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THE CHINA MAIL.

Comparison given with the wages paid in Paris and Berlin, and it is noticeable that in practically very case wages are higher, and the hours of labour shorter in London than they are. abroad. There are 9,151 miles of street in London and no fewer than 187 vie are laid with tramways." The gro cost in street improvements during the last two-years has been over rine million pounds, although the net cost has only been some three and h-half millions On an ordinary wee'sday no fewer than 8,656 trains run 4 into the various Lon Experience, don-railway mini, and in 1807 the

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CONFECTIONERY,

We have just unpacked our new seasour Confectionery, in

parted from the LEADING

LONDON AND PARISIAN

HOUSES.

FULLERS

CONFECTIONERY.

Chocolate Almonds.

Chocolate, Caramels.

Peppermint Creams.

Butter Toffes.

Assorted Sweets,

Cocoanu Squares. Peppermint Lamps: Walaut Toffee.

Assorted Caramels.

etc.,

etc,

etc.

Council time carried more than 379 million Fongers.

VARU BAD WEATHER.

Veetle coming up from Singapore munt be experionding bad weather to juday the typhoon warping, which the Colony from Maille The following solagrana ar visted by the America Consulate-General for genera! Informs

Manila November 6th, 8 pm. Cyclone or typhoon between the Visayas Taon, moving W, or W-NWA

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OF BIRTH EKTION,

A Ganelbe, Bebrvordinary, Lasund în con- sequence of confrmabory Instructions from the Secretary of State that the celebration of His Majesty's Birthday is postponed s November the 25th its consequence of the funeral obsequion of H. E. M. the late press Dowager of China, which takas, placo en November the Bch, notifies for general information that there will not be a pahlic Manila, November 7th, 10 am. Cyclone or typhoon W. of Mindoro, holiday on November the Sith, and that the moring W. or W.N.W.

parade of troops, and the Official Birthday Manila, November 7th, 4pm. Dingar and Ball at Government House Cyclone or typhoon S. of Mania, will be postponed to November the 25th..

The Garden Party at Hood Quarter moving WNW 2

House on the King Birthday is post ponad till the 28th November.

Manta, November 8th, 10 m, Cyclone or typhoon, W. of Luzon, more than 100 miles distant, moving N.Kor N.N.F.

The Eongkong Observatory report that the typhoon is between Luzon and the Maccleshold Bank.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.

It is farther notified that the 95K insh will be kept as a public holiday..

MONDAY, NOVEMBER

MATE IN AFRICA.

FOR CO-OPERA ~TIQM

SHOOTING FATANTY AT: 8000HOW.

DE STUARTE MELANCHOLY

DIATA:

((From "Our Own Correspondial)-

SRINGEA, November 8.

(Router'a Seroson to the China Adail.)

Lamon November

Dr. Stuart, of the Presbyterian Mia- Bar Deraborg, the German Secretary, Soochow was shot dead an of State for the Colonies, was the guest Saturday last night at a banquet given by the African Society in London, and in the bush,

course of a speech he dwelt on the community of Anglo-German interests in Africa and the necessity for a uniform

We are asked to state that the local Firspolier towards the natives. The prestige and Marine Insurance Offices will be open of the Whites, he said, must be maintain- sa nsual to-morrow, and not close" bo publia business as advertised in another fed under all circumstances. celaza.

The fortuighty meeting of the Sanitary Board will be held on Tuesday at 3.45 p.m. previously stated on Wednesday,

The Getta contains regulations for in the Council Chamber C 8.0., and not as Dernburg on behalf of the Government.

So och for mere statistics. Now to:

sxempting ships' stores from dety under surn to less admirable aspect of Lon-the-Lybors Ordinance. dor. We find in a recent issue of the

B. M. S. Moomouth returned from Taily Mail a German writer. expressing the North this morning and immediately

the amazement which observant Gerwent into the Naval camber. mans and Americans invariably feel on

At the Sanitary Board meeting on

rolatira Freaching the great metropolis of the Tuesday correspondence

AL FRESCO FETES

Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency Sir Frederick Lugard an al fresco fute, in aid of the funds of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was held in to the spacious compound of the Roman

Colonel Seely. Under Secretary of Stats for the Colonies, welcomed Herr

The British and Germans, he said, had penetrated so deep into Africa that it would be a dimster to the whole world if there was strife in Europe.

THE BUDGET.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD. British empire and viewing the sicken-malarial fever in New Kowloon wil be Catholic Cathedral on Sunday when there LORDS TO MOVE REJECTION.

Hongkcas. Apell' 18, 1907.

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MARRIAGE.

