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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1908.

BRITISH JUSTICE.

LOCAL, AND GENERAL

The Peking Government has desided. to take the salt administration under the control of the central government from pro vlúcial governments.

GLADIATOR-ST. PAUL COLLISION.

The Warship At Fault

(Excian Service, supplied by Reuter, ria-Bombay)

LONDON, June 23. The Admiralty Division of the High

PARIS, military and aaval expenditure. This Its prescut importance is largely due to has increased enormously of late years its position on a system of waterways, STREET.

and, if Mr. Roosevelt Dod his way it where it stands as the first place of 53 6. would have increased more in the im-export for the sugar that is cultivated mediate Tuture. The advent of the Kun district. A newspaper article so widely, and successfully in the Tung

battleship feet in these waters which whilst calling attention to the claims of There were 371 Eumpent 217) by the way has never been satisfactorily Shek Lung to become a railway centre and 145 European and 1,374 Chiness visi- Chinese visitors to the City Habibrary, explained is another indication of on the most extensive scale depicts also tors to the Museum during the work ended America's resolve to play a prominent the present condition of its trade, con-June 21st. part in great international questions. quent, it is caid on the opening of

Kongmoon and other parts to which The Board of Civil.Administration bas The movemeat towards Imperialism has steamers from Hongkong now ply ro- asked the Waipu to deal with the Court of Justice has given its decision been chiefly fostered by Mr. Roosevelt, gularly. Shek Lang's prosperity has security on the ground that the gmper is in reference to the collision between

"Shuntion Shipao" which has not paid in the present President of the United declined because of the auperior facilities registered as Japanese owned, States. It might he, if a successor of a now offered in other directions for the different type were elected, that America distribution of goods destined to be would revert to her former policy. But disposed of in the far interior. While the natural advantages as respects the choice of Mr. Taft as candidate by situation are greater in Shek Lang than the Republican Convention practically in other places, that favoured by the assures his election. Judging from the steamers-the fact that this trading tone of the American press the Demart has no up-to-date means of com-

The Widwupa has arranged to hold a Goods per Anterics Meru undelivered mocratic candidate has not even amunication places it under grave dis meeting with some of the foreign Ministers Heat not the cruiser improperly to Peking, including the British, French starboarded her helm there would have abilities, which would be removed by and the U.8., at the Wairup to discuss "sporting" chunce. Consequently it

aking the place a railway centre. It the proposed regulations empowering the been no collision. may be assumed that Mr Taft will be is significant that terns and markets Maritime Customs to capture and imprisoni the next President of the United States on or near the line of railway now in Incidentally it may be remarked that couise of construction compete for the

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW, Auction. 10m. Arelion of Sundry Old and Bur- plos Naval & Victualling Storas, ut B, M. Naval Establishments. Miscellaneomu.

after noon this date subject to rent.

Gooda per Kumang undelivered after

4 pm. this date will be lauded.

General Memoranda, THURSDAY, June 25 >--

2.20 p.m.Auction of Household Furn

ture, &c., at Mr Goo. I. Lammert's

Spies Rooms,

date subject to rent, SATURDAY, June 97:--

H.M.S. Gladiator and the American liner St. Paul.

The Swiss Government is making a agents, through the German Minister

Their Lordships found that blame in Peking, for the appointment of a Minis-rested solely upon the British cruiser facilitate diplomatic intercourse between and expressed the opinion that the ter and Consuls in China, in order to the two countries.

criminals.

A coal bed which promises to givela

the residents who had the pleasure of advantages which the line is seen to good yield of coal of a prior quality has meeting Me Taft on the occasions ha offer. Superstition whieli at the outset just been discovered Kiming Alu, en

seemed to interpose obstacles to the Kalgan, within convenient distance wheth

mantenvres of the St. Paul wore sub stantially as the owners pleaded.

(REUTER'S SERVICE.] PERNATIONAL STEEL

TRUST.

Losoy, June 20.

Goods per Indrapura not cleared on this passed through here, have been delight-reduction of milada bas given way Kalgan Station of the Pekid-Ran Beports of the formation of an In- ed to hear of his zouniuation, if only before the strong practical sense of the way H. 1. Chen P, Pride of orontional Steel Trast are renowed. Goods per Trieste undelivered after this personal gronds. Mr Thit is gifted people which is appealed to

date subject to rent. MONDAY, June 29:-

with that large geniality which is of Goods per Calalomien ached after suck inestimable value to the politician.

this date at Noon will be subject to rent and landing abarges.

