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The dollar today stands at 19, a rise affairs existing anong the men at the of one-sixteenth, head of naval matters it is much bet Serious fighting is reported from ter that there should be such on Sumatra. The rebula linya destroyect the exposure than that the matter should railway and cut the telegraphic communi- go from bad to worse in secret. An

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enquiry will show to whow the blame Dr Hail Edwarde, of London, whose Left arm was reconty napatated through SALE NOW ON

must be accorded and will remove experimenting with Rontgen mys, and from those who are guiltless the who was awarded a pension, has now had EXCEPTIONAL stigas which for the present attaches his right hand amputated.

BARGAINS!

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Miscellanoons.

CHINA'S TRIALS.

FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1508.

China at the present time is in a hapless state. Drought in the northern, floods in the southern provinces liava Witght- Yesterday we published a telegram grievous dissatér. Parts of Kwangtung, Latating that the Eropross of China had Kwangui and Fakien age among the in- ordered the various Viceroys and Governors undital eras, In Child and Honum little in China to express their opinions on the or no rain has fallen and thio land is un- question of a Constitution, with the object, productive. Loont columos in the native if a majority was in favour of on, of press are filled with the horrors incident

to the flood, intelligenes from ove dis making a proclamation before or next tant regions that own the Emperor's sway bistutaga the other hand it a majorityple the render in tour with the horrore is not in favour the question will be atiendant or drought. The consolations dropped. But if they do agres it is not that he finds in his surray of village life |essy to justgine a onmilition of things in Chain of the present juncture lie chinfty militating against settled government more in the fact that there is in South China to all the officials and officers whose The grand cancert which is to be given markedly, or mirro reulily provocative of and possibly also in other sections of the names have been mentioned. It is on the Voluntoce pade ground, is trouble in the administration of an empire, empirs a rosponse from the charitably dis- quito obvious that a condition of to take place on July 18, mal not June 18, than is the situation portrayed from day as was inadvertently stated in our issue of to day, na pisting among the rural 876 armed noutrality between the Commen. yesterday,

population in certain parts of China to-day, Of the eighteen piciuces the most zor. der-in-Chief of a fleet and his sub.

The Peking Tai Li Yoon, (Cont of them may be adduced as an outstanding ordinate oflicers is dangeroue in the Justice) is proposing to rect a new haild.example stud illustration. It bears the extreme. I natal warfare, even to sing on a foreign plan for the Hict Court of me Chihli (Direct Rule) Loonase the Justice reports Chinese Public Opinion." st of the. Government at Peking is with greater extent than in regard to opera The phuus have already lean prepared and in its bourdiggies. Parts of the extended tions on land, implicit obedionee is show arrangements for an up-to-date court area, comprising the province of Chibli, room with bench for the Judges, jury box essential. The cables start that Lord witness stands, dock and a gallery for the

lave suffered from continuous, destructive,

Charles Beresford was not on speaking

terms with the officer in command of his

2 to 6.20 p.m.-Sboating of H.K. Volun

tour Reserve Association

Special Pool.'

3 p.-Secord Meeting of Ringkong

Gymkhana Club, at Happy Valley.

General Memoranda.

BUNDAY, July 12: ---

10 .. to 13.10 p.m.-Shooting of H.K. Volunteer Reserve Association "Special Pool.' (MONDAY, July 13-

own cruiser squadron. If true this is simply an appalling state of things. It can easily be imagined, with relations so strained, that the co-operation and

public.

posed to the cry of the needy. Cauton is a wealthy city and it has given of its wealth for the relief of the suffering thunsande in the heart of the province, Hongkong is also woalthy and it has not been wanting.

the practical benevolence that foods the hungry and has pity upon the poor.

KOWLOOK CRICKET CLUB,

desolating drought. The usual spring Club will ho opened by His Excellency The new pavilion of the Kowloon Cricket

mine have been withell; the crops have the Governor to-morrow afternoon, when A fmens is reported to have occurd failed utterly; the villagers moduced to the the reasbers of tho Club will be "at to friends. The band of the in Kinking in June 28. It appears intrest struits have resorted to the usual home" some young Cantonese "node" inter- desperto cents of warding off starvation. M.LI. will ho present and will play To the scandal of the high provincisi a programme of music, and an interesting food with some Kiukiang Chiness Jadies authorities the public salo of children of hearts match will be played betive as team in a theatre and were set upon by the both sexes was advertised to take place on from the Club and the Hongkong Cricket natives of that port. Four of the Can- certain dates at places in the prefecture of Chiu. The visitors will be represented by Doods par Tourane anclaimed after good-will-which-go-so-far-to-make tonese were arrested, and the Canterse Taun-King and the nales took place.

