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capacity to incurable canso in nine States.
Inuincy, was a morringo in England. There were too Fagrancy was a many cause for divorca in America and
VRVNEWS OF THE DAY.
A cyclone in Sardicis has caused
IS COMPLETE round in the State, and neglect to too few in England. The health of the damage to the smoint of £400,000
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The French Mail of the 7th June was deliyared, in Lauden on the 7th July, a Beaupairs, the Australian swimmer, who is now in Europe, won the 400 metron champiaushi in 5, making a world's
NEWS ON.THE DAT.
FRIDAY, JULY 8.
Queensland as this season, exported to the United Kingdom about £600,000 worth of butter
Six chocsand Jews have been expelled i from Kleff, in Rusts, and are wandering humeloss and destitute on the outskirts of the city
provide for the wife and children of theme, from s eugenic point of view, was marriage was a cause in nineteen States, imperilled by obliging a woman to cop In Louisiana"public, defamation of one tine to live in marital relations with WITHOUT A VICTOR party by the other, in Florida violent husband who was confirmed drunkard, temper," and in Kentucky violent aptor was subject to recurring attacks of angovernable temper wore causes. insanity, or who had in him the seeds of Mir Morancepa French-German, using deeply touclied by the many messages, of
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a new Bleriot aeroplano, made a Hight from Facia to Etampes at an average height of 2000
The Presbyterian Goneral Assembly of Canada, by 184 votes to 73, has approved of the basis of union with the Methodists and Congregationalists.
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SATISFACTORY INCREASES.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mau.)
LONDON, July 8 *The trade returns for the month June show increases in exports amotné The Kaiser attest that he has beening to £5,081,670 and in imports or
12.004,884
sympathy from Great Britain during his recent night indisposition,
A treman caved a train in Switzerland by withdrawing a dynamite cartridge which discovered in a shovelful of coal in the box. His arms were severely burned.
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PER MONTH Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Mas-an incurable malady. When the strain sachusetts, the joining of a religions to which either spouse was subject by sect or society which believed, or pro- the continuous cruelty of the other had fessed to believe, that the relation be-reached the breaking point, it was wiss tween husband and wife was void or not only in the interests of the parties unlawful, was a ground for diverce. shionmelves, but of the State and the
Sir EA Sassoon is to introdana, a Despite the widespread belief in Eng-Church, that the law should intervêto.
As the instance of the Gorman Eman Australian expedition, to start far the Bill in the House of Commons provides load to the contrary. Mr Uniss declared The cause for which, in his opinion, that in no State was incompatibility of divory should be granted were: Adultor, the Government of Brazil is ending Antarotic next your Six Ernest Shackle-ing for the compulsory installation of 200 Machines temperamenta cause for divorce, with tery, wilful and perverse desertion, for military officers to undergo six uy cight ton will be the probable lasdes, but if he wireless telegraphy on ships.
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term of not less than two years; crueltz, to an extent and of a nature that renders. ed life intolerable: habitual drunkenness, anity, either in an incurable or in a recurring forta; confirmed criminality. The law should certainly not make any distinction between husband and wife. Poor and rich should have equal opport-
the possible exception of the State of Washington, where the statute authorised the court to graat is decree, when it should be satisfied that for any cause the parties could no longer live together. In two, at least, of the States divorce operated automatically, and with cut the institution of legal proceedings therefore, in case of a sentence to indice." Mr CHD undoubtedly re- prisonment for life! Deserucn was 4. popular plea among litigants, not only owing to the ease with which the charge might be supported and the likelihood that it would not be defended, but because public opinion in the United 1.30p.m.-Gymkhana Club'sThird Mest States dealt lightly with the offence
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Hongkone. April 16, 1907.
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MEMOS FOR" TO-MORROW, Auction. 11a.m.-Auction of Manila Cigara, etc. At Messrs Hughes & Hough's Sales Rooms.
Miscellaneous.
Amusements.
9.30 Performance of Rippodrome
Clřets at Caseway Bay,
rities for access to the courts fer
presents the sober thought of America on this very vexed question. Readers will observe, however, that he is entirely opposed to the ideas now prevailing in ecclesiastical circles in England, which, looking on marriage as a sucred rite, would, like the Roman Catholic Church,
The man has been suitably rewarded.
