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as an indication of the approximate speed beyond which under normal conditions it is 'unsafe to drive within the area mentioned. It is further stated that the Police on duty now have instructions to pay especial attention to the speed of cars and to the conditions under which they are driven. No action will be taken with- out due notice being given, but, in any caso of repeated or wilful disregard of the warming conveyed in the memorandum, a summons against the registered owner or driver of the car in question will be applied for.

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General Memoranda.

SATURDAY, August 3:-

Hongkong Jockey Club. Hospas, August 7:-

Bank Holiday.

DO

AND CO.

My Henry Koawick ta Remain At Home.

Matheson and Co., that the Hon. Mr Henry We are informed by Mosses. Jardine,

Keswick, formerly in charge of the firm in Hongkong and who was one of Hongkong's

[CortiGar]

MIDDLETON BYE- ELECTION. LIBERALS RETAIN SEAT. Router's Service to the China MB), LONDON, August 3. The Middleton bye-election, necessitat- oficial representatives at the coronationed by the appointment of Sir W. Adkins in London, is not returning to. Chius. It as Recorder of Nottingham, has resulted is probable that he will at no distant dato in his re-election. The polling was ——

Sir W. Adkins (L)............................. 6,883 succeed his father, Mr William Kerwick. M.P

in the management of the firm's London business,

Mr W. A. S. Eewins (U).............. 0,152 Is will ba remembered that Mr Keswick not long ago succeeded Mr W. J. Gresson in charge of the Hongkong office. During his stay in the Colony he was a mont popular member of the community and both in business, sporting and social circles won a wide friendship. The severance of his ties with the Colony will be greatly regretted.

Asenior member of the firm now in the Far East, Mr C. H. Ross assumes charge of the Bompany's business and interests in Hongkong."

NEWS OF THE DAY.

To-day's quotation for Para rubber,

The P. and O. s.s. Mongolia, which left London on 1st July, took £7,650 in bar silver for Shanghai.

Liberal moj ***** 411 Nate-Atthe December Guneral Election the contestants for the seat wore the same as now. The Liberal majority was 787, the figures being: Adkin, 7.071; Hewins, Me Howing a Secretary of the Tariff Commission.Eo. C. M.1

6,984

THE LORDS CON- TROVERSY.

DECISION NEXT WEEK.

Far East As is known, Hong-per Moses Vortion and Smyth, is a. Bd. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) kong, which in reality is place for motors at all, bas tackled to-day (one fatal) The year's total is now Two more cases of plague occurred

the problem, not by making a gentle 245.. "request" as Shanghai has done, bat | by adopting a speed limit which varies in different districts of the Colony, But, as we have pointed out before, such a method is little short of 19.30 p.m.--exting of Members of ridiculous when the police are not equipped with the apparatus for checking the speed of these vehicles. Since the speed limits were imposed there has not been a single prosecution here, though in certain thoroughfares the authorities have cut the rate of progress down to less than a half of the fifteen miles an hour allowed in Shanghai's busy centres. Are we to suppose that in these parti- cular areas a speed of seven miles an hour is never exceeded? We very much'doubt it.

LONDON, August 2. Lord Morley's letter to Liberal Lorda says the decision of the Lords will probably be taken on August fith, and he points out that the peculiar circums tances of the situation are due to the hostile action of a small minority aiming A sum of '88,504,25 was realized by at the rejection of the Bill, notwithstand the letting of bites for the erection of 10g the dislocation of Parliamentary booths and atanda at Happy Valley during business and other undesired con- sequences that would inevitably follow, be last Race Mooting.

9.13 p.m.-Organ Recital at St. Johna

Cathedral."

TUESDAY, August 8

Noon H.K. C. & 31. Steamboat Co.'s

Mecting. 4p.m.-Sanitary Beard Election in City

*Hall.

WEDNESDAY, August 9 :---

Focu-Ordinary General Meeting of Hongkong & South China Steam Fish- eries Co., Id,

0.30 p.m.-Annual General Meeting of

the Victoris. Recreation Club. THURSDAY, August 10-

13.55 a.m.-Full Moon. SATURDAY, August 19:-

Noon-Meeting of Hongkong & Shang: hai Banking Corporation at City Hall.

