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in return, to allow tion consentei sartar, in excess of the Tariff rate: for the time being in force, to be imposed on foreign Loods imported by British subjects, and a surtax in addition to the export duty on Chinese produce destined for export abroad or coutwisa. Therefore when it isstatel that

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The next session of the Hongkong Medical College commences on September 1st and the subjects proscribed for the preliminary ozomiva- tion, which begins on August 17th, are now published for the information of candidates,

Followers of the sport of Kings" will be interested to know that Minora (the name of the King's horse which won the Darby)

Japanese word meaning "Baccess," Colonel Walker, the reader of the horse, informed a correspondent that the horse was called after the second son of his Japanese garilener at Tully, Kildare,

A Haiphong paper calls attention to the readiness with which Chinese traders profit by the Tonkin-Yunnan Railway. At the import aut trading centre of Mongteo customs trade values have risen from about fourteen millions of frames, in 1897, to to over 44 millions ten years later an increase of 30 per cent. The

in mices of Hokeon farnish much traile to the line. The output there rose from 2,500 French tens in 1897 to 4,000 tons in 1903.

The Bandmann's Merry Little Maids Opera Company brought their short season to a3élóno last night when they produced that popular. plece "A Waltz Dream" at prozent running. with sich conspicuous succes at the, Apollo Theatre, London. The Theatre Royal, in spite of the great heat provailing, was comfortably

mentioned in the MxGRAY Treaty she must have the definite assurance of the Powers that they will agree to customs incrence to a reasonable extent," the reply, so far as Great Britain concerned, is that the MACKAY Treaty contains this definite Assurance. Article VIII, section 2, states that." the British Government agree that foreign goods on importation in addition to. the effective 5 per cent. import luty as provided for in the Protocol of 1901 shall pay a special surtax equivalent to one and a half times the said duty to compensate for the abolition of Likin." Chinese papers have repre ented that the British and the German Miniators are opposing the abolition of Likin. What Sir JOHN JORDAN is opposing is rather, it would scem, a proposal to raise the Customs duties WHISKY before the Chinese Government has fulfilled ita obligation to abolish Likin, which was BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE the condition precedent to the British consent to the increase

It should, how of the Customs duties.

ver, be added that the condition on which the Chinese Government entered into these engagements. was that all Powers entitled to most favoured nation Treatment in Chius also entered into theAn interesting note apropos of the remarks

· PAIDE engagements as Great Britain with regard to the payment of surtales ad other obligations imposed by Article VIII of the British Treaty. Subject to these provisions the arrangements provide i for in the Article were to come into force on 1st January 1904, by which date all Lakin harriera were to be removed and the officials

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filled, and the Company bave every reason to be gratified at the success which attended their efforts, for the plaudita of the audience were frequent and prolonged. In fact, we think we

safe in mying that the present Company is one of the finest over sent East by the anter prising proprietors, and we wish them every Access during their sojourn in the Northern Ports

rade in our leading article yesterday appears In our Canton correspondence to-day. Evident- y plague is more prevalent in Canton than it is in Hongkong this season, and is apparently a matter of unnmal concern to the authorities: Our Canton correspondent's nota also suggests that, contrary to the assertions of om Peking contemporary, the treatment of plague casce in Canton is not more successful than it is in

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ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA.

LONDON, June 14th. The second test match was.com- maced to-day on a fine wicket at Lords, before a gathering of some 20,000 spectators. The wicket was rather difficult and the Australians, winning the toss, sent the home men to bat.

The scores were :-

ENGLAND.

T. Hayward J. B. Hobbs J. T. Tyldesley.

Gunn....

A. O. Jones

16 10

J. B. King

A. C. Maclaren

G. H. Hirst

A. A. Lilley

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Total AUSTRALIA.

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LIEUT. SHACKLETON IN LONDON.

CANTON.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

June, 14th.

Owing to the prevalence of plague in Cauton and the high percentage of deaths through the incompetency of the Chinese doctors attending people who have contracted this disease, the local authorities have deputed sertral officials to ascer- tain the names and addresses of all the doctors in Canton. A notification is left at the residence of each doctor directing him to furnish a daily official report of the number of patients that nil at his house, description of the discans of Qualified each patient and their addresses. doctors, appointed by the authorities, will call on the patients to see if the prescriptions given to them are correct. Doctors giving wrong prescriptions will be arrested and deported from Canton,

PLAGUE AND ITS TREATMENT AT CABTOK.

CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY, A

THE REV. F. B. MEYER'S VISIT.

MONDAY AFTERNOON IN THE "CITY HALL.

Ton minutes before the usual hour for com- moneing his meetings, Mr. Mayor's audience had assembled in suficient numbers to join in the singing of certain well known hymns, the lady prosiding at the piano boing sexisted in the instrumental part of the music by a cornet neçompaniment,

At the hour appointed, the reading from Dr. Woyland's New Testament of rerees in the fifteenth chapter of the Fourth Gospel, intro- duced the topic for the evening, References to vine growing in Palestine, and to the sugges tiveness of the material word in its accord with the spiritual, let the speaker into the heart of the subject. Mr. Mayer set forth his view of the deeper harmonies of creation. Nature is fall, not merely of parallels, but of direct instruction for the spoing eye, the hearing eur, and the understanding heart. Thore is something for deeper and more real,---

eternal ncoord between God's above and His works below, the works within as and the works around us. There will come a time of revealing when the working of God's laws in

A large shareholder of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company named Tang Chik Wai Tong has written a letter to the Company demanding an explanation of the telegrami sent by Sir Chan Tung Liong Sheng (President of the Railway | His two worlds will be made know--to his Company) to His Excellency Chang Chi Tung on the 2nd day of the 2nd intercalary moon tius year stating that the company acquired additional land on Wong Sha valued over 400,00 taels The writer says that according to the annual reports of the last three years showed that land had been purchased by the Company artending from Wong Sha to Kong How and that the items sanonated to the size of 332,160 toels. Why should the Company again purchase additional Jandat Wong Bha? The writer further states that in going into this matter he discovered that the Land Baream of the Railway Company has not farnished any accounts to the shareholders during the last three years. He requests the Company to produce the title deeds of all the proportion acquired by them for inspection.

praise and glory overmors as the source and font of all law, all harmony, and all beautiful accord. Directing attention to the teaching of the vine, the sponker drst pointed out the lessons that it holds for the Church. The vine needs tho branches just as the branches need the vine, God needs as and the Divine Redeemer needs ts in order to show forth in us his own grace and power, The vine bears its fruit through the branch which is always the channel of its witness, the means by which its distinctive qualities are revealed. By its fruits the vine is known and through the branches the fruits are made to appear. This is the privilege of those whose lives are in vital union with Chrieb in whom he dwells and who are said to dwell in Him. The practical issue of the topic was then insisted. apon with Mr. Meyer wonted strength and tenderness of appeal. So many have in them the beginnings of that new life, the and of which should be Christian fruitfulness. Man and women who cannot describe how they became to know well enough that they are alive unto God, that the beginnings of a new existence are in them through Jesus Christ, they have

...THE MURDER OF TAOTAI LAU. Lau Chok Yap, son of the late Teotai La Sze Hee, has again petitioned H. E. Viceroy Chang complaining that, though the murder of his father was reported to the authorities about a fortight ago-yet up to the present moment not a single arrest has been made. The peti- tioner begs that pressure may be placed on the police officials in this matter so that the culprits | not, however, grown fruit-bearing branches. might be captured and punished. The. Viceroy They have not realized in any large measure replied as follows: Your father, the late

their possibilities, they have not yet brought to pass. God's purpose in them through the new

employed in the collection of taxes and dues Hongkong. The porcentage of deaths in Hong- which the Article prohibits were to hace kong has usually been nearly 93. The high per been removed from their posts. But these contage in Canton has caused the authorities to conditions were not fulfillel. The United order the arrest and deportation of doctors who

LONDON, June 15th. are reported by the medical inspectors to havé Blates and Japan' made new Treaties with given wrong prescriptions in plague cases ¦ Upwards of a thousand persons, in- Taotao Lan Kee, was assassinated by some bod China in 1908 consenting to pay the same Evidently there are medical Solomons, or Pondcluding eminent geographers and character, prho were his enemies and the power that comes through the life that they live surtax as Great Britain by way of compensaervos, in Canton who claim to know

infallible cure, and the members of the modicat explorers, welcomed, with wild en-deed was perpetrated ont

and his profession in Hongkong who have for so long thusiasm, Licut. Shackleton teen seeking the infallible remedy will doubt companions on their arrival at Charing

be glad to have their attention directed to ita discovery at Canton!

