WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1909.
SHIPPING DECLINE.
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DEATH OF BIR DONALD CURRIE.
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LONDON, April 14
JOSS-STICKS IN CRINEAR
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to enable him to more his resolution.
Hon. Mr.W. Chatham seconded and the motion was carried.
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their permanent home have no docent FUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCI pisce to bury their dead. If it is desirable: to induce them to onda permanently, it is hardly wise to pom too many rostriations or introduce claan legislation, What are called Chinese osmateries are merely tracte of barran land set apart for the burial of At a meeting of the Sanitary Board on Chiness dead of all classes and the Chinesa (Beuter's Fervice to the China: Mail :
Tronday afternoon a long discusion took have no volos in their control; the Gor Oopyright protected under
place regarding the notice of motion by Mirerament reserves to itself the right Ordinance 3 of 1894)
LONDON, April 13. A. Shallon Hooper with regard to the of resuming the land at any time and
ordering the remaks to be exhume The Canard Company's report for burning of joss sticks to the Chiuste and re-burled anywhere else at the Government may be pleased to dicoot 1908 shows that a sum of £3,582 is Mr Shelton Hooper said he wished to The creation of the brew to prohibit the burning of "jom ablake has already to be carried forward, compared with propose a slightly different teeslating to limited the ass of the cemetery to a certain £100,888 for 1907. No dividend is that of which he had given notice. Ar two als of the Chinese. If the Chinese like to A copy of the amending ordinance of the recommended. The decrease in west-days' notice would be necessary, and a bary their dead there without obearing Pablic Health and Buildings - Ordinance bound third-class passengers amounts
this had not been given he moved the the rites of their ancators, it will save the forwarded by the Government way laid on mispension of the standing orders in order missions a lot of money and trouble to the table, the important changes being the
them; last of all it is a policy to to 781,000.
be condemned to exclude the very peoplo proposed transfer of the control of narkista the Colony invites to come and settle from to the bead of the Banitary Department sharing in the privileges for which they and the delegation of authority to the My Shelton Hooper then proposed "That Pay, if not more, as much as Brother Taraor-in-Council and the Gomaisry of
section of the community, Buch are the as the now cemetery bye-laws prohibit the views, Sir, I have to submit for the qou- the Sanitary Hound to issue permits for burning of josa sticks and firing of crackers aideration of the members of the Board.
exhumation. deprite the in the Colonial Cemetery it is dosirable for Before stops are taken
Mr Shelton Hooper suggested that the the Government to select a new site and Chinese of their right, dan weight should
Whh these few Government be informed that it was not be given to their risks. authorina a conctory for the interment of remarks, Sir, I strongly oppose the rosolu-advisable to slow notices upended for bodies of persons of the Buddhist and other tion. non-Christian Faiths, and for whom
Mr Ho Kom Tong-Sir, I do not owners of property under any díroundstances special cemeteries have been provided, where fully entered by my friend and colleague half of European and owners, he said that propose to traverse over the ground, so to he served on the tensok. Speaking on be it may be lawful for the practice of any rites who has just spoken. He has quilted to trouble bad arisen previously, and that the and ceremonies pertaining to the religion of touch upon one important point, and that
that the only difference in the resolution most of whom are of the Buddhist faith, made a recommendation on that point. If it the deceased." Continuing We Hooper said that the resolution before the Board pristine had caused great inconvenience ƒ so sffects par Japanese friends principally, much so that the Commission particularly proposed from that of which he gave notics, The motion, if adopted, will affect them an was a bardship for the European oWLIEN was that it included other non-Christian community on the whole much more so then it was a greater hardship for the faiths than Buddhism and all religions that than it will the Chinese, who in numeri Chinese owners, sad would open the door What cal proportion are far less hurt in their to corruption greater than before. had no cemetery provided for the burial of sentiment than om Japanes fellow would happen They were going to allow their dead. The Board on the 18th Octo-residentă. I cannot be a party to a ineo- a notice that was intended for an owner, to bar last passed a fiye-law prohibiting the euro of doubtfal practical expediency which be left at the discretion of a pazitery in burning of jose sticks and uring of crackers y alienate the good feelings of any spector with a tenant, and of course the lu
section of the community, much less of the spector would have it with him. Why | in the Colonial Cemetery and that by Japanese shoes ally we are.. thesanso when he found, out a nuisance Iaw was approved by the Legislative ground also that the resolution breathes Council on 3rd December, 1908. At the spirit of class or sacial distinction, I am existed in a Chinese house it was his duty to find cat who the owner was and strongly opposed to it in CHINESE STUDENTS FOR time when he proposed that recolation on to when the content eqasint him, so that proper notice
contemplat- he had not the least idea that any ad meases is founded on soutiment and might be drawn, and served on hardship would be crested and that it traverses the sensitiveness of other people ofter. He did not think it fair to place
that templation in the hands of any would tell against any section of the com- From my inquiries instances of cracker-spector, for he would in the majority of munity. He thought the joss-sticks were firing the Colonial Cemetery have been cases leave the potice with the tenants.
