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Mr Justice Devar has requested the Advocate of India to open a fund to erect a memorial to De Lala. Already several abscriptions have been received. (ver

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The Imperial Parliament has agreed to suggestion made, by the Earl of Craw Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the affect that the Asiatics in the Transvaal should be placed under the patrol of the Governor-General in Council instead of un- der the Provincial Councils.

THE LATE VICEROY OF

CANTON,

Arrival at Hongkong.

AVRUNT" DATAži

A NAVAL EXPERI

FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1909.

DESTROYER'S DASH THROUGH

DEFENCE BOOM.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail) LONDON, July 29,

at Portsmouth like a cobweb...

The boom consisted of massive baulks

The Terrets was only slightly daza- el timber with steel entanglements.

siged.

RETURN OF PRINCE –

NASHIMOTO

Incependant New (dprtoy's "

the China Mart)

TOKYO, July 29 LH Prince Nashimoto baring

atmek of "nerves" which set in when bath political partice tried to make cpital out of the naval situation vis-a-vis Cher many was giving way to a more rational mood. It was a sign of returning site

Eli Excellency Chang Jan-chun lots that the meeting of the TAR and the

It is stated that the Government, of Canton yostarday and proceeded to Hong KAISER off the Finland skerries was not India have felt themselves obliged to do tog en route for Nanking to take up his taken by the Yellow Press as foreboding cline to participate in the Japanes-Bri- positien as Vloeroy of Liang Kang. He

The destroyer Terrott, which had finished his three years course of tish Exhibition wo be held next year in was accompanied by F. E. Admiral Il no good to England, while the firing on London

Chun, Mr., Hsiah Yung-nies. Commodore been specially strengthened for the study in Europe returned, via Man Lin, Mr Wong Ming, and Mr Won Shihxperiment, cut through a defence boomchuria and Fores, to Tokyo to-day. the steamer Woodburn was allowed toy!

eten. E. Wal Flan being provented from pass as an incident almost inseperable

He was accompanied by Princess Nashimoto, coming through illnews. from a Rusaian warship's appearance PER MONTH.on the high scas. Another thing which the Imperial Press Conference has accum plished, is to furnish the visiting Colenials with a truer insight into the solidarity of England "and the vastness. of her well regulated industries than any of them had hitherto possessed After inspecting the mightiest collection of modern warships aver assembled at Spithead, of which those in the first ling were not in the water ten years ago, secing an up-to-date army" at Aldershot, and then touring through

Tuning and Regular

Attention Inclusive.

His Excellency and suite arrived in

the Q.M. s.s. Fisinming, which moored at Hongkong Harbour at 8 am to day by the cast. Douglas broy, kindly placed at the disposal of the distinguished visitors by Mears Douglas, Laprak and Co. Mr THE BRITISH EMPIRE Harris, Commissioner of the Imperial; Maritime Customs, and Capt. P. Mitchell- Taylor, A.D.C. to His Excellency Sir F.

CLUB

D. Lugard, met the ship on arrival. A BRILLIANT INAUGURATION IN saluto was fired.

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S. MOUTRIE & Co., iron and the industrial cities the amount of which is £7,000,000. The they were received by His Excellency the

bly present.

LONDON.

SEATTLE EXPOSITION.

(1) Independent News Agency's” Service to the China Mail.)

Tax, July 29.

The Japanese department in the Septile exposition is most popular. || On the average the number of visitors že 35,000 daily, The exhibita are selling. most successfully.

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JAPANESE CROWN. "PRINCE INVITED TO ENGLAND

The Pursians are indignant at Russia's interference in Persia's domestic affairs. They have begun a boycoth of Russian merchandise. The inhabitants of several

B.E. Chang Jen-chun called on Com- cities and towns have consequently decided not to use Russian petroleum, with themodere Lyon at noon, and at 12:30 the

(Souter's Service to the China Mail). resalt that the streets are in darkness at Vice-regal party officially landed at

Louros, July 29. night.

