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TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1911.

DEFENDANT APPEALS FOR

COSTS:

[COPYRIGHT] LAST OF THE ASIA.

HULE, AND CARGO SOLD.

(From Our Oven Correspondent,)

SILLORA, May 29 The wrecked Pacific Mail steamer

At the Supreme Court this morning, At the Sanitary Board meeting this before Chief Justice Sir Francis Piggott, afternoon a letter was rond from Govern and Mr Justice Gomparta, sitting as * Full- 50ment relative to amending No. 1 of the Coast, an appeal was commenced in the instructions for guidance of the Adminis-case between the Man Chun firm, plautist trative Head of the Sanitary Department. and Sum Yik Chow, defendant. The latter the decision of Mr Justice -Fazoland, delivered on February 15, 1811, a onlareel that the parties pay their own costs of the petion and that such order be that plaintiff pay to defendant the costs of the action on the ground that there was no good cause for depriving the successful defendout of

The lottar stated that His Excellency the appealed for an order, against so much of Nath was sold by suetion this morning.

nes to natural objects or initiative Yangtans Insurance Association......8100 representation of the everyday ap-Italian Roman Catholic Mission... pearance of things; but eveu in the

NEWS OF THE DAY. most decorative schools of painting the passion for making things look To-day's quotation for Para rubber, real grew as the artists advanced perfona Formon and Sniyth, is 4. 5. in executive skill. One great ex-

A telephone line between New York ception to the general trend of Euto-and. Denver City was opened yesterday, pean art was the great movement of The length of the line is 2,100 miles, the Middle Ages that produced!

There will be mi meeting of the Gothic art. In the art of the medi-Legislative Council on Thursday afternoon

val cathedrals symbolism was pre- as previously arranged. dominant. The inspimtion of this symbolism came originally from the East, and it was fed continually by constant intercourse with the East. It was not surprising therefore that the art of Gothic times, both in its

The mortality returns for the work ending April 29 wero 19.8 per 1,000 as against 29.4 for the total population of

the Colony.

The special committee reported to the Sanitary Board meeting this sitemoon that

clared free from foot and mouth disanus.

Govertor had been pleased to approve of the amendment suggested by the Board with regard to the chango of date on which the proposals for important changes in the draft estimates of expenditure for the de- partment for the following year bu returned to Government,

APPLICATION REFUTED.

his costs.

The halk fetched Tla. 8,200 and the cargo Tle. 2,500.

Both lots were knocked down to a Foochow Chinese syndicate.

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

KING WELCOMES COLONIAL, PREMIERS.

Me Eldon Potter appeared for Appel- lants, instrusted by Mr Ottą Kong Sing and Sir Henry Berkélöy, K.C., for resp pondents, instructed by Mr P. W, Gold-

Mr Potter said that there was an appon (Router's Service to the China Mail.)

London, May 23.

For over 80 Years WATSON'S E has, maintained the form and in its outlook, had, mara No. 9 shed Sassoon's Vila, had been de account of the sewer qutfall. The explore notion and plaintiffs in another. The yesterday.

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NEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Empire Day. Bank Holidny,

Cathedral.

With regard to the erection of twenty four water alpeets at the Royal Naval Canteen a letter was read from Government, ab the Sanitary Board this afternoon, from the decision of the learned Acting Paisoa Judga on a question of costs. The stating that the Governor, in Cannel was Full Court gave loave to appeal and a case His Majesty the King welcomed the not prepared to consider the application on

was stated. Appellants ware defendants in Colonial Premiers at Buckingham Palace of extending the sewer to deep water and facts were really very simple. Respondents A rifle shooting match at the Shanghai the risk of damage to which it would be brought an action against appellants, visitors to huncheon His Majesty mingled After entertaining the distinguished range between teams of ten man aside from liable if so extended precluded the possibil claiming 308.80 and appellauits maid they with the guests in the drawing room. H.M.S. Astron and H.M.S. Clio, resulted-ity of carrying out such extension under were not indebted to him and appellants in a win for the Astraen's team by eighteen existing circumstances. should the brought an action claiming 8588.77, of which point,

applicanta be able to suggest any solution appoliants proved $245.30 The 908.80 RESTLESS PORTUGAL. of the difficulty, the Governor in Council was set off and judgment was given to appellants for the balanco. In fact ap- was prepared to reconsider the matter.