With Mr Taft as President the Roosevelt Gooda por Lothian undelivered after this

date subject to rent.

policy will be continued. It may be an- Goods per Siberia undelivered at noon

ticipated that Mr Taft, with his special on this data subject to rent.

knowledge of the Far East, will take care that America's interests in this part

Goods per Genstre not cleared on this

date subject to rent.

TUESDAY, June 30-

Noon-Auction of Leasehold Property;

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Ministry of Posts and Communications/

The capital is to be 150 millione vincingly, wherever milways are in has promised to secure the funds for work, sterling, and big works are to be successful operation.

ing the same, which will be the property constructed in Great Britain, giving of the Pekin-Kaigan Railway..

wor to many.

The U. S. Legation guards, in tra THE YUNNAN FRONTIER divisions, have been going through min- noeuvres about Minling, on the line of the

TROUBLES.

Great Wall. Operations commenced on the

LONDON, June 20. ath instant and were to be concluded on regret for the Yunnan Frontier in- Paria reports that while expressing

request of the US. Minister, Mr Rockhill, support in the rebellion, made arrangements for the free and un-China has restricted, patented fr of the the facts, and that France is inclined ded an enquiry into troops.

Lo sgre

at Mr Geo, P. Lammert's Sales Rooms of the world will be adequately safe.ountry but the Walwòp his declined the the 20th instant. The Waiwapo, at the cidenta, and thanking France for her

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this date sabjeor to rent.

NOTICE

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A certain foreigner has proposed to tween Paking and Tientsin with a start of engage in improvement of the canal be $2,000,000 through the Minister of his

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proposal.

rapidly and unless America is prepared

The Chiucso Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, state that the total to sustain humiliations by reason of her output of the Company's three mines for unicadiness to append to the only ar-the week ending 6th June 1908 amounted Letters relating to businesa should be address-

gument which really prevails, she must to 14,095.39 tons and the sales during the ed to TUB MANAGER,

perlod to 15,803.05 tons. Communications relating to news alwuld be keep a fleet in these waters sufficient to protect the Philippines and guard her seawise trade. Under Mr Taft's regime due provision is certain to be made fox possible contingencies. An increase in America's forces in the Far East-can be looked upon with equanimity by the

a courier in passing through the British. There is no menace to 3.thes in the river. The despatches are province of Hunan lost five oficial den Although we are linked to Americo by those issued by the Board of War ta the

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No animymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be

inserted.

Orders for catre copies of the "Catsa Mau

In view of the falling of the eminis

THE SUFFRAGETTES. ments and roaŝequent flooding, of co fields in the Sosclang, Yonyso, alla Tiejis

LOF, June 21. cung Bar, King. Mr Chàng Chiến Pinderpest has broken out in Province Tantungehow gentleman, and member of

There was a greatfemonstration of Butter werth, with eight deaths. Thefois, 200,000 for conservancy purposes Thirty thousand women of all ranks Wellesley. Fiiteon cases occurred in the Haulin Academy, has raised a sum of Suffragettes in London yesterday. were five cases at Lakar Tiang, in the has requested from ... Viestoy Tash of comely, north-east of Province Wellesley, all the Fang the Scouting for a short period of escorted by police, to Hyde Park, marched in procession, animals attacked succumbing

one of the foreign engineers of the Huang where they passed resolutions demanding triot and estimate the probable expenditure pu Couservancy who shall survey the dis-votca for women. necessary for offective pretection,

In our report of the sction Choy Ho

A UNIONIST GAIN.

LONDON, June 21.

should be seat before 11 am. on the day afterno alliance there is a stronger tie-that Viceroy of Yunkwei, and the Governor of Shi, alias Choy Sep Sze Tai The Wai publication. After that hear the supply is of rautual speech and aspiration. Conse this conduct and strict investigation is Wing Hong Bank and Chan Tum Po, Padany where their candidate replaces Kweichow. Much suspicion is placed or

The Ucionista havu gained a seat at published last nightwo inadvertently Rt. Bou, G. Whiteley, Liberal.

limited. Cash 10 ctm.. Credli 20 cfs ger copy.

