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TELFGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

(THROUGH ZESTER'S AGENOT.)

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

LONDON July 8th.

The trado returns for June show imports to the value of £51,105,889, which is a decrease of 43,623,928 compared with last year, and exports totalling £36,113,150, an increase of £1,313,496, of which cotton contributed £649,717.

It is pointed out that Juno included the Coronation festivitios in addition to the Whiteun holidays.

THE PARLIAMENT BILL

Loson, July 8th. The papers are discussing with interest au amendment proposed last evening by Lord Nowtou providing that may further restriction of the powers of the House of Lords should unt become law without General Election first taking place.

Lord Morley expressed qualified coneur- rence with the amendment, which has been momentarily withdrawn but will be again introduced when the Report Stage ig

reached.

Lord Peal subsequently made an imprès- sive speecle in which he expressed approval -

|THROUGH REGTEL'S AQENOT.]

NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR'S RETIREMENT.

LONDON, July 8th.

At the dianer given by the International Congress of Naval Architects last night the Right Hon. R. McKenun announced the impending retirement of Sir Philip Watte who has been director of naval construction for the Admiralty since 1901. -

FAMOUS WRITER DEAD.

LONDON, July 8th.

• Mr. Edward Dicoy, C.R., the well-known author and journalist, is dead.

From 1870 till 1899 the dio-ased was editor

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 10TH, 1011.

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

Perhaps the chief reflection of the week has bcen: "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good" The temperature has been agrovby low, and it was a welcome change in the weather which allowed us to feel cool, at times even to shiver. The proximity of the typhoon did little damage in Hongkong, though it brought butir nass on the water to a standstill for two or three days.

At this season we usually and, when bathing that the water is comparatively warm, that it

really causes no great shook to the system when ue ontore it, but on Sunday for some uner-

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CANTON.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Canton, 7th July.

DETECTIVES ON STEAMERS.

For certain verson best known to themselves the Provincial_Officials desired to place a nu ber of detectives on both the French Hong kong-Canton stormers. Before this could be done the consent of the French Consul lind to be obtained, and after some correspondence that

on each boat. The oficials profess themselves gottoman agreed to allow one detective to be satisded, and the two detectives have been

GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE IN

SEVENTY YEARS

A display of all the latest arithmometers or calentating machines was hold at the offices of the Royal Statistical Society Isst month.

Lord George Hamilton afterwarde presided at a general meeting of the Society in the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts. Sir J. Athelstano Baines read a paper entitled "Under the Crown," which was a statistical examination of the olmages in theres and population of the British He estimated that the Empire since 1841.

Empies then in our possession was 68 por growth in population of that part of the cout. The balance of the increase, 37.8 per cent, was to bo eredited to territory The bres had added slace that date, not expanded in proportion to the popula

plained reason the ses struck very cold. The placed on duty, I have not heard it raid that tion. Starting with 24 persons to the square

experience, was not limited to one bay, as suost of those who went in swimming that day told the same tato, However, it made the swim afterwards more acceptable, more refreshing and the chitoring bite

Apart from the typhoon slarms and experiences

this is being done on any other boate. :

A BOLD BRIGAND,

The most notorious of the brigands who-in fest the Taug Kroon District is a desperado named Tam Tai Ca. This man is now at the hond of a hundred other rascals and they are all armed with Mauser rifles and revolvers. They of the London Observer. He was a political there has been little to aronze any interest in have just robbed a company of marehaate travel. writer of much force.]

the city. Tras, the Saitery Board made a braveing to the Ying Tak District, and the authori. show with a theological proposition, but with ties appear to be afraid to cope with such a for- that excoption the week must be described -as

midable gang. The Tung Kwoon magistrate has motilled the Cauton authorities of the uneventful.

depredations of this company of morandors, and troops aro to be sent against them.

FLOODS IN AUSTRIA.

