The Trouble in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 108, 14 February 1901, Page 4

The Trouble in China.

London, February 10. Twenty thousand Chinese Mahommedans are gradually returning to Pekin. The Allies have adopted precautions against disturbance. Residents of Shanghai urge King Edward to refuse to receive a Commission from China congratulating him on his accession, until the massacre of Christians and other outrages have been expiated. A detachment of Germans is investigating a recent massacre of converts near Yenhing. The Times Pekin correspondent reports that Russia offers to purchase the northern Chinese railways, north of the Great Wall, as part .payment of the indemnity. The offer is made despite a written pledge of the Tsung li Yamen to Sir Claude MacDonald, that China will not alienate the Shanhaikwan, Unichwang, and Suiminting railways. The Bubonic Plague. London, February 10. The first symptoms of the plague at Cape Town appeared at the South Arm Docks, where the military transports discharge. The rats have since deserted this spot, and are migrating to Green Points, where the British camp is situated. The camp will probably be abandoned. A reward of threepence per head is offered for rats. February 11. Eleven fresh cases of plague have occurred at Capetown. The authorities are rapidly destroying rats. The London County Council is spending £50,000 in the erection of buildings and hospital arrangements to meet any plague outbreak. Sydney, February 11. The officials state that the Lis-* more case is not one of plague. The Rival Cables. oPiusiiANK, February 11. Mr Seddon, having cabled to Mr Philp that New Zealand has no intention of making any concessions to the Eastern Extension Cable Company, the Queensland AgentGeneral has been requeste i to infoim Canada that it is probable that Queensland will follow’ New Zealand’s example. February 12. The Government has decided to leave the question of the Extension Company’s agreement to the Pacific Cable Board. ATTACKS ON MR CHAMBERLAIN. At a Conservative meeting at Burnley during the election campaign a telegram was received from Mr Chamberlain in reference to a istatement of Mr Philip Stanhope, the Liberal candidate, concerning the Hawksiey and Rhodes letters. Mr Chamberlain wired : “ Statement is characteristic untruth. I know nothing of alleged anonymous colleague, and am not to be nlackmailed by Stanhope or anyone else. There is no correspondence, and has been, to prove my complicity with the Raid which I did my utmost to stop.” To this Mr Stanhope replied direct to Mr Chamberlain : —“ Sir, —A telegram from you, read tonight at your meeting, describes a statement of mine as a characteristic untruth. Without stooping to qualify the vulgarity of your . language, I have now the honour to formally state to you that I am prepared to substantiate in a court of law every statement I have made concerning you.” Mr Stanhope was hopelessly defeated by the electors a few days later. That was Mr Chamberlain's answer, OUR LAWS.

A good ' many people wonder why our laws are so complicated. , The reason, of course, is that the lawyers have so large a hand in their making. For instance, if a layman wanted to give you an orange, he would say, “Hero’s an orange for you, Brown,” but if a lawyer were to give you the same article hejputs it in writing something like this:—“l hereby give, grant, and convoy to you all my interest, right, title and advantage of and in said orange, together with its rind, skin, juice, pitlp, and pips, and all rights and advantage therein, with ■ full power to bite, suck, or otherwise eat the same, or give away, with or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp or pips; anything herein before or in any other deed or deeds instruments of any nature or kind whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.” Now you know why it is so very difficult to understand the laws that are made.

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