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„TRIDAY, JUNI 28, 1912.

THE CHINA MAIL.

BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH. SECOND EDITION

[COPTRIOST] SPEECH BY SECRETARY FOR THE COFONIES.

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PROGRESS OF NYASSALAND AND UGANDA.

TROPICAL DISEASE.

Dealing with the question of trapi- cal disanse, Sir Harcourt said the most anxious problem, both of the present day and of the future, was sleeping sickness. He spoke of the improvement in health of West Africa, whore the death rate among. Eur- opean officials had fallen from 21 to 13 per thousand, and the rep of Europeans invalided from 36 ¿Bouter's Servico, to the China, Mail] to 35 per thousand, and shen, passing on to the opium question, he narrated the LONDON, June 28.

tops which had boer taken to reduce

Grappling With "Sleeping: -

Sickness."

Ur Lewit Harcourt, Colonial Secretary, the consumption of the Ink in the is dealing with the questions of sleeping Straits, Hongkong, Woilaiwei, “and sickness, referred to the manner in Ceylon, pointing out the danger which which he hopes for its erigation had was likely to arise, from n soo rapid pro- bean dished by the discovery of glossinnhibition, in the incrense of deadlier morsitana. They had discovered that ricas, the use of morphin and coonine: the testes fly was also a carrier of this r Harcourt congludost by paying infection, and many animals, wild or tribute of aufeigned sumiration to the - domestic, bad fallen under almost proved suspicion of being life bosta of the splendid work of the whole of the Colonial Service. They reaped fw deadly trypanosome."

The realisation of this horrible devel-rewards except the advantage they derived from the benefit of their

a

opment had evoked a too previous work to the natives, credit to the demand that all suspected species of

· animals should be ruthlessly destroyed, service, and their own good name, but

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JAPAN AND THE LOAN

TO CHINAN

"MANCHURIAN RESERVATION

WITHDRAWN. Reuter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, June 28:

A talegram fram Tokyo states that Japan bus with drawn the Manchurian reservation anant the Chinese Ioan.

THE FILLING OF GOVERNORSHIPS.

(Rauter's Service to the China Mail)

LONDON, June 28,

In the pafutter" of THE COMPANIES"

ORDINANOK OF HONGKONG,

IDE

Stop Press News Matter of WATKINS LIMITED,

[COPYRIGHT

DE ELIOT IN JAPAN,

(Independent News Agency's Service

to the China Mail.)

TOKYO, June-28, Dr. C. W. Eliot, President of Garrard University, on his arrival at Tokyo, was welcomed by various societies Ee was received in audience by E. M. the Emperor yesterday--

TOKYO'S MAYORALTY.

(Independent News Agency's Service. to the China Mäl.)

TOKYO, Jane 28.

Mr Tokonami, Vice Minister of the In the House of Commons, the Right Home Department. is considered to bave Hon. A. Lyttleton appealed for the the best prospect of election to the

Me: Omki, return of the old rule of filling Gover-cagion to ty of Tokyo, in sno- narships from the Colonial Service.

MB GRAHAME-WHITE'S MARRIAGE..

AEROPLANÈS TO CHURCH

THEIR MAJESTIES, IN SOUTH WALES

INTERESTED IN THE

COALITIELDS.

|

(In, Liquidation):

HONGKONG

NEW YORK

REGULAR

Tan EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL.

MEFUNG of the above named 88% - MIDDLEHAM QABTZE Company duly convened, and held so the

·For Freight" de further parthscilażną apply to "Company's Otico, on the 31st day of May, 1912, the following clution was duly passed, and she subsequent Extraordinary General Moating of the Members of the

id: Company held at the same pisos on the 19th day of Jans, 1813, the same resolution was duly confirmed as a Spocini Resolution, viz. S

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMER

T450 on tomass CALOUTTA, In Donjasodon with

TAKING Cargo on through Bite af Lading’to' SOUTH AFRICAN

INDO-CHINA STRAM NAVIGATION 00., ETD,

AND AFGAR RESTRA Proposed - Jakings from-Hongkong

Abosumer from Hongkong; †: On or abour ·Comagotinæ në Calcutta wish.

That the Company be wound-up *"* voluntarily, and that - EnvÌEZ: "ALFRED MOUNTFORD WILLIAMI, "Incorporated Accountant of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, be and he is hereby NAMSANG. *appointed Liquidator for the.

EOPING *** purpose of such winding up.”

GAWATKINS,

-** Chairman.

Honakour. June 19; 1819.

In the Matter of THE COMPANIES'

ORDINANCE, 1911,

In the Matter of WATKINS LIMITED,

(In Liquidation)

T

NOTICE TO CREDITORS."

but the time was not yet for proof, and they had at least the testimony of the Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) | (Reuter's Servics to the Chine Mail and addresses, and the particulars of their

they were not sure.

My hesitation is not in the interests of so-called big,game," Mr Harcourt continued, as indeed it is quite likely that infection may be equally conveyed by them as by small vermin. As s

civilised world to their probity and humanity."

THE PROGRESS OF

AVIATION.

