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nation, her revenue stood at £1,000,000; a century later it had grown to £6,000,000, But a more phenomenal advance took place in the next century, and in 1800 the national income amounted to £88,000,000. Not till 1840-41 are there records showing both sides S. WATSON & CO. of the ledger, and in that year the revenue

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THE JOHNSON-JEFFRIES FIGHT.

[FROM THE "DASLENEWS-AMERICAN"]

BOTH FIGHTERS ARE IN FINE

CONDITION.

Beno, Nevada, June 27th. Apparently both Jeffries and Johnson arein splendid condition for their ring en counter. They continue to do light work, but each camp reports that it is ready for the battle

It has been arranged that the men enter thering at 1.30 o'clock on the

of

The report that Tex Rickard, principal promoter of the fight, would not act as refarce is unfounded, and he will be the third man in the ring

was stated to have been £47,438,399 and the expenditure £49,285,896 The, augmenta tion was gradual, but in little more than fifty years the figures had doubled them.

LONDON, July 1st. selves, in 1895-90 the revenue being €101,973,929 and the expenditure Imniense interest is being manifest-July 4th £97,476,857. Fifteen years later sawed in the Johnson-Jeffries fight, which WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. these totals, big as they were, donbied is to take place at Reno, Nevada, on again, or practically so. The estimated revenue, 199 odd millions, is not exactly twice the amount realised in 1895-96, but the estimated expenditure is more than doublo that for the year mentioned. To the thoughtful those figures are eloquent and inspiring. They tell the story of Empire.

WATSON'S

VERY OLD LIQUEUR

SCOTCH

WHISKY

the 4th inst.

Special trains are running from everywhere in the States to Reno,

FRUITFUL INCOME TAX,

LONDON, July 1st. Perhaps the most satisfactory feature of The revenue for the past quarter the Budget is that which provides for shows an increase of 25 millions com naval expenditure of £40,500,000. It shows

DISSATISFIED INDIAN POLICE. Letters sent to them hero from friends in the New World have had the effect of raising spirit of discontent among the members of the Indian Police Force in Hongkong. The stories told in these letters appear to have made the Indians think that America is a land of big pay Hongkong and the paltry pittance which they

CANTON.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

July 1st.

also states that arms am being smuggled into the Prefecture through Maano and other places. On receipt of the despatch the Vloeroy sent mesages to all the officials in the Prefecture arging them to greater attention to thoir duties and to do all in their power to discover the smugglers.

KOWLOON CANTON BAILWAY.

DAGGER SOCIETE. A report is going the rounds that a telegram has been received from a government informer in Hongkong that in that Colony are thousands of the Dagger Society man who have planned to come up to the City some time during the 6th moon, burn down the police stations und plander the city. While there is likely to be railway is imminent Notifications appearing little truth in this report there is no doubt that in the current issue of the Government Gazette these secret societies are causing the govern point to

over the signature Lindsey, Chiat Resident

The opening of the British section of the

this. One

ment a considerable amount of trouble. Some of Mr. E S. for wooks ago the viceroy appointed a deputy Engineer, invitas tenders for the right to saquire into the methods of the above man to sell food, fruit, and other eatables on the tioned speisty, and a scheme ta on foot to passenger platforms, fruit, stalls in the third establish, reformatories or workhouses where class passenger waiting sheds and ethor portions the unemployed may obtain work and even learn of the Kowloon Canton Railway promises, à traño to prevent them from drifting into approved by the manager. crime. It is very often poverty that causes men to drift into these societies, and the govern ment are beginning to realise that they have a responsibility in the ter The Dagger League men, howevery desarra little pity, for they add murder to their creed as well as robbery. Only a day or two ago a man walking along the Hund accidentally collided with one of these

The successful tenderer will be required to deposit $20 per station as security for good behaviour and compliance with the orders of the railway management.

1, The articles offered to be vended on plat- forms will be limited to food, fruit, rated waters, teas, coffee, milk and other Chinese ontables and must be of the best quidity obtain daily inspection of the station-naastor or at the

a better appreciation of the needs of Empire/pared with 1909. Of this 21 millions and speedy promotion, hence their desire to leave miscreants, who immediately drow his knife and able. All articles of food will be subject to the

than prevailed two or three years ago, when have been derived from the Income economies were attempted which subse Tax, quent events proved to be little short of

say that are paid. And in order to obtain their

discharge from the Forca, and to set out for this El Dorado, the Indians are alleged to have attempted to get themselves summarily dismissed

A BLEND OF THE FINEST PURE criminal folly. The progressive enlargement EAST-DORSET BYE-ELECTION by various acts of insubordination.

