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The lecture which was to have been

at Shanghai, Capital and Comme

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rian hopes

given this evenlog at the Chipess YMCA turning up to the vary het minute. by the Rev. 1. Genithr has been postponed on account of the inclemency of the

weather

The head office of the labour exchanges. has now opened a special brand for womon only, the first m Ragland the furious labous exchanges in Londes claim that they have been so succes ful that 70 per cent of the applicants who have registered their names on the books

catch up with the arrears which too much loquacity and dilatory maneuvres PER MONTH during the early part of the session had allowed to accumulate, to the serious. hampering of public business; that the Misa May Lowin is at present down

ing the boards at the Expire Cizamat prospects of savem! pet projects of the

Fraph Theatre where her appearance is President's being talked out seemed more hailed with delight by the large audience than highly probable; and that Caussama Diafond also gives a good gress would inevitably close amid the turn and is very pleasing sickening laughter of many imocents: Sitch were the prospects de Friday By Monday a great trusformation had beea effected, so much so that Reuter was able to telegraph that Congress had risen with all the Presidente prchave been provided with work grammic, as outlined in his messages,

A rigorous campaign has been started daly carried, and such a number of

in Spain against the Government's ecclusi legislative enactments put through an asticnl policy. There tave been violent to constitute a record for any Congress denonciations from the pulpits, and since the Civil War. How it was done to the Government. There are messages Catholics are "telegraphing strong protests we do not at present know. Mr. Tarr, of loyalty from some non-Catholics. Mest unlike bis prevedessor, does not favourings demanding religious liberty are belog the swinging of "a big stick" when Genaral Memorsača, Congress grows obatreperous. Perhaps SATURDAY, July 2:-

it was the famous Tuile which, 9.18 pm-Boxing at City Hall

after all, secured the great coup! At Monday, July 4:—

Anniversary of Declaration of American any rate, Reuter sells us that President

Independence, 1776. Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Ice Ca Tar's popularity has been restored, so Mere Jardine. Matheson Co.'s Utice-all is well in this best of all possible

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MEMOS FOR TOMORROW.

Anction.

.--.

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Furni

pure, de, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's Bales

Joffries-Johnston Fight..

TUESDAY, July B

Sanitary Board Meeting..

WEDNESDAY, July 6:-

at

2.15 p.m-Meeting of the Licensing

Board..

9 p.m.-Band Concert in Public Gardens, TRUESDAY, July 7

8,20 a.m.-New Moon, 3.30p.m.-Gymkhana Club's Third Meet

ing. Happy Valley.

worlde and President TAFT can enter upon his summer holiday with a free and contented mind..

NEWS OF THE DAY.

held.

THE MIS

Fone: 30,8

"Aa yet there. Are nos tidings, of the thing Austrian-Lloyd Far Eastern liner Trieste, which on the 28th inat segan days overdue from Bomb

Eight warshins and other vessels have left Bombay in search of the missing liner.

At a Labour demonstration at Long borough Mr Snowden said if the Goreraman receded an luch from the

ditions. embodied in the rete rosolutions in agrostesmen of 6,093, gre tonnage and is rabect | [Note—The Tripate în "a stoel" screw

ment with the Cafonista, then the Liberal - 100 A Tab Lloyd Ch. She was built in 1897 party would be dead without hops of for the Austrian Lord Company, at lise post, of regiary Trieta. She is 400 fean. Long-Tho, C. M.

There is excellent mason for that the Cunard Company have midar con- sideration designs and specifications for a new liner of 50.000 tons, which will have a greater speed than the "Blaarstant It

stated that the design provides for s considerable amount of cargo accommoda tien, and that oil fuel may be adopted. Zizzrpool Journal of Oremerce,

The famous octagon elispel in the Blackfriars Road, built for Rowland Hill in 1783, and where the Sunday School. Uzion

days. For some years it has been used was launched 107 years ago, has fallen upon

for commercial purposes. Racontly it was

THE NEW CORONATION

OATH

TRE POPE PLEASED,

(Reuter à Service to the Ching Mail LOSTON, June 30,

The Vatican is gained at the new Coronation declaration, His Holiness the Pope being especially pleased.

