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OM. Daniels, champion swimmer of the world, in engaged to be married to Mrs G. F. Wagnor, daughter of the sta FE.. Goodyear, of Budale, U. S. A., whose estate is valued at several million of dollars.

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There arrived at Hongkong to-day 101 Chinese deportens from the Dutch Indies and 93- from Singapore.

The majority report of the Commis on on shipping rings" recommends that shippers and marchanta should form an Association to be oficially recoger nised and registered by the Board of Trade in order to check Conference abums by the united front of the ship ping companies. In cases of contro Two moru doses of plague, both Chiu-verty generally it was andesirable that usa, bave been notified.

In both casas the State should interfere to remedy the patients have died.

grievances which are preventible by the percus concerned, but it may king, who lied of apoplexy the other The estage of Mr H H. Rogers, the that combinations an fature will call for more drastic statutory 6- day, is shown in bla will to a guiations than at present existed. $100,000,000,

The subject involves too uncertain

OVERLAND CHINA MAIL (weekly) $15.00 Princes recently passed through Hoogvarsity, traces the history of our relations *pparent, to be Commander-in-Chief of the menda that the Board of trade be

per year including postage, 17:00 per year,

the Br-Sultan of Turkey will probably gradually been brought to see how be interned at Rhodes. Ela chief much has been condemned to death as a ro great a scandal the Devadasis had sctionary created, and quite an agitation for their

Prinou Jessiu, heir to the Abysmian | with his fiata. suppression has grown up in many throne, has been married to Princess quarter. The British Government, Romanie, niece of the Empress, aged sevan. while approving of this, could not The alliance unites two dynastice and the interfere, and it was left to the families of four powerful Chiefs, Government of a Native Stato to again furnish proof that it is possible for such a government to trend boldly én ground where the Britial authorities cannot even project so much as their shadow. The particular native state

The English in China." is published. now in question is that of Mysore, in by Sir Isaac Pitman and Bons. The author, Southern Indin, one of whose reigning Mr J. Bromley James, sometime Proto

of Law in the Imperial Tientsin Uni-

kong on his way to Japan. It seems with the Chinces down to 1843, and in a that né far back as February, rapid survey summaries the leading facts

of the subeoquent developments. 1899, the Government of Mysore, moved thereto by many pions Hindus

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice who wished to see their religious cere-Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following monies purified from the many degrad- donations to the fands of the Hospitals ing accretions which the centuries have a Sui Sak

Lam Lok Sam gradually bound upon them, issued a Chan Shek Pang circular erder describing the legitimats Leung A Mui... services to be performed in temples by The following arouncements will FooDevadasis. In 1899 the Muzrai Super-probably be of interest to a good many old

friends in the East:-On July 12 Mr nouncement that the King's birthday will intendent, RA BAHADUR A CHARLI,

E. M. S. Man, of the Chartered Bank, be celebrated in London and at all Home Hongkong, Manila, and Saigon, will be stations Majesty's birthday will be married to Mis Nors Loeck, of Hamburg, On August 29. Mr A. Murray Gibbon, also of the Chartered Bank, Hamburg, will be married at Bournemouth to Miss Nicola A. L. Hutchison, of Astor Lodge, Surrey. road, Bournemouth.

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The Amir, it is reported, has apported speculation to form the basis of practica Sardar Inayat Ullah Khan, the heir recommendatious, but the report recim

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side, to appoint a conciliator or arbitra The Ocean Steamship line, like the P-tor, and, where convinced that Imperial and O., has arranged for its boats to call ab interests are affected and conciliation Port Swettenham on the Homeward voyage fails, to institute an inquiry Proposals and carry rabber at à reduced freight.

are niso made to keep the Board

A cablogram has beam roczived saying cognisant of the position and proceedings that the Rev. F. B. Mejor, the famous great rings Lord Inverclyde adds a 10scher and evangelist, will arrive in Hong-reservation in which he disapproves of kong on the 10th of June, and will be kare supervision by the Board of Trade, for ten days.

believing it will be impossible for rings" to disregard the reasonable proposals of united customers.

The minority report recommends that slightly enlarged pewors be vested in tute inquines, for publication, into the working of the "zings”.

The London Gazells contains the so-

relebrate on Tuesday, November 9.

A fire broke out in a Chinese templa situated in Queen's Road East this morning.

Parently it was caused by smouldering joss-sticks igniting the wood work. The whole interior of the place was burnt out, and a number of wooden images destroyed;"

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Goods per Prins Waldemar undelivered directed that the dancing girls borne on Hamburg, and formerly stationed at stations on Friday, Junn 25. At all other the Board of Trade, who should insti- Goods per Istria undallvered after this the Nanjangud temple establishment should not be allowed to perform tafa, or dancing, service, in the temple, but that the allowances payable to them should be continued for their life-time. and that at their death the vacancies should not be filled up. Against this.

Intelligence received from an official 9.15 p.a.Open Air Concert at the order the "dancing girls concerned quarter in Washington points to the The International Cotton Congress at

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special Milan has adopted the motion of Mr Dixon, Goode por Fooksang andelivered after memorialised . H. the Maharajah. conclusion at an early date of s

On the initiative of the Kaiser, His agreement to regulate trade relations be. 4. p.m. this dare will be landed.

