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of the objections of the original, the TELEGRAMS. Foreign Representatives were unable to approve the document and could only refer the Chinese Government once more to the 1905 draft. The regulations are still under consideration," and are likely to remain so until the Chineze 3. WATSON & CO. Government is able to agree with the

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Powers as to what is meant by the term reasonable regulations." The Treaty in that respect, as in many others, poranine practically a dead letter. Not entirely, however, for it is possible to register trade marks with the Imperial Maritime Customs. The provisional regulations, to which we have alluded, provided for the establish ment of a Bureau of Registration, and the Maritime Customs at Tientsin and Shanghai

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were designated to serve as Branch Offices for receiving applications. Though the regulations as a whole were unacceptable to the Powers, the Maritime Customs at Shanghai has continued to record the trade marka sent to them for that purpose, and the Consul General strongly advises British trade-mark owners to take advantage of this facility, which may prove of great vse R& proof of ownership when of trade-marks has been

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KING MANUEL AT WINDSOR.

LONDON, November 16th. King Manuel of Portugal arrived at Portsmouth and was received by the Prince of Wales. He proceeded to Windsor, where King Edward and Queen Alexandra and other royalties welcomed His Majesty.

TURKEY'S PROSPECTS,

LONDON, November 18th. The Sultan of Turkey, in opening Parliament, referred to the extension of military, service to all subjects of the Empire and dwelt on the necessity for perfecting the army and the navy. He was glad to say that the relations

LOCAL SPORT.

INTERPORT CRICKET.

The following have been selected to play for Hongkong against Shanghai :—

W. C. D. Tarner.

Capt. H. H. H. C. Baird, The Buffs. T. E. Pearce.

Capt. Garuelt. RG.A.

R. E. O. Bird,

A. C. E. Elborough.

R. F. H. Olivor.

Lieut. Bagnall, R.G.A.

W. N. Edwards.

Lieut. Anderson, The Buffs.

Lieut. Groen, The Buffs,.

W. C. D. Turner. Capt. Baird.

T. E. Pearce

Capt. Garnett.

R. E. O. Bird. A. C. E. Elborough. Rev. F. H. Houndrell, RN. R. E. H. Oliver. Lieut. Bagnall, Lieut. Groos. R. O. Hutchison.

We have received from Masara. Lane, Craw. ford and Co. a copy of the Referee's Chart for son 1909-10, framed by the Football Association. The booklet is very useful, and

IONIA AND THE EAST.

A REVIEW.

Max Maller in a somewhat fantastio skutok of human origins, founded, as Mr. Hogarth's, on an insufficient foundation in ethnography, would refer all tho various tribal distinctions to a comprehensive class which ho denominates Aryan, comprising Germans, Franks, Getas, No one is entitled to speak on the early and Barmustians, as well as the true Aryans histories and wanderings of the Hellenes with and Iranians; and all these, he assures us, né groster authority than Mr. D. &, Hogarth. one time dwelt together in Central Asia. Mr Hogarth was for many years connected There is a very considerable bed rook of truth with the British School at Athens," has been in this, but the truth has to be dug out, dressed engaged in extensive explorations on the site of and sorted before we can put it in our cries, and the great Temple of Diana at Ephesus, and label it. One, of the facts that we so forcad elsewhere in Asia Minor, and has been in close as othnographers to recognise is that long touch with Dr. Evens în Crete, and most of the | prior to their arrival in European lands the other recent explorers. He is besides a follow of Hellenos, or rather their ancestors, must:

have never been Iranians in Europe. Again the intimate structure of Hellenic sposch shows that similarly it must have been in close contact with the Sansorit-speaking, true Aryans. We must conclude that the Hellenes were at one period dwellers in the landa of Central Asia, and here myth and tradition come to our aid. How did they get to Europe, and when P. Mr. Hogarth in silent on this ossential point of their history. He would hars them, in fact, comis from Attion. as if that helped him in bis argument.

BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE initiated." We note with satisfaction that with other Powers were of the friend-those who follow the game will find the problems Jears, simply follow the story sa told by Thuci- presented aniongst the Germans by Hubert

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no reluctance has been shown by the local authorities at Shanghai to prohibit by pro- clamation the imitation of British marks when requested to do so, and that several Chinese convicted of improperly using British-owned marks have been punished at the Mixed Court at Shanghai with very salutary effects, There is something

liest character,

The Estimates show a deficit of £4,427,807.

THE ANARCHIST AT CANEA.

LONDON, November 16th.:

FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR. characteristically Chiness about all this, for A bomb exploded at Canda near

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HONGKONG, NOVEMBEE 17TH 1909.

China seems to be under no obligation to issue these "proclamations baving the force of law "unless the marks they concern (vide

the United States Treaty) have been regis tered by the proper authorities, atsuch Offices as the Chinese Government establish for such purpose, on payment of a reasonable fee, after duo investigation of the Chinese authorities and in compliance with reason-

able regulations." That the local authorities at Shanghai do now actually prohibit by proclamation the imitation of foreign trade. marks when requested to do so, shows clearly enough that there is little or no excuse for the unconscionable delay ju issuing, conformably to Treaty stipulation, "reasonable regulations" for the registra tion of trade-marke. Foreign trade-marks, parents and copyright are as flagrantly pirated in China to-day as ever they were

A Chinaman was sentenced to penal servitude

for life at the Singapore Anels for returning

from banishment..

proved by Her Majesty personally,

the Chamber, but the dainage one was slight.

It is believed that the object was to prevent a meeting of the Assembly to elect a government.

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PERSIA'S PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, November 16th. The Shah opened the Parliament at Teheran yesterday.

THE HIPPODROME CIRCUS.

Bysack's circus opened at Causeway Bay last night before a large and appreciative andienos, Although we have had a surfeit of olfens performances of late, the Hippodromo pro gramme is so novel and interesting that it can

scarcely fail to attract large numbers.

The performation oponed last night with a six horse wat ree by the ladies of the troupe, after

which Mr. Jonas introdused his performing

elephants, and remarkably elever slephants they

jumping feats. Le Dial and Romsh, the

set very interesting.

DUTCHMEN AT FOOTBALL.

The team to play against the Straits will be Magdalen College, Oxford, and so in contact have come in close contact with the fraamus; with all recent writera on classical subjects. only thus can the numberless affinities in elected from:

He lately delivered six lestures JI the thought and language be recunoiled. But there early history of Greece before the Uni- versity of London, and these lectures have been revised, and are now published by the Oxford University Press in a volume roms 117 pages long, entitled fonia and the East, which has met with favourablo notice from the Press at Home. It is not too much to say that the volume is disappointing. Coming from so high a source it might have béon anticipated that the reader would find information on the latest theorien with rógard to the first appearance of the Hellenes in Europe, and their settlement in Aegean lande; if any reader thinks so he is doom.

As a fact the Hallenes came immediately from ed to disappointment. Mr. Hogarth's lastures the countries watered by the great rivers of utterly ignoring the researches of the last ten southern Russia; and in this the school re-

dides without evincing any effort at examining Bohmidt and von Stern is undoubtedly in the the grounds on which he founded his theories, right. Herodotus, though not a historian in for theories lacking the substratum of written the sense in which Thucididos was one, was far i or monumental evidence they by most modern in advance of him, in one respect; he wręta authorities are acknowledged to be. Speaking down without note or comment what had boon of these stories of Thucidides, ou authority of told him, and his myths form a fer surer founda- some thirty years ago remarked-When tion for the recovery of what has been called Thacidides was about to trace the course of that prohistoric history than the smooth and polish- disastrous expedition which the sagacity of ed paragraphs of Thuoidides, which bear on condemned, he thought it right to give a brief iron. With the authority quoted by Herodotus, Pericles had by antisipation emphatically their face the ovideuse of razor and smoothing

