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published contains, however, only a general | outline of the Constitution, and it would morrow, therefore be unfair to examine it too eriti- cally, but there are many points on which further information will be looked for. For instance, ure the Congress and the States' Assemblies to consist each of a single Chamber, or of two? Are the member of these bodies to be elected on a univerzal manhood sufrage? or, if not, what are the qualifications necessary to become an elector? How is the President to be elected? Is trial by jury to be introduced? These and
more questions will have arison at once to the the minds of all who have studied
(THROUGH EXUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE MINERS' MINIMUM
WAGE BILL.
While a submarine was coming out of the Naval camber yesterday, she came into collision with a steam pinunce belonging GOVERNMENT'S LABOUR IN VAIN. to the U.S.S. Filmington. The pinnace
had a bola knocked in its starboard bow.
It returned to the gunboat, where it was hoisted on deck just in time to save it
from foundering.
In recognition of their efforts toward the furthering of the Republican cause by facilitating the transportation of anen and ruanitions to Nanking prior to the cap tare of the city by the revolutionary forces, the Republic of China have pro sented engraved gold tablets to Mr. A. W. U. Pope, general manager, and Mr. J. D. Read, trate mattger, of the Nanking Railway Company. Mr. L. N. Han, trian ager of the express department of the company, and Mr. Chung Ming Yeu, wan- aging director of the railway, were made the recipients of handsome medals, given as a token of appreciation of their loyalty to the Republic.
SUPREME COURT.
WEDNESDAY, March 27th.
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. CONFERTZ .
(PUISNE JUDGE).
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION,
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE COAL STRIKE.
SITUATION BECOMING INTOLER. ABLE.
LONDON, March 27th. There is a likelihood that the Liverpool races will be abandoned.
The King will not attend the Grand National. His Majesty has telegraphed to Lord Derby: The continuance of this disastrous col ariko makes it impossible for me to make any plaus or to leave London."
LONDON, March 27th. When consideration of the Miners' Minimum Wage Bill was resumed in the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Long moved the adjournment of the debate, and asked how they could discuss the Bill when the negotiations were proceeding outside. Mr. Asquith at this moment entered and was greeted with general chocring. He said that he said on Friday, and he now definitely that the Grand National will The Lord Mayor of Liverpool states repeated it, that the Government could
take place. not insert any figurds in the Bill" · · He agreed that 5/- and 2/ were not un reasonable as a minimum wage, but if the case was as strong as the miners' leaders
A serious position has been brought thought, could they doubt what would be about in Sunderland, where the electric the decision of the District Boards on the supply is being threatened. The lack of subject 1 He had made suggestions to light and power will cause a vast number. both parties to-day, which had proved to be thrown out of sployment. acceptable to neither. The Government lad delayed the Bill from Friday till
Another batch of miners has resumed work in Scotland.
SERIOUS POSITION IN SUNDERLAND.
ANOTHER ABORTIVE CONFERENCE.
A conference between coal-owners and to-day in the hope that it might be miners took place at the Foreign Office. possible, when the ground of discussion It only lasted five minutes. The Scottish had been so narrowed, that some agreeminers presented a demand for 5/9 per ment might be come to by the parties. day for adults and 5/- for boys, where- Speaking with deep emotion, and almost in a whisper, Mr. Asquith said that the upon the ball of the owners withdrow, one
remarking I have chucked it." Government had laboured for an- Lgrte- inent hard and persistently, and it was
merdorandum, and authoritative answers to then are eagerly expected. The one serious defect that we find in the scheme as WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, adumbrated in the memoranduin is in the clauses dealing with the appointment of oficiale. First, as to the State Governors, "The Governors of the States are to bo elective, the voters of the State each voting for two candidates, one a native of the State, and the other of some other State The elected candidate shall then receive his commission from the President: " The wording of this is none too intelligible, but the clause would appear to mean, either that the two candidates, one a native of the State and the other an outsider, are sent. down by the Central Government, and then the people have to choose between them; or else that the voters elect two prospective. Governors as abovo, and then the President "pricks" one of the two. In either case, the Central Government would be given Por Por great opportunities for managing the State elections, and they would soon be as great dozen, bottla.
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AN INTERESTING POINT.
Messrs. Berblinger & Co. sued Mr. A. Weingarten, proprietor of the Globe Hotel for $100 alleged to be due a balance on account of wines and spirits Mr. C. Willson appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Leo. D'Almada e Castro for the defendant. Mr. Willsou, in reply to His Lordship, said the pre- sent action was brought to recover some thing which was not lackaded in the form ex action. It was a different amount for different quantity of goods supplied Mr. D'Almada submitted during 1910. action. It was an abuse of the Court. that plaintifi could not bring a fresh
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further argument, His Lordship said he The would have to consider the point. point was a difficult one and one be was not prepared to decide off-hand.. case was adjourned ziwe die.
