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WONDERFUL RECORD.
(Restay's Service to the China Math) - Losion, August 31. Tho Mauretanin has created a her Hon. Mr P. H. Joass, Acting Dies record, bating crossed from New York Hou. Mr C. McI. Manaus, Acting to Queenstown in 4 days, 15 hours and shall not be eligible for posts outside
tor of Pubile Works,
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Hen V. BADEL, Y. Chpt. Supt. of
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Mr C. CIRENTI (Clerk of Councils),
CRIMINAL LAW.
7 minutes.
RHEIMS AVIATION
WEEK.
PROFITS TO BE WISELY UTILISED.
{ftening's Seicide to the China Mally
Lorros, August 31. The profits ando at the Rheims aviation meeting sunium 10 £12,000 They are to be devoted to the encour agement of aviation,"
than suffices for eminent success in changes for the worse being weeded
His Exitellency Sir Frederick Logand other walks of life? In the course fout, and those for the butter definitely presided at the moeting of the Laglalatire his argument we find him writing as adopted, the ultimate form of the text Quancil which was held on this afternoon. follows The chime for instance, is might be a substantial improvement | There were al prevent 2—— definitely made that the creation of upon the original, but it would no Colonial Bearotary.
F character in fiction involves higher lenger be posible to assign to such claimed. mental powers than were necessary to works the unique position now the devising of the "separate condenser. Some may perhaps be more ready to be to the successful development of the recognize the need of imaginative. reaction steam-turbine. It is contended powers in the engineer than in the Police. for example, that the steam-engine was, business man, but probably there is 20 in a way, inevitable, and bound to come great ifference in the standard needed in the actual nature of events, so that it for eminent success in any walk of life. mattered little to the world whether it Certainly it would be hard to deny was perfected by JAMES Wer, in 1705, imagination to the men that financed
Hon. Colonial Secretary proposed the or by Surm, wows, or Rinussor a few the first milways, or the first transatlantiris coming of a hill auciciel An Odin Fears Inter. On the other hand, Thamlet tic" cable, or, to come to more most ance to send the Magistestes and Criminal ie, it is claimed, a den te creation, times, to those to whom we owe the Law Amendment Ordinare, 19). possible one mun ake, and filing foundation of the states of Uganda and hini, lost for ever. Indeed, it has beenEhodesia." seriously maintained that the progress of There is great point in these criti- Everything that is worth NEW RECORDS by EVERY physics at the present day would be cisms.
aantred were its pursuis left entirely to while, everything that is going to stand the "hodmen of sciency and the act-the test of time, whether the product of irities of intellects of the rat order the pen or of the muc' ine shop must be agt azati spitting campaign" with (Bender's Service to the China _Alail.)
LONDON, August 31. perhaps, differ essentially from that of of its author. How they should rank, ingidered that the object sought en het is estimated that the dead in cu better achieved in this song chind by legjela nection with the Monterey (Mesio
fonds number 1,100. BACOs promulgated three rentaries ago, what order, they should be grouped, is tion.
His Excellency the Governer welcomed but it is certainly discredited by ex-altogether a secondary matter so that
the efforts if the Chinese "gentlemen to perience. It neglects the all-importance the work he good."..
prohibit spitting and recommended the repart of the section trusting in the word of imagination and character."
of the Chinese gentlemen and he wished thom every succèssi
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MEMOS FOR. TO-MORROW,
Auction. Noon-Auction of Stem Launch Yan Ke alongside the Douglas Steamship Co.'s Wbark.
General Memoranda, Taibay, September 3-
2.45 p.m.-&uction of Household Furni- tare at No: 1, Park View, Lyttleton
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DEATH OF MR JE, ELLIS.
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Ho Colonial Secretary proposed the accond reading of the bill entitled Au Ordinance to anel and consolidate the Hon. Colonial Treasurer soconded suá Las relating to Opium and its Compounds the hill was rond a second time."
A HIG DEATH ROLL,"
The river has subsided, but a famine is threatened owing to the "destruction of the means of ecuinunication...
THE ANHUI CONCESSION.
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SIR
COMPROMISE.
The Board, of Law has decided that from 1912 all offcials engaged administering Justice, shall be promotect from the ranks of the judiciary and thes
thint Department
CAN THE NAVY WAITT
(Fah TœyFai Pols 'Service.)
PERING, August 31. Lan Ting Shum, Director of the High College in Peking, suggests that the reoramaisation of the Navy bể pur aside until the necessary funda ara found
CHANG CHIA TÙNG.
