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MANCHESTER COTTON SPIKNERS' COMPANY.
London, May 6th.
"Tho Cotton Spinners Company bas decided to issue now shares of about 8900,000 in its shareholders for acquiring cotton lands in the Mississippi Dolta,
follows:-
VARNSTAPLE BYE-ELECTION.
AWAKENING CHINA,
MODERNISED CITIES.
TORSION GOODS IN DEMAND. An interesting report has been sent home by, the United States Consul at Amoy from which we extract the following --
When the traveller to West Chiun stops off the train at Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi The result of the Barnstaple bys-olection is as Pravines, he is bound to be impressed by the andern improvements which characterise that Bir Godfrey Baring (Liberal)... 6,239
city. It is a city of about 60,000. inhabitants, Mr. Parker (Unionist).
5,751
streets lined on both sides with large, well-constructed cament drains, INTERNATIONAL. 'VARBITY ATHLETIC REST.
London, May 8th. Electris lights, tolephouse, modern school and college buildings, torsige goods shops, 1,000 uniformed polics, and a uniformed street sweep ing brigade are soms of the features which give
An athletic meeting of Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge Universition has been
fxed at Queen's Club in July.
WORLD'S HAW COTTON SHORTAGE, --
Barcelona, May 8th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 28TH, 1911.
THE CHINA BURMA FRONTIER,
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRADELS.
GET AN ENTERPRISE.
The Honkow correspondent of the Financial News has written on the progress of China. In the course of his latter he says |----
those years
on
RUBBER COMPANIES.
to Taiyuanfu the appearance of a modern city. happens in the country to stop the reform connecting link between Margherita and passion flower.
imbibing the spirit of Western civilisation, as greater freedom with
Bir U. J. Macare, addrowing the International evidenced by the marching of sahoolgirls in Cótion Congress, rógretted that the report on public parades and the out shopping and never been recorded, not even by Japan Ancing that there is most for criticism. Whaterer anxiety, and; in common with all other em- i
the cotton trade throughout the world was still
Fury unsatisfactory. No knowledge or industry, ho said, can save us from disaster if thingy go on as they are. He added that determined efforts were still being made to increase the supply of the raw material.
LORD LANEDOWNE'S REPORN BILL.
Lendon, Mag Bib. The House of Lords was drowned when Lord Lansdowne, in a speech lasting an hour and a half, introduced his Bil for the reform of the Honso of Lords.
which women now go
He said the amendment, of the constitution of it with the Pe-Han Jine, and, while Wodern | Old China setting, their face with a remarkable Goktrik Gorg the bridge was given to an
|
pro-
The ich
KOTE.
THE KUNION FEELY,
Tho report of the Consolated Malay Rubber Estates for the year 1910 states that the net The various events which are directing at-
profit amounts to £75,166, making with the tautien to the fact that for more than three balance brought forward, lose the commission quarters of its way the boundary line between payable to directors, £78,413, The directors During the last two yeus the writer has the Chinese Empire and India has not been recommend a final dividend of 50 per cunt, tax much ground in the interior provinces, where Englishman, throw into very prominent rolin and £2,000 off buildings and machinery, carry- twice crossed the Chinese Empire and dovered defined many, inter ou, saya the Calcutta free, the placing of £3,030 to gonera! reserve account, writing £5,000 off development account, the cult of things foreign is just beginning to the other fact that, whereas on the Pathan be noticed, and he says, without hesitancy that frontier we have a very complete system of forward £6.406. The rubber realized the not one-thousandth part of the trade that may the
commercial and strategio railways,
net amount of £105,929, an average of 6s. 2-45d. subsequently be done with China is being done other aide our railway policy per lb, after deducting all charges. The now, great as some of the statistics are. Tho has been buying of foreign things, from the tiniest de
said to be in good order and work and halting. After all states are
condition, and the manager reports that na Bartas still remains anton. commonest penny article (for which cheap trade nected by mail with India, and though in Assam regards weeding they are clean and up to date. Tho expenditure upon weading has been heary Japan holds easily the palm) to the costliest we have pushed the Autumn-Bengal line to the
of fields under factory and mining plants, bas only just begua, very limits of British Indin, that often project this year, owing to the clearing up
The old area is reported and, if peace prevails and nothing unforeseen
from is still in the air. The result is thints being quite fres
disenso the the Assani-Bengal Railway is one of the most of Fomes Semiconins, but the tain quotat
younger clearings have a certain will record China-not only in
12
to work, as it dous not obtain the expensive оле or two provinces, but throughout the Empire But it is with regard to the Burma Railways directors state that this still gives considerable traffe that would follow connection with Burma. prompt attcation. As regards fabour, the a development in foreign trade such as has in Chinese population in Taiyusofa look with
of her active murement in her trade era. This is sy have been Lord Elgin's shortcomings ployers, they have had to increase the rate a broad statement. One goes to one part of in other directions, we have had no Viceroy wages, and as that goes on they expect that the favour upon things foreign, and exhibit much
China and finds the natives already imbits of the commercial, social, and strategie Bursey has now been made of the Atherton.
