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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held "yesterday in the Council Chambor.

The following were prosont :--- HIN EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR, SIE FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.8.0.

Hon. Mr. F. II. MAY, CMG., (Colònial Secretary).

Bir HENRY BERKELEY, K.C., (Acting At: torney-General).

which I used, I desire most emphatically to remove it. I do not propose to review again the railway question, but I would like to emphasize one point which I have already emphasized every time I have spoken upon this subject, and that is that the so-called "Bruce's estimate" cannot be considered as an estimate of the cost of the construction of the railway When Mr. Pruce made his preliminary survey, the question was under discussion as to whether | the railway should follow a route along the eastern or the western side of the peninsula. It was issues of this kind upon which his advice was sought. His figuras did FI considered estimate not purport to be of the cost. There were no calculations of Hon. Mr. A. W. BREWIN (Registrar-Gonoral). quantities and the length of the tunnel was Hon. Mr. F. J. BADELEY (Capt. Superinteunstimated upon the map with a pair of Hon. Dr. Ho KA1, K.C., C.M.G...

dividare. They purposely ommitted a large number of items, such as station buildings and machinery, workshops; roads, boundaries, ballast, and items under plant, including rolling stock and salaries. The re-alignmont which has beou made after a careful survey of the original lino proposed by him, has resulted in a large The minutes of the last moeting were read saving over the cost which would have been invol and confirmed.

Hon. Mr. A. M.THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Mr. P. N. H. JONES (Auting Director of Public Works)...

Rent. of Police)...

Hou. Mr. E. A HEWETT.

Hon. Mr. E. Osborne.

Hoa. Mr. W. J. GRESSON

HON. Mr. MURRAY STEWART.

Hon. Mr. Wer Yux. C.M.G.

Mr. C. CLEMENTI (Clark of Councils).

MINUTES.

PAPENH.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, inid on the table the report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for 1903. -

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FINANCIAL-MINUTES.

The ColoRIAL SECRETARY, by colymand of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes (Nos. 21 to 25) and moved that they referred to the Finance. Com mittee.

The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

FINANCIAL.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of

ved by following Mr. Bruce's rough Hoe Tho first reliable estimate that wo had of the cost of the railway was the one which was made in June 1907. It took nine months to prepare. It amgrated to a little over eight million dollars. It did not include, as I have repeatedly pointest out, several items which were under discussion at the time it was presented. If these items be added and also the cost of land resumption in the neighbourhood of the doop sea goods' wharf, and the passenger station it willbe found that the ontimate presented in June 1907 has not beon exceeded except in the single item of the tannol. In my recent statement to the Council I criti- cised the variations under different heads between the estimates, presented this year

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 11TH, 1909.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY SSConded, and the bill was read & first time.

PREPARED OPIUM AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend The Prepared Opium Ordimanov 1891.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY, seconded and the bill was read a first time.

BUPPLEMENTARY APPROPEIATION

ORDINANCE

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Ostasiatisk Kompagni, of Copenhagen, is having a steamer built in Holland for the Siamese coasting trade...

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The salaries of some of the new Port of London Authority oficials are fixed thus:dock and warehouse manager £1,500; chief engineer £2,000; comptroller £1,000 per sattum.

cargo of wheat, returning thence to Axis, { where such other cargo as may be secured is naded, and the whole carried westward through the Suez Canal to Europe... If the Snez Canal talls should be as low as thoso at Panama (which is very unlikly) the use of the American route by regular lines from Japan to Europe would be probable, because the temptation of Pacifle boat freight would continue strong and would certainly, as at present, draw many

The COLONIAL SECRETABY—In view of the. The steamer Theseus was to leave Shanghai ramp vessels across the North Pacific, "

certificate I laid in connection with the Finance Committee, it is unnecessary, unless sny hon. member wishes it, to refer the bill standing in my name to a committee of the whole Council, therefore I bog to move the third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to authorizo the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sam of Five hundred and twelve thousand two hundred Dollars and thirty-four Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1908.

