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through the House of Commons, and with

To pleguo total for the year now staude at

their heterogeneous wajority bohind them 21, two frock out having been reported TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS, TELEGRAMS.

yesterday.

have sought to threaten the Tears into a

We regret to reo-rd the death of MJ. P policy that is abnost akin to suicide or dis- memberment. The House of Lords, re- Eduiji Kharbatta, who was the oldent Parsen He carried on the cognising its own Red for soma measure resident of Hongkong. of reform, has wlopted a consistent attitudo, business of a stron and gara broker in the and on Thursday passed, though dis- Colony for vary Dany years, until the in- approving, the third reading of the Parlin.rmitios of go compelled him to rolloquich work about a year ago. He died yesterday zuent Bill. The crisis, however, contres morning at the Government Civil Hospital round the fact that though the Lords have at the ripe age of 79,

luctantly passed the third raiding of the Bill, they havo insisted upon cortain amend-

ments issing utade pon the Bill. These refer to the interpretation of finance measures.

The Upper House seems determined on

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he stole from a locked drawer in the polles sture

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISTS:

LORD MORLEY'S APPEAL.

FONDON, July 1st.

The House of Lords was thronged, and

poroses, diplomats, distinguished Coloni als and Indians in picturesque atire filled the galleries yesterday, whon Lord Morley rose to move the third sending of the Par-

THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

CRITICISMS OF THE COLONIAL, CONFERENCE.

[TIEROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCT.)

NEW APPOINTMENT FOR SIR

· MATTHEW NATHAN.

TONDON. July 21st. Sir Matthow Nathan, G.C.M.€,, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Inland

Losos, July 21st. In the debate in the House of Coumons yesterday on the Colonial Estimates the Rovome on the appointment of Sir Robert Right Hon. A. Lyttleton, formerly Secretary Chambers, K.C.B., to the Treasury, in ancrest- of State for the Colonies, said that apart sion to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Herberl from the discussion on foreign affairs Murray, G.C.D.. I.S.O., who retires from the

those points, but it is doubtful if they will a cigrotto'os a vained at 812 and $27 je money, liament Bill. He emphasised that this was the results of the Imperial Conference ¡ post of Permanent Secretary and Auditor

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maintain their actifule of uncompromising resistance. Should the Government, as is WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, exported, decide time those sineminents cannot be accepted, the House of Lords will either have to pass the measure

1,150 entirety or

risk being awwmped by a new creation of Peers, Some wolks ago, it was thought that Ganeral Election would be brought ab ut but this may be taken as one of the alterna- tive throats of the floverment. The Lords would be blamed for forcing a second

Sir Robert

the property of Sergeant Kout, and on the sam date he also appropriated $50 worth of opina, the property of the Government. On his rotura to the Caleur a few days ago he was arrested and at the Magistrany yesterday Mr. Hazelan senteed him in two months' imprisoarasat with hard labour,

a transformed Bill which he hoped and bø- loved the House would pass. Its rejection would involve a tromentous dislocation of sinoss and would greatly exasperate Par liamentary and political'opinion. Ho afiru

A sampian woman apposted before Mr. Wooded that the amendments introduced in the at the Magistracy pósterday an charges of being Upper Chauber impaired the anthority and in unlawful possession of 50 the of dyanite privileges and prestige of the House of of carrying the explosive without a permit; of having it in hor possession without inving the Commons. He added that he hoped this "dangeroas marked on the packet inevitable operation could be carried through word

without any social shock:

Burnett & Co.'s election within such a short time, and, being in English and Chiness; and of carrying it on

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used an a scapegoat, it can be readily under stood their position would not he intproved Neither do we imagine that the Upper House will allow itself to be flooded by now peers, and though the ontlook may perhaps be full of portents wo are not necessarily optimistic in believing that the onls, having fought to the last ditch, will capito- late to force majeure. A few may hold out, but it is thought that these extremists will ontvoted by Lor LANDOWNg's foll, wers, who will support the Government, and thus avert for the wond time in British history The wholesale creation of peers. It is better 8. If resistaner het wavailing, then it is belter to yield gracefully, and in taking this step the Lords are following the only digní. fed contro Open for them. Whether that surrender will end the consti ulion crisis

the water without exhibiting the necessary dan ger Bay. After hearing the evidence his Wor. ship imposed a fire of 32(0, tho ulternativs being two months imprisonment, and forfeited the dynamite.

HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO

·ST EAMBOAT CO., LIMITED. Subject to audit the Directors of the Hong- kong, Canton and Mero Steamboat Co., Ltd., will recommend at to Half-Yourly Mooting of Share olders to be held on Angust the 8th the payment of a dividend of $1.25 por share, absorbing 3100,000, write off book valus of stearners, propertise and wharven $25,000, trans. for to Depreciation and Insurance Fund $10,00), transfer to Speci Repairs Fand $5.000, and carry forward to new account $24,428.30,

THE HIPPODROME CIRCUS. MIDDLEWRIGHT BOXING COMPETITION.

is difficult to say. Will the Ministry follow | At the Cirens on Thursday night-and-st this success by an attempt to introduen in night, in alition to the umal programme, A. S. WATSON & CO., y, though not perhaps in nume, a form the preliminaries and som1-funds in a midde- of single chamber government? We hope weight boxing competition were brought off not. Further designs are contemplated on before an anthusiastic attendance. Four inter the Upper House, and should these conten-esting fights were decided on Thursday night, Mr. Jack Dempsey being the referee. To the plate an omusculated Chamber, the first Private Baratton of the R.O.Y.LI. stitutional crisis may be said to have been ont pointed Beamen Bates of the Thistle in a wil renched; but if they are intended to produceling thece mands. Privatos Richards and a weful Second Chamber then the crisis Smith, both of the KC.O.Y.LI., were so insopar- may be said to have boon passed, and abloat the end of three rounds that the referee the country will be glad to place its oiled for a fourth, and then awarded the fight 'to affairs in the hands of an improved and the former. Gunner MoGen of the R.G.A. took the decision in his fight with Millar approved constitutional government.

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This was the only passage that could be construed as an allusion to the creation of

peers.

Lord Lansdowne said the amendments were so essentially important that they could not recede therefrom and be long allowed to remain as fren agents.

The salary attaching to the post to which, Sir Matthew Nathan" has been appointed is

were danppointing, and asked for more of the Civil List, definits information with reference to the Commission, especially with regard to the Crown Colonies and India, and the fiscal martors relating to these,

£2,000 a year the same as he has been rootir- ing as Secretary to the Post Offfen]

HISLEY RIFLE MEETING.

FOLAPORE CUT.

LONDON, July 21et. The result of the shooting for the Kolapore Cup at Bisley was announced yesterday na follows :

England Canadu... South Afrien Guernsey

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New Zealand Indin England won, having the best seare the last range.

TURKEY'S LOSS.

The Right Hon. L. Harcourt sail the resolution of the Conference bound the Com- mission not to make any recommendations with regard to the fiscal policy of any part of the Empiro, nor was it intended that the Com- mission shoubi engure into such matters as a taxon corn. It had always been assumed that the terms of the reference wonki he roughly the terms of the resolution, but the speeches of Mr. Lyttleton and others wuade them realise that the resolution was nat sufficiently water-tight. He would ot hesitate to amend the reference accordingly. Lord Halsbury said they would never The Commission did not apply to Indią or was an unfair allow the Bill to pass without a division the Crown Colonies. It or without amendinents.

accom- the Confermace's Lord Willoughby De Broke said ho would plishment to judge merely by the resoku. only abstain from voting on the distincttions. Referring to the unwillingness of understanding that the substance of Lord the Colonial Premiere to accept his proposal Lansdowne's amendment was the irreducible for a Standing Committee, he said Elend minimum which the Opposition would ultimately the position was stated in these! Burcopt

words: Young man, you are going too far. He had to accept the position, one The House of Lords kas passed the Par in which no British Minister had ever been before, but he willingly accepted the decision tiament Bill without a division.

Lord Lansdowne said the Opposition had of the Conference. The consultations on gone five sixties of the way to meet the Imperial Defence, he added, had been most Government in the Constitutional crisisuccessful, and of great value. The Court

Betting100 to 8gainst Dalaxerag, 7 The Govnument bad all the materials for

of Appeal arrangements bal given satis-to I against King Midas, and 100 to 7 faction in every dominion.

against Humorist.

an honourable settlement.

PHERS' OPPOSITION.

TATEX

Lord Halsbury presided at a menting of the peers held in the afternoon, at which a strong feeling was expressed that in the of the KO.YLI, and the last bont of event of the House of Comuns striking the evening was a stirring four rounds be- twarz Gunaer Kingsland of the R.G.A., a well-out the Lords' amendments that the Lords kuona slegger, and Seaman Tovey of Subularine should insist upon these.

A thief visited the quarters of the Chiese boys employed at tho Puls Club on Thursday and stole clothing and money to the valao of 827 | 37, a new arrival, who established his claim to

-A smelt linoso urrant girl, 15 years of age.rocognition among local boxing men by defeat.

is scoused of having stolon $63 from a brokering the sturdy gunner. The final will be fought residing on the top floor of 34, Wellington to-night. Street.

Capt. R. D. Crawford, R.G.A., has been granted leave of absence" on private affairs to the neighbouring countries," from July 31st to September 30th.

