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urrection, which may be regarded as the beginning of the 1911 revolution, broke out. And this is but typical of the difficulties that may possibly arise on every hand when laws to be observed in every part of the land are pro mulgated from Peking. The former Im porial Edicts were auch laws, but they were mrely, if ever, observed in their entirety throughout the Empire, even when they took so drastica formas did the anti-oplum Edicts There are, of course, two points of difference WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.tween the state of affairs under the Republic and that under the Empire." During the period of flux the power

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St. Petersburg newspapers, report the TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

appointment of Captain Suanorburg as Shanghai agent of the Russian Minary of Commerce.

The Chinese Republican flag was much in evidence in the Colony yesterday in recognition of the uponing of the National Assembly......

{TURGUGA IŠUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE BALKAN WAR.

(FROM THE "CHELNG NOOI BAN Fo."]

OPENING OF CHINESE PARLIAMENT.

PERING, April 8th. "At nine o'clock the members of the National Assembly gathered at

ALLIES UNITED. Iteuter learns that it is understood in H. E. the Governor will again patron official quarters that the change of 'ise the Bandmann Opera Co. by attitude on the part of the Allies, which attending the farewell performance at has wholly surprised the Powers, is due the Theatre Royal this evening, when

to their solidarity with regard to the Po Wo Palace to participate in will be staged.

Montenegro. It appears that the the ceremony of opening the new Autumn Manouvres Yesterday being the birthday anniver-blockade has not been declared, but is Parliament. They elected the oldest

held in suspense, N of the Central Government was of necessary of King Albert of Belgiam, who is

member present as temporary chair- PRESERVING THE PEACE OF sity in abeyanen," with the result that the now 38 years of age, Mr. Francis Janssens, the Consul for Belgium, was "At Home"

EUROPE. Provinces had perforce to assume a measure of organized self-government greater than to callers at his office in College Chambers.

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In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey said a landing of a naval brigade in the East by Miss Cecile Stephano, has with field guns or a tombardment would been published: The words and melody not be undertaken without further He emphasised the inter are by Mr. Dalziel and the accompani-instructions.

national character of the demonstration ment by Mr. A. G. Beaumont:

Under the patronage of President Yuan

Shih-kai, a new progressive party with the name of Chin-pu-tang" is being formed. Its aim is to strengthen the Central Government, to form a strong Cabinet and to unite the whole Empire.

The case against the seven Japanese accused of conspiracy to induce persons to purchase forged banknotes was con- cluded yesterday, when all were found guilty and sentenced to varying terme of imprisonment. The trial at the Assizes

his lasted fourteen days.

natural result that, when the Republic was fually established, Anuncially self-support- Por Cato Per jug Provinces such as Kwangtung, and, in a losser degree, Szechuan, Honan and others, | feli indisposed to surrender the powers that they had wielded as successfully as Peking could have done. And in this connection, the uncertainty of the final form of the constitution has been the cause of further complications, and would undoubtedlysxcuse 21.00 1.80 the Provinces in their aspirations. In the early days of the Republic, we were told 22.50 1.90 that it was to be a federation of Provinces more or less on the lines of the German 38.00 3.25 22.00 1.85 Empire. This scheme would appear to have originated from the possibility that it 25.50 3.10 would be necessary to leave to the Manchu 23.50 200 ExPEROR BODIe of the northern Provinces from the desire that orcu in these circumstances the unity of the land should still be maintained. That scheme his gone by the board now, but, in common fairness to the provinces that have been conducting their own affairs for so long, they should ere this have been given some idea of the extent to which devolution is to be fully granted. It is certain that many of the provincial privileges that existed under the Mauchus have to be curtailed.

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HONGKONG, APRIL 9TH, 1913,

much bas been accomplished in the way of centralization, thero is still much to be done before Peking's control of the national revenue will be complets, coupled with which there is the difficulty of allocating revenues for provincial and local use in such a way that rich and poor Provinces shall be more or less on the same footing. Although, on account of the interregum during which the Provinces have enjoyed an exceptional de, gros of autonomy, these problems present difficulties now that were non-existent be- fore, they should be easily overcome if the Parliament recognizes its reponsibilities as

The Provinces of China are being asked by the National Opium Prohibition Union to contribute towards a fund to enable a Chinoso delegate to be sent to of Commons, Anti-Opium Societies, England, to meet meinhers of the House British Preas, and others, and fully explain China's position and wishes on the opium question. A sum of $200,000 is deemed necessary for this purpose!

