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The Japanese Sagar Refining Company gentle and the machine floated like a cork, the occupant not even getting wet. We do appears to have spaountered a fresh obstaolo at the very oatset of its resuscitated career. It not know the conditions attaching to this has no money to pay its taxes. A sum of 70,000 competition, but in view of the recent per-ren became due on acconut of business tax and formances of the Zeppelin and the Parseval income tax on the 1st of June, but the Company mirships, a fight of twenty or thirty miles has not yet succeeded in collecting funds to most esquot now be regarded as a very astonish the obligation. What step will ultimately be ing feat. It probably is a most notable takon is a matter of conjecture, performance for an "aeroplane," for we read
of the New York Aero Club offering for competition recently a trophy for a flight of five-eighths of a mile. It was won on the 5th inst. by Mr. GLEN H. CURTISs, who is described as "the WEIGHT Brothers' most formidable rival." He dew a mile and three-quarters on his aeroplane at an elova tion of 80 feet, and maintained e speed of 33 miles an hour. M. BLERIOT, who crossed the Channel, claims to have coveted a distance of thirty miles in thirty-five minutes. But the performances of the German airshipa throw completely in the shade. At the beginning of the present month the airship Partoval II. started from Tegel, near Berlin, rose
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taken to the hospital. The wounds wore rather severe. The two assailants were brought before the Magistrate yesterday and remanded."
On the 2nd-instant, says the Japan Daily Mail, the Home Department granted the raise a foreign loan of £716,500, the issue price application of the Yokoliams Municipality to to be 98, and the sum received by the Munici. pality 94. The debt will be unredeemed for 15 years and will be thereafter paid off in 30 years. Tha isming banks are the Industrial, Parr's being Messrs. Panmure and Gordon. There are the usual commissions.
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THE FOURTH TEST MATCH.
AUSTRALIA 147: ENGLAND 119.
LONDON, July 27th. The Fourth Test Match was played at Manchester to-day.
There had been a storm overnight, and the sunshine to-day was inter- mittent. Over 20,000 people as- sembled to witness the match, which was played on a difficult wicket.
The scores were :—~~-
AUSTRALIA.
Bardsley Gregory Ransford Noble Trumper
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4 ...17
Armstrong Hopkins
2 ...32
3
Macartney Cotter
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Carter Laver
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11:
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dropped to 450 feet, at which height it
The bowling analysis showed that remained until it had passed over Saxony, when it rose to a height of 9,000 fat in
We learn from the annual report of Mr. in three strengths, containing 5%; 10% and 20% order to pass over Eger and Franzensbad, Dunn, the Superintendent of the Botanical and Hirst took no wickets for 18 runs ; When the airship eventually landed the Forestry Department, that it was on the advice Barnes 5 for 56; and Blyth 5 for of pure carbolic acid.
occupants had used up only half their of Mr. Kershaw, of Macao, that the Hongkong | 63. ballast, and had enough fuel left to enable Government suggested the slaughter of magpies as the best means of encouraging the increase of them to cross the Alps. As, however, they singing birds in the island. Mr. Kershaw's | had set out only with the ides of giving the advice, Mr. Dann says, was energetically follow- crew a trial run, they decided to terminate ed during the year 1908. During the six the trip at the end of the eighteen hours.mantha ending in March, 1908, the Polics alone acconated for 679, magpies shot in various parts Buch demonstrations as these leave no room for doubt that there is a great future for of Hongkong and Kowloon (with the expendi. ture of only 750 cartridges); the total for the airships, but speculation at present is con-
year ander report was 594" We fined largely to their military user. notice that Colonel MASSET, who is pro minently identifiel with seronautical A. S. WATSON & CO...] experiments in England, spoke recently of
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mercantile community of Hongkong, His flights of 300 miles an hour being a possibility of the near future. Every modern Excellency has requested the Superintendent to army is probably concentrating its attentioncollect all possibleinformation upon the veget
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Total Laver took 8 wickets for 31 runs
March, 1912. Their keels would be laid down next April.