The body of a Chinese male, aged about 25 yenre, was found in a street at Wanchai yester At Grand Hotel, Hongkong, on the 12thday and sout to the Mortuary. The body bore instant, the wife of CECI. H. Woon, Masa, [956 Swatow, of a daughter.

DEATH.

Mr. P. EDAL KHAMBATTA, the oldent Fargo resident of Hongkong, Cotton and Yarn Broker, died at the Government Civil Hospital yester day morning, aged 79.-Shanghai papers pleas

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HONGKONG, JULY 22ND, 1911.

THOUGH für removed from the strife of politics and party jealousies, wo in Hon kong have nevertheless a keen interest in the -contest proceeding between the two British

Houses of Parliament, a contest which has been described in recent cables as a con stitutional crisis." Ever since the return

no marks of violence.

The second match in the Water Polo Shiel Competition will be played in the V.R.C. bath this afternoon, starting of 5 p.m., whoa the 87th Co. R.G.A. meet the K.O.Y.L.I.

The manager of a largo Chiness firm has accused his pralocasser of stealing $500 during the fire: five months of this year, and the police | have been asked to investigato.

LOCAL SPORT

RHK. GOLF CLUB

The quarterly meeting was held on July 15th and 17th, with the following results:

MACEWAN CIP.

K. S. Morrison D. Templeton

Comily. Gregory Her, Faster-Pegg Bulmer Johnson Major Taylor C. A. Tomes G. M. Dalgety J. H. Little

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It was punonneed that Unioniste of all shades of opinion will attend a midnight meeting at which will be decided the future

policy of the party.

The Cabinot meets to-day to consider the Government action.

LATER.

measure of

SEAMEN'S STRIKE AT CARDIFF.

LONDON, July 21st, Bixty thousand workers of all grades at Cardiff docks have struck work in sympathy

with the seamen.

LATER.

Will scenes were witnessed in Cardiff yesterday, when the strikers looted the belongings of the Chinese crews and made bonfires of them. After the mass meeting in the evening, at which fifty thousand workers were present, the mob raided

Loanor, July 21st.

Sir William Willcocks, K.Q.M.G., Adviser

to the Ministry of Public Works, Cze stantinople, lus resigned.

THE LIVERPOOL CUP.

Tosnos, July 21st. The mee for the Liverpool Cup ↑ hat resalted as undor :

Dalnurag King Midas Humorist... Eleven ran.

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Inside the distance Daluserng took command and won easily,

FROM THE MANILA "CABLENEWA,"¦

A SENATOR'S BITTER ATTACK

ON. PRESIDENT TAFT.

WASHINGTON, July 15th. The branch in the Republican party was widened to-day by an attack unado on President Taft by Souator Robert M. Fat Follette, the progressive Republican leader, He denounced the President as r reactionary and charged him with a sweeping reversal of the entire administration of Mr. Roosevelt. and the programme of reforms approved by

favour of the Roosevelt policies. ̧

Lord Lansdowne's reference to free agents score of Chinese lanudries, greatly damaging the people in clecting him as arowedly in

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them.

The London dockers have also resolved to

The denunciation by Senator La Follette startled the Sonate and astovled the

The Daily Graphic believes that Lord go on strike. 100 - 18

The Barry dockers have struck in coatry. It is pronounced by thoso wha 91-8= Lansdowne will support the Government

heard it na the bitterest diatribe in the 96-12-284 if Lord Halsbury and Lord Willoughby sympathy with those at Newport and history of the United States Senate,

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Bill is returned.

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A Chines who broke into a residence at Kow-GM. Dalgets. loon City and stalo $13 worth of clothing was sentenced by Mr. Hazeland at the Magistency Festor lay to two months' imprisonment and four hours* stocks,

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UNREST IN PERSIA.

LONDON, July Zint. Toberan telegrans state that it is under- stood that Persia contemplates sending a strong Note to the British and Russian Laga- tious recalling Persia's frequent representa-

Cardia

The seamen's leader in Sunderland has declared that all shipping on the north- cast coast will be brought to a standstill next week unless the union is recognisisi.

GERMAN. AMBITIONS. ·

Loxpos, July 21st.

The Berliner Tageblatt suggests that.

tion on the subject of the ex-Shah's intrigues the Agadir incident, that the Govern since his departure and expressing surprise ment's decision to open up the Ovamb and regret at the Russian failure to fulfil Territory in Damaraland, and the reported the promise in Article XI of the Protocol of masacre of a German patrol at Caprivi, a

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

We have received from the American Con- sulate General copies of telegraphio warnings forwarded from Manila Observatory law night. The first reports a depression over the north. en part of the China Bon.

The second reports a typhoon or cyclone East of Northern Luzon less than 300 miles distant, filling up.

The third reports a cyclone or typhoon West of Northern Ladroso or Mariana Telande, inclining westward.

