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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 1st, 1910.

The sixteenth care of plague was reported yesterday. It was fatal.

Governments of Canada and New South Wales. One can soldem come across a newspaper in Great Britain now which does not make a feature of news about the opportunities offering in the Oversea Dominions of the Crown, especially in Canada-there is probably labourer's cottage in the United King dom which has not been reached by the booklets of the emigration agent, in which some account is given of the vast tracts of territory which await development, of the manifold opportunities offering to men of small capital, and of the high wages which the farm labourer may earn. And, finally, there is the offer to take approved labourers and gunboat Uji have left for Shanghai. and artisans to the Colonies for merely nominal sume. It is not surprising that active propaganda of this kind is fruitful of results in England. The deplorable part of the business for England is that this emigration represents not the riddance of a worthless and employable class of men, but the draining of the best skillnad sinew

Tontonant Charles W. Bookwith ina bosn placed on the retired navy fist at his own request, with the rank of commander, to date from Frine 4th.

There are now 10. British, Chinese, 5. Japanese, 3 German and a French steamers on the galer run between Shanghai and Hankow, a journey which takes on an average four days ap river and three days down.

Dispatches from Hankow state that the American gunboat Samer has left for Ichang, the British gunboat Bramble has left for down river and that the Japanese cruiser 4kushi

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[FROM. THE ** OBUNG NGOI SAN Po,"].

CHINA AND CONSTITUTIONAL

GOVERNMENT.

PEKING, June 30th. Recently a number of gentry in different Provinces memorialized the Throne praying for the immediate

SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, June 30th.

IN BUMMARY JURISDICTION,

(ACTING PUISNE JUDGE).

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A RECEIVER'S CLAIM.

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ME. BOOSEVELT ON THE WORLD'S PEACE.

Speaking to the members of the Institute of Journalists at London on June 6th, Mr. Roosevelt, pointing to Benjamin Franklin' composing-stick which was described sa

rest Brick," said I will give you an MIV. S about the Big Btiak. The phrase came BEFORE HIS HONOUR ME, F. A. HAZELAND | up in a speech I once made because certaini gentlemen in Congress had been indulging in mfections of

e not wholly amicable character upon foreign nations, indading your syn. They had opposed my policy of building up the United States Navy, being all ardent believers ins policy of peace and inenit. (Laughter.) policy parsued by a nation ought to be a policy I took the opportunity of pointing out the which could be pursued by an individual, and amation just as I showed that we dospise a

Mr. J. H. Seth, receiver and manager of the A Dal firm, brought action against To Ki to recover $280.64, being amount due to the A Da for amount overdrawn by the defendant from the firm at the end of 1989, and one month's gas damages for leaving the A. Dai firm's

L-employment,

Mr. Bulmer Johnson (of Messrs. Dennys & Bowley) apposted for the plaintiffs, and Mr.

despise a man who submits to menle

The policy of China for the Chinese" is establishment of Constitutional Gov-Christophor Wilson (of Messrs. Hastings does no good to his own nation and no good to

being followed with a vengeance at the Nanking Exhibition, says a Hankow paper. No exhibits kre accepted, not even samples of bottled goods, unless they contain complete descriptive labola in Chinese.

ernment.

An Imperial decree was issued declining this request.

The gentry then held a private meeting, at which it was decided to Members of the Parsi Community will give memorialise the Throne for the third

& Hastings) appeared for the defendant.

Mr. Johnson stated that Mr. Wilson gare him notice of a special defence, but not in time, Mr. Wilson objected to Mr. Johnson, adding Mr. Seth to the notion without the leave of the Court.

What is true of a man ought to be true of nation and every man in public life. Every publicist writer

every

the Fresa, should be especially natomy careful to speak scartoonaly of foreign abuse them and to attack thom

other nations. It tends to make them irritable and puts his own nation in a slightly ridicum position. The proper course for nation t softly, sorry a big stick, and you will go far follow as outlined in the old proverb "Spen (Laughter.) That was what I said in my speech. The whole emphasis of my speech was morning the newspapers all came out with the on being polite. (Renewed laughter.) Noxi headline.The President says Carry a big pay the slightest attention to the fast that

i euphasis of speaking softly. (Laughter, What I wished to instil into the minds o people was that they should be as polite possible. The papers all followed up by com "brutal character." my

of the land for the Colonies offer ng dress to Sir H. N. Mody on Saturday stand last time. If they met with friend had not given, him proper notice. As stick."" I never was abb to get anyone to

