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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH, 1910.

SUPREME COURT. Tuesday, May 3rd,

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONOUR ME, F. A. HAZELAND (ASTING PUISNE JUDGE).

CLAIM FOR GOODS BOLD.

The Wing Man Co. med the Fa Wing firm to recover 830.93 for goods sold and delivered, and there was a counter-claim for 3100, for the return of money paid to the defendants as a deposit.

Me. Wilson Informed the Court that the plaintiffs had made arrangements with the

ACROSS CHINA AND TURKESTAN." (FROM THE "TIME" PEEING CORRESPONDENT.)

Lanchau, February 24th,

Lanohan from Belgium, whence he was bringing | Foreign Affairs and of other effos Only 45 for service under the Chinese engineers and Fears of age, he is bound, it his hesith permita,

THE CANALS OF MARS.

passed away. They could never take the place of first-class visual observation, but they would form

&

mechanics to re-open the old woollen mill, start to resch high all. His career has been an RESULTS OF PROFESSOR LOWELLS |bsequently be soon, and would enable such

RESEARCHES

firm foundation for whatever should

abangee ss must inevitably enana to be the better collated and compared. They were the histories of the planets written by themselves, their suto- blographics poured by light, and in their grand historical portrait gallery astronomers get to como might see the earlier stages of the great

ing itself out.

there is little on the way to interest the traveller nity conducting the various enterprises in which ('daya by the interposition of Bishop Favier, Fingatafl Arizona, at the Royal Institution, cosmic drama which was slowly but surely work-

On January 31st I left Biaafu, the capital of Sheast province, and in 18 marches was in Lanoban. No incident marked the journey; Kane is the poorest of all the provinces of China and the most inscessible by reason of its Devastated by defective communications Mahomedan insurrection in the years from 1861 to 1878, it has never recovered from the ruins everywhere of what were pass thriving towns and villages impress the traveller with a insurrection in Chins. sense of the horrors

Candle and soap factories, build laboratories, interesting one. A cative of Mukden, he was found a school

of mining, and develop the copper in office in Chibli province at the time of the and gold mixes found at three days' distance Boxer entbreek. He acted well, as many mis from Lanchas, on the road to Sining. Da hissionaries whose lives he assisted to save can death, his oldest son (who is a red button testify. During the military occupation he was Mandarin sacceled him, and he is now in this arrested by Count Walderece, and was for 40 in dally expectation of death. in prison Liberated who knew him well, he noted as one of the INDUSTRIES secretarion of La Fang. Che

Chang dering the peace his father had interested the Chinese,

en The woollen mill, which was founded by the negotiations. He represented China in various Governor Genend Two Tanng-tang, in the negotiations for Us pietat of Christian inde, eighties, when eight Germans were employed mnity slaims. He was decomted by the French ravages to which it was then subjected. The in it, and which was closed for years, has boon Government with the Cross of the Lagion of with an outcome as qurprising old net have whether a riot had taken place in the Shans

opsired, its old machinery patched up, now Honour. Four years ago he was appointed to machinery imported from Belgium, and under Lanahsu and how he has been called luck Belgian director with half-a-dozen Belgian to Peking. Few officials have served their assistants it has been re-opened and

country better. Some 80 Ing out cloth of several kinds, Chinese workmen are employed. Under the Gorman régims the mill was saddled with the maintenance of thirty Chinese Deputies, whose

tam.

JAPANESE COASTAL TRADE.

Mr. Christopher Wilson (of Messrs. Hastings & Hastinge) appeared for the plaintiffs, while the defendants were represented by Mr. W. E. L. Insurrection means extermination of the va

quarter to old or young, to man or Shenton (of Messrs Deacon, Looker &

weraan. Loss of life during the grest incorrec- Deacon).

tion amounted to millions, and oven in the short insurrection of 1895 the destruction of life was appalling.

absence of communications the work is dificult. It is u trooless province. There timber hse been univereat destruction of Even the fine treune of willows and poplars planted by Tse Tsung-tang botwean the two capitals is fast disappearing. Deforestation is profoundly affecting this climate, When rain falls it falls with such violence that it scare the face of the country, which is everywhere covered with soft leer of varying thickness, with no vegetation to bind the soil together.

defendant for the supplying of a quantity of fr but in the province now needs re-peopling, voracity ste up all the profits so that aftər | RUMOURED EXCLUSION OF FOREIGN VESSELS:

twige.