pellarta got judgment in both actions nod on the rehearing of the cases the judge AFFAIRS IN PORTUGAL.

deprived appellants of costs and he samitt- ed that the proper order for costs would be Affairs in Portugal are still very bad and

the order they were asking for in the For further cases of plague e news coming through a French source stateration. There were no grounds on which

Two of the cularly in Setubal, where several Royalists

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in common with Eastern art. than had classical and Renaissance art. Turning to Oriental art, we were struck first by its slightness conipared with the solidity of our own, nud, secondly, by the fact that bardly day attention was paid in it to the foreign steamers-including the British pourtrayal of individual objects. Thes. Indrani nad aggregating 30,000 tons-- lightness of the pictures, so far as will shortly be transferred to Japanese

ownership. | Japanese art at any rate was cou- cerned, was accounted for very large-

|

. According to an Osaka journal, seven

9am-Special Service in St. John's by slightness in the buildings that notified to-day. All are Chinese and three that the situation in the north and part the judgo could axercise his discretion.

Boys' Own Clth Athletic Sports,

General Memoranda.

THURSDAY, May 25 :--

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Bishop of Victoria and Mrs Lander At

Flame.'

Cathedral.

FRIDAY: May 20

have terminated fatally.

A VRIZED BUT REAL "AGITATION.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, May 23.

A telegram from Madrid says that reports have reached well-informed

beld the pictures. But the second occurrences were in U-Lok Lane, one in weri killed, is very grave. The working witted that the subject of the order of the quarters disclosing the fact that a mors

attention

point of difference-the paid to types rather than to in- dividual things-brought in the whole question of the difference

First Street and the other in Pottinger population nourish a profound hatred Street. The total of esses for the year is against the soldiers and every day thers

How 46.

are disturbances between them. One of the Republican guardes arrested an anti-

Sir Henry Berkeley said that he subi Pueno Judge in that matter should not be or less voiled, bet real ogitation reigns disturbed. From the notice of motion in Portugal. their Lordships would see that as far as the

LORD LANSDOWNE'S

The Yokohama Officer of the C. F. Republican who was carrying a bomb. present subject matter of the appeal went the judge ordered that each party should 4.45 p.m.-Special Services at St John's between the religious and philosophic Co. is in receipt of a wireless message from when the latter hurled it at the guard. bear their own costs and whether he was i

BILL the R. M.S. Empress of China, sent at 8.0"That was the signal for a violent disturbance justified in making that order or not would ideals of the East and those of p.m. on Monday 2nd May, when the between the people and the soldiers and deferd on the materials he had before him: WAR MINISTER'S ADMISSION. Europe. For these ideals all the

the latter had a bad time of it indeed. In East had looked to India, the home

fact, the situation became so critical that a of Buddhism. In Buddhism the

detachment of cavalry was despatched to

(Berter's Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, May 23. join the Republican guardos who charged belief was taught that all the things

the crowd with sabres and drove them

Queen Mary's Birthday (1867). 9.15 p.ru. The Follies at the Theatre

Royal.

SATERDAY MAY 27:-

12.15 p.m. Star Ferry Co. Annan

Meeting.

3.30 p.m.-Secind Gymkhana, Today, May 30-

Decoration Day in U.S.A.

Noon-Meeting of Gen. Fenwick & Co.,

Ld.

