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thave. Tunny,“ muttered, the applianb, Now, run around this room ten times. I want to test your heart and wind." This
dato declared defiantly, I'll stay single,"
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profession, these classes are about as numerously represented in Parlia ment as any other section of the community
But the most striking portent of the times is that since 1866 the Hougo of Commons has become weaker an compared with the authority of the Crown and the prestige of the Lords In 1894 the Premier, Lord ROSEBERY, was chosen by Queen. VICTORIA, He was not the selection of the Commous, though the House sub- sequently ratified the Royal choice.
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ment that monthly statements should be isod showing the progress made by the contractor now building the Mongkok-sui
Single ?" inquired the doctor, puzzled. gingle," reported the Irishman, with determination.* Buro, an' what's all this
license, anyhow?" He had strayed into the wrong" "bureau,
DISPERSING THE BEDOUINS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, January 14. A message from Constantinople saye
dispersing the Bedouins in the Korak country.
Publie and Bank Holidays will ho observed
Government holidays - Publio Holidays Good Friday: 14th April King's Birthday Saturday, Spl Jund; Xmas Day, Monday, 25th Doconsbar: typhoon refuge, was to obrinta any pos funny business got to do with a marriage bat the Turkish troops aro graduoly Tuesday, 26th Decombor; Monday, 1stability of the scandalous delays which have occurred in connection with such public January, 1919.
work as tho Post Office, the now Law Courts, and the Kowloon market. If so I hope he will not be content, with the answer given him on Thursday by the Colonial Secretary, but will renor his ap. plication, though of course in a slightly different form.
Bank Holidays.-Chinese New Year's Day, Monday, 30th January; Troidy, 31gt Jannary Easter Monday, 17th April Whitmonday, 0th Jane; Monday, 7th August
Public and Bank Holiday-Victorin, Day, Wednesday, 24th May.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The community of Hongkong in fairly, -long-suffering, allowing complacency to A list of authorised architects appears wards things-na-they are to run to avand lengths, but there is no doubt that they in the Gotte
are fairly disguated with the dilstory way in which the buildings referred to above have been built. It is nothing short of a
The alk ox R.M.S. Express of Japan which left here on the 17th ult. arrived at
New York on the 19th inst."
as one commentator has described.
THE FRANCO-LIBERIAN TREATY.
(Reuter's Service to the China Afail)
LONDON, January 14,
A good yarn has just gone through Ger toany about a Schusterbuh, or cobbler's boy, who waited outside the paince to see the Emperor come forth for hisafternoonairing. Finding the delay tedious, he suddenly ox claimed The booby isn't coming! I shall go." A policeman at once caught him by The Franco-Liberian Treaty has boom the collar, and shouted, "Whow do you signad. mean by the booby,' eirinh," "Why, my friend Michel whined the boy. Howas THE EUROPEAN SITUA- to have met me here, but he man' cotno."
TION. The policeman, of course, accepted the ex- planation, and let him go, whereupon the FRENCE ISOLATION DENIED. boy rotrested twenty, poes, struck a do-
(Reuters Service to the China Afail.) LONDON, January 33,
| scandal and such a state of affairs is only rizivo attitude, and yelled, “And whani
From Meaars WG. Humphreys and possible because the Colony is raw on the it. In theory the House might Co., we have recaived a very and diarytiquntu Crown Colony system where the at any time pass n vote of censure which advertises the well-known merits of on the Ministry and bring on the State Insurance Co.,
an election; but in practice many of the members show such a
The Times is informed that the Govern dislike to the cost, trouble and finement hasntified the labour party that the salaries of Members of the House of necessary for another election that comment will be £500 a year. ' the House is by no means free with this method of checking an autocratic
official is supreme.
did you mean by the booby
In the debate on the Estimates, in
to explain her wape and thoughts by simply Britain, he said the entende between the or done in a similar caso."That," anys
two countries was never closer nor more-
There is one phrase in 0. H. letbe French Chamber of Deputies M. Bosquet's book, Woman's Inheritance" Pichon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, A certain amount of disappointment was which should be remembered by them who said that the alliance with Russia falt in Hongkong when the news spread do not understand woman: "Man has as firm and as much alive as over. The that the King had limited the Volunteer invailably endeavoured to interpret a result of the Potsdam interview between contingout from this Colony at his woman's actions by the light of his own the Eniser and the Tear was a fresh and Coronation to ton. Our little lat" made consciousness. He makes a simple trans- very solid guarantee of the general such a fine showing at the last Coronation position, and patting himself in the woman's peace. Referring particularly to Great and created such an excellent record that it placa or waiting her in his own, he strives Petitions have been presented in con-was only reasonable to anticipate that we Ministry. The distinction that was nection with the elections-at West-St.. should have been able to send an equal imagining what he would have though complete than at present,There was so marked between the aristocracy Paras, East Nottingham, West Brom-number this tamo.. But His Majesty has ruled otherwise. We car fairly hope, how Field Day for Volunteers and Reserves and the plutocracy at the time of
wich, King's Lym, and North Louth.