It had also been decided, with a view to the protection of commerce, to replace one of the four cruisers originally planned by an improved cruiser, more powerful and faster than any afloat.
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Mr. Balfour severely criticised the Government for allowing our margin of superiority to disappear and for neglecting the Mediterranean and the trade route (to the East?), though
they knew that two Powers on the Mediterranean were building the most powerful battleships.
LOCAL SPORT.
LAWN BOWLS:
The singles championship at lawn bowls in connection with the Civil Service Club has jurt be decided. The finalists wore R. Fenton, and D. M'Iver, but the latter won 1ather emaily, Fenton failing to maintain the form he has displayed throughout the competition. The game, 21 heads, ended: M'Iver, 16; Fenton, 8.
INTERPORT CRICKET.
It is being freely stated in local sporting
circles that we are to have a cricket fortnight Yokohama, Shanghai and Singapore cricket representatives. It is to be hoped the news is true.
in November, when Hongkong will entertain
THE TENNIS LEAGUE. The members of the Tennis League at a meeting held in the Y.M.Q.A. rooms decided Mr. Asquith (the Premier) empha-to give a shield instead of a flag sa a trophy for sised that between Germany and the winning team. The shield will be of blackwood about a foot square with a silver ourselves there was no cause of quar- tanuls racquet upon it and silver plates for the rel of any sort or kind throughout the inscription of the winners' names. It was decided that the cost.should be defrayed out of world. If diplomatic relations were
the funds of the Langue, but Mr. J. B. Wood, mutually conducted with common the Vice-President, and Mr. Alves, the President of the Lusitano Club, have given contributione consideration, there was no reason
supplementing the funds of the Longus for this why such a difference should arise.
purpose. Dr. Forsyth, the President, has kindly offered to provide models for the winning toam
It was decided that the shield should by pre- "BRITAIN NO LONGER AN ISLAND,"
sented at the close of the match 'Winning Team Rest of the League, which will prob-
SUCCESS FRANCE AND THE
BLERIOT AEROPLANE.
OF THE ably be played on August 14th The latter team will consist of representatives, of the Y.M.C.A. and one from each of the other clube -making four pairs. The shield is to be held for one year by the winning team.
The time-table for the autumn session, whiel HONGKONG COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.
LONDON, July 27th. Feverish enthusiasm prevails in Paris over the success of M. Bleriot in crossing the Channel in his aero- plane. The new Cabinet and its pro- gramme is relegated to the back. ground in the thoughts of the people. The gist of the general comment is that Great Britain has ceased to be an island.
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commences. 1st September, has been published. The lecturers and their subjects at follows:-Practical Anatomy, Dr. G. D. E. Black and Dr. Ho Ro Tenn, demonstrator ; Medical Jurisprudence, Dr. F. Clark, Chemis try, Mr. A. C. Franklin, P.LC.; Clinical Medi- vine, Dr. J.-C. Thomson; Clinical Surgery, Dr. R. M. Gibson; Midwifery and Gynaeco- logy, Dr. C. Forsyth; Practical Pathology, Dr.. H. G. Hobson; Surgery, Dr. W. V. M. Koch; Anatomy, Dr G.. H. L. Fitzwilliams; Tropical Diseases, Dr. J. C. Thomson; Practi- al Chemistry, Dr. W.- B. A. Moore; Patho-
DEATH OF ME. A. F. GARDINER. News reached the Colony yesterday, by tele. gram, of the death of Mr. A. F. Gardiner, of Tament and formerly of Amoy. Mr. Gardiner,logy and Bacteriology, Dr. W. W. Pearse who was a tea inspecter in the firm of Messrs. Physiology, Dr. R. A. Belilion; Biology, Mr. Boyd & Co., had been ill a long time, and was
A. R. Batherland, M.A.; Favers, Dr. J.W. nader medical treatment in Hongkong during Hartley Practice of Medicine, Dr. F. T. the winter months. He was probably not over Keyt; Materia Medica and Therapeutics, forty years of age, and his premature destli will
means of meeting the new danger.which Hongkong is an emporium. This in- Macartney 1 for 31; Cotter 1 for 87 be much regretted by the wide circle of frisode Dr. O. Marriott; Tatorial Medicine and
Special high-angle, long-range ordinance is being constructed to act as airship destroyers and the use of powerful rockets in the bands of detachments moving in light motor-cari has been suggested, as once a rocket penetrates a gas bag spontaneous while flying combustion would ensus; machines, though much harder to hit, on account of their smaller size and superior turn of speed, are, it is suggested, un doubtedly more vulnerable to shrapnel or musketry firs. But the age of either would be out of the question if flight at the rate of three hundred miles, or even half that speed, Telegraphic Address: Pass.