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Messrs H. Hancock and C. A. Cát, G. A. Hastings Bud Capt. Murray, P. P. J. pod by official interforence, During the Wadehonse and T. H. King. The Kowloon continuance of the traffic many boys and team will be G. Duties and R. Lapsley, girls of two years old and upwards were. Edvards and B. A. Fowler, P. disposed of for prices as low as ten dollars Klimenick and J. Clelland. and as high as fifteen dollars

After all the hullahallow the salaries to endorse the views of one side or the of no Americans were cut by the Philippines other. We can only trust that, at the Assembly. The Commission &

Investigation into the poverty and suffer- ing of the perpla in this hapless region' enquiry, truth will prevail and that, at danger of lowering the scale of employes revealed the further circumstance that its conclusion, the Navy will once more here al sefured to meet the Assembly'e suicide by poison was commonly resorted

idens. Now just between us the Assembly to as a mode of deliverance from missty! inve restored to it the full trust and was not anxious to lessen salaries. It was indescribable; the wretched victims of confidence of the people.

Imeroly the effort to make good with com-facing reaching out to meet death rather

stituents" Cable News."

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Victoria Chenntograph to night; Te-morrow and Saturday in addition to other pictures a new and beautiful moving picture entitled “In the Land of Gold" will be shown. If conclules with

the dances of all nations.

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MASTER AND ENGINEER.

the Master and Chief Engineer of the .. Serious allegations were made against

gheikh, at the Marine Court, this morning than sitting down to agnit is approaches. when three of the crew were charged with But these conditions are not contined to refusing to do their duty. In answer to the Chilli ares. Han, impediately to the charge, the fint defendant said :-The

An unusual phenorion in the shape of a hailstorm visited the district of Upper Langkat in Deli on June 14. The hailstones the south, ete of the most important and muster is always striking mo, so that is were about one-third of an inch in diameter forbile provinces of China has also suffered the reason why I refused to do my duty. and resembled frregularly fashioned piecos and continues to enter from the drought. The second defendant give the same reaso of ice. It is eight years since a similar Here are three great river basins-that of ang added:-The Chief Engineer Loats us visitation occurred there. One plantor the Yellow River in the north, the water-down below, and then brings us before the said that be had never seen such large shud of the Ban in the west and south. master who beste us on deck. The third It is reported from Otaru that about pieces of hail in Europe. The damage done west, and the wide ares drained by the defendant gave a similar auswer to the seven hundred men empleyca at the Yubarto the tobacon in the fields was considerable? Huui in the south-east. It is appalling second defendant.

to picture in this densely populated region

The Hon. Commander Basit Taylor, The pagoda of Wat Cheng, one of the state of things similar to that described R. N. imposed sentences respectively as order to zrsene some conamder who had most important and host known of the us taking place in Chibli. This economic follows:-10 weeks' hard labour, and een arrested. Police were ecut from Otaru monuments in Sian, is to be repaired and and moral aspect of the situation is no forfeit 30 days' pay; 10 weeks hard labour to the fecality, and the ringlenders were put in a proper state of preservation. His mentously significant. It may be afirmed and forest 50 days pay and 2 wecks hard

Mine attacked £lio Yuberi. Police station in

arrested.

Majesty has given orders to that effect. It with assurance tint in onlinary sesong labour and forfeit 12 dara pay. According to a London cable of June 27 | is expected that repnirs will take about when the earth yields her incrense, and Ne anonymosely signal communications that to the "Asabi," the Peking correspondent twenty wenths, so their completion will be food in abundance and variety adequate i

have already appeared in other papers will be insertca

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A THIRD PANTY-CASE.

off. Times" riports that large quanti-coincident with the time when His

Dixjesty's are will be equal to that of his to listy the needs ties of morplus ure being smuggled into lustrious grandfather, who built titis rinds is forthcoming, the Chinese are

Mr G. E. Morrell asked leave of Mr Ordern for extra topien of the Casa Mahina, Mostofil he says, is first conveyed famous Taouument.

easily governed. Their standard of comført is low with hard work and coarse food Justice Gompert, at the Supreme Court, should be sent before 12 a.m. on the day after to Kobe, where it is transshipped without

they are well content. Through the tais rocrning, to mention the ones of publication. After that host the apply is exaunination to vessels bound for China

