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THE CHINA MAIL.
that the West River Boods were a con- the cost of their repairiation. At first" tobutory cause to this increases, and did so with great reluctance to the Tung Walt were called upon to do
has: oftan" happened? “ that, when, the husband
dis dead his family being no longer able to support his wife sends ber out to shift for herself." What that means in the majority of cases we leave our" readers to supply from their own experience of life in the Far East. It
OPIUM BMOKERS.
Ma[Fruä Tie Yat For Service)
WORK FOR TANG SHAO-YL:
COPYRIGHT
MONDAY, AUGUST 16 1909.
BERESFORD AND THE AMERICAN COURTESIES
ADMIRALTY.
緑
WHAT THE INQUIRY
REVTALETE
TO JAPAN.
Niscs Agency's Service to
the China Moak)
TOTO, August 14.
The American Chambers of CommETCH : LONDON August 15.
have arranged: with variona American. The report of the Sub-Committee ap railway companies for a special train for pointed in April laat to consider the the exclusive use of the Japanese memorandum on Naval Affairs prepared business, men who are about to make a by Admiral, Lord Charles Beresford,tour of the United States. states that the investigation has shown that during the time specified by Lord | Charles Beresford there was no danger
the amount of 83411: This Arruage. ment did, tiot appear to be altogether
PREEC, August 15. equitable, and towards the close of the rear. I arranged that the boarding Prince Kung proposes that in future house keeper should has made os opina amckers throughout the Empire ponsible for cost of repatriation, leaving be required to furnish their photographs him to recover from the braker. The to the provincial departments to be (Reuters Service to the Chino fail) Tang Wah as before has done the filed for reference. astant repatriation and bas sent in the bill to this office. The Emigration Officer has then called upon the is satisfactory to record Mr Invisa's boarding house keepers to refund the belief that the great majority of the amount, and they have done so with- out a marmur. It is hardly neces- girls dealt with under: the Fo Lengsary to add that if they can escape Kuk Incorporation Ordinance are abre, the consequences, that is the cost of repatriation, runner and solutely rescued. Bought us infants. boarding house keeper have no intereat in keeping up the standard of coalie. If by prostitutes or procuresses, they are he slips through the Registrar General's the Throne that the conditions in Man-to the country, and that advantages and trained for the profession. But if they Office a profit is made. If he fails to churia are becoming very strained, the aro brought before the Registrar General pass they sufer no loss. The number Prince Regent proposes in send Tang of Boarding Houses for Assisted in time, their mothers' rather than be at Emigrants is 20 as compared with 24 Shao-g to his assistance.
last year, when the business 39: 76-10 a total lose are glad to marry them decently and pocket the dowry. That a regular slave trade exists under the very of British authority no one
gulated by the new Ordinance was still in its early stages,
There appears to be comparatively little trickery practised in the trade, and the majority of the boarding betree
at all sequainted with the partly sub-dealings with this office. It should be keepera aor straightforwardly in their
merged human currents of the Colony clearly understood that the Singapore rejections are in no way a reflection" on will deny if there are any sceptics we the conduct of the medical examinations can introduce them to a gentleman who in Hongkong. They consist of coolies who are not wanted for any reason: occupies a position of some pronunence in they have fallen sick on the voyage, or the community who can atonce produce the demand may have slackened and only picked man be needed at, the mo properly authenticated facts which in ment. This last case accounts for the THE CITY OF PARIS, ternaked horror would startle ordinary large numbers sent back from Siaga-
pore at the end of the year. folk, we imagine. The report ünder re-
These are view deala with one napect of the unholy which we British colonists have to a few of the problemas
grapple with in trying to discharge our obligations towards the weaker brethren.
2 FEDDER
PHONE
STREET.
No.
53 6.
trade. It says:-"There is a consider-
able tratie in very small children brought to the Colony from Shanghai
for sale. A number of such children
CHEAP SALE were detained, sent to the Pu Loung
679.
20%
OFF EVERYTHING.
BUSINES'S NOTICE
RATES OF SESCRIPTION (Payable in advanom). CHINA Maxi (daily) 83.00 per month; including postage, $3.50 per month. OVERLAND CHINA MALL (weekly) $15.00 per year; including postage, $17.0"
per year. Free delivery to all addresses accessible by meses ger, including all Posk, Kowiceu and Quarry Bay residences.
Single copies, Daily, tan cents; Weekly,
thirty cents; for cash. Tolerraphic Address, Man, Hongkong. Cođe, A. B. V... fifth edition.
TELEPHONE NO. 22, CHINA MAIL. LIMITED.
BIRTH Boryan-At 2, Redhill, The Pank, on the 18th inst., to Mr and Mrs J. W.-C. BONSAR, a daughter.
