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SHIPPING NOTES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1911.
THE PLAGUE EPIDEMIC IN
THE NORTH,
The fallowing infořtration is taken from the Manchurian Daily News (Dairen) of the 11th inst
AVIATION IN THE ORIENT.
A MANILA CARNIVAL ATTRACTION.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
[FROM SOUTHERN PAPERS.]
THE BOLTON COLLIERY DISASTER.
Londen, January 5th.
Bolton uit dienster has reached £91,000. The The fund for the relief of the victims of the
A feature of the forthcoming Carnival at bean arranged. Concerning "Mars," who is to Manila is the exhibition faviation which las fly at Manila, we are furnished with the followist closes to-morrow. ing particulars:
J. C. "Bud" Mars is the most prominent of aeroplane flying, and that is Glenn H. Curtis but, one equal in skill,, daring and sensational the younger aviators of America to-day, and has
himself. His nerve and skillful handling of a
- ARB TRATION FOR EVERYTHING,
AMERICA'S HOPES REGARDING AEDITRATION. !
Washington, January 10th,
Mr. Foster, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representa. tires, has made a speech stating that he believea
ferences whatsoever by a permanoot Court that within fro years the United States will and Japan, providing for arbitration on all dif conclude Treaties with Great Britain, France
established at The Hague.
A CLUB FOR COLONIAL FROOFS IN LONDON.
tion, under the auspices of the Hospitality ment of Colonial Troops attending the Corona- Committee of the Festival of Empire,
London, January 1th. Alab has been formed for the entertain-
It is announced that a new P. & O. service will be started to Australia vid the Cape. It will be for one alive only and favor will range: between £16 and £25, with recommodation on the upper-deck amidships. Two ships, the Bendigo und Ballarat, each of 11,000 tons, are
The S.M. Railway management has started now being constructed. They are boing especi, the datention of the 3rd class railway passengers work at Chau chun on seven largo buildings for ally modeled for this service.
arriving from the north for medical surveillones for 7 days. Each building when completed will The United States Government are proscoat.cccnimodate 500 people at the same time. ing thirteen of the leading trans-Atlantis Lines Station this side of Chinchou with the total The Entenanted barracks at Tafengshen under the Anti-Trust Law, alleging that there nccommodating capacity for about 4,000 people is an attempt to monopolise the stoerage hare beau rented from the military.authorities | Curtiss aeroplane has placed him in the front questions of vital interest or affecting the THE KING OF THE BELGIANS AND THE CONGO, pussonger truffle by an agreement signed in for all 3rd class
to be converted into dotention houses rank of the world's avintora and his rise as an London in 1908.
Inssengers who have aviator has been metooric. undergene medien! Furveillance
His career as an Changchun. They will be detained there for more than sixteen years. His knowledge of the ataaronaut and aviator extends over a period of lest are to be admitted to Dairen and Portmunbirds" that are dying to-day, with one 10 days and only such as have passed the medica! | air and flying is more extensive than any of the Arthur,
B. probable exception
Capt. Thomas Baldwin. inventor and aviator in some of his most valu with
Mars
was associated this veteran balloonist, aeronaut, ablo achievements.
not
Those arrangements will be inaugurated as authority to do so to the Railway management. soon as the Kwantung Gorornment gires The detention stations at Tashikchino aunt Mukden will be extended.
In an interview at Ceylon, Herr Philipp Hei- nokon. Director of the North German Lloyd 8.S. Company, asked his views in regard to tho Straits Shipping Bil, euid he thought the Governor had been very ill-advised in sanction- ing the measure. He had occasion to interview his Excellency during a rocent visit to Singa poze, and gave the Governor his own viows enclosa medical sorutiny. the matter. He (Herr Heineken) had no doubt
physicians who will keep the passengers under All trains will be boarded by competent
that, with a desire for an understanding on the Passeng ra at the nine stations at Dairen, Port Quarantine inspection made on the intending part of both sides, the matter would be satisfacArthur, Watengtien, Tashihabiao, Kangolin torily settled. The Conference Lines bad been advised that the whole Bill was illegal, and if the Government pressed the measure they we'd have to "save our skins" and as what could be dong. However, he did not think it would come
to that He boloved an understanding would be arrived at before the six months of the post ponement had elapsuu
chun will be extended from to-morrow to 8 ling, Liaoyang, Mukton, Tiehling and Chang. other stations at Chianchinshai, Kaiyuan, Changta, Chiaotou, Pencbibu, Tsuohokou,
shechen and Antung."
