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THERMOS FLASKS

blography Born the legitimata són

of a Welah peneant girl and do young farmer, his father, John

THE CHINA MAIL.

IS COMPLETE Rowlands, died when the boy was two the

And Dr. LevpNRE-

years old and his mother's relatives STOXE, and the great work of his life left him to the St. Amph Workhouse was begun. It was the work that was

this paper. purchased at the dice present number contains a descriptive par- wire of Be Andrew Ball, the autolusion of the Interport Festival, full account of the dabata at the Legislative Council,

WITHOUT A VICTOR Bere he remained for ten years, and needed to bring out his higher. cepoluding rarhatim report of the Hon. Mit

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The Merrymakers amired to-day by the French mail and will open as the Thesis Hoyal this arening

THE GERMAN NAVAL SENRATIONS

OFFICIALS AND

ERCHANTS

(Reuter's Barvise to the Chima Moi)

Loros December

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HOME.

COMBINT

HOE, OF BIG INSURANDR

(Rester a Service to the China, Kaz)

aror December,

Mr Pierpont Morgan

The Director of the Navy Yard stores control of the assets of the Equitable the account of his life in this prison- abilities, to broke that strain of Mary Stoward's speech on the Praya house and the horrible brutalities of a spiritual enthusiasm, which was latent Eyesore," and all the local news and aportat Kiel, three subordinates and fire Life Assurance Co. of New York,

merchants, who were charged with the amounting to £35,000,000 sterling.. wholesale robbery of valuable naval

This is regarded as foreshadowing PER MONTH bal-insane master read like pages out in him. In one of the illuminating

stores, have been acquitted.

gigantic combine of banking interests. of Oliver Twist, But the native passages of self-revelation with which spirit of young RowLANDS was not his note books abound he says

DISASTROUS GALE AT

JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR. abdued, and at the age of Altoen he revolted, gave his tormentor a sound thrashing, and then dod from the workhouse. For a time he found refuge with his relatives, first with a unole, who kept a village school near Denbigh, and then with another uncie, a labcurer in Liverpool

A STOCK OF

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But the workhouse lad, disowned by his parents, was not wanted by these 10,000 Records struggling kinafolk, sad he managed board, an American ship bound for New Orleans, Ho bad an †S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ld. appalling experience of the ruffianism

TO SELECT FROM.

Hongkong. April 16, 1907.

BUSINESS NOTICE.

to get on

Tears of indifference and excitement have an unconscious hardening power, We are informed that a concert has and I might have lapsed altogether; boen arranged by Mr W, G. Worcester and but my training in the world of politics, will take place in the Kowloon 'Seamen's of selfish hustling, of fierce equipetition, Institute this evening, commencing at 8,50 stopped in time for on commencing

the work of my life, my flest journey Pl into Africa, I came face to face with

The discourse by Mr H. a. Kennedy Nature, and Nature, was the mesos of recalling me to what I had lost by long editor of the Times wonkly edition, at contact with the world

Alone the Union Chursh yoaterday morning, war

I

in my tent, nosban of men, my mind greatly appreciated for Its practical and laboured and worked upon staalf, and inspiring nature. nothing was so scothing mit füntaining

STEAMERS FOUNDER.

Many Lives Lont. (Reuters Service to the China Mail) Lostos, December 4. The hurricane has done enormous damage.

The Isle of Man steamer Exlan Fazain was driven on Mersey Bar.

as when I remembered the ing neglect. Mesin Curlowits and Co. forward She split and foundered. Twelve pas comfort and support at lonely child-expital wall calendar advertising trengers and twenty-five members of the

ed

my knees, and poured out my soul at which they are agents. It bears a beautiful terly in secret prayer to Him from whom

had been so long estranged, to Him portrait of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, who had led me here mysterionaly into

Africa,

there to reveal Himself and His with which the Tankeo mates of fifty will years ago-and, for the matter of that,; He threw himself into the task of at a much more recent period-treat discovering Ervisasrons with all the ed the unhappy wretches under their ardoar of his self-absorbed esture and command. Kicked, beaten, thrashed his hebagiour during that trip gave with rope's-end and belayingpin, and rise to much misunderstanding. Hi finally swindled of his wages, the boy bearing towards his subordinates was was turned out pontiless in No considered to be extremely harsh per year; including postage, $17.00 Orleans. Here fortune, for a time,

But in the light of his autobiography it Free delivery to all addresses accessible was kinder to him. He fell in-with an and Quarry Bay realdences.

