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A Feouoh zapor, la Jourad de Pekin, made its first appentasee in the Chinese capital on the 1st instant.

Toron feah Osses of plagu verð mported entirely by Malays or Chinese. That s alee the enso in Hongkong. Aguu, there is yesterday, bring g the total for the year up to the P. and O. Company with its head office in London, owning a large fleet, largely manned by Lasers and other Asistics, and there are ships of other important British lines, nanned very burg ly by Asiatic crews. Thus a large number of persons of Asiatic birth are brought under the scheme, and in so far as they are British subjects. con.. trilation from muzey provided by Parlia ment will be payable in respect of them Mr. NAPIER considers it prolable that the result of the Bill in its present shape would be a considerable transfer of ships from a United Kingdom to a Colonial registry, and it is even possible that the sent of maungo- ment of some ships might be transferred

Dumping is apparently not yet stampel ont.. The body of a Chinese femmio child was picked up on the Prays at Kennedy town ou' Monday A woman reports to the police that someone walked into her residuuce at Wong-net-cheong and stalo jewellery to the value of $48.

At the Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was brought before the Magistrate churged with imperaduating saother native for purposes of enigration,

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE SITUATION IN MOROCCO.

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LONDON, July 11th.. The French are continuing their opera.

tions in Morocco on a considerable scale. General Moinier is traversing the country westward of Mekinez dispersing hostile untives. Thero have been a few casualties among his troops. General Ditto is taking another column from Rabat which will join Sir James L. Mackay, G.C.M.G., who go.that of Moinier, after which the latter will tiated the Commer is! Treaty with China in

The WATER from the United Kingdom to some other 1902, has bad the dignity of a Barin of the

United Kingdom conferred on him.

MANUFACTURERS.

To so part of the British Dominions. ainend the Bill as to make the scheme in- applicable to Asintic seamen is a solution which, as Mr. NAPIER Mays, cannot be So far, adopted withont safeguards. however, British shipping engaged in purely local foreign trade-sich for instance as the Indo-China Steam Naviga tion Company is concerned, it is clear that DRY GINGER to cause in the Bill stands, the only

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day's London wire received by Messrs. Vernon and Smyth gave the quotation as 4 Gd. per lb. adváneo of 244. on the prorious day's quotation.

The Scout Press announcis the ongagement of Miss Katherine A. Seranion, daughter of Dr. W. H. Scranton, of Sound, to Mr. G.P. Paton, of the British Consulato-General in that

solution is a transfer from a Unitedcity.

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DEATH.

On July 7th, at Skungbat, Miss AMANDA MARIA, aged 21 years, dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs, P. J. Roza."

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The Daily Press.

HONGKONG, JULY 12TH, 1911.

Among

A Chinese who had just roturned from America was discovered by Detective Sergt. rphy with six boxes e ammunition in bis possession, was brought before the Megistrat yesterday and fined $0.

The Daily Grophic si 19th June contains à remarkably good picture taken at a special sitting the Alexandra Hotel, Eden, for that paper, of Crines Traicheu, H. & La Yadi, to Chinese Minister, Brigadier Guoy Tzu-chi sad Mr. Shuo Fu-ying.

A mariagahas bond braugs, and will take place the first week in November in Hongkong, betwoon William Alexander Lagger, 186th Baluchistan Infantry, youngest son of the late Major W. R. Hogger, and Oürk younges daughter of the Jake Rov. Horico Waller, restor of Taywell, Northants, and of Mrs. Wallor, Sheldons, Hook, Hants.

return to Fez.

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THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.] THEIR MAJESTIES IN IRELAND.

HONGKONG SHIPBUILDERS

STRIKE.

The strike epidemio has not been restricted to Great Britain or indood to Europe. In Hongkong at present there is su industrial Lispute, over 1,000 mon boing affected. The roable has arisen among the shipbuildora wko *rs demanding an increase of wages. All the en employed by native hipbuilders at Team

London, July 11th. Thair Majesties this morning received addresses at Dublin Castle from 130 Caut Po. Yanina, Wanchai, and other planos representative bodies of Ireland.

His Majesty the King, in replying, said he had speut many lappy days in Ireland and hoped to sujoy many more.

