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WISE.

CONGRATULATING ME JUSTICE GOMPERTZ.

The Commission.

vernment? themof. And also that you. execute the sak office in our own perioni, except in case of sickness or ather incapa- city, and do in all other matters and things perform the duties thereof in a dis creet and orderly manner.

In testimony whereof we have caused thare Our Letiere to be made Patent and to be sealed with the public seal of Our Colony aforeslil,

Witness our trusty and woll beloved FREDERICE JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, Knight Lommander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order

GERMAN NAVAL

PROGRESS.

LAUNCH OF THE FIRST INVINCIBLIE

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• Ordinanes 3 of 1894)

Lowson, March 22

The first German Invincible, the

of the Bath, Companion of the Most Dis. Vindertann, registering 19,000 tons, tinguished Onior Governor for the time has been launched at Hamburg being of Our said Colony this twenty-first day of Marah, in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred sed nine, and THE GERMAN “SCARE.” in the ninth year of Our reigu,

By command,

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Shrewsbury, Blundella, Uppingham, Rossall, Tonbridge, Reading, Clifton, Beaumont, Harrow, Wellington, Reptov, and Charterhouse, a rather formidable majority certainly. Of course it is only natural shat upon such a question there should be considerable difference, of A most interesting ceremony took place at the Supreme Court, this morning, when opinion. Medical men also are not

the Fall Court, compiling the Chief agreed on the point. Dr. Cortes, of Justice, Sir Francis Piggott and Mr Justice Oxford, thinks that long distance Gompertz, in the presence of the members of the Hongkong Bar pal a high tribute paper-chees are good and need not to the late Puisse Judge, Mr Justice Wine. be frowned upon, but he is careful who has just retired, baddes extending to guard himself by observing that most hearty welcome to the newly appoint-

F. H. MAY, ed Pulape Judge, Mr Justice Gomperts, the important thing is to ensure who has been soting for some timom.

Colonial Secretary. Mr Justice Gompertz said :—I can only Those present were Mr A. Seth, Rothank you from the bottom of my heart for that those who take part in school athletics are competent to hear the gistrar, Mr G. D. Melbourne, Deputy all you have said about roo

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too great stress laid at the present time Official Recover, Hon. Sir Henry Ber. keley, KC., Attorney General, Hon. Mr upon athletics at all sorts of schools H. E. Pollock, K.C., Mr Calthorpe, there seems to be a consensus of opinion Mesars H. L. Dennys, senior. C. D. that the craze has really gone too far Wilkinson, E. J. Grist, S. Dixon, F. 0. Dizon, P. M. Hodgson, H. L. and that certain checks are advisable. Dennya, junior, Otto Kong Sing, F. I, de The tendency to proceed to extremes, Almunda e Catra, Almada de Castra, H. K, Holmes, F. C. Barlow; T. W. Goldring, which has been such a marked trait in. D. Thomson, A. Jackson, J. S. He the British character of late years, is of ston, W. E. L. Benton, P. Hott, H. C. Bailey, Reader Harris, W. J. Daniel, J. H. course greatly responsible for this The Gardiner, Crowther Sraith, F. B. Deacon, F. B. L. Bowley, the interpreters and pendulum has swang over as far in one clerks of the Court. Mis Gumpert and loss in covered by insuránce.

Mrs Pollock wore also present.

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Buffs Regimental Sports,

The China Mail.

Honokare, Moxday, March 22, 1909,

SCHOOL ATHLETICS.

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and if the present movement for a return to modente habits displays but

a reasonable amount of moderation in

its propaganda it should win very wide-spread support. Mr. J. HERBERT FARMER, an Old Harrovian and Captain of the Middlesex County Football Club, set the ball rolling by taking a stand against long distance running and obtaining the following letter from five prominent medical men ---

Addressing Sir Henry Berkeley, Attorney

FIRE IN GOUGH STREET.

At about 11.45 o'clock last night & fire broke out on the top floor of No. 43 Gough Street and spread to the top of No. 45. Both these plizes are light superstructures which have been added to the premises and are occupied by Chinose. The Fire Brigade was soon on the spot, but the flames got a good bold and in the and demolished the erections. The outbreak was caused by a defective Blue, and the damage is estimated at about $2,000. The

VISITS OF COURTEST.

ENGLISH NEWEPAPER'S SENSATIONAL STATEME SE..

(Reuter's Service to the China Alcoi z

Copyright" protected - under -

Ordinance 3 of 1804.)

LONDON, March**

The Observer, in a sensational a reindly accuses Germany of dur and says that Great Britain mui before 1910 or else build eight. Dresdnoughts now.

THE AUSTRO-SER VLAN TROUBLE.

WAR CLOUDS DISPERSING.

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Ordinance 3 of 1894.3.