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by mossanger, including all Poak, Kowloon elderly merchant, named STANLEY, who is seen that he carried his own bur

thirty cents; for cash. Talographie Addrom, Man, Hongkong, Code, AB. O, fifth edition.

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Slagle copies, Daily, tan sents, Weekly, took to the led at once, installed him in a good situation at a store, and presently adopted him as his son. Then followed two or three happy and useful years, in which the boy was introduced to civilised society, gained | soms insight into commerce, and read- Suit with furious ardour all the books on

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done, and made his own decisions; he did not seek confidential intimacy, and bore himself always as a leader of mens veritable commander who expected. unquestioning obodionce and aid rather than counsel. He kept his officers at a certain distance; he took his meals separately, and did not share even in

We have received from the Hongkong agents soma. sample tins of the Milkmaid brand of starilised Natural. Milk. This capital article and should command a ready sale in the Colony and the Far East ganatally.

Mr Austan Chamberlain, speaking at Hackney, admitted that he was in favour of a food tax, and expressed the opinion thats tax of two shillings on corn, with Colonial preference, would not affect the price of broad.

The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, report that the total output of the Company's three mines for to 24,673.72 tons and the sales during the the week ending 20th November amounted

period to 26,885.50 tons.

L

Langths,do. at Mr Geo. P. Lammerts which he could lay his Eanda. But such limited conviviality as the condi. German cruiser Scharnhorst is standing by.

Sales Rooma

Amusements.

6.30 p.m.-Orgen Recital in St. John's***

Cathedral

3p.at-Performance of the Merrymakers

at the Theatre RoyaL

crew perished. The elasmar Thistle.

eff Clovelly, and it is feared that thirty- five lives have been lost.

mor, en route to Capetown, foundered

ELECTIONEERING BEGINS.

POLLING TO COMMENCE.ON

JANUARY 13th.....

Stormy Fight Forsshadowed. (Reuters Service to the China Mail).

Lospor, December 4.

TO AMERICA"

Independent News Agency's” Servior

to the China Mail.)

Torre, December 6. Mr Uchida Kowal, the new Japaneser Ambassador to America, sailed inst night

ATLEGED TAX EVASION.

AMERICAN (COMPLAINT "AGAINST JAPAN.

("Independent News Agency's "Servias to the China Mail.)

Turro, December 2,

Mr Cloud, the American Cumsul at Mukden, has reported to Washington that Japanese articles are largely imported into Manchuria evading the import tax

The Japanese Government's ex planation is that the whole amount of Japanese cargo imported

| through the Dairen Customs Depart- The election campaign has been opopment during 1908 ameninted to Tie ed by a Unionist demonstration at Ply 18,470,000 in value, but that, as the mouth, at which speeches were delivered greater part of this consisted of buil- by Lord Lansdowne and Mr Austen ding materials for the South Manchuriaz

Chamberlain,

Mr Winston Churchill has opened a tour in Lancashire with a meeting at

Praton.

LOSTOR, December 5.

It is officially announced that Pazlin

Railway, and various kinds of machinery to be used in the Kantung Provines, im- manity of importar is alived by treaty stipulations. The Gor ernment states that, the“ value, "of articles which went to the internal parta of the country was only Tls 4,670,000. This is advanced as the reason why the Customs revenue at Dairen is compare tively small, and le also given as a proof- of the American Consul's misconcept

PLENARY POWERS IN TIBET

The H.A.I steamer Eriegavis, which our Shanghai correspondant telegraphed last week as being ashore at the month of ment will be dissolved on January 8th the Yangtze, still remains on the Triplets and that the elections will begin on

Losos, December 8. All her arro has been discharged and the January 13th

The storminess of the election fight which left Hongkong on the 6th November, is well foreshadowed by v the Civil War broke out, the benave, tious of the camp and the march per The silk ex.R.M.8. Eopress of Chics,

mitted when the day's work was done, and Tokobams on the 14th November, spoochee delivered by Sir Edward Grey, lent Mr. STANLEY died suddenly in Cuba, and bis adopted son-no

He thought that any unbending might arrived in New York on Friday, the 3rd Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; lead to undue familiarity and some reocomber, thus making a transit of 27 days Mr Lewis V, Harcourt, First Commis- bright, energetic fath of twenty-laration of the bonds of disciplines hams.

from Hongkong and 18 days from Yoka sioner of Works; and Mr Winston Chur- (Wah Tu Yat Po's Service)

