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RULING PRINCES' PLAN. Where the river winds its way The "Times of Ceylon" corres- through East London and dock-pondent in London cabled as fol- land one does not expect to find lows under date July 2:-- beautiful spots. But there is, I learn from a usually trust- auch a spot, an inspiring spot, worthy source that a scheme pre- 'and it is where, over three hun pared by the Ruling Princes, mak- ¡¡dred years ago, the first adven- ing drastic changes in the rela
turers from England started for tions of the Indian States with ¡the State of Virginia.
the Raj, is now in the final stages
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A WARNING.
OPENINGS IN CHINA"
1. Cold and blenk it must have and only waits ratification by a been on that eventful December conference of the Princes which day when the party of a hundred will be held shortly In London. or more set sail. It was gay and It provides for the creation of inviting with British and Ameri- three new bodles:- can flags floating over the bright (1) An Indian States Council, The fourth Lord Cloncurry, little dockmaster's house and over composed of the Viceroy (Preat
The statement by Miss Mac- Lyons, Co. Kildare, a keen sports- the trim and spotless carpet of dent), three representatives of Millan, of Shanghal, at the Con- man, and probably, at the time of shingle which goes down to the the Indian States, two English ference of Head Mistresses in Lon- his death, the oldest surving Blue waterside. Here, whilst the band members who have had no pre- don the other day, that "there were who rowed for Oxford against Cam-of the American flagship vious connection with India, and plenty of openings for educated bridge, who died in February, aged "Detroit," by permission of Vice- the head of the Political Depart-girls in
Chins," did not 87 years, left unsettled personal Admiral Burrage, played the ment of the Raj.
attract much notice, for the property in England and the Irish "Star Spangled Banner" and "God | (2) A Union Council, composed reason, по doubt, that con- Free State valued at £44,611. His Save the King," a tablet erected of members of the Indian State ditions in China are better bequests included:
by the Association for the Pre- Council and the Viceroy's Execu-known in this country (says a Home £1,100 War Loan and $26,000 servation of Virginia Antiquities, tive Council, and
paper) than Miss MacMillan gave TE HAVE pleasure in an-United States of America Steel Cor- to the memory of the pioneer (3) A Union Supreme Council credit for. At the same time, & let- W
nouncing our appointment poration shares, or £6,000. upon settlers, was unveiled by the or Court of Arbitration, consist-ter by Mr. J. C. Carter to the "Morn- by the Celotex Company, Chicago, trusts conditionally for Mina Clara Misses Nelle and Sue Tyler, ing of three Judges appointed by iing Post" was a welcome reminder as their Sole Agents for Hong Riddy, "who for more than twenty daughters of the Hon. S. Heth Great Britain and permanently of facts.
Having just returned from China after a residence of M'me BARONELLI, ARTISTE-Kong, Macao and South China, for years has been the companion, Tyler, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. retained. School of dancing for children and the sale Celotex Insulating guide, and faithful friend of my THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY.,
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close on. 30 years, he is entitled to adults.
It is proposed that the Politiapeak. Expressing surprise at Misa Special Physical Culture Lumber.
daughters from their childhood." The inscription it bore was:cal Department of the Raj, in so Mackfillan's statement, he pointed class for Stout and Stiff Ladies. Ample stocks are at present en Mr. John Newberry, Whyteleafe, From or near this spot far as it affects the Indian States, out that it would be very unwise for Address 31, Ashley Road, Kowloon route, and full particulars may be Surrey, one of the pioneers of South December 19, 1606, Safled with should be placed under the con any girl to go out there unless she (Back of Star Theatre).
had on application.