(Wad Tu Yus Po's Service.)
PEKING, August 31.
H. E. Chang Chib-tung has recoveredi from his illness but is still in "very indifferent health. Ho is still on sick Heave.
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TO INCREASE THE TAXES.
Wah Tu Yas Pe's Service.)
Pasivo, August 31.
The Board of Finance is discussing the levy of additional taxes on land and houses,
A DISTURBANCE AT CANTON-
A serious fight. has occurred at Sha Ki between employees of the Rico. Quilde and some soldiers. As a result one of the accountants of the Guilds was- seriously injured while many of the employees w arrested by the soldiers. The Nan Ho; and Pún U Magistrates were both quickly called to the scene add stopped the trouble.
Creative power is as essential to the great engineer or business man as it to SILLKESPEARE. Indeed, it is by no meaus certain that a work such as Hamlet need necessarily bare been the work of one man only. In olden day's poems were honded, down bard to bard, each of whom added his to the farm in which the text has finally been received by posterity, and
now threaten to go on strike. it is beld, by some at any rate, that this
that amongst the various ordinances relat of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to The injured are being attended to by the ing to opium the law had become somaa series of questions concerning the Red Cross "Society. 411 the rice coulies was the case with the liad and with was good friend to the poor and has chonic and the Government could not Anhui Mining Concession, said it wasį
be held responsible for the nmending ordin-
quota
One of the oldest members of the foreign community. Mr J, E. Ellis died at his residence an Peider's Hill on Tuesday, at the ripe age of 80 years. Coming to. Hongkung some fifty years the late Mr Ellis joined the firm of Messirs from E. D. Son & Co. in whose service he remained' antil, declining yours made him leave his desk on pension. Ho celebrate his diamond jubilee bist 'year. His widow survives him and he lenses sons, daughter! and grandchildren to mourn his los.
He
highly respected by all who knew him. The the Odyssey. It is by EL relatively funeral took place this morning at 3.30,
modern innovation, that literary worke are now left, as they come from the hands of their originator," while the works of the man of sciener and of the engineer are modified, for the better or worse, by their successors. To the average literary man' mathematics prob- ably appears the Gridgriml' 8f} pursuits, but original work in mathema
requires imaginative power of a very high order, and the German the
a pn-Meeting of Cotum & Co., La.matician quoted by Tryba, was fully
at King Edwrid Hotel.
2 p.Performance at the City Hall. SATURDAY, September 4
J
Ila.m. Auction of an Aasortment of.. Drapery at Mr Geo. P. Lammert's" Sales Rooms,
4.15pm. Fourth Mesting of Hongkong Gymkhana Club, at Happy Valley. MONDAY, September 6-
9:30p.m.-Auction of Household Furni- ture, &c. at Mr. Ges. P. Lammert's
Sales Rooms, "
SATURDAY, September 11 :-
"
Noon-Mesting of Chins Light & Power
Co., Id., at Co.'s Offices.
THURSDAY, September 30:-
hold Land at Shameen, Canton.
justified in asserting that weare poets.
and the ancients were amply warranted. in classingtogether mailematics and
musir."
It is a well-known fact that the mathematician is often confused in the popular mind with the mere computer. Soch a state of confusion apparently
QUARANTINE WITHDRAWN.
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The following telegramas received by the Colonial Secretary were communicated to us this afternooD --
From the Governor of British Borneo Hongkong released from Quarantine." From the Government of Bengal:- 2104 Marine Plague Regulation in Orissa Torts against arrivals from Hongkong has boon withdrawn."
From the Colonial Secretary, Singapore; Hongkong raleased from Quarantino." From the Secretary of the flovernment of Burma -
Quarantine against Hongkong removed.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE REVENUE QUESTION.
Hon. Mr Murray Stewart referred to the second reading of the aptum ardinance with regard t the tenders for the pitm harrying t the previous measure through Farm and thought that there was no con the council.
for
Hia Excellency the Governor in reply said:
Contentious Questions.
(Berdor's, Service to the China Maž)
Losos, Septembar 1. Sir Edward Grey, Principal Secretary
Fance luing to be made and it had been put true that the Chinese Government were beyond doubt that their legislation was in offering fifty thousand pounds for the Recordance with that laid down by the,
the
hill His Excellency the Governor said that in the absence of the Lion, Attorney General le proposed to pilot the bill through committee.
The bill passed through mamitted will slight alteratione. `
MAGISTERIAL SENTENCES.