Inspector Kerr, in charging a Chinese with being in unlawful possession of a revolver on the railway, asked Mr. Haze

land to grant a week's remand, a inquiries were being made regarding the man's antecedents. His Worship said he could not grant a remand for longer than three days. Inspector Kerr thereupon asked for a remand as long as his. Wor-

and the importance of upholding the agreement regarding the frontiers of Albania. He declared that this agree ment was essential for the peace of Europe, and in his opinion it was only accomplished in time to preserve, peace among the great Powers.

Reuter states that the diplomatists consider that the Balkan situation is most obscure. They anticipate & settlement but they cannot form an opinion as to how it will be reached. The expect that the blockade will be carried out.

THE HAMIDIEH."

man,

SANITARY

BOARD.

A meeting of the Banitary. Buard was beid yesterday, Me. D. W. Tṛatwan, President, being in the chair. Thoro were also present-Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, Vice President; Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, | C.M.G., Lieut-Col. Younan, Mr. Chan -Kai Ming, Dr. Clark, Medical Officer of Health; and Mr. W. Bowen-Rowlands, decfetary.

THE PEAK OLUŰ APPLICATION..

Correspondence was submitted relative to the application for permission to erect one urinal at the Peak Club. The Seera tary of the Club wrote asking the Board

to reconsider the matter on the ground-

that the facts had not been set before members sufficiently clearly.

Mr. Bowtey minuted-The Club can A large number of foreigners were pump water from a well close by. On Ilon. Mr. HEWITT This application present.

Flags were hoisted at the Lega- should be again refused.

tions.

frZOUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]

THE RECOGNITION OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC,

LONDON, April 8th.

this.condition grant.

The HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT — The parity of the "functions" does not affect the question. One a urinal is there it must Lo Blushed regularly, whether there. aro 100 members in the Club or none. I sug- gested pumping-from a well supply, but was informed that it would be too costly, Mr. CHAN KAI MING said that he In the House of Commons Sir J. D strongly opposed the application and was Rees naked when Great Britain would of opinion that it should be refused. It recognise the new Chinese Government would be dangerous to create a precedent would have to allow others. He moved and whether the recognition would de-like, this, as if one were allowed they

end upon the prior settlement of con- that i have to all troversial questions between China - and Britain, including Tibet and opium.

Mr. Adland replied-When the present administration in China is established. Great Britain has agreed to act in concert

Hon. Mr. HewETT seconded.

Hon. Mr. CHATHAM moved that it bo granted, as it was an exceptional case. There was no other place of a similar nature in the Hill District and there was not likely to be another one. The con- The Turkish battleship Hamidich has with the Powers. Recognition will be ditions were such that the Club could not a supply of water from other conditional on the formal confirmation obtain

sour es without exceptional measures, and sailed from Port Said.

by the Republic of the rights and pri

the infrequent occasions on which the vileges resulting from Treaties and Club required to make use of such a placo established usuages enjoyed by Britishsenrerly justified the adoption of

excep subjects. The Imperial Government still tional measures. adhered to these views.

TURKISH ARMY ROUTED. The Servianis routed the Turkish army commanded by Djavid Pasha Valona, capturing 1,500.

near

AMERICAN TARIFF REVISION. SWEEPING REDUCTIONS PROPOSED,

CANADIAN NAVAL BILL.

LONDON, April 8th. The Canadian House of Commons re-

sumed the debate on the Naval Bill. The Opposition rejected the overtures of the Government for a cessation of obstruc- tion.

Dr FITZWILLIAMS reconded, and said this application need not form a pre- .cedent. It would be granted without prejudice in respect of future applica tions. If the President had bèon at the Club at one of the functions ho would realise the seed for such a request being granted.

Hon. Mr. HEWETT said that this was an old question. He was opposed to any water being turned on from the mains Mr. Borden, the Premier, suggested for any purpose of this sort, and he agreed with Mr. Chan Kai Ming that it would establish a dangerous precedent He asked a to grant the application. fixing a date for the vote;

Sir Wilfred Laurier said that the pro-question with regard to the construction

of the drains.

LONDON, April 6th... A message from Washington states that

The Democratic Tariff Bill was pre- the Congress was opened on Monday,

seated to the Honso of Representatives. Its striking features are the removal of all tariffs on many articles of food and clothing, a reduction of duties on all necessaries, and increased rates luxuries. The free list includes raw to the people as in the case of reciprocity wool, meats, flour, boots and shoes, He declared that there was no emergency Uneut perial Navy; and there could be no com saddlery leather, Iron ore, woodpilp, necessitating a contribution to the In- agricultural appliances, etc.

On per mode of settlement was by reference

The Vice-PRESIDENT replied that the.

drains from there were the proper pipe drains such as were in use throughout the

Colony.

ropresentative of the people, and if the ship could give, and a reniand for three diamonds, precious stones and furs pay promise in a matter affecting Canada's once in a while, but he did not see how

people will submit to the acts of the Parliament as those of their duly accredited

Parliament on

days was ordered.

autonomy.

