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considered sufficient ground for the adop tion (of so extreme a step as combining to disorganise a public service upon which the whole of the commercial and private interests and even the very safety of the country depended. The feeling in the. Assembly was so strong that the Gover WATSON & CO. ment found themselves able to show a firmer front than they had before displayed, and while making it manifest that they were not unwilling to listen to suy fair statement of grievances, and to apply such remedies as might be reasonable, they let it ba. known that they were prepared to act WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS firmaly in the public intereste and to take

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An open window at No. 12, Square Street tempted a thief to enter and apprópriate a chopper and some paint. He was arrested while leaving, and at the Magistracy yesterday Mr. F. A. Hazoland sentenced him to three weeks' imprisonment and six hours' stooks.

A reward of $1,000 is offered for the serest of « Cartonegenamed Ng Pok Tong, who is alleged to have embezzled the sum of 358,000 from the Lee Yuen Tong Co, Honan Road, Shanghai, during the present month. A Shanghai con temporary says the man has a wife in Cante and a brother in Hongkong.

General Joachim Machade and Senhor Cinatti, Commissioners for Portugal to settle with China the delimitation of the Mooie boundaries, were such steps as might be necessary for the revived on arrival yesterday by Senhor J. J. restoration of order. This being once Leiria, Cousal-Gomeral for Portugal and Brazil, realised, it became possible to bring thein Hongkong, who acorted them ashore to

rooms provided for their accommodation in Glenealy.

strikers to reason and the trouble wa adjusted in a far shorter time than appeared at first likely; while an attempt on the part of the one of the International Labour Association leaders to fement further disturbance was followed by his prompt arrest. This was so far satisfactory, but it still leaves an uncomfortable feeling that the public Services are dangerously in the WHISKY hands of demagogues, and that there is

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little security against a recurrence of a similar strike either in France or elsewhere. At the same time there is, in the history of this matter, some encouragement to those who look with justifiable aversion upon anything in the form of a breach of public order, in one consideration. No doubt the FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR. adoption of a firmer attitude by the French Government had its influence in bringing the strike to an end; but there were a other causes of a more permanent and reliable character which tended to this result. There cauld not fail-to-be the idea among the strikers that though the Government might (like anyone else when driven into a corner) "be inclined to dal

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In the Supreme Court yesterday the action in which Sir Frederick Lugard claims for the specific performance of a certain contract in

connection with land reclaimed was mention: 1. Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., instructed by Mr. Bowley, appeared for His Excellency, and "ad that as the appeal could not be heard that day

their Lordships would perhaps fix another day,

The Court fixed Monday as the date of the bearing

RICKSHAW STRIKE AT MACAO.

On Tuesday afternoon all the public richakaws disappeared from the streets of seas as a protest against the refusal of the Leal Senado to reduce the licence fee.

Senado for a reduction of the fee which our cor

It appears that the men had petitioned the respondent understands is about $53 a quarter a very heavy once for indeed. At their meeting on Tuesday the Soundo decided not to reduce the fee, and the rickshaw pullers there- upon went on strike,

Much inconvenience is consequently caused

by the Hongkong and Canton steuners.

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TOKYO, June 23rd. The Foreign Office has received a report from the Japanese Coneul at Hankow relating to the obstruction of Japanese trading in the interior, due, it is alleged, to the unwarrantable interference of the German Cousul at Hankow on behalf of his nationals.

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A SPANISH PRINCESS,

LONDON, June 23rd. Her Majesty the Queen of Spain ins given birth to a daughter..

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MEASURES.

DEATH DUTIES BILL AGAIN DEFEATED,

LONDON, June 23rd.

The Finance Committee of the Reichstag have again rejected the modified Death Duties Bill, forming part of the Government's modified taxation proposals.

The Conservatives, Clericals and Poles are united in their opposition to the measure, and the position of

A FEROCIOUS DOG.

AND A NAUGHTT BOX.

Pau Sang, a small boy, told the Court that he lived about six houses distant from the dofendnut. At 4.30 p.m. on the 11th instant

JAPANESE POLICY IN MANCHURIA.

