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"TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1908,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Countess of Muath gavo an ad- dress this afternoon at St. Paul's College to members of the Ministering Children's Langue. A report of the proceedings will appear in to-morrow's China Meil.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr A. H. Wilzer, mmmissioner, L. Ma- Customs, Amoy, has been granted leave.
Mr E. T. Young, examiner, I. M. Cua- toms, from leave, has been appointed to Amoy.
THE CITY "OF. PARIB, parable in importance has appeared opinion. They are all agreed that the since that of the Poor-law Commission existing sysbm is altogether bad, and in 1884. After a careful sudy of must be vitally altered. That is why modern industrial and urban life, the we have headed this article "The Passing
Mr E. C. A. Doisle, examiner, L. M Commissioners have come to the con-of the Poor Law." It is this large
Customs, Shanghai, ja appointed to Canton. clusion that, to cope adequately with amount of agreement that most im-
The 8.6. Tango Mara mado the trip Mr E. A. Roberts, examiner, I. H. changed conditions, ooither the methods, presses us. It is one of the cost from Nagasaki to this port in 2 days and Eustonas, Shanghai, ia trestaferred to Can- nor the traditions, nor the primiples of markable features of the report that the 18 hours. She left Nagasaki on Saturday ton. the present Poor Law aro suitable, and majority, say, without qualification, the 20th inst at 3 p.m. and arrived hero "to be effective any reform must be "General workhouses should be abolish. this morning at 9.m. Capital. thorough." A new machinery and aed." With the disappearance of guardians now spirit are alike required. In view and workhouses the Poor Law as W of the magnitude of the issue at stake, know it to-day passes away. the failure of the Commission to present 879
a unanimous report is regrettable. The weight of authority and knowledge behind this spoch-making raport ensures the acceptance of its main principles. No careful reader of the report can **********doubt the immediate necessity of the
NOW ON.
DEATH. HENDERON-Died at Kim, Scotland, Mrs HENDIKSON (widow of the late John Henderson) for many years resident in Hongkong.
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Auction.
3 p.m.Anation of Valuable Lousehold Propony, 21 Me Geo. P. Lammert's Sales Rooma,
Miscellaneous Goods par Delhi pot cleared at 4 p.m.
on the date subject to rent. Gooda per Austria undelivered after
this data subject to rent.
General Memoranda,
THURSDAY, March 25 >--
p.m.-Military Tattoo on the Cricket
Ground. op.m.-Meeting of Hongkong Gymkhana
Club at the Jockey Club.
FRIDAY, March 20
2.30 p.m.Anotion of Honechold Furn
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10a.m.-Military Gun Practice.
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Three casca of plague have been notified durity the day onded noon of Masch 23rd. All are Chinese subjects, Mr. H. Erskine, chief examiner, LH. two cases being from Kowloon City and Customs, Shanghai, is transferred to Swar the other from Tsin Sha Tsui. Two of the tow. subjects have died.
Mr C. A. Swanation, examinos, X.-M. The Buckles-Hansen prise Äght at Oms. Customs, on leave, in appointed to Now ha, Nebraska, U.S.A., was opened with a chwang. sermon by the Res. F.R. Wedge, who spoke
Mr 8. Foyn, assistant examiner, I. M for fiteon minutes, after which the ring was cleared and the participants got down Customs, from leave, has been appointed
to business, ending in a knockout.
to Chefoo.
In view of the great demand for seats It je announced that the American and in order to prevent disappointment all Ambassador, Mr T. O'Brien, will remain those who have booked tickets for the Triple] at Tokyo, Bill on Saturday are requested to kindly
The Daily Mail says that Lord Grone HAMILTON, the Chairman of the Royal Commission, does not think it will be possible for the Government to deal with the suggested changes of the Pour Law this session. "The subject," he said, "is too rast for inmediate action. wide-reaching reforms suggested or The necessary bills will require months fail to endorse the statement of the of preparation. Possibly the Govern Commissioners that "the evils are soment will be able to deal with London widespread and deep-rooted, and form this session. The existence of the Metake up their tickets without delay at Messrs Montric and Co. so that the pian so integral a part of the social life of tropolitan Asyluma Board provides s
may be closed. the country, that no remedies lesa in centralised machinery which will make
Owing to the general strike of Postal Mr J. H. May, acting deputy commis-- scope and in force world, in our judg- changes mot easy to accomplish than officials, five million letters and one hunzionar, I. M. Customs, Canton, has been ment, be suficient."
they will be in the provinces. Labour dred thousand telegrams were lying un-granted Homo leave,
delivered in Paris on March 18. The exchanges wore promised in the King'e trouble first began in the sorting dopart-1 Speech. If the Government establishes a ment, the men being dissatisfied with their complete system of exchanges, under chances of promotion. central control, such as we suggest, the country will, for the first time, learn the truth about unemployment."
