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General Memoranda,

FRIDAY, July 22-..

11.07 Full Moon. - SATURDAY, July 28:-

4 p.m.-Aquatic Fête at V.R.C.

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VOLUNTEERING IN HONG-

KONG,

Me Ross Öfors to Raiso Company of Scouts.

DEATH OF FRENCH-CONSUL 'AT SWATOW.

Provs Our Own Correspondent.)

'Swarow, July 18, I regret to announce the death pastorṇay"}" morning of Monsieur Hent Quevin, Vie The following correspondance has been Consul for Franco at this port. The Bont to us for publication docensed gentleman was operated upon for appendicitis but, despite the best surgiend

and medical nid ho gradually mak, death occurring at the Kakebish hospital. His remains will be interred in the Cemetery

this afternoon.

Last week the heat was excessive. Friday and Saturday were simply broiling days, but co Sunday the sky became overcast and we had heavy showers of rain in the after

POGU. ably.

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Hongkong 11th, July, 1918 Sir-With regard to your circular letter

of the 4th instant nidressed to British Commercial Firms in this Colony on the ing, I have now the honour to uncless

subject of the encouragement of Volunteer-

lotter which I have received from MrC, B.

a

Rose offering on certain torms, to raise azú train a Company of **Scouts,*** conditions mentioned by Mt Ross is that As one of the most important of the the Banks and leading Firms should au- enrage their men to join and give thom the necessary leave of absonce to render ...thomsolvea effaiunt, I wrote, sa per onclosed

letter to several Banks and Firms, who' bavu all approved the scheme.

This has tompered things consider

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The nineteenth case of plague for the year was notified yesterday, the body of

Chinaman who had succuthbed to the

disease being lound on the s.a. Yunnan.

H.328. Tanın ba been shifted from the position which she has long

The 1st battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, aåden, under command of |Lieut-Cal (F" J. Parker, has been ordered home, after 15 years abroad. It still be stationed at Davonport....

..

14 of 1 per cent, for the last twenty-occupied in the harbour and is now meared further out--at the man-of-war anchorage, one years in spite..of safety devices, in that time the proportion of injurel 64.80 bas quadrupled: "Wherers once in 100.00 two hours, month in and mouth out a conductor, brakenan, switchman. or railway labourer perishes by accident,

There is an unusual ruah of students one is unimed every six minutes. Last taking place from all parts of India to year 6.4 per cent of all the railway reach Loudon in time to enter the Tuns of

Courts bufore the new and strictor regula employees in the United States weretions come into forcu next January. injured: thus the chances are that no

Owing to other engagements Bir Mer inan can escape accident for ning years.shal Darrach will only be able to give one No wonder that most of the life-in Shakespearean recital in Hongkong. Ho surance companies refusa, a railroad arrives from Manile on August 5 and the same orening will give The Merchant of Venice."

I have the honour therefore to ask that you will lay the proposition before H S. the Offer Administering the Governmort,. of a body of Scouts on the lines suggested with a view to his sanctioning the raining

Mr Ross,

by

It may appear to H. E. that the num- bars proposed are, not large but I vanture the opinion that, if ones a good start is made and the young men of the Colony roalies that there is opportunity to surve with congenial neighbours in the ranks and under Officers of their own choice, a con- siderable impotus' will be given ro Velum- teuring

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Taur obediout servart, (sd.) HENRY KESWICK, The Hon. the Colonial Secretary

Hongkong.

4.

[COPYRIGHT.]

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910.

THE CORONATION.

(COFTANEE]

THE IKOMA IN ENGLAND

(Independent News Agency's Servicz- to the China Mail.)

TOKYO, July 20.

TO TAKE PLACE IN JUNE.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, July 20.

It is reparted from Gravesend that the officers and crew of the Japanese His Majesty King Geargo has signed cruiser Ikoma have been cordially an proclamation fixing his Coronation toredance their rival la kie take place in June next.

The precise data is to be Exed in the early part of next year.

BRITISH NAVAL MAN-

ŒUVRES.

