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‹ FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1914.

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BRITISH POLITICAL-

ORIBIS.

THE OUTLOOK MUCH BRIGHTER.

PRESIDENT YUAN “PRACTICALLY A

DICTATOR.'

"

AMENDED PROVISIONAL CON- STITUTION ADOPTED.

HOME RACING.

RESULT OF THE "NEWBURY SPRING OUR

Lesbos, April 2 The result of the Newbury Spring Cup (a Handicap) run at Newbury

was as follows:-

11lb.)

Wrack (78%.

Mr. J. Joel's Blue Stone (83.

The King Goes to Windsor.

Ja.. Pankhurst of To East Fife.

LONDON, April 3.~*~. A Peking telegram states that the to-angi LONDON, April 3.

Convention which is amending the Lord Rosebe That the political outlook is much Provisional Constitution of China brighter in evidenced by the fact that has unanimously adopted President the King has left for Windsor Castle, Yüzn Shih Kai's amondments, and in and also that the Unionist Head-now drafting a new Constitution giving quarters are asking the local Unionists the Fresident practically dictatorial of East Fifo not to oppose Mr. Asquith,

Moderates in the Ascendant.

There is a strong and a growing feal- ing that the Moderates of all sides are against risking civil war since Federal and other suggestions have been made

-bowards n settlement of Ulster.

A Cantious Unionist Mova. “

Ted Hugh Cecil, in an important contribution in favour of "peace," bar given notiềa in the House of Commons | of a motion that a Bill be sent to a Committee of thirty to frame sugges- tions to be sent to the House of Lords. in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act and to take what steps they may denim expedient in the intorests of the peace and good govern. ment of Ireland. This would enable the exclusion of Ireland to be combined

· to a Felleral or other plan.

Prime Minister in East Fifo.

Mr. Any sith will deliver a speech in

· East · Fife-prabably at Ladybank--

-to-norrow.

The House of Commons

THE ADROIT EX-PREMIEK.

Discussing the Home Rule for

powers.

Ilb.)

Sir H. Layson's Brancepeth (7st -

11b.)

3

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE CASTON OF TO-DAY, THE BANDMANN OPERA

CURSORY VIEW.

(Contributed)

COMPANY.

The Bandmann Opars Company lane night again produced "The Marriaga

· Market”, before a crowded andienos at the

It is not intended that these commestre Royal. It is a music comedy

shall be anything more than 311 Bre reference as me of the obvious phases much better than men of te k nd, and, on & the great city of the South as 16 strikes the whole, the Company, do justice to it. an observer today, who awanwhile notwithstanding their deplorable lack of inmembers what it was many years ago. feminine round talent Mr. Bobbia The drst thing that impressed us wwwRoberts, in the part of a good natured but the difference in the appearance of the abnormally acupid member of the British streets today in regant to their clean-aristocracy, oncolls his usually brilliant. Dinesis. In days of old refuse of all kinds performance, and he and Ms Nelljo was" diewed to necumulate, and no one Lomsa, who dances perfectly, shared the feit that such filth was cither pulpable honcurs of the evening. Te-night, thà or dangerous. To-day things are very Company produse ** The Giri vn the Film," different. Wo do not mean to affirm

Hund, and then contented himself with

that there is no further improvement |————— wońniblo pren yet; but.iro aro pleased to ot that great strides bars been madu In this regard. We traversed several of the import no thoroughfares, and found that, no, the

whole, they presented a

wo na labourera a cleanly apoor, p work sweeping, and gathering rubbish into their basket, which, when full are

couple of hundred yards, opposite the officed residents at the cast of the city. The work dragged slowly, after the ap proved Oriental manner, delayed by the ever-present calamity that secus to ham. per all Chinese attempts at improve

Twenty-two ran. Won by length and a half. Three lengths [GOLF AT SANDY LODGE. J between second and 'third.

The betting was 4 to 1 against Wruck. 100 to 8. Blue Stone, 100 to carried off somewhere on th' shouldves / ments—lack of funds.: Wo are not quite")

Brancepeth.

Losnos, April 3,

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of thom who are told off to look after sure if it is completely finished yes, However, the buildings on the Bund are this work.

conspicuously different from all other

A great improvement is also observabla

in regard to the olfy and strees gate, expartially the former. In alten days, for example, the double untos at Shoung Afun night

in the City. They are distin two characteriation, vizą Some of them saadiness.

by

In golf mintele at Sandy Lodge, playing in the first round with a rubber-corvil' bull,, Vardon and' Dùn-

Note: The Newbury Spring Cup is¦ can hut Braid and Taylor using a

run over the straight mile and the prize gutty bull, five up. Subsequently £1.25%, which includes a grip valued Druid and Taylor, using a rubber-up 20, or specie. at the option of cored bull, beut Vardon and Duncan,

the winner. Wynek was trained by using a gutty hall four up.

