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the Formosans proceeds space"? One own mind. It was, therefore, the other hand Japan had subsidised necessary, to work to bring about a better

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The Chinese administration caso which

Acting Chief Justice (Hon. Mr W. Reca has been occupying the attention of the Datias, R.C.) and practically all the barristers in the Colony for weeks past is on into May. To-day was the 44th day of a likely to nech a conclusion until woll the hearing.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Lusitano Junior Recreation Club the sugar industry at great cost to understanding with Japan, but not bars to hold their annual sports at Breevy herself and with rucat bereficent allowing everything Japanese to carry Point, on Saturday afternoon, the ground reals to her colony. The fact re-weight while we ourselves subordinated being kindly lone for the osension by the mained that a white man could travel all foreign questions to the immediate safely in certain parts of the island accessities of the moment. Mr BLAND when it would be mash of him to believes that a renewal of the Japanese do so in company with a Japanese. Alliance would be a good thing. For In Keres, which must inevitably pass years he had been in the service of into her absolate control, Japan hadapan, and during the war was in its builroads and railways, and as Secret Service, and he has been struck maintaining them at a considerable un-by the way in which the Japanese

We hope M: Shelton Hooper's remarks nual cost. But land had been taken took it for granted always that. from the Kerenus without payment, England would accept anything. We regarding the advisability of undertaking and the less said about the method hnd surrendered the supremacy of tho as speedily as possible the repling over of the insurgents were being dealt with Pacific to the Japaneso Fleet. The the Bowen-road reservoir will securo the question as to the abaclute necessity for ia all too many cases the better. It Japanese bad got a very definite ileatation of the Government. There is no was difficult to extract reliable eridence of what they, wanted, and so long the work. from Koreans living in the country. as we, their allies, encouraged them

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1910.

SANITARY EDADO.

MED. C. Wölfe presided over a meeting of the Sanitary Board on Tuesday afternoon when there were present —Kou. Mr W. Chatham, Hon. Mc A. W. Hedwin, Hooper, Mr Ng Hon T, Mr Lau Chu Pak, Dr. Fa Clark, Medical Officer of Colonel Bedford, P.SI... Mr. Shulted

Hanith, Dr. Pearse, A.3.CH., and W. Bowen-Rowlands, secretary.

OPTENSIVE TRADES.

that

In connection with the application for soup boiling Eeenus at Nos 432 and 454 Canton Road, Mongkoktsui, the President Hewett's minuts that these premises a said I may say in reply to the, Hon. Sir within the area where offensive trades my lo permitted. I therefore proposa this application be granted...

31. Lau Chu Fak secorded, and the motion was agreed to.

The President-In connection with the Registrar General's minute, I think it application for an offensive trade licence comes iz to find oct from the Medical would be a better plan in future, when an

Vilcer Health, or the Assistant Medical Ocer of Health, what is required de The piratical fleet cruising off the East tore the licence be granted, and thon Once work is completed, actually done. hd as there were restrictions upon with our capital and moral sup Borces and Celebes repasts turn out to be refer it to the Board before any work is them leaving it but little was known port they would naturally take adyan-manned by outlaws fleeing from the Amerithe applicant would naturally consider it a

have plundered places on the Celabes of what was going on in that country. age of their position. The moment na authorities in the Sulu inlande. They I Manchurid Japan nominally held we wisheil frankly and freely to consult coast, and have been sighted north of the but the railway, the telegraphs and with them as to our mutual interests. Macassar Straits. Man-of-war are pursuing the posts stationed along it. Actually the Japanese would see that it would the pirates.

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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Auction."

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Forni-China was anxious to build new raile

tare, etc. at No. 23, Cetduit Read.

General Memoranda.,

9.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni tur, etc. at Derrington, 5, Penk Rond. p.m.-E.E. the Governor's 'At Home' at Government 'Hotes.

The China Mail.

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[CorvaGHT.]. RUBBER.

A DROP IN PRICE.

(Reuter's Service to De China Alail.)

Listos, April 27. The price of raw Para rubber bas declined to 11s 3d per pound:

JAPANESE TOURISTS. WARM WELCOME AT CAFE- TOWN:

(Router's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, April 97.

A message from Capetown states that the members of the Japanese Parliament

on the way to England by the cruiser koma have been entertained in the most friendly manner there.

The Ikomas has now left the Cape for Buenos Aires.

THE FINANCE BILL.

PASSED FOR SECOND READ- ING.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

Losos, April 26,. mnt the license.

Mr Shelton Hooper--I think the better serious grievance if the Board did not

Mr O'Brier's motion for the rejection procedure would be that directly the the Board, and we could grant the liceties application comes in it should come before of the Finance Bill was defented by

il 328 votes to 242. subject to things being put in crder.

