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POWELL'S

displaying in their Show-

rooms, a choice selection

of this seasons.

solemn beauty and majestic grundenr. KANUKA one of the Kushani'

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Just as we wont to press a very heavy je Cable communication" with Shanghai and the North has boon restured to normal,

BARGAIN Kings who ruled over the Afghan-thunderstom pasend oror the Coliny,

CRETONNESA

which, for daintyness and pleasing effect, are

UNSURPASSED.

FIRST FLOOR,

ALEXANDRA....

FOR

ASH!!

12 RECORDS

FOR

$45.

Bactrian region in the first contury of

Lealis, mada her debut at the our em; but even in Fu Hess time Victoria Cinematograph on Monday even- the Chinese were unaware of the exacting and had a great reception, boing dates of BeDon's death or MAXSUKA'alled agnim ad again.

dalai

It is officially announcvil at Capetown' that the Government and the Admiralty

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The North German Guzeile writes that

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1909,

[Corepiant,

COPYRIGET]

H. M. S. OLIO REPORTED. BRITISH BUDGET COM.

(From Our Own Gorrispondent).

Susonar, September 21," H. M. S. Clio has been reported from

is in not too much to say thai for a sonite Haiman Straite siderable time there have been upwards

of one million unemployed in Germany.

General Nooth, the veteran chief of the

WHANGPU CONSER-

VANOY

PROMISE.

WHAT THE "CHANCELLOR CONCEDES.

Inadequate says Balfour.

(Peuter's Service to the China

LONDON, September 20.

32).

rule. The Kushans" were simply a Turkish race known to the Chinese as Yiteli-chi, who wore Briven westwach have abandoned the search for the missing Salvation Army, has boen successfullyWORKS STOFFED FOR LACE Exchequer, admits that he will make a

from the western frontiers of China by their kinshen the Eliang-up in the second century'.o. Kushan was one of the Yeh chi tribal divisions afterwards extended to conglomeratol tribes, as we sco with the words "Turk and "Quigoar."" It was practically Kanti-

who was responsible for the intro duction of Buddhism into Chius daring The first century of our en

La or about the year 520, the Chiness pilgrim Suso Yes (accompanied by To-smeye and others) again visited this famous stup, of which he gives a very long, bistorical and topical account, BUILDINGS. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ld. practically enbeding in it all that Fat HIEN bad previously said. He adde, in the account of bis, travels "The King placed in it a quantity of gold and silver, besides nl sorts of precious objects

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Alexandm soat message of sympathy to the General:

We hear of sporadic cases of cholere Shanghai, Honkey and Chomulpho. At

But the disease has spaced, having invaded the Palace compound. At Kobe these members of the Post Dies starfaro

dowes with chofein

At the French army manoeuvres which began on Sept. 13 a dirigible sirship melled over a dircuit of sixty milar in two hours, at a height of 3,600 feet. As a result of its operation the airship was able to communicate valuable information to the force to which it belonged.

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Mr. R.. Whiteside, the accountant of

Diy Telegraph enys that 38 persons were killed in motorer reckionts in the United Statos on one day making over 250 kiled

The New York, correspondent of the

in one week.

Tho Coventry Ordinanca Company haa received orders from British and other Governments for $1,000,000 worth of gon mountings, ensuring work throughout 1910 with 1500 extra handa.

D.M.S. Baribal, while executing a gunhying teat of Babbecombe, Derenshiro,

OF FUNDS.

(From our own" Correspondent.)

SHANGHAI, September 21.

to day, the contract being finished. The Dredging in the Whangpu stopped

Conservancy Bond are unable to enter into a diew contract owing to the failure

Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the

statement to-day which ho hopes will raimove the grievance of the agricultural landlords,

LONDON, September 21. Mr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Speaking in the House of Commons, Exchequer, announced the connession he was prepared to make to agricultural landlords, antithing them on making s declaration with data to a deduction up to 20 per cat under the schedule with From Our Chen Correspondent), respect to repairs and mangement SANGAT, September 21. The concession would cost half a millica The Board of Consuls are consideria 1900-10.

of the Viceroy to provide funds.

THE JESSFIELD CLUB RAID,

ecision was adequate.

Kramat Pulai tin mine, near Ipod, was ro.sempod a reef. Soveral" plates wore torng the sofion to be taken in con- Mr Balfour did not, think the cod~~~ contly waylaid and nasaulted by three were flooded. Hur repairs are likely to A Sub-inspector, two detective and the boiler room oil fuel storage tanks occupy four mead

Chinaman armed with knives and iron crowbars, whose faces were blackened. The rubbers zulieved him of $1,700 with which he had intended to pay his staff.