sketch of Hellenic colonisation in the island of Aristoss of Prokonnessus, agrees to aloenly Sicily. The sketch is drawn with all the con- with the Mandesu stories contained in the Zond fidence and completeness of a man who feels Avents, that we cannot doubt their genuine sure of the trustworthiness and completeness character: and this in turn is amply cupirmed of his evidence. Nothing can be more precise by carly Chinese tradition: The foundation than his ethnology, nothing more definite than of foot in all the myths is a hostile movement the dates which he assigns to the several Greek of the Arimaspian" peoples of northern Asia' From first to last which broke up the old Airyano, and compelled the narrative is to all appearance thoroughly Aryans, Iranians and Salyans to migrate in probable; but the account which he gives of different directions. The Aryans moved across the Trojan war has the same air of likelihood. the Hindu Kush, the Iranians Boross the Kopat In the latter case we know the process by Dagh into Khorassan and Porsis, and the Sal- which this result has been obtained, and we yana, eventually to become the Hellenes, follow have no guarantee that his early Sicilian his ed the eastern shores of the Caspian into the

at least, is certain, that for

Russia. The whole movement was an anticipa tion of the movement of the Angles and Baxons from the mouths of the Elbe and Weser, mosely

The match between members of the Dutch Squadron and several local Hollanders assisted by Hongkong Football Club players took place. on the Club Ground yesterday. The game was Dutch as footballers, but the local team were intaresting, as showing the capabilities of the

too strong and won by three goals to one.

THE POSTPONED HOLIDAY.

The following letter has been sont by the Chamber of Commerce to the Government --

Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,

13th November, 1909.

settlements in the island.

Sin-Ata Mesting of the Committes of the Chamber held on Monday, the 8th instant, the question of the belated cancellation of Nayember the 9th as a Public Holiday was discussed,

My Committee felt that His Excellency the Governor should be acquainted with the views expressed at this Meeting on the matter, becanatory may not be of the same kind. This, Kirghis steppes, and eventually into south

Hone

of

it is so fully recognised that anything affecting it was there any contemporary registration the commercial well-being of the Colony receives and that most of the events recorded in it took most bympathetic consideration at his hands,

I am, therefore, to sak you to be good enouch Place by his own užmission more that four two milleniumis inter. As the Angler and

to place this fettar before His Excellency. ・・・ My Committes consider that the recent action of the Secretary of State In delaying the issuing of instructions for the non-observation of His Majesty's Birthday, until so near the date, was

unfortunate.

that in any cases the saddan change of It has been represented to my Committee

Programme upret the business arrangements and

notification-I kavo, &e.,

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hundred years before his own day.”......"

Baxons without co-operation founded in dependent kingdoms in East Anglia, Woesex, Mereis, Northumbria, and elsewhero,so did the Holleres found separate settlements in Ionis, the Peloponnesus, Calabria, and Sicily. Nor- thumbria or East Anglis was no mora's colony Grecia of Athens or the Peloponnesus. Moreover, of Wessex or Marcia than was Tonis, or Magna

in both onson the remalt was a return to barberio conditions, followed in both instances by the gradual conversion of the new comes to the culture and religion of the older.attled folk whom they had displaced.

This is the trua lesson to be taught by the

LARGE TOURIST PARTY IN HONGKONG.

"It is quite true that the writer here was the late Bir George Cox, and the school that bo represented has long ceased to carry any oritieni weight with the present generation; but the

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

criticism itself is réssonable and fair, and the battlow before Troy cannot be got over. Thuci ONLY communications relating to the news

comparison of the deseription with that of the column should be addressed to THE EDITOR.”

Correspondents misst forward their names and edtresses with communications addressed to the Consulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila they had scarcely room to stand and travel- A typhoon warning received by the American proved themselves. Besides balancing where

dides had not, any more than we have to-day, in general caused considerable inconvenience. any evidence to go on which the critic can sc Editor, not for publication but as evidence of good faith.