with who ha
better eloral s
appreciation rate of
pay will be still higher. A detailed interest in Western science and learning. The
spirit for everything foreign, a fortnight's foreign geods shops carry condensed milk, journey will take you into an area where the value of what is termed "radway power,
All Leigh division, and it is found that there is cigarettes, kerosene, patent medicines, a great gentry and literali are doing all they can to
the railway extensions of recent years hinte some discrepancy between the norzage under variety of cheap foreign notions, including atom: the tide of the foreign anchine. But the formed part of the programme elaborated by rubber and the figures hitherto published. The cheap gramophones, toilet articles, pocket knives, manifold factors of the industrial movement in
Lord Elgin. That Viceroy had no project screage now planted with rubber is 2,262 &c. and cheap hardware. One has only to go Chian, and of the development which China is nearer at heart than the extension of the Barmores, representing in the balar.ce-sheet, with south a few miles out of Taiymanfu to find undergoing, are co-operating to give great Railways from Mandalay to the Kunlea Forry, buildings and machinery, after deducting wint himself in medieval civilisation. Taiyuanfu iz stimalus to her trade. Whilet in out-of-the- There were enormous engineering difficulties in it is proposed to write of this year, and adding at the terminus of the railway which connects way areas we still find the representatives of the the way, particularly the bridging of the the purchase 1 ride of the newly noquired
But work was started, the perties, £56,553, or slightly under £30 the House of Lords shank procted puri pensa ideas are gives a cordial welcome in the capital persistence against the inneration which contract for building i
At the extraordinary general meeting, with reform in the relationship of the two city, the rest of Shanai is apparently as far bound to some, we had that the methods of American firm whose constritetion is one of convened to follow the general meeting. the lfonsex. The Opposition desired a Second removed from Western indunces as could be earning sad
sharolalders will be asked to consent to the Chamber commanding the confidence of the possible. Sianft has a population of abrutite merchants, is teaching the ustonished
I spending which the West, through the railway wonders in India, and when Lord Elgin loft India all the most difficult
balance of the unissued capital-mely, Chinese
12,993- country by its authority, experience, and ability 300,000. Its principal business street is soveral
in many places are appealing to wider and wider part of the work hand been doce. The rail-head and shose all by its independenas, ual which miles long, at lined throughout its entire circles of this supposedly conservative people. find totohed Leahio, whones the remaining 75 could be trusted to use its powers fairly towards longth with shops. The few so-called foreign European fashion and luxury havo orouted new miles to the Kanion Ford Four Pourrival in both parties.
