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On August 11th, at "Formosa," The Pak, Hongkong, thu fe of De F. O, of British towns and cities, the wideni | Sreditas, of a Daught; 2-

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parks and gardens will operate in A

dral, on August 11, by the Rev. A. J. favourable direction. The problem is Brasons, Joas, second daughter of Charles

Ford. H.A., and M Ford, at Hentenza painful ems and the shocking figures near Belstol, to Esa, oldest son of the which Dr Newnan has made public" late Bruce Shepherd, I.8.0., Land Oliver, Honkong.

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as many of the other ille, which the

ARMY STORES.

THE COMMITTEL'S REPORT.

(Exclusive Provice, applied by Reuter. rin Bombay.)

LONDON, August 10.

The report of the War Stories Committee estimmtes that the total

flocking of the rural population to the preventible lors to Englandt after pence

had been declared between the Boers! dities has entails upon us.

and Great Britian amounts to between |

This is an age of strange precedents, £750,000 and $1,125,000.

It is not unusual for a man who has

bean condemned to death to usc every device in the way of petitions to General Memoranda, achieve a reprieve. Now, however,

a story from the Paris cur- TUENDAT, August 14 :-----

Noon-Menny of Hongkong, Canton & respondent of the Standard which Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., at Co.'s exhibits a criminal steadfastly declin- Ofice.

comea

3 p.m.---Auction of Leasehold Property, ing to be pardoned and demanding · at Heaars Hughes & Hough's Sales that he should be executed. The Rooms.

writer says:--Pierre Adam, a famous

WEDNESDAY, Aurant 15:-

RUSSIA

STORE OF ARMS SEIZED.

clusive Service, supplied by Reuter,

via Hombays

LONDON, August 10. Large stores of arme, bembe and

CHINA'S OFFICIAL

CHANGES.

(Chinese Mail's Service)

Paixo, August 10:

A minister with two subordinates line been appointed in elerge of the

various Bourile at Peking,

The Burl of Rites is to be abolish-

ed.

All posts, occupied by Governors La various provinces are to be abolished and riceroys appointed to take their place.

A PAINFUL ACCIDENT,

Passengers Boveraly Soaldod.

An accident, conuered yesterday in the" : Samchu liver which resulted in oversi

of the passengers by the Hung On" launch lying inimed. The launch arrived in the river as usual about midday ned

Goods per Senledi undelivered after Paris apache, is allempting to put on reclamations have been seized at St. drew up alongside the bank to discharge

this date anbiear to rent.

Goode per Malla not cleared at 4 pm.end to u famous Paris custoru, and it

on this data subject to rent,

TUESDAY, August 16

2.50 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni turs, &c., at Mr Gea, F. Lan.mart's Sale Rooms.

Friday, August 17 :-

seems probable that he will succeed.Petersburg and Aloscow.

The custom is that when a criminal is: The auunter of arrests is constantly condemned to death in Paria he is

never guillotined. Since the guillotine was removed from La Roquette--an

duoda per Banco not oleared at 4 p., appropriate quarter-half a dozen

on this dere subject to cont

SATURDAY, August 18 ——

Noon-Mesting of Shareholders of Tha Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration, at the City Hall.

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ĮKUUTER'S SERVICE.] THE ALASKA INCIDENT.

Losnos, August 0. When the Japanese refused to surrender, the special American agent Temple, onder ed the patrol to fire.

LORD MILNER.

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her passengers into our of the smaller boats But were to take them up to Samchpu Amongst the passengers wero Mra Gorzard, wifo of the sergeant it charge of Samchun police station, and Sergeant Gerrard had come to the boat to meet her. Their boat had tando fast to the side of the launch opposite to the launch's exlinut pipe, and just as Mrs Gerrard and several other passengers had disembarked the engineer turned the stem on. The jet blew out amongst the passengers and scalded some of them very, severely including Sergeant Gerrard, who at onca jumped overboard with his wife to save her from further injury. They were shortly afterwards picked up by a Chinese boat. One of the

different districts in Paris have refused to accept it, and so for several years the guillotino has lain idio in a shed. During this time justice has found it Neon-fearing of Hongkong & Wham-easy to avoid offending any part of

por Duck Cu, L., at Co.'s Office.

