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and fights for breath, and mast dig og heart failure if not relieved by nmyl nitra and chloral. The attacks of contraction as recurrent appearing, as the disease progresses, at always shorter intervals, while the amyl nitrate and in connection with the Y.M.C.A. on San- Dr Gibson will presida at the meeting) chloral lose their efficacy, until at length day ovoning!"
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Looking hack ever the nice years which have elapsed since King Erwart ascended the Throse, one is struck by the
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loave of Mr F. B. L. Bowlay.
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On account of pressure on our space have been compelled to hold over the judgment delivered in the rics enso at tho
Supreme Court this morning,
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Bangkok has been proclaimed to be an infected port by a proclamation issued by the Officer Administering the Hongkong Government, Cholem has broken out there,
We hear that tho den of, the Boys' British Sovereign Gilled in the world Hongkong and
Brigada has caught ou splendidly both in in Kowloon.. and the,
of foreign and domestic -politics at prospects for two good companies are fully
the
time of his death. The Throne hassured.
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emerged completely from the envelope) | Halley's comet prosented a very of nebulosity which hung about it intriking appearance in the eastern sky fork over an hour this morning. It is now well, such a tantalizing fashion in the closing up in the heavens and is nuclei has sears of Queen VicToma's long reign assumed the brightness of a star of the „Erat magnitu while the tail is already and bas asutied its proper place in
well extent de the unwritten Constitution of the British,
An election by the Justicas of tho Empire. Always the fountain of ben-Ponce for the Colony of a member to servo our, it has in the last decide become an the Licensing Board, vice Mr D. W very positive and controlling infincpecin Craddock, who has resigned, is to take in that place at the Land Office, on Wednesday. the Councils of State as well. Edward Withy of Fatorun, New Zealand,more intangi flux known as publie cp-am and continue until 1 p.m.
*May 18th. Voting will commence at 11 to FRADENCK Nailson, youngest son of
Horiekona. April 18. 1977.
MARRIAGE. JAMES-WITRYn Monday, May 2nd, at St. John's Enthedral Hongkong. FLORENCE, third daughter of Mr and in
the Into Chicles James of Bancroggs iniun. To H, late MAESTY's wide ex- County Clare Island, Ireland,
MEMOS FOR MONDAY,
Miscellaneous"
Inview of the interest which is at)
Goods per Print Waitemar andelivered toward our near neighbour France and
perience of me and politics, as much as present centroing around the appearance to his urbanity and diplomatic tact, doof Halley's comet, the following inform-7 we owe the great charge in our attitudeation sent, in by a correspondent should
Yesterday morning I saw the prove of interest to our renders:-
for the space of about two minutes. Then it became obscured by clouds:
after this dato subject to rent,
General Memoranda.
Tuesday, May 10:
is
4 p.m.-Meeting of Tangtses Insurance
Association, Id., at Bend Office. Goods par Smeyambia undelivered after
this date subject to rent. FRIDAY, May 13:
date subject to ront,
our before time bitter antagonist Russia Elis active benevolence was always freely exerted in affairs more nearly affecting the domestic welfare of his people, and it was a significant fact that no more welcome figure was geen at his
Goods per Kasama andelfeared after this country house in "Norfolk than sturdy
Joux Burs, the former Jender of gigantic dock strike but how one of they most capable and trusted finisters of the Crown. The Ko, in fact, kept in touch with his people and wherever
The dhion Mail
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1810. posible has given a lead in matters of practical philanthropy and social reform, and in so doing won all hearts.
DEATH OF THE KING.
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comet
to sue further to the right of Venus After waiting a few minutes I was surpris.
dazzling bright liht. In a short time clouds also covered this, but very soon it again shops forth most brilliantly only to be very speedily hidden by still denser, clouds. I imagined this might be a meteor and wonder if anyone else has seen, it.",
THE WORLD MISSIONARY
CONFERENCE.
Christianization of
National Life":
IN MEMORIAM.
HIS LATE MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII.
[COPYRIGHT.]
