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THE GMINIE MINISTER. The anti-opium enthusiaste of this country on Monday sant a deputation to the Chinese Legation in Portland Place to bid good-bye to the retiring Minister, Low Yuk-lin, and to thank him for his assistance to the anti-opium cause. Mir Matthew Dodsworth introduced the
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A financial correspondent writes:—“In view of the recent remarks on the subject of the Marconi Company's Chinese contract. a statement has been issued defining the position. The Chinese Government agreed on April 8th to authorise the Marconi Company to issue two million Chinese bonds in payment of the proposed stations. This document was lo at the British Legation at Peking and the formal contruct has been sent forward for approval and signature. The Company 'expects that the agreement will be signed in due course, but the was actually previous rumour that it signed was clearly premature."-
MA 800 ON DR. MORRISON'S OPTI}/SM. Ma Seo, who gives a Wost London address and signs himself Secretary, The Chinese Republican Society, writes again to the papers criticising the optimistic statements of Dr. Morrison, but only the Labour papere pay much attention to his outburst. He quotes from the North - THE DEATH OF LADY HARDINGE.
The death of Lady Hardinge, after an China Daily News in support of his Contention that the country is disturbed operation a nursing home, is much regretted by a very wide circle of friends and trade at a standstill, with large and public admirers.
But whatever happens to the confer One who knew stocks of goods on hand at the treaty her well writes: She was a beautifulce, there is a very determined spirit abroad that the authority of Parliament ports and remittances from the interior and remarkable woman. To har was due shall be kept unimpaired.
The diplomatic success of the last Durbar.equaily determined attitude on the part almost impossible. Ma Soo excusea Dr. The way she piloted the Queen through of all sections to be ready for Morrison to some extent by saying that every incident, and her personal charm, election. The Liberal party is said to a surprise since he required an official status he no
wore alike beyond praise. of her that she obtained the appointment next June, but meanwhile they are It was said be planning an appeal to the country longer has access to full information and of her husband as Viceroy by talking preparing for any eventuality and the all shades of opinion. He says Yuan daily for a month over the telephone to activity at headquarters is extreme. The Shih-kai is making desperate efforts to Lard Morley, the then Secretary for Unionists, in London anyway, have been India. She was a woman whose charin- prepared for some time, but there are a bolster up China's credit with the objecting personality, ።በጻ always garbed of securing better conditions for the exquisitely, and her courage in India number of seats without either a Liberal forthcoming big loan, but adds, “The as atrazing. She adored her husband, fight is hopeless it is intended to provide or a Labour candidate, and even if the and worked zealously for him as well as for these. Treasury Bills of the Provisional Govern-
for the good of everything Indian. She thesc" contests for the good of the cause Local men are not keen on ment of Nanking that Dr. Morrison longed for Paris, to which Embassy Lord alone," so harristers and others are bring refers to were, as he should know, mainly Hardinge was to have been appointed rounded up to fish a maiden sword in issued not by Nanking, but, by Yuan next year. Without her constant care the hope that later on they may have a GOING AND RETURNING WITHIN PERIOD 1ST JUNE-318 OCT.
and vigilance for him in his sadly better reward for their activities. Shih-kai's Government, who took them weakened health it is quite likely his over when Yuan entered on the President-public career would now be drawing to Liberal side,
One of the picturesque figures of the Fighting Joe" Martin, ship, and it is his administration that remature end. The solitary foible of
K.C.; former Promier poor Lady Hardinge was indulging every haus insered them as it has also made loan whim of her precocious daughter, good, though he remains the nominal include all between Japan Ports of call if desired.
British NAGASAKI $120.00. KOBE $135.00. YOKOHAMA $150.00, Columbia, has gone back to Canada for after loan with others, disregarding its Dismanline No Viceroy's wife ever
Tickets are interchangeable for return by any steamer of above-named Companies and member of East St. Pancras till the the excelled her she with
the perfect General Election.
Passengers may go and/or return VA MANILA without additional charge by stemmeTY Quintuple Group of Banks." As regards/plomatist in petticoats, and her loss" Fighting Joe,' who had won a reputy-calling at that Port E
It appears that real bereavement to the Empiretion for agressiveness in the Denision,
indicated in schedule of sailings shewn below. the general situation and the antagonism and there are not so very many of either conceived the idea that he would show
The Steamers operated by the Companies named are the largest fastest and most luxurious of the Southern Republicans to the Presi-sex about whom such a tribute can, he then what was what at Westminster, and dent, Ma Soo adds:-Dr. Morrison's paid without the slightest reservation."
