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cortain extent in those parts of South 636. China immediately adjacent to us. We say to a certain extent," for we hesitate to make positive and sweeping affirmations where such a consorvative
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Barely there months have clapsed since the new Criminal Appoii Act came into operation in England, but serious com plaints are hoard against the burdens and cost of its working. Speaking it the re cont Leeds Summer Assizes, Mr Justice Bigham declared that the right now given
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1908.
-NEWS OF THE DAY,
A fatal one of plagun was reported to-day from Des Tocrux Road West.
Several more commonses under the
new Public Health and Buildings Ordinanco were heard at the Magistracy to-day..
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
General Sir Reginald Pole-Carow, whe will be visiting Hongkong this aatomy, has been tanimously elected Cronise candidate for the Bodmin division of Cornwall, where he revision.
President Roosevelt will finish his vacation and retice to Washington on B37 since about the middle of June. His September. 20. He bas bern at Oyster return is slightly cardior this year than haretofore
2
His Excellenez, Sir Frederick Lugand, has issued invitations to the Investiture of
The sale of furniture at Mr H, raco as the Chinose are concerned. Ato overy prisoner to require the Court to Borner's residence, "Derrington," the hear an appeal had Leen shown by the former Governor of Hongkong, Sir working of the Act to be unnecessary Peak, will be continued on Wednesday W. Da Vaux, On
memorable and even mischievous." Before the Act the 2nd Eept., commencing at eieren
became law it was said that the number of 'clock.
At a meeting of the council of the Royal ocension, saw in his mind's
eye &
appeals would be small and the cost of work- j
It is understood that Albert Hemuz, Colonial Instituto, held on July 28, Sir. China emerging under the ing would be arall. Experience so far had educntire influences of Hongkong, and shown that both forecasts were mistaken. who was sentenced at Shanghai to rightcon Hubert Jerningham presiding, the follow- For there were then about Efty appeals months' imprisonment for swindling wo-ling gentlemen, among others, were elected
and Mr. Samuel E. Tench (Ceylon). he placed on record his vision of the waiting to be beard; in every twelve men, will serve his sentenes at Hongkong. Follows:-DrOswald Marriott (Hongkong) things that he imagined were to make months some 10,000 prisoners were 'con•}
victed; and if any proportion could be Mr. Merriman, the Premier of Cape a new heaven and a new earth out of established between those two factors, his Colony, stated, in answer to a question 10,000 RECORDS JOHN & ROBERT HARVEY & this great and ancient empire. It was Lordship esticated that the now Court asked in the Legislative Assembly, that the
would erat at least £100,000 a year and Govorniment had no intention whaterer of panionship of the Most Distinguished principally by means of educative in that Parliament, however loth, would have parting with Walfinch Bay, as had been Order of Saict Michet and Saint George.- fluence that the small island lying just to appoint additional judges to the King's ramoured. of its south-eastern coast was to effect Bench. These are serious statements com ing from such a source, especially as the transformation of China. The Das Mr Justin Bigham olaims the best au Vaxx despatch was eloquent and thority for what he says, apart from his rhetorical, it has also turned out to be personal experience. At the Court's first sitting, it will be remembered, the Lord sagorious and far-seeing. Ja Canton Chief Justice axpressly pointed out that to-day may be seen an extensive band, its duties were not to re-try & case
but only to see whether the verdict onght! na- On the 27th August, at 33 Hart Roni, which, while rendering more
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Many of what we consider "up-to- date
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the Hoo. Mr Wei Yuk with the Corn
at Government House on Wednesday, September 9, at 5.30 p.m.
In koppar of her twenty-fourth birthday.. Gimlds as the recipient last Mile. orening of eight baskets of beautiful flowers and a mouey present. She is popular artist at the Alcxandra Cinematheatre and her health, at the conclusion of the per- furnance kast evening, was torsted over
Shanghai to Mr and Mrs J. I. CHALMERS.rigable the Pearl river; has added i to stand, Further checks were imposset in North Africa donominated by Mr Israel and over agnits.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORBOW... Auctions.
11 a.m.-Acttion of Condemned Storee, at the Central Police Station Cam- pound.
largely to the available building area on the river frontage. It is the outcome of a "reclamation scheme" the hint and suggestion of which was borrowed from
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Ooods per Prinz Eitel Friedrich ande liverad after chin date subject to rent.
