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Vloeroy Than-Fang has sent officials Szechuan to buy four hundred thousand picule of rice for the famias stricken peo ple of Kiangpel,

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TEARS OF FAMINI.

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The continued absence of main is striking

April 5,

torror into the hearts of the farmers, for unless it comes speedily, they will not bo

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to plant thoir spring rice at all and so will lose the first season's crop altogether.

In consequence of this, the price of rice,

All the affairs, in connection with the barley, wheat, and wood is going up by Chinese Telegraph Adulustration have leaps and bounds, so that many actually been transfortal to the control of the fear a famine.

This might not horas had as the terrible famine in the North, but even if on a modified scale might be very disastrous in its affects. It is many a long year since the spring rains utterly failed, as has been the case this your.. Wells are dry, and ponds have dried up; the rivers are so

A Prince Ching in to celebrate his soventieth birthday on the 9th, the Em- in the annual Association Football presa Dowager is expected to decorate Shield Competition was evidenced on Saturday laat by the enormous crowd

him in accordance with ouster.

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tural neude. It has beon cold niuch later than usual, so this may account for the

Viceroy Yuu Shih-ksi has decided Bhallow that navigation become intress. of spectators who lined the ground at Happy Valley to witness the final match that within three months all officials ugly difficult, and in not a few care between the Royal Artillery and the throughout his jurisdiction shall be exa-villages can hardly get enough water for Hongkong Football Club. It was themed, and those who are ignorant of domestic purposes, much less for agricul largest crowd seen on the ground during literature shall be dismised. the season, and ranks in mutabers with apy attendance for the past few years, As though to compensate the, spectators to continue its session witil the 7th instant. the ruins, not be much longer delayed !. for turning out in such numbers the The number of delegates present amounted players rose to the 'occasion and put up to 400, of whom 170 were foreignera a splendid fight. During the first half representing twenty-two countries. Vis- the Hongkong Club scored trico, yet count Hayashi held a reception of the they did not have matters all their own foreign delegates,

The World's Student Christian Con-absence of mild southerly winds which are the natural cause of our rainy season. May vention met at Tokyo on April 8, and was

way, even though the Artillery failed to Manchuria.

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His Excellency the Governor will bo at home at Government. House on Thursday, April 18th, from 4,30 to 6 pậu, '

Mr. and Mrs A. E. Hippisley left Shang-

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forwards of the Artillery. As a rule Viceroy of Manchuria, since the financial Hippisley sucededa" MF A. T. Piry as they combine well, but in the first half, situation of Manchuria gives rise to serious Postul Secretary. there appeared to be a screw loose trouble, as long as both Japan and Russia

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Shanghat paper of April 4 being off-side. However, in the second this post, has declined to go to Manchuria. spell this was changed and it was

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1907.

The N-0. Daily Never understands that through smart play on the right that A Fish Story. enabled the Artillery to score their second

The latest fistratory concerns the Dr J. O. Ferguson, Secretary of H.E. Shing goal. The final goal came when the Club herring and seagull and it comes from Kung pao, has been appointed by H.E. Nonsínio, saya a Shanghai papor. A bast. Vienoy Chang Chih-tung, of Wuchang, players, or rather most of them, were load of herring, containing about fifteen to make a tour with his Excellency's son played out. They had not the condition tons, was left at Johnston's wharf, around the world for the purpose of report of the soldiers, and it was condition that Nanaimo, during the noon hour while the ing on the condition of Chinese youths told in such a stubborn pud-fast match.herwen went to dinner. During their studying abroad. The Viceroy's son wo absence severst thousand seagulls, the team is also accompanied by several Chinese The game was worthy of the prize and chronicler says 10,000,, made gund wwe of officials and will proceed furst to Japon, the Royal Artillery are to be congratu- their time and enjoyed one of those fish whither he starts on the 6th instant, An WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PARTICULAR interest attaches to the lated upon securing their first win, gorges for which, nature hus fited tbam, interesting function occurred at the resi

ESTABLISHED A.D. 18.

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while the Hongkong Club have the They ate all the frah on one side of the boat device of Dr Ferguson. This was the pre proposalé rasde by Lord Cromer in conpleasure of knowing that they pat up with kuch good results that they emptied sentation to him by students of the Nunk- nection with giving the Egyptian people their best game of the season.

more

This is

LOOAL AND COAST NEWS.