BANNER-KEUGER-At the Peak Church, Hongkong, on Nov. 6, 1933, by the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Victoria, isto by the Rev. A. B. Thornhill, MA, NORA

TRENE cord daughter of Edvard Harmood Banner. Esq., of Blundellands, Liverpool to Kuasa F. Kot of Shanghai

Shanghai papers please copy... |———

General Memoranda.. WEDNESDAY, November 10.-

3 p.m.-Auction of Taluable Household Furniture, Mr Geo. P. Lammert's

Sales Rooms

road.

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"No person shall eit or stand upon any part of the rails of Blake Pier," says a regulation recently made by the Governor

ing squalor of the poor. Foor there are in New York and Berlin, as well as elsewhere; but in no city is poverty, be declares, so repulsive as in the English-Council. capital. The Daily Mail's contributor,

(Restor's Service to the China Mail.)`

He fell and his gun caught in the"

OUR NAVAL POLICY..

NORTH SEA “A BRITISH

(Beuler's Service to the China afi

Laos, November 8. The Obrerrer states that Sealya Flow; Orkney Islande, is intended to be used by the Government as a naval bosa, This is the crowning policy of zouking the North Sea a British Lake.

[Note Scalpa Flow is a c-basin 18 miles long and 8 mile wide-En. U. M.]

TROUBLES IN MOROCCO,

GERMÁNY PRESSING' HER

CLAIMS.

(Reuters Service to the China Ma%.)

LONDON, November 8.

LONDON, November 7. The Daily Telegraph mays that the| Lords have definitely settled to move the rejection of the Budget.

A Tangier message says that the Probably Lord Lansdowne will. in-Germand are pressing Momeno, to sattle their claims immediately. They arge that loans should be contracted,

was a very large attendance. The main. pavilion at the entrance to the right was beautifully decorated: · and many costly fancy goods were exhibited for salu. Op posite the pavilion was the refreshment stall while the souvenir stall was slao gaily decorated. The grounds were splendidly illuminated and besides the stalls already. mentioned there was a shooting gallery which attracted a good dest of attention.troduce the motion. During the evening His Excellency Sie J. J. Machado was present being received The name of Mr A. Colbourne Little by Bishop D.. Pozzoni, Mr Botelho, pre-- has been added to the list of authorised sident, Mr Rocha and Mr Silva. A few architects in the Colony,, and Mr Donald minutes afterwards His Excellency Bir acdonald's name has been restored. Frederick Lugard attended by Captain

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There were 403 European and 213 Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library. and 258 European and 2,250 Chinese to the Museum for the week ending 7th Nov.

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This week's Overland China Moil is Dr. OSCAR SCHWERMER, aw in Hoxton ady for posting by the French Mail to Market what he had never bebeld be-morrow morning. It contains all the local fore-women and children sa filthy news of the week. that he was afraid to touch them. Yet he, like other residents of the Continent, had always believed the English to be personally the cleanliest people in the world. The reason, he thinks, ia that Germans are taught cleanliness in schools and in the army, and that dirty, ill-kept tramps are not permitted to wander abroad for long without being put to work. The dirty school child in Germany is sent home, and the police Bee to it, if the parents do not heed the first warning, that repeated onentes arc made impossible. Dr. ScawERRE feels, too, that much British unemployment is not due to lack of work, but to lack of a désire to workWe have no unemployed question in. Berlin," he writes, "and no potrhouses I do be

33.-Assal-kle of Work at Citylieve that this latter fact is one

Hall

9 p.m.-Concert at City Hall.

THUESDAY, November 11--

2.45 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni

tare, at 24, Balilios Terrace.

9 p.m.--Ferformance at City Hall. FRIDAY, November 12-

2.15 p.m.-Meeting of His Majestys, Justices of the Peace at the Magistracy. 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni turo, at No. 2, Camorce Villas, The

Pesk

SATURDAY, November 15:-

Taylor and Captain Simson arrived and were received by the Right Rev. Bishop D. Pozzoti, and the committee. After inspecting the various stalls and having abtained a souvenir in the shape of a cushion

H.E. was entertained to refreshments.

It has been decided to call a pre-

By kind permission of the Commanding liminary meeting of the Senate in Peking Officer and Officers the band of the 13th the second moon next year, and the Rajputs under Bandmaster Coke gave. inaugural mesting in the month following-numerous selections which were greatly ap preciated: notably "The Tampart" by Toft;

A Chinese sailor on the as. Kwongsai the piece dedicated to Lord Kitchener by fall overbeard on Saturday afternoon while | Coke, And the Williain Tell overture. The fixing the swing and was drowned. The whistling soles were particularly finely body was recovered the same afternoon.

executed.

Six persona have been killed and twelve injured by an electric train running of the rails and falling into a ravine during speed tests Dear Villefranche, in the South of

France

theIn connection with the Grand Concert to be given this evening at the Theatre Royal in id of the Cathedral Organ Fund, a late tram has been arranged to run to the Peak 15 minutes after the close of the per-

reasons why we have no unemployed to deal with."

