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work which needs all assistance that can afforded. The extent of that work is shown by the fact that in 1907 the mun
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ROYAL WEDDING.
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1908.
A sentence of, fourteen days hard labour was imposed by Mr Wood, at the
(From Chi Correspondent.)
TOKYO, May 1 Hi, Sydney, to Jons, eldest son of James ber of numissions to the hospital was 3796 Magistracy to day, on a coolie for stealing two suits of clothes from a brket, while Johnston, Longueville, Sydney..
while 70,813 out-patients were treated.ho was left in charge of a house.
The marriage of Princesa Masako, Au organisation which affords relief to
A sailor frem H. M. S. Algerite was one of the daughters of the Emperor of over 200
persons a day needs no adver brought before Mr Wood at the Magislar Japan, to Trince Takeda, was celebrated Electisergent of its usefulness. Hongkong te-day, charged with stealing some cups
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Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong
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Miscellaneone.
Goods per Onsang ordelivered after d
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CHINA AND BUSSIA.
RAILWAY QUESTION.
has a well deserved reputation for and saucers and a toapot. Constable No. yesterday. generous response to all deserving-up-48 stated that he caught defendant, who was running out of a house in Ship Street. peals and we are assured that those who He had the articles under his aim. The have neglected hitherto to make a small defendant was bound over. annual contribution to the funds of this institution will repair their omission and so enable the devoted and self sacrificing directors and staff to main 4.90 p.m.--Auction of Household Furtain and extend their excellent work.
thre, &c., at Myrtle Bank, 51, Mount Kellot Road, Peak.
General Memoranda, MONDAY, May 4
Goods per Fanclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing charges.
TUESDAY, May 5-
6.80 p.m.-Organ Recital, in St. John's
Cathedral.
WEDNESDAY, MAy -
The debate on the second reading of the Public Health and Building
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Gooda per Delta not cleared at 4 p.m. on Ordinance Amending Bill was chielly
this date subject to rent.
Two cookies appeared before Mr Wood | at the Magistracy this morning, on charge of stealing from a corpse. Mr Smith appeared to defend one of the defendants, and asked for a remand as he had only just roccived hia instructions. The pollo also asked for a remand and the requests"} wore granted,
Jacob Jacobs pleaded guilty at the Magistracy, this morning, to having been
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joint working has been submitted.
It is stated that the Waiwupu hina.
Goods per Kalbino, undelivered after the interesting in that it disclosed drunk and behaving a disorderly manner i declined the request.
date subject to real.
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while in the Police Station, and further with breaking a flower pot value 21, and damaging the plant. A fine of $5 was in- posed and he was ordered to pay $1 compensation.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
JUDGE JURY,
The result of the prosection with respect to the alleged infringement of Messrs Lan. mon and Komp's Florida Water label has ccasioned considerable comment in cora-
a realization on the part of the Governor that the information na which be base his original speech was, tu some respects, inaccurate That this we Oeeds per Nippon Marundelivered after the case we pointed out immediately the noon this date subject to ront. amending measure was brought for- YORK BUILDINGS, CHATER ROAD,] | THURSDAY, MAY 14:-
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pulously refrained from attributing to SATURDAY, May 10:----
Nooe-Meeting of The National Bank of His Excellency the blame for the mis “Chins, La., *t Bank premises, statements he was led to unwittingly Noon-Tenders will be received at the unke In a frank and manly way he
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JAPANESE TRAINING SHIP LOST.
(From Our Correspondent,)
TOETO, May 1.
The Naval training ship Matsushima, which with other Japanese warshipe was recently at Hongkong, has been sunk.
Yesterday malig when the Maten- shima was off the Pescadores the ez- plosion of a shell caused the vessel to founder.
Forty members of the crew, including the captain, are missing."
SMUGGLED ARMS.
CAPTURED IN PEKING,
(Chinese Mail's Service.)
-PEKING, April 30,
The quantity of arms captured in
Poking, as wired yesterday, consists
mercial circles and particularly so antong Sir W. and Lady Perceval are passengers the wholesale and retail beoops who traffic of eighteen cases of rifles. They were by the P. and O. Devauba.
in similar articles, The remarks of His
the Colchy to-day by the devantur.