The Standard: A survey of the mass of evidence collected in the report might reasonably lead to the enclusion that the whole poor-law system is a complete and irremediable failure, and from one point of view the condemnation might be justified. But again, when
which we have just been considering shows that he is still Bourishing amazingly and going as strong as over.
Truly a Japanese bent on suicide is hard to beat. The other day in Fukushima a man who had fallen in love with a lady of easy virtue pursuaded her to commit akinje with him. They recordingly
Lord William Gascoigne Cedl was' mb Hankow last Sunday and expected ba preach at St. John's church...
Mr R. Braun, tidesurveyor and harbour master, I. M. Customs, Amoy, has been transferred to Canton, on promotien..
Mr J. J. Blake, chief officer, Loksang, ia on short leave. Mr J. McGuffog, from Home leave, has gone as chief officer of the “ Lokaang.
Mr McKay, the well-known passenger agent, is again in Hongkong on behalf of the interests of the Pacific Mail Company. and its overland connections.
The Earl and Countess of Meath, with
American rico-growers are up in arms against the suggestion that Philippine rice should be admitted duty-free into the United States. The Callencs american their daughter Lady Violet Babaton ar points out how absurd the agitation is, as rived from Japan this morning by the the Philippines have not exported rice for German mail stesnier Kleist Thoy will eleven years; indeed, bave imported within be guests at Government House until their
departure to-morrow. that period, 2,000,000 tons.
ዓ.
Mr F. W. James, superintendent engi
S. MoGaric, assistant superintendent en- ginger, 0. N. Co., Shanghai, has been appointed acting superintendent.
CHARLES DICEINS in many a sething the extraordinary complexity and waria satire held up the doings of Bimblecended a mutintain, placed a dynamite cartridge between their bodies and em- bility of the conditions are considered, and all his crew to public obloquy bracing each other were blown into eternity. together with the fallibility of human Many people thought that the new Goods per Monmouthshire pot cleared on anture, it might quite as reasonably bo Poor Laws had killed him, but evidently contended that, on the whole, the he was only scotched, for the Report system has worked as well as could have been expected. Balancing these two hypotheses we are confronted with the very remarkable fact, explicitly Threatened institutions. live long, but stated by the Commissioners, that every it really appears now that Bamble will
Shanghai's old grievance, the "absentee error and failure which chamcterised have to vanish from the scene. If the vote" was much in evidence at the recent Thy China Mail
the poor law before its reform in 1894, Commission's suggestions are cried ratepayers meeting. But for that the Yanger, C.N. Co., Shanghai, has been trans. kingpang would, with the consent of the ferred to Hongkong in phaos of Mr C. H and which that reform was expressly the person who will suffer most incun-resident ratepayers, soon ha culverted and Tricker, Superintendent Engineer, who HONGKONG, Tursday, MARCH 23, 1909. designed to remove, have since been renience will be the habitual loafer. But, an odoriferous creek converted into a charm goes Home on leave text month. Mr J
like Bumble, he has no friends and his ing boulevard. But the "absentee vote" perpetrated, and are at this moment in
raja Shapebai cannot afford such extravag, elimination has long been desired. painful evidence. It is remarkable that
aue in these hard timmen, and the soheme was defeated in a poll, 20 the majority and the minority find
On page two we reproduce” a letter, Mr C. H. Oliver, formerly Commissioner The Royal Commission which has been themselves in practical agreement, alike
All Hongkong residents leaving the reosived from Mr Rutherford giving an of Customs at Mukden, has taken up the engaged since Deceraber 4, 1905, ex-as to the matter and effects of existing Colony, either for good or on lease, should account of the stranding of the 6.8. But position of Chief Sematary of the Imperial amining into the working of the English abuses and the principles of reform.
order the Onand China Mail to lo sont sang. This letter, which according to dates Maritime Casteras Bft Oliver, we learn Poor Laws with a view to mending their The Daily News: The majority during their absenco, so as the batter to given was posted in the native post office from the N.C. Daily News, Erst joined the keep in touch with friends and associations Shanghai on the 6th inst, evidently lay service as professor of English to the Tung more serious defects, has at last present-report, if it stood alone, would still be here. The Owland China Mail, which is mark, and did not reseh us till some days service in April, 1908, and he is rejoining thara until the 16th, the date of the post Wen Kaan. He resigned from the Customs- ed its report. From all accounts it is a potable achievement; but, without in the weekly edition of this paper, always later. Mr. Rutherford was a passenger on the service with the rank of Commissioner WHISKY the longest and most monumental Stato any way disparaging the queful and contains a copy of Messrs Veimon and board the uaford, the pance, 6 the Hie present position was last held by Me
Smyth's Share Report. A subscriber can. accident.