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Tokyo, May 30. The hearing of the summons against Mr.dent, who joined me here laat week, I have In conjunction with your Poking Correspon J. Lambert, of No. 41 Ormsby Villas, Kowloon, been engaged in discussing exhaustively with for suffering to be at large an unmazzled foro. Jépanese Ministers the questiona at iame olons dog which attackoil and bit a Chinese..botweon China and

Only the question youth, was continued.

of the Fa-ku-menn Railway involves indirectly 1ritish interests; but, ïu, view of the terms and purpose of her alliance with Japan, Great Britain could not remain indifferent to any con troversy likely to affect Chinese and Japanese relations. The best friends of Japan would have been slightly disappointed had she dis played the uncompromising attitude impated te her by the Chinese, and very fill and authoritative information has been placed at my disposal to correct misapprehensions upon

I must reserve a more detailed statement for proposed by China has provoked so zinoh adveres post; but the rejection of arbitration as Criticinin whrond tank it seems important to set

he was bitten by a dog (which defendant ad. |mitted was his). The dog bit him on tha thigh, and he know it bit anether boy a few weeks ago.

On the dog being introduced, his Worship the subject,

remarkol that it did not look very ferocious.

His Worship (to defendant)-Tour sugges tion is that this boy tornered the dog or

Defendant then questioned the witness :--- You are living with the Rasmussen family, are you not? Yes.

Have you never thrown stones at the dog Chinese Government, just Nevor.

Do you remember your master's dog running after a boy, and you never attempted to call it back —I called the dog back, hut the boy

tered it.

His Worship (to defendant)-Do you suggest that the boy is frequently throwing stores at your dog?—Yes, and the day after the last hearing he threw stones into my house at my wife.

Witness denied this.

Constable Poppered deposed to being on duty on the Kowloon Road on the evening of May 16th. As he was passing Ormsby Villas a deg rushed

cut of No. 4 and flew at him. Witnsas struck the animal off with his loft hand,

His Worship-Was this absolutely an provoked ?

Witness Yes Precading, witness stated that when the dog flow at him a second time he struck him off, with a truncheon. The dog was in bötter condition at flint time,

Witness was questioned by the defendant: Blace the summons was taken out you called at my house with another constable, didn't

BULL DOG BRAND leniently so as to get over the immediate not only to residents but to passengers arriving Prince Buelow is an extremely difficult you?--Yes.

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difficulty, it would not be very long before the Authorities would have mattera dgain in band, when in one way and another those. {who had brought about the disorder and who persisted in maintaining it would, after all, come off second best, and might run the risk of losing their employment altogether A. S. WATSON & CO.. Not only this, but it would very soon become

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Correspondents must forward their names and

apparent to those who had joined in the movement that the labour association Jepulif

ASSAULT ON A TRAMCAR

A Euporean youth appeared before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of assaulting a Chinese passenger on a tramcar near the Taikoe Dockyard on June 21st

Defendant pleaded guils. He stated that the was full, all the seats except one being erded. There were four persons sitting an

one.

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LONDON, June 23rd. Renter's Agency learns that the American Government has intimated that provided American interests are

to Peking.

Why.To see whether it was the same dog. Defendant thought the constable should have known it was the same dog, seeing that it belonged to him. Give a dog a bad name, ho continued, and it hanga to it. He wished to know why the address of the complainant was not mentioned in the summÐNUM.

forth certain facts hitherto inadequately appre

onded. It must be remembered that the course of the recent negotiations has been treated here hitherto na confidential at the request of the the Peking Pro- tocol of December, 1005, was made secret out of of consideration for the British alliance and for deference to Chinese wishes. But, just as out the large British interests in the adjacent Chi nese railway systom Japan deemed it her duty to vomaanicate to the British Government the clause inserted in the Protocol restricting rail- way competition for the protection of her South Manchurian line, so she now deems it her duty to explain her subsequent setion.

HISTORY OF THE DISPUTE When in the summer of 1907 the Japanese learned that China was engaged in negotiations with British firms for the constraction of thʊ Fa-ku-menn line, they hastened to remind the Chinesa of the stipulations which from the be guning had been specially intended to prevent the construction of that particular Uine than which none, in their opinion, would more injure the South Mansharian Railway, especially if it wore subsequently artended northwards so as to divert the traffic of Northern Manchuria before it even reached the Japanese railway, China. disregarded the warning and signed the contrast. The Japanese then formally protested, and a desultory correspondence ensued, the Chinese denying the competitive character of the line and fually requesting a definition of the sesa which Japan

да competitive. On the proposed line opinions altogether differ; but the question of the competitive character of the Japanese claim the benefit of the doubt for

their own contention, and in respect of the

question of area firm that each case must be judged on its own merite, as the question in

over purely one of mileage.