Mr and Mrs JR, M Spith returned to Londship Sir Francis Piggott (Chief Justice) captured in a boarding house. No ar
whon declining to allow costs to the defen- reste have yet been made......... dants have had a mixed reception and in many quarters have beat adversely. criticised. In our leading column on Tues
Tae staff of Mézers Sherin, Tomes and o, at the Hongkong Hotel last night,
Bon who leaves on Saturday for a holiday. Mr H. F. Campbell was in the chair, and Mr George Moffat occupied the vice chair
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His Lordstrip had adopted. Such comment was perfectly legitimate, but it is only fair to the partias concerned that any other viowa which might be held should be fully
Sir Robert Hart arrived at Taingtao on ventilated.
tory of the sanitary reforrá question know that Hit Excellency was in no wise responsible for the misstatements. They were old acquaintances, those wisstate- Communications rooting to dies-end bements, having been used and conder-board the Customs cruiser, taking him ta ned before His Excellency arrived in the Shanghai. He has, writes a correspondent, Correspondents must forunrd their names Colony, We gather from His Excel-most heartly bidden farowell to Governor Truppel, and Commissioner Chimer, who and addreases with ery communications ac- Iency's speech that the Bill will be con-had worked with him in the Customs for dreased to the Editor, not för gablication desiderably altered in Committee and will the last forty years. naevidence of good faith.
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In celebration of the first contanacy of The only other feature the founding of the Institution of the of the debate was the ludicrous alarma Canossion-Sisters of Charity, there will be expressed by one member at the religions ceremonies in the Italian Coussut Tery possibility of Hongkong possessing commencing to-morrow. On May the Municipal Council. Amid much ap Convent building will be lured in
the evening. plause from official members he drew a barrowing picture of Hongkong drifting distractedly into bankrupter because en Pagen 1, P, 3,0 and 7 should be evnt to our her civic administration was in the Ofice of Wyndham Street not later than 12 hands of perons whose interests were am. New Advertisers should be sent in the Colony instead of being in the our Ofice at S, Queen's Road Cedral tsforhuds of officials who have no interesta 3 pm
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LOUAL AND GENERAL.
Mr A. J. Basso, the well known advocate at Macao, who wag dangerously 1 during last month, has since gradually improved. and is now out of danger and convalescing Anxiety for his recovery was keenly felt Colony. amongst the Portuguese community of this
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CHINA AND JAPAN,
What
A Dangerous Situation.
In the present situation between Chans and Japan are elements that suggest on the part of the intern scttled policy, the Our views have already been set forth at object of which is to provoke to hostilities. length, and in order to obtain a statement On the side of the former there are to be from the Chief Justice our representative reckoned factors that render the condition called on His Lordship and was informed of things, if not absolutely perilous, at that any expression of dissent front the least indicative of instability. verdict of the jury by the learned Chief Chinese in the South of the Empire have Justice was quite within his rights. Juries come to regard as the eserities of the were selected in a most haphazard fashion national honour is destined to have an and they were not omiñpetent, but subject affect upon present day commercial movo siways to the supervision of the Conrtments in the Far East that was probably In civil cases, it often happened that the not contemplated by either China or Japan. verdict of the jury was at aside and a new when the canses that brought about the trial granted; in one case which His Lord-present disaster to Japanese trade were | ship had in mind no less than three trials first manifest in events that will become
were given to one action, while in another historic
an action for damages resulting from a That the boycott is relating itself directly was ausident-there were four trials, or indirectly with affairs of state in Chion In criminal actions one of the privileges and in no unicipentant manner deter- of the Judge was to express his dis-mining the movements of high officinla is approval of the verdict if he did so as startling as it is undeniable. We note disapprove and send the jury back again that, owing to the representation of "the" ta queanoider the verdict. His Lordship Japinces Ambassador at Peking, who has Da May 18 Lieut. Culonal and Brevet had seldom availed himself of this privilege, not ceused to alloge direct encouragement Colonel F. E. Kent; Regal Gracia but on que ocasion at the conclusion of given to the until trade with depan move