The date fixed for the obsequies of the late cept as historical, and the very fact of the ultra Observatory at 10.05 a.m. yesterday, reading across the arons on a large barrel, Empress Dowager of China was well-known cockenrodness of our author must with all All letters for publication should be writies on "Cyclone or Typhoon W. of Lusen more then they walteed well to sexsic caring their one weeks sgp, and it therefore seems to my reasonable minds throw discredit on the entire sne side of paper only.

100 miles distant moving W.N.W?

trainer a great ovation. Miss Florance the Committee that if His Majesty' Birthday narrative, and compel us to discuss from the No anonymously signed communications that have alreany appeared in other papera will be A 45 h.p. six-cylinder noiseless Napier motor intrudneed the equins midget marrel Black inserted.

Orders for setre copies of DAILY Pazar has been constructed for the Queen of Diamond, a rare footed Little pony which Celebrations were to be postponed the com- very beginning the conditions. The view study of the earliest traditions of ancient Hellas, should be sent before 11 as on day of Siam. The carriage work details have been astonished the spectators with his remarkable reial community should have received earlier adopted by Thucidides would make the and not the unintelligent version of Thusidides Hellenio civilisation of the Aegean lands to have which Mr. Hogarth from lack of ethnographic pubication. After that hour the supply is carried out from designs subitted to and agelowas, then gave an orhibition of hat throw-

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Secretary. Telegraphic Address: PRESS.

ing, after which M. Dalbante appeared in the

absolutely earlier date than its surroundings, work-"Ionis and the East" CoA.B.C, 5th Ed. Lieber,

Hon. Sir F. H. May, KOM.G.,

and to have spread from the Hellenic centres in More than ordinary excitement was oocasion. erent tarihed balancing extràonliusry,» → This

Colonial Secretary. ed at a gambling raid which took place at performer seamed to be as much at home on

the Balkan penipeals to neighbouring lands. Modera critics, largely German, amongst whom Quarry Bay on Monday Eleven men were the top rung of an unsupported ladder, or on s arrosted, but four jumped into the sea, drag-pole, as an ordinary person is on the ground, and "HONGKONGITES" IN ENGLAND. wo may mention Hubert Schmidt and Professor ging a lakong with them, and managed to his jumping feats on a wheel were exceptional-

von Stern, reasoning on the occurrence of works Our London Correspondent writes under of art in an already advanced stage in the cope. The others made their appearancely clever. Miss Virginis's equestrianne sot.

Yesterday Hongkong was visited by a large. diatriots watered by the great rivers of southern before the Magistrate yesterday, when the pleased the spectators, and the clowns Rococo date of 27th October:- leaders were fined $50 and the remainder. $3 and La Dial tielkod their risible faculties while Of old Chins residents no one was better Russia, in Galicia, and upper Austria, have number of "sround the world "tourists from Bach.

the Mysore Troups of acrobats were preparing koown, better liked, or did more genuine work advanced a theory that Hellenic civilisation Los Angeles, California, who, came down from for their display. And what these clever par for Hongkong than "The Tribune of the People," zotually sprang into existence in these regions Shanghai by the Princes Alice. They left Sau On the recommendation of Mr. Cyril B formors could not do in the scrobatic line is Mr. T. H. Whitehead, for some years past and certain facts in connection with late dis Francisco on September 6th, and after spending "No progress appears to have been made Rootham, organist of St. John's College, Mr.scarcely worth knowing, their double somer joint manager of the Chartered Bank. Your coveries at Knossus in Crete land support to four weeks in Japan, put in a couple of weeks. by the Central Government towards issuing Ronald B. Hurry has been appointed Cathedral sanits, their head to

