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CANTON.

[FROM OUR CORERJPONDENT.]

August, 26th,

INCREASE OF BALADIES, ~~ Fricos of all kinds of articles having increased considerably of late, almcet doubling the cont of living to what it was a few years ago. Bir Robert Hart last year instructed the Com missioner of Chatoms in the Kwangtung Pro. vince to add to the salaries of the Chinese staf of the Customes bonus of 10 per cent. on this account.

It is now reported that Mr. Paul H. King, Commissioner of Customs here, has received instructions from the Asting Inspector-General of Customs to replace the bonas by a definite increass of 10 per cont. in the salaries of the Chinese staff, commencing from the month of October."

THE BOXCOTT,

The following is a translation of a circular asued by the Pisos Goods Guild here

We beg reapsotfally to inform you that the 16th day of the 4th moon this year the Guild sent a notice round to all the merchants calling upon them to marry out the duty of up holding the honour and dignity of the people and thecountry. We are deeply grateful to the marchants for answering the call

In the meeting held today we all declared :that hereafter we will not purchase any fresh goods (Jspazere) and will strictly adhere to our duty to our country. *

Following is a list of the regulations framed

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SHIPPING NEWS.

LATEST STEAMED MOVEMENTAČ The str. Flintshire left Shanghai on the 27th inst-at-13-a, and in due here on or about the 30th inst, morning.

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The Fussian etr. Arconia left Kobe on the 26th inst. p.m., and may be expected here on or about the End prox.

The str. Ghas arrived in New York on the 2nd inst

AUROUND IN TEZ BUZZ CANAL D

The Nippon Tusen Kaisha's Kamakurs Maru:"" cutward bound, ran aground in the Sue Caual on the 7th inst, but was refloated on the 9th. No damage was sustained

TER JAPAN CHINA STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Bad as the freight market has been, the Japan China Bleumahip Co. are reported to be anticipating even daller times, and the Direo tore

have decided on "drastic. economies. These include the discharge of all the Com

Captain Scott, who is well known on the foreign employses with the exception of Yangtse. There are afty-two foreigner at present employed on the Company's ships The Japanese staff in Chins are also to be considerably reduced.

OIL FUEL

In view of the satisfactory results obtained in the official teat conducted on the Japanese dispatch beat Fayeyama of the use of crude ell for fael, the Admiralty has decided to At cruisers of the smaller type, destroyers, etc., with devices for the use of either coal or crude oil, A farther experiment will be made with the big battleships, and the Fag mo 9,800 tons displacement) is now being fitted with apparatus originally designed for me on the Satsuma. On its completion the Tagume will start on a trial trip.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28TH, 1905.

eminence asa naval Power. It was essential to our scheme of naval defence that the fastest ained merchantmen in the world should belong te us, or alternatively, that no foreign Power Should have faster armed merchantmen that we had "Not only had Germany later armed marchantmen, but she kept on repeating them The historio arrangement with the Canard Company was the enre for the trouble suggest ed and approved. Our friends in Germany cannot do anything else. Their need is for armed merobantmen, not-loss fast than the big turbine Cunardors, and the Arst cost of such vessels is far beyond what the conatuy of an ordinary commercial undertaking oan stand, The German naval authorities must pay for what they want, just as Whitehall bad to pay. They cannot escape the obligation to do so. They must pay, and. conceivably, there is no enter way to do so than by advancing the money to the shipping companies at a low rate of interest,

late this class of wagering has become a feature. of the market, and attention wan, oallad to it. some weeks age in these notes when the habit had blooms specially nolarious. As the matter concerns people far outalde insurance olroles, it should perhaps be explained that policies affected with provision that no proof of interest required other than the production of the polley are legally woul, but in many sees they fulfil a want and are not open to serious objection on public grounds. But the transactions effested for people having dirout or indirect interest in the venture assured, and re- ferred to in Mr. Maclean's question, fall within quite a different category. If certain mon are placed in a position to gain a large sum of money by th

y the loss of a vemel and to lose a moderato aum by her arrival, and the captain or engineer happens to be a man of a wank dis- position, it requires no great effort to imagine a conspiracy to cast away the vessel. And when

it is found that the rate of wortality, among

boats upon which such insurances are placed is come to light, are sometimes highly suspicious, remarkably high, and that the facts, when they it becomes serious question for underwriters whether they are not giving facilities for fraud of the worst description Incidentally, the effect upon the ordinary current of business is prejudicial, and owners and reinsurers are quick to feel the effect when their particular riska have been branded par har quite undeservedly, there are grounds for thinking that the market is more alive to the objections than it was, and many underwriters hope that the practice will be sternly discouraged by those upon whom the chief responsibility clearly lies.

