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WEDNESDAY JULY 29, 1908.
TERRIBLE RAVAGES AT CANTON.
TYPHOON NEWS. PARIB, a dangerous expedient: In matters political it is wisest to make hasta elow-
The full report of the damage deno by fy. To utilise the backneyed phrase the typhoon will be contained in the evolution is preferable to revolution. OVERLAND CHINA MAIE, published next GREAT LOSS OF RIVER CRAFT Russia and Persia are shocking emaples Monday. Readers are requested to order
early. of the evils of endowing men who do not understand that legislation cannot
LOCAL AND GENERAL. transform the social world in the twink-1
The Wilmington arrived to-day from ling of an eye, with the power to pat Amoy. She did not encounter the typhoon. half digested schemes info operation, or
ANNUAL CLEARANCE
SALE NOW ON
to attempt to do so. The establishment
Messrs Meu Cheung, of Ice House
Sampans and Flower Boats Demolished.
is strewn everywhere. Many persons are. making good ase of their opportunity to collect a good supply of fuoLAll who can ara profiling in various ways by the ́misfortunes of their fellown."
The city is worse fooded than it was by the highest waters of the recent foods. There must have been great loss of pro- perty as there was little time to move gooda away from the water. The strong cast and Houses Unroofed-City Flooded. south east winds drove the waters up into the river, until they were very near to the top of the Shameen Burd. (From Our Correspondent.)
CANTON, July 28... One of the worst storms that has been
this morning. A stiff breeze from the North was blowing late Inet night and
EXCEPTIONAL of Parliaments in Russia and Femin ban Street, have good photos of the dataage known in Cantora propt over the city early
BARGAINS!
MEMOS FOK TO-MORROW. Apation.
| done by the typ).con.
...
The Ban Cheong and Kwong Tung got in from Hongkong about ten o'clock The Kinshan did not get in until afternoon. They report considerable loss of boats and junks along the river..
probably led to more bloodshed than a vefusal to grant the people an immediate It is reported that a European liri ez voice in the government of those count-Amoy is importing 90,000 rifles. The
authorities are on the look out. 670 ries would have done. If a weapon with a razor edge is placed in the hands of a child it is fairly certain that it will cul itself. But if the child is given a dummy, edgeless weapon to begin with and is gradually instructed in its 160: rumoured here in offivial circles that the weat from one end of the city to the offer one of the very worst that has ever visited
2.20 p.m.-Anation of Household Furni
ture, &c., a Mr Geo, P. Jammert's
· Sales Room.
Meeting.
8 p..--Meeting of Hongkong Civil Ser. Fios Cricket Clad, at Club premisea.
Miscellaneops.
in the course of time it will be safe to ['entrost it with the geraine article.
It
is to be hopel that the mistake made in
The Directors of the Hongkong und Kowloon Wharf sud Godown Co. have decided not to jay an interiin dividend.
A Peking telegram to the Shanghai Times," dated July , read: It is Emperor Kwang Hau is dond.
Information has been received from
It would be in to try to extimate a telegram from Hougtong had the total loss. A great deal of ice nounced the approach of a typhoon, but just ready for harvesting in the paddy no special fear was entertained here.fields along the river was mandated After midnight the wind increased in and blown down by the furiaus wind, intensity and those who were awaken- and will be almost a total Ipes. Fortunate. ed realised this a more than usa cunsiderable portion of the crop has blow was upon us. The storm reached already been harvested. Lychee and other its worst shout four o'clock this morning fruit trees must have suffered securely.
This, storm will go down in history as and mgad furiously for several hours. I to-day and everywhere there were - pressive evidences of the force of the wind. The worst damage was, of course, done on the water. About a dozen launches
of the Pearl River.
Goods per Prinz Sigismund undelivered Russia and Persia will not be per an account of smallpox against arrivals were wrocked, and now lie at the bottom
aftor this date subject to rent. Goods per Flintshire undelivered after
this data subject to rent. Gloods per Arratoon Apcar andallvard after & p.m. this date will be landed.
General Memoranda),
FRIDAY, July Sl:--
the Singapers Government that quarantine from Hongkong has been removed.
The swall French steamer Cheongkong which runs between Canton and Wachow The Freuch Minister at Peking, says went down just off the upper end of Hom the "Chinese Mail's" Feking correspon-island, and I am informed that four- dent, has agree to appoint a Commissioner
Anamosa sailors were drowner.
Canton. It is to be hoped that it will be many years before another such comes,
Kwongtong's sorrows have come thick and fost this year.
