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DRATHS. WALTER-By cable, from London, 25th January, 1907, Jons WALTER, Iate of The soap, while books are a luxury and Some of the examples of primitive Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpora- advertisement is the lifeblood of their pottery are highly interesting. This copy of of the Transactions may be The argument seems recommended to anyone who is inter- Hoava.-On Friday, 25th January, 1907, circulation. at Patell Villas, Kowlood, ALICE MUSIE (Moo) the youngest and dearly loved child plausible but it breaks down on aested in the primitive culture of our of Will and Nellie Hobbs, in her sixth year, simple point, Soap, in the aggregate, ailies.
little difference to the consumption of a large number of important plates. BY TELEGRAPH.
MEMOS, FOR TO-MORROW.
Miscellaneous.
1.
neode no advertisement, but the indi
vidual product, say Leavim'a Oance
10a.m.-A Race for Cruisers held by light Soap does, and Learin would
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
soon see his business wondering into other channels if he ceased to advor
MEMOS, FOR MONDAY.
Miscellaneous.
9.30 am-Military Cau Practico. Goods per Saxonia undelivered after this
dato subject to rent.
Mootings.
11.30 s.m.-Mosting of The West Point Building Co., Ld, at Co.'s Offices. Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Land In- vestment Agency Co., Ld., at Co.'s
Offices,
Anction.
3 p.m. Anotion of Crown Lands at the Public Works Department's Offices,
General Memoranda. TUZADAY, Janeury 29 tentat
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong Benevolent
Society at City Hall. 2.30 p.m.-Anction of Household Fart ture, &c., at M. G. Liebert's residence No. 10, MacDonnell, Rosd. 2.45 p.m.-Aucting of Household Furni zure, &c., at Mashers House, No.4, Morrison Hill Road, 9p.m. Meeting of Fothen Mark Lodge, Goods per
pet Benverlich undelivered after this data subject to rent
per Tourane unclaimed after this Goods
data at Noon will be subject to cent and landing obarges. Gooda por Austria undelivered after this
date subject to rent.
WEDNESDAY, January 30:---
11 am.Austion of Linen Fibro, Rattan Furniture, &o.. at Mosers Harris. Keoney Co.'s Btors, Peddar Street. 2.45 p.m.-Auction of Household Far niture, at No. 5, Ripon Terrace, Bon- ham Road. Register of Shares of The Kowloon Land Building Co., Ld., close from this date to 4th Feb. inclusive. Goods per Devatha not cleared at 4 4p.m.
on this date subject to rent. FRIDAY, February 1':-
9 p.m.-Meeting of Zotland Lodge. MONDAT, February 4 -
Noon-Mooting of Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld., at Co.'s Diles,
The China Mail
KONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907.
THE BOOK WAR,
tise. The great advantage that the subscriber to The Times Book Club is
offered over the advantages elared by subscribers to the older circulating libraries, is that he does not have to wait for a book. With most of the
literature of the day, there is a rash
LOVAL AND COAST NEWS.
We have received an artistically got up to the effect that an annuncament Industrial Exhiblion will be opened at Ugeno Park, Tokyo, from March 20 to June 20 next.:
Mr Geo, P. Lammert has asked us to
mention that at the Harzle-Keaney auction, the goode will be sold without reserve, not with roservo, as advertised by him yester day. The date has been altered to Thurs- day, 31st. just.
A Shangluni firin ms received the fol- of eager readers at the moment of
lowing interesting communication:-"Daar publication, a rush that slackens in air. The Chinese calendar in your com fortnight and is extinot in 'a'month, pany is gauce in looking to be sure sur
passia; all the others; and also it is Of the two ways of cutting this progigantia beyond example in connexion with
peotive loss, other librarios adopt the device of buying as few copies as they dare and dribbling them out to patient subscribora, each of whom may have
the name of the book on his list for weeke before one of the few available copies reaches him. The Times profers
ita tine spectacle, while I look at it. I shall be very much obliged, if you will kindly give me some pieces, as I have great dent of interest of it."
The Craik Children Fund..
We have roostred from Mr D. Darabjeo a cheque for $25 on batalf of the Oralk Children Fund.
to cope adequately with the first rash. Launch at the Docks. and then sell off a few weeks later the
This afternoon at 4 o'clock the second of the stern-wheelers designed for trade in Indo China, waters was launched at the Kowloon Dooks. The boat is named the
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
A. P. Guterres, first clork, Mercantila Matino Office, has been suspended from bir duties for corrupt practicas-Govern meni Gazette.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
ARRESTS AT WUCHANG.
(From Our Carrespondent,).
Suasonal, January-25. A large number of Chinese, alleged to be members of sacret societies, have been arrested at Wuchang.
They are mostly students from Japan.
The energetic action of the Viceroy was prompted by orders from Peking.
