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BRIDGER-To Me and Mrs H.

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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. French National Fake Day.

General Memoranda.

SATURDAY, July 15

Ltd.

H.

B.

THE CHINA MAIL

NEWS OF THE

The old Post Office Building L

Threo further cases of plague today. One ear fatal. The year's total is now exactly 9002

The largest subway ever planned, hiss been projected for New York city. The week will cost £50,000,000.

The New South Walos amateur golf championship, the blue ribbon of the links in that Sate, has once more been won by O'Brien. This is the third time O'Brien has been succesful.

(From Our Owens Cor

THURSDAY JULY 18, 1911

[Corralout AMERICA'S HEAT

SPELL

MORE DEATHS AND FOREST:

(Reuter & Service to the China Maid,

LONDON, July 19

TRISH ROYAL

ENDED

SOYALTY LEAVE FOR WALES.

Reuter's Service to the Chua Mast)

LONDON, July 1514

Their Majesties the King and Queed.

The bent wave in America has become accompanied by HRH. the Prince

Wales and Princess Mary, had enthusiastic send-off at Dublin on even more intense still.

SHANGHAL July 13 After a two-day trial in the British Supreme Court, Marion Pennington, formerly mistress of a house in Hong- kong, who was charged with entering house and firing af Mr Hugo Reiss, marahant, of the firm of Hingu Reiss and Company, was last night convicted of simple assault and sentenced to be months' hard labour:

has no fears for the average Chian man. It often means nothing more heartbreaking than a free trip to Canton, and surreptitious return within a week at the outside.

Wo are aware that at Home Trades Unionism is a living force. Thero it is a necessary recognition of the workers' interests, and, on the whole, the Unions take a reasonable view of their rights in relation to those of their employers. But here in Hongkong we have & vitiated and

The Railway Commission have decided exaggerated form of Trades Unionism to contend with-one which seeks that the Postmaster General must pay the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Com- only one end, and that the gratifica-pany's managing committed £30,000 a year tion of the desires of the workers for carrying the mails between Dover and irrespective of justice to the interests Calais. on which they subsist. At Home, too, there is nothing secret or mysterious about the working of Trades Unionism; everything is open and above-board; the meeting places of the members are known; the officials' names and positions are nevor bidden from view. Here the reverse is the case under alt heads In short, the Chinese Guilds in Hong-te a stoppage the suction-pipe, which is a poor people of Dublin. kong are nothing other than Secret powerfal one, was hauled to the surface, Societies which, by the law of the when it was found that a 6ft shark had Colony, are in reality not permitted

The Government of Queensland bre

The death-roll la becoming incrma- a

Grent preparations are being made ingly severe, and there have been leaving for Carnarvon to attend disastrous forest fires in Northern Investiture of the Prince of Wales. Michigan, where three villages have

are uplendid, a burned and a number of lodging the Principality, where the decorations camps endangered,

KING'S TOUCHING MESSAGE. PEER'S SON SHOOTS

LATER NATIVE.

The prosecution alleged that it was the intention of the accused to emis calate Mr. Reisa. Great interest has been aroused in the case.

received word that King George has accept ROYAL GENEROSITY. ed the offer of a Queensland borse, and has roquested that the animal be sent to Buckingham Palace. The Premier says that there were at least three fine animals in view, from which a worthy choice world shortly be made.

A novel sight was witnessed by the employees engaged on the dredger Zota at Gosford, Australia, the other day. Owing

been sucked across the nomale, sud was

held there by suction. This had caused

The King's Bench Division of the

KING GIVES £1,000 TO IRISH POOR.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Laxpox, July 15, His Majesty the King has given £1,000 to be distributed among the

LORD ESHER ILL

AN OPERATION.

(Heuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LARDON, July 13. Lord Eaher has undergone a High Court has awarded Colonel Bromley Davenport (Unionist), whewan An successful candidate for the Leok division operation of Staffordshire at the general election,

to exist. The Government blandly the stoppage of the works. and weakly follows old precedcuts; it has not the energy, the backbone or the enterprise to strike out on new and bold lines, aiming at crushing the tyranny to which so many firms are subject. Why cannot a well-organis- ed campaign be started to ferrit out the meeting places of the Guilds and

Mo

ACQUITTAL MENTIONED IN

PARLIAMENT. (Bouter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, July 13

His Majesty the King bag issued a Message in which ha declares has joy at the spontaneous and hearty loyalty of the welcome accorded the Queen and himself

"It has", he added, greatly touched our hearts and made a perz impression on1 115. We shall never forget it

-"COME BACK TO ZRIN,”

Mr Harcourt, replying in the House of Commons to questions respecting the acquittal of Lord Eniskillen's son, Mr Galbraith Cole, on a charge of shooting

Governor was sending a full report of Crowds singing "Come back to finx

native in East Africa, said the the case, and it was therefore premature bade farewell to Their Majesties as they

steamed out of Dublin Bay,

at present to make any statement on the subject.

