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SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, 13th July,

IN SUMMARY JuridiorION.

BEFORE ITS HONOUR MR. H. H. J.

GOMPERTZ (Puisse Judos).

CLAIM UNDER CONTRACTS.-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 14TH, 1911.

THE PORTUGUESE LISCOVERY

OFJAPAN,

The following interesting article is taken from the Japan Maili-

PEOPLING PACIFIC LANDS,

NEWS FROM MANY SOURCES,

THE LONG. ABM OF GÓINGIDENCE.

The long arm of coincidence is nearly wron.

the

of

AN EFFECT OF THE PANAMA CANAL

An article from the pen of Admiral “A. T. Mohan in the Juue t'entury has been the enbject ohed out of the socket by the manchester of wide comment in the columns of the United Guardian which tells this story about Chorl tou The family were removing to Chorlton, States Prem, especially that part of it in which and on the eve of departure.

youngest he asserts that the greatest bonelite to be de- the home was heard exying his prayera aloud he elves of the prayer was extempore. It was rived from the opening of the Panatas CanalWell, good bye, God, we're going to Chorl. will be from the facilities it will furnish for Bill ton. Once in the dear dead drys beyond-real ing the Pacific lands with immigrants from it was a New York paper which told it about

Chicago. Europe

Acorusidarable luterest attaches to the letter discovered at Kyoto from the Viceroy of the Indies to Hideyoshi, some account may be given of how the duonment came to be written. In the first place it may be mentioned that the Vienroy of the Indies was no native Inlies Prince, as has been wrongly surmised, but, of The Holland Chius Trading Co. brought course. De Menoies,

■ Portagues). The action against the Foo Kit Cheong arm to re- Portuguess dissovery of the page to India 2'6

That was the position taken by the people of the Pacific Coast as early as the fifties. When cover $1,171,61, being amonst dus in respect of the Cape of Good Hops was made in 1408, when various contracts for the sale of goods by the Da Games anchored before Calient, after suillage Nicaraguan canal project was first rooted plaintiffs to the defendants, which goods the right round Africa, This fresh trading ground by the Accessory 'eusit Company the principal defendants failed to take delivery of and the was exploited so quickly that seven years after object of its promoters was to facilitate the Flaiutiffe rrold, Plaintiffs waived $17164 inwards the Brat Viceroy of the Indies assage of vouela from the Atlantis to the order to bring the action in summary juris

Pasito es that California might receive the supply of labour required to develop its resources, and later, when De Leaseps was seeking moral and financial support for his Panama sehemel urged the baneßte that would flow to the Pacific Coast States and Territories by making them mory accessible to Europeans.

dietium.

which

sent out in the person of Almeid, aborty to be, frillowed by the great Albuquerque. The conquests of Purt gal in the Indies Mr. M. Fender Haicis (of Messrs. Wilkinson spread rapidly. In 1510. Goa win captured & Grist) appeared for the plaintiffs, and dead made the capital of the onstru posses sions of Portugal. This was followed by fondants were represented by Mr. R. A Malacos nd then by the Malsors. At the Harding,

tims of the Portugas discovery of Japan A0 Bbmulate Mc, Harris informed the Court that this was (1542), the Portognese beld

monopoly of the maritime trade from the Rei a claim upon several contracts for the sale of Sea and the Cape of Good Hope to eastward of goela by the plantiffs to the defendants. The the Melucens. Portugal's clime to the lands salon ranged over a long period, the first con. the conquered in the Orient were based on a

Ball issued by Pope Eugene IV. in 1438, trnot being autored into in 1908. Particulars of the numbers of the contracts and the claim granted her exclusive right to all countries dis covered from Caps Nun to the continent of India. Ward kot out in the writ, and amounted to Portugal in return promised to spread a know- $1,171.64. This amount was arrived at as the ledge of the Christian religion, and to establish difference between the contract price of the the authority of the loly See. Thus the Vlooroof the Indies was not only the direct representative goods and the prices of resale, in some cases by of the King of Portugal but also the indirect auction and in some casos privately when a bet-representative of the Pope, charged to spread

knowledge of the Christian religion and to ter price could be obtained. His Lordship

protect Christiana. This explains bor it was would see that the resale had generally been at that de Monosz, the Viceroy of the time, oame a profit, which profit was credited to the defen- to send the letter to Aldayoshi. The latter was written before the great Tufo bad dauts. There was also a claim in the ouse of each control for interest at the raic of seven