SATURDAY MAY 7, 1910-
"
(and tho was the mother of the present
Kaiser William II.,
Albert Edward Prince of Walesa, caíno to the throne upon the death of h`a metter, January 22, 1901 undad the name of Edward F then risty years old an, sathe Prince of Wales, had long held a position of comanariling sisi prominnaon throughout the wurdt. He had cultivated the social, graces, ha a tha mobiter. elegantorum in the workpl fashion, and he was known as the Brit gentleman of Europe. "Bo had laid more cornerstones, planted more trees, presided a more anquets, and made more conventional speeches than any other man alien. But all the time ho was the Prince of Wales, and bly individuality was obsemed Ly the Ishadow of the throßo upon which est hia
regal and imperial mother
Therefore, in spite of his long career as Prince of Wales, Edward VII, a King and Emperor, has furnished the political world with ous of the greatest surprises M [modern history, "King Edward uiore than any British monarch of modern days, ruląd (as well as reigned. The British peopo will not brook the interference of the erown in party politics, and Edward has respected the tradition which prohibits the... King from activa participation in internal
clitical controversies.
Bat from the moment that he become king, Edward VII, took an influential part in the foreign afuirs of bis realm. - Whon The came to the throne England was revented in a war with the South African, Tupul lies. It was the n st expensive and Citrus conflict Eegan las ever ex- perienced. Not only kayit kiigastic task Ka dy for the Bonis, Bit Byku? found " that in the war al died littl sympathy Mong the Powers The people of coal Unental Europe and of the United States- were for the mest part. strong partisans the Rus King Edward was not blind to this condition of affairs. Byr
ghis occupancy of the Thrace that. war was baie be to a vietoje creat and the South Africans have: beer" "granted En constitution which makes them one of the great self-governing and equið nations of the British Empire.
The Japanese alliance, the Franco- Anglican entente cordiale, the matrimonial albance with Spain, the hard ind. frat secret treaty with Portugal, the increased, British influence in Turkey, the new cor. diality between England and Russia, and the strengthening of ties between Great ritain and the Scandinavian nation aro the results, in large part, of the skillful diplomacy of Edward VIL
If the late King's efforts to prevent war by menm of bringing the family of nations
and sympathy of Germany in this hour into closer relations are successful, and it
BRITAIN PLUNGED IN Hot trial to great Britain.
GRIEF.
(Reuter'e Bervice to the China Mail).
LONDON, May 6. The illness of the King is over-
shadowing everything throughout the United Kingdom.
Unable to Meet the Queen,
Effect on Stock-Market.
All business has been affected by the loess of His Majesty, and the Stock Exchange is depressed, Consols being 4 down.
Origin of the Illness.
Later His Majesty told a friend yesterday Education is the might instrument by The first intimation of the illness of that he caught a cold in a theatre and which the Christian Church can communi ante to the great nations of the East, as His Majesty was the "announcement this developed into bronchial trouble they stretch out their hands to an coksown
that he was unable to meet Queen while at Biarritz, whereupon be fature, those right conceptions of God and of Efe on which a true and worthy antichal Alexandra si the railway station on her returned. life can be built up.
It is the supreme means of equipping return from a cruise in the Mediter the indigennus Churches in these lands franean. This was not regarded with the tremendous task that lies before them,
apprehension until the publication of is imperative that the Church should de-last night's bulletin... liberately, thamughly and comprehensively) review its policy of Education in neo- Christian lands.
It is impossible at the moment to realise the immense loss which the British Empire kas sustained by theIn the face of issues of such magnitude, death of King EDWARD. A prince and ruler in the highest meaning of the term, he has proved himself to be a King
THERE was no denying the strength of the deep current of anxiety which was set running at high tide in the loyal British Colony of Hongkong at the news conveyed over the cables on Friday of the illness of His Majesty King Erwan VIL Alas, to-day, that every action of his life since that bleak anxiety has turned to the saddest realityJanuary day in 1901 when Queen Varont laid down the burden of her and the whole Empire is (plunged into
great responsibilities at Osborne and grief, for the Kit has passed away passed to "where beyond these voices
chi. f nime of the different branches of Yet up to a few days ago we were there is peace for the anguish of the missionary education in different parts of
world, specially where an
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The Concern of the People.
The active work of the Commission on ducation in relation to the Christianis The newspaper special editions were tion of Nativani Life began in the autumnziously bought up on the streets, of 1008 when a paper of fourteen questiona
every part of the Mission Seld. In issuing theatres in the Metropolis. was sent out to experienced lenders and announcements were made in the the questions, the aim of the Commission us to ascertain what should now be the
A Cheory Report.