PERING, December 5. chill, President of the Board of Trade.. found himself adrift again at a small To his followers and to many others, town in Arkangas. Most of the young he seemed a man apart, solitary, taci-Sunday that the cyclone or typhoon in the 11 am.--Auction of English Jewellery, men in the place enlisted in the Con-arg, salf-contained, communing with Pasite Ocean, which is about half-way

&c. at Morera Hughes & Hough's Sales Rooms.

federate Army, and Stanley followed his own soul, fire in the African between the Carolines and the Philippines, their example, and put on tlie grey desert and in a London drawing-room; is almost stationery. To-day Mani'a suports that the cyclone or typhoon is N.W. uniform more, it appears, in a spirit apt, however, to blaze into sudden and of Yap and is moring N.. or B.N.E

sometimes, indiscreet volubility when

General Memoranda.

THUESDAY, December 8--

2 p.m.Azile de is Sainte Enfance

Bazaar at City Hall.

4 p.m.-P.allmiasry Heats for Victoris

Regatta.

FRIDAT, December 10—

11 am Auction of 3 cases Arrack in

F. Godown, Bowrington. 2.45 p.m.-Auction of Housebold Faml-

tare at %, Seaview Terrace, Quarry | Esy.

SATURDAY, December 11 :-

I p.m.-Victoria Regsbla THURSDAY, December 13:-

11

of adventure and imitativeness than from any real interest in the cause of "Dixie."

The Manila Observatory reported on

to

The Barber Line stesmer Satsuma, from be found himself thwarted by what he New York, while making for her berth at deemed mere stupid incapacity or wil-Tanjong Pagar, Singapore, on Nov. 28,

crashed into the Australian steamer

A hard but brief spoil of soldfacing fal delness: Perhaps it is not surpri-Guthrie. The Gatarie had her jihboom

kees.

loft him a prisoner among the Yan-sing that for years he was misunder He was berded with many stood by the intelligent British public 6p.m-Mesting of Victoria Recreation hundreds of other Southera captives and often maligned. We find him

in a great camp outside Chicago writing from the Congo :---

"Club in the Olab Gymnasium.

SATURDAY, December 18:-

I p.m.-R.KAA.A. Sports Meeting.“

Kowloon Track."

The Chias Mail

The miserable prisoners died off like

"Tiongh altogether solitary, I WES never less conscious of solitude; though

badly twisted, and several plates started. bows about three feet in length by two in

while the Satsuma sustained a bolo in the

breadth.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

fies and STANLEY, to scape an almost

Mr R. Hunter, of Mesars McDonald certain death amid the fith and misery, as liable to be prostrated by fever and Co., returned to Hongkong on Satur- the youngest I was never more indiff-day by the a...Sicilia, after a well-earned joined the United States Artillery, for erent to its sharpest attacks, or less absence on leave.

My only concerned for its resulta as sa Englishman he probably had no comfort was my work. To it I ever In addition to his many other public idea of any patriotic obligation to re-tarned as to a friend. It occupied my offices, Mr Lau Chu Pak was populadly days, and I dwelt fondly upon it at elected Chairman of the Tung Wa Hospital Hongkong, Monday, Decemyza 6, 1909. main under the Secessionist flag. But aight. I rose in the morning, welcom for 1910 by the Chinese business guilds he had already contracted prison dising the dawn only because it aisted ease, and, falling seriously ill, he was me to my labour; and only those who yesterday.

regarded it from a similar tempera discharged. Fortunately be fell into ment could I consider as my friends

AWONDERFUL AUTO

BIOGRAPHY.

The death is reported in Shanghai papers of Mr. a. W. Harvey Bellinghant, MICE the hands of a good Samaritan and Mr Sips Low who made STAN-Engineer of the British Municipal was nursed back to health and strength. LEX's acquaintance in the tranquil Council, Tientsin. Bis death occurred After Again he crossed the "Atlantic only to evening of his life when the storms

a short illness. Perfume Sprays,

We have abundance of evidence all through history that time is the great

Mrs Cooke, widow of the late Mr Robery remaalet of hidden secrets. When Sir be coldly received in Wales, so he took wars past and he had drifted under Cooke, has returned to Hongkong after a Hand Mirrors,"

HENRY STANLEY, the African explorer, up the calling of a sailor until ship-gracious and tender guidance into a visit to England. She is an old melden

anter

glad to see her back again. Shaving Mirrors. sack to his grave very general im-wrecked in the West Indies. His landlocked haven of repose-found the of the Colony and her many friends are

pression was widely provalent through. fitst intoduction to journalism artse characteristics assigned to him by