over, that when the history of the Corona BAGEKOT's Writing is by no means
tan comes to be written that it will be said In the past fifty years
the ongkang made up in quality what lacked in quantity... 89 clear now. the peerage has received so many wealthy additions from the ranks of manufacturers, bankers, ironfounders, newspaper proprietors and brewers; so many noble houses have received a golden underpinning of dollars, American and British, "while others, through lucky investments and un-occupy many pages. expected increases in the value of
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9 p.m.-T.M.C.A. farewell social to Sir
Henry May, K.C.M.G. Noor-Distribution of Prizes at St. Stephen's College by H. E. the
Governor 12.15 p.m.-Benevolent Society's Annual
Meeting."
General Memoranda.
TUZDAY, January 17 :----
5.15 p.m.-Philharmonie Society's Pro- sentation to Sir Henry May, KCMG. 0 pm-St. Andrew's Church Annual
Meeting.
WEDNESDAY, January 18-
Noon.-Prize Distribution
Bulilios
A bicycle accident which inflicted severe injuries to the head, seems to have been the approximate, caitse of the suicide of Mr E. Skinner, F.R.LB.A., one of the best known architects in Colombo,
The Gazette putaliahes a despatch from the Secretary of Stato setting out now galations which have been prescribed for the prevention of collisions at sea, and Lules relating to signals of distress. They
The Germaz cruiser. Leipsic arrived in ground rents, bave become so wealthy, port-yesterday afternoon. There are now that BAGEIOT's careful discrimination man-of-war of four different nationalities Double Distal tar between aristocracy and plutocracy drawn up in line at the warship anchorage loses much of its point. This increase Japausso; British, German and Austrian ju material prosperity has more than in the order unimed. made amends to the other tendency
THURSDAY, January 30 :-
p.in-Lecture at Union Church Liter. ary Club.
FRIDAY, January 20:-
Lady Lugard' A Home,' SATURDAY, January
Sir Henry & Lady May and family love
for Australia.
Royal H.K. Yacht Club's Regatta and
Smoking Concert. MONDAY, January 23 —–—–—–
Queen's College Prize Distribution. Thursday, January 58;—
5.15-Y.M.C.A. Annual Meeting.
The China Mail.
HONGKONG, SATUžday, January 14, 1911
THE CHANGES OF FIFTY -YEARS.
toward a lessening in the reverence of the commor people for a lord.
The incident of Lord-ROSEBERY's appointment in 1894 shows that the Crown is no mere figurehead in mat- ters of government; and the publica- tion of several important memoirs
it
In order to minimise the dangers of the flooding of Paris during heavy rains, is proposed to construct a ship canal along the course of the Seine, between Paris and Ravon. The cost of construction is esti- mated at £12,000,000.
that
A Cape Town Lolegrain" says tam crowded with East London holiday makers toppled over an embankment sear Kathcart on January 5th. Fifteen people
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The Colony endorses every word uttered in the Legislative Council on Thursday regarding Sir Hoary May, and now as enough has been said, in the language of the Hon. Mr Hewett, are power to his elbow."
I am not very well satisfied with tho reply given in the Legislative Council on Thursday regarding the measures takon in the Now Territory to restrict the depreda tigns of them sportsmen. Something more is necessary to stop the wilful destruction
of
It
is not a matter of an inferior mentality, but cf a widely different one."."
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the writer, is the fundamental and the not a single question on which the two source of all the vast conftalon and baffle countries were not at one for common action. Ele vigorously protested against mont which inevitably arises.
the assertion that Franco was isolated. Could a nation be isolated which was allied to Russia, united to Great Britain, and possessing friendships and
egree- mont with Italy, Spain, and Japan? The Franco-Japanese agreement was one of the guarantees of peace in the Far East. He only hoped that such isolation would last.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr Consul-Jeneral Funateu entertained the visiting Japanese Admiral and his staff to tifin on Friday.
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· The Figuro states that King George and
PANAMA CANAL
THE COST OF FORTIFICATION. (Reuters Service to the China Mail.) Losos, January 13.
bird life witch has been going on ever Queen Mary will visit Paris after the President Tuft has addressed a
since the railway was opened and I trust What that something will spoedily be done. Young China is much too fond of using, air-guns, snares, and other weapons against everything in fur and feather that be can roach. In the Yungtzo valley, I under stand, he has almost denuded certain places once well-known to sportaren as the prolife haunts of birds, and it would be a thousand pities if the same thing happened at our very own back-door.
Coronation.
Secretary of Ceylon, was first approached It seems that Sir Hugh Clifford, Colonini regarding the Governorship of Fiji, but he declined the post.
