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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Manila is fearing another striko among"] the shipping labourers.

Ships from the North report vory | heary weather noross the Pacific.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

B.M.S. Bedford was towed out of dry dook this morning.

Music lovers in Hongkong will be glad to bear that the Herbert Withers' Concert party will be back in the Colony again about March 10th. A copoort will be given by them in the City Hall on March

period previous to the Christian spock is worth only cursory notice simply because it is so palpably fabulous. As long ago, 1880 it was pointed out by the Into Mr. "BRAMSEN that no reliance ena be placed on the socalled histeries c#Japan before A.D. 400. Sir ERNEST SATow has expressed himself to the Profesor CHAMBERLAIN same effept points out that any one who will take the trouble to study the original Japan-paired, the time-ball at Kowloon again past realised by the output for January of

ese texts will perceire that there is no break in the story between the

Now York is talking about an Ameri- san yndicitą buying up the Tabaulera interests in the Philippines.

The damaged tackle having been re-

came into operation to-day.

11.

The high hopes formed of the year 1910 in the shipbuilding industry have been in

the Clyde, which amounts to about 22,000 tons. The smocoding months are expected. to show considerably better results, and

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1910.

[COTYAIGHT.)

THE GOVERNMENT

- UNDER WAY,

H

A FAIR START.

* Unionists', Broadminded

Attitude

(Bender's Servics to the China Mail.) Losrow, March 1.

[COPYRIGHT.] CHINOHAU-AIGUN

RAILWAY.

BRITAIN AND JAPAN'S CLAIM.

(Reuter's Service La: the China Mail)

LONDON, March 1.

Sir William Ball, MP, asked in

Mr Asquith's motion to appropriate the House of Commons 'whether the the time of the Commons until March Government was prepared to admit 24 for the passing of urgent supplies Japan cisim to be consulted in the was adopted without a division.

construction of the railway between The Premier declared that the Gor- Chinchau and Aigun; ales how Japan's -

Tabalous and the real, unless it be in the haul of amuggled oplum when the Siberia the outlook is generally regarded as highly ernment regard the prompt enactment attituda could be reconciled, wish her

fifth century of our era, or more than a thousand years later than the date claimed to be the starting-paint of Japanese history. Both the legends of the gods and the legend of the emperors are told in exactly the same books, in the same style, and

with an

The Manila Customs made a fairly big

was last in that port, some 374 tina being scized,

!

Diocesan Rafage takes place at 3 p.m. to-morrow." Brosliancy the Governor will preside.

encouraging.

of the anti-weto legislation as a primary: and paramount duty.

Mr Austen, Chamberlain said the

Treaty obligations.

•

It

Mr McKinnon Wood, Under Secret A Lendon paper, dated January 30, has the following: inn of Solicitors Opposition supported the Governmentary of State for Foreign Affairs, said:" The annual meeting of the Eyrare senching for the heir of a recons

deceased baronet. The hoir was banished passing the necessary financial busi. he was unaware of anything inherently- from his ancestral home many years ago 2058, and had no desire to throw the unreasonable in Japan's demands. ander cimumstances which ac affected his nation into confusion by a anap was for Chins to decide whether these nother that the poor lady was completely division.

were acceptable. The matter wAS ODG The Ningchow arrived this morn-heartbroken. He was last heard of twenty

Bir Lloyd Georga, Chancellor of the for arrangement between Russia, China.

and Japar. while doing trick-riding in a circus in Maui.

almest equal amount of ing having brokan her rudder shank before years since, who he broke a collarbonerchequor, said the Government as

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reneḥing Yokohama. At that port it was supernatural data. The so-called axed up temporarily." histories part is as devoid as other of all contemporary avidence. It is contradicted by the mere trust

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Meeting.

and Korean records, nud—to tura,

sured its supporters that unless they found themselves in a position to on- The Fire Brigade were called nåt on Concerning the dispute between Por sure that their proposals would become Tuesday evening to a mall fire in Lower buga! and China in regard to Macao, a semi-

law they would not continue in offic Lascar How but the fire was quickly ex-offies oto published in the Noy dades

The tension in the Liberal camp has states that the British Government is sup». porting the Portuguese view, and has been relieved by the exclusion of Re intimated to China that it will not consent forms of the Hange of Lords from the to any infringement of Portugal's rights.Government's present proposals and The Press at Lisbon, while welcoming concentration on the question of the British intervention, Feata that China will. reto. only await a fitting opportunity to oust the

The Radicals amo jubilant. The Portugueso finally from Macao.

