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wealth of the land as would suffice to turn only make up its mind that it wants the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

owned coal

the deficiency on the national balance country's vast resources adequately develop- sheet into a surplus. China's carboniferous ed, there would be no difficulty in the grant deposits are well known; some of the other of mining rights to foreigners; if the minerals that are even now being worked provincial authorities realized that, in pro- are iran, copper, silver, mercury, tin, gold, portion to this activity of the mines, s S. WATSON antimony, asbestos, zinc, lead and petroleum. stream of coin flowed into their exchequer The Kaiping, Lanchow, and other foreign they would soon and manns of suppressing owned and controlled raines are exceptional; the alleged popular opposition.. It would but, putting these aside, we find Chinese ill befit the Republic to carry on the policy mines producing annually of passive resistance to foreign outerprise amounts up to 500,000 and 600,000 tons that chamcterized the last six or seven years each, and a tin mire that yields metal of the Empire, and we trust that it will not to the value of half a million sterling iu a be long before President YUAN and his WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS year. The only published figures of Chinese Cabinet will deal in a liberal and enlight- mines--those of the Peking Board of ened way with the question of foreign Trade-record about 100 registered mines mining rights. working in the country, in addition to 420 mines working but not registored, and 300 known mines that have not yet been operated; while the returns of the Maritime Customs show a total value of Tis. 11,283,18% of minerals, exported to foreign countries. These figures leave no room for

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The Bishop of Macao returned from Singapore yesterday and proceeded to Macao by the afternoon steamboat.

The police force at Cheung Chan has been brought up to strength by the drafting of Indian constables from the Central. Tai O police force has been strengthened.

The Rt. Rev. G. E. Moule, D.D., laté

Bishop of Mid-China, left estate of the gross value of £875, of which £839 is net personality, this being estate in the United Kingdom only.

frustrated by popular and official opposition, so that now the foreign mining concessions existing in China might be almost number ed on one's fingers. The course of opposi- Per osso Partion to these concessione always followed ofldos. Bot. the same lines, and even the fact that

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THE PEKING CRISIS.

NOPERATE COUNSELS PREVAIL

PEKINO, August 22nd.

[THROUGH REUTED'S AGENCY.J THE RALKAN UNREST.

LONDON, August 22nd. While the situation in North Albania

[TELOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.J.

THE SITUATION IN ULSTER.

LONDON, Angust 22nd. The Times says the statement that tho

The National Assembly eat with closed appears to be settling, advices from the people of Ulster are planning an arm- Turco-Montenegrin frontier are of aed rising is unfounded. At meetings to doors to consider the question of serious nature. The Montenegrins have to held at the end of September they peaching the Government in connection

burned several block-houses and are will enter into a covenant not to acknow¬~ with the execution of two Generali.

besieging others.

ledge or pay taxes to a Parliament Apparently moderate counsels pre-

The German semi-official Press warna established in Dublin.

Montenegro that Europe cannot allow her to stir up trouble.

MONTENEGRIN CABINET RESIGNS.

vailed, and the impoachment motion was dropped and the Assembly agreed to President Yuan Shi-kai's suggestions. The crisis is regarded as passed, President Yuan refused to demand the the Premier and the attendance of Minister of War. Instead, he suggest- | ed that the Hupeh deputies should which is regarded as paving the way visit him.

out of the present situation.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEROY.] TRADE BOOMING AT HANKOW.

LONDON, August 22nd.

A Constantinople telegram reports that news has reached there of the re- signation of the Montenegrin Cabinet,

BULGARIA AND AUSTRIAN PROPOSALS.

Bulgaris is anxiously awaiting details

Bul

CANTON.

[FROM OUR Own CourtssonDENT.]

August 21at. ANOTHER MONUMENT TO REVOLUTIONARY

HEROES.

