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| responsible duties he undertook; noa con | Japan's claim that she bus already affected great improvement in the political and social conditions of the country be con troverted. Before Japan took the respon- sitility of intervening in Koran affairs it is undeniable that "Korean political

CO. history was a perpetual repetition of the

same tale: plot, counterplot, insurrection and foreigu complications," and though we have not yet heard the last of insurrection- ary movements, Korea has ceased to be regarded as the powder magazine of the

of

the

TELEGRAMS. JAPANESE ROYAL VISITORS HE TANG SHAO TI IN HONGKONG. SIR FREDERICK LUGAED, KUMG,

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CRICKET.

ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA.

DECORAT

I, E. Tang Shao Yi, who has been an a special mission to the United States and Europe,

C.D, D.8.0.

STEPHENS,

arrived in the Celony on Tuesday by the N, D. L. BY COMMANDANT DARNLEY, ETHWART- LONDON, June 18th.

steamer Yorck Capisiu Taylor, A. D. C. to. The "London Gazette

contains

H.E. the Governor, was among those who mat the announcement that the Grand the steamer on arrival. H. E. the Ambassador has been taken sud furnished for H. E. Ko, the Macho Demarcation Commissioner, who will

Cross of the Royal Victorian Order stayed the night at Glanenly Building, which Jonger dark continent, we ofthe present gendra-

has been conferred upon T. I, H. Prince and Princess Nashimoto..

tho

With the exception of a trifle of the no tion know the configuration of our globe fairly wall, and so the exploration and development of Inner Africa is the only outlet for that ahortly come from Canton to stay here

spirit of adventure and enterprise which in His Excellency Tang Shao Yi and Staff called the past found its expression in T. I. H. Prince and Princess Kanit Government House yesterday morning and person of Hawkins, & Drake, or perhaps Cavendish, who sailed far out," animated by a spirit to rectify a deficit in the lunched with President Fallieres to were received by H. E. Sir Frederick, Lagard.

Yesterday at noon about 120 Chinese family budget, but moved no less by a huge merchants and gentry assembled in the Chinese desire to penetrate the Unknown. And, had Club, Queen's Road, Central, to welcome HE these gentlemen's adventures lasked the support of their Sovereign and Ministers sitting at Tang Shao Yi, special Ambassador to the U. S., home, the boundaries of our vant Empire would on his return en route to Peking. Mr. Lau Chu have stopped at the Cinque Ports.

Which brings me to that fu-de-siécle Clive, Pak was elected Chairman of the meeting Sir Frederick Lugard, the untiring explorer H.E. and Staff arrived at 12.30 p.m. and they and soldier-statesman, whose capacity and were escorted upstairs from the main entrances courage, so memorably displayed in the winning by a sub-committee, whence the Chairman led to Britain of Uganda and the great Niger

bare accomplished no basin, would

LONDON, June 16th. The test match was continued. The howling analysis in the first innings day. showed that Laver took three wickets for 75 runs, Cotter four for 80, Noble three for 42,

Australia went to bat on a dull wicket and compiled a total of 350,

East. True, effect of Japan's WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS policy is for the present, the virtual annexation the country se long as her people aro unfitted to govern As PRINCE ITO once declared "the identity of Korean and Japanese interests in the Fer East, and the paramount character of Japan to leave Koren to the care of any gin over England's 269. A feature of other foreign country: she must assume the innings was the brilliant stand the charge herself." Her assumption of that by Ransford, who carried his bat out

and charge has been both a gain to peace a bepent to the trade, not only of Japan, but of other foreign Powers besides, as tho

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CONTESTS.

LONDON, June 16th. A Conference of Cricket represen

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Japanese interests in Korea, will not permit which gives them a comfortable mar-tatives from England, Australia and the way into the dining room, where tea and aring results than followed in India the South Africa, held at Lords, has apokes were served shortly after the assemblage brilliant achievements of the Gallie rivale

annual trade returns clearly demonstrate.

And now that PRINCE ITO is retiring from the position of virtual monarch of Korea, the first thought of the peaceful enm- mercial nations of the world will, we think, be one of gratitude for the good he has undoubtedly accomplished, followed by the fervent hope that the future develop- ment of his plans in Korea will continue to be attended with the same beneficent results.

The Siberian Mail of the 22nd ult, was delivered in London on the 15th inst

Gold to the value of 74,000 pesos has been taken out of the Antsmok mines near Bengoet since January 1st, 1909. These are the mines in which Mr. M. A. Clarke is largely interested.