Latest reports from the Bailsray, centuries they have toiled, and suffered, Harker v. Daniel and Roberts, and Mr R. The plague at Saigon, which fortauate-prats a Hankow contemporary of the 1st and died, being law-abiding, attached to Haubing, which was not on the list. It was a chi for costs in the original action, Alterations and addition to Advertisements is not so bad es it was last year, lusinsk, announce that a very wide area of their village homes and their ancestral on Pages 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7, hould be sent to our cried off a ropean victim thers, country is flooded, and the work of repair-temples and obs; knowing no higher which had been brought for some alleged WHISKY Offee at 5 Wyndham Street not later die L1 Chumpondry, a clerk in the Gotornyenting the line will be attended with great standard or ideals nud being without camage to a house, which house had been am. New Advertisements should be sent to service. He liked in insanitary premises, difliculty. It is impossible at the moment ambitions Save to wake the most arid best sublet to Mr Harding, who abjected to the our Office at 6, Queen's Road Central Before which Ind been disinfected only three days to know when the service will be resumed. of their restricted opportunities-being mount of the costs asked for,

previously. It may be noted that he is the Reports from various sources state that a well content to live and to let live. "Adresținements and Bul-scriptions which are | first" European to die of pingue as that number of lives have been last and a great not ordered for a fixed period will be continued port.

deal of property destroyed. until revmarmandes.

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NONOKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908,

THE NAVAL SCANDAL

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Mr. C.-F. Dixon-My friend ought ter A now era bas danned for the dwellers are given notice, and then sa rder on the coast-board, for the inhabitants of should be given by your Lordship for the grant cilics, and certain classes of industrial hearing of the case. workers. It is about to dawn for the Mr Morrell-As far as the plaintiff is Their Royal Highnesses the Frines agrienttimal populations. The first rays of concerned the action is fished, but not and Princess of Wales opened the Rother the opening dawn are touching the hamlets so far as the third party is concarced. hithe Stepney tunnel on June 11. The and the villages of provinces most remate, My client is ordered Home on the 24th. tunnel is 6,883 feet in length including and the full discussion of rural life in Chink

Mr Dizon I think the matter should be

It is reported, says the Japan He muld," that the draft of a Russo-Japanese Extendition Treaty lins now been complet ut, and the views of the nuthorities of the two Governments exclunged thereon, The draft, which consists of but thity 1,500 feet under the River Thames. The at times of dies privation and distress srlstrated My friend is referring it to Articles, is now being considered by the cost of the work was £2,000,000, and it is looks like the precursor of trise measures. Jua Lordship in order to squeera Mr

Harding. Foreign Office and the Department of said to be the largest baring schema in the of alleviation. Meanwhile the newspapers world. The Prince of Wales rejoiced that unfold their tale of the hardships that

Mr. Morrell It is not ta equeeze Mr a dustice. It is stated. that another. year the work lund been gecomplished entirely have befallen the agriculturists who inning, Mr Dixon is an interested party..

est elapse before the Treaty is signed.

by British minds, muscle, and material.

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China as everywhere are in a true co-interested party:

Mfr Dixon: (emphatically) I am not ku prahansive sense essentialhot only to the

His Lordship intervened and prevented well-being but also to the very existence of what looked like a war of words: fail to point out the evil that mastning. S the state, Nor does the public press The hearing was fixed for Friday mor

At Longton, in Stafordshire, two ladies, each armed with a parsehnte, The military authorities in Indo-China Oszy a few days ago we wrote an

devided to make a double descent from have just taken steps to encourage the article in which we drew attention to a bullon while the latter was at an study of the Japanese language among the great service to the cause of peace altitude of 11,000 ft. When stepping off both officers and soldiers there. The anti- $16.50.which wouli, indirectly, he rendered entangled in the cording, and the lady

the non one of the parachutes became Japanese parts in the Colony hail this gods arise from neglect of the *bold messure with joy. They see Japaness peasntry" in the day of their calamity. by the assembling of the major portion holding it extricated herself nad rinde spies and intriguors eveywhere, and hops Where strong men through no fault of their Mrs Koch paid visit to the Sanbutando, own are deprived of the means of subsist at Nikko, where they are now staying, of Great Britain's marine forces in the offelen. Boil than descended on the one that the military linguists will be of servience and those who might render aid when they saw a crowd of devout people in detecting these sente: agents espetora a deaf ear to their sorrows and reiving orcles of the gods by any of

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The recapture of Hokow, by the Im Navy which demands an immediate perialists from the rebels in Yunnan la

at Moisse, bucu... followel by a revival of

in Annan, where political troubles are on the increase.

samplaints;. Chóro are many" among the peasantry who will not submit to well their children or to throw away their own

According to the Forodu. Brand

late. Priekod by cariosity, the eminent German scientist threw a lot to learn of his own fortune. He was vastly used to ad the following answer of blus gods to

