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THE CHINA MAIL.

The Times in 1860, that the Governs giving no quotation suurbos, an ho took ment of the day come to grief, hey it for granted that every one would would “fall like the wille of veneko recognize the squrces of the document,

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tha Frisch Mail of the S1st August was delivered in London on the 29th lust.

IS COMPLETE before the noise of empty piteliers. No sooner had it been published than a In The But, a cycling paper, there once lending Democratie editor pounce upon appeared tho geroralization that, like it an aliameless plagiarism; hip was a pocket book containing a cheque for

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1909.

[COPYLLIGHT

A SPANISH SUCCESS,

-MADRED JUBILANT."

(lieu'er's Serance to the China Mail.) LONDON September 20 The Spaniards have now occupied the whole of Mount Guragu, the planting of the Bag on the topmost pools thereof being accomplished amid the wildest cathpalaam.

Theo ure great jubilations in Madrid

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.

dearly laren zorelty." From a review in though he could not say on the spur of daily paper still flourishing is extracted the moment from what authority it had this passage The joy of the man if the been stolen. The next morning, the Scriptures, who, having found the talent Republican paper cans to the defense which he had lost, called together his of the maligned Governor It - friends and neighbours to rejoice with dignantly repelled the charge of theft The Philippines Government has pur- him, is the only thing comparable with mu challenged the organ of the phased the stormer Minily for and as a

enbluship. The price paid was P105,000. Earston's Circus artres in the Colony the joy of the reader of books when once posite party to point to a single line in The russel was bought at Singapore by in a way he comes upon a work of real the proclamation that had ever appeared Mr Frank Helm, director of die Burson genius Fossibly, top, it was some sort in print before. of mudile rather than actual ignomace thut once led The St. Stephan's Review, after quoting St. Patt's disparaging comment on the Cremas, to add that St. Paul kaaw his fellow courtimen

The Anglo Saxon peoples have travel led far since the days of Jens Berris, when the text of the Bible was as fami- in on their lips us household words, but we seriously question whether they In older cuses one is justified in have not lost considembly is an intell couclading that the actual test actual sense in the interval of Solid Scripturo is unfamiliar. Otherwise a leaning and accurate thinking has loading London journalist, being strack given place tan Anshy phosphoresence S. MOUTRIE & CO., Ld. at the Academy by a picture of Horodica in a very serious degree, and the evil and her Daughter, would not have turned up his chesical dictionary wher he went home in order to discover who on earth Herodias might be. This oc currel, of course, several years ago before it was the fashion to teach Scriptura history on the music-hall stage with dancing girls to instructors

Hongkon April 16, 1907.

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TELEPHONE No. CHINA MAIL, LIMITED.

General Memoranda. SATURDAY, October 2---

Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Jockey Club on the ground floor of Hongkong Club Arnore, Chater Road. The p-Perfomaraton's

roma në Kennedy Town.

TUESDAY, October. 5 ; je

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Wzorzdar, October 19:-

3 paz-Acution of Lansehold Proporties at Mpus Enghen & Hough's Sales Room

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HOROLONG, TRURiday, Sept. 30, 1900,

So much for the: English journalist and their knowledge of the Scriptures Now we turn to their American confrerea and find that they cannot afford to sit in the seat of the scornful or to deride their brethren. An extraordinary bat quite credible story come from Boston the other day. A lending minister of

seems to intensity rather than diminish As the century unfolds.

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NEWS OF THE DAY

Since the beginning of 1909 forty one rubber plantations have been floated in Britain, with an authorised capital of £5,000,000) and stock issued up to £3,000,000.

of Navigation..

The Hon. Trout of the Alice Memorial and Ailiated Hospitals begs donations to the Ends of the Hospitals neknowledge with thanks the following

Chan Chun Mrs W. Williams (2nd Sub)

R. Wood (extra for Patient)

to-morrow and Col.. Bob Love, aures us that everything will be in readiness for the opening performance at Kennedy Town on Saturday night. A splendid programme. has boom prepared. The box, plan is to open to-nigrow at tay Robinson Piano Company.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

fluential scions who hare bribed other man will land at Wanchmi Godown Pier to the

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THE DISSOLUTION.

GENERAL ELECTION: IN BG JANUARYL

(Reuter a Service "to the China Merit.

LONDON, September 30.