Alterations and additions to Advertisements on Pages 1, 3, 3, 6 and 7, ubetid be sent to our

3 p.m.-

quently we welcome the probable proceeding mivent of a President who will seek

stated that the defendants bad not bled à

Ninoty English domestic servants defence. As a matter of fact Chan Tun Po, Ofise at 5 Wyndham Street not later than 17 matah American forces in this passed through Colombo on the 8th instantly his solicitors Messrs Hastings and Hast a. New Advertisements should be sent to quarter the globe sufficient to on the steamer Oroya on their way to ings, did £le a defence, but Chan Tun Po four Office at 8, Queen's Road Cew before uphide the prestige of the great Re-Bristane. The passage in most cases was did not attend at Court and only gure paid altogether by the Agent for Queens, police to plaintiff's solicitors half an hour Adte-tisements and Subscriptions which are public, whatever the demand made land, and in other instances the total cost aronson instructed M: M. W. 8lle for before the nation came ou. Mr D. V. not ordered for a fized period will be continued upon it may be We congratulate Mr of the voyage was not more than £3 per plaintifly.

Taft upon the high distinction he has head. obtained in scencing the nominationami we felicitate the Republican Convention

until counterinunded.

| Telegraphis Addresa: Mail. Wexikong.

Telephone No. 22.

The China Mail.

KONOKONG, TUEżDay, June 3, 1908.

AMERICA'S NEXT PRESIDENT.

on the eminent wisdom of its choice.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

A meeting of the Legislative Council is

to be bebl on Thursday afternamn,-

The orders of the day are-Comautter

on the Biff entitled An Onliance to amend

the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1993, and The Public Health and Build- ings Amendment-Ordinance, 1903.

Thúd reading of the Bill entitied Am

Korean Kim Shan pi in Yonchiting. At the request of the Tolograph Chienthe, calling himself a Korean official Adviser of the Board of Posts and tom Ordinance to provide for the registration caused trouble in a set and Chen Shao-nonications. H. F. Cheng Fi. the Proof Chemists and Druggists and to regulato chang cansed his arest with his police sident of the Board, has decided to the Sale of Poisone

furce and way to try the case. However establish a factory in Tientsin for the meeting of the Finance Committee Tapanese gendamento came over to the manufacture of all the material which is will be held immediately after the Council. police station and cried away the said likely to be required for the extensions of connection. Kim Negotiations are now og sned in this

the Talegraph system which are ILOW

The fist division of the defence forces projected, and which the impending of the new modern Army is to be sent to

We notice that the endeavour to smuggle Chess into America in de flance of exclusion laws and alien emigra tion legislation is the subject of severa comment in native journals. As migtit Connell of State in favour of the re-

A resolution has been passed by the nationalization schome will involve. Go Tibet to so as a defence force. The To most of the resilents of this Colony / be supposed and anticipated when the organization of the government of Yaansopar, ove. It is expected that the now lives proue command will be at the bands o

yormen: funda will be employed for the point of view of the writers is con-

on the same lines as that of Mancharia, and extensions which uncontemplated authorised to give assistance to H.E. Chao

little interest. But we are directly insidered mod commisération is shown except that a diplomatic commissioner will will measure 10,000 miles.

General Feng Shum, who will also be

Erh feug, Imperial Chinese Resident in Thibet, in the work of reorganising the Tibetan administration..

the internal politics of America are of

terested in America's external policy, to evade the law, suffer extraordinary al diplomatic matters. The matter is for the Chiarse, who, in their attempts be appointed to Yaniran to take charge of as far as it affects the Far East. It is hardships, Being willing to endure the shortly to be submitted to the Thierro.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. only of late years that America has come discomfort and to face the perils of