His Lordship-Yeu actually paid $100 in hard

CRAR?

Mr. Wilson---Teg.

His Lordship (to Mr. Shenton)-Do you

admit the claim?

Mr. Shenton-We admit the amount was paid, but on account of a previous existing debt.

After bearing the evidence, his Lordship entered judgment for the defendants on the

claim and counter-claim with costs.

ANOTHER BANK FAILURE ÁT MAÇÃO.

MACAO, 2nd May, The closing of another Chinese badkin this city is reported. On Friday morning the Chinese bank "Hai-Tong" did not open its doors, and on notice being given to the authorities thepromises were found deserted. The bank's customers included a number of Portugueso.

FOOCHOW BRIDGE,

Mr.Z. Fair opponent.

Mre. Z.

Fair opponent.

Mrs. Z. (amazed)

Fair opponent.

Mes: Z..

A TRUE STORY.

"I make it hearts, " "I double hearts." "I re-double,"

"I ro-double again." "Ire-double again, too." "And I once more.” "Content."

FROM SIANYU TO LANCHAU,

a

It was a well.

OPIUM PRODUCTION,

Mr. Roos asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons on April 7th.

Provinon as a result of the measures taken by the Chinese Government to prevent the recul tiration of opium in land previously under the poppy; and whether trustworthy information reached the Government regarding the foaling of the Chinese cultivators, as well as of the Chinese Government, regarding the present

in concert with his Majesty'e Government, policy being pursued by the latter Government

Sir Croy replied No oficial information no special information with regard to the man- nor in which the question is viewed by the farmer, though we have heard that the suppres- sion of the industry has mot with considerable

BURIED CITY.. opposition in some places.

has reached me of the riot in question. We havs.

The rond between the aspitals is 450 miles street near the Viceroy's yamên the cloth vessels had not yet been reported by the Com-showing that the lines were not lines but a. Within this next few months the excavation of

tween

the ancient Roman city of Verulamiam will be A meeting will shortly be held at St. Albans begun by the Society of Antiquatics, to enlist local support, and when the work is nudertaken it will be carried through as thoroughly as were the excavations at Chiches- far. The society has made a considerable grant from its Research Fund, but the enterprise will be an expansive one, and the support of those interested is invited.

(Fair O's partner leads a heart and Fair O. age WB roused, When I arrived it works and the various industries founded by the empire, excepting to or from the ports of from that good at faint satellite or nebala date drops. à spade) Fair O's partner: “Haring | As is the custoin, s dozen people together told foreign chairs and tables, carpets, satin, stk, and the only other open porta were the four men for not only was there a physiologic reason for and probably covers an aros of about 190 seros.

none, partner!!! Fair O. (triumphantly): "I had ohicane; that's why I wont on deabling!"

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

that all who were born within its walls couli

dignity of being a municipium, which meant olnim Roman citizenship.

The wonderful records of the new planetary photography were explained and illustrated in a remarkable lecturo delivered by Professor Percival Lowell, Director of the Observatory at Albemarle-street, recently. Though the method of planetary photography was, he said, originally designed to exhibit the markings of what was Mars, it had since been applied to other planets protially our nearest neighbour in space, as it Was sabie factory. Little details which one supposed could sit still long enough for their pictures to be taken stood out unmistakably on the plates, the faint squatorial wisps of Jupiter offering good example of rash tractability, though by no means the most remarkable That the canals of Mars should be made to write their own signatures on a photographic plate was the occasion of the invention of the while the mi had to be shut down. For a