goods shops carry condensed milk, kerosene wants, and bring rich Lord Lansdowze proposed that the new lampe, sigarettes, cheap cutlery, toilet articles, while the products or rofits to the deator; tmppened that whon Lord Curzon arrived in and toilet soaps, cheap notions, and some foreign unique, afford hitherto unbeard of means of Indo-Chine, alarmed by the prospect of the many of them Indin, Mr. Paul Doumer, the Governor of cotton goods,
swelling the export trade. Ge sus day over the Barma Railway deflecting some of the traffic
The Port Dickson-Lukat (F.M.S.) Rabber. mountains in eohuan, in far away Kausu, in from Yunusn which found an outlet at Saigon, Estates (Limited) has a opital of $200,000 in The Crengtu
in width, is a veritable hundreds of pack-horses carrying hides and borus, Frouch Railway with all haste from Balgon issued in part payment of the purches price of Provosts; secondly, 120 persons closted by garden sol. electoral colleges, compos
It has a system of irrigation said gall-nuts, pigs, bristles, woodtar, and much else, into the heart of Yunnan. People at ones became the several propertive to be acquireal, credited commons te be 2,000 years old, and one which appears to Then go into the great foreign houses on the kind of rees no to which line should first reach scription, and the balanen of 285,000 arereserved
interested and conceived that there would be a Members of the House of Commons] be perfect in meeting the requirements of the Lower Yangtaze at Huukow, for instance Talifu, for it was believed that in the face of for inture issue. Of the above issue 280,000 ne fully paid, 700,000 ure now offered for sub. according to territorial distribution 4,000,000 who live on this plain, Besides and to be established by Commissionere; dardls, & Chengts, there are on this plain other large, developing
realise how the export trade of Ching is
the Frenol challenge it was the duty of the chates will be kundred appointed by the Crown on the reconi really cities. Szechuan is the largest and When once the Szoekuan Railway, which is British Government to also obtain a concession shareholders reserved for allotment to the mendation of Ministers, in the same manner as richest of the 19 provinces. The purchasing
Plantations Linggi proceeding most satisfactorily at the present in China itself and push on across the Salweru.
(Limited), the shareholders of the Port Dickson the Select Committers of the House of Com- power of Ha large population is high, and it moment, is completed, trading centres will Jadge, then of the astonishment of everysan Rubber Company (Limited), and the owner of mon were at present appointed,
should offer a wonderful field for foreign com.
road, now building, taps its wealth. The Sze which offers unlimited scope for poshfal mer
the extension from Mandalay: The railway was and Cheats, the capital of Szechuan--a country hung up at Lashio, after the most difficult and shares have been applied for, and will will be allotted in full. A further 220,000 chuan cities on the Yangtsze are prosporace,
expensive part of tho chants. It is an interesting proposition to and all laro their foreign goods shops. Of disenas who is capturing the increasing trade
work had been done. The be alloted in fall. excuse Lord Curzon made was that trafle at certain rubber plantations of a total area of The company acquires these cities Chungking is the largest and most
of Chiun, and who most deserves to get it. In
Kanion Ferry did not warrant the extension of about 3,665 acres. The purchase price amounts importunt. Being a treaty port, it has one the Yangtze Valley it must be admitted that the line, adding that if any line were to be mande to £106.500, which will be satisfied in fully-paid into closer contact with the outside world than
the German holds away; he seems to have a
to the Chinesa frontier it must go through shares, with the exception of £5,000 in cash an have any other of the Szechuan trade centres.
Blazar. Iu greater knowledge of the world market; and
any case the Government of India part payment for the St. Leonard's Estato, Any Poer not a Lord of Parliament would bo eligible for election to the House of Commons.
On the whole, the amount of foreign goods far away in the interior I have met Germans could not waste any money at that time on un. consurard by the raillions of West China is who have been sent on long journeys for no remunerative lines.
The fact is that Lord is is £65,00, and after dedneting prelimin Lord
ary expenses, brokerage, &c., the balance, togeth Morley, replying for the Government, small, infinitesimally small, as compared with other perpese than to keep their eyes open and Curzon's imagination had been caught by the declared that Lord Lansdowne's scheme retained the size of the population. Until the means of
or with capital in reserve (£28,500), is estimated in effect the sapremacy of the Lords. The pro-transportation are improved-that is, until this ous areas. The British or American com
to report on the probabilities of unde in vari- problems of Persia and Afghanistan and he
would not study the railway situation to be umple to bring the cultivated aren áp to posals were inadequate and illusory, and the section of the Empire is brought into touch mercial traveller in isolated cerners of China is in Burma. Even while be stopped work 3,000 aeres,
nu. the Burma milways however. It is this go sherd exception,
building the may be expected in foreign trade opportunities
However, in West China. London, May 9th.
to capture Quotts-Nushki line into Persia spirit which
the Gorznans
Among other interesting reports izmed is that However, railways leading to mach of the trade which the British formerly Thatsver prontion in Lord Carson's math of the Sungei Kapar. For 1910 the output of Lord Lansdowno's Bill may or may not prove important a possible supplement to the Partiment Bull, uma construction, so that now after held. I have seen in many places
which has
if it was
to be delivered
the sea.coast The German scores because he packs better than the Britisher, and he understands better the
involves.
