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variety of interesting opinions found time in their history, and expression in print and on the whole the than other civilized verdict, even in Germany, was fairly Mr. Jones. As considerable favourable for England. Few of the of opinion austa as to writers, however, bad, first hand know- benefits of education to the sativa

The La Sungkang, which arrivači ledge of India and their deductions population, we pass over the claims to from Loile this morning, brought over 225 maat therefore be set down as purely gratitude Erilain possesses on this score Filipinos, emigranta for Honolulu. academic.” “A Rev. J. P. Jeys, an Amer from Tedia with the mere remark that

The argo of silk shipped on board hoog on the 6th July, was delivered Lyons on the 6th August

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909.

CHINESE PORK IN

LONDON.

FAIR PRICE OBTAINED.

Reuter's Service to the China Mail LONDON, August 7. A few of the Chinese pigs recently

COPYRIGH

INDIA AND OPIUM.

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.

(Reuter a Service to the China Mun.)

LONDON, August 6 Speaking in the House of Commons during the debate on the Indian Budget the Minster of Elibank, under secretar

can missionary, who has spent thirty there are 5,000,000 youths at school the M. M. 8.8, Taurume, which left Bong imported into England have been placed referring to the question of opium

years in India, belongs to a different category, however, and his contribution to the Boston Transcript is worthy

there to-day

Not only is Great Britain doing a great work in India, bat fr. Jones

S. MOUTRIE & Co. before the coming of the English. The schools

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Hongkong. April 18, 1907.

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on the market and have fetched from assured the House on behalf of Lord 4fd. to 5d. a pound. This is a fair Marley, Secretary of State for India, that

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CHINA'S UNJUSTIFIABLE

OBSTINACY."

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Independent News Agency's Sarvie to

the China Muit»J

Toro, August 6.

revenue.

TARIFF BILL SIGNED.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

Loxton, August B The Senate at Washington has passed

The Japanese pressunanimously and President Taft has signed the revis-

We have received from the P. and O anticipating that Japan will proceed to ed Tariff Bill. N. Co. a copy of their nicely illustrated reconstruct the former military railway Round the World and Other Tours." It line between Antung and Mukden conveys a vast deal of information in a without Chinese co-operation, justify

all space.

such a step, Japan being compeled to take it owing to China's attitude. Regret is expressed at China's un-

It is notified in the Gazette that His Majesty the King has not been advised to finarifiable obstinacy. exercise his power of disallowance in regard to the. Ordinance to among the law with respect to the liability of young persons to the death' mortones, or to the Ordinanco to. amend the Larceny Ordinance

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TSAR'S MESSAGE TO BRITISH NATION.

(Reuters Service to the China Maik)

LONDON, August 0.

"A paper on Water Tube Boilers" is price considering the state of the the matters mised by the International of consideration by all who desire to asserts that the best people of India to bo zaad by Mr Glover at the Institution weather, which is not favourable for the Commission would have his most care

of Engineers and Shipbuilders to-night. A consumption of park.. farm a just estimate of the position of realise this fact, and are the bitterest discussion will follow.

ful and sympathetic attention. He warned the House that the anticipated affairs in Inilia at the present moment opponents of the Nationalist ideal of in-

THE ANTUNG MUKDEN surplus of £230,000 in the Ladian The King's ordquator empowering Mr At the outset of his article Mr Jonas dependence. The only criticism be. 4. Rubles to act as Consul General of