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· ["DAILY PREAS" EXCLUSIVE SERVIOC.] THE JAPANESE DIET.
Tokyo, March 27th.
The Diet has been closed.
A general election takes place in May.
DEATH OF A JAPANESE BISHOP.
Tokyo, March 27th.
during a Mothodist Conference
Bishop Hooda has died at Nagasaki-
[Bishop Honda, D.D., was President of the Christian College in Tokyo, and in religious work, he has been a leading since 1883, when he left politics to engage educationist and Christian evangelist.) -
THROUGH ROUTER'S AGENCY.]
INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL.
LORD MOTT'S BOOK PUSLISHED,
LONDON, March 27th. The White Book promised by Lord. Emmott on February 19th last has been published. It concludes with a minute on the Union of Ministers of December 2nd last, repeating the assurances that it was not proposed to interfere with certain vested rights of Indians in the Transvaal, but pointing out that it was impossible. to allow attempts to acquire new rights. Asiatic leaders appeared to be making an organised attempt to invade towns where Asiatics had no rights before, and the European community was so exercised that Ministers would be probably com- The Weish leader, Mr. Hartshorn, in pelled to take action under the Townships an interview, said the Federation were Act and to enforce the conditions con- not weakening, and ware seriously contained in the title deeds. sidoring appsaling to the transport work- ers and other organisations,
THE MINERS' ATTITUDE,
A Scottish leader on being interviewed to him a profound disappointment that stated that the 5/9 and 3/- per diem had he had to confess to the House that all been the Scottish demand throughout, and their labours had been unavailing. If at denied that its reiteration caused the this fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh rupture. hoar the parties could not corne to a reasonable arrangement upon a matter of relatively small proportions, they would have a very serious account to render to the country, The Government had done, nil
they could. They had post
RELIEF OF DISTRESS,
Poncu legislation till the last possible The Monmouth and South Wales coal
FLOW
owners have each contributed $1,000 to
OBITUARY.
LONDON, March 27th. Admiral Edward Field, who has had an
moment, and the only conrac open to them was to ask the House the relief funds, and the Cardiff, Swan interesting Parliamentary career as well to proceed with the Bill. Mr. Asquith added:-Let the Bill pass at the earliest sea, Newport and South Yorkshire coal possible moment, then, when it will be the relief of local distress.
owners have contributed £2,000 each for
passed as the law of the land, when in the
opinion of Parliament the underground.
2 reasonable
THE MINIMA.
The Daily News states that the Miners' Government proposal to establish a Na- Federation met to-day to consider the
miners are guaranteed minimum wage, and when it will be fur ther passed as the law of the land that there shall be provided fair and impartial tional Wages Board, and to consider the machinery to ascertain and guarantee 5- and 27- minima on the understanding that minimum wage, then a continuation that the miners will resume work immo- of stoppage of work, with infinite mais.diately these two points are settled.
MINERS AT WORK.. There were 3,200 iziners working yester- day.
Failing
those responsible for it a burden of responsibility that they would find it very
THE GOVERNMENT'S PLANS. difficult to discharge. Mr. Asquith con- cluded-We have exhausted
The Times states that the Government all our powers of persuasion, argument and hope the miners will seize on the Bill as negotiation, and we press thir Bill upon an excuse to return to work. the House as affording the best possible resumption, the Government has planned provisions in the great emergency with effective measures for the relief of the dis- which we are confronted, and we claim wo tress, and will probably call out the Re- have done our best in the public interest, serves to protect the workers, with perfect fairness and impartiality.
