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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
Apption.
il s.m.-Auction of Manila Cigars at Me Goo. P. La mort's Sales Rosins,
"General Memoranda,
FRIDAY, MAY 20:-
Exchange Banks Closed,
Funeral of King Edward in London. Day of National Mourning. II a.m.--Memorial Service, St. John's
Cathedral,
6 p.m.--Memorial Service, Union Churcb. Saturday, May 21 — 2
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19.16 p.m.-festing of Star" Ferry
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* Purses lady from Bombay is the
Mr Lloyd George, the Master of Eli- bank and Mr T. P. O'Connor were touring in Italy together at the time of the King's death.
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matograph Thontro announce that Professor
Washington advices state that the Supreme Court has upheld the decision excluding the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky from Tennessee,
[CHFERITE.]
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBITION.
A PRONOUNCED SUCCESS.
(Independent News Agency's” Service
to the China laiz.)
"Toxro, May 18. A London telegram say that Press cottrents are unanimus in their the Anglo-Japanese approval of
[Corrasur:]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 1910,
PASSING OF A GREAT
KING.
AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIAL
The Grief of the Queen Mother.
100%
(Reuters Service to the China Mail
Losos, May 18.
SANITĀRY BOARD,
Mr E D-C. Wolfe presided or meeting of the Sanitary Board on Tuanday afternoon Tea sana shue present Hom Me W. Chatham, Hen Mr A. W. Brawing Sir Joseph Faro, RAMC. P.M.O. Mr A Shelton Hmpor, Dr. G. Fitzwillams, Mr Ng Bon T, Me Lany Chu Fak. Dr. F. Clark, Bodies Officer of Hosith, and W. Bowen-Rowlanda, secretary:
TOS DRAFT KATTILAT
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With regard to the draft estimates which Apression was formed at Buck-came up for possideration the President
the remains of the lato King Edward Westminster Hall at midday.
to
The streets were trebly lined with
ovory, member, but we will hardly haro time to go through the whale question now.
I don't know whether you would prefer that a select committee abould go into it and report to the full Board, or whether Fott would like to discuss the whole matter." int the meeting next week.
Dr Fitzwilliams propised that a com- mittee be appointed to consider the estimates and report to the Board.
Hon Mr. Chatham seconded, and the proposal was carried. of the President, Shelton Hoeper and The committas appointed was composad Me Lau Cha Pak.
The management of the Empire Cinelibition." They pronounce it to be afingham Falace to-dag, which convered finid-I think "copios have been supplied to A. Lewis, and Miss Lewis will make their success and the Japanese section earns debut this evening.
the highest praise, ·
The number of people admitted on the opening day was twice that which troopa and polici, behind whom were attended the opening day of the Franco-maged multitudes of the populace. British Exhibition.
I Was ut 11.30 o'clock when the procession first began to gather, It comprised all the greatest and noblest individuals in the realm, and left Buckingham Palace silently, headed by the foremost men in the Army and
THE CLOSING OF A WELL. Navy. Then came
The President said it would perhaps be a gun-carriage drawn by a team of artillery horses.ns wall to nets in the case of the closing of i
well in Wellington Street, that the beaso Reuter's Service to the China Mail)The coin was covered with a cream
wae at-eating-bonas, and therefore they LONDON, May 17. silk pall and the Royal Standard, lavt to be more particular thirsin the..
ordinary tenement houses They had al- ready watched the resah, s minutod. by The royal mourners followed the Mr Cooper. Thoy named the wall to
The scheme for preserving the 'Auld Brig of Ays, which dates probably from the end of the fifteenth century, has been completed at a cost of £11.0 0.
