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The English, and be rejoices greatly thereat,
STREET.
$36.
| But his joy is tempered by the thought that too many singers murder, the English language when they attempt to sing it. Mr Boazas addresses himself with spirit to the charge that English is Ready made Day and Even-"anmelodious, ill-adapted to musical ing Gowns, Paris Models uses, and unsingable." He says: in Hats and Toques, Against this too generally accented Laces, Trimmings, Under-explanation I wish to protest most emphatically. We have a poetio clothing, Boots and Shoes, literature of marvelous richness. Only Hosiery and Gloves, etc., the Germana can lay claim to « lyric etc.
wealth as great as ours. The language 679 we inherit is an extraordinarily rich A German authority credits it with a vocabulary three times es large 10.30 a.m.-Auction of Hours Jays that of its nearest competitor, Whole Brock-in-Trade at No. 14, Les German, and ten times or large as that of Voeux Rosd,
French, the poorest, in number of words,
MEMOS FOR MONDAY, Anetion.
Amusements.
Miscellaneous
Dock Co., Ld., eloss from this data to 22nd Feb, inclusive. Gooda per Bularis uvelaimed after his date at Noon will be subject to rent
and landlug charges.
General Memoranda, TUESDAY, February 9:-
10 a.m.-Military Gun Prsation, 11 a.tm. Acation of Condemned, Obso- lete and Confiscated Stores, &c., at Control Polico Elation.
one.
TANG SHAO`YI IN
ENGLAND.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1909.
THE MANILA CARNIVAL
HONGKONG LOOSES AT POLO AND TENNIS.
RECEIVED BY THE KING.
(Beuter'a-Service to the China Mail: Copyright protected under
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Ordinanes 3 of 1894)
LONDON, February 6.
MANILA, February 5, The King has received H.E. Tang
Hongkong lost the Polo Match in Shao-si in audience. He was socomp the Carnival games, Manila winzing by anied by the Chinees Minister Lord Lá.❝ goals to 1. It is understood that Tang Shao-yi is. In the Tennis matches Hongkong the bearer of an autograph letter to the suffered defeat both in singles and King
doubles.
THE LANGUAGE QUES- TION IN AUSTRIA.
REICHSRATE SUMMARILY
P
CLOSED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Ma: Copyright protected under Ordinancs 8 of 1894.)
Lance-Corporal Andrewa, of the Buffs, won the balf mila.
PERSISTENT CALI FORNIA
JAPANESE TO HAVE SEPARATE SCHOOLS,
(Reuter's Bervice to the China Mail: Copyright protected under Ordinance of 1894)
LONDON, February 5, The Californian Legislativa Assembly: has adopted the Bill providing for sepa-- rate schools for Japanese, but a motion has been made to reconsider the matter. President Roosevelt has telegraphed to the Governor that this is the most offensive Bill of all and clearly uncon
TO ABOLISH THE STAMP stitutional. The President inquires whether its further progress can be stop DUTY.
ped in the Legislature or by roto,
(Wuh Tan Yat Po's Service.)
PERING, February 5. LONDON, February 6. The stamp duty having proved too place in the Austrian Reichsmuth over the Government has decided to abolish Noisy demonstrations have taken onerous and inconvenient for the people the Bohemian language question. They it. The stamp office at Tientsin bas culminated in the Government closing been closed. the session amid indescribable uproar.
The Bourse is depressed.
..
AFFAIRS AT PEKING.
The writer of "Notes on Native Affairs,” which appear in the N. 0. Daily Ne throws interesting sidelights upon the pre- sunt position of affairs in Peking. He begins bynaying that aluse the approval and encour
| HEAD-SHAVING REGULA-
TIONS.
(Wah Tax Yet Po's Service.)
PERINO, February 5. The prohibition of head-sharing will be withdrawn on February 22,
9 p.m.-Barnston's Grand Cheus at of all the great buguages. With such an
Cannaway Bay.
enormque fund of words to choces from Transfer Books of Hongkong & Whampoa it seems as if we not only should be eble to express our thoughts with auparalleled erectness and subtlety, but also with unequaled variety of sound. Further, it is probable that English surpasses the other three great langu- ages of song, German, Italian, and French in number of distinguishable vowel sounds, but in questions of ear authorities usually differ, and it is agement given by the Prince Regent to the hazardous to claim in this an indubit-Consors to denounce government officials, able supremacy. It seems certain, impeachments have become the order of the day, and many high dignitaries including however, that English kas rather more Grand Secretaries Na Tung, Chang Chih than twice as many vowel sounds astung, Sen Chia-nai, President Chen Pi, Vice-President Yang Shih-chi, Viceroys Italian (the poorest language in this Yang Shih-being and flet Shih-chang,
His Excellency the Governor has been the Governor of Honan, Shantung, Anhui, Chekisng and a number of minor officials, pleased to appoint Mr J. Dakiol to be a have bean" impeached. This, it is stated, surveyor of boilere of unlicensed steamships constitutes a record unequalled in many under 80 tons.
Building Co Ld., at Co.'s Offices.