aftor all, of much more importance to ther than is the President, and when they are thoroughly conversant with the qualities desirable or essential in the occupant of the minor office, though they muy be totally unable to discriminate between the merits of two rival candi- dates for the higher rank? But we fail to see what useful purpose the District Magistrate can serve in a democratic repub- lic. Each District is to be divided into town ships, each with its own local government, so the District Magistrate would have no administrative duties; while with the inau guration of Assize Courts and paid judges, be would not be likely to be entrusted with HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD O much judional work. It would be far better LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLset Szbwet. Etoyabolish the office altogether, and so riders were thoroughly at their ease, and the were entitled to remind the miners that
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Mr. Wilbur T. Gracey, who has been the United States Consul at Nanking for several years, has been appointed to Pro- gress, Mexico. ⠀
the Republic of one numerous class of paid officials. The local government of the District would be conducted far more effi- ciently and purely by an elected District Council with, if a head of the local govers- ment is thought necessary, a co-opted chair. Tun memorandum of the National Progras-man or mayor, whose functions would be sive Society, an abstract of which we solely ornamental. The Governor of the recently published, is especially interesting State might then be elected by the members as communicating to the world for the first of these Councils, without any question of time a cohesive idea of the form which the his being a native of this or that State. If Constitution of the Republic is intended to the Eclective System advocated by the take. We have been told often that China National Progressive Society were modified is to be a Republic of States federated on in these two features, it would stand a much the American or Australian model, but better chases of developing into the per- if the memorandum may be accepted as fected Constitution of the Republic of represcuting the views of the present provi- China. sional: administration-we am now for the first time dulightened as to the exact nature of the federation, is to the system of local and provincial Government. The eclective system advocated strikes us as containing the germ of a very ingenious compromise, which should, if carefully worked out, succeed admirably in allowing a large measure of autonomy to the provinces or States, while at the same time checking disruptive and centrifugal forces. Much will, of course, depend on the detailed written Constitution that is to be drafted for the Republic, but it is evidently intended to give each State a wide range of discretion in its Government, and the provision for Departmental Conferences should keep the administration of each State in close touch with the Central Government and prevent too wide a divergence of law and practice, and at the same time avoid making the con- trol exercised by the Central Government complimented him on what he had done preas too heavily upon, and become irksome and said that he was deserving of the to, the State Government. The memorandum thanks of the community.
he had
Another instance of the coolness of the Chinese thief is furnished by a report made to the police that the clock from the smoke room of the a.s. Namur was stolen while the steamer was lying at the wharf at Kowloon on Monday night."
The A.D.C. gave their sixth and last performance of The Gondoliers" at the Theatre before a moderately
filled
but extremely enthusiastic house. Baskets
-ME. BONAR LAW. SYMPATHETIC.............
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
as a naval career, is dead.
AN ALPINE TRAGEDY.
LONDON, March 27th. Ten tourist ski runners were killed by an avalanche at Hockechneeberg, in the Austrian Alpa.
AMERICAN ANTI-TRUST LAW
LONDON, March 27th.
A telegram from Chicago states that the meat packers who were charged with criminally vialating the Anti-Trust law were acquitted after a trial extending over aix months. The defendants included the Presidents of the Swift, Armour and Morris Companies.
THE KAISER'S TOUR.
LONDON, March 27th. The Kaiser at Pola was saluted by the In the House of Lords, the Earl of Austrian Beet, and Junched with the "Crewe announced that the Coal Bill would | Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
be taken to-morrow. He would move to enable more than one stage to be taken on the same day.
THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Mr. Bonar Law said he deeply of flowers, bouquets and boxes of chocolate sympathised with Mr. Asquith. He were being continually banded up to the trusted that the passing of the Bill would principal ladies. The opera was most end the crisis, and that the men would successfully given last night; the perform return, to, work. If not, the Government
LONDON, March 27th. they were also British citizens, and that
Mr. Balfour, speaking in the City, the whole forces of the country. should be denounced the misuse of freedom of space the employed to protect any desiring to obey in order to permit of mutiny. look
the law.
audience were delighted. Encores were frequent. Notwithstanding that Mies Hilda Gordon, who portant part of Tessa, sprained her ankle two nights ago, she bravely went throughy her part, and the number of bouquets handed up for her were doubt
an inch. less prompted by appreciation of her pluck as well as of her very successful initial appearance on the local stage. The whole caste was heartly applauded on the fall of the curtain.
tertained to supper at Government House The entire Company were afterwardsen by H.E. the Officer Administering the Govorriment.
SOLDIERS' CLUB HILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
RAY. HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
Mr. Runsay Macdonald said that the failure of the negotiations was entirely due to the owners, who had not budged public clean-handed they must before the If they wished to go to the
Bill was passed meet the men and agres to something substantial enabling the leaders to tell the men that the Bill was of the responsibility of the deadlock would acceptable. Otherwise the largest share
be theirs.
Mr. McKenna said that as up till the present there had been no settlement the Government would take all the stages of the Wage Bill to-day.
THE MINIMUM REJECTED. An amendment to insert the 57- and 9/- minina was rejected by 320 votes to 83.
The Labour Party, have decided to oppose the third reading.
THE BILL PASSED,
SHANGHAI RATELAYERS' MEETING.
At the ratepayers' meeting in Shanghai, Jast week, over which Sir Havilland de Sausmirez presided, the following busi- ness was transacture which ha
The rules of procedure have been, Such in force for the last two years were.
adopted.
doctrines, he said, were sheer political unacy, and he was beginning to wonder if the forces of civilisation would be able to resist the agents of disintegration.