WENNEY, May 31

The herby ran at Epsom.

vessel was 800 miles distant from Japan, advising all well and that the commander expects to reach Yokohama on Thursing,

the 25th instant:

"General" Booth, the hand of the

at the time.

we saw around as were mere pas Salvation Army, has remitted Ten 30.000 back at the point of their revolvers, each party bad mando a cinin against the phenomena and that the one reality to the headquarters of the organisation inventually the people were dispersed.

was a Divine essence or spirit · It | Japan for the establishment of a charity

was no wonder that Eastern art strove to render the things of the Nommand Meeting of Watkins, Id, spirit rather-than-those-of-the-flesh, and that when it had to deal with physical things it chose those aspects of them which seemed to partake of the nature of the spiritual For example, if a bird in flight was the subject of a picture, the Western

The China Mai

HOSOKONO, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1911.

hospital in Tokyo. Arrangements are now will be raised in Tokyo to supplement the being made to carry out the project. Money remittance and it is stated that infor- Ozaki is interestesi. -

On Thursday evening at eight o'clock Dr J. C. McCracken will give a lecture at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Pennsylvanin University." Dr McCracken, a graduate of the above institution, is bead of the which is making rapid progress in training Chinese young roen in the medical pro fission. Dr M. H. Chaun, another graduate of Pennsylvania, will take the

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

REIZZARSÁL FOR KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE. Parade at Headquarters at 5.45 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31st. All members who will be on pande on the King's Birthday, June 3rd, should attend.

JOINED.

Mr C. C. Stork juined the Corps on the 17th May, and was posted to No. 3 Artillery Company****

Mesa W. J. Eldridge and H. E. Dani- were posted to No. 4 Artillery Company.

Sir Henry Berkeley then went into the facts of the case and said the effect of the investigation by-the learned judge was that other which they could not substantiate. It was certainly to be discouraged in a summary court or in any court that s plaintiff should claim two-thirds more than the proper autcunt.

Their Lordships allowed the appeal with costs.

EMPIRE DAY.

To-morrow a commemoration service in

In the House of Lords the Marquis of Lansdowne's Bill providing for the reform of the House of Lords was read a second time without a division

Viscount Haldane said the Bill was great step forward

~NEW-TERRITORY÷ARMED

ROBBERY,

The police have been informed" of _a

connection with the Roman Catholic schools rather serious armed robbery at Ba Po

Kong in the New Territories. A coolia. of Hongkong and Kewloon is to be held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception belonging to a salt shop there has reported

ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL artist gave his attention to drainer University Medical School in Canton, pace joined the Corps on the 18th May, when Holy Communion will be culebrated that at 11 p.m. on the 21st imeone forsod-A

ART IDEALS.

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ON LEAVE.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Antong the passengers leaving by the Grifith, Misa Harouts and Mr G. T. Lloyd,

by the very Rev. Father P. de Maria, the door of the promises open and four assisted by Bishop Pozzoni in the Bozzetta, men rushed in. They worn armed with an address will also be delivered by His revolvers and knives and one had a musket

Lordship.

with which he kept guard at the door. The schools participating will be --St. When the men autored they seized the Joseph's English College. Italian Convent, coolie by the queue and tied him down to French Convent, Anglo-Portuguese School, the bed while they proceeded to ransack St. Francis School (Wanchai), St. Mary's the place. In the end they left after getting away with goods and money to the Horloon) St. Lewis Industrial School value of 8274. The robbers are believed to have escaped into Chinese territory by (Wet Point).

wator..

4 RIOT IN SEHIU HING.

In the course of a debate in the House Mishima Maru to morrow are Mrs T. E. at the door stopped them, and thon the April 13th, at 43, Wing Lok Street, M

of Commions on a resolution mered by Me Crooks seeking to pledge the House to the opinion that a general minimum wage of

W. E. L. Shenton represented the Prussian National Insurance' Co. of Stettin, of which Mesars Garrels, Borner and Co. are agents, while Mr Reader, Harris appeared on

behalf of

tho

Bathing Costumes from the prepossessions of fixed Euro- belief in the mist, the wind, this ed that extraordinary pressure was coming known naval officer, having been commis- good deal of glaw was broken and the Wah Choong Lung Kee Firm and all others

