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it can confidently be hoped that the sub, scription list will be considerably enlarged His Excellency las carasetly appealed "to all who desire, on the one hand, to assist China in acquiring Western knowledge, and, on the other hand, to extend British prestige and the knowledge of the English language,

WATSON, & CO. in the East," to assist the project. Sir JOHN JORDAN, the British Minister at Peking, who is a warm supporter of the project, has been asked to lay it before the Wai-wu-pu for presentation to the Grand Councillors and His Highness the FRINGE REGENT, with a view to onlist WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS ing their co-operatio and financial support.

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The Chinese Government has contributed $40,000 to a College which the German Government proposes to found at Tsingtau, and there is reason, therefore, to hope that they will, in a similar manner, identify them- selves with the project in Hongkong which is likely to prove of invetimable value to the rising generation of Chinese. When His Excell ney inst made a public spreek of the subject be entertained a hope of support also from H. E. the Viceroy of Canton. Letters were written on the subject to the Secretary of State, to the Government of Indin and to the Governor of the Straits Settlements; also to the China Association, the Chancellor of Oxford University, to Lord ELGIN, lately Secretary of State for the Colonies, and 10 other iu Buential people, including the Munisipality of Shanghai. Obviously, no eff.at has been spared by His Excellency the Governor to get the money needed. As to the result of these appeals DO

public statement has yet been made. We feel, however, that they cannot all have been made in vain.. and when the time comes for the Committee which has charge of the scheme to declare the result of their efforts to raise the Endow. ment Fund we can hardly doubt that the ROBT. PORTER & Co's entire am will be well in þight. While it is very gratifying to note the amount of BULL DOG BRAND financial support the scheme has already

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received from Chinese sources, we hope to see in the fical statement that they hara dantributed a much larger propor. of the amount. The Governor tion has looked for support not only from th the Chinese residing in Hongkong and the immediate neighbourhood, but from Chinese in the Straits Settlements, in Java, in Siam and elsewhere, for they, too, may hope to benefit from the University to which they will be able to send their sons. The project is primarily for the Chinese and H. E. the Governor early in the year said he looked to the Chinese to provide the bulk of the funds, Mr. Mopy's offer remains open. only a few weeks longer, and the time, therefore, has now arrived when hesitation on the part of iutending subscribers should cease. The munificent donations of te Taikoo Hong have

As a Chinese gentleman was gazing to shop TELEGRAMS. FRENCH POSTAL STRIKE.

window at West Point on Tuesday a thief approached, out his pocket open with a knife, and relieved him of his parse. He was caught in the act, however, and on appearing before Mr. A. Hassland at the Magistracy yesterday. he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment

and six hours' stocks.

A very sad drowning fatality occurred in Hankowa fortnight ago. While the launch of the Japaness cruiser Akashi was bringing some offers from the shore and as she came along aide the vessel, the assistant paymaster of the ship made a spring for the ladder but missed his footing, and fell into the river. He was not seon to rise again and the body has not beer

recovered.

In a report to the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. J. B, atter, Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, deals with the demand for wool on the part of China. The Chinese, he says, look to the Commonwealth for wool to mix with the coarser grades produce. Quite recently orders were sent from Shanghai to Sydney for about £2.000 worth of wool. Mr. Suttor regards this an good beginning to what he believes will be a great expansion" in the future,

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THE VERBY.

LONDON, May 26th. The result of the Derby which was run this afternoon was as follows:- H. M. the King's Minora... Mr. W. Raphael's Louviers... Sir John Robinson's William

EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENTS:

LONDON, May 26th." As a result of the strike of the French naval reservists, there are now twenty mail steamers detained at Marseilles.

The Government has hastily in- 1troduced a Bill authorising the con

of mails to Algeria in foreign veyance bottoms, also a Bill defining the legal the Fourth 3 status of employees of the State and

2 $

[There were 169 horse entered, for the Derby

this year and it is interesting to Easton permitting unions within single de readers to note, among the list of owners the partments, but prohibiting the con. names of Sir B. W. B. Jurdine, and Mr. J. Bell-Irving,

edoration of such unions;

The King's horse Minorn has been, favourite since he won the two thousand Guiness ride.

SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 26th May,

IN AFFELLATE JUENDICTION. (BEFORE THE FULL COURT.)

LEUNG SHUI KONG V. IMPERIAL BANK

OF CHINA..