JAPANESE MODERATION. China might, perhaps, be justified in demurr ing to the vagueness of these replies, had the altitude of Japan remained otherwise uncom promising. But after the abortivo conferences His Worship-That is probably a fault of last year Japan decided upon the following

important step, which seemed to offer a fros the office.

starting point. In February last she com Defendant-They were able to mention No.municated formally to Peking two alterns ive

not long support them, and that, after dil the ketone seat, and as defendant wanted to sit safeguarded it will waive the protest stand that.

weapon they had launched was something of a boomerang and was apt to, recoil Upon those who had launched it. In most strike,' it is found that though the labour associ.. tians can get up sufficient enthusiasm to start a strike, it is extremely difficult to keep going on anything like a large scale after it has been put in force. Exactly the same state of things became apparent in a strike No anonymously signed communications that ¦ of a much less serious character, but still of have already appeared in other papers will be

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down he asked a Chinese passenger to move along. The Chiness pushed him away, and he lost his temper and struck him.

Inspector Collett informed bis Worship that

the defendent knocked the passenger out

of the car while the mar in motion,

His Worship (to defendant)-Do you admit that you knocked the passenger out of the car?

Defendant-No, your Worship. He fell out. His Worship imposed a fine of $10, in default, one month's hard labour, and he farther ordored. the defendant to be bound over ju the sum of 2200, personal bond, to keep this peace for one

'GERMANY IN CHINA.

FORTIFYING KIAOCHAU.

Berlin dispatch dated the 31st ult. is being The work of fortifying Kiaochau. Hays & carried out very effectively, and Germany has now begs to fortify the Protectorate from the land side of the peninsula. Hitherts on the

marine-dafence. works have been thrown up in

the same nature, which was worked up among the employees of the Government year, Railways in the Colony of Natal. They caused a great deal of trouble for a few daya. but gave in when they found the result of holding out longer would be that a number of them would lose their employment alto LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STERKT, EC gether. This is a contingency which in one form or another must always face those who are employed by Government, either in the Post Office or on Government Railways, aud it affords at least some security against capricious and unwarranted striking. This bearing of the subject cannot fail as time goes on to become apparent to the men themselves, who will then find some better means of seeking redress than resorting to

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measures which may cause a unjustifiable injury or even danger to the public, but are certain in the end to dainage the strikers themselves.

The Crown Advocate at Shanghai has informed the judge that he has no intention of taking proceedings against Mr: Marshall, plaintiff in the recent action against Mre. Nazor.

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is only two doors off. I cannot quite mudor- 4. Ormsby-Villas, and-the-complainant's-house-puppaple, one thirst, the Chises should buil

from Fa-kumens to the South Alên- charian Railway instead of to Hsin-min-tan, or that the Japanese should build a railway from the Boath Manchurian line to Fa-ku-menn and theree to the North, in which case Japan would withdraw her objection to the Fa-kn-menn- Hein-min-tan railway, provided that China undertook not to extenil the line beyond Fu-ku.. menn without a previous agreement with Japan.

On the clerk who drafted the summons being called, he explained that the woman who called It is understood that the American at the office did not know the name of the Government has been informed that street.

address?

my

so far as the British group is concerned-Dafondant - Then how did they got there is no objection to American

Inspector Langley-I gave it to them. Defendant- My opinion is that it was pur. participation.

posely missed out.

LORD CREWE AND THE OPIUM CONFERENCE.

LONDON, June 23rd. Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, presided at the Corona Club dinner, at which there was a remarkable gathering of Governors, ex-Governors and Colonial officials.

Lord Crewe in proposing a toast to

southern and eastern approaches enormous the progress of the Crown Colonies the form of redoubts and coast batteries. Ou referred to the International Confer the northern coastline the shallow waters would

His Worship-No: The clerk asked her where she lived, and she said she did not know the name of the terrace. The evidence the constable has given against you is rather damaging, I thought you were going to call evidence to prove that the constable annoyed

the dog.

Defendant I am going to call a lady to prove, that the constable made an unwarrantable attack on the dog.