MEDICAL HELP · FROM JAPAN.
dealing with the plague ad expected here on The four medical exports experienced in Sunday to join the M. R. medical staff will be accompanied by three medical overssors and 61 experienced rat-catchers We understand that physicians will be engaged by the M.E. MANAGEMENT DEFINES ITS POSITION. Hailway from Japan.
in
renowned aviator and inventor, Glenu H. and
This young conqueror of the air is the lost most necessful pupil of the world-
middle wost and eat during the last six months throughout the largest cities of the south, Curtiss, and has been riding a Curtiss bi-plane with one great success following upon another
amendment of the Anglo-American Arbitration Committee of the Senate with a view to the
Lendon, Jaunsry 7th. President Taft is conferring with the Foreign Treaty by eliminating the article which except honour of the parties.
opened negotiations with Mr. Bryce, the British accruing from the Congo to purchase three of the above conferrings, Mr. Knox hua atrody The King is devoting three million francs
The New York Tribune says that, as a result Ambassador to the US.
Brassels, January ilth,
steamers for the inland waterways of the Congo. BETTER TRY OPIUM NEXT CHRISTMAS! -
St. Petersburg, January 11th. St. Petersburg, 27 suicides and attempts at Daring the Russian Christmas there were, in suicido; 8,000 arrests for dronkenness, of which 15 per cent, were women; and thirty deaths from alcoholio poisoning.
"E" CONTINUING HIS LOOK AROUND.
Uganda
London, January 'Bil. Lord Kitchover hos left Khartoum for
THE RIOT TRIAL IN BERLIN,
Á BILLIARD CHAMPION AMONG CHAMPIONS.
London, January 8th. The result of the match between Gray and
SHUTTING DOWN" ON A NEW YORK BANK.the thirty-four accused in connection with the Diggle in: -Gray, 8,001; Diggle, 3,821,
Gray male a break of 1,318.
London, January 12th. After a trial of two months, only three out of
varying from two daye to three years. London, January 8th.
riots in the Moabit quarter of Berlin have been acquitted. The remainder received sentences
with a capital of 1,500,000 dollars and deposits of 10,000,000 dollars, has ben alused by onder The New York Carnegie Trust Company,
of the State Superintendent of Banks,
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has no connection with the institution.
Later.
was the result of heavy withdrawals due to The closing of tho Carrogie Trust Company rumours occasioned by the fact that the fin connection with the failure of the Northern sacier Robin, who is now being arraigned in Bank of New Yerk, of which ho was a Director, Carnegis Company. was, until a year ago, alec a Director of the
if twenty-four hours had been giron, all the dewands would have been met. He believes The President of the Company declares that,
works were badly damaged. Unfortunately thateyond a shadow of doubt that in such are the loading figures in the world of flying, I that all the depositors will be paid in full,
injury was not confined to ship fillings, says the Japan Herald, for the Chief Officer was badly knocked about by a hugo sea which was shipped, He now lies in the General Hospital at Yoko hama suffering from conenssion of the brain and
badly fractured arm.
The Chicage Mara ran into the same gale, we believe, and extensive damage was done to her upper works. The purser was badly injured about the head by a piece of timber falling upon him while he was lying in his bunk.
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ANOTHER TIGHT CORNER RELIEVED.
·
ARMING THE LONDON POLICY,
London, January 12th. The police and gunsmiths have examined a variety of pistole and revolvers with a view to arming officers da dangerous duty,
are officially assisting the Pathfinders organisa- THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT IN GERMÁNY, London, January 12th.
tion, which is equiraloat to the Boy Scouts in The Berlin, Prussian, and Bavarian authorities
the United Kingdom. The movement has mado extraordinary prograsa in Germany,
GUN DR MOIR WINS THE REAVY-WEIGHT OHAMPIONSHIP.
London, January 12th. Olympia was crowded last night, when a
overtures of peace and others haverent threaten.
contest for the Heasy-Weight Championship London, January 9th. Reinforcemonts have reached Lient, Thor-kucoked ont Bombailer Wells in the third of Great Britalu took place, Gunner Moir
ing messages. barn in Southern Nigeria. One town hos made round. The result was unexpooted.