In connection with the rumour that the process, which, after long and patient study by time it was used as an ersonal. Now its outlook is better and it promises success, de Japanese Government intends to withdraw from his assistant, Mr. Lampland, they wern-flually the planets had taught spite oficial interferenco, unskilled work foreiga vossals the right of carrying passengers induced to do. The process was based upon

ior and carge between the open ports of Japan what viens! study of mon, and imperfect raw material-an inferior Nagasali, Kobe, Yokolism, and Halodato-it is students to be the crux in the matter, the all- hairy wool, not to be compared with the

that similar exclusive feeling is existent known fact that the main couldng of a beutiful product from Australia-bad water Interesting, says the Japan Chronicle, to observe importance of deflation. for the mill has been created on the other

in the United States. The representative in diss might come out sharp, while the delicate side of the city from the river, whenọn tho

poh to That applied as much. to wiso bladed detection. said that the Bill seeking to give passengers water has to be carried), impure native Congress of the Blate of California, last month ones were obliterated by a blur which other phosphates, and inferior coal containing much sulphur. At an official depot in the main and from Hawaii the right to travel on foreign photography as to visual results. Another optical mistake, which had latterly been hailed "And I think I can prevent the Bill from sorics of dots, was made the other day in France. in length: Its highest point is 8,700ft., in the is sold. It is course, rough, and strong, mittes on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. as will, it is hoped, be used for the clothing

with knowledge of the option of a telescope in difionit pass of the Lin Pan Shan. Transport and water in the western provinces, On ever being reported," he added. This Bill The observer saw perfectly correctly, but oue

gire

the Japanese

our air should have known, asserted Professor sharges are excessive. For example, the currency is silver in lamp or Chinese cash the cocasion of the recent review of the military dous nothing bat

school all students and their instructors wore shipping lines the right to compete in One dollar's worth of cash weighs Blb. On 16s. sniforms made from this cloth. It crets, 59, the island basiness, and this is against Lowell, that the effect observed was the inevitable worth of cash freight amounts to 6s. Yet engineers say that a railway could be built be the yard of aft. width. At present the output the avowed policy of the United States, result of using an spertare which thesesing did the two points without great difficulty is 200ft. to 250ft. the working day, but it will which has been seeking to protect her constwise not warrant, as he could easily have assured by shipping trade." With the result, we may add, looking at the shattered rings in the synchronous It is the most essential railway in China it soon be increased to 50oft.

In the north-west corner of the city is the old that American vessels have now disappeared image of a star. In photography they could not diaphragm down to advantage because they

The Earl of Verulam, who owns the land China is to develop her western territory. Along

In this connection we note that the Aenhi needed the light, and that was one reason why

upon which the city was built, has given every the road the people are very friendly. Their Mahomedan quarter. It is an enclosure of from the great carrying trade of the world.

LIMITATIONS OF PHOTOGRAFEZ, facility to the society. The site lies about a villages are mostly of mud, all the better build large size, in the osatre of which Tao Teang

inge By the present progressive Taotai Pêng one-sided provision in the treaties referring to ings having been destroyed either by the Matang onto the Examination Hall and build arges the abolition of what it deseritea as the photographs could not rival an expert ogo

What the new process did was to mono- mile from the centre of St. Albane, just at the homedans or by the Imperialists. Many are covo dwellers, and the bills are often honeycomb Ying-chia thee have now been turned into the conating trade. Under the present treaties,

share of sotivity. Here are the mining and it is declared, the Fowers prohibit coxtain parts chromatias the light as nearly as possible. He entrace to Gorhambury Park. In the centre ed. Everything about them indicates poverty, agricultursi schools, the former with a well- of their coasts to Japanese ships, while Jupan who would photo, raph the canals must first of the site is the Church of St. Michael, the

At only one village had I any diffentty. were marching Inte in the dark, and I had sent equipped labemtory under a Belgian chemist gives a tauit permission to foreign shipa to visit have seen them that he might know when his vicarage of which stands in the middle of what

an inu, as he had and metallurgist, the latter under Chinese almost all ports on her coasts. This complaint

was not intended, nor was it destined, to here and there, but the Roman city lies for the my groom on ahead to find me a often done before. He entered the village, and experts who have a large area of garden in which will be raad with considerable surprise by those opportunity arrived, Planetary photography was the forum. A few fragments are to be soon

to experiment There are 200 studente in all, who are familiar with conditions in Japan. As our

planets must rent in the future, as in the past, soil

About airty years ago, sad again in 1869, Anding the large inn door closed, he called out to the people to open it. But his Peking speech is and they recive an excellent training. With readers will be aware, the whole chutting trade supersede visual observation. Eesearch on the most part buried under a considerable depth of not easily understood in Kunst, and no one his mining class of 40 students, all of whom of Japan is reserved to Japanono vessels with on the ultimate power of the eye and of the

