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tells us that one of the first mentions in ancient history, of the country was in the Old Testament. In the Second Book of Kinge, chapter 19, we read that TAXAS, King of Ethiopia, offered to assist Hezexus, of Judea, against Sevaman King of Assyria. The Ethiopia of the ancients was the Scndan

“NEWS OF THE DAY.

The British Olympic Connell has been Informed that the games at Athens barn: been abandaced..

health for the Colony laat week, no

There was absolutely a alean bill of

single case of communicable disease bang reported.

Y

Home on Saturday,

of today, with Abyssinia and Erythr Inspector Brown, of de Registrar included, and stretched from Thebes General's Department, he a great send-off, in Egypt to the countries inhabited by by the District Watchen on leaving for savages south of the junction of the Blue and White Niles, but hair far Thoro were $17 European and 14 south cannot be ascertained. The anand 248 European and 3,349 visitors to the Chiness visitors to the City Hall Library cient kings of the Soudan often con- Museum during the week ended 20th quered Upper Egypt, and consequently March. we find sculptured figures and hierogly- phics, after the manner of the old Egyptian once ou certain ancient monuments in the Sondan, but with -for

MODELSnings of their own which so

have proved a souled book. The ancient city of Meroe appears to have been the ancient capital. Here the famous Merce pyramids are to be seen, diferent în shape from any in Egypt, the base

At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chien Realty Company, L., held in Shanghai it was decided to recommend that dividend of 15 per cent be paid for the Fear 1300

The sale of old stores, inchimed wellry, ste, at the Contral Police com- Pound this morning drew a large crowd of Chinese dealora and others. Very few bargains were secured.

The Imperial Chancellor, Dr. ven

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD, being about one-third of the height. Bothmone-Hellweg, has announced in the

`Hongkong. April 16, 1907,

MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Апомоги,

9:30 p.m.-Anction of High-claam Jawal

most

Reichstag that a Bill was being drafted to extend the Constitution of Alsace-Lorraine

in the direction of autonomy.

SOCIAL AND` PERSONAL.

Bishop ander has gone into readanes * St Paul's College.

A. C. Bryer, the architect of the trip homs on the Manchuris on Saturday. Hongkong University buildings, lote for a

MONDAY, MARCH 91, 1910.

[COFTHIOST] UNCLE JOE " CANNON.

· A ̈REPUBLICAN REVOLT,

(Router's Service to the China Mail)

[COPYRIGHT.]

ANOTHER GENERAL

ELECTION

(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail.)

Lowdon, March 20

It is announced that the Libers

LONDON, March 19.. Among the departures for Home by the The long simmering "rovalt of a. English mail on Saturday was Mr H. Estion of the Republicans against Whips are spending an exceedingly Tomkins, Chairman of the Court of Fresident Taft has brokam ouf***

busy time in perfecting arrangementer Directors of the H. and S. Bank.

-An all-night sitting of the House for an election contest in every cou has been held to discuss a motion of stilges the insurgents, supported by the Democrats, aiming at the waskaning MACEDONIAN PRASANTS and vitimately the ousting of the all- powerful Speaker, Mr. Joe Cannon.

His Holiness the Pope, en bearing of Mr Rockefeller's decision to devote his graphed him his blessing. fortune for the good of humanity tele-

Sir Feliz and Lady Semon and Mr Poultnoy Bigalow, who have been amongst the gucate staying at Government House, left for Japan by... Manchuria

The House ast for twenty-six hours and then adjourned,

UPRISING.

TROOPS CALLED OUT.

The regular Republicans admit (culer's Service to the China Mail) defeat.

Lossos, March 21. A meege from Athens states that

MOVED.

500 peasants smashed the windows of a train near Larissa.

Mr WR-D-Bookett, CM,G-after twenty-four years in the British Consolar THE SPEAKER'S DEPOSITION Service, has left Bangkok probably not to return. His departure is greatly regreted. Uproar in House of Represents. The troops were called out and thep-

"

It seems that H.M. the King is having bad weather at Biarritz, and is prevented from taking his usual outdoor exercise. He will probably visit King Alfonso at San Sebastian.

