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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tho English Mail of the 6th August was delivered in London on the Uth Sapt

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The Bongkong General Chamber of Commerce has issued its annual report for 1009 in book form.

**The salo by auction of "Glenthorne," Observatory Hill, Kowloon, takes place at Mr Lammert's Salts Rooms at noon to morrow."

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Labour party in Great Britain haro already boon compelled to reduce the number of candidates for the next electioni owing to the decision making Parliamentary losten illegal. It has been suggested that. now of the shortage of funds, the party

should limit, the osadidatos to the lowest i possible number. Labour members are prepared to make considerable concesions to gain Liberal support to the Bill oánbling the use of funds for political purposes

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1910.

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THE SITUATION AT

PEKING.

A “TIMES HINT.

(Renter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, September 7, The Times sincerely hopea that in the interests of Chins she will be spared further Palace Revolutions. It considera

[COFTRIOUT;]**

SHANGHAI SHIPPING

DISASTER:

THE PROTEUS GOES ASHORE

Assisting Tog Capsizes.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SHANGRAL, September 7. The tug Siu Fuyan, which put out to the assistance of the as. Proteus, Dow

A Board of Trade enquiry, has been It has beon officially announced that held at Cardid into the loss of the steamer that the. Prince Regent should lose noying sehere outside Woosung, capsized

British Standard when on her maiden voy time in rehabilitating one man who of in a heavy sen yesterday.

in continuance of the permission granted

taken place, and, on the whole, with by, his late Majesty King Edward VII, to Eie Jaariro.. A serious allegationste years has shown anergy and strength |

the auction of the King has been given to his Majesty's health being drunk in any non-alcoholic beverage.

Capt. H. S. Anderson, in charge of the tug, and three Chinese word drowned.

KING MENELIK BETTER,[Note-The Proteus is a Norwegian boot owned by Messus H. Kitar and Co. She is a single steel screw steamer of 1678 grows (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) tonnage and her length is 250 foot. She

was built at Sunderland in 1962. LONDON, September 7..

was made in connection with the loss of the vessel, and the enquiry found that she had of will. bon scuttled. There was no evidence to show how, but the captain and the chief engineer were grossly negligent. The We regret to announce the death of | Captain's cortificato has been suspended for of Mr A. T. Grauvill, which and event eighteen months, and he has been ordered took place at the Royal Naval Hospital on to pay a thousand guineas costa. Tuesday. Deceased was a member of the United Service Lodge; No. 1,541, EC., "of Freemasons. The fanbral took place this

afternoon,

A message from Addis Abeba states that King Menelik is better.

THE GERMAN "SPY."

DOCUMENTS SENT TO WAR OFFICE.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

The Tag Sin Fuyun is one of the fect of the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Compa ny.-E. OM]

CHANGING MODES.

QUEUE AND DRESS

QUESTIONS: -

much advantage to the community. But all reactions have a tendency to run into extremes, and many upright and humane persons think that tenderficss fçu the individual offender, who is often no doubt greatly to be pitied, is in

Our readers are reminded that to-night danger of being carried too far, and that the interests of the unconvicted portion

is the opening of the Warwick Majer Company season at the Theatro Royal. The company arrived early this morning by the of the population are in danger of being

P. and O. an. Noro. Miss Corines has overlooked. Every one is agreed

"The Straits Times contends that the evidently derived, much benefit from her. that there should be no unnecessary Shipping Conference Ring, has set Sing-two years' absence in England, as she was severity, and as long as we confine pore the loss of £25,499,000 in trade durs looking particularly fit and well this morn- ourselves to each general-propositions in the past fourteen years. On the other ing, To-night she appears as "Jano" in hand, the Hon. C. W. Darbishire, a stranu- the farcical comedy of that name with NorI-Fer Hoogh.cg the above Prices will to increased by the amoan of duty there is no difficulty. The dieulty ous supporter of the Shipping Conference, which the amson opens. Late cars will arises when ask ourselves, contanda that Singapore's trade, owing to run to the Peak twenty minutes after the

performance. payaolo-$7.20 por Dezeu.

