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THE CHINA MAIL.
DEATH OF MR ERICH GEORG
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1909.
[Corynicet.]
KING EDWARD AT MARINBAD,
1Cary.K
ANOTHER AERTAL
OVER THE ALFS BY BALLOON.
© (Basins Service, to the China drau
Losmos, August 26
An Italian aeronaut named Captain
the Victorian constellation of hikers, salvation from the Slough of Despond, writers and poets, for it goes without As one discriminating American criter Death has removed a prominent figure saying that the perfect mutery of his cently observed in discussing this point, from the German community of Hongkong style, the tradition of his name, bis Tyson without hesitation, accepted in the person of Mr. Erich Geory, the welly, known stock broker. Aretoran of the sheer poetic presence, no longer do-the new point of view for his In Frane Prussian war, he was the recipient
AN AUSTRIAN WELCOME. minate, this youthful century se con-Manicriani, and those who were leading of the Iran Caves of the first class, which
(Reuter's Service to the Chin Mast) is an eloqnent tribute to his bravery as they dominated the latter half the revolution felt this and accepted on the battlefield. Most of the busines Epletely
Lorday, August 1 of the nineteenth. The work that was thusiastically a recruit from the writers years of his life were spent in Hougkong
The Frendanblatt, the organ of the merely of his own cay both in its of the imagination, who were commonly where he won hosts of friends, for foreigners Austrian Foreign Office, beartily wel
and Chlaste alike admired his inany tine eames King Edward to Marienbad. It Spelterini and three passengers, have inspiration and in its objective is begin-armayed against them." It is unnecer qualities as a badiness man and a gultured describes the reports of a state of cooled the Alpa in a balloon from ning to tag; that-for; all time and of a
Chamonix. sary to point out the many passages in rentiomat. Taking a keen interest inness existing between King Edward
They reached a maximum height of rater source and destiny to stad out
that poem in which the law of evolution. Freemasonry, liko so ninny of his country and the Emperor Francis Joseph as 17,000 feet.. mare clearly revealed. Au'air of what the survival of the fittest, nad man's we nowadays call Victorian, which, to kinship to the ape were clearly hinted at 1 sororança Lexigu. · Royal Arch Masonry présent view, sceras rather "local and temporary, a niceness of sentiment, and a lukewarmness of humanity doubtedly dilute much of his poetry, and much, too, that is incidentully very Beautiful suggests the Laurente's office
man, Mr. Georg payed though various baseless. offices until he became Master of the Per-
NEWS OF THE DAY.
FIFTH TEST MATCH
ANOTHER DRAW.
ه بالا
[Note-England won the first of the pre- sent serios of Tast matches: then Australia win two, and two have been drawn. The paition now stands England has won Test matches: Australis 34, and 17 have been drawn.---ED O. M.}
before Darwin bad definitely formulated worid his genial disposition made him sa hanso figured conspicuously. In the social them in his epoch-making book. What deal loader of men sad on several occasions more impressed men at that time, how he was called upon to the chair of the
Club Gehsanin, an upright, loyal gentle---- (Beuter's Servien lo the Chito Mirit.) ever, was the fact that TSSTsos felt the men who guided His way of life by the
LONDON, August 19., emilying doubts awakened by this con-highest ideals of his beloved Fatherland, The fifth Test match has resulted ception of man as part of a vast mich-his removal from oge midst will be deplored in a drawn game.
by a very large circle indċed as well as his inspiration. It was per-anism, but still clung to the creed The fumend takes place this afternoon. bups an unkind, yet nevertheless. a true, which humanity cannot give up, observation that TENNYSON'S Outlook because it is necessary for life. And on life, na expressed in his writings, Tarson, and this is the point to be was that of a highly proper and strictly emphasized, found this minimum of mom Anglican" priest with narrow, faith, not outside of the new science, but self-contained High Church proclivities. at its very heart. He does, indeed, as Never having known the pinches of more than one critic has noticed, cry known O. and U. Coptic, has been chartered poverty, never having had to struggle out at times against the harsher hypotheby the Eng Hok Company for a trip to with the pressing, unieeling mult-sis, declaring that we are not magnetic Mexico. PARIS, itude for his daily bread it sockeries" or "only cunning "casts in
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Hongkeus. Àpill 18, 1907.
THE CITY OF
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A Peking talogram atates that England and America have proposed that the second Oping Conterento be held at The Hague.
