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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1909.

HOME FINANCES,

OLD AGE PENSIONS AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

(Exclusive Baroite, supplied by Reuter, viz Bombay.)

LONDON, February 23, The Government's supplementary estimates amount to £1,104,015, and include £910,000 for Old Ago Passions (making a total of £2,100,000 to be raised for this purpose in the last quarter of the financial year) and a further sum of £100,000 for the unemployed.

TAUNTON BYE- ELECTION.

UNIONIST VICTORY.

(Bochie Service supplied by Baular, in Bombay.) LONDON, February 24. Felling in the Taunton bye-election, oned by the resignation of Sir Ed- ward Boyle, K,C. (C.) has resulted as followe:-

T

Peel (U.)...

1,976 Smith (Lab.)... 1,085 [Note-At the General Election the figures were:-Sir E. Bayle (0.), 1,842; Mr A. Ponsonby (L.), 1,60%]

A SHANGHAI SENSA-

TION.

SUICIDE OF WELL-KNOWN MERCHANT.

(From Our Own Correspondent).

SHANGHAI, February 24.

Mr William Hoffman, principal of the firm of William Hoffmann and Co., merchants and commission agents, has committed suicide by shooting himself.

THE CHINESE NAVY.

(Wah Tu Yat Po's Service.}

PERING, February 23. It is aid that Prince Sa will be appointed to reorganise the Navy and will be allowed to take up no other work, Prince Yu Lang succeeding him as President of the Bard of the Interior.

The Censorate suggests that all Viceroys' and Governors be directed to open Navy Reorganisation Subscription lists in all the provinces.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLINCE.

At the Criminal Sessions, this morning, the Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott sentenced Lai Yau, Lai Hing, Ho Shiu Ching, Leung Ching and Cheung Kwal, who were charged with armed robbery with violence, to five years' hard labour each, thé first to receive twelve strokes and the other four twenty-four strokes, the jury having returned a verdict of guilty.

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

ARTILLERY COMPANIES.

AUCTION OF RACE PONIES.

The annual auction of Race Ponies was

held this afternoon outside the City Hall by sans Hughes and Hough,

THE CHINA MAIL.

LONDON LETTER.

(Frees Our Own Corresponders.)

Lonson, January 27.

On Thursday at Albany Villa Hove,

The following were the principal prices there died Major L. Corbet Berger, second in command of the 69th Pun- obtained

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E. A. Berger, Jate 2nd Lincoln,Regiment (Teuth Foot), ́ He was forty-one years of age and had boon resting at Hove for some tima. His body has been interred at Pori. vale, near Faling.

Another premature death of one who has had considerablo Exatain experience is that of Mr James Clark, oldest son of the late Mr James B. Clark, formerly of Java. He

Famde at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 1st March-; Tuesday, 2nd; Wednesday, 3rd; and Friday, 5th. 1 and 2 Companies for 2.95 gun drill, and 3 and 41 dyrinz, by LAURENCE NORTH. London, Mwas only thirty-eight years old but caught Companies for 5* Howitzer gǝn drill.

Wm. Heinemann.

This is, we believe, the first novel that The Lospector General of Garrison Artillery will inspect the Artillery Com-has come from the pen of Laurence North paries at drill at Hoadquarters on March and we heartily congratulate the writer on 8th. It is hoped therefore that all officers the production of such a clover book. I and men will attend drills regularly during a not only clever in construction but it tho week prior to inspection.

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Sir Robert Hart is still being entertained lavishly as the lion of the season. Manchester the chief item of interest in his speech was his statement that Opium

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Herrick, the heroino, is a girl of no common up for the loss of opium revenus, and not clay. In the opinion of a man who loved only will the country befreed from thenight- the very ground on which she trod she mare of the opium habit, but foreign inter- was a strange revival, a reincarnation course will be freed from an objection and of Greece in its bost days, an Aspasia o!] an obstacle." the Renaissance. Having passed through the Oxford schools with distinction the had become an authority on suoient Greek text and thus was peculiarly fitted to be the literary eristeet of learned antiquarian, while her hours of leisure were spent in the society of a chosen band known as the Polite Outcasts, artists musicians, sculptors, and women whe dabbled in the Fino Arts and who loved to think they were a triffe in advance of the intellectual development of the age. Among At King's Park Range at 2 pm, on

Again in London, Sir Robert became the them all she ans a dominating figure, ser Sunday, 7th 3arch, for all members of intellect being of the brightest, he guest of the Ulster Association, before A decadent, whose mombora he displayed himself as s Artillery Companies and all members of learning the more solid.

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she yet knew, naught|true Ulsterman, with all the traditional Engineer and Infantry Companies who of surrender to any of lower pee attachment to the union with England. hare not fired Part I. Offers ommand-sions, and though she had in the eyes The dinner was bold on. Chinese

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Parade a headquarters as 10.15 m. m, on Sunday 7th March. Dress, serge uniform, helmet with badge, bolts and side arms.