assistance

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encouragement to the wastor"; the said thay give is only to men whose characters will bear strict investigo tion. But while the growing stream of

emigration from England is not without features which ovoke regrets, it is distinctly satisfactory to learn from the returns that what is England's loss is, to a growing extent, the grin of British Colonies. No doubt the Free Trado policy of the United Kingdom has some bearing on the question but if any proof were necessary that the real explanation of the development of the emigration movement les fo the active recruiting conducted by the Colonios, and actably by Canada, we have only to look at what is taking place in the United States, "During the last eleven months," saya & dispatch from Toronto to the London Timice, 88,488 immigrante have entered Canade from the United States. It is believed that, by the end of the fiscal year, the number will reach 100,000. In one day recently it was estimated that settlers passing through St. Paul to Canada represented a transfer of one million gold dollars in actual capital The movement is arresting the attention of public men in the United States. The S. WATSON & CO..] Denter Post, in a comment on the dispatch of the Toronto correspondent of the Times, LIMITED,

quoted above, Baya : This increasing migration of invaluable citizens to Canada is serious because it indicates our indifference to condition that calls for a remedy; and because we cannot replace the 100,000 men who are going to

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. ONLY communications relating to the news lumn should be addressed to THE EDITOR. addresses with communications addressed to the

the Parsi Club and later will entertain him

to dinner at the Hongkong Hotel, Beveral well-known English members of the Colony are also invited.

Bir Currimbhoy Ebrahim, who was created a Barnet on Friday last, is the senior partner of Messra. Currimbhoy Ebrahim & Co., of Bom- hay and Calcutta, and E. Pabaney, of Hongkong, Shanghai and Kobe, Sir Currimboy Ebrahim is the first Mahomedon Baronet in the Bombay Presidenoy.

A boarding-house foki appeared befors Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge of selling opium at 157, Connaught

Road. The offence was provod, and the defond ant was ordered to pay a fue of 250 or go to guol for air weaks

arrasted whils

Fifteon gamblers, who w indulging in a game of European cards at 44, Square Street, appeared before Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy yesterday sharged with play- ing a game of chance. The two keepers of the game were fined $50 each, aleven of the players wore fined $4, and two youthful players $2 each

another rebuff, they would then incite the people to refuse to pay any taxes.

REUTER'S BELTICE THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.”]:

THE POPE AND THE DE- CLARATION OATH,

LONDON, June 29th. The Vatican, especially the Pope, 18 gratified at the terms of the new declaration to be made by the British Sovereign at coronation.

AMERICAN FREIGHT RATES.

LONDON, June 29th..

with partieniars as far as he was able, but his Mr. Johnson said he had supplied fis frient

long as two or three weeks ago the question of going back over several years for particulars was discussed, and Mr. Wilsca must have known if he wanted to raise the defence of the

statute of limitations he should have given ments on notice.

His Lordship-Yes, twenty-four hins notion I can only take into consideration now the question of a postponement.

I pointed out that I really had some qualities the man who has confidence in himself is vors of humanity. As a matter of fact, I believe tha

much loss apt to wrong others, or be a source o danger to others, than is the man who Isaks Mr. Wilson submitted his Lordship was little confidence in himself, and who entitled to take into consideration the question fight or not. I want to say that the same thing rake up his mind as to whether he once t applies to a nation. I want to see a nation keep of illegality.

His Lordship thought the ease had better gconfidence that it does not have to be over itself in such a position of strength and self- touchy as to fancied wrongs or slights by other

into Friday's list, as he know nothing about the suit. He would reserve the question of costs.

Mr. Johnson-If my friend does not give me propor notice I am entitled to the opste of the

day.

His Lordship He says you have not given proper particulars.

Mr. Johnson-I submit what I have given my friend is ampla for the purposes of this case. There are thousands and thousands of items. Mr. Wilson-I want them for three years. Mr. Johnson-I have not got them.. His Lordship—I will put the case in Friday's

THE STORM.

A Washington message states that the Interstate Commerce Commission The fand necessary for the construction of has decided in several important cases list and reserve the question of costs. the Peking University was estimated at Tls that the freight rates are unreasonable 4,000,000 originally, but after a long discussion and excessive, and has prescribed re- reduced to Tls. 2,000,000. This will be syproductions of twenty to thirty per cent. printed from the Government Treasury in four

This is a severe blow to the instalments of Ts. 500,000 each. An engineer has been engaged at a salary of Ts. 400 per numerous railways, mensem for-supervising the erection of the building. The plans have been complated. The first instalment of the fand, was appro- priated some time ago.