Blaka Fier, a guard of honour from the Buffs Regiment being drawn up. in The British Empire Club was in- The British Syndicate which has been „readiness to receive the visitors. Aaugurated by a banquet at the Guild- entrusted with the reestablishment of the alata of 19 guns was fired from the hall, ovet which the Duke of Devonshire Spanish Navy and the construction of shore battery, and the party then pro-presided. There was a brilliant assem dockyards has begun work on its contract,

to Government House where

syndicato secured the work in competition Governor, and later entertained to an official of the Midlands, the North of England with French, Italian, and

German

luncheon. The following gentlemen were THE SPANISH TROUBLES. ("Independent Notes Agency'i” Service lo and South-west Scotland, they began to contractors.

invited to this. Function:-Commodore askeach other why Great Britain was

Lyon, RN, EE.. Col. Darling, Mr C. McL Messer, Mr P. N. H. Jones, Sir Paul PARIS, distrustful of herself? They might

Chater, C.M.G.. Bon. Mr E. A. Feweth, Mr Justice Gompertz, Hon. Mr.A. W. STREET. well ask the question.

Browin, Hon. Mr Y. J. Badaley, Fon. Dr Ho Kai, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Wei-Yuk, CMG Hon Mr W. J. Gresson, Hon. Mir Murray Stewart Hon. Mr Osborne, Mr D. R. Law, Mt J. R. M. Smith, Mr Harris, Sir Henry Berkeley, K.O., E.E. Kao Erb Chien, Capt. Wu Ewang-taung, Mr Kwok Tistung, Mr Chang Kang-yue, Mr Sin Tak-fan, Mr Ho Tai-sharig, Mr Lau Chu with the hoors cutting the railway, the Hongkong Observatory were in possession

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The New York Nation points out yet another reserve of strength on which in mements of crisis the nation might draw to advantage, and which so far it seems. to have almost entirely neglected. to utilize the moral strength she may honestly claim to possess. It admits that moral issues have no interest for the experts who balance broadside against broadside and bastalion against battalion, and love to forecast the fate of battles by the narrowest of arithme

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tical margins, but it points out wha; great factor, the superior moral weight

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The Turks received the news that the shahi bud bean deposed and that the Constitutionalists a bad triumphed most enthusiastically. The papers declared that the events at Tekerau paralleled the Tarkish revolution of April 24. The Persians at Constantinople held a three days' celebration.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and York and the leaders of the dissenting shurches bave made ajutat appeal to all churches in the land to raise their voices against the persistence of cruel granny in the Congo. They believe that every civilised country will respond, but, necessary, Great Britain should act separately.

TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER AT**

MELILIA.

Desperate Fighting at Barcelona Five Convents Burning

(Bester's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, July 30

Tuesday's battlo at Melilla began

Pak, Mr Au Tak, Mr Lau Yam-chun, Mr threatening to 8. W. Tso, Lieut. Blanchflower, Capte outposts. Stewart, and Capt. Armstrong, A.D.C.. Mr E. N. Mody and Mr Li Sau-bin were unable to attend the lunchuna owing to indisposition.

A3.30p.m. His Excellency the Governor

During the recent recruiting boom the Territorial ranks were affects thing accompanied the Viceroy and suite, and weird specimens, & home correspondent other guests, in special cars to Quarry Bay

The Spanish casualties were one thousand killed, including many officers; ami 1,500 to 2,000 wounded.

The condition of affairs at Barcelona is terrible. Barricades have been erected across the principal arteries of

ETCHES. Un the 27th inst., st, Stour of the Japanese cause was in the Russo writes. To-day, when the rush has abated, Dockyard, which was thrown open to their communication.

wood, neat Bournemouth, the wife of Mr

cable).

J. OWEN, HUGHES, & daughter. (By Japanese conflict and how it told in deciding the issues debated at the peace conference held at Portsmouth. Our contemporary then proceeds:

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

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MONDAY, August 2-

Exchange Banks Close. Insurance Offices Close.

Goods per Dortmund undelivered after

a better class of recruit is coming forward, and assay Commanding Officers who have rabbish on hand find themselves unable to make room for the batter article.