Question Asked in Council.
The Hon. Mr Murray Stewart asked at
Secretary of State. At that time there was redemption of the concession and the need Sar Busto and the new bill would not matter was now under consideration. innterally effect those tendering for thuit is not a question of the value of the Opism Farm.
Coupets then went into committee on icre but a question regarding the rights the eating of the Legislative Council this of British subjects which was at stake.afternoon Is it a fact that, as stated in These rights, however, are not quite so the newspapers, a coolie was fined $25 at simple as would appear to the casual the Police Court for playing a dice game in observer, The case, which had been the street, and that, in the same Court on under consideration for a long time, is the mine day, fines amounting to lum than one which, in my opinion, ought to behalf that emuant were imposed in the case of conviction for being drunk and dis settled by compromise. The negotia-orderly in Morrison Hill Road, and un- Blogey by striking bisa several times on tions had not led to any result set. The mrokedly assaulting and wounding Mr Chinese Government put forward cef-the head with a heary stick y tain contentions. Whether all the Hon. Colonial Secretary said the obligations of the Company had been former case Mr J. Wood inflicted a fue
of
on the 9th of 825 for street gambling fulfilled was a matter for argument. August. The police reported that gambling in this particular peility was persistent and that they had been unable hitherto to maku
Arrests.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
A mooting of the Finance Committee wi then held under the presidency of the Hon. Colocial Secretary when the fallowing vote were considered and pissed-
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A sum of $3277 in aid of the vote, Public Works Extraordinary, Quarantine Station at Lai-chi-kok, Hospital, Ap- proach paths, &c.
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JAPANESE ROYALTY LEAVES LONDON.
(Render's Service to the China Mail)
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In the latter cass Mr F. A. Hazeland imposed's fos of 812 on a Japanese on the August, for being drunk and disorderly and for a common xult. The Magistrate took into consideration the very drunken condition of the man and the fact that he was gaire ignorant of what he was doing The Magistrate considered the fine inflicted quite safficiert under the circumstances.
(To the Editor of the Caxa Mail."} 1 he Chapusan-Alexander, Mission, Party Sir,Your leader in bust night's issue held the first of two gatherings at the TUESDAY, September 7-
9.15 p.m.-Meeting of His Majestys exister in the mind of Dr. OLIVE! I placed me on the horus of a dilemma. Theatre Royal last night in the presence left London for Japan via America.
Mr H. J. Watson, deputy ship master "Justices of the Peace at the Magistracy.WENDELL HOLMES, the genial antxerat. I am, vulgarly speaking, between the Devil of a fairly large audience. The platform The King's representative and Mr. Kato,
at the Sailors Home and Past Master of for ever ussolated with the philander and the Deep-Sea. On one side I have the was occupied by members of the party and the Japanese Ambassador, were at the
the Rev. T. W. Perce, who presided. A station to bid them farewell.. Mex" who, if not His Majesty, feature of the meeting was the singing, of [Noto--Prince al Princess Koni are to the United Service Lodge, No 1341, EC., ings of a cerizing New England break-RES
goes about, at any rate, like a roaring number of Gospel reftains from the present the Emperor and Empress of died suddenly at the Government Civil fast table. After seeing a calculating lion seeking for interim dividends and Mission hyeen-book. theso, being led by Japan at the Hudson-Kultan celebrations Hospital on Tuesday evening. Deceased 3.30 p.m.-Auction of Valuable Lease-machine, he professer a certain con-who xays that I am to bind my own Mr Charles M. Alexander in the chame in New York hizhour-thion by Bear was formerly connected with the Victori
the discovery of Hudbon tempt for the nthematician. being business and not trouble about the trade turistic style, as well as by the party Hudson, the Bristol Navigator, while in Caol, and we distinctly popular with the of the Colony, which I had foolishly one of whom rendered a solo. Quite the service of the Merchant Advanturers sengcing people in this colony. Much "almost able to hear the click of the thought was my business, and on the unconventional in his methods, Mr Alex- of Holland ; and the centodary of Fulton's sympathy will be felt with his widow and wheels" within his brain. Now an other side is your leader-writer who can ander certainly beld the attention of the first trip with a steamboat down past the childron, who are at present in Carmarthen, Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman was also closely able computer, we are told, is often bat not think of anything to tax but whisky audience, while a brief discourse by the
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA. HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, Ex. 1. 1909.a very poor engineer, the able en-and appeals to me. It is a me of how followed. A number a new songs were
W dear canrmer away" "But let me asuure response to nap offer of a copy of the not let it drag along until it be have obtained protupt relief by the PRODUCTS OF THE IMAGINATION.