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Gouds per Ernest Simons unclaimed afto this date at Neon will be subjecTMt rent and landing charges.
by the judges's raling that a pridjcie se net be made out for any appeal against any verdict as being unreasonable
the Act that & frivolous appeal should be or wrong in law; and by the provision of punishable by an increase of the original sentence. What now appears to have happened was faired by some opponents of the Act before it became law. In lodging
A commission to examine the territory Zangwill in his speech at Bianchester as the one tentatively chosen for "Ito kand" has been despatched by the Jewish Terri turiel Organisation.........
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Peter McClure, he failed to appear at the Marine Court to-day on a charge of absenting himself from the 3.8 Empress of Japan, and with disobeying the orders of the Captain.
General Booth declared at the farty third anniversary of the Salvation Army, at the Crystal Palace, that be was going to South Afrion, if presible, to find a new Cannan, in which the unemployed of the old country may receive a welcome."
In recognition of the fact that Frausling school to gain over 1,000 of the Rayal Life ham School, Suffolk, has been the first
Saving Society's certificates, the society has granted the distinguished service medal to Mr F. W. Lynch, the master responsible for the instruction in swimming. are some Hongkong boys at Framlingham.
There
We are informed that the statement re- garding Mr von Zach's imminent departure in yesterday's issue is not quite ourrect, Although Mr von Zach is appointed lo succeed Consul Dr Bernauer in Tintain,
Hie
the date of his leaving the Colony is no quite certain and he may still sta? hore one or two months more. succosser in Hongkong, Consul von Wiser, is expected to arrive here about the end of this month.
Steam navigation along the inland rivers of the province; the electric ao appeat the prisoner feels that he has lighting of portions of the city; the always a sporting chance." He may be worsted-badly worsted, with a longer Dew police system; the water sup. sentence than he began with; but he has ply; proposals for wider streets and for the excitement of a new hearing, interviews SATURDAY, September 5 :--
Gonda per America Mars undelivered a tramway are among the many indica with his lawyer and friends, better food and lodging while waiting the Ocart's tions that Canton is ready to adopt decision, all combining to rolleve fl
It is clear that the lessons which Hongkong tas beon montony of prison life.
some greater stringency will have to be willing to teach these many years. But imposed to save the Court from unneces Before a Royal Commission on the though evidences of the fulfillment of our sary labour. But (to adapt an old tag) no pearling industry, which has been sitting former Governor's prophecy am to be Act is suddenly most perfect; and the fact at Brisbane, a witness stated that eight
Mr George Barclay, who succeeds Su that under it some few prisoners have years ago he had laid, 100,000 shalls in the met with everywhere, a disquieting lea-strendy boen redeemed from perversion of neighbourhood of Friday Istand. Japanese Cecil Spring Rice as British Minister at ture of the situation is the lack of wn-justice is a strong argument that, with stole the shells. The matter was brought Teheran, is 46 years of age, and entered tinuity which the Chinese display in their judicious patching, the Court of Criminal before the district court judge, who hold the Diplematic service in 1866. He has served in Washington, Rome, Tokyo; Ma- animals there was no penalty for stealing drid, and Constantinople, as a wonderfu! and workable. institution.-N. C. Daily
thor. adaptation of the advantages of alien Appeal should yot devolop into a well that as pearl-shell oysters were teaching and Westen civilization. The New successful building of a new hand as Canton should have proved a valuable
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knowledge of the Turkish and Japanese Languages, and has shown great diplomatie The London County Council trazayability and tact, more espreially in Con- Last year realised a surplus of £492,900, stantinople, where he has been in foll which is reduced to £16,000 by the deduc charge of the British Embassy since the tion of debt and other charges. The whole dalk of Sir Nicholas Coner. of the balance has been set aside for re- Barclay is a brother of Mr Hugh Gurney nowals. The total debt now outstanding Barclay, one of the wall known banking amounts in £7,530,97. During the year firm, and he is married to a Miss Chapman,
the Yokohama stage. ... the passengers numbered 372,515,754, and of New York, one of the most beautitcl the number of car miks run was 55,541,189, and charming amateur actressbe known to