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inspection through the courtesy of Mr D. R. Law, the party eventually returning to Hongkong in the Victoria, refreshments being served in raules

In the case in which Prem Shingh sued

Monday the 2nd August being a pub- CLAIM UNDER A PROMISSORY

NOTE. When the British fire eaters Pictureic holiday, the Post Office will be open for Germany as pouncing upon the Empire one hour only, ic. from 8 to 9 s.. There Goods per Perris undelivered after this ask whether Germany's strength is letters na on Sundays. The Money Order Mr A. P. Diercks to recover $300 dua

and seizing it for herself, it is pertinent will be one delivery and a collection of such as to make her a fit ruler of depen- Office will be entirely closed. In the event under a promissory note, Mr Justice Gom dencies. We may go further and ask of the arrival of the French Mail from porta, at the Supreme Court, this morning it even that fear of

great Germanie empire in all Europe, can be anything Europe the Post Office will be open one said he had allowed the defendant to pay by instalments of 225 a month. The action but an empty fear. To exaggerate the hour for the delivery thereof.

bore costs of 860 and an ex parte applica. power of the German army is only to in-

We note from American papers totion had been made in Chambers. dicate the limitations of German, expun- sion. Prussian militarisin may be justi-haad, says the Japan Gazette, that, under Mr Gazdiner-When? fied in the eyes of most Germans to California sewspaper enterprise, a remark- day by the unity, the prestige, and the ablo triple effort is to be made to break 255arance of peace it has brought them the world's record for quick, travel round Mr Gardiner-It.is quits irregular, wy has worked towards such ends. it has the globo. One party, under the auspicos lord. I have had notice from my friend been a moral agent. But Prussian mili- of the San Francisco Examiner, is coming saying he was going to make the applica tarism will not retain its effectiveness by the Chigo, another, under the same tion in Court this morning, It is going when it sets out to conquer and keep auspices, leaves San Francisco by the Over- bahind my back in going into Chambers. down foreign nationalities. By so mach

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HONGXONG, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1909.

To the extent that the Prussian army

His Lordship-A day or two ago by Mr Bowley.

am prepared to argue that the decison can- not be varied.

His Lordship said bo, would hear Mr

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The Chind Mail.)

TOKYO, July 29, The English people are contemplat ing asking H. I. H. Prince Haru, the CrownlFrince of Japan, to visit England next year when the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition opens..

TYPHOON WARNING.

At five o'clock yesterday evening the

isolate the Spanish of suficient evidence to be sasined that

the depression, which had been hanging “ about the Balinging Channel for the last few days had begun to move. By quarter to tipe this morning it was poe- sible to lower the red drum signal, for-the- typhoon by thin, time had apparently

moving northward. Shortly after noon, got to the south west of Formosa and was however, the barometrical roadings tale-- graphed to the Observatory showed that the typhoon had recurved and it was then situated to the S.E of Misco-sima, the barometer having faller modarately over the Locations and. S. W.. Japan and risen. elsewhere, particularly in Lupon...

Five convente are burning and the troops are shelling the barricades, There has been much serious bloodshed.

THE GRAND COUNCIL.

(Wah To Yat Po's Service.) "

PEKINO, June 29. Liu Chuan Lin.has resumed his seat on the Grand Council, having recovered from his illness.

The Prince Regent intends to appoint Prince Tsai Chin a member of the Grand Council.

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It has been another sweltering hot day in Hongkong, but there is decidedly mora movement in the air, and there are plenty of indications of thunder showers being not far distant.

The American Censulate General at Hongkong, circalated to-day the following. telegram received from the Manila. Obser

story:

July 30, 1909 10.80 a.m. Cyclone er typhoon E. of Bashi Channel moving N.E.

THE FALSE IMPRISONMENT

CASE.

The Prehminary Examination of the In the Summary Court, this morning, Mr Hongkong Medical College has been put Justice Gompertz delivered judgment is on the List of Preliminary Examination the case in which Mak Tit Sang sued Chan recognised by the General Council of Kwan Shan for 830 damages for Islan imprisonment. Mr D'Almada Castro, of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.

.