On Tuesday afternoon, the 8th inst., for Foochos, where she will load the first of the new season's tea for the London market. It is intended to

try and make a record passage home.

The working of the Messageries. Maritimes a 1908 has been much more favourable than in 1907. No dividend was distributed for 1907, but there was a net halance of £380,00) in 1908, Of this amount the service of the bonds absorbs

The COLONIAL TREASURER Seconded, and £20,000. the bill was wad a third time and passed.

THE TRAMWAY BILL.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-The next item standing in my name is really a private bill introduced some years ago by an lion member who is no longer a member of this Council. The question is whether any other member proposes to go on with the bill.

Hon. Mr. GRESSOY-I beg to move that further consideration of this bill be postponed until the interested parties have had further time to consider their position.

Hon. Mr. STEWART seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

HIS EXCELLENCx--Council stands adjourned until this day weak.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

The Douglas steamer Hatching (Capt W. C. Passmore) which arrived on Tuesday, reported passing at 6.15 p.m. on the 8th: inst, à Japanese stoamer at anchor of Halman Bay 15 S. W. of Brosker Point light, apparently hroken down.

of Commerce an

The New York J Bounces that the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company have inaugurated a new stearnship service between New York and Japan, China and the Philippines vi the Telmantojie railway. The journey is to be performed in

42 days.

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THE REV. F. R. MEYER.

The visit of the Rev. F. E. Meyer, B.A. of London to the Colony of Hongkong may, we think, be fittingly placed among the noted events. of the current year, 1909.

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Mr. Mayor's emisonce as a writer and speaker, the breadth of view and catholicity of spirit that STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY hare dommended him to truth seckors in all parts of the world, and his outstanding services to the

case of our common Christianity (apart from SUPERIOR VALUE ecclesiastical names or party signis), render him

persunce gratu in widor Britain, where he is now travelling, not less than in the homeland, where his teaching is a potent factor in the BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR religious life of the nation.

THIS CLIMATE.

All that Mr. Moyer has to say is of sterling

worth. His public utterances have a wide range. Te is now seeking his audiences, not only with in, but slee beyond our local churches.

Invitations have been issued to a series of

actings for men, and we trust the response from all sections of this community will be ROBINSON PIANO

We have received from the publishersal to the seating capacity of the largest (Effingham Wilson, 24 Thromiuenlie Street, auditorum available in the City Hall building. Loudon E. C.) a copy of the third edition of These meetings, conducted by Mr. Meyer, should a little volume on "Charter-Parties and Bills regarded as an occasion to be used to the fullest advantage by men of many nations resilont in Hongkong. Mr. Meyer is par which he has been lad to take in the course of adistinguished and successful public career must

His Excollonny the Governor, laid on the table and those laid on the table last year and then hold, the COLONIAL SECRETARY Presidinu barrister-at-law. This little work is probably ticularly conversational, and the views of life

the report of the Finance Committee (No.5) and moved its adoption. He said--In connection with this I bog to lay on the table the following certificate signed by me, "I certify that the supplementary appropriation estimator for 1908 word read clause by clauses in the presorice of all members of the Finance Committee."

said that though the variations were un- satisfactory, the method of proparing esli- matos did not reflect upon the skill of the British engineer. The salient fact remains that however the sumes might have been allo. cated ander various heads, and whether inter- mediste estimates presented to the Council have

The COLONIAL TREASURER MConded the been satisfactory or have been faulty, the ori- motion, which was agreed-to

KOWLOON-CAS PON RAILWAY.

PUBLIC WORKS RECURRENT. The Governor recommended the Council to

rote a sum of Three thousand soren hundred Dollars (83,700) in aid of the rote,Public Works Recurrent, Miscellaneous, Typhoon au! Rain- storm Damages,

A meeting of the Finance Committee was of Lading," by Mr. Lawrenen Duckworth, already known to many readers. It contains The following rates were passed ------

all the well-known principles of English law on the subjects dealt with, and in this revised edition all the more important decisions since the last issue published in 1904 are included.

