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THE CHINA MAIL.

NEWE OF. THE DAY:

The Foreign ministara in Peking, haro agreed to the prohibition of the asport of

"SOCIAL SANDS PERSONAL

The Prince Regent still objects, to Is fatating Tang Shary in offloat life, holding that he is too headstrong,

His Barcellonar the Offer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint MET. H. O, Brayfold to set and survapor, during the abeonce on

SATURDAY.

CHE RAMBLING NOTEES

russen to the Police Pler should ha

I would have been grosily to the credit raped his vigilant aper Share is poubita of the Governor of Novads had he displayed utility itself dear reader bat the funny strange in the marections of the Vrublia the same moral courage as that exhibited part that the Savitary Board at their by Governor Gillette of California and modding or Tuesday wars alked to approve prohibited the Johnson-Jeftion prize-fight of the site and that after more then häir from taking place within the limits of his the building has been put up. The Director of Public Works was absent co that jurisdiction. He would have had the occasion or he might have boaz able to and would have saved the world from hearty support of all decent-minded people,

vary painful exhibition."

of marriageable persons in the com

A French consulate has been opened munity, and not the total population,Nanning on the Font River.“ the decline in the period covered by the above table is no less then 27 per cent. Vital statistics show a concattle from Shantung staut increase in the number of bachelors. and spinsters in the community, and an increase in the age at which may riage take place. As we pointed out

His Majesty the King has not been some weeks ago, some remarkable con-advised to exercise his power of disallow chisions were drawn by Sir J. Af zucu in respect to the ordinanco regulating the Russo-Japanese. War, will leave Tokyo puble opinion in the United States is step from the vary outset; but then com-

Home that the Coronation should take The suggestion is being advanced at

place on St. George's Day-April 23rd

crowd

auits.

A great improvement is being affected Wong-ne-oheong by the making of the rand and the repairing of the nullah in that locality.

leave of Mr W, Russell.

Lieutenant Shirase, whose plan for a North Pole expedition was frustrated by on the 1st August on an expedition to the South Pole. He will be accompanied by one astronomer, one geologist and eight others.

From the brief massages which Rantar bow out to the Far Enet I gather that

making itself heard at last in oppreition to BAINES. in a recent address to the Royal

these gladitorial displays, and I should not Statistical Society, based on the growth

wonder if we have really scan the last of of population in Western Europe. He

them. They will disappear amid the same said: "A generation age the marriage

bad odour in which the old school of It is being stated that their Bajostias prisfighting expired in England fifty years rate was held to be a goood bar

the King and Queen will spend a consider agu, for what honourable man of trus ometer of prosperity, but new factors

able amount of time on Deeside during the sporting instincte but is not thoroughly have entered into the case. The main facure on the first Wednesday of the quietly, with har sister, the Dowager- came off in Rene on July 4

autumn, while the Queen Mother in living disgusted with such ataics us that which Express Mario, at Flampenborg King George will have an ample retinue about him, and it is intended to observe a tradition which fell into disuse for a time in recent years, by requesting the presence of a Cabinet Minister at the Castle for daily consultation.

thesis was still, no doubt, generally true that wherever there was room for two to live together up to the conventional standard of comfort, a marriage took place.

In Ireland there was a

It is notifed in the date that the Licensing Board will meet goarterly in

month.

The silk per se. Dania, which left Hongkong at 5p.m. on this 18th May, was delivered in New York at 10 mul on the

17th June.

S. MOUTRIE & Co. decline of nearly 19 per cent, and incribed for the right to post nosicon and

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Hongkong. April 15, 1907.

MECOS FOR TO-MORROW.

The Gazette states that tenders #W

advertisement boards at the various stations on the Kowloon-Cauten Railway..

the last decade less than a-third of the

› ITEMS AT THE COURTS. when were married. The increased

For being in possession of opium a native avoidance of matrimony was most marked throughout the United Kingdom and continued use of the Public Soal lately in

His Majesty's warrant authorising is fined $250 by Mr B. R. Fallifax at

the Magistracy to-day. North Scandinavia, and this in the uso in Hongkong until another goal shall 9 an-Excursion to Macus by .. northern aggregate almost neutralisedave been prepared and transmitted to

Heungahna.

Hongkong, has been received, the growing connubiality of Germany and most of its neighbours, and even of the already much-married Italy."

Miscellaneous.

MEMOS FOR MONDAY, Amusements.

9.30 p.m.-Performance of Hippodrome

Circus st Canaway Bay.