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VICTORY AND THEN-,

Fir Hiram 8. Maxim, la reply to an invita- tion to join the Advisory Board of the Declm Association, writes the honorary Borotary- have been in England about 30 years, still I do not understand English weights and measures, the world that did, and this gentleman was in the empley of the United States Government When he was about 50 years of

but that he had masstored the whole subject at the strain on bis nerves was so grost that he soon went out of his mind, and died shortly after.

I do not think there was aver but one man in

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION BY CONTRACT.

Mr. Cheng Batao-sha, the newly appointed Provincial Trearer of Hanon, it is reported, lans recently made some anggestions to the uchun Pa with regard to the construction of allways in Chius. One of his suggestions, which has been widely dispned by the local Press, is the constraction of railways by the contract system. Upon the basis of the estimate of the Chinchow-Airuu Railway, which states that it would be possible to construct

tha railway at the rate of 19.000 tsels per 11, ko of the C-nton- maintains that if the constraction Hankow and the Hankow Sechuan Railways should be awarded to the lowest bidder, it would be possible to have these railways | built

allowing thousand taels per li for th topographical dificulties that might be encoun tered in the latter two lines. The neual cost of railways in Chius, he asserte, has been about › taala a lì in the case of the most seorami. cally constracted railways. By comparing those two igures ha concludes it would be at once sp most profitable manure for the Imperial Government to: parent as to what would be the

at

about 20,000 tacis

рек

The Peking Jih Pao farther under opt

of

INTIMATIONS

The Food

Question

EVERYTHING

OF THE

PROVISIONS,

WINES

that Mr. Cheng is so thoroughly convinced the

feasibility of his scheme that he is going to POOR GIRL'S FORTUNE,

recommend it to the Tirone on the occasion of Fräulein Wardyss, a poor girl employed as o his asking Imperial leave to proceed to lis дет arleswoman in a boat and shoe shop in the email post. According to this journal, in an article pub spectacular ran from Pacific to North Atlantis, inherited a fortune of £26,000 in extraordinary to China, because by awarding the contract to In those days, and until the Oregon made her town of Kisujazillas, in Hungary, has just Dahed a few days ago, the scheme is not beneficial rory little was said about the part the casal circumstances.

Herr Croney, an elderly build railways to foreign contractors it would might play in the scheme of rational defence bachelor, was among the customers at the shop, mean the depriving of a great dumber of labour BEST---- It is not very creditable to the intelligence of and expressed indignation at the small wages are both skilful and otherwise of their the Nation that an appeal based upon the real paid to her. Recently he entered the shop to rightful work. For

foreign materiala or fancied necessity of speedily transferring wake some small probares and said that he would

und be

and foreigners would naval vessels from ocean to ocean should have intended to make Fraulein Wardyas heiress le employed not only as engineers but as fore+ succeeded when more rational argumenta falled to all his property. She Isaghed, as he been and the like. It forebodes il

des 11 consequences, to impress, but the tenth of history demands lieved him to be badly off, his clothes being and maintains that Mr. Cheng must be carried that the admission should be made that the shabby Saying "I really mean it," he da. away by his authneiasm for tho scheme as to canal might still be a debatable problem, instead fastened his ouff, and laying it flat on the forget or to overlook the disadvantages, the of a nearly cocomplished-feat, if the tom tome counter drew out a fountain pen and wrote zatural results of the proposed change. of war had not been vigorously beaten,

will. He called two apprentices to sign it, and we are now getting on solid ground having placed it in his pocket left the shop. and a

apply view of the abject is being taken. 4, for minutes later Hor. Crowey in making What Admiral Mahan has to say concerning viclent effort to avoid a motor-ear in the road. migration is being received with respectful way overstrained his heart and felt dead. Next les remarkable volte face in the consideration, and there is no dirsent from his day Fräulein Wardyes was informed that his tractors, and it has never been anggested

proposition that it is positively necessary, it the estate of £26,000 was at her disposal Pacific Coast is to be held by men of European extraction and not to be overran by Orientals, that the sparsely settled region known as the Pacific Slope should be filled with an assial

tter

AN EXPENSIVE. TELEORAPHIC ERROR.