Padu

The Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, sentenced another Indian to fifteen years imprisonment with hand labour, at the

A Router telegram says that. anCriminal Sossions to-day, for an indecent Australian named Lindsay, a labour re-asalt on the same Chinese boy, as in the cruiter, and all the crow of his atomer eme of the Indian who was sentenced yes. the supa the Buddhistic objects are all except two have been murdered by natives tonlay. His Lordship remucket that bu made out of gold and jade`‚“

thought the verdict of the jury was right

it would be difficult to describe them all fully." No doubt Mr. Srooser's recont find of a crystal casket enclosed

in German New Guinea, and the vessel burned. The trouble was due to the wifo of the oftief being forcibly taken on board

schooner.

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Towards the estimated 1810 Budget | deficit of £8,000,000, M. Cochery. · French Minister of Finance, proposes to increase The following appears in The Times the tobacco tax so as to produce an addi, in a bronze hos was one of BANISHI's Diamond Wedding, Watron: Bied-On Sonal £1,500,000, and also to sell wine treasures; but, thongh Suse Yes gives the 20th July, 1810, at St. James, Padding growers & Stato libel, to be afliged to each mast minute descriptions of the buildto, by the Key Charios It Bird, M... bottle of genuine wine, guaranteeing, its Taleemphie Address, MAIL Hongkong.ing itself, he does not specifically mense of Dr James Watson, 13, Cina, Bath,cording to the price of the wine.

James Watson, Bengal Civil Service, only purity. The cost of the label' will vary

Code, A. B. O, fifth edition.

Singla coples, Daily, ten conts; Weekly, thirty cants; for cash.

OHINA MAIL, LIMITED.

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

tion this priceless casket enclosing some to Augusta Christiann, second daughter of TELEPHONE No. 22.

af BUDDHA's boats, which (like the famous relics in the Kandy temple, which can now only be opened by using the Governor's, the Budhhist Arch- bishop's and the General's keys, all three together) no doubt was most jealously guarded...

William Wilberforce Bird, President of the In the House of Commons recently Council of India and Deputy Governor of Mr C. W. Bowerman (Labour) äsked Mr Bengal Mr Watson retired from Inds on Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, an invalid pension in 1882.

in view of the Americno bref companies increasing their capital by £11,300,000 to

1 "Auction

2.30 p.m.Auction of Household Furni- ture, &c. at Mrs Murray Bain's resid. ence Birnam Brae, 32, Conduit Rd.

General Memoranda, THURSDAY, September 23':-

6.16 p.m. Mesting of Royal Hongkong Yacht Club at the Offices of Messrs Leigh & Orange.

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5.30 p.m.-Mesting of Hongkong St.

Androw's Society as City Hall, SATURDAY, September 262-

A little more than a century after SUNG YON, the most famous Chinese pilgrim of all, Hits-, once more visited the stupa coming, like SUNG YUS and his companions: from the westward

11.30 am fosting of Hongkong Cornid Manglaor, and at like Fau Hux ton Spinning, Wearing & Dyeing Co.. from the westward and northward cin Id., at Mosers Jardine, Matheson Co.'s Ofices.

and entirely new assortment of smokers requisites, from the celebrated BB Factory includ- TUESDAY, September 28: ing briar, meerschaum and calabash pipes, with and without cases. Qualities ranging frorn the cheaper kinds to the most luxurious. Also meershium'and amber, and all ämber Cigar and Cigarette Holders, eto, etc.

We specially recommend the now 'Clebo pipe

which em- bodies the latest contrivances Hongxoxo, TURDAY, Sztr. 21. 1808. calculated to afford a cool and dry smoke.

Noon-Meeting of Douglas Steamship

Co., Ed., at Co.'s Offices,

6.10 p.m.- Meeting of Hongkong Crickat

Club at Club Pavilion, Trvispár. Soptomber. 90:----

3.50 p.m.-Acction of Valuable Lasso- hold Land at Herbert Dout & Co.'s Ofice, Shameea, Canton, 5.30 p.m. Mosting of Hongkong Foot

ball Club at Mosara Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s Offices. SATURDAY. Gotobar 2:-

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noction with the Jasefield Club raid,

sergeants, and fivo constables word Hummoned at the Police Court to-day on a charge of assaulting the two Sikhs on guard at the Club.

