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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
RUSSIA AND THE MANCHURIAN
QUESTION.
LONDON. April gth.. In an amplified statement concerning Russia's attitude towards China, semi-oficially published in St. Petersburg, it is declared that Russia is resolved to maintain the in- tegrity of China, and that her only object in the recent negotiations was to securę guar- antees for a peaceful construction-of the rail
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RUSSIA AND JAPAN, Several prominent political journals. In Russia are already discussing the possibility of an arnied collision between Russia and Japan.
LATER.
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA. BOERS EVACUATE PIETERSBURG. Colonel Plumer has occupied Pietersburg, meeting with only slight opposition. The Boers evacuated their positions the previous tion. Colonel Flumer captured two engines night, exploding two truckloads of ammini
and forty trucks.
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CAPTURED.
A detachment consisting of zoo men from the fifth Lancers and, Yeomanry was attacked near Aberdeen by 400 Boers. After resisting from daybreak until eleven, they were sur rounded and captured,, 25 only escaping.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says: On the 11th at 12.5 pm, the barometer has riser on the China coúst, and pressure is high
over N.E. China. The depression has probably reached S.E. Japan. Gradients moderate with fresh monsoon off the China coast. Forecast ~~~ Fresh N.E. winds; dull, some rain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
WE note that Mr. Paul Brewitt has been authorised to sign the firm name of Dartly & Co per procuration.
MADAME ZARIA'S stay in the Colony is rapidly drawing to a close, so those desirous of consulting her should hurry up or they will be too late.
On Saturday, the 13th inst, at 9 p.m. Mr. J. Lambert, will ead a paper on “Liquid Fuel" A. S. WATSON & Co., at the institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders
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THE FRENCH AT AMOY.
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In a leading article, the China Gazelle
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Mr. Henry J. Wilson baa given notice of the THE FAR EAST IN PARLIAMENT,
following resolution on opium &-To call atten- tion to the Judo-Chinese opium trade; and to THE ESTIMATES AND THE CITINA: CRISIS.
`niove that, in the revision of treaty relations (March 4th.) In Committee of Supply en between this country and China, it is desiralin the Navy Supplementary Estimates, on a vote
to offer to the Chinese Government complete for an additional number of men and boys, not freedom to take auch measures, whether by exceeding 600, for the sea and coastguard increased taxation for otherwise, as it may Mr. Pratynan said that in the absence of the judge necessary, for the suppression of the Financial Secretary he desired to explain that
opium trallic.. this vole merely concerned the Colonial con- tingent in Chista. New South Wales provided
RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA. 262, Victoria 197, and South Australia 120-
(yti) Mỵ, C. Hobhouse asked the Under men, with the Protector gunboat. It was necessary under the Colonial Naval Defence Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he Act of 1865, section 9, to obtain the sancion had yet received any confirmation in writing.. of Parliament to bear those men on the of the promise given erally to the British vote. He did not, ask the House to believe Ambassador in St. Peterburg that the occupu- that those men were necessary in order to give tion of Manchuria by the Russians was to effect to the naval strength of the mother be neither virtual nor actual; and; if not, country in China. It was not the actual force, whether he expected to receive such confirma but the moral ferce which lay behind which tion and, it so, at what lime, was in question. (Cheers.) The value in the eyes of the Empire and the world of that small body of 600 men side by side with our own did not think there would be any difference of opinion in the House in regard to the vole. The Colonial contingent had been most honour ably mentioned by the commanding officer of the station. Their services were most valuable and were highly appreciated, and their gallantry was conspicuous on all occasions. (Hear, heat) The vote was passed by a majority of 168.
