POWELL'S
ANDRA.
BUILDINGS.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED AN ENTIRELY NEW STOCK
OF
LADIES'
SHOES.
4
for
WALKING,
NEW
PIANOS
ON HIRE
$10
AT
TO
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE PRATAH SEPTLEMERET.
Chins to Receive Island Back on
October 28th
Frem a very reliable source, wa lesen that the agreement concerning the Prabas In-
upwards in maintenance, surely it is not be expected that the general public are to be invited to play on it, according to their inclination, unless they pay their share of the cost like the members And, of course, spectators in larga mum- burs ona golf links could not be tolerat ed The game would be impossible und the langers would run great risk of injury. People do not say that cricket is a salfish game because the children of the district are not permitted to play year golf is often a ruinous game, and i sam of 8150,000 as ruimbursement for
of going of alone, and he does so scre and mom. These golfing holidays are not inexpensive. Even though there is same regard for economy, it is difficult to keep the cost down below 30s. a day, and it very oftar happens that the game leads to extravagances outside itself. land dispute was signed at Canton by Thus, in the case of the middle chas. Yuen, Vicazoy of Canton, on the Connal Segawa, representing Japan,' and
family galler, the selfishness of the whole thing is liable to become very marked. To the man with, say, £350 as
19th inst.
The agreement arrived at is substantially follows:-Mr Nishizawa will receive the
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 1909.
[COPYRIGHT] PROPOSED NEW CHINESE BAILWAY.
BRITISH AND`AMERICAN "DAPITAL: INTERESTED.
Japan Prepared to Maintain
[COPYRIGHET
THE BUTLER WRIGHT
TRIAL
FINAL PRGCEEDINGS.
Judge's Charge to the Jury,
Verdict and Sentence.
(From Our Special Representative )
CANTOS, October 18, 12.45 p.m.
PER MONTH / ball or trundle their boopa at Lord's and on these bolidays he spends more than This is: 830,000 less than he originally British and Americaa capitalists are tion, said it was an impossible position
is spent on the rest of the family having their ordinary sojourn at the senaide. very golfer of experience has found
the minney he has invested in the island.
asked for.
the Oval, or because every Tom. Dick, er Harry of mature years is not admitted
The island will be avacuated by the to the full privileges of the place. On
Japanese on the 23th inst, and Banded the other hand, there is scarcely a golf out that this game conducted on the over to the Chinese officials.
The sum of $19,000 will be paid within club in the land that does not welcome themp is tomparatively a poor thing, after days of the evacuation of the
Tuning and Regular visiting golfers from other clubs and and players are frequently living beyond Pratas,
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permit them to play on the course at their incomer when, they are engaged in nominal fee. There are many private it. Before leaving home they grumble and well kept courses where the stranger at being asked for balf-a-crown for wom may play all day for a shilling, and the necessity, and on arriving at the golf fee is seldom more than half a crowd.club they buy two new two-skilling There is, at all events, no selfishness as balls for the day's play, although they
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wall Thus it in the lonely lady who is But there is another aide to the called the 'golfing widow who is question of the selfishness of guliers achiedy responsible for this charge of side which the Standard also discloselfishness. The golier's only possible BUSINESS NOTICE
Our contemporary declares that the
answer is that non-golfers do not sad Rates OF SUBSCRIPTION
principles of the game are touched with cannot share his great enthusiaan, which (Payable in advance).
selfishness. "It is one of the very few is true enough." OKINA MAIL (daily) 83,00 per month
including postage, $2.50 per month,games where your own play is complete OVARLAND CHINA Mail (weekly) $15.00
per year; including postage, $17.00 in itself; you are not concerned with the other man's ball or his strokes at all save in the final reckoning. There is
per year.
Free delivery to sil addresses accessible by massenger, including all Fear, Kowloon and Quarry Bay residences.
This is a scriove indictment truly, but all the same it will not stop the devotees
of the game one little bit. Unconscious
of their sins of emission or commission
TYPHOON
From all appearances the typhoor signalled this morning looks very threateni ing lor Hongkong. Unless of course the N.E. monsoon is strong enough to force it down south, we shall possibly saperience
Manila reports to-day that the cyclone or typhoon B of Southern Luzon is moving W. N. W.
a.uasty blow.
SPORTING.
Shooting
No. 4 Co. E..V.C. The first monthly shoot of the season will take place to-morrow morning at Tai Hang Bang'a.
Football.
SECOND DIVISION, -The representatives of the second division
Her Treaty Rights.
"(Ratter's "Service to the China Matk.) LONDON, October 16, Renter's agent at Washington tale. siphe that it is stated that a group of completing arrangements with China for the construction of, a railway fres Chin-chow-fu to Taitibar.