• Loxbox, June 27. Mr Grahame White, the well-known

Miss Dorothy Taylor at Widford, near

THE Creditors of the above-named Com- pany are required, on or before the 13th day of July, 1919, to send their names

debts or cisims, and the names and addresses LONDON, June 28.

to the Under- (if any) Their Majesties met with a splendid of their Solicitors reception at the Socih Wales coalfields, signed the Liquidator of the said Company,

by notice in writing tions in the Rhondda Valley and in-citor, or personally, to come in and prove spected a triumphal arch of conl, their mid debts or claims at unb times and decorated with picks and safety lamps, place as shall be specified in such nation, which had been erected in their honour. or in defeat thereof they will be szoluded from the benefit of any distribution; made before auch debts are proved.

English aviator, was married to-day to They were very interested in the opern. and, if so tor, are by their Soli-:

Chelmsford.

The Bridegroom and some of the

naturalist. I should be very loth to SAFETY INCREASED SIX-FOLr8uests travelled in an aeroplane to the

exterminais a species which can never

be restored, but would besitate at no destruction of wild fauna if and when

IN TWO YEARS.

I am convinced that this holocaust is (Router's Service to the China Mail -essential to the elimination of the

LONDON, June 28,.. Dinesse —

A telegram.inin Paris states that the I have been receiving frequent reports Minister for War, addressing the French from the Commission at present in Chamber, said that the co-efficient Nyasaland under Sir David Bruce and have been watching almost daily the safety of aeroplanes had, increased ais- development of their diagnosis. We fold since 1910. The greatest cure was shall shirk no action which seems to be being taken in the selection of aviators, dictated by ascertained facts, and the many of whom were veritable masters.

(Cheers). Mission which the British South Africa Company sent to Rhodesin for the pur- pose is ottaining valuable results which will interially assist the work of the Cophonisimers in Nyasaland.

NEW LEGISLATION FOR

NEW ZEALAND.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, June 28.

After referring to the increase of the tseste dy in districts where game was once plentiful but is now non-existent,

A telegram from Wellington state

·Mr. Harsurt expressed the belief the civilisation would best destroy morsi-that in the speech at the opening of tanei, not by the removal of game, but Parliament, outlining the policy of the by the cultivation of the scil. He now Ministry, it was proposed to have described the many precautions that feeder light railways. Numerous pro were being taken, and, pending the posate dealing with the land were alo results of the inquiries, begged the brought forward, also the establishment House to believe that heroics measures, of Agricultural Colleges of 1¿ditional founded on balf-knowledge, were experimental farma, reciprocity with mischievous forms of human folly, Australia; differentiation between earn- Dealing with the study of tropicaled and unearned incomes; the age of medicins, Mr. Harcourt paid a tribute women as pessioners lowered to sixty to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, to whose years, antitrust legislation, and co encouragement was largely due the operative farmers banks. activity of the Liverpool and London schools for the study of that particular branch of science and their present atate of efficiency.

NYASSALAND,

The revenue of Nyassalaad had risen to £114,000 and the Grant ja Aid had been decreased to £5000.

THE DOCK WORKERS'

STRIKE.

PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT. The Leaders Recommendation.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mafl.)

LONDON, June 27.

The Shire-Highlands Railway was being extended to the Zambesi and At a meeting of railwaymen at Strat

southward to Beira.

UGANDA,

ford last night, which was expected to order a strike for the purpose of sup porting the dockers in accordance with a resolution passed on the 24th inst., The revenue of Uganda bad risen surprise was created by the leaders ap from £97,005 to £232,000 and the Grant pealing to the men not to strike. This in Aid had fallen to 245,000. The was the result of au. interview with Mr exported cotton thera had risen in the Asquith yesterday, foreshadowing last five years to $3,000 certs, and the settlement of the dockers” strike.

venue of East Africa had risen 40 2780,000, while the Grant in Aid was"

TILLETS WILD WORDS. steadily diminishing.

Sugar and its producte accounted for about 15 per cent. of the exports from Mauritius, which amounted in 1910 £2,260,000,

CEYZON,

Ceylon's export of tea had increased -10 $1,000,000,

24,000,000.

MALAY STATES.

rubber 17

church where the ceremony was per- | IMPERIAL TRADE COM- forined.

Note:-Miss Dorothy Cadwell Taylor is the nly daughter of Mr and Mes Bertrand Leroy Taplus, of 784, Fifth avenue, New York, and of Watertown, New York. Mr Claude Grahame White is the moord wou of the inte-dir John Reginald Grahame-White, of Fairholme, Faygate, Sussex.-E. . M.).

FLYING THE CHANNEL

可

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!!

DISAPPEARANCE OF AN AVIATOR.

1

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.

LONDON, June 27.

The airman Valentine left Dover at six o'clock yesterday evening to fly to Calais. He has not been seen since.

SAFT IN FRANCE.

LATER Valenting-bas landed at Grienez.

EXPLOSION ON FRENCH WARSHIP.

GUN TURRET FATALITIES.

S

(Reuter's Service to the Ching" Mail.)

LONDON, June 27.

mea bave been wounded, some fatally, "A Toulon telegram reports that 25

by an explosica in the gun turret of the Jules Michelet, during firing practice.