THE King's approval of the production of triplets ut 'one birth is of a rather subdued character. A donation of £2, has been receiv ed by the Rev. C. II. Hatheld, vicar of St. says Philip's, Southport, from King Edward VII.There cannot be the slightest doubt that the for one of his parishioners, the wife of a grooms, laying of a French cable item. Arioy, under who had given birth to triplets, this being the the protection of the cruiser Descartes, is a first payment of King's Bounty," It will be naval measure of great significance and im
portance. Suta a cable can only be intended recollected that the Queen's bounty was 43. war cable, though where the other end is: The market quotation has thus gone down very to be carried we have yet to learn. Probably inc connection will be made with Port Arthur definitely,
and another with the Tongking lines at Cape ONE hears wonderful traveller's tales of the St. James. Sudan cable obviously indicates the French anitude in the struggle which is now remarkable ability of the Chinaman as a care regarded må all put inevitable between Russia peater and cabinet maker, but those resident in Japan. Of course we must not leave out the Far East are well aware of the true state of fight that France has long laid claims 10 Ful the case. A correspondent informs us that hokién. So also has Japan in recent years. In the event of war between Russia and Japan, France ordered tzo strips of wood the other day a tridently intends to help the former by attack quarter-cf-an-inch square, and seventeen-and-a-big the fatter from the South, and is laying the half inches in length. The Celestial carpenter, cable without any regard to the conventions although he had been shown the measurements China has entered. into with the Cable Com-sailors, soldiers, and marines was such that he on his own rule, brought the strips cul one-and-panies, with a view to such a contingency. We have already pointed out the great disadvant -quarter inch square and varying in length age under which Japan labours in having no fully half-an inch. In the same manner, out of trustworthy cable communication of her own eight panes of glass cut to measure by a China with the outside world, and in the event of man to fit the drawers of a cabinet, all but three war, unless the follows France's example and lands a cable at some point of China, had to be discarded. A pretty fair average she is liable to be telegraphically isolated in the event of hostilities. Of course she has not hitherto been able in the face of China's telegraph treaties, to help herself, but the may do it now that France has so kindly shown the way. The French warships, which left here the other day ostensibly for the north, have been met by incoming vessels steering south, and Amoy is probably their destination. The tug-boat and lighters would come in very handy for landing in Fuhkien the French troops whom we are told are shortly leaving Chihli. The French intertion is evidently to forestall Japan in getting possession of both sides of the Formosa channel. We may thus find an explanation of the sudden conversion of Kulangsu into an, international part..
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ON or about the 1st of May proximu the Hong kong Telegraph Company, Limited, proposes to issue, supplementary to its regular issue, a special number of the Hongkong Telegraph, to be devoted to the interests of the Colony, Industrially, Commercially, Financially and in fact in every direction that in the opinion of the management will be of benefit to the Colony as a whole and to the people indivi "dually. A prominent feature of the enterprise will be a write-up in detail of the different business houses, plants and interests, shipping and others. It is hoped, as the edition will be limited, that those who desire copies of the paper for personal use or mailing purposes will send in their names and the number of papers The Right Reverend Henry Codman Potter, desired, so that a number sufficient to fill the D.D., LL.D, etc., Bishop of New York, who demand may be printed. To those who sub-was lately on a tour through the Orient, has, scribe to this issue there will be no charge for says the Straits Times, been exercising bas alent of originality before American audiences the exploitation of their business in an attrac-in a pleasing slander on the Englishmen of tive way. The price of the special number Singapore. โธ view of the Bishop's high will be fifty cents. The compilation of the editions in the hands of Mr. Dennison Gray, who will call upon any who may be interested with a full explanation of the style of the special issue.
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THREE DOLLAR'S WORTH OF FUN.
A Malay seaman was fined $3 for being too hilarious in a boarding house in Upper Lascar
Row.
