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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1909,

HOME FINANCES.

OLD AGE PENSIONS AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

(Exclusive Service, supplied by Beuter, via Bombay.)

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

TAUNTON BYE. ELECTION.

UNIONIST VICTORY.

(Kaalusive Service supplied by Reuter, ria Bombay.) LONDON, Fobrnary 24. Polling in the Taunton bye-election, caused by the resignation of Sir Ed- ward Boyle, K.C. (0.) has resulted as follows

1,976 1,085

Peel (V.)...... Smith (Lab.) ... [Nots-At the General Election the figures were:-Sir E. Boyle (C.), 1,849; Mr A. Ponsonby (L.), 1,503.}

A SHANGHAI SENSA- TION.

SUICIDE OF WELL-KNOWN MERCHANT,

(From Our Own Correspondent).

SHAH, February 24. Mr William Hofman, principal of the firm of William Hoffmann and Co., merchants and commission agents, has committed suicide by shooting himself.

THE CHINESE NAVY.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

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

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

ARTILLERY COMPANIES.

Parade at Headquarters as 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 1st March; Tuesday, 2nd; Wednesday, Sed; and Friday, 5th 1 and 2

AUCTION OF RACE PONIES.

The suunal auction of Race Ponies was,

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

THE CHINA MAIL,

LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

'Losson, January 27.

On Thursday at Albany Villa, Hore, The following were the principal prices there died Major M L Corbat Bergar

second in command of the 69th Pun- obtained:

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E. A. Berger, late 2nd Lincoln, Regiment (Tenth Foot); He was forty-one years of age and bad beau rasting at Hove for some time. His body has been interred at Pari vale, near Ealing.

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

Companies for 2.65 gun drill, and 3 and 4 ring, AUANCE NORTH. London, Mr was only thirty-eight years old but caught Companies for 5" Howitzer gun drill.

The Inspector General of Garrison: Artillery will inspect the Artillery Com- panics at drill at Headquarters on March 8th. It is hoped therefore that all officers (and men will attend drills regularly during

the week prior to inspection.

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Herrick, the heroine, is a girl of no common up for the loss of opium revenue, and not clay. In the opinion of a man who-kyed only willthe country be freed from thanight, the very ground on which who od shemare of the oplum habit, but foreign inter- was a strange revival, ■ réincarnation jourse will be freed from an objection and of Graece in its best days, an Aspasia of an obstacle." the Renalmance. Having passed through the Oxford schools with distinction she. had become an authority on ancient Greek text and thus was peculiarly fitted to be

of the literary assistant ⚫ learned antiquarian, while her hours of leisure CHULCE PARADE AT UNION CHURCHE. Parade at headquarters at 10.15 a.m. on wore spent in the socisty of a chosen band Sunday 7th March. Dress, serge uniform, known as the Polite Outcasts, artista helmet with badge, balts and side arms.musicians, sculptors, and women who Black boots to be worn-

Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 1st March, for Company drill, and on Wednesday, 3rd, and Friday, 5th March, for Maxim gun drill.

MUSEETLY COURSE.

At King's Pork Ranga at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 7th March, for all members of Artillery Companies and all members of Engineer and Infantry Companies who have not fired Part I. Officers command- ing units to see to it that all theirmen who have not completed Part I atleed on this

OCCASION.

JOINAD.

Mr S. R. Jones joined the Corps on the 10th February, 1000, assigned Corps No. 1076 and posted to No 4 Company.

REMOSED.

Lance-Corp I. R. Thomas is permitted to rosign, on leaving the Colony, with effect from the 19th instant.

dabbled in the Fine Arts and who loved to think they were a trifle in advance of the intellectual development of the age. Among them all she was a dominating figure, her intellect being of the brightcet, her learning the more solid. 4 decadent,

ake yat keer naught

if you will of surrender to any of lower pa sions, and though she had in the eyes of the Philistines worn the shielding robe of conventionally to the barest thread, It was still sufficient, protection for hor self-reliant nature against the rough places which a solitary woman fighting for her own band has to encounter in the course of life. Once or twice she was sorely tempted to pluck the fruit of desire which dangled o temptingly before her; to surrender horsell for the joy of one glorious hour. A decadent artist, one Maurice Laleham an aristocrat to the anger tips, almost persuaded her to link her life in his according to the easy code of the Quartier Latin, but she hesitated and Laleham like A gentleman effreed himself and left her unstained, Soward, the soulptor, a man of coarser fibre, for a time held the mastery of her imagination and as a result im mortalized her in Parian marble as Syrinx, the sorely teset nymph of the vale of Ida. According to an enthusiastic critic this statue was a most wonderful harmony of the classical and romantic spirit. wrote "This girl haloved of Pen i theertainly an immortal, yet in a verys poignant and terrible sense a mortal slao. The artist has soundedthegamat of the ages. Here is the youth and freshness of Arcady, here also the sadness and stress of to-day. This slaaire Syrior is still a very woman,

(Wah Tsa Yat Po's Service.)