Nationslists also appoor satisfied with he Government'a auerunce that they

A sciuction from the Messiah will from negative to positive testimony-be sung by the Cathedral Choir, assisted by can be proved in some particulars to other voices, on Good Friday, March 25th, reston actual forgery. For instance, after abortened Evensong, at 9.15 p. in

St. John's Cathedral." p.m.-Annual Meeting Efte Discesin the Bctitious nature of the calendars employed to calculate the early date* for about thirteen centuries (from B.C. 660 onward) has not altogether 6 pm Auction of Postage Stamps at escaped the notice

of the Bir Geo. P. Lammert's Sales Rcome!

Japanese themselves, and has been MONDAY, Marsh 7;-

Refuge.

General Memoranda,

FRIDAY, March 4

even

"It is a fact not generally known, saya the Japan f, that about one-third of the titled families in Japan were descended from Chinese or Kerasas, according to a census taken 1,000 years ago.

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DALAI

THE DALAI LAMA.

The result of the text of gunlayers with tight quick-firing guns during last will act continue is office unless they year has been issued by the Admiralty, are able to carry out their proposals. With 12-pounder guns the China Squadron came Best in order of merit with an average of $132 hits per minute. The best ship in The Japanese Minister in Peking re-the squadron was the Kent, with a score of The best 12- 4p.-Meeting of Licossing Bosni i clearly exposed for European readers by [cently informed the Wairupu that Japan 11.30 hits per minute.

Culois) Scoretary's Office,

that careful investigator, the integratified to have been allowed to pari-pounder gan-firing in the whole feet, cipate to the extent of £5,000,000 in the Chinchou-Aigun Railway Loan,

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Third Cruiser Squadron, Bome Fleet, when discussing them in the Intro-

Third Division, which registered 13.73 bits The Army Advisory Council has sent per minute. With and 3-pounder guns duction to his Japanese Chronological|

telegram to Viceroy Yuna Shu-hafif in the first place was secured by the Third severe to Canton aging him to train the new Cruiser Squadron of the Home Ficet Tables, It is hardly too

divisions of troops as mon as possible and Third Division, with a score of 5-009 hita style this one of the greatest literary not to come to a sudden halt owing to the per minute. The second place was won by 19.30 p.m.--Meeting of National Bank fraude ever perpetrated.***

the China Squadron, with an average of of China, L. at Bank Office.

6.008 hits per minute, the Sixth Cruiser Squadron, of the Mediterranean Fleet, boing third with 4,834 bits per minute,

SATURDAY. March 19:-

The China Mail

mnting.

The makers of moderź Japan:

Street's popular and comprehensive however, in their sadeavour to mag- Newspaper Directory for 1910 for Great nify the position of the still semi-Britain and Ireland, the Colonies, India, dei Eed ExPEROR, frown, at the result stc., if to hand. It is admirably stringed ECHORING," WEBNEADY, Mason 2, 1910, of scholastic and scientific research and most reliable. The selling price is

| JAPAN'S NATIONAL VANITY AND

MYTHICAL HISTORY.

and visit their displeasure, very severely on any of their nationals who have the temerity to probe sacrilegiously the ancient records or make remarks I; & a waging their seracity. as phenomenen when one comes to of it, happening as it dees in the

અ.ન.

Mr Richard Huster, of Thurston, one of the largest landed proprietors in East Lothian, died on 2nd Feb. He bore a striking rememblance to the King, and was frequently mistaken Tor His Majesty. Oac evening whan be entered a noted Paris restaurant the band struck up the National Anthem, and the occupants of the tables respectfully rose and bowed as he passad

ALL nations have some particular petj vanity to which they chng with all the c tenacity of which they are capable. th.

any of these manifestations of a per- 20th century and to a nation which basis. verted sense of the eternal fitness ofveloped such a very materialistis line things do very little barm: they mise of thought in most other braitches of a smile, provoke sarcastic sallies, witty mental activity. Of course when the

Servers,

or otherwise, on the part of their ob- Meiji era was in ja infancy there was and generally rather and to perhaps soine justification for the speedy and efficacious remedy than detract from, the gaiety of rationa. attitude assumed by the man who were The Japan Chronicle, moved thereto by establishing the new order of things, incidents connected with the farth-for the opposition against them was coming Anglo-Japanese exhibition in naturally fairly strenuous and they Londen, bas again called attention to needed all the help possible to win piece of national vanity of this sort which might well be abandoned with advantage nowadays. Our contempor ary refers to the persistent endeavours of Japanese publicistsand those inauthority

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through. But the accessity for keep ing up. belief in the myth has vanished as completely as the necessity for believing that "NEAS, the semi-divine son of the Goddess VENUE

To-morrow evening at the Union Church Hall, Mr John L. Plummer, M.A. of the Kowloon Observatory, wili lestura

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

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Mr Ivor Guest is the new Faymaster- General of the Forces.