The

the bird, while the Japanese artist endeavoured to vinalize its flight

Sapper J. R. Pereira of the Engineer Is nothing is the contrast more finely The European Lirected his first

Company is permitted to resign on leaving the Colony with effect from the 8th May: drawn between the Occident and the energies in painting landscape to

Sergeant C. H. Blason of the Scour Orient than in the development of rendering its physical features-to. We have received from the local Su- Company is granted leave of absence for 12 their respective art ideals: In the giving a more or less scientific state-perintendent of the P. and O. Company months with effect from the 2nd May,

Private W. F. Taylor of the Infantry art of painting in particular, the men went of its component parts, its rock, Pamphlet which has been issued setting Company is granted leave of alunce for of the West approached by quite its grass, its trees, while the Oriental out facilities which are to be placed in the months with effect from the 17th May.

way of Home people for witnessing the pony is granted leave of absence for 12

Gunner J. R. Crolius of the No. 2 Con a different road to that traversed was more concerned to put before us Coronation Durbar at Delhi. The s.. months with effect from the 9th May. by the men of the Enxt, and when the mist, the rain, the wind-the Mainja is to be despatched se an Private E. B. Reed of the Scouts Com.

FIRE ENQUIRY. The Hunan soldiers are responsible Eur the two schools first made each passing influence that for the time-extra steamer on November 7 and will ar pany is granted leave of absence for 12

This afternoon at rather serious trouble in Shíg Hing.

the Magistasy other's acquaintance they were searce being dominated the landscape. advance of Their Majesties, while the de-

rive at Bombay four or five days in month with effect from the 23rd April,

Several of the fellows from one of the before Mr F. A. Hazeland, an enquiry was ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. ly in a position to understand the There was some justification for the parture will be made on December 30th,

guard bosts: determined to "go to the commenced into the circumstances asso- other's standpoint. Much misunder-Eastem artist's representation of a eighteen days after the date of the Darbar.

theatre," and at the same time decided that ciated with a fire which took place on standing therefore arose and many landscape from the point of view of

they would not pay the charge The men misconceptions were formed which it sight, for if we looked out of a

Fuss began. The soldiers were abusive, and has taken years to dissipate. But window we frequently noticed the

at last both parties came to blows. Several to-day Western critics of distinction rain, the fog, or the sunshine more

(were injured, ami among them some of the approach the subject of Eastern art than the houses or trees. But his 30s. a week for every adult werker should Admiral Murdock, the new Commander-assistants of the building. A mob also with minds more free than formerly preferences were due chiefly to his be established by law, Mr. Frewen remark-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, is a well-gathered and stones were thrown, so that

on the premises at the time of the fire.

The evidence of Li Bhing Chou, managing froui yellow labour through the awakening ioned in the Navy on July 20, 1866, the building damaged in other ways.

⚫brates then decamped, but presently partner in the Wah Choong Laung Kee Firm, pean critical standards; and, on the and the water-the changing, moving of China. The growing competition of same day on which Admiral Hubbard was other hand, native students in Japan things in the landscape as being Asiatic labour with our own was the result commissioned Ha was born in the state the enraged people determined to have was to the effect that the firm was started especially are examining and analy important, because nearer the spiritual of the great fall in silver, and that was the of Connecticut and was commissioned from their revenge upon them. There would on February 17th of this year. There wore have been further serious trouble had it four partners including hinwelt. The busi sing their own arts and interpreting and universal than its stationary competition which the white world had got Massachusetts. Before being commission not been for the ever-present pencemakerness was bought from a man named Chow Chuk for $8.200. This man was now for the West some of the motives and elements. His thought and feeling to fear. A China awakened there would, ed a rear admiral, Alainal Munthock, then in the end it was decided that certain re in Cantom Witness was the only partner ideals that have lain beltind them.

