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May 27, 1821. Temperature. 76

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LONDON, May 22.

To-day's closing rate 2/5 7/8

To-day's opening rate 2/6 18

SPECIAL CABLE.

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SINGAPORE, May 27. Atze auction rubber touched the lowest price in the annals of the industry, sheet was sold at from 17 to 27 cents. No standard crepe was sold.

CRICKET INTERPORT.

HONGKONG'S 2ND INNINGS.

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FULL SCORES.

The momentous coal conference met at the Board of Trade at noon Public interest and" anxiety was evidenced by a large crowd outside the building. Mr. Lloyd George, who was accompanied by Sir Robert Horne and Messrs. Bridgeman, Baldwin, Macnamera, and Brace, appeared to be in the best mood and remarked as he entered "It should not take so long to-day The conference, which the Premier addressed/listed, three quarters of an hour, after which the parties separated to disains the position individually. The premier in his speech outlined the Government's proposal.|

Below we give the fall scores of namely a temporary settlement by which wages could be scaled down

cricket interport at Shanghai, which posite fund consisting of £10,000,000 from the Government which would closed on Thursday

EHONGKONG-ŹND INNINGS. not be increased and a contribution involved in the proposal of the owners to forego profits for a period. The Government's offer depended upon G R. Sayer, c O'Hara b Leach ... 31 F. J. de Rome, b O'Hara.... 13 agreement being reached either with regard to the actual terms of a. 1. B. Franks, R., b Leach... 15 permanent settlement or for machinery which would determine those terma. Cabt. C. O. Olliver, e Barrett b

O'Hara an As regards a permanent settlement he suggested that if the parties saw no immediate prospect of agreeing with regard to figures they should at any rate agree definitely to regard machinery by which the figures could determined.

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Co. (of China), Ltd. stadually to an economic level, the deficiency being made up from a com- Hangkung's second innings in the

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The House of Commons rejected by 109 votes to 69 a motion moved by Mr. Barges demanding the submission to Parliament of the convention adopted at the International Labour Conference at Washington. Mr. O'Hara..... Barnes complained that the Government had failed to give effect to the Allison ............ 9

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AMATZUB GOLFERS.

POSTAL EMPLOYEE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP.

LONDON May 28.

In the amateur gelt championship fual Hunter (Walmer) beat Graham (Liverpool) 12-11. Hanter is a postal employee. His son is professional. Graham captained the Oxford golfers in 1905. Graham's deffat is a record for the amateur championship final. Hunter played brilliant especially in approaching a course sudden with rain. Both fizalists are Agio-Scots.

UNCONFIRMED REPORT.

JAPANESE SCHOONER SEALING IN CANADIAN WATERS?

PRINCE RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMELA May 27, The report that a "Japanese schooner was caught sealing in Canadian waters, that the crew were arrested, sealskins confiscated, and the schooner destroyed has hitherto not been confirmed officially.

STERLING'S SENSATIONAL DECLÍNE.

GERMANS SELLING BRITISH BILLS?

NEW YORK, 27.

Sterling made a sensational decline of six cents.This is attributed to the German selling of British bills in order to convert proceeds into dollars.

CHINESE MISSION.

BELGIAN COMMERCIAL METHODS TO BE STUDIED.

BRUSSEL May 28. A Chinese mission has arrived here to study, Belgan methods industry and commerce.

COUNTY CRICELT.

LONDE, May 27.

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Shanghai's first innings, 391 ruas. Hongkong's first innings, 80 runs. Shanghas won by an innings and 160 runs

Yesterday, evening, the Shanghal Club gave a dinner in honour of the interporters.

According to a telegram received by Mr. L. S. Greenhill Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Cricket Club, to-day and to-morrow will be occupied with a friendly match between elevens re presenting Hongkong and Shanghai. Both teams will be drawn from players outside those who figured in the interport contest.

The names of Messrs. Tayler. Hamilton, Freeborn, Ng Se Koog, Wodehouse and Cobb, will most pro- bably Sgure in the Hongkong team. while young Ollerdessen and Morriss who were here with the Shanghai in- terport team are sure to play for the Northern Settlement.

This evening at 9.15, the Hongkong Interport team will be entertained at another performance at the Lyceum

Theatre.

To-morrow' the Shanghai Cricket Club holds its American lawa tennis. topmament, and some: friendly matches have been arranged for the Hongkong Chinese players who are in Shanghai to represent China in the Far Eastern Olympiad early next month.

The Hongkong, interporters will leave Shanghai on June 2 by the C.M. s.. "Nanking."

WHY

IS A DRUGGIST. CALLED AN "APOTHECARY?”

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-The radical difference between the apothecary of old and the druggist or pharmacist of to-day is apparent at once from the lines which occur in the fifth act of "Romeo and Juliet" where Romeo remarks: "I do remember an apothecary, whom late I noted in tattered weeds, with overhanging brows, culling of simples, meager were his looks, sharp misery of had worn him to the bones; about his shelves a beszarly account "of empty boxes were thinly scattered to make a show.", But, even in these days, the "calling of simples" was an integral part of the apotheca ries art, though the prescription department Thas sunk almost

Middlesex beat Warwick by 177 runs; Gloucester at Leicester by Into oblivion in the establishment of 153 runs; Cambridge beat Yorkshire by 123 runs, Essex bat Derby by an the latter-day druggist, whose candy innings and 74 runs; and Hants and Lancs played draw

BUBONIC PLAGUE OUTBREAK,

MAXRO

May 27.

Forty cases of bubonic plage have been notife Ho Tabic

DERBY FORATCHING,

Pisto has been scratched from the Derby.

counter and soda fountain bring in far more revenue than the section devoted to medicinėj

Taking into consideration the vast assortment of different goods which are to be found in practically every pharmacy-to-dry-goods ranging al! the way from fountain-pens to balr-neteit is interesting to note that the druggist really has authority for this heterogeneous collection of goods in the very derivition of the | word apothecary for this is from the Greek abolkeku, which was prac tically the equivalent of our "store |100m” or a warehouse and

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