The hearing of the appeal was continued in which Leang Shui Kong appealed against the judgment of the Chief Justion in which he was defendant and the Imperial Bank of China plain- tiffe Mr. M. W. Slade and Mr. H. G. Calthrop wero for the appellant and Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, KC, represented the respondents, Mr. Slade said he could show, from the Bank's own book, strong prinia facie ground for believing that the account showing the deficiency was not a personal one, and it was for the Bank to prove the opposite beyond any reasonable doubt, before they could hace judgment for the amount.

Previously the favourite had boon Me. Fairies SOUTH AFRICAN PROSPERITY, peliant's deceased brother, and the Bank was

Bayardo, with Mr. C. J. Blake's Glasgerion de second, a two-year-old Bayardo went through last season without a defeat, winning seven raves and £13,000 odd in stakes. But nous of these rases exceeded seven furlongs. The Derby course is a mile and a half, and doubts of Bayardo's ability to stay the distance have been Mestings of the Manils Railway Company entertained. In the mile race for the two

thousand Grinoes, Bayardo ran fourth

(1906) A and B Debenture Londholders were to be bold yesterday, Way. 26. The resolutions to be submitted have in view the reduction of the present Debenture issues from £3,250,000 of cash glass to £2,300,000. The company is to be congratulated upon having obtained from the Philippine Government now conocssion, ander the terms of which the latter agree to guarantee interest for 30 years on a new issue of bonds of the Mauila Railroad Company to defray the cost of the extensions south of Manila.

A native correspondent of a northern con- temp riry states that the Imperis! Coffin at the late bmperor's funeral was carried by 128. coolies, and their expenses and the cost of erect ing two ustaleds amounted to Tis: 600,000. The Prince Regent wants to know where the He has granted only Tix 20,000, money went as he considers that is quite suficient. The expenses for getting two boate ready to carry the

cou was Tls. 120,000, but 6,000 only has been paid by the Prince Regent. His Highness is stated to have been angry.

For a long time the police have been baffled in their efforts to discover a gang of thieves 'who have been removing rail piping from different roadsides. Early this week, Lowever, they effected three arrests, and recovered 1.60 lineal feet of piping which had been removed from Kennedy, Wongneioheong, Conduit and Albert Roads. The three men arrested, one of whom is a coolie engaged at the Water Works, were charged before Mr. F. A. Hazoland at the Magistracy yesterday with the larceny of 1,805 lineal feet of piping, the property of the Govern moat. The hearing of the case was adjourned.

One of the most Interesting Chinese per- sonalities, Lui Jung Fu, who earned the good opinions of the Chinese Government by the guerilla warfare which he conducted during the Franco-Chinese war, and who, in his capacity an chief of the Black Flags, gave endless trouble to Hongkong. The ex-chief of the Black Flaga en the completion of his warlike setivities in the south, held several military appointments in the Kwangtang province, but he has retired from military life and propose to float a com

ajesty's horse Minoru has been leased from his breeder, Mr. W. Hall Walker, and has to his credit the fact that he has only ones failed to secure a place...

INTERPORT CRICKET.

SHANGHAI, May 26th.

LONDON, May 26th.. The South African section of the

stock exchange is busier than it has been for a long time, many offices working all night,

Mr. Botha, the Premier, in a speech at Pretoria, said that never before in the history of South Africa had there been such solid sigus of prosperity.

Mr. Calthrop, who followed, said their Lord- ships would see by the re-amended defence that. the agreement between Leung King Wo, ap-

for a term of one year on trial. As the agree- i'ment

was only for a year, the guarantee, therefore, was only for a year. The follow-

ing paragraph in the re-amended defonce dealt with the fast that after the expiration of the agreement there was an appointment of Lenag

King Wo as agent, and not as manager. That alteration also wonkl be sufficient to discharge the surety. A further paragraph set out that Leung King Wu, after the agreement entered into for guarantee, acted as compradore to the Bank. That was another ground for discharge of the surety. That also led to the point that, if this deficiency was made out against Leung King Wo, it was one which arose from his

tion as mazgor. Therefore the surety was discharged on that ground from any liability under tlie agreement on the part of appellant.

In the Hongkong second innings FORTIFING PANAMA CANAL. position as compradore and not from his posi

Baghall made 24 and Innes 13 ot

oul.

The corrected scores are:

FILST INNTNGA.

Capt. Boaster, A. Lanning, b Humphreys Lieut. Gresa, b Caruthers... Llout. Anderson, b V. Lanning... Capt. Baird, Lanning Capt. Garnett, e Humphreys, b V. Lanning Lient. Hagnall, o V. Lanning, o Billings... Lieut. Byrne, a Dew, b Billings......