MALT WHISKIES DISTILLED

IN SCOTLAND

OF

GENUINE AGE

AND

FINE MELLOW FLAVOUR.

ROBT. PORTER & Co.'s

BULL DOG

BRAND

LONDON, July 1st. The bye-election at East Dorset has resulted as follows-

Hon. Frederick Guest (L) 6967 Col. J. S. Nicholson (U) 6875

of the British Navy has become a policy which admits of no deviation, and that it is the policy of the present Government is de monstrated by the considerable increase in the naval estimates presented. These show an advance of more than five million pounds on last year's figures, and ought to afford

Liberal majority 592 gratification to those who emphasise the importance of Britain's first line of defence.

[Capt the Hon. Frederick Guest, who Surprise will not be felt that the won the seat at the General Election, was un- Government is disinclined to: remore seated on petition. In the present by-election when the Liberal candidate received 6957 votes was only about half the 21,600,000 and the Unionist 6531.3. anticipated, and even though it operates both very harably on distilleries in Scotland and Ireland. The unexpected im-

beyond the pale of sympathy,

beyond the palatally. Such peracne as these are

CLAN FIGHT,

On Honam Island there are two villages called Kak Shan and Chong Chow. A few days ago a A case came before Mr. E. R. Hallifax at the story-teller came to the former village and Magistrasy on Saturday in which Indian ng his antions were seven man from the latter village. As the crowd pressed round the Constable No. 496 was charged with sleeping story-teller they pushed out of the way a stall

No. * on duty.

holder on the opposito alde of the street. The Mr. P. P. J. Wedohouse, Assistant Saporin-man naturally resented this, and in a fight which tendent of Police, prosecuted, and Mr. J. H followed the Chong Chow man wounded the Gardiner defended.

stall-keeper. Some men of the Kak Shan village then made their way to Chong Chow with the avowed purpose of burning it down. This latter place is noted for its beautiful flower gardens karosene, which they throw over the flowers and

Evidence of the man being found asleep in a verandah by an Indian Police Borgeant having been given, defendent admitted that he was one of the man who wished to resign. Asked

why he wished to go, he said it was in conse- which surround the place. The invaders got

time by the medical authorities, and articles unfit for consumption will be rejected and taken charge of by the station-master.

2. All eatables must be sold at the prevailing market rates, and overy vendor must carry with him an authorised list of prices to be periodically verified by the station-master, who will from time to time sign and date the list.

3. Each vendor must have fixed in a pro- minent place on the basket, or other vessel in which he carries the food and fruit, a notios as fellows in Chinese

"Bequire for prics-list-signed by the station- master,

the spirit tax, oven though the yield the candidates were the same as in January, queros of so letter which he had received with | arn't them. The Chong Chow people came out wars as they pass up and down the platforms,

GUINNESS' STOUT|provement in the drinking babits of the

IN PINTS & SPiirs."

LIMITED,

people affords a good excusofor its retention, and not even the hardships inflicted upon those engaged in the trade is likely to soften the adamantine heart of the Chan A. S. WATSON & CO.. cellor of the Exchequer need field of over half a million from tet is porhaps justified. It suggests itself as a corollary to the spirit duty. That two and a half million extra should be derived from death duties seems a sanguine anticipation when it is remembered that last year's receipta from this source were abnormally swollen by a million from the estate of the

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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NEW MILITARY APPOINT- MENTS.

General SONDON, July 1st.

U. G. Nicholson, General Smith-Derrien, General Sir Arthur Paget, and Major-General Ewart have been appointed to the new rank of aide-de-camp general to the King.

THE MISSING LINER.

LONDON, July 18t. The Triesto" was on Thursday

late MR. CHARLES MORRISON. Little objec-sighted close to Bombay. She had tion will be raised to the application of the lost her propellor and was proceeding estimated surplus of £861,000, part of under sail, which is to be devoted to technical education and part to removing the pauper disqualification from the old-age pension scheme, and though the Budget will occasion no little criticism it must be regarded as no

Lords in due course,

THE JAPANESE TARIFF.

