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for whom he sores to have had sort I meas, foreigners without a job. In fact what Dryden says of the Duke of any regard were the late Ex Buckinghura is trae also of Than-fang Dowage and the late Chau C-ruwo, with his foreign friends. These ho slavishly worships, finding no Beggared by fools whony still he found
too late expressions too extravagant to pay He had his jest and they had his estate homage to their memories."
The articles to which we alluded in HAVE NO EQUAL FOR BEAUTY our opening are ostensibly an"In
OF TONE,
Memoriam" of CharE CHI-TUNG, but many foreigners will rather conceive of PERFECTION OF TOUCH, them as fagellations for the backs of sundry men who have outstripped Mr Kt Hesa Mise in the race for official distinction. His especial bete ncir in. the section printed by our contemporary
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At any rate. Tunn-fang has his fads and his foreign friends who are not fools, but acute Americane--to flatter his Lids for old China and Egyptian sati quities and to support him avan through. the mud of the Wangpoo Conservancy and while Tana-fang has his fads, his and other foreign acute American friends get a good income as subsidy or some other form of squeeze from the Chinese Government Treasury,
We have but space for one last extract from this bitterly vitriolic article:-
NEWS"OF THE DAY,
B.M. trooper Raws has arrived safoly a) Singapore
The low on the aviation, oarzival så Donoustes amquntad to £8000, -
The moating of the Logislative Council announced for "Friday has been postponed until Tuesday next, at 9.30 p.m.
Stoker Norton, of H.M.S. Monmouth, was buried at Happy Valley on Monday with full military honours, „
The Head Office of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company has now been transferred to Kowloon Dock.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1969.
THE LORDS AND THE
BUDGET.
· PREPARED TO TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES.
- (Router's Service to the China Hai), Losman, November: 23. There was a record attendance as the House of Lords on Monday and the gallerice were also packed,
Lord Crews, Secretary of Stata for the Colonies, formally moved the second reading of the Finance Bill in a speech consisting of only thirteen words.
[COFTRIGHT]
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, AT TENERIFFE:
VILLAGES, DESERTED,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, November 22.5. The volcano at Tenerife in erupting from four craises,
The largest lava stream is 1,300 feet) - wide, and already covers three and half miles. It has filled and crossed » ravine eighty feet deep.
Two villages threatened by the Lord Lansdowne, leader of the op-stream have been abandoned. position, remarking on the brevity of [Not The Past of Tenerife, one of
be an extinct volmno, · The island akkaota many invalids from Europa owing to its beautiful climate-En ‹. M.
on the 16th November is TEANG cha aristocrat with his Manchu heroism, Mr Winston Churchill managed to wrest the proposer's speech, said that Lord the Canary Blonds, was always thought to
now Viceroy of Chibli.He begins his diatribe in this fashion 1
the dog whip from the suffragette whe attacked him on Bristol station, and given it to his wife sa a trophy.
But to sum up, Tu-tang is a Man- and nobility of character all in rains When I was in Peking two years ago, I heard one of his secretaries say to the lata Chang Chih-tung: "If the Govern meßt were to hold an examination and offer a prize for men without conscience, among the Governors and Viceroy's in China, the Viceroy Tuan-fang would get the fist prize. The old Chang Chib tung thereupon smiled a fierce, bard smile and nodded his assent. In fact, Tuan-fang with his conscienceloseness The Bell Telephone and Telegraph has done more to demoralise the public Company having absorbed the Westor A man so various that he seemed to be service in China within recent times Union Telegraph Company now be-
"If Tieh-liang is the strongest and best type, Tuan-fang is the weakest and warst type at present of the Manchu aristocracy in China, Tuan-fag is the Lord Rosebery of China. Lard Kogebery in England again as well as the Manchu Tann-ang in China is the same type of man as the famous or infamous Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, the Zimuri of Dry den's satire.
Mr J. F. Wood sentenced a native to six months' imprisonment with hard labour and four hours' stocks, at the Magistrs to-day fat rotturning from banishment
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DEATH
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was everything by starts, and zothing
lang;
But, in the course of one revolving
moon,
Was chemist, fiddler statesman, and
buffoon.
*
Railing and praising were his usual
themes,
And both, to show his judgment, in
extremes.
art.
In squandering wealth was his peculiar Nothing went unrewarded but desert. MOFFATT. On the 18th instant, at Glas Beggared by fools, whom still he found gow, Scotland, Grozas Mora
too late,
MEMOS FOR TOMORROW.
