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By the way what do we mean when we talk about Orange Ho that would undertake great "loyalty"? "It is alleged," says enterprises, hath need of wisdom Renter, at the van (which way and courage.. captured at Dabliu) contained | rifles for the Ulstermen." Aud what did the Ulstermen propose German Mail-Das to do with them? Woreadily owa

Darfflinger to-morrow that rifles even of an 1838 Italian

about 3 p.m.

The Mails.

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THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

pattern are a step in advance of Sitnian Mail-Das per the durmies wherewith the lynl Orangemen spluted the equally German Mail-los per .. loyal Sir Edward Carson du og his recent visit to Ireland; but

Gool in at 9 a.m. to-morrow. there still remaing a fatally Amicon and Sibrian Maila~ ludicrous flavour about the whole Clear sis. Morgolis at 41 well tɔ point out that the de. thing. Lord Farnham, an Orange- p.m. to mo.OW.

putation was a little over-anxious man, to whom the cons gment was

8.8. in the matter. The Government's addres ed, der's that he knew

to-sole wish is to have the coinage anything about the contents of the van; and we ate band to believe him. Frobably he is now praying the good old prayer, But who were the friends? People Deliver me from my friends. who would hold up their hands

Site Mail-Oloses par Derflinger at 5 pm.

moviJW."

Overdose of Oplum. A Obinca in Lower Iar Rw died on Monday from a self- administered overdoof opium.

Leaving on Holiday. Mr. Darmen Fuller the, organist in righteous (and, to do them of St. John's Cathedral, leaves jaslica, in genuine) horror if any to Jay for a month's houday at confessed anti-imperialist were to Shanghai, stad arms into India, the Straita

Lost or Stolen.

or Hongkong; yet see no crime A Euror sau bas repo od that in seeking to sow rebellion neurer whilst waiting for a Job on home-above all, in the nometne whorf his busket of bathing

of religion!

ger was either kit er stolta.

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BIRTH.

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Ine ructors

Mu kéty, at an examination held in the Command on 31st May.

Ringboy's Loss.

NIGHT IN MOTOR GAR.

European Stays on Road Side to Comply with Law,

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His Worship: Well, you ought It will therefore be seen that not to bare gone out. You should General was bedly called for (if let this or sur again. the deputation to the Registrar bave turned back. $5 and don't

that was the objest of the visit)| since so definite an assurance bad already been given to the Chinese

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL.

His Excellency the Governor Present yesterday,"

A ingboy at the Circus has reported that whilst at work some one sole a box of clothing to the Government's readiness and other article from his dr to consider their businessinteres ing tent. The value of the articles in every way. It is very eating

tory, however, to find now that to die, even though they die hard, natives of all olisse a'are realising the retention at least of the pic-

Plague.

CHINA COAST MARINE.

Cause of, and Remedy For

Shortage of Mates-

A Junior with wide Experi ence" writes:

Where Shortages Exist. It is mostly in the steamers still mast-red by men who joined heast selvicas in those earlier day that the shortages exist. This type of mister des not seem to grasp the fact that im. provement has been effected in the position of the mode a junior

that the change in the coinage of turesque Dragon Boat Festival escoviations, and to the the Colony is inevitable and also will be a source of tisfaction to FASSE-June 10, at 4, Conduit Road, Hongkong, to Mr. and (rell-and; among the non-minis-five cates of plaque recorded that they are prepared to accept those who admire many of the There were many well-bred

it gracefully.

We reports on Saturday that a doputation of Obincз0 busines

Mr." T. M. Nicol, of the Exile men bad requested the Registrar Garege, spent the night in his General to lay before the Gover- motor car on Jubilee Road be The case of and remedy for the at nor-in-Council a plea to have the cause he could not get brok to lately much ventilated shortage 8.9.willky prohibited in Hongkong

date at which Obines coiraga Hongkong before the expiration of European junier mates in the of the time during which motor steamera trading under the Red cara are allowed to re

Engiga on the Coast of China is,' fixed at Obiësse Now Year, insizad The sequel was that be I think, not far to seek for anyone of at January 1, 1914.

was charged at the Police Court possessing experience of the Mer- In connsolion with this it mathie mariog, with ronning a cor canle Marine during the past 25

in probibite i bout.

