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ely the matter in nsideration. “The blood
has ever
the sood of the Church, and in these latter days we have no individual- martyrs though a community robbed and defrauded of its rights and pro- perty is no inapt reproduction of the state of public feeling which rendered martyrdom possible in the times of DIOCLETIAN, and itseems by no means improbable that a hearty revival of religious zeal might be the first visible effect of such drastic changes
tons and
Several papers have informed us that Mr Churchill went down in a submarino. Perhaps he had mod was up unitin loamed that the mermaids pre met in:favour
of votes for wordt,
The Band of the 1, G..M, S. 4 horst in giving sa Crohentail Conc City Hall on Friday night
9131- bu umdited by Mil
as are now proposed. But a willing schmidt. martyr in the sense of one who courts. martyrdom is an anomaly and does not excite the admiration or the approval of mankind. We trust therefore that the clergy will continue their strenuous opposition.
BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH.
TRO
At Rhondda bar applied for 1,500
Special cometa
Hout the ccaLY
Miners Excutive have concluded their uitting in London. They have announced that they have that reached an agreement concerning in. arma | ternational sation in the event of an
“utrika.
spon
this morning," by
E in his when the ser hë pat the opini
him
But what of the indirect resnita?
The Hongbong Government Gmetta This flourishing condition of the notion that HM the King has not been resuscitated Church in Wales, supposed to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to su Ozdivance to amend the ing that it be brought about, will not Marchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and 11 am-Volunteer Parade Service at eventuate without exceedingly liberalaia frdinances auoading the same.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. 9.-Excursion to Macas.
St. John's Cathedral
MEMOS FOR MONDAY.
5 p.m.-Band at H.E. Club
Association,
9 p.m. The Blind Prince
Joseph College.
Skating at St.
General Memoranda.
TUESDAY, February 27
*
5.15 pm-British and Foreign. Bible.
Society's Annual Meeting in City Hall, WEDNESDAY, February 28:-
Noon-Hongkong Ice Co. Meeting. 3 p.m.-Sale of Race Ponica by Pablie
Roup
The ofhinx Mail
The Eastern Tolimaph Company has decided to lay a new cable to Egypt from The cable will touch at Malta candria. The cost is estimated at
mad
contributions from districts remota from that primarily affected, which, whether we will or no, must be with drawn from the purses of the charit- uble. That purse is not so unfathom- £100,000, and will be defray by the able as it may please tue folgetemi reterre fond of the company, lowers of LLOYD GEORGE to We have received from the Chins suppose let those who have Imperial Maritime Customs a book contain undertaken the unthankful task of ing a list of lighthouses, light-vessoli, buoys, collecting money for any philanthropic end bescons on the coast, and river of purpose whatever, reply. The Church can corrected to December 1st, 1871.
China. The list, which is the fortieth inwar
will not leave an amputated member to struggle on by itself, and we may confidently anticipate earnest appeals. from the whole of the bishops and clergy in the course of a very few
HOPE:
Cont
the China Maal Lavador, Fali rade enge the E and O. lider
Trented in
Muc-
Fand
WEE Canard
have been selected...
· KOPELESS SITUATIONĖ
message from Router's correspond
Sydney mys that Macartney and have been selected for places
displayed in filling the places "msken, the situation „ more.
The State" Premier for New South Wales (Mr. J. & T. McGowan) is a deavouring to mediata, butila settlement is not reached, Mesars Noble, Hill, Enver and five others will retire from first- class cricket
nart, finding that the
zated
care and that the Eas the default of the master
Bat- ocundering his unbl character, the trying circumstances i which he was placed and his able mine ner of conducting things after the case unlty, the court refrained from dealing with bir certificates
AGAINST TARIFE REFORM.
(Reuter's Service to the China Maik).
Laydon, Feb. 23.
The House of Commons has rejected the Tariff Reform Amendment to the Addrem to the Throne by 938 votes:- to 193.
LONDON, Feb. 24. The House of Commons has agreed to
(Reuter'e Service to the China Mail } the Address.
- LONDON Fab. 24.
Beuter's Berlin correspondent states THE WATERLOO OUP. that it is officially announced that the greater part of the fresh defence re- quirements will be devoted to the Army-
A gleam of hope is found in the HE GERMAN ARMY. announcement that further coal negotiat ions may mean at least a postponement of the strike notices. Menawhile national preparations for a strika are not relaxed
A STRIKE CERTAIN ?
The agenda for the Conference of the Federation of Transport Workers at Manchester to-day is based upon the ides that a strike is certain."