Mr John Walter, eldest son of the late Mr A. F. Walter, will succeed his father as Chairman of The Times Company, asys the L. & C. Express. Ms.John. Walter was | lately stationed in Madrid.

which also is lower than any of the Egyptian ones, and only, some 30 to 40 feet. Professor PETE is credited with saying that Merce was

The Labour party in the House of probably the home of the great Queen Commons refuse all responsibility for the lory at Mowers Hagbas & Hough' of Saxma, and that her famous expediary. Mr Ratner, their leader, declares proposed expenditure on the Army and 45 p.m.-Auction of Household Fara!. tion to-Sotovar took place from here. that the Government has surrendered its ture st No.6, Victoria, View, Kow-Certain is it that there was a succession policy of economy.

of great queens known as Cannic, and

The Chinese Engineering and Mining the portraits of them are to be seen Company Limited, report that the total shire Regiment, who was serving on the

Sales Rooms..

loop.

General Memoranda, WEDNESDAY, March 95:---

tives.

· (Bouter's Service 19 the China Mail.)

Lossox, March 17: A Washington message states that the House of Representatives adopted

101 votes to 155 the motion elitinating the Speakar from the Committee on Enles

A motion by the Democrats to depoes Mr Cannon eroked a great uproar in the House and was finally rejected by

The result of the debate, however:

Secretary of H. B. M. Logation, Peking

Mr 8. F. Mayers, formerly Chinesa † 191 to 153. succeeds to the position vacated by Mr

J. O. P. Bland as represostative of the British and Chinese Corporation.

Major A. A. Chichester, D.S.O., Dorset

has broken the power of lir Cannon.

[Nota-The following extract from an article contributed by Mr.J. T. Graves to the Neo York American will throw some

almost dramatic pathos in Congress in that light on the above mossagen

The picture of personal interest and of

of

fired, killing five and wounding fifteen..

The outbreak is due to an agitation:

landlords, whose expropriation the of the peasants against the Mussulman Gresk Chamber is considering.

PRINCE REGENT, HELD UP.

CHARGED WITH EXTRAVA--

GANCE.

Feared Assassination Plet..

(Wah Tez Yat Po's Service.)

PEKING, March 20 The Prince Regent was ent riding

on the ancient monumente to this output of the Company's three mines for staff at Hongkeng a short time ago, has 9.15 p.m.-Auction of Foussbold Feral-day, and formidable looking ladies the work ending 6th March 10 amounted to just been promoted lieutenant-colonel 30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- they must bar been, if their period, to 25,232.53 tons, aleg during the count as Plymouth talion of his top-the spa bill to rogaine de Committee and stand of wasting money by

tare at No. 3. Canton Villas, Kowloon,

tare, do at Messrs Hughes & Hough's Sales Rooms. THUENDAY, MArch 94-

MONDAY, April 4:-

portraits in stone are to believed. They

ment at

effect from April 1.

11 Meeting of the China Sagar

are pictured as being extremely stout, A Fong has sent us three admirable

Captain G. C. A. Marescaux, who Refining Co., Ltd. at Masses Jardine, grasping crowd of prisoners by their whole plate photographs of the University Station, where he commanded the county recently returned home from the China Markason & Co.'s Offer. 11.30 am.Meeting

"Lazon Sugar hair in one hand, and beleing a battle-500 Aring oromony wheedy cruiser Kent, has been appointed to the Rafaing Co., La., at bears Jardine, are in the other. A condition of civili lency the Governor making his speech; and service vessels attached to Devonport, in was speaking; "another showing His Excel-command of the, czuisar division of special Matheson Co.'s Ufices. FRIDAY March 25:-

sation indeed existed many hundreds of the third illustrating the actual laying of the succession to Captain M. Woolcombe, with Exchange Banks Clown.

years B.C. which did not exist in the stone. country ten years ago. There is the great

The Lords are "getting back" at the part and the very modern present toark-Commons. The Duke of Northumberland ed in stone and other work, but of the and the Marquis of Salisbury during the handiwork of the countless generations that it was necessary to strengthen the debate on Lord Rosebery's motion, declared that have passed between there is House of Lords owing to the deterioration HONGKONA, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1910. nothing but a blank. The Soudan was

12.30 p.m.-Mesting of National Bank

of China, Id. at Bank Office.....

The Chim Mail

A WARH-HEARTED. ADMIRER

Christian country before it became Mahometan. Christianity appears to have been introduced through Abys- Mn TunoDone ROOSEVELT evidently thinks sinia, it is mid by St. ATHANABIES, it

of the House of Commons.

