal Merry del Val failed to con KING EDWARD remain in China until the spring. Archdeacon among the loading Cardinals that 259 runs.
Fome-land. According to prosent arrangements sult the congregration respecting the Archdeacon and Mrs. Moale will spend a short time in Shanghai during September, when an
policy to be adopted towards Spain. - Opportunity should be found to testify to the public appreciation of their devoted service extending over some fifty years.
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cooking and diet of the soldiers. For the Times, "able and willing to go forth to improvements which have been made in all minister to the sick and suffering soldiers these respects during the last forty of the East in the hospitals at Scutari? fifty years, the soldier own a deep Are none of the daughters of England at debt of gratitude to the organising this extrems hour of need ready for genius and deep human sympathy of
France FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, Nor is the such a work of mercy?.. has sent forth her Sisters of Marcy civilian less indebted to her. While her unsparingly, and they are even now by life's work has been so largely identified the bedside of the wounded and the with the Army, the Queen of Nurses has dying, giving what women's hand alone by her pen and voice done great service for the sick poor in our crowded cities and has can give of comfort, and relief Must we fall so far below the French in raised the art of nursing generally to "the finest of the Fine Arta.”- QUEEN self-sacrifice and devotedness, in a work VICTORIA, who appreciated her services very which CHEIT so signally blesses as done.
highly, conferred upon Miss NieurrNOALE unto Himself? I was sick and те visited
the Red Cross, and Me?" This rousing appeal had the effectpaid her the graceful compliment six years of inundating the authorities with applicango of conferring upon her the dignity of tions from women of all classes who, moved Lady of Grace of the Order of John of by the harrowing accounts of the suffering Jerusalem. No titles, however, can serve soldiers, were anxious to go out as nurses. to enoble the name of FLORENCE NIGHT This DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, giving evidence INGALE better than her deeds, and in the before the Commission, said: "The difficulty traditions of the Nursing Profession it was to get a lady to take in hand the charge of superintending and directing a body of nurses. After having seen one or two, I almost despaired of the practicability of the matter unti Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT (Whe was at the head of the War. Department) suggested Mias NIGHTINGALE, with whom he had been previously acquainted, for the work, and that lady eventually undertook it." Mr. HERDERT had written to his friend fully $35.00 explaining the position. There is but one person in England that I know of who would be capable of organising and superintending
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own personal qualities, your knowlodge and your power of administration, and, among greater things, your rank and position in society, give you advantages in such
work which
no other person pos BOTREя," Mr. HERDERT was not guine as to Mise Nightingale's answor, but while he was engaged writing his lengthy letter, Miss NIGHTINGALE in her country home had been reading in the Times Mr. RUSSELL'S appeal to the women of England and was moved by it to offer
her services. Har latter crossed that of Mr.
HERBERT, of which she was in complete ignorance, and this unique circumstance, as her biographer puts it, gave "rounded completeness to the call of FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, which came as the rojos of GoD speaking through her tender beart." The Government gave to her planary power over all the nurses and unlimited power of drawing for whatever she thought re- quisite for the success of her nission. Bala clava was fought four days after she left London, and Inkerman the day after she arrived at Scutari. The wounded were
is
a name which can never cease to bo held in the highest honour.
A correspondent writes to the China Fe
that at the Railway Hotel, Shanhaikwan, on the night of the 5th instant, while dinner was being- Cable communication with Macao is inter-served, so unplemant incident occurred which' rapted.
considerably alarmed the guests of that hostelry. The German Mail of the 14th July was It appears that a visitor from Tientsin who had delivered in London on the 13th inst..
Castons at Bhanghai, has been ordered to Mr. A. J. Hadley. of the indoor staff of the
Canton as Chief Examiner.
been imbibing too frasly drew a revolver and commenced firing it in the dining-room Thera was a stampede from the room, but the Austrian
Minister remained behind and moceeded in persuading the individual with the gun to leave HI.M.S. Astrars is bound for Colomba to be the room, though before he would do so he had
recommissioned and will return with the new crew to the China Station,
The health return for last week was satisfactory, only one caso of plague and one case of enteric fever having been notified in the Colony,
News reaching India from Kasbgar shows that Dr. Morrison, the Poking correspondent of The Times, has arrived overland from China at that far-off outpost.