A TRIUMPHANT DEFENCE.

(Beuter's Service to the China Muži, Y

Lospor, July 20.

resulted in a decisivo victory for Admiral The British Naval manoeuvres have

Sir W. H. May's defending Fleet.

JAPAN'S NATIONAL

"AIM.

STRIKING PUBLICATION BY THE "TIMES."

Plea for Peaceful Recognition.......

www

(Reuter's Service to the Chink "Kail.)

LONDON, July 20. -The Times publishes seventy-two ad- ditional pages with pups and pictures dealing with Japanese history, life, commerce and industry.

Thames.

END OF STRIKE.

(Independent News Agency's Servica to the China Mail.

TOKYO, July 20.

The 2,000 dock workmen at Uniga, who recently went out on strike, have- resumed work. i

TOURISTS RETURN.

(Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail.)

Foxro, July 20

The Round-the-world tourist party organised by the Asahi Shimburi hare now returned to Japan.

RAILWAY LOANS IN CHINA.

را

A CONFERENCE PROPOSED.

(Wah Tez Fat Po's Service.)

FEXINO, July 20. H.. Hau Si Chung, President of the Board of Communications, intends to

A

referring to the admiratica and respect large meeting between oficials of the In a leading article the journal, after shortly axe date for the holding of a

which the dramatic appearance of Japan Board, the foreign Ministers, the Ioan among the great nations of the world fepresentatives of countries concerned, had kindled everywhere, explains that and the representatives from the Pro-

Hoxazonu, 7th July, 1910. Gentlemen.-Consequent upon the letter of the Hen. the Colonial Secretary dated the 4th instant and urging on heads of Firma, Banks, etc. in this Colony the importance of encouraging their employers to join the Local Volunteer forces have received the enclosed letter from Mr C. H. Ross.

Ir C. E. Rows is well known to you and has already proved that he is fully qualitied carry out the duties of a Scout Master. More important still he has the confidence of all who have ever served with and under the principal object of the publication | vinces who are objecting to the con

is to correct the failure of the West toclusion of any further loans with foreign I would ask you therefore whether you 9.30 p.m.Auction of Household Furni.sured only at a rating twenty years

would encourge your men to join the pro-realise that though Japan bad found her countries. The whole question of rail- tars at Nos. 1 & 2, Nathan Road, in advance of his actual age. In

posed longkong Scouts," and undertake successful expression in war, she was way loans will then be discussed. spite of double-tracking and enfety slate coldur. Although not so attractive to grant them the requisite, leave to make chiefly and honourably desirous of wine

themselves fully efficient. If you approve,

9 p.m.--Concort Kowloon Cricket Cint. SUNDAY, July 94:—

9 ant.-Excursion to Macao by sa, aan en any teribe, while in any sort of

Heungahan.

company switchman can be in- MONDAY, July 95:-

Kowloon.

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"The China Mail

devices and palliative legislation, matters bare come to auch a pass that if the injured of one bad year could all wait EONOKONG, WEDNESDAY, Jour 20, 1910 in line before one hospital door, the queue would reach the length of Manhattan Island, from the Battery to Spayten Duyvil Creek, back again to the Battery, and up once more as far as Mattison Square, while the dead, if

AMERICAN RAILWAYS AND

THEIR SERVANTS.

Or the other day the papers of the United States were printing with grant exultation a report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending June 30, 1907, which weat to prove that American railways were Dow the safest in the world so far as con- cerned the loss of life and injury to limb in comparison with the number

laid by side, would make a row nearly two miles long."

Then what becomes of the maid, and what provision is made for the widows and orphans of the killed? Mr. Giras instances the case of THOMAS as, a firemu employed by the Erie

S. MOUTRIE & CO., of passengers carried at the length of Railroad, whose window, left cestitute bý

LIMITED.

Hongkons. April 18, 1907.

Messrs Butterfield and Swire's launches

are being re-painted, and instead of white, as hitherto, are being turned out in

the new colouring in doubtless mere serviceable.

it

him.

