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His silvice was taken,

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Miscellaneous Goods por Devanha not cleared at 4

p..on this date subject to rent. Goods por Benalder andelivered after

this date subject to rent

The Bishop of Victoria, the Bt. Bay. ander, returned to the Colony to-day "by the Prius Ludvig

By the destruction of part of the pn at Leavenworth, by fire, a lose of 55,000 has been sustained.

Next Kr-unan paid & visit to Cheng, where be greeted the future distinguish ed statesman Tiza'ax ne though he had been an old friend. He presented hia cet with a silk sash of Intel (Boo chow manufacture, whilst he himself received in return one of local (Honam) grass cloth material. He then proferred tunnis and golf will be played, if possible. the following advice-He who rules

your

Kobe expects the Hongkong team of military cricketers will arrive there by the French Mail on May 31⁄2k, Cricket,

After an absence from England of nearly twenty years the and Battalion Yorkshire Regiment has trived home. Only nine of those who salbeit for Indis in 1889 returned, Lieut. Col, Hadlow, now in command, being one of the number. “

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

MODERN

The Rev. William O. White, a Canadian (KTRİ

of the Frkien Minion, hax-been hosen wa the first Anglicin bishop of Hopso

Bir Harry Rawson, Jate Governor of New South Wales, left Bydney on the 24th Much by the NYK. stoner Tawata Maru for Japan.

BALLOON

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The Zeppelin and twoo mentairahips will take

It is rumoured that the reignation of part with the opposing simies

Special anti-balloon gans motors will also be applied,

By direction of His Excellency the umpire's decisions as to their dringo Gorernor, the meeting of the Legislative be based on previous experiments Chimoil annonnsed for Thunday, the 8th unmanned halloons. It,

indelinitely postponed."

The Hon Rufus H. Thaye, Judge of the U, S. Court at Shanghai, scompanied by Dr F. E. Hinckley, Clerk of the V. S. Court, wore interested spectators during the hearing of the case at the Supreme

At the Chinese Y.M.CA. this evening | Court this morning,

the pisses in connection with the recent sports will be presented by Mrs Mobler. Domsion will also be taken to welome

His Exceliancy Sir Frederick Lagard

GERMAN SHIPPING

LINES

ANOTHER BIG LOSS.

Rouler's derdice to the China McN Copyright protechd under Ordinance 3 of 1894.)

LO

Mr Ramissy Maodonald, M.P., on a Gorarnor-General Smith as head of the German marguvres in August:

Administration In the Philippine will country as prime minister is 80 half of the Labour party, but fasued a probeque offcctive on May 16. profuse that trouble is sure to super-poss! for an all-British labout-socialist vene, and you are certain to be his conference, to be bald erurrently with the Colonial conference, which is expected successor, when this takes place be sure to be convened in 1910. to govern according to the rites, other wise the country is certain to come to grief." He then proceeded to We Hare he had the satisfaction of meeting amongst the statesmen one admired friend of Cocos.narsed K Pen-YCK, WLc is mentioned not only in the two first dynastic histories published with in a century on each side of our era, but also in the Book of Rites, pars of which were edited by Conrces and his dis-Mr Elliott ciples. Finally he went to Taju, Shansi, where he met the heads of the three The Great Northern Railway have eatablished a through service between powerful families who practically mono-Chicago and Seattle, which covers the polised all the real power of the State. distance of 3,350 miles in 71 hours and 45 He also had an interrier with Sinutes westbound, and in 72 hours east

bound. A through train service from HAN, the illustrious friend of Cor- Seattle to Kansas City has also been at FRUNS, TEZ-CHAN, YES-raz and the other ranged. The information should be of great men of China. He foresaw that service to passenger by the Minnesota ar sconer or later Tain would fall a prey to

That fine old sailor, Admiral Sir John thees three ambitious milies, and The eruption of Yategataks, located Dalrymple Har, who has just nelebrated 12.30 p.m.-Half-yearly Meeting of themed Sets Have to maintain an up-sinces, seems to have been very startling. Royal Navy seventy-five years ago, and on the borders of Shinaro and Hida pro-his eighty-eighth birthday, entered the Hongkong Jockey Club

right attitude and be careful not to get in a westerly wind was blowing, the lays was at the capture of Horvat, and St. Jean

General Memoranda. THURMY, April 8:

2.30p.m.-Auction of Household Fami- ture, &o, ab Bir H. W, Blade'a tidence

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9 p.m.-Opasing night of Ward Cornedy

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9.36 p.m.Meeting of His Majesty's Jiations of the Peso at the Magistracy,

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The China Mail.