LATER DETAILS.

L'ATER,

اليه

There were two accidents on the Jules

Michelet. Practice was resumed after the first explosics in which 13 were wounded. Then the gua backfired," wounding 10.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA

ROSES.

£10,000 IN PENNIES.

from the said

EAM. WILLIAMS,

MISSION'S QUESTIONS. St. George's Building, Liquidator.

(Reuter's Servics to the China Mail.)

Hongkong, June 20, 1912.

In the Matter of THE COMPANIES"

ORDINANCE 1911,

and

In the Malter of WATKINS LIMITED,

(In Liquidation).

LONDON, June 28, The questions which the Imperial Trade Commision decided-on June 21 to address invite Empire-wide anggestions as to the method of improving trade. with particulars of any legislation, etc., which may be considered as being de N trimental; also requesting reasons, to be given regarding amendment ard con-panies Ordinance, 1911, that & Besting of

crete instances bearing on the matter:

THE FRENCH NAVAL

DISASTER..

LATER PARTICULARS.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

Loxton, Jaze 28,

Router's correspondent at Toalon- telegrapha that three bluejackets have. died as the result of the back-fre, The accident was caused by an over- heated gan,hich fired in the fiftieth rosad.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, in

pursuance to Section 181 of the Com Creditors of the above-named Company will be held at the office of the Under- aigned, St. George's Building, Chater Foly Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 29th day of JULY, 1912. at Noos, for the purposes. provided for in the said Section.

EAM. WILLIAMS

Liquidalar,

Hongkong, June 30, 1915,

Lane,

THE PRINCE OF WALES. A

(Reuter's Servicë to the Chins Mail.)

Lorrox, June 28.

The Prince of Wiles has returned

to Parie:

"..

THE FRENCH SEA- MEN'S STRIKE.

SHIPOWNERS' AND GOVERN-

-MENT'S PROPOSAL

(Router's Service to the China Maž.)

Joybox, June 28,

A telegram frm Earis states that the shipowners, with the exception of the Compagnie Mess geries Maritimes, have declined the Goernment's proposals.

Crawford

& Co. -

Ladies'

Smart

LORD ROBERTS AND MR BATHING DRESSES

MASONS LETTER.

DEFENDING SIR GEORGE WHITL'SREPOTATION.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) (Reuter's Berop to the China Mail')

LONDON, June. 27.

It is estimated that about £30,000 has been realised by the sale of Queen Alexandra roses, of which £10,000 was in ponnies. Fancy prices were given is the City and in the West End for penny bloome, the highest being by a well- known distiller who gave £100. Miss

Mr Ben Tillet, the dockers' lender, Phyllis Broughton, the popular actress.

Laspos, June 28.

Lord Roberte in a letter to the Times," states (at Mr A. E. W. Mason. the novelist, in biletter to the "Times published on the 6th inst., unwittingly did an injustice ühe military reputation of a distinguishe soldier. Lord Roberts states that he hardly believe that Sir George Whi deliberately abord nated his milits judgment to the fear of a problematic native rising..

[Note-Me Mr stated that the chief

upbraided the railwaymen for their sold by auction roses on the Baltic Ex-renson why Bir Grge White remained at

cowardice and said the dockers change. The bikers at Tower Hill would, nevertheless, continue the strike, bought readily

for a month if necessary. There would

be murder, lis said, if it lasted longer..

A REMINDER

A manifesto issued by the Executive STRUTS SETTLEMENTS AND of the Amalgamated Society of Railway- men reminds the members that they are bound fo cheerve their contract with the Companies.

The Revenue of the Straits Settle men's had risen to $10,600,000,

and there was also matoris

the rerehne from porta a THE FRENCH SEAMEN'S ports of the Federated Malay Slater.

JAMAICA

Jamaica had made rapid

anti

Current sear

STRIKE

RESUMPTION OF WORK RECOMMENDED.

telegram

Strike Comm

AMERICAN

POLITICS.

THC. DE MO "RATS" CONVEN- TION.

Victory For Progressivas.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail:)

LONDON, June 27.

A Baltimore telegram states that Mr Bryan has refused the Chairmanship of the Resolutions Committee,

consideration of the Party programme The Convention has decided to defer till the Presidential cordidate is nomin ated

Ladysmith was bease he had been warned by high authory that his retirament from the town uld be the signal for a rising of the blasin Fatak--Ea. C. M}.

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVE AND LAND HLDING

QUESTIO IN HOUSE OF

CUMONBER

(Reuter's Beria to the China Mail)

LONDON, June, 28

The Right F. Mr Alfred Lyttleton called attentico the Bill introduced into the Bout African Union Par-

regulating thholding of hand by lament by Premier's Bocre

represented settled polley of the Union Governnt he would

balvas drilletra, ddarotibad, th as being tamount to the in *** | troduction of bed labour, which he Renter's correspondent at Baltimore understood been dropped, but if it telegraphs that there have been elurts to start demonstrations in favour of the different candidates. The most snccess. Kina Marko) Fil was that engineered on behalf of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the Radical governor of New Jersey. It lasted thirty-three

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