He was

glad to hear of the increasing prosperity in all the Province, and intomled to follow iu his father's footsteps in doing everything in his power to promote the happiness and the general well-being of his Irish peoplo.

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LATER

"Times" St. Potersburg cor respondent states that the German reply to the Russian request for an explanation contends that, the Sus region is ontside the French sphero as defined by the Algeciras, Troaty. It adds that Germany is alone entitled to safeguard Gorman interests there, and the warship will leave as soon as all Knights of the Order of St. Patrick. danger to such interests has disappeared.

LATER.

It is announced from Berlin that the negotiations are confined to Berlin at present. The opinion of all members of the Reichstag of all parties as collected by German nowapapors unreservedly approve of the Agadir move. A Radical member is cited as stating, "The world belongs to the beld. If our diplomacy withdraws it will nover again be taken seriously. "

LATER.

The King yesterday evening at Dublin Castle with full ecromonial invested the Enal of Shaftesbury and Lord Kitchener us

NATIVE RACES AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS,

Logos, July 11th..

The Native Raees and Liquor Traffic Committee, representing world-wide mis sionary and temporaneo organisations, will memorialise the Right Hon. L. Harcourt to-day urging the Imperial Government to alla meeting of the Powers at the earliest possible opportunity to consider the sale of spirits in Africa, especially with a view to An authoritative aunouncement inade in.

uxtending the prohibition zone towards the Paris says that pour-parlors regarding Agadir have been proceeding favourably coast. The Duke of Westminster, the ad that fears with regard to a Franco-president, and the Bishop of London have

signed the memorial. German tension have been removed; it also dwe is on the support accorded to France by Great Britain and Russia.

the scheme applicable to Asiatic seamen would be to impone handicap on such shipping which would seriously impair its ability to successfully compete against rivals who are not fettered by such financial responsibilities. The Government, no doubt, will be vary reluctant to pornit transfers of ships from a United Kingdom to a Colonial registry, for the purpose of evading the Act, and the clause, so far as its application to Asiatic seamen is concerned, The Hon. Colonial Secretary Ja isessed a will doubtless form the subject of a very notice requesting members of the public to Copics note that all correspondence with public offices consideration in committes should be addreaed to the Head of the Depart ment by his official title and not by his name, the shoal of amendments of which Neglect of this rule is likely to lead to delay. notice has been given, there are doubtless Bome which aim at a modification of this particular claus, and the result will be uwaited by the shipowners affected with no Mr. Naren in his letter further points out that apart from this question there are two matters of more general application relating to the mercantile

It his been noticed during the last for math's Barine which require consideration. One

says the N. C. Daily News, that the tides in the is whether the basis of contribution from vicinity of the Taichow Islands, the rocks on shipowners and their employees is in all which the P. M. Asta wont ashore, have been cases a fair one, and the other is whether very unusual in character. One of the China the Bill as drawn provides a mode of Navigation steamers that recently passed the administration of bouetits applicable to the spot found borself sot in, after making allow. ment eircumstances of sexinen. Ho points outances for changes of course, a distance of six.” that largely because persòus in the Naval and Military service of the Crown aro medically cared for while in such service, a "rednead deduction of pay is made in their ease, but though under the Merchant Ship ping Acts there is an obligation upon the owners of many ships to supply medical benefits" to the crew, the National Insurance Bill as it now stands takes no account of this and thus practically demands from shipowners and seanten a second payment in respect of a schome having for its primary object the supply of "medical benefits." With regard to the administr

sailors who cannot be said to have a re-

teen miles.

Manignor E. W. Fowler has arrived in tho Colony, from New Zealand, whore ho has spent most of the past six months lecturing. The rev, gentleinas same out to the East some eight years ago so Serotary to the Et. Rev. Archbishop Hardy of the Philippians. He was twice called to Rome on impertant affairs. His Lordship has kindly consented to give a public Isetare to-morrow evening in the mall of the Catholic Union, Glenenly, on impressions on the Philippines, &o.

THE PARLIAMENT BILL.

LONDON, July 11th. The Standard nul Daily Mail condemn ill-judged Unionist talk about surrender or compromise on the Parliament Bill.