PEKING, February 23. It is said that Prince Su will be appointed to reorganise the Navy and will be allowed to take up no other work, Prince Yu Lung suceceding him] NEW CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE AT as President of the Board of the

KOWLOON. Interior,

A QUESTION OF PUBLIC MORALS.

(Wah Tax Yat Po's Service.)

PEKING, February 93. Wong Ching-wan, Councillor of the Board of Civil Establishments, having mported that the newly laid cut Park in Peking is frequented by numbers of both sexes to the detrioration of national customs, an Imperial Rescript has been ianed ordering the Board of the Interior to strictly forbid the practice.

THE EMPEROR'S EDUCATION.

(Wah Ta Yat Po's Service.)

TERING, February 23.

He

As he was the gaust of the Manchester Chamber of Commerceurally #welt at length on Far Eastern trade. Encourage- ment blonded with warning was the key- note of the speech. He hold that the British merchant in China still. Eeid. his own; bat he wased his hearors that! Japan, by her nearness to China, her cheaper labour and her porsevorants, would be a more and more formidable rival to European commerca.

Again in London, Sir Robert became the guest of the Ulster Association, before whose anembere he displayed himself as a true Ulsterman, with all the traditional

attachment to the union with England.

The dinner was held on

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

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 aridont feeling and acclaimed by the Ulster patriots with tremendous enthusiasm,

Sir Robert told his audience that among his cosmopolitan staff connected with the Imperial Maritime Customs of Chias he had any Itishmen, several of them from Ulster, and he could any that they not voly satisfied their chief but did erodit to their country.

The genins of the Irish for ruling was happily instanced by the recollection" that at one particular period there was an Ulster Governor General of India, an Ulster Governor of Singapore, an Uleter British Minister in Peking, an Ulster General commanding the forces at Hong.

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The Censorate suggests that all Á vary interesting event in connection Viceroys and Governors be directed to with S. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, took open Navy Reorganisation Subscription place on Tuesday evening when a Chaplain's residence, through the munificence of Sir lists in all the provinces.

Faul Chater, was presented ti parishioners. Mr Bryer, the architect, in the regrettable absence of the donor through slight indisposition made the pre sortation and addressing Bishop Lander, concluded: "Right Rev. Father in God, in the name and on behalf of the donor of this building and the people of this place I request you to receive this house which had been erected as a dwelling place for the

with England, for without it the Irish Dispense Drugs and Prepare minister of St. Andrew's Church."

Bishop Lander then blessed the building and her. He loved the girl to dis nation would lack that sympathy with and concluded with the Benediction.

traction, but the strain of his old covenan- which English people now approached Irish The party then adjourned to the Koting fore-fathers ever opposed a barrier difficulties.

provecting that perfect understanding Sir Robert is now paying a vhit to toon School where an enjoyable musical which would have been ewential to Wakefield. Altogether he is one of the their happiness as married lovers. Not most active men in the Lingdom, and it programme was given.

for him, nor for Lalebam, nor for Seward, apparently agrees with him, for I saw him Bishop Lander said that he could con-

was this mare exotic flower; it was finally the other day looking far better than when gratulate Kowloon on having such a plucked by a man of far different tempora he first reached our shores. benefactor as Bir Faol Chater. His latest ment to any of the three, but who the gift was the most beautiful house they had fortunate lover and husband was we leave the reader to discover on the last page had the pleasure of inspcuting. They all but one. An uncommon book, uncommonly sincerely regretted that the generous donor well written, we sincerely hope that ite was not with them that evening and he very cleverness, subtle analysis of slusive suggested that a message of sympathy be womanhood, and masterly dissection of some time British Consul General at Can- human character generally will not choke The Prince Regent las directed HF.sext to him. He referred to the ring of intending readers. It deserve avery Chang Cath-tung that the Young of the now chaplain, who was, at the re-success and a wide circulation.

quest of the vestry, to be accompanied by Emperor's studies must be in accordance

his sister, it being considered that such a The Studio, for January. with the methods recently approved by charming house would be incompleto with- tions of pictures by Henri Harpieniss, the Some very pleasing coloured reprodus the Board of Education, the old ways out a lady at its houd.