East St. Pancras had of late yours JOINT SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS TO AND FROM JAPAN PORTS. shown Я preference for independent retrospect carefully evades the real causeS
Tenders have been invited by Dr. Chen members of a Radical complexion of
TC JAPAN. of antagonism to Yuan Shih-kai and his Chin-tao, the Chinese Financial Delegate thought he naturally gravitated there. policy, Yuan Shih-kai laid himself out in Europe, for the plant and machinery But he took them to literally and
Hongkong SABA Only proceeded to criticise and vote against the
LKATR ARXIVA to make Parliament unworkable, ignored required for the Tientsin Mint. and set on one side the Provisional Con- and the papers are to be in hand by noon, Radicals of his division grew discon
manufacturing firms are invited to tender Liberal party till even the extreme. stitution which he had sworn to observe. August 4th. The plant required includes tented Without the knowledge of Parliament, he boilers, turbines, electrical power plant.
and coining machines. The specifientions concluded with Austrian and German are being handed out by Sir Douglas Fox fems a series of loans for the purchase of and Partners.. useless torpedo destroyers and antiquated armaments. That is why Yuna Shili-ki was opposed. When secured of the
honourable
engagements
I
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-PLANT FOR TIENTSIN MINT.
THE ROBE-CALGUTTA SHIPPING: WAR,~ A Manchester correspondent writes:- hear that there is some prospect of an
of
His
$25,000,000 loan, he proceeded to dissolve agreement being reached that will bring left him stranded with one or two paid |
Parliament, and at the same time put an end to self-government in the provinces. He then set up a marionette Republic, selecting men to draw up a new Constitu- tion, and appointing members for the Advisory Council. Dr. Morrison and Professor Goodnow may call this Republic, but it is mow in accordance with truth to call this a Dictatorship veiled with the outward trappings of a Republic. Finally Ma Soo somewhat satirically nehors Dr. Morrison's appeal for Englishmen to apply their good sense and sense of justion to Chinese affairs, * for it is owing to the mis-application -of these that Yuan Shih-kai bás been able to defeat, for the present, the real reform of China and the hopes of inany who, like Dr. Sun Yat-sen, have devoted their lives to the carpe
to no end the rate war between the
As the result of this rate war
JAPAN
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TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
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Nothing daunted, Fighting Jo" attacked the Cabinet in and out of season and generally gave the impres sion that be regarded himself as the only pure politician at St. Stephens, nain supporters found that too strong aeat for them, so they voted him out of his own club rooms, relieved him of all the machinery of his own division and supporters to face the music, of wildly Mr. Wedgwood and one or two sther aulagonistie meetings. He brought down, members of that kidney who were like wise finding that the way of independence of the machine was bard, but the electors DUTT'S. merely expressed their opinion of them and their own particular member in terms that would not look well is cold to secure a by-election so as to defeat print under an Eastern sun. "Joe" tried his new Liberal opponent and let the
Conservative in.
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Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the British India and Indo-China Steamship Com Panies. low freights have been operative for nearly three years on the Kobe-Calcutta This is probably a step in the route. arrangements which are being made by Department of Communications at Tokyo in conjunction with the principal steamship lines #ving the Japanese flag with regard to the Panama route and the effect which it is likely to have upon the trade of the country. Several Com missions have already reported in this viberal declined to fight before the General Election.. As Jon was run- connection, and all of them, I believe, agreed that the opening of the Canal willing at big expens: all the time and had un ghost of a chance at the General result, so far as Japan is concerned, in a large diversion of business from Europe lection, he packed his traps, said a few In the matter of raw sulphurous things about. Eritish politics to America.
in general and Liberal polities in parti cotton, for instance, Japan's largest import at present is from the United tular, and shook the dust of the shores States, and as the waterway will reduce lavoured sample of the comedy of modern from off his feet. It is a fine, full- the cost of carriage it is expected that the politics, and if all members could follow quantity will be still further increased their bent, I daresay the developments and that less will be taken from India. Japanese manufacturers, therefore, anti- would be similar in many quarters
But who knows whether the situation GERMAN TRADE COMPETITION.
cipate that they will be able to compete While British engineers complain that more keenly with their British and would be better for any other party under similar cirgamist nces? Sir Charles they are tosing many contracts to their American rivals in Far Eastern markets, Henry, in addressing the staff of th It is also thought that the Canal, by German competitors in China, they nos reducing transport charges, will enable House of Commons after their annual have trouble nearer home, for the Port inpan to place her cotton goods on the cricket match at his riverside residence of London Authority has given an order Indian market at an even lower figure on Saturday, seemed to have some such He said he did not for six powerful side tank locomotive, than is now possible, a consideration matters in mind.
the duck lines, to the which will doubtless not be overlooked by know what the staff thought of the Government, but very likely they thought Hohenzollern Locomotive Works of Lancashire firms.
it was time to have a change of howlera. Düsseldorf, Germany. This announce.
Who could tell whether it would be betfor ment, following on recent similar action It would be idle to speculate in this if the change came, however?
He was By the India Office, the South Indian dispatch on the Irish situation, as it is reminded of the visitor who arrived in Railway, and the Taff Vale Railway not unlikely that by the time this matter an Irish town and asked the porter which making the industrial community sit
arrives in the East tho worst of the nas the best botel. "Sure, your honour, up and take notice. It is, to say the costocles to a anttlement will have been I cannot tell you that," said Pat. least, a bad advertisement for the home
I personally believe that a There's two of em, and all I can say manufacturers, in spite of the reiterated set over.
settlement will be achieved and that Lord is that which ever you choose you'll wish-l explanation--which may or may nor be Northcliffe's journals will have once more you had chosen the other.??
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