What is necessary severity? Pozisk-the Ring's operations, has doubled in that

period. ment "for law-breaking there must be, and the essence of punishment is to subjectTM man to conditions which are irksome, disagreeable, even painful, to him. II you relax these conditions too much, you run the risk of making the satisfaction of law-breaking greater The success of the experiments conviudhes that Lord Morley sometimes showed THE GERMAN LOCK-OUT.as been ordered to design a new than the counterbalancing dislike of the the Admiralty of the great possibilities of that he was

the system. They hope to begin installing of the existence of the Princes and NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SETTLE- conditions to which it leads. If you do now engines in mall cruisers before more roady publicly to

acknowlodge too much for the malefactor out of pity | battleships. Pp.m.-Performance of Warrik Major's for his unfortunate position, you incur

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WM. POWELL.

LIMITED,

DEATH.

Quis. At Jamalpur, East Indian Rail- way, on July 23, 1910, Wa Jons CHARLES HERRY QUIN,' oldest son of tho Iste Captain William John Q. Com missioner of Police, Hongkong, and Eliza als wifo, in his 64th year.

- MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.

Anction... Noon-Auction of Lesothold Property

at Mr Geo. P. Lammort's Sals Room...

Amusaments.

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Lopes, September 7.. The arrest of a German subaltern at Fortsmouth, which was reported by the Evening News, is now confirmed.

(Wall Tez Yat Po's Service)

PERING, September 6. Prince Tani Tao has proposed that the queue alons should be cut off, while the dress of officials and civilians abould remain the same se at present...

The Prince Regent has agreed to the

An article in The Times ploads in favour of consultation with the. Native Rulers on

The documents found on the man The Admiralty have long been questions affecting the Goverment of parimenting with motors. The gunboat India. It regrets that people discussing have been sent for inspection to the War Rattler waa Stted with them and the the condition of India frequently forget Office, and in the meantime the arrested cutting of the queue, which will take details hara been perfecting for two years. that in speaking of British India it is not man is being treated well. He is place next year beginning with the she is now stationed at Fortameath for the whole of the Indian Empire. It commerely deprived of his liberty. naval and military officers...

The Board of Rites and Ceremonies instructional purposes with a selected stair, mends Lord Minto's opposition to undue

intervention in the Native States, and

a little more conscious

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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, September 6.

standard of national dress.

CHINA AND KOREA. CHINA AN

(Wah Tez Fat Po's Service.)

PERING, September. 6. The Prince Regent has asked the Cabinet whether the annexation of Korea by Japan raises any difficulties for

their abiding value as the bulwarks of British rule. The article points out that! The Times has published a special frontier, foreign tariff, trade and industrial the danger of creating a sense Of

article commenting on the correspondencs questions concern not only the British, injustice in the respectable man who has boteron the Bombay Chamber of Commerce but the whole of India. Thore has been never broken the law or failed to do and the Government of India with reference not even a pretence of consulting the honest work when he could get it, but to the former's proposal that the new Princes with regard to the extinction of the and the Trude Unions are at present China. No answar has been given. 3.30 p.m.-B.O. Cinb AquaileSports at who in his hour of difficulty and fadian coinage and strips should bear the opium trade, which chiefly affects them.

General Memoranda,

SATURDAY, September 10-

12.30 p.m.-Meeting of Hongling Hotel

Co., Ld. ut Co.'s Hotel,

V.R.O. Bath.

SUNDAY, September 11 :----

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It is officially announced that the Shipbuilding Employers Federation

negotiating the terms of settlement of the Berlin lock-out, the crux being

9 G..Excursion to Maes: by 6.5. freely bestowed upon his convicted) The Times pointaost that millions of postal big hat. Her establishment was the head. what the employers will accept as assur.

Sal An.

MONDAY, September 12:-

4.11 a,m-First Quarter Moos, TODAY, September 13:-

3.45p.m. Sanitary Board Meting. FRIDAY, September 26-

2.15 p.m.Meeting of the Licensing

Board.