105 Adventurers, the Sarah trol of the Indian States Council Constant, 100 tons, Capt. and that the powers of Political
appointment be Christopher Newport supreme command; the Good- of the States should be restricted. Carter left recently some of the in Officers to intervene in the affairs forehand, also a return passage, and a good salary assured, When Mr. speed, 40 tons, Capt. Bartholo- A new manual of instructions mew Gosnold; the Discovery, for political representatives will principal firms were reducing their 20 tons, Capt. John Ratcliffe. ¡be drawn up by the States Council, staffs, closing branches in outpaata, Landed at Cape Henry, in consultation with the Chamber and, generally speaking, the out- Virginia, April 26, 1907. Ar-of Princes.
look for Europeans who had inter- rived at Jamestown, Virginia, The Union Council will decide este there was, to say the least, ser!- May 13, 1607, where these 'Ad-matters of common concern to ous, Conditions are improving, but venturers founded the first India generally, also defence and it will be some time, we fear, be- permanent English colony in foreign affairs. In the case of a fore there will be "plenty of open- America under the leadership deadlock, it is suggested that the inge" for English girls in the busi- of the intrepid Capt. John Viceroy should be given the power neas life of the Orient. Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield of certification, corresponding to President of the Council, and those obtaining in regard to Bri- the Reverend Robert Hunt, and tish India. others. At Jamestown, July Representative Assembly in 30, 1619, was convened the first
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Mr. Ceci Rhodes, died in April last aged 90 years leaving £38,041, with net personalty £466694. He gave:
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED.
Part of his farms known as Eensaam, in the Orange River State, Ito the South African Wesleyan Con- >{ference.
£200 each to the Bethany Homes at Whytelenfe: the Trinit Union
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And, if not disposed of in his life- Registered Office of the Company, time, the tabernaele and grounds at Canal Road Enst, Bowrington, Whyteleafe, the coffee tavern, flats, Hong Kong.
and band room, recreation grounds, . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS &c., to the General of the Salvation
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KONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
road.
Mr. John Bertram
Court of Arbitration. The Union Supreme Council represents the logical develop-
had secured an
NEWSPAPER TRUSTS.
ANOTHER BIG MERGER.
London, July 10. Miss Alethea Serpell, chair-ment of the Princes" original
idea of a Court of Arbitration. A new newspaper merger was on- man of the Memorial Committee High salaries will be offered to at-nounced to-day, whereby Financial And the residue of the property, of the Society, presided. The tract the best men. after other bequests, between Mr. Memorial was dedicated by the
Newspapera Proprietors, Limited, Fegan's Homefi thes British and Right Rev. Herbert Bury, Assist scheme comes within the scope of in
It is not certain whether the will acquire a controlling interest Foreign Bible Society, and the Tem-ant Bishop of Landon,
the "Financial News," the perance Hospital, in Hampstead- Mr. J. S. Bryan, of Richmond, the Butler Committee, but the "Journal of Commerce," and the
Princes regard this as immaterial. "Shipping Telegraph," Virginia, in a speech sparkling
Liverpool. If it is held that the Butler They have also acquired the entire Wills, with historical allusions, request-Committee is not competent to share capital of the company owN- F.R.I.B.A., Bristol, who died in ed the Port of London Authority deal with the proposals, it is pro-ing the "Investors' Chronicle" and March, aged 45 years, són of Sir to accept the custody of the Frank William Wills, left cetate of Memorial.
posed to present the scheme to the "Money Market Review" and the gross value of £12,238, with net
Sir Ian Hamilton Benn, in ac-
higher authorities.
Unanimity prevails among the have also acquired the entire share have purchased the "Banker." They personalty £3,266. His bequests in- cepting the Memorial on behalf of cluded:
the Port Authority, remarked
{Princes.
They believe that only a bold capital of the "Economist," but half that it commemorated the first policy of reform can
save the of it will be taken up by a group of the Bristol Association of Clerks of expedition that successfully States from disintegration at the eminent London merchants and established a footing upon the hands of the political extremists bankers. The "Economist" will re- £105 to the Bristol Society of Ar-American Continent for the Bri- who deny that the Princes have tain complete independence. The
tish race.
directors of Financial Newspapers chitects, the income to be used for the general purposes of the so-erection of the tablet as "a grate should deal direct with the Bri-John Waller Hills, M.P., and Colonel
Lord Charnwood spoke of the treaty rights.