Detective Sergeant Cashman is at present confined to hospital through indisposition.

Inspecter Withers, of the Hongkong | Police, returned to the Colony to day by

the 2.3. Medonix.

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While the Amir was inspecting a bridge Bear Jellallabad, he was fired at by a sepoy Fard. The man was arrested.

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Bir George William des Yeux, G.C.M.G., before the Laterary Club, taking for his Governor of Hangkong 1857-1891, who aubject "Spectroscopic Binaries," or "How died at Brighton on Dec. 18 last, loft to see the Invisible", Mr Plumme will estate valued at £4,009. particularly direct attention to the fact that the heavens contain b dies which do no to be emit light and bow they came discovered a few years ago. Br W. G. Humphrays takes the chair at 9 o'clock.

Memorial and Affliated Hospitals begs to The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice

acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals :- E. S. Kadoorie and Uð. ..... A. Dorison Esq. .... L Gibs Eq... W. L. Pattenden Esq. Kelly and Walsh

Hon. A. M. Thomson

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Sir Ralph and lady Pages are again visiting Siam prior to Sir Ralph taking up his appointment as Minister at Munich. They were in Singaporn on Feb. 24.

Commander Lowndes, who has been Ainerity, arrived from England by the apppciated to the command of HALS

P. and O. steamer Macedonia to-day.

It is said that the British Logation has 10 Enformed the Chinese Government that Str 10 Robert Hart is too ill to return to China There is no truth in the rumour that Str

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10 Robert Bredon, the Acting Inspector-

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GUEST OF INDIAN GOVERN- MENT.

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TERRIBLE FLOODS IN AMERICA.

ENORMOUS DAMAGES.

(Zendor's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, March 2. Floods caused by melting now have devastated portions of Ohio.

Hundreds are homeless in Cleve- laud and scores of factories are pro- paring to shut down.

Great damage by Agoda has occur. red in the upper part of New York

alate.

The Hudson river is rising eight inches per hour.

THE RAILWAY LOANS.

(Beules Service to the China Mait.) LONDON, March 1.

(Wal Tas Fat Po's Service) The Dalai Lama ia expected at

PERING. March 1. Darjeeling this morning. He will be

Н. E. Hau Shi-chanz proposed the guest of the Government.

that the railway loan contracted for The Buddhists are preparing a pro the constraction of the upch railway cession with local less.

be utilized in the building of, the Sze- chuan railway.

IMPOSING RECEPTION IN

INDIA..

(Bexter's Service to the China Muil}, Laros, March 2. Telegrams from St. Petersburg my that Dorfief, the Russian agant in Tibet, has arrived with details of the Dalai Lama's fight. Ea has made the announcement that the latter's special

support, will arrive at St. Petersburg courier, with an appeal for Russian

The Ministers of Great Britain, France, Germany and America rofuse. To fall in with this proposal.

ORGAN RECITAL.

The last but one of the monthly series of organ recitala given at St. John's Cathedri by Mr Dean Fulier, the able organist, was last evening attended by a large con--

musical treat. Naturally & Lenten atmos- phore pervaded the selections, but this gregation who oues again were given a rea

within a week.

made them,none the less acceptable.. 3 most Heater's Darjeeling correspondent The organist opened with

excerpt from telegraphe tast the Dalai Lama arrived ambitious number, AU

Elgar's beautiful work "The Dream of in the afternoon and was received in Gerontius." This included the Preludo grost state.

He was accompanied by and three celccted extracts, all of which

the Raj Kumar and the Sikkim Deputy were magnificently interpreted. Bach's Commissioner.

An imposing proces- sion of Buddhists greeted him.

Prelude and Fugue in E. Minor was axtremely pretty; the Andante Caa_ tabile proved a most delightful and refresh. ing contribution; while Guilmant's Scharw was played with cpafdence and taste. Mr Denman Faller had the assistance of

DEATH OF PRESIDENT DOMINGO DE OBALDIA Mr R. E White as recalist, and this

OF THE REPUBLIC OF

PANAMA.

[TO THE COMEUL OF PANAMA, HONGEONG.]

Panama, March 2

Jose Domingo de Obaldia, President of Panama, has just died.

[Note-Prosident Domingo de Obaldia was born in 1845 and natsumed office on

popular singer's voice was heard to con-- sidarable advantage in the recitative and air "I go on my way" (Mendelssohn).

The sum of $3,500 is now required to complete in thoix entirely the repairs and alterations necessary to the Cathedral organ. The concluding recital of this series

will take place on Tuesday, April 5th.