Sport
Two shopkeepers were finod 805 each by Mr E, R. Halifax, at the Magistracy to-day, for baring unjust scales in their posession while two defendants were fined 810 each for being in possession of unjust
| measures.
"
The marriage of Mr.F. S. G. Piggott, P.E., eldest son of Sir Francis Piggott, Chiaf Justics of Hongkong, takes place at Gibraltar on December 11th. The bride Juanita, daughter of Mr WJ. Smith, of
Gibraltar and Algeciras.
in
A Japanese system of fencing with two-handed swords, named kən jitsu. has been adopted by the Physical. Training School at Portsmouth, and was exhibited for the first time at'n Trafalgar-das display
on 21st.
Crowe's alence meant that in the opinion of the Government the House of Lords had no concern in this im portant matter, but the Bill was un- PRINUE, TSAI ESUN IN
ENGLAND. precedented and the Lords should not take the responsibility of approving of
it until the people desired the Bill to beNTERTAINED AT WINDSOR, come law. They had considered the consequences of rejection and were ready to face them."
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Bost Admiral Ernest Simons. has been appointed Admiral Superintendent at
(Beth's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, November 99.
At the reception of the Chinese Naval Commissionera at Windsor there were present Prince Tsai Heun, Admiral Soh and Sir Chan-ting Cheng. They were presented to the Queen. At the lan- Capt. Mount, of the 79th Carnatic Incheon which followed the Queens of facery, accidentally shot his wife dead st England and Norway and other royalties. ` Aurangabad, Indin, on the 5th inst
were present
Malta
خصمننا
The Birthday Honours include Major. Subsequently the Chinese Naval Com General Swains and General Bir K. S. S. missioners visited. Greenwich Naval Baden Powell, who are created K. C. B.'s. College and Hospital and the Royal-
Mr Richard Watson Gilder, poet and Naval Schooi. journalist, is dead. He was at one time !
editor of Bražners', but since 1881 has edited. The Censurý,'".
The dosth is announced of Paymaster-in- Chitt H.B.P. Sbanka, who was paymaster. and storekeeper of the European-Chinese squadron during the Taiping rebellion, 1885-4, under Captain Shared Osboci, RN.
RAILWAY-CONCESSION BEFUSED.
Wah To Far Potz-Service:)
PELING, November per The Board of Foreign Affairs has not accepted the offer of a British and.
Indeed, Dryden's merciless portraiture kai. To be just. Tuan-fang is a much of the weak, fickle, faithless, clever better maa than Yuan Shih-kai. Tuan-phone Trust of the United States."... Duke of Buckingham-making .al-tang has or has bad heroism and nobility lowance for difference in time and state of character in his blood. But the par of society-applies so well also to these venu Yuan Shih-kai has never had any two modern public men, Lord Rosebery thing in him but esariency, cleverness, in England and the Maacha Tum-fang and cunning, what Carlyle calls val in China, that I make no apology for pine intelligence; intelligence without copying out here the whole of Dryden's delicacy and sweetness or common sense admimble lines,
sharpened by appetite. In the case of the Manchu Tuan-fang, the ruins of the Manchu beroiam and nobility of charac ter in him have made him suffer, like Lord Rosebery, terribly from "insomnin, whereas in the case of men of altogether base and ignoble nature, like You Shih-kai, a life without conscience, even of self indulgence and debauchery, only makes then grow fat, oily and squat. The worst band, however, which men like Tuan-fang, who are at bottom really not base and ignoble men, but whose moral nature has been sapped and ruin- ed by thoughtless, wanton and wilful self indulgence, the worst bana such men do to a nation is that while such men are put in high position of respon- sibity, the parasites, the vilest elements in the nation, will gather and crowd round such men like ants or baccilli upon a motion piece of flesh and prey pot only upon these weak man themselves, but upon the moral as well as the material vitals of the national life. When quite a young man TraN-FANC We do not know whether Mr Ku Euxo
(Wah· Tez YatTM Po's Service.) was a well-known marker of Pekinge Miro is ambitions to fill the role in
PEXING, November 22. amart Manchu set, says Mr Ku Hexc- China that the writer of the Letters of
Prince Ching has asked the Board of Mise, famous for his dissipation and Juice did in England more than a
on the back page, Imake interesting read-medal with clasp Lleutenant J. B. Foreign Affairs to discuss and adopt extravagance. He had as fellow roisterer century ago, but it certainly looks very
much like it....