MËMOS FOR TO-MORROW.T
Miscellaneous
Goods per Bucleus andallvored after this
date subject to rent
Goods per Bornce not cleared at 4 pm
on this date subject to rent, Goods per Zishining undelivered after
4p.m. this date will be landed.
General Memoranda......... WIDNDAY, August 18:
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Japanese Curios,'
Roome
c. at Mr Gen. P. Lammert's Salos
THURSDAY, Augnet 19:--
3p.m.-Auction of Steam Launcher Sci. "Love de denne alongside Queen's Statue
Wharf.
Kuk and finally adopted by respectable families. This paragraph does not, however, reveal half of the horrors, of the situation. Kidnapping is rife within the Colony itself and cries aloud for more rigorous steps to be taken to put it down. The police are quite willing to do their part, but their hands are tied as they are in the matter of kidmappert children brought into the Colony.
The accommodation at the Po"Leung Kuk is now barely sufficient for the needs of the Colony. "Under a new matron, aud thanks largely to the ergs of the Directors and especially
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On the whole we need not feel ashamed of our work.
NEWS OF THE DAY,
The German Mail of the 16th July was delivered in London on the 14th inst..
There were no cases of plague notified in the Colony for the week ended August 14th.
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A Chinese workman repairing an over head" cable in Shanghai the other day toached a live wire and was electrocuted.
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There were 436 European and 250 Chinese visitors to the City Hall Library, and 235 European and 2,572 Chinese visitors to the Museum during the wook ending 15th Aug.
Only one caso of communicable disease has occurred in the Colony for the past week, thus being a Chinese who succumbed to enteric fever.
:
Me Clark and Captain Douglas, whose expedition to the interior of China rosulted in the death of a Sikh, alleged to have been killed by the natives of Kansu, arrived at Peking on August. 1.
(Wah Te Yat Los dereier),
PEEING, August 15.
H. E. Shi Linng having reported to
ADMIRAL OF KWANG- TUNG.
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Wah Te Yat Po's Service)
PERINO, August 15. An Imperial Edict has been issued appointing Admiral Li Chun (now holding the Acting appointment) Ad- miral of the feet in Kwangting.
COMMAND OF THE CHINESE NAVY.
resulted from the arrangements made.
ORIENTAL EXPLOITA- TION COMPANY.
The war arrangements were quite defen("Indeyenders News on cy's" Service to
the China Mark)," sible in themselves, though, not ideally
TORTO, August 14 perfect, but they were seriously ham-) pered by the absence of cordial relations which is to supply money and mater
The Oriental Exploitation Company. between the Admiralty and Lord Charlesale for Chinese railways, will hold its- Beresford. The former had not taken inaugural meeting on the eighteenth- Lord Charles Beresford sufficiently into De. Koi Faruichi, the well-known- choir confidence, and the latter had engineer, has been appointed President. failed to appreciate and carry out the spirit of the Admiralty's instructions or to recognise the paramount authority of the Admiralty.
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BANK INTEREST IN JAPAN.
The Sub-Committee had been in- pressed by the difference of opinion Fudependent News Agency's" Service
4 China Mast.) among the high officers of the Navy on
TORTO, August 1. important principles of strategy and taction, but they anticipate that much of interest on the 13th inst. This step The Bank of Japan lowered its rate confidence will follow the further de
is welcomed as being reasonable." velopment of the Naval War Staff,
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(Wah Tez Yat Po's Service.)
Pxme, August 15. Admiral So Chun Ping is appointed THE CRETAN TROUBLE. Commander-in-chief of the Chinese) Navy.
TO STUDY POLITICAL" ECONOMY.
(Wan Te Yat Po's Service.)
PEKING, Angust* 15. The Board of Finance has sent several officials attached to the Board to study political economy "in the Japanese schools.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
F.E. Tang Shao-yi has gone to Peitaibo to spend the summer and will return to his native "place in Kwangtung in the autumn.
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GREEK FLAG TO BE
· REMOVED,
TRAINING SQUADRON'S
CRUISE
Independent News Agency's Service the China Muri.). (Reuter's Servics to the China Nail)
TOKYO, Angust 14. LONDON, August 15. Admiral Ijichi, and his Head Staff In a Note from the Powers to the officer, Captain Sakamoto, were granted Porto an undertaking is given that the an audience by the Emperor, when they objectionable fing hoisted over a bar reported to his Majesty details of the~. rucks in Crete will be removed, and it is cruise of the Training Squadron, which hoped that in these circumstances the is composed of the Aso and Sora, to- Forte will not think it necessary to the Pacific cost of North America and also the work accomplished by the
order the feet to Cretan waters.