WIGS AND GOWNS. DISCARDED.
petuated in Turkeyor, it might be added, in China. The first stop should
Several times of late the electric fans at be to institute a governing body chosen
the Supreme Court have stopped ett po on a very restricted franchise. This
One of the launches of the Canton count of the fusing of the wires, and today As the host in would prepare the way for a really re-too-operate on the Yunnan frontier,
Kowloon railway is missing, and so is the they stopped once more. In 1807. 2,588,500, umbrellas valued private houseboat of Engineer Grove It the Court was so great Counsel engaged in attained suficient political wisdom to at Ten 1,013,000, were exported from is hoped that they found refugo in sine the case, Cheong Shing Bank and others V. Li Po Kuma and others, discarded their The Chief Justice, Bir Scores of large cargo boats were smashed wigs and gowns. of the nearby creeks. by the wind, and many muk, while others Franois Piggott, also put aside his wig, were transposed into flotsam.
Probably hundreds of sampans were smashed to pieces or swamped.
Goods per Nippon undelivered after this presentative assembly when the people
date subject to reat.
SATURDAY, August 1:-
9.16 p. Concert on the Volunteer choose their representatives wisely. If Japan to Korea, China, India, Asiatic
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MONDAY, August 9:-
Krchange Banka Closed.
this, or something of the kind, is not done in Turkey we filly anticipate
room looted A. S. WATSON Deoda per Mongolia undelivered at noon hearing in due course of a repetition of
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the terrible scenes which have occurred at St. Petersburg and Teheran.
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Transfer Books of The Hongkong and Whampos Dook Co., L., close from .......this date to 24th August, inclusive. A Tokyo despatch states that the authorities are considering the advisability MONDAY, Augcet 24:-
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|kuesia, sud other, Asiatic countries. In 1808, the number was 1,788,000 vained at Ten 687,000.
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quarrel between two Isde a Moriyama-mura, Nagasaki-kon, on the 11th inst, rezulted is the younger, aged seven, being fatally wounded in the breast by the other, aged eleven, with a toy sword. Death ensued within twenty minutes,
The Envoy to the Mahemmedan Churches in China was received by His Honour Tsai Na-huang. Shanghai Tactal, and His Honour the District Magistrate of Shanghai, at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs in the Bubbling Well Road on the instant.
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The Customos Taolai at Wabu has received an anonymous letter stating that certain revolutionary partiams are pre paring to rise at a fixed date and a cortain It is reported for Tokyo that Marquis police officer is at the head of the inove. Inouye is catering from an affection of the ment. Thexoforo investigations are being liver. The malady is not in itsolf-of a very made. serious nature, but, owing to his age, his family and friends-entertain considerable anxiety.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
A meeting of the Legislative Council is to be held on Thursday afternoon.
Great havoc way wrought among the floating brothels. Many of these were two and even three stories high and were easy
The orders of the day are Second prey to the wind. Great numbers of them ara piled up along the foreshora. Some reading of tho Bill entitled An Ordinance broke away from their moorings in the to smend The Evidence (Colonial Statutas) eastern suburbs and drifted apstream to be Ordinance 1908. Emally dashed to pieces along the bund.
Committee on the Bill entitled An
There must have been considerable loss Ordinance to provide for the transfer to of life, but although I made repeated the Goverment of Hongkong of the inquiries I learned of less than a dozen. It Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund and of the Management and Control of the would be foolish to speculate about it.
The custoras Iaunches and Chinese gum-Pensions of Widows and Orphans and to boats patrolled the river as soon as the consolidate the laws in relation thereto, *** wind subsided sufficiently to allow them to A meeting of the Finases Committee. do so, but in the early twilight the wind will be hell immediately after the Connal. The following resolation steading in the was too focious to permit of any resour
Bame of the Colonial Secretary, will not. work
be proceeded with.
Three river gunboats H.M.8. Robin, and
Resolved that on and from the 1st the French bento Vigilante and Argus were severely buffetted by the wind and waves January, 1909, the Owner, Agent or Master The Robin escaped with least damage. of every ship, which enture the Waters of All were driven up against the Bund of the the Colony, shall pay the following Dat A terrible case of parricide is reported foreign concessions and they will need con- to such Officer as the Governor may, from from Takazaki, Japan. It appears that a siderable repairs. The steering gear of the time to time, appoint (1.) For all Rive man named Horikoshi Juta, twenty-nine Vigilante was carried away and a number Steamers, which enter the Wate ́s of lo
of a cont per ton register. (2) All other years of age, of No. 00, Kitahs village, of her plates were stove in. but fortunately Colony by day or by right: - Five mille last 2,699 Japanese immigrants landed at near that city, had a serious dispute with none below the water line.