In an interesting report on the shipping and navigation of the port of Antwerp, for last year Consul-General Sir Cecil Hertslet states that for the first time since 1900 the navigation returns of all chipping entering Antwerp showed a falling off in 1908. While British shipping fall from 5,653,239 tous in 1907 to 5,323,090 tons in 1908, German tonnage in- creased from 2,895,043 tons to 3,134,792 tons. Sines 1900 German tonnage visiting Antwerp has increased by 100 per cent.

The CHAIRMAN-The original estimate for typhoon and rainstorm damages in 1908 was 879,000. The money spent in 1908 was $61.000, leaving a balance of $18,000. There million and a quarter dollars. I am, of course, was only $12,000 voted on this year's estimates; speaking of the ostinates which were laid on the balance therefore shows a slight deduction the table the other day. So far as these on the original estimator. estimates are concerned the only excess when all the items are tucluded, ou the original estimate of June 1907, is in respect of the tunnel.

ginal estimate for which the Crown Agents are responsible have only been exceeded in one item The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the fellow-that of the tunnel, the excess on which is one ing resolution:-"It is hereby rencived that a saim of Three million two hundred and eighty thousand six hundred and sixty-three tollars ($3,280,663) be advanced out of funds in the custody of the Government for the purpose of construction of the Hongkong Canton Railway (British Section) during the year 199." Ho said Details of this sum will appear, as hos members are no doubt aware, is the appendix

to the estimates for the current year.

The COLONIAL TREASURER reconded.

cordance with the now financial instructions

Hon. MR. STEWART--Your Excellency, I should just like to say I have listened to your remarks with considerable satisfaction. I hope that they will effectually destroy the idea that this Colony is being called upon to pay for the.

MILITARY EXPENDITURE. The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of Five hundred Dollars ($500) in aid of the vote Military Expenditure, Volux- teers. Other Charges, Grast to the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association for salary of Secretary during 1908.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

vote a sum of Six hundred and fifty Dollars The Governor recommended the Council to (2650) in aid of the vote, Medical Departmente, B-Hospitals and sylums, Other Charges, for the following items:-

The German Government is considering a fully worked-out soheme for building a ship canal from Kiel to join the Elbe-Trave canal. This means placing the entire basins of the Elbe and the Oder in connection with Kiel, will cost nearly two millions sterling. The The canal will be nearly sixty miles long, and strategic importance of this great work is manifest. When built it will also be easier to supply Kiel with the coals and iron necessary

Civil Hospital, Incidental Expenses, ..... 1300 | for naval purposes.

Medicines and Surgical Appliances.... 350 Victoria Hospital for Womon and Children,

Total,

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HIS EXCELLENCY-Gentlemen, I said in my railway a price nearly twice us large as it ought. annual remarks on the progress of the railway As Your Excellency has indicated, this erroneous at our meeting before last, that a resolution of impression arose from comparing the prelimia this land would not be required this your as the ary with the detailed estimate, as if they were amount for the construction of the railway was

different estimates for an identical work. It already included in the suunal estimates, in no-has already been pointed out by those who sought issued by the Secretary of State. I am advised to combat this erroneous notion that the proli. intrary estimate was for a single line throughout, however that the more correct procedure is to whereas the actual construction provides for propose this resolution, but it will not be requir development into a deable line on all bridges, ed next year, and therefore it is included in culverts and tunnels, except Beacon Hill, It

The Governor recommended the Conneil to the business of to-day. As the railway question has farther been pointed out that the preli vote a sum of Five hundred Dollars (8500) in is before the Conngil, I am glad of the op-minary estimates did not provide for land aid of the vote, Miscellaneous Services, Fee to portunity it gives me, of removing mis reclamation and land resumption at the Crown Solicitor for compilation of existing apprehensions which have arisen in consequence terminus. In connection with the cost of land Regulations and Orders in Council of what I said on the previous occasion. In the reclamation and resumption it should not be