The Presidout-My iden in going to the The Finance Bill passed its second Medical Officer of Health Brst was to have some data to go on. We would have much reading by 328 votes to 242. more to go on if the Medical Officer first stated whether the place was waitable or pt. He would give us all sorts of details te whether the premises complied with Mr Shelton Hooper-I quito agree with the Public Health Ordinance.

before us we should have reports from the that. I think that on any question coming technical officers concerned to guide us by their advice and their professional know- edge.

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AMERICAN SNOW- STORMS.

"COTTON CROPS AFFECTED.

(Reuter'a Bervice to the China Mail) Loston, April 26.

The President-If. professional detail is Great scowstorms have occurred net given, the paper caz always be referred in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, back. It seems to me that this course will while remarkably low temperatures rul save a considerable amount of trouble, and will put the application through quickering in Louisana Mississippi, and Texas

The proposal was adopted.

have damaged the cotton crops.

The Commissioner of Agriculture

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A moothly-ticket holder writes to us complaining of the nuisance caused on the Kowloon Ferry by the number of dogs which are constantly travelling to and fro.

NOWEN ROAD KESERVOIR. Last night, he says, no less than six big

The following reply waa road from the animals were tearing about the decks' of the ferry on which he crossed to Kowloon!

Government relative to covering over the in Texas fears that half the crop is No doubt the privilege of taking dogs survica reservoir at Bowen Road: 1 is killed, and the scarcity of cotton seed across the water by the ferry is often reply in your letter No. 140/10 of the 5th will tend to prevent replanting. alused, but the matter is one concerningult." I (Cplonial Secretary) am instructed the Company primarily and our correspon dent is advised to write to them if he wishes to pursue the subject.

In seems that the Customs authorities very similar to that we so long held the world, and the general welfare of at Manila tamporarily sized the steamer Rubi in connection with the finding of 1031 in Egypt. Would Japan atilise her humanity to follow out the optins of opium eszcealed in barrels of position as we had done for the benefit door policy, and until that day cemont discharged from that vessel into of that vast, province, or would she came the Japaneso would be justified the bodegas of Mears Wa. H. Anderson and Co. Five Filipinos are under arrest in exploit it for her own private ends in carrying out their present policy." connection with the air. The Rabi was That is the opinion of a man who of course released on security being forth

coming. ways to open up this fertile territory-has played no inconsiderable Japan feared this might affect the in his day is shaping public opinion on takings on berth- Manchurian Far Eastern questions in the columns FRIDAY, April 50:-

114.m.-Auction of Household Furni-Railway.

of The Times. There is no doubt that ture at 4, Obsarratory Viling, Kow- "Joon.

The great langer which: Earl Sras-the flabbiness which has characterised or sees confronting Japan is the British foreign policy of late years in Commercialism. This inmost matters concerning places "east spirit of Litself

ife Suex" bas placed us in a very not objectionable was pursued upon right and prerer unenviable position vis-a-ris our Allies lines but the shocking, senndal un-But if we could put a little more earthed since the war displayed a backbone into our diplomacy and amount of moral turpitude affiong the assure Japin that we were really HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1910.commercial classes which no amount in earsest and positively had made of Bushido would discount Iu con-up" our minds on certain points, a THE PROBLEM OF THE PACIFIC. clusion his Lordship hoped that Prc- political understanding could no doubt vidence would so order it that Japan be arrived at, which, by eliminating the EARL, STASHONE by his return to England would find a solution to her commercial unequal and Irritating features of from a visit to the Far East, has been and colonial problems which would the present arrangement would create chief of the Army and Nary with an Banual died and wined by the Authors' Club result in benefits not only to the people in London. After dinner bis Lordship immediately concerned but to the opened a delinte on The Island Enations of the world at large. Mr F. B. pires of the Fast and West," and took Vadas, who has spent most of his advantage of the "rcusion to express some interesting views on the present position of affairs in this quarter of the globe. After a rapir review of the circumstances which led Great Britain to

become a

life on the Pacific slope where the very mentica of Japanese is anathema ruth, raised a note of warning in hat he considered to be the interests Anglo-Saxon well-being in the Pacific

of

colorising nation. Earl basin. Staxon: remarked that Japon could point to many causes similar to these

He viewed with alarm any movemente in political circles which teaded to create any estrangement be

which had given us our world-wide tween Great Britain and the United possessions. The spirit of Empire, the Stater, because the time was surely

GENUINE AGE love of the een were hers. Ste had coming when the two nations would

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LONDON, April 27. to inform you that the Government is fully live to the desirability of covering the service reservoir at Bowen Road, and pro- pon to undertake the work when funds millions of acres of young cotton bare":

A message from Atlanta states that

are Available.