The China Mail

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1911.

MOTOR TRAFFIC.

We notice that Shanghai, like Hong- S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., kong. has its motor problems and that some attempt is being made to ensure the safety of the public against reckless driving of these vehicles. Of course, the physical conditions of the Model Settlement are much more in favour of an

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS.

Hengkons, April 16, 1907.

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WM. POWELL,

LIMITED.

CHILDREN'S

*CHINA MAIL" TYPHOON MAP.

In his annual report the Director of Public Works says the average number of masons employed daily on the Law Courts site last year was 57. Whe'd have thought

A VOTE OF CENSURE.

LONDON, August 3. In the House of Commons last night Mr Balfour, amid cheers and The Japanese community having ap-Ministerial laughter, gave notice that proached the Government on the subject he would move a vote of censure on the of allotting them a piece of ground for the the Government on Monday, ercetion of a crematorium, arrangements The terms of the motion, he said, were inde, with the sanction of the Secre-wers: That the Government advice tary of State, for placing at their disposal to Hie Majesty, whereby it has obtained a small arun of land in the Sookunpoo Valley. An approach road to connect it a pledge that sufficient Peers shall be with Caroline Hill Road will be constructed created to pass the Parliament Bill in ita by the Gorcriment.

original form, is a gross violation of Constitutional Iberty-cheers)--where- Admiral Togo, at a banquet given inby, among other ill-consequences, the his honour by the Mayor of Newcastle, people are precluded from again pro- Now that warnings of typhoons are reid that the Japanese Navy owe much to nouncing upon the question of Home ceived in the Colony almost daily the value the Elawick Shipyard. If Japan had not Rule." of the China Mail typhoon map is becoming been helped by Newcastle and her younger increasingly felt and the donmad for copies generation had not been taught how war grows in proportion. The map enables vessels are built and how guns and rifes the warnings to be intelligently followed se manufactured in the Elswick Shipyard, so that it is comparatively way to judge the story of Japan's naval expansion would the likelihood or other wind of noticed die have been very different from what it is turbances affecting the Colony,

In order to add yet further to the valua of the map, we have introduced a new

feature which we are sure will be widely appreciated. In addition to having the coastal lines outlined in blue, we have had delineated in red the tracks of the worst typhoons which have been experienced in

The map is of handy size, mounted en

per copy.

to-day,

Mr Balfour will also ask the Premier when the pledges were given by the Crown.

OBJECT OF THE VOTE.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1911.

[COPYRIGHT:]

CANADIAN CRUISER

ASHORE.

SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR OF BOY RECRUITS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Aug. 3

[Cocrat.]

THE TOKYO FLOODS.

ROYAL GENEROS ITY. (Independent News Agency's Service |

to the China Mail.)

Toxo, August 3 Their Majesties the Emparar and

The Canadian cruiser Niobe has been Empress have given a sum of 60,000 ashore on the coast of Nova Scotia since Yen towards the relief of the sufferem Sunday. She is settling down at the by the recent floods in the Tokyo.

steen.

One hundred and ninety boy recruits have been disembarkad, and sent to Halifax. They behaved splendidly when the cruiser struck...

Note The Niobe was purchased from the British Government Inst year to act as a training ship. She is manned by a crow composed of naval pensioners and Re- sarviste who volunteered for a term of service in Canada, with about 80 active Service ratings an instructors. The Niobe was launched in 1897 and completed in 1899. She has a tonnage of 11,000 and designed for a speed of 20.95 knots.—Ep C. J

LONDON WHARF FIRE.

FIREMEN OVERCOME.

(Reuter's Servies to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Aug. 2.

At a fire which broke out at the Union Cold Storage Wharf, London, firemen ware overcome by the fumes of ammonia, and the burning eggs and provisions.

Twelve were rendered unconscious including the Superintendent, who was seriously frozen as the result refrigeration.

of

district.

UANAL IN JAPAN.

TỔ CONNECT TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA.

(Independent News Agency's Service

to the China Mail) »

Toxro, August 3.