Murray, the new navigating offoer, hanan certain measures whereby Chinese with the singing girls, Na Tose, the
experience of 13-years in the Nawy, and has residing in the Straits Settlements, the present Grand Councillor and head of
The disqualification of the first three held his present rank for pis years. He is Malay States and the Dutch East Indies the Wai-wu-pa. When the Japanese
horses in a trotting race at Vienna, on the qualified to navigate a first-class battleship may be able to oitain better protection: The German gunbest Allis, which has ground of a tales start, led to a violent riot cruiser; Engineer Commander B J. Camp from their mother country. war broke out Trax-FANO was at the end of his resources, but by ecosorting with, since 1839 bedd mationed in the Far East, in the airly part of November. The judges bell is an experienced,affleor with a varied and is well known from her fight with the were marcilessly beaten, and the stands wealthy bankers, he managed to further Taku forts, will next year be ordered home wrecked. The police charged with awardavico, and his engine-room staff includes their schemes and feather his own nest for the purpose of receiving thorough over and many were injured. so that before the time of the Boxer out-hauling and repairs. break he was Governor of Hupeh. By
He had his jest and they had his catate, He laughed Linsels from Court, then
relief
11 a.m.-Cricket. Bongkong v. Straits By forming, parties but could ne'er be
(1st day)
4. p,mLast Matinés performance at
Circus. 9p.m-Ferformance at City Hall. 9p.m.-Pazformance of Hypotenuse
Cirose at Causeway Bay,
General Memoranda,
THUEBAT, November 25:-
Bank Holiday
Insurance Offices Clone.. Exchange Banke Co e 10.Unveiling of Statues & King's
Birthday Salores.
11a.m.-Cricket. Hongkong v. Straita
(2nd day).
9pm.Boxing at Rells View Hotel" 9.30 p.-King's Birthday Ball, Govern-
ment Honse.
FRIDAY, November 28:-
10.m. to 4 p.m.-Military Gun Practice. 11-Cricket Shanghai v. Straits
(1st day).
Noon-Anation of Goods & Chattels of
G. Bartolone at Chster Road.
Church, West Point.
chief."
NEWS OF THE DAY.
To-morrow afternoon. Major Generaj
on astute piece of doggerel be. won Broadwood and officers of the Garrison
An idea has somehow gained currency that there is to be an open-air concert on the Hongkong Cricket Ground to-night. This is nut so. There is however to be a aupper and dance at the Hongkong Club in honour of the visit of the Interport cricketers.
CHINESE IN MALAYSIA..
Lieutenant Ralph Collins, who has American Syndicate to furnish a loan en appointed first officer of the Em, he wherewith to build a milway from. been 18 years in the service, and has held Chanchun to Taitsihar. Bis present tank for the past ten years + Lieut. J. C. Davis, the navigating officer. has served in the navy for nearly 11 years All steamets arriving from the South and was specially promoted lieutenant for report having experienced bad weather. bis services in North Chins during the wars The H. A. L steamer reports having had when he was midshipmau in the expedition several things on deck washed overboard, ta the relief of Peking and the operations: Car Shipping Beparts, which will be found round Ticntain (mentioned in dispatches,
ing
Opium to the value of P. 14,582, wan seized at Manila on the arrival of the Rubi. The staff was being put over the side into bancas sent for the purpose when the excise
the good opinion of the Empress will be "At Home' on the Hongkongficers discovered it. Two Chinese dock Dowager and came up to Peking, but Cricket Club ground from 3 o'clock to 5 bands on the Rabi are solely implicated and
o'clock. By kind permission of Licut Col. they have been detained for trial, Bayard the Band of the Boffs will attend.
5.30 p.m.-Organ Recital at St. Peter's after the downfall of KANG Yo-wer, whom he bad temporarily supported, he found
SATURDAY, November 27 :--
11 am-Cricket. Shanghai. Straite Peking too hot for him but managed by
(2nd day). 2.30 p. Auction of Household Furni-skilful intrigues to get a position in
tare, de. at No. 11, Seymour Road.
MONDAY, November 29 :—
11 m.m.-Cricket Interport Champions
v. the World (1st day).”
TUESDAY, November 10:-
II ..-Cricket Interport Champion
v. The World (2nd day), 9 p.m.-St. Andrew's Ball,
etc. etc.,
etc:
The China Mail.
OTHER KINDS IN GREAT
VARIETY.