World-Wide Sympathy,
Messages of enquiry and sympathy are pouring in from everywhere.
[Note Further messages received cou- firm the nows of the critical turn which the illness took and also the subsequent
demise of His Majesty. Eo6.04.1
Condition Critical
Lospor, May 7 à bulletin has been issued stating
by these means the great problems which now engage the minds of Europena, states- mon are solved peaceably, then Edward VII will be entitled to be called, in al focure history, "Edward the Peacoxoakar.
The New King.
His Royal Highness George Frederict Ernest Albert, Prince of Wales, will succeed his noble father as King and Emperor of the British Dominions, and tho prayers of the whole of the Anglo-Saxon poople go out at this time on his behalf, that he any dis- charge the immense responsibilities whichs now fall so his shoulders in a manner which
shall conduce to the beat interests of the great Empire which he has been called
rule.
Kupon
to
...
The new King, who holds a great many military and Naval appointments, is said to inherit many of the characteristics of his revered father, though he is rather of a more quiet and retiring disposition. Not Ja great deal is known as to his capacities- for governing, though it may be deponded now that he has assumed to such a high and mighty rank that he will,
King Edaard himself did. rise nobly to bis opportunities. His Royal Highness wor born on June 3rd, 1866, and is therefore now early 45 years of age. He married on July 6, 1808 the Princess Victoria Mary May") of Teck, who was born on May 26, 1887, and is therefore about two years.. the junior of the new King. There are six children as the result of the union, Ove- of whom are Princes. They are:-- Edward, born June 23, 1894: Albert, born Decemz- her 14, 1896: Mary, born April 25, 1897 - bern December 20, 1904 and John, born- Heary, born March 31, 150: George.
practically unconscious of the blow Boer war lay heavily upon her in thosd, awakening and the growth of a pational It was announced at a late hour thai that His Majesty the King is worse, and July 12, 1905.
tined for a long span of years he called by Providence to rule over us, for
came
Spirit have changed the conditions of the
educational problem with which the mis the King was in good spirits and was
sionary effort has to cope.A defect that resting comfortably.
la frequently charged against missionary education is that it has tended to Wester
niso and derationglise those who have come
of sturdy, long-lived stock, the years of his mother's long reign under its influence. No more dificult particularly on his late revered mother's side, and we saw no reason, why his life should not be equally as well prolonged
had been for him a period of stera self-problem confronts the missionary educator
as that of the last occupant of the red up by W. E GLADSTONE, as we
the
than that of presenting Christian idene in repression. His character, as Prince of such a way that these will relate themsaires
naturally to Wales, however, bad been tersely sume micutal aptituties of those who are caught
experience and inherited and of securing that converts to Christiani ahould rempia truly indigenous in their thought, feeling and outlook in life. It is to expect that a gathering op of reusonable the best experience of Christian schools and colleges in the Levant and in the Orient, as well as in other parts of the world,
· A TURN FOR THE WORSE
LOADOS, LATER. The bulletin issued this morning states that the condition of His Majesty is regarded with grave anxiety.
FAMILY SUMMONED.
LONDON, May 6. All the members of the Royal Family
British throne. It is well-known that learnt a few years ago from Lord bis father, the late PRICE CONSOAT, ROD ACTOy's, letters, in the following telling to his grave a broken-hearted man, his phrases:- sensitive high-rung nature suc- A shrewd man, a keen observer, will furnish valuable suggestions to those eunbing rather to the long sustained fall of thet, always educating him interested in the planning of new edues have been summoned to His Majesty's
tional institutions in the Mission field; and bedside.
interesting and
Symptoms Become Worad. naportant problems,
·Bottles will be charged for campaign of bitter calumny and active self without deliberately sitting down will thus throw light upon these intensely dislike so unrensonally and so anjcatly to learn a lesson; rarely opening a book, The Commission has divided itself into a
Later at the rate of $1.20 per entertained for him by the majority of bat keeping himself au courant with series of sub-committees for the carefu examination of all the testimony submitted dozen,--and credited in full the people of England than to the whatever is going on in the world; and to them and special reporte have been pre
A. bulletin has been issued stating
that his condition is regarded as critical;
The End,
LONDON, LATER, His Majesty King Edward is dead.
THE KING'S RECORD.