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Hongkong, 24th August, 1908.

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA'S BIRTHDAY.

HOW-IT WAS OBSEGYED IN LONDON,

12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

SPECIAL

BARGAINS

Emperor of Chins, the rou. Arthur Walsh, The 24th of Jaly being the birthday of the M.V.O, Master of the Ceremonies, called at the

and saw the Chinese Minister, to whom he conveyed the King'e congratulations. Tho national dag waa hoisted at the Legation.

The Chiness Minister gave a dinner in the evening at the Rita Hotel in celebration of the rary The tables were decorated with roses. Among the invited guests ware

Chinese Legation In Portland place, London, HIGH

at the meeting and we trust that you will obey down, being subjected to keen oriticism from the British t'orporation, and the Bureau Veritas Riflege Grag, of iba 5th Scottish Isadors, the Danish, Mexicao,*

them.

It is becoming evident, remarks the Japan

JAPAN AND SHIFTING SUBSIDING. Chronicle, that the policy of shipbuilding subsidies and bounties in Japan is breaking within as well as without, and those who have studied conditions here, and watched their effect on the national industry, will not be inclined to agro with the suggestion that Great Britain cher Japor Germans in this matter. In would do well to adopt some of the methods of the latter country the shipping industry is suffering at least as much as, if not more than, it is in England. Hetrenot ment is the order of the day all round, dividends have declined, and there is general complaint that there is no money in the business. There will bo no

Ambas

Swiss

The King's Prize was won at Blaley' by the Russian, American, Private

and Bwedish Ministers, the Peruvian Charga d'Affaires, the Home Secretary, Lord Fil maurice, Sir Robert Hart, Lord W. Cooil, Lord Sanderson, SirF. Campbell, Sir John M'Leary Brows, His Excellency Kwal, His Excellency C. K. Shen, Mr. U. Alston, Mr. W. Tyerell, Mr. Wang, the Lord Mayor, Mr. W. Langley, Mr.

Ches, and the Hon. Arthur Walsh. 8. Whang, Mr. R. F. Byt ge, Mr.Ivan

CLASS

PIANOS

BY

BROADWOOD. COLLARD. WERNER. HAAKE.

RACHALS.

KRAUSS,

THE NEW FREEBOARD REGULATIONE temporary, that seafarera are still keenly We are reminded, says 'n London con critical of the now British Freeboard Rega. lations by the interrogation which Mr. Summerbail addressed the other day in Parliament to the President of the Board of Trade. The question of deeper loading has now been considered in almost every aspect, and the sancat conclusion an observer may come to is that time must be left to settle the contro- voray. The doubt is ressouable that any diasa. elen of the matter in the House of Commons would be pasful, The pendlot is not one of opinions. The issue in souoorned with the exactress, or inexactness, of modern methods. of naval architecture, and the House of Com mans is ill-equipped to decide that. Everybody admits that some steamers built to the old Freeboard Regulations may on be too com hat nobody has been able to show conclusively. fortable at sea loaded down to the new marks, that in a single lnstance there has been danger through the deeper loading. Lloyd's Register, are, in fact, justified by the casualty statistics. The skirl of the bagpipes came over the Or to put it in another way, the scientifle heather, a crowd of sheering riflemen, damp exs exsotness of their calculations that if certain followers, and policemen bares round the corner things were done structurally, and certain from Stickledown Common, with the chair of abips would be absolutely safe with so much less 1'ris man came into view as the triumphal precautions taken with to openings, violery borne shoulder high, and the King's freebeard, are confirmed. Whether the deeper procession tarned down toward camp. He loaded ships are less comfortable, and whether not a grizzled veteran, qualified by yours' the great increase in the carrying capacity of experience of Beley, but mere strip of a lad, the ships of the world is a case of the current with the end of a cigarette between his lips. depression, are other stories