General Memoranda.

THURSDAY, July 14:---

We quoted at that time other extracts

A meeting of Chinese bankers was recently held in Peking at which it was decided to forman association, with branches In the provinces, to assist to explain the

steadily preparing upon practical lines..

The preliminary aquabbling and alternate boasting and vapouring on either side before the mon finally settled down to alning was bad enough, but after that it became a road affliction to take up an average American newspaper and to see the columna, nny pages, devoted to the doings and the sayings of two men who were deliberataly preparing to knock all human seitband out of each other's body, after arranging how the purse should be divided. The net of the blatherskite flourishes exceedingly in Amories these days. More's the pity.

less the President of the. Board and Head I thro arme light on the matter. Neverthe of the Sanitary Department must have been aware of the fact. After all the manded that the building be erected beneath Board disappeared of the site and recom the hill near the Water Palice Station. Commonsense should have dictated such mouseme is not's very remarkable product in Hongkang just at present,

it doesn't matter whether it is frequented *Putting up an abstraction in the street, or not, in as bad as the clock tower ins Queen's Road mid Dr Firwilliams when the President remarked that Canton d was only frequented by a love coolies guing Freeidsut vidently doesn't live in Kows to the godown and the Police Fier. The loon, or he would have found out are this that this short street in ote of the most frequented thoroughfares in Kowloon, especially during the bathing asszon Not only that, tha Palies Fiet is the only public landing phen in Kowloon for the samercos mention the fact that bis in the wharf at laumabes plying in the harbour, net to which the Governor of the Colony always lande when on a visit to the ponluxula

A good

who was story is told of Bir Gerige Scott,

recently Superincendent of Shan States-and who has done such

fle

magnituut work for Upper Barms gutierak- ly which is an excellent example of the really appalling ignoranco displayed by people who should know better regarding Astence of six-months imprisonment

England's possession. Some yours ago with hard labour and six hours' stocks was

while at home on loaya he was.com.after- Teso but hope that none of the Linamat-; noon taking ten on the terrace of the House imposed at the Magistracy by Mr J. Regraph Shows of Hongkong will have the of Commons, and was introduced to a Wood, on a native this morning, for return-bud uste to import the films displaying the nameless. You have been sbreed. I "member of the Ministry, who shall be ing from banishment.

Bght. If porchsoco such films do reach the understand, Sir George, mid the Minister. Colony I hope the Powers that be will have You, I have been in. Butma was the To-lay Inspector Ken charged three sufficient moral courage to follow the ox-reply. Ab yos, Burma I have a brother men with cutting and wounding two ample of those in British Columbia and there, but be pronounces the ward father differently. He calls it Bermuds." What trial by Mr. J. R. Wood. It appears. that prisoners were employed by the

from Sir J. A. BarsES' speech and there. currency reform which the Government in folher and prisoners were committed for South Africa and prohibit their exhibition. Sir George said is not recorded

fore need not repeat them again. When

Canca LYTIELTOs, the Master of Etcn,

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farni- teck the same topic for the subject of an address the other day, he endeavoured

tare at Woolamni' Chathara Road, Kovicon.

2.30 p.m.-Auction of Honeshold Furni

Sales RoomA.

FRIDAY, July 15-— ̈

ture, etc, at Messra Hughes & Hough's to seek the canre for the decline in the marriage rate in the increasing selfish Dess of the age. In this he was not very far wrong. The desire for selfish. case and individual comfort regardless of how

30p.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Phil. hampaio Society at City Hall,

The China Zilail

The German sailor J. Glocke, who was Asiatic Petrolean Co., and not abiding the rising innuhood of the Colony totions of á Yorkshire Village," which shows-

Prinz Eital Friedrich for desertion from arrested on board the N.D.L, `stester

3.31.S. Scharnhorst at Nagniski, and was found guilty and sentenced to sight months' sent to Tsingtao for Court Martial, was imprisonment at hard labour in a fortress, He will be sent back to Germany.

dismissed and took revengo on com- by some now regulations they wore maze

plaints who are employed as cooks.