I would propose to sppronch H. E, the ning world-wide recognition in the Officer Administering the Government with denmin of peace.

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"Your obedient servant,

a view to the suctioning and immediate War was declared on July 12th in the mising of the Hongkong Scouta on the British naval manoeuvres.

A record flestines set forth in Mr Rosy letter. three hundred warships had assembled,

I have the honour to be with Admiral Sir W. H. May in command ofthedefending Red flectand Vice-Admiral sir E. S. Poe in command of the Blue, the invaders.

The French Army Estimates are atendi- rising. M. Gerrain, who is an expert

on military matters, states in the Mati that the estimates for 1911 will be practi- cally 3 millions sterling-an increase ipf ene million sterling on those of 1910 which, in theis turn, were incrouse of 22.800,002 on those of 1900. The chief items of increase are for stores, machine

and artillery, officers pay, and in

creased expenditure resulting from the two-years' service law,

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MORSTE

d) RENRY KESWICK.

THE ENTENTE CORDIALE.

KING GEORGE'S HOPE...

SHANTUNG REBELLION

SUPPRESSED.

"(Wah Tez Fat Po's Service)

FEXING, July 19,

H E. Haun Po Chi, Governor of Shantang, has reported that the rebell

The Bongsong and Shanghai Banking (Renter's Servict to the China Milion in the Lai Yang District has been

Corporation.

The Chartered Bank of India, Australia | and China.

Butterfeld and Swire.

Shewan Tomes and Co. Dodwell and Co.

The Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Ča. Reiss and Co.

The Morcantile Bank of India.

"Hongkong, 7th July, 1910. Hon. Mr Henry Keswick, Hongkong. Dear Sir, Proposed Mounted and Fout Scouts

With reference to the Colonial Secretary's printed Circular dated 4th July, I think the above proposed unit, is an excellent! ides.

Loszos, July 19. The Earl of Northampton, in "an- nouncing to. President Faillieres the accession of King George, said His Majesty would never forget the procla of friendship and affection which his late father had received from the French people.

the same feeling of affection, and it King George was unimated with

would be a kesa satisfaction" to His Majesty to

see the tente rordiale catinue to increase.

CANADIAN MILITARY IN- EFFICIENCY.

GENERAL FRENCH'S REVELA-

TIONS.

quelled.

CHINA AND RUSSO- JAPANESE AGREE-

MENT.

(Wah Taz Fat Po's Service).

Paxso, July 13. The Cabinet has held a secret meeting and discussed the Russo-Japanese Agreement.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

A meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Thursday afternoon when the orders of the day are:--

Second reading of the bill entitled an ordinance to relieve the Governor-in- Council of certain duties.

Sir Joseph Jonas, presiding at a meet- line operated. One paragraph of this his death through an accident, aucceeding of the Sheffield Free Trade Union, in called "The Hongkong Scouts," and be I would recommend that the Unit be report read " Of the 309 companies ed in recovering damages in years, 10 his address emphasized that the Shefield composed of both Mounted and Dismounted reporting to this Bureau no less than months, and 27 days, after the case had manufacturers could not compete against men. I would arm and dress these men German hounty-fed steel sent to Grest and as far as possible make them inter- exactly alike, teach them identical drill 347, operiting 159,87 miles of line and been tried four times in the lower court Britain under cost price. He had tried to changeable. carrying 570,617,563 passengers, went and had been heard five times on approach the Premier, but had failed. If through the year without a single fatali-appeal. He also cites the case of the goods were imported below cost price, the British manufacturer could not exist. Be ty to a possenger in a train nccident. Of widow of a yard employee whose suit for thought the difficulties of the situation the remaining 21 companies no less damages is still lingering in the could be met without breaking Free Trade

han 10, operating 27,681 miles and Pennsylvania courts after ten years of carrging 185.147,507 passengers, only litigation; the case of Hazro who matter for a sensation at Saigon, on June A duel between two lawyers afforded missed such perfect immunity by a managed to obtain $27.75 for the loss 27. The lawyers had quarrelled and bad ayatem LIVE WO010 This leaves 11 fonds whore misfortune was awarded $12,000 for her husband'ith the result that one of them was fined branch of the unit" and their services bo surcinct language, and that" General special provision for the Resumption of ningi fatality each in accidents to trains.of his arm, and the case of a widow who insulted each other grosely in open court,automatically pass to the dismounted that his report is couched in the most Resumption Ordinance, 1900, and to make