LONDON, July 9th. A message from Czernowitz, states that floods have occurred throughout Bukovica, The river "Pruth has risen fifteen feet, Numerous bridges have been destroyed; railways pre interrupted and the roads are impassable.

A BYE-ELECTION.

LONDON, July 9th..

How easy it is to work up a scare was de munstrated the other day in the Colony by two. Goreraucht serrante. They were on duty-needless to say where when their oyce caught sight of a queue hanging outside a large

sións of murder. atrocities filled

minds, and for sevorat minutes they seamed to be puder the influence of a sort of paralysis. Quo suggested to the other that he should make an examination of the basket, but the latter doclared that such things upset him.

$100 REWARD.

Tho police are somewhat exercised about the doings of a company of queueless mon who have distributed circalars all over the city. Each

basket lying ant far from them. Vi-paper contains three characters and no one their appears to know exactly what they mean. The polica seem to think it is somu revolutionary siga and that it is an occult symbol of revolt, No one took any notion of the men while the pepers wors being distributed and now no one knows what has become of them. The police

reward of $100 for information leading to their arrest.

reduced

mile, the ratio increased steadily to 36 in 1691, when a check to the growth of the popriation in India and the incorporation of large areas

reas of the proportion to 35, which had now recovered sparsely-populat d farritory in Afrion, to 37. While the population had doubled, the half. In 1941 82 per cent. of the area lay within pressure on the land had increased by but one.. the temperate kuus, while 36 per cent of the

tho population dwelt in

ropies, By 1911 the enlargement of the area of the Empire Ind reduced the proportion in the temperate zono to 62 per cont.. but the population of the temperate countries romained analy at 14 por cont. The population to day of 418.7 millions comprised 452 in the Motherland, 13.5 in other temperate onantries, uearly, sight millions, chiefly coloured, in South Africa, and 352 coloured millions in the Tropies, of whom 37.2 were outside Tudis, principally in Africa on

claims pegget out for posterity."

Lard George Hamilton, moving & Toto of thanks, said it was most satisfactory to feel that while the population ander the Flag had so largely increased there bad also been a great incronse in

and comfort, and that in these parts largo'y inhabit d..by coloured reces

Prosperity we had been successful in introducing forms of government and legislation compatible with the ideas the old days when

of humanity and oiellisation. No doubt in

bad we

the greatest Navy in the world and the greatest number of

of Lord Cromer'e and Viscount St. Allwyn's resulted in Karon De Forest (L.) polling Whether they took anything to fortify them bolag vory anxions to capture then have offered maritime ships; it was ousier for us tuna for

A bye-election at North West Ham

6,807 votes against 5,776 recorded for Mr.wlves history recordeth go, but they decided to muke the investigation conjointly. They did

nothing. The quese warnestly fastened to They lifted the top of the basket and discovered

the edge of the basket. Whether the humorist was Chinese or Europeau is not known, bat his joke came off all right.

proposal. that a small committee, should. Le Wild (C.). appointed to assist the Speaker in deter-storman defeated Mr. Wild by a majority of [AB the last goneral olection Mr. C. F. G. mining what Bills are Money Bille

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It is suggested that acquiescence by the overnment in these proposals would as- sunge the sting caused by the likely rejection of the other amendments made to the Bill Ly the Lords.

LATER

OBITUARY.

London, July 9th. The death has accurred at Mayvilles, Now York, of Ira Davenport, the survivor of the

Davenport Brothers, spiritualista,

·HENLEY REGATTA.

dir J. A. Simon, Solicitor-General,speaking | at West Ham, emphasised the point that' the Government could not accept the Lords. amendments to the Parliament Bill. Why, Delightful weather was experienced he asked, should we comment to any Bill brughout the Henley Regatta.

■ Bill of which the electorate fas approved ? If the Lords persisted they would be bringing the Crown into the political arena.