The steamer Persis, formerly the well-
DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE
FAR-R TACHING DECISIONS REACHED.
Router's Service to the Chiper Mail.) LONDON, August 12. Reuter learns that the Defence Con-
UNDEVELOPED LAND.
TAXATION CL'AUSE PASSED.
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Loros, August The House of Commons has adopted? by 990 votes to 110 Clause 10 of the Finance Bill taxing undeveloped hand.
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important boating on the taxation pro pass of the Government. It containe papers bearing on land taxes and on Income- tax, sto., in certain foreiger countries, and on the working of the taxation of sita values in ceraio cities of the United States and“ in British: Overseas Staton --Anaw of them. points brought out are the following
Frankfort t-on-Main cipality to devise and put in farge a schema for the special taxation of the increase in land value which (acending to Mr Bernard Maliet, cus of the Commissioners of Inlead Ravenue, who contributes a paper, to the Blue-book) has been 2 turked feature in the growth of German cities during the last- few years. But the question has in a more-
successfully, in a large number of cam. manos by the substitution of market or Some far-reaching decisions have capital value for annual value in the mos ment of the land taxes in accordance with
Prussian. Orders have been issued from the Ware reached and all important difthe recommendation of the Office to enlist only be fide Scotsmen
Government in 18 ferences overcome.
In the typical case of Frankfort-un- for the Seaforth Highlanders and Argyle
All parts of the British Empire re- Main the town levies a tax on the selling presented at the Conference expressed to (1) the nature of the land (built on price of land on its transfer, varying accord and Sutherland Highlanders,
the intention of taking a fair share in or not button), (2) the period since the last sale, and (3) the increment wines the last. the cost of naval defence.
sale. Ap official valuation is not unnslipy needed
The silk shipped per the 0, S. 5. 8.
STREIT., scarcely surprising that his reflec clay"; but the gist of his confidence, Tacoma Mare, which left Hongkong auference is on the point of concluding general sense been attacked. it is claimed.
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tions on life locked both breadth and und what made him the spokesman, of depth, while his philosophy was too often the age, we in a bold completion of very much of the sort usually associated evolution by the theory of indefinite with the name of Mars TUPPER. We progress and by a vision of me speak of course of the printed page magnificent consummation wherein the The nan TENNYSON was altogether a sacrifices of the present were to be com- thing apart from the courtly Poet pensated somehow, somewhere, some Taureate. His talk was racy; at times when-who shall say This recoil coarse; the poet's printed words are oftentation of dogma and science, this linked sweetness long drawn out.”~ discovery of a Father near at hand Yet with all his limitations TINYSON within the inexorable law of evolution, cannot be deprived of the proud title this vision of an eternal state to he of representing more fully than any of reached in the progress of time-- his contemporaries the fleeting thought aud, what may be called the official, philosophy of the "Victorian age. Ele was beloved by the QUEEN, and the PRINCE Cossony, Men, of science, like Hexir were impressed with the Doric beauty of his dins et poems or like HansCHEL, OWEN, and TYNDALL. admired him for the eagerness with which he welcomed all the litest, scientific dis coveries, and for his trust in truth."
That God, which ever lives and lures, -
“One God,: ono law, one element;
And one far-off divine event,
the 3rd July, was delivered, at New York on the 8th inst.
...
..
which has premiled all day it would seem Judging by the miserable rainy weather that the "depression" has anchored itself permanently over Honggong. One thing, it keeps the temperature at a decent level.
The United States treasury is making arrangements to borrow enough money to
cover the deficit.. It is understood that the, kun will be a popular one and the bonds be widely distributed. Howgrez
To which the whole creation moved,—the exact plan has not matured.
must be placed to the credit of TENY- so when we cast up his account in the Great Assize. Stern critica may say that be compromised; may argue that be bartered away his immortal soul for an unsatisfying half-truth. We need pot discuss the point. Suffice it to say that Tassos was the greatest exponent, as Serious judges cited him on the beach, poet, of his age and generation "as while his hold upon the female portion his friend FrzcERo was its truest of the realm was never relaxed from the philosopher. time of the first of his lyric narratives till that solemn evening hour when his dying eyes watched "the casement slowly glimmer to a single square. He was the mouthpiece of his generation and it is
CANTON SELF-GOVERNMENT
SOCIETY.
correspondent writes asking if it is not
ita labours.