LABOUR MË.- AND FOREIGN
COAT
Mr Will Thorne, M.P., addressing the to transport, workers at Salford, said he A notification has hoon issand by Mr hoped that every port would refuse to W. Shields, district postmaster for handle a ton of coal from abroad if the tong. Kangri and Hainan, to the miners were not accorded fair and offdot that owing to certain circumstances reasonable conditions. reling to the change of Government the
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FERUAKT 24, 1913 months, appeals that cannot be distaps of that administration surcharged
DISESTABLISHMENT AND DISENDOWMENT.
(provisional bentrality) will not be issued. for sale.
The Government of the Dutch East In lies have decided to put an end to the
garded. All charitable movements will suffer; probably Missions, both foreign and home, will be the first to feel the effects, hospitals, already severely hit. To one who has been long absent by the Insurance Act, will follow, monopoly of the oil business held up to the from the arena of English politics perhaps disastrously; but in the enpresent by the Koninklijke Nederlandsche there is nothing more surprising than every philanthrophic object, will be Maatschappij tot Exploitatio van Pet the short-sighted apathy with which restricted and starved more or less roleum Bronnen in Nederlandschlodie, really great qucations are left to be To the commercially minded the desire them
by granting concessions to those who may decided by a chance majority in a whole matter may be put in a nutshell: Parliament elected to decide quite one of the partners in the firm of different issues. It has been knowa Church and State threatens to with for months that the present session of draw a portion of the capital which Parliament is to determine amongst a be claims to be wholly his though he multitude of other momentous ques-would find it more than difficult to tions the continued existence or other prove this in a court of equity, and if wise of the Church of England in Wales, the business is carried ou upon the yet except in certain favoured districts same lines it will be necessary to sup-3,000 osery Sunday, the matter gives rise to no discussion. ply the withdrawn capital by redne- A few Bishops who are more im-ing all subeldiary schemes to a
From a comau of the traffic over Blackfriars Bridge, the figures of which are just been published by the City Car vehicles and 155,000 pedestrians cross it poration, it appears that about 20,000
daily. The lyridge in the widest in London, sad carries the most traffic. Some 25,000 the northern end, and between 2,000 and 1. People use the subways every week-dây at-
In an address on Vineyards of the
Ladies Department. mediately concerned have entered minimum. It would thus appear to World, given before the Wine Trade Club
NEW RAINCOATS
SPLENDID SELECTION
IN THE
in London, Me Andre L. Simon said that
quite recently the laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about B.C. 2257, had been discovered, and showed that this
regulations concerning the sale of wine, and that the poor retailer even in those days was harassed by the most severe legislation.
FURTHER CONFERENCES.
APOLITICAL MISSIO
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
Loxsay, Feb. 242
A Washington message states that Mr Secretary Knox has started. on a political mission to South America.
BOXING.
WORLD'S, FRATHER WEGHT CHAMPION.
The owners and men had seperate(Reuter's Service to the China Musk) conferences this morning, and afterwards the owners went to the Foreign Offics to discuss the situation with Ministers.
(Reuter's "Service to the China Mad.) Losnor, Feb. 23, The Waterloo Cup was won by Tide Time, who beat Adversary.
·THE CHAMPION STAKES.
They're off! A bold of seven 1 And in their names what bidden magic less The beauteous "Rose," "White Haw-
thorn "from the hedge,
With music from the spheres, impe from
the-underworld:""
Music first leads the way, as "Mandolin,”- With tendens taut, passos the village bend, **Ebburz (the Mountain) follows.next
the flower. Then comes "Marengo, LONDON, Feb. 23. The Bock is left behind. Bentar'a correspondent at Los Angeles | The ponins gather close, Diabolini making
TUESDAY THE FATEFUL DAY, Abe Attell in twenty rounds for the And Royal Rose, the queen of all the telegraphs that Johnny Kikane defeated
Once in the Straight *Capello Jeada,
world's featherweight championship.
The crucial day will be Tuesday,
when the delegates to the National Minets Federation, among whombre- several extereme men, will meet in London, to finally decide whether they will accept or reject the proposals which may result from the Ministerial!
conferences.
REACTION ON WORKERS:
of Paisley hare given a formight's notice In view of the coal strike, Messrs Costa
to all their employees. This affects nearly 10,000-workers-
Other firms continue to act similarly,
PREMIER METES KING.
Mr Asquith has had an andienos with
NEW AVIATION RECORD.