fow and far between. Evon grenting, for The other day su official motion, signed by WATKINS' barued at graves by Chinese only, in which the sake of argument, that it is a general the Secretary of the Board, was addresed case it would have been to hardship to practicer, there is already in existence the to the Secretary of the Land Investment prohibit, locase the Government had necessary legal machinery to rognlate it, in Co. The note byelaws required such order to reduce to a minimum the so-called.
it was a limited liability company, on the could bary their dead and perform their orthodox rituals of those belonging to the socretary, When the server was told to provided them with cometries where they objectionable observances according to the ties to be served on the owner, or where funeral rites according to their roligious Buddhist persuasion. Mr Lau Chu Pak has take the notice into the speaker's office and cartons, but it was brought to his notice said that the Colonial Cemetery is not cou. serve it in a proper way he threw it down that there were several intermonts in the secratedground, and our Colonial bye-laws or the table and declined to do so. 1 There provide against firoworks withia “God's would be hundreds of complainte. A notice
The death has occurred of Sir Donald Currie, the head of the well-known firm of ship-owners styled Donald Currie and Co.
C.M.G., was born in 1825, and was, there [Nota-The late Sir Donald Currie, fore, at the time of his death, in his 84th year. His name has for a great number of years been identified with shipping enterprise, while bis close association with South African interests also brought him Inze. He was the third son of the late Mr James Currie, of Belfast. Bir Donald Carrie sat in Farliament for Perthshire from 1890 to 1885, and afterwards repre- sented West Perthshire in the Unionist interests til 1909.]
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H. E. Chang Chih-tung intends Bending one hundred atadents to America. They will be selected from students of tho Peking University and from students already studying in Japan
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of the Japanese for that matter, resorting to be carried out in eight-and-forty hours, to the Cemetery, of all places, to indulge and the owner might be away at the time. in pyrotechnic displays. I am well aware No notice intended for an owner abould be that in this British Colony equal opport unities will be Bocorded to all-is life aserred on a tenant unless the former was abeent from the Colony, and had no agent in death-and that fundamental principle here. will determine the rejection of the motion before the meeting.
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Donovan. Lil of the Sluma, by Dick this that he proposed the resolution just
Hon Mr. Herott entirely agreed with Lady Letty Brandon, by Annis E. Hold read. It was the duty of the State in any
Mr Hooper. The Government made the
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The Hon. Mr Hewett said he would rather owner the responsible person, and clearly The Dakedom of
by Alice Mand of Porties, dead, and as an English colony we were this question had never been raised at all, it was the duty of the Government to Mendown, ANASE only in pleased to provide cemeteries for but, having been raised, he thought he had
serve the owner. It was only a gross piece The Yellow God, by H. Rider Hagard all denominations. In support he road an the right to make a low remarks on the of laziness on the part of the subordinate Idolatry, by Alice Perzin. extract from the proclamation dated 1st subject. He understood the question was oficials that they should serve the natico Fraternity, by John Galsworthy,
that Bhaddist rites; which included the
on the tenant instead of the owner, and as The Lure of Eve, Edith Mary Moore, February, 1841, when we took over the Gring of smokers and the use of joss sticks Hooper had said, it was a direct The Testament of Indar, by Hoary Byatt. Colony "The inhabitants are hereby over the graves of the dead should be pro-entive to corruption, which, unforUaplain. Vanion's Business, by Walter
Dalby promised proteotion in Her Majesty's bibited to the Colonial Cemetery, but that tonately, we know in the past history of as an offset, a new cometery should be the Sanitary Board had beon very gracious name against all enemies, who provided for Bhuddiets and other non-serious matter. It was for that reason ever and they are further secured it the Christian mces who wished to have that members of the Commission special exercise of their religious rites and core cemetery of their own. That he thoughtly reported that in futuro all notices monies and social customs." Since that was a perfectly reasonable proposal of this sort should be served upon jate Government had loyally carried out There had been, for a great number of the o
youre home, spesial cemeteries wet aside the Government to say that they what was stated in the proclamation, and for different religione dopominations. It did not know who the owner. was. They had provided so far as the burial of the seemed to him perfectly reasonable that the could find out in six hous, and if he dend was concerned sufficient and proper for the Bhuddists, and any other denomina could be served on the ferred to diferent Colony should provide a special cemetery was absent from the Colony the hotics cemeteries for all classes Under those tion sufficiently represented to justify such
Hon. Mr Chatban referred circumstances he was sure that every mom an expenditure on the part of the Colony. clauses in the Ordinance and said meinbers bor of the Board would wish that the same He was afraid Me Lau Chu Pak had spoken had it on Mr Harete's authority that the justies should be meted out to any rice, the Bhuddists and others washed to curry six bours' notice. The spenter had
a little bit off the lim. The point was that address of an orner could be found after Asiatic or otherwise, who claimed prolet-out the ceremonies and perform the rites out and out that it was quito impossible. tion under our fing. He was sure he had over the graves of their dead which were to ascertain the address of an owner or his only to appeal to his Chinese colleagues at Catholic ideas. Personally he had no view be made to the police, and sometimes that not in accordance with Protestant a Agout. Ou luany occasiona recourse had to the Board for their support to be given to on the abject but he wished to hold a course failed. He thought the Ordinance the motion. They recognised how dear even balance between different denćmins-na it stood provided all rossonable protas- to them were their religious custores, tone. He could quita conceive that mom- tion in that respect. THE NORTH MAN-
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customs, although perhaps, they might being carried out in the cemetery; and that being so they should repeat the centimente, (Wah Ta Yot Po's Service.). not be of the nine way of thinking they might be only sentiments, of these
PEKING, April 13. ·
But in this case they wem of the same way people. He did not think that by pass Foreign Affairs and of thinking, ao far as their religion was ing the resolution, they were casting alty concerned, in the majority of ensen. Ho reflection, or drawing any racial dis- the Board of Communications are alluded to the Buddhists. A great many The resolution was provided to meet tinction between Anatio and Occidental, discussing the question of the redemp-Chinese in the Colony were Buddhate the various sentiments of the diferent tion of the North Manchurian Railway They had their own courteries where they denominations in the Colony. He trusted regarding which many domands have could perform these rites, and we could not that the Chinese members who had been lodged by the Russian Govern-deny the same right to the Japanese would rengtise the sentimens underlying spoken an shly gainst the resolution
it, and which would certainly make lum sote for it. He did not wish, either alive
It is said that the Portuguese Minister is endeavouring to recode from his former position regarding the Canton-Macso railway and will now demand that the line be built jointly by the two Governments.