The total output of the Chinas Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, threo mines for the week ending 30th July amounted to 27875.67 tons and the sales during the period
to 20,314,98 tons.
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to threaten to call the Chinose police. As soon as the man with the revolver reached his room ho proceeded to discharge the weapon again, the shota passing along the verandah. Mr. Geo. Test, of the I. R. N. O., at considerable personal risk approached and, after a struggle, succeeded in disarming him. Being that the hotel was full of guests and that all the tables in the dining-room were fully occupied it seems mirsole that nobody was struck by the erratic flying bullets.
There was even some thought of presenting a collective remonstrauce to His Holiness the Pope, but after deep consideration the project was abandoned,
THE STRANDED CRUISER.
LONDON, August 14th. The cruiser "Duke of Edinburgh," which stranded off the Isle of Wight
It is
during fog, has been refloated. understood that she is undamaged.
DEATH OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
LONDON, August 14th. Miss Florence Nightingale is dead.
AEROPLANE FOR MILITARY USE.
LONDON, August 14th. The French Minister for War has placed orders for fifty aeroplanes of different types from credits for 1910,
As a mark of appreciation in the interest ovinced by the Portuguese community of Bhanghai, the affliated committee of the Mausoleu sobre a Sapaltura do Herce do Fassa Loso have extended an invitation to Mr. 3. Ners has been received at Shanghai that Mr. Nolasco, the Captain of the Portuguese Co. Arthur Bassett has resigned from the position. V. C, to send a squad of twenty men down to and proposes to organise a Logion of for Chisa. He is taking up a private law of the monument to Colonel Vicente Nicolan do Aviators, for which he will ask a credit of District Attorney of the United States Court Mass in order to participate in the unveiling
practice in Mexico City.
Mesquita and His Excellency Amaral, the of two million francs in 1911. Governor of Macao, which takes place on the 22nd inst. A mesting was accordingly convened at the company's headquarters last Tuesday. when it was agreed to accept the invitation, Hongkong on the 18th inst. by s Jardine The squad will therefore sail for Manso vid
Amongst the winners of the N.R.A. Badgo and £12 in the competition for the King's Prize at Bisley was Sergeant W. H. Daldy, of the "Becerre" Co. Shanghai Volunteers, whe scored 325 out of a possible 355 points.
Cel. E. J. Cooper, C.B., M.V.O., has been appointed Brigadier-General to command the troops in North China He formerly belonged to the Royal Fusiliers, and has the Sandan, South African, and Tibet oumpaigus to his credit.
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Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, who has been Amseriman Vice Consal General at this port since the spring of 1906, leaves by the N. Y. K. Atsuta
No name during the last half century has arriving by the shipload, and FLORENCE been held in greater respect by Englishmen NIGHTINGALE was immediately face to face and no meniory is likely to be more revered with a task" unparalleled in its magnitude than that of the noble and self-sacrificing and appalling in its nature" English Hart to-morrow. He will be at the Consulate Englishwoman of whose death, at the ripe history ha few more touching, few from 3 to 5 this afternoon to say good-bye to his "old age of ninfety, wo have telegraphic more glorious pages than the simple record friends. news to-day. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'..
of her achievements. As her biographer Two Chinese appeared before Mr. E. R. wagnitiot work in the Crimea as the
very truly puts it," we honour the soldier Hallifax at the Magistrasy yesterday or organiser and superintendent of a new and applaud the valiant hero, but it required charge of stealing 50lbs. of sugar and a basket from the Sugar Refinery at East Point. They inilitary nursing system constituted her the
a more indomitable spirit, a higher courage, were convicted, and euch defendant was senteno most illustrious heroine of the Empire and to purge the pestilential hospital at Scutari; ed to three weeks' imprisonment with hard earned for her a nation's undying gratitude to walk hour after hour its miles of fetid labour. Ju the midst of the nation's rejoicings over corridors crowded with suffering, even
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the victories which were being gained over agonised, humanity than in the heat of and Museum for the week ending the 14th August The return of visitors to the City Hall Library, the Russian by the allied troops in the battle
to go down into
the jaws 1910, shows that of non-Chinese there were 363 Crimea, a feeling of deep indignation
of death as did the noble Six to the Library and 136 to the Museum, and of manifested itself as news came home of Hundred." Miss NrOUTINGALE herself fell a
Chize 152 to the former and 1,879 to the the wounded lying uncared for, the sick
victim to the worst form of Crimean fever, persons and the Museum by 2,015.