ACCIDENT AT THE GARE DU NORD, PARIS, Louden, January 12h. Owing to faully brakes a train to-day vollided with the buffers in the aorthern station in Paris. The train muunted the platform. Eight persons" were injered.
FAILURE OF LAW CAR INSURANCE CORPORATION.
wide experience in the balloon and kits riding game, he takes to the most recent of man's Naturally being at home in the air from his neliovements, that of flying, with the gareless abandon and fearlessness that more than borders the United States in which Mars has competed on the daring. During the many aviations meets that
afwiss finished with flying eclours, and morethan here been held throughout the crack aviators of the world, he has his share of the bosours. The make-up of Mars The Bauk liner Kumeric in orossing the
the foremost King of the Air. His life has in personality and physical build tits him to be Pacific ran into a gule about five days previous
to uncertain death. In fact his calling sinse a to arriving at Yokohama, and experienced a
been ono in which he has been constantly exposed very rough time. So violent was the uform and...] suspended coolie traffle altogether if that could air. This is an advantage possessed by few of The Railway management would have child has been one in which his work was in the so huge the seas that the bents wore sinashadi. stop effectually the invasion of the plague thasuccessful birdmen, and one which has enabled while the steering gear and much of the deck from the north. It boing, however, certain Mars to rise rapidly to the front of the men who would take up their foot journey and spread the Mars began his life on the road with tent shows the hordes of migrating coolies From a newsboy on the streets of Chicago, disence germs which they may carry on them all while still at the tender age of thirteen. His along the roads in the interior, making it au first "stuat" was a trapeze not that took place. epidemic, the moral consequences for which dust and the rings. Later he became the top absolutely impossible task te stamp out thedr ad in the top of the canvas high abore the saw. would be of such crn hing oturoter as to stagger mount in a diffleult acrobatic act with a team. lly Rane and conscientious man to assume, losses to be incurred from the suspension of coolie but a short stop and in the capacity of a The From the show business to the race track was what will be required in money and labour for howover, could not stay away from traffle would be ridiculously small by the side of jockey Mars won quito a eputation. Mars, the maintenance of an efficient system of prey-life be loved more than any other and etion aneh as the management is now organizwent back to the arvanet and canvas
London, January 9th. ing and could be made up, in a large menstre, in the capacity of antlers:ady to the high Neres states that the fire and accident risks of Referring to the failure of the Law. Car and by the utilization of the carrying power to be diver.
top General Tuanrance Corporation, tha Fiancial
AN ALL B TH" WEEK IN LONDON, made available for the transportation of staple diver when the latter broke his neck while London and Scottish Insurance Company, bat beginning on March 27th as the week for All-
Later he substituted for the high produce, coul, 0.
the concorn will be taken over by the United The Times writer oz marine insurance ined to the epidemic, which was pronounced, as the parachute and balloon seen attracted his ates to have sustained its heavicat losses.
London, January 12th, At. Murden 15 Chinese victims have suosumb- of livelihood for several seasons. However, theness, in which the Law Car Company is believed display solely Br tish goods.
performing his act. Mars pursued this mosas not the Marine and Employers' Liability busi-British shopping, during which time they will West End shopkeepers have fixed the wook') Bora notes written on Decooiber 31st says:- Underwriters can scarcely be expected to sheriah corpuscles of the victims held at the Red Cross from balloons with a glider et his own design BYE-ELECTION FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. regalt of microscopic examination of the bloodtion and it was not long before he was jumping very kindly feelings of the year that is assing. Hospital, to be tru cases of plague. For them it has been a bad year; the second your Chinese inns who were accustomed to swarm at Baldwin, the retorau aeronaut and aviator, Zer The situation growing alarming porters of he won the admiration of Capt. Thomas S. called the Fool-kiler." While thus engaged settlements on the 1909 ascount were usiespect the railway station bave been denied noooss his daring and cool-headed judgment and was
London, January 9tli. edly heavy, and the losses of 1910 have bo a ex- thereto. Neither are Chinese paddlars allowed taken up by this famous captain of the air as traordinarily severe. The one bright spot has any longer to get into the S. M, Railway area, his pupil Be worked with the pioneer bal- been a stiffening of rates in certain classe of business, and that stiffening, in the opinion of
loonist for several years and graduated from the Baldwin school of ueronautics. Mars assisted. the shrewdest judges, requires to be rigorously
ments, namely, the designing and construction Baldwin in one of his most vulnable antistes supported Such advances as bave been made
of the famons dirigiblo balloon. "The California have undemhtodly had the effect of sending a car. tain amount of business abroad, but it is clearly
Arrow" of St. Louis World's Fair faale. better that the business should go for a time than be accepted horo at rates which experience has proved are inadequate. As to the immediate fature, the fondeney of the big insurance offices to hunnoh out in fresh directions is now so marked that it would seem the company under- writer must be prepared for very strenuous takes a little time to be learnt. Lloyd's under writers, sat upon putting their Amuose in astity stronger position, will have their own particolar problems to solve, But without being wildly hopein), the anderwriting feet may reasonably expect to sail iù loss rough waters in 1913 than those encountered in 1910.