M: M. M. Tackey is proceeding with his appeal to the Privy Council in the case of M. M. Tackey v. B. 8. F. McBain, and Shanghai,jas security for costs of the appeal has paid £400 into B. M. Supreme Court,

recent sensational rise in Lażgkas shares.

old Cannon fighting, dodant, yet hope in a sedan chair when he was held up legsgainst his laevitable fato ay by a member of the Imperial Guard Fowler, of New Jersey, a Republican of troduced a the having built for own uses on Rules by leaving off the Spesker palace costing several millions of tsels. entirely, adding Four Republicans and one

comes would make the committe arrested and detained for trial by the Democrat instead of two Democinis and

The Guardsman was immediately two Republicans, with the Sponker, as it is consist of six members of the dominant Imperial Household Department, would be at least the rule of an elected THE TIBETAN RUPTURE- party to three of the minority party. Bad majority against the present autocratio-cula enough for the minority, apparently, bab it

of a Czar.

Fowler is not popular and his bill will hardly pass, but some similar bill of the me purport will undoubtedly go through at an early date. The one inapt able requirement of any bill will be to eliminate Joe Casnon and Joe. Cannon-

A VICEROY DENOUNCED.

(Wah Tst Fat Po's Service)

PEKING, March 20,** Vicercy Chao Erh Shun,.cf Szechma,

Lieutenant-Colonel H. O. D. Hickman, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, vacated the command of the 2nd Battalion, at Dublin appointment of sec nd-in-command of their from the future of the Howe of has been cencuzced in connection with at the end of February and took up the

Staff College, Camberley. The nest senior Representativce. The demand is universal. officer of the Inniskillings is Major A. J.

Even from the far New England States Hancocka, second-in-command of the latsentatives that if Cannon should be per comes the ward to New England repre- Battalion at Tientsin, North China. petusted they will surely be eliminated,

ED. C.. M.I

Chinese authorities as a consequence of the The amount of compensation paid by the

now been allotted. It is understand that China New Year trouble at Scochow has Mr E A. Nottingham, who was the most seriously injured of the four who were mobbed by the soldiers, receives Tis. 1250.

HOME POLITICS.

MR ASQUITH ON THE –

SITUATION.

the unrest in Tibet.

directed to enquire into the allegations. The Viceroy of Yunnan has been

The Yokehams Agency of the CPR. was this morning in rocalpt of a wirėleis message from the R.M.8, Empress of Chica stating that all was well, and that the Com- wander hoped to reach Tokohams on the morning of the 36th instant. The message miles from Japan. The Empress of China was despatched when the ship was 1549

left Vancouver on the 11th instant.

Mr H. H. Ladd, who nest to him was the (Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, March 19. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Oxford, said the Budget was being pushed

Mary Gaunt, who is the Erst Lady forward as speedily as

novelist to experience the effects of the possible.w.censorship of the English circalating Referring to the House of Lords, the librarias, is the daughter of the late Judge Premier said the House must be re-Gaunt, who presided over the County-court built on + democratie basis; the in Melbourne. In private life she is Mr. Lindsay Miller, having married an Aga

· HOLY WEEK.

way with people who demonstrate against 450, while Messra R. W. Wedderburn and The police in Germany have a short most severely mauled, has bean allotted Es. the Government. Hers is the proclamation W. J. Ward get Tls. 250 each.

sed just before the recent suffrage riote in Berlin"Proclamation Avolaim is put forward to the right to demonstrate in the streets. The streets exist solely for traffic and weapons will be used in case of of Holy Week and their teaching for to- any, resistance to the authorities. I warnday"- will be given at evensong at 5.30 absolute veta on legislation must go kalian medical doctor of that name. Har Police von Jagow."- curious spectators. (Signed) President of daring Holy Week, at St. John's Cathedral, and simultaneously Parliaments must

by the Bishop of Victoria, as follows:-- be shortened.