Then he knocked, and to his have toon taught French by Pere van Dijk, the exception that foreign ships are allowed to brain behind it, whether that took the form of the theatre of Veralamian was partly an answered him. dismay the crazy door fell down. Immediately the Belgian profesor is shortly leaving for the carry cargo between the ports of Nagasaki, telescopic, spectronsople, or other, perhaps, now covered, and some fine frescoes, pavements there was a row. The innkeeper and his vodi sopper mines, three days distant which are now Kobe, Yokohama, and Hakodate. The wording line of inquiry. A good eye trained to the and marbles were found. It is the only Roman

of the theatre at Pompeii. shouted out their wronga. Every being opened and developed for the Chinese with of the treaties is that the Japanese Govern subject saw at least ten times as delicately as theatre known to exist in Britain, and ita forous spause

ment will permit foreign vessels to carry the film. But it must be an eye suited to dimensions are almost emetly the same as those The audient city, indeed, closely resembles one came into the street to hear the whole modern machinery by Belgian engineers

In the same quarter are the soap and candle cargo between the existing open ports of the planetary work, which was quite a different se seemed like a demonstration in my honour.

energetio Tastal, where Chinese are making Oaks, Niigata, and Ebisuminato," Atthat time tios. It was very important to remember that, Pompeil in shape, though it is slightly larger, me what had happened. I soon ratified every one by frat examining the damage and then ganze, cotton cloths, and lacquer work. Thers tioned above, so that it is difficult to under- it, but mistake of it was often made in high It was one of the most important sitios in En paying compensation in fall. I paid one hundred is a small tannery producing excellent leather, stand what the Japanese journal means by saying quarters, When an observer recorded a Polar land at the time of the Roman occupation, and

made on the spot to bags and foreign boots that Japan gives tacit permission to foreign cash (rather more than twoponce), and m and chair soverings. Glassblowing in taught by ships to visit almost all ports on her ocast fattening as (wice and four times what hydrody. with the Roman York (Eborasum) enjoyed the generosity was approved. The structure thus damaged hersinded one of the jerry-built houses Chinese from Szechuan, who have themselves Possibly the reference is to the elas, als familiar to students in Edinburgh, where it is been taught by Japanese. In all some 350 boys contained in all the treaties, that a foreign vessel en record that a lodger once complained to and man are employed. Technical instruction may discharge & portion of her cargo at one his landlord that the ceiling in his room had is given to a number of natives of this province, port, and continue her voyage to the other port permitted, for the purpose of landing the ro fallen down. But how do you account for who, it is hoped, will extend instruction inland. or parts of destination where foreign trade is

asked the landlord. Somebody The work is of great utility,

mainder of her original cargo there." We that?"

AVON THE YELLOW RIVER. replied the the next flat sneezed,' in

said the land- Good Hosrens!" lodger.

To the same Thotai is due the improvement believe that this quesssion is made by all is reserved. Thus, although B Тарашеве lord with some heat; you people think that be- in the roads of the city. Good macadaruized countries, even where the coast ng trade 2581 a month rent you can carry roads made under German supervision extend vansel cannot take cargo from the Hawaiian sause you pay

from the Viceroy's yamen to the south-east and

there on as though you lived in a Boman citadel

can a part of her cargo Tranquillity, now reigns in Kansu, and order west gatse of the city. To him also is duo the can and a pa port on the Amor our sort, she along the highway by a ridicu building of the bridge across the Yellow River, to another Ameriosa part to land the remainder. lonaly amail number of men. Each heien village a work of great practical utility much appreciated Moreover, it was Japan which sought and ob Second reading of the Bill entitled, An Ordin- has a few police armed with batons, dressed by the people The bridge is 710ft, in length intained the right to except the coasting trade from word "canals

to subject the provisions of the treaties, and sentry-boxes. They are the most civil of

the employ of the German firm who had

of New York and erected Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordin-Distance from the coast and from newspapers the contract, it was constructed by the American

Bridge Company

by an gives free play to the imagination. of the most setonishing kind find credence, American engineer born in China, assisted be anco to amend the Opium Ordinance, 1909.