The Chief Justice, Sir Francis Piggott, at the Supreme Court, this afternoon. dismissed with costs tho motion against ed life at a place known by the Ruddi- Chai Wai Kee, in the motion by Li King gorish name of Crim's Dyke, Harzow hok, that the transfer by him of 14,000 Weald. Between times he note as Mes Margaret Browe, wie of unbags of flour, the property of the Kwong magistrate at the neighboring town of
A
Sir William S. Glibert lives a semi-retir
Dr. Baldwin, of Calcutta, claims to nave already appeared in other papers will be native engineers, and their experiences have perfected a cure for leprosy, and to
Orders for extra copies of the 'China Mashould thereafter have been utilized in have cured two cases. should be sent before I am. on the day after repairing the broken dykes of the rite
The Nanking city railway was opened publication. After that hour the supply is limited, Gach 10 d., Credit 20 de par delta. What stone and cement, in on August 26, with great eclat. The road is well-built and reflects great credit on all sufficient, quantities and applied by cour concerned. Alterntions and additions to Advertised petont, hands, could accomplish in one
British jurors at the Franco-British on Pages 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7, should be sent to our Offer at 5 Wyndham Street not later then 11 place could surely be done in another. Exhibition report that Australian vine am. Now Adzertisements should be sent to our Office at 8, Quien's Rend Central before especially when the nee of ench mater-growers have made great strides, especially
ials menus the averting of grave disasters in white wines. and the safeguarding of lives and property over enormcus areas. The hard gine fitter, met her death in an extraorik Wo firme, in favour of Chai Wii Chi Edgware. Two chauffeurs, biding their dinary manner during rainstorm at Bal was a fraudulent preference as against the time to go up before the magisterial beneb, living, thrifty peasantry on whose main, Australia, the other day. Sha was other cditors of the debtor and that he were overheard discussing the famous J. P.
was not a bona fide pinshuser of the four in a corridor of the court house.
"Yes," one of them was saying, "I be labours the well-being of the state swept off her fort into a wide gutter, and carried into a 16-inch drainpipe, and
Negotiations have been going forward lieve he is a cleverish sort of a bloke and depende should be among the first to drowned.
for some time between the Britishi and not acessonable. Known a bit of the reap the benefits of modern discovery
The Japanese Government has issued, French Governments for the improvement world and that's where we get a chance, and furention, especially when they can through the foreign Embassies and Leg of the Suez Canal, and matters have now of getting off a bit light." HONGKONG. TOENDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1908. be so readily adapted to their own tions in Tokio, invitations to foreign Go-reached a stage when an early agreement
apecial needs. But nothing of the kind vernments to send military officers to come highly probable. It has frequently he asked "Isn't it the same Gilbert that "Certainly," agrest the first chauffeur, seems to have occurred to the minds of inspect the grand manoeuvres of the Japa-been suggested that with the growth in the used to write plays and such like ?"
neso arity, to be held in the provinces of size of ships asing the canal the waterway those responsible for the dyke-rebuild- Setten, Kawashi and Idzami this autumn, should be both widened and desposed from certainly. But that's all right; we ulf:
end to end without farther loss of time, but have our beginnings," The Archbishop of Canterbary has the French authorities have been very re- As it was in the days of your forefathers" seems ever to be applied issued an encyclical embodying the de- luctant to incur the heavy expense. It is Low to everything concerning the farming cisions of the Label Donferense. It believed that these objections have been FUNERAL OF THE LATE REV class of China, Yet it must surely have reaffirms the doctrines of the Trinity, the withdrawn, and the work, it is hoped, will Incarnation, and the historic creeds be taken in hand during the coming year occurred to the shrewd philanthropists Referring to marriage problems, the ency A sensational case was recently closed!
The China Mail.
WESTERN OBJECT LESSONS &
CHINESE CONSERVATISM....
Ax eye-witness who can be relieding. apon as a trained and careful observer, inform us that the dykes and embank- ments of the Kwan-tung rice alta,
Ta
The other was silent for a while.
ALFRED ILAPEN-
Then
destroyed by the appalling foods ofving in Hongkong, Conton and Macaoclical deplores the terrible, increase in Allahabad, when Mr. Wail, tomporary Borrow and fogret, the remains of the Inte
to a reunion of the Anglican and Pres-
. Pearcy, Jack, Wilks. Sykes, Hiret, Molson, and Nicholls.