EXCESSIVE AMERICAN

FREIGHTS,

REDUCTION PRESCRIBED.

opened as a Boxing restre. The satusl boxing ring will be over the spot whero the remains of Rowland Hill lay before their removal to Christ Church, West (Reuters Sereson to the China Mail.)

Although a matter of ancient history, at least as far as stamp collectors are corainster Bridge Road. curaed, it may be information to those who are not that King George's hond already appears on a postage stamp. It is the five cent. Neyfoundland, and was issued in 1809 Newfoundland is our oldest colony ant poses four other royal portrait stampe, Daniely, Prince Edward, now Heir. Apparent, half cant. Queen Victoria, ona cent; King Edward, two cants. ad Queen Alexandra, three cents.

Rays! funerals are managed very much better now than when Horace Walpole wrote of the burial of George II, "No ortar was observed (in Westminster Abbey) People sat or stood where they could or wonki. The Teoman of the Guard were crying out for help, oppressed by the immense woight of the coffin. The Bishop raad sadly and blandered in the prayers; the fine chapter, Man is born of womat, 40 eminent firm of electricians in was charted, not rasd; and the author Berlin claim to have devised an apparatus immeasurably tedious, would have served by which sa alectric current of the character well for a nuptial. The Thike of used for wireless telegraphy may be passed. Newcastle, he continues,fall into a fif through the human body for the purpose of crying the moment he came into the of healing internal disorders. The in- chapel, and Bong himself back in a stall ventors say that, while the current produces the Archbishop hovering over him with a The total number of deathe from plague o detrimental consequences to the patient amsing bottle. This was after ten o'clock in all India in the week ending the 8th in other respects, it may be applied buat night on November 11, 1760, and the shareh was so cold that one nobleman stood disensed organ with good results. It is June--was 3,072, the Punjab reporting for her alleged on its behals that the the train" of another to keep his feet 3,305, the United Provinces 250, the Bocorrent directed to any part of the body on bay Presidency 201, Burma 33, Hyderabad which it is intended to operate would Bonokong, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1910. 13, Bengal 39, Mysore 13, the Madras produce: sterilisation, and thus present The Home papers are surprised at the

Presidency, the Central Provinces 3, and blood ppissing

SATURDAY, July 9:

The Meath Empire Day Challenge Cup, for secondary schools of the Empire, to LA Martiniere, Calentin

has been won by Ballantine Halloran, of

11-Auction of Manila Cigars

at Mesera. Hugbos & Hough's Sales Roomp.

The China Mail

* ME TAFT'S POPULARITY.

THE game of politics as played in the The Finest Smoking Mixture in United States presents annaby puzzling features to the European cbserver as the market.

European politics offer to the American journalist. And wo venture to suggest that even those on the inside"

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selected Manila Tobacco

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Central India 3.

Feuter wires from Calais that the rocked Plaveise hng beer towed into harbitur. The conning tower was opened and body, was immediately taken out, which was undoubtedly that of the Com- mander. It was wrapped in a shroud and conveyed short. Many spectatora were overcoms with emotion at the spectacle.

Germany is said to hold the record in

· warm.

LONDON, June 30

exploded:

at Shinag workers were: kiind

cause of the expl

MUKDEN BANKING

The esto Barh

FENTERPRISE.

THE DARITER PARLIA CEMENT MOVEMENTS

(Wah To Fat For Servi

PERISC

The Provi

have

Parliament persist

spite of the Imperin

The Civil Board has prohibited the native pres

ting on the result of the Ministerial deliberations on the matter.

ITEMS-ATU THE COURTS.

A message from Washington states

{A HE?? whọc was arrested. that the Inter-State Commerce Com- mission bas decided that in sovemi) opium" iu a boarding hou important cases which have come to naught Rand, was fried, its notice the freight rates were TIG- reasonable and excessive. The Com-

weeka? imprisonment at the today mission prescribes, reductions of from

20 to 30 per cent)

The decisions of the Commission have dealt a severe blow to numerous ruways.

THE CRETAN SITUATION.