It is understood that Japan has notified China that while she does not intend to oppose China's action she will maintain her rights under the recent Chino-Japanese treaty.
اللعب
Mr H. P. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, in summing up the case for the prosecu to take up or for anyone to say that he had a right to mix up employers' money" with his own.
Mr. J. E. C. Douglas, for the defence, contended that it must be proved that priemer bad converted to his own use the money so sa to permanently deprive the Chinese Government. True sama had gone out of the railway sc- counts but again they had been put back- and the matter was only checkable by examining the balances. Es contended that the cash paid back had offset GENERAL STRIKE IN ITALY. what had been taken into his own
hands by accused. Riots in France, Italy and Austria.!
ANARCHY BREAKS
LOOSE..
Mr Justice Lindsey Smith, in charging the jury, told them that it was clear from the title of the accounts that the (Baster's Service to the China Hati.}
money in the International Banking LONDON, October 15. Corportion was milway money and The Labour Federation has decreed a nothing else. Also it was clear that on general strike for twenty-four hour three occasions prisoner had removed throughout Italy as a protest against sums therefrom for his own use; there the execution of the Anarchist Ferrer.fore he had committed the offence with There was serious rioting yesterday which he was charged. It had been a Florence, Milan Naples, Trieste, held hundreds of times that it was Lyons and elsewhere. Many people absolutely no defence to say that & man could take money wherewith he was entrusted and use it for himself simply
were injured.
Single coples, Daily, ten conts; Wackle ORs form of the game in which selfish- the enthusiasta and a golfers are of the Football League met at the Y.M.C.A. BRITISH." CONTINGENT because at some time or other he would"
thirty cents; for cash. Telegraphic Address, Mar, Hongkong, Code," A. B. C., &fth edition.
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW. Amusements.
Performance of Harmston's Circus at Kennedy Town.
9.15 pm
MEMOS FOR MONDAY.
Miscellaneous
9.30 am.-Military Gun Practice.
General Memoranda,
TURDAY, October 19-
12.30 p.m.-Meeting of Dairy Farm Co.,
Ld, at Co.'s Town, Office..
ture, & at Botanic Gardens Build- ing.
ness must be discarded, and that is the enthusiasts will continue to get all the rooms on Friday evening under the pre-
NEWS OF THE DAY.
sidepey of Sapper Haigh..
Saturday, the 23rd inst.-Lusitano v. 53rd The following fixtures were approved for
Co. RG.A.; A. Co. Buta v. Moslem: B.
DREADNOUGTS,"
TENDERS INVITED.'
-{Bester's Service to the China Mus.) LONDON, October 15,
B.G.A. Y. B.O.C. A committee consisting of the chairman, hon Secretary, Sergeant, Ingram, Bus: Mr Kobeiro, Lusitano, and Gonner Marsh,RGA, was appointed for the four contingent Dreadnoughts
to meet weekly, commencing Tuesday 16th
simpla or, as it is now being called,fan possible out of one of the grandest old-fashioned foursome, in which two and most healthful games the wit of players on a side each play at the ball, man has yet devised, while they will let and consequently each has only half the the job of rafuting the charge of "selfish-Co. Bude . 87th Co. R.G.A.; 89th Co. number of strokes in the round that he resa" severaly alone. would have if he were playing alone. It is constantly being said that this is the very finest form of the game, because the partners must play up to each other and support each other; but, do the golfers play it? Oh no! This foursome is fast falling into desuetade, and in place of it a new game has come up called the four-hill match, in which
2.50 pm. Anction of Household Farmi each of the partners is a ball of own to play with, and so gets his full amount of play."
WEDNESDAY, October 20;---
2.45 p.m.--Auction of Household Furai- tare at No. 6, Cameron Villes (No. 59) The Peat.
Club at Clab Pavilion.
However, continues the candid critic,
8 p.m.-Mecting of Kowloon Cricket it is the golfer's ways in private and domestic life that have been chiefly responsible for getting him accused of gross, constant and unreasoning seläsb-
THURSDAY, October 21:
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Farm
ture, &c. at Mr Geo. F. Lammert's
Sales Rooms.
FEDAT, October 22-
mess.
11 am.Meeting of Canton Insurance mixed golf is a failure; men will only play with men. Consequently, a. man in a bouse is no sooner converted
Office, Ld. at Mesare Jardins, Mathe-
Co.'s Offices.
BOR
SATURDAY, October 29:-
12 16 p.m.-Meatlag of Hongkong Jockay
Club Annexe, Chater Road.