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were spore concursed regarding their
sectarian interests than the fat lady Hoentiate of the Royal College of interests of the people. In those Physicians. districts where the population is steadily declining churches werp multiplied that sectarianism might keep its flag flying, while in the great industrial" centres, where the population has gone up by Leare and bounds, the Churches, intent cn their warfare in the waste places, were unable to meet the religious needa of the people. Thus it came about that" for the perpetuation of sectarianism the religious welfare of the country was sacrificed, and masses of the population were allowed to lapse from all Church connection, while beyond the Grampians the Churches compoted in building edifices which can only in time become derelist. To-day the Presbyterian Churches in Scotland are reaping the iruit. They
face to are
face with the fact that half the people of Scotland outside the pale. The same tale bas to be told in respect of England and Wales too, for ive gather from other sources that most of the bodies here alsc are greatly distressed at the ominous thinning of their ranks. It is, however, grati- fying to observe that in England there has sprung up a very pronounced Feeling in favour of unity among the smaller bodies, a practical start having been made by the fusion of what were formerly known as the Bible Christians, the Methodist New Connexion, and the
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Lord Morley, speaking at the Royal Academy Sanquet, said that the Indian problem is onuraicus and its parils are not easily grasped by the people of England.
Some very good photographs of Halley's comet have been taken at the Kodaikanal Obsarvstory, India, one show ing the comet with no less than seven tails.
"
Sergt. Macnamara, 2nd West Konta, has been charged before the District Magistratu, Alipore, with haring attempted the life of Assistant Surgeon Pereirs, of the Military Station Hospital.
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Melbourne telegrams state that the new Australian Ministry was sworn in as follows:-M Fisher, Premier; Mr Bat- chilor, Minister for External Affairs; and Mr Pearce, Minister for Defence.
was known in Colombo Vefore the departure The news of the death of King Edward
of the German meil steamer Prinz Eitel Friederich, and the band aboard did not
KING EDWARD'S FAVOURITE" HYMN.“
A TOUCHING SCENE.
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The Royal Family, and the personnel surmounted by the crown and regalia. of the Royal Household, attended
the farewell religious service in the Throne Room at ten o'clock last night, and were so affected that they were unable to join with the choir in singing King Edward's favourite hymn," Abide with Me."
RIOTING IN SPAIN.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail
Loston, May 17. Republican riots have occurred at Valencia, in which a police officer was stabbed and killed, and many injured.
ALLEGED' MURDER.
Before Dir W. Rees Davica, Acting
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Sun-carriage. King George was wear- remain open after the analysis. mada to the Duke of Cornwall and Prince Albert, water was contaminated. It seemed to- ing an"Admiral's uniform, his sons, Jaunary, and the result of the further anaiyale made in April showed that the
wore the uniform of naval cadets. him useless to carry on for a further parind. Finally came nine closet carriages been cleaned out, and no cover has been Mr Shelton Hooper-The well-hus not wherein were seated the Queen Mother put on aineo fanuary and the other royal ladies.
"The wild strains of the Scottish dirger "The Flowers of the Forest," played by
The President-A small wooden cover most antisfactory arrangement in the case was provided. It appears to me that the would be to act on the suggestion of the
the pipers, broke the silence. as the Registrar-General and seal it, and as any time if it were necessary to open it to clean procession was passing Marlborough it out. It would not be necessary to House. Thereafter there was a sucess- dig a fresh well. If left open to be used for washing purposes it might also be used
sion of funeral marches, culminating in the Dead March in Saul, as the procession wended its way down White-
hall.
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A general thrill of emotion accom- paried the stately cortege. Every head was bared. The gun carriage arrived
United Methodist Tree Churches into sixy for three days during the voyage to } Chief Justice, at the Criminal Sessiona this at. Westminster Hall at noon amidst the
one solid body named the United Penang.
| Methodist Church." This union has had most happy effecta aur has doubt lese paved the way for a scheme
11a.m.-Ordination Service in St. John's outlined by the Rev. J. H. SUAKESPEARE
Cathedral.
MONDAY, MAY 29:-
Sanitary Board Meeting.
new task, formed by the aid of capital
Says the Politique Indo-Chinoise -
obtained from the Straits Chinese, is shortly to be opened at Hongkong.
Agencies will afterwards be established in
the Malay States and at Bangkok.
for a United Free Church of England," "which, it is believed, will do much to economise the forces of Nonconformity in the Colony that the only tag now dont It is matter of considerable comment
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DIVIDED THEY FALL.
No one who reads the signs of the time aright can blind himself to the fact that
over-lapping in both towns and villages.