Paris by asking every condemned man to appeal for a commutation of his sentence and granting his appeal. But Pierre Adam is unbending; for three

The Duke of Somerset has conveyed to Chinese passengers by the "Hung Oo" weeks he has refused to accept all Lord Milner an address of appreciation of was so severely scalded as to take, tho akiz HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1906. advice, and asks continually that he his services in South Africa signed by completely off his chest and to necessitate

may., bo guillotined. He does not

medical attendance. The master of the 3,500,000 adult males,

Lord Milner, in replying, said that the Launch has been arrested pending invætige consider the anger of different parts personal annoyance did not affect hine half tions.

The China Mail.

INFANT MORTALITY.

An Appreciation.

LONDON, August 9.

of Paris, terrorised by the thought of as much as the trials and dangers to which

a visit from the guillotine, but thinks PM attention in Great Britain bo that, as he has been sentenced, he become concentrated upon the awful has a right to the penalty and the waste of infant life which is going on executioner has a right to his pay. and which, according to Dr G. Newman Pierre Adun may hays on unforeseen who las made a special study of the effect on the Bill for abolishing capital punishment, for, unless the Bill be subject, has been found to toll 120,000 passed, there seems to be no way for deaths anually. Put in another way, it but te guillotine him and offend one quarter of the annual deaths in Paris.

England and Wales are of children un der the age twelve years. This is the

LODAL AND COAST NEWS.

South Africa had again been exposed.

THE STANDARD OIL CO.

Alleged Illegalition.

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Losnos, August 0.

RUBBISH IN THE HARBOUR.

A Surprise For Bathers.

The nuisance caused by the socimulation of a large area of miscellaneous filth and The Standard Oil Co. has been indicted | rubbish at the rear of Stopcoalters' Jaland in Chicago of illegally receiving robates continues to be much felt and birterly com- from the railroads.

THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

LONDON, August 9,

A notable fanturo yesterday on the Stock

plained of by bathers. Those who again. experienced the discomfort of ewigning. surrounded by all kinds of city lth and refuo test evening will, no doubt, be aut prised to learn that in the official mind the water at the back of Stanecarters' is as

clear as crystal and free from dirt of any

The French Maid of the 10th July Exchange, was the large purchases of gilt kind. was colivered in Leelou na the 19th Aug,edged stocks for investments on French

and Bussian sccounts,

10.00 11.00 more awful is the general death rate of 13.60 14.50 the country is steadily declining, that is to say fewer people per thousand are LARRIVET...... 20.00 22.40 dying within an annual period and the

average span of life is lengthening Magistracy this morning, for having a mast ... 24.00 26.00 This means that the application of murderous looking knuckle duster in his

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A Chinaman was fined $50, at the

possession.

Extraordinary Fatalities.

SOCIAL AND PERSONÁL.

The appointment of Sir Henry Berkeley, Kt., to be one of His Majesty'e Counsel for Hongkong in gazetted,

One the 19th ult. a series of extra- Mr J. . Kemp has been appointed a ordinary fatalities was reported from Commissioner for taking acknowledgments village in Saitama prefecture Japan. Aby married women of the deeds to be ex farmer put a quantity of anhulled whent in ecuted by them.

a deep cellar to protect it from rats. A few

After the matter was referred to in the CHINA MAIL a week misu agu wa under- staud that certain learned gentlemen were asked by the Sanitary Board, or somene also in authority, to report as to the con- 'dition of things as the rear of Stonecutters'. and, remarkable as`it will seem to all who are in the habit of hathing them twe orde three times a week, they declared that no rubbish found its way there from Chin Wan.

On the strength of this, it would appear

that the police have been instructed to wink at the dumping of robbish by the

harbour,

simon Pass

erience to living conditions, improved buildings, hours of labour and better food have given the adult who has maunged to struggle through the danger zone of infavey a longer lease of life. But while the adult has amefited from the discoveries of science and the hours afterwards he sent his son into the A quiet wedding of much interest to Scavenging Contractor, presumably on the general improvement of conditions there cellar to see that the wheat was all right social and official circles in Munila took ground that as he was not paid enough These CLARETS are specially has been

no diminution in the in- but the boy did not come back. The place on August 2 at the home of Bishop money to take the rabbieh to the proper selected and obtained

from fan! mortality. Indeed the singular

farmer jumped in himself and as he did Brent, Calle Nomleda rhon Miss Nellis ip he must he allowed to throw it in the not re-appear his mother went in to see M. Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, The learned gentleman further reported the LEADING FRENCH phenomenon- ไลน been observed wint was the matter. A neightur bemme the wife of Governor Louis J. Van that although it was well known that the For personal and dumping wont on the rubbish did unt wash GROWERS; they are of ex-during late years that babies are noticing that none of them eat up again Schaiek of Cavite. ceptional value and in fine con- dying earlier and earlier, the number sent is na serrant down and as he did family reasons the wedding was a quiet back into the harbour but one through Cap.