Lieut. Innos, c Barrett, b Humphreys Lieut. Crookendon, a Walker, b Billings Capt Brierley, o Walker, b Humphreys

Capt. Greenway, not out

Extras....

SECOND INNINGS, Capt. Baneley, e Walker, b Billings ... Lieut. Anderson, e and b Humphreys... Linnt. Green, a Walker, b Billings... Capt. Garnett, e Lanning, b Billings, Capt. Baird, e Moule, b Billings Lieut. Bagnall, o Lanning, b Billings Lieut. Innes, not out

Fyrne, b Billings Capt. Brierley, b Billings Lieut. Crookenden, b Billings Capt. Greenway, b V. Lanning

Lieut.

Extras

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LONDON, May 26th. Plans of the fortification of the Panama Canal have been submitted

27 to President Taft. The cost is esti- 74 mated at £1,500,000 and provision is 46 made for an armament of sixty heavy 15 guns and a garrison of 4,500 men.

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RAILWAY LOANS.

215

Tots!...

INTERPORT TENNIS.

SHANGHAI May, 26th. In the interport tennis match Cap- tain Beasley and Lieut. Byrne beat

PEKING, May 26th.

A CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING.

Two Chinese, a male and a female, were placed

before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistrany yesterday on the charge of taking an unmarried girl under the age of 18 years out of the posses sion of, and against the will of one Tam Wang Shi, the person having the lawful ears or churge of the girl.

Mr.. H. L. Donuys (of Mossrs. Dennys and |Bowley) appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.

Otto Kong Sing for the defence.

Mr. Denys said the charge was brought under the Women and Girls Protection Ordin-

The Canton-Hankow and the Han-ance. He would prove that the woman defend- kow-Szechuen Railway loans were parted with the child volantarlly for the purpose ant, who claimed to be the mother of the girl, signed on the 25th instant by the of adoption into another family. She sold the representatives of the English, French and German Banks and Grand Coun. cillor Chang Chih Tung and the President of the Board of Communi- cations.

PRINCE CHING TO RETIRE.

PEKING, May 26th. Prince Ching has asked sick leave

kave already appeared in other papers will be scheme, and we can hardly doubt that Hithe French authorities, will shortly come to Monsrs Wheelock and Fearon 4/6, and it is reported that he will soon

No asonymously signed communications that immensely improved the prospects of the

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DEATH.

Go May 20th, at the General Hospital, Shanghai. ARTHUR EDWIN CITABLTON, Consulting Engineer, aged 34 years.

Excellency's anticipations of this noble example stimulating emulation, will in the few weaka that remain, be largely realised.

Two cases of plagas at Yaumati were reported pany to carry on banking and godown business yesterday.

For obstructing a footway at Yanmati, four- native merchants were fined $15. apiece by Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy.

HONGKONG OFFICE: LOA, DES VŒUI BUAD O At the Magistracy yesterday Mr. F. A LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. EC Huzeland sentenced a coolie to six weeks' im- prisonment and six hours' stocks for the larceny of a jacket.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, MAY 27TH 1909.

ensure

Tur splendid lead which the Taikoo Hong has given in the effort to raise the fund for the endowment of the University which Mr. H. N. MODY so ningnanimously promised to provide for Hongkong should give the needed fillip to the collection of subscriptions and

establishment of the the University at no distant date. The sum required for the furnishing, equipment and endowment represents a capital sum of £110,000, or 81,250,000, and it was a eon- dition of Mr. Moor's gift that the Exdow. ment Fund should be raised by subscription before building operations were commenced, it being his ambition to seo the University established and working during his lifetime. Mr. Moor's offer remains open till the end of June, Among the Chinese a sum

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The Rt. Rev. Bishop Pozzoni returned to the Colony from Swatow yesterday. His Lordship was accompanied by Bishop Meril and several priests.

in Canton. It is in connection with this business that he intends visiting Hongkong.

The Philippines Appropriation Bill which has just been passed by the Assembly makes provision for meeting the deficit expected to result from an application of the provisions of the Payne Bill to the Manila customs honso. The Government is authorized to float a loan in the United States by the issuance of bonds to

6/2, 6/3, and Mesars Saunders and retire. Middleton 6/0, 6/2, while Captain Brierley and Lieut. Whyte beat Messrs Saunders and Middleton 6/3, (5/1, and Messrs Wheelock and Fearon | 7/6, 7/6, 6/4.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA SUCCESS.