The Daily News, the mothout organ of the Government, states that Majesty the King will proclain the dissolusion of Parliament on 15th nesk

NORTH POLE CON- TROVERSI

RIVAL EXPLORERS AT:

VARIANCE

(Reuters Service to the Chins Mat) LONDON, September 29: The Feary-Cook controversy Bas bee re-opened as the result haf indictment of Dr. Cook by Cor Feary, which has been published New York

The reforms at Peking have led to the

Count and Countess Olani, the Hoshu discovery that most of the titular oftain of Hongwanji seck of Japanese Buddhism, clarks are gross incompetents, being either aro expected here to-morrow morning by the sons of high officials or rich and in-the saDelto. It is arranged that they to pass their technical examinations for morning and proceed to the Japanesea Tem- them, or oren cetually to to offes work for plo in the Wanchai Rond, where they will them and represent their persona. In spits receive a visit from representatives of the Fo of doleful forebodings, it appears that the Chinose. Gavernment is doing its boss to Improve a tory, wretched general state of affaire. At the same time, however, one of the impations Consors reports that the much-vounted Bureau of Constitutional Reform is doing no sal work at all and ought to be abolished."

Telegrams Emm Constantinople state that five hundina liques have been des

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL troyed by torrentis mins at the town of

Mes. 0, G. | Alabaster is expected to Homa, in North Syria. One hundred perrive by the Fainen, at the begin- sons perished in the wreckage.

ning of Nerember.

"Rodisi," who addresses to us a letter on the Brandy case, has forgotten to dia- close her name. No letters signed by † nom-do-plume are printed in the Ching

donce with the names of the writars.

Arthur Robert Feel, British Consul Gozaral at Crete, has been appointed Blinistor at Bangkok,

DREADNOUGHT FOR THE FAR EAST

"A MAGNIFICENT CRUISER.

(Reuter Service de the China Afariz).

LONDON, September 20 Japanese community here.

The new cruiser Minatour will relieve Count Onani, accompanied by the Coun BMS King Alfred on the China tese, is going to India for the purpose of Station. *** studying the religion in the country where [Note. The Alinazoru ja a nagnificent Buddha founded his teachings. The Coun-armoured cruiser of the Dreadnought clase, tosa Kazuko Oʻani is to daughter of the mant Sho was laid down in 1996 and

being modern in design and equip into, Prince Kujo, and elder sister to the launched last year. She carrica 14. quas present Crown Princess of Japan

and her tonnage is 14,800 tons, and, horse powar 27,000 (nd) Her spoed (in 23-

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HONGKONG AMATEUR-

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Third Annual Meeting-

TO FOSTER PATRIOTISM.

(Wah To Fat Pa's Service,)

PERING, September 29. The Grand Council suggests tha

At the bice of Dr Forsyth on Wednes Prince Tsai Chin be deputed to proveed day ofening the third annual meeting of to the Straits and the butch Indies in the Hongkong Amateur Athletic carder to bring the Chinese there into tion was bold under the presidency of Dr closer relationship with their Mother?

that city was rung up on the telegeme Mau unless the editor is furnished in conTop, Col H. D. E Parsons; 0.31.GM Forsyth, NEMEN IN

by a reporter who wanted to know the subject of his next Sunday morning sormon Wise as serpents and harm less as doves," was his reply. The re- porter seemed to have some difficaity in catching exactly what was end, and asked that it might be repeated. Finally he assured the minister that he had got

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The battleship Edinburgh will bo used as a target to test the effectivorass of the paw 13.5 in. guns, with which the new super Dreadnoughts will be armed A number of these guns will be mounted for the purposes of tests on existing battle- ships.

Destructive floods have ravaged several

od. Tonkin, is a large exporter of grzin, and voices have been mised to cope with the expected dearth by forbidding sight export. To do so rune counter to the teaching of orthodox political economiste, by the ery among the tires to keep the grain in the country is rising louder. The Government has pickled, by terbidding altogether, the oxport of rice and paddy from Toukia, But stocks laid in before the prohibition camp to force will be cumpled,

Army Ordnance Corps, has been appointed chief ordnance officer at Hongkong."

The resignation of Governor General James F. Bwith "of the Philippinoa tà nos to become effective until November 7, at which time Vice Governor Cameron Forbes, will bonppointed to the office

Fronch captain and Forber has been killed while ozporimenting at Bon lagne, during the aviation weak, with an monoplane. The aeroplane turned turtle and while landing, the motor crashed the aviator'a chost,

The Chairman said he would first con gratulate the Association on having firan

tially à successful year. They had practi.

country

CHANGES IN THE GRAND COUNCIL

(Wah Ts, Yat Pu's Service

PERING, September 29.