Here in the Far East we are, we thank fally acknowledge, far removed from the potty sectarium bickerings which have been allowed, to grow up at Home, the extent and depth of which may he gathered from some remarks recently made by the Rev. MORGAN Gisons in a speech at Cardiff. He asked: "In a hundred towns, in
after day from one of the biz buildings near the Prays. The individual who hoists the dag should be given a hint by some mem ber of the corporation concerned.
morning, Wong Ming was charged with murder.
triumphant finale of the Dead March in Saul and an earth-shaking roll of drame,
and the tolling of Big Ben above. the boring of the guns in Hyde Park,
The coffin was conveyed into historic Westminster Hall, where i abort and most affecting service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ||
Queen Alexandra knelt in silent prayer after the Benediction.
King George tenderly raised his Mother ned the royalties returned to Buckingham Palace.
General, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, Dr M. W. Slade, K.C., neting Attorney
instructed by Mr H. L. Dennys, Sr., from the office of the Crown Solicitor.
The following were sworn in a jury mon:Wait Otto, foreman, H. R. Makin, J. Tatam C. A. B. Brooke, J. F. van
with having killed an Indian watchman Rao. T. Barnett and W. Tulip.
Bir Sinde said defendant was charged who tried to arrest him and did arrest him. while prisoner was endeavouring to escape apprehension for breaking into, or getting was very simple one. It appeared that on into, a house with intent to rub. The story
The public lying-in-stato then com- April 3rd, at about ten o'clock in the even-menced in a slow and endless procession, The other day, between Liverpool and dealer's at 144, Des Voeux Road, and one of a queue of forty thousand people being Queenstown,, a carrier pigeon dropped on them knocked at the door. The folie wore already in waiting.. board of the liner Campania extansted, and then either in bed, or just about to retire. was caught. A. metal ring on its fofblegWho is there," and a voice replied. An The cook answered the knock, waking
KAIPING ENGINEERING The cook opened the door. indicated that it had been liberated at Bor-arent letter."
MINING CO. a Bight of 1,500 milen before lighting on floor, put a quilt over the head of one man, deaux, Franco, and that it may have muito and thereupon some six or moren men rushed in, seized the fokis on the ground the steamer.
and held the others, whom they threatened with knives; and apparently on the ground floor they secured everybody' moving.
Two of the intruders then started up the stairs, and got some way The death is announced of Majur General up when the master of the shop, who Hart Synnot.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr W. Swan, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Cmpany, relieves Mr Beck at Hongkong.
.
inga gaʊg of men went to a marine store
happened to be awake, beard these peo
the Churches of to-day are failing to thousand villages, what had they? hold the attention of the great bulk Not union, but cut-throat competition, of the people as they should do. Andertarian rivalry, multiplying small this notwithstanding the fact that al Churches oftentimes to the point of manner of innovations have been and ineffectiveness as fighting forces in still are being introduced with a view places where the utmost strength was to attaining the desired end. Whether needed. He had bad evidence of it the fault be with the Churches or with dinned and diuued into his ears until
moot point though the tragedy of their own divisions had Lambeth; has been elected Bishop of upstairs. But one of the fokis, as 3000
The Rev. George Walpole, the Rector of the people is a probably the decreases in membership been burnt into his very heart." In the Edinburgh. which practically all the Christian some speech the speaker stated that
The Rat Joseph Wood is resigning the bodies now feel and lament could be for effective work the 743,000 Chris-head masterulip of Brow at the end of traced to a great extent in the tians of Wales were not united; "they the summer term. indifference of the latter. There did not march together; they were not may be a number of causes which even on speaking terms." Is it, there in turn lead to the creation of this fore, any wonder, in the face of facta spirit of carelessness in spiritual matters like these, that the Churches at Home which is so widely prevalent at the fall to draw the broad-minded and the
ACTION TO BE BROUGHT IN ENGLAND..
for other purposes should their other anp ply fail
Mr Lau Cha Pak-What, harm is there... in it if they boilthe water
The President-They won't boil it..
Mr Laa Chu Pak--Chinese always, boil -- their water,
The President-Togy used to, but I con't think they do now.
Que
Mr Shelton Hooper I am against cica- When we are short of water ing the wall they cannot gren use it for sanitary pur- poses, and in masa of fire theen walls are most useful, where there is only an inter mittent supply.
The Vice President -The principal maina-
are always charged.