--

Three more cases of plague wers reported yesterday, one from the city, one from Yanmati and one from Bangkok. All the sufferers wero Chiness, and two of the eases have proved fatal,

The Hongkong Merchants Agency of Des Vaar Road have forwarded us some samples of Mason's O. K. sanco, the brand is a well-known

for 143.

Scores:

AUSTRALIA.

--Macalister F. Laver

22

14

46

12

143

W. Bardsley

W. W. Armstrong ... V. F. Ransford (not out);

V. Trumper

28

M. A. Noble

S. E. Gregory

14

A. Cotter...

0

C. G. Macartney

5

H. Carter...in

7.

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350

proved the principle of triangular contests, and it is suggested that the first match shall take place in 1912.

CANTON.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT,]

15th June, 1909. NOT INCLINED TO GIVE UT OPIUM SMOKING.

Last week notifications wore isened by the Polios Stations of the various districts in Fot skan requesting all opium smokers to call at their stations to apply for the new woods opium license. It is reported that during the week thousands of people went and applied for the now licences; they were so numerous that the stations did not have stiengh licenses to supply half the demand and had to issue tem porary paper licensor to several thousands of them. This proves that the people in Fatahan The bowling analysis showed that are not inclined to give up opium amoking. Relf took five wickets for 85.

ENGLAND.

BECOND INNINGS.

J. B. Hobbs

T. Hayward (not out) Extras

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2

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HUNANESE LOOKING FOR work.

took their seats,

Mr Lau CHU PAK rosa and said he felt it donnais,

great honour to praside and had great pleasure on behalf of the Chinese merchants and gentry sembled there then and also in the name of the members of the China Club to extend to H.E. and Staff a hearty welcome. They welcomed H. E. not merely because he was a great official of China, great in position and infinence, but because he was ono of China's most capable What HE. and enlightened man of the day, had all along done displayed competent know ledge and wonderful talents. Both his own cone- trymen and Europeas held him in hign esteem. From a mere student educated shroad H.E. rose to be one of the most powerful and important ministers of the present moment all from his own merits and not by chance

or by iniuotics 90 far as his abilities and merita were concerned. He, the Chairman, refrained from going into details, so se not to take up HE's valuable time, as they were wol known to everyone present. Baffles it to say that since HE. took part in international Over 1,000 Labourers have travelled overtand dealings, in every matter of importance, not from that province to Canton seeking for om-withstanding that fufluence had been brought to ployment. They arrived at the North River a bear on him, he invariably did his utmost tomain few days ago and the authorities up thers on tein the dignity of his own country and farther seeing anch a large influx of people into the the interests of his own people. Had China distrist and fearing that they might create few more men like him, great advanes would trouble cabled to H. E. Viveroy Chang praying have been made. Now that he returned from that instructions may be given to all the civil visiting more than ten European countries, with and military officials in the neighbouring dis. extended knowledge and experience, it was hoped that the Chinese Governmentworld

one, and thows who are acquainted with it will THE U.S. EQUADRON IN JAPAN. triots to keep them in peace and order and guard

agree that the name is thoronghiy deserved.

By the outward M. M. mail atestar Armand Behie from Marseilles, M. Goarbeil is coming. from Paris on his way to Saigon, where he is to be the new Lieutenant Governor of Cochin China, in ploce of the late M. Bonheur

.Daring the hearing of a coining cast Bangkok, the other day, it was stated that if Hongkong dollars were made into ticals the Profit an each would be 6fd. That is apart from the cost of tight quantity of cowhides from the steamship Chipaking has been reported to the police. On one occasion cowhides to the value of $950 were stolen, then sometime be tween the 7th inst. and the 19th another bi weighing 1,500 be, were taken away and again during transhipment in the harbour and the

260 lbs. were stolen. All these thafts took place

| lightermen are suspected.

LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STEKA EC after two years spent in Western China and Commandant d'Olone has returned to Franse

The Baily Press.

HONGKONG, JUNE 17TH 1909.

Painos Iro's resignation of the high and responsible post of Resident-General in Korea, which he has held for three years, is

North-Eastern Tibet, at the head of a French mission of exploration. He made many interest- ing discoveries in this little-known quarter of the globe, which will be related before the Royal Geographical Society in London, tu response to an invitation from that organisation. The mia sion under Commandant d'Olone traversed the country in the upper valley of the Hoang Ho not an unexpected event and therefore never been subjugated by China, and who form occupied by the warlike race the Haifani who have creates no surprise. As Japanese statesmen a practically neatral state between Chins sad go, His Excellency is an old man, being Tibet. As to religion, Commandant d'Olone seventy-eight years of age, and now that says, "they have made a salad of several he has set up the new machinery of govern- theologies. They practise simultaneously Bad-

RESULT OF THE RECENT COURT.