The CHAIRMAN-This work was undertaken comparison between the cost of the tunnel in forgotten that to include it in the rail by the Crown Solicitor, and the sum mentioned 1937 with that in 1903 the remarks I made to way estimates rendore these misleading fore the remuneration for his services. thin Council were misleading, because I myself purposes of comparison with other rail

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

PUBLIC WORIE EXTRAORDINARY.

audiences and give to thusú nitorances an on- ets lead weight to his utterances before local hanced value. Mr. Moyer's meetings of vari- ous kinds should be the means of placing the colony in closer touch with beat activities of the church througbent all the world.

To be appreciated in this community Mr. Meyer needs but to be heard. As a speaker to men on special topics, he has long exercised an influence that has been singularly marked and constantly growing Tonight in the City Hall he will deliver the first of two addresses on the Physiology of a Strong Pure Life.

A distinctive mark of the true teacher, which for our Chinese friends has the highest sanction, is timeliness. From this view point we com- mond Mr. Meser and his message Tracts for the Times," and "Sermons and Addresses for the Times, are titles with which most of as are sufficently familiar. It is also matter of common experience that utterances so designated are apt to disappoint reasonable expectations raised by There are indeed comparatively few speakers tiously some of the top tusing his visit to Hong- or writers who can handle forcefully and felici is proposing to deal during his visit to Hong kong. The more reason therefore that those who can be present should attend at the City Hall to night and an encoding evenings during the delivery of the series of addresses-Com-

the names.

municated.

The BM. Patella, built by Messes Swan,

Mr. Meyer had a busy day yesterday. He Hunter, and Wigham Righardson, Wallmond, attended the "at home" given at St. Paul's for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Colleg by Bishop Landor and addressed the Limited. London, underwent her official liqnid-ompany in the garden. In the evening he was. at the Y.M.,4. and and after dinner he add- fuel trial recently. This vessel, which is similar ressed a fairly well attended meeting in the to the as. Conch recently completed by the same City Hall on the subject "The Physiology of builders for this Company, is also fitted with all strong pure life."

the latest improvemente in tank steamers. Her dimensions are 418ft. by 51ft 3in. deadweight of oil and bunkers on a moderate by 31ft, and she will carry about 7,700 tons

draft of water.

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Bourne.

CO. LTD.

REVIEWS,

Historic Shanghai. By C. A. MONTALTO DE Jesus Shanghai: The Shanghai Mercury Litd.

Shanghai, at last, has had its history written. The author of Historie Macao" has found an almost equally interesting study in the history of ghanghai, and has produced a book which we well worth writing, and one which will be found both interesting and profitable for all wiw. are interestal in affairs in this part of the world to read, mark, learn and inwardly, digest. "Historic Shanghai" is without all that wealth of detail and catalogued information which is the feature of the Into Dr. Eitol's History of Hong- kong, It is a book of ten cliapters dealing with (1) the oponing of Shanghai; (2) the rise of the Foreign Settlements; (3) Shanghai

robols; (4) scal reform an under the municipal shortcomings, (5) the Taipings at Shanghai; (6) the thirty-mile radius compaign (7) from Burgerine's fati to Gordon's mueter stroke(8) the fall of Soochow (9) municipal ` evolution, and (10) Haley on times.

It will be gathered from this list of subjecis

that nearly half the book consists of history of the Taiping Rebellion, and Mr. Montalto do Jesu in his proface sets up the justification that the pride of Shanghai reste principally upon thi memorable struggle. "It is pracisely from this central point, the anthor says, "that a bistory. is most needed, inasmuch as the great influence which the reign of terror had ur n the destinies of Shanghai, for good and for evil, can never be adequately grungel without full light being thrown upon local conditions at that stirring opoch. Thence dated the marvellous growth of the foreign settlements, in the midst of golden but unprofited opportunities for solving the international problems now so complex."

