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DAY JULY 1 1910

ST. J.EUARES.

ounce the death of Mr bord of the Bros of Soares dell Street, which took place o'clock on Thursday evening at the Peak Hospital Decuased, who was 68 Fours of age was one of the eldest residents in Hongkong and during the time he had been in the Colony had built up a pros perous and seconaful business. Deceased Travesa willow, one son and daughter to

THE STORM.

During the early hours of this morning a storm of abnormal violates swept over the Ostonyy The wind blew at almost hurricana force, the main was simply torrential, while fat every few minutes thunder-claps boumed rub and unusually vivid lightning flashes

lumized the sky,

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ground about the 6th or 8th

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The total population of the German last visit to Hongkony.

Emparo was in......

So far can be ascertained the damags derstand the Hippodrome done in very light theogh continui interdung a lot of noveltie 10ce of the rains would be likely to have disastrous affects on property. The only collapse of any importance took place It is only about three days aisee the latest 287, Dos, Vous Rand Central, where a ir Soares was conducting his brainer asterandali gavo way, fortunately without usual, Miner when he entered the Peak injuring anyone. Several of the roads Hospital where he was to have undergon on the Elongkong side have been badly An option to day. The docensed gentle.

mourn his loss. `

'BIG OPIUM ROBBERY.

It has come to our knowledge from a`vary reliable source that a big theft of opiam 488,

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45,299,113

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The proportions in which the Germans

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man was born in Musso, being the o'clows cut up and true and stopher a wins bilan made at Mars E. D. Sassoon & Cu's go-ware devoted to various occupations in the WATKINS son of the late Dr F. Soares, who was well down, while a good deal of the low lying known in this Colony, being the last but land at Kowloon is dooded. At the back one of the survivors of the thirty two of Hunghe Police Station there have bean baros under Colonel Mesquita, the berg alight landstips, while la several places

Agriculture the embankments of the British section of

Industry- Docensed irst joined the Hongkong and

Trade and Shanghai Banking Corporation and was the Canton Korleon Railray have boy

Servant for many years bookkeeper and genoca!cut op. ".

robbers took advantage of the boisterous' | Soldiers assistant Subsequently Mr Sparos joined So far no lives have been reported and wet weather last night, to cover their the North Chick Insurance Co., Ltd. and having been lost among the fleating popula- some twenty years agh he commenced.

counted on the typhoony weather we have business na A general broker. Some time tiou, this being no dont-due to the fact nefarious dents. They evidently also that all the small craft take advantage had for the last few days inring a supply ago decansed together with his son, established the basiness of Soares and Co.

of the typhoon shelters. Three boats are The late Mr Soares, was highly respected in Borgkang and Macao and his lors, will reported as having got adrift from Bowring material being in godown as be greatly felb."

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The retrogression only relative, but absolots. The part of

fallen from 18,500,000 to 17,080,000. The the population engaged in appleniture has

toa Canal, but none of these contained any steamers had left Intely to take, sway part of the population engaged in industry A Haunted Inheritance, by James Blyth

occupants.

shipments,

The door of the godowa was secured by The rainfall has again beon extremely Chubba Icak, which the rubbers picked heaty, do less than 80 inches being open or brake, and entering they breached. recorded during the 24 hours ended at three chests and extracted eighty-nine 10.30 a.m. to-day. In three days, there-balls of opiam, which are valued at about: fare, we have had a much-appreciated fall $4,300. An electric fan, which was in fof about 18 inches,

In view of the heavy rains which we the godown, was also takan We learn by a brief telegram from have had during the last few days the

DEATH OF REV. D. MACIVER OF SWATOW.

This afternoon a representative of the China Ma called at the offices of Messrs

DECREASE OF ONE-WAY SHOWS, has risen from 20,250,000 to 28:390,000.

"The development which hay taken

throughout Germany shows & advance towards larger-sized establishments (Gressbetrieb), and, in consequence general regression of the small concerns an intensiled progress towards. iadna- tratation, whin agriculture lagged be- bind a growing pertlipation productive work generally.

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1.844

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12.63.

1886.

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(1887)

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1888.

847

1889

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1892

10.84

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1884

1895

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1896

5.91

1897

1398.