An endeavour la being made to sange
months' training in the German arayable-to-go-De-Douglas, Mawson will,
The Queensland gold yield for May was 36,909 no cas, valued at £134,779, "an increase of 4610 and £1,058 in value, compared with May last year.
The Pure Foods Conference, which has been sitting in Sydney, has come to a unanimous decision with regard to fring Federal States.
uniform smadard of foods for all the
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Socialistic writer, threatens to discontinue › Mr. Robert Blatchford, the well-known
his newspaper The Clarion because his readora obfact to his advocacy of a strong by and army, and aro indiferent to the
dafence of free-trade.
in
becomend
A fire broke out at. Montical in the Dazy Herald building, and a water tower Contain 10,000 gallons crashed through four floors of the building. Twenty-five employees terribly injured, word rescued from the debris, and 20 wero mjesing.
LONDON, July S
ANGLO-GERMAN FRIEND- SHIP.
NEW ORGANISATION'S AIMS.
Reuter's Service to the China Hart).
LONDON, July 6. ?
The formation is announced "of m The Chilian Chamber of Deputies has permanent organisation which is styled authorised a loan" of £4,000,000 for the the Associated Council of Churches of navy, and of this amoruso £1,000,000 is to the British and German Empires, which £40,000 is, to be rored snually, and friendly relations between the two- to devoted to crash defence." A sum of has for its object the fostering of
owed to accumulato for Intara hara peoples.
construction.*
The membership includes prominent We have roccived, through the courtasy clericals and laymen of all denomin of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, ations. the full correspondenen which bas taken place over she question of the Chaton-epium tax sud monopoly protest. It is of grent
The world's champions for endur. ance club. swinging was broken by Barry J. Lawan at Rockhampton, when be com pleted 3h. Sain. costinuous swinging, halk, and we intend reproducing the main It was a matter of common experience declare the tie between man and wife or three hours over the record eroated points in to-morrow's issuu.
once duly solemnized to be indissoluble.scatly at Ensdnborg by J. J. Hayes. Carrying P30,000 worth of pearl
that in very many instances the charges alleged in the petition were not, in fact, In Ending a solution to the problem, the the true grounds. Where a compar Royal Commission, if it is true to the atively trivial cause might be success-gins of the race, will devise some fully relied upon, it was only natural middle way between these tire extremes Maco by that it would be pleaded to the exclusion and create a procedure which will ar of a more serious one. A husband, pen to British inclinations and national
temperament.
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9.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farmi-knowing his wife to be guilty of mis-
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FRIDAY, July 15
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT.
FULLER DETAILS: OF
Improvement of Manch
Hallways.
The Canadian Government has made which he will sell in Paris, the Sultan of representations to the Imperial Govern-Salu set out from Jolo on June 19, gh the ment in favour of the creation of a joint Tinggine for trip around the world, tribunal for the regulation of ocean freighs Fourtoon. parsons, including the principal: (Renter's Servies in the Chine Bratl)- elargis. It is understood want the United headmen, and hadjis of his dominions, as States Government approves of the pro- company him. The expenses of the Sultan's trip will be delayed by $90,000 gold which psl.
represants four years, income from the Bornos provinces over, which Great Britain has a protectorate.
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The British Labour party déclare tant they are more than satisfied with the response of trades unionista to the appeal for a quarter of a million sixpences to cou- Armstrong's Elswick, works,
A big battleship for Chile is to bufft at tinue the party's political work, including payment of Labour members of the Heyse of Commons,
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The M. Z. labour unions are protesting atai st the proposed importation of boya from Great Britain for farming occupations. Remarkable scenes were recently witnessed at the various prison gates in
SOCIAL AND PERSONALI
Lampor, July 8 The Times St. Petersburg Enzres- pondent confirms the terms of the Russo-Japanese Agreement as being similar to the outline given in the messige of the fith inst
The contracting parties mutally agree to friendly co-operation with a view to
The Right Hou. A. J. Balfour, won the improvement of their respective the Parliamentary Gulf Handicap, for which there were 107 cotrants
some constructive act of desertion. On this other hand, a wife, would and it much easier to procure decree by charging her husband with a mild form of cruelty or failure to maintain her than if her proceedings Great Britam, where friends welcomed recorda. The railway lines are flooded to the fainter, to the eldest daughter of Lorl
James Perkins, & wealthy white plant
were based upon rdultery. The view hundreds of prisoners who had been released was spreading that if an unhappily mar-by the clemency of King George ried couple desired to have their. mar- Tux Royal Commission which is sit-ringe dissolved it was a master which ting in Lendon, under the presidency was peculiarly their own affair, and one of Lord Gout, to consider the great with which the public had nothing to problem of divorce, contiunes to lake do. Of nearly a million divorces only most interesting evidence. The ciber about 15 per cent. were defended. He day it heand Mr R. Newrox Cause, ajwas of opinion that the inquency of member of the Federal Bar of the United divorce in the United States and the
Hösvy rain fall in Dombay from o'clock on the night of June 22, to 7 qjelocit the next morning, ten inches being recorded in twelve hours, brosking all previous in footboards and trallic was impeded: No serious damage is reported.