History was repeating itself. A for years Bir Hudson Kearley, in his soply to Mr.agas young Boot in his twentice Ommundsen possible to give any reliable estimate of the the Empire in the King's Prise competition. amount of additional tonnage that vessels had The King's Prizeoan this year is twenty-not and the buffets with palms, hydrangeas, WILL BE STORED UNTIL REQUIRED been enabled, to carry owing to the change. The yet a man fa, law and a Soot. Ommuundsou of Trade takes no stoos of dead-weight tonnage. It is the first time he hon var been to Bisley. explanation of this is probably that the Board

comes from Edinburgh. Private Gray comes Its standard is gross tonnage. A very well- known shipowner, whose vessels are to be found Four years ago be joined the 1st Lanark in every quarter of the globe, estimated in the Volunteers, how the 5th Bootiish Rifles of the course of conversation that, the increase in the Territorial Army, but it was not until two case of his own feat was equal to 6

6 per cent years ago that he made up his mind to be a Taking the trading tonnage of the British urnok shot. Before that he was a farmer's mercantile marine altogether, this is not far off apprenties in Dumbartonshiro, Then he went the real average, we imagine, and it explains into his father's ollakin business in Glasgow, much more than other less obssure things the and it was here that he found the first oppor persistence of the current depression in ship tunity of

of shooting ping. The trade of the world, that is to say, has not only to absorb the overproduced tonnage of the last shipbuilding prosperity, but this 6 per cent, contributed by the new Free Board Regulations as well:

1. Hereafter all merebents of this Gail will not purchase any fresh goods. Those who break this rule are able to be fined $50 for ach offence. Seventy per cent of the fine will be given to the informer nad 30 per cent. will be retained by the Guild. This will act as a warning to the merchants.

2. Should delinquent firm or merchant refnie to pay the fine imposed, all the mer-improvement until trade generally, shows elgris Bammerbell, sai, by the way, that it was not beat the thousand and more picked abota ofis, foliage, swering plants, smilsz, and eharts of the guild will cease to trans-of recovery, and even then it will be some years ast business with that tiem and we will before the shipping industry returns to a con- Jmmediately publish the name of the art of prosperity, as the exoses of tonnage firm in the newspapers, denouncing the ment. Certainly the experience both of Japan produced by recent wars must first and employ proprietors of the firm as men devoid of and Germany shows that subsidies are no shame, so as to caution others,

remedy, but that they toud rather to increase construction in excess of the demand. the dimoules of the problem by promoting

2. The merchants of this guild will cease to transcot business through any brokere who are discovered to be clandestinely purchasing (forbidden ?) - goods on behalf of any firms The breaking of any of the store raies means disobedience,"

The Benk Guild has also apacanced to the public that they have recently discovered that several banks are devoid of shame in making money by purchasing money (Japanese) and negotiating drafts. They state that the propriators of these banks are desirous of breaking up the Boycott Union, and that the públio are greatly inconsed against them for their "abominable behaviour."”.

The Guild has resolved that hereafter, if 20 of these cold-blooded reptiles" should have the andacity to disregard the rules of the guild, all other banks will cease to traumot any

business whatever with them.

THE FLOOD ÝUND HAZAAR, The Bazaar Committee, reported that they ocllected $637:50, $418.60 and $7,045.50 on the! 23rd, 24 and 25th instant respectively.

It is reported that many of the prominent purchasera at tho Basaar bare bo: yet paid the money enabling them to take delivery of their purchases;

The Bazaar Committee have not complied with the request of the Canton Fress who asked to be supplied with particulars of the suctions In the meantime uchaplessant corres

the Press. The merchants in Fatsian recently The Texas su pound burden the Committee mud Wecided to hold a similar Bazaar, but hare Now anounced to the public, that they have shandened the ides. This is probably due to The exiting unsatisfactory state of affaire in connection with the Canton Basanr.

"INCOMPREHENSIBLE LAWS.”

Recently the Hien hing, Pin Cha Keon, the New Board or Department established at Peking to make preparations for parliamentary government; sent a despatch to- Viceroy Chang inclosing for his consideration a copy of the new laws. The Viceroy, after pornsing the laws carefully, has memorialized the Throne to the effect that Chinese laws are too stringent and foreign-laws too lenient. The Government should strive after the happy mediam. He says mortorey that itery are a lot of new terms (Japanese) in the new laws sent to him by the abere Department and that these are inoom. prebensible to every one, izelading the Chiness

GERMAN SHIPPING.