His Excellency Chang Chib-Tang his

cally begun with nothing, und paid a track Engineer Commander. M. Raadis has coolle all the year, got hozdles, etc., ned appointed to E.MS. Tamar sa first in addition and credit talases of $17,801 nasistant to the chief onginest of the Natal The moating last year was successful in s Yards

way, but it bad, been poor in the matter of entries. This season he hoped the meeting would be he'd later in the year, and that again caked for extension of loave

updat it would be numerically stronger. Het ja reported that B.E. Chang-Chi did not think it necessary to refer to the Tang and HE. Lu Chuan Lin will pro tem championn, but he understand that soon retire from the Grand Council and they would have to look to their laime that the Prisco Bagent intonda to this year, there would be now arrivals appointed EE. Chit-chih-Chang to be of the track. Competition, however, was out of the successors, while H.B. Chang the beat thing they could have in sport. chih-Tung and HP. Na Tung recom- The cross country ruus had boon extremely med FE Yuan-shih-Kot for the other disappointing from everybody's point of view, and especially from his own. Besides being Chairman of Committas and

and coolle hand had to lay out the track and show, every competitor the way. He thought that instead of having monthly meetings this say they should have a long distance t run of eight, ten or eighteen miles. There would then be no misunderstanding about the road, because the man who got to the

own lookout whether he chose to go br road or over hills. A un could train for such a meeting and be done with it, instead of having to koop in form for monthly

Wo understand that a marriage has been arranged and will shortly take plats be tween Lieut. &. N. Paxton of the Royal Engineers etationed in Hongkong, and is F. G. Dennys the eldest daughter of Mr H. L. Doniga.

vacaney

PRINCE HISUN TO GO ABROAD.

it all right The next day the paper provinces in Tonkin, and a famine is feas announced that the Rev. Dr. Blana would take for his si..ject the following Sunday, "Why is a serpent as harmless an a dove 2 Not long ago Fraf Grabam Taylor was reported in the Philadelphix Publis Ledger, normally one of the best-informed pf American calabash pipes, with and without

papere, to have taken as his text for Qualities ranging from

baccalaureate sermon the words of PAUL the cheaper kinds to the most

to AGRIPPA was not disobedient in

Cha Ping-sai, an accountant says the visionary things. Mana Twan, in his N. Daily Neci gae banded over by the luxurious. Also meershaum and THE PITFALL OF QUOTATIONS. book on Christian Science, tells how a Fronth Police to the Mixed Court auto amber, and all amber Cigar and

telegram from Mrs Ear to a conventiones, by whota ba was detained on charge Lord Rosebery, in the preface to the place first would win, and it would be his prsa Dowager, which takes place, in

of having embezzled but wean Tis. 00,000 published version of his Glasgow spiech, Cigarette Holders, etc, etc.

and Ths. 70,000 at Hongkong. It was saga It is not I who have left the stated that the accused was arrested by party. They have left me and gone the We specially recommend the

the French Police on board an incoming with alarming volority. Tam much whore new Clebo

which em- pipe

steamer in rospotles to a "telegram sent on behalf of three Rangkong banks Acous bodies the latest contrivances

was rempeded in custody for one mouth, and the branches of the Banks concerned pro Francis, Joseph of Austria Hungary was agreed tood in the Picas owing 4 ACTE 4 wain peta will be so, communicated with, and a whts conferred upon Sir Robert Brodon, The following officers ware elected for j

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SINCE the days of Mr. Mataror there has been an increasing tendency among nearly all classes of the community to "disarrange their epitapha.” Whether this is mainly due to a looser manner of thinking since our public schools cabulated to afford e cool and abandoned much of the classical side of their system of learning, to the slip-shod manners of the age, or to the increasing hurry and rash of modern life we would not care to speculate. The babit is with

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of her followers arrived in this form

He hath filled the hungry with good things and the ice hath be not sent empty away." The passage was so reported in the sccounts of the convention, but provoked, no comment

The P& Times reports that the

Acting Inspector General of Customs, the Grand Cross of the Order of Francis Josoph,

oventa. The speaker concluded by moving the adoption of the report and accounts.

De F. H. Kew seconded, and the motion

(Wh Yat Po's Service).

Pextra, September 20. Prince Teal Hach will go abroad after altending the funeral of the late Em-

November

YUAN-SHIH-KAI IN TAVOUR.

