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DEATH OF THE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN,
TOKYO, April 9th. The Capital is surprised to day by the Captain Geo Payne, Marine Supergrave reports published regarding the Empress Dowager, following upon en- intendent of the Indo-Chine & N. Co at Shanghai, was presented on Saturday, the 4th inst., with a gold watch and chain couraging bulletins. and a gold pencil case, suitably inscribed. together with an illuminated address, by the Captains, officers and pilots of the Captain Northern fleet. Company's Payne is leaving for Home on retirement
to-morrow,
The meteorological observationa carried out at the Royal Observatory during March show that the mean temperature
Early this morning the Emperor and Empress left for Numadzu, where the Dowager-Empress was residing, and they
returned at noon.
Tokyo, April 10th. It is announced that the Empress Dowager arrived at Tokyo at midnight.
All amusement is prohibited. The
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY] THE PROBLEM OF IRISH GOVERNMENT
COLONEL BELY ON HIS RESIGNATION,
LONDON, April 10th. Colonel Scely, M.P., speaking at Long Eaton, strenuously denied any idea of armed attack on Ulster, and intimated that he resigned because the document he gave General Gough, which was intended to be applicable to the whole Army, was regarded as a charter of conditional obedience. The Government had hoped to retain the services of Sir John French and General Ewart, but the latter ook the view that though it was only a state
for the month was 67.2 degrees, the Taisho Exhibition will be closed and theent of fact the document had been con-
mean of the daily maxims, 71.7 degrees, coronation will be postponed. and the mean of the daily minima 88.5 degrees, which were the higher on record except in the year 1902, when the corresponding values were 8.1
record
degrees, 72.0 degrees, and 64.6 degrees, The absolute maximum temperature, 61.8 degrees, was the highest on except in 1891, 621 degrees; whereas the absolute minimam 19.5 degrees, was among the lowest temperatures on record. on only nine occasions Sunshine, mean, was 133.4, against 84.1 in the same month of the past 30 years. Rain menn totalled 1.190 is compared with 2.097.
[The correct interpretation of the first message evidently is that the Empress Dowager had died at Numiadzy on the 9th inst. It is contrary to etiquette in Japan to admit the death of a Royal personage,
especially when the death occurs outside the nounces that the Emprots Dowager has *** arrived ?!" in Tokyo, when what sotually Capital. Hence the second telegram an occurred was that the body was brought into ment would then sollone official announce 28th, 1850. She was the third daughter of The late Empress Dowager was born May
Tokyo at midnight. The
strued into a trophy; therefore they could
[THROUGH REUTER'E AGENDY }De JAPANESE CHILDREN IN CANADIAN SCHOOLS.
A PROTEST AGAINST LEGISLATION. FOR SEGREGATION.
VICTORIA (BC), April 10th, The Japanese Consul has protested to the City Council against the segregation of Japanese school children, and says that the most undesirable relations will arise between Canads and Japan if such legis- lation is passed.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
ON THE EVE OF A GREAT ECONOMIC DURL" ST. PETERSBURG, April 10th. The Dump has,, by an overwhelming majority, adopted the Government Bill
do nothing but resign. The King had posing a duty of thirty kopecks per nothing to do with the document.
Colonel Seely, speaking at Draycott
pood on grain, peas, beans, and spices. It is made clear that the measure is anti- onde
German.
Saturday, said there had been a grave
The President of the Agricultural Com- mittee, in the Duma declared that they
danger of bloodshed in Ireland through hot-headed persons seizing arma at isolated depots, henes his moving of the were on the eve of a great economic duel troops into Ulster. His orders had been
and concessions were impossible.