AMERICANS AT SHANG- HÄI
WOMEN HEAVILY FINED.:
(From Our Correspondent);
SHANGHAI, January 25. Of the women brought before the American Court at Shanghai, four were fined $1,000 and costs.
The others claimed other nationali. ties, having mostly obtained Spanish certificates.
[Received too late for publication yor- terday.-ED, O. M.]
HOME POLITICS.
BALFOUR AND THE UNIONISTS,
(Exclusive Service, supplied by Beuter, via Bombay).
LONDON, January 25. Speaking at Birmingham, the Ht. Mr R. U. Hutchison has been appointed Acting Assistant Registrar General and Hop, J. Austin Chamberlain réferrad Dapaty Regletrar of Marriages, during the
beance of Mr C. Clementi.
huge surplus that marks the difference between pristine and permanent de- mand. Those few weeks are not suffi-Emerald," and she is a sister ship to the cient to allow the bookseller to unload "Perlo" launched recently.
He sulks (justifiably his shelves. enough) and rofuses to take from the publisher a dozen copice since he knows that nine-tenths of The Times thousand copies will be on the market at half price in a month's time. There is a third party, the author, and hitherto authors have boon, as regards the vast majority of them, on the side of the publishers. It is better to bear' the ille' wo bare than fly to others that we know not of. One painful incident in 5.30 p.m. on Monday next at the European Y.M.C.A., Alexandra Bulidings. Every the controversy has been the cager-body welcome, ness of The Times and its supporters to prove that authors are systematically plundered by their publishers, and that the more eminent of them might mul tiply their sales vastly by utilising the sorvices of the Book Club. But bow- would it be with the rank and file of the profession? The Times method has been proved to push forward the sale of some books and to pull back the sales of others and this procese of
Rev. O. H. Hickling will load the meet-
ing of the Hongkong Christian Union at
to the continual divisions among the Unioniste, as was evidenced by the attacks a section of the Unionist Pross were making on the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour.t'
On account of his silence on fiscal
At a recent meeting of the United Mark matters Mr Chamberlain does not be- Lodge E. C. Bro. Baker was paid the com-lieve that Mr Balfour will abanden ste pliment of being re-elected Master. for the
ensuing year. Bro. MacDonald was slect policy announced by him on March ed treasurer and Bro, Vanstone tyler. 14, 1906,
"None of the members of the Since his return to the Colony His Excailoney Sir Matthew Nathan has been Commons," remarked the late Chancel- exceedingly busy insteling public works for of the Exchequer, "could or would The day after his return he visited several spats on the Island and later went to Kon food to eac what progress is being made with the work on the rallway to Cantoni
THE methods adopted by the two an tagonists in the Book Club. Wat have not been very creditable to either party. The matter having been forced into the public gase, the poblic would like from the parties a definite and succinct statement of the real points in dispute The Times has repeated daily for the last few months," Tho only question at issue between The Times and the Publishers is as to whether the Book cressed salos for known authors whom Takachiko," landed this morning to pay
Club shall or shall not be allowed to sell second-hand net books before they are aix months old." Of course the question
pushing and pulling may lead to in-
replace Mr Balfour.as leader."
[AZUTEE'S 'SEDVICE.] THE KINGSTON INCIDENT Admiral C. Tari, who arrived in the
CLOSED. Colony yesterday by the Japanese cruiser
LONDON, January 24. Mr Bacon, in a note to Mr Howard, the guard of honoar from the Middlesex British Chargé de affairs at Washington, The Times runs no risk in booming, a visit to His Excellency the Governor. A but would be to the disadvantage of Regiment was drawn up on Biske Fior to hastens to assure him on behalf of President the struggling beginner. Let us as-receive the Admiral and the officers accom. Roosevelt, that the American GovernmentTM
is not really so simple as that. Ifit/sume that The Times and the publis panying him and as they landed the band will pay no heed whatever to the Jamaion
played the Japanese National Anthem, incident. Chairs from Government House wore in waiting and after inspecting the guard the ASSASSINATION OF Mr WHITE
Admiral loft for Government Hous
LEY.
here are both rogues, sach eager to exploit the poor author for their own aggrandiement, that the author is only asked, like the proverbial col, which
LONDON, January 24. Old residents of the Colony who were
The "Universal Provider," Mr White- auce he prefers to be cooked with. Iriends of Mr John Walter, of the Hong-
kong and Shanghai Bank, will regret to lay has been shot. daad, his assailant im The ultimate result live in the hands of learn of his death in England. Mr Walter mediately committing suicide...
had boon, we should have seen it entt- led long ago. The Times has been bit hard, as practically no publisher has advertised in it for four months, the publishers have suffered, with the WHISKY. Authors, stico an advertisment in the public. If they was willing to road was in Hongkong for many years and ho The Times is essential to the success, The Times only for its excellent edit made a large circle of frioude, not alone in
The Leading Whisky
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Trial of Harry Thaw.