Chamber should bo cumposed, traily of a hundred Poers elected by their compter from Pegs who had been or wore holders of high olco, artoy olours, former members of the
VAST POPULATION OF A FERTILE PLAIN,
I
21 shares--being divided into 129,930 shares of 25. each. This coures is uotessary to stable the and Censt-ntia Estates, which are to be paid directors to completo the purchase of the Tulloch
for by 8,9:0 fully paid 2s. shares.
House of Commons Lord Mayors and Lord lougth by 45, which is 90 miles in the 31iddle Yagiste provinces, and you meet conceived the ambitions project of building a shares of 29. each, of which 1:015:000 will b
of
mailed
All three classes would be Lorde of Parliament orcy AL Foon as the Hankow-Szechuan rail. up on the railway route between Ichang when Lord Curzon stopped all further work on the Brafferton estate, and, if applied for,
and would sit for twelve years, but one-fourth of each class would retire every three years by hallot, though they would be eligible for re appointment. Princes of the Royal blood would rotuin their seats. The two Archbishops would reunio, five Bishops would be elected, and also sixteen legal Lords.
Government could give no approval to any off with the outside world-but little improvement a graphs enabled the
them.
Te
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INTIMATIONS
3
CORONATION
CANDLES.
WE Beg to Notify the Publio that
We have Just Received a Large
CANDLES.
Shipment of SHORT
suitable for the forthcoming CORONA- TION ILLUMINATION,, and they are
requested to make an early application
to avoid disappointment, as the demand
is likely to be great.
H. RUTTONJEE
& SON,
38 and 40, Queen's Road,
Central,
HONGKONG.
The working capital provided by the present GOLD
but cannot be a substitute, or an alternativo many yearя ere this vast area of rich country |Ƒ wayside wreaks of merchand 4 China Burmese frontier in Lord Chrdon's fine; H rubber from the estate is given as emounting, will be able to find profitable markets for its from British exporters-packed no-buffer/tant developments have since risen: China after final weighing, to 224,978 lb., for which an
therefor.
Lord Lansdowne's Bill limits the power of the Crown to appoint hereditary Feers to fire annually.
Lord Lansdowne's statement was received without sign of enthusiast by the Lerds on his own side of the House,
Juter.
-come-
0%
on
average price of 6. 93.1d. (gross) per lb was obtained. The selling expenses, which included maneration of London agent, amounted to marine insurance, discount, brokerage, and ra.
- AND
SILVER
(50
WATCHES
SWISS
AND
ELGIN
hos & initiated
an aggressiva policy against the frontier trites and is laying claim to territory varied products, thus creating for itself credits
on our side of the Salveen.
On the Assam in other parts of the Empire, and be in a posi
frontier she is said to have established a post tion to buy foreign machinery and such other foreign goods as will be necessary to ita da. great strain which pack-horse transit naturally at Rima and on the Barmoss frontier at Pion338d.. per lb., making the net price 6. 5.93d.
ma. The question of the ownership of hima.
per lb. During the year large sum (£4205) ENGLISH, teands. In Chengts, the oapital of Szochuan,
The German is more experimentative-he important as it is, may be left for the moment.
was spent in clearing and burning dead timber end possibly in Sienfu, the capital of Shensi,
but China evidently intends to press her claims riske more than the Britishor when he thinks to Pien-ma. Had the railway to Kulon bron on the company's estates and in other work important public works may be inaugurated he can see a lucrative trade avuiting him during the next five or ten years. These cities
calculatod to prevent damage 10 the The Conservative papers generally recognise will undoubtedly soon be installing electric more
and he is more far-seeing, Americans, complete the question as to whether the
plantation. The the Bill as a courageous attempt to solve a lighting plaats and perobssing machinery for faiting for
estimated crop for the Balween was or was not the boundary of plan than Britishers, may
be, 870 Rritish India would not have arisen ourront
year is 300,000 lbs. of which dificult problem. The Morning Post is yo-industrial factories of various descriptions.
things, and they wait Brit
10,800 s. has been secured during the edly hostile.