The Duran has adopted, with urgency
speak, the automatic outcome, there could lower temperatures baving been recorded Ichijo. Tadaks, a noble of the first rank punctually and implicitly obeyed, but the for debate, & Bill taxing imports of Ger-
STAINERS CRUCIFIXION AT THE CATHEDRAL The choir of St. John's Cathedral,
augmented by a large number of other vocaliste, which brought the strength up to 80 voices, gave a most excellent rendi- tion of Stainer's Crucifixion" at the Cathedral on Friday night. The con- gregation, which included His Excellency the Governor and Sir William and Lady Rees Davies was very large, all available seats being filed some time before the commencement. In practically every particular, the performance excelled the choir's rendering of The Messiah last Good Friday, The solos, all entrusted to malo voices, were without exception very well sung, those taking the individual parts being Mesars, W. B. Cawsey AJ England, R. T. Peyton Griffin, R. Brown, C. R. Crispin and A, G. MacDonald, The work of the chorus was also of a high standard, reflecting great credit on Mr. J. W. White, the acting organist, who is to be congratulated on the successful outcome of his efforts.
and up to the time of her marriage to the Cobservative newspapers went mad on Emperor Matsu-hito, on December 28th, 1808, was known as Princess Haruko. Her Majesty was imbued with the progressive spirit of the times in Japan and showed on many occasions her intense personal interest in affairs and especially in the welfare of the women of Japan.
THE CABINET CRISIS IN JAPAN
COUNT OKUMA PERSUADED TO FORM A CABINET.
The Jj
TOKYO, April 10th.
states that the Genzo (State Council) have chosen Count Okunia as premier Stocks have been favourably *****
influenced by the report
TOKYO, April 12th. Count Okuma has agreed to form A Cabinet on condition that the Genro give him their support.
Baron Kato, formerly Ambassador to London, will most likely become Foreign
Minister
THE CORONATION.
the subject. Colonel Beely denied that there had been a plot to butcher Ulster men, as many persons, including the majority of the officers and men of the Moreover,
Army, apparently believed.
man corn into Finland. The Reporter gave.
gradually ousting Russian products in gures to show that German imports were Finland
THE ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS.
MAGNIFICENT DECORATIVE SCHEMES.
PARIS, April 10th,
the belief of many Liberals in a plot by the Army to disobey orders and so shatter His Home Rule was also groundless.
Interest is growing in the visit of. determination simply was to safeguard Their Majesties, and the leading firms of Government property.
It
was never Paria will present Their Majesties with a
intended to employ the Army to crush golden book, containing the signatures of political opposition, and thereby a great the prominent commercial men, in a principle, for which our forefathers casket, and to the Queen, needlework re- fought, had been upheld.
presenting an apotheosis of the Entente THE POSITION IN THE PACIFIC. Cordiale framed in gold. The schemes of decoration in the City promise to be most. magnificent.
SIR GEORGE BEID'S VIEWS
LONDON, April 19th. Sir George Reid, who has arrived in in the London from Australia, stated course of an interview that Australia had adopted compulsory military training in
of spirit
enthusiastic B splendid patriotism. The position in the Far East was unsatisfactory, and the time must come when the Indian Empire must help to maintain a Fleet in the Pacific, and so tou, must Canada. Japan was making great changes in her methods of promot ing national stamina, and was encourag ing the importation of wheat and meat.