This was in 1005, and the order dispos tween Formosa and the neighbouring of Ragland, to sak the International Coma-Majesty will meet the Car in the Goods per Mongolia undelivered at Nooning of their objections has only justiniands with the Philippines. Correspon- prepare regulations to promote Finnish Archipeingo on June 17th. M. dance on the subject has bean proceeding mutual Cotton Mill Fire Insurance Com Tavolsky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, for some time between the American and panien in the various countries affiliated to will accompany the Czar. Great political Japanese Governments, and President Taft, the International Federation, similar to

importance is attached to the meeting who acquired much local knowledge during those already soccessful in England and in St Petersburg, where it was entirely bis Far Eastern tour, nearly three years America. It is believed that this will

unexpected ago, is understood to be strongly in favour eventually result in the establishment of an of the conclusion of such an agreement as international organisation for fire instir- beneficial to the interests of both nations.

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"From the Shastraic authorities quoted by the two Agamiks employed in the Muzrai Secretariat, it is observed that the services to be performed by Deva dasis (female servants of the god) form Mr Gupta, idcturing last month before

A famine in small change hampers part and parcel of the worship of the the Indian section of the Royal Society of

WHY JAPAN DISAPPROVES Arts in England referred to the great business in Indo-Chins, and copper coin

OF "ARBITRATION. god in Hindu temples and that singing zaligious upheaval which had grertaken the stands at a high premium. The money and dancing in the presence of the Hindu world. He spoke hopefully of the changers cornor the available stock and

(Reuter's Service to the China Buili Copyright proteded, under READERS Of Mrs. FLORA ANNIE SEEL's deity are also prescribed. It is, how. Hindus powers of adaptation and assimil-profit by the scarcity in every way. Cop- tion to enable them to emerge from the pers roach five per cont. premium. It is

Ordinance 3 of 1894) Indian novels have often made ever, observed that in the case of crisis. The mate system had served useful figured out that Indo-China requires copper

LONDON, June 3. acquaintance with the Devadasis, or Devadasis personal purity and rectituds purposes in the past but, if the Hinda was money to the value of five millions of again to participate in the great work of dolla. Even the treasury has run short;

The Time Tokyo correspondent sacred dancing girls attached te of conduct and a row of colibacy were nation-building, they must demolish the and not meet orders. What a contrast has received an arplanation of the certain Hindu temples. "Handmaids considered essential. But the high barriers dividing the community College this is to the state of things prevailing in Japauce refusal to have the Fakumen Adrundel praised the work of the College of the gods" they are euphemistically ideals entertained in ancient days bave at Benares in giving the young men of Hongkong, where copper coins are at a railway dispute arbitrated upon at the termed, but students of Indian history how degenerated, and the female ser- India an understanding of the Christian heavy discount. know how sadly misnamed they are. vants (Devadasia) tre notoriously faith. Eu rejoiced at Mr Gupta's member- ahip of the India Council as the first. fruita Frota time immemorial have they had women of loose murals.

of Lord Minto's reforms.

The manager of the International Bank The Times article in explanation will their recognised place in the ritual The Government now observe that

Recently the House of Commons went has reported to the police that on February correct misapprehensions, but it cannot of the temples and the dances which whatever may have been the or into Committee of Supply on the Fast 8th, 1900, a draft for 3000 in favour of the be read with sincere pleasure by all they perform, hoary relics of great ginal object of the institution of Office vete of £12,337,930, and listed Wing Sing Cheang Farm, of 127 Des Voeux friends of Japan and antiquity, link them with the dancer of Devadasis in temples, the state of into an interesting, and amusing speech Road West, was presented by, and cush from the Postmaster-General The-telo-paid to a man who signed the name of Li

The rightof Japan to vete milways com the Sun still performed in the Shinto morality in which these temple servants phous, remarked Mr Burton in the course Ping and who chopped the draft fat peting with the South Manchurian Rail temples of modern Japan and with the are now found, fully justifies the action of bis review, showed a very fair increase the Wing Sing Cheung Firm: The bank way cannot be disputed by Chinese choric dances of primitive Egypt, taken by them in excluding the De- of revenuto ad while the telegraph was have since been informed that La Ping had for British. As to whether the Faku- unfortunately past praying for, he was no connection with the firm named," and men line will really be found com- Babylonia and Assyria. The Eail-fires vadasis from every kind of service in anxious to keep the younger system on that the chop in their name was a petitive is doubtful, but the South Man- of Caledonia had to be encircled by sacred institutions like temples. Far paying basis. Mr Burton said the penny forgery

churian Railway having been acquired post with France could not be long delayed. dancing virgins on Midsummer night,ther, the absence of the services of these The cash-on-delivery system of shopping AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN by our allies at the cost of a protracted and bloody war, they are not unustur

· RECOMMENDS A "WELLETOWN women in certain important temples in was making progress in parcels to the and the Druid circles of Albion, Bretagne,

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dominated the religious thought of that The exclusion of Devadasis from tam the vote then agreed to.

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It is a trite saying that if reform it to

In the House of Commons on April 26 McKenna was closely pressed during

commodation. for Dreadnoughts. There were no such docks, he said, on the Treb Coast of England Germany, it was under- evoked the retort, to be ready in seven

information yours. Furthes safed by the First Lord indicated the Government werd

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the question of building a dry! on the Humber, and had the designs

day discovery. But the Devadasia, the time has come, the Government whatever the purity of their origin, think for its general application, and have long.

since in Indias been they therefore direct that the policy synonymous of anything but religious enunciated in the abstract given above should be extended to all Muzrai tem ideals. Very pitiful indeed is the story which most of these women could tell ples in this State, of the lives they are forced to lead and many times the British Government has be successful in India, as alsewhere, it been asked to interiers on their behalf must proceed from within, not be and to either reform the system or

forced upon the people from without. sweep it away But the Batish The question now is, will the actum of Government has ever maintained an

the auth

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mid, the Government had sttitude of atrist neutrality in matters of

Mysore be followed elsewhere in

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