Sales Ronton.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The Rar. O. Bone and wife left the
OPIUM IN CEYLON,
(Router's Service to the Chino Mats-
"Copyright protected under Ordinance of 1894).
LONDON, February 5,
The Times states that the Colombo Opium Bill has been withdrawn pending the report of the Shanghai Conference. It is hoped to reintroduce it at the and of the year.
CHANG CHIH-TUNG AND THE REGENT.
(Was The Fat Po's Service,)
Peknu, February 5
Colony for England this morning on a woll Chang Chih-tung to send Censor Chao The Prince Regent bas twice directad earned furlough.
Kai-lin to see him.
THE
IMPEACHMENT OF
CHAN PL
Noon-Moting of Kowloon Land and 2.30 p.m-Auction of Household Furnt ture, &o, at Mr Geo. P. Lammert' Register of Shares of the Bongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation close from this date to 20th inst, inclusive, WEDNESDAY, February 10:-
Gooda per Brikosaia not cleared at śp.m.
on this data subject to rent.. THURSDAY, February 11 -
Goods per Tubes Mars not cleared on respect), which has only seven or eight Again, it is asserted that the sound of English is anmelodious because of its many, conscants, but we are no richer
is in connexion with Portugal'a forcible] His Excelleney the Governor has been in consonants than the Germans, and occupation of certain tracts of land near pleased to grant to Lient J. A. T. Gorman is accepted as a suitable vehicle Manao. & much more serious, one is Plummer, of the Volunteer Corps, lass of for song. Furthermore, a richness and preferred against Viceroy Hau Shih-chang absence for aloven months.
of Manchuria, who is accused of having variety in consonant sounds adds to the granted to foreigners a concession to vocal expressiveness of a language, as open a trade contre on a zene 60 on Frederick Lugard has been pleased to It is understood that His Excellency Six
the best German singers, have amply each side of the proposed Hsiamintun-grant to Police Constable Hedge the fourth Shun Cha-nal and Na Tung.
FRIDAY, Fbruary 125–
9. tap-Choir Concert at City Hall. Goods per Constantía undelivered after
this date subject to rent. Goods per Siberia andolivered at Noon
on this date subject to rout, SATURDAY, February 19 :-
8 p.m.--Devosinn Dinner at Hongkong
Eotel.
Goods per Nippon Maru undelivered at
noon on this date subject to rexte FRIDAY, Febuary 18:-
p.m.-Performsure by Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club in City Hall.
NOTICE.
addressed to THE EDITOS.
years. The charge against H. E. Na Tang
" away.
(Wah Ta Yat Po's Service.)
PEKING, February 5. The witnesses connected with the impeachment of Chan Pi, late President
being examined by Grand Councillora of the Board of Communications, are
SENDING HIS FAMILY TO'
FOOCHOW.
Fakumen Railway in return for a large class Police Medal for his conduct on the proved. Italian is the easiest language bribe of Ts. 2,000,000 of which Tla. 600,000 occasion when Lance-Sergeant Mills was in which to sing because it contains the has been received. The Prince Regent's fatally wounded in an armed robbery at fewest vowels and consonants, and for the just actions, remarks the writer, have Yaumati.
knocked favouritism on the head, and the Communications relating to news should be same reason, is, despite certain obvions evil ought honesforwad gradually to dis
Mr A. W. Maclean, of the German Con- beauties, the most limited in its range."
sular Service, died last week at the General Letters relating to business should be address. Mr Roczna declares that it only needs a strenuously recommends that the question was of Scotch dosent, came out to Shanghai Grand Councillor Chang Chih-tong Hospital in Shanghai. Mr Maclean, who
little courage on the part of concert of a pardon to the reformers should be in 1904, and since the absence on leave of Tenhui their report on the inquiries- deferred, as the granting of it too hastily Mr Schirmer has been acting as German would be tantamount to exposing the errors Asessor at the Mired Court. Death was instituted in connection with the pro with greater emphasis. of the Empress Haiso Chin at once, and
due to appendicitia, for which he had an posed impeachment of Chan Pi, late operation.
President of the Board of Communica
All letters for pillization should be written on one side of the paper only.
No anonymously signed communications that inserted, have already appeared in other papers will be
ad to Tas MawatzEN,
Correspondents must forward their namer and addresses with any communications nd-goers to discountenance all gingers who dressed to the Editor, not for publication but refuse to sing intelligibly to bring about WHISKY as endenes of good faith.
a long-wooded reform in the singing of English. By so doing they will, be says, raise the culture and tone of a lovely art to its proper level. To bring out the verbal beauties of 3 song, an Orders for extra copies of the 'Cuma Min should be sent before. 11 am. on the day after
aria, or a recitative should be as much an Boking and Flans now open at ROBIN GENUINE AGE ted. Cash 10 ota, Credit 20 d., per as the reproduction of the notes of the yard.
publication. After that hour the supply is object of desire on the part of the singer
CITY HALL, SATURDAY, Gth February, 1900,
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Hongkong, February 8, 1909.
165
VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
advised to exercise his power of disallowance His Majesty the King has not been with respect to the Theatre's Ordinance.