A. Ritchie Bulmer John The engagements of the Bishop of Victoria. A Tomes...

G. M. Dalgety for to-morrow (Sunday) are:-At 8 a.m., Holy J. H. Litle Commanninu at the Pork Church; 11 am. preach at the Cathodeal; 6.30 p.m., preach at the Peak Church. On Wednesday, July 26th, ho will taka Confirmation at St. Stephou's Chinese, A PROCLAMATION OF I STEREST TO SHIPress. | August 25th, 1909. Persia maintains that strip of Ngailand, are all indications Church at 7p.

Mr. B. A. W. Williams, Secretary of the Russia is responsible for any disorders and pointing to concerted action with a view to A Chinese employed at the Naval Yard was Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, for losses of property resulting from the ex-realising the dream of a great Germen to the statement that a moating of Chinaso

wards us as being a intter of possible interest

Australia, which in part says:

Prodlamation by the Commonwealth of

Shah's landing.

domain in West Africa from Rio del Rey Telegrams from St. Petersburg affirm to the Orange River. tha Russia was wholly ignorant of the

inh's escape...

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC

to office of the present Ministry it has been charged before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy to the commercial section of the public a copy regarded as a foregone conclusion that such yesterday with stealing 9h. of brass. The a crisis could not be long delayed, and it is brass was found in a brown paper parcel, which singular that the echoes of the Coronation was concealed in a basket of ashes, and the which proclaimed the unity of the Empire defendant told his Worship ho did not know the parcel was in the basket. He was sentenced should scarcely have died away ere the

to two months' imprisonment and four hours sounds of strife should be heard and a con- flict renewed which has no parallel in the past eighty years. All classes are roused to an interest in the struggle, which transcels

The Australian Antarctic Expedition ship in importance the ordinary political man

Dudley, the Governor-General aforesaid, sating Agrors leaves London en Tuesday, calis at curring, and the events of to-day represent Thursday a heavy ladon and undermined track | with the advice of the Federal Executive Coun

stocks.

We havo before referred to the dangers which arise from undermanned trucks when the vehicles besonic uncentrollable on a down grado.

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"Whereas it is desirable to prohibit tho importation into the Commonwealth of goods packed in bags or sacks whose coutouts exceed two hundred pounds in weight, and which in. regard to usshipment inust accesarily bo carried on the backs of the persons employed in handling the same:

Now therefore I, William Hamble, Earl of

EXPEDITION.

LONDON, July 21st.

as grave a constitutional crisis as any in the which was being taken from Hollywood Rande, do hereby prohibit from and after the Ist Cape Town, thenee proceeds to Hobart,

dowa Fossession Streat to Queen's Road got

history of the United Kingdom. So far the

out of the control of the coolies in charge and day of August, 1911, the importation into the where she will embark the leader of the conflict has followed the course that was weat at fall speed down the incline. One of the Commonwealth of goods packed in bags or sacks expected. The Government, flushed with foreinest coolies, unable to get cleats was whose contents ex-sed two hundred pounds in the hope of a tremendous party triumph, tossed to the ground, and a wheel of the vehicle weight, and which, in regard to unsbipment must necessarily be carried on the back of the have not hesitated to force the Voto Bil I passed over his chest, killing him instantly.

persons employed in handling the same.”

expedition, Dr. Mawson, his staff, etc. The expedition will take a monoplane, which is at present being tested at Brooklands.

FUNERAL OF THE CHIEF RABBI.

LONDON, July 1st.

The funeral of Chief Rabbi Adler took place yesterday at Willesdea. It was simple but impressive ceremony. The King was represented at the funeral.

LORD KITCHENER.

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LONDON, July 21st. Lord Kitchener leaves for Egypt at the end of Septenther.

CHINESE SA LORS AND TE BEAMEN'S STRIKE.

In the House of Commons on the 20th uit. Mr. Hunt asked the Pres dont of the Hoart of Trade whothor he had had his attentio called sailors was hell at the Boud of Tra le Office in the Eat India Dook-road for the purpose of tak ing the places of B-itish nallors who wereonstrike, and that they wore conveyed by train to Cardiff in obarge o Board of Trade officials to take the employment of the strikers. He further a-kod whether the Government proposed to take any

on the recommendations of the Clom action. mitres on Railway Arreements.

Mr. Buxton said as the hop, mataber had made a aharge against the offle als of the Roari of Trade of oing out of their way to assist the Cinese topot engaged in place of the man now on strike, he must ask the hen, member to furnish particulars so that the charge could be inquired into.

Mr. Hunt: I askel the right hon. gentle. man whether it was a fact.

Mr. Buxton ventured to any them was not a word of truth in it. There had teen no change in the ordinary regulations and practice with regard to the engagement of the Chinese. As. to the trade dispata w going a, the Board of Trade and its officials intended to maintain sa.. altitude of absolute neatrality.