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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1909.

AMERICA TO TACKLE

TARIFF REVISION.

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LONDON, February 18.

A Washington message states that an extra session of Congress will be called for the 15th of March to consider the question of tariff revision.

ATTACK ON THE ADMIRALTY.

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD'S REMOVAL

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LONDON, February 18.

The Morning Post has devoted two

VISITS OF COURTESY

HUGH WARD'S LONDON COMEDY C0.

EXCHANGED. Between Sir Frederick Lugard Prespected [Visit to Hongkong.

and Vios-Adiniral Pevrin.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SCOTTISH LETTER,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

EDINBURGH, January 22.

3 Apollo

MR TENNANT AND THE BOARD OF TRADE. Mr. H. J. Tennant, brother-in-law of Mr Asquith, Kismber of Parliament for Bar wickshire, and a representative of what MASTER Redmond calls the "Rosebery leaven," has han appointed Parliamentary Score- tary to the Board of Trando.

Mr Albert Goldie, business manager of Soon after ten o'clock this morning Vice-Hogh J. Ward's Landlua Comedy Co, Admiral Fevriu, of the French bruiser passed through Hongkong to-day en route D'Entrecasteau, which arrived on Thurs for Shanghal. The company he represente day morning, paid an official visit to His is really first-cles London company Excellency Sir Froderick Lugard, boing and has just completed a season of

Mr Tennant has qualified for entry into met at the Queen's statue pier by Captain ton weeks at the Grand Opera House, Taylor, A. D: C., to the Governor and a Caloutts. Mr Rogh Ward, the proprietor, official life by many years of semi-official may be remembered from Dury Inne work, beginning in 1892, when he was guard of honour.

Subsequently His Excellency Sir Fre- Theatre where he played for two seasons Private Secretary to the Prime Minister derick Lugard and Captain Taylor, A.D.C., as associate comedian with Dan Leno and (then Homs Secretary), and maintained visited Vice-Admiral Perrin on board the Harry Randall. Miss Grace Palotta, the ance by assiduous service on various De cruiser D'Entrecasteau and was received loading lady, was formerly a prominent partinental Committees, mainly connected. with a salute of fifteen guns, the band Alan meraber of George Edward's Co., at the with Homes Office affairs. His interest in Gaiety Theatre, London. There are that department, and his knowledge of its playing the National Anthem.

several other "star" in the company work, are shared by Mrs Tennant, who which will be soen in Hongkong early in

SCOTTISH SPORT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) AUÜĞĢIATION FOOTBALL.

EDINBURGH, January 26.

There is little change in the League table

and a half columns to an attack on the ing clubs in the First Division being

Admiralty. It declares that the removal of Lord Charles Beresford will be the subject of a question in Parliament.

THE DURHAM COLLIERY

EXPLOSION.

THIRTY-TWO MINERS

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LONDON, February 18. Thirty-two of the entombed miners in the West Stanley colliery bave been saved, but it is feared that the position of the others is hopelers.

LONDON, Fabruary 18. The death-roll is estimated at 150.

BRITISH COLUMBIA'S IMMIGRATION ACT.

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LONDON, February 18. An Ottowa tucsange states that the Dominion Government has disallowed the British Columbia Immigration Act.

THE GERMAN OUTLOOK.

PRINCE VON BELOW. ON THE

RECENT ROYAL VISIT.

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LONDON, February 18.

April. The following is a Calcutta appres Miss Abrahara was a Superintending cistion of the company :-"There will be Inspector of Factories. Mr Tennant's

Toki that will be very difficult to fill speeches in the House of Commons have'

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THE CANADIAN CURLERS.

since my last letter, almost all the lead

to express it at this stage when it may entail a by-election. stopped by the snow storia last Saturday, Among the games that fall to be noticed i do them some good. Mr. Ward has been the draw hetween Heart of Midlothian and a distinct bonafactor to Calcutta. Celtic-s surprise result for the Irishmen, has given us a taste of first-class comedy

The Canadian curiers, at present en a to remind us of Bene and to make a fool who ought to have made a better for the nonce that we are not so very for return visis to Scotland, were received pearance against the Edinburgh team. But away from London. In other words Mr the Celtic are sa eccentric in their play for Ward has brought Wyndham's, Terry's with great sathusiasts, a display of textans, the West as are the Hearts for the East. and Drury Lane to the Grand Opera House tam-o'-sharaters, and heather brooms, and Other excitements were the defeat of for his productions have been so com the inevitabla skizling of many bagpipes. plete as to warrant favourable comparison Rangers by Dundes, merited in the play, with the average London. Mr Ward The players, representing all the Provinces with four to nothing; and Morton taking has proved to us that it is possible to from the Pacific to the Galf of St. Lawrance, called Quebec, are divided into four teams, two goals to St. Mirzen'e ono. All that give Calcutta the best plays produced in can be said of such results is that there is the best style. As an actor and mannger Untarie, Manitoba, and Nura Scotia; and both, Mr Ward deserress our highest no accounting for mood and passing fettle. commendation. His productions evidence have at their head Lieutenant-Governor During the first half of the season, there an artistic temperament, combined with Duncan Cameron Fraser, Halifax. Their