Three Indian watchmen appeared before Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the Maglatency yesterday on

are now landing at Ellis Island." In the story told his Worship it appears that com-

THE OVERDUE LINER.

LONDON, June 29th, No tidings have yet been received

nations. is pleasing to know that the relations between the United States and England have

grown so much better, and

wan

to call your attention to the fact tha they havo steadily improved almost is proportion as the United States has grown stronger and less sensitivo to what wa said of it from the outside. I have always wishe (addressing Mr. Dickens, K.C., who was sittin near the speaker), Mr. Dickens, that your illust rious father's book, Murtin Chuzzlegit," coul be used as a tract among large sections of th American people. The moment that a peop geta enough self-confidence that it feels sufficien ly aura of itself to be able to pass by

good qu which once drove it into frenzy of rage people becomes not only a pleasanter companie of itself, but a pleasanter companion of rest of the world.

I am quite serious in saying that, so t The season of the dread typhoon has come from the growth of power in the Unite States being a menses to England, th runnd again, and the Colony has experienced a

chances of trouble for England from th foretaste of what it may expect for some months United States have dwindled steadily in invere to come. The signals indicating an approaching proportion to the growth of the strength of th United States. Ithink meat of those preser typhoon within 300 miles of the Colony went will sequit me of being an ignorant fanatic up early on Tuesday and warned the boating peace. Therefore you can take my

words population to make for shelter. Soon the their exact face value, and I say I believe the harbour was cleared of small craft, and so it in modern times there is a steady growth amou remained all day yesterday. Tho typhoon, how tizace is an ebb-but there has been defenera

nations--I will not say general, for there som over, a paved the Colony on this occasion, although growth in theso tendencios which make 15 the blow on Wednesday night and early on podoo,

I believe that, on the whole, these tendencie one. All yesterday forenoon the city was swept of the great free peoples, I think there

were followed by torrential downpours of rain.

Correspondents must forward their names and Canada yearly by 300,000 of the kind who a charge of assaulting a countryman. From regarding the Austrian Lloyd's Eastern Thursday morning was na exceptionally strong have been strengthened by the growth in powe Editor, not for publication but as evidence of the United States, as in Canada, there is Plaimant and defendants were engaged as her "Trieste," which is eight daysby itful and violent gusts of wind, and these in modern timea a tendency-I will not en

good faith,

ans side of paper only,

watchmen at the King Edward Hotel. Com-overdue from Bombay.

maro than a tendency hitherto unknown in th

All letters for publication should be written on abundance of room for settlers. As the Flamant was of a diferent caste to his co-workers, Eight warships and other vessels In the afternoon the weather showed signs of No anonymously signed communications that Denver paper remarks, there are millions and they sought to relieve him of his position Aave already appeared in other papers will be of acres of “ exhausted "land in the East and put one of their own vaste in his atesa, have left Bombay and Aden in search improvement, the squalls occurring, with less and to be more reluctant to infringe on 48

nserted.

Orders for extra copies of DAILY PREFE should be sent before 11 a. on day of publication. After that how the supply is limitea. Only supply for Cuak.

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Complainant declined to resign, however, and of the steamer. the result was a quarrel in which considerable damago was done. The case was adjourned.

THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

world for Powers, as they grow more strong

rights of others. (Cheers.)

frequency while the showers of rain were con siderably lighter. Last night, however, the

But we are still a considerable distance from signale worned residents that the typhoon was in one corner of the world will gradually have the Millenniumi And what you see happenin still within the 300 mile radius, and in some tendency to spread, and include every group quarters fears were entertained that it would nations. (Hear, hear.) The unquestioned the recurve, The blow did little, if nay, damage Provement in the relations among the Englis in the city, while the few shipping arrivals speaking peoples symbolises, I think, what wi

take place among all the civilised peoples in g which entered the harbour yesterday, although future. (Cheers.) they experienced rough weather, were fortunate enough to miss the typhoon by gutting into shelter.

and the West that can be refertilised and made productive, and there are millions of acres of arid land in the Middle West that can be made productive under irrigation,

Shanghai papers are to hand with full reports Hence, there is a call for " national, saction" of the interport polo matchos. In the matali on the part of the United States to stop between Hongkong and Shanghai the visitors this drift into Canada. "The movement," showed much better combination throughout the match than did the Shaughal men, and says another paper, "has been gradual.