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revenue might not be realized owing to notes the tendency of the superficial ob- makes against British administration is the Culted States in Hongkong has

the possible diminution in the cpium server to blame British rule for the to the effect that the Government did received His Majesty's signature. poverty of India. But Indi, he pro not protect and foster certain Indian ceeds to demonstrate, has always been a industries that have died out as a result It was a tidal wave following the murthygako which didi ac much damago ni JUST RECEIVED, land of poverty, At present the average of cheap foreign competition in the past Ampulco the other day. More than half annual income is only $20 per capita century and a half. However, the Cov- the town was wiped out, entailing hensy

lows of life. and millions fall below the average, andernment is working hard to restore dwell on the borderfund of "want, some of these old crafts, and has found- Nevertheless, the poverty was greatet fed some 130 technical and industrial

luxuries of thirty years ago have become Mr Joxes testimony is timely, but it the necessities of to-day and wages are only bears out what Englishmen, yuless the increase. Crops bring better blinced by, political malesciency, like PARIS, prices, and as ninety per cent of the KEIR HARD, bave long known; it also people are connected with, agriculture, corroborates what many leading natives the benefit is widespread. The reverend of India have within the last four weeks eritie quotes Sir Mammary Rio, one of been saying had writing. There can the few great statesmen that India bas be little doubt in the minds of pre- produced, to the effect that his country a juiced people that the coming of the poverty is "self-inflicted, self-created, or English to India has brought many during the year ended March 31 last show Chinese Government that Japan is going self-accepted, and therefore avoidable.”

blessings in its train, and that were we Would not any country be poverty to retire from the land we should see stricken that had $2,000,000,000 (7. Sisread of the peace of the English such currency) of horded money buried in

an outbreak of racist rivalry between the ground?"If this vast sum were to be

the different natious which comprise its restored to circulation and to the promoting population as would drench tion of industry it would exert a" ngi-

the land with blood from the Himalaya cal effect. Add to this the further enor mous wealth that is annually converted

to Cape Comorin.".

iato jewels, even among the common people; the senseless waste of wiosey upon marriage and other feasts; the willing maintenance of an army, al 5,500,000, religious ascetics, and the Hindu's insane passion for litigation, and three-fourths of India's poverty will be understood.

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Mr R. E. O. Bird, left by the Hitachi Mara on Friday for a run to Japan..

Major and Mrs Grace left the Colony on Friday by the Hitachi Mara to spend month's holiday leave in Japan.

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Reuter has received from the Tear JAPAN SPEAKS PLAINLY

message to the nation, in which His Majesty says he is deeply impressed (Reuter's Service to the China, dail.) with the reception accorded him and the LONDON, August “ attitude of British statesmen, people, Reuter learns that the Japanese and press, which he considers happy. Minister to Peking has informed the auguries for the future.

KITCHENER A FIELD MARSHAL

A return of the Civil List pensions

that pasions of £55 horo" been granted teach of the four grand-daughters of to proceed independently with the re- Charles Dickens. Adeline Lady Drumconstruction work of the Antong-Muk- mond Wolf is given a pension of £100 den railway, in accordance with treaty and Mrs Collins, the widow of Professor right, without waiting for Chinees co- TO BE HIGH COMMISSIONER OF Churton Collins, has been granted operation.

THE MEDITERRANEAN. similar amount:

Judge John E. Humphries, of Seattle, hos-iptroduced a bill in the legislature of the state of Washington making it a felony

Note Mr E S. Little, writing to the North Chin Las regarding his "Reuter's Service to the China Mail) the Antung-Mukden military railway as recent trip through Manchuria, deci ibes follows:-The distance is just under

Lospon, August 7, It is officially announced that Lord occupied two days. The railway

for a white person to marry a Japanese, two hundrod milsa, and the journey Kitchener has been created in Field of narrow gauge, snd vory light con Marshal and that on vacating the struction, and Baldwin locomotives command in India be assumes the office of Autung, and another small stage be of High Commissioner of the Mediter

Except for a short distance out, fore. Mukden the entire therefore his tour in the Far East.

in ranean. This post he will take up after

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A Chinese, a negro, or a member of any other colour race, and imposing penalties varying from two to fourteen years. Is is scarcely likely to become law.