MARTIAL

against any trouble which may arise while en route to Canton.

tondent

on of Police

It is reported that yesterday about 500 of them arrived at the Tiger Forts, The Superin ∙receipt of this TOKYO, June 16th, informaation immediately instructed the Nam Hoi Magistrate to dispatch four large junks to The American (Philippine) Squad-convey then to Shek Loong, where employment

ron has left for Hakodate.

The court-martial on the potty officers for selling gun-mountings to ground of lack of evidence.

It is understood that no Japanese was examined owing to the complica tions of international law, but the Japanese firm whose name was con- nected with the matter has been excluded from the list of acceptable contracts for warship supplies.

· [REUTER'S HELVIOR TO THE "HONGLONG DAILY PREDS."]

BRITISH POLITICS.

A RIFT IN THE LUTE,

LONDON, June 16th. The "Daily News" states that thirty Liberal members have com- bined to resist the Land Tax.

bund.

THE NEW PEAYA

of Clive, gallant Duplex and poor Labour- ho had not found in the

Mr. Chamberlain sympathy and co- temper and genios of Lord Rosebery and Tent to the succeR- operation that so ful results of his memorable journeys on both sides of the tragle continent. Lugard's is the que instance I know of where, in the long story of the opening up of Africa, inflexible resolve, tempered by a powerful infusion of "God's own common-sense has met with meat and almost immediate reward.

A trio of my dearest friends, who were ench in their own time leaders in the noble mission of throwing open to the outer world the sealed

of regions mysterions Africs, departed for the happy hunting grounds with but scant mark of official recognition in the of Sir Richard Barton and Captain Lovett Cameron, and none at all ia that of that most perfect of Nature's knights, Joseph Thomson, who found a bloodless path from the Indian Ocean to the shores of the Victoria Nyanza

But to the present Governor and Commander. in-Chief of our great Far Eastern Dependency. better fortune was accorded. He stands forth in my recollection of our last meeting, which took the almost place at Boussa, on the Mid-Niger, at exact spot where Mange Park, one of the original pioneers of African discovery, met with sparthout an ounce of adipose tissue to an inexpressibly sad end, a tall, "hard-trained” keen, gray, gyes, & dark brown, figure, heavy moustache, an exact copy of the fashion in which Richard Burton, wore his, and which discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, a suggestion of gives to Colonel Lugard, as it did to the ferocity, that is, however, more apparent than real; strongly marked aquiline features, algo, da reminiscent of the profile of an Arab nomad, and in the case of Captain Barton, curiously

a more important position guch is the outer man of the most romantic port to the colour of a pigskin, sigarcane appoint him to than before, 80 that HE's wonderful of our latter-day Empire-builders, who, one that Golguths of our time-otherwise written of his first talente might be brought into full display and night when we were fellow-passengers from thereby his country might be moved forward to West Africa-pan to me the story take a place amongst the powerful nations of intrusion into that mighty slice of the earth':

always is to be found something new." Qnoth the world. Mr. Lau concluded by wishing the surface. where, according to old Herodotus, | Ambassador long life and prosperity and by esh

Lugard: "With forty sovereigns in my belt and with practically no outfit at all, excep ta well-tried 45 expresse rifle, paid for in Indi in the sheance of funds by shooting man-eating ficare with regards where my regiment was

Dy thais kay I wanted a stationed, and salled as a second-class passenger for Naples, and afterwards for Sues, ou the off-chance of being permitted to be a witness of a big action which was impending between the Italians and Abyssinians. Too soon I found my ervereigns ranning done, and I was driven to strange shifts expedienta. In the exigency of rapidly diminishing financial source took a deck passage in a timber ship

ng upon the meeting to give three hearty

E.E. TANG in reply said he felt very grateful for what the merchants of his country did olla slots when he visited Hongkong, he had injoyed and fully know how kind it was. But at the same time he could not help feeling ashamed of himself after listening to Mr. Lan Chu Pak's onlogistic remarks. He had no achievements that he could recall to mind to deserve such praise. As he was already perspiring in this hot

bonid für Massował,

will be given to them at the Canton-Kowloon cheers, (Load and prolonged applause.) Railway.

get certain number of covered wooden jattice on the new prays for the purpose of landing and shipping cargo, but the now praya roclamation law distinctly states that no wood jettieni be permitted to exist and only fron or steel piers will be allowed in future en the Department has in consequence given notice

Tha Director of the Reclamation weather, Mr. Lea's remarks made his perspira. the deck cargo, med slept at hasard among meocessities of my position tion more. He felt it trickling down his book drove me for my morning bath to the forecastle and the wholesale firms to remove all the wood at the moment (laughter). Altogether he had and bucket of water among the sailors;

for my meal of broken victuale with the Italian jetties and have them replaced by from visited eleven countries and, after having been cook in the galley longaidh the engines this On receipt of the notification the wholesale dealers sent a joint petition to the General away from his native country so long, he longed in the summer in the Red Sea, where the heat. Chamber of Commerce representing that having very much to be back again During his was such as would grill a black stoker.