be no better instrument for the purpose than the Town Councils. The Parliament and the Provincial Assemblies have had to go for two reasons-they stood so high in the political scale that they conceived, large ideas of their own importance and were in any case influential enough to hamper the Executive, and at the same time the tasks they were supposed to undertake wers of such magnitude that there was small chance of their dealing with them successfully or with the necessary breadth of outlook. Neither of these arguments could be urged against the Town Councils. They would be too insignificant and too limited in their activity to be a thorn in the side of the Contral Government, and a narrow parochial out look would not be a very serious drawback to a body that dealt with little more than parochial matters. As a training ground for government on more democratic lines these local bodies dealing with a safe selection of local affairs should, serve a valuable and, and they have this further be recommandation-they could easily adapted to the present order of govern ment, and they involve only & slight extension of a principle that has existed in Chins for centuries. Students of the works of Bir ROBERT DOUGLAS and Dr. AETHOE SMITH will recall the descriptions given by these authors of the way in which affairs bave in the past been managed in the village communities that are free from resident officials. The informal patriarchal administration by the village headman with the assistance of the village eldera has stood the test of centuries and has proved quite adequate to the needs of the rural districts. It is only a slight development of the principle to extend the system to the towns, and bore again the ti-pao, or headman of the ward, is an ancient institution · embodying the same iden, Of course, it it is held that anything there. BaTouring of democratie methods is a HONGKONG, APRIL 13TH, 1914. danger to the Republic, and the Central Government has decided that anything that Wire the abrogation one by one of the might serve as a reminder of the promises constitutional reforms in China, one is of a constatational system must be abolished, insvitably tempted to speculate how far the there is nothing more to be said; but if process of reversal is to go. Parliament there is any substratum of reality in the missed, as his Worthip said there could be shillings per pound, but the difficulty weg Stevenson at Holborn Hall resulted as and the Provincial Assemblies have gone, lip-service paid to the constitutions ideal, the PRESIDENT Worships at the Altar of the continuance of some form of municipal Heaven with all the trappings n and self-government-by either an elected or ceremonial of the Imperial era, and the inora-probably, a nominated council- roestablishment of some of the features of should prove both harmless and beneficial. the old machine of Government has been mooted. There have not been wanting
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TOKYO, April 12th The announcement of the postponement of the Coronation fixes no date for the event. It will probably be Noveuter, 1016, There is strong public feeling in favour of as little delay as possible.
(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCY.]
GAMBLING IN G.0.0. STABLES:
TEN INDIANS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATEL Ten Indians were brought before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy on DEATH OF DOWAGER EMPRESS OF This demand was bound to influence the Saturday on charges of trespassing and gambling in the stables of H.E. Major- General F. H. Kelly, on the sth inst.
JAPAN:
BRITISH COURT GOES INTO MOURNING. LONDON, April 12th His Majesty the King has commanded
Gunner Giles, B.G.A., military picket, deposed that on entering the stables he found the defendants seated in a ring playing cards with money beside them. the Court, to go in mourning for eight about mid-day. There was days, from yesterday, for the late $2.20 on the floor near the cards. When
Dowager-Empress he entered there was a stampede. The defendants had no permission to play
This was
One of the defendants said he was a servant to Major McHardy and that he had to go there to attend to bis horse.
His Worship said he would remand him. The remainder were each fined $5, or in default fourteen days for trespas sing. The charge of gambling was dis no conviction without a warrant for gambling.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. The Government Gatelic states that H.E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Paul M. Hodgson to act as Marth
The French mail of the 10th March was Crown Solicitor, with effect from 28th
THE PRICE OF RUBBER.
LONDON April 10th Sir Frank Bwettenham, at a rubber company meeting in Glasgow, said that the companies were all prepared to adhere to any combination that might be formed in order to raise the price by over two
that they had also to conet on the brokers, shippers, etc, whose interests were conflicting,
A FRENCH LOAN TO TURKEY, LONDON, April 10th. Agreements for & big Turkish loan and
world's markets, and was certain to cause tremendous development of production in the Commonwealth.
"LOOPING THE LOOP" AT BOURNEMOUTH.
LONDON, April 12th. Mr. Gustave Hamel at Bournemouth looped the loop" 21 times, descending | from a height of 2.300 feet.
BILLIARDS IN ENGLAND.
INMAN DEFEATS STEVENSON.
LONDON, April 12th- The billiard match between Inman and.
follows: - Inman.
17,000 Stevenson, 13,779. This is the first time that Inman has beaten Stevenson in a level game BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IN ALBANIA.
DURAZZO, April 10th
THE KING OF SWEDEN'S HEALTH.
STOCKHOLM, April 10th. The operation on the King of Sweden occupied seventy-five minutes, and was most successful.
The surgeons found a superficial, but not malignant, uleer on the lower part of the stomach
The King spent a quiet night. He suffered some pain, but the wound is healing satisfactorily.
STOCKHOLM, April 12th. The King spent a quiet night, and slept well. The pain has greatly diminished, and there is every prospect of a normal recovery.
ITALIAN MILITARY BALLOON BURSTS.
SURROUNDING SPECTATORS INJURED.
LONDON, April 10th.