Amid every manifestation of alugue
legt June, are now in process of
who have nobly subsribed great sums in the facilities for divorce. The conference executive saginger,itapur, and be wise, Bav ålfred Tiff were laid to rest at Happy the pre clergy, laymen restoration, but that tho work of re the cause of faming relief, that what considers it possible to make an approach Mrs Wall, who were secused of accepting Valley, on Monday evenings in building is following entirely the
Wall to eighteen montha' zigotons and Mrs and Chinese. is now positively needed is an inquiry bytorian or other non-episcopal churches, an illegal gratification, were sentenced, Mreence of a large number of o
Amongst those who attended were !-- ancient Chinese wanner, haphazard into the manner of reconstructing en-
The Secretary for India is understood Wall to twelve months' simple imprison- and unscientific, with no guarantee a bankments, with a view to lessening the to be carefully examining cortain juoposals meat, Details of the proceedina show that Rers, F. T. Johnston, M. Laugridge, Mok Tsan, I. W. Peace, La., C. H. to the quality of materials used, or of danger which, under present conditions, affecting the Tariff relations between the Wall was accused of having naked and R.N., A. J. Sterons, F. Child, CM.S.,
Lucian Empire and Japan. It has for obtained 10 per cont. Commission from the skill and experience of the mane liable to recur during any summer or remis time been apparnot that something Cawnpore firm of contmeters on an order Hicklin. C. Bone, I Genahr, and ♬ employed. The reconstructed banks ausumo whom for c, few days in success must be done in this direction, owing to aggregating 29,583 for famine rolice works. Mueller, Dr Sapudore, (Matilda Hospital), Mos Wallwas accused of obtaining articles Capt. and Mrs Brown, Ma Banister, Mra will no more be able to withstand the ion the rainfall exceeds the average foreign manufactured goods; and it is now that if nothing was forthcoming. Further
the Japanese attitude towards imported
and gifte from the same firm, intimating Bunbury, Mrs Bone, Mra Pace, Mrs pressure of such a volume of water us
Cannot the proper authorities, be nerved believed that the Alikado's Government Government orders would not be given to Chilly Misses Skipton and Hawker, Messrs that which barst their predecessors two to "appoint a competent commission to may be persuaded to make exception in the bra.
The cortege was mot at the Cemetery by months ago than would a child's mud study the whole subject in the light of rospect of certain classes of caufactures
in which India is more partfourly in
the Venerable Archdeacoa Banister Rev. castle, and at the next big rain- Occidental experience? The issue terested.
G. A. Banbary, CE. Thompson, Matthew Const Overtaxed.. burst we shall see this region might be a new departure in dyke
Fong, and Fok. The Rev. C. E. Thomp Official statistics of immigration into of a fair country again brought low, building and the opening of a new era
Canada for the first half of this year show When the Supreme Court opened this son read the opening sentences at the all for the sake of a little courage to of quiet, assured industry while content that the ambae totalled 96,119, a decrease morning, the Chief Justice, Sir Francis graveside and the Rev. G. A. Banbury forsake the ancient ways. The state-might dewa amm for the farming of 73,300, or 49 per cent, of compared Piggott, said that he thought Connsol were took the lemon, the committal and
with the wine period of 17 The overtaxing the capacity of the Court, and cluding prapors being pronounced by Vie ment is suggestive, in view of the feet population of Kwan-tung
decrease is entirely immigration from he did not think they could possibly got on Archdeacon Banistor. The foral European and Aslatic countries, consequent through the work est dorz before, the tributes were very guiderna. that here in Hongkong are to be found
Lieutenant 3. Montgomery Campbell, upon the restrictions adopted under the engineering experte, specialists in this
of the York and Lancaster Regiment, went Shipping Act to perent an influx of im- branch of their profession, who would
out sketching on the Murdar Mountain, migranta Ekoly to flood the labour market be only too willing to giva advice near Quetta a he did not return, kosroh in time of bepomary trade depression. and help in the matter of rebnikling partion were sent out, and his body was Immigration from the Unitod, Blaton t
discovered at the foot of a precipice 800 creased 1 per cent and was composed the ruined dykes and embankmente
feet deep, down, which the unfortunate catly of fans,8 going-Worts
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WHAT YERYBODY BAYS MUST BE remember that, hin work did not finish
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