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a""creek," a steep valley is a "gully," a pool or pond is a "water;hols," aid - the sharp bend of a river forms a

PIANOS "pocket." Ho will learn how to make

a camp fire, and will eat" damper " and corned beal, and drink ten modo in

HAVE NO EQUAL FOR BEAUTY tin cau called a "billy," and he will

OF TONE,

allude to his food as "tasker." The most useful of his possessions will be PERFECTION OF TOUCH is "tommyhawk," which is a small

hatchet. Possibly be may mest #bushman" coming from the "back blocks" or the "nover-never," who will call him a "towney," and perhaps tall

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THE CHINA MAIL.

NEWS OF THE DAY,·

Today is St. David's Day,

As a result of a pro. thirty-two houses wore destroyed in Tokyo on February 15

The Shanghai A.D.C. Lava just given highly successful posterbiance of "The Thief." It was their 187th production.

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NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE,

Sugar interests in Hawail are making big Investments in the Philippines að prò. sent, the deals running into millions..

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Grost trouble is atperienced, says the }" British Australasan, in obtaining domestic servante in any part of South Australia. The wagos ofered are up to £1 5. a week. It is not generally known, apa the During the month of January 1, 19 Ipol paper, that in former days Penang rats were caught under the Sanitary Deras one huga clove garden. Disease, her partment's uspions at Old Kowloon, and over, killed the eleven as it may one day 97 in Kowloon City,

For three sight only the magnificent film The Lady of Camelias" will be exhibited at the Victoria Cinematograph, ineluding the wonderful Sadie.

kill rubber in the F.M.S.

It is understood, says the Press A sociation, that, if early difficulties are sur mounted, the Government bosides reviving | the Plural Voting Bill will at an early dato,

[CoryatGHT.]

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1910.

THE DALAI LAMA.

APPEALS TO RUSSIA AND BRITAIN. AGAINST CHINA.

(Router's Service to the China Naïl)

COPTRIDET.] THE SILVER MARKET.

ESTECT OF INDIAN DUTY..

(Reuler's Servics to the China Mail)"

Lomox, February 03. LONDON, March 1.. The Daily Telegraph. anticipates. The Times St Petersburg correspon-that the increase in the Indian duty dent telegraphs that the Dalai Lama will inevitably disorganise the alvor has appealed to Russia to support him, market, which will be unduly depress conjointly with treat Britain, against ed, but it is not thought that there the unprovoked aggression of the will be a lessor consumption in the- Chiness.

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General Memoranda,»

FRIDA, March 4:-

Mr Goo. P. Lammert's Salon Rooma.

MONDAT; Marsh 7:-.

days has been enough to open the "stock routes Which means that the water-holes are filled, and so ti possible to drive cattle hundreds of miles to market without the danger

jasention of the Pacino Mail Stasraship San Francisco papers say that it is the

Company to run the Mongolia, Siberia and Manchuris from Sentila honcaforth instead of from San Francisco. Two now piers ar of their dying of thirst on the way.to be bait there for their accommodation He will notice that no one remarks at an outlay of $700,000. on the sunshine or the fine days, but that every shower of rain is welcomed and measured, and the number of inches discussed.

It is not surprising if the phrase "on the wallaby" presents a puzzle to the new comer, nor will be he much the wiser when he is told that it" is

At a meeting of the directors of the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company Li..

And the Corrupt Practices Act, dealing | Hoogkong on Much 11, with the expenditure by outaido organisa. tiene at elections.

The death is announced at Bath in his 84th year of the Rev. Percy. Rogers, Honorary Canon of Durham Cathedral, and for many years a naval chaplain. As a chaplain in the Royal Navy he law con- siderable nativo aorvies. He joined in the Innding of the Naval Brigade at the sap- turo of Canton, for which he was mentioned a tipal dividend of 3 per cent in despatches and received the Chias recommended upon the preference shares medal with Cantou clasp. and per cent upon ordinary shares. The interim dividends for the first hald of last year vore, respectively, Tia. 1.75 sat Ta. 1.

propose to reduce the duty on imported The revisors of the Japanese tariff beef from thirty to twenty percent., bat to put a high dety on matton; the duty on

At smecting of the Sanitary Board condensed milk is to be increased from fire 6 pm Auction of Postage Stamps at equivalent to "humping bluey," until held this afternoon, it was stated that the to forty per cent, because the use of this Committee appointed to report on the comform of milk in the place of sugar is rapidly aq-Australian explains that the first plaiate against the Shaukiwaa conservancy introx-ing and the Government are deter- simply means to trump from one place and scavenging contractors had found mined to foster the home sugar industry in to anether, while "bluey" is the blanket uating is. A further list of combe raised from fifty to sixty per cont,

the sharges proved, and imposed Ens every way. The duty on foreign sugar will

plaints was presented to the Board:

4 p..Meeting of Licensing Board at

Colonial Secretary's Office.