a

The Cha-yen Pao, however, seems to think that the solese the bent that ever savanted for the construction of ralways. The practice in this country has been the awarding of small portione of earth work to minor con- that oven whollway line or a portion of per cont. from the date on which the goods is for of Christianity, or, at any rate, before

it known st Gon.

should be awarded to contractors, excepting should have been taken delivery of up to the Coelho, who had been made Vine Provincial. had beon reset od very warmly by the Taika date of the canals. Defendants frequently pro-when he visited Osaka in 1586. Hideyoshi, after

just month brought in a verdict of $36,684 is

A jury in the Supreme Court at New York perhaps the abortiva projent for the cons struction of the Chinchow. A gon Railway The scheme has for its recommenda favour of Stephon M. Weld & Co., cotton bro- tion the fact that it

would do away in the contract stated that ten per cent. interest and is alleged to have made some criza could be charged, but the plaintifs did not ordinary promises in regard to the propagation the future of the port of San Francisco, and upon for damages the plaintiffs sustained in the the old system and that a large saving in Palaries wish to claim more than seven per cent. A of Christianity. Weiber he was then in that point there seems to be little difference of transmission of a telegram to New Orleans, and so forth will be realized. When the railway

earnest, or was only playing with the Jesuit

opinion. Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and The plaintiffs alleged that they telographed is being constructed by contractors, it would good deal of correspondence had token place fathers, remains a mystery, but at any rate overy other port on the Coast will probably their New Orleans agent to sell 20,000 bales of

necessary culy be

to have one director, our

chlof ⚫with regard to the contracts, but Mr. Harris Coelho took all Hideyoshi's promises quite zeri- attract their share of the business, but the cotton pt $12.70, but that when the telegram engineer, one or two secretaries, a translator

onely and wrote to Valegnani, the Visitor. Gonbelief is very

Canal San Francisco will become a plaintiffe asked for damages to the amount of

only to New York, "

the full amount,

ruce.

mised to take delivery, but did not. A claws the first formal audience, became very amiable course this prospert opens to conjecture kers, and avainst the Postal Telegraph Company with the large number of office holders under

did not think it would be necessary to put la! who was at Goa, relating how well he had the Ponomaral "that after the opening of reached the agent it read to sell at 12.07.19 perhaps, and a few agents for to purchasing. more than two letters, one in which the plain been received and suggesting that the Viceroy port of entry for Europeso immigranta second 827.565 with interest. The jury gave them of land and the maintenance of pouce. Tho

tiffs requested the defendants to take delivery should be asked to despatch a special embassy and threatening in the event of their failing to dogs to call the goods, and another in which the full amount duo was set out and plaintiffs threatened proceedings,

His Lorilskip to Mr. Harding) Are you making any admissions P

Mr. Harding-No, I am fighting the case right through.

Mr Harris-The defondants yesterday offer

ed us 3000 in rettlement.

Mr. Harding-No.

He

Mr. Harris-I am going to prove it. offered us 2400 in such and a promissory note for 8400.

Mr. Harding-I was going to ask for an ad. journment. Wo might possibly arrive at some arrangement. Otherwise it will be necessary to go right through, as I consider there is good defence.

to Japan to thank Hideyoshi for his That is the view taken by the Chicago News in kindness. De Manesez approved the gostion and appointed Vlognani himself any event, the elimination of the long and commenting on Mabarin article, and it is: "In to conduct the mission. Before Val-gasni expensiva and tiresome land journey to the not out, however, the new came of Hide- Pacific Coast is bound to increase in is marked rashi's shange of front, and fearing that bodegree the rate of growth of ropalation." would not moot with very warm reception, the envoy tak slepy first to enquire. (hrough Cbris. tein friends in Japan whether Hideyosal would be willing to receive a mission from the Viceroy of the Ludies, Hideyoshi was too antale a roll tician to allow his religious prejudices, if they may be so called, to stand in the way o improv. ing foreign relations, so he readily gave his

Valeg consent. The mission started badly.