LONDON, July 9th. Mr. Alotauder Uru, K.C, Lord Advocate for Scotland, speaking at Beckenham-sail there lid bech talk of cuccession and

conronjve will regard to the Parliament Bill, but the Government would consent to no material modiäcation which would impair in the slightest degree the strength and efficacy of the mcusure.

LONDON, July 9th.

tivals resulted as follows-

·ORAND CHALLENGE CUT.

The

In the finals for the Grand Challenge Cup Magdalen College, Oxford beat Jesus College, Cambridge, by 2; lengths, the time being 7 min. 2 secs.

драг

THE DIAMOND SCULIN

The Diamond Senils were won by Rin- of the Konsi gton Club, who.beat Powell of the Vikings Chub by a length anda bulf, the time being 8 min. Is secs.

LADIES' PLATH.

In the race for the Ladies' Plate Etcur beat First Trinity, Cambridge, by two lesgths, the time beingmin. 56 secs., which is a record.

VISITORS' CUP.

This event was won by Third Trinity Cambridge, who beat Trinity, Oxford, by three lengths Time-7 min. 37 a006.

THAMES CUr,

Mr. Carvin, Editor of the Obsemar, attacks the Unionist papers and politicians flat hase been suggesting a, surrender on the Parl- Tent Bill, and quotes the speech of Mr. Auston Chamberlain at the Wonten's Tariff Association on the 4th instant, wherein be said he refused to believe that the Lords would consent to political suicide for the sake of retaining empty social distinctions.

Pombróka, Cambridge, beat Kingston by Mr. Garvin opines that the mass two and a half lengths. Time-7 min. 40 Unionists are with Mr. Auston Chamberlain.es. Surrender, he says, will split the party from top to bottom.

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PRESIDENT FALLIERES RETURNS.

LONDON, July 8th, President Fallieres hus returned to France from his visit to Holland.

COLONIAL PREMIERS HONOURED

LONDON, July 8th. The Hon. Andrew Fisher, Premier of the

Commonweath, and the Hon. Sir E. Morris, Premier of Newfoundland, were yesterday presented with the Freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Both gentlemen delivered speeches oulogising the teanity of the Imperial Conference,

Mr. Fisher said the 1911 Conference had dono more than any previous Conference to further the vital interests of the Empire.

Sir Edward Morris stated that the Colonies were now admitted into full part- nership and would assume full responsibility as regards contributions towards the State.

THE RECIPROCITY BILL

LONDON, July 9th.

In is reported from Washington that the Senate, by 32 votes to 14, has rejected an amendment to the Reciprocity Bill freelisting!

First Trinity defeated Twickenhaw by a lougth and a quarter, the time being 7 min. 37 sees.

WYFOLD CUP.

THE SILVER GOBLETS. The Silver Goblets" of the Thames were wan. by Christchurch by a length and a half. the time being 8 min. 15 sec.

STEWARDS' CUF.

The Stewards' Cup was won by Trinity Hall by a length and a quarter, the time being 7 min. 35 vers.

Another little incident has been related to me the wook. I believe it occurred over is Kor loou. A couple of chickers belonging to some of the European soldiers in garrison escaped over the barracks wall, and when the owner discovered this ho made a gallant attempt to capture them, but they were too elusive and defied all his efforts. Realising that unaided ho was anequal to the task, he went to his quarters and brought out a butterfly not. With this serviceable instrument be made such good pran tice the he netted both, though his antics provided no little amusement for the crowd of onlookers which had assembled to see the fun.

A split Sunday is not the name ofa new drink though it sounds like oue. It is the descrip tion one English journal gives to a movement. for partly secularising Sunday. The suggestion is that the good folks of Britain ehould go to church in the morning and devote the afternoon to exercise or recreation. Hongkong would not regard this as a very daring innovation, but it seems to me to be too much for tho con. arrative people at Home. Still, there can be no doubt that sanor ideas on the subject of Sabbath observanes are making progress.