The decreed Monarch, whosa, demise will cause the whole civilised world to bow its head in grief, waa 63 yonra of ago. He was born at Buckingham Palace on Novem- ber 9, 1841, the first son of Queen Victoria and the Princo Consort. He was baptized
COURTS IMMEDIATELY
ADJOURŃ.
Regret of the Chief Justice."
The bows of the King's death caused a inful sensation in the Bankruptcy Court this morning, which was immediately adjourned.
M: W. Rees Davies, Acting Chief Justice- said-I have just received with the greatest possiblo regret the news that Bie Most Gracious Majesty the King has passed away, I need scarcely my that the Court will adjourn immediately. I shall take the opportunity on Monday in the
the presence. hope of the members of the profession and officers of the Court to express foundest sense of the grant les au aur pro
Mr Justice Hazeland was also sitting in the Small Court where the announcezient was also received with great regret.
and christened Albert Edward, in St. George's chapel, Windsor, on January 25, 1849. It is not without peculiar interest to fecall the fact that King Frederick Will iam of Primis came to England to be godfather to the infant Prince of Wales, Edward's cldcat sister, the Princess Eoral, REDUCED PRICES FOR
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EDWARD since his recovery from the his part in public, business, doing aerious illness which attacked him in the thoroughly."
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early 70's of last century, had led a That sums up King howARD's character
life tempered by the strictest discipline very concisely in the business of the
a
mission as regarda missionary education in
thaedication ofgirl, and missionary edust condition is by, and that His Majesty's
tion in.Doo-Mahommedan Africa.
The members of the Commission through-
now critical.
but have received the indispensable aid of Royalty Romain At The Palaco. their Secretary the Rev. AL W. Myras.of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Thie Chairman of the Commission is the
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All the members of the Royal Family, Bishop of Ermingham, the Right Rovefnd except the Duchess of Albany, remain at
harles Gru, D. D., who bou presided at the Palace.
recoivud by several of the American mem-
The Worst Realized.
Later"
all the ratings when the reports of the Commission were brought forward fur discussion. Circumstances made it impos- sible for the American members to he prevent hut valuable mamomands were
The conviction is growing that is hers and Professor Madre of Harvard University, who recently paid a lengthy Majesty's condition is now hopeless visit to China and other cuatrice, con-Crowds have gathered ontade the trud in an input in Palace, and the people are deeply
sected at the gravity of the situation.
jasne of the Commission's work.
and only a year ago the leading nation he was very thorough, setting
noble example to us all. physician at Marienbad testified that after a thorough examination to found In our grief to-day, however, we must His Majesty to be in possession of more not be selfish. Our sympathy should robust health and physical vigour than few out in no measured stream to is generally associated with men of that beautiful, loving woman whom his years and dispositiva. Yet his life be won, as a bride in the full glory of hung on a thread According to a writer life's springtide, and who has reigned in the Philadelphia Pudie Ledger o supreme in British bearts from that The Right Hun. Sir Ernest Satow and the Roy. Lord William Greenyno Cecil whore we see little reason to doubt day to this. We mingle our tears with both having a personal knowledge of China, the KING has been suffering from hers. We have lost a Sovereign, she and keenly interested in the development what is known as arteriosclerus husband and dear companion-and her sort of progressive los dwarfs crainte insignificance. We abrous degeneration of the arteries but can trust that the sympathy of the and takes the form of attacks of arterial (whole empire which will be cxtended contraction. The blood vessels and to her and her family today will help denly reduce their diameter, backing to asmauge the bitter grief which the COMING-Two eminuot Artistes up the blood upon the heart, which removal of such a man as Epwapo VI
is thrown into a desperate apoam of must occasion in the breasts of all those effect to overcome the obstruction.nearest and dearest to him, as well as to
engre livid, strangles, his people at large.
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The Prayers of an Empire.
Prayers are already being offered for His Majesty's recovery throughout the Empire.
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alan mumbers of this most important I is not, however, to be expected that this Commi-sion on Education will be able, even with the help of such men as those, to furnish conclur on with regard to the it will be ble to present a conspectus of the ablear and most experienced, educ topslists arid vigorous thinkers of the think out afresh some of the fundamentalance at a concert to be held this after Mission eld, and thus will compel us te
The Kaiser has cancelled
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