I have not learned of the death of any ships which enter the Waters of the Colony Two cents per ton register. Ex- bis father, a tuan aged sixty, as the apshot page from that part, shows a decrons of bis fine, managed as the Debut Favores s
suptions-British and Foreign Ships of 4,875 as compared with the corresponding warde effecting his osapo.
War. period of last year.
During the fire wonths ending May 30
San Francisc. This number, says a mes
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said to presenta agcificcnt view.
The wife of one of the engineos of the Canton Kowloon railway narrowly escaped from drownlag. The houselinat in which she was living sank, but her husband insily
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The annual report of the Hongkong This afternoon the river hae commenced Milharmonic Society, says-Dazing the
The ch
dig
In Tinland" considers that condi- Takegatake, a volcano in zuni distions of tin training in the Federated Malay a. New Adpertisements should be sent to trict, Nagano prefecture, Japan, is reported States, reqare looking into. It notes succeeded in getting her ashoro and she w our Ofies at 8, Queen's Road Central lejere to be showing some activity of late, hugo still one more instanço of the statement taken to one of the mission housos. 8pm.
volumes of smoke emerging from its crater that working expenses in the Faleration Advertisements and Subscriptions which ars not ordered for a fixed period will be continued By night the glow from the mountain is are higher than those anywhere else, to assume its normal appearance. One past season 1997-8, ending Jane 3012. Cornwall for instance. Our contemporary can scarcely realise that only a few hours 1908, the Society presented only one concludes: We are getting into expensive ago it was being lashed into fury and that Concort, on Wednesday, the 18th Dean- It appears from a Tokyo dental that habits, and in spite of bour-saving pandemonium reigned. On shore, how-ber, 1007, as compared with two during the storm's amongst other items, Lloyd's Cantata. the Asiaties Exclusion Association of San machinery we cannot work at a margin, ever, it will take a long me to restore the session 1900-7. At that Concerty Hero and Lander" was performed by a at least Fearful havoc. Francisco has established a Lecture Depart while other countries are practising order and remove the sigue
that part of it dependent upon electricity, Chorus and Orchestra of seventy per inent for the purpose of giving lectures oeconomy and can show better resulta, the exclusion question in any locality send. ing a request for such assistance. It will Messrs Melchers and Co. advise that will bo in darkness to-night. The wires formers. While the Concert was
heavy financial loss, partly owing to also endeavour to obtain pledges from can in regard to the intimation of June 26 are down everywhere. A network impedes tinc artistic success, it proved a very
tratie in many of the streets. didates for the House of Expresentatives regarding the fire which occurred out board Every matshed in the city was doubtless the large amount of professional orchestral to support the exclusion movement.
their steamer Petronio, according to a tale wrecked. I did not see one that escaped. assistance necessary, the member of orches Hundreds of houses were ouroofed.tral members this season being very small, A PARLIAMENT FOR TURKEY.
Monday, the 3rd prox., being a Bank gram deceived from their Head Office at Holiday, the Post Office will be open for Copenhagen all her cargo was so badly Foreign houses did not escape. The Ton and also to the fact that the Committee TURKEY is regarded as a European one hour, i.e. from Still 9at. There will damaged, with the exception of machinery, don Miskiou in the West End suffered wers obliged, for various reasons, to hold be a collection and a delivery of letters as the surveyore have recommeded that same considerably. One of their new residences the Concert on a date coinciding with Power and consequently it is not sur
on Sundays. The Money Order Ofico will should not be brought forward but army was partially anecofed. A fourth of the numerous other attractions, which material- exceptional number of local engagements. prising that the local reformers have be entirely olossal. In the event of the thing should be sold as it lies or put it the bilen ware blown of the new Girls' School 17 lessered the attendanos. Owing to wa
dences were injured more or less.
Concert, this season, which is considered been persistently agitating for a Partia arrival of French mail from Europe, the market. If, however, there should be no of the Baptist Mission, and all the resit was found impossible to give a stond The new buildings of the Canton-Kowloon by the Committee to be a matter for great railway, which are being erected to the regret. The Membershipshows an increase meal. When the present Sultan, Abdul Post Office will be open for one hour for market at Aden the damaged cargo is to be
Eastern suburbs were damaged consider of two crer that of last year, being 79 in Al, including Vice-Presidents. The Hon. Bee- Hamid, camo to the Throne in 1876 it
Somo time ago the Japanese Depart In Original Jurisdiction at the Supremo ably. All the workmen's sheds and acafetary, Mr R. T. D. Sayle resigned his was thought in some quarters that a { ... -
Fuent of Communications placed large Court, before Sir Francis Piggott (Chief folding were wrecked. A large pt of the position in the Society in January last on his subeonised for and presected hits with a liberal regime was about to commence orders for cement withs leading Japanese Justice) and a special Jury Li Po Kami and wall around the. Canton Hoial was departure for England, and the members allver cose bowl sacients of his sterling. in Turkey. The attitude of the new manufacturers of that commodity. Owings Li Po Tung duod Li Ling Shi and Li Taring blown down.