(Was To Yat Po's Service.)
PEKING, February 5. Shan Ka-nai and Na Tang, will:
We understand that the Chaplaincy oftions. He is expected to be charged St. Andrew's, Kowloon, has been offered to with corruption. M.A., Cute of St. Cyprian's, Liverpool. the danger of his position, is sending, and accepted by the Rev. H. O. Spink, It is said that Chan Pi, apprehending
Mr Splak, who was formerly a ourato his family to Foochow beforehand. It is notified in the Gasette that storm under Canon (now Bishop) Lander, cannot launches are prohibited from passing be reach Hongkong til September, but ar- twcon H.M.B. Merlin and the Naval Dock-rangements have been made to conduct the
services at St Andrew's till then.
Mr J. H. Scott, President of the China
on Fagen 1, 9, 8, 6 and 7, should be sent to the to achieve this desirable result the by the Governor-in-Council, under the Association, was entertained at dinner by
The Gazette contains regulations made Ofice, No. 5, Wyndham Street, not later than 11 am. Nes Advertisements should be sent in annals of the concert platform and the Pharmacy Ordinance, with regant to the the committee of the Shanghai Branch of
issue of licenses to wholesale dealers. opera afford may a glorious example.
the China Association, pn the 30th alt. Madame Leiria has kindly consented Among the guests was Sir Uncil Clementi It is stoventiness in most cases, in-
to present the prizes of the "Paper-Chase," Smith, G.C.M.G., Bonior British Delegate sufficient or inadequate training in
**Go-a-you-please," and "Eleven-a-side.to the Opian Conference. Owing to the others, which have been the true ressons football competition" to the successful shorter of Mir Scott's stay in Shanghai and the Ettle space within which arrange- for unintelligble English singing and competitors at the Club Lusitano this ments could be made, it was not found the sooner the bad and pernicious habitening at 9.30 p.m.
until countermandad.
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THE ART OF SINGING IN ENGLISH:
A REACTION is at last setting in among the English-speaking peoples against the wretched fashion of singing which renders the words of the performer anintelligible to the bearer. How of ton at a concert one hears the romark concerning a professional singer, "Yes, she sings beautifully, but one never understands a word she saya." And yet so universal is this experience among concert-goats that the public has almost become convinced that the fault lies with the English language and not
ith the singira e Roces, well-known ecneeri
ainger in America, writing recently in Scribners" Magasine, tally bears out the truth of this indictament. The old saying he declares, that "He who says well, sings wall," has a converse. The singer who can not way his words intelligibly and beautifully we't know how to sing.
8. WATSON 00, Mr. Rooms has been moved
D
these rem
(ment that
NGE AND
JART
ceases to be tolerated the better.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The rainfall registered at the Kowloon Observatory during January amounted to 1.46 inch-xactly the average for the prorious 20 years.
feasible to make the entertainment one of
A very interesting social was held in the whole Association; but as ADY ES the Randing Roo, Kowloon, on Friday possible of Mr Scott's personal friends were evaring, under the auspicius of the Kow. Prosant. Mr W. Adame Dram, managor of the Hongkong and Sanghai Bank, kindly 1oon Dock Amateur Dramatic Club. There lent his house for the occasion, and a most was a considerable attendance and the enjoyable oroning was spent. several items were greatly enjoyed and appreciated.
WORTH REMEMBERING.—There are not
A MODERN HAROUN AL RASCHID.
(Wah To You Foʻs Service.)
Ректо: February 5.
The Prince Regent is in the babit of attiring himself in plain clothes and reconnoitering the City.
POSTAL SERVICE FOR TIBET.
(Wah The You Fo's Service)
PEKING, February 5, The Board of Communication
sent three officials to Tibet to establish a postal service there.
Warly no many people coughing CCRARES HEADACHE CUT absolutely
Owing to the official period of Imperial now as there were heroe Stearas Wine cares headaches of all kinda. Ne mourning not having yet concluded the Cod Liver Oil was placed on the market.
opening of the Shanghai Opium Commia. It stops the cough Remember that 11 opiates, no bad after-efects. It will nok
The master of the as. Rubi reports having passed on Fabrary 1, a Nun Baoy, sion was very quiet. H.E. Tuin Fang was painted black with cage on top, drifting.97 accompanied by a very small retinus and miles south and 44 miles east of Waglen he left the meeting directly bis opening
speech had been translated.
Inland.
The a.. Hong Bu, Captain G. Horne,
The application of the French dele- from Singapore, had a very rough passage oeding be conducted in French, though gates that the Opium Commission's pro- from the Parcels. The vessel pitched strictly in accordance with diplomatic hatahes had to be battened down. and toased and chipped heavy seas and the usage, seems to have caused great surpriss to the Chinees oficiale. H. Then Fing left the Commission to settle the matter Mesura E. R. Hallifar, S. Buckle, O.
among themselves and, am və know, the in the Gazette, ars each and sovarally Ross and D. W. Tratman, se notified proposal was negatived. --. authorised by the Governor-in-Conal to The Hongkong Chamber of Commeros
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