TERRIBLE DISASTER
FEARED.
im!
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On the Continent of Europe the principle of levying on capital value seems to be confined to municipal or quasi-municipal |authorities-to the Swiss Cantons, and in the German towns. In Hamburg, for
700 CORAL `FISHERS' MISSING. | instance, rents or produce are capitalised
And taxed at 5 per 1000 of the capital Independent News Agencyls Service to taxed on its income, but built-on land on value thun reached. In Bremen, land is
the China Masi,)
TOKYO, August 19." Three torpedo boats have been dis patched to ascertain the fate of 700 men While voyaging northwards from who were fishing for coral off the coast
Latta, chief engineer of the s.. Kutsang. the storm which swept over the die Rongkong the death occurred of Mr of Tosa province and were caught in Docensed was well-known in shipping trict on the ninth of August. circles in the East, and his demise is regretted by large number of friends.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Legislative Council meets to-morrow (Friday) 'the orders for the day being as
The Church Missionary Society's récent exhibition in London, Africa and the Haat," secured a total attendance of 330,000 follow-
not unsatisfactory result in view of First rending of a Bill entitled An Ordin«: the unpropitions weather and the various ance to amend the Malicious Damage counter attractious. As the expense of
Ordinancs, 1865. - organising the show amounted to £10,000, it is something of & relief to know that the
ruteipts not only covered the outlay, but lefts substantial sum over.
capital valom. In Prussia the municip lities tax land in addition to the State property tim
In those countries where there is property tax, a land tax naturally takes its place. It is remarked by the compila of
memorandum which has been prepared
stitution of a land tax, where there is no for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
property tax, is notable in France (Impôt Poncier) and Italy. (Fondi Rustici), and to Leer extent in Austro-Hungary, Belgium, Spais, Portugal, Bavaria, and most of tho smaller German States; but in all there tasca the tax appears to be levied on the real or estimated income rather than ore. that most of these State taxes are historic capital value. "The reason appears to be
survivals" remarks the compiler...
is included in the Blue bouk,, thäb the in-
In New Zealand, where the white popuin is raised annually by rates and taxes on tion is 091,000, about one million sterling
unimproved values of land. Mr W. P. First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordia- Reoves, who is the author of the memoran- cu to amend the Rating Ordinance, 1901. dura on the subject of New Zealand, says, First reading of a Bill entitled Ordina reganda valuation, that the duty of the assessors is to determine the capital value Paice to amend the Tramway Ordinance, of each property, and also ita animproved.
vatnet. In doing F1002.-
of the improvemente. upgr mine the value they have to deter it. To these ends certain guiding principles
fair
In New Zealand, capital value is defined";
realise at the time, if offered in, goo-" First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin-faith for sale on ressboable' terina andi) u
ditiona. The unimproved value means. h as to amend the Dogs Ordinance, 1893,
value which the owners', ma». First reading of Bill entitled An Ordinencumbered interest might be expected to
selling atce (o set apart certain Crown Land to be rastise if no improvements existed on the used as a burial ground for persons pro-land. feasing the Christian Religion, other than In Naw South Walen a tax on unimproved members of the Roman Catholic Church.capital suur for which the fee simple estate
land values is imposed, defined as First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin-in the land would selt, under such reason- ance to relieve the Governor ha-Council of able conditions of sales bond fide seller certain ministerial duties,
would require sosuming the actual improve- Committee on the Bill entitled An Ordio-ments, if any, had not been made:** ance to attend the Patents Ordinance 1832.
the
high time that a joint diplomatic repre-
The Chinese Imperial Telegraph Ad- sentation should be made in Peking to ministration has paid the proprietors of ance to amend the Liquor Licences Ordinare laid down by the Valuation Act and by
First reading of a Bill entitled An Ordin not to be wondered at that he likewise cach the mischievons propensities of the the Palace Hotel, Shanghai, 810,706, the arce, 1898, and the Liquor Licerca. E. departmental custom... wns bound by the shackles of what now Canton Self-Government Society. Wactual cost of the wireless telegraph. ap-tension Ordinance. 1998, and to rupeal the to be the gum which the owners on appears to us its very obvious lisaitations. certainly we of opinion that the time is paratus recently erected on the Hotel. It Liquor Licence Amendment Ordinance, encumbered interest might be expected se For that reason
a good deal of his ripe for such action, but unless all the will be reinstalled in the Chinese Telegrapha 1902.