The terrible contrast between the dolour and the grime of the East end and the unparalelled luxury of the West end of London has always aroused the

keanest criticism on the part of foreign visitors. Writing nearly sixty years

9.3 p.7.-Auction of Household Fami-go, Dr SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE, the ture at No. 7, Orosby Terrace, Gran- famous philanthropic abolitionist of ville Road, Kowlosa.

Boston, said to a bosom friend :-"For

MONDAY, November 15-

The Chins Mail.

HasGxD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1909.

CONTRASTS OF A GREAT CITY.

Os the whole Englishman can

take apardonable pride in the size of In all London, if. for nothing else.. bitory no city has ever gathered

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formance.

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The Chinese Engineering and Mising Company, Limited, report that the total output of the Companys three minsa for the week ending 33rd October, 1909, amounted to 23,167.27 tous and the sales daring the period, to 21,313.43, ton,

Ou the lat November the railway line from London to Elastings was blocked by embankments that had collapsed under the recent rains. The lower part of Canterbury and Ashford was fooded, while from Lewes there extended in the direction of the sea a Inke fourteen square miles in size.

WILS

The committee are to be congratulated on the success of the entertainment.

TRADE RETURNS.

SATISFACTORY FIGURIS,

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Novembor, 7: The British trade returns for this month of October show increases-in imports of £1,905,477, and in exports of £923,192

A MILLIONAIRE'S BE- QUESTS.

LONDON, November 7.

Mr John Kennedy, a well-known

The committee of the Society of St. Scottish-American banker, hing be Vincent de Paul beg to acknowledge with queathed seven roillion sterling to his thanks the following further donations to relatives, and five millions to charity.

missions and universities. tác Land: D. Dorsbige Mrs A. S. Gomes

Mrs. E. E. Silva...

1826,00 28.00

The Sultan has replied evasively. The situation is considered Lighly unsatisfactory to all parties.

MAGAO DELIMITATION.

CHINESE COMMISSIONER

DENOUNCED.”

(Wah Tee Yat Po'a Service.)

PEXING, November 7..

A certain consor has denounced to- the Throne His Excellency Eso Erh Chen for disloyalty in reference to the Marso delimitation question.

CHINA'S BERLIN MINIS- TER.

(Wah Tex Fat Po's Service,):

PERING, November 7.

Wu Shun Chnan, Chinese Charge de Afaires in America, has been appoint-

Mr and Mrs J. M. E. Machado 23.00 LATEST FLYING RECORD. |ed to act as Minister in Berlin in pince Mr and Mrs Alvaro A. Alven

M

AF. J: Sonres... Mrs A. M. 1. Soares... Mrs José M. Aiva

20.00

15,00

25.00 20.00 20.00

GOVERNMENT APPOINT-

MENTS.

It in notified in the Gazette that Mr R. F. Ersyn has been appointed to act as Local Auditor during the absence of Mr H. R: Phelipa

Mr W. J. Tutcher's appointment to set a Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department during Mr Duno's absoned on leave is also gazetted.

Inspector David Maliardy has been ap pointed to be a sanitary inspector for Kow. loon vice Sergeant George Sim.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, November 7. Mr Paulhan has made a world's record at Sandown Park, where he ascended to an altitude of 977 feet.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT

SELBY.

of H.E. Yin Chang, who has been granted leave to mourn the death of his mother.

EXCISE OFFICERS AS QUARRYMEN,

Three Chinese appeared before Mr J. R. Wood at the Magistracy, to-day charged with preparing ogium and having three- tants of prepared opium in their possession and were fined $100 each or six weeks'--im- prisonment with hard labour. The second FORMER SPEAKER OF THE And third defendants were also fined $20-

each for baring the opium in their posses sion. Chief Excise Officer G. Hoggarth. askod His Worship to impuso a substantial penalty as that sort of thing was very com“: mor at Shaukiwan and the only way the. Excise Officers could catch prisoners WAL by dressing as quarrymen,

COMMONS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) Lamos, November 7. The death is announced of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Selby, who (as Mr.Gully) was Speaker of the House of Commons

We understand Lienz-U. W. M. Beck | from 1895 to 1905. with is shortly to be married to Miss

the driver made every endeavour to apply Florence Bavey Fincer, of Douglas, Isle of

The car was Man the brakes but was too near. travelling at a slow rate.