That is the chief thing to be hoped by the Const. When it obtains its fair proportion of the available inbour supply of Europe there will be such a development of resourcer as will compel the older States to sit ap and take notice. San Francisco Chronicle.

OF LONDON.

nazi ranched Nagasaki in July, 1590, but there ADMIRALS AND THE DECLARATION fell ill, which gave an opportunity for bis enemies at Hileyoshi's Court to suggest that the alleged missica was merely a trick to have changed his views us to the character of of the priests. Hideyoshi also appears the Mission, for the vessel which it was stated would be sent to fetch the envoy never arrived However, Velegnani at last started from Nagasaki in November with a retinue of about A private conference of Admirals will be held Mission was further deloved when it had reached consider the critical situation created by the Marolsun Harims by the news that Hideyoshi intention of the Government to call upon the bad just lost his infant son and his half-brother Hours of Commons to give its assent to the Hidemaga. This caused a wait of another two Declaration of London.

The Times recently published the following from Lord Charles Beresford :--

in

·

THE BABU LETTER-WRITER.

objectionable features of

Joan-constructed

AND

SPIRITS.

H. RUTTONJEE & SON,

HONGKONG.

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milways would be more or lose Aliminated, as GOLD

ss to the paying of commissions to the agencies The following letter will take a lot of besting which are responsible for the negotiation of the its clues

toon fer materials purchased or not purchased through them, the auditing of soconuts or the appointment of chief on insur The contractors who are entrusted with the construc- tion of snow a railway would be those whose bids forthe work are the lowest so that the first cast of the railway would be the lowest possible.

ader any circumstances.

"Honoated Sir, Your bumble sorvaut, Ram Dass, who is the dust beneath your fest, wishes to know when his eyes are likely to be dazzled by the light of your countenance. I have enten of your salt now for four years; and truly it is a great and noble service. hear that you are returning to India soon, and, if I am permitted to re-enter your service, may God-whom you greatly resemble lengthen your days to a thousand years."

VISITING CARDS.

T

AND

SILVER

WATCHES

Judging from the views both for and against the scheme, it may be noted that so far as the loan agreements are concerned, it makes not mach difference whether the railways are con structed by contract or not. The agraement appointment of chief Visiting cards differ in style socording to would still prevail in the

payment of FNGLISH, latitude, and as an example a Paris contempor-engineers and auditors and in

commissions for materials purchased abroad [STATEMENT BY LORD CHARLES, BERESFORD, [ary recalls on incident in 1844, whon M. de overtheless, there are certainly advantages to Lingrecé was sont under Lonis Philippo na Min- be derived from the construction of the railways ister Extraordinary to Chine. The courtesy of being awarded to the lowest bidders who would the Ambasador greatly impressed the Chinese be bound by contracts. In framing the statesmen, particularly their "dogen." When the negotiations had been concluded and M. de extracts, therefore, care should be takon to Lagrené was ready to embark, delegation safe-guard ti e interest of this country especially could bo managed that Chinese materials should bassador, secing this parvel, at once thought be used, much of the commissions that would this was a present, knowing Chinese methods, go to the purchasing agencies would this be but to his surprise they started to unroll the oplinder, which extended to about 50 metres of Baved, an fudustries in this country would ho therefore, that the Imperial Government would paper, over 162ft. Then he learned that it was considerably encouraged. It is to bo koped, ing his modest little Bristal board, the humi.

fair competition among would-be contractors listed Ambassador added a few words, which read, "The Ambassador of France regrets that and the economy that is enrely to be realized by

Btate railwayaky

roontract,oking Daily News. he is able to offer only these simple words to adopting Mr. Cheng's proposal to constract our your Excellency,"

Mr. Harris-I cannot consent to an adjourn: thirty, which included only four priests The in London at noon on Monday, June 19, to brought him a great roll of paper. The Am in the matter of labour and materials. If it

ment. I have instructious to oppose it. The action is a simple oue in every way, and I am sure my friend's client cannot say that he does

not owe the money.

or three months, the Mission not arriving at In the opinion of 102 Admirals already express. ed in a firmly worded protest to the Prins of Japan," quotes Froez's "Annual Lotter" a

Mr. Harding-He does say it. He disputes Kyoto till March 3rd. Mardooh, in his "Elixtory Minister, it is "argently necessary, for the the visiting card of the "deyen," In return sea their way to benefiting themselves by the

the notion right through.