while the German moves Ghout and picks recent appointments, announced by Reuter, first three months. Including the balance of The Liberal papers denousee the proposals.us
up the smaller if less profitable lines. I have show that inn's aggressive policy against the 66,333 brought forward from 1909, the balance utterly futila,
seen in Yunnan and in Szechuan mining plaats border tribes is to bo continues Chao Erh Feng, PRINCE OF WALES AND THE M.C.C. of modern make, with all accessories and general / the Aibam at Llinsa, who bus brought all Tat the credit of proft and loss account at the under Chinese control, is now being moved to interim disidend of 25 per cent., less income. close of the your amounted to £61,598. The but I do not remonter haring seen equipment, any which were British. All were German. I Szechosn to deal with the tribes there, and us met a man once, in an interior city, who had
and Szechuan, has been created. Yuuns and recommended should be disposed of as fallows- appointment, that of Frontier Minister of Yunnan leaving 1 balance of £36,056, which the door SUPERIOR
directors taken an order for a mining plant running into
new Szechuan are the two provinces that innings on In placing to reserve fund (available for develop- something like £5,000 storling.
Burma and Assam, and Frontier Minister nothing about mining machinery; he was n traveller in guns; bat he got the order because could have no other business except that of dealment exponditure), $5,000, in payment of s final dividend of 30 per cent., less income tax, be up the man on the spot and because his firming drastically with the Lies. Mumos, and making. 55 per cant for the year, a
other tribes who have hitherto defied the Chiness went to the expense of sending him through the authority. Bat such dealing will bring Chins leaving to be carried forward £4,806 Empire to cast their bread upon the waters.
Lordon, May 11th
Mr. Balfour, speaking at a Primrose - Leagne Demonstration at Albert Hell, declared that the Second Chamber must be able to carry ont great duties, not the pitiful beggarly modicam of responsibility given by tho Veto Bill. He heartily pported Lord Luisdowne's Bill and thought it went as far as possible or desirable,
THE AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION,
London, May 9th. Towards Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition £6,000 has already been subscribed.
YORKSHIRE WOOLLEN TRADE:
London, May 9th. A serions strike is threatening in the York shire woollen trade-affecting 20,000 woollen and worsted workers. A mass meeting has been mummoned for the 13th instant to consider the question of a strike or arbitration.
The workers demand a 18 per cent, increase in wages, and fifty-five hours a wook.
UNITED STATES LEGISLATION.
Washington, May 9th, The House of Representativos has passed the Farmers' Free List Bill without amendment by
230 votes to 109.
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT CRITICISED.
London, May 10th. Colonel Morgan has been appointed messing adviser to the War Office.
WHERE ROMANCE LINGERS.
It is anderstood that the Prince of Wales shortly is to become a full member of the M.C.C. a playing tomber, and not an honorary one, thus being entitled to wear the well-known crimeon and gold blazer and ribbon. Both the Heir-Apparent and Frince Albert are keen lovers of the national game, and when oppor. tanity serves they will be present in the summer at matches at both Lord's and the Oval, the latter historic ground being, of course, upon the former's property, as Dake of Cornwall, at Ken- nington. Each plays with no little skill, but
·Prince "Albertshows as at cricket as bis elder brother does at golf.
distinctly more promise younger Prince is a bowler of considerable merit, LOVE AND WARS STILL NO HAND IN HAND and one of his proudest possessions is the ball, now maunted in silver with which, upon s famous acœnsion, be performed the "hat trick," dismissing the present King, Frines Arthur of Connaught and the Prince of Wales with sub- cessive deliveries, the game being played in the gardena of Windsor Castle, with King Edward as an interested spectator. His present Majesty has never show much aptitude for the gan through he played it upon creasion in his
younger years.
THE JEWS IN ENGLAND.
The
IN MEXICO.
If Cervantos smiled Spain's chivalry away,
he failed to carry his influence into Mexico, The people there have clung to the habits which That country has always been a land of romance. grew out of their old Spanish ancestry and their midday siestu, their foast days and holi- their climatic environment. They still have days, and spend their money freely and areas poorly.
new
up against tribes under our influence, and it will then, perhaps, strike the Government of India how useful it would have been hai that extension to Kunion been completed.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
THE CHINESE MINISTER AND SUPPRESSION.
suppression of the Opium Trailte was held last The annual meeting of the Society for the
month at the Carton Hall, Westminster. The
(president).
BELGIAN COUNT BROWNED.