DE the Prussian element in the Boherland Limited and should arrive here in zollern dominions dwindles to a minor- time for the Nippon Maru, and the third ity, by so much will it become more dif- (Los Angeles Examiner) leaves Vancouver £cult to maintain a Hohenzollern em- by the Empress of Japan. They all take pire that shall be at the same time the Sibering route, so that the competition Gardiner in Chambers later in the fores. Clarke, MT. K. Dealy, Ror, T. W. camp. All over Europe and the world will chiefly lie between the steamship com- the current runs away from war-lord panics involved. "It is expected that the and autocracy to democracy and self- round-trip record may be cut down from government, and Fohenzollern ideals 45 days to 42-4 notable achievement. cannot in the end make head against it.

great hive of industry and an armed

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

noon.

Mr Gardiner rand a letter from Mr Bowley which stated that he intended to ask Mr Justice Gompertz to vary the judgment, in the case and before that it appears he had gope iute Chambers and discussed the matter with bis Lordship.

His Lordship- He asked me if I was prepared to consider it

Mr Gardiner Surely that is not correct procedure !

English rule, with all that can be cited against it in India and Egypt, still carries with it the fundamental princi- ple of democracy. England is still the

Mr Herbert Samuel has been re-elected mother of parliaments and the inspira for the Cleveland Division of the N. Riding, tion for oppressed nationalities Ber Empire is mainly based on self-govern Yorkshire, on his appointment as Chancel-

His Lordship-I have given no decision ment; and even in India, where the lor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He polled problem is so immensely difficult, the 6,206 votes against 5,395 obtained by the in the matter which is quite open. English instinct for progress with pra-Unionist candidate, Mr Lewis.”

dence is now manifesting itself. Would

it be foolhardy in an English statesman

to declare that until, Germany had thor

Mr Manuel D. Derteano will shortly taku

ver the duties of Consul-General for Para

GOLD MINING IN THE PHILIPPINES.

THE REAL STRENGTH OF THE vaghly learned the lesson of democracy at Hongkong, in wuscension to Mr B. G The gold mining industry in the Philip

and the supremacy of the civil over the BRITISH EMPIRE,

military authority, the British Empire Senna, who after one and a half year's pines is gradually forcing itself upon the haa, in the long run, nothing to fear? It service in the Colony, returns to Peru, attention of the investing public Con South Africa overrun by German troops. the Diplomatic Department. But even if we imagine the conquest us effected, it is quite impossible to think..

Guinness' Stout of the speakers at the Imperial is hard to imagine Canada Australia, or where he will take up an appointment in sidered an idle dream a few years ago,

IN PINTS AND SPLITS.

Press Conference, which filled so auch space in the columns of the London press a month ago, said that he had left New Zealand with the idea that the principal topic to be discussed by the

until trained prospectors went over the ground and found more than ordinary pos of Germany ruling these colonics. The States Volunteer Corps, was second in the there is now's considerable mining popula

Major A. B. Hubback, of the Malayalities lying in the hills about Baguio, process of sergeant's drill is not the right Barlow Spshooting competition at Bisley at work and stamping mills are being preparation for world-empire. The spirit of German government and ad- Major, Hubbock, says the Singapore Free ministration must grow more supple and Press, has done a good deal of big game and erected as soon as the necessary, capital modern before the war-lord can look other shooting and is therefore well quali can be found New Zealand is well. Europe, or dominions beyond the sens, or two only,

Not all the moral weight is on the

A. B. WATSON &00μ) Ovorsens. Editora was the cheapening toward domination over non-Germanic Bod to hit a target that shows for a second represented already in the field and

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no auch internal sorts as England's Colonies and the Mother, Country na pauperism to weaken her. Her labourers. A. Brown who have gone to Nova Scotia feet of excavation has been accomplished. would enable the British Empire to work harder and fare worse than the for good, Capt. Brown having retired on and half a million dollars worth of ore in in

English, but they have a greater pension from the Godown Company. hencaforth present an invalnerable front assurance of immunity from starvation, to the whole world, This was the fur the poor house, in their old age We smay, mumerate every fine quality that

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in giving judgment said that as the point. was an important me he had consulbed with the Chief Justice who agreed with him that the arrest of the plaintiff was "justifi- able. Judgment was given for the de-

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