Captain J. S. Cunningham and Lieu. H. E. Tiel Ling, President of the tenant d. Dixon, Srd Middlesex Regiment, tralian and. Cape fruits in the London The recent succese of sun-dried Aus- to be a world Power Previously her concealment in consignments of mer Board of War, has forwarded a memorial having returned from leave of absence, markete has attracted considerable atten- policy had been to devote all her enerchandise, as in the instance recently to the Throne asking. Their Majesties the granted by A.S.O. No. 455 of 16th in- "gies in developing her own magnificent reported of fifteen vien packed in as Empree-Dowager and Experm of China stant, the unexpired portion, viz 21sttion from importers and distributors at many barrels and shipped to New York, to forbid Viceroys and Governors taking and 22nd instants, is hereby cancelled. Home. It is agreed that the sun-dried resources and, secure uber geo-these undesirable immigrants evoke no their military officers with them when they

and crystallised figs from Australia, and graphical position from aggression, to inconsiderable sympathy on the part of are transferred from one province to kn- It is understood that a sicceasor has the Cape, respectively, were the finest D. SHERRY Powers take the perils pui resposibili-agitation against to seepalive the military offciency of all the provinces who has been alosaly identified with duo put upon the British markets. Sur-dried

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work out her own destiny, letting other those whose tasks it is to keep alive the other. This practice is sure to impair the been appointed to Liest-Colonel Brako,its of their class which have ever hears fige, rrienta, peaches, plums, etc, equal sport of the Colony, principally as secretary in grade to the specimen figs recently of the recent Regatta, and the Amateur shipped to England would be sure to find Association. The many friends this popular market, it is said. officer has made in Hongkong will regret his departure.

and curious,

a Chinem contemporary:

A wealthy silk manufacturer in Ger- many is suing Factress for the loss of his moustache. Meeting her at a dinner party, he asked, bet to give him a kiss. She said

ties of an active foreign policy. The Chinese from America and other count-ariously and it has got to be stopped, says |Spanish-American war changed all that.ries, Anterials for maintaining the

Emerging ecccessfully from that contest protest against what seems to Chinese Some years ago the Victoria Univor America became possessed of new ideals. Journalists the height of oppression and sity of Manchester instituted & Professor Colonial possessions were forced apen of the working of the acts, and the more not been numerously attended there hasw. Western yesterday were presented with that she would if le proinised to ahavo y

injustice are not wanting in the history ship of Chineso, and we are now glad to hoar that though the classes have unburally. her by the march of events. At that recent chapters of this history, concerned her a really effective class held every

0.8 M. Shepherd and Staff Sergeant time. if a plebiscite of the American as they are with the smuggling in of year since the Professorship was instituted the Long Bervice and Good Conduct metal. is moustacho. That was a heavy forfeity people could have been taken, it would immigrants by processes that are the in 1991. Young mai who have stadied presentation during the mid-day working famous, and gave its possessor a reputation Colonel Dumbleton, RE, made the Kaiser type-waa, the "Mail" says, locally As his moustache one of the approved

probably have been found that a large outcome of curiously perverted in Chinesunt Manchester under Professor F'er- majority was opposed to the nationgenuity, are among the more startlingker have gone out to China and have boonde and, in doing so, expressed the for masculine beauty of which he was ex successful in obtaining positions there of hope that many of those present wouliceofinly proud. Eventually he brought hunself to visit the Bather, and had hig devoting any portion of its energies to

mach granter responsibility, and at higher receive a similar medal.

moustacho shared off. He informed the the governaned of Colonies peopled by Tho koen commercial instinct of the had they posessed no knowledge of Chi- salaries, than they could have hoped for

actress that her condition had been fulfill ed, and that he was ready for the king, bat races holding entirely different ideals. Cantonese and their prudential sagacityness, and C. Espress."

"For myself," writes Mr Josaph Ohan-was notified that the lady had meantime But since then the Imperial spirit has as a trading people are well illustrated

berlain, I am getting better but become engaged, and could not, therefore, complete recovery is very slow, and I have demands that the actress should be com

keep the bargain. The disappointed cavalier grown, America is gradually beginning in the claims put forward by the

need of all my patience. A correspondent-pelled to kiss him or he ordered to pay. says the famous statesman soents quite his £75 for breach of contract. to learn that her destiny impels her to mercantile community of Shek Lung to

bave this mars made a main distributing IT is the commercial travailler who finds old self. He is undoubtedly wonderfelly take the part in world politics that her centre for goods, and a chief junction the many charge of climate and water better, though he still manifesta como

trying, Mr Chas. G. Chapman, who repre vast resources, her huge population, and for traffic on the Hongkong-Canton suste a large Brisbane concern, had been slight signs of lamenom. A. 8. WATSON & 00, her natural genius demand. The White railway egyetem. Our recollection of On one of his tripa a fellow traveller room CHAMBERLAIN'S COLIO, CHOLERA

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