9 p.m.-Concert in the Volunteer Drill after all, Sumner, with its blaze of

Hall.

talent, its gorgeous wealth, ita exquisito refinement, London could never hold in my heart.or my mind so high a place as does Boston because, mensured by

About half-pret four o'clock on Sunday God's seale, it is not so high. I have afternoon an old hiness WOMAD

The American Government has issued not been so dazzled by the head and knocked down by a tramar near the

invitations to the Powers which took par Victoria Cinematograph and badly injured. the front of the monster as to forget the She was immediately conveyed to hospital

in the Opium Conference-in Shanghai in February of this year, to send delegates, to fact that it has a tail which droggles

another Conference to be held next year so SAVE MONEY BY BUYING CEAM- to stablish international regulations for along through the foulest slough in

BERLAIN'S COUGH REMEDY, the suppression of the opiam trafic. The Circunt Note of the United States to the Monsieur L. Ratard, Consul-General For which humanity ever wallowed... Fonden and English institutions clavate Tee Yokohama Agency of the C.P.R. France at Shanghai, has been promoted to 700, will pay just as much for a buttle Powers, which was issued in September

Golombiamanda of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stars on Government to draw up its ow Wireless menze from the beebok Fitnister bun

For any of the other cough modieuses, but

and submit is to Washington bự and refitie the few at-the-expense of the is in receipt of a wireless message.

RMS Empress of India, despatched on and Mine. Ratard will leave for Bogota you save money by buylog it. The saving

nor the date for holding the Conferenon has OPHER KINDS IN GREAT together ancha vast population within, far more than does an American Saturday last, the 6th instant, at 11 p.m.within the next few weeks. M. Ratard's in what you got, not what you pay, November While neither the place city." Those words were written in at which time the steamer was 1,800 miles or will be. M. de la Battie, who is aars-to-cure-you quality is in every bottle been suggested, it would be held either as of this romed f." and you get results when The Hague or in Washington, as the gouineita Yor sale by all chemists and Powers may find most convenient. The its civic and municipal limits. From

diabank from Japan. It is calculated that well-known in Shanghai. daya long before "slamming" became the vessel should reach Yokohama early on

storekeepers.

time in suggested next April' or May.. statistics concerning "he great wen,"

A pleasing little ceremony took place on a fashionable craze, long before blocks Thursday morning next, the 11th instant just published by the London County" workmen's dwellinga" sprang into

the first day of the Shanghai- ruces..when"

Council-statistics which fill a' columne

When H.M. despatch vessal Alacrity Mr W. E. Paking, of the N-u. Daily Nesos, being, sweeping away acres of aparrived at Shanghai from Japan on Novem was presented with a pair of Teiss field- palling rookeries-yeu today the casual ber 1st with Admiral Sir Bedworth glasses.by his fellow journalists of Shanghai, observer is still struck by the in-Lambton on board, while making for the in hoger of its being the twenty-first Race

senior aval officer's huay, she missed it. Meeting that he had attended: sistent squalor of the world's richest and in some manner lonled the telepho city. Verily it takes a very bold and cable which was somewhat damaged. It took about an hour and a quarter for the optimistic beart to believe with Mr. veseel to get eleax of the cable. Joux Bunse that the worst is past and

VARIETY.

B. WATSON

LIMITED.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS AND KOWLOON DISPENSARY,

THRATIE

ROYAL

pages-we gather that the Festimated population of Greater London | on the 6th April last was 7,429,740, a population which is greater than that of Belgium, which is two millions in excess of that of Holland, and which is slightly in excess of what the total

Reuter's correspondent at Peking has received a copy of the Dongdun. Sonia Bitchig, the first rowspaper published in the Mungol language and script in the that London is really advancing along B. I. IL the Crown Prices of Japan Chinese Empire. It is issued once a fort- population of England and Wales was lines leading to the gradual elimination attended the wound day's racing of the sight by Russians at. Harbin, and is a very 110 years ago. One hundred years ago of the evils now so painfully rampant Sippon Race Class meeting at Negishi, owlithic production. Steel type is used, the population of London did not reach among the chases which are generically October 30, The Emperor's Cup was great improvement on the wood-block won by Mr FL Elliott, who owned, type. as very few Mongols can read one million. It has 761201 Partia lamped together by social writers under trained and rode his mount. Os learning Chinese, general satisfaction is expressed

CONCERT matary oloctoru, hut the statistics show the caption of the submerged tenths Price Hare, who had followed the by thots at this newspaper. In this cen

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discredited policy of poor relief and his personal congratulations. Dependencies submitted a proposal log the In the presence of Fl.. Sie P. J. D. government. Event the last County ng been held to be a method of

alablishment of a paper in the. Mongol LÜGARD, ELOM.G., CB.. D.8.0,"

Council election, when the poll was creating, not preventing, poverty, and

Tighage for the purpose of enlightening Music lovers are offered a bright and the people of Mongols, Lut it has verer heavier than ever before, only 55 per her universal old-age pensions just happy evening apathe Theatre Boys to be carried into effect by the cent of the electors troubled to record established make in the sume direction night, when the Port and Starboard Government::-> their votes. It is cheating to know by destroying one of the chief incen Lights are to give what will probably be that Londone, in the year 1908, had lives to saving and industry, Theroin their last concert. The first part of the

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