WEDNESDAY, Mech 9:-*

Noon-Meeting of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. at Meonia Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s Odise.

THURSDAY. Narah 10-

Noen Meeling of Chias Fire Insurance

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SATURDAY, March 19:-

The China Mail.

Hasazona, Turndar, Manon 1, 1910.

SOME AUSTRALIANISMS.

ed an angry reprimand from his

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Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector Gozeral of Customs, it is stated' in Chinese papers, is suffering from paralysis and is unable to return to China

The Diplomatie Corps in Paking, it is reported, is to bold a meeting to discuss the question of restoring to China the police contral of the Legation Quarter.

kilver bazaars,

COTTON SPINNING.

SHORT TIME ARRANGEMENT,

(Beuter's Servigs to the China Mail.)

LONDON, February 25. Futher extensions of the interna- tional organisation of short time in the cotton spinning industry have been. effected.

They includo in Austrin 00

por cent of the spindles of both American and Egyptian milk, who are reducing:

Six F. Somon, K.O.V.O.. Physician by 13 per cent for half a year. Extraordinary to the King, and Lady | In Belgium the mills will clore one- Sumou left Naples for Hongkong on board day a week until March 31st. the German mai steamer Kloist on Feb. 11th.

The grandfather of the Late Mr. W. Fearon, whose diath in Kobe has just been announced, started business in tacno under the style of Fearon, Tibury and Co.,

in 1817."

Additional interest is given to the Forth- coming Billiard Association Amateur Cham- in which the tramp or "awaggy"rolla his portable possessions. If the new.

The Chinese Sanato.bas memorialized pionship by the fact that Mr E. F. Hinds, The reported prohibition of the export the Government stating that, in view of of Hongkong, qualified for the competition chum wants to tell that he has receiv- of, cereals from Changchun and there, the need for reporters for the Courts and on Feb. 1, at Orme's Soho-square saloon, abouts, states the Manchuria Daily News Reporting School, and appoints B. E. Li

Parliament, it proposes to organise a London.

of the ist Moon by the Chinese Calendar, extend over six mouths, after which the that is, and March next; instead of the lat graduates will be attached to the Senste day of the 2nd Bloons originally publish and the Provincial Assemblies for duty, Twelve students will be examined in Paking, while each province should choose four more for admissica to the school.

master he must say, The Bon bag will take effect on, and after the 21st day Chin cbu ne Director. The course will

Should any approval the

12.30 pm-Meeting of National Eank ocen rowsing at me." of China, Id, at Bank Ofice. thing meet with his

highest pasine. he must bestow fa, That's not too bad, eh?" His neigh- bour's land simply referred to as "Duna's" or "Pollard's," the prefix

mister" not being in common u90.

The Aboriginals, now so scarce that in the south the race bus quite died fout, have yet Toit their mark on the language of the country in the names of places, and in a few common words A hat or shanty is lioru as a humpy," which was the blackfallows word for his house. A "billabong is stream which runs dry in the hot weather, and the well-known expression, to hold a "corroborrée," is also borrowed from the native. The aboriginal nato

THE study of the idioms of colloquial peech is very faeciating. It throws so many side-lights on the mental developments of the people naing them and gives the dus to many a philological puzzle; while also afford ing some indication of how the change in environment brings about changes in the speech of men and women

fod, and vill reninio in furce indefinitely.

The Norddeutsche di emeine Zeitung acknowledges the indebtedness of the German Foreign Office to the British Ge- vernment, for the news that the murderen of the two German explorers. Brunhuber and Schrits, who were done to death China, has been captured and executed. The guilty man belonged to the Satzu tribe. and were seized by a punitory expedition.

In Switzerland the reduction will be- 15 per cent to May.

There is no organised reduction in Holland, but Indian cotton is replac- ing American.

·Negotiations are proceeding with French and German spinners.

MR ASQUITH'S PRO--

GRAMME.

CURTAILING POWER OF THE

CORDS.

"(Router's Sencice to the Cleina Mail.):

LONDON, March 1.-

Tang Shao-yi left Foking on the 21st! February and the high offcials of the Board of Communications saw him off at Fengtai | " milway station. It is stated that Tang Mr H. H. Asquith, the Premier Shac-yi ill rette from public life. He is moved in the House of Commons Ca paying a visit to Canton shortly.