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episcopal dignities, and the fact that he is not only the sun of one bishop but also the nephew of another, it is possible that Heaven knows where he gleaned his alleged facts. It is certain that we do not. But to proceed with the relative status quo of Englishman and native in Singapore, as set forth by the Right Rev. Potter in a recent lecture, we quote from that lecture for what it is worth :-"When 1 visited China about 3 rar ago," says he, was greatly impressed with the fact Four native boatmen were fined $5 each that always and everywhere intercourse with the orientals by English-speaking people was you not exhibiting their lights.
attended with violence. As an instance," con- tinues the Bishop, "I was riding one day in a jinricksba in Singapore, looking for a certain banking house, which I wished to visit. In a great square I saw an Englishman and hail ing him, asked to be directed to the house. He pointed it out to me, just across the square. Dismissing my jinricksha man and jumping to the ground, Insked him what I owed him. He told me one rupee. He had carried me about four miles. "Thief!' said the Englishman, ad dressing the man, at the same time knocking him down. You only owe the fellow eight an- nas, he politely informed me. I; however, gave the jinricksba man the rupee which he had demanded of me, and passed on. wandered that the English reign had survived so long in the East under such violent treatment of the natives." Now Bishop Potter, will excuse the | Straits Timer if it calls the attention of his flock to the fact that his apparent regard for circumstantial accuracy of, detail has demon. strated all og plainly his carelessness in the. We have matter of observing the truth. jinrickshas in Singapore but no annas or rupees. In indian ports they have arpas and rupees but no jinricksbas. "St non 'e vero" etc. has tided many a good yarn over a slip. An Indian was given fourteen day for steal pery place; but to think of the possibility of 2" Si non è vero" creeping into the yarn of a ing a rickshaw apron, worth $1.
bishop--the scion of a veritable house of bishops! Well, perhaps there is a mistake somewhere.
A SLEIGHT OF HAND PERFORMANCE. A Chinaman entered the shop of Messis Droz & Co. and asked to see a watch, which disappeared up his sleeve. His trick wasnt a saccess and he now bas a month in which to think it out thoroughly.
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A GENERAL, CLEANING.
Inspector Hoggarth arrested 31 Chinamen for neglecting to keep their houses in a cleanly and wholesome condition; fines of two dollars each were imposed.
THREE DOLLARS A ROUND!
Three Chinamen were fined $3 each for practising their fighting powers at Kowloon.
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HARDLY WORTH IT!
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY, Twostone carriers appeared before Mr. Haze land this morning for assaulting a woman in Kowloon and snatching two silver bangles, worth $1.60, which they pawned and sold the ticket to a fruit hawker for a sugar cane costing thirty cents. The hawker sent a coolie to the pawn shop to redeem the bangles, but he was detained and handed over to the police. Both prisoners admitted the theft and the case was committed for trial at the Supreme Court.
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WOMEN OFFICIALS,
Cannot we have some Unofficial Ladies on, say, the Sanitary Board or the Legislative Council? The usually staid and business-like reports might then be more entertaining matter for the general reader. This, from a Londan paper of March ́rst, sounds amusing-
THE PLAGUE.
There is excellent entertainment provided for the public at large-at the ratepayers' expense Number of cases reported (Chinese 95-by the Lewisham Board of Guardians,
up till noon of the roth Other Asiatics
A week or two ago Mis. Moran, an active THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS.
April, 1901. (Europeans...lady member of the board, "exchanged words" WE shall be obliged if any subscriber on
Chinese....... with anothermember, Major West. Things got receiving bis paper late or irregularly will Number of cases reported Other Asiatics to such a pitch that the lady finally questioned
during the past 24 hours Europeans......the right of the major to his military title. ÆRATED WATERS wite on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of
The major expressed his willingness to pro- Total number of cases reported to date. 193 duce his commission if Mrs. Moran would show Number of deaths reported (Chinese......him her marriage certificate, a conditiba, which
she repelled as “insulting.” up till noon of the 10th Other Asiatics? April, por
(Europeans.......o Yesterday Mrs. Moran was again in attend- Chinese 6ance, and interrupted sa repeatedly that she
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delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph Co., Ld., 50 Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will enable us to check the delivery coolies.
Noble, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, whose connection with the institution was a long and valued one Mr. Noble joined the Shangbai branch in 1866, and in 1889 became Chief
Manager. In 1890 owing to ill-health he re-
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Total number of deaths recorded to date 100
SMALL-POX.