3.50

1900

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1905

5,26

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fall particulas of the robbery. Suspicions | were first arouned when this morning at the csual time some employees of the firm, went down to the godowns at No. 6 Ice House Street for the purpose of opening the premises. They then noticed that the two Chubb's locks which were formerly on the dours had been removed and inferior ones had replaced them. Without attempting to open the premises the employees st once reported the matter to the manager, and the police were immediately notified of the suspicions which had been aroused." Deter tive Sergh Grant was scan ou the scene, and in bls presence the doors were opened and the gedown entered. On getting inside it was discovered that four chests of

There has, then, been a drop of 17.604 per cent, in there smallest of working con- come, which work either with apprentices nor mechanical means. The other concerns have in the mine time risen from 791.694

in 1890 to 1,111,300 in 1907. g

The increase atouts to 40 37 per cent. A certain number of the soiler concerns have undoubtedly risen into the class of the larger ones, but it is admitted thats certain number of the small concern bare gone under in the natural, industrial development.

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Oreo bam Held, with, the High Hand, by Arold

Bennett.

Madick at Forty,

Forty, by Hugh Wapols... Anthony Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini. Pani Musgrava, by Oswald Wildeldgo The Glittering Desire, by R. Panahon The Wicked World, by Alice and Maud

Meadows

Ann Feronics, by H. G. Walis.

Kusband by Proxy, by Jack Stelo. Petticoat Goremment, by Earances Orezy.

WATKIN'S, Ltd.,

CHEMYSTS

"The larger concerns Have increased in " every branch of industry, both in number and in sixe. This increas amounts in the machine industry, in the mercantile, and in the traffic industries, to over, 100 per cant, and in the insurance business to over $1, Queen's Road Central

200 per cent.

Speaking of the effect of trus Sir Francis saya

**The development which bad taken!

BONGKONG.

Bengal opium had been opened and a.con sidemble portion of the contents of escli romored. The proper quantity which each chest should hold is 40 balls and of the 160 bajla' in the chests which had been tampered with no less than 29 were missing. The petition at home, and has unduly raised The House of Commons Debate. value of the stolen opium is somewhere the cost of the zer material needed by the We are now suls to amplify the report

finishing industries. about $1,500. It would seem that theThe agricultural protection, as well as of the debate, which took place on the thieves had had some difficulty in secreting the industrial, bas, morever. increased what they had stolen, for otherwise it is strange to understand why they did not take more of the dag, there being over a thousand chests in the godown at the time the theft was committed.

pince behind the wall of protection the BRITAIN'S EGYPTIAN TRUST, system of syndication has killed free com

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the cost of living and has narrowed down Egyptian question in the House of Cem- the margin of profit, which might have mom on June 13th, and of which Reuter. been used like satyrales for reduce at the time gave as a nycceaprily meague tions of price to revive trade at hours or outline. facilitar a competition abroad. Syndication

The debate was opened by: Mr Band, and protecti, a have, in fact, combined. to deprive German maniacture of that elastic who called attention to the sitation in chexpening power which ought chiefly to Paypt He attacked the Government for rovive trade during the period succeeding trying to introduce a system of government time, the increased protection of the home

comm reial, high de At the same for which the Egyptians were not prepared. Mr Robertson decounted the Opposition markets more dificult for the German

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M.A., of the English Presbyterian Mimio,rait for the last 20 years will be of died suddenly on the 21st of this month. interest We infer he was at his home in Edinburgh At the time. A recent letter from him stated that he had been in the country seeking health, but that there was no im- provement. His doctor had previously forbidden his return to Chins in the autemn, but there was no indication that the end was so near. He was educated in the University of Aberdeen and in the Free Church College, there. Ho joined the E. P.. Mission at Swatow, in 1879, and is put in charge of the Hakks branch of the Marion. He has seen the 7 stations and 130 members that he began with grow to 19 masions and. 1200 mm bers, and no small share of this incresse was due to his own axertions. He was an earnest," faithful, and eficient missionary. In the early days he did much pioneering and itinemting from Hai-hong in the South to Shang-bang in the North, enduring much physical hardship in addition to the

The rough weather caused considerable ather antieties of the missionary life, Latteri he was in chief charge of the anxiety to be manifested regarding the Can- Theological College at Wulingfu. He was ton and West River boats, some of which alvery correct, idiomatic end fuent speaker of Hakka Chinese, and had a good taste in were considerably overdue last night. But the use of that diniect. His monument fortunately nothing untoward has been will be his Hakka English Dictionary, the reported most of the vessels having gone result of the labours of at least twenty-five in for shelterst convenient spots, nutil the years, which is, a great hoog to all who worst of the storm had passed. The s.. have to aquire the Hakk dialech on