Once again an appeal is being made to I will conclude my ramble this weak with s bunch of stories called from Recollec good, and to join the Volunteer faed to the falk ayant to Tweed. A some sacrifice for the common that the humour of the north is not non- Personally I see very little hope of the well-meaning parson, at a time when work A Chinese student went into a jewellor'sgain under present conditions. As you and buy a pig to pay the rest."án'a movement being galvanized into active life was scarce and vintuals hard to come by, advised & collier to sell his well-bred terrier alop and purchased one gold watch, one pointed oat, Mr Editor. in your leading bonny too I should look gooin" cattin wi sitror watch and chain, a jade stone ap- article the other night, the whole Colony talking over the ways and means of main- pis was the reply. Two men were pendage and a jade stone bangle, ralus has to work much harder these days than taining the dignity of municipalities. "Why. On pages 2 and 3 of this issue of the $100.80 in all, and tendered a 45 hill in it did even ten years ago; there is less gabbat jusé lately," said the me, China Mail will be found a precis of the exchange which had been altered to $100. Leisure time, less apportious dollars knock bought der Mayor & Dew collar and chain.

"Han yo'" said the other: "why, we the Hongkong Genaral Chamber of Costas remanded by Mr. J. R. Wood. It is the day's dull grind. In providing soon, the nurse put her head found the- elabs of various sorta to patice one after When the father of a daughter acquired a merce regarding the attempt made to set understood the shop-keeper accepted the dencies of modern civilization. Women upaa opium monopoly in Kantung. It bill at arst but on examining it more closely many facilities for outdoor sports the door and thus announced the news Well

makes piquant reading, though the car

he discovered the forgery and followed devemment has really cooked its own 'n as many sorts as anybody no respondence breaks off at a most interesting fendant until he saw an oflicer of the low goose, for if a man takes up any particular match, replied : “As finish. I word, topmost wrestler, asked the result of his great

stage.

when he immediately gave him into port in camest he finds that he has not but one for's bottom.

ranch time for anything else outside offico custody We understand that the Government.

hours, and is Volantearing, after all, im A sentence of six weeks' imprisonment poses some restrictions on one's me and BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION.. contemplate opcaing a bradicts of thy. Har meted out to a native, at the Magistracy movements, it is hardly surprising in those bour dispensary at Shaukivan which is to to-day, for housebreaking st No. 3 Tai piping days of peace that a man profess the

it may effect others has grown mpidly valamitous correspondence just sued by At the Magistracy this morning the cave/ing about, and fifty limes as many sporting letten you beggar of our run lone.”

with the increasing materialistic ten-1

HONGKONG, SATURDAY: Jun 2, 1910. shirk the burden of motherhood in no greater proportion than do men seek to GREAT BRITAIN'S MOST SERIOUS avoid the calls upon pocket, time and

PROBLEM.

energy which fatherhood involves.

PUBLIC attention in Great Britain in

1

RAMBLER.

The ratures of the aremge amount of

reserve during June as certified by the

specie 84,000,000 Hongkong and Shangha managers of the various banks are s tralia and China, average, St.18,701 follows:Chartered Bank of India, Aus-

Banking Corporation, average, 811,329,467, specia 812,000,000; National Bank of

816,000,000 specie. China, average, 833,037, specie, nil, making total of $15,551,205 "average and

Neither sex in this respect can cast the sicue of offence at the other. Historical been bank notes, in circulatiers and of spade in

welcomed by the large floating population fendant was aware that the male occupants tioner. The innovation will no doubt be occasionally employed at the Docks de. golf, or other recreation club to the qui there and be of incatimahle herellt of the house were also employed there and

military discipline of the Volunteers.... other districts where branches have been gether with the fact that the woman were but there is no gainsaying the fact that the them as it has been to the population in bo took advantage of that knowledge to-

It is all very well to shake our hands, established.

employed at the Sugar Works. Howevar pradominating notes of the age are selish guage and Literature at Glasgow Univerity, walking along with a bundle under his and makes the future full of gloomy possi There is a Lectureship in Celtic Lan.one of the women was returning home nese and self-complacenoy. It is the dry-rot and a course of lectures in convection with arin. She suspected him and followed to bilities. We sadly want another Bernard earlier than usual and she saw prisoner which is eating into the very fibre of the race

it is being delivered this summer by the see which house he entered, after which she of Clairvaux to blast with fery tongue the Ray. George Henderson, Ph.D. In one immediately informed the police. Part of intense selfishness of the age, and to of them Dr. Henderson traced the history the clothing was recovered and prisoner temore by his score and invective the of the myth khown as that of the Maided he had pawned one pisco which was callons indifference which is choking down of the White Mantle," which is only to be subsequently recovered. found in one printed book the collection

all these fine feelings which boar result in

James Mdegregor, Dean of the Isles, be

publio service for the sake of our common of West Highland legenda made by Sir

bumanity. tween 1519 and 1642, and known as the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Versions