Totoran paintor of Central France, appear being discarded.

to the people of Kowloon being at in the January number of the Studio, present like sheep without Aahep together with an appreciative article upon hand, he praised the willingness with which his life and work by Herri Frantz, Two

Y. M. CA PARLIAMENT. hitherto unpublished crayon drawings by the local clergy had consented to fill the the late Phil May will be eagerly welcom- palpit and made special reference to the ed by his countless admirers. Other

The Question of Unemployment. Rev. F. T. Johnson, who not only under colour work in the number include painting

The newspapers are making a good deali took the week-day services but attended by Frank Brangwyn, Adolphe Berrier.

A gooil and interesting debate was hold and L. O. Pasterank. The great advance of fuss about the special mission to this. The Board of Foreign Affairs has the kick during the day and the night. the art of domestic architective, mada country of Tang Shao-yi, after his stay in on Tuesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. presented to the Throne a memorial by The Church was to be congratulated co during the past quarter of a century is the United States. He arrived last night. Parliament when Mr J. F. Troskes intro having seven earnest mon on the vestry. illustrated in some capital examples of Mr His knowledge of English is making him H.E. Tang Shaovi in which he urges The Church was now endowed, he said, Edwin L. Lutron's work. Along the same favourite with those be meste and be induced a motion in committee with regard an increase of taxation and a doorease in and it behoved everyone to put their line will be found twelve illcstrations for a calculated to achieve good results. His to the causes of unemployment and the GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. ALBANY ENGINEERING, CO, sho líkin dues.

shoulder to the wheel and help. (Applause), country cottage, which are very attractive ion is said to be two fold-buru-sure want of employment. Captain F. A. Brown, Captain Fielder pointed out the financial All illustrated article on the Dutch painter British investors as to the soundness of Mesas R.A. Lowery and Emberly slo position and said a sum of 85,000 a year Bernard de Hoog, an illuminating ap. Chinese finances and the scope of her new dealt with the subject in an able manner. was required sud, with the Church now on preciation of George Elmer Browne, Art enterprises, and also to discuss with the

A business meeting of the society was proper footing, there should not be much Notes, Studio Gossip, ete, go to make up British and other authorities various som dificulty in mising that amount.

mercial trading matters that are eresting, also held under the presidency of Mr J. L The new building is in Gothic style, another very attractive number or thresten to criste, disputes in the Far MacPherson, A letter was received from erected in the Church compound on the Sound originally granted by the Gorem

TO REDUCE LIKIN.

(Wah Tax Yat Po's Service.)

FCKINU, February 2o.

ITEMS AT THE COURTS.

For unlawfully anchoring their boats within the limits of the Southem Fairway two boatmen were fined 910 each, at the Marine Court, today.

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Sir (haloner Alabaster, K.C.M.G., for 31, Queen's Road Central, ten, and of Lady Alabaster of Dilaram, Boscombe, on the south coast. He is barrister and was prominent lately as the successful defender of a soldier, who was secused of the murder of a girl near the residence of Laily Alabaster..

Tho lady who is to be the bride is Miss Mabel Winifred Mary Mainwaring, fourth daughter of Colonel E. P. Mainwaring, late of the fadas Army, and Mrs Mainwaring of Bournemouth and Milford-on-Sea, Hamp- shire. The marriage bells will ring out st the end of February.

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Fast in the future. He wants to arrivo 16 | 17 8. Kingsbury, who has recently return- The Rev. Willism S. Ament, D.D., who some besis of common agreement that will ment for the purposes. of the Church and is same to Chias as missionary of the facilitate any settlement of differences asod to Australia, resigning his position as in complete harmony with the surround-American Board in 1877 and spent most of they arise and thereby permit commercial president and it was agreed that a letter Three bostwomen were Gued $10 eachings. It comprises on the ground floor hir time in Feking, died in the Lane relations with foreign nations to pursus a thanking him for his past services be for

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for failing to keep the yulos of their boats and on the upper elozer tárez hod- Amant played a conspicuous part during out of the water, while, for a similar offence rooms and sitting room. In addition and after the siege of the Legations 10 people are loth to believe that a Mineteen had to pay a fine of $45 amongst to the botual building Sir Paul Caster had provided all the necessary fittings,

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