They are F. Hartigan. Elo is Sve-year-old Tut were jammed with passers by, be-seem ridiculusly insecure. by rest by Robert le Diable Samp cause on each side, against the walls,rrow, very deep and very high, hire, and run nine times last year but hawkers had their stalls To-day there as would think, if a typhoon could get only won, once, the Newmarket "Biennial have all been cleared away, as well as them fairly and squarely, they would Stakes, and your the reait was Aldea eutsiderable apening made at the en- over, like a tall lanky youth struck wn, Branespeth, Monired; and previousrature and exit, it that it is quite cary by a strong man. They seem to stand, winners from 1009 to 112. Arranmor to go in and he wad the general appear however. It would scem that the Chi- Vadens, Rochester, Long -Ed.) ace is very cleanly and businessliko.es must love restaurants. At any rate,

most elaborately | At the street gates too we noticed that any of these are the Guls of the land," or images there carved, and glazed buillings, have been of, have all been removed and have never wet spars to the purpose of meeting the bien replaced. The City gates are now necessities of the inner man. Charges in the sain open condition as they were met bo high, or visitors must be many, when the British coupled Canton sixty that this capital invested in these houses years ago, and old people are not slow of resort may realize a fair return, after

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR BOMBARDIER WELLS.

Loxnus, April 9. Bombardier Wells knocked out

the French heavyweight champion, Lurie, in the seventh round of a contest at the Canterbury music- hall.

THE CALOUTTA TRAGEDY.

ROY AGAIN ACQUITTED.

LONDON, April 3.

A telegrain from Calcutta atates shut in the re-trial in the raurder of Detective Sub-Inspector

DISASTER TO SEAL

FISHERS

MANY LIVES LOST.

Luxbox, April 9.

A telegram from St. John's, New- foundland. states that steamers en-

to notice and express gratification at theming experts have been paid. improvement.

Another indication of change, and, in-,

The old type of soldier has gone. Heded, advance is the large number of is well remembered. They used to all assage boats that anchor by the Busd, about in "groups of eight or ten under and the Beet of foreign-buils porsengée gaged in the seal fishing with crews pugh mab shed, and did little work in Steamers that test on the waters of the uggregating 170, are adrift among the

Į river. Times have changed since the Lice Aloes as the result of a blizzard. return for the "Emperor'a rice," exock days when the Spark" went to "Macno,, Fifty persons, dead or dying have their rattans, rual for them, and lay and the White Cloud" to Hongkong. bestir themselves occasionally to take up already been recovered.

about the shoulders of some unfortunate ut perhaps the most marked advance

boals. They are for more numerous, mora cominodicus, and botter kept than of old. It is well-known that thirty years go they were perhaps as uncomfortable any thing of the kind on the face of the waters of the globe. We remember one going to Shek Lang from Canton

Another telegram states that

Dripend Bath Chose, the studentstearner returning with a full catch stall-holders, who had ventured to is in flua situation of the native passage:

Boy has been acquitted by the jury.consisting of 20,000 seals is missing The Judge summed up against the 173 persons were aboard. Ireland Bill, in the House of Comprisoner, but the jury discharged mons, Mr. Balfour said the reason for accused, who has since been detained the entirely different atmosphere that in custody.

was prevailing had nothing to do with the Army but it was a fact that the Government and thair supporters bad just realized that Ulster was deter mined not to submit to a Home Role storernment, and that the majority of Englishman agreed with Ulster. Fle had never believed in a Federal United Kingdom, but he would not

THE CANTEENS SCANDAL.

DEFENDANTS COMMITTED FOR

TRIAL.

LONDON, April 3. The defendants in the Canteen

L'AFFAIRE ROCHETTE.

MINISTERIAL INTERFERENCE SEVERELY CONDEMNED,

•

tand in the way of any moderate i scandals case have been committed condemns Ministerial interference inung, there was tremendous activity. All to cease from grunting and aquabbling— |

form of devolution if it would avert siril war.

Oficial View of the New

⚫ Proposals.

for triul.

THE QUEENSLAND LOAN.

LONDON, April 3. The Queensland 4 per cent, loan for £2,000,000 has been issned at 99...