LONDON, March 20,

by King Peter, decided that if the The Belgrade Cabinet, presided over

daya, for instance, of the famous "Sand-General, the Chief Justice said that he bad asked the members of the legal profession ford and Merton" and the "Fairchild to come there that day not to bury resar On Saturday evening Mi J, J. Laixia, Family "regime. Still when such men of one who had joined the small minority entertained the officers of the Portuguese but to praise him, and to say few words Consul General for Portugal and Brazil, as those who have appended their names who rest from their labore and one

whose name would be honoured in that war vessels Vasco da Gama and Dillie to din- to the letter printed above, take the list which is called the pension list. ner at the Hongkong Hotel. To-day Consul Triple Entente advised Servis to disarze stand they do, there is reason for enter to speak to them, many of whom had officers who accompanied him and an against attank by Austria it would It might seem presumptions on his part General Leiria paid an official call on the and simultaneouels guaranteed her taining a hope that at a day at least not he had come to know their friend Wims official call was made on Vice Admiral Sir inmediately accept.

known him much longer than be bad, in that intimate relationship which must Hedworth Lambton who entertained his

LONDON, March 21. together; although he had only known bim the officers of the Portuguese warships will states it is believed that the war scare le- ever exist between judges whose work fell distinguished gueste te tiffin. To-night

Reuter's Belgrade correspondent entertain Consal General Leiria to dinzer

too far distant a considerable body of the British nation will adjust their living to St. Paud's most wise and im mortal precept, 'Be temperate in all things." And the sooner that era downs the better.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr and Mrs Pinckney céturned to the Colony to-day per s.s. Shinano Maru.

The English Mail of the 90th February was delivered in London on the 20th inst.

H.MS. Andromeda bringing the relief crew of BM.S. Bedford arrived in Har- bour on Sunday.

The Portuguesa ertiser Tasco da Gania saluted the port on Saturday afternoon and

is now anchored off Yaumati..

for a while enough to know that no one was better fitted for the duties of judge. He knew him as a man and they knew him at the Hongtong Hotel while official calls over. to be very wise and in fact they knew him | will probably be made on His Excellency sa "Sumuary Wise." Indeed to sun- Six Frederick Lugard and His Excellency IRATY was he in his methods that he

PIRATES AT PHU-LO.

must also bere astonished himself to find Major General Broadwood to-morrow. how silent he was. But welcome to the coming as well as the parting, and ha The spoke as the Court of the Colony, port of Hongkong clined to be the premier port of the world and in liko man- A Severe Engagement.. ner the Court should hold the premier... position amongst the courts of His

About six o'clock on the night of the Majesty's Dominions over the seas, for here the West kissed the Fast and here 16th., a band of pirates armed with guns mon of many nationalities flocked to see if attacked two villages, entering the con- they could get something out of it. Incessions of M. M. Gaubert and Peretti, law came before them, complicated ques that way many complicated questions of st Phu-lo. Several persons were wounded tions of law which puzzled their learned and one was beheaded.

hrobber is other parts of the world The inspector of the military, who has and here they came faco to facá| charge of the district, was absent at the with them and had to deal with them in time of the attack hat sent a number of a practical manner, and to maintain soldiers to suppress the rebels, while rein- that high position, which he believed forcementa rate urgantly asked for from had been aver done by the judges who sat Hado, by telegraph.

LONDON, March 22. Reuter's Belgrade correspondent states that, acceding to the advice of the Powers, Servia will disband the Reservists to-morrow.

ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION.

HONOLULU BILL PASSES THE.

SENATE.

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LONDON, March 21.

The Honolulu Bill, which is aimed at

on that Boneh. Every branch of the legal Later information states that the bando Japnuese, and which provides that There were 128 European and 217 profession was sure that that endeavour of pirates who burned the village of Bien-shens shall not be allowed to fish in

was aver constant in the mind of their good Thugo-Ha are still untive in the district of 10, Portand-place W., Jan. 26, 1909,

Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, friend Gemperts. It seemed to him that Nu-Vong-Co, in the district of, Nai-An- teritorial waters, has passed the United Dear Mr. Faster, I reply to your and 223 European and 3,538 Chinese visi Mr Justice Gompertz simply revelled in Son, west of Thash loi.

States Senate. inquiry we have no hesitation in saving tors to the Museura during the weekselection as a judge of that court had been the Colonial police, will: Inspector Harbut unravelling knotty points of law. His Inspector Poilevey, who is in command of that we consider that school and ended March 21st.

wall choser and he know that he was right of Da-Phuc, had an engagement with the A GIFT TO THE MOTHER- WHISKY cross-country races exceeding one mile

in saying that the Colony gladly welcomed robbers, Inspector Poilerey attacking from in distance are wholly unsuitable for

LAND. The municipal Council of Saigon ata that appointment. For himself he thought the south and Inspector Barbat from the boys under the age of nineteen, as meeting passed a special on the innocence save perhaps only one which His Majesty

he had never heard of an appointment, north. the continued strain involved is apt

The encounter was of a very severe, to cause permanent injury to the hear; and our of bir Richand, he having and other organa. Yours faithfully been charged by a Saigon journal with (Signed),

corruption in municipal matters.