On reading His Excellency's speech at tho Legislative Council on Thursday one might to be prosperous again. Some time ago be almost imagine that Hongkong was beginuing.

dolivered himself in a very optimistic niterance which was described in a burst of enthusiasm as "silencing the croakers." But it didn't They croaked, and they still croak. It inay be that it is only a way they have got, but still one has to confess that there is a good desi ef pessimism ta ha found among our loading citizens today. Optimism is a virtus reg when you are losing.

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MACAO BOUNDARY,

other people to get sowas to the coasts of other countries, and thou we got a wrout and almost unique commerce as compared with other na- tions. The pormons doveloment of railroads was now giving Continentalcoastries an adrant. Poking and Lisbon were practically age, oneo

connected new It was not possibls to contem plate that in the future the population of this country would grow in the ame ratio as hitherto, but in territories like Canada and South Atrica faeroeses of trade and population. Tuo mere the advantages of railway ex ens on world lead

mocratie the Empire became the powering the Three was as au instromat of

The Society for the Protection of Boundary Rights is again to the foro, and again in connection with Macao. Tho Hoang Shat people are reported to be "highly excited" (one is led to imagine that perpetual excitemont" must exist in that district) over the dredging operating now in progress in Macao harbour, and the Society intense to ask the Provincial Authorities to petition the Portuguese to cease the work they

have undertaken,

FOREIGN NAMES.

unification and consolidation.

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nora

FREAK FRUITS.

HORTICULTURAL CURIOSITIES IN CHINA.

Apples the size of green peas were among the horticultural curiosis observed by ons of America's agricul gral explorers during a recent trip through Northern China and Manchuria, He describes the productiveness of the treen as comthing marvellous," The bright rod fruita

Someone in Peking has discovered that when the names of foreign persons and places are rendered into Chinese, ludicrous and annoying mistakes are often the result. An order has theroforo just been issued that in future all foreign names are to be written first in Romanaro eaten fresh or dried or made into preserves. characters and then in the Chinese oquivalent.

MONEY MARKET.

Complaints come from Fietsban that the money market of that town is in sow what critical state. It appears that the bulk of the traders are drawing money from the banks, and that those institutions bare the greatest trouble in induo- ing people to renew their deposits evou at a high rate of interexit. For some time past it has been stated that there is a great slackness in trade and manufactures in the town and this probably accounts for the state of the money

marice!

·LOCAL SPORT.

LAWN BOWLS,

KOWLOON » POLICE.

This friendly match between threo rinks from each club was played at Kowloon on Saturday, and resulted in a win for the home teana be the margin of six points. Scores:

KOWLOON.

POLICE. W. Cooper E. For

W. Cameron

J. Grant W.Johnson Hall. C. Alexander (skip) 18 J. Grant skip).

Hunter

D

Meatonald 3. Gray

T. Glendenning J. Macdonald D. Harrey (skip)` G. L. Lunesṛ G. A. Walker T. Neste

A Ramay (skip)

Tu these sultry days, when most people, are. capable of raising an unquenchable th rst, the man who make us to have a drink is balled as a friend indeed. And suoli mền ara anmerous and percussive, consequently the cup of kindness is ropeated until it becomes a cup of other than kindness. I heard of a thirsty son t'other day who quenched his thirst until his legs gave way. nuder him. Friends sar hita home, and he awakened port day with the customary inertia and fat bend. When he or asted the bar on the some afternoon he met a friend whom he failed to recognise as being one of the party on the precious day. I'm awfully sora," said the At the Lawn Tennis Championship thirsty one."All my bones arauching,” “Why, contests at Wimbledon, Mrs. Lambert what's the trouble" asked the friend. I play. Chambers, the holder, beat Miss Boothby in the ladies' singles by 6/0, 6/0,-

LAWN

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

LONDON, July 8th.