latter. The Library wax, therefore, used by 505 untended, the dying unconsoled.
from which so many soldiers and members commonest accessories of a hospital are
"The
wanting," wrote the Times war correspond. of the medical and hospital staffs succumbed; ent, there is not the loast attention paid to but happily her life was spared and she has lived many years-though unhappily
The China Critic states that one of the load ing firms in Tientsin hoe issued a circular inviting other firms to join in approaching the Commissioner of Castoms with a view to the
GREECE AND CRETE.
LONDON, August 14th.
rubs.
Middlesex beat Essex at Lord's by two wickets.
Hampshire beat Derbyshire at Chesterfield by 102 runs.
Sussex beat Lancashire at Brightou by eleven runs.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, August 15th,
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. F. A. HAZELAND (ACTING POISNE JUDGE).
A BORROWER'S DIFFICULTIES, Bhagat Singh brought action against Luk Ki Kwong, a clark in the employ of Messrs. Brutten & Holt, for the recovery of $200 due on a promissory note. Plaintiff appeared in person, and Mr. J. H. Gardicer acted for
defendant.
Mr. Garliner said the defondant admitted the amount. It was only a question of payment by instalments.
His Lordship-Yon consent to judgment? Mr. Gardiner Yea.
He Lordship-What is the amount of internat
Mr. Gardiner-I don't know, The originat loan was for $80. The interest has been
included.
pay $15 a month. What is his salary ?
His Lordship-I soo by the note he agrees to
Mr. Gardiner $45 a month.
His Lordship decided that repayment should be made by monthly instalments of $15.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,
The Greek Crown Prince will return BEFORE SIR F. PIGGOTT (CHIEF JUSTION).
steamer, under the command of Captain Nolasco. In addition to the participation of the unveiling to Athens on Friday. of the statues, thore will be a shooting competì- tion betwoon the Portuguese Co. B. V. C. and a Navy. The statues were malecribed for by the combined team of the Portaguase' Army and
Portuguese communities of Macao, Hongkong, Shanghai, Japan and coast porte in recognition of the yeoman service rendered by the hero of Passa-Lano during the time when Macs0 WAS on a bad footing with China.
ITROM THE “CHUNG TOI BAN PO
CHINESE NAVAL MISSION.
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The Times reviewor of Admiral Robley D.
PEKING, August 15th. Prince Tsun and Admiral Sah were yesterday granted a farewell
BALESMAN OK PARTNER? Action, was brought by the I On Marine and Fire Insurance Company, Limited, against Hu Fang Shan for 16,462.50, money lent and interest. Mr. M. W. Slade, înstructed by Mr. Bicaronson, of Mosure. Deacon, Looker & Descon, appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Eldon Potter, instrusted by Mr. Hodgson, of Messrs Bwens & Harston, appeared for the
defondants.
The statement of claim sot forth that the
Evans' book "An Admiral's Log" writes audience by the Prince Regent be-defendant was a trader whose address was care We could have wished that Admiral Evans had fore starting for America and Japan Ho was at all material times a partner in the of the Kwong Tak Fat Hong in Bonham Stand. told us more about the Philippines, He ac-in order to study naval affairs. *knowledges that tho Filipinos hate American
rale so much that "many of them do not hesitate to say they would be glad to have the Spaniards back in our stend." The statement is perfectly trus. If Mr. Roosevelt had been to
CHINESE POLITICS.