The Daily Express understands that the

Poors are

TURKEY AND THE ALKANIANS.

LONDON, July 11th. The Porte has offered further slight concessions to the Albanians, but they are still far short of the latter's demands. It is now proposed to send a mixed civil and military commission to study the causes of the discontent in Albania.

in the Colony hero struck work for an ingreas of 33 1,3 per cent, în their wages. At prosont noy roosive 48 cents a day, with 12 cents Howanen for food, and they are now asking for 30 cents a day with food allow.ow. The mon

ame out on Sunday morning, but the masters wave issued an ultimatam. that unless thog rotaru to work a look-out will be desired. This 'deans that they will have to go sisewhere for: their food, which, notwithstanding tho strike, is stil being furnished in the respectivo yurdu.

THE H PLODROME CIRCUS.

The large matshed at Causeway Bay con Liunes a centro of attraction for dimiters of a good show, and the large crowd which assemties herein aightly beara lastimony to the pularity of the Hippodrome, performancu. The long and varied programme instud s olever gymnastic und aerobatic Ients, duri g equestrian net, and a yet moro daring performance with untamosbla besata. There are also the entrées of the clowns, Jenkins and Benono, whose appear: ance is the signal for laughter which begamog - more boisterous as they proneal with their round excellenes it will probably be some time fanniosities. With a programme of euch all-

before the nightly attendance at the Cirens matshed begins to show any diraination. -

THE CORONATION SCONE STONE.

Sir Henry Blake is the writer of an article in T. P Magazine concerning the-Coronation from which we make the following extract:-

Perhaps the mo ₺ Interesting object used in

the Coronation is the Scone Stone fastened" der King Edward's chair. There are minay

legendary accounts of this stows. In Teland the logond runs that in the time of Forgus O'Conor, who was at the time a candidate for ́election as Ard E2, or High King, a ship arrived bearing the prophet Je emish, who had with | him a Jewish Prinowe and the sacred stzus

supposed to ensure Sovereignty to its pos

Bessor.

Fergus having heard the logond forthwith married the Princess on curly looted And Ri, and crowned on the hill of instance of heir-ss houting and was duly Tara. Thu generally accepted ligend in that the stone called Zi ful, or stone of destiny, 19 the stone on which Jacob laid his head in the plain of Bethel-that it we bronht to Beig antia in Spain, where Gathol. King of Scots, int on it as his throne About 70 1.c. it was

Scots, here it remained for Over 350 years, and was taken by King Fergus

gus ta lona a out 330 3.c. It was for a time built into the Castle of placed in Donstoffuage, but in 859 A.D. it was the Abbey of Scone by King Kenneth, who caused it to be enclosed in this worden shair,

6 to force the Govern. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN FRANCE bronght into Troja d by Sion Broaub, King of

powers to the utmost.

their constitutional

LATER.

LONDON. July 11th

Two more expresses have been derailed in France during the week-end. Tho causes. Mr. Balfour had a lengthy conference

are not definitely ascertained, but as the yesterday with Lords Lansdowne, Cromer, third was a most palpable attempt on the Curzon, Derby and Salisbury regarding their attitude with respect to the Parliament Bill

DISESTABLISHMENT CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, July 11th.

The Welsh unembers of the House of Commons niet yesterday evening, and lecided. to organise immediately a disestablishment campaign in the United Kingdom.

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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S BIRTHDAY.

Paris-Cherbourg liue, it strengthens the suspicions that all have been malicious attempts.

--- RUSSIAN DREADNOUGHT.

LONDON, July 11th, Russia's second Dreadnought, the "Pol- tava," was launched at St. Petersburg yes: terday.

· BISLEY RIFLE MEETING.

TONDON, July 11th,

beneath which it reste presem, and the follow ing distich to be engraved

Ni fallat Fatum, Scoti búns quo ena quo

Jocatuin

Invenient lapidem rognare teteatur ibidem, "If Fato go right, whero'er this stone is The Scots shall Mounrchs of a real s

erowned."