Still we do not think the book would bare suffered by a condensation of the story of the rebellion, and its general interest would certainly

1908 and showing an aggregate saving of some howevers, justice would not yes be done. brought home to the authorities by the severo prssenger only at intermediate fares equivalent Hongkow Wharf Company, Limited, for recaiv-prophesies the greatness as well as the doom of

If the whole cost of reclamation is to be debited typhoon and rainstorm of 1908. The remain to the railway, some thought should be taken ing 813,000 is for hospital work, and that work of the value of the land reclaimed, some of is now approaching completion. which will be used for other than strictly rail- mente of the Fort scheme. Hereafter that land way purposes-for godowns, and other require should prove a valuable asset to the Colony.

further cruises.

Shanghai. In more than one way, he says, the hand of Destiny seems to mark Shanghai as the

A SHANGHAI SHIPPING CASE.

on the 4th inst. before Mr. F. 8.

In HB. M.'s Supreme Court at Shanghai Acting Judge, the Dampskibaaktieselskabet Norman Isles claimed from Mesars Gibb, was misled. I quoted s paragraph from the ways, in the matter of the average mileage The Governor recommended the Council to

Livingston & Co. sums received by the defend. report of the Chief Resident Engineer in which cost of construction. A very misleading in-vote a sum of Nineteen thousand nine hundred grume of sutuon departures from London, theroon from January 26 1907, and for the conditions of which obtained in the early The P. and O. Company announce their pro-ants for the use of the plaintiff and for interest have been eahanged by a chapter or two on the he said:The coat of the tunnel driving was pression is created by simply taking the total of and seventeen Dollars ($19,917) in aid of the Maravilles and Brindisi to India, Australia, costs of this action. very minah reduced during 1908 dno to better the resised estimate and dividing it by the vote, Public Works, Extraordinary, Water China, &c. The Bombay services will be chiefly. The claim was for a portion of the chartered enjoyed reading the book, but we think its days of the Settlements. We have greatly organization, made possible by coolies getting number of miles between Kowloon and Canton. Works. Albany Filter Beds, Reconstruation and the Australian services entirely, supplied by an agents for the plaintiff in respect of a cargo popularity as a history of Shanghai is likely to

freight received by the defendants while acting more trained to the work. This statement was The product is startling, but if to the original and Extension followed by figures giving a cost per lineal 22 miles were to be added the many miles of

the new steamship of the "M" class. There carried by the 8.8. Norman Isles which sumsuffer for the reason that it is largely The CHAIRMAN-Of this excess on the estim will be two supplementary departures to Bombay (P. 1526,61) plainties said is properly payable political. foot under the heading of driving, enlarging sidings which will be provided at the terminus, ate for this work, $6,000 is due to providing on October 6 and November 3 respectively, of by the defendants to the plaintiff but has been and bricking-in for each of the years 1907 and

Mr. Jesus in the closing pages of the book, a much better result would appear. Even so against the rainstorm damage which was 7,000-ton steamere carrying one class of

paid by the defendanta to the Shanghai and

108 per cent par lineal foot in the cost for 1908 over

to the second-saloon rates of the mail steamers

log storing and delivering the said cargo,

The defendants state that of 1907. The report went on to state that the

The Mundur, the latest addition to the P. And agents() in transseting the Customs work birthplace of China's regonecation. "Almost

The defendanta acted the plaintātīs. difficulties encountered in the tunnel in 1903 were greater than in 1907 and that this accounted

O. feet, will make her maiden departure on

in connection with the sa. Norman Isless on her every epoch-making improvement in the Empire for the large increase over the estimatess

June 5 to Australian ports. The Malun is to arrival in the port of Shanghai in the month of is initiated in Shanghai, each a triumph of I failed to get a proper explanation of this