On the vote of £1,250,000 for the Navy ser vices, Mr. Pretyman explained that the actual cost of the services of the men just voted was about £25,000 The contingent were paid at the same rate of pay and allowances as out own sailors, and they served for about saven months. He went on to remark that one of the reasons why repairs had exceeded the estimates was the unforeseen treable in China, which made it necessary that every vessel thai could be put into a fit state for services should be got ready, and it was chiefly the overtime that was worked in consequence that had caused the excess on the item of repairs, Under, miscellaneous services a large part of the increase was due to the services of the naval contingent and fleet in China. The which the Government was perfectly justified in asking for a supplementary estimate.
Mr. Flynn said he noticed an item of £2,500 paid to the South Australian Government for the use of a gumbour in China. It did not ap pear that such a transaction gave evidence of a very bigh character.
China trouble was an unforeseen event as to
Sir C. Dilke, referring to the extraordinary delay in construction, said that, three Japanese bauleships larger than the Albion were begun after her. They were all in commission and two of them were already in Chinese or Japanese waters, while the third was about to leave for the Far East. These were tangible facts, and with all our pushing on we were miserably be hind the performances of the Japanese Govern ment."
M. Pretyman having given a general reply, Mr. Bartley said the hon. gentleman had not explained why Japanese boats could be turned
out so much quicker..
Mr. Pretyman said we had a very large number of ships under construction, and it was perhaps not difficult to select a few of them and say the Japanese ships had been turned out more quickly. There had no doubt been unfortunate delays in regard to some of the contracts, but we had had ships turned But as quickly as the Japanese ships were built. With regard to the criticism as to coal contracts, he said that not more than half the increase for coal was due to the rise in price. Half was due not to that cause alone, but also to the increased quantity that had to be bought on account of the trouble, in China. When that trouble broke out the Admiralty were face with the question whether they should buy not only what was necessary for the sup ply of the Navy during the crisis but also sufficient to increase the stock in foreign stations. Although the price was as high as ags, they could not hesitate for a moment (Hear, hear.)
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Viscount Cranborne: The despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg reporting his conversation with the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject of the Russian occupation di Manchuria to which the hor. member refers will be presented to, Parliament at once. The text of this despatch was seen and approved by Count Larasdorff at the end of last month-L&CExpress.
GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY.
THE ANTI-ENGLISH FEELING...
Under the heading “An Epidemic of Hatred," the Neue Weiner Tagblatt publishes a letter from German subject in Berlin, who endeavours first to define, and then to explain, Anglophobia in Germany. He says
It is a melancholy fict, but there exists a
hatred of England among the German people, which, in extent and intensity, surpasses avery thing felt here towards any other nation, France included. It is so contrary to the innate toler ance and cosmopolitan spirit of the German it is so much an instinctive antipathy not only against England as a Power, lot against the English national character; it is so little re- stricted to any party or any class-Agrarians and Conservatives being as much inspired by it as Liberals and Social Democrats ; it is so violent, passionate, and so ready to find ex- pression, with or without an opportunity; it is so rooted and so muchiike an epidemic, that we here, who believe we know the German mind, are puzzled by it as by a most remark- able psychological enigma. It is not against the Anglo-Saxon race, because even our Agen- rians, who are always, quarrelling with the Americans, make a difference between diem. and the English. It was not caused by the South African War, which only aggravated it, because it existed long before, and, though pent up, broke out on more than one occasion which burdered on the romantic; and it is before the war. It. Eas assumed 'dimensions decidedly overdone and contrary to German interests, It is not even an expression of the independence of the German mind, as it runs counter to the polley both of the Emperor and Government. Only a fool would want Ger many, to actively interfere for the Boers. What then can be the reason of this outspoken enmity to England? There is no answer to the ques-. tion. Only time can bring about an abatement of the passion. Meanwhile, the responsible leaders of German policy must quielly suffer action in the interests of Germany to be repaid by offensive suspicions,
OBITUARY,
We much regret, says the L. & C. Express, to hear of the death of Mr. Joseph Farbridge Holliday, which took place suddenly at Knuts ford, Cheshire, on 3rd alto, in his fifty-ninth year. He had said good-night to everyone the. evening before in the best of health and spirits, but as he did not come down as usual next morning he was called, and it was then dis covered he had passed away in, the pight, owing to heart failure. He was senior partner RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA.