a trial for murder in Hongkong, when the ment by provincial and local officials at Artillery, commanding the arm in the
Canton, the departure of the present Hongkong Garrison, will go on half-pay jury brought in a verdict of guilty, after Viceroy of the Two wong for the Capital, on the completion of fro-Festa 15 9 by / summing up by the judge which was almost will be hastened and his place in the gimental lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Kent direction to suit is Lordship did to Southern Viroyalty will be taken by has been most popular since he took over express his disapproval and even went so A buc of 110 bax inqused on an the command of the garrison companies far as to decline to wear the black cap Indian at the Magistracy to-day, for assault-at Hongkong, and the schemes for the when passing conterice. The general belief ing a Cláustava,
defence of that place have been largely that the Judge could not supervise the improved under his supervision. He wry was erroneous, while the question of Two coolies wore chargul at the served in the Hazara Expedition, 1888 Magistracy to-day, before bir Wood with and in the South African War, including. THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL,
stealing from a house while it was being the fighting at Natal, Transvaal, and cleared by order of the Sutrituy Beard.age River Colony, his services being recognised by mention is despatches, Sour interesting figures Uretition to and they where remanded und SaturdayQueen's medal with three clasps, and the Tang Wa Hospital are given in the An At Home" is be held to King's medal with two clasps. GENUINE AGE report of the Registrar Genetal for 1307.murzon afternoon in connection with the
Craigengewer Cricket Club, at the Club THE AMERICAN FLEET. Few people are aware of the diversity Pavilion, Happy Valley, when the Cricket of the activities of this excellent in-League Shield will be présented.
Coming to Hongkong.
The Peking Board of Education has
The following are copies of telegrams to uzider Chinese supervision. The three decided to establish different colleges for and from the Secretary of State for the tors, who are all picminent members of various branches of learning in the Peking Colonies respooling an invitation to the the Chinese community, do not, as theiversity and his wired to Chinese Minis-C. S. Fleet to visit Hongkong.
ters abroad to find cut suitable scholars, raport shows, confine themselves solely
The being no funds to pay salacio to the administration of the hospital.
for the officiale for April in the province of They make provision for the burial of Makdon, the Peking Govemment has the poor, take the initiative or the ordered the Bank of China (Hupu Bank) direction in connection with all charito send five million taels worth of its bank tablo, movcinents and undertake the repatriation of the destitate. Shre idea of the extent of these duties canto ba gained from a consideration of the
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All that the present Visorey of the Shih Kai in the metropolitan province. Kwang Proviques has admitted officially costs which was raised in the Florida Water regarding his relation with the boycott is case was one which lay entirely within inability to suppress the agitation or te Chief Justice could not give costs against true in substance and fast. It took the pliseration of the Court and therefore the counteract its effects, This is probably the prosecution when he disagreed withWest decades to learn that the law túst the verdict delivered by the jury. In distinguish between overt acts of disneder. referring to our infermos that by the and violence and the diffusion of public reason of his disagreoing with the jury seatiment potent enough to sweep over the they were to extent alighted, His leading countries, dnd all-compelling in its Indship pointed out it was just as incoin-efforts an industrial, and commercial life. plimentary to himself. A Judge was With popular feeling considered in it- self, apart from outward manifestation, supposed to be well-versed in the reception the highest authorities are powerless to and sifting of evidence, and, by virtue of deal. And with the outward manifestation his position, he had to lay that evidence that takes the form of a refusal to purchase in one market and a determination to buy tire the jury said when necessary
in another the wisest administrator cannot emphasize certain points which may have deal at all
adequately. cise. And if, when summing up to the
Sumptuarylaws seabridgements of liber- Jury, he did su i such a way as to inty and are almost impossible to administer diente what their verdict, should be, those and any enactments intended to lessen or obviate the evils of boycott are likely to be directions should be acted upon by the in their assunse and principle sumptary Jaws We question if the Viceroy newly jurors.