-
Mr Shelton Booper-Yes, but before the water is turned ou well, water can be used. Dr Clark-The well has got a good deal Torso since January, but now is the time to clean it out.
Mr Shelton Hooper-I move that the tenant or owner receive notice to have the well thoroughly cleaned,
proper kach built, and a substantial cover provided to the satisfaction of the Board in lion of the closing of the well
Mr Lau Chu Pak seconded.
Board you must understand that this man The President-Before this is put to the has practically to experiment
Mi Shelton Hooper-We have power to
serre him with that notice.
· Dr. Fitzwilliams-I object to the words- to the sialaction of the Board,” because- there is no cleaning which would make me satisfied.
The President-Then, I think we'll have to tako a division on the question an to whether the well be sealed or not,
resolu Mr Shelton Hooper —I proposed a re {tion, there is no amendment to 36.
The Registrar-General-I move as 30 amandment that the well be sealed. ·
Dr. Fitzwilliams-I second... The amidmant; on being put to the meating, was carried by six votes to three, and the motion was lost.
ble
MOUNT AUSTIN KUTLAH.
On the report of the salect committee ap pointed to report on Mount Austin. Nullab the President said.—It has not been possi- far to obtain say reports from tho Government Analyst, but you will notice in the last paper forwarded to-day that the Pokfulum reservoir has come under suspicion. The Analyst has examined a ampie of the water, which he says is unsatisfactory for drinking
£ purposca. Mr Shelton Booper Whore was that sample taken from?
(Wah Ta Yat Po's Service),
PEXING, May 17 His Excellency Ching Kai Lang, ple coming up, looked out of his room, and Viceroy of Chili, bas instructed a solicit The Bishop of Victoria is now residing called out to them. Then seeing that or in England to bring an ection
things were wrong, be made a rush and at St. Paul's College.
caught one of them, who tried to stab hini, against the Kaiping Engineering and but did not succeed. The other man ma Mining Co downstairs, and meanwhile the men below; who had seized the folis on the ground door, hearing the call of thieves," let go PROTEST TO GERMANY, their prisoners and zau.. The whole gang got into the street with the exception of (Wah Tes Yat Po's" Service.) the man the master of the shop caught
Perso, Kay 17. ae he was relansed, jumped up and Faun Fe Chi, Governor of Shangtung, chased the prisoner out of the shop. It was probable that this man was the second of hay, petitioned the Wai-wa-pu to protest the two who went apstairs, because falas to the German Minister in Peking quare, which he admitted was his, was against the German merchanta encroach found upatairs immediately after the event. ing on the salt fields outside the The abop coolie chased the defendant down the street for some considerable distance.boundary of Linchow. Whistles were blown, and calls for help tion of a couple of Indian watchmen who raised, and the whistle attracted the atten
Mr Shelton Hooper moved the adoption- were talking together in our Road, and cured me,' of 4 is saved the life of my of the report. They man dawn into Das Vœux
child,' are the expressions you hear Mr Lau Chu Pak seconded, and the the deceased man threw his arms round the every day boat Chamberlain's Colic, motion was agreed to. prisoner as he was running, and stopped Cholem and Diarrhoel Remedy. This is him. The other watchmont saw all that true the world over where this valuable No other happened. There was a struggle and the remedy has been introduced. defendant drow knife, horrible mury medicine in vev far diarrhoes or bowol doregs looking weaport, and dears it into complaints, has received such general ap-
The Grand Vizier of Morocco, Sid el ipdant Glowi, has been poisoned, and bis three wires of the Grand Vicior are sus- recovery is regarded as doubtful. The
ported of the attempt on his life,
It is stated that Engineer Commander
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Bottles will be charged present time, but one of the chief is common-senso people to their doors? . W. Cookson, B.S.N., superintendent
certainly to be found in the divisions And when one realises that this state the Rong Law; Commander M. T. Ivancich, of $1.20 per into which the great, body of Christen- of affairs; exists in spite of the fact RS.N., Director of the Royal Dockyard:
and Commander Barnholt. R.S.N., will the decossed man's side, and according to proval The secret of the success of Cham dozen, and credited in full dom is split up. Many of these have, that in many instances the divisions shortly be severing their connections with muscles of the back, a very serious wound. Remedy in that it curre. For esle by all the doctor's account, right through into the Beriain's Dofic, Cholers and Diarrhoes an being returned in good it is true, out-lived their day and in are not those of polity at all, but the Siathsee service,
The other Indian came up and assisted chemists and storekeepers. reality can find little, if any, justification merely different conceptions of Churchi
to hold the prisoner, also the shop condition.