Mr Shelton Hooper minuted I consider been destroyed, including the entire this a public work of sufficient importance

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to be undertaken at once, and hope the cotton belt in the South Miss K. Massey is returning to Hong Government will no longer delay it.

The President Gentlemen, this question kopg via Siberis.

was threshed out previously, but I don't know whether any member has any further remarks to m

The Senate Committee on Pensions has declined to report on the Bill placing of Tresident Roosevelt on the retired list as

instead feeling fatisfaction and pansion of £2,000... content among all parties concerned.

NEWS OF THE DAY,

Mr Stelton Hooper-I would like my minute to go up to the Government in answer to their lettor. I don't think any resolution is decessary.

ABROAD.

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(Wah To Eat Po's Service.) The President-We have already statro

PEKING, April 26. that in so many, words in the resolution..

Mr Shelton Hooper-But it may be lost

The Board of Education has ad- As an outcome of the meeting between

sight of cr, shelved. I want to keep it President Taft and Earl Grey, the Governor before, the Government; but it can lay or dressed a memorial to the Throne to General of Canada, the former his shil, the table and come up with the estimates, the affect that the marriage of Chinese lenged the latter to an eighteen-hole goli and we can see if the work is provided for acholra studying in foreign countries" Hon. Mr Chatham was naked by the A crow's nest has been built on the match for the executive championship of President whether the money was likely to to foreign young ladies would not spire of Brunswick Church, Whitby.

North America." The game is to be played be available in the estimates for next year, be conducive to international inter-

Hon. Mr Chatham-I am sorry, sir, I on the Myopia links, near Berarly (Mass.) can give you ne information on the point course and suggesting that such mar-

riages should be prohibited. in the summer. President Taft, it may be at present, recalled, Las been playing a great deal

Bir Shelton Hooper Wo might refer to This has been confirmed by an Im. intely, with the object of decreasing his when we see whether the work is provided perial-Edict.

American papers seem convinced that Me Roosevelt will be again nominated for the Presidency by the Republicans, and that President Taft will receive a sent in the Supreme Court.

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AFTER THE RIOTS.

EUROPEAN LOSSES TO BE. INVESTIGATED.

(Wah Te Fat Po's Service.).

PERISO, April 26.

A Company for Hongkong,

To a well led house at the, Theatre At a preliminary meeting held on Mon. Royal last night the Bandmane Opera Hongkong of Inds between 1 and 17 ing play "Our. Miss Gibba," which gave day it was decided to form a Company in Company again presented the highly amus-

H. E. Yung Man Ting, the Acting · years of age. It is planned that in such great delight on the occasion of their uniform, drill and all the varied arrange ptior visit. Overflowing with pretty music, Governor of Changsha, has been ordered monts, the Company on this side shall be teeming with funpiosities and charmingly to make detailed investigations of the similar to that in process of formation in set and played; it gave unbounded delight losses suffered by European merchants Kowloon. This is expected by the to the appreciative audience, who again and in the recent riots and to report to the emulation and also to combined operations Chief honours naturally fell on Miss Connie promoters on both sides to lend to friendly again demonstrated their happy feelings. Board of Foreign Affairs. occasionally.

Leon in the title role, which she played to

A Chinese paper in Hantow has bega The first Parade will take place on perfection, while Mr Harry Cole was at his Wednesday, May 11th at 6 p.m. in the best as the broad Yorkshire country cousin suppressed for publishing anti-foreign grounds of Union Church, Kennedy Road, of the dainty altopgirl. Others who came articles.

The anti-foreign feeling of the rioters. when all Recruita should attend. These in for special notice were biss Hebo

Birkbeck, Mr Dan Clifford, MI G. Arnold, style hotels run solely by Chinamen were wishing to become members should send Kneller, Miss Florence "Beech. Miss Kat Changshe ran so high that the foreign in their names at once to Rev. C. H.

Mr. A. Frith and Mr J. McGrath. The barat down. Hickling, The Manso, 4 Kennedy Road.

music was excellently sustained and the numerous pretty dances gave marked pleasure.

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After an absence from England of Welsh soventeen years the 2nd Batt. Regiment reached Southampton from tho Cape ou March 21, in the Braemar Castle. need of room for her surplus and have to unite to curb the Pan-Asiatic ly three of those who felt in 1802 rapidly growing population, particularly ambitions of Japan. Indeed, the in view of the fact that North America English people should beware lest

Notwithstanding counter attractions the Empire Cinematograph Theatre con- and Australia bad virtually closed their the Anglo-Japanese Alliance hand-tinues to be well patronized. A new series doors to her emigrants at the prin- oser to Japan, the supremacy of the of excellent films are being shown and the cipal cause of expansion had beer the Pacific Ocean. With it would go several artistes continue to please and

delight their hearers, struggle for national existence. Korea Australia, India, Hawaii, the Philippines, was the pistol pointed at the heart of the and Alaska, and that gave the supremacy