LONDON, January 24.
this Colony but throughout the Far East. ial and news service, turning to other Be joined the Bank in Shanghai ́so far back as 1865 and since then he has papers for book advertisements, they served the bank in various capacities will be inconveniesced for a time. If, faithfully and profitably. In 1886 be
was Acting Ohief Mausger in Hongkong, The trial of Mr Harry Thaw who shot on the other hand, they are content to
and at different times was manager at the architect, Mr Stanford White, in New- have their consumption of literature Shanghai and Yokohama, in addition to York last June has commenced, and le
in-
LATE TELEGRAMS.
dictated and limited by Mr Moherley making several tours of inspection of the causing inmenso interest.
Bauk's premises. About ten years ago ko Bell, there will still be temporary
was appointed one of the London mabagorą convenience. Any way, all parties of the Bank, which position ho occupied depend on the bookbuyers and when until 1902, when he gave up his active duties and was invited to a coat on the the hurly-burly's done, books will be London Committee. The Banking Corpo
a
woli
of a serious work! (In fact, Sir Frank Swettenham felt this so kecaly that he tarned his back on his publisher and advertised "British Malaya" in! The Times at his own cost, making bis own arrangement to supply the Book Club with copies) The general pub lic are restricted in their book buying an important matter at the Christmas snason, and the eighty thousand mem- bers of the Book Club are hitting and being hit, lying between anvil and hammer, as a Latin proverb has it. The Times caye that it is the publishers Association and not the Book Club,
The Transactions of the Asiatic
The reason you don's sympathize with which is trying to set up a Trust or Society of Japan are invariably inter monopoly.... · · If so, why do we see the resting and instructive. Dr N. Gordon me is that you have never been disappoint whole of the Prees on the side of the Munro, M. B. and C. M., Edin, is ed in love yourselt."
"I haven't, eh? That's all you know. Culture in Japan" which occupies the Why, I once advertised for a wife with a startling unanimity and distinctness
whole of the December number of the million dollars and I never got a single
reply.Philadelphia Press. when it was a matter of crushing the Transnotions. With becoming modesty nine-days Soap Trust. It is not poser Monro does not claim to hare SPRAKS WELL OF CHAMBERLAIN ible to believe that their sordid reason produced an exhaustive treaties on the
cheaper and literature more widely ration always recognised in Mr. Walter
loyal and valued servant, and they diffused by whatever concessione areas Mr Walter's friends are grieved to hear
of his demise. made on either side.
10, D'AGUILAR STREET, $15.00...Per Case. publishers! The Press spoke out with responsible for a paper on "Primitive
HONGKONG. Hongkong, January 23, 1907.
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(From the JAPAN ADVERTISER.) BRITISH WAR MINISTER ON
- JAPANESE OFFICERS.
Lornos, Jan. 11.
Mr Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, in a speech at Edinburgh University, has paid the highest tribute to the Japanese officers saying that they were highly trained by drill, ethics, Bushide, and education, and discharged their duties with gallantry unparalleled in the present aga. He said they were an example of the sucOOMS Of organisation and self-control.
ABANDONMENT OF TRAINING SQUADRON'S VISIT TO AMERICA.
WABBINOTON, Jan. 11.
The nows that the Japaness Training Squadron will not vinit Ban Francisco has caused much regret among the public of that City Congressman Kahn has stated that although most of the people of San Franciato object to the presence there of Japanese labourers they fully respect the Mon and Company, Bleemfontein Se. my discouringy to a Japanese squadron. It A. 8, WATSON & 00, was that one of the objects of the probistoric archaeology of Japan, his John Maia, Manager for F. J. Pater rights of Japan and would ho indignant ab Soap Trust was to reduce expenditure purpose being merely to submit a cohor-fries, makes the following statement for the warships had gone to the port there
Here
and sa pleasant incident. LIMITED,
on advertising, while the present entsketch of Japanese neolithic culture, the benefit of the public: Ohamberlain's would have been no danger of any
An ardent collector himself he has Cough Remedy has a big sale
we have been handling it for several years,
that we Ball contest will merely divert such expend been fortunate enough to have the co we can confidently say
it than we do of any other preparation of isure from The Times to its rivals.
prompt rollet. Get Chamberlain's operation of many realous assistants, that kind. This medicine is especially YOU want a remedy that will give you whooping cough and can be given to tho Cough Remedy. It always ouros and care BUILDINGS,Soap, as a noonsaity, can sell itself with Japanese and foreign, and with their recommended for sughs, colds, croup and
storskeoper out advertisements. If soapmakers help he has been able to present to little ones with absolute security. For sale quickly, For sale by all chemists and ceased to advertine, it woud make readers in addition to the letter-prore by all chemist and storekeepers.
ALEXANDRA
Hongkong, January 99, 1900,
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