has to be reckoned upon. When experienced Codes: A.B.C. 5th Ed. Lieber. P. O. Box, 34. Telephone No. 12.
officers tell us that it would not even now HONGKONG OFFICE 10A, Das Vaur BoADC be difficult to drop explosives from any London Office: 131, FLEET STRAIT. EC | given object from an aeroplane, and that in the near future probably it will be possible to trace the movements of submarines from a dirigible balloon, we can see no limits to "the science of war,"
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HONGKONG, JULY 28TH. 1909.
GREAT BRITAIN has ceased to be an island, BO our French neighbours are telling us now that M. BLENIOT has made a succesĖ- ful fight in bis aeroplane across the Straits of Dover. Our geography primers and our lexicons which tell us that “an island is n piece of land entirely surrounded by water will have to be altered, We shall have to forget what the poets have told us about Britain being
a snug little Inland!
A right little, tight little island. Not yet, however, are the educational authorities of Great Britain likely to with. draw the present text books on geography from the schools. One sparrow does not inake a summer, and one aeroplane crossing the English Channel does not formi such a bridge as warrants the announcement that Great Britain has ceased to be an island.
A Chinese boy was brought before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday charged with having handled Bowers in the Public Gardens and was fined $2.
and Noble none for 11.
able products of this neighbourhood, or for formation is to refer chiefly to the raw or party manufactured products exported from Chins and to include the locality of their production. quantity available, country to which exported, CHINESE ATTACK ON POLICE, price at port of expert and in the markets to which they eventually go.
A PIERCE COMBAT AT KUALA LUMPUR.
SINGAPORE, July 27th.
whom he made in his long residence in the East, £60,000. A YEAR
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WHAT CARUSO RECEIVES FOR SINGING.
Midwifery, Dr. Jen Hawk,
THE CHINESE COFFIN TREE,
Among the most valuable products of China Signor Carsso, who is staying in Paris until which have so far remained a monopoly of the he crosses to England for his concert tour, in Chinase Empire is the beautiful and valuable very angry about the publicity which has been wood known as Nanmu (Chinese Coffin-tree). given to the recent condition of his throat. He A curious coincidence took place at Quarry
A crowd of Chinese clad in red declares that it has done him a great deal of any efforts, says Mr. Dans, the Superinten. Bay on Monday. A Chinese who had been
harm, and that he is now worried and unhappy.dent of the Botanical and Forestry Departments have been made to obtain a supply of living son entering the foremen's quarters at Taikoo
he told an interviewer "I make a lot of money plaate for other sountries interested in forestry Dook was arrested with a quantity of clothing assembled at a temple in Kuala Lum-People envy me without realising my trouble," in his possession. He was faken to the Police pur and fired upon the police as they Station, and while there a report was received approached. from a European that some articles of clothing belonging to him had been stolen, as well ne some belonging to his boy. It was found that these in the possesion of the thief corresponded with the list of those stolen. The thief, how- ever, had to answer an additional charge to that
Fighting of the fiercest description ensued, four Chinese being killed and several wounded,
A Sikh constable was wounded in
of theft. He was alleged to love hitten the the chest and a European Inspector finger of the Indian who arrested him. For the was injured badly. first offence he was sentenced by the Magistrate to six weeks' imprisonment and six hours stooks and for the second to two months' hard labour.
The boxing man whose professional name is Biil Lewis get into trouble with the police the other night and had in consequence to appear before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of assaulting a constable. It appears
The appearance of Kowloon thoroughfares jetant the defendant quarrelled with somebody in being improved. The grass-grown roads and footpaths are being stripped of their groen covering and look rather better now.