Fera or 8ɔ, and more eapoislly Defendant ezid they left Hong-for those having knowledge of kong about twelve o'clock; the the lator days of the transition roads were bad and he drove period from sail to stem. It is fornd it was to late to get back, type of shipmaster makes either slowly. On gettingto Aberdesa tbe generally the case of coa that the of the Colony settled on a prop and about five minutes to one for the comfort or other wiss of basis; and, co long as all are they put the'rir on the roadside those agreed upon a

Parving under him. definite and and they stayed there until six This was especially the c380 reassoably early date at which leak in the morning, after in the days of the single which they were permitted to ship, or small companies, the the chelation of foreign money

maa er held a more autocratio musi ceass, be authorities mind | His Worship:-JE you found position than in the days when little whether that data be the roads too muddy you should companies control. big flats, and Januery 1. or Merch 1 of rext have gone home.

junior offirats were more subject your. Indeed the Registrar Defendant:-We did not have to the individual whims and Goneiul, 88 back as three a chan; we could not tura idiosyncrasies of each particular weeks ago, told the District round on that read and we had master acording to his stage of Watch Committ's that the Gov-not the opportunity to sara. aducation or refinement. The eroment was agresible to the pro-

His Worship: Phould say it conditions proveling on the China. hibiting-dats being fixed at is possible to turn on Jubiles Cest is very similar to that of 25 Mr Wyndham's death "remove3 Fivilege lewe to the neigh Obir New Year, in order that Road. -regrettably enough-another of bouring countries has been grant-Obioe: merchanté might still be

yests ago in British winned ships, are Jnspector Sims They our bookish politicians. He was ed to Lieutenant J. E. She tar, able to balance their books as the turning on it every day, widely-end 1 th in English and 26th Punjabis, from 1st July. end of their present Fuspcial

Defendant:-There was in French literature, and though Instructors of Musketry, year in accordance with the old cheure to turn. heis perhara mostassociated in too Six offices and non me coinage system. public mind with his notes ionad offres, HK.S.B. R.G 4., North's Plutarch, his contributions qualified

cf to Shakespearian and Rinardian iterature form hiq meat thought al and original work. Tho number of politicians who find

mate in the large majority of their recreation in literary work is

steamers trading out of the unhappily getting emeller and

United Kingdom," as compared sme1ler; and, with the entrance in-

If the old Chinese customs avand second mate combined daye with their herd days-the boun to the House of Commors of menof

thanks to the efforts of the a les cultivated cort, it thraatens is $60. in the future to dwindle to zero.

various nautical professional Lords Eridane and Morley, Mr. During the twenty-four hours Balfour and Mr Augustine Bir. ended at acon today there were

substitution of steamships. queiat institutions of the Chiese gentlemen commanding and torial ranks, Sir Gilbert Parker-three of which were farl In

Unfortunately much of the bril are still with us; but, greater two of the ras- the bodies were WILFORD-At Cardiff on June 8, Sarah Catherine Wilford these undoubtedly are individual. found in the sure at. Since January cond reading on Thursday, but lievoy of the Dragon boat racss at officering our old Indiamen, tea,

Aberdeen yesterday was

and woolippers; but the greater ly, they make a poor show in 1. there have been 131 cavas cf we understand that the 125ing through the absence of sun and number of these had gradually

lost. comparison with the men of the plague notified.

of it will be postpone ill the palmy days of political culture, German Emperor's Semi-Jubilee, next sitting of the Legislative the general depression of wet given up the sea as a profesion

Regarding the celebration of Council. Junior Officers' Grievances.

Besides thousands the earlier transition days, and of Chinese, and hosts of junke, their places were taken in the His German Majesty's semi-jubilee

there was a good sprinking of majority of cases by men who, in a junior officer serving on the connetton with the Divine service

Europeans on annobes, including their time would not have been China car is interesting and at St John's Cathedral on Sunday HIPpodrome circus. among those prezent, His Ex-upon the quarter-deck, and who thoughtfui. He appears to lay his at 10 am. cards for reserved

cellooey the Governor, Com still adhere to the old saw his finger on the cause of at least seats and not cards of entrance,

modore Austrather, Commander was good enough in my early

days should suffice for my junior. much of the discontent, and the tie to be had at the Garman Bysack's Hippodroms Circus Breil Taylor and many others. remedy he suggests should attract Consulat

continues to draw good hous:s in the afterncon, were. six in Dum-

The races, whioli took place in The Out-of-Date Master, attention. He suggests that if the

spite of wratohed weather. Last

The men who have had the masters, whom he describes sa LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. night there was a complete change and in each of the races, such men are mainly responsible ber, three boste competing, doubtful honour of serving with' out of date and largely respon-

programme and the audience sible for the trouble, would volun-

was kept interested from the first being propelled by a large num-upon their return home for the A meeting of the Legisla ve to the last item. Rome and ber of men wing addie. The oiroulation of the reports in con tarily retire on the comfortable Council is cled for Tourday. Rococo contributed a very clever whole of the Ariangements for section with Chius Coast service. Incomes they have made dur- Fallowing are the orders of the horizontal bar The abominable outrages committed by suffragists show no ing their period of service, day

dealing with the crowds, were generally prevalent in professional performance, sign of abatement. In fact, scarcely a day passes without the cables is asking a deal of human nature tith 1 An Ordinance to amend the vincingly and Signo: Serta was H.E: the Governor and the odds against success at the outset in the hands of Inspector Sym. shipping circles at Home, which mattaa might be mended. This