The engagement is announced of Mr Herbert Asquith, second son of the Frime.
Elcho.
railways in Manchuria and the perfect- ing of the junction service in connection therewith.
The parties also agree to abstain from all harmful competition.
(Nota-The message referred to” statecă- that the Agreement guamitous," the Me: Parr, the special detective of the maintainance of the shape in Manchuria Fan the lives of presi un Russo-Japanese United States Treasury, is to receive the armagement, and that is further provides Treasury award of £140,000 for expening that if these or the Agreements with China the Sugar Trust frauds.
A German squadron in making a or, was discovered in a nude condition,tensive survey of the Faroe Islands, par-
Referring to the Bible in an audience with chained to a stake in a clearing in the woods ticularly at Westumphavo, and this fact in Louisiana, with a fire burning Around has caused anxiety to the inhabitants. him. Bo died without revealing who
The Faroo Islands are a group in the Pastor Stotle, the Kaiser said: "It lies were his assailante.
North Atlantic Ocean, belonging to Dea-an the table so my bedside, and whenever I bare to make a decision I. ask what the mark, about 170 miles north-west of the Bible would tench." Shetland Islands.
The cogagement
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are menaced Russia and Japan will act in concert in taking measures for defence. Ev. O.M.J
BRITAIN'S EXPENDI-
TURE
REDUCING THE NATIONAL-
DEBT.
is announced of Miss The Jamaican Government, owing to Anderson, daughter of Governor Sir John financial booyancy, is introducing into the Anderson, G.C.M.G., to Mr D. Y. legislature a bill for nazoving the Customs Perkins, of the firm of Drew and Naplar, (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
***LONDON, July 7. duty on condensed milk, on artisans' tools, Singapore. The marriage will probably reducing the duty on soap by 50 per waterpamps, fencing, and iron roofing, and take place about the end of February next.
During the Badget debate, in the Lord Minto leaves Calcutta for home in House of Commons, Mr Asquith denied cont. The changes involve a decrease of the steamer Northbrook on November 20 that there was in excessive growth of
early £90,000 in the revenue
Arrangements are being made to give two national expenditure, and contended faxwell dinners to him, one in September that Britain alone, among the great Is is stated that President Taft.com- by members of the United Services Club, countries of the world, was able to templates drafting during the Summer and the other in October by members of
provide for the increased demands of holidays a financial re-adjustment bill, the Scottish community."
social reform and national defence, and with the idea of introducing it in the next
Mr Heary Dyer, MA.. D.Sc., C.E., first to reduce her Debt at the same time. season of Congress. This is because the expenditure of the Federal Government is Principal of the Imperial College of There would be nize millions available Engineering, Tokyo į now Honorary Prin in the present year for the reduction of annually increasing and it is dificult to
ander present arrangements.
