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Company's Burea contributing to the funds of the Mexican Dollar pmissions which have the epiritual salva-Spanish Dollar

MEMOS FOR TOMORROW.. Miscellaneous.

Goods por Nabis not cleared at on this date subject to rent.

General Memoranda,

WEDNESDAY, May 15-

$.15 p.m.-Concert at City Hall. THURADAY, May 18

Goods per Hongkong Marsi undelivered after Noon on this date will be landed. Goods per Gneisenau andelivered alter

this data subject to rent,

FRIDAT, May 17

11am-Anction of Steam Launch Hung|

Fick, on Board, at Causeway Bay," Nooa-Auction of Goodwill, Stock-in-

Trado, do, at No.

at No. 17, Queen's Road Zen Central,

2.30 p.m.--Anction of Japanese Curios, do, at Mesars Hughes & Hoogh's Sales Booms. BATURDAY, May 18:

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· 2.30 p.m.-- Auction of Household Furni- ture, &c., at No. 2, Kimberley Villas, Kowloon.

Moxnar, May, 20 :----

Goods par Oceanien unclaimed after ihla

date at Noon will be subject to rent

and landing charges. WEDNESDAY, May 29:—

10 am-Auction of Bundry Naval and Victualling Stores, at H. M. Naval

Yard.

FRIDAY, May 31-

Noon. Mesting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at the City Hall,

The China Mail.

HONDEDNO, MONDAY, MAY - 13, 1907.

5.2% 14 52. 284 ...51, 791

ela Bombay),

LONDON, May 11. Thero is great excitement in the wheat market in America, owing to a rise of three cents per bushel, due to

tion of the Chinese solely in view need If, therefore, Government must introduce not hesitate to give freely to the medical English Currency and British coin, and misalons. The medical missionary is make the shilling assume the value, of relieving the sufferings of unfortunate reckou at 24fd or say two shillings, and bushels of the winter wheat, which is twelve-pence then the rupee onght to an expected shortage of 90,000,000 fellow creatures and that is a work that the Mexican Dollar ought to pass our equal to 20 per cent of the whole we should all be eager and proud to rent at 55.66d, or say 54 peace, heing assist. Also on the lower ground of in other words four shillings and six-output. solf interest we should assist them. As Ponce, which after, all undervalues the Sir Harry Parkes observed they are rupos a halfpenny, and the dollar in a unwittingly doing valuable political thought that we assume too high a still greater proportion. It may bé

merce.

TROUBLE IN INDIA.

(Exclusiv Sevice, supplied by Resler, ria Bombay).

LONDON, Alay 13. "extraordinary of the Simia

work and political work of a kind which value for the dollar, but if the depre- Stringent Precautions Taken. reacts most beneficially upon com.ciated British silver coinage is to be the standard, we cannot see how any other conclusion is to be arrived at. At pre seat it is a ponentity and there is an If there is one place in the world absurdity in ordaining that certai

an anti-gambling crusade is foreign coins should respectively be unnecessary it must surely be Kangaroo worth four shillings and tropence and Teland, Australia. That is, judged by one ahilling and tenpence where ahil the amount of speculation caused by alinga and peonies are unknown, and resent race meeting there. The day's convey no idea of valuo."

where

LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.

General Booth of the Salvation Army arrived at Osoka on May 4, and was to stay for four days.

investments in the tatalinator totalled about £49.15%. The toto was a 5 ma chine, and £12 was invested on the Trial Stakes, the winning dividend. being 8s. But in the Hurdle Race, only three tickets were issued, and as they were all H.E. Chao Erli-sen has selected a on the winner, the club deducted 10 per position between the West gato and the rent, and declared a dividend of 4 d. railway station in the foreign settlement According to an exchange, the next was in Mukden. a better betting event, E7 15s being. taken, and the 5s dividend was 18; 6d, whilst in the ancceeding race 2010s was invested, and a return of 10 3d was made. There were only three to arrest them. starters in the Pony Race, and the investments amounted to 25s, but as the

MEDICAL MISSIONS.