Mr. Harris-My clients are only prepareil ta settle this mattor. on my friend consenting to jud: ment.

We

of

to the magulfoonce of the Embassy, of its pr. preservation of the food of this people during war, that the Declaration of London should be repudiated."

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., he was one of the signatories to this protest, will take the chair at the Conference.

Mr. Harding Wo will not do that. have got a fairly good defence.

Evidence was called, but before it was con. cinded the parties had a consalation, as a result of which judgment was entered by consent for the plaintiffs for 2550 und ersts, and his Lord-ring a ship granted a stay of execution for fonction dogs.

INVESTITURE OF THE PRINCE

OF WALES.

In connection with the investiture of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales at Carnarvon Castle, 4 writer in a London contemporary recently wrote:-

Koon as was the disappointment of the Lord- Major and people of Cardiff when the decision of King George in selecting Carnarvon for the investiture was made known, there can only be agreement with the decision of the Sovereign, Carnarvon Castio is a picturesque and histori-

seats (among which was an Arab jonnet) and the reception accorded it by the Taiko, who appears t

to have again shown great friendliness. He gave a privato intination to the Mission. however,

to "comport themselves with mak disorotion. Valegnaui left Japon in 1592. His mission, if it did not succeed in its main object, the obtaining of farther canecasions to the Jesnit priests, had the indirect result of

Portuga se crizo

the Japanese, toon was fashionable to be Portuguese in everything. European dress became so common that on essually meeting a crowd of courtiers it was diffienft to say ut nace whether they were Portuguese or Japanese. To imitate the Fortugnese Borne of the mere arlent votaries of fashion even went so far as to commit the Paternoster and the Are Maris to memory, Reliquarios were eagerly bought as much as ten or twelve scudi being paid for a rosary- while all the lords. Hideyoshi and his nephew the Regent incinded, want about with crucifies and reliquaries hanging from their necks tribute not to piety but to fashion."

Lord Charles Beresford authorizes the follow. ing statement as to his personal conviction of the serions situation created by the Declaration -- The danger staring this wountry in the face if the Declaration of London is ratified is not invasion but starvation,

Declaration "Undor the belligerents are for the first time legally per mitted Biuk noutral reesels.

to

of

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INDUSTRIAL CANADA.

THE FUTURE OF CANADA.

No one in the present day would seriously

A writer in The National Review · argues attempt to refute the fact that Canadiau indus that, while annexational designa on Canuda triel development is making material progress, my express rather a racial instinct than a but not everyone is aware of the wonderfully conscious policy, reciprocity not only miskes rapid growth which is taking place in various annexation feasible but renders it almost in- industries, apart from agriculture, throughout evitable because of the community of interest correspondent of the Canalian Agenor

SWISS

AND

ELGIN

SUPERIOR

QUALITY

MOVEMENTS

London the Dominion. Wo gather from the Toronto which it must ersete between two peoples living Chas. J.

Under the Declaration of London the traus

formation upon the high sets of merchantman into warships is not forbidden. and it is therefore not illegal, and privateoring is ravived in its most dangerous forma

"I appeal to men of all parties to look at this matter in the light of the safety of this nation in time of war, and to the Government to refer the Declaration to a commission of experts for

and report" consideration

HEAVY FINE IMPOSED- FOR CARRYING OPIUM..

of

nupolicy

Chas. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

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RUSSO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT,

that the Dominion Textile Company during on the opposite sides of an invisible border

of coercion can bo dismissed as altogether 1910-11 had a successful year with manu-impossible. Canada could not be conquered by facturing. profits of about 990,000 dois, or force of arms. But coercion ona assume subtle very nearly 100,00 dols. in excess of the fornis, and a fiscal agreement, such as that preceding twelve months. Dividends from the embodied in the Taft-Fielding compact, is Dominion Cotton Mills and Merchante Cotton an armoury of delicately refined weapons capable Company bring the total gross grafits up to of reaching infinitely further than the cleway 1,110,000 dole. The year's sales totalled almost apparatus of the " tented field," 9,501,000 delt., an lacresse of some 726,000 dola. Under present conditions Canadian trade over this previous year. In view of the eccentric follows the east and west track of the great condition

the cotton market this year the trank railroads that ok the ports on the guin in profits is particularly gratifying, and it Atlantic and the Pacific. Under Reopensity The State docuiment referred to in the fore.

