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without much effect. China being in puritanical humour just at presant, and baring abandoned opium, might not angen- sonably be expected to condemn sono o.her vices. Yet this agitation has called forth a protest on the ground that it is not bona-fide; that in reality it is a form of boycott directed against the consumption of foreign cigarettes, and as such calls for diplomatic protest. Granting this, one is still tempted to inquire whether it is reprehensible for the Chinese to desire the development of home industries P Recently in England an all-British shopping week was organised, the idea hoing that during the week nobody should buy any articles except those of ÆRATED WATER British manufacture. It is said that some
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astonishing revelations were made, goods which bad formerly posed as the latest thing from Paris, being now produced as made in such unromantic places as Manchester or Bradford, This by the way, however What is noteworthy is, that none of the foreign Powers laid a protest with the British Government because of the agitation
lance sergeant.
A goldsmith In Hollywood Bond who received. place of gold with which to make a pair of earrings has dimppeared;
A party numbering 92 Japanese residents of Dairen visited Weihaiwoi a fortaight ago and were well entertained by Sir James and Lady Lockhart.
The strike of shipbuilders has not yet fer minated. A few of the men in several yardı have accepted the offer of tho masters to inercsED their wages by the addition of the daily food allowance, and it in not unlikely that the unjority of the men will accept these terms.
Our attention has besa kladly drawn to error in our paragraph relating to the death of Mr. A. Drowell, of Kobe, which we regret baving made. It was not the wife of Mr. Drewell, but the wife of another well-known Kobe resident who died recently on board ship while passing down the Maicos Straits.
Another of those cool thofte for which Chines are noted took place on Wednesday when a coalie calmly lifted a wooden grating from this
THROUGH REUTER'S ADEKOT.) DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRES IN CANADA.
PEOPLE FLEEING BEFORE THE FLAMES.
HEAVY CMIUALTIES,
LONDON, July 18th. Telegrams from Ottawa report destruc- tive forest fires resulting from the excessive hoat in North Ontario. Many townships and mining carips have been destroyed.
Up to the present fifty persons are knows to have perished, and it is feared that there are hundreds of casualties as the country is filled with prospectors and settlers.
The fire-belt extends for 200 miles. Flatwoon North Bay and Porcupine, along the line to Temiscamingue, the towns on the
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THEIR MAJESTIES PROCEED. TO WALES.
ENTHUSIASTIC IRISH BEND-ORU.
LONDON, July 18th. Their Majesties the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary received an enthusiastic sond-off from Dublin.
They left for Carnarvon, where they will attend the investiture ceremony of the Prince of Wales. Great preparations are being made for this ceremony, and the city is splendidly decorated,
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His Majesty the King has sent a mossage to his Irish subjects expressing his joy at their spontaneous and hearty loyalty and the warmth of their welcome, which, His Majesty
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ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING IN FRANCE.
LONDON, July 18th. There has been quother attempt at sabot- age, following that of the 10th inetauf on the railway line near Chartres. A soldier and two civilians have been arrested.
A SOLICITOR SUSPENDED
LONDON, July 13th.: Mr. Arthur Nowtou, a well-known solici- tor, who defended Crippen, has been sus- pended for twelve months for professional misconduct in aiding and abetting Mr. Bottomley to disseminate through John Balla pretended letter from Crippen.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN AMERICAN BISHOP,
An oloquent and humeroas speaker, wilk a
for the purchase of British goods, aud if any side channel in Dos Your Road. However, he Northern Ontario railway-Cochrane, Por-says, "greatly touched our hearts and made } well-tonod American accent and remarkable DRY GINGER Power had conceived such a mad id a it was discovered, and was yesterday sentenced by cupine and Pettaville in the gold-mining permanent impression upon us, We power of description, Monsignor E. W. Fowler,
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would have received scant attention. Yet this was u form of boycott of foreign goods aboycott not carried out by force or intimidation, of course, but certainly carried out by persuasion, by journalistic influence, by all the arts which could cajole the public. Under the name of encouragement of home industries it was quite respectable. Again, take the case of a country with a high Customs Tariff, such as Japan. The tariff
not being constructed for purposes of
Mr. Hazeland at tue' Magistracy to two months" hard labour and four hours in the stooks.
The British Commercial Attaché at Poking roports that the Government of the Szechwan Province purchased last year, through the Ch
Minister in London, a large assortment of grain, vegetable, sto, sexis for distribution in the Province, and he states that this example will probably be followel this year by other provincial governments,
A Changking correspondent writes:-The
district-have been wiped out. All the mining camps from Dome to Whitney have been burned
Forty persons perished at Porcupine, six wore incinerited in the Big Dome wines, nad twelve in the West Dome mines, besides the manager and his family.
shall never forget it."