Makin.
AT IHCHIENFANG. --
glenting the infected district known asShihohien- The Chiness authorities are apparently ne fang und situated near the old 8. M. R. station, It was in this locality that the first case was re- ended fatally on Monday. The presence of more ported. A scound suspicions case followed and A few years after Mars rode the Ludlow kite infected people there is anapected, and this perience in the hot-air balloon from which ho at the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. His ex- holds in constant dread the Japaneso residents made parachute and glider laps, spherical, free grouped therein many of whomare making and dirigible balloons and his ascensions in the preparations to love the place.
JAPANESE PROPOSALS,
AT CHANGCHUN.
dent Free Trade Unionist candidato for Cambridge University, in the bye-election Mr. Harold Cox is standing as an Indepen.
necessitated by the death of Mr. Batelor.
AEROPLANES IN COLLISION.
HOW
TO LIVE
LONG!
SUME VALUABLE ADVICE.
The following Sanitary Regulationsappearing in a recent issne of the Jiji are recommended by the Japan Herald to those hungering after long
London, January 9th.
aviators were only slightly Injured.
Two aeroplanes. pasterday collided, at Tusy.life— nour Paris, and were totally wrecked. The
HOW A NEW YORK PANIC WAS STOPPED.
London, January 9th.
Company and the Northern Hank of New York The radont failures of the Carnegie Trust hare caused some perturbationin New York.
A meeting of representatires of strong Bancial interests, fueluding the J. Pierpont Morgan Company, was held yesterday evening for the purpose of preventing the closing of thres other banks hasing nine branches it Now Company,
to net all emergencies.
The meeting agreed to provide ample capital
day, when they guaranteed the threatened
London January 10th,
banks, prevented a serious pauio among the do Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Cole action yester,
positors. Moreover, a number of taxi-cabs were hastily filled with gold and notes from Meera bunks. The eight had the effect of melting the J. P. Morgan & Co.'s vaults and brought to the quoues of auxions depositors.
BABY'S FACE LIKE PIECE OF RAW BEEF
Smothered with Bad Pimples. Aw- ful to Look Af. Scratched and Cried Terribly. Feared He Would Always be Disfigured. Cuticura Remedies Quite Cured Him.
"My baby boy, twelve months ago, but a large pimple come on his forehead. It butet
and spread, all over his face which soon looked like a plece of raw best, all smothered with fid pimples. It was awful to. look at. The poor tile thing used 10 sale and cry terribly. I took Jak to a doctor but only got worse unti was quite frightened tha he would alwaye ho d figured, Then I sent for some Cuticura Ointment and after using it I found that
Saby no longer seruiclied. s face. So I got in all two large thes of Cuticura Ointment, together with Cuticuri Bop, and in two month the Cuticura Remedies had quite ented him. Now always keep a tin of Caricura Dine- ment by me in case of anything else coming, and of course I use Cuticura Soap for all my childran,
About fourteen years ago I bad something to heat puts all over my arms and shouf ders. I scratched and rubbed them so much that they lied and then I was covered with Iklio sores. A friend gave ine p tin of Gul cara Ointmelt und before I had it up cured. I had better and months treble for nine months and had tried everything to get rid of it. I fell all my friend about my baby's cur Indeed they ask what I need for the iletle boy's face, for they all saw how bad wer before the Cuticura Remedies cured it." (Signed) Mrs. E. Perry, 99, Waterloo Itd., Aldershot, Hants, England, May 21, 1910. Quemelles are sold throughout the
Debots: B.Calcutta, B. Ponden, 27, Charterhouse So. Africa. Lernon, Ltd., Cape Town, etc.: U, B. A., Potter Drug
Chew Corp. Sole Propr., Roston. for fire Cuticura book on skin diseases,
Bend
RACING SEASON
ZEISS
1911.