through mountains, and it is The latest returns from Government climbs painfully up the mountain sides beautiful trip for scenery. The railway sourcas indicate that the tobacco crop of to the summits, and in one place, the Caited States will be the shortest know in many years. The trade is greatly almmed over the outlook. Earlier in the serson the prospect was repeated to be

VICEROY OF MAN- CHURIA

owing to the rig-zags necessary to cross n mountain, there are seven tracks, one above the other. The slow rate at which the train proceeda any be judged when it is stated that at one point the engine driver (Wah Te Yat Po's Service)

then jumped on board again. The bridges has sent in a memorial teking to Be care, Having seen that the line was clear

Praiso, August 6. he waited until the tmin overtook him and

H.E; Si Liang, Viceroy of Manchuria, along the line are small wooden straconallowed to retire. some of them exceedingly high

abore the

Great Britain hes been blamed by small-minded critics for the Indian

Mr R. F. Howard, a mining expert in very good but-weather conditions in the left his engine, and run in front of it to n Telegraphic Address, ML, Hongkong, tamines whereas, ever since the con-pany, left She L-cheung on. Wednesday to the crop an alarming degree.

the employ of the Fook Hing Mining Com- during the last few weeks and have affected tobacco regions have been very depressing Code, A. B. Q., 6fth edition.

TELEFONE NO. 2tinents settled down into their present sook medient Advics at Hongkong. On the CHINA MAIL, LIMITED.

shape there have been famines in India voyage he became very ill and death took place just as the launch on which he was primarily caused by an unfavourable travelling entered the harbour on Thurs MARTIN-At 32 Nathan Rosd, Kow-condition of the atmosphere in the day. oon, on the 7th Inst., the wife of Mr J. MARTIN, Kowloon Docks, a daughter.

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DARING ROBBERY IN HONGKONG.

During the month of July 98 arrests water Cary are. frequently jumping the track, which is insecure, and most udgift, in

were made in the Philippines of Chineset thero in ennuiderable danger attending TREATY WITH BRAZIL. Filipinos and Americase under the opium the trip. The Japanese demand to recon-

Able nad neceSSATY.

Wy. Of these 83 weru Chiramen 14 trust the line, and put it into proper Filipinos, and one American. Three of the working order appears, therefore renson- Filipinos were women. Of the cases tried the aentences were for the most part prisonments of three months' each, fines of P300 boing inflicted in soma cases,

Chidesa guards were stationed at various bo semi-military police force, but every places along the line, and also members of thing was quiet.-E. C...]

mountains of Africa. If the famines are bad to-day, what must they have been before Britain poured her millions into rellei work, and built a regular. system of railways for the purpose of

The police have been informed of a most darink robbery which occurred in broad

Bules made by the Gorerner-in-Council TEE – MOST POPULAR ECOK. rushing supplies into isolated, stricken daylight yesterday in Chancery Lane. It indicating the procedure to be followed in

The Bible is still much more in demand districts? In regard to another; pot appears that about three o'clock in the the Now Territories Small Debta: Court are than any other biok. The Oxford Prose, published in the Government Gazette the Sunday of Home states, turns out

(Weh Ta Yat Po's Service.)"

PEKING, August 6.

signed a treaty of amity with Brazil.

The Board of Foreign Affaire has

PRINCE CHIN:"

(Wah Tax Yai Pu's Service) Mr. JONES says:We must also em-afternoon a middle-aged Chinese wom Power to issue a warrant for the arrest of 20,000 Bibles in week.