Several monuments and graves have been erectod since the revolution to per- petuate the memory of those who wero killed in bringing about this movement

mature rising was caused by the newly- trained soldiers of the then No. 1 regi..

of Count Berchtold's proposals. The or who were oncouted by the late Govern- Bulgarians think that decentralisationment for being revolutionista or for Iming implicated in any of the schemes which A telegram from Hankow to the will only benefit the Albanians.

failed. The first unorganised and in- Fier states that trade at Hankow garia will only accept local self-govern is booming. The rico harvest is abunent with Macedonia, or go to war with dant and other crops, except cotton, are Turkey. excellent. The disbandment of troops is proceeding steadily throughout the Yangtsre Valley, and 99 per cent. of the population urgently desire quietude.

CHINA AND TIBET.

PRACE CONCLUDED.

ment, and a large number of these The Daily Telegraph publishes an in-soldiers were arrested and beheaded in front of the Au Wong Temple outside the terview with Noradun Shian, the For-East Unte by the order of the Viceroy

a prominent citizen to erect a temple and eign Minister (of Turkey 1), who says he a plan has just been brought forward by

these heroes to whom they owe so much. has good hopes of accing the Montone-a large grave on this spot to commemorate grin question settled soon. The Mon-

A subscription list has been opened Government had teregrin

already and already considerably over 810,000 Besumed a calmer attitude, and he collected, while the Government has given. a donation of 86,000 towards the expenses. hoped the report of the commission of More money is still wanted and the work is to be commenced immediately. Thess Reliable news has reached Gyantsoenquiry into the Kachana massacres, memorials meet with great approval among that peace has been concluded at Lbasa.

which would soon be published, would the people, who keep up the Chinese veneration for the dead even more than All the Chinese troops beyond the An appease Bulgaria.

over in the case of these so-called heroes tho who suffered for the "freedom ban's ordinary escort are to leave Tibet

people are now enjoying. This will be the largest thing of its kind erected dur- a India, their arms and ammunition

ing the new Government and everyone is waxing enthusiastic over it.

LONDON, August 22nd.

preferred. against. P.8. Hedge by a remaining at Lhasa, sealed by both

Indian who had formerly been in the

THE JAPANESE EMPEROR'S FUNERAL.

LONDON, August 22nd. The Austrian cruiser Kaiser Franz

Mutsuhito.

the strange ways of the foreigner were police force was resumed at the Magis-arties. The Chinese traders remain, actively fomented. The general objection tracy yesterday. After hearing the evi- was that the derricks erected and the shafte dence, Mr. Irving dismissed the sum- sxcavated would prove fatal to the feng- mons. A.S. WATSON & CO..th, or geomantic influences, of the

At the Magistracy yesterday five men. district; but, it may be remarked, that objection would apply, if it were worth were brought before Mr. Melbourne Josci has been ordered to Yokohamas on anything. to the huge pile of buildings charged with armed robbery near Hung-the occasion of the funeral of Emperor Breton in Delving from the Rond totamien han en el Art 14 was alleged that The rod, nannam Afit to the Hanyang

damage to their feng shui when their heads with Backs, afterwards ran- they found that the mines meant a large sucking the house. They were committed

for trial. demand for labour and were consequently a source of profit to them, but the local gentry continned the opposition-and-did- all

power to hamper the been imposed upon saatchers was yester in their working of the concession, while the day inflicted by Mr. Irving at the officials asserted their powerlessness to Magistracy upon a Chinese who was con- victed of stealing an earring from a break down the obstruction. It usually

woman in the street An independent was found, too, that there was some feature

the map and handed him luking. Sentence of twelve months' im-

over to prisonment, four hours in the stocka, and twice to be whipped with the birch, each whipping to consist of twelve strokes, was passed.

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A more savere sentence than has of late

TURKISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

LONDON, August 22ad. Reater's correspondent at Constan- tinople telegraphs that Hussein Hilmi Pasha, Minister of Justice, has resign-the work will be taken over by the Chief

ed. This will necessitate a fresh Cabinet

"shuffle."

THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.

LINAR JEANS JER

LONDON, August 2nd. from Dunkirk states that A said that time had givou fresh vigour to the Franco-Russian Alliance. This union was completed and broadened by

THE SANITARY BOARD, The Sanitary Board has been joined to the Police Department, and henceforth of the Police with an extra official to help him. This has been done to facilitato the work of the police in forcing shop- keepers and householders to keep the front of their places clean and to stop them throwing rubbish into the atreety or the crooks. The streets of the city are a little cleaner and better kept then before; but there is room for great in grement yet, and this new arrangement help in this direction.