POWELL'S

"Ara introducing to their customers and

the general public, a new wood for

furniture crustration known

A Heavy, close grained timber, eminently suited to the climate and guaranteed

not to warp or crack.

it was to bear the burden of 610 fatal death, but whose case, after more than accidents to passengers during the year eleven years, is still in the courts The roll of immunity includes roada in With eighty or ninety thousand FURNITURE every section of the Union, from Maine accidents a year, and the percentage of made from this wool is especially free to California," several great,, systems reversals on appeal greater in this class operating over 7,000 miles of line cach, of cases than in any other, one can

from all chists of insect life, the adour of the lime wood being dietateful to all insects.

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ON APPLICATION,

thsories.

500 francs. The duellista met near the

tomb of a bishop, and fought with swords right hand in the third bout, upon which until one of them received a wound on the

the seconds stopped the dnel. But the combatante refused to make it up, and left

the field as enemies.

A remarkable fossil tind is reported

from Tonkin, where throe skulls of early

Many

(Reuter's Service to the China. Hail.)

LONDON, July 19

From experience gained when in com- mand of the late Volunteer Troop. I am of opinion that for Intelligence work" in Dismounted men are desirable.

New Territory, both Mounted and eligible men were prevented from joining the Volunteer Troop, because they did not

General Sir John French; Inspector keep ponies, and it very often happened General of the British Military Forces, Brille, ats-under the above propoend that merabers of the Troop having sold their ponies were then unable to attend has arrived in England.

The Times correspondent understands men without mounts would

retained.

The Unit should be composed of, 1 Captain,:

1

+

do..

Lieutenant in charge of Mounted mex, Sergeants, 3 Corporals & 15 Mounted

do.Dismounted men

Troopers 24 Dismounted Troopers

do 4 đứ

Total 3 Uficers and 2 N.C.O's and

They should be armed with., M. E

French, believing the Canadians wish for the baldest truth, discloses a state of military inefficiency that will be a revelation to the Dominion.

THE WEATHER.

We have not quite finished with the dirty Men. weather which followed upon the typhoon

ordinance to amend the Young Persons Second reading of the hill entitled an Ordinance, 1909.

Second reading of a Bill entitled a ordinance to smead the Law of Copyright. Second reading of the hill entitled an ordinance to amend the Crown Lands

Crown Lands of small value for public purposes.

Second reading of the bill entitled an ordinases to amend the Protection of

Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.

Second reading of the bill entitled an ordinance to provide for the naRITOWID. stopping up, diversion, turning or alteration in levels

Highway

Second roading of the bill entitled an ordinance to further amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1909.

as well as little branch linea of below 10 imagine the medley of decisions and the men have been dug out in a cavo. All the carbines, (experience having shown that which on Monday ermmad Formoss and ordinance to amend the Theatres and Public-

miles of single track; lines operated extent of the injustice.". with all the safety appliances known to

Conditions of service to bu,

"

Second reading of the bill entitled so Ferformances Regulation Ordinance, 1905.

Committee on the bill entitled an ordin ance to authorize the Appropriation of a. fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty- throo Dollars and thirty-two nente, to defray the Charges of the Year 1900.