The Bishop of Victoria is announced to preach at the Cathedral to-morrow (Sunday) morning and to hold a confirmation for Chinese at St. Stephen's Church West Point at 6.30 p.m.
att
· The death ieannounced of Lari &ncaster.
messago to Congress urging the for tification of the Panama Canal and the-
the commencement of the work in appropriation of five million dollare for mediately. The Fortification Board estimates the total cost at twelve and a half million dollars.
PROGRESS OF AD- MINISTRATION.
(Wah Tas Fat Po's Service.)
PEKING January 13. The Prince Regent has enquired from the Grand Councillors whether the Badget, which was passed in the Senate, would hinder the progress of the new administration A consultation is now going on between the Grand Councillors Col. Bedford's lecturs at Volunteer and the Board of Administration on the
(Wan Te Yat Po Service.)
Perisa, January 13 Prince Tai Lun, President of the
The papers coming out from home are 8 p.m.-Dramatic Entertainment at St during the past few years, not to
were killed and forty to fifty-injured. The full of the general elections. Some very Joseph's College.
mention the Letters of QUEEN accident occurred at midnight in pitch funny things happened in the course of the His Lordship's demise involvera bye-election VICTORIA, has disclosed Royal darkness and several of the victine wore campaign, which have given the writers of at Horncastle (Lincolnshire), for which the influences which, had they" beca de pinned under the wreckage for four hours.descriptive reports ample scope. In the decorsod's eldest son, Lord Willoughby
Biggleswade division of Bedfordshire, D'Eresby is member. tected at the time, might have drawn
At the Sanitary Board meeting on forth many protests. King EDWARD'S Tuesday afternoon the orders of the day where market gardening in the chief in- reign
did much to extend the author include:-Minchs by the Colonial Vetar dastry, the only question that could be ity of the Crown, or, rather, to bring inary Burgeon rostire to an outbreak of discussed by either party was nothing more. Headquarters on Friday afternoon drew ambject. of Admi
Foot and Mouth disease at No. 7 shed and nor less than sprouts. It seems that foreign very large attendance of officers. He very
PRESIDENT OF SENATE into publicity a sphere of influence the hospital abed, Sasenon's Villa and No. competition has driven the Biggleswade ably described the organization and ad-
RESIGNS: reserved for Royal statecraft The 4 shed Pokfulam; correspondence relative market gardener's very superior Brussels ministration of the medical service in the sprouts out of the market and consequently feld and managed to pack an astonishing general recognition of the imperial to plager prevention in Shanghai, THE British constitution, as a result importance of a monarchy has shed
much privation is being experienced. quantity of illuminating facts into a small The Portland cement factory is Ton. One of the candidates adopted a space of time.. ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. of the recent general election, is additional lustre upon this estate. It kin, to which we drow attention the other sprout as his election badge, but it was not
about to undergo some startling is worth while noting how completely day, drives a brisk trade with Bangkok, the Mascot he expected, nor te leed the Many stories are being told about the Senate, has tendered his resignation
pecuniary, affairs of the Royal Family of changes if Mr. Ltor GEORGE, BAGEROT'S predictions were falsified But it has a warious competitor in comert sent, by just over 300 votes.
A SERIOUS SITUATION. Portugal Queen Amelia is certainly in good Mr WINSTON CHURCHILL and the by King EDWARD. The great from Danish factories which has the ad extreme Radical wing
(Wah Tez Fat Po'e Service.). vantage of direct shipments to Bangkok,
The best of good humour seems to have circumstances, for her marriage portion was of Mr publicist came as close as he decently raus in the financial year 1909-10, Den- prevailed in London all through the cam- 3,000,000 francs, and she inherited over
V PEKING, January 13. Asqurra's ill-assorted party manages could to intimating that the Prince of mark forwarded to Siam, 8, 111 French tone paign and when results began to come in 8,000,000, france from her father, the Comte La Ching Hi, Viceroy of Yunnan, has to get its own way. For ourselves WALES was a man of the feeblest of the article against 2,148 from Tonkin. the Music-talls had a happy time of it de Paris. The whole of her-fortube has reported by wire that the conditions along the Tai Li Fu, Teo Hun and we hope that moderate counsels will intelligence, and he foresaw disastrous
throwing the names and figures on to the always been safely invested outside of Mungchi are becoming serious ass In his interview with Le Matin removing picture wreens, This was over so Furtugal. Queen Amelia was a beneficiary foreign power has stationed soldiers prevail and that we shall be épured consequences should the Prince, as a cently, in which he stated that the new much a cosiest way of learning the news ander the will of the Duc d'Aumale, and along these boundaries. the sorry spectacle of seeing the whole middlenged or elderly man, come to Budget would provide for an increase of than standing outside newspaper offices in she will some day inherit another consider- British Constitution put into the the throne. He did not foresec, nor ton million sterling in the caval estimates, the biting weather, yot this method also shie fortune from her mother, the Centeme melting pot, for with all its faults did anyone else for that matter, that Mr Lloyd George that the Liberal Govern attracted huge crowds who overflowed with do Paris, who is enormously rich The Globe.