In a letter to the Frankfurter Zeitung the managing directer of the Hamburg-American Line, Herr Balin, denies the recent reports of negotiations betwran the large German ship ping companies and the German Government with a view to obtaining indirect subventions in the form of loans of pablis money for sew construction. On the other hand, Herr Ballin admits that a series of bad years or an abnormal extension of the subaidy system aboard might ultimately compel German shipping in self- defence to appeal to the State for suietande. In his opinion the best way out of the diflonities of this complicated question would be to samme an international conference on the absburg-shipping has not had a very pro. persia-year, and the annual report of the Hamburg Shipowners Association shows that, in German shipping circles, the tendency on part of States like Holland, Belgium, sud Sweden to grant increased anbsidies to their own shipping is belug viewed with considerable

irritation.

aHIPPING CLAIMS AGAINST BUSSIA. In the Heise of Commons last month in reply to a question by Mr. M'Aribor (Liverpool, Kirkdale, Opp.) an to the claims for compensa tion for losses sustained by the British ships St. Kilda, Hipsang, and Oldhamis daring the Russo-Japanese wer

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Afterwards & reception was held in the ball- room and the adjoining Louis XVI. foyer, which were beautifully decorated with tali

baskets of ramblor roses and pink Bowers, mirrors were decorated with smilax, sweet peas, and hirely poppies. Over 1,500

other in the ball-rom. Azmong those present invitations were leased. Two bands played a selection of musia, one in the gallery and the

were Prince Michel Miraki, Prince and Princess Batthyany-Strattmann, Prince Antoine Bibesco the Due and Duchesse de Lousade, Marquis and Marquise de la Begattice, the Spanish Ambas- ROBINSON PIANO sador and Mme. de Ville Urrutis, the Blaitian. Minister, the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires. Beusita Leabske, the

Chilia Míaistor, Me and Mlies. Gans, Mlle. Covarrubias, the Siamese Chargé d'Affaires, the Colom blan Minister and Mme, Mile. Gutiérrez- A ministare rifler nje was set up in the Ponce and Elle, Teresa Gutiérrez-Ponce, the gard, of his father's house, and the young man Uruguayan Chargé d'Affaire the Marquis de For, Captain V. Kell, My said Mrs Arnold made a very close study of shooting, and

Borumont, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ellert, Mr William Gillett, Mr C. Somers practised assiduously as bis liule range. He Tweeddale, the Earl and Countess of May Cock Captain M. Kincaid Smith, Mr. and at his battalion competitions, and had Earl and Countess Waldegrass, Count and Mira and Miss Feilder, Admiral Craigie, Mr Mr Robert Menzies, Mr and Mrs Townsend, determined on coming to Bisley last year, but his father was ill and Gray hed to elick to Craven; the Earl and Counts of Nurthbrook and Mrs Oppenheim, Mr and Mrs Brio Dram- Countess Wedell, the Earl and Couutens of business. He soon showed that he was going the Harl and Countess of Kimberley of mond, Mr Shibata, Mr Mayoock, Mr Warner, to be one of Glasgow's best shots, and he came

M.

Charles Pollak, Major-General Adain, Baron Mount-Edgcumbe, the Earl and Comuters of to Bisler this year latouding to wishe

"It is what

same to Bisley fr," he said Kimberley ad Lady Isabel Wodehoue the Lovenskiold, Mr and Mrs Larcom Mr G. emile, when asked after his fiualLord and Lady Wearda Amy Lady Polly Reginald Bridgeman, Colonel Halden, Mr

Dari anu vanteia-ve

Jamison. Mr H. S. Martin, Mr Everard, Mr with a shot whether he had expected to win.