The Cretan Government has intimated cadeta. to the Powers that efforts at persuasion bare failed, and they were unable to have the flag removed. They would therefore summon the Chamber and resign.
The protecting Powers are each Among the passengers who left by the sending a warship to Crete, and a third Empress on Saturday wore Mrs J. Marahip is held in readiness. Beck, Messrs Phübey, E. P. H. Lang, and
When these vessels arrive the fing F. 8. Allen.
will be removed.
Among the passengers arriving in Yoko- barn on August 6th by the P. M. steamer Chias from Hongkong was Mr E. G. Jordan,
At the request of His Majesty's Govern- Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company.ment Sir Henry Babington Smith, K,C.B.. Ltd., in the alert space of 33 days Da Secretary to the Post Office, has accepted her trial trip she attained a speed of 14 the position of President of the National Bank of Turkey, in which, it is understood,
Mr No Kou-roxo, the home is bean- tifully clean, and the girls look bright and contented Needlework and les sons give them a great deal of pleasure, and the introduction of an unusual number of babies has given a joyous de Legree has been put together by tho The new, French river gunboat Doudart
occupation to the inmates. The absence of a recreation ground worthy the name is a serious drawback." Another
institution doing good work in this direction is the Eyre. Diocesan Refuge This "owes its inception to Miss EYRE, and was for some years conducted by her and fellow workers; it has now been
reorganized as a Diocesan Institution of the English Church in Hongkong. It thus nequires a stability so, often väning in the private undertakings of the Colony. This change has been largely due to the action of Lady LUGAR, who very shortly after her arrival in the Colony interested herself FRIDAY, August 201
Goods per Spezia audelivered after this actively in the Refuge, secured a widar
date subject to rent.
support for it, and generally stimulated SATUDDAY, "August 21 :— -
Noon.Meeting of The Hongkong and its development. The Refuge has been Shanghai Banking Corporation at the visited by the Annual Committee of the Oity Hall.
Po Leung Luk at intervals during the
Sunday, August 29;----
The China Mail
knots.
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A DANGEROUS SITUATION.
LONDON, Aug. 16.
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DISASTROUS MARTH- * QUAKE IN JAPAN.
TOUR HUNDRED HOUSES DESTROYED..
Expected Great. Loss of Life..
{"Independent News Agency" Service
the China Mail.) -
Torro, August 15.
A most disastrons earthquake was
Arted peasants occupied the fortress experienced in the Provinces westward
at Canen, their object; being to prevent of Nagoya as three thirty o'clock" on the remoral of the Greek flag.
Saturday afternoon. In the Omi and Gendarmes forced the peasants to Gifu provinces especially the shock evacuate, promising that they would very heavy. guard the Eng.
In the vicinity of Lake Biws the The Government is resigning and a earthquake was the severest known for
formed.
if ,
were destroyed.
Mr Frederic Henry Balfour, of Pat. Lord Revelstoke (director of the Bank of provisional. administration has been many years and 400 houses at least
England and a partner in Baring Bros. sina Castelli, via San Francisco, Povering, and (p.), Sir Alexander Henderapa, Bart., Torence, Italy, and late of Shanghai, chairman of the Great Central Railway, formerly editor of the North China Doily and Sir Ernest Cassel, G. 3.G. are in- News, who died op May 22, aged 63, left|terested.
estate in the United Kingdom valued at
£98,264,
heard before Mr E. T. Q. Werner, British
the defence.
FLOODS IN MANCHURIA ·
Siberian Mails Delayed
HMS Swiftsure has arrived in Suds Bay.
!!
A MONSTER BATTLE-
1
SHIP.
Several villages Era reported to have totally disappeared and it is feared" that the Est of casualties will be a large one.
Locomotives were brought to a stand- still and telegraphic communication ia cut...
{Render's Bervice to the China Mai,)
LowDox, Aug. 18.. [Noto-Gia was the scene of a very The United States authorities at the death list ran up into the thousands. violent earthquake in October, 1891, when
The General Post Office has 'advised us that, owing to the serious floods through Washington are considering the boild-It is in the contro of an alfurial plain, the ing cf a 30,000 ton battleship which the contents of which are as susceptible to General Board of the American Navy seismic motion as water in a bowl-En,
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located Abowels during the hot weatherabould- THE great mortality from dysentery and be a warning to mothem Infautilo cholers. diarrhoes is due to a lack of proper may develop in a few hours, and prompt. treatment at the first stages of the disease. sction should be taken to avoid it. "Jhan- Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoes berlain's Colio, Cholers and Diarrhone- Remedy is a reliable and effective medicina, Remedy, followed by a dass of custor oil, and when giren in reasonable tima will wili alieck the disease in its incipiency, sand event any dangerous consequences. For all danger may be avoided. For Sale by all sale by all chemists and storekeepers.
chemists and sterskoepom, j
VICHY WATERS.