Monday to appropriate the time of the House till the 24th of March for The betrothal is andsused by the the purpose of pasaing urgent aup

The surten steamer La Seyne is now Figo of Wang Hang Yu, Chines lying in twenty-two fathoms of water, the attache at the Belgian Ministry of Finance,plies; then, after the Easter recess strong current, in the Straits where the collo. Louise Losoir, daughter of a mem- be would introduce rescations in both, collision occurred having taken her of the ber of the administrative bureau of Bolgian Houses of Parliament excluding the Comparatively shallow bank on which the national secondary schools. The marriage House of Lords from interference with went down. Notwithstanding this depth, will be celebrated at Brussels. an effort is to be made to recover the famous Ropo diamond and a large amount of other General at Shanghai, has demanded three jewellery and bonds known to have been thorrand taels comparation for the the steamer when she sank. Mr Teal, assault made upon four British subjects by an expert diver of long experience, as Chinese soldiers as Soochow during China buen engaged for the work and is making New Year. The Acting Governor offered preparations ko bugin at once. trala one thousand and probablý this will, he accopied. The soldiers are to be punished by martial law.

Sie Pelham Warren, H.B.M's Connel i

M. A., who left London on 31st January for In addition to Prof. H. C. F. Finlayson China to take up his new appointment a Professor of Political and Economic Science in the Imparial Univerally of Peking. another chair in the University-namely, Foreign Trade and Corneros, bas bech The other day, the American Consul | filled by the appsïntment of au Australise, at Padang, on the West Coast of Sumatra, Proof. Swann, who is 'ako a London was surprised at receiving a tolegem that School of Economics man. He is in Ioseponse to numerous.requests att Amerions prospectors were stranded in Australia.at-prozent.- rangements have been made for Prof. Jay the interior. It appears that they landed spring from the same parent stock. of places, though they look clumsy G. Rodger, Ph.D. to deliver another of his in Acheen, and made their way inland Many, anys the L. and O. Express, will The Englishman who emigrates, to when written,

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seientific lecturës.

probably to

Eneasures of finace and ensuring the- predtminance of the House of ComÖNET

a single parliament. against the House of Lords Vets within

The bill for carrying out these re solutions will be introduced later.

THE QUESTION OF TIBET.

(Wah Tes Yet Po's Service)"

Paris, February 23.

The Chinese Governmcht is discoss- through trackless wilds. They had made regret to see that Mr H. E. Brodie, the through Sumatra from end to eal, baring fate popular Liberal member for theing the sending of a high official to sot out from Macila, _and _passed | Raigats division of Sorrey, who in Norem. Tibet to restore order there.

From Peng, her last married the daughter of Sir Robert Hongkong and Penang

This will he delivered in Union Church School Hall, Kennedy Australia and who has fortified him-part a soft and rather musical scand, Road to-morrow (Wednesday) at 5.30 p.m. salt beforehand by reading all the as for instance Indocropilly, Wealoc-All will be welcome He will speak en Australian fiction on which he could mooloo, and Counamulla. Besides, us-The Miraculous Flement." This will they took passage to Acheon. At the date Hart, has lost his sent. He was returned the last opportunity in of wiring, they were in deplorable in 1906 by marrow majority only, and lay hands. is prepared to hear certaining these common terme, the new chum, Hongkong.

condition, had eaten nothing for three days, Reigate has reverted to her old allegiance, words and turns of expression which he is new no longer, will caliver his

and their money had run out. They returning Col. R. H. Rawson by a majority The Viceroy of Canton is suing Butler telegraphed for help which was at once of 2,694 Another defeated Libers! well are not familiar to him in his native conversation with epicy slang expres

Wright in the British Supreme Court at sent by the Consul. They propon to knowa in Chips and the Straits Settlements sions peculiarly Australian almost as land. He expects to be known as à

Shanghai for the recovery of $74,824,43, return to Manila by way of Bataria. The is Sir Robert Laidlaw, senior partner of the "new chum Fle has a

forcible and as difficult of comprehen-Mr J. C. E. Douglas, who appeared, for the trip had cost them 4,000 dollars.

firm of Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co., who. lost his seat in East Renfrewshire in that in Australia the word "bush" doession to bis stay-at-home relations, as defeudlaat ged rat that the money way

not duo and secondly that the Court had The results of the women's sufinge similar circumstances. The Unionist act stand for a shrub, and that to live those of his cousin in New York,

no jurisdiction as defendant was a charist campaign in the elections are not a little majority was 874 in Hongkong grob; thirdly, that the Viceroy disappointing to advocates of votes for could not suo, but only the Head of the women, says the 40. Express. Only Railway. After some discussion the Judg. 200 aandidates mentioned the suffrage in

vague idea

A SPRAINED ANKLE. Sa rulo a man will feel wellsarisfied if

CHINA'S NATIONAL

ASSEMBLY.