He has deali have been remarkable altorations in the a conscientious spirit.

think first experience was a SHOW block on position of clubs in the West. The Third fairly with his public and we Lanark, for instance, only scored one gol the public have shown their sppren'stion the Borders, which we accepted fie a and one point in their first five metohes, the tumult of applause which has good omen for the chances of "tho aightly greeted his performancos. It is not too much to say that for a long to come roarin' game;" but, unfortunately, the Calcatta theatregoers will judge their weather, which up to that time had been theatrical fare by the high standard set by Mr Hugh Ward. He will also long he remembered as a grest personal favourite while such of his supporting artists as Miss Graco Palotta, Miss Rose Musgrove and Miss Celia Chitog) will doubtles occupy a treasured viche in the memories of local audiences."

and are now scarcely recognisable in their present rampsat force. Clyde has done even better: they have achieved success in six out of their last seven games, dividing the points in the remaining one.

At present Dundee is on top with 36 poiata, but then they have played the greatest number of games, 25. Rangers, with 22 games, have 32 points. There is a fooling of uncertainty about the big club, that it cannot be depended upon in a fir. St. Mirren's 30 points have been got in 23 games; and Clyde's 28 pointa in 20 games. But there is Celtic, which has only been in the field 18 times, and its total is!

points. With auch figures, even at this lato stage of the Leagna, he would be mals man whe would dare to prophecy the winuer.

RUJBY.

The football excitement of the.week is

the breaking-off of relations between the English and Scottish Football Rugby Union, Interest in the subject has gone far beyond the ordinary followers of the regger game. One writer oynically re- foarks of the quarrel that "It is rather more important than a fabinet crisia and

STORTING.

League Cricket.

FIXTURES FOR TO-MOKKOW-

Hongkong B. v. Civil Service. Hongkong A, Kowloon v. Police graphs.

C.8.0.C. v. HONGKONG ELEK

"hard," suddenly changed to "soft" and there now seem little promise of a bonspiel in the open, ay at Carsebreek. One or two aateli games have been played on indifferent ice; but all the regular matches will tako place, unless we have a return of frost, on the artifical rink in Glasgow. This is a disappointment, of course, to the local clubs who would prefer to receive the vieitora at the home ponds.

The tout so far has been a series of social engagements, and the hospitality so trying that one of the Canadians romarked lass night, "We have only bean bere a day or two, and I wonder greatly it we shall be able to last the swath. The principal The following will represent the Hong-banquet war given by the Royal Caledonian kong Civil Service Cricket Club on the Curling Club,--the central national curling Civil Service ground as & p.m., on Saturday. organisation,-in the Music Hall, Edin R. O. Hutchison, Captain; F. A. Biden, burgh. Lord Stratheons, Lord High Com- F. E. O. Bird, L. E. Bratt, H. Ellis, 3.missioner of Canada and president of the McEwen, H. R. Phelips, A. R. F. Haven, F. B. Reed, R. Sutherland, R. C. Club presided, and was supported by Witahell. Kessives A. G. File and F. Lord Dunedin, Lord Inverclyde, and the

Moderator of the Church of Scotland, i, Button.

Lieutenant-Governor Fraser is a popular

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HONGKONG "B" CIVIL BERVICE.

sightly les importans than o war between team in the above match to-morrow after. Great Powera.' In the past, the Unions noon, on the Club's ground, commencing have differed over points of play, but the at 2.15 p.m. W. C. D. Turner, H. B. present dispute goes deeper, the Scottish akin, E. C. Oliver, R. N., E. A. Fowler, Union objecting to the Colonial tours as A. P. Dashwood. W. Waterhouse, E. slowly but surely professionalising thegame. Irving, A. Mackenzie, Rev. W. H. Maun It is impossible to reconcile the strict drell and two others. definition of an amateur which the Scottish Prince von Buelow, speaking at Union has consistently maintained with the Berlin, said the waline and safety of payment to the New Zealand players of The "B" team, will be represented by tish descent." Ho is the first Gov.