"At a Japanese Cabinet Council on April 2 it was decided to nationalize the eleven remaining private railways between July and October next.

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it and when the Inst herring and been ing University and Nanyang College of a removed from that side it was like the last number of ongravedtabletsand silkenscrolls straw that broke the camel's brick, for the containing complimentary quotations fron boat, with all the weight on the other side, the poeta, as mementoes of his presidency upset, spilling all the remaining fish into of the two institutions at various times during the past few years. Besides the above the water.

we understand that there have been sent a number of athor, pretty and artistic on- plimentary scrolls in silk as well as silver. ware gifts from his Chinese admirers.

MURIATE OF MOREHIA.

An Appos! Case.

Another old resident of the Colony puss It the Fall Court this morning an netioned away yesterday morning at his residence,

in regard to the seizure of certain cases of No, 21 Old Bailey Street, at the respectful mariate of morphia was commenced.

more voice in the Government of their the second year in succession that the country: The idea seems to be to give Hongkong, Club have been runners-up, Egypt an instalment of Home Rule. and the fact should stipulate them to This has been asked for for a long time more carnest efforts next season, past and the agitation has of late become somewhat, dangerous. Although rela- tions between Frince and Great Britain are most friendly at present there are French journals in Egypt which are filled

age of 70 years. We refer to Mr Jong M.* with animosity against the British.

A Vladivostock messago dated March Their Lordships Sir Francis Piggott (Chief A. da Silva. The docenred gentleman They, in conjunction with the dissatis

24 says that the site of the Amur railway Justice) and Mr G. Wise (Pulsne Judge) was an old Government servant, having fied patives who and the British

bridge was lately settled and the construc-were on the Boucli. Sir Henry Bekeley, joined the Civil Service at the beginning restrictions upon "squeeze" peculiarly to work has begun; it will be completed. O. (instructed by Mr J. Scott Harton) of 1856, and when the audit oflee was, irksome, lone so opportunity for reviling during the year. The credit is to be sub-appeared for the owner of the morphia, abolished he was transferred to the Trea Lord Cromer and all his works. The mitted to the autumn session of the Dums. Mr Hoffman, and the Hon. Bir H. E.sury till he was pensioned off in 1893. He Pollock, K.C., and Mr BI, W. Slade (in-was known as a most experienced man in structed by Mr B. D. Atkinson) resprosted both the Colonial Secretary and Audit creation of Parliaments in Russia and

According to s Singapore paper it is the opium farmer, ne

Departments and was nicknamed "the Persia has probably had some effect in anticipated that bofore very long a clean Sir Houry applied for a writ of a certare key of luformation. In addition to his the direction of inspiring the people swoop may be made in Singapore of many and objected to the presence of bicure appointment at the audit oftice he was also

of the "stunted nad mial-proportioned" Pollock and Slade, submitting that the inspector and electrician of Government- of Egypt to prose more insistently for buildings that do little credit to the Opium Farmer had no focus stand. The Telegraphs. Shortly after his retirement he began ailing in health and about control over the country's affairs. Municipality, and the erection, instead, of objection was overruled.

The Hon. Mr Pollock pointed out eight years ago he was confined to Probably Lord Cromer's suggestions are buildings **sublime sud beautiful.”

that he and Mr Stado appeared in order his house and for the last two years intended to prevent the change in the According to the latest investigations, to show cause why the writ should has boon blind. He was one of the first method of administration from being the number of the Japanese residents not be issued, or that a writ to squash photographers in Hongkong, and when the too sudden. The formation of an inter- under the jurisdiction of the Japanese the tuagistrate's decision should not be telephone was first announced, lie ordered Consulate General at Mukden, was 6,437. med. Mr Hoffman alleged that muriate the apparatus to be made under his own WHISKY.national council may or may not be a It is reported that the number of Japanese of morphia was zo opinn within the personal supervision and after testing it. meaning of the act and that the Magistrate's he gave his first experiment at his readenco step in the direction of Parliamentary in Manchuria, including these at Auto power of forfeiture only extended to opium with marvellous results. In 1873 he was not found in possession of any person, invited by tie Inte Governor Sir John Pope Government. The cables give but belu, Yingkow, Kharbin sad other places,

will reach 35,000.