This closed the esse for the prosecution. Mrs. E. Akehurst, for the defence, told the Court that when standing at her front doorstep she saw the last witness going towards Mr. a dog began to bark. Then she saw the con- Lambert's house. When he got opposite the gate

stable draw his balon, stop inside the gate, and give the dog ons blow. The dog howled most pitifully

His Worship-In la evidence the constable

Hot allow an enemy's warships to get near the ence at Shanghai on the Opium shore, and there the defence works have been only very small. As the Germans hold Kino Question and said the Commission than by a lease, which will not expire until had shown the world how difficult the 1997, it is clear that these new fortifications are intended to show other people that Germany subject was. He thanked Sir Cecilesid the dog flew at him. means to resist any attack from the land side referred to as attracted a great deal of atten- plished in dealing with the Report as well as from the sea. At all events, the work Clementi Smith for the work accom tien in official eireles in Peking...

from the Straits Settlements.

THE FRENCH · NAVY.

--ASTOUNDING...-REVELATIONS,

Continuing, witness said that after the coartable Witness-I did not see it fly at him, and I thought it was a very cruel thing he had done. had walked away he returned and took the

unmber of the defendant's house.

In reply to the defendant, witness said the complainant was a very naughty little boy. Ho used to go into her garden and pull up vegetables, and she had seen him throw stones at Mr. Lambert's stable.

LONDON, June 23rd.

His Worship-From this lady's evidence it is The French Parliamentary Com-clear that the boy has been naughty.

THED. S. WINDELL" FRAUDS.

The two young men. Bernard Robert, a young arrested in connection with the daring fraud Dutchman, and Reginald King, a beak clerk, perpetrated last putum on the London and South-Western Bank, when the former went round in a taxicab and collected £2,320 by falso yetences from eight branches of the bank, weze boing tried in London when the last mail left. Mr. Muskett, for the prossention, stated that Robert admitted he was the man who obtained mittee of Inquiry into the state of the the money in the name of D. S. Windell, and navy reveals astounding extravagance, King had confessed to his father that he enginoored the frauds. Roberts" dramatic negligence and confusion. Mr. F. 8. Hazeland took over the duties of confession denied the charge of forgery, and First Police Magistracy yesterday, and pre-It was the devilment of the matter, the excite been spent in a decade, the French contained the following remarkable passage. Though 120 millions sterling have sided over the large Court. We understand ment, the ingenuity, the hamour, and the almost that the learned wgistrato received many congratulatory letters on his promotion.

The 6.8, Derwent, from Singapore, brought 39 departees to the Colony yesterday. They are being cared for at the Central Police Station until arrangements are made for their return to China

Tue apshot of the Postal strike which recently occurred in Paris, and which attracted so much attention at the time, is worthy of study as showing that whatever inconvenience such movements may occasion, they are not altogether of ao serious a character as might upon general consider utious be imagined. That the whole telegraph system, not merely of France, but of the world, should be put out of gear even for a single day would seem so grave a matter that it enai scarcely be imagined that such an ovent could be allowed to be possible in any civilized country, or that it could occur without results that would be of the most far-reaching character. And yet the event has actually occurred, und in the course of few days the whole matter was at end and things had resumed their normal course. The feeling of most people when the nows was first received was that law and order were at an end in France and that the country bad fallen entirely into the hands of irresponsible associations, and might before long be in that of the mob. More or less this really seemed to be the state of affairs, and the Head of the Postal Department did not fail so to represent it when speaking in the Assembly. It appeared beyond doubt that there had been Major Falten, R.E. The religious ceremony took errors of administration which gave just place next afternoon at 4 o'clock at Bt. Exis for diacontent to the employees Church. In the evening of June 14 Major among them à considerable amount of Nathan was entertained at a dinner at the favouritiam in appointments and promotions Astor House by about fifty of his friends. The --but it was, forcibly and justly observed and of the French infantry regiment played

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impossible success to crown it all, which erged | Navy has sunk below the German on me to attempt the fraud. The very name (D. which less has been spent. Arma- Windell), meaning d-swindle, goes to corro. borate this contaution.

From the ments for now battleships were not moment almost that I had been apparently successful I was sorry for the deed.

ready years after the ships had been completed, and the existing guns are

Inspector Langley-Yes, and it is confirmed by inquiries I have made.