Kinnaird, Lord Glenesk, Lord and Lady Grain Smith Mod Me Waiton, Mr The Anish of the shooting for the King's Sinclair and Miss St. Clair, Lord Aches Mr and Mrs Stonor and Miss Rat, Mr and Priss was unexciting, although the success of Lady Rossmoro, and Mis Taylor, Land and Mrs R. Witt, Major-General and i alt and lad of Gray's age rendered it remarkable, Fir. Lady Purie and Miss Carlisle Lord and Lady Mr W. Graban, Mr Leslie Craigie, Mr and Blas ing brgan in the morning at the 100 Northliffe, Lady Bowen, Lady Ulrica Thynne Hatland Peck, Colonel Grates, Captain 1. Babr, fards range on Blickledown. The bundred men and Miss Tyane, my Lady Coleridge and Mr and Mrs Bergheim, Miss Hozier, the who had won thofe places in the Bust stage

Mr. Baring Lawford, Mr. Rapart and from among more than a thousand competitors Lady Gwendeler Guinness, Lady Hoad Agent-General for the Cape of Good Hope, now had to tonto their last thirty shots-ten

and fles Head, the Dowager Lady filler Captain R. Muirhead Collins, the Hu, W. each at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards,

of Glenbe and Miss Miller, Mr. and Lady Pember Reever; Mme. Jean Forier, Mr. T. H. Kathleen Gatesen, Viscount and Viscountess Whitehead, Mr Alfred Dubson, Agent-General Maitland, the Lady Mayoreor, and Lady for Tasmania, Captain Vicente E. Montes and Lawrende and. Miss Lawrence, Lady William Mme Monter, the Hou. J. W. Taverner, Mrs. Lennox, Lady Petre, Viscount Valentia, M.Pd Miss Tassiner, Lucien Morel Hey, Mr. T. and Viscountess Valentia, the Maquis and Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Marchioness of Dufferin and Ave, Lord and Wales, Mr Spenger, Mr and Mre, Bruce Lady Ashbourne and Mis Gibson, Lord, and Robertson, Major-General Yermaloff, the Lady Lunedin and Mise Graham-Murray, Lady Barrios, the Hon. Do Frenesas, M. Benjamin Frederick FitzRoy and Miss Ethel BizRoy, the J. G. Jenking, Mr Mr. Justice Phillimbra and Lady and Miss Armytage, Colonel and Mrs Legh and Miss Phillimore, Major-General Sir Stanley and Cavendish, Colonel, Lumades, Mme. de Doin- Lady Clarke, Admiral the Hon. Bir E. and juguez, Bishop Scott of North Chins, Mr. and Mrs William Gibson, Mr and Mrs Angier, Lady Fremantle, Sir George and Lady

the Bishop

in Korea, Bir Alexander Bannerman, Big Somerville

the Provost of University Sir Hiram and Lady Maxim, Sir Alfred and Celege, Mr James D. Bourchier, Mr N, Tp Lady Newton, Sir d. and Lady Trendell, Bir the Mayor of Winchester, the Mayor d Hugh Gilrean Reid and the Missen Gilsan Reid, Mayores of Marylebone, Mr L. Ledie Cox, Bir Frederick Dixon-Hartland, M.P., and Lady Mr and Mrs Runciman, Mim Howard, the Dixon-Hartland, Sir Charles McLaren, M. Mr Ward Cook, and Mr and Mrs Matthey,

Hon. Mrs Yorke Bevan, Mr and Mrs Lonsdale, Cyprian Bridge, Bir Francis and Lady Palmer, and Lady MoLuren, Sir A. and Lady Tacner, Bir Joseph and Lady Dimsdale, Sir Christopher. Farness, M.P., and Lady Furneas, Sir Christo pher and Lady Baynes and the Misses Baynes, Bir Raymond and Lady Weat, Admiral Sir Jamas and Lady Bruce, Bir H. Praed, Sir William and Lady Soulsby, Sir E. and L dy Barrow, Bir Ing and Lady Thomas, Sir A.