a week as pocket money, the country depended on financialguines

the following playors un the latter's ground, iu addition to meeting out of the gentral reform. He referred to, the unalloyed fund all their expanses calculated on to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2.1 ernor of Nova Scotia to visit Edinburgh.. satisfaction caused by the British generous scale. The Committee of the P-R. Hacock, H. Hancock, T. E. Pearce, A. A. Claxton, A. O. Lang, II. D. Royal visit, which, he affirmed, held the Scottish Union are therefore no over Sharpin, W. J. Danial, S. Moore, S. S. stating their case when they say "We have distinct grounds for complaint when Logan, F. H. H. Stevens and W. E. L. regard is had to the fact that the Shenton. Reserve-r F. I. Gelsthorpe, English Union evidently know of these payments being made at the time, Fet failed to disclose this fact to the Scottish Union." In itself the omission to explain the true status of the New Zealand playars might have caused grave disagree ment between the two Unions, but the question has been placed in a much more serious light by the admission of the Hongkong "B" 9

place of honour in the Kaiser's work ch behalf of peace. He bolored the clouds in the Near East would disparse, but financial as well as military readiness were necessary for the peace of the Empire.

THE NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR.

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LONDON, February 19. M. Takaski Kato, the new Japanedio. Ambassador in London, presented his credentials to His Majesty the King at Backingham Palace in the presence of

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League Table.

The following in the table up to date

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English Union that the payments to which Civil Service129 128 exception has been taken were made with Hongkong "A" 9 5 1 3 4 66.66% one, and Lodge Catongate Kilwinning 12 8 2 26 60.00% therefore gave them Lodge reception, their approval, and that the Australian Telegraphs

team which is now touring in England and Craigangower 3 355-2-25.00% Leutenant-Governor Fraser, who is P.G.M. Walos is receiving the same licence. Their R. G. A......11 3 7 1-4-40.00% of Nova Scotia, being made an honorary proceedure is so directly at variance with Kowloon 12 29 1-7 −63.13% the rules and practice of the Scottish Union, Royal Engineers 91.7 1-6-75.00% member. that the Scottish authorities had no siter H. K. Police ...11. 1 @ 1-8-80,00% natave to the dastle one of breaking off playing relations with England.

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Without disparagement to any of the other divisions of the United Kingdom, it can be said that not one of them has done. the work for amateurism that Scotland has done. The Scottish Union has preferred that the game shall remain free of the taint... KING ALFRED 1;... Tan 2, At Stonegattara on Thursday teama ze of professionalism rather than that it should becotine a popular spectacle. Beattish presenting H.M.8. King Alfred and H.M.. players under the code are drawn largely, Tamar met in a friendly game of football. as in well known, from the public schools, The result was a win for H.M.S. Tamar the secondary schools, and the Universities, by 2 goals to one. and the financial gains of the professional player are un templation to them, The few secessionista from among the Amateurs of Scotland have been mainly members of the Hordar clubs, whose loyalty as a whole. however, to the Scottish Union's definition of an amateur cannot be overpraised. In Ireland the conditions are not dissimilar to those in Scotland, and it may be ex pooted that the dispute which has now arison Scotland will have the support of CAD ia diferent. Both have the protes-

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At St George's Free Church, Edinburgh, on 7th January, by the Rev. John Kalatan, and telegrame received from Calcutta, Bombay, New York, Chili, and Moutros, D.D., assisted by the Rev. J. C. Gibson, show that the old boys are united in D.D., Beaton, and the Bev. A. GENERAL ELECTRIC 00 having one Watconian Day." At the Salmond, D.D., George Duncan, M, D. Edinburgh gathering, Lord Salveson, in (Edin.), D. T. M. and H. (Cantab.), Swatow, China, second surviving Bon of preparing the toast of the evening, referred Robert White, of 61 King Henry's Road, to the existence of a Watsonian Club in Hampstead, bo Margaret Marion; second Chin, and made some interesting state-daughter of the late Alexander Montries, Owing to the Races there will be no ment as to Watsonians in India. Being a Dundee and London, and of Mix Montrics, League matches to-morrow.

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The re-play match between the Hong- Clasgow by an interesting ceremony, and only daughter of Mr and Mrs Frase

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Great is, golf, and, who shall stovail kong Club and H. M. 8. King Alfred in the midst of a beary snow storm that Mackons of Allangrango

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Replying to a question in the House Inland With Wales and England the fixed for Feb. 13 had to be postponed. It wstonians; and that a certain member of Commons as to the possibility of an sional dub in their midst. In England will be played to-morrow (Saturday) at 2.16 Anglo-German naval agreementy Mr the Professional Union a large and P, on the Hongkong Football Club of the old school had travelled twelve

Le play for the V.M.CA Foulkes; Modimor in Calcatta. is gaining ground, and its progresa Cubbin, Van Ginkel, Starrie, Wharton, sccelerated by the popularity of the game. Vivesh Wesser, Lyle, Kelly, Wilson, For both these countries the situation is s delicate one, and the present disagreement

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