Of course it was by pure inadvertence that the Gazette on Saturday annouacéd that the resolution regarding the increase in liquor licence fees was passed by the Legislative Council. The farther, consider ation of the resolution was in fact post-which the Chinese Eastern Bailway has posed until next Friday.
been inundated, mails by the Siberian Boute will be considerably delayed Until A Kinking telegram to the N.C. the foods have sufficiently subsided mails Daily Neirs says that in the case of the will be sent from Shanghai vid Vladivos alleged manslaughter of a Chinese by already know, the loss of life in and around tock, every Saturday. As our readers pestor Mears, of Kiukiang, which was the city of Kirin has been very serious.. consal, the Consul decided that there was net suthoient evidence to send the accused Uoods per Palma not cleared at 6 p.m. year, and I have paid surprise visita. for trial and he was accordingly discharged.
on this data subject to raut,
The girls appear happy and well cared half of the Chinese Government was under. Pandaann Opers Company not forget- The prosecution in the above case on be Grest credit is dun to one and all of the MONDAY, August 23---
Noon-Meeting of Hongkong & Wham for. The number of inmates has varied taken by Mr Fleming, while Mr. Godfrey,ving the Stage Mausger and others
pos Dook Co., Id., at Co.'s Offer."
from 35 to 38; the general health has of Mears Ellis and Hayes, was retained for behind the scenes for their excellent pro- been good and no deaths have occurred"
duction of "The Merry Widow on Satur day night. The acting was of a first-class There have been 23. admittances and 6 CAPT. C. V. LLOYD DEPARTS, order and the scenic effects were extremely marriages. The home was under
good. Among the principals mention By the Empress of China on Saturday should be made of Mr Fred Coyne, who Chinese management (with European Hongkong lost a master matiner who has played the part of Prince Danilo to a supervision) until November when a bean familiar with its waters since 1868. nicety and carried off the Merry Widow PROBLEMS OF CHINESE LIFE European lady took up residence Lloyd has been in the service of the Chins who played the part of Baron Popot. Mr For the past twenty-four years Capt. O. V dance in fine style: and Mz Frank Danby, The Italian Convent, continues to de Navigation Company, commanding first the Danby is a finished comedian, and his inter- SOME aide-lights upon Chinese life as it good work. Fourteen women and girls Harkow, antil she was burnt to the waters pretation of the part provoked, rounds can be served in this Colony are were taken there during the year, During this long period he made bosts of and thusiastic house! Miss Florence HOPITAL-Particularly useful in cases of difficult diges edge in 1906, and latterly the Fatehan of laughter and applause from the crowded furnished by the annual report of the including 5 who went there of their friends and their best wishes will scout Beech as Bonia (The Merry Widow) Registras General presented to the own accord."
pany him to England where it is hoped that many years of life yet remain to be
was exceedingly pleasing. Though her Legislative Council last Friday. Almost
Regarding the subject of male emi-spent in the enjoyment of wall-armed work, this was made up for at the outset, we read that largely owing gration, Mr. Iviso TB:"
robirament. In seafaring circles Capt. by the dainty and charming manner to the prevailing trade depression many
Lloyd's experiance and wie judgment was in which the played her part. Natall, the At the end of last year an arrange highly appreciated, while there must be wife of Popol, (Miss Mabel Gregory) was Dont was come to by which no hundreds of treilers in thong part who as good. Har **wheedling she evident- from the Kwangtang province seeking from Hongkong is permitted to enter
were also well sustained and all into a labour contract there, unless he which he wrote, on the Pearl River trip to characters work flinz in the previous year, and shall have appeared before the Registrar Con
helped to put that swing, into the piece those that have fallen into bad hands General before embarkation.
which made the evening such a suocem. A have naturally come within the purving with assisted migration during the year
The most difficult question in connection DON'T IGNORE LIGHT INJURIES; word for Line Taby uro, Miss Bene ON Trfirglect giving every cut, wound Keys and Mossa. Harry Lamaras and Ans of the Women's and Girls' Protection has been that of the repatriation of -SISTERS COLEMAN,
or bruise/prompt attention. Blood draw Turner in their those coolies, who have been either poison may appear and sa UELY WOLF OF SYBO
Oleg Danoe Ordinance. There were 226 of rejected by the office or doctor on the loss of a limb resale, Chamberlain' esses compared with 139 in the previous secount of their inferior physique, ori Pale Balm in an antiseptic, bealk the wound induced to lea their hom through" rapidly and all danger is avoided by its use
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