(Wi To Yal. Poi Serulis.),

Persa, September 23: The Grand Council has telegraphed syth, Hon. Treasurer, MA, R. Buther health and adding that he is to be to: Yuu Shih-Kai- enquiring, after his

the ensuing year • - Chairman, Dz. U. Fore

In their weekly toa report for Septem. the most coreled Austro-Hungarian decat and Hon. Secretary, Mr Happointed Viceroy of Manchuria

it, to the limitations of newspaper men in the matter of Biblical knowledge."

bored, Blessry Lloyd, Matheson and tion, It is difficult to fiv

to say who must 2016 Carriti'à cireular, says Chiun.-Thore is been precisely to blame for a paragraph a strong market for goed madium to fine

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It was decided to raise the subscription comes chic or develops into su attack of sumption, the extent of export orders to Columbia lost his way at nightfall, and for being very moderate. Good commen became busted for five hours. During ble to $2 to hold a sports meeting on Decompsonen, but give it the attention it grades are no change, but are well worth andorings lie narrowly escaped falling bar 18th and to hold a long-distance race deserves and gat rid of it Take Chamber Over precipico. He was eventually dis from Aberdeen Dock to the Cricket Ground lain Conga Romody and you are enre of prompt relief For sale by all chemiste attention at present quotations. Further

m January 2nd. covered by a scacch party!

and storekcopera.r supplies of Oolong and Sounted Capers ar

123, and a very bad habit it is. As we which gave 2 Commihists, vol. 1, nis ssid in the opening sentence of this

the text of a reported serica, but at article, no claas is exempt, all are lared an

any rate there must have been some by the some brash Ministers, members

One in the office concerned to whom the of Parliament, clergymon, and public

Biblo was an unknown book As the apcakes generally, all trip and fall when Methodist Ccumenical Conference of moving rendily at stendy prices. Fooohor. The death has occurred at Folkestone of attempting to drag in a quotation to ndd

1891, DA. DUCKLER stated that just-Pauyongs are colling slowly at Ed Lout Col JW. Hind, to of the Bull. point or emphasis to their argument.

Giday Bouchongs at Lid. 1 1d. He took part in the Parak expedition of before, the editor of the Chicago Trib Green tot Market firm, with a good all 1876-6; rocciving the medal with clap, A writer in The Christian World ha

the oportions in Chitra) in 185, for which been taking his countrymen seriously, in a controversy with a minister, rourd demand.

had put this question "If the Lei.

also his had the medal, and the South Tha Deli tanti tells of an unpleasant

to task in this connection and in the

story were eliminated from the Book adventure walch balol a party of picnicker african war, during which he was for a course of his remarks brings togf Job, would the Doctor then deny facfading overal ladies, out in the wilds it time in charge of prisoners at St. Holans,

some most amusing blunders. Some of

the oddest mistakes in his collection are

the authenticity of the epistle 7"

One of the best illustrations of this

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Bandar Maris on September 16. While resting themselves, loud roar reached The Emperor of Japan las conferred the their ears. Their forent may be Smagined Order of the Sacred Travure upon the the offspring of members of the journailing dates from fifty years ago when they law a large tiger about 40 yards Res. J. Batchelor, the sateen reprosanla alistic pabfosion, and we evidently a

away, gazing at them with evil grea To tire of the Church Missionary Society period when, according to some critics their despair the Indies screeched out to among the Ainu, in Northern Japan. – bir amples of thint confusion of well-known

of present-day degeneracy, a knowledge the utmost bet all la rain, until a gentle Bitchelor, who is now at home on leave of names or incidenta to which every of the Bible, wha pory, of every-one s man hit upon tus happyridon of pelling sbsence received an initiation of ho one is liable when tiind or overdriven equipment. At a time Mr. SALMON BATA tu figur that it walked off. Tas log formavo rest pleasure in empty bottles at the monster. This superial Majesty e decision in the follow-

It may therefore has been merely by a CASE, afterward Chief Justics of Cumaira Post saya tha the party brought informsing you that on the merits of your slip of the pen that a writer in

the Supreme Court at Washington, ne the trouble upon themselves by disregard self-sacrificing labours among the Aino for Daily Telegraph some years ago perget Governor of Ohio, and in this capacity aging that niligen ad just been to turto sleep the Algangurinn Per Case 4 Dozen Pints. rated the following sentences These his duty to Bang just beforo

teen nf the spot cake to the knowledge of language and

traditions, our Emperor bus decorated you Per Case 100 Split representatives of die broad basis of

with the Four Order of the Sacred

Per Dozen Pints Thanksgiving Day a proclamation cading Parisian life wore thrust into the back.

Per Dozen Splite ground, und wers Iain, liko Nuoma apon the citizens. of the State to join in HOW TO PREVENT BLOOD FOIEUN. Trossre before his conversion, to climb up

its celebration

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tres in order to catch a glimpse of the festival was largely a religious one, the modern fossinu in his Muscoviteit would be appropriate to compose his

uniform A similar explanation would account for the declaration mado

tion entirely of passages from the Bible. He accordingly did so

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