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.

A SUCCESSFUL YEAR.

ARRIVAL IN WALES,

A Welsh choir bearded the Royal yacht on its arrival at Holyhead and performed a programme of Weish sxs.

Carnarvon is swarming with multi-

21,20 damages against his opponent, Mr APPENDICITIS THE TROUBLE (Reuter's Service to the China Mail) tudes of people anxious to participate

Robert Pearce, M.P. (Liberal), and the printers of an election pamphlet, which contained a libel upon him.

LATER!!

Lawnow, July 13 in the national festival of the Investiture. *Sir West Ridgeway, presiding at the Thousands are without lodginga må Lord Esher is enfering from ap-annual meeting of the North Barres have passed the night on the site walls

The foki of the opium farmer, who pendicitis. He is a patient in the Company, announced that the revenuesging choruses and Welsh hymns,

Edinburgh Nursing Home.

12.30 p.m.Extmordiary General to get to know who the leading

Meeting of National Bank of Ch spirits really are? It could be done away with over $1,000 with which he i

was entrusted by his master to bring from and, in the interests of the Colony's Shankiman to Hongkong, and who sub- tradal progress, it ought to be done.sequently attempted to escape by jumping Then other measures could follow.

Tranay, July 18-

10a.m.-Criminal Sessions Commerce. 3.45p.m.-Sanitary Board Meeting, WEDNESDAY, July 19:-

9.15 p.m.-Or Recital at St. John's

Cathedral.

The Ghim Hai

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911.

THE BANE OF HONGKONG.

WITHIN the past few days Hongkong bas been in the throes of a strike among

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., a certain section of its Chinese ship-

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Bengkung, April 16, 1907.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.

To-day's quotation for Para rubber, per Messrs Vernon and Smyth, is 4s. 8d.

The strike amongst the Chinese ship builders in Hongkong is practically ended. A number of men in several yards have

returned to work,

A goldsmith living in Hollywood Road was entrusted with a pices of gold and four pieces of jadestone to make into earrings but he has not been seen or heard of since

into the harbour, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and four hours' stocks at the Magistracy to day.. Prisoner has only just been released from hospital as he was shot by an Indian when ho jumped into the water.

BISLEY.

PHENOMENAL SHOOTING.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, July 13 A feature of the contests at Bisley bas been the phenomenal shooting of Mr Maurice Blood; who has won "com. secutively the Bass, the Edge and the Halford competitions.

The Berue Politique et Letteraire has started an interesting discussion on the over-working of Cabinet Ministers in

Oxford won the Humphry Cup with France. It points out that a Minister in a French Government has hardly a moment a score of 722, Cambridge's accre being to himmalt He must devote his mornings 714, to sittings of the Cabinet, to interviens! with his subordinates, or to the reception of sunstars, deputies and journalists,

✓

The local manager of Messrs White away, Laidlaw and Co, challenges the statement republished from a Bangkok couemporary that the reason his Erm branch at has abandoned-opening a Bangkok is that they "consider t cash basis in Bangkok" Hey the

whilst he is obliged almost every day to builders. In itself this trade dispute

▲ sentence of six months' imprison- neist at the sitting of one or other of the may not have been extensive nor its

ment and four hours' stocks was imposed Chambers. effects unusually serious. None the on a native, by Mr F. A. Hazeland, at the less, it again directs attention to what Magistracy this morning, for returning is, without the least shadow of doubt, from banishment. the bane of Hongkong's industrial - Toronto bandamen summoned for existence. We refer to the ever-playing sacred music, alleged to be in constant interference on the part of contravention of the Lord's Day Act, hopeless to try to do busines on a native Guilds in all zad every kind of business in which Chinese are at all largely employed. Everybody knows that all classes of Chinese be at home to Britiab Officials and Officers, equipped in the matter of business premises, workers, from the coolie upwards, his foreign colleagues and all other persons belong to some sort of organisation who may wish to call between the hours which exists nominally for the of 12 and 1 p.m.

the case, the magistrate holding that the

law had not contemplated such a thing.

To-morrow, the 14th, being French National Fate day, the French Consul will

fair protection of their interests The Nova Scotis elections have but which, in effect, is solely resulted in the election of 27 Liberais utilised in menacing employers and and 11 Conservatives. The fishing com demanding unfair and extortionate stituencies failed to support reciprocity with the United States, as the Liberal terms of employment. What makes party had expected. Three Ministers were this abuse of fair means the more defasted, and the Government lust six aggravating is that the employers are

in most cases absolutely in the hands

sesta.