(Reuters Service to the China Mfath)
LONDON, Feb. 23. Lieut. Barrington Kennett few 349 azvile
on Salisbury Plain with a par songer. This is a résord
THE HOME BULE BILL
(Reuter's Service to the Cheng Mail)
INDON, Feb 23
Mr Birrell, speaking at Bristol, stated that Mr Asquith will introduce Home Bale Bill which he was con- fident would be supported from one
upon a campaign in its defence but be the duty of all laity or clergy who the great heart of England is not are interested hi the success of the stirred. It is as though it was not philanthropic institutions of which affected at all, or as though it were Englishmen are proud to rally to the sovereign's laws contained the most precis His Majesty the King. It is understood end of Britain to another. content that an important measure defence of the small but vigorous might properly be smuggled. through branch of the Church Catholic. the House under the shadow of still greater events. Yet this is essential- ly a layan's affair, the dignitaries of
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Finded in 1781, the Marlborough
The power of goggustion is tragically
that the meeting was in regard to the coal situation."
WORKERS' CO-OPERATIOYE
The Transport Workers Federation
BRITISH DIPLOMATIC
CHANGE.
fowars, is next to hand......
As third comes Mandolin.". And thus they pass the winning post And meet tas judge's
And bands relax and lips or smile or fall, Ar voice now released from strong
repression
Find utterancE ONES MUTE In shouts of triumph-or sink in sighei For some are glad, and some are sad, But all, with cos accord agree That 1919 brought forth a "Champion's"
Race in sarest verity.
KAM
THE QUESTION OF THE
CAPITAL.
The question as to the location of the new capital is assuming dimensions that may lead to much trouble. Sun Yat Sen has received a telegram, apparently from. the people of the Kwantong province, which he is asked to transmit to all viceroys and others throughout the empire. The there of this telegram state that it has come to their knowledge that there are thusa in Nanking who are opposed to Sun a suggestion that the future capital whÄTE
} illustrated by the suicide of two soldiers has decided to give miners whatever Reuter's Bervice to the China Mail y be in the wuth. It is now pointed out.
the church can hardly engage in it, at Dedham, at first styled the Society on board the transpo Somali, investigate assistance the Miners Federation con
without exposing themselves to the
nt latherly Lore is to be dissolved at the end of this quarter, is consequence of the
NEWEST SHAPES. withoring charge that they are simply Na ional Insurance Act.
Moderate Prices.
Wm. Howell, Id.
Kowloon residents are wondering
that if the capital remains in Faking, this will curtail the authority of the south. The army of
London, Feb 23. Roland Serago, of the Est Battalion, Roy at Southampton on Jan. 22nd. Private
aiders necessary, such a
"as the refusal to cors, Fuptions, threw himself overboard handle coal whether native or imported. at Bucharest, and Sir George Barleys to this
Mr W. B. Townley, British Minister
whilst temporarily fumne, on December 30,
British Minister at Teheran, aro BI- will endanger the Republic, and lead and three days later, Private Willine
changing post.
bloody strife.
mative of Wilton, Ballsbury, committed svicide under almost identical circumi- | BORTICES.”
engrossed in the consideration of the amount of the loaves and fishes that whether it is not possible for the military Lanyard, of the 2nd Hants. Regiment, & gmy fall to their own share, and they authorities to do with a little less bugle nast trust that the front of the Pactice. At present it goes on continually fighting line will be occupied by from rosy porn till dewy sve.
of
those who are not liable to the same.
The coat, to Monmouthshire innuendo. But the layman will compensation granted to claimants hardly he moved from his lethargy suffered from the railway rota in that till he is convinced that his own county Iset summer has amounted to personal wishes and interests are £12,650 150. All claimsa: have now
bon stisied. likely to be interfered with or
hundred miles or so from the scene of the disaster, he refuses to see any danger
VICTORIA THEATRE. frustrated and removed by * A man was fined $50) by Me" 0, D,
DES FŒUX ROAD CENTRALE
4.15 2.m; to 8,45 2,100)
09,15 PM; bo 1L15PM.
TOW. FILMS JUST ARRIVED,
Melbourne, at
at the Magistracy this morn for þaying a revolver in his p9860 out a license. Another defe wiłempted to, pass" DeKim & There is danger, imminent danger race course, was fined $50- Davertheless. The resu
heaval are wide and are of two kin, dire Of the
A
FIFTE TEST MATCH.
ENGLAND STARTS FAIRLY-
WELL:
Some of the leading Cardiff shipowners, Reuter's Service to the China Mail as the result of the remarks zenently mad. at Board of Trade inquiries on the que ・of the
resolfed to reputer,
the
coks at the
last Tost Ma
INDIA.
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CASE
the Chi
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