Mr. Borden declared that it was im-

Empiro with self-respect. possible for Canada to remain neutral in a time of war and remain part of the

ten per cent of their value, spices one to two cents per pound, medicinal pre- An earthquake was experienced in Shanghai last Thursday evening The parations are reduced from 60 to 31 per shock was felt very distinctly on all five cent., castor oil from 33 per cent, to 15 floors of the Kaleo Hotel; and in one per cent., rice, cleaned, from 54 per cent. rum was sufficiently strong to displace to 33 per cent., and manufactures in some of the ornaments which fell to the rubber from 35 per cent. to 19 per cent. floor, while the windows rattled. · In Messrs. Melchers & Co.'s establishment on Sugar will be free in three years and

the expenditure last year was £25,731, the French Band several panes of glass there is an immediate reduction of 28 Social and Political Union showed that

including £6,321 for salaries.

were cracked At various points in the western district the disturbance seems to have been felt badly.

An engine-room artificer named Tizard, belonging to H.M.S. Royal Arthur, appeared before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy yesterday charged with

per cent.

The Bill includes an income tax pro viding that incomes up to 84,000 (gold) he exempt and then a tax of one per cent. on incomes from that figure to 220,000, two per cent. from $20,000 to $50,000,

THE SUFFRAGETTE TERRORISM.

LONDON, April 8th. The report of the Militant Women's

OBITUARY.

LONDON, April 8th. Mr. R. Marsham, Metropolitan

The PRESIDENT said that the advocates of the application being granted laid great stress that the place was only used water flushing it was possible to have system and turn it on, say, once in a fortnight only If the Bushing water were turned off the place would be as insanitary as ever

The VICE-PRESIDENT did not agree with this view.

The PRESIDENT moved that the applica tion be granted on condition that an independent water supply be procured.

Dr. CLARK seconded.

On being put to the vote the amendment was carried.

HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this Society was held at the City Hall yesterday, but there were very few present. The Presi dent (Mr. John Barton), presided.

agents, and it is here that the present situation gives ground for hope. The pro coedings at the elections, it is true, were discouraging, but it would be unfair to judge an institution by defects that are. observable at its inauguration, but which may be remedied as the institution becomes more familiar. It is, moreover, just the most progressive Provinces that show the greatest tendency to independence of Peking. but it is in those very Provinces that the Hostkong Orrios: 101, Das VOUX ROAD 0. LONDON OFFICH: 181, FLAT STRE, E. elections have been taken mostintelligent

This being so, we cannot persuade ourselves that the people of Kwangtung will refuse obedience to laws passed by the Poking assaulting a ritsha coolie. It was alleged three per cent. from $50,000 to $100,000. Police Magistrate at Bow Street since

the ground that they that the coolie bad demanded more than and four per cent, above that figure. It 1879, is dead, were passed by the votes of other his legal fare, and defendant merely is expected there will be a severe fight of the pushed him away and he fell over the over wool and sugar. Tobacco and spirits WITH the actual opening of the Parliament Provinces against the wishes

Should they shafts of his ricsha. His Worship. in Peking there will, as time goes on, be Cantonese representatives. an opportunity of discovering to what adopt an attituds so contrary to the whole thought that the man had had too much are unchanged, fruits are reduced 15 per extent the Central Government is to govern spirit of representative government liquor and imposed a fine of $7 or cent, sheep, cattle and horses to 10 per and how far it is to be swayed by the although, as we have already pointed out, fourteen days in prison and suggested cent, combed wool and tops are reduced

that he should pay thirty cents to the from 105 per cent. to 15 per cent. wishes of the Provinces, and in particular we see no reason for contemplating so

Mr. Underwood, in the course of his lamentable an occurrence--they would only coolic. we may hope to see whether or not,

statement in presenting the Bill, em Kwangtung is to be brought effectively succeed in destroying the efficiency of the under the control of Peking. It cannot be national Parliament and so annihilating the

phasised that the tariffs were reduced to too often nor too emphatically pointed out boud of union between the heterogeneous that there is at present no law in the land components of the Republic of China, in unlawful possession of a gold watch such a basis as to make the American belonging to Miss Dunk, lady manufacturer develop his business on the -no national law, that is to say, for every Laudable though the aspirations. of the missionary who was robbed with other best and most economica! lines and fit him sulted from the, disarmament order, Tha future, It was necessary to elect a new

on board the Tai On last Wednesday, was Province has been a law to itself. The Provinces may be, they should remember revolution meant the disintegration of the the old allegory of the body and its brought before Mr. Hazeland at the to extend his trade in the markets of the occupations, and within a month General they could not possibly find a better man

Magistracy yesterday. His Worship re- world. marked to Inspector Cameron that the charge could not be unlawful possession, and that it should be larceny, The proper charge in a case of that sort where the possession had been so recent should be one of larceny and not of receiving.