Amooting of the Finance Committeo will be held immediately after the Council.

the short servien Rifle is too cumbersome baaded towards Focchow, and yet Manila

The New York (lube, in commenting early man of the so-called raindoer period practically the same as for the late depression has boon discovered near Sulu | Supplementary Sum of Three hundred and

for rapid mountain work in a tropical sands warning that another area of low climate), otherwise equipment to remain twentieth-century progress and lines on the matter, observes that it is "still

Volunteer Troop. operated under as primitive conditions too much the habit of American railway as prevailed on this continent more than employees to take a chance. It is still half a century ago. This record of com- too much the practice" of railway man plete immunity, stretching over 150,657

agers to permit and men to compel miles of operated line, represents a mile practises that necessarily mean slaughter.

the

skulls belong to the same race and bear characteristics peculiar to the European and to fossil human remains found in South America, Judging from these, the Mangel mice. The tools found with the early men of Tonkin did not belong

skulls fesemble those characteristic of the ornaments and pattery associated with the Later Stone Age. There were very few remains. From no bones of no catable unimals.bolong found, it is conjectured that

age nearly seven times that of al; British But the movement to force the recogni- the cave dwellers aleted on frait and roads, und equals the aggregate of all ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. | Europe, excluding Russia, hut including their families steadily gains in force and

tion of compensation to employees or vegetables with perhaps shelt fal thrówn

'EMPIRE'.

the British Tales."

It was left to a Mr. JOHN M. GITTER! MAN, writing in McClure's Magazine, disturb the agreeable complacency

up

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LITTLE PEROY.

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GRAND MATINEES : BATUEDATA sad Sundays' at € 7.1. AT BEDUCED PRICES.

when it is as expensive to kill or injurej

shall not have ne many raill funerals an employee as it is a passenger wa

and railway cripples. As a railroad

by this very encouraging report.sccident means the destruction of railway pointed out that though American

property, enlightened railway managers railroads may be safe enough, for pas- sengers, they are very fatal to the men

ore coming more and more to see that who work upon them. Mr Grade Compensation is to their pecuniary clarea that it will only take a few years to advantage--that what they will save will maim or kill all the mon now working more than offset the cost."

on American railroads and he seeks for

a cause to explain such un astonishing Austrian papers unite in a oborus of phenomenon. One is not surprised, praise for the courage and self-sacrides of the crow of the Lowther Range, which when American Magazine methods of picked up the Austrian Lloyd steamer the day are, considered, to find that Trieste after she has broken her tail shaft and towed her to within 12 miles of Bom..

in.

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VOLUNTEER NOTES.

4.

ON LEAVE.

Gonner E. 0 Hageo of No. 3 Company is granted love of absence for 12 months

with effect frota zhu 15th July.

which may develop into a typhoon." The ralu was stful during the morning, but the stXmas Camp

1. Attendance for at least three full days temperature is delightfully low-for the time 2. Fifteen Drills exclusive of Recruits of year. Drills.

3. Course of Musketry.

4. Attendance at Annual Inspection. 5. New Members to be elected by 'votz. 6. Promotions by election..

ing Banks and Fires will encourage their If Government approve, and if the lead-

men to joj, and undertake to grant them the requisito leave so that they may attend the Xmas Camps, 1. will endeavour to recruit the desired 52 men and get the Unit into working order before Xmas 1910.

I am, Dear Sir,

Yours very truly,

TRANSFERRED.

No. 3585/10. Sapper . H. Carroll in transferred from Engineer Company to No. 4 Company with. effect from the 18 July. "Trumpster G. B. Witchell is transferred from No. 1 Company to the Engineer Com pany with effect from the 19th July.

pany:

JENNU

(SI.) C. H. ROSS.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hoxoxoxo, 16th July, 1910, Si, dirooted to acknowledge the; receipt of your letter of the 11th instant.. and in reply to inform you that His BROWN IN PANN cellency, accepts with thanks the offer of Mr O. E. Rons to raise and train a Com-

with

PURE GRAPE

Mr O. H. Lyson joined the Corps on they of Scouts in connection |·19th July, and was posted to No. 2.Com- Voluntooring in the Colony,

L'am, Bir,

Your obedient'sorvant,

(sd.) A. M. THOMSON.

Colonial Secretary.

Mr W. W. Edwards joined the Corps on the 19th July, and was posted to No. 2: Company.

Mr A Chariton joined the Corpe on the The Hop. Mr II. Keswick 20th July, and was posted to the Infantry Company.

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