of the firm of Holliday, Wise and Co., of Man- chester and China. Educated at Cheltenham (4th.) Sir, E. Ashmead-Bartlett asked the College, he joined the business in 1860, and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs first went to China in 1863, becoming a partner whether the Governments of Great Britain in 1867. The following year he returned home Germany, and Japan had protested against the and married Emily, eldest daughter ratification by the Chinese Government of the Long, of Alderley Edg, a partner in George grament lately concluded between the repre- Fraser, Son and Co, Manchester. He sentatives of Russia and China in Manchuria; mained at home till 1874, when he went out and whether that agreement, if carried out again to Shanghai, where he was till 1881, would prevent the subjects of any other Power when he practically returned home for good. from obtaining concessions in Manchuria, and
It was during this time that he commanded, would place the trade and customs of Mareorganised, and virtually saved the Shanghai churja under Russian control.
Mr.
Viscount Cranborne: The question to which Volunteer Corps, which had all but died out. Since 1881 he has made two short visits-to my hon. friend refers is engaging the camest China, the most recent being last year. He attention of His Majesty's Government and is was a very good soldier, and was for many. the subject of communication between the Powers. In the opinion of His Majesty's Go years in the Militia, retiring as a major. vernment any statement or discussion on the subject at the present time would be inex- pedient.
THE STEAMSHIP "KOWSHING."
Sir Mark Stewart asked Lord Cranborne if he could. give the House of Commons any information as to the British steamer Kow shing, sunk by the Japanese in their war with China; whether the Chinese offered to refor
A NEW INK ERASER.
The eraser herewith described by the corres pondent of a Madras paper would, we imagine, be very easily employed for criminal purposes, He says:-The inventive genius of meri can has discovered fluid by the application of which the ordinary ink, writing of commerce the case to arbitration; whether arbitration By is brushed off and leave not a wrack behind. can be completely swept away as easily a was accepted, and, if so, whether anything No doubt, another genius will withstand the came of it before the commencement of the operation of this new fluid but meantime here. present hostilities; and whether he can give is an opportunity for the forger. The new the House any assurance that the case will not be lost sight of, but that it will be included patent, introduced to this country by an Austrian gentleman from America, is said to have been in the bill of indemnity to be mid at the end sold quite recently to a Calcutta firm, who will of the present war by the Chinese Government have the sole right of its sale throughout India, to this country.
Viscount Crauborne said: The Chinese The end of a pen dipped in the Avid, if of the writing, and the instant disappearance Majesty's Government to refer the,, caso tu
the blank paper can bagain immediately arbitration, and the terms of reference to the written upon as the writer may desire, without arbitrator were under discussion when the disturbances broke out in China.
any sign of there having been tampering with In the the original. It is at once obvious how easily actual circumstances further delay is inevitable figures in a document can be changed by the but the case will certainly not be lost sight of As the case is to be decided by arbitration, it pranks played in those numerous ways with use of such a medium, dates aftered, and other is clear that there can be no question of pay which those who go down to the courts of ment until the arbitrator has given a decision,
WE regret to announce the death of Mr. G. E. Number of deaths.reported Other Asiatics & was finally forcibly remoyed by order of the Government accepted the offer of Her passed along a line of ink manuscript causes
during the past 24 hours Europeans chairman, with a view to the better conduct of
the public business.