"Language" se Hakka

se he (not quite in San Choong (Capt. McGinty) arrived in joke) insisted on calang it.

port this forning after taking two days on His death at the early age of 57 leaves the trip from Canton Two or three times a great blank in the Wakingfa Mission on the way down Capt McGinty faced the circle, and his genial presence will be missed by the Swatow missionaries and by sea but as the bow of the vessel badly the stolen opium away. What the idos was market has admittedly rendated, foreigs for applanding My Roosevelt's insult. No many of the community. He leaves a dipped he had to put back. Eventually in substituting new locks for the old acer

one could be more cautiously conservative widow, one son, and three daughters. His he found a snug little spot in which he is difficult to onderstand, for it must have

than Sir Edward Grey. It had been xon is a graduate of the Univemity of anchored. Thess. Heaugahan jeft Canten occurred to the thiores that an entrance

WREES THE URITUBE BVCCELD. Edinburgh, and has his

an interesting fact that British admitted that the Nationalists propaganda studios for the ministry in the U. F.at. 8 a.m. yesterday and did not turn could easily subugh be effected by breaking industry is steadily securing the German was foolish, and he hoped that the Govern Divinity Hall there...

up here until this morning after a rough down the doors. But the substitution market for entirely modern articles-agment would anforce the law Brinly and un passage, while the Kinahan, which was due may have been effected so as to give the goode of fashion and artician of luxury varyingly, but would carry out its pledges. last night, come in shortly after 10 m. impression that the doors were safely This many be gathered from the increasing to-day after having taken shelter on the locked and nothing whatever wrong lace goods, Britishralath, plate glass, porze speach was an insulin, No one could have

arport in prepared and unprepared leather, down son. The 2.5. San Ui arrived some-

Messes: Samsoon have scrapied the lain, chins, and high-cias notepaper. For shows a more kindly, appreciative, sym. Various makes in stock, inchling Tangie & W what belated this morning from the West godowns in question now for somie 20 year British production; then, the Eritish lead pathetic treatment of truer kaowledge of River with a full cargo, reporting very and this is the first robbery of its kind in matters of fashion has become a valuable car problems thar Mr Boosevelt, who said nasty weather also. The afternoon the that they have experienced. There is asset.

nothing to which the most sensitive Britan 8.8. Hanoi from Hanoi steamed into port absolutely no clue whataver as to who theToday Germany receives from the could take the smallest obiection. Ha United Kingdom ranchines for such realised what Mr Robertson and others did after a most trying run. All the way up robbers are, but the police are pursuing the branches of industry in which mechanical not realise, that it was not s; question of the weather was bad. The seas were most seseching enquiries with a view to working has already for some time pact superiority or inferiority, but of a historie momtingas, and much of the deck cargo, bringing the thieves to justice, and the been introduced, agricultural and fact that Egypt and other Oriental countrie including, kerosine, live pigs and sundries, harbour authorities as well as the Chinees textile machines On the other hand, the had never shown's trace of the capacity for Commissioner of Castoms have been in United Kingdom receives from Germany self-government. Their great contributions

machines for the newer branches of man- to history were made mudar absolute formed of the robbery,

ufacturee.g., electro-technical machines, remment for their good. The present and mining machines, de, in which the position in Egypt was eminently unsatis technical development of Germany strives factory because the authority of the to excel,

dominant race had been undermined. Ic DOMESTIC SIRVANAS calls," said Mr Balfour, for protipt. Une consequence of the recent in decisive action, and I am confident that the Government is able and desirous of putting Much commont has been caused amongst dustrial slump in Germany was an overmate right. He appealed to Govern the parishioners of Rolleston, Burton-on-supply of domestic servants; tale and Trunt, by a letter which the rector, Canon female servants were plentiful Many memb uut to permit our dirilising work te suffer through officials in Egypt feeling that Tyrwhitt and the churchwardens have hands, formerly used in innstry, became they did not receive from home the support received from the squire. Bir Carald free on the other hand, owing to the wilbout which they were helple Mosley, Barty stating that, after June increased cont of living, conomy prevailed. Bir Edward Grey said the tone of r I, I intend to close the pews in my aisle in many householde, and, this led to

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MONEY LENDING CASES.