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The annul general meeting of the Hongkong Philharmonic Society will be held in the City Hall on Friday, 15th July 6. p.m., for the purpose of receiving States and also of the English Bar, growing indiference to the duty and the report and accounts and electing officera senior counsel to the United States obligation of marriage were primarily for the ensning year. Embassy, London, formerly Chancellor due to the fact that marriage in America A single baadit held up a train at of the state of Misscuri, who produced was defined by statute to be merely a Robart, in New Mexico, and drove out of Statistics recently compiled by the Con- civil contract, and that no form of the can at the point of his pistol, the sus Bureau of the United States Gorera-solemnising the ceremony was provided half-dressed and panic-striken passengers, He arred several thousands of dollars, and ment. Bir Chase sund the Sgures he or required. In several of the Statesped, after defiantly shooting out the proposed to deal with showed that the law specifically declared that the rear lights of the train. divorce was more prevalent in America
parties might marry without the inter- than in any other civilised country vention of any one.
The Commonwealth Ministry has pur All that was re-chased a notar car, the price, it is indes Per Dez Japan alone excepted. It appeared to quired was that they should make a stood, being about £550. Mr Fisher, the
had now arrived when Federal Ministers 64.80 present time une arriage in every names, ages, places of residence, and the should by equipped with this means of
fifteen, or possibly sixteen, in the United date, place and fact of their marital moving about speedily
A despatch from Lisbon says a Bons states would ultimately be dissolved union, and that they should acknowledge
tional revolutionary plot has been un Mi Hamilton, made an attempt to win earthed on the frontier through the arrest by divame. La all the States adultery the execution of this docement before a the New York Times prize for an aeroplane of a man named Cordeiro, an influential tion of Industry," "Science Teaching in (Lieuter's Service to the China Maik) Nor-For Hongkong the above was ground for divorce, but, indepand-
Lonnor, July 1 notary public and record it in the man- tight from New York to Philadelphis and Repúblican. Cordeiro conformed that he Schools, etc, and who has received from Prices will be increased by patty of adultery, there was a variety of her in which a grant or conveyance of miler of New York on the return journey, of sowing disloyalty in the army and Sacred Treasure and of the Rising Sun, lack, about 186 miles, and had got within 20 | had been employing agents for the purpose the Emperor of Japan the Orders of the
Sir Charles Hardinge, who has s the amount of duty, payable other grounds. Desertion and eroeity, and was recorded." In America à justice when his engines broke down. He after listing non-commissioned officers for the has had conferred on him by the University ceded Earl Minto as Viceroy of India,
in varying forms and degrees,
wards completed the fight, and won the revolutionary propaganda. Many men have of Glasgow the degree of Dr of Laws. -$7.20 per Dozen.
of the peace, in the Western States, was
prize of £2,000,
been arrested and imprisoned. common grounds of divorce. In sixteen commonly the proprietor or keeper of a States the desertion need be for only publichouse. His court was usually heldeserved judgment in a case in which Mr Church of Scotland Jewish Commitetto The tribunal of Commerce in Paris has An attempt has been made by the. ono your in seven States it may be in an apartment over or adjoining his Trmier, a trader, at Marsailles, anal Mirs estimate the number of Jews in besti for two years, and in che State for bar. As the State required no forza of Clarke, an English woon residing in Paris, and from the figure given it some five year. Cruelty was o cause in
for £12,000 for alleged breach of sureement probable that there are considerably fewer marriage, he was left free to exercise his Counsel stated that Mrs Clark financed a than 20,000 all told of the chosen race nearly every state, and, in some of the fancy as to the time and manner in which scheme for pearl Bahing in the Fersion north of the Border. There are about States, "Dottages, rendering life together be should perform the rite. It was no al, but withdrew from it on Anding that 8,000 in Gasgow and 2,000 in Edinburgh, insupportable indignities rendering unusual experience for him to repair Counsel for M. Tramies replied that she of hoads of Jewish families in mid to be gunreening was included in the scheme, while in Dandee and Aberdeen, the number
condition intolerable," "personal abuse
from his bar to his court to declare, was originally aware of the whole plan. He respectively 149 aud 23. or conduct rendering life burdensome,"
also contended the the introduction of annidst the levity of the loafers and the dis in Muscat, which is a free ports w FREMIER HALL OF THE COLONY, and treatment endangering health or hangers-on about the premiers, that the not prohibited. M. Tramier had estimated DE VOUX ROAD ÖVERAL
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The following will be the program of music to be played by the Band of the 13th Bajputs, under. Bandmaster Coke, on board the 9.8., eangshan on Sunday, the 10th instant Proceeding to deal with the position Corast Bolo of affairs in Great Britain, Mr Crape said
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