on a "station does not imply any con- Speaking at Trowbridge, Bir John nection with a railway

or the police. He Burns wid that the new Budget which the hda impressed upon himself that in his Government would introduce would, he Bir Havilland de Sanemare ordered that their addresses, a very small proportion of A he can hobble around on acuiches in than that originally fixed, bars sent adopted country a "squatter" is a man of the pauper disqualiscation for old age heped, contain a provision for the oval

of wealth, and one to be respected, pensions. and not some ambitious tramp who has

Mr Joseph Walton, who in 1899-1900 fenced in a fuw yards of land on some travelled in China and Japan with a view beith or common, and had the good to the promotion of Britisk trade, and in the latter year published a book on “China fortune to remain undisturbed for 20

and the Present Crisis," has been re-elected years He feels that ba knows all as iboral M. P. for the Barnsley division about "old" mar" kangaroos, and of Yorkshire by the enormous majority of

larrykina", and "rounding up "cattle. 7,872. In 1905 he was unopposed.

the defence be filed within ten days.

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A London Unionist succeeded on 21st: Jac. in voting as a freeholder in scorty constituencies in Surrey, Middlesex, Hamp.

350 miles for the purpose..

FURTHER AGITATION.

(Wah Tan You Po's Service.)

PELINO, February 28. The Provincial representatives sent. to Peking having failed to obtain the consent of the Government to an earliar convocation of the National Assembly those who promised support. About halfwo or three works after spraining his telegrams to all the Provinces asking the faithful two hundred have been efected, anklo, and it is two By kind permission of Col. Prior including only 11 Conservatives. Thebels fa'ly recovered. This is an unneces

three months before them to send up representatives to Elajputs will play the following programme cause has undoubtedly made most notable locs of time, for in many cases in urge their views in the metropois.

which Chamberlain's Pain Balm has been of music at the King Edward Hotel during progress in the North; especially in York promptly and freely applied a complete dinner, on Thursday:

shire and Northumberland. Two Cabinet cura has besu effected in lees than ond March........" A Frangesa ".............. Costa Ministers in London, Bir Burns, and Mr wack's time, and in some cues withio Vabe Hydropates". Gunge addresses. Wales has sont quite a strong Overtur.....................

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"Fet' .Kahner signatures-to the national petition. GOD SAYS THE KINO. Australians he will find there are many appointed to the command of the Alarity,

The Philadelphia ear striko grows in words and phrases by which he may despatch ship of the Ching Squadres, in Atthe fustoms Club, Shanghai, bust week,

A telegram of February 3rd intensity. betray bie ignorance, and he will hear sucosion to Commander Cyll T. M.Mr H. Elgar Hobson, Commissioner of ay:- A terrible condition of affaire pro Fuller, has spent the last 24 years in the Custenis at Shanghai, who is shortly prevails in this city, with no sign of immediate some of which be cannot even guess Ragal Navy, basing catered it in July, ceeding Home on two years leave, was improvement. A general strike is threat- the meaning.

1887. He was prompted lieutenant in Presented with a very bandsome silver oned and a call for 100,000 union Inbouters loving cup, in dragon, design, and a to participers has been inned by labour Perhaps the first thing that will 1895, and commader in 1906, and is an testimonial, beautifully engraved on vellum, icaders. Mayor Reyburn has 5.000 extra strike him in this connection is that ex-navigating officer. The commission of by the members of the Shanghai stuff of police on daty but the state militin is being the Alacrity will expire in September next the Chinese Imperial Maritine Coatoms. asembled. and stand in readiness to move VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH the word Home, with a capital H,

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Mr Hobson has been in the Customs at a moment's notice. Federal troops are Barvice since 1861 and has held the office bold in TORUJYR, The dynamiters bäve of Commissioner of Customs at Shanghal boen arrested and suppressed but many. during the past nine years,

acts of patty violence are reported hourly. Business is almost paralyzed and a reign of "The Hon. Transurer of the Alice Moterror is feared. Hugh Barron, secrilary orial and Afiliated Hospitals beg to of the Trolleymen's Union, is threatened acknowledge with thanks the following with arrest. The offices, shops and rolling donations to the funds of the Hospitala: stock of the Bapid Transit Company are Three Pationta...

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