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Likin, and Portugal did-the same în 1904, but no new Treaties have been made with the other Treaty Powers. As however, it has recently been announced that all the Powers have agreed with the exception of Germany,

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be pointed out that the new Treaties to which we have referred give liberty to either of the High Contracting Parties toto demanda revision of the tariff at the end of ten years from the date of the exchange of ratifications. Presumably the underlying

sumption of this provision was that Likin

would have been abolished and the surtax in lieu thereof would have been in vogue, and at the end of ten years both China and the Powers would be in a position to see how the new arrangement had worked, and if unsatisfactory to either party, the provision HONGKONG OFFICE: 101, Des Vœux ROAD Coffered the opportunity for a revision. But LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLAT STREET. EC Likin has not been abolished and the surtax

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HONGKONO, June 16th 1909. THERE has been some refereres in the Chinese Press lately to an effort which the Chinese Government has been making in the direction of fulfilling the engagement it en- tered into by the Mackay Treaty of 1902 to permanently abolish the likin system, China, it seems, has desired a Conference of the Treaty Powers with a view to securing an agreement for an increase in the Customs

has therefore not been impose!.. It will be time enough to increase the Customs duties when these things have been done, and not before. We take this to be the attitude of the British Government towards the pro- posal which China has made for a conference of the Powers on this subject.

A fine of 250 was yesterday imposed on a Chinesa for having been found boiling opium sad with having a guantity of opium in his possession,

Road Central. :

A meeting of the Council is convened for to-morrow. The orders of the day are:--

First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance amend The Prison Ordinance 1899. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend The Tramways Ordinance 1883.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordi. nance to transfer to certain Officers of the Public Service sestain dution at prosent per

formed by other Offers.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordi not to amend the Patents Ordinance 1892. Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to attend The Prepared Opiam Ordinance 1891. S

LIEUTENANT BELLAIRS. R. With regard to the question which is to to raised in the House concerning the printing and publication of Captain Bacon's reference to Lieutenant Bellaire as being

always an incompetent officer, it is interesting to note what Lfoxtenant Bellairs record in the service really is. In the first place. he obtained five first cher certificates in his examination for lientenant; was accordingly specially promoted early to that rank, and was presented by the Lords of the Admiralty with a watch for his "Meritorious Examination."

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AMÉRICA AND CHINA RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.

LONDON, June 15th.

An official communication published at Washington implies that the American Government is disposed to strenuously support the claim of Americans to participate in the Han- kow-Szechuan Railway loan.

TURKEY AND CRETE,

LONDON, June 15th. Tewfik Pasha, interviewed at Berlin, said that any serious suggestion that Turkey should abandon Crete would render war inevitable.

THE GERMAN NAVY.

of pure re-in Christ. It in for them to seek and to find in God through Christ all that God means them to have. Christ's power is to spring up in

These Instructions were given by me affort

them, is to work through, them, is to manifest

itself in the fruits that they bear as branches in the living vins.............

venge. I have directed the Magistrates to issue rewards for the arrest of the murderers.

night ago, but up to the present time none of the culprits have been arrested. It appears that the polics system is entirely inefficient and

THE EVENING MEETING, nseless. In perusing the information regarding The Lecturer hostug as his subject," The this case I and that the murderers entered Influence of Temptation on Charnoter” said, in tlie house, as visitors and nothing was stolen; his opening sentences, “Men are probably not therefore it is quite clear that the murder was less religious than women but men are often done out of revenge. Now the question is what hypocrites on the side of evil, pretending to be bitter enmity was contracted by your late father worse than they are. Men intend well bat death to him? You are the son of the deceased, strong disclaimer against hypocritical parten- to have caused these bad characters to design Society drags them off their feet; and with a and if you are always with him, you ought to ions they let themselves go the way of the have heard and known who were bis angles.world. There is hope for a man so long as one How is it that in your petition you have gold thread runs through his character. Let mentioned nothing about it? No doubt them take that gold thread and lite by it. Tret cass is a very serious one, but we have no dite him remember too that though the earlier phases of life's battle may be against him, there is always room for the hope of final victory and complete triumph. God permits evil to follow on the commital of sin; it is the negation of good, not the infliction of its opposite. Wa could not know light if it were not for the dark- ness, or good if it were not for the evil," Mr. Moyer declared with chartistic epiphasic God wants his children to be men, not angels. It is bettor to bear on us wounds and scratches and

as to where those murderers hail from, nor even

what their names are'; consequently, the capter- ing of the culprits in this case is far more difficult than in ordinary cases of this descrip tion. Yesterday I received a telegram from the Governor of Kwangsi about this matter and I have already caused the reward to be increased to $5,000, and have given the officials a fixed