Tokyo, May 26th. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has de- clared a dividend of ten per cent. Mr. Kondo, the President, referred to the

the amount of $1,500,000 for public works throughout the islands. It is proposed to use the money obtained from the sale of the bonds for the construction of the public works for comparative success of the half-year which money has already been appropriated. In in contrast to the losses of the Ger- A coolie, who was found guilty of trespassing this way the money set aside heretofore for these man and British lines and the Toyo on Army Ordinances property, was filed 850 by public works will be available to meet any falling Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court yester-off in the revennes.

day.

Brevet Major the Hon. R. A.ampbell, in Southern China, remarks a trade paper. The There is a growing dowand for- canned milk Cameron Highlanders, has been appointed to the 2nd Battalion, now at Tientsin, but will United States Consular Canton reports that. he consumption of canned milk among the join the 3rd (Reserve) East. till next trooping

senson.

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merchants in Hongkong, convened a meeting in

to

Chinese is on the increase, and many of the

Kisen Kaisha.

[REUTHE'S SERVICE TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."3.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL ST. JOHN.

CHINA'S BUDGET,

PEKING, May 26th. The Board of Finance has gone into the accounts and have ascertained that the deficit amounts to five million taels.

THE LATE ME, R. D. WATT.

The remains of the late Mr. B. D. Watt,

child on or about February 16th of this year, and after the girl had been with the person who puid the money for three days, she was taken

lack by the female defendant and carried off to Singapore. The defendant and the girl returned from Singapore in April, and on May 10th the girl was disposed of again to be adopted by the prosecutrix, who was the wife of the gentleman in charge of the Chinese Legation in Mexico. On the date mentioned the girl was taken to the house of Mrs. Tam Wang Shi, and the sum of $160 was paid over to the go-between. At the end of three days the girl enid she liked being with the prosecutrix, and it was arranged that sho should look after the children. On May 17th the first defendant called at Mrs. Tam Wang Shi's house with a memorandum book in one hand and a pencil in the other, and said be had called to see whether the water supply was in order. In this manner he got up to the first floor of the house, Then he said it was

necessary to report if any rat holes required filling, and so pushed his way, gradually to the top floor and into the bedroom of prosecutria,

where the child was As soon as he saw the girl he picked her up and ran down into the street. An amah gare chase, but was confronted by two men who dared her to go further. She did not go further, but she raised her voice, and . the first defendant was pursued by some men in

superintending engineer of the Dook at Quarry the vicinity and captured near the Belilios School. Bay were interred at the Colonial Cemetery, Ho was handed over to a Chinese: detective and Happy Valley yesterday, when, notwithstanding with the child was taken back to the house the disagreeable weather, there was a large at of prosecutrix. The second defendant accom- tendance of mourners to pay their last respects to panted him back, unit there chained the girl as one who was hold in general esteem. The fan her daughter; Mr. Dennys submitted that it eral-procession formed at the monument, and for money she had no right to claim her again.. the defendant voluntarily parted with the girl en reaching the entrance to the cemetery, the coffin was lifted from the hearse and borne on the shoulders of the European shipyard child was, or was not a daughter of the meond foremen to the chapel, where service was defendant, but under section 32 she had put it conducted by the Bev.

out of her power to claim that she was entitled to F. T. Johnson. Among those who followed the remains were

the possession of the child. The girl had giton .

He was not in a position to" say whether the

Mrs. Watt (widow), who was accompanied by a statement as to previously being stola, and the speaker would call before the Court the woman by whom she had been stolen,

Evidence was taken and the hearing adjourned until to-day.

WEATHER REPORT.

stores now handling these prepared milks report Inspector Collett prosecuted an unemployed that large quantities of the various brands are

LONDON, May 26th.

Mr. Tompleton, Mrs. Suchso, Messrs. D. B. Chiness at the Magistracy yesterday for, tres being taken by the Chinese, The Chinese have

Law, G. T. Edkins. W. Nicholson C. H. Admiral St. John, of China and Blason, J. Hall, W. Ironside, C E. V. Harrop, ́ passing on the servants quarters at the never used say great quantities of milk, as thoy. residence of Mr. McIntyre, Shazkiwan. Mr.sally allow the calf to take all the milk for its Japan fame, is dead.