Black boots to be worn.

MUBHETRY COUREE.

ing units to see to it that all their men who have not completed Part I attend on this occasion.

JOINAD.

Mr S. R. Jones joined the Corps on the 10th February, 1909, assigned Corps No. 1975 and postad to No 4 Company.

RESIGNED.

Lance Corpi I. R. Thomas is permitted to resign, on leaving the Colony, with effect from the 19th instant.

NEW CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE AT

KOWLOON.

ment blended with warning was the key- note of the speech. He held that tha British marchent in China still held his own; but he wasried his hearors. that Japan, by her nearness to Chinn, her phonper labour and her perseverance, would, be a more and more formidablo rival to European commorca.

New Year's Day and the day also, as speakers pointed out, marked the com- mencement of new reforms in the Chiasso Postal Service, for which Sir Robert has long labanud.

Sir Robert dealt hardly at all with the Far East, but gave his delighted hearers a number of reminiscences of Ireland and comments on events, winding up with a piece of poetry descriptive of the beauties of his native land that was recited with evident foeling and acclaimed by the Ulster patriote with tremendous enthusiast.

Sir Robert told his audience that among his cosmopolitan staff connected with the Imperial Maritime Customs of China he had many Irishmen, several of them from Ulster, and he could say that they not only antisfied their chief but did credit to their country.

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of the Philistines worn the shielding rod of conventionality to the barest thread, it was still suficient protection for her self-reliant nature against the rough places which a solitary woman fighting for her own band has to encounter in the cousas of life. Once or twice she was sorely tempted to pluck the fruit of desire which dangled so temptingly before her; to surrender herself for the joy of one glorious hour, à decadent artist, one Maurice Laleham an aristorant to the finger tips, almost persuaded her to lick her life in his According to the eary code of the Quartier Latin, but she hesitated and Laleham like A gentleman officed himself and left her unstained. Seward, the sculptor, a man of searser fibre, for a time held the mastary of her imagination and as a result in mortalized her in Parian marble as Syrinx, the sorely beset nymph of the vale of Id A very interesting event in connection According to su enthusiastic critic this with S. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, took statue was a most wonderial harmony of Ele place on Tuesday evening when a Chaplain's the classical and romantic spirit.

De genius of the Irish for ruling was residence, through the unificence of Sir wrote:This girl beloved of Pani Paul Chater,

rtainly an immortal, yet in a very happily instanced by the recollection that was presented to the

poignant and terrible sense a mortal sise, at one particular period there was parishioners. Mr Bryer, the architect, The artist has sounded the gamut of the ages. Ulster Governor General of India, an A QUESTION OF PUBLICn the regrettable absence of the donor Here is the youth and freshness of Arcady, Ulster Governor of Singapore, an Ulster through slight indisposition mado the pre-here also the sadness and stress of to-day. British Ministar in Peking, an Ulster MORALS.

sentation and addressing Bishop Lander, This elusive Syrinx is still a very women, General commanding the forces at Hong-

A woman to whome increase of knowledge kong, an Ulster Admiral commanding the And Qualified English Chemists concluded: "Right Rev. Father in God, has brought increase of sorrow, and a fleet and he himself, an Ulster man. in the name and on behalf of the donor of though as we look at her we seem to her controlling the Imperial Maritime Custome this building and the people of this place I the pipes of the goat-footed god, we hear of China

also the melancholy undertone of the Sir Robert wid he was a true Irishman, request you to receive this house which has attarday post's Pallad of Burdens." No but he was also a Briton and he was been wrected as a dwelling place for the wonder that Robert Akenside, clever Hel-strongly for the maintenance of the union minister of St. Andrew's Cliurch." lonist though he was, could not under-with England, for without it the Irish Dispense Drugs and Prepare

Bishop Jander theu blessed the building stand her. He loved the giri to dis-nation would Inck that sympathy with and concladed with the Bevadiction.

traction, but the strain of bit old covensa- which English people now approached Irish The party then adjourned to the Kow.ting fore-fathers ever opposed & barrier difficultie

preventing that perfect understanding Sir Robert is now paying a vhit to loon School where an enjoyable muzical which would have been essential to Wakadelt. Altogether he is one of the programme was given.

their happiness as married lovers. Not most active man in the kingdom, and it for him, nor for Lalcham, nor for Seward, apparently agrees with him, for I saw him Bishop Lander said that he could con-

was this rare exotic flower; it was finally the other day fooking for better then when gratulate Kowloon on having such

planked by a man of tax different tempers he first reached our shores. beneinctor as Sir Paul Chater. His latest inent to any of the three, but who the THE EMPEROR'S

gift was the most beautiful house they had fortunate lovor and hasband was we leave the reader to discover on the last page EDUCATION.