K. M. Hillier. paper ever presented to Farliament, and thoughtful work of Lord GEORGE on notifying us two months before af date required in all ten stout volumes for its Haxos and his colleagues, we think of return, roste and name of steamer, have evidence and findings. The majority it will be rather to the work of the the raper posted to the various ports of call so as to pick them up on the turn report seems to bave been the work of minority that progressives will tam for voyage. Dr. Loka, Secretary of the Charity guidance. It has what the other lacks
The Times understands that German Organisatin Society, while Mrs Seara contral idea. It meets a system shipyards have been working night and Wean, the well-known writer and which all admit to be a deplomble and day owing to the Government subsidies social reformer, is the author of the cruel failure with a drastic plan of having been twenty-five per cent in exce
kority aport, Drastic reforms are reconstruction, and it combines the advocated including the abolition of the brilliant literary workinaushilp of Mrs.
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Charged with being a vagrant, at the Magistracy to-day, Thomas Daley was sent to the house of detention.
Mr. James Rankm, for so many years a popular member of the Hongkong staff of the C. P. B. and now Agent of the Com pany in Kobe, has just been married at St. Gilar Cathedral, Edinburgh, to Miss Jassie Noel Clouston, third daughter of Two Chinese had a quarrel over a woman the late Dr Charles T. Clouston, Mr F. at West Point and in the end one secured W. Edwards of the Eastern Extension
a small dagger and stabbed the other Telegraph Co.'s servion, an old resident of through the lip and also in the leg. He Hongkong, who is about to take up dety was brought before Mr J. R. Wood at the at Peking, was best man Magistracy to-day and scatenced to three
months' hard labour.
Judge R. H. Thayer, of the United States Court of Shanghai, and Mrs Thayer are at the Hongkong Hotel, as are Mr F.
Notice has been given by the I.M.c. that Captain C. D. Bradley, of the E. Hinckley, the Clerk of the Court, and Kutsang, reports having struck an unchart Mr A Bassett, the District Attorney. ed rock in the South Entasnoe to Raitan Judge Thayer is Judge-Willey's esicouasor, Strait. From the information supplied the Washington, DC, Jart of dignity approximate position of the rocks is 8 cables and high professional standing. He plans EN.E. from the eastorn islet of Doable to go to Canton on the Friday day boat it and is covered about 7 feet at low where legal matters mill bo attended, to, water of spring tides.
The first gunnery pontest of the Home system of general workhouses, and the WE with the experience of Mr Rugs Fleet, under Admiral Sir Williani May, has substitution for them of various institu- WAKEFIELD, and the invaluable support the British Navy topping 400 points. The resulted in four of the biggest vessels in
tione of a more rational character, the of both the representatives of labour new cruiser Indomitable, one of the latest establishment of national labour ex. who sat on the Commission. The had most powerful, made the remarkable changes, the abolition of the presentiority have faced the entire problem Boards of Guardians, and their replace of chronic poverty, and have expounded President Taft's first Message, when -$16.50, ment by Advisory Councils, the rusing a scheme applicable alike to the pauper read in the Senate Hotion, created a whs
tion by its brority as it occupied only five of the stains of the President of the chill, the casual labourer, and skilled, minutes in the reading. The subject of Local Govmment Board to the position employed. It would make an end of the Mesange was tariff revision, which, of a Secretary of State, etc. What the the crueltics and stupidition of the old said the President, was necessary hanse the people would expect the Government London papers think about the Report Poor Law, and satisfy the right to to keep its premises, will be found in the following ox-work" by organising labour: While ་ ན,
It is officially announced by the Grand | good." ; tracts:
accepting its principles, wo should Truck Pacific railway authorities the rich The Daily Telegraph. The commis hesitate at the first reading" to deposits of gold have been discovered in sionere deserve the thanks and con-bind ourselves to all its details. Mre, the neighbourhood of Sturgeon Iske, which gratulations of the community for the W and Mesers, WAKEFIELD, LANSBURY west of Fort William. The officials expect is reached through Wake station, 360 miles way in which they grappled with an sud Chasm have performed such big rush to that point in the spring, overwhelming and, in many respects, public service as tow Ministers or party with pellent and disheartening leaders can hope to render, and drafted
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