time in which to have the culprits arrested and

win one battle with evil rather than by avoiding

punished. I haveslso instructed the Provincial | the condict to pass through the world unsusthad. be wakil that God, intended them Judge and the Chief Superintendent of Police Of some it: may

to direct the Poon Ya magistrate and the civil to be great and pure men. He gave them their place in the very forefront of the battle and and military officials that they must arrest the they went down like nine pins. There are murderers within the time given and have the many who even now may win; God put them cleared up, otherwise they will be severely there to give them chance of rising, not to let them fall Temptation resisted is God's method of building up character, which in the end is not overcome of evil but overcomes evil with good

reprimanded"

"FEMALE HOWLING DERVISHES.”

ANTI-SUFFRAGIST, PEERS ON VOTES FOR WOMEN.

Suffrage

LONDON, June 15th. At meeting of the German Navy League at Potsdam, Admirel Kooster, He served continually up to the time of being the President, said that Germany was invalided, in 1897 from Hongkong, for malarial about to take her place as the second

A MATRIMONIAL ANOMALY. fever, and the next year, during the Fashoda crisis, he was naked by Sir Lewis Beaumont to Naval Power in Europe, and must has recently been brought to light in connexion Bydney papers state that a curious anomaly Only two case of plague were notified yester-serve as Special Assistant to the Director of

Naval Intelligence. The Treasury, however, srive to keep the position since the with the legislation permitting marriage with a day-one a Japanese vase from Tsimshatsui

did not sanotion the post. In 1902 he was in Bleet was necessary for the develop. I decessed wife's sister.

A Sydney clergyman was asked to marry a

Lord Curzon and Lord James of Hereford duties preliminary to the abolition of the the other a fatal Chinese use from Des Voeux valided on account of eyesight. From 1901 to:

man to his deceased wife's sister's diughter. | were last month chief guests at a dinner given 95 he continued to deliver lectures under ment of the Fatherland. Likiu barriera. It is stated that China

Admiralty orders to the War Cours of admi

Under the ecclesiastical law the ceremony could by the Men's League for Opposing Women's The steamer Glenogle when between Hors-sls, captains, or officers ten to twenty years his

not take place; but since marriage with the in- will agree to totally abolish Likin as soon

tended bride's mother would have been allowable as she has entered into a definite agreement burgh and Singapore resoned six members of senior, on the subject of Commerce, Perts and

could be no and Cables, &e. Ho was also awarded the

under the civil law, surely there with the Powers for an increase in the the crew of a wrecked Chinese junk and brought silver medal of the Society of Arts. And this

objection to the daughte

bjo print had not been raised before in New held onfranchisement, was going downhal the gentlenian whom Captain tacon described

South Wales, and the clergyman war a rather than uphill At the next General Election always an incompetent officer,"

some rather weakkneed candidates, in order to quandary. He sought the advice. of the vicar. general, who was of the opinion that the mar catch votes, would give a number of mak and risge would be illegal. The registrar gave a half-hearted pledges, from which they would similar judgment. Had the parties gone to find it difficult to escape, and having been South Australia, however, they could have been hora by a number of modern Dalikaks of legally married, and what is equally remarkable, the strength which arose from indeperidonos would be unable to resist the suffragist and was apparently the only portion of the empire binding in New South Wales. South Australia which, when it made marriage with a deceased wife's sister legal, also extended the right to the sister's daughter.

thom to Hongkong.

Customs duties, as only in this event caû the. central Government secure sufficient income Yesterday a native was sentenced to twelve to carry these reforms into effect. It is not months' imprisonment for having returned clear from the published statements refrom tuishments sixth time. Another man was sentenced to six months for returning from banishment a second time.

garding this abortive effort to convene a Conference what China's attitude really is. There is the statement that the British Government is opposed to the suggestion of a Conference on the ground that so long as China has failed to abolish Lakin harriers and to bring about reform of the currency and other reforms provided in the MACKAT Treaty, Great Britain dres not consider that China has a 'right to ask for tariff increase. We take it then that the proposal of the

A Penang correspondent of the Malay Mail wires to that paper--It is rumoured here that is thataylor, K.C.M.G. Resident Ganeral, F. M. S., is retiring shortly, and that Bit Arthur Young, K.C.M.G., Colonial Sacre. tery, S. S., will succeed him as Resident General with extended powers, the Hon. W Era, Resident Councillor, Malacca, becoming Colonial Secretary, S. S.