not enters he and his wife descended. A one. that die almost immediately after

This, as everyone who knows anything crowd had gathered by this time and, ru- birth being staply appalling. To marking that no answer came to shouts

It is rumoured at Peking that M. Pokoll about the harbour is aware, is nonsense, man tied a handkerchief off, Russian Minister at Peking, willfr very frequently a line of rubbish can be some extent, but not to the degree from abore. that is generally supposed, improper across his nose and taking a strong rope, shortly be replaced by Major-General traced almost from Yaumati Bay round the treatment of infants contributes to the jumped into the hole. Those who had Yogack, ex-military attaché to the Russian paint towards the entranco to Chi Wan. proccided him were hauled out but all Legation at Tokyo. It will be semonbured Meanwhile if the master of a ship allows a alarming death rate. The chief cause, except the last couple to descend.wors past that recent Peking messages alleged that backet of ashes to be thrown into the harbour, or if it is done without fir know. in Dr Newasa's opinion, is the un-resuscitation. Thin fatalities were said to the Russian Minister was very popular ledge, he is very likely to be summoned have been caused by the fines giren off by with the Chinese puthorities and might and heavily finod, but the privileged res fitrices of either the father or mother, the wheat which had been steamed prior to shortly be recalled. Major-General Wovenging contractors is allowed to go on giek gained the reputation of being an abio polluting the harbour with the greater part both, for the duties they have taken being placed in the cellar.

ns, with a very pleasant personality, of the city's pafuse under the protection el recommended to the notice upon themselves. This is the greatest

during his tram of duty in Japan.

the authorities simply because he is alleged EUCALYPTUS PREPARATION. of Connoisseurs as high-class obstacle in the way au dealing effee- tively with the problem. Were it NON-POISONOUS AND NON-CORROSIVE. after-dinner Wines.

merely that ignorare on the part of The following notice is issued by the parents of the treatment under Fire of the Hongkong Observatory:-

in It is reported from Canton that the On the 11th at 11.dò a m. The batan." A crowded farewell meeting held at British Government has begun to more in which their infante would, most thrive metar has fallen slightly over Japan, and is the Wesleyan Mission just before going on regard to the appointment of engineers to board showed how deeply Mrs Macdonald construction staff of the Canton. Diploma, Antwerp Exhibition; and Silver THE ABOVE PRICES ARE rosponsible, it would be compare-little changed at the other stations.

The returns from N. China are lacking has won her way into the affections of the tively easy to start a campaign of this morning, ut pressure samsius almost people, and testified to the high respect announced that it was possible that Belgian Hankow milway. Some time ago it was education which would in a few yours uniform in the other districts.

which her late husband was held. His begin to have su effect. Thit, although elsewhere. It still exceeds the normal by sion on all classes. Crowds of Chinose stated that the British Government has *

It le slightly lower in W. Japan than tragic death has created a profond impres engineers would be appointed and it is now protested against engineers of any DISCOUNT. this is distinctly an Imperial question, about 0.1 inch over S. China, and in nene together with many foreigners in port, nationality other than British being

any interference by the Government is average paint over W. Japan and the assembled at the bot to bid her farewell.

Philippines. De

She will love for England with her sistar it is worth..

employed. We give the report for what with the right of individuals to enter

Gradients continuo alight, and light Mrs S. G. Tope, of Canton, by the 8.6. into the matrimonial state is so utterly variable winds are indicated along the Empress of Lodi," on the 22nd, followed Tac average annual payment to British by the sincerest sympathy of a large num soldiers in pensions for wounds is only opposed, to all our ideas of freedon Coast and over the Ohins Sca.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ber of friends.

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then is to be done? There appears to to be lo sutisfactory anaver forth. coming. The statistics show, as might have been expected, that the mortality in the towns is considerably greater than in the country. It is possible

Our Wuchow correspondent writes: Mrs Macdonald, the widow of the late Rov, Dr MR. J. J, Stacdonald left here on Wednes day evening, August 8, per the 5,

A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME.

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Canton Haukow Railway

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RHEUMATISM FAINS RELIEVED.

Pain

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1-Hongkong and Neighbourhood,

keup Chamberlain's Colia, Cholers afforded by Chamberlain's Pain Bala Variable winds, light; fsiz.

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