the letter-no doubt through lack of practice is not the result of accident. It is not a

-missed a good many opportunities of avering, case where individual initiative has gone their shooting at goal-month being very inas

As the river steamer Hing Lee cast off from our eyes on the stars and your feet on 11. seeking fortune and adventure, until the curate. Dallas was far and away the best man

her wharf and we making for shelter, her prowe must have a high ideal, and seek to achie ground in other words, by remembering th trek of a few became the march of an army in the Shanghai toom, and next to him came

Stanley's buoy, and after about an hour's delaying nearer the day when the good relatio SOME remarkable figures relating to It is the result of a definite, foresighted Mauen, bat neither Hayes nor Landals showed taken with reference to the opium pallor fouled the chain of the Government launch it, we can do something of real soon to sale emigration from Great Britain have just scheme carried out by the Canadian Gov. | anything like good form. The Hongkong mandens in Hongkong and the Straits it was found necessary, to shackle the buoy that now obtain between our two peoples

nations

The Daily Press.

Au!y

HONGKONG, JULY 1ST, 1910.

been published by the Board of Trade

LONDON, June 30th. During the debate on the Colonial Estimates in the House of Commons Mr. Theodore C. Taylor, M.P. for the South-East Division of Lancs, thanked the Government for the action it had

all played will, and it is not necessary to men- Settlements, and he further asked it distinguishing feature of Hongkong's play with to register all existing opium smokers,

tion them individually. Co.nbination was the

The other three natives who were obarged

nection with the recent trick lazoony of West

of stealing 853 from a woman from Taumati,

but to refuse to register any more,

Colonel Scely said the Government remained unchanged in its views with regard to the opium traffic, and he

AN ELECTION DECLARED

VOID.

DELATED AND DAMAGED SHIPPING

and let it drift. The steamer then got clear, and later to boy was towed to the Harbour

Office wharf and moored there,

The growth is necessarily slow, and an effort to hurry it too much may result in serious set-back. We do not wish to try. I so much that we fail to accomplish anythin

(hear, hear)hat I do think that by

the world. (Lond cheers.) No one instranzer

gradually obtain among all civilised will bans powerful in kastening or retarding t

advance of that day as the Press. Becklessnes On Wednesday night the steamer San Cheung mendacity, and sensationalism in speaking left Canton at her usual hour of starting, but the affairs of our own nation are bad enough but they are infinitely worse in speaking of to no news has been received hereas to her where affairs of other peoples. I wish that ever boute. It is expected that she has put into american newspaper and every Burlish powe shelter somewhere. Those Kug Bai is at paper could have as a motto upon which to s teen hours overdue, and the steamer Heungshan, in its editorial and news sanctums, not whe ret arrived.

Kay, "Speak softly, oarry a big stick, and will gofar." (Loud and prolonged abeore;} When thes.s. Fatskan left her wharf at four o'clock yesterday afternoon to make for shelter, har propeller got entangled with the chain of one of Messra Butterfield and Swire's lighters, and divers were at work for some four hours before the vessel was cleared.

All the five steamers running to the West River are overdue, and nothing had been heard of them last night. It is hoped that they and the other delayed steamers are in shelter some where along the route.

NEWSPAPERS IN CHINA.

ernment with the object of not merely securing population, but of securing popu They are remarkable, in the first place, as