FENIANS AND THE RCOME STONE,

The description of the stone statos that it is peculiar in having red views showing. It is Biocular tha in these days of geographical exploration the exit locality from which the stone was quarried should ot be discoverel,

The Clair and Stone were naad by the Kings

The dog story mentioned yesterday has not been properly told. Apparently a party living in a matshed at Mongkok had a dog which be- came the envy of another party. The latter saw the dog Improve in appearance under the care of its owners, and one day they losgood the

LONDON, July 11th. animal, scruped it, and invited their friends do Viscount Ridley presided at a banquet held feast. When the owners koned of this they in London in celebration of the Rt. Hon. invited the co-operation of their friends and stormed the place. The remnants of the animal Joseph Chamberlain's seventy-fifth birthday, were found; and identity was established by theThere were 110 guests present, representing unusually large attendance of Colonial teams atoul the stone and restore it so its original tail. The culprit was ordered to pay a fine of Mr. Chamberlain's age and the years of his

membership of the House of Commons.

$7 and S8 compensation.

In the instter of the fine of $28,750 imposed

by the Collector of the Port of San Francisco All wore orchids. upon Captain Stavens of the Tokyo Main for Mr. Balfour spoke of Mr. Chamberlain as having opiom of that value on board his ship, a great man whose continued advice and in- not entered upon the manifest, United States

The Bisley rifle meeting, which opened yesterday, is remarkable this year for the

and individual shots. India, Egypt, and

Sudan are also represented.

GOVERNOR OF MAURITIUS.

LONDON, July 11th. Major, John Chancellor, Secretary to the

appointed Governor of the Mauritius.

Maior Clauroller, who

KOLAN

born at

of Scotland until in 1297 A.D. they were pre- sented by King Edward the First to St. Edward the Confessor, since when the chair has be kept in Edward the Confessor's Chapel. Save when used at the Coronation English Sote- reigns. It is well to reminber that the ancient. name of the Irish was Scots indeed, there are records of the Col nisusion of Scotland fram Ireland. So deeply did the Irial foel loss of the stone that no Late as IeB1, in the time serions trouls, a spiny w utrred into fually driven from the Einoral Isle,

Mou come from Americs to work in conjune- tion with the Pouiaus in Londe, and it was decided that the conspiest is shonid" Morelos tremselves in the Albay, overpower the police, and pass the stone through a window to others. waiting outsid The plot was discovered, and the vigilahes of the pics prevented 207 Long may it remain and serve at the Corona-

fo

position when England had been fo

attempt

À CORONATION ODE.

Commissioner Brown took depositions of wit, altorable faith were still a source of inspir-Colonial Defence Committee, has been tion of future generations of English Kinge. storens' intended appeal to the department for Even now, he said, if the Reciprocity Treaty nesses on June 13th for the purposes of Captain ution in the fight for Imperial prefereres

was thrown out, it would not be too late to Edinburgh in 1870, has had a distinguished

military career, havia sorved in various achieve the advantages foreseen by Mr. ex editions, and being present at the captare of Chamberlain, Whatever happoned, orthodox Dargai Heights. He was Assistint Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1904.1 free trade was doomed.

FAMOUS MARE SOLD.

a remission of the penalty. The opium was found by custom officers concealed in the water tanke on the steamer and packed in metal water-proof casks so that they might be thrown overboard during the night and picked up by employes of the opfam smuggling ring of San

tion of seamon's benefits, it may be that societies will be formal which will deal appropriately with those benefits, but, anys. Mr. NAPIER, "it must be borne in mind that the whole of the alien seafaring in surors are debarred from those societies and will, with a portion of the seamen who are British subjects, becoms deposit con- tributors. The scheme of deposit con tributors has apparently for its basis of administration residence within a county or a county borough. Thus aader Clause 45 all sums payable in respect of medical There is one feature of Mr. LLOYD GEORGE'S benefit are to be paid nt the commoncement National Insurance schone which apps the county or county borough where the of each year to the Health Committee of to have an important bearing on the inter-contributor resides. There appears to be ests of British shipping companies engaged in local trade in the Far East, as well as in provision for the administration of certain other foreign localities. Attuation benefits in respect of persons such as has been called to this matter by a letter in „The Times gigned “WALTER NAPIER." From sidence within any area." These are details a reference in the latter to conditions in the howover, which doubtless will be satisfactori- Straits Settlements we assume the writory settled when the Bill is in Committee, but to be Mr. NAPIER, baarister-at-law of the the application of the scheme to Asiatic employed on British ships Straits firm of DREW and NAFTER, and for seamen