Second roading of the Bill entitled An Ordin- Nearly every day I was asked if Russia and forenen who had been trained in similar work were again at war, white only last evening on the northern railways. It was opened last auce to amend the Magistrates' Ordinance, 1890. Ja lligent member of the local gentry came

year. A carious eireniastanco noted by the Second reading of the Bill entitled, An Ordin' to sak my opinion upon two merions items of superstition was that a few days before the Japanese who have the right to complain. ance to amend the Tramway Ordinance, 1902.

information. First, why had 200,000 French

opening of the new bridge the old pontoon bridge soldiers been landed at Kunchaowan and, in whose plans it was being constructed was Swept away by the current, which hore in con- that perhaps the comet had landed the Frenchmen at Kuanchaowan, and he admitted valoalty-.

The bridge cost approximately £25,000 While four Chinamen were crossing from that this was an explanation that had not occurred to him. Chinese are astonishingly (165,000 tala) Charges for transporting the Province Wellesley the other Sunday afternoon vague about numbers. Two thousand men material from the nearest railway to Laneban in sailing sampan, their frail craft was over- Marcel Rochois, former sergeant, appeared hazilled by the Chinese chronicler soon become came to an equal amount. The entire take ng sumpth of wind and immediately

it possible to be absolutely sure of that. Tot at Shanghai, he improperly issued on behalf 想 bill for the sum of on a charge of Hubert, and wounding her in the head. The of the battles and victorias of Tao Trung tang, notorious Tung Fu-haing, the Boxer" General, water.

The accused subse- The accident, fortunately for the Chinomen, those canals with several subsidiary ones fitted of Mr. Wilkinson prisoner, who pleaded guilty

declared that for with the numbers given of the opposing forces, whe left on his death two years ago 200,000 long time he had been endeavouring without are known now to be almost fadicrously ex- taals in the Provincial Treasury. By the con- happened to be soon by Mrs. Kerdyk, wife of into the general canal system as if they had 1852.16, debiting the mount success to win the afections of Mile. Hubert, aggerated.

sent of the relatives," as the euphemism terms the proprietor of the Runnymede Hotel, which always made part of it. Not only was their Shanghai company.

of previous years and Shanghai Bank and had the amount trang whom he loved more than life.

it, the money has been devoted to works of is situated on the shero near Northam Road coming into existence established by the quently presented the bill at the Hongkong When one day he saw her on the arm

to shoot her and But there is progress in Kanru. An import pable utility. In his estate were also a large She immediately gave the alarm and two digs, but the photographs of advant. forred to his own avcount. In similer sironm of a rival be resolved then commit suicide, He was arrested before ant factor is the extension of the post office number (said to be 12,000. but Chineso iguros gentlemen, Messrs. H. M. Rooks and M. Mise),

there were found on that planet a completely the fands of complainant on four other which runs courier lines through the provines are rety untrustworthy) modera Manasrs and who chanced to be near, at ones set out to the Turning to Jupiter, Professor Lowell said that stances the accused fraudulently dealt with

Mannlichers, which are now stored in the

different set of features registered on the occasions, the money thus misappropriated he could complete his purpose, nud he now.

and gives a cheap and efficient service, amazing

plates, no less corroborative of the drawings amounting altogether to about 27,000, pasured the magistrate that he was ready to meet to the Chinese, One foreigner is in charge of 3 arsenal inside the city. The troops themselves, his death on the guillotinasentenced instead to the post offices of the two provinces, and it though belonging to the regular modere army

The unhappy was

utterly unlike those of Mars. In two unlawfully insted 65 cheques in his capacity articles shortly to appear in the Philosophical as referred to, the money on these deca. sight months' imprisonment, and was leaving would be difficult to overpraise the good work ander the Ministry of War are armed actually

unde of the planet at Flagstaff, but Farther, continned the charge, the scoused

At present the river is icebound and can

One Chinaman happened to be passossad of Magazine those who cared for mathematics would presentative of the complainant during the the dock when Mlle Hubert rashed forward that is being accomplished, La Lauchan the with single atot 1888 Mausers, With clasped hands the implored the magistrate progress is most marked. Seven years ago

his youthful figure, and farthermore that his misappropriated to his private purposes.