LONDON, July 1st. The new Japanese tariff continues worse than its predecessor, and should there-to form the subject of serious criticism. fors receive the sanction of the House of The Times publishes a letter from Mr. T. Ruddiman Johnston, English and American Manufacturers Agent at Tokyo, emphasising that the tarit favours flimsy machinery at the Mr. W. C. Jacks has been appointed expense of the more solid and more lasting British machinery, notably printing machines.

The Gazette publishes now regulations under the Liquor and the Pharmacy Ordinances.

Sarveyor of unlicensed motor hosts,

At the meeting of the Banitary Board to-.

morrows minute by the Head of the Sanitary Department relative to the special care of graves in the Colonial Cemetery will be read. -

On Saturday Mr. F. 8. Rayner was presented with a silver tea service by the European staff of the South China Morning Post in view of his forthcoming marriage to Miss Lanfesty,

The Sanitary Board will tomorrow consider an application for a modification of the require ments of Section 188 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, in respect of the proposed extension of the Tung Wah Hospital and a New Refuge Home.

AMERICAN RAILWAYS AND FREIGHT RATES.

LONDON, July 2nd.

A semi-official statement is pub- lished for the purpose of tranquillising the minds of American and European investors. It declares that the Inter- State Commerce Commission will do nothing to jeopardize the interests of investors or interfere with the legiti mate business of the railways.

The British Budget has at length been presented to Parliament, and the condition ofthe national frances is once more disclosed to a critical world. Unlike its immediate predecessor, it is not experimental. It st- tempte no further raids on "hen roosta," but neither does it offer any amelioration of burdens recently imposed, so that its recep tion is likely to be marked by a negative joy that no additional taxes are to be imposed and that un new duties are to be levied. This was perhaps only to be expected. Until the constitutional question is settled, the

The feature of the Rubber Share Market political caucus dominated by the proletariat according to the circular issued by Messrs. cannot afford to raise fresh issues and add Ellis & Ellis, ¡has been one of steadines

The statement has stimulated to present complications by attempting to throughout the week. With no change in the raid other en roosts, and the absence price of the raw material, share quotations have European buying in American railways, of new taxes and duties from the present kept ca an even keel for the whole period, with Budget need not be ascribed to any feelings of leniency, but rather to considerations of expediency..

regard to his wife.

Mr. Wodehouse-Were you Good $3 for insubordination on Wə 14th P

Mr. Gardiner-Itbject

Mr. Wodehouse said he could show why pris. ener wished to get himself reported. (To defendant) Are you satisfied with your pay and prospects in this force Noti

in force and there was a regular battle in which miany persons were wounded. It is a peculiar custom in Kwong Tang that when a fight of this nature takes places all the villagers are expected to participate, otherwise they lose their privileges. It has been known for persons to receive 2 a day for fighting, and ofton 9100 has You said jest now that you wished to resign been given as compensation to the family of any July Zad.. bossuse of private affairs, didn't you? Yes. one who is killed in the fight.

Was it not on account of your being die- antiated with your pay that you wished to result send me no me to look atter my brother said there was no one to look after my

family.

In the paper you sent in didn't you say you wished to resign bause your pay was insuf- ficiant -No. I didn't mention anything about

that.

Did you sign that paper? Yes. I first said something about the pay, but I got the latter afterwards,

His Worship-You received the letter after your application for discharge had gone in ?

Yea,

Mr. Wodations Well, you originally wanted to resign because of your pay-Yes."

Mr. Gardiner said the offence was not a earlows one, and naked that defendant be lightly

dealt with.

NEW SOULETY.

and must show the current authorised price-list. to say one desiring to see it..

4. Vondoms must not noisily call out their

5. Vondors will not be allowed at stationa are standing at them while troop trains without special sanction of the manager.

6. No bazaars or hue will be allowed on the

railway premises.

7. Vendors must be proporly clothed and wear special numbered badge. Vendors not weering the proper number badges of their stations will not be allowed on platforms, Badges will be issued to renders by the railway, to be returned. to the latter on the expiration of the licensed

8 The licence will commence from the opening

During the past few weeks no fewer than period.

240 families have entered the elty and suburba from villages in the adjacent districts. The of the railway until the 30th of June, 1911.