appointed to Canton can accomplish more than his predecessor in the desired direction. The Japanese have evoked spirit of op position not be readily quelled or kept: u check by Chinese Vicoroys. Meantime we regard with concern reports that a naval At the Supreme Court this morning, demonstration by Japan on the waters of before Mr H. B. J. Gomperty, Acting heavily armoured vasels with a number of the Yangtase is in contemplation. Thres Puinne Judge in Summary Jarisliction, Mr Elmund Hacilton Sharp, at present moller erit including torpedo bunte are, residing at Bouff in British Columbia, and it is suking tendy to proceed, to Sir Catchick Paul Chater, K., CM.G., of Hunkow where it is hoped a salutary im No. 5, Queen's Road Central, the present pression may be made by the glimpe In view of Mr Usborne's attitudo in se-Tutores of the will of this late Mravit afforded if Jajun's naval strength. 16 So
The Governor to the Secretary of State Propose if His Majesty's Gorornment kang. coneur invite American Fleet to Hong Toply from the Secretary of State: Your Telegram of 1st April. Invitation communicated to 17. §. Govern-
Further reply from the Secretary of State":→Your telegrama of 1st. April 1. 8. Governosat accept kuritation,
NOW AND THEN 1
A True Prophecy.
CLAIM UNDER A WILL
For Interest on Money Lont..
was spent on burials, irrespective of the scheme will be defrayed by the Pekinggan to the Savitary Comension; it sharp, claimed from Teng Keng, Co-Probably bore mer than alsowhere that
provincial government
respect to the me vessel.
event of an outbreak of hostilities.
We-ies, too, that a Japanese fishing fleet of unpremdently large proportions is
about to commence operations in Chinese
burials of bodies sent her the Fublic
interesting to note his views in references tractor, the Sum of 8878.33, being areas the disparity between the two nations is Mortuaries. The number of destituto A tine of 810 was found by the officials and unofficials in 1901. Speaking of interest dus under corent-in a felt by the weaker. China has an extended persons repatriated to China was 900. the Mace Court to-day, on the innser of 1901, Mi Oshine, replying to question that if he did not reply to Edmund her promos itinaval warfare, lies in dict
Hon. Commander Bil Taylor It.N., at at a resting of the Sanitary Board on Jan. Mortgage deed, slated the 18th day of Mayline with no adeguato const defons
1903, whereby the defendant covenanted Japan has given the most recent tokens of
In addition to looking after the heal the Hung Fung Boarding House for of Mr May, suid
But un Hamilton Sharp and obo James Brohanan with China and afterwards against Russie. aforementioned She is prepaid to swap the Far Eastern suffering the directors of the hospital aiding and counselling arquer te haard some such waurance be forthcoming, until the then Trustees of
will), the principal aum of $32,000 with and it is first of all needful that China the .. Eastern without permission. A we can be satisfied that our labour is not interest therson, at the rate of 7% per be brought to perder this vantage ground interested themselves in providing chear similar penalty was imposed upon another in tein, I for one and I think other memmnum on May 18, 1908, he would there held by Japan put on the rice for the destitute in the neighbour-defendant for the same oltenics with bore of the Board ute with me, have after, long is the principal sure should farther provocation she should know the neither the desire, nor the intention of ocremain unpaid, pay to the Trustees forces to be armyod against her in the ing provinces, and in response to their
equal monthly payment, interest on the The band of the 13th Rajputs gavo a elpying myself in the preparation of and principal at the rate of 7% telegraphic appeals a sum of $110,000
splendid programme of music during elaborate reports, the utility of which will Mr Jackson, of Messie Johnson, Stokes was collected from Cantonese ecm dinner, at the Oriental Hotel last night, bo, ignored and their value unsppreciated. nd Master, appared for the slicant
Vilain Hutton Chx gave evidence that far off the Shantung propaentory No 1873.33 was doo on March 31 for interest fower than six hundhed boats compose this His Lordship resered judgment in order feat and they are gained by upwards of three thousand fishermen. is expected hat alalments might produce the mortgage that the takings of the feet during the soon will not be less than 700,000 in Value Nave Chinese papers, whilst OSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER MAN'S noticing events of this king, nze apt at who EXPERIENCE WITH DIARRHOEA. present functure to see in them further. RS. G. Mathers, publicher of Chrosion, an infringement of rights and a icle, Normantown, Cosetaland, father degradation to the national banour ***** Chamberisin' Cotro, Cholers and of China. Feelings become daily more Darrhose Romedy completely cured mombittered and speculation is me as tome WATSON & 00 deficit it should bring home to those most sunoying, as wala disagree ensuing year up as follows President, dearonia drsenters From which I bad altimate, idques
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the vil solo, representing pastoral
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