1

The application which has been made for the construction of a canal to connect Tokyo and Yokobama has been sanotion, ed by the authorities.

A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION.

PRESIDENT OF HAYTI FLEES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.}

LONDON, “August 2.

A bloodless revolution at Hayti bos ended in President Simon departing. on board a foreign vessel.

from New York on July 2nd stated:

[Note telegram to the Tokyo dahi The Revolutionary arty in Hayti, having defeated the Government forces, has established a new Government. The President has fed to a Franch steamer. Though the whole country forces, it is is not yet AMERICA'S FREE LIST. | subdued by the Revolutionary

AGRICULTURAL NECESSITIES acts of violence and plundering, mestly

INCLUDED.

(Rotter's Service to the China ai.}.

LONDON, August 2.

A message from Washington states. that the Senate has adopted a Bill which provides for putting on the free list all articles necessary for agriculture.

OBITUARY.

DEAN GREGORY.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, Aug. 2. The death has occurred of Dean Gregory.

expected that such may be the case shortly. The Revolutionists are committing many

under the influence of drink. The country being contiguous to Cuba, the United. States has dispatched two warships. Another cruiser Also will be sent at once. to the island.--E». C. M.

ENGLISH CRICKET.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

RESULTS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail,}

LONDON, Aug, 2. The Conaty Championship Cricket matches commenced on July 31st have resulted as follows:-

Worcestershing Essex (at Stour- bridge)-win for Essex by an innings and 228 runs.

Yorkshire . Notts (at Ball)-win for Yorkshire by 225 runs.

Surrey v. Lancashire (at the Oval)—

[Note The Very Pay. Robert Gregory, D. D., has been Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral since 1801. He was born at Nottingham on February 9, 1819, and was therefore 2 years of age. Educated atwa. private schools and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (where he received the Denyer Hampshire v. Warwickshire (at South-

my Prize in 1849), he was made curste ampten-drawn. at Bisley in 1843 and later held enracies Farton and Wingby and at Lambeth. He was Incumbent of Mary to Lambeth, from 1863 to 1873 and Canon of St. Pauls from 1868 to 1991. He was s noted proseher and lecturer and also won

Mr Balfour's motion is regarded "It is being said in Canton that all the in the Lobby as a demonstration in fuss which has been crusted about the force aiming at the reconciliation of rising that may be expected in Canton in Unionista by tending to satisfy the the near future is being fomented by the combative policy of owners of house property in Hongkong and Surrenderites" and thus compensate some note as a writer.-ED. Q.M.] Macso. Some time back house rents them for allowing the Lords to pass

"No the

GOVERNMENT SELF. CONFIDENT.

The Liberal papers to-day are con

extended use of the motor-car than Hongkong during the past 20 years. These showed a tendency to drop, and the owners the Veto Bill. is the case in Hongkong. As a con-tracks show the point at which the dis of property are said to have thought that sequence the traffic for exceeds that turbances were first noted and give the if they could manufacture a "scare." then dates as well as the daily progress of the rich Cantonese would rush off to Hongkong of our Colony, This in turn intensifies tephoons. Not only is this feature of great and Macao and thereby house property the dangers in the more crowded parts value as a record of the big disturbances would immediately increase in value. of the Settlement, and it is not but it enables fresh morementa to be com- therefore to be wondered at that pared with the tracks of past typhoons DEPARTMENT. some steps should be taken with a stiff cardboard, and is mostly tape or view to the regulation of speed hanging. The price remains at 20 cents Of late an increasing number of street accidents have occurred in Shanghai, and the authorities have come to the conclusion that for these the motor-car is "in some measure" responsible. Hence the decision to deal with the matter. A memorandum has been issued to car owners in English and Chinese by the CAP- TAIN SUPERINTENDENT of POLICE.

The conaceration of the Rev. Mark N.fident that no new Peers will be created, Trollope, Bishop-Desiguate of Korea, was as the Government is sure of beng to take place on July 25th in St. Paul's able to cat-vote the Haleburyites Cathedral. After a fortnight's holiday in unaided. the Tyrol, Bishop Trollops intends leaving Vienna about the middle of September, and then goes straight on to Moscow, andno by the trans-Siberian Railway, arriving. (liko

THE NEW

'BONNIE'

Straw Hats

· NEWS OF THE DAY:

A contract has been signed for build-Bishop Corte in 1890) in his future diocese

$240,400.000

LANSDOWNE TO CENSURE.