Mr. Herbert Samuel, President of, -the Local Government Board, said the most remarkable fastura of the debate had been the support given the prin

ciple of Federation. The prospects, however, of any Conference or Com-Commander Relieved of his Pont.

mission, representing all partise, arriving at a Federal solution had difficulties, and would not be bright if be question of Home Rule für Ireland were still unsettled. Only after the prezant

INSUBORDINATION ON A BRITISH BATTLESHIP."

the place is full of police, who stand trude by the recognised limits. Today and wait till summoned by the well. known whistle. They are neatly dress. ed, and se

10 longer denominated braves." They are provided with whistle, a baton, and a loaded revolver..

In addition to these, it was observable passage boat. It was September and that in many places, ko the city gates, frightfully hot. There were choro Euro the entrance to all the old yaznens, and peans in ons anventilated cabin, about new offices like the Admiralty, as well five feet square, and five feet high. It was all they would get. But this wment LONDON, April 8.

as at the railway terminus, soldiers are stationed who apparently mean business. all. In the hold, underneath the loose) The Commission of Inquiry into Most of them are provided with rifles, boards that formed the floor of the cabin. the Rochette case, while not attack and their breasts are corned with balled a mass of moving life, in the form of the personal probity of M. Call-cartridges. At the station, when the pigs. Apart from the unpleasant smell, laux and other ministers, severely

trams arrived from Hongkong, and Shek for twenty-four hours they appeared never the course of the law for the pur avenues of exit were closed except one,

probably they were su uncomfortable, de pose of postponing the trial of M. Rochette, who is thereby enabled to

and! this was closely guarded by armed the luckless three. To-day the bonta åre resume his operations. The whole en, eho seemed to search each pack-much more bearable, though, of course, affair, the Commission states; is go of every passenger. It did not still far from the ideal. But good cabins, symptomatic of the insidious finan-remain long enough to vouch for the are built on the upper poop deck, and of les statement, for ap these actually have windows, and are qiul influences invading the moral perently Europeans are allowed to pass boats, that leave Canton and return swept out every day. The large number on; but we saw a large number held thither soal! hours of the day indicate who had luggage, and we saw several bundles opened out upon the ground, and immeuse intresse both in cargo and FAMOUS GERMAN NOVELIST DEAD. others getting ready for the same or

deal. The good-tempered appearance of thene people was very noticeable, and what would have irritated a Westerner almast beyond self-control seemed to be regarded by these nuch-cluring people as un annoyance that could not be avoided, and, therefore, must be smiled at, and enjoyed.

sense of the nation.

Hi

LONDON, April 8. The death is announced of Herr Paul Heyse, the famous German

LONDON, April 2, Commander Lecky of the battleship novelist. Zealandia, who was suspended pending an inquiry into the recent insubordina tion of stokers on the vessel, has been

Bill with the temporary relieved of his post. Hy will be suc

DERBY BETTING.

Lospos, April Ba The latest London betting on the

strit accuracy

It was not without intense that wa

Passengers,

We have read a good deal lately about the depressed condition of the local trade in the city, though we are not awang the exports and imports prove much stagna-

tion.

Anyway, such reports to cir lid. In support of the statement, it is observable that a fair number of shope are closed, and their shutters—at · Icust| thu potice on them-inform the public that the "prosperous building at the disposter a consideration. It covered from the exodus of the two- fold revolution and probably will for some time to come. After all, Hong- kong is the place to live in--when one

exclusion of Ulster placed on the coaded by Commander Humphrey Derby is 5 to 2 against The Tetrarch,old, with its crowds of fortune-tellers and is probable that Carton has not yet re-

Smith,

statute book, would it be possible for nuch & Commission, calmly to discuta

It is reported in Portsmouth that the such Constitutional alterations,

Admiralty has decided to re-instate the Continuing. Mr. Samuel said that before the next stage of the Bill, how.eight stokers who were sentenced to two gear imprisonment for refusing to ever, there must be a considerable interval, which could be utilised by obey orders while at Vigo. A drastic Conferences, at which the various sug-inquiry into the whole matter is ex- gestion advanced might germinate pected,

into more fruitful proposals for accom. |

modation. The whole of the Members |

of the Government hoped that it would

YORKSHIRE PITS CLOSED.

be unnecessary again to use coercion in Shefeld Supplied by Derbyshire.

Ireland, but the Opposition must not

- the Government's reluctance in

LONDON, April 2. Most of the South Yorkshire pità

THE FRENCH BUDGET.

A Deficit of £8,400,000-

LONDON, April 2 The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Budget, including the income-tax provisions. The deficit of £8,100,000 will be covered chiefly by hys hort-period hands.

