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If the return of the Bega nomines za Governor of Maine beccanted upon as any indination of the state of political the United States, President Wilson's chances of being ano- cessful in the coming Presidential election would appear to be very remote. The victory has been attained with a band-

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fins. (1915,81 sunshine.) previous the Demoarstic sentiment in this State, the result is invested with a special significance. In Siberian MailDge per the telegram anacancing the news, Luchów to-day" the increase in the Republican Canadian Mail.—Arrived par vǝte was cited as an indication of

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THE CANTON SITUATION.

PAGE OF HISTORY

The "Kwan Mo Yuan,“

after at Bhit

THE MONEY MARKET:

ru's. Report.

Samuel Montagu and

dated

he new conditioce in Xwang- tang did not justify Lang in closing to the partisans of the Republic the doors of his pro- vinos. It was his duty to main- tain order, without deubé; bat rder to avoid disclosing (Continued from Yesterday.) also to allow the republicana of gold by sen from or Lung considered all that was liberally to affirm and spread to British possessions in time of going on round him, and he was their opinions, no moniter whether of war, the Bank of England has 'daily one of the last to subscribe to, the in the Frees or at public meetings, ceased

†The oshaorais” was suppressed. recsipta and withdrawala. The

announce

monarchy idea.

It seemed as though Tuan A favourable wind was blowing Bank return, to-day shows Shih-k'ai must succeed. Already for the Republic and it was neves- decrease in the gold halding ..in messages the bourgeois de-mary to profit by it. Canton was against its note inaues of 41, (IE, nomination of "President was regarded se a necessary point d' 685 as compared with that of lát

replaced by that of " His Majesty appss, but the republic on wanted week.

Canton without Lang-for Lung,

The following Order in Council was promulgated in the London

usetts on the 28th, ultimo break up, or ass otherwise than

A person shall not melt down,

Silver. The tone of the market has

on

The sovereig“, | the Emperor." deceived by his unfailing good for to their way of thinking, was far tane, distributed titles and dignit- from offering any guarantee for The opening rate of the dollaries broadcast, Lang sattitude how the smocem of their plans, Theis

In Peking people barilly were to create a state com as currency any current gold coin, ever, made him a little uneasy, plans, be it said without offence,

of the provinom and if any person sots in oontes. kosed attitude on the Philippines

know what to think of this tutma pojed problem have turned the thinking To-morrow is the 58th birthday who had been so active against of the South, having Canton vantion of this regulation he shall element of the nation againal of the Right Hon. Andrew Boour the revolutionaries and yet was so for the capital. To bring this be guilty of a summary, offenos him. It is a fortunate circum Law, Secretary of State for the slow to render homage to the now scheme to a head it was necee against these regulations." stance, of course, for the Republic Colonies.

dynasty. As he was powerful it 8ary to create an organs to form ans that the bresch between them

was necessary, at any cost, to an administration. The military requested to observe the rule which, and the Progressives has been

Mesars. Benjamin and Potts gain him to the cause. Thus Governor of Shiu Hing, La In-hon, bean steady. During the last Correspondents are

the titles that were bestowed so intimidated by the presence of the week offerings from Americs have forward their names and addresses with healed, and the assistance which requires them to

for the Roosevelt wing of the party advise us that the Seakee Rubber profusely on Lung and his family, Kwangusi troops, had already shrank appreciably, and an China communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily

rendered in the Maire election is Estates, Ltd., have declared an in-were not so much a reward as surrendered to the republican has not been selling, and sup- publication, Sut as an evidence of their bona fides.

acknowledged. Had the party terim dividend of one tsel. chain to bind him to the new chiefs; and it was in this town, plice have not been forthcoming the old capital of the provines from elsewhere, business has not ⚫Fireworks.

throne. been split, the result might have

under the Ming dynasty, that been sativa. It is possible that the been otherwise. But that in the On Friday, the 15th, Saturday,

But now there arose a man, in-they established their head- reduction in American sales arises The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will plight in which the Democrats the 16th, and Monday, the 18th

find themselves: they have to ins, grand display of fireworks telligent, generous and honest quarters under the name of from purchases made in New be as follows!--

hold their own against a revivi- will take place at the Belle View Ti Ao. On December 27, 1915, Kwan Mo Yum, or bureau of York on account of the Urugus- fied and reunited body of oppo- Hotel, from 8 p.m. so 11 p.m. The he notified all the provinces that, military affaire. Leung Kai-chin, yan Government. It is believed in face of the danger which former Minister of Finance and that other South American coun threatened the new Republican Sham Chae-huen-former Vios trias are not indisposed to incresen nents. And, judging from present price of admission is 50 cents. indications, the task will be too

Last evening, at about 0.25, institutions, be considered it to be rog of Canton, favourite of the their silver coinage, great for them to discharge.