LATER

Lord Lansdowne, on behalf of Lord

BISHOP OF OXFORD.

LATER.

The death has occurred of the Bishop of Oxford....

Note The Right Rev. Francis Pagot,

AN AGADIR INCIDENT.

ENGLISHMEN EXPELLED. (Reuter's Service to the China Maïl.),

LONDON, Aug. 2. The Moorish authorities have ex- pelled from Agadir the Daily Express correspondent, Mr Ostler, and another Englishman.

The Express correspondent at Tangier has been Bishop of Oxford since states that Commander Berlin (?) offered TOL He was 60 years of age. In 1883

Fis

Iain

COMMISSIONER'S APPOINTMENT,

میهن

he married Miss Helen Beatrice Church, to intercede on Mr Ostler's behalf, bat

wife predeceased him in 1900. The daughter of the Very Rev. R. W. Church. the latter declined the offer. deceased prelate's career is given in Who's Who as followsEduc. St. Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School; Shrewsbury School Chria: Church, Oxford Hartford Scholarship, 1871; Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse, 1871: First Class Moders-

(Wah Tei Yat Po's Service) tion, 1871; First Class (Tát, Hum.), 1673 Senior stadent Christ Church, Oxford,

PEKING, August 2, ing a new subterranean railway in New at Michaelmas, Meanwhile," he writes

Whitehall, 1982-83:

H. E. Ko Erb Kin, the former Macao examining chaplain to York, the cost being estimated at In the Morning Calm, "I am cheered by Curzon, has given notice that he will 1873; tater, 1878: Oxford preacher at

Tory hearty letters of greeting and co-move on Tuesday in the House of Lords Bishop of Ely; Vicar of Bromsgrove, 1883- Boundary Commissioner, has been ap gratulation both from the clergy and other a vote of censure on the Government in 80; Begins Professor of Pastoral Theology pointed Provincial Treasurer of Yunnan. The Parliamentary Commission of the workers, and also from the

nativo" the same terme as Mr. Balfour's motion and Canon of Christ Church, 1855; Chap Dean of to Bishop of Oxford, 1892; Obrist Panama Canal has definitely, approved of Christians in Koros.”

1892-1001. Church, Oxford, BOL. CHINA AT CORONATION. the plans for the construction of docks at

Member of the Royal Commission on the Atlantic entrance to the canal, namely”

THE ALBANIAN In his annual report the Director of

Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1904-6. Publi cations: Concarning Spiritual Gifte: The Cristobal Paint, near Colon. Five docks Public Works says the sum/provided under

Redemption of Work Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Disbelief; The

(Wah Tes Tat Po'e Service.) Hallowing of Work Essay in Lux Mundi

FERING, August 2. -on Sacraments: The Spirit of Discipline: The P. and O. ae. Nubia and the Bluo the clock. From 1905 until now, sach

Studies in the Christian Character; In The Cabinet has wired to the Chinese the increasing number of street accid- | ents is to be accounted for to a them from Port Swettenbam some 3,530 vote Miscellaneous Services," but $8

Funnel liner Achilles took away between operations have been defrayed cut of the (Reuter's Service to the China Marxiustion, to 5th Book of Hook's Ecclest Minister in London ordering him, i

arties! Polity; The Redemption of War; LONDON, August, 2. $1.50, $2.50, $3.50. certain extent by the greater number cases of rubber for Colombo and European that vote has now been abolished, an item

Turkey has practically reached a of cars now in use than formerly, ports. Besides, this some 973 packages of making separata provision for the mais there is no doubt that it is due other local produce also formed part of tenance of the clock, as was the case prior agreement with the Malissori in Albania, their cargo, making altogether about 4,600 to 1905, has been restored to the estimates, and the Montenegrins are now inducing still more to the excessive speed

packages.