At the close of the meeting, however, she returned, and producing a dog-whip, she beartily belaboured the unfortunate major with it, exclaiming, "You scoundrel! You cur! and "This is my revenge!" Major West took Number of cases reported (Chinese .........444 | his punishment bravely, and continued to up till noon of the roth Other Asiatics 6 smoke his cigar. As a matter of fact, he seemed April, 1901
Europeans.10 to rather enjoy the incident. Chinese 3. There was, at anyrate, plenty of laughter Europeans of whom went to the majors assistance, and
drew off his assailant.
tired from the East, and served on the Com mítice in London. The flag on the bank build- ings is flying a half-mast.
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HIGHEST EXPERT AUTHORITIES. THE rain of the last few days has dose an im Number of cases reporters Other Asiatics from the other members of the board, several
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mense amount of good to the Cricket Ground, which has donted a very bright and attractive coat of green to celebrate the advent of the
during the past 24 hours
Total number of cases reported to date...63
rates, from the sind, as an inch repere. Number of deaths reported (Chinese
*4.86 inches of rain fell and, as an inch repre
sents a hundred tons of water to the acre, our reader will be able to calculate the weight of water which soaked us so thoroughly,
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Europeans April, 1901 Number of deaths reported. (Chinese ...
Other Asiatics a during the past 24 hours
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Total number of deaths recorded to date 42:
A WAR OFFICE BLUNDER
Aftewards the police appeared upon the scene, but Major West declined to give Mrs. Moran into custody.
BRITISH TELEGRAPHISTS IN FRENCH EMPLOY.
Surprise bar been created at Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the receipt of news that the British cable operators employed at St. Pierre and Miquelon, in connection with the French Liverpool télégrain says An extraordin, cables landed there, have been notified they ary: War Office under has become known must take the oath of allegiance to France if here The War Office seem under the belief they wish to retain their positions. Feople are that the Liverpop! Volunteers, who returned at a legmagine what has prompted this four months ago, are still in South Africa, as order. The jeands are in no way a French the sew special service company raised in military or aval base, as the treaty ceding being kept waiting orders until the War Office them to France provider that no fortigations has ascertained whether the company at the shall be erected, and that the garrison is to
cons frodi rosturer syrengthening d
the more than to soldier is ook
Justice in suits are to familiar. The pos sessor of this patent lately gave a simple OFFICERS' EXPENSES IN CHINA illustration, of the adaptability of the inven (sh) Sir 'S. King asked the Secretary for tion for such purposes. He caused a mem Endia whether any provision had been made Ber of fino to draw out a cheque, on a bank for assisting officers of the Indian Staff Corps. for Rs 5000 and to sign the same. He who were engaged in the operations in Ching then erased the written amount of the cheque. to meet the extra expenses entailed upon them and the number of Rs 5,000, and the blank by having to organise messes at Tientsin and cheque stood staring the drawer in the face elsewhere, and provide warm clothing for with his name still signed thereon with no themselves and their servants, and by the symptom of there having ever been any wriling higher price, of all stores as compared with on the cheque except the signsturnal 'A' dis-
honest man could obviously fill up such a che India
que as be liked. No doubt some banks have their cheques issued on chemically prepared paper, and on such the new invention is ust-- less, as at once leaves a stain, but suck is not the case on ordinary paper, and the cheques of the Bank in question are on ordinary paper. Probably its authorities will, insa no In answer to Earl PERCY, Viscount CRAN-time in having this altered. The new eraser BORNE said: In December, 180g, Her Majesty's will no doubt in a sholt time, be on sale far Minister reported that an Imperial decree had and wide throughout the length and breath of been issued appointing two Chinese Commiss the land, and will prove romarkably useful ioners to consider the question of tariff revision both to the honest compilet of returns and in consultation with Sir R. Hart The decree, statistics who wishes to keep his sheels from however, contained no reference to the abolition corrections and erasures, as well as to the dis of likin. We have not heard that the Commone toe have made any report.
Loid G. HAMILTON : General Gazelee was informed on Jan to that if he would submit proposals for reasonable lodging, fuel, and lighting allowances, they would be transmitted to the War Office for.
CHINESE TARIFF "REVISION,