Two detectives did not appear, boing on leave in Japan, and the case was remanded for a tortnight.

NEWS OF THE CLIO.

Gruesome Sights in Haitan Straita.

THE AUSTRIAN NAVY.

REDUCTION OF ESTÍMATES. (Reuter's Service to the China. Mail.)

Loos, September 20, The Austro-Hungarian Ministry has reduced the naval estimates by 1,160,000 sterling

THE ENGLISH HARVEST. (Reuter's Service to the China Main).

LONDON, September 20. The dry weather of the last few days lins done much to retrieve the ruin of this morning, reports speaking on Satur-the crops prophesied in Reutor e mes day evening, the 18th September, in the age of the 14th inst. Haitan Straits, the Kwangtai, H. 8. Clio and the ss. Anhui, a nyit.

The British steamer Kneiyang, Captain M. Dawson, which arrived in Hongkong

AMERICA AND JAPAN, According to the report of the second

SPEECH BY PRESIDENT. oicer the vessel, which left Chatoo on the 14th inst., experienced throughout confusedRenter's Service to the China Mah.) mountainous seas and winds varying from strong to typhoon fores, the direction

- Lomos, Sept. 21. being northerly to canterly. At the to Haitan Straits the Kwei-

President Taft before starting on his

drowned Chinese filiormen in various

estance

The Pope's sutothobile is now becontrol Argentine cuttle and beef markets, Red innumerable bodies of 12,000 mile tour of the Western States.

the Government proposed to baka to pre-re expected to arrive this evening or early paid a warts tribute to Japanese in and the report of the Departmental Com-stages of decomposition, most of them met at Minneapolis, fifty Japanese com mittee on Most Combinations, slint steps being lashed to rafts and spars....

inermal commissioners at lancheon. Ho

grounds, Cardinal Merry de! Val having ginning to be son outside the Vatican

been authorised to make use of the car with the object of tasting it. It is our dont and motor to Castel Gandolfo, od thist. Hin Hainese intends to defy pre where the Papal Villa is in readiness for his reception. Count Coccopicri, Chief of the Papal.Police, is to become the oficial chauffeur to the Lupe..

·Both H. M. S. Clio and the su.. "Anhui

to-morrow morning.

vest the control of British beef and cattin

dustry and patriotism and toasted the markets falling to a foreign combination. A representative of the wind do this Serretary to the Board of Trade, in reply chat with the first and second officers. He was a warm and sincere friend of Mr H..J, Tetinent, Parliamentary Coder afternoon visited the Kweyang and had health of the Mikado, whom he said

ing said that the Government was aware from Chofor the

witosted that all through the roa America. He scouted the idea that

worst weather.was

of the points referred to, and that the materparienced, so much so that the ship there was over the slightest Americo- hud to lie at anchor twice and was

ter was receiving earnest attention.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Lord Kitchener has loft Singapore on bad the Bi. M. Co. an. Sydney,

General Broadwood and Capt. Heathcoto are returning to the Colony by the P.31 steamer Siberia on Thursday,

TIENTSIN'S BRITISH POST OFFICE.

delayed for two days Un Saturday Japanese trouble. afternoon the sea was running jarticularly strong, and thuy. met with many genesema sights. Thers and evidently been a disna- trous happening somewhere in the vicinity of Amoy, for altogether they must have seen fully undred dead bodles of Cimone Routing by. Some wero lashed. on to rafts and sobie tied to cars. In one case there were quite 30 bodies on n sapan, some of them having coached

Col. Seely, Under Secretary for the. such an advanced state of decomposition Colonica, replying to a question put, by buat they were horrible to behold. From

(Reuter Service la the Chinix Mad.) Loxos, September 21.

When Mr Fairbanks, ex-Vize Fre Kabul. He, or rather the author of his silent of this United Sta es, arrived at Life," specifically mentions the arrogak from Shanghai on the 13th inst, he said, in an interview, that China was, "relics" of BUDDHA in the interior of more advanced than he had been led to the stupa. This mention by ExcEx-expect. He believed that she would be in TSANO's biographer of the relics a

the future a great Power. He admired the goodwind conciliatory spirit shown further confirmed by the Tripitaka, aby Japan and China in the Manchurian