much is a

bigger question," not merly a member of the Legislative Council. Under the Bill all persons, whether British so easily settled, and the decision of the subjects or not employed on ships register House on this feature of the Bill will be sugar has just been negotiated, the purchasers od within the United Kingdom or on British xaited with no little interest and auxiety being the firm of Germann & Co, of New York. A Mauila: contemporary says this will relieve ships registered elsewhere but managed in parts of the world which probably never the stagnaut condition of the sugar market at from the United Kingdom come under the entered into the vision of the fminers of the Iloilo and other Viscaiyan porta, scheme, though it is to be remembered that Bill. To pass the clause as it now stands the State contribution is only payable in would be equivalent to giving a bounty to, respect of British subjects. As Mr. NAPIcz say, Japanese ships trading to British forts, points, out, this is a wide net and brings in while if the scheme extends to British ships a number of seamon to whom the scheme which never visit the ports of the United slate-General the following copies of Typhoonhurst, and several vas passing fell into the tory yesterday 11.15 am. Cyclone or Typhoon drivers were rescued with difficulty, some seems scarcely applicable. He instances the Kingdom it is imposing on them a handicap Warnings forvorded from the Manila Observa cavity. The horses were drowned and the fact that in the Straits Settlements there are perhaps fatal to their prospects of success-W. of Naha moving N. 3.20 p.m. Cyclone or ships which, though registered in the United ful competition. We cannot bring ourselves. Typhoon Facile Gooan, about half way between being seriously injured. Kingdom, are engaged in a purely local to believe that the Government ever intended the Mariana Islands and Lason, direction trade under Colonial management, ships the scheme to apply to British ships unknown." The following warning was received which never go to England and are inanned, engaged in foreign coasting trade, as last evening:-"Cyclone or typhoon north of

Formos, moving N.W," except so far as officers are concerned, many are in this part of the world.

Francisco.

A BIG PURCHASE OF SUGAR.

A sale of one million pesos worth of Philippine

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

We have received from the American Con-

* Mr. Chamberlain has been a member of tize House of Commons for 35 years; adding this ligure to his ago we get a total of 110—E».] EARTHQUAKE DISASTERS IN

HUNGARY.

LONDON, July 11th.

A Buda Pest message states that Szondy Street collapsed, leaving a cavity of seventy five feet deep and sixty feet long, he tho result of the earthquake. The water mains

SIR ELDON GORST,

LONDON, July 11th.

Bir Eldon Gorst is sinking fast.

LONDON, July Fith

At the Newmarket salee the famous brood mare Sceptre was wʊid for 7,000 guineas.

TEST CRICKET.

LONDON, July 11th. Foster, the cricketer, has accepted the invitation of the Marylebone Club to join the team of English cricketers for Australia. Kinneir and Iremonger have also been invited.

THE COTTON CROP.

LONDON, July 11th. At Chicago yesterday cotton broke fifty pointa on receipt of the reports that the raine in Texas and Oklahoma would makea. record crop almost certain.

The following poem appeared in The Times of Fuse 21st

TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, JUNE 22ND, 1911.

Not with high-vaultiphras, or rash Of waak-winged pithets that tire With their own weight, or formal gash

We greet Thee, Siry!

To fight loss lofty wo aspiro.

We pray, in speech uurkillel to feign, That all good things good mendesira

May crown Thy reign:

That our State" Dreadsought" once again May cosan is broken rais-to ver, And shape her amaras direct and plain,

With Thee to steer,

Into blue sky and water clear,

Where she on oven keel shail ride, Secure from reef and shoal or fear

Of wind and tide..

So may it be, Sire!-so sbida!

Till, by God's grace, this Empire shine More great in power then grat in pride,

Through Thee and Thine.

Nor from her storied Pa-t" resign

Una least bequest; or rail or claim To aught that dowers an ancient he

An and out fame!.

Avery DOBSON.