In the gent.'s doubles the French players Gobert and Decamis beat Wilding and Kitchie, the bolders, 9/7, 5/7, 6/8, 2/6, 6/2.

LONDON, July 9th.

In the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship Singles Wilding, the holder, beat Roper Barrett by 6-4, 46, 2.6, 6-2, Barrett retiring.

THE INDIAN CRICKETERS.

LONDON, July 7th. Northampton has beaten the Indian cricket team by six wickets.

EUROPEAN CIRCUIT AVIATION RACE.

LONDON, July 8th.

Naval Lieut.

M. Beaumont, alias

meat and meat products, which is regarded Conneau, has won the prize for the whole

au meaning rapid progress towards the final European Circuit Aviation Race.

TRte.

Six aviators have reached Paris.

ed eight games of tennis yesterday afternoon," mid the thirst quenuher, "and not being und to it, it's giving me jip." The friend found it difficult to emether a smile she endeavoured to sympathise with the teller of the inexactitude,

I see that London is having a heat ware now.

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Fanes 86 in the shade and over 120 in the Sun with no tapes and no white suite. The ladies will not be so badly off with their light sommery costumes, bat I ara sorry for the poor fellows who have to work ont in the opia with no protection against the force rays of the sun.'

K. McLenn

14 W. Stuart (skap

J. Wutt

P. Angos

W. Gerrard 20 J. Grant (skip)

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TENNIS.

YMCA, V KOWLOON.

by both Russians and Chinese. So hardy aro the trees, which are of the "orab" family, that it is thought they would thrive almost anywhere in the Northern United States, and as oröz-

INTIMATIONS

The Food Question

EVERYTHING

BEST :---

OF THE

PROVISIONS,

WINES

AND

SPIRITS.

H. RUTTONJEE & SON,

HONGKONG.

GOLD

AND

SILVER

WATCHES

mental, plants, wheti loaded with thousands of INGLISH, the tiny scarlet apples, they would be very effective.

Most remarkable is the method of growing grapes in that part of the world, the vines bring busied in winter. They ara grown upon arbre overhead in the summer; but after the first cold soap in aut n they are taken down, pruned, tied together in long bundles, and interred fu

covered with old matting and a pits,

couple of feet of soil. fow openings (SAye Roné writing in the New York Trib ne) ar left to admit air in moderato weather; but these are closed in case it turns very cold. The roots of the vines, of course, are not disturbed; but are. swathed in mating and covered well with earth. a vineyard in An body who should visit Northern China in the winter would scarcely suppose that the barren- area over which he walked was onvered in summer with a luxuriant growth of choice grapes. Although this mola of colture Rooms so odd, there is good reason to believe that it might be adopted to advantage in some parts of Americs, For example, it is seriously suggested by the Department of Agri- onltare that people in the Rocky Mountin region might be able by this means to raise ohoice varieties of gmpes for table use.

PEACHES AND CLANBERRIES.

The agricultural explorer obtained budwood of several varieties of cold-proof panches which, 25 through orcasing, may make it pessible to extend the peach growing belt in the United States One of them' bo moch farther northward. found in a temple garilon at Kirin, where the 13 temperature in winter often drops to 40der, below zero. Incidentally, in the same part of

the country, he came across a patch with blood- I pulp. which when cat through, looked more 10 like a beetroot than anything else. Another variety was called the "hoof peoli," because it 46 looked so much liko meat,

It would be a grout convenince to be able to grow cranberries in ene's backyard, and a hearty walesins will be given to a tree that real bears such fruit. Of course they are not cranberries, but near enough to serve the pur

The tree in ques ion, which is a haw, is hards, and gets along with very little water.

SWISS

AND

SUPERIOR

QUALITY

ELGIN

MOVEMENTS

Chas. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

RUBBER IN SELANGOR.