WEATHER REPORT

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report: -

£32,000,000.

BIG SCHEME TO RECONSTRUCT PARIS.

The next session of the Municipal Council of Faria, will be occapied with the discussion of gigantic scheme for improvements in the capital, for which the Prefect of the Seine is to be authorised to raise a loan of £32,000,000.

The works, which are to be started im mediately after the vote is takou, will include

The Earl of Cromer presided, and proposing the health of the guests, maid all the information received went to show that the case for

On the 15th at 11.55 sm.-The depression | bygienic improvements, and the widening or the ceremony would have been recognized na tragette Philistines. (Laughter.)

Haussmann, the Rue de Rennes, and crossed E. Nippon during the night and is prolongation of certain streets such as the situated this morning off the coast of Hokkaido Boulevard as mounity of the central markets, in order to facilitate traffic. The reconstruction of certain city halls and public schools will also

near Nemuro.

The barometer has risen quickly over B. Japan while it is inclined to full over the S. cast of China and Formoss.

Pressure remains high over the Upper Yang tze, and over the N. part of the China Sea and the Pacifle towards the Bonins,

Moderate variable winds may be expected in the Formoss Channel and moderate di monsoon*

along the northern shores of the China Sea. at 10 am, to-day, 0.07 inches.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

be undertaken, The council will devote most of the money to making Paris healthy, and especially to improving some of the old populo quarters, which are at present centree of disease.

THE SHARP LONDON NEWSBOY.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

Lord James of Herford said female suffragists stated that they had no desire that women should sit in the House of Commons. Wäs that, he wondered, tactics or an honest submis sion Easily influenced as they were, women would always be dependent, and not independent. Lord Curzon said at the head of the female suffrage movement were a number of talenteri The C.N. Co.'s str. Taiyuan leaves Sydney on and intellectual women. At the other and of the 19th inst, and is dus here on the 14th prox. the scale were a number of female howling The Cargo of Silk shipped on board the MM. dervishes-(laughter)--whom he preferred not. str. Tonkin which left this port on the 11th to characterise in other terms. If he were a party leader, and if nine-tenths of the women Speaking at the meeting of the Children's ult was delivered in Lyons on the 12th inst. Country Holiday Fund, the Bishop of Stepney The J.-C.-J. Lijn str. Tjipanas left Billiton who were going to be enfranchised were to come said that as a Cockney bred and horn, he for this port on the 11th instant p.m., and may to him and promise him their votes he should He

· (Laughter.) -.. believed that of all creatures in the world the he expected here on ar about the 22nd inst. p.n.say "Get behind me, 6.W. winds, London child was the most interesting and at The C.P.B. st. Empress of Japan served had better, perhaps not Snish. (Benewed moderate; fair. tractive. The other day, when a clergyman Bhanglin at 7.30 am. on the 15th inst, and laughter.) On the day on which twenty millions moderate.

Variable winds, was passing along Bond-street, a newsboy came left again at 7 pm. same day for Nagasaki of voters, male and female, were added to the along crying "Winner, winner; but, seeing where she is due to arrive at 6 am on the 17th register in this country on a system of adult suffrage on that day he believed they might pat Same as No. 1. the cleric, he thought that such news would not instant

The C.P.E. str. Monteagle left Vancouver up the shutters of the British Empire, and be welcome to the occlesiastical ears, so he st winds, once altered his cry to Dreadful fire at .. on the 13th inst, for Hongkong via the write the word "Ichabod" over the gates of

Whitehall, Tisual Ports of call. Jerusalem."

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon

In the case of Lau Fat Ting, who was arrest. Chinese Government is for an increase of ed on Monday at the Magistracy after being the duties before Likin is abolished-a discharged a second time on charges of armed. raversal of the order of things laid down robbery brought by the Chinese Government in the Mackar Treaty. When Likin on which they asked for his extradition, it is to-day is as follows: barriers are permanently abolished on all stated that Mr. Reader Harris, who appeared Hongkong & Neighbourhood roads, railways and waterways in the the Governor in the interests of his client, whe

for the defendant, is preparing to potition H.E. Formosa Channel ..................... Eightoon Provinces of China and the claims that he is wanted by the Chinese Govern. South coast of Chins between Thres Eastern Provinces, the Britishment because he is a political offender, He is Bouth coast of Chins between "Hongkong and Lamooks.

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