1 ought to

KOOTING OUT BAN CHARACTERS

The North river being more inaccessible than the other parts of the delta, and being a butter place for hiding, has always been a haven for crowds of pirates and robbers who from time to time make taken to root out these men, and in placea excursions elsewhere. Steps are being

LONDON, August 22nd. The King has sent a message to Bram- well Booth stating that he was grieved to hear of the death of his father. The the cordial understanding with Great nation had lost a great organiser and the Britain. None, however, cen ses an ag- poor a whole-hearted and sincere friend,gressive purpose in the pacific grouping who had devoted his life to helping them of three friendly. Powers, It is by a things are becoming too hot for them and. in a practical way. Only in the future policy of wisdom,

they find it advisable to remove their sang fraid, and

camps! It came to the knowledge of the to maintain her position in the world.of these people were making their way into Canton in the boats which come This utterance was received with entha-down from this district bringing firewood. siastic applausė,

essential to the successful working of the witness who saw the cecurrence arrested shall we realise the good which he dignity that the Republic has been able) Chief of Police the other day that many

miues that was not covered by the Imperial graat-it may be that the construction of alight railway was necessary; but had been omitted from among, the rights expressly conferred on the concessionaires. Any bandle of this sort was at once seized on, and the maintenance of an attitude of The London, Singapore, and Java unreasoning resistance to anything not strictly contained within the four corners of the grant, coupled with the usual opposi tion to the working of the concession, often reduced the mines to a state of impotence, and the proprietors had nothing for it but |to make the best of a had bargain and try

It was

wrought among his fellow-creatures.

LATER.

It is officially stated that Bramwell Booth becomes the new “Cieneral” of the Salvation Army.

It has been decided to have á public

in London.

Bramwell Booth has received world-

Bank has been registered with capital of lying-in-utate, probably in a public hall £80,000. in £10 shares, to carry on in Great Britain, Europe, the Dutch and British East Indies or elsewhere, the business of bankers, financiers, financial agents, money changers, bill brokers, dis- counters, underwriters and guarantors, monarchs.

ete. The subscribers' are:-G. St. L.

wide talegrams of sympathy, including messages from the King and ethor

Mowbray, 23, Suffolk-street, Pall-wall, Army Headquarters states the

The notice posted on the Salvation Gen- W., and B. N. Varney, 17, Caversham-eral has laid down his sword. God in It is a private company, and the first

secretary.with us." directors are G. St. L. Mowbray and A. master.

The Salvation Army flags are all hali-

road. Kingston-on-Thames,

HONGKONG, August 23rd, 1912.

to get as good a price as possible for the WITH the great strain that has been put redemption of the original grant. on China's finances by the revolution of last something of this sort that happened in the year and by the enormous expenses that cases of the Shansi mines of the Peking must yet be incurred before the country can Syndicate and of Sir JosN LISTER KAY's be settled on a proper hesis, it becomes Tungkuan-chan concession in Aubui, as Berry. increasingly evident that it will be neces-well as in other instances.

And yet,

The "General" will be buried beside.

sary for her to discover or develop fresh by her Commercial Treaties with Great The report of the Superintendent of his wife at Stoke Newington. sources of wealth, or else, in order to meet Britain and the United States, China] Prison for the year 1911 shows that the

CANADIAN PATRIOTISM. har obligations, raise taxation to such a pledged herself to draw up, within a year, number of prisoners received last year level that there will be a danger of the new mining regulations that would offer numbered 4,178 as against 4,867 in 1910.