The temperance movetuunt is admit answer would thrust itself forward. It had, which had heon ntn stadstill from tedly making headway at Singapore, atves. These become a source of danger his enquiry. “You are destined to receive has, of course, been known, even out the arment the Fordlutionists held that least as far as the licensing Justices are

to the stato. Driven to despair of the the usage of the world. You will be as means of an honest livelihood the rich as you please. You will meet a god. side of service tiroles, that Admiral city in force. Goode intended for the

province remained at Haiphong and concerned, says the "Perak Pioneer." At Lord Charles. Beresford was not on Chinese cutiers rofused to ruu risk. The their last meeting, all applications for new rains for them a career of crime. All like man on the way and receive from the best of terms with some of his tailway Company has taken advantage of licences were refused. The unrestricted roads that point in the direction of turning him & diving doctrine."

life to account by chcertal toil being closed this chuaige for the hotter for opening discretionary power of refusing to gains them they take the way of the A Sismes girl of about 17 years of subordinates or with the First Lord of mother station on the frontior. Traders new licences is one which the Government robber and the spegler. Every distrusted age, living with her parents near Tapan the Admiralty, Sir John Fisher. But at Haiphong lost no time in forwarding propovus to grant the Justices at his region becomes infested with lawbreakers. Tan," was employed in sewing some clothes

their stonka into Yunnan.

under the facessing Bill. Thus Singo-The arm of kuthority is powerless to cope on Saturday, says tho Sim Free Pause "

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while this was common knowledge it

A packed house grooted the initial per-poreans may well rejoice that the local with the robber bands that by land of lund 29. When her thread was Gnish. was certainly unknown that the friction mance of Professor Fiylor, a scciety temperance legislation is in advance of water render travelling in somna parts ed she put the needle in her mouth and had developed to much an extent that entertainer, magicino, and illäsionist of no that at home.

highly perilous, in others impossible except though some mishap she swallowed it. under armed escort. Crime of all kinda The poor girl was in great agony as the the officiency of the Fleet was endan-mean ability, who opened at the Ko Shing theatre lust oyening for a shori reason.

Lucal lawyers and magistrates wilap becomes rampant and for pears the region zeedie was stuck across her throat fler gered. It is well that the matter has During the performance, the audienor core procinte the following clipping from the abject to flood or drought or pestilence gatente aut naighboure gathered trying, to become public as, otherwise, a condi-kept highly amused and interested by the Australasian: The Late Mr Coldham and faming is known as a “disturbed” relieve her but could not succeed in ax- tion of things wilch would be disas-ho cooms to be one of the few that has, ond of the city-fired off some of the

many mysterios presented by the Profomori Billy cldham he was called at the bay or distriot

tructing the needle. No one thought of trous in the extreme would have won the ability of securing and keeping centrodenarbest ropartes remembered in the those who, having a long experience of hours the girl died.

The above is written from the viewpoint going to fetch a decter, and in about two tinued to exist. Obviously it is in-sudience. Several excellent tricks, other than the patience of the judge. We've to sorrow over the apathy of the govorning upon him, the keen attention of his courts. One day his argumentlasted longer things Chinese have had much occasion possible for us with the limited than those dependent on slotit-of-head heard you for some tinte, hid Honour saldasses toward the governed, maseos that were shown, including two or three very nadly, and I don't think the Court is any deserve better things at the hands of their good illusions which brought forth wall the wiser. The answer was prompt and deserved applause for the performer. bland, Perhaps not viser, your Honour, rulers. Well will it bo for the country when, anrered by a network of railways to but better informed.

| rendor transportation rapid and eary, it has WELL NAMED A

also a measure of self-govemment insuring HAMBERLAIN'S Colio, Cholers and TWENTY million hes action are going to improved methods of providing for the Disinhões Remedy is just what its ba eurod this year by Starna Head. nedds of the people in Ind years, when the asma impifès, › For pains in the rotach, sobe Cure. An awfat lot of pain to be

many golle or dut any a equal report but Stearns Hended Ours is crops fail and the dearth is widespread and

40 long continued, For sale by all okem

just the thing to do it criolly,

foformation available, to pretend to decide who is in the right and who is in 00, the wrong A Renter's meesage, pub- Hehoneteswhere, states that Lord Charles Borosford his demanded an enquiry. Wo can hardly suppose that this request will be rafraed. However

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY

TRY THIS FOR CHRONIO DIARRHOEA,

ANY sufferers from chronia diantoss

hare obtained prompt relief by the of Chamberlain a Colie, Cholers and Barthoes Ramedy, Some of the wozud not the disease have been permanent. ter other treatmehrand Shykans had failed: Tr.. 103

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