Pex, August & Stores, at H. M. Naval Establishment phasize the incomparable irrigation was walking along the thoroughfare named person who fail to answar a summons is 40,000 sheets of gold are used in lettering shortly to be removed from otice and More than It is said that Chu Shi-chang is

her and 'dashed through the doorway of the issue of a summons is placed at $1 (to Oxford Bible covers each your. leads in this particular. By the Chenabhouse close at hand. This was evidently be dispensed with at the Magistrate's dia- isrigation scheme, in the Punjab, two part of the plan haid by thieves, for in the cretion) and that for the issue of a distress and ene balf raillien neres of waste following him two other mea ap-warrant is fixed at the same amount.

peared on the scene and promptly shut the

Mr J. Mears, Inspector of Police door behind her. They then clutched her

tare, &c. at No 8. Queen's Road Cen. works of India. It surpasses all other when a man snatched her umbrella from given to the Magistrate, while the fee for the volumes, and 100,000 skins go into that Prince Chin, will be his succeESOT,

tral (Central Hours).

Miscellaneous

Transfer Books of Hengkong & Wham

pos Dock Co.,Ld close from this date to 93rd August, loclusive. Begister of Shares of the Hongking and land, without an inhabitant, bave been

Shanghai Banking Corporation close

4.

and landing chargon,

General Memoranda,

Tuzaday, Ásgust. 10

The

British and Foreign Bible Society prints first year of Amerion, ages. During the America's rulo in pives, 10,700 Bibles were distributed there.. aturrection in China, the issue of Bibles Contrary to expectations, since the Boxer

are sold than of any other 100 books com- bined.

BANK NOTES AND SPECIE.

average amount of bank notes in circulation The Gausite publishes the returns of the

Goods per Tonkin anclaimed after this den with two hundred thousand in into her mouth. This dono, they proceed. B. M. Consulat Kiokiang. Bfr Wm.popular book in the world, and more copies ortified by the managers of the respec-· from this date to 21st Aug, inclusive reently, transformed into a fertile er. by the throat in order to prevent ber from Kiukiang, has been arrested at Kuling, and for Chins last year was 428,000 copies. and of specia in reserva in Hongkong duren giving any alarm sad then thrust a gog brought before Mr G. T. C. Wernor, The fact is, the Bible to-day is the mosting the month anded July 31st, 1908, 23: date at noon will be subject to rent habitants, In the district in which the fed to relieve her of hor jewellery, which S. Fletning, attorney and counsellor at

tive Banks. Those show the following writer lives in South India, the Periar consisted of four very fun pairs of goud Chinese authorities. The accused was re-OHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY: Corporation-bank notes, 812,071,662 Iaw, Shanghai, prosecuted on behalf of the

figures-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking irrigation scheme, completed a decade value of $37. They then add off and Elia, of Ellis and Hays, solicitors, Shang-marit. Try it when you have a cough India, Australia and China--bank notes, bangles and she gold him spade e ata munded will the 7th August bit socis THUS is a medicine of great worth and species 813,000,000 Chartered Bank of 15 Meeting of His Majesty and a half ago, feeds four hundred left the woman lying in a semi-conscious hat, will defond. Mr Mears. The charge is or cold and you a certain to be pleased 83,737,977; specio, $2,800,000. National

thousand people, and has made the was inter found by the occupant of the connected with the death of Chinese will be quick ratio which it affords. It district which was dependent in the house, a Portuguese lady

coolie several months ago. Mr HP is pleasant to take and can always be de Bank of Chins Ltd. bauk notes, 847,810 Wilkinson, the Crown Advocate at Shang ended upon. For sale by all chemists specie, mi. Total Bank rotes, $15,556, 949-

and storekeepers." hai, visited Wiukiang in connection with the

spesie, 815,800,000. eise some time ago, but apparently he did not think there was sufficient ground for prosecution..

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ITEMS AT THE COURTS,

For using dynamite in their operations three fishermen were, at the Blagistracy to-day, fined 800 nchi

Following is the programme of music which the Band of the 13th Rajputs will piny at the Kowloon Hotel on Monday night on the occasion of the Coronation An Indina constable was brought before Diener and subsequent consert

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Shop Girl Song: "Over the Lille. Mr. Coke. HONGKONO, SATURDAY, August 7, 1909, been steadily reduced and only amounts was charged at the Magistracy on Friday

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