The party leaves to-day by the readers will be pleased to hear that, owing to this view. Mr. Hogarth does, indeed, speak of in China head balancing

the retirement of Mr. Caleb Lewis, after over what ho calls Datitibian culture having had con. German Mail-steamer for Singapore. Their satisfactory regulations for the registration organist at Shanghai, Mr. Harry has been and other feate, being exceptionally of trade-marks." This extract is from the assistant to Mr. Boothsm, who has written brilliant. Next to appear was Mookerige fifty years' service in the Bank, thirty-five years siderable influence on Greek art, but speaks in a itinerary includes tours in Java, Burma, North British Consular Report on the trade of

enthusiastically about his friend and quandam and his sistants in the triple horizontal of which were spent in the head offos, Mr. hesitating manneras if the matter were ons hard. and South India, Ceylon, Egypt and Europe, pupil. As it was on Mr. Footham's intro bar display. The principal, who is soties Whitehead has now become senior jointmanager. ly worth serious consideration. Unfortunately Mr. D. F. Robertson, manager of the Steam- Shanghai, which was presented to Parlin-duction that Mr. Fallen came out to Shanghai, as a monkey, crowns his thrilling feats by Mr. Thomas Fraser becomes joint msinger and in no case have the authors of any of these various ship Dept. of the German-American Savinge ment last month. Chim, by Article VII. of the Cathedral authorities have every non-swinging from one horizontal bar to Mr. W. E. Preston sub-manager. Hongkong theories s sufficient grasp of the ethnic condi. Bank at Los Angeles, is conducting the tour, the MACKAY Treaty of 1909, undertook to fidence that in Mr. Harry they will have a third, a distance of fourteen feet, turning residents will hope that Mr. Whitehend may tions of those Aegean lands. This want of

and the members of the party aro :— establish offices where foreign trade-marks worthy successor to Mr. Pullen. Mr. Hurry is somersault across the middle bar while yet serve many years at the heart of the great knowledge hae led Mr. Hogarth into an entire Mr. and Mrs Sidney A. Butler, Mins Bath in mid air, and another double somersault institution which be has done so much to bring confusion of ethnic and geographic terms, The Churgh, Mrs W. H. Carson, Mr and Mrs R. V. might be registered on payment of a reason-not due till December 22.

most marked instance of this consists in his Day; Mr and Mrs A. C. Freeman, Mrs, W. W. able. fec. Regulations had consequently Commenting on the assassination of Prince after gripping the last bar. The graceful to its prosent high position.

Mr. H. E. Pollook, K.C., has been adding to using the term throughout of degean, as denot Hadley, Mr and Mrs B. C. Lattin, Mr and Mrs to be drawn up. In the American Treaty it Ito the Times says:-He has had the supreme Sgures of a Spanish danos were admirably

happiness of living to see a singularly great portrayed by the Misses Catharino, Bella, Elsie his experiences by indulging in a little election-ing the inhabitants of Austolia Of course J. H. McConnell, Mr and Mrs C. MeIntosh, was stipulated that these should be "reason and daring ideal, formed in the first years of and Maris, aud Dicky Bell earned an ovation for ring work during his holiday. As a Tariff the sthnographer is aware that low districts of Mra E. P. Nichols, Mine Jessie F. Ogden, Mrs able regulations. In 1904 China published his manhood, fally sad permanently accom- his ole ver vaulting act. Mise Lallah Ashby's Reformer and an opponent to Mr. Lloyd equal size enclose so great a number of radi. M. G. Byland, Mrs W. F. Thornton, Mm 8. what were described