Lady Lyall

Sir Patrick sad Lady Manson, Sir Laurence and Lady Alma-Tadeas, Sir A. and Lady Wright, Sir James and Lady Mackay, er Richmond and Lady Ritolio and Mies with a view to its being placed immediately in Ritchie, zir Richard Solomon, Sir Alfred and attributed to the lockap of its chief assets liquidation. The downfall of the Bank is Lady Dent, Sir William and Lady Mogány, Bir Frann's and Lady Fryer, Bir Weetman Pearson, kish-will now be realized gradually, in socord- ance with Messrs Lovelock and Lewis's resom. MP,aud Lady Pearson, Sir Henry Norman, mendation, out of which, it is hoped, a surplus M.P., and Lady Norman, Sir Philip and Lady will be left for distribution among the share-

The dirgeters of the Commercial Bank of

Fresiding at the annual missing of the General Shipowners! Society in London last month, Mr. Charles Brightmin, Chairman of the Society, said probably at no time, osrtainly not a condition as it was bredba in se apresen had the shipplay tatlo veam in no depressed almost impossible, to find any employment that would make both ends meet, much less leave a proût. How long this was likely to fast it was impossible to foretall. They might havea spurt in freights now and again, but be did not look for lasting improvement for some time. Referring to the future administration of the Port of London, the Chairman said it had been agitating the minds of the shipping community for years, and seemed now to be nusring a settlement. He hoped that with some suitable modifications the Bill before Parliament It was a morning of blazing sunshine, giving would shortly become a The first for a clear light on the targeta soross the common, years of its existence would be critical, and but a breeze blow in guste, a and now and then a Mr. J. A. Penso (Esser, Saffron Walden), on it was, therefore, neccesary for the beat men olond robbed the marksman of his light just as heball of the Foreign Searntary, said,My to aid in making London a more sonssful port he was pulling the trigger The result was right honourable friend has nothing at present than it was at present. It was interesting to that some of the best men's scores varied con to add to the answer be returned to a similar note that members of the Fort Authority would siderably, and "outers" and "Saners" often question put by the hon. metaber for Darling-be sound from serving on indie Other tallavare cupiat away recording diso when

ultimo, to the effect that those interesting points on by the Chairman

"balle" were expected. particular cases Spo

sro still before the Prise Court, were the employment of Chinese crews, which, Two of the youngest men of the hundred Isy to expedite the hearing. and that the Embassy is doing all in its power be safe, appeared to be sobtled for the present side by side-dray, of Glasgow, and Lieutenant by compelling the mon to pass test in the Spittal, of the Canadian fingent. The In reply to another question, relating to the English language when not British subjects, Scotch terrier" was in loose gray flannels And the question whether it was desirable that with s moft grey wideawake hat over his eyes. Knight Commander, Catches and Matsons,

Mr. J. A. Pease anid,As regards the Knight the Stats should undertake to make good to The Canadian is khaki uniform, with high- Commander my tight hon. friend must shipowners and traders loses incurred through crowned B.P. hat, looked the smarter man, refer the bon, member to the answer he the capture of shipping by the enemy in the and his thin, brow-face-looked as resolute as gave 形容 the 2nd altimo to the hon. time of war The latter question had been that of one of Cromwell's Ironsides....................................... member for North Hackney, in which he considered by a Departmental Committee, who stated that the Russian Government had refused. had come to the conclusion that they could not to submit the case to arbitration. His Majesty's recommend any alteration in the existing state Gorerament have expressed their regret at this of things, and that a strong Navy was the best decision, and have set forth in sa offleis! afeguard. No doubt a strong Navy in a safe despatok the grounds on which they are unable guard," the Chairman added, "but in a great to share the views of the Imperial Government. war I feel aure the Fleet, whatever its sime, in declining to assent to their proposal. As my would be inadequate to attend to its business of right hon. friend stated in his answer to the hon. of fighting the enemy and at the same time to member for Darlington the 11th ultime, the be looking after our shipping. In a great war been called to the case of the Catchar. The given, I cruaider, in order that the country may the 900 yards at the end of which, the young attention of the Russian Government has again some sort of State indemnity will have to be the Highland Light Infantry. Then came Russian Government hare agreed to pay a lump not have its food supply cut off." (Hear, hear.) Boot and the Canadian were equal, with 288 sum in satisfaction of the claims arising out of

points saab. the detention of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers Malacca and Formoss, and these cases are in course of settlement,

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THE LAST STAGE,"

nearly le vel,Spittal having made 198 and Gray They begin the last stage of the shoot 195 in the previous stages. It was behind the great blackboard on which their scores were being chalked up. shot by shot, that the largost crowd of the Bisley fortnight began to gather. At the end of the 800 yards Gray led the field with 242 points while Spittal was two points behind, with Sorgeant Fita, of

Judgment was given in London, last, month It was afternoon when the last shoot of in the case of the steamship Albion, the loss of all, the 1,000 yards began. By now many which on the Spanish coast had resulted in an hundreds of visiters were on the common inquiry by the Board of Trade into the circume gathered in silent lines behind the line of tances of the wreck. Mr. Mar sham, Stipendiary marksman who stretch down the hill. As

and

FAILURE OF COMMERCIAL BANK

OF INDIA..