Quns unreservedly we csa endorse all the complimentary things said at the Missionary Conference at Shanghai in WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, regard to medical missions. Differences winner was not backed, the money was of opinion many fairly exist as to the returned minus the 10 per cent, commis desirableness of general mission work sion. The sixth race resulted in a dead.

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Gazette bes been issued in which public meetings are prohibited in certain areas in Eastern Bengal and the Punjab unless the authorities are given a week' written notice.

PEKING SCANDALS.

A Settlement Effected.

(Trom Our Correspondent.)

PERINO, May 13. The bribery scandals involving The news is confirmed that a large umber of Revolutionaries a Anhui Prince Ching, Taai Chen and Toan province is being supplied with arms. The Chin Kuel have been settled, the only Governor lus instructed special deputies

one punished being Wan Chia Lin, who

The Waiwapa has communicated with crated a disturbance. the Russian Ministor that ILE. Chu Hungsbi has been appointed Minister Treaty and, H.E. Su Chia-li associate Plenipotentiary for the Ruso-Chinese Minister of the same.

Mr Friderick O. Churchill, of Ione, Amador County, California, writes to Hongkong looking for his wife, Mrs Francis Maria Churchill, her maiden name left Now York in the fall of 100 and it is being Francis Maris Rooney. The lady

thought that she may be in Hongkong." She is now 53 yeus of age.

in China. There are those, with whom heat, and as each horse was hacked to we disagree, but who, we concede, are the extent of 15 tickets in a £9 inschine fuatly entitled to their own opinion, who dividend of 5e 3d was declared. The declare that the effect of unsettling final event attracted five startore, but nothing was invested in the machine Chinese religious beliefs is in no wise

The commission amounted to £4 1900, beneficial. They point that, though the

and of that sum the Government claim number of missionaries bas increased ed E14 101d, so that the club received vastly, there has not been a correspond-3 148 71d, but out of that amount ing increase of converts Into this they had to pay the two operators and argument we are in no way disposed to provide the tickets, whilst it cost them enter at the present time. Despite all £21 to get a totalisator license. The record is unique in the history of the the critica can say the missionaries are

totalisator. in China and there they will stay. Consequently any argument in regard to the usefulness of their work is more

Time is credited with being able to benting of the wind. But in regard to

heal most things. In some countries it

Viceroy Hsu Shih-chang his received might, but in Hongkong the atmosphere the sanction of the Throne to appropriate medical missione there can be no two seems to be against it, at all events so three million tsels for Manchurian adminis. opinions. Since the Medical Missionary far as exchange is concerned. Just as tration, which are procurable from the Society of China was founded in 1838 by people cry to-day against the iniquities indemnity, and in consequenos the Grand

The American National Rell Cross reports that a total of $250,000 gold in money or flour has been sent by Americans to the Chinese Fatine Fund. Among the contributious were 7,500 bushels of seed wheat. The Government donated the use, of the Transport Buford, to convey the supplies.

ANOTHER LOAN,

Money from France.

(From Our Coprepondent.)

PEKING, May 13. The Chiceso Minister of Brussels, haa-

heen instructed to sign an agreement

for a loan of 16,000,000 francs for the

building of the Piento railway.

THE NANCHANG

MASSACRE

The Indemnity.

(From Our Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, May: 15.

An insaiment of Taela 119,532, of

A REFORMER.

Dr Parker the work dope by those de-of unstable currency so the voice, rose in Council has instructed the Shanghai Thota the indemnity being paid by China for voted profcasional men who have the wilderness as far away back as to prepare the said sum within four months the Nanchang Masssore, was paid yea torday to the French Consul, through laboured among the stricken and ailing sixty-two years ago. The grievance was and to deliver it to the Hapu Bank.

Fnot the same then as it is co- in China hoa giyen a page to history of but one difference is that then they

A-Poverty-Stricken Woman

the Taotal. which Christian nations may well feel handled a dollar worth over four shillings with attempted suicide, pleaded that sho A Chinese woman, who rus oliarged proud. This noble work, in the incep whilst now it is a record if 2/4 is took an orordose of opium because her tion and progress of which the name of topped. Here is an extract from the husband had been out of work for some Dr W. Lackhart will be forever associat-CHINA MAIL, of May 1, 1815, which time and flat she had felt the pinch of ed, has done more to improre the should be of great interest. The Mail poverty, MF & Hazeland, discharged relations between Chinese and for of today contains several important her with a caution.