FRENCH POLITICS,
LONDON, March 27th.
Cabinet has decided to ask for credits for A telegram from Paris states that the
mobile and investigation departments, & million francs to increase the police
and to provide the police with motor cars,
The Chamber of Deputies has voted an extra sixteen million francs for military aviation.
ENGLISH RACING.
THE LINCOLNSHIRE HÅNDICAP.
ending December 31, 1911, were passed The report and accounts for the year without comment.
The report of the General Education: Committee, parts I. and I, was received and adopted without discussion.
BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
The budget was amended by the inclu-
any for the year 1912 for the maintenance sion of Tis 7,000, the amount due from the Shanghai Electric Construction Com-
budget and from the proposed debenture of roads, and by the elimination from the
for the purchase of land adjoining the issue of Tis. 432,625, the amount provided central office site. A third amendment authorized an expenditure not to exceed of the Municipal Band, it authorized to Tla. 5,000, with which Prof. Buck, director employ three additional musicians during: his leave of absence. With these amend rucnts, the budget was passed.
A LOAN, .. The Council was authorized to raise a loan not exceeding Tin. 250,000 for the purchase and erection of additional elec
LONDON, March 27th. The race for the Lincolnshire Handicapirical plant. *** resulted as follows:-
Long Set (Higgs) ... 1 Uncle Pat (Whalley)
Warfare (Longhurst) ...... 3 Seventeen started. The betting was:-
Archdeacon Moule of Ningpo was re- cently attacked by armed robbers while Two more games in this tournament travelling on a boat between Haimun and were decided on Tuesday evening, result, Kinghai. He was robbed of everything ing in an increase of lead for the Hong- The third reading of the Bill was car Kong Volunteers from 77 to 243 points. ried by 213 to 45 at 250 this morning. C.8. M. (1.6.) Gillman aid Colour Sergt. The House of Lords immediately sat for Rodgers were the first pair. Rodgers took the first reading, which was carried. the lead from the commencement and won
31r. Lloyd George voted with the comfortably by 126, making breaks of 20, 16, 13, 15 and 28. Gill making 26 majority on the 5/- and 2/ minima 13 to 2 against Long Set, 7 to 1 Unele Pat, and 14. The second game was between nondment. The minority meluded fifty 8 to 1 Warfare. In the place betting t A number of other amend-to 4 was laid against Warfare and pro- Captain Brierley, R.A., and Private
ments, including several moved by the portionate odds against the others. My At the Magistracy on Tuesday, Mr. ensued, which ended in Bishop winning Bishop, H.K.V. An interesting game.
Government, were disposed of.
Collar was ridden by Jellies, and Melbourne called up to the Bench a
A notable specch on the debate was that Shanballymore by Carson, Chinese murchant from Jervois Street (twice), 15, 12 and 16, Captain Brierley who said that when the Bill was passed, and Uncle Pat
by 39. His best breaks were 20, 13, 10
by the Minere Federationist, Mr. Walsh,
Cigar made the running from Spiked who had run after athiof, captured him, conspiling 16, 11, 10. 17, 24 and 12
The latter then went and after a severe struggle held him until Scores
the arrival of the police. His Worship
Colour Sergt. Rodgers ... 250
C.S.M. (L.G.) Gillan
124
Private Bishop...
250
Captain Brierley
211
Radicals,
it was the duty of every well wisher of to the front, but was overhauled a quarter
the country to make the best of it. Our of a mile from home by Long Set, who citizenship ought to be higher than our won by four lengths. Three lengths trades unionism.
It is understood that Mr. Asquith is separated second and third. suffering from mental strain.
was fourth.
Moscato
THE MEMORIAL TO BIR ROBERT HART. The Council was authorized to contri bute Tls. 5,000 toward the cost of greeting in the settlement a statue to the late Sir Roberi Hart.
APPOINTMENTS.
Mr. L. 3. Cubitt was elected land com-
roissioner.
Drs. J. W. Jackson and O. Von Schab and Messrs. D. Landale and E. F. Mackay were elected to serve on the Board of Gor ernor of Shanghai General Hospital.
Dr. F. L. Hawks Pott and Rev. G. H. Bondfield were elected to serve on the Permanent Education Committée.
COMPENSATION, REFUSED.
A rezolution authorizing the Council to grant compensation not exceeding Tis. 1,000 to Mr. J. Steinbeck for injuries re- ceived and losses sustained during the riots of November 1910, was defeated.
A resolution sanctioning financial as- sistance to the widow of the late Fran- cesco Peolo Jovina was defeated.