GRAND: VIZIER'S HOPES

The police raide which they arrested) gambling

zight in #bo were

at the Magistracy to-day MF Ened the two Theaters 350 each, eleven of the players & each and two small boys

B.An Indian 'watchwan empl

King Edward tracy to day saturated with

Irdians for

meg-ware of.

(wan and that

(Reuters Service to the China eit) War LONDON, June 29. Renter's wire from Constaninople states that the Chamber of Deputies has to get him. been adjourned till November iss "attacked bin

The Grand Vizer prais The com sistent - - friendliness of the Cretan

WGENERAL, INSPECTION OF.

PRISONSE

appointment of Sir Charles Hardinge as Viceroy of India as he is unknown The second annual general meeting of to the public at large. but they Protecting Eger, and the attitude the shareholders of. Whitenway Laidlaw and generally praise the selections. They dwell of Greece w without reproach. He Co. Ltd., was held in London recently. Then his tours on the Continent with King report of the directors shows that the affairs Edward, pointing out that he has been one dignified attitude to the of the protectores visited, and sports ha ofthe company are in a very satisfactory of the chief instruments in the recent Im- state. The accounts show a prout of portant developments of British foreign 28,800. 146. Ed, and, after providing for policy, this fact testifying to his rare skill depreciation on buildings and plant, acoms and tact. They believe that his recon tax, Directors and insaaying directors' fees,

commissions and the payment of the pre-reputation, and connections will commend forence dividend to 31st December, 1909, him to his compatriots and to the natives there is a balance of £32,006 6. Bd, which of India. It is pointed out that his ex- the directors recommend shall be appro perience in Persis and Turkey has trained

the production of books. Return on that in 1909 there were 31,031 volumes printed in the German language, se com- pared with 30,317 in 18. Ent this is priated as follows To pay a dividend of him in Fastera diplomacy. The Timessage not all. According to & Faris contempor-8 ry, last year's output of German books is almost equal to the combined total of the publications of Great Britain and Framer.

per cent per annum, free of tax on the ordinary sharon. To carry to the reserve fund the sum of £12,000. To pay to the trustees of the employees provident fund: £300, and to carry forward the balance of

29,5966. 8d. to the next year's account.

it is wise choice, and probably the best open, Sir Charles possesses the qualities essential for a Viostos.

A graceful compliment has been paid

hoped that the Ottomana : would

Government, which had behaved with cues.

The Viceroy of Canton has recar taken steps to have the prisons of men

been sent in by the Commissioners... Fron what we can gather," the replies indicate thất things are in an unsatisfactory state,

HONGKONG SWINDLING GANG and very often the prisunday are on the

CAPTURED:

The bank note trick has been tried once

too often by a gang of Chinese who, it is believed, have been feecing the more gullible section of their compatriots in the Coloty for some time pas

The circumstances which led to the arrest of the gang are as follows. A party of four men applied another and asked him if he would mind changing 81,000; for them."

verge of outbreak. The commissioners say that formerly the mea in prison used. to apend their time in gambling, in «po ing opium, and in frequent fights. These

things have all heon stopped, as they not supposed to be in harmot

twentieth century urikade

men, having nothing my parti spend their time In Marising plots, and generally taking trouble,

In some of these comary prisons there are incurverated about a hundred men,” and

charper's he discovered that the roll was mentioned motor nothing but wants paper. He informed the claimed, so that they o coukti him and later the four were afrestad at mennt of freedom, were police of the trick which bean played on and those who were

each sentenced to six months imprisonment, place to place

block of gratite, which 5 the Magistracy three of the men were with then when they wished and the other given three months, all to be prisoners worked for their ow!

rise to their Les as they survey the tangled turmoil of conflicting party

A summary of the milway returns for

to the aa. Tänan by some Chinese_mer- chants who travelled in the vessel, by the agreed and abundle of what looked like on two of them not lose that three interesis as reflected in the Houses the United Kingdom for 1900 shows that in boxes - per 100

Shorthand is apt to be fooled upon presentation of 's brass tablet bearing on

genuine notes was handed to the mahundred. In the olden daye, the prisoners the length of lines open for traffle was of Congress, in the newspapers, and

asentially modery art. Thus pre- the right an English translation of who in turn gave the others some $120 as could not often do much mischial, for An Exquistre Smoke ....5.50 $110 in town meetings. For the last six £1,403,390,000, and the paid-up capital teeth, Mason in the seventieth century as follows "During sorage from