PRISM
BINOCULARS
CAN BE OBTAINED FROM
sible. Eask much in the sun and take plenty of CHS. J. GAUPP
1 Spend as much time out of doors as pos- exercise. Take care that your respiration is always doep and regular.
and let be die be eggs, cereals, vegetables, 2 As regards mentis eat meat only once a day, fruits and fresh cow's milk. Take the last
me as much as possible.) food carefully.
Masticate your
bath once or twice a week if the heart is streng 3. Take a hot lath every day and a stoum enough to bear it).
4. Put on roughly-woven underwear (cction able collar, light hat of any material and well- fitting boote
5. Early to boil and early to rise.
& CO.,
AT
HOME PRICES
COST.
WITHOUT ADDICIONAL
FOR FREIGHT OR PACKING
ing hours be 6 or 6 hours, and the maxime 7 hours. In case of women rest of 84 hours is 12 x with w ndows open. Let the minimum of sleep- 6. Sleep in a very dark and very quiet room,
advisable.
and writing.
7. Take one day of absolute rast per wook, on which you must refrain from even reading
immense glidera and kites. combined with his early youth training, gave him nu ideal ettues tion in the air for the work is in doing at present The Japanese polico, Mukdeo, propoved to the Chinese police yesterday that any premises in the seroplane. competition; the lesson of foreo, rate cutting with the houses in their immediate neighbour. Mary for the saine reason that Captain Thomas York, all flinted to the Caruggie Trust fabrics are preferable) and clothes; a comfort-
on which a case of the plague appeared, together Glonn H. Curtiss was attracted to young hood, should be suolosed by a wall of corrugated seleted him from two hundred aligible applicants enclosed place should be strictly enforced. The developed into a class with Mr Curtiss, himself iron and that the absolute, islation of the to train as an arialor. As a result Maas was S. Baldwin recognized at first sight and refusal of the Chinese to accept this proposal and in the time of less than a year he has been might drive the. Japanese authorities to the riding Curtiss aeroplane. The Mars high curso of sction as the only means of protesting glide and the famous "Circle-dip." are two feats sheer nessity of pursuing an independent! life and property under their jurisdiction.
in a dying machine that were introdud to the aviation world by Mars, His exhibition of The Quarantine Office has been opened in the Heitman, official observer of the Aero Club of aeroplane driving before Amistant Secretary We notice that a Reuter telegram from Station compound and a detention house in a Amerien at the recent Sheepshead Bay Aviation Capetown to Londe, datori January, 7, states building, ut a little distance westward, The Meut, Long Island, New York, qualified him to that the Government Jms introduced a Quarantine Offico has wired for a quantity of become a pilot and receive an official aviator's oculations. The Chinese police have closed all prophylaxis solution sufficient for 100,000 in licence. honses of public amusement and have made the Aueries, and places Mars in an official clue This was the eighth one to be issual ia promotion of a meeting of a large number of with Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Glenn If. people conditional apon their permission. They Corliss, Capt. Thomass 8. Raldwin, Cifferd bave prohibited the import of old clothing, rags, B. Harmon, J. A. Drexel, Jr., and Louis oid cotton, furs, hides, etc., which are feared as Paulkan, who are the soven that have been liable to transmit the disease germs.
granted an aviator's licence, This qualifies Mars oficially to participats in the international aviation meet to be held at Belmont Park, L. I, in October.
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Office Bill into the Assembly. It contains a clause debarring the Pastmaster-General from making contracts with any shipping company granting rebates.
FOREIGN PIRACY OF BRITISH CLOTH PATTERNS.
!
STRAITS TIN INDUSTRY.
GOVERNMENT'S SHORT-SIGHTED POLICY.
supply of trucks to deal with freight, and he The railway also suffered from an inadequate ensidered the Chamber ought again to ask for
WEATHER REPORT.
HARASSING THE LISBON MONARCHISTS.- London, January 9th. three Monarchist papers were attacked and Kenter wires from Lisbon that the offices of wrecked to-day,
The Republican troops are now guarding thear.
Lisbon, January 10th.