LONDON, August 22nd. Reuter's correspondent at Toronto strain on the people reaching the breaking no impediment to the attraction of foreign Offences ander the Opium Ordinance were point, and resulting in a recrudescence of capital' nor place foreign capitalista at a responsible for the incarceration of 882 states that the movement to divert the disorders. It may be objected that this is a greater disadvantage than they would be and offences under the Gambling Ordin-question of naval defence from party truism; and to all who have studied the under generally accepted foreign regula-ance brought in 389, these two providing politics is spreading, and is taking the resources of China to any extent it is tions." These Treaties were signed ten and the greatest number of admission. Of the form largely of a signød memorial to be equally incontestable that none of them is pine years ago, respectively, but the regulatotal admissions 67 per cent. were for presented to Mr. Berden, the Premier.

The percentage so neglected as ber mineral riches.

It is tions are not yet forthcoming: China has non-criminal offences, generally accepted that these oust be rast, drafted some on one or two occasions, but of prisoners in custody to population was 128, an advance on the 125 of 1910. though geological study of China has been they proved unacceptable to the other There was one escape from prison during so scanty and sporadic that it is difficult to parties to the Treaties owing to the illiberal form anything approaching an accurate idea restrictions devised. With YCAN Burn- of their real extent. There are, however, 'a President of the Republio we are -gomne mines

of various sorts working justified in hoping for a more enlightened throughout the land, and when the diversity treatment of the question, and the use be in of their products and the amount of their making of foreign advisers tends to confirm

the year.

THE CHEUNG CHAU AFFAIR.

PIRATES NOT AT COLOWAN.

Bir Wülfred Laurier has declared that if international relations, according to official information, indicate the exist ence of an

urgent situation, Canada should forthwith take substantial. action adequate to the country's wealth. He exhorted the Government to consult the Opposition to that end.

THE IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION.

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INSURRECTION IN MOROCCO,

Lospos, August 22nd.

The Pretender El Hiba has been pro claimed Sultan at Marrakesh.

PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

LONDON, August 22nd.

The water police made searches and quite number of suspicious persons were taken in charge. Numbers were found to be vagrants, who were promptly despatch- ed to their villages, but over a dozen will be tried. The authorities announc known robbers wore captured and they,

that systematic steps of this kind will continue to be taken and they hope to ho able to send more soldiers to the infected regions.

FIRE IN THE CITY. A further batch of passive resisters that part of the city called Fung Wong Two nights ago a fire broke out in under the Insurance Act were dealt with Kong. Two houses were completely burn- yesterday, being fined various amountsed down, and at one time it looked as if How- the fire would spread seriously. from £1 to £5.

over, a heavy shower of rain and tha efforts of the newly formed Fire Brigade of the Western Suburbs kept the flames under control and prevented the blaze from spreading. No lives were lost, but several people were burut and înjured.

THE TEST MATCH,

LONDON, August 22nd. Dall weather and showers interfered

COMPLAINTS ABOUT JUSTI08. with the resumption of the Test Match

The Law Commissioner has received at the Oval between England and Aus-many complaints from different country, tralia. The wicket was difficult. There districts of magistrates and judges who was an attendance of 13,000.

are not acting justly and who in trying Australia were all out for 111., Kelle-cases are able to be bought over.. Public opinion is very strong against these officials way scored 48. The last seven wickets in some districts and an inquiry into the feil for 21, Barnes taking Ave for 30 and matter is to be made and several new Woolley five for 29.

officials appointed. Just now, when they, their Law Courts, this reminiscence of are trying to bring modern methode into the Ching Dynasty will do the Govern- ment a lot of harm. It is necessary, to keep the different parts of the province as peaceful as possible, and in this interest a conmission is to be sent to inspect.

England's second venture did not open very promisingly, four wickets falling for 64 runs, Hobbs contributing 32.

HOME CRICKET.

LONDON, August ́22nd. The following results of home matches

ARMING OF THE POLICE. are telegraphed ---

The Police were at the time of the advent of the present Government Ell Gloucestershire 2. Surrey, at Chelten- armed with pistols and revolvers of one bam. Abandoned, no play on account of kind and another; but, like financial rain.

Kent v. Leicestershire, at Dover. Kent won v an iumines and 90 rims

accounts and other things, many of these have been conveniently lost until at pre- sent not many more than a hundred of

of wee nod in good