Shansi, of which place he was "Acting Governor at the time of the Boxer madness. We now quote from the article again in extenso:—
Mak Lin Fuk, the prisoner who was
sentenced to death on Saturday in con- nection with the police escars murder in the New Territory, gave evidence at the Criminal Sessions this afternoon sminst the second prisoner who is on trial on a similar charge in connection with the same
Commenting on the raw liquor duties instituted in Hongkong, the L and C. Ex. prem says:-"For our own part we cannot see that the imposition of these import duties almply for revenue is an infraction of the izner spirit of the principles of free trade. The Government has promised that no ob- jectionable methods will be employed in affair.
Buzinger Lieutenants AE. J. Murray, H. G. Moon, and B. C. Bowlet.
MORTALITY STATISTICS.
The mortality statistics for the week ending October 30 are as follows:-British and Foreign, community, 44.6 per 1,000 as. against 19.8 per 1,000 for the correspond ing week of last year; Chinese community, 1.99.9 per 1,000 as against 28.1 per 1,000.
A FPLICATION TO ERECT A
MONUMENT.
Application was made at the meeting of the Sanitary Board this afternoon to erect a inonament in the Colonial Comakery,
Mr A. Shelton Hooper minuted-As thà additional area applied for to erect a monu-
TO KEEP IN CLOSER TOUCH.
Wah Tax Fat Po'z Service.)
PEXING, November 22. The Grand Council suggests that Viceroys and Governors should be directed to come up to Peking at least. once a year on a visit to the Imperial Court.
THE FOREIGN OFFICE.
- (Wah-Tas Fát Po's Service) ·
PEKING, November 22, Liang Tun Yin, President of the.
ceived in audience by the Prines- Regent the other day, asked to be- allowed to resign his office, but the Prince Regent advised him to abandon....... any such raah idea.
At the first explosion of the Boxer carrying the enactment into force, and in out-break, when the false rumour was that case the position of the port need The Courrier Saigonnais of Novemberment will not lessen the burial area of the Board of Foreign Affairs, on being re- circulated that the Boxers had got the suffer no noticeable change, or its cliareter, states that the stocks of the old rice ctope cemetery it should be granted. -
there have almost been exhausted, so that Hon. Mr E. & Hewitt-W this ax- better and exterminated Admiral Sey-which is practically ita charter." "mour's, rélieving corps of marines, Tuan
the catturn of 1909 has been all but done tension block the pathway between the fang in Shepsi sent a felegram of triutoph
with The rice of the new-crop-is-now adjoining grave? and exultation to the late Viceroy Chang |--
That all is not well with the Opium under quotation, and several considerabla HOSUKUNG, TEZIJAL, NOVEMBER 25, 1902, Chih-tung in Wuchang, advising him Rege system in Cochin-Chins may be transactions are reported for delivery in to blow up and destroy Hankow and all judged from the fact that, at Saigon and February, March, and April next. The the Yangtse treaty parts, so as to cut off throughout the Colony, complaints arise season is good, and the standing crops look STRIFFING THEM NAKED.
all supplies from foreigners and their about the bad quality and desinees of the well. warahips in Shanghai. Chang Chin-tung
had to send a very sharp telegram to the official drug supplied to consumess. The
Som remarkabla articles are being contributed at the present time to the young would-be patriot Manchu Gov. Government article is watery and impure -... Thursday, the 25th inst., having been or telling him that the situation was and not worth the pricu. The result is a declared & Government Holiday the Post Shanghai Mercury by Mr KU HUNG MING too serious for such fooling and nonsense heavy falling off in the sales, and a brisk Office will be open for one hour only Le
and that he bad better look to the keep 8. WATSON & 00, which are attracting a good deal of ing of order in his province, Than-fang contraband trade, The Saigon Opinion from 8 till 9 am. There will be a collec attention by reason of their outspoken with his usual smartress, at once took estimates that four-ifths of the drug con- tion and a delivery of letters us on Sun- LIMEEED,
the hint and immediately turned roundsumed there are supplied by smugglers. days The money order office will be criticism of many men of light and again, and tried not only to protect the In the provinces the preparation is mine- entirely closed. In the event of the arrival leading both in China and in Western missionarice in Shenai but even fulsome tenths,
of the English Mail from Europe the Post y to curry favour with them.
Office will be open for one hour for the Europe Mr Ke Hum Mixo, once a From Sherei Tuan-fang was transfer.
We learn from the Manda Times that delivery thereof. Secretary in the Wuchang, Yamen red to the Governorship of Hupeh, and
from that time Tuan-lang dropped lia Major-General Broadwood has notified of the late CH CTG when the patriotism, which did not pay so well, Governor General Forbes that he thinks It is announced that a new company
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