The typhoon warning sent to the American Consulate-General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 1.55 p.m. yesterday reported the typhoon to be W. of Balintang Channel, mov- ing W or W.N.W.
Admiral Li Chun is reported to be energeti- cally reorganizing the water police administra. tion along the West river. This step is taken in order to give a foreign country no excuse for interfering with China's internal adminis tration.
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the Hongkong Hotel, and when P. C. Cockle The officer replied that he would let him see interfered Lewis demanded to know who he was. the defendant, who and he laid hands on apparently resented this The officer declared that Lewis struck him in the face, bat Lewis denied this and asserted that he himself was struck. Another witness testified to Lewis being sober, bat spoke to the assault by Lewis on the constable which he witnessed. His Worship bound defendant over in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour,
The Chinese are supposed to have been members of a Secret Society.
Twenty-five arrests have been made,
PRATAS ISLAND AFFAIR.
BITCH IN THE NEGOTIATIONS,
TOKYO, July 27th. A hitch has taken place in the negotiations with regard to Pratas Island.
China counterclaims for $170,000 against Japan's $500,000.
China's attitude on pending ques tions in Manchuria is productive of uneasy rumours, affecting the share imarket.
(REUTEE'S SERVICE TO THE "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,"
but I lose a great deal avery time I cannot sing and with suitable climates, but so far, to the beat
The public never thinks of that."
"Bat you are not a poor man ?" asked the interviewer.
Caruso shrugged his shoulders. "I don't de badly. I make about £50,000 a year, but that won't last for ever. It may last five more years. Yes, I have signed & fresh engagement for three years, making five years slagether, with the management of the Manhattan Opera in New York. I am to get £500 a night, which, after
of my knowledge, without sucose. There is an old tree in the Hongkong Botanic Gardens
Consal at Ichang, some 30 or 40 years ago. A which was sent by Mr. Watters, then British few score of layers were taken from it while young and planted on Mt. Gough in 1883. It is
the scanty information preserved, and if still impossible to find these trees again with In the autumn, before I go to the United anrriving they probably resemble the tres in the States, I am going to sing in Germany, and I Gardons in not ripening fruit and in being too have also signed for Monte Carlo in 1912 at old to provide Layers. During the last two in these places I am, of course, going to be better paid."
all, is a very reasonable sum.
THE LAW AND THE LADY. If the High Court has a post in Mr. Justice Darling, the County Court has a ready versier In-well, His Honour prefers to be anonymous. A young lady was recently sued in a London County Court for a balance due on Stock Er. change transactions. Her conesel, having stated that his client had married before the action was began, received those lines from the
Beach :---
"When lovely woman stoops to futter,
And learns, too late, that" tapes" betray, What art can save her bread and butter? What charm avert the settling day? "The only art her load to cover,
The half-commission msu to parry;
And dish the broker, is-to marry." The High Court has, in truth, few distinctions which the County Court cannot matol. Even a Senior Wrangler the late Mr. Starkie, Q.C., who sat at Clerkenwell for many years has adornod the County Court Bench-The Globe.
To bring contentment to her lover
years a considerable amount of correspondance has been carried out with Consuls and others in Szechnen and Yannsa, the provinos in which the tree occurs, with the object of getting seeds. Through the kindness and perseverance of Mr. Fox (until recently British Conrul at Chang-tu) and of Mr. Tymas, and after some failures, two consignments of seeds have during the year been received by this Department. The length of time occupied in the journey from Cheng.ta is evidently, from the condition of the seeds, nearly the limit for its safe transport and they wer immediately sown on arrival, Two crops have thus been raised and it is hoped to transmit living plaats in due course to various other Colonies which require them.
WEATHER REPORT
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-
On the 26th at 9.30 p.m.-No. 1 night signal ̈ hoisted.
On the 27th at 5.45 am. Reil Drum hofsted. At 12.20 p.m.-The barometer has fallen Immigration officials, after picking up on the moderately on the B. and 8.E. couste of Chine slightly over Indo-China and the 8. Philippines. The Japanese returns are lacking.