SAD. DEATH OF A TRAVELLER AT BITAMO.
Particulars have come to hand, says the
annual do Hemptions, the son of Count Joseph Bangsen-Garoth of May 5, of the accidental- drowning at Bhamo a few days ago of Count
de
Homptinue of Ghent, Belgium. The deseng.
Mr.
chair was taken by Sir Matthes Dudsworthed with two friends, Mr. Trasenster and
Vivarit, of Bruges, arranged to take a trip The Chinese Minister, in reply to a resolution to the Malay States, where they rema ned until congratulating the Chiness Government and
the early part of last month, when they started for Rangoon, arriving here on the 18th altimo. people on their struggle against the "national vice,
said that he felt it his duty to say, in the After a day or two in Rangoon, they started The present insurrection is full of episodes sincerest way, that everything China had done on a tour in Uppar Burma, and after visiting that would happen probably in no other country, would not have been carried through bad it not several places reached Bhumo. One morning of the world. Out of them the imagination of been for the society. Without the society's last week they all went down to the river for a & Hugo, a Dumas or a Scott might build many a romance of love and adventure. For in support, the people of China would never have bath, and the Count, who was not a very good Mexico love and fighting still go together, as known that they had at their back the public swimmer, drifted out of shallow water to &
deep they need to do in the days of mediaeval knight. opinion of England. Success in the movement for the suppression of the traille had come very
pool about ten yards from his friend M. Vivario, M. Trasenster being a considerable distance
In reply to questions in the House of Commons to.day regarding the appointment, it was stated Mr. Maurice Miller contributes an interacting that this officer was obliged to retire from the account to the Sunday at Home of the Jews in Army in consequence of his conduct in connec- the British Isles that is, about 0.5 per cent. of tion with the South African war. It was further the population, or one in every 200 persons. erraniring and at the same time somewhat near; and on behalf of his Government he away, Suddenly he was heard to call out for Bald that he was a very able officer and could do In France the Jows number one in 400 persons pathetic illustration of this was the long journey thanked the society for what they had dons in help and was seen to sink. M. Vivario
the work better than anybody.
HIE E. GOEST'S ANNUAL REPORT ON EGYPT
London, May 11th.
in Germany one in 100, in the United States
24 per cent. (about one in forty-two), in Russia over the desert to the town of Juares undertaken one in every twenty-five. One hundred and fifty by a number of women, wives, mothers and thousand Jews are found in London alone. But sweethearts of the soldiers at the front. Ac London bas in proportion fewer Jows than companied by children, dogs, cats and goata,
they
travelled more than two hundred Paris or Berlin. The immigrant Jew chooses Stepney because he finds himself there
ar the soldier boys,
for whom Mexican amongst be near his own fellow-countrymen. The outstanding
feel
no romantic an attachment. are temperance and
had been left behind in Chihuahua two battalions of Mexican infantry were
Sir Eldon Goat's report on Egypt has been Issued,
It says that with the opportunities of self. government the Legislative Council and the General Assemby have become mere instruments features of the slion Jews in the Nationalist agitation. Egyptians must
not be hustled into going farther or
fester in
are English patriots, prend when mention
women
The when
women
mi'es
the matter.
QUALITY
MOVEMENTS
Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.,
ALEXANDEA BUILDINGS.
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quickly reached the spot and dived down for mumping to keep his head above water for lito and twice brought him to the surface,
several minutes until the Count, whose strongth was failing fast, saw that M. Vivario was also tiring and that neither could hold out very long. He therefore pushed his friend from WHY GO TO biza, and before M. Vivario could gramp bim again be sank for the last time.
N. LAZARUS
FOR YOUR GLASSES P
M. Vivario was quito oxbomated, and would
You will receive Fair Trest
ment.
lady to obtain a medical diploms, and head of the Dr. Yamai Kiu Tientsin), the first Chinese
Government in North China, also spoke. Women's Medical Department of the Chinese In prosenting the report of the society for the past. yoor, Mr. Joseph Alexander, the honorary secretary, gave a satisfactory account of the working of the organization, and, discuss be made to understand that the Governmentwillandes and love of home. The Jews in Ensent to the border. Impatient at the absence terence at The Hague, said that the Agreement undoubtedly have been drowned too had not
ing the forthcoming Inferuatiousl Opium Con- the direction of self-government than it considers ir mado of England's liberty, glory, arid of those they loved, they got a pushcart, loaded between Great Britain and Chize, Auw nearly some Burmese beatmen in cances ronis to his
traditions In the Boer War the number of it with such necessary articles as it would hold to be in the interests of the whole Egyptian Jewish rolunteers was so large that it excited and propelled it over the dreary wastes and completed, would make it of the utmost impor rescue.