Adversity Bnds a strange bedfellows. journey abroad, he had very little chance of Genoese, who spoke a little English, the regard to the depressed state of trade it would seeing his own countrymen, and not until boaterrain of the steamer, had become my friend; be very difficult for them to raise the necessary funds to erect fron plors at the present time In support of their argument the petitioners

" I am rather

journey did he meet any Chinese Hong told me that he knew that I was a gentilhomme, ho arrived at Ceylon on his homeward I saw him seldom, but though I was herded with Arab pilgrims he saw through my disguise, and kong+ was

a flourishing port and he and impaleive but sincere, he surprised me on stated that even if a foreign port liks was always very glad to see so many Chinese evening by suddenly saying, with a lurid im- Hongkong only large steam boat companies trading and living there. Although the basi precation, I do anything for you. You want have iron wharves, the smaller Chiness"

ness of Hongkong had suffered somewhat of shirt? Here is my other shirt. I

give it to craft being allowed to ship and discharge late and appeared to be at a standstill just now you because I see you have good heart for some

of these poor black people, their cargo along the pray wall. The he hoped it would revive when the cool weather inclined to believe the ex-High Commissioner letter says" This shows how berally came. The representatives of firms and indivi- of Northern Nigeria and present Governor the Chinese merchants are being treated by the dust merchants present might take the dullness of Hongkong has proudly retained that British Government; we are in our own country is a boliday merely for this hot season. It hearted boatswain 98

opportune undergarment of good- a memorial of the and surely deserve equal treatment. Further would give place to briskness in the cold season. tlays when, in the early nineties, he sot This makes the outlook more omin-more, of late years many Imperial Edicte have He thanked the meeting very much for their kind forth to savage Africa, sa a gentleman advan- ment in Korea, and largely imbued the dhism, Brahminism, and a primitive religion ous for the Budget than the discontent considerate towards the merchants and also to of official duties, which demanded his presence have hoped to have attained had his life been "been issued commanding the officials to be more entertainment and had it not been for pressure advancement and kudos, which he never could turer, on that wonderful career of professional Korean nation with a sense of Japan's not unlike that of the primitive Groene of the landowners or the City interest. give them every facility. The petitioners finally at Peking, his would be very pleased to confined to buffoneries of the parade ground

Scandinavians, worshipping the spirits of the

THE JAPANESE AT HONOLULU. I will take up their cause and cemarunicate with stay amongst his people in the South for and the red tapery of the orderly room. His

LAWN BOWLS.

friendly concern for her welfare and plaine, rivers, and mountains." development as a nation, His Excellency doubtless feels that he can safely leave the further development of his plans to

A match for spoons (presented) took placo, VIECOUNT SONE, who has been his chief between two rinks on the Police Green on Tues- Lieutenant. But the Grand Old Man is not day. The one team representing Wanchai was Nogoro One, a Honolulu Japanese, retiring from public life, and in his new skipped by P.S. Pitt, and the other was eaptalued | appointment as President of the Privy by P. C. Stewart. The former won by 24 points has protested to Tokyo against the

to 17.

LONDON, June 16th, 7 A New York cable states that

P.C. Glendinning, P.S. Cooper, and P.8. Pitt, Hawaiian police authorities. ⠀⠀

The teams were Wanchai-P.C. Ogg seizure of his private papers by the other team-Inspector Robertson, Inspector Gourlay, Inspector Langley, and P.C. Stewart.

Council the nation has the assurance that he will still exercise a watchful and potent influence in the development of the great scheme of reform in Korea with which, his name will ever be honourably.

AN ALLEGED LOTTERY. associated: His retirement from the post Mr. Komp was called upon at the Magistracy. of Resident-General simply means for bim yesterday to decide an interesting point as to well-earned relief from the onerous and whether a certain proceeding amounted to a exacting detail work of administration. He lottery or not. The case was certainly a novel one. It arose ont of the prosecution by Sergt.

Four members of the staff of the Japanese newspaper "Jiji have been arrested and charged with conspiracy.