A correspondent forwards to The Timer the following communication which he has received. from Manchuria-A Governer was sent lately We learn that Captain Somerville has been from Feking to Mukden who is a Manchu of Nevertheless the fact than an aeroplane has transferred from the command of the as Tasting the old school, detesting Westerners and all their THE GOVERNMENTS NAVAL Wharf at Beattle a stray Chinese, who admitted and in Formosa and N. Linzou. It has riset
to the Fatehan, Captain Lloyd having been Huccessfully crossed the Channel for the retired on pension. Captain Somerville, who ways. Shortly after his installation he called was one of the most popular skippers on the the members of the Civil Service together and
addressed them as follows:- As far as I on
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first time marke an epoch in the history of aeronautics which naturally evokes jubila Hongkong-Manila run, is succeeded by Captain ation among the growing number of men Pennefnther.
too highly paid, and don't, work hard enough- 1. who are now devoting their serious atten-
Another attempted suicidé name, before the mean to dismiss half of you, and reduce the tion to the problem of aerial fight, and the Magistrate yesterday. A Chinese girl who pay of the rest. I observe that many of you fact that the first man to accomplish tried to end her life by hanging was brought wear silk robes and ride in broughams or other the feat of crossing the channel is before Mr. Wood and d scharged with a caution.new-fangled conveyances, which you ought not a French inventor is sufficient to The story told by the police was that while a to beable to do on your salaries. Now, in future, secount for the extraordinary popular lukong was passing along a street at Shaukiwan be careful! Wear cotton and ride in sedans, or outburst of onthusinam which RECTEE tells was called to him from a window and you will be dismissed. If 1 should make a mis- informed him that a girl had hung herself. take in my policy, you are enjoined by me to ae of in France. Though the telegram does He went to the back of the premises and found speak up, and tell me frankly how I have erred. not mention it, we assume that M. BLEROT the girl hanging from a beam by a rope which I have nothing farther to say on this occasion the conditions of shipbuilding in aboard with the mail sacks. Three Chinese Cymeric last month, and it is believed organized in making the attempt was competing for a was tied tightly round her neck. He out her except that if I catch any of you tripping, by foreign countries the Government had stowaways were captured as the lid of stud prize of £1,000 offered by the proprietors of down sad finding the she was still alive he had I'll have his head off. Now go home and decided to ensure the completion of smuggling is in progress on Oriental stoners, the London "Daily Mail." Mr. LATHAM her sent to the hospital, where she recovered.
that he came over a stowaway on the Great Northern line Momerota, searched the vessel The typhoon has moved into the China Bea last month and dissevered nine smuggled coolies It appears to be situated to the West of the
N.W.
The coast between C. E. Kongey, who is a beavy man, stapped into Swatow is threatened. as there are too many of you officials; you are "AFTER VERY ANXIOUS AND CAREFUL and a quantity of silk and cigars. Inspector Bangtan Chame and to Hongkong ada
CONSIDERATION.
the sail locker of the steamer and fell twenty Formoss Channel and along the northern shores. Strong weather may be expected in the feet through a hole in the floor, alighting of the China Sea. LONDON, July 27th.
squarely on top of nine naked Chinese lying in
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending In a debate in the House of Con- the hold of the ship, whereupon they screamed at 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon mons on the Naval Estimates, Mr. in terror. Further investigation brought to
meat mail pouches, filled waw silk and Hongkong & Neighbourhood(*) --
N.E. gale. Formoes Channel Admiralty, announced that after very amber of boxes of expensive Manila Bouth sonst of Chine between?
N. to N.E. McKenna, First Civil Lord of the light several leather sacks resembling Govern-to-day is as follows:
1 to have been taken
Hongkong and Lamooks. gale, anxious and careful consideration of The bags of silk are supposed
Hongkong and Hainan... moderate, (*) N. winds, freshening; fair to equally and South coast of Chins between NW. winds,
think of what you have heard, for I mean it/"
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