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Paso, April 15. It is rumoured that no suitable position awaits E.E. Tang Abao-yi on bis return to Peking.
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Peking, April 13. Owing to the influence of the mother of the Prince Regent, Tuan Fang, Ficy of the Liang-Kiang, will not he dismissed from Difice, despite the endeavours of Shum Chez men to obtain
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Hon. Mr Herett seponded.
Hon. Mr Chatham suggested that the over should wil, Or that if the address of such or cannot be ascertained through the proper channels, etc."
leave it to the Magistrate that the pro- sector should prove that
Hon. Me Howatt-Apparently, according
Mr Shelton Roopar-E would prefer to
or dead, to draw any distinction between to what has been said, some Government the diferont maticnalities here, but beficials don't keep their books in a proper was perfectly convinced that it would be a
Dr Fitavillion who sponded the motion felt quite sure that when this restriction was proped them was no idea of laying any hardship on any faith or sect, and that this was purely en omision instead of an act of proscription.
Me Lau Cha Fsk-Sir, I have listened with great attention and interest to the abte and eloquent speech made by the mover of be resolution. On the face of the resolution, which has been so inganlous- iy and marefully framed, hem adopted, temples.
state.
rary great source of sorrow to a large Hon Mr Chatham-Cocasionally pro- section of the Christan Charch to knowperty is in a somewhat abandoned state that Bhuddist rites were being carried on in their cemetery, in the ame way as resume any land because taxes have not Hen. Mr Honest-Des the Government Bhaddiets would object to to an alien paid? I have never heard of such a relision forcing its services i
in one of their ao yet.
Mr Shelton Hoogor, in reply, said MrLau
The motion was agmed to
The death is Announced of Genera
it would benefit instead of depriving the Chu Pal said in the first pace that the. Gen-Christian persons of their right, not cemetery had always been called the only I but everybody who is not soquainted plenis Cemetary, and that indicated with the cmumstances would give his that every member of the Colony had Robert Napier Raikes, who was born support. Bac in point of fact as it is sima right to be interred there. Be found, on at eurailing the privileges, hitherto our referoner to an ok book dated 18 oalledt Dryton vicamage, moar Norwich, in Joyed by our Chinese and other follow. The Treaty Ports," a map of Visturi, ca 1813. He was educated at Addicombe citizens, the majority of whom belong to no which the Farsee, Protestant and Roman and left Portsmouth for India on particular religious denomination, whatever
Catholle cemeteries were marked. He my sympathy they be with the resolution, I wont turn to the official organ of the Nov. 29, 1839, ranching Calcutte un May should not allow sentiment to carry m Colony, the Government Gazette In the 14, 1850. He was first posted to the
und duty. On their behalf, bei Ismic of September 17th, 1867 there was 67th Native regiment in 1856, therefore, to oppose In doing so. I'
sschefule of fees for interments, monu-Adjutant to Grenadier Regnbent, Soindia's abstain from criticizing the many points
mente ale in the Protestant Cemetery diy Mr Hooper's speech, but we found that he word Colenial Contingent 1630: portof simply state the views of those whom cemetery was first applied by the Church. Ist Cavalry Beindia à Contingent, 1841, represent and nak bembers to consider Me Hooper quoted Igures to show that if them with an unbiased mlad and for their all Chires were buried there we would
was at the taking of decision according to justice and fairplay requise a new cemitery in the wockee ordered to Rangon, 1851 ) taking The Colonial Comotext, as the Ham Tool way carrion by he rodes to goou ; in command of implice, is open to every resident is this three, the President and the Chinese Captain, 1847, in command of Raghuti Colony impective of nationality and remembers voting spalnét lt. Ligion. It is maintained at the expense of
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