GOLDEN WEDDING GIFTS. il on the 2 th inst. from London on a three January, 1907 and (a) in collecting the freight modern civilisation and a blessing for one-third apparent contradiction, but the Chief Engineer

weeks' ornise to the Areres, to be followed by respect of cargo carried on the said 8.8. Norman of humanity as well as a source of pride for the payable under the Bill of Lading issued in IRISH GUARDE APPRECIATION OF BOBS," now explains it by a reference to his previous Considerations of this nature ought not to be

Istea on her said arrival.

most progressive and pro-foreign city of China, report for 1907, which I and overlooked at thearerlooked, in viewing the matter broadly. gelden wedding quietly at Englewere, Ascot,

2-That while acting in the latter capacity before which have paled all the ancient glories Lord and Lady Roberta celebrated their

The author of "The Ocean Carrier" (Mr. J. they, the defendants, received the sum of moment, in which it is explained that the . urge the desirability of viewing it broadly. His lordship told a Pross representative, "I Russell Smith, Ph.D,) is much impressed us to Tls, 1526.51 referred to in the particulars of of Soochow and Hangohow. But, "the time will come when, through natural cause, Shanghai expenditure upon the metric gauge construction wisdom, while it may be easy for some people gratulatory telegrams I have received to-day opening of the Panama Conal. It will, he fendants, to the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf can possibly effect." The reference is to the sil called cost per lineal foot in 1907 included the Viewing it narrowly in the light of post hoc have been much touched by the many con- the disturbing results which will follow the the plaintiffs' claim endorsed on the writ

3-That such sum was paid by them, de- | willexperience a greater change than a new China lines laid down at both facings of the tunnel, to point to mistakes made and faults committed;

from all parta of the world." the erection of machinery, the accumulation of while it may pathaps not be difficult to see more inclade Lady

The house

the day at Engle maintains; give such an added opportunity for Co., Ltd., for receiving, storing a strierung ing of the river, and the author quotes with quali- del Lady Lansdowne, Lord and wesele-to-suited from route to fonte, Hers cargo, with the consent and on the instructions timber and other materials at the site, and many

Lady

Mount Stephan, Sir Dighton Probyn, is an indication" of - probable · switching —

of the plaintiffs' agent, namely, the master of fied approval the starting conclusion reached by the 8.8. Norman Isles, and further that such the late Mr. Archiball Little, that "within the comparison of one year with another, these items there does not seem to be any good reason for

Lord Milner, Sir Ian Hamilton, Lord and Lady should be stretched over the period of the whole rushing to the conclusion that the cost is Maroh, Sir Neville, Lady and Mise Chamberlain, from Europe to China to end the voyage at out negligence. construction. As a matter of fact, the cost of excessive in view of the work done. Sir John Watson, and the Hon. Norah Damay Yokohamps. But once in Yokohama, the most

One of the most pleasing incidents of the the tunnel was considerally more per lineal foot That an impression based upon this conclusion day's proceedings was the unszpeated appearance economicul route for the return is by way

Í do not share it, I in 1908 than it was in 1907. It is due to is widely held I know. the engineers, who were employed in the early regret it. It is an unfortunate impression to at breakfast time of the band of the Irish of America, provided Panama wore passable Gnards, of which his lordship is colonel com The steamers could discharge and receive

Lord Roberta came out into the days on the tunnel, that this foot should be get abroad. Therefore, as correcting some of mandent.

cargo at Hongkong and Shanghai, and thoroughly understood. They worked under the minor errors which make up the total porch, and was congratulated by a officer continue. front Yokohama to San Francisco.

of the regiment, who presented him with a very great difflonities with an inadequate sua, I welcome Your Excellenny's statement | gold it made at the same time was a work would favour this practice, because the

58 a birthday gift.