HONION, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1909,

A PAGE OF ANCIENT HISTORY.

AMONDT the few specimens of ancient Chinese calligraphy which have come down to us, is Cosmosis own inscrip- tion on the tomb of K-a, one of the princes of the then semi-barbarous state of Wu, corresponding to the territory lying Between the modern Shangbai, Souchowend Nanking. Like

involved in political intrigue.

Mr and Mrs Mohler to the Colony, Mravas for Canton this evening and will be Mohler having been appointed to assist present to-morrow at the foundation stoma

the N. Y.-K. Pacific liners,

April

Following the decision of the Han

laying by Vinoy Chang, in connection burg-Ameria Shipping Co. to pay to with the new station at Taisha Tan on the dividend for the past year, the Nord- Unton-Kowloon railway.

deutsche Lyd Co. announce that in 1908 they lost £892,000 sterling and

The venerable scholar, Dr Eliot, late,

President of Barrard, ha declined the thereby have swallowed up the whole preferred honour of representing the of their rearves. American Government at the Court of St. James. His advanced age is supposed to bs the reason,

THE BALLANS.

HOW WAX WAS AVERTED.

(Renter's Service to the China Mail Dopyright protected under Ondinance 13 if 1894.)

LONDON, April 6

shower extended to villages at a distance of d'Acre in 1810. Then he went to Chins over fifty miles from the mountain. In and bore his share in casing piratical

It is semi-officially announced in Bl This old page of Chinese history, some places the Isva lay 2 or 3 inches junka and in the operations in Borneo in page so seldom turned up, even by deep, and a quantity fell in Nagano itself. 1845, under Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Petersburg that Germans did not During the fall, lamps and electric lights By the time the Crimean War broke out rcise any pressure on Russia, while students, in these hurrying days of oured to be it as the air became as dark as he was a captain, and he commanded the Rain's sceptance of Germany's friend- shows the advanced ethical standpoint might.

F mibal in the Black Sea Promotedly suggestion averted war betweent

to Bear Admiral in 1886, bọ bòcame a navsi

lend at Whitehall, and to is the seniors Austria and Servic

ving officer that has served on the Bosni

reated by the statesmen who fourished The British Immigation League of at the time of Cordores. It is all the Australia has received a notification from more wonderful to Western observers the Imperial Government to the effect that of Admiralty, Sir John is the forth TANG SHAO VIS MISSION that this ancient empire having had the league's suggestion that free posges aronet of his ancient line and a splendid, from India be granted to soldiers on the and now almost extinct, lyps of our old such a splendid start should have reserve in under consideration. At present time admirals.. werried so soon and slackened speed in these men are sent to England free of cost and discharged there, and if, on being the race, falling to sleep, as it were, at unable to obtain work, they wish to come the time when the nations of the West to Australia, they have to pay their own

ware only just beginning to emerge passages. from the stages of barbaren. Now we

A CHINESE PRBONER'S

SUICIDE.

(Beuter'i Serviós to the Chang, Mark: Copyright uretuled under Ordinace 3 of 1895)

LONDON Artille

HE Tang Phad sad his ante bare

Tang Mao-yi and his Mission vero

Á native who was recenly commited to | been decanted by the Kaiser, v After having danced eventy-five miles, prison for having opium är his possession are told that she is clumsily awakening waltzing most of the way, Paul Gray wax committed suicide in the psa call hi from her age-long etupor and, finding hailed as victor of the Marathon dance hanging himself. This be die by the males received by Prince von Baslow.

at Venice. More than a thousand of a canvas wat belt, which he fastened the old standards out of date, is seeking spectators cheered the perspiring chasipion to the iron gate of the cel so as to make i THE OHINESE LOAN. to find what better substitutes the West as he approached, in whirling, sircles, loop, through which he put his heed nearer and nearer the coveted goal hon found he was strangled to death, hi

PROTESTS BY ENGLAND AND

TRANCE WHISKY nearly all the prifies of Chim's semi has to offer. What will be the result Others in the contest niste vain efforts to feet being about a foot of the ground.