in his opinion, be a morderous industrial a captain, commanded the battleship Rhode muneration should be given to the assist resident in Hongkong, all the others being about the scene were more important

competition

Island for several years. He was in ants who were injured and at thegame in Canton. Witnow went to the country In England the Munchester Art to him than the objects which

command of the ship when it was first time a co siderable quantity of crackers on April 8th and the fire broke out a week lator. On hearing of the Bre witnous anil

when the should be let off, which is the Chines wretamod. The value of the goods in the Gallery is doing a splendid work composed it. It was not surprising One of the first enterprises, if not the commissioned LADIES AND CHILDREN'S in bringing a knowledge of Eastern that from making us feel the wind very first to which the Manchurian portion trip round the would was made in of offering an apology! So for the present, shop at the time of the fire was $20,000.

of the "Four-Power" loan will be devoted, 1907-8. Admiral Murdock was excutive except for the bitter feeling that must art ideals to the knowledge of the and rain he could pass on to convey mys the Japan Mat, is the construction of SANDALS,

people of England, and a reventing the emotions of solitude and terrors good harbour at Laenahan, and the build-officer on board the U. S. S. Panther during emain, the affair has blown over. lecture delivered under its anspices inspired by desolate places, and from ring of a branch line to bring the new the Spanish-American war and saw touch Moderate Prices.by Mr BERNARD D. TAYLOR strikes that again to the expression of the harbour into direct communication with active service in that period. The Panther the Peking-Makden Railway. This will was the ship from which marines werd us as one of the sanest expositions spiritual exaltation inspired by the bo a serious menace is the prosperity and landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, and in this of the subject which we have read mysteries of religion The European development of Dairen. In fact, as an engagument which followed, in which the Wm. Powell, Ld. for a long time. Mr TATION, after artist at his best had embodied in a anonymous oficis observed in the columns place was emplared. If assisted them with

remarking that the time has now wonderfully real and beautiful way of the Yorodu Choha, Japan will have to the fire from the small rapid firing guns.

consider whether the natural disadvantages gone past when Occidentals thought the personages of sacred story and of Dairen do not disqualify it for com that Eastern art was merely grotes mythology, while the Oriental artist, petition with Lienslan, and whether it may que, bizarre, quaint or merely charlees substantially and much more by not he adiable to take speedy steps for zingly decorative, proceeded to suggestion, had given form to the equipping Port Arthur to attnet the junk amine the difference between the movings of the spirit of man

Mr TAYLOR's anulyacs are both

Testimony to the growing assimilation. westhetic ideals of East nud West. 9.15 to 11.30 .M. A predominating passion, he argued, acuto and accurate and Manchester of Western loss by Chins in, says he Magnificont New Films st pervaded the art of the West. in all fortunate in having such an ex Consul at Hongong, in a report in which instant, and the return voyage will be by":

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-"HONGKONG'S TEAM FÖR BHANGHAL...

It has now boon decided that the Hong kong oricket tea which to visit Shanghai will leave Kowloon waar by the English. Standard, borne by the United States Arcadio at day light op Friday, 28tr

Other evidence was called and the hear

ing adjourned.

THE

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EVERY CHANGE OF PROGRAMME countries, and in almost all ages was

le refers more expecially to the methods of the Chins, leaving Shanghai Sed June MANUFACTURED FROM THE FINEST SELECTED MANILA education of the young, Thate has been and duo back in Hongkong at day-light on WEDNESDAY-LAs and Farewell per the universal desire for realising or

* Among the humerous gatherings which a very large indresse in the number of Tuesday, 6th June. giving in the works of art an image verseas visitors to the Homeland will schools and colleges, especially in and near The following have been selected as the recognisable and life-like of some have an opportunity of attending this year Peking. In the metropolitan province of Laam to represent object, which nature had placed before is the Imperish Health Fete and Congress Chibli alone the (number of pupils- *ME ATURE, Elbo our eyes. We asked, for something which has been arranged for July 5th, 6th modernised schools has increased in

and 7th by the Women'a Imperial Health yars from 8,000 to 250:0. The num tangible, something that conveyed to Association. The Fête is to be opened by of foreign toscharn

The Clubented Soprano Mias BASO ANS.

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