Sarawak reports the heaviest rainfallin

October 1st, for four years. Through the 18 years, there being three feet of water in courtesy of Mr L. C. Herrera, Cansul- the streats of Kuching on February 4th, General for Panama, in Hongkong, we are sble to reproduse the above "tolo- gram.-Eb. 0. 5.

Mr EL

to aprend the idea that the Japanese by Ascists, the Trojar prince, fleeing were a civilised people with a settled from Troy founded the eternal city P. H. H. Jones Esq. ... dynasty at a time when the inhabitants of Rome, or for taking as solid facts AG. Gordon

Wong Po Chun Esq. of the British isles were painted the ingenions remancing of COFFREY

Vics-Admiral Sir A. L. Winslow arrived

Oabsideaton-Mitford, of savages." The underlying idea of this of Monmouth and WALTER Mar in

A cricketer in New Zealand, named at Windsor Castle on Jan. 28, and was

Mitford Hall, Northumberland, who after twenty-threo yoxes' service retired from form of primitive rania is very old: We regard to King ARTTER and bis Sants, should consider himself lucky that received by His Majesty the King upon ho-is-aliro. Playing for Southland against his appointment as Commander-in-Chief,

In the Reichstag the new War Minis- the Caylon Civil Barrica in 1366, on have but to turn to the mythologies of Knights of the Round Table. Chinese Otago, at Dunedin, he bowled a ball to Sid China The Admiral had the honour of ter staled that last year, out of 20,000 pension, recorded in wow is the list Greece and Rome, the Arthurianicologues have frequently shown up Callaway, the occ-time New South Wales dining with the King and Quesp, and left active officers, only three fought duels, and election for Cal Bates, the Unionist can- romances of Celtie Britain, the Nic- the manner in which the early Japaneas drove the ball straight back to the bowler,

cricketer. The latter, who is a big man the Castle our 20th th.

out of 21,000 officers on half-pay only uns. didate. Mr Mitined is in his 100th year,

berlungen Lied of Germany, the tales records were lifted bodily from the eldstriking him on the forehead. After the Mr J. Brombead Matthews, lato. At- of the early Irish kings and demi-gods, Chinese and Korean annals, whichthem impact the ball went about Goft. in the sie,torney-General of Bahamas, who was re- and was then caught. Thus a remarkablecently appointed Attorney General of the or the story of Oasian, to find itsivas owe much in their beginnings to accident brought about a wonderful catch Straits Suttlements, hos, prior to taking th counterpart. But whereas in Western

even earlier Egyptian sources, and have celt was able to walk off the field,

tan appointment," been selected for the Europe we treat these old traditions poured acorn on the Japanese pre-

office of Chief Justice of the Bahamas,

of Mr Matthews to the Bahamas has boyu which recently became vacant. The return

rossiren with general satisfaction.

several illustrated articles of Colonia

as myths pure and simple, the tensions. At any fute it seems to spise, the journal of the Royal Colonial Thu February number of the United learned professors el Japan cling Japan has now so fairly established Enatitase, follows in the good steps of the the records of the Kojiki and the berall in the credit of the world first ite of the new series. There are Się John Jordan, writes the Faklag cor Nikcogi as something the truth of that she rather loses than is interest: a poot by Arthur Beszett respondent of the N.-C. Dzity Newx, cu which must not be doubted. Yot by her outwora insistence upon the entitled "The Empire of our Dreams," the 18th it is recovering slowly bat VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH,competent scholars have demonstrated

verity of the ancient legendary lore which was suggested by s phrana in one of surely; for he is now said to be practically Mr Chamberlain's speeches; interesting cut of danger, though he is naturally very PREMIER BALL OF THE COLONY, time and again during the past of the Kojiki. She would do well to editorial notes and comments considerable weak after his long battle with pneumonia. twenty-five years that the first reliable treat it as other nations treat their correspondence: a report of the proceed. His have has been granted, but the doctors

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A SPRAINED ANKLE. Sarnia a man will feel welt svisked if

Sir George Phillippo, who for the last 12. two or three weeks after spraining his | yours has been-British Consol at GeneTE, ankle, and it is two or three months before

soe tableaux at the Anglo-Japanese standing in the eyes of the learned na A heen, halskie krigad on, crutches in Exhibition purporting to reproducella tho-onlearned of the nations. actual court Life in Japan as lived 2,000 The Japan Chronicle years ago!

Art from Berlin says it is pro marbals some very formidable and that the Cerman cavalry abre will thorities upon the point. It says shortly disappear, and be replaced by *

new short side-arm, which can and "In dealing which early Japanese-bis- tory Mr. W. G. Asror remarks that the rice.

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