Monarchist newspapers, whose plant was totally An official statement ascribes, the attack on wrecked, to popular excitement over a Press regarding the situation in Poringal. enmpaign disseminating false reports abroad
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£9.5.0
X (stalking)
8 x £6.10.0
£7.10.0
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£6.0.0
2. Try to avoid any outburst of passions and strong mental stimulations. Do not overtax your brains at the encurrence of inevitable
disagreable things. incidents or of coming events. Do not say NEW MODEL 6 x weighing unpleasant things, nor i ten, if possible, to
9. Be married! Widowsand widowers should be re-married with the least possible delay.
10. Le moderate in the consumption of even beverages. tox und coffee, not to say tobuono in alcoholic
7oz., can he carried in
vest pocket, £0.0.0.
ALHO
elly steato heated) and badly ventilated rooms. 11. Avoid places that are ten warm (espe- 12. In order to promote the functions of
mont taken from the same organs of other by age and disease, supply yourself with untri those bodily organs which are liable to weaken animals. Jut in such cases the advice of the CHRONOGRAPHS
most competent medical nathorities should be carefully consulted.
high duties and coming higher ones they ca obtain the money to purchase the various articles The Japan Herald adds:-"The Jiji might have made up the round dozen of suggestions,
of food-staffs calculated to lengthen life, A by juforming its readers how in these days of
Japanese workman, keeping a w fe and children
AT ALL PRICES.
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o its Eindral across the san. The speech creat-on something under Y1 a day, would doubtless now Secretary of State and the near approwh ad great irritation in Germany.
America Line, has undergone an operation. for A WELL-KNOWN GERMAN SHIPOWNER ILL Berlin, January 10th. Herr Ballin, Chairman of the Hamburg appendicitis. He is progressing favourably,
At a meeting of the Huddersfield Chaber of Commerce recently a letter was read from
Mars holds the official American record for Mr. W. H. Hughes, seerotary of the Hudders
alort starting in an aeroplano made at malu, Bold Fins Cloth Manufacturers' Association,
A telegram to the Singepare Free Preas, datedthros feet seren inches. During the recent defamation, which has been headed by Jesuits.
Nebraska, in July, 1910, by a distance of fifty-long been aware of the Monarchist campaign of The statemout adds that the Government Lave asking for the co-operation of the Chamber in Ipoh, January 16th, ronda - the endeavour which the Association and raw-
Sheepshead Bay, New York Aviation, mest Mars facturers in Leeds and in Scotland aro miking Chairman said that the mines were suffering idle of Lower New York Pay when his machine At a meeting of the Chainber of Mises the had a narrow escape from boing drowned in the
AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN. to put a stop manufacturers of patterns of cloth made in this takon to rubber plantation work owing to the Hamilton from the race track at Sheepshead such he made at the Guildhall, London, last
wholesale piracy by foreign from a scarcity of labour, as the cooles had fell five hundred feet into the ocean while he was country and suggesting an appeal to the Foreign higher wages offeret. The mines also suffered Bay. He was rescued by a wrecking tug, which woul, in which he said that he, persemity, be London, January 10th. a mile from any shore dying toward Fort Sibe publicly
President Taft has decided that Commsaller Office. Mr. Hughes enclosed a lettor froni a owing to the heavy railway freicht ou coal and also visited up bis seroplane in time to save it lived that if the Brit Empiro were seriously firm of German morclunts in which they stated machinery, whilst the slips on the Puss had cens from going to the bottom of the sea.
roprimauded for the nothing apparently onuld be done.
Mr. Charles Mills, scurotary of the Chamber, might hit winers Lardly if there was a serious od much incauvesience, and at a later date ld be bad columnnicated with Mr. Hughes as breakdown and they were nuable to get coal. to the untaro of the communication to the For-
menaced by an externa enemy, it might count eign Offico, The Association had taken steps by means of circulars whereby they hoped to stop pingy of patterns, their threat being not to do the construction of the Lumut line owing to the has fallen moderately over the northern shores business for five years with anyone who dealt instability of the Pass
On the 25th at 11:55 am.-The barometer with any person or ärm whe sold patterns in a
anner so objectionable. The only comunica opinion that the Government were expoudinged over that area.
Mr. Griffiths, the managor of Trouch, was of of the cea of Japan, a depression having appoar tion that could come from the Foreign Office fauds on what in the distant future would be would be as to whether the Governant could the trunk lines of the Feninsula, but for years China, particularly in the North. The baro- Pressare is low and still giving way over, bring themselves within the Literary Convention to come these would earn little to repay their meter hus risen over the 2. part of the Chies of Herne. If there were au international law it large outlay, and it really meant that the in- Sea. would beamosti fficult thing to stop each piracy, dustries of the present day were being taxed to The mutter was so surrounded with difficulties farnish the capital for railway development to and the Yellow Sos.