is stated that the outlook for the current period the United States a rival movement going article is now preserved in the archives

is very good. In order to cope with its ex; anding begin which in course of time can hardly fail to of the Myohoin, and is described as a parchment

begin trade the Canada Car and Foundry Company has determine that the predominating course of Jecided to

The Japan Mail reports --- scar capacity from 70 to 100 trade shall be north and south. Around the increase its measuring 1 a' chu and 9 oun by 2shaku and 5 aun, the upper border and two sides being

cars daily,

Friday's issue of the Official Gazetio publishes surrounded by pictures muensuring from 39

at an expenditure on plant and equip Great Lakes, where already there is practically The Collector of Customs at San Francisco ment of over 200,000.00 dela. It is satisfactory homogeneity of rass on both sides of the the cost of the Russo-Japanese Agreement 4 A. The text consists of sirteen and a half lines and the signature. The has notified Captain A: G. Stevens, master of to learn that the Canada Coment Company border, there will ens ideatity of industrial relating to the mutuel recognition of the com companies and the steamer America Mary, that automatically having a successful season with many of the and commercial interest. Farther West the marcial, Baxoial, and industrial to be under the United States statute he is liable plante working up to fall capacity

agricultural community will became more and partnerships of the respectire countries, which for the nhade of Princes sud the subjugation of border reprosout the Seven Hills of Rome finding on his vessel of 821 tins of smoking-so-far, the immense building operations

The text reads:The existence of commercial, Romer to a penalty of $28.755 by reason of the wess is the best the Company has experienced more dependent on the growing millious in was signed at Tokyo on the 23rd of last month

and strengthen the strands of tho web spun by onatle stands on the Beiont a monument of the figure of Mars, represented as holding a golden are some twenty-five similar cases peading be- for pement very heavy. Sales up to the present this fiscal loom. Cauads will increasingly be companion, or partnerships, domiciled in either stress of the times, a glorious memorial to its image of the Gud of Victory. On both sides fore the Collector, and he will give every master aes about 30 per cent. in excess of 1910, and come the debtor te America for trade which of the contracting countrie builders, and a "magnificent badge" of the of Mars are draws the Roman coat-of-arms in like situation abundant opportunity to present the Company has sequired the plant of the could not exist if Reciprocity wars abandoned in conformity with the rovisions of the case to the department before taking steps to Western Canada Cement Company at Exshaw, Is it an inconceivable result that when vast new municipal laws of that country, shall be was thirty-nine years building, and although Romanus.) The picture the right side.

$140-1 collect Edward I. saw the work begun, his son witnes represents the traditional Romulus and Bemus after it has been imposed may have their licens when compeleted will give the Company & total men of the Republic, obeying that instinct which on condition that the said companies observe sed its completion.

being suckled by a sho-wolf, while the space

one cannot deny is one of the strongest charac-manicipal laws of that country, and they shall

*ue or to right to between the soat-of-arms and the central igure revoked, and it may be optional with the capacity of over 7,000,000 barrels a year.

refuse

Bued fa Collector to

teristics of the Anglo-Saxon rass, will deter also enjoy clearance to any vessels of is filled by a chain of shields, spears and awords which they are in command.

wige to afiliee the strength of what this writer law courts of either of the contracting ountries. tied in bundles. The pictures are painted in

The Collector says that it is a question of

The companies and partnerships mentioned in calls the

'pocket interest" to b ing political the ing clause ?

lanse shall in all olies enjoy the blue, yellow, oriawon, purple and other colours

law as to whether opium or other contraband

union a step or two nearer to realisation ?

as those granted, or to be granted, of dazzling brilliancy.

articles thus found stored Sway and without

On the other band, the Imperial sentiment an knowledge of the master, can be held to be mer.