Before, M: Justice Hazeland, at the Supreme Court this morning, Oyagar Singh sued Wing Kam to recover $69 money lent. Defendant said he only owed 225 and tlist was the money lender's way of piling up the amount. He had got $10 ou two promissory notes and had eigned for $32, while he had got 810 os a third having signed for $40.

wis washed overboard. - Da

Thoma. Kwong Sai, which was also many His Lordsbig-Have you paid anything hours overdue, turned up to-day. She on the last one 1-$10.

reported no damage, baring, like the other boata, anchored, until tho wonther had cleared.

Have you got the receipt - got the modey in concoction with another faci and

be got the receipt..

La bo hero -No.

How much are you wagen?12 Judgment was given for plaintif with costs at $5 a month.

Findah Sing med U. Grant and another for $175.80

His Lordship-fto defendant)- You may your wife does not owe the money! No

Can't you rendNo sir.

Can't you write your naihe 7-No. "Me J, Hi Gardiner, for plaintiff, mid} that both of them admitted making thei *mark but Mrs. Grant said sho; signed as a

His Lordship gave

gave judgment, far plaintif against both defendants for $16 and $18 interest. Leave to issue a writ in, con- nection with another promissory unta was also granted ANA

This forenoon, the typhoon signal was. lowered, and very soon the harbour began. to present a more animated appearance, junts conning out of shelter to reume their ordinary work. After tiffin the weather began to clear up, and now we know that the worst is pastatyta a

The Hongkong Observatory reports to day that the typhoon has reached Wuchow, on the West River. A big depression evidently gathering on the Yangtze accord ing to observations reaching Hongkong.

SWATOW NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Bwarow, June 29,

In addition to the opium the thiever got away with an empty camphor-wood chest and small electric deals fau, the formerly being probably utilised for conveying

BARONET CLAIMS CHURCH. AISLE.

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Mr Balfour denied that Mr. Rocevelt's

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Bunday. The aisle was built during the The samis occurrence was noticed with energy, ability and skill than Sir Eldog reign of Henry 117., and contains mite zegard to male servants. In October there Goat Sir Edward continued, "Mr. Rooss than a hundred pewa. Sit Oszald's family were in both groups 127.9 applications for relt communicated to me his views and

experiences-with- regard rault being beneath It As the church is every 100 open places, as against 109.8 in

Uganda, Soudan and Egypt, and I have LastFiday morning the Chiness in Kale always crowded on Sundays the church in the year previene. The offers, therefore seldom listened to angildag with greater Chich took great interest in some bene wardens will not be able to sost the people were by 24,1 in excess of the previous year: „leasure/I am convinced that he would

Lat October, 1966, there had been but 97.6 withheld the public, statement of thirRE

rades which, I understand, is the first that

KESPEAREAN RECITALS. have been held bare for very many years. Twenty-four mes competed, twelve in sach Mr Charles Marshall Dartachys the well-ampan, which looked as if they carried a known Shakesperean reciter and scholar, full complement

Le

paying a flying visit to Hongkong, en route-

Sand The Troos lasted for an hour and a hall to the Philippines. On his return he has and during the period there was abundance

if the alle is closed.

ZAVALLDAY BATTLE.

desperate all-day pitched battle be twee the O'Brienite and Nationalist factions, in which the police fired on ile crowd and oue, maz was killed, as al noise both from the excited colookers curred at the town of Nermarket, Co. promised te jiva, under the patronage of Sie

el as the catar

winners Cork Henry and Lady May, two Shakespóiresti recitals at the Park Hotel The first with ciod their fags in triu be on August and, when it The Merchant foreign settlement

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Reports received state that large numbers of peonie ware in the town on s holiday and marketsy Fighting began at an early: Amonetary hour and culminated in a fierce riot in

which bottles, "stones and revolveze zware

Two heary showers have fallen, one throughout the day and even children. yesterday and one today. It is broepy paridapated & night approached Houses has ware wrecked and the street, became va

and somewhat cooler than"

that very tooth. Many have

applications; as sgainst then, Eberefore, an

Increase had takes place of 30.3 Female experiences if I had said was likely to servants, who had hithario pretenses prove embarrassing. I

Roosevelt's private agencies, when seeking employment, Began in 1908 to fook in increasing numbers

to the public employment agencias

(obvious.

GERMAN WOMEN AT WORK "The percentags: of the Immals populk. The in engaged this

regular blaze of time; nothing being heard "soma ajan. but revólver shots, the amsabing of windows: He is mista and Heroo párty cries: The Police-inspectorii Selata

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