TERMS

BUNGALOWS FOR BALE, reason is said to be the fear that the robbers and secret society men are creating trouble araong

The second notification intimates that the peaceable folk. Men, thinking that their families Government are prepared to dispose of certain are in danger, have therefore sent them within buildings erected for the accommodation of the city, where they can be protected by the officera engaged on the constraction of the police. In one place, Bai Chiu, although Kowloon-Canton Railway, but no longer requir notorions for its robbers, there have not ap toed for that purpose. The buildings in question the present been any secret societies at work are situated either near the South or North

characters made a feast in an eating-house and On receipt of an application for any of the~ A few days ago, however, several hundred bad face of Beacon Hill Tunnel or at Tai Fe, than determined to form a society among them-lete on the terms hereinafter set forth of such selves. It is stated that this new association is other terms as may be arranged, accompanied being largely joined by the inhabitants of this by a deposit of $100 in respoot of each lot, anch place, foolding upon it as an honour to be a lot er lots will be put up to public auction: member.". It is no wonder, therefore, that peace

(L) The buildings will, in every case, be solil Mr. Wodehouse said there had recently been loving men send away their familles.

outright. The purchaser to pay into the Colon- an amount of discontent among certain of the

BIG FIRE.

ial Treasury within 3 days of the date of sale Indian fores, some of the members wishing to At 12.30 am. yesterday a big fire broke out the fall amount for which the lot may have laro. But dismissul was no punishment for them; in San Tan Lun in the Western Suburbs. It boon sold that was the one thing they wanted. In the originated in a medicine shop, and the canse is opinion of the prosecution some of these men were said to have been the carelessness of some met now getting themselvce on the report simply to who were drying herbs over a Are. The blazo get dismissed. It would be seen by a reference quickly spread and was not a little helped by the to this man's character record that there had high wind that was blowing at the time. Though been four reports against him since June 14th, all the brigades near were soon at work, they the date on which the trouble began.

were nable to subdue the flames until three His Worship-What is his pay F

shops had been destroyed. Darange to the extent of several thousand dollars was done, but happily no lives were lost. The city has been very free from fires latch

...··OPIUM MONOPOLY.

Mr. Wodehouse-A second class constable gets, roughly, $13 per month, then there is remittance allowance and language allowance, which would make it about $20 a month in all. Mr. Wodehonas added that the defendant was

-A branch office for the collection of the opium brought before the Court simply because distar has been started at Fatshar missal was no punishment. He asked for B heavy penalty,

·OPIUM: BETAILEES;

The Anti-Oplum Bureau has issued a notice to A fine of $50, in default six weeks' imprison-request the prepared opium dealers to apply for ment, was imposed,

DRYDOCK DEWEY" FLOATED.

(i) The minimum ares of land to be loased in the case of any of the lots will be 3,000 square feet, but, if desired and if practicable, the aren may be inoressed to a maximuin of 25,000 square feet. The boundaries in overy case to bedetermined by the Director of Public Works.

(ii) Crown Rent for area of 3,000 square feet, $15 per annum, and for every addi tional 1,000 square feet $4 per annum. The rant to be calcalated to the nearest whole dollar in each case.

(v.) Term of lease, 5 years.

NIGHTINGALE A NUISANCE.

(v.). A right-of-way to each hat from the nearest public road along a mate to be approved by the Director of Public Works will be guzulil. (vi) Purchasers must make their own arrange. ments with regar obtaining a supply of their licences. These licences are divided into water, Any supply that may at present be laid three classes according to the amount of pre-on will not be available. pared drag allowed to be stored. The cost of (91) Purchasers must make their own ar the licence is 36, $4, $2, and they are to be rangements for lighting. Electric light, for, The drylock Dewey, according to reports snowed every is inonths Strict rules are which some of the bungalows any Lited up, will from Olongapo, was floated at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning by the use of her own air being framed to prohibit illicit trading in this not be available.. compressors and pamps. It is believed, says the drug, and the Provincial Goverment is taking Cablonowe, that she is not so badly dam- moasures to ascertain with as great a degree of agod but that she can be fitted for me at accuracy possible the amount of opium con-

mall огрелен. The board appointed to mako

into the cinking an investigation

of

the Dewey samed. Wednesday

to

Lecoctain worked the entire day on the present condition of the huge dock and also

Some of the staff of the Kwong Chow OBITUARIES.

to and out if possible the cause of her slaking Chamber of Commerce have been accused of It is believed the Butire bulk will be serviceskle with a little repair and that a part of the marosiving bribus from the promoters of the Opium LONDON, July 2nd. chinery can be repaired so that it will be as good Monoply for the purpose of furthering their as ever. The electrical dynismos and appliances interests. A great deal of indignation has been Major Martin

Hume, editor of are practically raised and new apparatus will excited over this, and a fologram reporting the

have to be installed. A, Papers, Lecturer in

To the untiring efforts of Naval Constructor cocurrense has been sent to the Minister of ruling, and the ease has now come before the to ne less than £26,248,000, which is a subween Hongkong and the Sonth, have not, Spanish State

however, stimulated prices upwards.