successors, because bis work car and the Merry Mex" that I know my place hymnal to any person who would reature comes chronts or develops into su stack of nee of Chamberlin's Colic, Cholers and will be improved upon by smaller men, now, thanks to him, and will strive not toto rise and singhe chorus of; one of these, pneumonia, bat give it the attention it Diarrhoes Remedy. Some of the worst. four member of the audience took the deserves and get rid of 1 Take Chamber cases of this disease have been permanently missionerat his word. To-night the Theatre ain's Cough Remedy and you are sure of cured try it after other traiment and will he occupied by the party.
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offend again by appearing in print. Every endeavour is being made towards that fondly wished for entry in his Bank Book and I hope if he should suffer the painful
losa of a day or twa's interest on those few cents per share he will console himself like good shareholder with the thought that what is his loss is his Company's gun.
As for your londer writer bq flatters mo and I am sure is not fair to Himself. I am only the servant of the Magnanimous Mex and am ill adapted for the role of a Lloyd-Georgo or su Aldrich. Surely be
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The engagement in announced of bliss Dorothy Graeme, eldest daughter of Dr and Mira Lasek, Mount Farquhar, Singapore, to out. Cyril T. Hewlett-Cooper, H. M. 8. Rent, Chins Station.
serving as a point of departure for generations of other engineere. Literary work, on the other band, remains with all its faults, as its orginal author left it. "Both "in, raw science and in that trouble to discuss it: The subject is of the engineer there is undoubtedly the amount of imagination which can be very large amount of useful work pos- said to enter inuafl the production of a sible to men of limited imaginative great work of literature, (2) the successful powers. Each year seca no coormous
The Rev. Ferguson Davie, Bishop carrying out of a great business enter-output of so-called research work can get a hint from the Budget at Home or designate of Singapore, was consecrated at BWAIBON &QOn Ease B) or the achievement of the of the third order, involving little from the United States new Tariff, a copy St. Paul's Cathedral on August 4. The of which I shall be happy to lend him. Arclibishop of Canterbury presided and the engineer or the man of science in more intelligence on the part, of its But if this is shirking the issue and nothing armon was preached by Dean Welldon.
the suitability of the epis producing some work of mechanics or author than is required by the attendent but a humble suggest from me will who dwelt applied science. That the functions of of a bank of automatic machines. In do then let me my that my ide-in capacy to the oriental mind, whereto tu confine all taxes to landed property, democmey was alien. Orientale did not the inagisation caters into all these each case, however, the output is really icome tax and death duties. If he desire to be consulted but justly controlled. VICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH binge o porsersed of any coming based upon the possession by some ways we can not collect income tax
from Chiness-which, however, I think out The death of another Mutiny veteran sense will disputs'; the question is, in third party of intellectual powers of a Treasury would be quite equal to what is recorded. Liout Genom Sis John what degree or to that extent? Which very high class. From the spectacular about a House Tax 7 what about a Car Withers Queen, B., entered the class or individua), can chim the standpoint the great engineer stands Duration Tax ? what about a Tax or Profits Indian Army in 1866, and served through- or Dividends and what about Starlips on out the Mutiny. He was in command of highest merit? There is to doubt thus at a disadvantage of compared Scrip Certificates or Bank Books for the the old Piffers from 1880 to 1800. that men-of-letters have long been in with the great author. The work of a boueft of woslthy men like the Masterful From 1881 to 1883 he was A.D.O. to Quest Muz Ab, Mr Leader-writer. the resour Victoria In 1839 he was made a G.B.C., the liabit of claiming for themselves-first-class engineer is continuously being es of Free Trade are not axhausted yet and in 1890 Lieutenant-Gotem. He was
Certan intellectual superiority over modified by bis successors; often for and I am sure our long-headed Secretary 75 yrs of age, the engineer, the win of business, or the worse. At times, however, the from the Far North will find something better to tax, than importa into a plod the scientific demonstrator, but the altoration made was also an unprove which produces nothing of itself (oxsept Eitor of Engineering challenges their ment and it then became adopted into such tries, as interim dividends), Tours right to do so and saks on what standard practise. It may fairly be faithfully, foundation they rest their claim was claimed that were the works of great first class literary
Ary work demands for its authors subjected to a similar process of
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