Both the Count's companions were people. The organisers of the Coptic agitation
tance to provide by International convention that greatly depressed by the tragic affair, but at around the burned bridges, taking their turn in are a small alique of wealthy landowners. The public comment. There are 1.450 Jews in the
no other country should take the place of India once enlisted the services of the b
boats and the Cepts have-do real grievances,
Navy, Army Reserve. Territorials, and Colonial squads at pushing the cart. Forces. This gires a proportion of one Jew in The journey occupied two weeks, food being the prodnation of opium: The Excentive Conanthorities of Bhame to recover-the-bouk the forces to each 160 Jews of all ages: The obtained at the settlements which lay along the mittee of the society were theakful that Great After two days the remains were found floating
མ་་ Jews are profoundly religious. Jewish men route. Each of these women might wanke a
Britain would be able to enter the Conference some distance from the scene of the drowning attend services much more frequently, than heroine of romance, for they knew neither fear with olan hands as regarded the great nation and buried in Bhamo. The father of the deceas women. The Jews are divided into three reli- nor fatigue where love was concerned.
which bad suffered most from the traffic in the ed was,nofified by cable of the death of his son gions seats-Orthodox, Reform, and Liberal. Ent the romance of the Mexican insurrection poisonous drug.
and immediately replied to bring the bed The Reform Jewi permit men and women to has not been confined to the women A few days
A resolution was adopted urging the Govern. home to Belgium. This the medical officer of of staff to President Conference
ment sit together, and use English for portions of ago General Cuellar, chief
(a) to appoint delegates to The Hague Bhamo declined to allow, stating that an interval
who are the service. The Liberal Jews do the same. Diaz, who defeated Francisco Madero's army at with the objects in view, and, who shall be panions of the dead man returned to Rangoon thoroughly in sympathy of six months was necessary. The two com.. but make larger use of English; their most Casas Grandes, but lartan arm in the engage furnished with instructions definitely to promote on Wednesday and made over to the Com- revolutionary inuioration is that of holding their ment, telephoned his condolences to Madero on the restriction of opium, ite derivatives, and missioner of Police the effects of their late com- The Inter-State Congress of Australian sorices on Saturday afternoon instead of the death of the insurgent leader's father. It is Chambers of Commerce has passed a resolution morning. Anglicised Jews generally show less said, too, that Madero a son sent a message of other similar poisonous drugs to their legitimate pasion. The deneased was twenty-nine years
to?
take measures that the Declaration of London should be dis- settled immigrants. There is no criminal class The two had once been schoolfellows together. Fossections and Protectorates in the East (e) spent over two and a half years. Last year he OFTALMIO OPITOLAN,
religious
medium]: use alone;
for up- old. He was a great traveller, and when nine- enthusisem than the more recently regret to Cuellar on the latter's loss of bis arm.
these restrictions within the British teen years old visited South Africa, where he cussed at the Imperial Conference, and hoping that British statesmanship and diplomacy will among the Jews. The Jews received at prisons All this is very picturesque and romantic. But to discard the practice of rising revenue pont a considerable time in Java and Bamstra, Bucceed in modifying it, so as to render it numbered 456. in 1909, and one-half of these the present is a practical age, sud impulse and from opiam as a dangerous expedient and one) and had mot long boen back bome when the trip.
were cases in which imprisonment was suff red emotionalism need a strong hand for guide worthy of the British and Christian names to the Malay States and Barze was arranged, generally acceptable.
in default of payment of fines.
San Francisco Chronicle,
TWO MORE AVIATION CASUALTIES.
Berlin, May 11th. The aviator Bokenmueller, while dying in a fog at Johannisthal, struck a buliding and was kifled..
San Antonio, Texas, May 11th. Lieutenant Kelly, flying at a fête, fell and fractured his akull,"
THE DECLARATION OF LONDON.
Adelaide, May 12th.
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