European was found lying in his duty to defend them. He was Empress dowager and personal Bayern, in view of the sluggish The daily issue is delivered free when the addres ses is accessible to

Pedder Street, near the Hongkong the protector of the Republican enemy of Yuan Shih-k'ai-form condition of the market, did not memenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at Adulterated Milk

That Chinese dairy shops need Hotel, and, being unable to give principle and the enemy of every ed, with Lok Wing-ting, Wan prses unwilling sellers, and the their residences without any extra charge. 01 copies eant by close watching was made evidentams and address, and appear- government official, who would Chung-in, Li Ligh-kwan, and prios sagged away 1/16d. daily basin of to 30.1/4. on the 29th inst post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

from a case at the Police Court on

the new government. The nominal | On the 31st silver once The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 day, when a native milking to be ill, be was taken to the not exercise his power to delend Li Kaz-an, the

Now the role of Teri Ao and of director of this baresu was Tong offer more freely at somewhat his armice was perfectly Ki-ia, tutub of Yaanao, the vice-higher limits. Of this foot bayers seller was fined for a most flagrant Government Civil Hospital by the this case of adulteration by the adđi-

Among the passengers who legitimate one. It was not that of director being Sham Chen.huen. took advantage and cleared the It may not be amies to note that market at 5/16d. rise in the price. tion of water. The milk, it was proved, was three per cent. short arrived back by the Empress of a rebel; on the contrary, he wan of eolid matter and more than one Japan to-day were Mr. and Mrs. defending the established govern Tong K-in and Tsai Ao dis. Next day the quotation eased to per cent. below standard in fat, H. 8. Northcote, Mr. and Mrs. H. ment. Already people had begun approved of the constitution of 30.1/24, and remained at that while water had been added to P. Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. Tutto regret the time wasted in the Kwan Mo Yes. The avowed figure yesterday. To-day there the extent of no less than 35 per sher, Mr. and Mrs. Crapnell, Mra, drawing up elaborate disserta-plan of the institution was repug was some competition for the cent. The defendant's excusep M. Dyer, Mra C. A. Dreaper, tions on the need for s monarchy, nant to their patriotism. They moderate amount offering, and was that he bought the milk from and Mr. H. P. White.

Many of them asked why could wanted, as all costs, to preserve the price ross to 30.7/83. not Yuan

Shib-k'ai be a unity of their country. Shum, on The stock in Bombay consiste Chartered Bank Dividend. another shop and sold it just as it WA received, but, inssmuch as The local branch of the Char- Emperor and a Potentate, but the other hand, aw in disinteg. of 3,800 bars as compared with of the Republic, chtaining power for himselt. The stock in Shanghai on 28th The Hongkong Telegraph.mia other abos was found to be tered Bank of India, Australie still retain the title of Prosiration & more rapid, means of 4,000 barn last week.

this other was to be and Chine, has received the dent quite good, Mr. Wood was not following telegram from the Lang Chai-kwong was one of In this he was strongly seconded July was cabled as consisting of far wide of the mark in expressing London Olhos The Directors these. Coming as he did from by Li Lieb-kwan and also by Lam about 32,000,000 ox.in. #yose the conviction that the defendant have declared an Interim Diri Yunnan, the centre of the more Fa. Sham's plans were dis and $18,000,000, as compared had been guilty of knowingly dend for the psat half year at the ment, he had great risks to pleasing to the revolutionary with about 30,500,000 oz. in ayons dilating the flaid.

Anyone rate of 14 per cent, per annum incur where his affections were group that was under the direc. and $17,000,000 on July 15th.