Government Notifications. The one eigners than any other agency. This regarding the Currency is the most im A Horse

Thiefs

Sun Yat Sen in China.

(From Our Correspondent.)

_______SHANGHAI, May 15.

was recognised fully by Sir Harrymediately interesting, but we have great An Julian constable perpetuated in It is reported that Sun Yat Sen Parkes, who knew more of China than hesitation in approaching the subject, mas her be charged a coolie with the Reformer, who was expelled from

unconscious, joke at the Magistracy this BLEND any of his contemporaries, more perhaps regarding it as ons encompassed with stealing a horse. He told Mr Orme (the Japan, has returned to China,

than any foreigner who lived before or difficulties, about which men much Magistato) that the coole, with the horse since. Dr Lockhart established a free more competent than ourselves to form under his arm, ran down a lapp. The look hospital in Peking in 1901 and although

Cin

The Chinkiang Thotai has been

OPIUM DENS,

To be Closed at Foochow

an opinion differ. The necessity for n of surprise on Mr Orme's face changed, tinstructed to take precautions against

disturbances, at that time anti-foreign feeling was legalised currency of fixed value hos one of anusement when be fount that the

always been felt in this Colony; but it Indinumant n clothes horse. acute in the northern capitalover 30,000 is questionable how far the prosent patients were treated lu two years. Sir measure will remedy the evil. A little Burglare or Incendiarios? WHISKY Harry Parkes, who was then Consul-time will show what effect (if any) it The occupants of 35 Upper Station

General at Shanghai wrote to Dr Lock will have upon

pon mercantile transitions Street, Hongkong, reported to the polico hart on May 10, 1802 "I have felt but to servants of Government it will be on Sunday that an attempt had been minde saturated a decided advantage; since it will secure to set fire to their house. A the greatest interest in your proceedings payment of their salaries in dollars at with kerosene and a small tin of the same

after lavestigating the police arrived at the conclusion that it was a case of attempted

at Peking and see with thankfulness four shillings and twopence, and rupees Oil we found breath the staircase, but

the marvellous extent to which your at one shilling and ton pence, while tho

(From Our Correspondeat.)

SHANGHAI, May 13.

On the 11th day of this moon the

To be bad at the CHINA Man Of 5.00%Per Caso work has been blessed. The political treasury will demand ground rents and burglary and that an attempt had been opium dens at Foochow are to be closed.

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good which your proceedings must have other revenues at the eme under value, will be very great and your mission will mains to be seen whether legisla wall in order to open the door.

tion will sufice to sustain at their achieve more than the Diplomatic in

nominal value the depreciated silver

MAKE HAY WHILE THE BUN impressing the masses of Peking in our cous current in England, which the

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The must solomer "Thrang, a left the favour. Your hospital I look upon as soldier and labourer here may be com THERE is a lesson in the work of the inbour on Sunday morning flying the

brightsunshine may laat but a day and be

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INDIA, BURMA, SIANG THE MALATA. 8. WATSON & OD., the most racired incident in our rela-pelled to receive in payment of their thrifty former. He knows that the bitch big, and bound for Fug. She will tions with China that has occurred services. But it is beyond the power of propane for the showers which are so probably in back again in Hongkong in since the signing of the last Treaty, and our Government to force such exins likely to follow. So it should be with three or four months timo

diarrhoes

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long as they choose to give an advent of the home without warning Digernes whicolore-built by Mesits George Finrick and prosper." Lockhart's work did pro tious value to the Spanish dollar, it will Romody, which is the best known medicine par--at the end of his twenty live be impossible to compel theri, or those for these dicusses, should always be kept at postorday for Haiphong When those

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But the obemists and storekeeper,

of them appeared in our columns. that medical issibos were flourishing take the Mexican at-par,