On Shameen the storm played havoc work and opfailing interest in the Society a Turkish Bath Salt
Sultan at first gave promise that thege however, to the postponement of Govern-Pak in the matter of a claim by the Cheong
anent enterprises, the Department has now Shing Bank and by Wong Tong to be with the masheds and trees, None of welfare The duties of Hon. Suorotary Fuller. The Committee have received Imparts a Delightful Fragrance hopes would be fulfilled. But his unrequested that the contracts shali be quash entitled to the sum of $11,524.94 paid into the buildings was seriously damaged. More have since been carried on by Mr Dermat and Softness to the Skin, tural inclination towards autocracy aidest ed. The cement manufacturers will thereby Court. MrSlade, instructed by Mr C., H. than a dozen of the laro banane with muck regret the resignation of be involved in heavy losses, but in view of Boavis (of Mesars Wilkinson and Grist) ware uprooted and blown down. Sone on Me E. S. Carruthers as "Hon. - Tron- by the hopeless incapacity of the re-¦
obtaining future contracte they have been appeared for Li Po Kam and La Po Yung the back bund fell on sampans shal had suror, and of Mr Dome Fuller sa formers in Turkey soon restored the
reluctantly obliged to comply."
Hon Mr H. E. Pollock, K., instrustat taken refuge in the canal, and wrecked Hon. Conductor. The Committee desire sound and unring work done during WATSON'S
by Mr R. F. C. Master (of Mosere Johnson them as they could not move, being jammed to record their high appreciation of the the season by Mr Donman Fuller the Hou absolute away to the Throne and fora
On the 8th inst., two Japanese tax Stokes and Master represented the Cheong in with hundreds of others.
The scene at the upper end of the B Conductor, and suggest that the diety's Genuine Double Distilled Toilet long time past Turkey has been
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collectore and a Toman officer were mur Shing Bank; at Sir Henry Bortoloy,
shown in some marked maurer. anomaly nmcng Europeau nations, a desed and a Korean clerk severely wounded K.U., instructed by My A. Holborow (of een is indescribable. Hundreds of hosts sense of indebtedness to that gentleman A resolution on this subject will br rub by Kortau insurgents, numbering about gressus Deacon, Looker and Descos) of all sizes are packed together, my sunk, should Bay Rum
country ruled according to the prin totty, while they were taking supper at appeared on behalf of Wong Tong The among them veral launches Wreckage mitted to the General Menting. In con of all sorts is scattered, over the top of the elusion, the Committee ted to sendor their thanks to mobors for their assistance ciples of Oriental despotism The spirit villages about one mile from Sin-gyoi, case is proceeding.
boats and the yelling men and women giving the past gesson, and trust that their of reform which has given even Russia Whan-hai-do. After committing the crime the insurgents mutilated the Japanese victims, plucking out the eyes, dliem-
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SATURDAY Afternoon
the In AugnaĽ
and Persia Parliaments was certain to
the delivery thereof.
have its effect upon the Turks. The borelling them and crashing in their skols. A detachment from Singyol, on reviving
A report of the affair, hastened to that
roshipped to Europe.
FLOOD RELIEF FUND.
the last touch of wildness to the sLEDE,
help will again be forthcoming in the The landing stage of the new boat house fiture, The Committee bag to acknowledge with of the Canton rowing club was married thanks the following donations
and the establishmen 10 frepresen place and captured Forty suspicious-looking vincent Sorby, $id, Ms Loong Lue Shi, ed. The host house asoaped with very
alight damage.
The balance shoot shows a bálkuoë in
Eis Benour Mr. Gompertz #26, way and several sailing boats were wreck hand of $55211. 950, Mr Chan Tin Cho 100, Mr. Chan Tarot and tree of the island veoape entire Chun 800 Mr Fang Shin Chen 200 Talophone and electric lights are Mr Yes Yes Tsi 100 Mr Kwhn Laingied in great, confusion as they are All Shen 860, Mr Torn Yes Yam--
ines is by no means lacking in intelli- gence tative bodies in adjacent countries could persons
INFANTILE CHOLERA --- not fail to stir within theft a desire to acro for themselves similar oppor ANY andesal botests of a child's A Bowels during the bob weather tmbitiose hate un previous oc should be a warning to mother. Infantile Cebolers.comy develop in a few hours, and casions pressed the belief that te sud se sollen abonid be taken to avoid the CITRAINS WIRE OF C Live Or
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