30 once again being very forcibly directed students see in ue phase of the matter Superior Old Liqueur

to the most serious social and nationals striking parallel to the closing problem of the day-the decline in the centuries of the Roman Empire, when Cognac, Gold Capsule 29

marriage rate and the decrease in the childless homes were the rule not the D-Very Fine Pale Old

birth-rate.. Statisticians, public speakers, exception among patricians as well as Liqueur Cognac, Gold

and preachers of many schools of thought among the wealthy middle cinstes and White Capsule.... 35 and various faiths are united in their Have we then reached the summit of BOUTELLEAU'S Cham- endeavours to bring home to the our present civilization and taken the pagne Liqueur... 40 nation a sense of the serious relation first steps towards the inevitable B-Finest Old Brown which this question" bears towards decline?

Brandy, Gold and the national well-being. But it would White Capsule...

Mr. ROOSEVELT, speaking before the 41 seem that their warnings are falling Sorbonne in Paris, denounced the evil on very dent cars. During 1909 the of childless marriages in no uncertain marriages in England and Wales num-tones. He saw the cancer that is ealing bered 200,260, equalling a rate of 14.6 elowly but surely into the nations of

Fine Pale Cognac... 8.0. F. V. 0. Very Fine Liqueur Cog-

"

$20.80 64,80

of persons married per 1000 of the France, Great Britain, Germany and manuscript, however, are preserved in

the Edinburgh Advocates Liberary, in

-SPORTING, ̈ ̈

· MILITARY TRAINING

HELPFUL

In view of the Government's appeal to increase the strength of the Hongkong Volunteers it is interesting to note that military training alongthens the power of Minature Rifle Shooting.

TheGovernment'slatest scheme has mach the will as was shown by recent experimente to recommend it, especially the democrstar in Austria. To determine what effect the At the request of Field Marshal Lord principle that the various units may elect fatigue reuniting from a long march might rifle clubs of the Empire to be held on during the wook there is a certain amount over two years serice, do so miles Roberts The Daily Mail is establishing their own offiours, subject of course to pro- soldiers, the Austrian School of Musketry have upon the shooting efficiency of trained

Lord Robarts' birthday, September 30. of fealing current regarding this officer against a strong head wind. Before and yearly competition between the miniature per restrictions. From what I have board recently had a cyclist detachment of 50- The Daily Mail offers a filty gaines cup.

in oight hours, the return journey being question, and the Government has met the after the march they each fired 10 rounds Lord Roberts has appealed to the Pressituation very fairly.

at a target representing a section of 28 men promote the movement by:

in akimishing order lying down at 500 paces. Before the march, the detachment made 40 hits on 19 figures; after the march, 38 hits on 16 figures.

MARIE BRIZARD

AND ROGER'S. polation. This rate was 0.3 per Australia, and would remedy the evil by the Royal Irish Academy, the British 1000 below that of 1008 and 1.3 below return to the inner principles which Museum, and in Harvard University Per Doz the average rate for the previous ten governed social life half a century The story runs that at a feast where

years. In 1893 the marriage rate was ago. We fear, however, that it will were present, & dame appeared attired in a of the Empire

sir Highland heroe and their wives 14.7; during the next six years it rose require more than a clarion-voiced beautiful mantle. The peculiar property orging the importance of rifle-shooting, to gradually to a maximum of 16.5 in Roerter, a thoughtful master of Eton, of this mantle was that it fitted none who which, he says, the miniature clubs are the 00 Years Old...100.00 1898; in the following firo years or an eloquent Father BERNARD VAUGHAN turn tried it on, but in vain. In the old

Mr Shelton Hooper does not live in Kowloon. Still we not infrequently have it fell slowly to 15.2. in 1901; in the rouse the nations from the torpor of Irish legends there is a similar story of A NOTE--For Hongkong the above next three years it rose to 15.8 in 1807,selishness in which they are now on. The collar was put on the ankle or N. Daily News the four played on

County Cricket.

it from his own lips at meetings of the collar that was a teat for truth and falsoʻ

Sanitary Board that he is often scross thaze WHY SUFFER FROM RHEUMATISM? Prices will be increased by land then came the drop to 14.6 last complacently sunk. The striving for wrist; if the wearer spoke the truth it Etted tesuita of the cricket matches played on connection with the sanitation of the always be relieved, and in most asses a