whereas these cases were in the possession Hennessy to exhibit his telephone at meagre details in regard to the scheme

of the Godown Company, as agents for Goverment House in the presence of

who congratulated him and they leave a great deal to the imagi

A correspondent at the Hague statas Hofman. Mr Pollock objected to Siz several officials, uation. Bat it is evident that it has that, although the reported plan to raid the Henry's application, sulumitting that he upon his success. Later on in 1878 after been received favourably and we may Island of Celebes is treated as a huge joke should have appealed to the Full Court in some unproventents made in bis telu phonic instruments he gave another there, the story has served to call publie the ordinary way.

successful exhihition at his residence in take it that it is expected to put an end attention to the mineral riches of the Argiment was continued.

the presence of the representatives of to the friction which report has it has island, which have hitherto been neglected.

the local prose (vido China Muil und Daily Pres of 16th February, 1878). The decessed liad also studied the Marcom wireless telegraphy and gave a scientific lecture on the subject in the hall of the Club Lusitano in July 1899 (vide same Proposed Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway. Scandalous conditions have been found papers of 13th July, 1809). In 1904 he A combined memorial signed by the in various Government Departments as a published a book entitled "Repositoris de the House committee on appropriations. vegetacs mais conhecidos na Chips," a most gentry, notables and merchants of Chili, result of the investigations being made by noções da Botanics applicadas a productos Shautung and Kiangsu provinces, has been The committee has discovered that in one interesting and, asaful work. He was

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dend chieftains are eld in gold before their Cromer and the Egyptian Government burist. In the Wattang Rirer pero muggota No doubt Lord Cromer bienseif will be are found, whilst patroleum and cost also immeasurably pleased to share his res occur in considerable quantities. ponsibilities. His task has been a most ungrateful one and it has not been mado any ensier by won of the Wilfrid Blount and Stead type, who donounced

beca let at exorbitant prices for material decorated by His Majesty, the King of spy necessary exhibition of firmness as Conerate, in which the memurintists invented by an employs who was a mentien Portugal with the order of Cholier do tyrannical brutality. The stories of strongly oppose the granting to foreigners of the heart which made the sward Christ," and was a tñember of the Electric,

of the contract for building the proposed

ored in another department contracts have Engineers Instituto of London and of the

mattus British atrocities in Egypt have been Tentain-Chinkiang. Failway, and urging facture of which one of the officers why Geographic Society of Lisbon, He. rather at a discount of late. Egypt how their ability to do the work themselves engaged. In still another department possessed a magnificent and valuable col- made,such remarkable advances in and at their own expense. In deference to inventions which were developed by em Lection of procious stance and soins of

ployés in their

sorvice liave different countries, also a costly library of beon used by the thr

at a high saintific and literary books. Tho Rag nt prosperity that the advantage of the the memorial the Emperor has deputed La Chuan-lin, Chief Minister of Finance, and

the momhura

mhure of the House are the Cimb Lusitano was at half must tho British overlordship is apparent even to Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of the Huku sucessful in the campaign they have whole stay as a token of respect to the those who do not wish to see. The provinces, to constitute a commitee

In

of begun thousands of dollss will be saved deceased, who wash ne of its fornier

I fellabeen have been raised from asiste ways and menze, and it possiblb to allow the Govoraineut aunually and these will Directors His funeral took place at 4.

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EMINISCENCES OF INTERFORT A, §. WATSON & 00, of virtual slavery, to a Loferably pres-

INCAUTIOUS FRUIT EATING. porous condition, and eduestion is ex-

ALADOWEL complaint is always more or less tending rapidly through the country, prevalent during the fruit season and

LAME SHOULDERS No couch for you let it bang in, no This sobeme sugated by Lord Cromer an attack la liable to come on, without warain, it is best to keep a battle of

* from, shuumalle pains, there is no have been cured of their coughs very might be interpreted as the Brst step Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea WHETHER resulting from a sprain or one can tell what the end may be. Others Remedy in the home. This medicing thing so good for a kamo, shoulder ni quickly by osing Chamberlain's Cough BUILDINGS, towards the British withdrawal. It will known for its prompt caros nail mary Chamberlain's Fain Balm. Apply it frooip Rostedy. Why not you Try It and you times serious illness ja avoided by having it and rub the parte, vigorously at each will be surprised at the quick relief which the withdrawal øver does take place wo at hand when useded. For sale by all che application and quick cure is curtain, it alloids. Sold by all oforolats and store.

For sale by all oberisin and storekespern, Esepors, think that the people of Egypt will mist and storekeepers.

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