The Court finda that the exbibits produced to pardon Marcel She said that she had never there were no schools in this city-no schools, regel by the heaviest carts. In the spring cared for the man before, but from the moment that is to say, except antiquated schools for the first steamer is to be placed on the upper lifebelt and thus in some way helped the rescuers and that heat alene enabled Jupitor to keep ments, ranging from Y8.50 to 7.1,000, being

The retura to shore required an almost super-shape showed him to consist of a comparatively the alassice, Now there is a good Yellow River. Constructed by the Belgian that he had shot her she had fallen hopelessly in college or high school, & military firm Cockarill, it is now in Tientsin, It will be

school with 300 cadets, a normal school, middle taken in sections to Kasi Hua Cheng, west of human effort, but aventually resoned and res- small kernel wrapped in a huge husk of cloud fail to establish the charges made against the

the sciences most admit a certain grandent The names of the Chinamen ars not known, in it when theory could thus plumb depths schools, and a number of preparatory schools. Kalgan, sad at the river port near by will be cutes reached terra firma in en almost complete Even those who did not care for the eldest of accused, and he is therefore sequitted.

A feature And at all the teaching is on Western lines. put together and launched on the river. It is state of collapse. The Berlita system is need, and the excellent a small river steamer or launch of 12-knot speed, but se they all spoke English it is supposed they experiment might never fathom

were of the better class.

of the photographs was a great red spot seen It is pleasant to be able to chronicle such in Jupiter. Detected in 1879, it had lasted as text-books and school-booke and educational ondis expected to make the up-river voyage to appliances, maps, and charts and diagramLunchan in 13 days and the down-river voyage attractive coloured pictures issued. In anch in nine. There are several rapida and shallows, doods of heroismo, for it is absolutely certain that such to within a few years-rether a long time,

but the project of placing shallow draught profusion from the Commercial Press in Shang- Indian paper, raised a load whoop of triumphal are found in every school in the city. But steamers on the river will, it is believed the Chipamen would all have been drowned had commented the lecturer, for a holo in the has risen considerably over S. Japan, the over the results of last Tuesday's opium sale, there is the lack of teachers that is so often proved by this experiment to be practicable. A not Messrs. Books and Misel so quickly gone to clouds

Belgian engineer has surveyed with their aid.oke

The action is worthy of the notion of the and it is very easy to appreciate his feelings la noted. the matter. The sato of 3,300 chests realised on There were three Japanese teachers in the this object. All these things, small in thema-

Government

some mark of their appreciation may be given an average Re. 3,826 against the

to these brare gentlemen-Straits Echo. With one They reesived the full approval of the Provincial estimate of Es. 1,750. This means a surplus of high school, but their work was a failure, and selres, are aridence of satisfactory progress, Boyal Humane Society, and lat as hope that

were removed, after one they

year. sixty-eight lathe fifty odd thousand rupees for excoption there are no other foreign teachats. Assembly as well as of the ay hocities.

sale. At this he erolsims,

rate,

English is taught by two Chinese who are quito "of Hongkong native Government will realise a surpins of over eight competent. One is

Kauta has recently received a new Viosrey, crores of ropees on the year. Surely such and is the official interpreter of the Viceroy and Chang Kin, his predecessor having been English is removed for having-Such was the offcial season

A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council is called for Thursday. The Orders of the day are:-

First reading of a B sutitled, An Ordinance to amend the Squatters' Orditianice, 1880.

Socand reading of the Bill entitled, An Ordinance and amend the Pharmacy Ordinanes,

1908.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinatice further to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

and continue

it

planetary research. An example of the delicacy namics permitted, his forte lay elsewhere than in of the detail to be descried on Mars, not only by the oye but in photographs, was sustanced by Profesear Lowell, who showed by illustrations Antarctic regions of Mars, detected visually at records of the first frost of the sessum in the Flagstaff Observatory on November 16. To chronicle thus the very weather of our neigh- anyone that interplanetary communication boar, he added amid laughter, would convince had already be un, and that, too, after the usual conventional manner of ordinary mundane

greetings.

LIFE ON MARK.