At an inquirg held this morning before of her

That is the great quesize tho laurals by bursts of speed in their quest? barbarous neighbours, Kr-CHA was of

waltsing and two-stepping. Miss Gussie Mr J. H. Kemp and a jury, at the Chinese descent, ie, scion of the tin of the 20th century.

Young won the woman's prize having Magistracy, a verdict of suicide was re-

timed, death being due trasphyxiation. origisal grantee of the barbarous fief,

danced sixty-three miles. but he was a particularly worthy man,

The Dominion House of Commons, ROBBERY AT THE MASONIC inusmuch as he had firmly declined the modal are being built in England, to the according to a telegram appearing in the succession to the throne of Win favour order of the War Office,

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Alas, the grave of KI-CHAN of Yen-ling in the kingdom of Wn." The grave is still in situ, inscription included, at a

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Six aeroplanes on the Orville Wright

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LONDON, April

Prior to the breaking up of the cons ference of British, French and German bankers who were considering t matter of an internati

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H. O. Daily News, hao unaimonsly passed a motion declaring that the responsibility rests upon Canada to undertake a larger The bot plan for the Bugh J. Ward's share in the Empire's defence The further robbery at the Manonio Hell,

The police have been informed of GENUINE AGE turn. Coyous inscription runs, Comedy Company's season will be opened House also dignified its spproval of the which appears to have taken place in the whereat the diens

Mesem Motria's tomorrow morning. speedy organisation of a Canadian Naval early hours of Monday mazing.

Service, in accordance with the policy An entrands was effected by boring out* British and French grups Owing to a landslip a gallary gave way drafted at the Impoal Conference, panel of the front door. Several cupboards on March 29, in a sulphur, mine near

a protest at place called Shen-hang, about sixty li, Hakodate, which is worked by Measts Canadians, it was pointed out, were willing were brokou open, se also were some

desks The booty included several pieces concludi (twenty miles) east of Chang-chu-fu on Horell & Co, British merchants. The in time of need to make any sacrifice.

of a tea set, a alter mill bg, silver spoons | advising the fall of earth blacked the mouth of another the new British railway. It was not gallery. Thirty-four men ware killed and

President Taft inalate that the tariff and a silver sugar basin, su roll we wons socordance with shall be rised so as to make the cups bearing the inscription: “* Prosented until about the year B.O. 515 that Wu four injured."

necessities of life cheaper. He says that to the Zetland Longe by D. MaDonald " waa admitted into the federation of the

It is reported that Attorney General that is what the Republics party promised The thieves also stola a gold washed jewel, -$16.50. Chinés civilized · states.

KIUA was Wickersham will drop the libel suits the people of the United States, and that of triangular shape with an orgle and Asgar, sent by the king, his nephew, first against the New York World and the the promise must, be kept, It looked as if cross on one side and pelican and aros tary to the

Indianapolis Neus, which were instituted the House of Representatives would fall on the other, with a crown on top. to the Emperor's Court as a matter of by his predecessor, Mr Bonaparte, faller in line with the wishes of the President The police are investigating the master, form, and then to the Court of Tain, invetigation having convinced him that it but that the Bounts would oppose and change any tarail which would tend to Tessen the profits of the waste The The Chief Justice, Sir Francis PiggotSenste is buy preparing & tariff bill which hold sway over the northern group of at the Supreme Court, to-day, reserved his will be submitted vary shortly. statea But thirty years bafore that, in the decision in the case in which Tsor Kam, of year 544, he laul, as ambassador, visited 13 Lyndhure Terrace, sued Chang Tsin Kus, ocharvia Chung Chit Yu, 80 Holly. CONFUCIUS Country This

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