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The report for 1710 of the British Rosilent

Played on the Kowloon courts on Saturday. Buggestion is made that its fruit m ght lake of Selangor states that the number of rubber

Hickling and Jossland heat Fowler and Rose 10-1; beat Green and Zedelius 9-2; heat Abrahams and Van Delden 7-4.

Viveash and 'Le Breton beat Fowler and Rosa 6.5; lost to Green and Zadeline 5-6; lost to Abrahamis and Van Delden 4-7.

Sterrio and Williams lost to Fowler and BORD 5-6; lost to Green and Zadelins 38; beat Abrahama and Van Delden 6-5.

THE POSTTONEMENT OF THE

OPIUM CONFERENCE,

with sa

orah

estates in the State is given as 170 against 187 latter are hard to ottain. Anybody could grow in 1909, with an acreage in possession of 225,013 against 212.015 in 1909. Out of this, 95.853 enough of them on one or two trees to supply the wants of a family

Many orchards of this edible in are found in acre had been planted up to the end of 1939 Northern China. The fruit is bright red sai and 113,114 acres have been planted up to the Our laste; the best kinds as ond of the year under review-4,857 acres still big as

apples and only slightly į remain of rubber interplanted with catch crops, serid. They are extensively ared in the manu facture of sweatments and prasarces, and natives showing a decrease of 123 sores on the previous are equaly foud of them. Incidentally, the year. The total area planted during 1910 tree would furnish, it is believed, as ideal stock amounts to 19,631 aures as against 11.607 in the for dwarf early pears in the Irrigated regions of the arid south-west.here the problem of grow. ing this sort of fruit for the early market is just now attracting a good deal of attention.

UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS IN NEW YORK,

GREAT EXTENSION SCHEME.

Previous year. The returns of the rubber crops. given by the Director of Agriculture and the exports from Port Swettenham are as follows-

Crops. Exports.

The Ibs. 620,033 68,4 1,131,86 1,198,751 7,846,304 2,128,175 3.676, 51 4,23,478 7,052,975 8,241,388

1906

1907

•1908.

19.9.... 1910

Wo bare always been taught from the days.

The so-called Opium Conference, says he that we could read the wall advertisement Times, for the opening of which July 1 had been of à oertsin srap mexufacturer that the nonacod ad the probablo date is unlikely to ment georet of happius is "Don't worry." However, for sometime to come, and it may regardot as the Bishop of Manchester has an original having been postponed indefinitely. The chief ides that it is the insufelaney of worries that subject for discussion at the Conference would The official joint committee of the Board of The difference between the quantity exported make people missable. The man, he says, who have been the abase of morphia, cocaine, and Estimate and the Public Service Commission from Port Swottenham and the output the. has only ona worry-a blind that cannot be th

ohr dregs and the possibility of alraking it. Fulled up straight by the servant, orn cost sen' the gew, if any, of the Governments that would bas made the long awaited report of plans for Stata is accounted for by the natusion in the

additional under-ground railways. It recom- i exports of a portion of Perak and Negri Sem the hottom of which is always sonning out--that- part in the Conference have been able to

Ende Lie way to the custic asylum. Bat gather suficient statistical and ether informs mends an extensive system to embrace nearly hilao crops. The value of the rubber exported all perta of the city and to cost £51.480.000. ja 1910 amounted to $25, 69,669 as ag inst the man who has so many worries to 8TH 20 tion to make the discussions really useful, a d time to dwell on them cau be a perfectly happy

Powers the Conference has bean put off until the Interborough Company £15.160.000; and man. I have no doubt the Bis op will and on the initiative of one of the Continental Of this sum the city contributos 225,240,000, $9,980,472 in 1900, quite number of people willing to add to his the necessary information can be collected and the Brooklyn Rapid Tasit happiness if an excess of worry will do it.

£10,080,000. The plan will be considered by the City Government next week. RODERICE RANDOM.

man

examined.

Company

The Customs revenue collected on pars rubber aunted in 1910 to $562,159, an increase of $311,629 on the preceding year.