BATURDAY, September 17:-

Noon-Meeting of China Lg & Power

Co., Id., at Co.'s Officer. 5.30 p.m.-Gymkhann at Happy Valloy. 9:15 p.m.--Hongkong Cricket Club Con-

cert

MONDAY, September 19:-

King's head crowned, as-approaching Copenhagen has a milliner who suc- unemployment has little of the help closest to the Indian itteal of a Buler. eceded in making successful war on the

prokets reach India annually, and the quarters for the best in this line of millinery, ances that there will be no recurrence of brother-n most undesirable result" object is not fully attained unless the and her business was prosperous until a sectional strikes. The most difficult purt of a criminal stamps of Great Britain also conform to rival from Paris appeared on the scene, The assurances offered will imply Indinu e-meuptions of Sovereign dignity.... whose hats were larger, moto picturesque the loyalty of members of the Trades Judge's task must be, we think, when

and in every way more attractive. She saw he attempts to be at once merciful to the culprit and just to that society which would fail to pieces if offences generally either went unpunished o were too lightly dealt with. Lot to do this in the individual case, where character, temperament, temptation, life-history

12.52 p.m. Fell Moon... THURSDAY, September 22:---

V.R.O. Annual Aquatic Sport, let Day. can more or los be taken into account, is, in the same learned lawyer's opinion, an easier undertaking than to frame right

The Chinx Fail

Hongkong, Wednesday, Sur 7, 1910.

THE PROBLEM OF PUNISHMENT.

Mr. WINSTON CHURCHL's proposals for „ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. the improvement of the lt of the

END OF SEASON

criminal classes' and for reforming the English mode of dealing with certain persons convicted of misdemennoUTS, etc., are naturally evoking a good deal of discussion in the Home and. The

rules for the treatment of offenders in

general, which minst necessarily give the goby to matters affecting the individual only. The endeavour of the law-maker and administrator must be to find the wise mean between over-severity on the one hand, and over-tenderness on the other. The task is no easy one; that obvious even to the most inveterate tinkerer with our laws and customs. Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL undoubtedly struck a very sympathetic chord in the breast

is

In connection with The Times an ouncement of the forthcoming publication of the Life of Disraeli by Mfr.Mouypenny, the Daily Graphic points out the diffienities of a tank which dismayed Lord Rowtoo, whom-Disraeli-selected as his biographer, and who found materials partly stored in" forty-two packing cases in London. The Times has acquired the rights and ap proached Lord Rosebery, who declined, because it would prevent his returning to public life for years. Mr Wyndham, Bir Frederick Greenwood, and others also

doclined.

A gentleman of serious mind, who has Boon giving his attention to the study of mosquitoes and dies, advises those who would be rid of these peata to sweep the ceilings daily, and wet the window panes and frames every hour or so. He also recommends the wearing of a "network" veil, and the continued use of a fan. Eucalyptus oil should likewise be scared

of every humanitarian by his proposals, burdens of life with his suggestions,

BRITISH · MINISTER'S

bankruptcy staring her in the face, and to Unions, but how that loyalty will be avert it resorted to a desperate measure. ensured in the problem facing the She sent a friend to the Paris shop and executive, purchased twenty of the most elaborate hats and bad thom distributed among the basket women in the public market. The gifta wore accepted with thanks, the "hata being not only showy, but good protection against the sun. The joke soon spread through Copenhagen, and every one laughed except the fashionable women. Overnight the style was changed. Customers re- turned to the native milliner and the

French woman closed her shop,

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

Leave of absence, on private affairs, to the United Kingdom, has been granted to Battalion The Buffs, from 28th October 1910, to 26 July, 1911. -

Lieutenant C. E G. Davidson, 2nd

ACCIDENT.

EUROPEAN'S ALLÈGED

FRAUD.

A gardener from An Pul Leung village- the 6th fast. & European, whom he does in the New Territory has reported that on not know but can identify, came to his house and the houses of three fellow villagers and stating that the houses were to be renumbered, demanded $1 from each. They paid the money and then the man' left without re-painting the house gumbers. It is presumed that the man bad no authority to collect the money, and the police are investigating the matter.

AT THE MAGISTRACY.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

WOUNDED. -

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Londos, September 8.

A native was sent to prison for three: The Manchester Guardian reports months to-day for stealing a hand bag and that the Rt. Hon. Mr Winston Churchill, 25 pieces of clothing, It was also found President of the Board of Trade, has that he had returned froto banishment, for been slightly wounded accidentally in which offenes he was sentenced to a year's the leg."

He has been operated upon in the English hospital at Smyrna and is doing well.

MORE THEFTS.

The police hare been notified of two further thefts.

Mr A. Gadot, chief clerk in the less

hard inbour and six hours' stocks.

A boy who stole a case of razsin from a- shop in Queen's Road was to-day sent to prison for three weeks and ordered to be exposed in the stocks for six hours...