Inspector Cameron explained that he was applying only for a remand. By and by the man would be charged with murder.

machine of Government, and it need not be wondered at that the reassembling of the parta and the adaptation of them to the new motive power has proved a difficult aud a tedious task, por need it be matter for surprise if there is some initial friction and creaking. The time for testing the. remodelled machine has now come, how. ever: the Parliament will, it is to be presumed, pass laws. Will it be able to ensure that these laws will be honoured and observed throughout the Provinces? One of the Bills to be brought before the Parliament is; we were told some time ago, to deal with the question of a national railway system, but it was over this very question of railway nationalization that the

members, and realize that provincial inde pendence pushed to extremos must imply

dismemberment.

Mr. J. J. Bryan, of Hongkong, has been elected a Fellow of the Roxel Colonial

Institute.

Mr. G. A. Goodman, Attorney-General, Barbados, has been appointed Attorney- General of the Straits Settlements.

THE TAI ON" PIRACY. The man arrested at Yaumati for being

the

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

LONDON, April 8th. The imports during March increased by £180,551 and the exports by £975,976, The increase in imports were principally. in raw wool, grain, flour, and meat, white raw cotton being less by £3,804,278. The increases in exports were chiefly under the The Canton-Hankow Railway Co. has

Defendant made a statement in which bead of coal, amounting to £2,987,632, and been granted the right to impert supplies he said-Wa Chai gave it to me to give at Canton free of duty for one year more..

to his sweetheart with several tens of there were decreases in the export of food and drink, as well as manufactured Mr. Lester Maynard, American Consul dollars.

at Harbin, has been transferred to Amoy, His Worship granted a remand for a woollen articles (£618,882) and cotton and been succeeded by Mr. S. P. Warner week.

(£1,092,589).

The annual report and statement of accounts were submitted, and the latter showed that last year's credit balance of Lady Carson, the wife of Sir Edward 225.03 had been increased to $380.65, Carson, F.C., is dead,

which had been mainly owing to favour- able weather during the show, resulting DISARMING THE MOROS

in gate money 8312.15 against $220.90 for Not more than 1,000 Moros remain in the previous year, and to a reduction in of the 5,000 who gathered there to defy and $2 to $2 and $1 the fortified crater of Mount Bagsak out, the sums given for money prizes from $3 the disarmament order now, being carried The report and balance sheet having into effect by the troops, under General

The Chairman mentioned that that was John J. Pershing, and the civil officials been adopted, of the province, and this number, says the fade Cablenews, is being reduced every the last occasion on which he would have day as small bands of the renegades hoist the privilege of presiding over that meet the white flag and surrender themselves ing and he took the opportunity of and their arms to the authorities.

Thus far not a death has directly rewishing the Society every success in the Mores are returning peacefully to their President, and he ventured to suggest that or one who would work harder for the Pershing expects the Jolo district to re- Society than Mr. Gibba, who for years sume its quiet and prosperity. ̧

past had done an immense amount of work. He also proposed that Mr. Gibbs should be re-elected. Hon. Secretary as well.

THE FLUCTUATING DOLLAR. COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY APPOINTED BY THE

BRITISH TREASURY.

The propositions were adopted.

Mr. W. L. Pattenden was re-elected Hon. Treasurer, and the Committee were It is officially announced that the Lords elected as follows:-Mesdames C. M. Ede, Commissioners of the Treasury have s. G. Newalt, and Stabb, Messrs. P. W appointed a Committee to inquire into Goldring, G. Hoggarth, T. Howell, L. N

Mr. Howell suggested that the new mode of issuing the dollar in the East the arrangements in force as to the Leefe, and W. J. Tutcher in order to secure the equivalent of sterl Committes should take into consideration ing in local currency. The member of the advisability of adopting the rules for the Committee are--Sir R. Balfour, judging of the Royal Horticultural Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint; Mr. suggestion was agreed to. Bart, M.P., chairman; Sir T. H. Elliott, Society at all shows in future. The W. E. N. Goschen, and Mr. B. P. Blackett, Mr. Gibbs expressed the deep sense f towards Mr. Barton, who, he said, had the Treasury, will act as secretary to the of the Treasury. Mr. A. McFedyean, of gratitude members of the Society felt Committee,

been one of the mainstays of the Society,