lation of the best kind

For Tsingtao. showing the steady growth of the emigrat lest the last six years the Canadian tion movement during the last ten years, Government has bad agents in all and, secondly, because they reveal an the Western States, where ferming is with being accessories after the foot in con inerassing preference on the part of the the chief industry. Those agents have point were sentenced by Mr. J. B. Wood at the emigrant for the British Overseas Dominions done their work skilfully. They have To give an idea of the development of the offered good land low taxes; honestagistracy. Two of the offenders were son- was convinced that the small comwhich lost Canton at 8 am. yesterday, has not I was alleged to have said, but what I really di tenced to six month imprisonment and four pensation necessary to end that traffic emigration movement from Great Britain it laws; a national system of railroad regula hours' stoaks, while the third was sentenged to will suffice to mention that in ten years the tion that took special care of the shipments three months gnol and four hours' stocks. in Hongkong would not be grudged, annual number of persons emigrating has of the producer; and the advice and The latter pleaded guilty to a further charge doubled, and in a decade nearly a million assistance of a highly-organised Department On this charge he was sentimeed to a further and a half have left the United Kingdom to of Agriculture. They have appealed six months' imprisonment and four hours' stocks. seek their fortunes in other countries. The particularly to the farmers of Minnesota The police consider this an important capture, Board of Trade return further shows that and the Dakotas. Those farmers have sent pa the four prisonera are mid to have been the in the decade 1890-9 the percentage of their sons in thousands with money enough principals of a gang of tricksters who have emigrants going to British Possessions was to make a start. Those young men have carried out their operations in the Colony only 28, while in the succoeding decade the succeeded, and in many cases their fathers with considerable success for some time. percentage rose to 58. For the year 1909 have followed them. It is a case of economie the figure was 59 per cent. A leading pressure and scientific organisation." Free London journal interprets, the development Trade moy, as its opponents contend, be of the emigration movement as "a flight sending England to the dogs, but the only from from trade” and ascribes the growing sound explanation of this immigration of Kent preference of the emigrants for British the "skill and sinew" from Great Britain Possessions to the wisdom of the Colonies into Canada is to be found in the increasing "Lancashire

Laicester in following the United States in the adop advertisement which is being given to the

Bassex.... tion of Protection, For our part we are opportunities awaiting the industrions| Hants.

Yorkshire inclined to ascribe both the increasing settler there. Protection in the United

Worcester volume of omigration and the sat of States does not appear to minke the settler Surrey the tide in the direction of the British contented with his lot, for the figures we Colonies - nuinly to the advertising have quoted show the American migration Northants propaganda which has of late year been to Canada to be almost equal to the Sotal Somuret so actively and persistently conducted in emigration movement from England to all Derby the United Kingdom, notably by the parts of the world.

COUNTY CRICKET TABLE

The position of the clubs on June 6th were:- AWN D. L. Penntage 75.00 66.66.

Gloucester

Middlesex

Essex

Warwick

66.66

57.14

50.00

LONDON, June 30th. The election which to

took place at East Kerry has been declared void on the ground of intimidation.

[FROM THE "N.-C. DAILY NEWS,""]

COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, June 23rd. 50.00 The following are the results of the 50,00 cricket matches played

on June 20, 21 and

42.95

77744 and 22

133,33

at

25,00

28,57 Northamptonshire beat Yorkshire at 25.00 Sheffeld by fire w

wickets; Burrey beat 16,66 Lancashire at the Oval by seven wickets

and the match between Warwickshire and

Derbyshire at Blackwell was drawn,

(This is Lancashire's first defeat this season]

Yesterday all steamer communication with Macao censed, owing to the threatening weather,

PROPOSED JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

A stap has been taken by the Chines is sure to provoke much criticism. The anthe ties have issed an order that the post offi shall in future be closed to all newspapers comin from abroad which contain matter prejudici" to the preservation of law and order. It do not appen that newspapers which past censor will be tabeced, but it is evident that carry ont this injunction effectively, all paper in China will have to bo carefully consortion to give effect to much a system is extremel diffionit Evidently the measure has adopted for the purpose of checking d tions utterancen by papers which are ried on by Chinese subjects in fore countries. But it will be impossible discriminate between the utterances of r journals and those of newspapers dife ade and outside China there are journals whic and published wholly by foreigners. Both Lieutenant N. Shirafe, of the Army Reserve, while belonging to the latter category te organisings South Pole expedition, and contain matter distinctly sectitions from hopes to embark in July of August on a 150-4on Chinese point of view. To these jourushoth sahooner with auxiliary steam power, carrying a faollities of the post office will chrion hay orew of fifteen. The route ho prenoses to take to be denied, and in order to give praction exe is by way of King Edward the Seventh Bay, to such restraint a large and competent Mar

centers will have to be reployed. It is and thence by aleigh in the direction of the Pole. Fifteen Manchurian sleigh ponies are being that a cognete system has setually been

into operation in an. Occidental country, taken, Llentiriant Shirate is the sole survivor of Lieutament Clunti's expedition to the Kuila fa may possibly deed in Chins But s ands in 1993. Count Okuma, the Marquis Pate great difficulties. As to the principle

the cueniation of saditions matter, ought Katams, and others so interested is the project, prevented, we do not think there can but the funds are not yet adequate."

second opinion. Japan Mast,

The New York Herald publishes the following telegram from Tokohama

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