MONDAY, Jasus at Bethany.-Devotion to Christ.

that the British official improves upea how for this can be relied on is uncet-together with the cost of making up the re- acquaintance. At the agtset of his tain. The remains of Christian cord in the case.. This ease arose over the African hunting trip, when entermined churches are to be seen to this day at by the British community at Nairobi, he Soba, ten miles south of Khartoum, on poke words of good cheer which must the Blue Nile, and in various, places in have sounded very grateful in the ears the Dongola province. The invasion of of many a hard-worked exile, but now, Ethiopia by the, Arabs from Arabin, having traversed Uganda and the re- about 700 AD, brought the Moslem gions. lying between Lake Victoria creed into the country, and all Christian Nysa and Kharkup, he finds ever churches and monuments were speedily warmer words) of admiration for the razed to the ground. FINE MELLOW men who have brought peace and good

MOHAMMED ALL, Khedive of Egypt, order into the wild places of Africa. invaded die Soudan in 1820, but the FLAVOUR. Mr Roos VELT we know is a man of province was a source of trouble to strong impulses, only too ready to Egypt from the beginning. When the sum up a situation on the spot, but English first took a band after Ector's nevertheless we cannot, as Englishmen, death, at smashing the Mabdi, or

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The Poking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News sends that journal a river piece of now. He says The the Government & German offer to provide Shantung Government has forwarded to

bute which fell from his lips at the the nadir in respect to misery, alaves fearing an educational monopoly, has Shantung scholars. China, apparently Saadan Club in Khartoum. It is only raiding and violent bloodshedding, refused the offer and has reprimanded the just twenty-five years since GORDON-Lord KnCUSED's work, however, was Provincial Government for sending it for Chinese Gomor as we know him in thorough," "and to-day the population is the quarter of the world-fell beneath increasing enormously, for the Soudanese a Dervish spear and the whole fondan are a prolific race. We hope that this ran red with murder, rist, and rapine. tale of peace, prosperity and contented o-day, thanks to the British admin-acquiescence in the present form of istration eaco reigns throughout its government will long continue, for to wide-fung borders: That such a man

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THE GOVERNOR VISITS MACAO.

16, the correspondent of the N.-C. Dady Telegraphing from Tarchou on March

extending over 900 miles in Sechte, the News reported-In the course of a journey route.of which lay entirely through areas formerly devoted to poppy, I have not shalately ooting the previous raports that poan single poppy plant, Rigid inquiries the growth of poppy has been abandoned. ausalt, hud has depreciated twenty- and cheap. Ava per cent and food-stuffs are plentiful

..!!

It seems very much open to question if the losing of all the opium divans in the Colony, which has now been carried into effect, will stamp out the habit of opium smoking among the lower class of Chinese There is nothing to prevent habitues from

A course of addresses Some Scenes

Faith in God.

TUESDAY, Jesus before the fig tree.—

WADNIAWAT, Jesús sought of the Greeks -Missions to the Heathon...

REINSTATEMENT OF DALAI LAMA

The Reusion of Christendom. GOOD FRIDAY, Jesus praying for Unity. NO SUPPORT FROM RUSSIA.

KOWLOON ROBBERIES.

Deterrent Sentence.

(Reuter's Service to the China Maili LONDON, March 19. St. Petersburg newspapers agnounce Ho Tik pleaded guilty, at the Criminal

that the Russian reply to the appeal Sumions, before Mr Justice Gomperte this of the Dalai Lama for aid in re- belonging to Mrs Liddell and Miss will be in general terms.. morning, of laroony of goods value $1,212 establishing his authority in Tibet

sontenced prisoner to three years imprison- Sutherland at Kowloon, and his Lordship met with hard labour.

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THE BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.

The second performance at the Theatre Royal by the Bandmann Opera Company of The Arcadiadia" was given before another full and enthusiastic house. All the old milar friends were heartily greeted as they made their various entrances, while the Leon, with her macy Irish brogue and newcomers, particularly dainty Misa Conn bewitching dancing, thoroughly established

Lancy the Governor lefs Hongkong at 10 apparatas for joint and common

On Saturday (19th instant). Hu Excel.aiming a slab in order to procure the moves in the affections of Hongkong

call on H.E. the Governor of Macao. He supplica of the drug for smoking. We are, am, in HM.S. Britomart, to pay an official use and then each procuring their own

we accompanied by Commodore Lyon, Sir

Indeed, "Informed that this Beary May, Mr Blanchflower, and him being done.

value. Praise of Great Britain's ad- ministrative actions in foreign lands from the months of foreign observers, par ticularly from men of Teatonic deacent, 915 to 11.15 .. has been so rare that we may perhaps personal Staff. On arrived at Macao, at be forgiven for a little clation on the 2 p.m. the Britomat was met by the present cocasion.

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Mr Frith,

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It will allude to the Russian-British protest to Peking, but will not hold ont any real hope to the Dalai Lama,

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