23,904 miles, the authorised capata decessors of Pitman--Byram, în the eiga: the inscription. The inscription reads Security When the mam rob to the addition, to the way – months we have all been regaled with £1,313,906,000. The number of ordinary are (says T. Pecky) dina and Canton to Shaphai. In March 1910 on El Tamarindo stories of the imminent break-up of passengers fell by over 13,000,000 from distant figures beyond which it seeme board the steamer Livan we found

1278,115,488 to 1,261,257,000; the num- useless to venture. Cicero dictated bis in bores of 60 per too the great Republican party through bors of third-class passengers showings orations to his freedman, T. Tullius vessel, had fulfilled his duty in a most

Captain C. C. Williams, commander of that West Point: the echismatic doings of a little group reduction of over 9,000,000, but senson

and was inconsolable hea temporarily durable and satisfactory mammer and pax $9.00 known as the Insurgents," who were ticket holders, increased from 721,801 20 deprived of his services. He complained opinion was corroborated by all on band exposed for four Janes in the stock

in a letter to a friend that - while Tito dissatisfied with the last Tarif law, 320,000. The quantly of erre takes down whole phrases in a few signo o made this be a meant to wack and four hours stocks for obtaining related

As a token of remembrance WA DATO caused the of the menoras also sentenced to dissatisfied with various actions on general merchandise

Spinthatus (his provisional sd balitute) Obly

Jewellry and money to the value of 35 ZaUE SER 491,585,0365 tons to 495,322,000 tons, writes in syllables. We need not, how

from a romant at Yaumat.This wOCORD. ĮRGE the part of the President, and were The total gross receipts amounted to ever, suppose that the sole Tironiance

amounted to question. As M Guenia pojets out the legislative schemes to naught. Every Working expenditure

£72,033,000 ne against 270,407,801 The Romans created very few of the art of other American poper that we took not receipts were £43,136,000 compared pesce, contenting themselves, as a rule, by up told of the mccess of the Insurgents with £43,486,320.

copying from the Greeks. M. Grenis. however, indicates the babica of the Sile as the cradle of the art

Martin's Tweenies uniquely bent on bringing the Party's £120,100,000, in increase of 4,675 were actually urrented by the freedmass in

$4.50.

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in their campaign, of the wining Lord Rosebery once, described the 8. WATSON & CO popularity of the Fresident and of Judicial Commitee us a golden link of the dismal prospects which confronted Empire," and everybody, the Law Journal the Republicus at the Congressional states, wel welcome the decising of the Hongkong gising the tofal

Government to establish in the Privy and cleared in the year elections next autumn. Dismal tales Council oficer's law library ncomible to the Leadin were told of the dimppointment of the conneel and solicitors, engaged in- Prvy as to the futures of Hor President at this way in which the Council appesis and to such members of

the port of tran the general publis,an, desira to. opnes country were treating him of the

figures the journe | législature and judicial reconia of, the disillusionment which had set in when Colonies. It is anonee found his famous smile was losing ations made by the Cars its effect either as hymnotizing have indus influence or as a magnetic force, when sabablink.

yelets.contain • the necessary addressing masses of his comtrymen în

the whole of the Digini

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THEATER. S

PREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY, T YOUR BOLD "OKAL

Opposite Central Market.

7.1 to 9 and 7

GRAND

the Gov

9.15, to 11.30 .. big assem Balls, or from the fallend Crown Colonies

of a rail hinted that the Pre

Fand indination, that the atm

Colonies will not be caprese

After

Things - which

is gued in had been had in this way that she told do, and so they are

and wis at first shamed to admit that the are at their wits

Chua hai, the police that the man blew, moke into penstappd her fies, stupefted her and then robbed

Captain Willincos paz. Azo

networthy The tablet fully entitled to the wording

English and Chinese Toatai Expectan chants

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

kad Cd.

bert

Faster the confamed that she was i masy victim to an old trick,

mada cert

are somewhat troi

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