well ever since the great compromise the SEVENIRS reign would rank aid, will appear too heavy to secure that indisputable superiority, No sacrifice, be
(Welt Tez Fat Po's "Service.) effected with WILLIAM of ORANGE, Among the most brilliant in tivo asperiority. This announcement has pro- perpetrated in the course of the speech time it takes to go for a doctor, often proves a memorial to the Throne requesting
few minutes delay in treating somo
Perisa, January 13. cases of troup, even the longth of On the final day the Senate tendered The Constitution of England, being centarics; nor was he cognisant of all duced a good effect in France.
making. Growing lyrical in his fervour, dangerous. The mafest way is to keep a reprieve for the six officials who were an unwritten formula, has nevertheless the changes which were tending to It is stated in the Sarawak Gazette that one candidate for Parliamentary honours Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy in the house, beheaded, after the Bight of Kang Yu been subject to many changes even lower the prestige of Parliament by the collieries at Coal Point, Labuan, are declared, "I am prepared to offer my life, and at the first indication of croup give the.
child a dose. Pleasant to take and always Wei and an amnesty for the political during the past fifty years and a reducing it almost to the level of a king closed down towards the end of my bore my children, my country, my cures. For sale by all Chemists and offenders. The memorial has, however,
January as the manager has come to the Empire, to the free and unfattored fudg- Storekeepers.
not yet been answered. well-known book on the "English least as social cat.com is concerned...
collieries cannot be made to pay and orders effect was wrecked by a shout from the back Constitution will repay the time
have therefore come from home to close of the hall,Won't you throw in the spent over it at the present day. Documenta discovered in connection down, Our recent wire from Labuan said missis, governor?" The audience roured Wm. Powell, Lid, is an old book as such books with the Houndeditch murders have been the mines were being shut down owing to with laughter.
go. It first appeared in 1868, at trazziated, and reveal a widespread organ. the presence of fredamp.
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DANGER FROM CHOUP"
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PORTS.
All our Ports are guaranteed to be the product of Pure
a time when much prestige attached Austria. Police exquiries are still being appointment at learning that the Govern whereupon the lighthearted Cockney on to membership of the House of Com-made st Bt. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienus, ment will postpone legislation on the hearing that he had been defeated shouted Grapes ONLY, grown in the vineyards of the famous Bouro mons, for we find him remarking, and Paris, with a view to ascertaining Osborne judgment until 1913. The Prity out for the delectation of the crowd, "A District near Oporto, Portugal. "I wrote books for twenty years, and whether the organisationi political or intends to proceed with its own bill at the
I was nobody; I got into Parliament, criminal, or pursued robbery for political earliest moment, and if it is read the second merry Christmas." Obvious, of course, yat
time it will insist on facilitics being granted amart and before I had taken my seat I had purposes
by the Government for the romainder of heather;
it puninge through the House. The faty
become somebody." Nothing is more Eloves of the victims of the dreadful striking among the many changes accident which happened to the Scotch Proposes to bring pressure to bear on the that have been wrought in the last fifty Expressat Aisgill Moor just after Obsistmas Governmens by threatening, in the event 9.15 to 11.30.M. years than this, for to-day a success have been klentides. Enquiries are still of refusal, to withhold its support on the
ber g made regarding a few miczing people. fal author is quite as great it
The dend include Archibald, son of Colonel body as a member of Parliament. Maxwol, of New Galloway: Daniel, sor He is given quite as much prominence of the Ray. Mr Lamont, of Edinburgh
TREMENDOUS SUCCESS.
The Great Yorkshire Comedian and DENNIS CARNEY "GREAT TRIUMPH ON ́EVERY
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in the newspapers, and if he should | Pipe-Major Donald Mackay, who had heer Various enquiries having reached the happen to be a KIPLING OF A CONAN delighting thousands of poor at Christians China Mall offer ne to when the results of DOYLE, he becomes quite is famous dinners in London; and Christopher the rhyming competition would be mada
McJomo, son of the Town Clerk of public, we communicated with the repro as Mr LLOYD GEORGE OFMF ASQUITH. Lockerbie. Identifcation has been cataluntatives of the Nestlé and Anglo Swiss Again, Mir Bagrior remarked that shed by auch unally Insignificant afficies Condensed Mak Co, who kindly informed the working changes contribute, al-, pes button, a watch, a piece of golfing us that the results will be publisted in cur most nothing to our corporate public Jacket, matet bores, kers, and pipe tant peneron Monday, the 16th instant.
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