FRENCH AVIATION

FATALITIES]

order to wreck the Bill Mr. Samuel appealed to the Opposition to realise have been closed. Everything is quiet,

but some resentment is felt that the Two Aviators and a Passenger

their share in their common responsi ́bility, and effect a settlement,

Debate Adjourned.

The debate was adjourned until April 6, when Mr. Redmond and Sir E. Carson will speak

General French's Szocessor.

The Daily Telegraph states that Sir Obarlee Douglas will take over the duties of Chief of general Staff on the 4th inst

Mr. Larkin says that as prosent he does not intend to oppose Mr. Asquith.

Thrilling Political Item !

Grall Pankhurst, has gone

| strike was ordered locally before, the Federation badjamuoqnced their de cision. Sheffield is receiving supplies"} from the Derbyshire pits.

THE GOVERNOR OF THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE.

LONDON, April 2 Colonel Goethale, the famous Engi- near-in-Charge of the Panama Canal, took up his new appointment as Gover- nor of the Canal Zone without cera- mopy.

FRENCH BLUEJACKETS

AT MALTA.

LONDON, April 2

Killed.

LONDON, April 2,

entered one of their famous temples, the Shing Wong Miu, We remember it of roups of worshippers. Incense used to fill the temple throughout all the hours of the day. We visited it once after the Prevolution, when it had been cleaned of

ite idols, and all the rubbish that u het mooryand Canton the place to

these poor women who wordipped; and

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to find a mating place in the temple visit, if one has friends in the housse

and ancestors in the graves. court. We recently paid a pissing visit | to the old place, and discovered this steps vations by a reference to the futileness We will conclude these casory other have been taken to replace some of the idols. The central idel; in the dimesse puid much attention to the subjoet, of Chinese political taste. The last time of its sanctuary, again looked forth on we noticed on all sides, in the windows for this privilege, the temple-keeper det booksellers life-sized photographs manded and received a five cut piece day, as fux as we noticed though we are af Sun Yat-ven-and Li Yuen-bung. : To- Of the gigantic," statesman “and others, who used to stand in ten res an er. not quite certain of the latter, the shi vands of His Majesty, mily four have any of the photographs of these lenders been replaced. The tên "Hells," or, i indicate that they are relegated to the as fliey are sometimes named, Halls of oblivion. In their stead are pic Hades," with their gruesomely spectacutures of Yuan Shi Kat and Confucius. lar representation of what will happen The former is clad in full litery unl- ts the ecoffer and unbelievers in the hand is covered with a crested helmet, got and not only that it's WILKINSON'S the

form, attor tisa manner of the Work Es

1. Emile Vedrines, brother of the nether wor?", wire completely cleared and his breast decorated with many stars.

famous aviator, M. Jales Vedrines, was killed while flying at Bheims. were incinerated, their machine falling Another airman and a passenger

from the "pylon from which it was

igniting.

enspended, and the petrol in the xosual

A BIG FAMILY:

And Small Instalmente.

A man who was sed in the Summary Cours to-day for a debt of $23, stated through his solicitor M diner, thiab he was the

children, and offered

cents a month. Thá

The French Second Battle Squadron | by Mr. Dizon, solicitor has been at Malts for three dayu Bril lient weather favoured, the Intiri

Pardon my mentioning the matter but didn't you order

8 WHISKY-TANBAN for yourself and TANSAM

LEMONADE for me."Yes and that's what we've.

or the revolution. In four of these Confucius, in the quaint head-gear of one and only GENUINE TANSAN on the Market. idols have been replaced as grim and the Chow deauty, long beard, and How The best people want the best things you know! paint. In one of these we saw worshippings of the Bage are on sale in many ing robes is to-day much honoured, and repulsiso an over, all goudy in their fresh

pers at their devotions "auridst noise of,

shops. Publia lentiment in the East' is

Ahem "Ha! Ha! its all right, then I shall alwa

embat abil trant of prayerna fickle as in the West, and the wheel insist on getting the Genuine Article in future.

On the other hand, the five balls nf forms speedily prisotes the one and

thus opposite

sito side are just as they were degrades the other nettber dcot say one

left by the leonoclasts, except that one

secsed to be in use as a barez's shop, hinder or litt bis voice against 16.

What is happening underneath the sur

It was learnt that the ultime ten are face and beided the scenes in this great

strocis, whispered

to bo replenished with idols in the nest ofly, who can say ? future, and an officlat edict has been Issued, which not only gives permission to those who wish things to overd thó old ways, but even, encourage From time-honoured source of w

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