*provisional plished. He has watched by the cradle of graceful equipoise on the silver wire was an George'sBonialistio Budget, he went down to Ber- cally different ethnit types, each having an equa? W. Church, Misa Genevieve Church, Mr régulations" for the registration of modern Japan, and he has seen her attain to event worth seeing, and the lead to load and mondeoy the other day under the auspices of the claim to the geographical title: Phrygians (Far Carlton Carson, Miss Gretchen Day, Mr and trade-marks, but many of them were of so her high place amongst the nations. Unlike hand to hand balancing fests of the Carpio Anti-Budget League, and addressed a meeting angs), Lydians (Meronians), Hittites (Khati); Mrs M. P. Gilbert, Mrs Ada S. Lux, Mr and Cavour, he has not been called away untimely, Brothers earned for those intrepid performers on behalf of the Unionist candidato, Mr. Dam. Mysians, Karyans, and Leleger; besides in the Mrs A. Leed, Mr and Mrs Charles Lloyd, Miss unreasonable a character as to render before his work was consolidated, and before the hearty choore of the spectators.. Mddle, E. phreys. It would be well if some more of our east Bemitic Phoenicians, and over all pro- or Fay Nichols, Mrs A. L Ryan, Mrs U. B. the draft unacceptable to the Powers. hd could feel satisfled that it would en Walbourgs put the gencatal. Arab stead Hongkong friends made use of their abilities proto-Semites, Minyes, Minoans, Mineaus, &c. Warnock, Mrs Jennie J. Wild, and others. The counter draft submitted by the dure. He has, indeed, not seen what will be Ben Asid through an optionally in and experience during their visits to this coun. These are but a few of the best known, and these Foreign Representatives to the Chinese its outcome for Japan, for Asia, and, for the teresting performance, and the programme try to oppose the growing forces of irrational include at least four what may be called Government in 1996 formed the subject of world. That its won the to wisert, and concluded with the introduction of the socialisin which are becoming a very real and primary ethnic sub-divisions. Hittites must be LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

classed simongst the Auris stock, by some discussion for some time, but towards the must remain a secret, until time shows which performing lions by their trainer, Mr. serious danger to Emperial trade.

The numerous friends of Mr. S. J. Hanisch, ethnographers denominated Alpine. Inter grain will grow and which will not. But Urbau. Under Mr. Urban's tuition the wild end of 1966 an entirely new, long and com already many of us, who have none of his great nature of the "king of beasts" has been out of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, will Lydians and Phrygians as belonging to Line) left Yokohama for this port vis Kobe, plicated draft was submitted by the Chinese gifts, can perceive clearly enough that its dued, sad his little family have been made regret to hear that he is still on the sick let. 1 sab-Germania type ysians and Karians as Moji and Nagasaki on the 15th instant, and is Government. It proved to be almost a donsequences are extending throughout Asin, docils that a

lamb might lie down met bina a day or two ago with Captain Lincoln, Pelasgie; and later Phoenicians as Semitic expected here on the 24th inst unacceptable as the original draft and the and that before long they may profoundly affect with them while the trainer was standing of the as. Kwangles. There is no more popo All these, it is to be remembered, are

to long anterior The display which his pots gave lar member of the Customs service on the China Chinese Government were informed that the thought, as well as the politics, of mankind. by

Ionic imigra the 1905 draft was considered the document The nation which Prince Ito has created is not last night proved very interesting, and the ooset, and I am sure the news that he is on the ion into the Ionis lands, whencesoever that had on which future negotiations should barely new, as Italy and Germany are now. It trainer was evidently a warm favourite with the way to recovery will be welcomed by them. It origin. Mr. Hogarth to all appearance in is unique, bringing into the commonwealth of spectators. Takes a whole, the performance is now several years since Mr. Hanisch was based. Notwithstanding this intimation, a civilized peoples traditions, habits of thought is an eroallent one, and should well repay & vinit stationed in Hongkong, but he left there of his classification of all se “Aegean” would have: Japan, which left Hongkong on the 16th alti,

the

sevised version of the 1906 draft was sub and ideals puknown to them before. That is to the tent at Causeway Bay,

record of good work performed with a geniality na seo no distinction: assuredly a poor prepara requently submitted by the Chinese Gov-what makes Ito's work so momentous, and what There will be a matines this afternoon that won him friends in every sphere of life tion for any thesis on the original arting

which many men might envy.

place of the Hellenic migration. ermacut, but as it still contained many promises to give him a place apart in history starting at 4 p.m.

The N.Y.K. str. Nikko Maru (Australian

The N.II. str. Shinano Maru (American Line) left Yokohama for this port via Kobe, Moji and Shanghai on the 15th instant, and is expected here on the 28th inst.

The Bill as per C.F.I. str. Empress of

and Yokohama on the 26th ult, arrived in New York on the 14th init, thus making a transit of 29 days from Hongkong, and 19 days from

Yokohama.