The English Mail of the 18th Sept. was delivered in London on the 15th inst.
We are compelled to hold prer till Monday two letters on Subsidiary Coinage
and Brushwood.
Telegrams from America appearing in
of China, Japan and the United States are Japanese papers allege that the relations.
in a delicata position.
Telegrams from Ottawa state that the Dominion Government intends to ask
Parliament to appropriate gold $20,000,000 o build a navy and gold. $3,000,000 yearly
for the cost of maintenance.
"
The Admiralty has invited tenders
inst, at 30 p.m., to make the necessary which are to be laid down in January. Arrangements for fixtures. This has to be done owing to lack of suitable grounds, ne❘DOVER NAVAL HARBOUR. Causeway Bay ground has not yet been allotted,
Rugby. F
HOXGEONG V. HL.M.S. KENT.
Hongkong Rugby F.C. met a team from At Happy Valley on Friday evening the
H.M.S. Kost, it being the first Rugby
GREAT CEREMONY ATTENDS OPENING.
be able to pay it back. The manner ins which the prisoner had slipped away. was unlike the conduct of an honest
DOBE.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty". on all counts and his Lordship sentenced prisoner to two years' imprisonment with. hard labour..
LORD KITCHENER IN PEKING.
(Woh Tea Yat Po's Service.)
PERING, October 15. Iard Kitchener, who has arrived. ir Faking, will be received by the Prince Regent on the 18th inst.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mat) LONDON, October 16. HRH the Prince of Wales has opened the naval harbour at Dover with TANG SHAO-YI AND THE match of the season. The teams.org:-
great ceremony.. Homokosa.-Shi, Carroll, Kilby...The new harbour accomodates Dread- Wood, Gell, Claxton, Clarke, Lester, noughts at all states of the tide. Thicknesse, Hone, Robertson, Oliven
Heathcote, Warbroke and McBrith.
E.M.S. KENT.-Phillips, Mathers, Mod-
All the warships, in harbour were lin, Keighley, Campbell, Thomas, Jeukin,
BALLOON ESCAFES.
.www.
Few people were aware that Hongkong
when it became known that a balloon had
REGENT.
Wah Ta Yat Po's Service).
Parma, October 16.
HLE. Tang Shao-yi having prepared
a memorial in which many suggestions. for the improvement of the Empire are
"It has been established that decorated to-day in bonos, of the birthday | Lient. Heighton, Lieut. Evington, Morrisas the proud possessor of a balloon and set forth, the Prince Regent has issued -
of the Dowager Queen of Portugal. At Treby, Alan, Head, Lorains and Lobb. noon a royal salute was fired.
Eongkong kicked off and immediately escaped from the Belcher Forta, at Ka decree directing Tang Shao-yi to speak. called upon the naval men to defend but redy Town, on Friday afternoon, the news personally with him and giving hits In connection with the Y. M. C. Anot for long, as the play was quickly trans was received with incredibility. It ap- permission to visit the Regent's private Literary and Debating Society, Mr A. ferred, Shaw being prominent in some pears that some of the soldiers were opera-palace. Bellamy Brown will deliver a lecture on clover work, which enabled him to clear. ting with the balloon and by some means it Monday evening at 9 p.m. The subject Phillips, who played as well for the tailors became detached from its anchorage and last season, was up to his old form but was was carried away by the wind before are cordially invited to be present
not often obliged to stop ominous shots. Anything could be done to capture it. Fortunately there was no one in the balloon The scrums generally throughout the game
the time and it was last seen high abore
Club on the ground foor of Hongkong to the game than he sets himself
resist the importunities of the lady
8.15 p.m.-Opou Air Concert on Volumembers of the household who desire to will be "Spindrift from Many Seas," All
tear Parade Ground.
TRUEADAY, November 4--
9 p.m.-Concert at City Hall,
The China Flail
be initiated, and his task is not an easy one when there is a ladies' section of his own club. However, he generally succeeds; if he does not he rarely takes
The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, report that the total the weak onding and Oct. 1909 amounted output of the Company's three mines for
the slightest trouble to assist his lady to 26,519.68 tons and the sales during the HONGKONG, SATTEday, October 18, 1909. relatives. He leaves them to look after period to 94,491.82 tona.
themselves, explaining, and believing.
two very different things, with nothing
were badly formed and in many instances
ball was even put into the scrum. Severst had wheeled fully half a circle before the the Circus at Kennedy Town.
scrummages .dcenzend towards the left-hand corner of Hongkong territory but the
However
Kent's were unable to score. play was taken to the opposite corner and Merrisy scored a splendid try hat Campbell
THE LIQUOR ORDINANCE.