Professor Lowell explained that the technical

did not mean canals that were

THE CHARGE AGAINST A KOBE FOREIGNER,

Mr. J. M. Mur, of Shioys, who has been under preliminary examination in the Kobe of cheques (kogitte gino), was on Monday, the Court for nearly a year on a charge of forgery 18th April, says the Japan Chronicla, soquitted WAS taken A complaint lodged by J. Cikford of the charge. The action against Mr. Mur Wilkinson on May 25th, 1909, Mr. Mur being leased on bail, and has since been from time to sabrequently

atly arrested. The acoused was re-

suce to amend the Malicions Domage Ordinance in semi-foreign uniform, and stationed in blus Eve spans. Designed by an English engured to autonomia legislation, and this was first done dug, but artificially fertilised strips of country time under preliminary examination by Judge

1865.

fnen.

Rumours

ROMANTIC LOVE SCENE IN COURT, acordly, why had the comet come P I sugg0 Bined banks rushes past the city with great

M Paris, April 6. A most romantic scene took place in

attempted murder.

Parisian Court to day at the end of a trial for

once.

to negotiation with rost Britain, which allows Japanese and all other vessels not only to carry on a coasting trade as the shores of England, but to carry cargo from any British possession to England. It scarcely seems that it is the

A SEA ADVENTURE

BISCCE BY PENANG CITIZENO,

A

such account of the melting of the Polar cap this period Mr. Mur has had to appear twenty- connected with, and virified by, the turning to Ota, of the Kobo Chiho Salbansko. During By saying that organic life existed on Mars it six times. The lengthy nature of tas examina was not intended to convey that there were on is due to the voluminous exhibita pat in by human beings. Some remarkable photographs the complainant, which required minute investi- ware taken on September 30 list. On that date, ration. Mr. Wilkinson himself has been exnin- when the region to the east of Syrtis Major ined as a witness on several occasions.

In the charge it was alleged that between came round into view again after its periodio hidines of six wooks due to the unequal days of October, 1899, and December, 1905, the secased, the earth and Mars, two imposing canale were who was employed by Mr. Wilkinson as saen loading up from the Bertis to the south. manager of his Tansan, business, sad was had not been there at the preced more them on behalf of his employer, commit empowered to issue notes of various kinda and east,

Research showed that not ng prosentation.

advantage of his position. On June only had they never previously been seen, ted the following offences by unlawfully but that they could never have exleted as such before. The long and full records of the 27th, 1900, when the nocused shipped a num-

taking

aring his revolver st Germaine two hundred thousand men. Thus the rocounts post was defrayed from the estate of the capsized, precipitating the occupauls into the Observatory exfanding over fifteen years made ber of heres of Taosan to a certain company

love with him, and was ready to marry him at The girl's appeal was granted, and the two happy lovers left the court arm in arm. SIR 8. DAVID AND THE OPIUM SALE The Hon. Sir Sassoon David ha, says sn

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EDUCATION: BRIGIAN INELUENCES.

THE VICEROY.

be

by

Notwithstanding the strong current and the These gentlemen bravely combatted the elements and reached the scene of the disaster. great disdag for the thoradh A mile

their task

WEATHER REPORT.

to the

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report →

On the 3rd at. 12.10 pm-The barometer depression having moved away to the Eastward. The barometer has risen slightly at the Formosa Channel stations, and fallen a little over Tongking.

Pressure remains low over the latter area and

A DIFFICELT PLANET TO PHOTOGRAPH, Referring to Saturn, Professor Lowell said that in some respects it was the most difficult of the three planets to photograph, and certainly the most titing. Bo faintly was it illmaimat.W. China, ed that what took but two seconds for Mars The high pressure area covers N. China and Strong N.E. and B. winds may be expected took twenty or more for Saturn To keep the the Ses of Japan.

of the planet upon its guiding cross-wires Tmege for that length of time, with the nervous in the Formosa Chennal and 8 to E. winds

result must be very pleasing to one who was a hot the Director of Telegraphs, Hructor memorialized the Throne urging that the pro- port on the 2nd instant, and may be expected knowledge that any ship would be fatal, asemed along the northorn shores of the China Sea.

of any measure of constitutional government.

NE and E winds strong.

Same as No. 1.