Caloutts, August 9th., A letter has been addressed to theshareholders of the Commercial Bank of India by the direc- tors announcing that it has been decided to close the Bank's doors and suspend its business

Shipping people in this country, sayes. Lon- professors of the local Law College who studies! don paper, are not a little intrusted in the raty

from Germany-sinos contradicted in a in Japan. The coinle being unable to grasp of ways to the affect that the Imperial "Go Mr. J. Shaw acted as assessory Mr. Maraham, larger, until at his last shot half the people at Kaid Six Harry and the Misses Meclean, India, Limited, in their letter to the sbaroholders

he meaning of the laws how, anke the Viceroy, vernment has it in its mind to take over the in delivering the judgment of the Court, said he Bisley ware maesed around bis sooring board. Senor Don Iduardo M: Peña MJ. would the people interpret them? Now-a-day leets of the Hamburg-American Line and the found the cause of the accident was the jamming But there was not a sound, beyond that of the Dobreff, Captain Safiro Tochins, Captain Bay bhabi wasitoumbent on them to take the whon so many international affairs arise, these Norddeutscher Lloyd. On the face of it such a of the steering gear. The vessel was navigated rifles and the call of the sergeant with the chalk.

proceeding would be a little ridiculous, and the in a proper and seamaulike fashion. There was The excitement rather died away as the end John and Mrs Gibbons, Mra Whitelaw Held, state of the Bank was: (1) That it is essential

Gobeorsky, M. L.L. Caftanzogia, Commanderoures they had taken. incomprehensible new laws might lead to com.

Mesara, Lovelook and Lewis report on the semi- officini contradictions which followed, hard | no blame pliestions involving the State in serious trouble, on the announcement were, therefore, ad little to sagt to be attached to Mr. Frederick Brown caine, for Spittal missed the target, altogether M. J. Fr. W. Jakhelln, Signor go. Catani, to make good a net deficisney in, reserve of Rs. ones, and then followed with a two and two Captain B. Cstortag, Mr Viator Batinan, Mr 11,58,723-3 6. (2) Only twoarses were open He advised that laws should be drawn up in annecessary Nobody on this side of the North Richards, anperintendent engineer of the com.throes, while Gray, Gring rapidly, made Chinese style and he extreats the Board to Sen, at any rate, believes the story in that form, pany. The cost of the vessel was £16,475, At "bulls out of tax hiss a phrys made soren W.-J. Archer Echor de Yulan, Beshid Datin (a) farther reduction of capital, and (b) liquida-

Bey, Essad Bar, Theni Bey, Ljevad Bey, Abdul eliminate foreign terms and words.

Quite a large number profess, however, not the time she last sailed from the United King withstanding Hurr Ballin's denials, to see in dom the managing owner assumed her value at lead stood him in good stead, and he finished Batchvoro, M. P. B. Caballero, Mr Craig being preferable. They gave this with great

Other men also fired splendidly, but Gray's Hak Hussein Boy, Major-General Shiba, M. tion, the latter being unhesitatingly recom

mended for adoption, voluntary liquidation its refection of the Tentonic mind working about £20,000, but the Court could not sasume the about with a total of 325 points, winning Wadsworth, Mr and Mrs Wynne, Miss Mozelzolance but without hesitation. Publis THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALIJANCE. round to the view which prevailed here when her value at greater sum than the original the King's Prize of £2:0 and the Nit.& gold hamured Khan, Mr and Mrs van Yoyell, Mejor confidence would seem to us to have been too the British Government lent to the Cunard price paid for her. There were insurances by medal sad badge-not a bad beginning for the and Mrs. Bagaaul, General Upperton, Me and

ompany the money for the Lusitania and the persons having no insurable interest in the ship, first year at Bisley, Sergeant Norbury of the

ruddly shaken the Mra Albert Vickers, Commander Wile-n-Barker, by capital already lost, to be ever restored by

by Count Jataro Komars, G.C.M.G, G.C.V.O. Mauretania. In this country we had ceased to cargo, er freight to the extent of in

past history of the Bank, develop the Atlantis linor for speed. The amounts varying from 810000 1,403,600 a 5th South Lines, was second with 321, and Captain N. V. Wawes. Louis, Mr Miles Lampson, further sweeping reductions of capital. With

Ommundsen third with 320.