According to telegram printed by the

on matters of busines, part of th being in from shetruation, as the pain cas Tis a mistaks to allow anyone to suffer the amount of duty payable roar. The argument has been based individual cues and comfort is one of comfortably but if he spoke falas it tight Somersetshire at Taunton by an insing the case it seems strange that the re-affords is alone worth many times its mat June, 31, July 1 and 2-Hampshire best rapidly growing hinterland. This being Pain Balm. The rean from pain which it -$7.20 per Dozen, on these figures that the number of the most marked as it is one of the fo nos version, this collar was worn by in Sussex by sixty na

care affected by applying Chamberlain's ened itself till it cut off the hand or foot and two runs: Sasser boat Warwickshire erections of the granite monument on Can For sale by all chemists and storekeepers

pac,

Alexandra Buildings.

the lower instincts and insensibly deadens the impulses towards a higher order of things.

had done amiss. The six ladies in their

best introduction,

The matchda

marriages shows a tendency to rise and most distressing tendencies of the 20th jadgan, round their necks and if they ar-between Middlesex, and Notuleglamehire fall with the state of trade. In 1907, century. Like all vices it battens upon 8. WATSON & CO., when tide was good, the marriage

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zate was high. Since then, with falling trade, it has gone down. The London rate is somewhat higher then that for the whole country, but here the 1900 figure is the lowest ever recorded. A}, Mesars Ellis and Ellis' Weekly Rubbe table in the Registrar-General's returan Share Circular maya-Tho steady market

the marriage rate in the Metropolis when it became fairly Brm and prices shows how during the past 30 years reported at last writing pursued the evou texor of its way until about Thursday based on the total population, has advanced slightly only to relapse again this declined by 19 per cert

morning when quotatione, in some ones, dropped Lack to the old lavel, Business has been fair, but it was confined, to the

tempted to deliver an unjust judgment, it Worcester, and Lancashire And Surrey at CHAMPAGNES, CLARETS,

at Larils, Worcestershire and Essex at compelled to reverse their fudings. Dr constricted their throats till they were Manchester were alandoned. Henderson referred to other modifications

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of the Queer of the Banjo

of the stary in French, English, Welsh, Few clergymen of the Church of Eng German, Scandinavian, Italian, and Irish ismi bave had a more remarkable cooleri. literature, but held that there was evidence) estical career than Professor Addis, who to show that they were all of Celtic origin, has just joined the tanke of the London olurgy on his presentation to the vicarage CORRESPONDENCE.

ef All Saints, Knightsbridge, by Canon Henson. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, he became a Roman Catholic priest - after taking two Arst-classes at Balliol and for some time was attached to

the father of Mrs Humphry Ward, he com Brompton Oratory. In collaboration with

piled the standard Catholls Dictionary." Aftan an interval of unsettlement, he joined the Unitarians and was appointed to the professorial staff of Manchester College, their seminary at Oxford. Finally, e conformed to the Established Church.

KOWLOON'S UNSEEN WONDERS

(To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL"). Bi-Madam tales of tigers, alligator at, bring to mind the old Salt's yarn.

Sen Sarpont be blowed," yells our old

lower-value stocks At this writing Singa- Taming who's left that ere mop a pore wits adrices report alight recessions, histiging out

but at the figures quated the stocks have inquiries from the Bouth June rubber retume from the F.M.S. begin to come in by the mail and those to land by laat despatches show-bstantial advanca in monthly outputs compared with preoed ing periods. Prices for Fine Hand Para Rubber have kept ateady round about 9/11 and 10% but latest quotation, places the figure pe 10/1j për lb/

Your truly

INCREDULOUS.

AVOID ALL DANGERS YSENTERY is a dangerous disease bur

Doo be oured. Chamberlain's Dolla Cholers and Diarchom Homedy has been fally and in nine epideminent dysentery. It has never been known to fait de equally valdable for childran and adults, and when rednosd with water. and awostoned, it is plesuant to bake For sale by all chocolate and store coepers

A

Mr Addie will be welcome accesalon to HL the London clergy, for he is a Biblical sobolar of the Arst rank, and an excellent preacher

SAFEGUARD AGAINST ILLNESE

TAKE ruls of your home to keep Cholers and

bowl complaint and stock

PORTS, ALES, STOUTS,

WHISKIES, GINS,

BRANDIES, etc.

DON'T BE LED ASTRAY

specious talking, but deal only with a firm which has a repu

tation for the best quality in the leading lines of WINES, SPIRITS, etc.

PRICE & CO. have been established for over 15 years

and have built up a reputat

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ELEPHONE NON

Just 28, 1910.