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notice, suck a statement, issued over such names, necessarily created some- thing like a sensation in the public schools. Sir THOMAS LAUDER BRUNTON is

a distinguished authority on circulation and respiration. Sir THOMAS BARLOW is physician to the royal household; Dr. Goonnant is on the honorary staff of the

- The manual sports in connection with St. Stephen's College will take place at Happy Valley to-morrow, commencing a Military Band will render selmotione. 2 o'clock. During the afternoon the

The North China Daily News says that the Hongkong University scheme has prior him the supports putolio and for that claims on of the British Unver-

reason representations should be made to the Home Government and the Homs educationists to nasist in raising the requir- ed mum for the endowment.

PER DOZEN... -$16.50. King Edward VII. Hospital for Officers, Mr Balfour, speaking at the Mansion

and an authority on children's diseases; House on March 11th, said the House of

was pleased to make four years age, which naturo, the fiting on both sides being very bad given him greater pleasure, (Laughter): heavy.

TALK OF A DEEADNOUGHT"

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LONDON, March 20.

The Hon. Sir Henry Berkeley said that However, the police eventually scattered he appeared for the entire profession and the pirates, who fed in wild, disorder, echoad the sentiments which His Lordship sevol being taken prisoners. Many, on had expressed of regard and appreciation both sides, were killed and wounded.

0garding Mr Justice Wise. During the long time Me Justice Wins had held that high ofied, with such distinction he had discharged the duties appertaining to the Hongkong cimulates the following Typhoon the naval agitation, shiggest that office with marked ability. To the last he Warnings from the Manila Observatory, Australia should present a Dreadnought possessed the absolute couâdance of ali

The American Consulate General at

The Melbournenewspapers disenssing

who appeared before him and the whole 70 p.m. March 21:-Cyelene or typhoon to the Motherland. profession regretted that he was no East of Southern Visayas or Northern Longer with them as he had been bound to Mindanao moving W. of WN. W., 11.35 them by tice of affection. He congratulated a.m. March 2-Cyclone or typhoon East the members of the legal profession on

the

appointment of Mr Justice Gompertz of the VisagesIslands inclining Northward

They believed that he would worthily follow

Dr. HALE WHITE is senior physician to Lords had a weight of official experience intendon to saxol that the fours in doings.

had kindly intimated · they might do

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The management regret exesedingly that

in the footsteps of his distinguished pro- Two watches attached to a chain were aring to a mishap with the light they were doessor. They desired respectfully to add found by a policeman on one of the pare able to open on Saturday an advertisol the assurance that the announcement of monta of the aty this morning. They were and tender thofe apologies to the pubile for the appointment to that high office had given completo satisfaction to the entire apparently been left there by a drunken the inconvenience osused. The grand profession.

man who laid down to skep, and, lagining opening will be to-night when four now: the solicitors were at liberty to speak"

The Chicl Justics intimated that any of he was safe at home, took them from his artistes will appear. Mr Donnys, senior, said that he had not ket and lay them on the slab, svanin- ally going asty without remembering bis

Guy's Hospital; and Sir ALFRED FRIFF in Indian subjects whereto the House of so he would say a few words being, he Robert Porter & Co.'s surgeon-in-ordinary to his Majesty the was mad toportant that Great Britain

Commons could not pretend or aspire. It supposed, the oldest solicitor in the Color TEARNS BRADACHE Cornis perfectly

should have such & body of men of experi ce as the Home of Lords. Incidentally wo note that Lord Macdonnell, who moved the rejection of Clauso 3 during the debate of the India Councils Bill, was Lieutenant

BULL DOG

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There is no question that athleticism pushed to excess makes for weakening rather than strengthening the physique, for it is remarkable how few of Governor of the United, Provinces, and is

the men who make a mark upon seknowledged to have been one of the

the running track ever reach a healthy, ablest administrators in India. He is alen a Radical and an ardent supporter of Irish pain-free middle-age. Mr. FARMER Home Rule. Lords Lansdowne and Curzon would discourage all long distance who supported him are ex-Viceroys of running for schoolboys, and his reasons

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He had known Mr. Justice Vise when Salous and fre: from morphice, Romedy-lonot only cures indoreana bar he was cisk to the then Chief Justice antiperine, chloral and other dangerous counteract say bendency of the disse sud he was perhaps the only person drog It does not produce a habit. Gives towards pacuriosis. For sale by all who had briefed Mr. We when he was immediate relief.

***** Chetalets and storekeepers. practicing ai a barrister. He had instruct ed him while at Canton in 1888 and had since come before him as a magistrate and worked with him while he was Attorney before him while Paine Judge. Eroryone General and later had frequently appeared bad the greatest confidence in him and he would not take up their time any more bas tó My that the appointment of Hr Instine Gomperts fad given delight to the whole of the profesion.

· Mr A. Sith, Romstrar: then read, the commission as follows, Mr Justice Com perta menavhilo stamling"--

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