Until the return of General Broadwood, the very start the weather onuelly Mr. Henniker Heaton, aid he was given copy of which was presented by Sir agreement. He hoped that both nations Brovet Colonel H. N. Dumbiston, RE, dirty, and as they progressed there were to understand that arrangements and EEST SATOW to the Owen's College, reture.

would maintain the same attitude in the will be G.0.0, at Hongkong vice Colonel hourly, Icars that they would run into a been made to maintain the British Post"

Library in 1907. In the biographical

Darling retired.

typhoon, but later it was apparent that the centre of the disturbance had passed to the Office at Tientsin for the present. south of them. By Sunday afternoon the conditions began to improve and thence-

Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Jockey chapter specially dedicated to. BIUEN dent Taft discussed the question of the white man to accompany him to the Polo forward good weather prevailed..

Club on the ground floor of Hongkong Club Aproti, Chator Road,

The China Mail.

THE REMAINS OF BUDDHA.

Tin discovery by Dr. Brooms at Pasha-

CIGARS war of rock crystal cråket con-

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in boxes of 25...$11 per 100 GLAND ROYAL-EL TAMARINDO in boxes of 50...$8 per 100,

taining rec pieces of charred hone which are in all human probability,

Speaking at Chicago recently. Presi

TSASO, the latter traveller spect administration of criminal law in the Cnited fically alludes to StG YN's Mission; States. He drained in the course of his and to the reason why it was sidreas that the present administration of sent by the passionately Buddhistic the criminal laws of the country is a pationint disgrape, He alluded to the groot Tartar Dowager-Empress then ruling in delays in the progress of miminal case North Chinn. He also states that Sex and the ability of lawyers by legal techni Yis and Tao-card found an enormous calities to subvert the ends of justice. The

President recommended the passage of a mass of Buddhistic relics inside theat of Congress greatly extending the stupa. In his work called Western powers of the courts to control progress of the writ of injunction. The address on Wanderings, BioX-THASO bimself this hend covored much the same ground mentions yet once more the eight as his famous address before the Yale Law bushel mensure" of sarira, or "rafies" school. in the interior of the stupa."

M.. Enguard CRAYANNES, the famous

The Prince Regent has presented a banner to the Chinese company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. Prince Tsai sun during his recent visit to the Modo Settlement and the presentation to the arvning ko dined with Lieut-Gol. Barney and the officers of the corps. At the con- clusion of the evening his Highness de

When asked why he had not permitted a

Commander Peary replied, "Because, after my lifelong porté I wanted dearly te keep the honour to myself,"

We got

DENOUNCING THE MAN- CHURIAN TREATY

On making enquirica za to this. H.3.8. Clio, our representativo was informed that there was no doubt but that she was safe, na nisowatha 8.8. Anhui. *Wo passed the Ollo and the Anhui on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, (Wal Te Yat Pa's Service) It is expected that. Mr W. H. Taylor, and the second chicos. They wor

Pegno, September 20. long a resident of Manila but now home on both lying anchored off Station Island in leave, will be selected by the International the Cho sad told bar what the weather wh by Chang Yin Lan, the President, hava the Haitan Straits. We semaphored to:

The members of the Censuste, lod Binking Corporation na agent for the outside and she thanked us branch that is shortly to be opened at under way ather early, but both the Clio addressed a joint memorial to the Hanko

and the Anhui, which are faster boats Throne decouncing the officials of the than oura, should reach herd scan Board of Foreign Affairs who concluded Japan papers report the death of M twelve hours after us: so they should put the Manchurian agreement with Japan, Albert Chaix. Agent of the Messageries asked if he thought the Cllo had sustained in an appearancó some tima this evening." Maritimes at Yokohama since 1907, Mon any damage the second oficer said there gier Chair had been ill only about a week, was no appearance that she had." the cause of death, which took place at the "and everytlung seemed to be all right. looked at her through the glassee," hoʻmaith, German Hospital on the 7th instant, being She was cleared for heavy weather, but of complications resulting from austroke course that is sineys come

dano when the condi Monsieur Chuix joined the MM, Company tina look bad. in 1888, and was for a number of years in the M. M. office at Kobe.

the authentic remains of GAUTASIA Parisian Profese of Chiese, has Bons is attracting a good deal of collected all the above and farther attention in the Hams papers. The evidences concerning this celebrated evidence that the casket is really that "Criole Temple, in his "Voyage on which ANSIKA placed within Sung Yin," published a few revs ago and he was with the efficiency of the all the railroads in Texas, though only w

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Mr Robert Scott Lovatt, general counsel for the railways controlled by the lath Me Hannan, succeeds to the vacant chair.