Spanish History and Literature and Adams, who has worked day and night during Industry and Commerce at Peking. A mesting the past two weeks to bring the huge dock to is to be held to-day to consider what sotion shall examiner m Spanish at London and the surface, is due great credit. He was assist be taken in the matter, and all the leading ed by Naval Constructor Hammer and a force Birmingham Universities, is dead.

[Major Martin Hume was educated at Madrid, where branches of his family have reaided for over a century. He was a prolife writer in English and Eponisli

a fair lot of business passing on sterling shares. There have also been inquiries for Singapore dollar stocks, the demand going on the better

lass investment concerns. These inquiries,

The deficit to be met is large. It amounts while leading to a fair amount of business be-

stantial advance on the 215,762,000 of the provious financial year, but the increase is perhaps more apparent than real, as the arrears of taxes not paid as the result of the delay in passing last year's Budget are included in that sum The total expenditure for 1910-11 aet down at £198,930,000 and the revenue is estimated to reach a slightly higher figure, £199,791 000, leaving au anticipated surplus of £861,000. Th, figures aro impressive. More than anything

COAST NEWS.

KIA-TING-OHAU, June 27th. On the 21st of June Rov. J. Harry Giffin loft with his family for Thai-yong, the favourite mer resort for the foreign residents of Swatow and all this part of the country.

after an absence of nearly two years. His The Rev. Geu. B. Whitman sarived yesterday family remain in Bartos, Wash., U.RA

The weather is extremely hot and dry. Un-

The death is also announced of Mr. Frederick Tarnivall, Member of the British Academy,

Deceased was the founder and director of Early English Test, Chaucer, Ballad, and new

operative and Christian Socialist movements,]

BRIBERY.

of men, who also worked incessantly, and by members of the Seventy-two duilds have been whose aanstance the raising of the Dewey was invited to attend They have also been asked to bring the "chops" of their hongs with them, finally accomplished

so that their resolutions, properly sealed, may be sent to the Capital. A

SMOGOLING ARMS.

On certain occasions it would seem that the Queen Mother is not to be referred to as such, In reply to a question as to the second loyal

The Minister of Industry and Commerce at toast on convivial ocasions, the King's Prix ata Secretary lias notified a correspondent that Peking has sent a lespete to the Viceroy notify- this tonst should run "The Queen Queen ing him of the fact that he has received from cer- Alexandra, the Duke of Cornwall, and the tain merchants in Hongkong a memorial stating other members of the Royal Family And, that rehbery with violence is carried on to such indeed, most of the King's linges will fod the

The Supreme Court of Vienna has to devide whether or not the soug of a nightingale can be a nuisance in the legal sense of the word, An inhabitant of Gratz hangs a nightingale in

a cage outside his windows in the evenings.

A neighbour declared the bird's song, disturbed

his slumbers, and applied to the local authori ties for redress They decided that the night ingale must be kept indoors when it plugs at night,

but its owner has appealed sgainat this judges

highest court in the country. The

have reserved judgment sffer hearing the evi- donce, and it is possible that the nightingalu opportunity of showing the quality of its song ay be brought to Vins und be given aan in court.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

The C. & M. str. Bubi loft Manila on the 1st inst., and is due here to-day at daylight.

The NGI. str. Capri loft Singapore for tile port on the Jet inst., and may be expected here on or about the 7th inst

apors for this port on the 1st instant at 5.50 The P. & C. B. N. Co. str. Dellt left Bing

else they show the progress of the country, less rain comes very soon the crope will not shakespeare Societies, and a worker in the Co- more familiar title the one they will like best an extent in the Chiu Chow Prefecture as to p.m.with the outward English Mails, and is In 1600, when England was only a small amount to much.

to use at all times.

seriously interfere with trade, The memorial duo here on the 6th instant at about 7 a.m.