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Crowds singing "Come back to Erin" pade farewell to their Majesties in Dublin Bay.
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A Welsh choir boarded the Royal yacht The mining plant in the vicinity of at Holyhead and rendered a programme of Porcupine has been destroyal..
Hundreds of people are taking refuge ou the lakes and streams. The refugoos from
Welsh airs.
Carnarvon is swarming with multitudes who are anxious to participate in the
M.A., Was Fuseossfül in holding the attention of a fair attendance in St. Patrick's Hall last avoning. The sproker, who styled himself “a kind of occlesiaation? tramp," after briefly referring to the Philippines and the Spanish- American war, recounted to his hearers his experiences on some of his journeys, the most interesting bring his visit to the Holy City It bad just after the death of Pope Loo. always been his desirò, he said, to witness
the loation and coronation of Pope, and this desire was fulfilled when Cardinal Sario was elected and became Pius X. He told of the method of slection; of the vast concourse
mvonge, Hines it is known that too high a tariff really checks revenue rather than assists it; its object is clearly to assist mushrooms all over the city. Many of them Porcupine and Pottsville crossed the Lake to national festival of the investiture of the of people who awaited the result at 81. Peter's; PYERIS-Sparkling home industries. In other words, the tariff appearance at a distance. It has often been re- Golden City though the outskirts of the Prince of Wales. Thousands who were wonderful coronation daromony. After describ-
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is a means of boycotting foreign goods by raising their price above those of home manufacture. The wisdom of the step is another question. What is to the point is that Japan bas seized the moment of obtaining Customs autonomy to put sub- stantial duties on foreign goods, and China A. S. WATSON & CO.. | would undoubtedly follow the same course
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building of European houses by Chinese stili continues; in fact, they seem to spring up like are lath and plaster only, but have a European- marked that the amount of foreign-style built ings indicates the amount of unconscious in- usuce which the foreigner is exercising upon the Chinese in these parts.
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unable to get lodgings passed the night on All construction camps along the railway the city walls joining in choruses of Welsh west from Golden City are bamod, and hymns. the men are Hecing before the spreading flames. Several refugees inve been drowned in the lakes.
Special trains are taking the injured to Iroquois Falls, where a corps of doctors and nurses are ready to receive and care for thom in bospitals.
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It is estimated at Toronto that between 300 and 400 perished in the forest fren xi Porcupine, Ontario.
An interesting case was opened at the Magis trady yesterday when a Chinese who had boun antrasted with his empleyor, on opium dealer at Yaumati, with 81,505 with which to purchase if it were within her power. That this is oplum was charged with the larceny of the realised in Europe is shown by the recent money. Apparently he squandered it in gambl complaint from Germany that Japan showsing and other excesses, and was arrested at persistent desire not to take German Shaukiwan at the beginning of last month,
The sky is darkened by the pall of smoke goodyia fact to boycott them--this coun- He was being escorted to prison by an Indian
ocustable when be made an attempt to and illuminated by the flames. plaint following on the stubborn negotia
He broke away from the officer's escape. tious
the new German-Japan custody, leaped
water, and fato the Commercial Treaty, where Japan appears when called upon to stop failed to do so, to have got the best of the bargaining. whereupon the Indian fired his revolver and Japau, indeed, makes no concealment of her wounded him in the back. He has just come desire to shut out foreign goods. The out of hospital and was placed before the excess of imports which has been shown for Magistrate. The hearing was adjourned. the first half of this year has been matter [for wide comment, and publicists have been urging the manufacturers to redouble their effort to increase bome industries. Even the order placed in Great Britain for a warship was not allowed to pass without comment. Yet, end to say, aven Japan is inclined to join in the jeers at Chim's so-called mania for self-government--" Obina Chinese "Japan, which struggled to get rid of entangling foreign influenees. Of course there are boycotts and boycotta. It is rather unfortunate that the word should have come to be used in a bad sense, since it deprives us of a useful term. The boycott which is conducted by intimidation and violence certainly calls for suppression; but the beyoctt which is merely a form of encouragement of home industries by refusing to buy foreign goods, is practised more or less by all nations.
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Today is the French National Fête.. For turning from banishment a Chinese
Dr. R. M. Edwards, head of the medical branch of Harvard University, has recently. said that China is a menace to the health of the world. This statement, says the San Francisco Chrouiele, will be accepted with more than the proverbial grain of salt by those Caucasiana who have lived in Asia and other parts of the Orient and who have first-hand information of the conditions there. There is undoubtedly much danger from disease in the terribly con- gasted native quarters, but that "overy ship which sails from a Chinese port is a possible carrier of cholera, bubonic plagas and gren leprosy to the outside world," seems to be a unmerited reflection on the splendid progress made in recent years in sanitary work and inspection at all Oriental ports,
THE NEXT PHILIPPINE CARNIVAL
The chairman of the publicity committes of the 1912 Philippines Carnival writer to inform us that the next great fos'ival will be held in Manila from Feb. 3 to Feb. 10, 1912. The Carnival next year will be on a far more magni- floent scale than any of former years, and it is
from the Chins Coust and from America and Australia than fis past years. The completion of Mantia's new million dollar hotel will permit the city to more comfortably accommodate a larger
MORE HONOURS.