The following tonnage was sent through of the workers. The latter know the Suez Canal during 1910-Peninsular this full well; hence the high-handed and Oriental Company, 1,214,200; Eller- and domineering attitude which they

Wicker and Coloured invariably take

Upholstery Furnishing

man Lities, Limited, 1,028,400; Altred Holt and Co., 999,500; flamman Hanes, 831,400 Messagerien Maritimes, 565,200 Norddeutscher Idoyd, 237,600.

At the Imperial Conference Mr Fisher

(Australis) movod: That the Suez Canal

probable reason why they have been com

Edinburgh Academy has won the Ashburton Shield with a score of 495.

[Note-Last year the Bar Competition

was won by Dr. J. C. Sellars, Dundalk Rifle Clab, and he also won the Edge com- petition. The Halford. Mesoria Com

was won by Mr T. Caldwa Ulster R. A. Cambridge won the Humphry Cap with a score of 777, Oxford's score being 600, The Ashburton Shield W wan by Bradfield, whose score was 524,- HD. O. M.]

HOME ORIOKET.

THE LATEST RESULTS.

pelled to abandon the idea for the present (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, July 13.. is that Bangkok, which is not at all well

dove not afford a building of suitable size

The following tre, the results of

or location for the requirements of their matches commenced on the 10th inst

ins

...SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr Henry Humphreys returned from Shanghai yesterday by the German Mail,

Acting Lance Sergeant Perkins, wher at the Magistracy, has been promoted to the rank of full Lanco Sergeant

Station leave has been granted to Lieut. W.-A. Hagger, 126th Baluchistan Infantry, from 14th to 23rd July, 1911, inclusive,

Privilege leave, on private affairs, to the neighbouring countries, has been granted to Capt. I. C. Cutler, 8th Rajputs, from 2nd August to 37th September, 1911, in clusive.

European firms employing Chinese in any considerable number feel this annoying circumstance more keenly

The Duke of Connaught is expected to than other corporations. In the dues constitute a heavy charge, tanding to arrive at Ottawa on October 12 to take up retard trade within the Empire and with the dutics of Governor-General, the data printing trade, on which at least we other countries, and this Conference Invites being three weeks earlier than originally can speak with some show of the Home Government to continue its planned..

efforts to obtain a sóbstantial reduction in them. The motion was carried."

Department.athority, the evil is seen in its most

Kent v. Somerset (at Tunbridge Walls win for Kent by 318 rama. Leicestershire v. Hampshire Leicester) drawA,

MATER.

The Gentlemen beat the Players by 130 runs at Lord's. Hobbs carried his bat through for 154.

AN IMPERIAL LOSS.

for the year arcaded the expenditure

by £142,642 and was in advance of the PRINCE OF WALES AS SCOUT. previous year by £11,000.

North Borneo, he said, was rich in minemia, and the only way to disclose its hidden wealth was by a scientific survey being undertaken.

MORE HONOURS

LARGELY CONFINED. TO OFFICIALS.

(Reuters Service to the China Mail.) LONDON, July 15,

His Majesty the King has conferred a number of Kinghthoods and member ships of the Victorian Order. They are mostly given to officials.

THE ENGLISH TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA.

(Bruter's Bervace to the Cheng Mai,)

LONDON, July 19. Kinner has accepted the invitation of the M. C. C. to join the English cricket team which is to visit Australia.

THE NEWSPAPER WORLD.

MB GWYNFE'S NEW

AFPOINTMENT-

•·(Beuter's Service to the China May

LONDON, July 12 Mr H. A. Gwynne, who resigned the June 7th editorship of the Standard on has been appointed Editor of The London Morning Post

THE EMPEROR'S TEACHERS.

SIR ELDON GORST DEAD.

(Wah Tax Fat Po's Service.):

PERING, July 12. (Berder's Bervice to the China, Mai)

Three high officials have boon LusDay, July 12.

appointed by Imperial Edict to be the Sir Eldon Gorst is dead.

teachers of the Emperor. The first is to NoteSir Eldon Garst, K.O. B., G. C. receive 1,000 taels, the second 600 taals

M.-G.. was appolated British agent and and the third 600 faels monthly in Consul General in Erypt four years aco, and failing health recently coupelled him addition to their official salaries. to retire. His death at the age of 50 years is a great loss to the Empire for he was possessed of sterling qualities and had had & successful career fir Tarious Imperial Man J. Scott Harston and Mr U. D. posts. Indeed, his services to the Empire aggravated form. We ourselves, and