A sudden gust of wind burat the enve- lope of an Italian military balloon which was moored to a tres near Milen, und was surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Two persons are dying and fifty are slightly injured.
FRENCH INTER-COLONIAL WIRELESS CHAIN.
Pants, April 12th.
The work of constructing the inter- Colonial wireless chain commences forth- with, The principal stations are to be Timbuctoo, Jibutil, Antananarivo, Pondi- cherry, Saigon, Noumea, Papepte, Mar- Most of the quesas, and Martinique,
thousand miles,
prophets to foretell the assumption by YUAN delivered in London on the 8th Aprit is also notified that His Excellency other financial facilities, and also for ment has mastered the situation atstations will have a range of two to threa
Wireless telegram apparatus has the -ben installed on the premues of the
General Post Office, Dairen.
It appears from the Civil Service estimates for the year 1915 that a super annuation allowance of £1,700 has been granted to the Right Hon. Sir C. M.
Macdonald G.C.M.G.
BEIR.KA'I of the Imperial dignity, while, at the other end of the scale, it in posiible to imagine a recrudescence of the quece the boom in foreign clothing that followed the establishment of the Republic 19 cortaluly subsiding. We do not, however, antisipate the realization of either of the two last-napad events popular opinion has always been opposed to the queue if only on
The death is announced at Tientsin of grounds of comfort and convenience, and now that it is possible to dispense with it, Mr. John Hirsbrunner. He was one of its final extinction must be only a question the very old China hands, having spent 50 of time, even in the conservative North; years in China, 20, being spent in Tien- while, as to the other point, names are sin, Mr. Hirsbrunner reached the ripe always mors potent than realities in Chicose age of 77 years and had only been ailing politics, and so long as YUAN SHIHKA'I far 16 days.
ptops short of taking the title of EMPEROR, Three Mongolian tigers were recently there seem to be no lengths of autocrati: shipped at Teatein by the H. A L. str. rule that are forbidden to him.. This pro- Sikiang for Shanghai, where they will be gressive reversal of so many of the innovatranshipped to another steamer and sent tions that have, during the last five years, to Hamburg. They are fine specimens of been thrust in bewildering succession on an the species, says & Tientsin paper, and were purchased by a Russiso arm from comprehending China is no doubt nec sary and may eventually restore matters
The native hunters.
Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred agon him by Section 5 of the Turkish concessions to French groups, 141 Court Ordinance, 1912, has “bướn pleased to appoint Francis Arthur Haze have been initialled in Paris. land Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, to be a Judge of the Full Court, for the purpose of the proceedings now pending in 1912, between Ho Chiu Lam, appellant, Original Jurisdiction Action No. 103, of and Ho San Lam, respondent.
HONGKONG RIFLE LEAGUE
BELILIO'S SHIELD.
A triangular match took place at Kings Park yesterday, with the following assult
MAD FRENCHMAN DAMAGES BERLIN STATUES,
LONDONS April 11th A Frenchman, who is believed to be the demented, considerably damaged statues in the Sieger Allee, Berlin, with s knife and a stone.
DEATH OF LORD SUFFIELD.
LONDON, April 11th
It appears that the Albanian Govern Koritz The insurgents have surrender ed and the movement is regarded as sup- pressed,
ATHENS, April 12th. Albanians who occupied villages between Premeti and Aleskoviki were attacked by Epirotes, and were compelled to with draw with beavy loss.
1,000 SPANIARDS EXPELLED FROM
TORREON
MADRID, April 12th The Government has been informed that 3:000 Spaniards have been expelled from Torreon, and are in a wretched plight,
INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY IN
FRANCE
PARIS, April 12t5. England beat France et hockey by G goals to ml.
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visited Indis He was Master of the Norfolk
A feature of interest was the shooting Foxhouds and Staghounds for several
riate them.
The Foreign Minister has discussed the affair with the United States Ambassador
BRITISH POET HONOURED.
LONDON April 10t Reuter reports that Mr. Alfred Noyes
of McLennan, of the Reserves, who, at years, and was at one time Superintendent has been elected Visiting Professor of Plantation 600 yards, put on a highest possible.
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