PEKING, August 15th. Prince Ching has refused to accept
Kwai Mow Fat Keo tim which ceased to carry on business in or about the month of March, 1907. On the 30th April, 1905, plaintiffs lent to the Kwai Mow Fat Kee firm the sum of $5,000 at $7.50 interest per $1,000 per Chinese month. The interest on the loan up to 14th' June, 1909, amounted to 81,46250.
The statement of defauce was "a denial by
the Philippine Islands as well as Egypt he before he made his speech at the Guildhall the office of President of the newly-efendant that he was preto partner in the said would probably have hesitated a long time What he said about the condition of Egypt established Cabinet on the ground of fem, in which he had been a salesman. He
his old
was certainly socursts, and probably salutary, bat it was quite evident that ho only know the Philippine Islands through the medium of amiable reports. The very mistakes which he condemned in Egypt are being reprodnood : in the Philippines. Admiral Evans records the fact that when he wae there Filipino Judges he had recently been fighting in the revolution
decency or cleanliness, the stench is appalin an impaired state of health,and she has establishment of a regular water police force, stakes in the Philippine
ling,
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LIQUOR TRADE STATISTICS
FOR 1909,
LONDON, August 9th.
admitted that the plaintiffs had lent the sam mentioned to the Kwai Mow Fat Keo and stated that ho had signed the document ne a salesman only. Moreover, all accounts betweON the Kwai Mow Fat Kee firm and the plaintiffs had been settled after the former had ceased to carry on business,
that.
His Lordship-You don't require.
Mr. Slade added that he would prove that the signature to the signature was defendant's, and that defendant held 225 shares of $100 esch, $53 paid up, in the firm in which he was said to be salesman.'
were actually permitted to pam sentence on
Mr. Slade said that he would produce evidenes. American soldiers. The ostalogue of American
The Bcensing statistics frr 1909 show a that a salesman would never sign a receipt like and for all I can observe, seon many proofs that her noble services properly organised, as the thefts on the Bund though largely due to
is long and Fristam continued decrease of licensed premises, but the men die without the least effort to save will long continue to dwell in the grateful, are getting too frequent, and many offences also { ili „Admiral Evans that
People
Kere a striking increase of clubs. The most them. Thero they be, just as they wore let
occur on the water, where no supervision cr satisfied with things as they stood, and remembrance of her country.
did not When her generally down on the ground by the poor work in the Crimea
patrol is kept at all,
want way of our new sanitary methods and remarkable feature of the statistics is the was completed a-
Admiral grew iw patient. decrease in the convictions for drunkennese ellows, the comrades, who brought them
we could not argue with such a fool," At four o'clock yesterday morning a firo broke
he says, on their baghs from the camp with the public subscription was raised in recognis out in a godown in Sai On Lazo, West Point. Eduestion will in fine remedy all this. If it
THE COTTON TRADE. It had reached
and I
know, greatest tenderness, but who are not allowed tion of her labours.
The fire brigade were early on the scene, but it will be observed that the gallant Admiral's the high igure of £44,000, and there owing to the situation of the building they were notions of sympathetic pacification may to remain with them.". There were doctors is little doubt that the fund would retarded in their work, and it wok some two. But he belongs to the best type of sailors, and he Spinners at Manchester in ite report says principal of the Kwai Moy frm, and when he
deemed a little crude, even by Mr. Roosevelt. anen-but there were no ntirses except the have been increased. to £50,000, the amount hours to get the fire under control. The godown has had an honourable and interesting career. that the year has been dianstrous owing to i died his son, the defendant, took his place, a
the Commitee had set itself to obtain, was stocked with general merchandise, the goods Though nusparing in his exposure of its defects tities of hospital stores were sent, the the list to a close in order that public be $1,000 in the Fak On untrained orderlies, and though huge quan: had not Miss NronzINGALE herself brought boing insured for $6,000 in the Chan One leavea a vivid impression of the fine spirit the high price of raw material and the
Insurance Co. 81,000 in the Po Wal and that pamestow the modern United States Navy, failure of the crops.
sufficient-one it seems to over my five
will"
be
LONDON, August 11th.
The assistant secretary of the plaintiff firm The Federation of the Master Cottonstated that the defendant's father was the
The defence was opened and the hearing adjourned.