The Pinang Gazette understands that His Excellency the Governor of the away with He insists on a vegetarian on the skin, and all artificial light done Straits Settlements, Sir John Anderson,

G.O.M.G. diet during the dy acason, and gives several leave early next year, and that the Colonial is proceeding home on

formulas for liquids and powder which

THE HONGKONG P. W. D. hauld be distributed throughout the house. Secretary; Sir Arthur Young, K.C.M.G., Like all enthusinate ho rather adds to the will act as his deputy.

In an Indian paper we read B District Inspector George Morley, of the geries Maritimes Office, reports that be-W. T. Price, provincial engineer, Colombo, philanthropic principles upon which

but it would be as well to weigh them. A lady aria or, with the curious-cams painted Chief Constable of Hull. The the 8th some person entered his bedroom and the place has now been offered to Mr Royal Irish Constabulary, has been ap-tween 11 p.m. on the 6th and Sa.m. on a refused the offer of the assistant. directorship of the P. W. D., Hongkong, the Home Secretary bases is outlines.

very thoroughly and not to despise the of Mille. Abukais, is in constant conflict salary attached to the post is 2700 per while the door was left open and stole H. T. Creasy, provincial engineer, Anurad of criminal procedure reform are freely opinions eaunciated by those who with the Mayor of Etampes, its which town, annum, with a carriage allow of from his dressing table a silver watch valued hapura." We think it a great pity that admitted to be most admirable, but as have had the care of criminals and the Mayor is a stickler for what he considers and has been inspector for 11 years; he $24, four gold links valued 840, a silver thoroughly deserving men in the Hongkong SUMMER GOODS Sir ALFRED Wise, onces vary

or rather outside which town, she flies. Mr per annum. Mr Morley is 37 years of age, administration of the law, are the sug-propriety in dress. What may be suitable has also studied police work in London and cigarette case rained 66, and 318 in money, service should have been passed over in tinguished member of the High Court gested changes are placed upon the in the air does not befit the earth. Every Liverpool

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Sept. 12th.

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The other theft took place at 5, Ladder Stroet, the residence of Mrs C. R. Hayes, during the same night. The bedroom was entered and from s brown leather hand bag in the wardrobe various articles of jewellery were stolen, of the total value of 207.50, as well as promissory note for

day Malle. Aliukainpot on knickerbockers

Queen Alexandra has abandoned her in- and overalls, to fly. As long as she flios, well and good, and the Mayor of Etampes tended visits to Norway and Denmark. We can quite understand that Lisut has nonght to object. But he must come Her Majesty is to be the guest of the enunciation of the proposal and the Allan Sutor's book on "The Army System; to earth some time, and, as there is no Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife at or Why Maddie through Thirty Millone dreasing accommodation on the aviation Mag Lodge, near Braemar, until towards raveting of Parliament at which they year during Peace." raised the wrath of his field just outside the town, she has to go the end of September. It is understood $170. MONDAY Next, will be considered. The problems superior officers. Here is one paragraph-iducian genieter, ocacia This that King George offered to place entirely On arriving at his office in the mora

Abergeldic Castle or Birkhall House at his which Mr WINSON CBCLC has song, the typical commanding officer curses shocks Mr Mayor and every dar mother's disposal, but Queen Alexsudra light-heartedly tackled have engaged pencils are not in their poper positions. she re-entera the highly respectable city of

the sergeant major, because his pens and Mille. Abukai flies, and every day, as prefers to stay at Mar Lodge this year. the serious attention of many people The blue pencil must be placed betweco Fampes in rational dress, an official de-

the red and black. with its point fact

fucing of light and leading for a considerable eastward. So it in with the blotting pad puted by Mr Mayor at the boundary takes number of years; he therefore does not only one assigned to it by God since the properly clad.

and the ruler. Each has one position and summons cut against her for being in

The designs for the Indian coinage Bir Charles has born writing to The Times When he proooods to inspect the barracks and statups of George V. have recently recently to complain of some trifling errore

Wm. Powell, Ld.

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stumble upon any unappul country.you, why aren't my pencils in their proper World began. ***Zergoant-major," dama

The problem of how mort effectually places ?

Welcome as Sir Charles Dilko's ́coming visit to India will be, says the Statesman, there is one class of people who will be sorely troubled by him directly bo begins to make speeches-the newspaper reporters.

this matter.:

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