Second reading of the Ben-strated his intelligence most con-

"Bob," the trick pony, demon At the conclusion of the racing deter the young junior mate of from Home reporting some further act of violence or destruction on which is not usually given to Depetition Ordinar13, 1912.

money prizes were presented by therightsort from taking such loog the part of these franchise fanatics. It was hoped that the strengthen- altruism of this kind, and one ing of the law and the pointed warnings issued to supportera of the rather fears that junior officers titled An Ordinaars to authorize wonderful muscular fexts on the

the envy of the athletically in: Chi Wo Co. woad reiding of the Bill enclined, when he performed

of his career, despite the fairly movement would result in a lessening of extreme militancy, but, so time," to quots ort correspon mentary Sam of Tuirty thousending act of the sisters Marieni was must "await the hand of the Appropriation of a Suppleaeil rings. The double vault-

good pay conditions which pre- FIXING BAIL.

vail upon the Ocast. In those far from these expectations being realised, the evil has t come even more accentuated still, witness the isoning of the Bradford dent, is right in his statement fify-seven Cents, to defray the tumbling exhibition of Mons. Detective Inspector Collett asked seems to be experienced in obtain But, if our corresponsix hundred and pine Coletapad encouragingly accepted, and the ing, before M. Bazelap, Chief modern generation; no difficulty At the Police Corrt, this morn master bas been superseded by the steamers where the above tyra of reservoirs and the unprecedented interference with the Derby, of the canse, the trouble will Charges of the Year 1912. Recent developments, of course, are roundly consored by all sane mend it :lf automatically as the

Second reading of the Bill Carpi recommended itself to the for, bail to be fixed at $500 ooah, ing juniors of the light fort and in individuals, even by many who have the ultimate aims of the old s'agers retire.

entitled Ordinance to prohibit cyclist was awarded the palm in Ordinance.

Allones, the trick in a case under the Deportation afterwards retaining theirLervices. movement at heart, But it is no easy task to deal with the Suppressing Militancy

Evidently much importance is of certain Foreign Co.

the importation and circulation the first part of the programme, ramifications of militancy in a country which boasts of the liberty attached to the verdict in the

The out-of-date type of master is The case wes one in which smelly an old servant of the and freedom extended to its people in the matter of public speech window-smashing case, whereby entitle 1 An Ordinance to prohibit thundering applause. A good and the Ordinanca provides for

and his wonderful" looping-the-evidence had been taken panding company in whose steamer he Second reading of the Bill loop trick" was received with the decision of the Government, happens to be serving, and the damages totalling £368 were the culation of Foreig. Not second was Miss Marie in her bail. It will be recalled that in prosecuting a number of these conspiracy led to the committalte An Ordinance to revive the conditions under. which she par-ance with the request.

given against auffragists whosa

Second reading of the B en revolving wire turn and, when the

companies cannot be expected in suffragist madcaps recently, Mr. Bodkin, who represented the Crown, of the outages. It appears that R Company's Tramway Of forms are considered, her contri-

The bail was fixed in accord either to pension them off or to the interests of the shareholders threatened to suppress the newspaper "Suffragette" because of its all the members of the Women's inflammatory language, which, he argued, ene ureged the committal Scial and Political Union are

remove them unless occasion dinenca, 1001.

Inspector Collett also bis Wor demands it; but the men them bation was little less wonderful ship to fix a date when the bail selves, who in most cases have of breaches of the peace. The publisher of the paper was, in fact, affected by the decision; becomitted An Ordinance to amad negotiation of the slide, the ob- A men had been called to suren-during their service on the Send reading of the Bill en than the trick cyclist's hair-raising in another case shall be estreated. saquired comfortable incomes prosecuted subsequently and he gave an undertaking that he would ing, as they do, jointly and in- and solidate the Law relating stacle and the table. A very pleader, but he had failed to do Bɔ. refrain from publishing the journal in future. The question bas dividually responsible for the to "Chique Papanger Ships" ing item was that of Miss Alberts. therefore arisen whether or not the Crown has the power to suppress damage. Honce the verdict is defined by the Chinese Pesangers She juggled very cleverly whilst any newspaper, and we notice that the point has been taken up most described by the papers as the Act, 1855, and concerning Asiatic seriously by most of the les ding Home papers. Of use it a paper death blow to militanoy. This Emigrants generally. publishes aeditions libela, the Court may make an order for the seizure effect could not, of course, be pro-

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DEATH.