E. P. Dashwood, P. F. Nicholson (dock fiue of 87, in default nourishment, in order to leave another animal Hazeland imposed a

[Admirsi Henry Craven St. John, entered the manager), R. MeGregor (local secretary), J. later, and fearing that the calf will die if de. Navy in 1851. was lieutenant for petion at Heil (assistant-manager, A. W. Dixon (eupt. fourteen days' imprisonment.

prived of any part of the milk. No diry farms Futahan creek 1857. commander for attack and West River British B.S. Co.), Captain Inxos, J. Natives of the Sunning district, who are exist Arcept in the various foreign settlement especially promoted to post captain for ardnous Lennox, F. W. James, D.Templeton, J. Lochead, the following report:

destruction of piratical fleet of junks 1866,

approaching two lakka of dollars has the colony on Tuesday to welcome the departing milk in preotically never used, owing to its Gibraltar, and as rear-admiral in command D. McNeill, J.-Dalziel, and other tombers of reached the neighbourhood of tho Kii Channel,

and colonies. In fact, among the Chinese, freak. surveying services in Japan, served in Reserve A. Mc. Kirdy, A. Davidson After argument

and Channel qudrona,, senior so far subscribed, so that, with the magistrate of that district, who is on his way scareity. There is overy indication, however of Queenstown, decorated for A.D.C., to the

officer at the hearing was adjourned. W. Wotherspoon handsomo donations by MessTS, JOHN aneller appointment. At the meeting, about SWIRG & SON the Taikoo Sugar Refining $20,000 was subscribed on the initiative of the that the Chinose are beginning to realise the Queen: Jubilee, Baltic and China modals and the staffe of the shipyard and the refinery. Others present were Messrs H. E. Tomkins, G. Co., Ltd., and the Ocean Stearnship Co., magistrate, for the purpose of building a new

Grimble, D. MacDonald, John Lambert, T. GERMANY'S NAVAL NEEDS. Nesre (Kowloon Dock), R. A more than half the total amount required ispaol in the Sunning district' on reformed lines, now in sight. Five weeks more remain Shanghai parers announce the death of Mr.

(Cosmopolitan Dock), C, W. Bayers. in which to obtain the 'balance. When we. E. Charlton, at the General Hospital, whore

LONDON, May 26th.

(Peak Tramway) Captains Brown. Frazer, Engineers W. "point to the fact that no subscriptions from he underwent an operation from the effects of

Admiral Koester, in opening the and Metherall and Chief A Tientsin contemporary statos that plague German Navy League at Treves, in-mittal sentences had been pronounced by the to-day is as follows:

Budge, Smith and Jones, etc. After the com British or other European firms interested which he did not recover. Mr. Charlton came

is spreading in Mongolia and invading Man. in the Colony, other than those we have to Shanghai seven years ago as an engineer to

churia. The same paper states that at Tongsisted in his speech that Germany had clergyman, the cofa, which was made of Hongkong & Neighbourhood(*) the Soychee Cotton Mill, and later started a

shan innoculation with Haffking's vaccine is tu mentioned have been announced; that no successful business on his own secount as a con- be carried out on a large scale, and plague too few cruisers compared with Great polished oak, was lowered into the grave, Formosa Channal report has been issued as to the result of the sulting engineer. He was connected with the measures are being condustel from the new

and the service concludel. The inscription South coast of China between Hongkong and Lampeks.

value of milk as a food, and when onge the rise clasps.]. of it becomes genersi the manufacturers of the canned product should find a large market.

PLAGUE IN NORTH CHINA.

Nicholson

The Hongkong "Observalory yesterday issued

On the 26th at 11.45 am. The barometer lying over the Eastern Sea yesterday, having has fallen quickly in Japan, the depression Pressure has increased, considerably to no- derately over the Yangtze Valley and S. Chine respectively. It is now high over the former Fresh N. to N.E. winds may be expectod ̈ ́in the Formosa Channel and along the northern shores of the China Ses,

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 nm, to-day, 0.35 inches,

Breo.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending st`noun

appeals which H. E. the Governor has made Engineers' Football Club, the Lancastrian laboratories of the Chinese Enginesring and Britain, a defect which must be re on the coffin was "Robert D. Watt. Died South.coast of Chins between

in many other directions for support of the Society, and was Eight Worshipful Master of scheme, we feel that before the end of June Saltoun lodge.

as well as a seventeeth 25th May. Aged 52 years”

The floral tributes were numerous.”

Mining Company, who are congratulated on medied, their determination and thoroughness in deal ing with the disease in North China.

battleship added.

Hongkong and Hainan...

Same as No. I.

Same as No. 1.

Same as No. 1

(*) N. to N.Ë, winds, fresh'; 'squally, showery.