had the pleasure of inspecting. They all but one. An uncommon book, uncommonly sincerely regretted that the generous donor well written, we sincerely hope that is (Wah Tes Yut Po's Service) was not with them that evening and he very cleverness, sulitic analysis of elusive Paxis, February 23, suggested that a message of sympathy bewomanhood, and masterly dissection of hanyas character generally will not choke The Prince Regent has directed H.E sent to him. He referred to the coming off intending raadors. It deserves 4107

success and a wide circulation. Chang Chih-tung that the Young of the new chaplain, who was, at the re

quest of the vestry, to be accompanied by. Emperor's studies must be in accordance his sister, it being considered that such with the methode recently approved by charming honse would be incomplete with- the Board of Education, the old ways out a lady at

Beforcing being discarded.

to the people of Kowloon boing at present like sheep without· » shep herd, he praised the willingusse with which

(Wah Tn Yat Po's Service.)

PERING, February 23. Wong Ching-war, Connoiller of the Board of Civil Establishments, having reported that the newly laid out Park in Peking is frequented by numbers of

both serea to the detrioration of national customs, un Imperial Rescript has been issued ordering the Board of the Interior to strictly forbid the practice.

its head.

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Some very pleasing coloured reprodue tions of pirtites by Heuri Harpionies, the

The lady who is to be the bride is Miss veteran painter of Central Franco, appear Mabel Winifred Bary Mainwaring, fourth in the January number of the Studio, daughter of Colonel E. P. Mainwaring, late together with an appreciative article upon of the Iudan Army, and Mra Mainwaring of TO REDUCE LIEIN.

his life and work by Henri Franz. Two Bournemouth and Milford-on-Sea, Hamp- the local clergy had consented to fill the the late Phil May will be eagerly welcom-the end of February.

hitherto unpublished crayon drawinga by shire. The marriage belle will ring out at

pripit and made special reference to the ed by his countless admirers. Otter

The Question of Unemployment. (Wuh Tiz Yat Po's Serviss.)' Rev. F. T. Jolmson, who not only under colourwork in the number include painting

The newspapers are making a good deal PEKING, February to

A good and interesting debate was hald took the week-day services but attended by Frank Brangwyn, Adolphe Harvier.

ad L. O. Pasternak. The great advice of fuss about the special mission to this The Board of Foreign Affairs has the sick during the day and the night in the art of domestic architective made country of Tang Shao-yi, after his stay in on Tuesday evening at the T. M. C. A. presented to the Throne a memorial by having seret eargest mon on the vestry unite toma capital axsamples of Sir His knowledge of English is making him a duced a motion in committes with regard The Church was to be congratulated on during the past quarter of a century is the United States. He arrived last night. Parliament when Mr J. W. Troakes intro-

favourite with those he meets and he is B.E. Tang Shac-yi in which he urges The Church was now endowed, he said. Edwin L. Lutyen's work. Along the same calculated to schiore, good results. His to the causes of unemployment and the an increase of taxation and a decrease in and it behoved everyone to put their line will be found twelve illustrations for a the likia dues.

shoulder to the wheel and help. (Applause); country cottage, which are very attractive mission is said to be two fold to ra-sasure want of employment. Captain F. A. Brown, Captain Finder pointed out the financial An illustrated article on the Dutch painter Chinese finances and the scope of her now dealt with the subject in an able manner.

British investors as the soundness of Maurs R.A. Lowery and Emberly also position and mida sim

85,000 a year Barnard de Hoog, an illuminating P was required and, with the Church now ou preciation of George Elmer Browns, Art enterprises, and also to discuss with the

A business meeting of the society was A proper footing, there should not be much Notes, Studio Gossip, etc, go to make up merci trading matters that are treatings also hold under the presidency of Mr J

British and other authorities various com difficulty in raising that amount. another very attractive number.

or threaten to create, dúputer in the Far MacPherson. A letter was received from The now building is in Gothic stylo,

Fast in the future. He wante to arrive at | 35. 3. Kingsbury, who has recently return" erected in the Church ocmpound on the

The Rer. William & Ament, D.D., who some basis of common agreement that will ground originally granted by the Govern ment for the purpose of the Church and is same to Chins as a missionary of the facilitate an easy geldlement of diferences as ed to Australia, reigning his position sa in a completo barmony with the surround

Ansurican Board in 1877 and spent most of they arise and thereby permit commercial president and it was agreed that a letter Three boatwomen were fined $10 eachinga. It comprises on the ground floor is the in Faking, died in the Lane relations with foreign nations to paraus a thousing, hint for his past survices be for.

drawing and dining rooms and a study Hospital, Fan-Francisco, on Jan. 6. Dr placid course of development.

warded to him. Captain F. 4. Brown was for failing to keep the yalos of their boata and on the upper storey three bei- Ament played a consplenocy parz during

ananimussly elected zo president out of the water, white, for a similar offence rooms sad sitting room. In addition and after the siege of the fingations. aineteen had to pay a tine of $45 amongst to the actual building Sir. Paul Chater

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