His Worship said he was satisfied that the dog was a ferocions animal, but he dil not propose to give the boy any compensation,

Inspector Langley thought that Mr. Larabort was willing to destroy the dog.

the mange.

Defendant-Simply on account of his lavity

THE ARBITRATION QUESTION. Even if China were not disposed. to accept either of these alternatives offhand, they were surely conceived in a suficiently conciliatory spirit to afford a basis for friendly discuABION, especially as Japan offered at the same time to for the readjustment of the boundary of Chien- waive her claim, advanced on behalf of Korea,

tao, provided that all other questions, including that of jurisdiction over Korean wettlers in The Chinese had repeatedly intimated that Chien tao, were adjusted to her satisfaction.

the territorial question of Chien-tae was one to which they attached the chief importance. Nevertheless, Chins rejected all these overtures without further discussion, and, as is known, proceeded to propose the arbitration of all pending questions,

closed this phase of the negotiations "before" The Japanese believe that, had China dis announcing to the world her desire for arbitra tion, public opinion in Front would gue properly be invoked, and that their refusal of reached the stage when The Hague Tribunal cku recognized that these questions have not yet

arbitration was therefore legitimato. Japen nevertheless, prepared to resume direct negotia tious with Peking with the sincereat desire for` a reasonable settlement; but she expects the Chinese to remember that, without the interven tion of Japanese arms, Manchuris would have been altogether and irretrievably lost to them.

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE, Nothing seems to me more hopeful for the usefulness and permanency of the Anglo- Japaness Alliance than the anxiety which I have found here to remove all misconceptions concerning the moderation and loyalty of Japanese policy. Never during previous

visits have I received more abundant proof of the values attached to British friendship, and of the quiversal belief in the necessity of maintaining the alliance between the two countries.

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I received the highest possible confirmation of these sentiments in an audienca which his Majesty the Emperor graciously accorded yesterday to me and to my Peking colleague.

Renter's telegram giving the gist of the Times comment this telegram said that it cannot be read with sincere pleasure by all friends of Japan and of our alliance with her." What the Times raid the raverse. It said that the

telegram “ca pleasure," etc. ment as follows:-

fail to be real with sincere The Tinca concludes ita com

There can be little doubt that of the objects. pursued by

by China in her handling of Man- His Worship-I think if you will consent to churian questions has been, and is, to create the dog being destroyed I will dismiss the friction between Japan and other Powers. By giving the contract for the Fa-ka-menn Rail- way to

to a British firm, aftor.they had been Mr. Lambert consented, remarking that the informed that Japan wouldd the con

summons.

The cruisers Takao and Akashi together with the river gunboat Uji, part of the third Japanese sqaudron, are expected hore next month from Shanghai. Arrangements are being made locally for the reception of the LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. so defective that firing practice has only objection he had was to giving a thor.struction of the line as ation of the

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His Worship-Certainly, you were quito right, I am perfectly satisfied that the dog flew at the child because he was termenting it. will order the summons to be dismissed en our undertaking to food-the-deg ever to the polics. The boy was then called before the Court, and his Worship told him he was quite satisded that he was a very naughty boy, who

The str. Sikh lait Singapore on the 15th been abandoned in the Mediterranean.oughly bad boy compensation. Major Nathan and Miss Eri Detring were mar.instant, and is dus at this port to day a.m. ried on June 14 at the British Consulate-General, the 22nd lust, and is due here on 25th inst.

The C.N. Co.'s str. Taming left Manila on

Huge stocks of condemned shells are still being manufactured. Tientsin, the witnesses being Mr. Detrlag and

ports of call, left Singapore on Monday the The M.M. str. Konang Si from Europe and

There is not a single graving dock 21st instant at 4 pm, and is duo here on the 28th instant.

which can accommodate the new

hams at noon on the 22nd instant for Victoria

The C.P.R. str. Empress of Japan left Yoko battleships, the credits which had and Vancouver.

been voted for new docks having The I.G.M. str. Laetzow which left here on

Singapore on Tuesday, the 22nd inst, at 2p.m. Colonies.

threw stones and beat the dog with sticks, and

boy's mother to look after him better in fature.

Protocol of 19.5, Chinese statemen, there can be little doubt, hoped to enbruil us with par allies. In this they have been disappointed. Our alliance and our friendship with Japan are countries to be seriously affected by such based too firmly on the interests of both transparent manoeuvres. D

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