confie who gave chase, and a lukong, and for isolated existence. Yet they atül government, it almost leads one to
between the three they got the prisoner. survive, much to the detriment of the despair of the future. Hope now only
secured. The wounded man was assisted to semi-unconscious condition, and remained the police station, where he arrived in a cause which they claim to uphold.
Lies in the development of a spirit of
in that state until he died some, days later, ás very often happened when a gamber of highly exciting aventa cccurred in a very short time, the, eye witnesson · differi il rather vidsly in their accounts of what took Pince. The various witnessed in this casc
memories did not coincide exactly, but tha
HONGKONG,
30th April 1910.
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Liext, U. O. Egre, of the King's Royal Rides, was badly thrown when riding. The Dunce in the Cavalry Brigado Point to Point Races at Winchester, on April 11. His skull was fractured, and it is feared that
On this interesting question the tolerance, with a resultaat better-un- he will not recover. Captain Weir, of the
Scotsman recently published a
a decided derstanding among the various bodies,
ly illuminating article, quoting statistics and, ultimately an accomplished gaity
3rd Dragoon Guards, is also being treated, in the hospital for injuries to his back.
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to show that "the divided Churches in fact so well as in spirit. Then will Guelle, was the most carefully guardes i did not tell exactly the same story. Thoir are unable to keep the people of Scar come the day when will be realised visitor ever entertained in Honolulu, and land within the Churches." that, in the dream of "One Cliurch, one Faith, fact, "lia!f the population of Scotland que Lord."
la outside the great Presbyterian
main facts were absolutely clear, that the it appears to be the opinion of all who accused was caught while running away. came in contact with him that he wanted He was spared with a knife covered wizir blood, and an Indian was found with a the guarding. The prince ras decidedly deep hole in his side. Counsel did not Dorvous in the presence of crowds. This think that the jury would have the slightest Lieut. Col. William Henry Snell, father fact, and the absence of any considerable doubt thus the prisoner did the fading') Churches. The article continues of the Hon. Artillery Company, upon whom crowds of the local Chinese at his rocap-foully to death while he, the Iudian, wa 9.15 t 11.30- P.M. And this state of matters. is, grow-by the King last year in recognition of his
the Royal Victorian Order was conforred tions, are much commented on:
exerining his duty in trying to arrest this fainn. ing worse, for the increase of mem-70 years' military service, has just died ab
"Evidence was then called. On the arrival of the P. & O. inter
The jury rotarned a verdict of guilty of berahip in the Churches lags far South Norwood. He wan'88 years of agr. mediate steamer ardins from "Tokohama magrinuchter by a majority of six to one, He joined the Hon. Artillery Company in and Hongkong at Singapore on May 10th and His Lardship sentenced prisoner to behind the ratio of increase of the 1848
it was reported that a firab-class lady twenty years" imprisonment with hard population. These are stern facts which
passenger, Mr Longworth Baker, who was Intrododing Novelties never spon in Hong the two Churches should consider, the Chinese steamer Hong Moh, which is peared from the ship on May 7th, Li
kog, and
Two generations of disruptions and wood by Manara Wee Bee and Company supposed that she threw herself overboard. schisms and testifyings-and this is the suited in the revenue officers, finding Mr Baker, who had lost two husbands, towards ralieving of ring
2,400 unḥils of opium, worth about-12,000, result! The raaks of the non-church and 2,908 Fox battles of evening which are was a lady of considerable mans. Bhe going have been steadily recruited; estimated to bo worth £17. The contra came out to the Far East last December, The reason of this isubrious.
tod was ingoniously secreted in the drank entering matly from overstrung nervos great pits and might line oledad a loss doter and haunted by the fear, that she was many have bees driven away from the minod meaton. This is a record-seizure. affisted with terrible maladies,
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