No shipment was made from concerned. At Peking one of his tion of Chan Kwing-ming, Cha buying milk does not -want free of Income Tax.”

brothers Lang Ia-kwong, was Tasp-san, etc. When asked why San Francisco to Hongkong dur- It is not without interest that, at a time when large preparations stoff which is one-third water,

this WAS, and, after Whilst the hearing of a case detained, ostensibly as an adviser they had not acted in concert with ing last week..

"Would Statistics for the month of July are being made for coping with post-war trade problems, the Na tional Special Committee which has been appointed to consider our being called upon to part with was being fixed at the Summary but actually as a hostage, Diff-Shom they replied. Consular system should have commenced its deliberations. The fifty dollars for his detected Court this morning, the Chief culties showed themselves on you try to mix water and oil?" are appended:- first meeting of the Committee has, we notice, just been held in trickery, the defendant will most Justice mentioned that the every side. Lung would have Thus the and pursued by them Highest price for caah ... 31-d. London. For some yeare now the feeling has been growing that likely hesitate before he tries Sammary Court Vacation would | maintained a neutrality which was different and the means em Lowest price for.onah.......; }

Average price for osch.... 30%---- far too little is done by British Consale abroad in the interests of to hoodwink the purchasing commence next week. It was would have made his position less ployed had to be likewise.

Although not reposing any Quotations for bar silver per the trade of the Empire, and that opinion has now bean crystallised public again. Apart from the stated, however, that, se i awkward, but that the govern in a recommendation by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce, to addition of water, there are other customary, the Court would sit ment at Peking had given or faith in the republican sentiments on fland -

ders to his brother, Lang Kam of Lang, the Kwan Mo Yuan was July 28, 30, 5/16 #3sh';

*; 29, 80. the Committee above-mentioned. The Chamber advocates that and worse dangers in buying

kwong, to march with an army obliged, in its relations with kim, 1/4 cash: 31, 30, 9/16. cash; persons intending to enter the Consular Bervice shall be chosen milk in unsealed battles from

| Chinese dairymen. Happily, Me. W.E. L. Shenton appeared against Yaansa, pawing through to recognise, at least maperficially, Aug. 1. 30. 1/2 cash 2, 30, 1/2 from those who have taken the fall three years' course and the degree Europeans in Hongkong have no to defend a European-freesed Kwangasi. The preparations were the independence which he had cash; 3, 30. 7/6 osah..

Chinese, named Wing Pak-ping, long and it was necessary to gain declered. Leang Kai-shin set of Bachelor of Commerce established under the faculties of commerce

who was charged before Mr. F.A. time.

out to visit him, taking HearON: at modera naiversities, and also urges that the status of the Consular need to patronise these shops. mervice shall be raised, and that Consular officers be paid according Our Chair Coolles.

It is with vary great satisfaction | Haseland, at the Police Court this

Pressed by Peking, which still knows what precautions over his to the importance of the trade of the town to which they are appointed.

In the past we have had occasion to critique the system by that we read of the prosecuting morning, with obstructing the which our Oonsule have kept themselves shamefully aloof from trade and punishing of two chair coolies Police in the execution of their regarded him with suspicion; Journey from Shiu Hing to Kan of adding to the troops-under the in which it was necessary, with and commerce. We can, therefore, view with deep satisfaction the who were under the impression duty. Mr. Shenton thought the Larg gave himself up to the task Tam Sen bill! Of this interview, very praiseworthy movement reflected in the recommandations that they could be a law to them-case was only a small one, but command of his brother. Kwang Laoge generals, to settle upɔn a ontlined above, With an admirable sense of the proportionate value selves in this colony. We think, his Worship replied: "I am not

than a part of Lang Kam-kwong's he retained a painful impression, nominal.