Melbourne have the sympathy of many wers recognised as recently as some Faw An exceptionally fine passage from friends in Hoogkong the death of their weeks ago when he was included in the Coronation Honours List, being given, with others as well, are constantly being

Singapore to Hongkong, has been mother, Mrs G. B. D. Melbourne, wife of Sir Fredrick Lugand, the G. C. M... đều dictated to by employees who are accomplished by the Bine Funnki" liner the Hon. Me C. S. D. Melbourne, which decoration. Bir Eldon Gorst was the eldest ALEXANDEA BUILDINGS. obviously, though secretly, backed up Perseus. This mesmer lett Singapore at 9 took place on the 10th inst, at Brighton, son of the Right Hon. Sir Jahn Eflón by their Guild, and time and again. Monday 9th inst. and arrived litre Docessed, who had paid visits to Hongkong. Gorst, MALL. DR. S. B. C.

who is still alive, Decensed was born in at 10:30a.m. this, morning, the voyawan 64 years of age. little demands which are wholly thus occupying only just over four days and

New Zealand at a time when he father was Civil Commissioner at Waikato Havas unwarranted havé to be conceded,

The death took place early last menth at educated Etou and Trinity Collere, equalling the best time made by mail VICTORIA THEATRE, if an absolute deadlock is to stealers,

Glasgow, of Mr David John Dunlop, one Cambridge, where he secured the MA the best known of British shipbuilders and degree and was 20th Wrangler His first be avoided. A refusal to give in

After their Majestion King George and engineers. Mr. Dunby, who was born in appointments in 1861, when he became to the workers inevitably means a Queen Mary had passed along the Loox Mexion City in 1833, was edusted in Attaché ing the Diplomatic Service Two attike. It may be retorted that Walk, Windsor, on returning from decobi Glasgow, and trained as an engineer in the ear later has as promoted Sed Secretary, 9.16 to 11.15 1. strikers are easily dealt with by two uper horas in charge of the Royal works of the Eyde Park Locomotive in 1892 he became and Secrable and 12 of Randolph, Elder, and 0 hulpbuilders His Brst moniation with Rayah was hon bringing the Banishment. Order into room bolid, and dashed in among thons Company Afterwards he joined the firm 1901 mide Secretary of Legation

andaal spectators, who became pa and engineers and when this frm became in 1890 he was made Contro i operation But that is no remedy in stricken. The groom was thrown, and one John Wider and Co. and started the how Tares to the Egyptian Government. He horse bolted into Windsor. Eight people famous Fairfield, works at Goran Man Under Secretary of State for Finance in 18997 Adviser to the Ministry of the a newspaper office, whers men must were injured Dunlop antrated

ted with the dity of Interior in 1894, and Financial Adviser

engineering be had if the public is to be supplied We have received from Masers 8 designing the shipped

shops and superintending the contaction the Egypela Gos an 2004, Inthe latter your with its daily news, for once a number Mourie and Co. the very finely illustrated wwwk When Mr John Kasler

of catalogne jurb ised by the Victor. Talking of workers are dealt with in this way Mme Color boss poput traded in 09 Mr Dunlop lined with

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The Magnificent Films of the Hongkong Coronation Festivities.

Owing to the delay of the Germans MAI not be shown before Thu-

there remains the gap to be filled op. And when all skilled printer belong to the same Guild what likelihood is there of getting capable new men to take the place of the

how oldMoreover, isim

mente the firm named are sole disbilbutors Famer L. Cunliffe: 65 mil in Hongkong.It is produced on

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Major General Baden Powell, speak- ing at Port Madoc announced that HRH the Prince of Wales will to-day be initiated as Chief of the Welsh Boy Scoute.

THE SEALING AGREE- MEDINIA

·A JAPANESE GRIEVANCE. (Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mau). ==

Torro, July 1838 The Japanees Sealing Association has issued a circular letter enghasing that it is unfair that Japan, who possemen far more sealing vessels than England, should only enjoy an equal share in the distribution of skins with England. -

The Government remains silent on the question

SHARE BUSINESS IN JAPAN.

Independent Nette Agency'e Bervice to the China Mat)

Torry, June 13

The prohibition of share business, which followed the sudden se fa quotations consequent on the municipal- fantion of the Tokyo street cars, was withdrawn yesterday after the stock brokers paid an additional security to the authorities

CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY

(Wah Tax Fat Po's Bervice

Ferra, July 12

A British firm named Balum (7) and Company is endeavouring to secure the contract for the building of the Canton Hankow Railway

A HOME NECESS

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to be without in Tor

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