Same as No 1

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The N.G.I. atr. Capri laft Singapore for this oppotent of the need of any fresh taxation at deplorable, and that of his fellow

an eternity. One of the greatest triumphs of Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending this year. And we certainly with to

am to-day, 0.03 inches. not less so.

The cargo of Silk shipped on board the M.M. the process was the self-recording of the wisps of at 10

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon nothing that will. dotreet from his legitimate eu be blaut Trench, is well think, certain considerations that may be mea- gives a thoroughly good French training to Chang Keng is a Manoku, whose family belong sir, Tonkin, which left this port on the 29th Satura. It was in September that those wisps

his assistant, Mr. E. C. Sliphor. They were in to-day is as followsz tioned to check too inordinate sunse of 80 Chinese students, among whom have been to Nanking, but who was himself born in this March, was delivered in Lyons on the 30th were first detected visually by the lecturer and

the sons of vicerors and ether high officials. province. He is 68 years of age, feeblo, almost April.

The P. & 0. str. Japan left Singapore for counterpart akmost precisely those of Jupiter, Hongkong & Neighbourhooć (*) triumph. In

In the first place Bir Sassoon is

het Fronoli has come to be regarded here as the more decrepit, but an amiable patriarch of good this port on the 3rd instant, at 6am, and is though, of course, in very faint replica. Thon Formosa Channel... the somewhat unfortunate position of a prophet aristocratic language of diplomacy. At present

came in the beauty of photographic method. to whom fulfilment has come too bounteously. It is also the more reefal, owing to the fact that character, who has made a kindly impression

Hongkong and Lamooks. The N.Y.K. str. Iya Maru (European Line) Instead of taking but a single image, twenty or South wast of Chins between

он single other La time of Tro Tanny-fang, well versed in the loft Mejl for this port vin Shanghai on the 2nd more were taken one after He cannot turn round to the Govern-

Hongkong and Hsipan... ment and say that he foresary exactly most of the industries conducted here for the people. He was a noted General in due bere on the 8th instant, at about 6 pm.

Chinese have been entrusted to Belgians.

iterature of the bow and arrow ability NYX stx Niko Maru: (Australian

plate. In conclusion, Professor Lowell said that South coast of China between? instant, and is expected here on the 9th just. influence in the capital is quite willtary science. His strength lay in his

a new departure la planetary they did not. For as a matter of fost 16 BSConsiderable. It has made itself felt for many to show by quotation from the classics that the ine) loft Kobe for this port via Moj and potographs from the detail they were able to je 8. to E. winds, fresh or strong; squally,

depict me uile, ost large some

the one hand they showery, harlly less out of it" than they. In his speech yours, largely through the influence of ano man cemy's tactics were not in accordance with

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Beckfoved sals as atleast Rs. 2,000, but be said nothing at One of the best known figures in China was the military precepts laid down in the time of Nagasaki on the 3rd instant, and is

Paul Sphingnerd, the Fleming, who was

Confucius. Eleven years of his life have been here on the

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far (American thing of the advanoS all to indicate that the price would be not two 16 years employed by the Chinese as a Customs spant as Tartar General of Ili, and from that thousand rapess but sctually nearly double that Commissioner and director of the Burcent of heart post the free to both wrastarred to Line) left Tokohama for this port Kobe, in our knowledge of the solar scionos, on plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crème Charmente, Loit beginning of a set of records in which the fature Charmant will enable you to do it. Her figure. He is in the prophet who tells his PPT position of the Foreign Affairs at Buchan the western the Viceroyalty of the two provinces of Shensi Moji and Shanghai on the 2nd Instant, and is the other they constituted in themselves the Charmant and Special Skin Tonio and Poudre

expected hers on the 16th in He married a province.

The LO.M. ir. Kleit, which left here on of the planet might be confronted with its Specialities for the Skin are the study of a will be a slower to morrew and the village wakas trife, and was much trusted by the Chinese, By far the allast and most progresive official

those who first concaited such registry had long up next morning to find themselves washed away and deservedly. More then three years ago is the Thots Pong Ying this, the 6th ultimo, at 1 pm, arrived at Genos achieved past, and which should enduro after ufetime. A.8. Watson & Co., Ltd., Sole agents. by the biggest food within memory!

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