Eishop Thomas Augustine Hendrock, out the world that a rough, rude, over through an article he wrote on the

popular report particularly absurd,

Bishop of Cobu, has died of cholers. ignor Born in 1849, after a distinguished caree AND OTHER ARTICLES IN bearing, superficial man had passed attack on Fort Fisher, in North Caro-They called him.!! he said,

away who had done extremely well for lina, by General BUTLLE, at which he ant and superficial but one found in the United States and Rome, he came "GREAT VARIETY. bimself in the race of life and had was present as a recruit in the Federal conversation that he had a vast range of to the Philippines in 1803

received rewards in advance of his Navy. He had now struck his true reading, and the orderly and systema- The death is announced of Paytaseter-in- deserts. In the fulness of time apvocation and before he was 26 he was tit method of the trained thinker, stories Chief B. (H. P. Shacks, who was pay pears his autobiography edited with doing good and remunerative work as had been circulated of his recklessness master and starekeeper of the European- ers and cruelty, and it needed no deep in Chinees squadron during the Taiping Re- oving, reverent care by his devoted special correspondent for many papers.sight to see that he was one of the most belli, 1863, ter Captain Sherard wife, Dorothy Lady STANLEY and the He went with General HANCOCK's ex kindly and humane of mankind, mere Osborn, 19. world is now called upon to completely pedition against Los Comanche Indians, frl to women, and animals, natives, and revise the rash estimata of the man and wrote up the Wild West. Then all helpless things, especially children. and to acknowledge that he had bean he was sent by the New York Tribune The hardness with which he was credit ed meant only a severe self-repression VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH. completely misunderstood by all save special correspondent with the

and an invincible

which show

the last PREMIER HALL OF HONGKONG, his most intimate associates. It is British Amoy in Abyssinis; and after ed itself

that he made tours, through the Greak

ying Hon. J. M. Macedo, Conset Ea * astonishing revelation. The EAR

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L-NIGHT 1

The Clobisted Search Comediak [MB W. LOCHRANE,

Artists:/ CHRYSTALS

AULTY.

through his very virile composition, describing the revolutionary onth possessed with a strong conviction of of 1669; and later in this year

Got the Bass. the greatness of the career which the openi

andedi wwaited him, for his Welsh blood and

Fin Ne Calvinistic forbears rude.bim s firm

of his birth and early life are

extrema frankiest in 13 DE MA

dred

his life, whe

Mr W. Smith, Chief Engineer Artißcor of HM.B. King Alfred, died in Shanghai, frem absces on the liver, on November 29. He was socorded a naval feneral art day, the bring party being composed of men from HMS, Astra.

Mr Harcourt declared that the issues

be decided were greater than in the times of Cromwell and the French Revolution.

THE VETO OF THE LORDS.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE ORATORY.

(Reuter's Service to the China-Mail.)

Lostos, December 5.

A large crowd assembled in Trafalgar Square yesterday arcand six platforms

from which a resolution was moved affirming that the action of the House of Lords in regard to the Budget was a menace to the liberties of the people, and

demanding therein the entire abolition

of the veto.

Lastos, December 8.

An Imperial Edict has been issued grunting the Chinese ambas in Tibet the privilege of taking whatever actions they deem expedient without first retar ring to the central Government

MACAO DELIMITATION.

(Wah Ter Yat p

Service.)

FAXING, December 5. The Portugness Minister has again asked, the Board of Foreign Affaire to submit the Macao delimitation question

to arbitration,

GERMAN OBSERVATORY

FORESHADOWED.

(Wah Tao Tet Po'a Service"}, "

Pare, December 5. The Germans in Kisochow have de Eided to erect an Observatory and have p approached the Bourd of Foreiga

No less than 50 speakers addressed the Trafalgar Square meeting, at which political garrotters." and "hereditary highwaymen were the favourite api- thein uando

Mr W. P. Byles (Liberal MP for North Salford) said they had got the Lords by the throat and were going to strangle them.

DEATH OF PRINCESS WALDEMAR,

(Reuters Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, December 5.

The doth is announced of Princess Waldemar of Denmark,

an

Note The Princess was a member of

Affairs to land them financial assistance

CHINESE PEACE DELEGATE.

(Wali Tan Yaf Fo's "Service.)

PEKING, December 6. The team of office of H. E Tin Chiang, Chinese Minister to Holland, has erpited, but an Imperial docros had been seed directing him to

the House of Orleans. Her husband now remain in Europe in ander to represent on his way out East to visit. the King of China at the coming Peace Conference Siam-ED. O. Mt.]

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