The place where the road from the Tan
combination in the second half and within Chinese frontier; the end in Britai Dr H. Macf-rians has been appointed a few minutes Oliver had obtained a try territory of the bridge between Le Fong
in common. Assuming that he keeps Government Bacteriologist them the links he starts out of th
or and Aurder
THE game of golf is so universally played these days all over the British Isles and North America, besides other places of the earthwhere Britishers and Americaca congregate, that it is not surprising that its followers should even moves straight off to bad. The Northern Pacific Company's steamer Tro- Captain T. W. Garlick, formerly of the come in-for-a-little-bit-of-serid-criticism only variation from this habit is mademont, is now in command of the G. N. 8. from time to time. Nevertheless all when a fellow golfer is brought home, in Minnesota. golfers must have deeply resented & which case golf is talked all the evening. His Excellency the Governor has been requark dropped the other day by Mr. Put two golfers in a room with half a pleased to appoint Mr Jatics Gompertz C. F. G. MASTERMAN, Under Secretary for dozen other people and you cannot keep
to act as Chief Justice during the absence 8. WATSON * 00% the Home Office, when speaking to a them apart. Hostesses realise this. In
on love of Sir Francis Piggott.
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deputation which aaled that golf links the early days of a golfer's experience be should be exempted from the tax on sometimes tries taking his wife away with undeveloped land, which the Chancellor him on his week-end and other golfing of the Exchequer sought to impose by holidays, but after one or two experi-g means of the proposed new Finance manta be censes to do so. Probably not
house very early on his playing days, and has out her first tooth without any goes home very tired, and falls to sleep trouble. by the side of the fize after dinner, or
JERZANDRA BUILDINGS.
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Bis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote 2nd Lieutenants L. U. Boss, W. Ensell and J. L. Andrews
K.V.0, to the rank of lieutenanta
THE RAILWAY LOAN.
(Wah Tu Yat Po's Servica.)
*PERIO, October 15, The Grand Council has telegraphed the Viceroy of Hupeh directing the railway companies in Hupeh and Hunan to send representatives to Peking to consult with the Board of Communien- tions with regard to the Railway Loan
A SAFE MEDICINE.
which Carmall converted. Some fina play and the Lo Sha Ling block house; the was then witnessed and soon after. Claxton landing place in British territary of the TUSKT be afraid to give Chamberlain's
Lapdntན་ Taken as a whole the game was a very fine His Excellency the Governor as places into group and whooping couch, and it in the Carrolf again took the kick and converted. Can any dave con sp
2 la intended esplaially for coughs, colds,
one and the final rault was:-Boogkong, which datlabis Uquem and denatured spiritabant medicine made for these discese. It 9 converted, trics, 10 points; H. M. B. may be imported and exported.
| contains no opium or other varcotia. For Kent, 2 tries, 6 points.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.
The competition on the revolving table on Friday night at the Circus was a great success and most amusing. Mr Ellis won by 27 points and Mr David was sooood with 24 points. There were seven entrants altogether.
Firat prize was a smoker's companion and the 2nd prize a silver cigarette case. There
will be a special performancs to-morrow *might*:
The King's exequatur ómpowering Mr Manila papers report that 225 poenda Ubarles Fricant to be Consul General for of crade spin-have-been found in s'esse
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ICTORIA CINEMATOGRAPH. Bill Mr. MASTERMAX said he was not more than twenty or thirty per cent of Chill at Caloutts with oursier jurisdiction of salted oilver recently landed in Manila PREMIER HALL OF HONGKONG. 1.que Bure whether such "exemption, husbands take their wives with them on over the British Colonies is Asin has from the British steamer Tainang The debility and waste. A BOYER
should be allowed, because they were their golfing holidays. They say that received His Majesty's signature. The case was marked B & C a new mark King's exequatur empowering dr Tatari which attracted the notice of the Customs very solfish sa golfers." Immediately it is no fan for either party so de no atau to act as Consal for Japan. Et servicà the papers at Home were full of angry the wife is left alone and freta,, and the Hongkong has also received His Majesty's Mr Craddock, the local manager of the protesta Ona player writing to the husband is conscious of neglect and signatur
U.PR tein receipt of a telegrim from Standard, indignantly denied the irritated at restrictions placed upon A report from Malts in the Dody Their Yokohams & genoy advinog film of e rectness of the Minister's statement that him, Ele/wishes to lunch with his graph says that the announcement that Mareonigram that golfers built round their land and tried to exalade the public as much as going back to the hotel or possible," and pointed out that if
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Mrs. Golfer in, and in the evening
the good
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