LONDON, July 18th. His Majesty the King has conferred a number of knighthoods and Victorian Ordere, mostly upon officials.
PRINCE OF WALES MADE CHIEF
OF WELSH BOY SCOUTS.
LONDON, July 13th. General Baden-Powell announced at Port Madoe to-day that the Prince of Wales had been initiated as Chief of the Welsh Boy
Scouts.
THE AMERICAN HEAT WAVE.
LONDON, July 18th The American heat wave is becoming even more intenes, and the death roll is increas KING'S GIFT TO DUBLIN ingly severe Disastrous forest fires live occurred in Northern Michigan, where three villages have been burned and the logging camps are endangered.
THE SITUATION IN MOROCCO,
LONDON, July 18th.
Two hundred more Spanish artillerymen and four mountain guns have been landed at Larache.
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A message from Paris states that the French Charge d'Affaires at Madrid has been instructed to ask forexplanations from the Spanish Government with regard to the recent incident at Alcazar.
EAST AFRICAN SHOOTING CASE,
LONDON, July 13th.
of the anthusiasm which followed; and of the
ing the ceremony in detail iko speakor asked his audiense to let him know when they hadTM**
had ooough."We prissts," he said, "talk so much about eternity that we forget all about time." His hearers were ovidently also lorget- ful of time as they liatsued with wrapt atten. tion to the interesting story of the Monsignor, and had he continued for another hour it is ualisoly that any of those present would "bava bad enough.”.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHINA AND MACAO (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESE"]
Hongkong, July 13th, 1911, SIB, With reference to the letter of "A Portugman" appearing in your issue of to-day I am entirely in agreement with him when he state there are many things besides Fan-tan (I take it he means "license Fan-tan") which are morally indefensible. If your correspond. ent is in accord with me on this point, I fall to ses what farther remarks my letter calls for, as POOR. if he would take the trouble of again reading my letter of the 9th inst. he would see I have moroly pointed out the carians spectacle of an Oriental nation pressing scoial reform on a European nation and offering money to forward that end. As to your correspondent's remarks as to the position taken up by Portugal towards China in the matter, they appear to amount to this: "We are quite wrong, but unless you assist us we can do nothing." This sy represent a business-like view, but is it consist ent with the national dignity of a European Power dealing with an Oriental nation ?—Yours faithfully,
ENGLISHMAN.
LONDON, July 12th. The King bus given £1,000 to be distri- buted among the poor of Dublin.
LORD ESHER SUFFERING FROM APPENDICITIS.
LONDON, July 18th, Lord Ester is suffering from appendicitis, and is being treated at the Edinburgh Nursing Home.
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Ford Esher has undergone an operation.
RECORD SHOOTING AT BISLEY.
LONDON, July 13th.
▲ feature at the shooting competitions at The Rt. Hon. L. Harcourt, replying to Bisley was the phenomenal shooting of questions in the House of Commons respect-Maurice Blood, who wan consecutively the
The plague death roll for the season now reaches 203. Three cases were reported yester
effort will be made by the directors of the Carnir Lord Enniskillen's son, for shooting a native day, bringing the total up to the sumber stated.number of visitors than ever before, and everying the acquittal of the Hon. Galbraith Cole, Bass, Edge and Halford competitions.
One of the most attractive items at the
Hippodrome Cirous this week in the wonderful performance given by the Lars Family of South American flying merisliste. Other now turn have been introduced, and the revised programme
us entertaining as the original one.
sending a full report, and that it would be 214 premature at present to make any statement.
A FINE PASSAGE.
An oxceptionally ine passage from Singapore to Hongkong bas just been socouplished by the
Bly Fannel" linor Perseus. This steamer. left Singapore at 9 a.m. on Sunday, 9th just., and arrived here at 10.30 am. yesterday morning, the voyage thus occnpying only just over four days and equalling the best time made by mail
steamers.
CAPTAIN AND PILOT.
WHO 18 RESPONSIBLY?