The 9.5. Kwang Yat reports having Empire of the Rising Sun. Her war of the human race to the yellow man. spoken the C.. atenmer Yunnan on the with China was due to the question of Mr J.O.P. BLAND, on the other hand, 25th at noon. The Tannan was then the control of the Hermi: Kingdom and thought the importance of the Anglo-standing by the s.s. Kweiyang, which the Kwang Tat reports is indly ashore on the fears of Russian encroachments, and Japanese alliance could not be "x-south side of the Ocksen outer rocks. |ber struggle with flussia still more saggerated. The Japanese believed in As the annual meeting of Mesirs Japan had acquired the protectorate of the open door on paper, but they did Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, held at Sho Korea, the possession of Formosa, no believe in being the door-mat.eld. it was stated that the orders now in at any given part of Eagbalin, a lease of the Lizo Many will agree with Mr BSD in the hand were greater than tung Peninsula, and certain rights in suggestion, that the policy of Great moment in the history of the company. Manchuria. Little wonder, therefore, Britain in the Far East has been Col. Thomas Edward Vickers was granted a pension of £6,000 a year for life on

The evidence was to the effect that that this sudden extension of territory subordinated so much to old age pen retiring.

Detective Sergeant Torrett want to No. 4 and of power, backed as it was by thegions and other things that Great

The Royal Dutch Packet, Navigation Choung Wing Line which was suspected of A. 8. WATSON & CO command of the Pacific should be Britain in the Far East has became the Company intends to instal wireless tele-being a sly brothel. Shortly after the occupants were moving and on enquiring as causing alarm in Australia and indoor-mat. In 1915, when the Panama ply on board most of its vessule. The defeudent went there and found that the North America. Japan, in the opinion Canal would be opened, the question of Rataria Nieuwsblad igures out that fifty to why they were leaving he was informed of Earl Sratore, was at the parting cf the renewal gr non-renewal of the installations will be required at an outlay of the visit of the sergeant. Defendant is al- of balt a million of guilders. The yearly leged to have said that it did not toatter and that he knew the sergeant well and would the ways. She had to decide in the very Anglo-Japanes Alinuce will become a patlay on working the system is set at near future whether she intended to hold definite question mad it is the business about 140,000 guilden. - her colonies principally for her own of every intelligent Englishman to con- good to suck them dry after our sider whether it is not possible to have old colonial manner and that of most an alliance with a well-meaning Oriental Continental Powers, for the beachit of race under conditions, which will the Mother-land-or whether she would obviate the supremacy of the Pacific, govern" principally with a view to If that question were approached by the red in to the authorities for digging allowed in the sum of 8000, defendant their own betterment, and only in-two nations as partners proper results directly for her own In Formosa she would, in Ar BLAND's opinion, be brought

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ALLEGED BRIBERY.

Before Mr J, R. Wood at the Magistracy this afternoon, a sorgeant interpreter at the Central Police Station was charged with **Mr Loo D'Almada e Castro appeared for accepting a bribe of $12.

defendant.

The short sen on will close to-night with A Dollar Prince," for which the bookings are very heary.

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Hard pressed by the Balvoir Hound fux got on the roofs the post-office at Waitham and dived down the chimney of public-house. All attempts to dislodge him proved futile.

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for £10 and then took the keeper up to the Police Station. When they reached the gato defendant told him to wait and he Official advices from Dutch B. E. Burneo would go and see the sergeant and after mention the breaking out of diamond lusif an hour defendant returned and told. the keeper that he had made it alright. forer there. A stone weighting 18 carats He also said that he had spent $2 in was found lately by a diamond digger, treating the sorgeant and this sam was which caused such a stir that applications later handed to him. licenson. In January, the number of being commisted for trial. licenses granted reached 960 in number.

In February, that figuro was exceeded.

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to that with which we had to grapple to drift in the hope of something hap:HAMBERLAIN'S Collo, Choler and

The defence was reserved and bail woer

Y.M.C.A. CONCERT.

The annual concert for the benefit of the Y.MLO.A. library fund takes place on

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name implies. For pains in the stomach Badeley, Mrs Goldsmith, Mrs Clark and

in Nigeria: head hunters, desperate pening to relieve us of responsibility. Dierboos: Remedy is just what is fanaticism, and barbaric customs of Responsibility was said to develop and cap clip it has no equal At ibis Miss Clark, Musars B. G. White and E. B. the utmost ferocity. But was it no character, but in our case it seemed to a little startling, oberved bis Lord have developed funk Dominions which ship, to find in the official reports were at least intelligent would not follow the sentence: "The annihilation of a Mother Country which did not know storekeepers.

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