Mrs. John Jasse, a daughter.

the beloved Mother of F. C. Wilford.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

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HONGEỌNG, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1913.

THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS..

and written word.

The communication which ap- peals in our columns to-day from

dent.

we are asked to state that in

Criminal, Cairo.

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The new Bill come a

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Saturday next was fixed;

THE SIAM. First Motor Ship to enter Hongkong.

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Coast, might themselves ro lieve the situation, by volun tarily retiring upon their, in most cases, well-invested savinge in the interests of modern progress and the rising generation; failing this, we mast either patiently

riding round the ring on a big torobes with an ease that won for dled krives, plates and flaming striding obestant horse. She han-

ber much applause. The clowns, The twin-sorow motor ship, await the "Hand of Time," or Nini and Rococo, assisted the at-Siem, the first of its kind to put Legislation for the admission of and sent the children into ec- to-night or to-morrow morning cal examination for marine service tendants with Hibernian progress in at this port is due in Hongkong the educated Asiatic to the nauti- stavica. The six performing horses from Cotenhegon. by their smart performance pro- The diam is on her maiden on the Chine Coast as on

of all copies of the libels in passion of any parsera named in the duced by the particular award of entitled An Ordinance to amend Sund reading of the Bill order. But it has been well pointed out that suppression of copies of damages under notire, as it would the Tramway Ordinance; 1902. a newspaper is a very different thing from the suppression of a news be an easy matter to find this paper. To talk of saopting a number of a newspaper before it relatively small sum; but evident- is born, is to import the doctrine of originé! sin into the law of ly the principle has now been oriminal libel, and for this reason it is not surprising that strong established that, where it is proved The annual report of the resistance has been manifeated towards thissuggestion of suppressing that outrages are the result of the Judicial Adviser at Orito, i a journal and holding that its editore can be guilty of seditious libel, activities of Eadies such as the couched in recaimistic terms. or incitement to law-breaking, before they have put pen to paper. Women's Social and Political Sir Malcolm MTtwraith saya that ved the merit of Mr. Bysack as a voy to the East and was but antidote. As one of the leading papers put it, the power to suppress and Union, all their members became the ever-ascending scale of crimes ebowman.The Russian dance by recently bailt by Mesto, Burmois- punish the wrong-doing of a newspaper is proper and necessary to severally liable. If organizations is very die ouraging to the judges a troupe of pretty ladies was a ter and Wains of Copenhagen. public order and decency, but there is no power which permits of of agitatore are mulcted as they and the police concerned in the nice change in the programme Her length is 410 fest; breadth the suppression of a newspaper.

should be, their funds will soon repression of offences. It certain and the side-splitting steeple 55 feet; depth 30 and 88 feet, The sum of £2,000 was awarded is no doubt that the attitude of leading journaliste at Home inspect in which we see that the "P-to-date Egyptian prisons had to the interval. With the cle- 8,000. She is the property of the Court, to the commander, officers Britain is rightly jealous of the liberty of her press, and there be exhausted. This is the only re- looks as if the hygienic and chase by monkeys on ponies, led and her tonnage somewhere about last month, in the Admiralty demonstrating their determination to safeguard that liberty has vordiet could have the much to be for terrors to the criminal classes. phants end tiger, Bob pleased East Asiestic Company, Limited, and crew of H.U.S. Malgomer behind it the full force of public opinion. The suffragist press may desired effect propbesied, though Since 1897 juvenile or no has in- the onlookery, and then M. Ur- of Copenhagen, and is bringing for salvage services rendered to have been-undoubtedly has been-guilty, of criminal folly, but the the liberal response which has resa fourfold, and the re-ban, with his remarkably well- general cargo for Jappu. Her orew, the steariship Domira, in the Gulf only just remedy in the hands of the guardiene of peace and order been given to suffragist appeals fonatories can no longer soon-trained lions and lioness, brought under Captain C. Jousen, consists of Mexico, in Lisy, 1912, 114 is to deal with each case as it cours end to content themselves with for funds shows that there are modate the number of boys sent a capital evening's entertainment of about fifty, and she has acupiqunitor of century ince applying the law as it stands. Any attempt to suppress publications still plenty of fanation about who to them, in consequence of which to a close

modation for ten or a dozen pas-milar claim, by a State-owned. in advance is absolutely contrary to British traditions and British are willing to come forward with they to be drafted into the Another matinee will be given sengarn. Mesars Melchers and Co. I vessel was dealt with in the same

growth of orims is, to morrow afternoon,

justion.

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money to help" the cause."'.

most noticeable in Cairo,

are the agente,

Luck for the Navy