A CHINA RAILWAY LOAN

ISSUED,

in

beg that the General Chamber of Commerce

the authorities to have the new laws repealed."

PLAGVE.

Plague has been playing havoc in Waichow

sometime. (Applanse.) After ten, a photo graph was taken of the party as a souvenir.

His Excellency and Staff re-embarked at 3.30

and a large number of deaths are reported. It P. to resume the fourney to Poking via its stated that many of the wealthy and middle

Shanghai class people have fled from the city for safety.

THE INVASION OF ENGLAND.

MAJOR BADEN-POWELL'S · STORY.

HIS SOUL MATE,"

£10,000 CLAIMED FOR ALIENATION OF HUSBAND'S AFFECTION.

the

name is written large on the African map as having been the means of transferring to English authority independent native kingdoms that had existed for centuries as centres of cruelly and rapine, and of a vexity there can be bat few of his countrymen who would grudge "Freddy" Lugard his present magnificent appointment-Imperial Reviews.

WEATHER REPORT

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issned the following report:-

-On the 16th at 12.15 pan. The barometer has risen rapidly over EL Japan, and fallen

Pressuro is now high over N.E. Japan and it continues high

also over the Eastern part of the low over Manchuris, and over the Pacifio China Sea and the Philippines. It is relatively between the Loochoos and the Bonins,

alightly over the S. Loochoor and the Bonins

Major B.-F. 8. Badon-Powell, speaking at A telegram from Philadelphia states that an the annual dinner of the Irum and Steel Infections has been brought against Mine. Ementa estonishing case for allanation of a husband's stitute, hold at the Hotel Cecil last month, the Duke of Devonshire presiding, said they heard was, formerly of Shanghai, by the wife of the well-known tauor, Mr. Gogorza Papers were great many ramours about the possibility of served upon me. Eames in which Mrs. invasion. They heard stories of certain nations Gogorza saed for a sum of £10,000. being ready to invade them shores, how they Mra. Gregorza atates in her petition that her had plans laid down, and spies swarming in this

husband for months has been under the past country watching details. He was speaking the other day to an officer in a certain army "pall of Mme. Fames, and calls her his "soul and be told him some interesting facts about mate" in an artistic sense. Nothing more than methods pirmed by that country to obtain platenie affection is alleged, but the petitioner information.

He (the speaker) naked the offer if it was her and though she has dready asked the Courtat 10 am. to-day; 0.02 inches. experienced administrators who have had butcher out off a portion, say, about the weight Railway Loan of £2,000,000 has been fot that in the War Office of his nountry they for a separation from her husband she has fixed

has mapped out the way of progress, set the gin of a pork butcher of Kowloon city for machinery of the new administration in conducting a lottery, the details of which were motion, and he leaves behind him in Seoul given by the sergeant. It appears that the

LONDON, June 16th. The Tientsin-Pukow 5 per cent

the benefit of bis inspiration and guidance. of a estty, and suspended it in his shop. Then issued.. PRINCE IT's task in Korea has been one he issued tickets to the number of forty, one at

Germany takes £1,260,000 and the which demanded the highest qualities often cents each, and the buyer who guessed

nearest to the weight of the piece of pork was Hongkong and Shanghai Bank statesmanship, and even the stoutest critics awarded a prize of a goose, while the one who remainder. of Japan's policy in Korea can have nothing came second won a piece of pork. P. 8. Sim The London list is closed, and the but admiration for the manner in which the contended that this sanoanted to a lottery, but bonds are now quoted at a premium.

venerable statesman has discharged the" Mr. Kemp reserved his decision for a day or two,

declares that since her husband has been under * | Mme. Eames" spell he has had no love for

had every detail about England. The offer told him that that was so, and that they had upon Mme. Fames as the cause of her troubles. details of the Eastern counties, every village

IN.

Light variable winds may be expected in the

part of the China Sea Noon Channel and light . monsoon over the Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

The forecast for the 24 beurs ending at noon to-day is as followe→ Hongkong & Neighbourhood

the

was marked, the principal landowners and of

dials were known, and even the postmasters of plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Chème Charmante, Lait Formosa Channel the villages were recorded... "How did you get Chargient and Special Skin Tonic and Poudre South coast of Chins between” it he shed, and the odour replied, "We Charmant will opable you to do it Her mat, 10, 6d. and bought a Kelly's Country Spodlalition for the Skin are the study of a Hongkong and Lamocks. Directory" (and laughter) So much for spies lifetime. A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. Bola Agents. Bontongtong and Hertwoo Chear, hear, and laughter).

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