cal setting for the first of the two great

Avents in the life of Prince Edward. Designed

sun to

piotaren

the borders are on

sild

the

Fery elaborate. Those

the fierce Welsh of the thirteenth century, the and ca. a hill in the middle is draws the opium, which is forbidden importation. There are in progress in Camada making the demand the United States. Every year will.multiply industrial and fiancial joint stock and other

and formed

ubjection of the Walsh. Begun in 1283, it with the letters S.P.Q.R. (Somains Populusque his fines. Masters who refuse to pay the fine and is constructing a mill at Winnipeg, which interests have been called into being the states- legally recognized in the other country

razed

by

What a chequered caroor! Thirty years he fore its completion the walls and towers were the Welsh prince Madog. Up and down were its fortunes daring the Civil War, until it was finally captured by the Parlia men and at a General Sessions of

the

in 1660 a Warrant WAR ISSO THE "OPEN DOOR" IN MANCHURIA shandise, and the finding of which determinos

forite demolition. The order being disregarded. six months later the King ordered that the castle and town walls be dismantled and de-

AMERICAN AMBITIONS.

U.B. ASIATIC TORPEDO BOAT FLOTILLA.

A CRUISE TO VLADIVOSTOCK.

The

in Canada mast not be overlooked. It is in either of the contracting countries.

The foregoing dogs to

country.

the

the

alien

of the same usture.

powertal now, and though it is possible that companies and parvisions hall not refer the imposition of a fine corresponding with the

it may be weakened if nothing be local market value. The department sous de The Asiatic torpedo boat flotilla, under the correct the influence of other tendencies we to the competence or otherwise of the comparler and partnerships. termined to break up the illicit traffic in opium command of Lieutenant Charles B. Kerrick, mast not lose sight of the fact that the formid molished. No effect was given to the second

The Norse Fremya, discussing the report that at this port, and, by holding the master. S. Navy, sonsisting of the torpedo best feeling of loyalty to the Empire, to which the formed in either of the countries, to engage in ion, the other country in commeros or industry. may have been with a view of order, and it

liable, to endeavour to have the entire ship's crew destroyers Bainbridge, Dale, Barry, Chaussey Imperial Conference gires periodical expression, sdiapromising the difficulty that the Carnarvon China will, in return for the so-called Chipicy so-operate with the customs officials fù prevent and Decatur, vill leave Cavite to-morrow (Jaly is associated in a natural and congenial manners, and definances in exce inject to the Town Council later on passed a resolution to Loan, give Americas business firms an opporing the smuggling of the contraband. It ie whitewash the building!

tunity of economically developing, with the help

port

of call will be Hongkong, where the little most significant things in recent Canadian his

The provisions of the foregoing clauses shall on the presentation of their Prines by the troops, certain districts in Manchuria, affirms take the matter into court unless the depart boats will romain several days and then proceed fory. The policy of the Mother Country

The interest of the Welsh people is contred of Chinese labour and under the guard of Chiness understood that the steamship companies will 15th) for a cruise in northern waters. The fleet with a pride of nationality which is one of the law and ordinances in force in the other

apply

to all companies and partnerships exist to several Chinero ports before visiting Japan. wach an emergency as that which the Beciprocity ng prior to the signing of this agreement or King, and this part of the ceremonial will take very categorically that the doors of Manchuria went recedes from its position.

Advices from Washington are to the effect An interesting feature of the summer craise foreshadowe is not an impracticable ane. place from Queen Elsauer's Gale. Tradition are open ouly economically, and that politically that it is probable that the department will rely will be a visit to Vladivostok, which port has an lay no restraint on the daughter nations; those which may be formed hereafter. Is it that Queen Eleanor entered the castle they are open to no nations but Ruain, Japan,

upon the recommendation of the Collector hare, never before been included in the itineraries of bat, at the same time, she ran recognise that her by this gateway prior to the birth of the first and China. America's recent polisy in China all the facts are found in each case, as 10 the smaller vessola, and bat seldom visited by system may be partly assimilated with theirs, so signing and ceases to be valid one year after Prition of Wales, and the King presented the the Novce Franya caracterises as an infringe-whether or not any fine will be imposed and ships of the tents

se to bring nearer a definite feral union within: notice is given by either of the contracting

| countries of its abrogation, young Frince to the people from the drawbridge, ment of the Monroe Doctrine.

after

collected: ---San Francisco Chronicle.

the Empire.

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The agreement takes effect from the date of