The freight conditions in this part of the Another letter from past and present officers of the Boyal trade from China and Japan toward Europa Regiment o of Artillery, in which Lord Roberts was a subaltern in 1857 is madr lighter than that going the other Tork, and proceeded to Paris. This month he that railways may to a certain extent avert the The men of the regiment were entertained way. The steamers at Yokohama are, there will accompany his motor balloon to Spitzbergen doom to be decreed by the fateful river, most The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first at breaklast, and were shown the presants which mind than to throw any blame upon them, reading of Ball entered An Ordinance to Lord and Lady Roberts had received, and what fore, in straits for freight, and it would be for the completion of trials preliminary to a probably not in our days, and yet inexorably, or undervalue their services. Perhaps few men transfer to certain Ocers of the Pablie included a pives of gold plate presented by the natural for them seek the abundant attempt in August to reach the North Pole,

Mr. Wellman stated that the two motors like all decrees of fate whereby so many great bare more reason than myself, from personal Service cortain duties at present performed by servants at Englemere.

freights of California, and thus adopt the of his airship America sau drive at a felties sternly realised the transientnesse of their Lord Roberts, has acknowledged congratula practice that is being, and has been long, speed equivalent to eighteen knots, and sarrying

gloring."" tions from a poor Midlothian Army pansioner, followed by many sailing ships that have as she does six thousand pounds of gasoline, it It remains for us to add that we can heartily Peter Gray, who was married on the same day

would. have # radius of action of over two The COLONIAL SECRETALY seconded, and the Field Marshal. Gray's father and discharged cargoes in the ports of East Asia. thousand miles. With Spitzbergen only seven compliment Mr. Jesus on the style in which

brother, and also two more have all bean soldiers. This prediction is further strengthened by the In his letter Lord Roberts says he and Lady recent establishment of a line of stemmers Roberts are interested to learn that May 17 also their golden wedding day, and they offering from England to Chian and Japan, the couple their best wishes for continued health and then for the sake of a return cargo going and happiness.

on to Portland and Seattle, securing nearly

other similar items. In order to make a reliable how minor economies could have been affected, General Sir James Hilla-Johnéz, Lord Lovat" It is now the custom for liners going ont payment was a proper payment and made with lifetime of men.now living Shanghai threatens

staff, with insufficient plant, and with a

great deal of sickness, When I was speaking

of the financial aspect of the tunnel con struction, nothing was further from my

(applause).

PUBLIC SERVICE TRANSFER OF DUTIES

ORDINANCE.

other Offers.

the bill was read a first time.

experience, to appreciate the difficulties and dis couragements of early pioneer work. Those who some after, however generous, will find it often impossible to appreciate the difficulties which those who have laid the foundations have had to face (opplause). If this impression, as I The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first in the reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to understand from what I have seen Jocal press, has been conveyed by words amend the Patents Ordinance 1892

· PATENTS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

is

to

4-Lastly they, the defendants, have not at to be left an island unapproachable by tidal any time been gonty of negligence while acting waters. In the fil paragraph of the book as agents for the plaintiffs, ne buforementioned Mr. Jesus locks to railways being the salvation or in any other capacity whatsoever.

Mr. Loftus E. P. Jenos appeared for the of Shanghai. He says: plaintiffs, and Mr. B. N. Macleod for the defendants.

TO THE NORTH POLE BY BALLOON. centy on the Fronprins Wilhelms from New Mr. Walter Wellman arrived at Plymouth

"As Venice was wedded to the Adriatic, so is Shanghai to the deep-nay still more closely, since to her vory name is linked the word for sea; and to ever her from the source of her

Western Pacific. There is the hope, however, greatness is indeed to depose the Queen of the

hundred miles distant from the North Pole, the the book is written, especially when we hear reserve power the America should enable the in mind that English is not his mother exploras, said Mr. Wellman, to reach their The book is also well printed and include tongue. destination and return without having recourse

sledges, with which the expedition will be binding has not been fully learnt by the binders

interesting illustrations, but the art of book- equipped as a precautionary measure..

to

of the volume.