Ought the responsibility of the captain of a vertel to cease once the pilot has come aboard is a question over which much controversy has been waged in nautical circles As matters stand the position is now grossly anfair to the Edinburgh Academy won the Ashburton master, who, if he gives orders to the pilot and theso are followed with serious results, will be held responsible by the ownerr, and likewise Shield with a score of 495.
held responsible for the sin of emission shoulä
be may any accident occur wine the vessel
Oxford won the Humphrey Cup with a al Association to see that visitors to the city at in East Africa, said that the Governor was score of 722, against Cambridge's total of that time thoroughly enjoy themselves. Recep tion committees will be appointed to meet and give information to strangers sad to see that they have an opportunity to inspect all of the many show places of which Manils can justly be proud. At the same time the Carnival is taking place in that city there will be held there the First Philippines Exposition, in which all of the many provinces of the islands will participate, and land paid a long call at the Foreign Office. the famed products, manufactures, minerala, sto, of the islands can be seen.
To see ourselves as others see us is not often given to self-conscious bumanity, and when it is the result generally is not encouraging." But if individuals are so rarely gifted with this power, what must be said of nations, yesterday was sentenced to six months' imprison.hoped that there will be a larger attendance whet ber standing at guard along mountainment and four hours in the stocks. frontiere or locked up in tight little islands? It is true the nations of this planet are continually engaged in making cash other's acquaintance. A better understanding is all wo require to bring about everlasting peace," say international arbitrators, but Homehow perfect understanding naver comes in spite of all the talk. Dues inter- change of views bring increased friendship It is doubtful, because buman nature beings what it is, the views of ons aation must for ever appear more or less far-fetched and unreasonable to another. The cry of the brotherhood of mankind is now a lost cause, since wider communication has shown us that there can be no brotherhood between those at the opposite ends of the scale of civilisation, while for those who are nearer,
A Manila paper comments on the serions the brotherhood more often develops into
Even international falling off in the export of cigars to the United insane jealousy.
The Agures for eleven months show morality is more often merely a name than States.
in export of 24,030,030 as compared with any code of well-derined regulations to control international dealings. Let us take 82,000,000 in the corresponding period of the prarious year. The falling off is attributed to a sample. Recently there was started a
a malicions propagands carried on by enemies movement in Shanghai against cigarette in the United States against the good name of smoking. It was an apparently harmless the Philippine cigar. Efforts are being maile movement to which it appeared no possible by the Manila Tobasco Association to counter objection could be taken. Cigarette smoking, set this mischief by "a publicity campaign.”
The American Conenisto-General yesterday rec-ived the following typhoon warnings from Manila Observatory: Minila, 13th, 9 am Cyclone or typhoon eet of Inson more than 00 mi es distant, moving W. N. W." A later sage stated that the typhoon was within 300 milea,
THE WRECK OF THE "ASIA.”
THE VINDING OF THE COURT:
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LORD KITCHENER.
LONDON, July 18th. Lord Kitchener on his return from Ire-
BEITISH NORTH BORNEO.
LONDON, July 18th.
HOME CRICKET.
GENTLEMEN DEFEAT FLAYERS,
LONDON, July 13th. The Gentlemen have beaten the Players in
TEST CRICKET.
Sir West Ridgeway, presiding at the a match at Lords by 130 runs. Hobbs made meeting of the North Borneo Lompany, the excellent score of 154, not out. A San Francisco telegram dated June 17th announced that the revenue of the Company "ppearing in the Australian papers states that for the year exceeded the expenditure by
the investigation held at the office of the Britial Consul-General, regarding the wreck of the £142,642, aul the expenditure of previous Pasite liner Asia (formerly the Doria), resulted in finding that the third offer, Johnson, was years by £11,000. North Borneo, he said, responsible for the wreck in not ezeraising due was rich in minerals, and the only way to
Captain Gankroger was censured for his disclose its hidden wealth was by scientifieurylebone Cricket Club to join caution in keeping the lock-out.
English team to proceed to Australia. poor judgment in setting so fine's course in dangerone waters.
LONDON, July 13th. Kinnair has accepted the invitation of the
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in charge of a pilot whom the much-harassed skipper is
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Latest res peletion of the Board of
Trade in to the effect that the master shend be responsible for the steering and esfe conduct of the ship, with the pilot sa the master's expert assistant.
Such will be acceptable to master.
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mariners, as relieving them from the anomaly of being held responsible for the ship in charge. of another men, but the pilot serricas of Bombay
It would and Calentts are still to give their opinion. Take the case of Bombay."
after possible for a master absence to conduct his vessel up to this har bour, and the pilots would be sure to resent interference, however well-meant, with their duties. Much more is the case at Calozita, where the continually-shifting Hugh renders the task of the pilot an exceedingly onerous one. We fancy that the omphatic statement of Captain Deane, our late harbour master, that the pilot must be in ebarge, and would have to be in charge, and would remain in charge till the end will be upheld by the Bombay Pilot Service-Times of India.