Liverad a speech, in which he mid how At difcrent times he has been Counsel for the up at Perashapur (Peshawar, by SCHNEIDER of Hanoi, in Tonkin..

Ctincto Company at which indeet he was 49 years of age. For several years be hau or Hero Land") gathers strength the

The question of the disposal of the surprised. His Highness considered, that been general counsel for the Union Pacifio. the Corapany represented an oxcellent idea, and Southern Pacido, and listed lines, me it is critically examined. But to relics of Buddio discovered near and he recommended the institution of and president of the Houston and Toxna WATSON & 00 ur dwellers in an island off the southern Peshawar has fot yet been settled, but smits Companies all over to Empire, Central Railroad Company. In politics he

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const of Far Cathay, the discovery is of numerous offers are reaching the Indian saying that the Chicco Company, SV. is a Demorat.

supplied an oxcellent example for all otios more than passing interest by reason authorities for their custody. One of to follow. Cot, larmes, and the officers of the many references to the site of those offers is from Mike Kry received gold medals from the Prince. Bron's grave to be found in the MLAYA, the wife of tlie lato King Maro accounts of Chinese travellers, The Mig of Burma, who has proposed to

ALEXANDRA BUTEDINGS": "AND: KOWLOON DISPENSARY.

and noted the promotion of Lieut. H

In the London Grette for August 18 we H. Grant Smith, 184th Wellesley's Rifle Aramint kablo Australian journalist has Indian Army, to the rage of Captain, to just passed away. Mr. J. D. Min trasdste From June 15th. The record of Captain famous bushranger. Botolped to carry with the Naval Brigade during the invest

GAMBLING IN CANTON

(Wah Ter Yat To's Service.)

Fexino, September 20. The Cantonese officials in Peking bell

considerable rolled in the Colony, for in the This reassining nowe will bo hoard with abacuce of other information the feara cfn meeting on the 19th to receive plans an awful calamity looked as if they would for, the suppression of gambling in only be too well realised.

Canton,

NOTICE.

We beg to notify our Customers and the Public

generally that the PRICES OF OUR GOODS WILL, from this day be INCREASED in proportion to

VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAP celebrated pilgrim Fan HIER reached contribute a lakli of rupees towards a presant at the capture of Nad Kelly, that Smith's sorvitas is us follows:Why the SCALE OF DUTIES embodied in the Ordinance

DE Vuk ItOAD, CENTRAL

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HARGE OF PROGRAMME

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his way southward from the older

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FREM ER HALL OF HONGKONG. Partshapura in the year 102 an on building suitable for a shrine at Banda-tanded out-lar to a neighbouring sit of Tienteia Setlement by the Boxera

lay, should it be decided to locate any house, and then with professions acumen in 1000, and at this taking of Tientsin City. for levying IMPORT DUTY on LIQUORS which has capital of Gandham, from Udjana and portion of the telize in that centre interviewed him for his apor. In 1903 Was with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from Takshasila (the Grook Taxila Personally weare of the opinion that the by the War Offee for service in the Sudnu, till their robarn to Hongkong in 1000

when an Australian contingdat was socopted from the time they arrived in Tontain become Law.

Having notiosd a boy making what he relics elwald main in their crystal Mr Melvin, was afneed permission to adfeiing Medal). Was wills his regiment called stope for Buddha" KARIGUE casket and never leave. Tadin. The company tham Truss corrispondant (2nd Rest Yorkshirey in South Africa Per but he went with them all the mean an 1801-2, afterwards sorving in the Mounted Lording to TAL HIER' account, pro- Government of India as such e long and skur ogward Having been commis. Infntry Company of this rogiment (Houth costed to rear another which was more honourable record for a sympathetic and sound to investigate the candilium under African Medal with three clasps). « Trans- than 400 cubits high and adorned with enlightened attitude towards "native which the Kanakes or South Hon Islandsforred to the Tadian Army. Reived the Layers of all the precious substances, beliefs, that it is therefore, happily, pos-Me Meirin shipped as a sailor in one of the font clionus) for good work done while word recruited for the sugar plantations,pecial thanks of the Commander-in-Chiet

Of all the tapes and temples which the sible for those who appreciate the grave pilgrims saw in their potegritations amon involved to leave the dooinen with there was tot ous comparable to this in confidence in their hands.

ETBEL LESLIE,

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March 6, 1909,

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