Mr and Mrs Bowring-Hanbury, Mr. and Mrs James', vor Minister for Foriga. After and the Laennis to stand as its last word for tion of all insurance by persons who had no quarter of all hour or more After Mr Perey Maradon, dan Roid, MMC uraditom and nineistölders' intensets, would now

Company had allowed the Campania Court desired to express its strong disapproba

CARBBING THE VICTOR.

Charles Hanster, Mr A. H. Wyllie, Mr and out that confidence there seems to ng no hope of retrieving_the situation. In our opinion before leaving London, received a represents the time being, and after the graduation insurable interest in the vessel insured. Such tive of The Times at the Embassy in Grosvenor of the Oceanic, the White Star Line had insurances tended to reduce the premiuris to be knew he sat wer before the mail Acciarutions, AM MoKetua Mz

aim last shot and after every one Miss Langley Mr Ogden M, Me.Me te consulted by the Bank going into gardens. He said:→→

reverted to intermediate basta like the Celtje, paid by ordinarily interested insurers, and also of his victory was made. Gray was pulled up Beilly Alston, Mr and Mrs Boott and Mies voluntary liquidation ne coon se possible Cedria, Baltic, and Adriatio. There was a to throw susploton on owners, captains, and and introduced to Mr. Haldane, who shook Norn Cesik. Miss de Bunsen, Mr Engenidi.

Calenta, August 11th The Todian Daily News understands that ponamus faision that higher speeds did not offers on the ground of the vessel hoing over-hands and offered congratulations.

Captain and Mrs Cloman, Captain and Mrs Gregory had rosigned his directorship in pay, a fairly general

that pace was raind the highly as an inducement to treffio.

gambles such as thees Then the maltitude swept the King Prizeman Christopher, Mrs Barger and Miss Mary Ellis, the Commercial Bank some time ago and was should be prohibited by legislation,

into the their and hoisted him up and bore bim Mrs Cavendish, Mr and Mrs Douglas Murray Only at the Admiralty was there a hankering On this subject the writer of Marire. In off to camp'to the tune on the bagipes of "See and Miss Murray, Commander, Mrs and then only sofing in the plase of Mr. C. C. after high speeds on the Atlantic.

› was not dificult to discover. One may safely say that many underwriters are honoura with the calmness of a veteran, and Corbett, Mr. and Mrs Perry, Mr and Mis seriously ill at home. The bank authorities Theranos notes in the Times mid on July 25 the conquering hero comth." Gray took his Graham, Captain Tate, Air and Mrs R. 9. Robinson, Mr. Reginald Murray, the manager, explanation of All the Atlantic records ware held by German- glad to note that Mr. Maclean is to ask the when the fuss was over slipped into the post Eustace Burgos, Mr J. Sékets, Consul General bare been paid in full there will be a mim for

are anticipating that after the bank's depositor built and German owned liners, and such a state President of the Board of Trade on Mondays office sud aasta telegram home to Helens-of-Japan, Captain and Mrs Forbes, Me.nod Mrs. of things was inconsistent with Britain's Bastion regarding speculative insuransen. Of burgh Dumbartonshire.

division among the shareholders. Bagot, Mr Taget Moleworth, Me Francis W.

Commander Lyon, B.N.B., Captain Walker and time, the crowd behind him gradually grew General Sir O'Moore and Lady Creagh,

was the prosident of the Court, and Gray's ride rang out quickly time after Watts, Sir Walpole and Lady Greenwall, holders after payment of creditors in full,

lato Japanese Ambasador to the Court of St.

I am going home with my convictions strengthequal in regard to the value of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in the preservation of peace; and also with the absolute conviction of the good will and sincere friendship of the English nation towards Japan, which the Japanese nation is always ready to Fociprocate fully.

Cunard

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