The Princes claim that they Proprietors, Limited, include Mr. ciety so long as it promotes the ful and thoughtful act." It would tiah Government, and say that the Hon. Vernon Willey. to organise a Motor Parade on one of/advance in learning of the local preserve, he said, a famous under self-government in British the profession of memory that ought to have been India they would be responsible to
commemorated in some such Miss Harriet, Stansfeld, Clevedon, way long before.
[a Swarajist Government. He recalled who died in May, left estate of the some memories of great Vir- gross value of £12,459, with net per- ginians-Abraham Lincoln, Gen-
S'HAI WEDDING. sonalty £12,858. She gave: eral Lee, and others and said, £50 to Bristol and Clifton District "If you want to know whether Nurses' Society.
good and great people are still; produced by Virginia you have only to look around."
ASSOCIATION.
GRAND TATTOO 11th, 12th & 13th September.
The Automobile Association propose
£105 to the Benevolent Fund of
Works and Builders' Foremen,
the evenings during the Grand Tattoo. students for
If sufficient entries are forthcoming architects.
| three prizes will be given by the As- sociation for the most original or best decorated Vehicles in each of the fol. lowing classes:
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1 Cara or Lorrles representing the
Trade.
2 Private Cars.
3 Motor Cycles with or without
Side Cara.
A registration or entrance fee of $1 must accompany all entries,
ENTRIES WILL CLOSE ON FRL DAY, the 7th SEPTEMBER.
ed tó
And the residue in trust for her sister Allee Jones for life, and then, £1,000 to the Bristol and Clifton District Nurses' Society, the income,
LADY ASTOR'S SPEECH. Viscountess Astor, M.P.,
KING-WAUGH.
Among many distinguished people
who attended Mrs. Alec Tweedie's moonlight reception on her roof garden at Devonshire House on July 2 were: The Chinese Charge d'Affaires, the Japanese Chargo d'Affaires, Sir John and Lady A very quiet wedding took place Macleay, Lord and Lady Melchett, Tilley, Sir Ronald and Lady on July 24 in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, when Judge Major-General Sir George and Lady G. W. King, O.B.E., Assistant Judge Younghusband, Admiral Sir Sydney a of H. M. Supreme Court, son of the Fremantle, Sir Edward and Lady All accommunications to be address./to be applied for the maintenance member of the London Com-late Mr. Alfred King, J.P.V.D., wan Crowe, Major-General Sir Neill and
of a nurse in Hotwells district. mittee of the Association,, pro- married to
£500 each to St. Dunstan's Home posing, at the close of the cerc-Waugh. Miss
Miss Annie Muriel Lady Malcolm, Lieut.-Genera! Sir Waugh is the George and Lady Macdonough, Sir c/o Hong Kong & Kowloon for Blinded Soldiers: the United mony, a vote of thanka to the daughter of Mr. Percival Waugh of Montague Barlow, Dr. Marie Stopes, Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. Kingdom Beneficent Association; Port of London Authority, said Edinburgh, and, after ten years' Sir Henry and Lady Bax-Ironside,
the Not-Forgotten Association, Lad- one of the things she disliked service, has just left the Colonial the Dowager
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Lady Swaythling, broke-grove, W.; the Foor Clergy most was being told she was not Service in Penang, where she was Major-General Sir John and Lady Relief Corporation.
English. "I had the painful duty principal of the Government School Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. W. B £250 to the Mission to Seamen of telling an English Peer of the for Girls. Misa Waugh accom- Maxwell, Colonel the Master of (Bristol Branch); £500 to the So-Realm, who had informed me that panied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sempill, Sir William and Lady ciety for the Propagandation of I could not understand a certain Waugh, of Ipoh, arrived in Max-Muller, Sir William and Lady the Gospel; £250 to the Church situation as I was not English, Shanghai by the P. & O... Simpson, and Sir E. Denison Ross. Lads Brigade (Bristol Branch); that I was far more English than "Rajputana," and airca her arrival £500 to the National Benevolent In-he, since my family had a grant has been staying with Mr. and Ladies and Gentlemen are wanted stitution: £200 to the Clergy from England two hundred years Mrs. A G. Mossop.