Considerable repairs to the clock were the refugees to return to their homes.. ut which certain cars are driven,

carried out during the year, the cost of

Miscellaneous Works." them being defrayed from the roto

FOR-

Boys and Girls. The document is in the nature of are to be built, capable of sotemmodating the heading of Town clock (8200) merely

VERY PRETTY DESIGN,

ten of the largest-sized vessels

a warning, and it states that although

As to the remedies, it is not proposed the Goremment report on Wei-hai-ci Diminution in the use of opium, ways at present to recommend the adopton just issued, seems to be lending to excessive

Wm. Powell, Ld, of a speed limit in any "part of the use of alcohol. On this the witty writer of

pays for the services rendered by a local.. firm of jewellers in wliding and regulating

Straits papera state that Mr Jack

has been served with a summiers following

UNREST.

AGREEMENT IN SIGHT.

0.

ENGLISH AVIATOR'

KILLED.

Settlement, nor is it intended, in these tho By the Way" column in the Globe Jennings, Editor of the Times of Malaya PASSENGER'S LUCKY ESCAFE. days of quick transit, to curb speed, remarks: What did they think it would the publication in the Times of Malaya qua speed, in any place or

at any time

in hat-guards 7

paper Capital under the heading "Prood-

The articlo enntains, an attack on the

LONDON MINISTER

QUESTIONED,

Christ the Way A Primary Charge. The strong terms, to report on the nature of deceased took part in the Coronation the reception accorded to the Chinese ceremony on June 22nd, being me of the special envoy and also on the Princes two Queen's Bishops. Lu. 0. M.3*** of other nations.

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BRANDY

climate. For all purposes, whether as a beverage or medicinally

this Brandy will be found to be the best.

| land to ?. A booin in sealing-waz or a slump of July 14th of an article from the Calcutta Beuter's Service to the China Mail | 83 supplied by us will be found to be the best Brandy to take in this,

LONDON, Aug. 3. VICTORIA THEATRE. where it is unaccompanied by danger Mosers John Crowley and Sons, the lock: Case, Strong comments. by, Capital." A young English airman, named English textile mansfacturers, have par Judge de Justice Bereombo Smith, and Gerald Napier, in a tria fight at | however, show that in soine places chased twenty mores of land at Easton it is alleged that the article constititates a Brooklands lost evening was thrown out In cases of sickness 20 Years Old Brand with milk will be found to have:

DES VIEUX ROAD CENTRAL.

7.15 r.. to 8.45. AND

to the public. "Present conditions,

and at some times of the day in Pennylvania, for the erection of extensive Defamation of the Court, punishable under of his machine and killed. 2.15 . to 1116 r. Shanghai police control of the speed plant for the manufacture of carpots and the Funal Code. In this congestion, the A passenger escaped with a shock.

of motor traffic is necessary, and go. The American tariff protecting Times of Malaya of July 22nfi pablished THE FINEST and COOLEST

American labour cappots the erection of a in place of the loading articles agnedONDON DOCK STRIKE nowhere is this more the case then in factory, an it prohibits the importation of statement by the Directore diss rowing HALL in the COLONY.

the crowded streets of the Settlement." English manufactures. To meet this need a defiate request

RETURN, VISIT

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is made to all owners that they will

TIME BÅVED.

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DONNELLY TROUPE to be driven, at a greater speed than about 16 miles an hour anywhere in

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Look out for the Greet Artiste LYNDON DAVIES COMING BOON,

previous knowledge of the article and exprossing their regret and disapproval that "auch an abominable and scurrilons article should have found its way into the preciate the promptness with which columns of the paper. Chamberlain's Colis, Cholera and Diarrhers rundy acts. A severe attack of disrhous or camp colie is usually cured by one or

Incurred; whereas sovami days, would be

A DANGEROUS DISEASE. YSENTERY na dangerous diacaso

SITUATION EXTREMELY

GRAVE.

(Reuters Bervice to the China Mail;)

LONDON, Aug. 2.

The situation at the London docks is the Settlement east of the Defence two doses and no lose of time will be but can bared. Chimberlain's described as extremely grave. A

required to overcome the effect of such an Colie. Cholers and Diarrhoea Remedy bea

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