The highest pressure is shown oyer S, Japan that he was afraid it would not prove very benefit future generations There was great effective.
Fresh or moderate monsoon may be expectedl The President expressed the view that the which would lenent industries and give im
present need for the devolopment of fecal lines over the N. part of the China Sea methods adopted by the Association would prove mediate returns. He felt sure that the abandonat 10 am. to day, 0.00 inches.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending more effective than any representation that cd projected Gopeng line would pay handsomely. could be made to the Foreign Office. The As- sociation had printed a large number of circu- lode mining, and said that Government gave to-day is as follows-
The Chairman then mentioned the matter of lars, which were being seat to merebants, who this no support, but parhaps they would do so had asked for a large supply in order to send in the very future generatious of which Mr. Hongkong & Neighbourhood or moderate; them to their travollera and all who received Grifiths had spoken. their patteras,
General opinion supports Mr. Kellie Smith's Formosa Channel
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon
(E. winds, fresh
{fair.
A resolution was passed plodging the Chau- and Mr. Griffiths statements that the Malayan South coast of China between ber to assis: the Association in their endeavours tin duty is too high, aud is stifling the develop South coast of China between 1
Same as No. 1, and to bring the matter before the nonual meetment of mining in Malaya and frightening away ting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. capital.
Hongkong and Lamecka. Same as No. 1
Hongkong and Hainan...
Same & No. 1.
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GREAT GALE IN ENGLAND..
London, January 12th. The United Kingdom has been visited by great casualties are reported. Thrilling rescues have gales, snow storms, and floods. Many shipping been affected..
The storm has been particularly eovore in the English Channel. Calais is unpproachable.
The British steamer Selby Abbay is ashore off the Hook of Holland in a dangerous position. aboard. There are twenty-four crow and iso passengers
ANOTHER BIO PRIZE FIGHT PROJECTED. Londen, January 12th. Ranter telegraphs from Chicago that Mr. Gleason, the promoter of the Johnson-Joffries fight, offers to guarantee fifty thousand dollars for a contest in London intronation week be tween Johnson and Kaufman. The latter has accepted.
ly be quite satisfied with meat at oue meal por of the Imperial Conference, and asked the
surfeiting itself with eggs, cereals, vegetable that, though Sir Francis Hopwood had been dien: When rost, doctor's bills, clothing, fael Secretary of State for the Colonies to explain and the thousand and one minor expenses fall-why at such a time additional and incompatible. there would be little chance of the family Servant." In reply Mr. Harcourt explained ing to the lot of the housekeeper had been metobligations had been imposed upon that Civit fruits, and fresh cow's milk."
THE COLONIAL OFFICE.
A BELATED APPOINTMENT.
nominated for the position of Vice Chairman of the Daralopment Commission in April last, the Commission did not ore into being until July, and that it was not proposed that fir Francis Hopwood should relinquish the post of Permauent Under Sterntary of State for the South Africa has rovived interest in the question two of the most important posts in the Civil The return of Sir Francis Hopwood from Colonies before the end of this year. In the meantime, while still the nominal occupant of of his successor in the important post of Per- Service, Sir Francia Hopwood was attached to manent Under Secretary for the Colonies, It the staff of his Royal Highness the Duke of will be remembered that in April last Sir Francis South Africa, and it was anticipated that, in Connaught on his Royal Highness' mission to Hopwood was appointed Vice-Chairman of the sccordance with Mr. Harcourt's statement in Commission charged which the administration of the House of Commons, an announcement as to the Development Grant, and that a temporary Sir Francis' successor would be made before at the Colonial Office for a limited period, not very near its close, and as yet no announcement. arrangement was made by which he was to remain the end of the year. The year is now drawing withstanding his new appointment. In Novom- bus been made, though an official statement of ber Mr. Alfred Lyttelton directed attention in some kind would seem to be required and is the House of Commons to the fact that the duties awaited with considerable interest not only in of the post of Permanent Under Secretary of officist olroles but in all quarters where special State for the Colonies, at all times arduous, were attention is devoted to Colonial questions.-- specially so at the time of the appointment of a London Morning Post,