Powers represented at Peking wore to building and is expected to be in work- poetry is 'spoiled by the prettiness" gether in unison no good result caning order within three weeks. The whole tare, etc., at No. 2. Fairview, Nathan which the age demanded by a fimical possibly be achieved.. The protests of matter is to be laid by Mr Skekury before
individual Ministers are of no avail. Of the Foreign Office in London, overniceness in the choice of words,
that we have had, too many instances "of 2.30 p.m.-Anction of Household Furni-which tended to diminish the solidarity late. Another dificulty in the way of The Bound of Civil administration in
ture, at Cornhill,' Quarry Bay. Goods par Karongu andelivered after this of an otherwise nobly planned edifice. securings satisfactory mandate from Peking Peking having communicated to native The sentimental touch which Musis that the Self-government Society has newspaper offices that copies must be sent no proper organisation. The half a dozen everyday to the Board for inspection the had to put into this paintings to please demagogues who control its actions never night before publication or the paper will his public, was reproduced by TENSON appear in the forefront of its public be stopped, the native-prone nasociation. in many of his. poems and the meetings. It will be noticed that at these met on August 5th and decided that such meetings a new chairman is invariably a ruling would kill the right of discussion. public, rewarded him for giving them tooted; and the services of no other attivors They intend to send in a petition to cancel what they appreciated and understood a requisitioned The chairman is the the raling otherwise the newspaper offices by buying his work freely, thereby en-mouthpiece of the unseen agitators and in Peking will all remove to the foreign allowabling him to pile up such a fortune when the particular meeting over which settlements in Tientsin to avoid the rules. that the QUEEN was able to raise him to conveners wished for he disappears. A sensation was caused in the Shang- Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong and the peerage well-knowing that he had Subscriptions are levied, we understand, hai Settlement last Saturday, said the
Shanghai Banking Corpomtion at the |
but no one has ever heard how the money Shangha Merey, when it became known Olty Hail
the wherewithal to support the dignity.is expended, nor has any proper account that Me Cha Engelbracht, formerly The great service which Tasoning be insisted on by the nominal members Marshal and Clark of the U.B. Consulate did for his day and generation was to of the Society. Altogether the organing General had been arrested on so informa tion has been skilfully devised, but we tion filed by Mr A. Bassett, District At- reconcile believers in the older faith have no hesitation in saying that were the torney, U.S. Court for China. The charge with the ideas advanced by the teachers officials on minded they could put an end is that of embezzlement, alleged to have of the newer science. We of this to it at once. One thing is neriaip, galers been committed by the sooned whilst in CELESTINS. For Gout and Diabetes, Vesical and Analo-
the Society is dissolved or brought well Posion of consular and government generation can scarcely conceive of the within, the bounds of law, a great deal of monies at the time of his holding the office alarm which spread throughout the harm will ensue and Chinese offcialdom of Marshal. The arrest was made on an land wher. Danwry's theory of erclution will rue the day when they began to en was first enunciated and Bishop. WIL-courage the Balf-government Society there, after a preliminary, axamination, ha
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OON BONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUG 12, 1908,
THE CENTENARY OF TENNYSON
THE hundredth anniversary of the birth of TEXNISON finita the noble Laureate of the Victorian eragindually ectiling DERFORCE and HUXLEY and later Hoxtr down to his proper position, the world and GLADSTONE came to gladiatorial grips.
ALEXANDRA BUTEDING8,
VICTORIA-
he presides has accomplished what its
Shipping folk generally are complain-
CINEMATOGRAPH of Faglig mowers ing if the weaknes and inadequacy of the
HER HALL OF HONGKONG,
The Celginated Australian Artistes PHILLIPS SISTERS,
have established a claim to a particular champions of orthodoxy put up, and niche in the Temple of Fame TENEBOM's that the lenders of the new thought re reputation has passed through the usual turned blow for blow in downright gamut of excessive, adulation, mild earnest our fathers have often fold us. neglect, petty questioning, censorions Throughout the land, we reed, there depreciation, then gradual rehabilita-spread a sense of dismay, a sort of hope, tion. To-day a generation that knows less homelessness; the very foundat BISTERS: COLEMAN, him only by his books and not by sigin of the old established faith is ready to accord him the proper place ed crumbling away, disappen NEW FILMS
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