The quctation to-day for cash and importance of business training, the big universities in Ger-100, that the gentleman who was so sure that a case of this sort in a separated itself from Paking plan of attack against the North, U, B, A, Gold coán per os, many, Sweden and other Continental countries have always at the trouble of bringing the men Defendant was remanded until army found itself prisoner in On paper Lang organised the had their faculty of commerce, and, in the East, Japan has to court merite the thanks of the Thursday next, bail being fixed that province. The fetah of Pak Fat" expedition against the is 1/2da aboys that fined a work

Kwangeni, Lak Wing-ting, was Northerners." Very nearly at ago. Bribed the Constable. followed in their footsteps. Britain, however, has been far bebind publio, and we should like to hear at $30. the times in this regard. Has not the time now come when our older that his example had been gen hawker, who was charged /related by marriage to the Lang the same moment, the officers | universition should fall into line? A large percentage of our Consular erally followed. The men, it seems, officers are drawn from Oxford and Cambridge, and the creation, in crawled along at their own pace, before Mr. F. A. Hassland, at the family. Nevertheless, putting the delegated by the members of the social obligations, he detained little island known su - Datch these centres of learning, of a faculty of commeros would place in (regardless of the fact that their Polise Court this morning, with well-being of his party before Kuan No Yuen held, on the Canton generala. Begrettably) their way the very facilities which they need to enable them to serve fare might have no spare time on causing an obstruction, and also the Empire on much more useful and beneficial lines than they now do his hands) and, when so minded, with cffariage bribe of afty cents Lang Kam-kwong and his army Felly, a conference with some It is no uncommon thing for, say, a Swede or a Japanese to put in sat down to rest. If chairmen to an Indian coomable, stoutly two or three years at a university, studying one branch of commerce and riekaba coolien hold the maintained that the constable While Lang Kam-kwong was enough, at the height of their and thus becoming seqasinted with all its ramifications. No-one, Government's licenos, it is their took the money from him. His marching against the Tannan debate, instead of general agree the year anding December, 1915, of course, advocates that our consular candidates: should follow business to be at the service of Worship believed the constable armies several Kwangtungofficers ment the most complete discard of the L'Union Firs Infarsson sro agents for the Far East, hes those lines, for, obviously, it is general, rather than specialised, com- the general public and not to and fined defendant $3, or seven were coonpiad in-separating arces, as a result of which several Company, Limited, of which the

just been received in the mercial knowledge which will be moet naeful to a Consul. All the pick and ghoose their jobs. While days, for the obstruction; and themselves from Laing's govern- personsof both parties were killed. Gredit Foncier d'Extreme Orient game, we need something of the spirit of these foreign students in- on this point we would like, $25; or one month's hard labour, ment, and so revolution was once Rightly or wrongly, the offering the bribe, the more menacing the gates of the sponsibility for this ambuák fused into the nation. Basizess espacity, we know, is born in a however, again to draw atten- for man. We cannot expect our public school or varsity men to ketion to the condition of many sentences to be consecutive. The Oity. By no means satisfied attributed to Lang. The rupture it shows the Company to

particular of the artillery at Tin the Zwan Mo Tuen and experte in commercial matters, but we can and do expect that they of these coolies. Some of them fifty cents were ordered to be with the temper of his troopamin was handsforth complete Tong and yielding to the mug, and, from this moment;

relations between the shall bave at lesat a sufficient grounding in businese principles as are very obviously past work and placed in the Poor Box.

inhuman to allow to fit them to uphold our tealal interest in the towns and cities and it is

A woman was charged: before geations of the Civil Governor, them to carry a heavy load at a districts to which they are appointed,

the (To be Condude It is far from our wish sweepingly to indict British Consular brisk pace. Then why do not Mr. F.A. ILsxeland, at the Police Cheung Ming-ki, Lang, to the were to consist of the

the polios withdraw their licences? Court this morning, with kidnap graat surprise of averybody who of explanations officials, many of whom are, within the limits of their training, the poll of our readers have been ping a small girl, sight year of knew him, now declar post able and capable men. But those limits beed widening. The main fault is with the system, system which encourages our pas to inconvenienos through "ge, from Shanghal Street, In Consals to regard themselves rather as diplomatata":"them me the unconsciously employing such mati. The story of the prose guardians of British interests in general, with particular reference man, for, having been carried or tion in that the girl was playi ide her mother's hold to the expansion of our trade in foreign markets, Britishers abroad pulled, know all too well what that means: H they are seeking business or personal aid, the British Consulate in the last place

to which they would go to receive it. The cause for that reprow

to the service must be wiped out. There is a danger, of courne, going to artxamen in Consular reform but it

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