C. M. MANNERS,
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to perform in the Spectacular Society (Clifton Women's Branch); before he came from Germany. The civil ceremony took place in 1200 to the Poor Ladies' Work So. It was the truth too. In spite of H. M. Consulate at. 10.30 a.m. be- ciety, Bristol; £100 to the Surgical my being a politician, I swear it fore Mr. C. F. Garstin, and was Old Aid Society, Bristol; £50 to the is true."
followed Immediately by the ser-1 Referring to the outstanding vice at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Bristol Church Day Schools' Asao- but ciation.
qualities of England and Vir-at which the Very Rev. Dean And, after other bequests, the re-ginia, Lady Astor said: "England A. C. S. Trivett oficiated. The
The following unclaimed tele sidue of the property to such of the above everything else is just. I bride, who looked very charming in grams are lying at the office of the Names and addresses to be sent, charitable institutions mentioned Justice which sometimes makes match, and carrying a bouquet of
believe that it is this quality of a costume of belge lace, with hat to Great Northern Telegraph Com immediately, to
Performers will appear in English and Scottish scenes.
Singing is not essential, some vocalists are required.
The first rehearsal. will be held on Tuesday next (August 7th).
Time and place will be announc- ed later.
Y. V. Alliv, from Shanghaf. Mapocho Salling, from Shanghai. A.P.C., from Shanghai.
Y. V. Activ, from Shanghai. Pak Ngok, from Kobe S. Reppert, Viétoria Hotel, from Shanghai.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent
Hon. Secretary,
above, and in such shares ns her her a little-unpopular, for justice pink roses,. was given away by any (Limited) of Denmark:-- ' atater may appoint, and in default sometimes can be very irritating. Judge Sir Peter Grain. The matron "Tattoo" Scenarie, of appointment to all the charitable But justice, combined with the of honour was Mrs. Waugh, attired Y.M.C.A., City Hall. institutions mentioned in such pro spirit of brotherhood which is 80 in a becoming costume In blue and portions as the legacies bequeathed strong in Virginia, is the quality white, and the duties of best man to them respectively.
most needed to help the world."
were undertaken by Mr. R. E. S. Gregson. Among those present at a Gar- At an Investiture at Buckingham
A recaption was held after the den Party given by Mrs. Baldwin st Palace, on June 27, His Majesty service at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 10, Downing-street, on June 28, conferred the following among when a number of friends were pre- A. G. Mossop, SA, Route Pottier, were:Mr. and Mrs. Herbert other decorations: The King's Looker, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Penny, Polico Medal: Mr.
Arthur sent to congratulate Judge and Sir Philip Susacon, Sir Hilton and Dickinson, Assistant Superinten Mrs. King. The health of the bride Lady Young, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson hent of Police. Straits Settlements, Judge Sir Pater Grain, and that of and bridegroom was proposed by and Lady A specially distinguished record in the matron of honour by Mr. Kindersley, Sir Gershom and Lady administrative and detective ser- Stewart, Mrs. Alec Tweedle, and Sir vice. Has successively reorganised
Grégnon. George and Lady Younghusband. the Detective Branch of the Police.
To commemorate his victory on Viscount and Viscountess Ellbank, Department and maintained it in Felstead in this year's Derby, II. and Colonel and Mrs. Applin ware face of difficulties. Has displayed Wragg has presented a silver cup among the guests at Mrs. Baldwin's conspicuous activity in dealing with for a pony trotting competition to econd garden party, held on June aorious crimes and has rendered be held during a Pinner church
valuable ploitical services. cafate.
LAMMERT BROS. Davie, Sir Robert
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