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MEMOS FOR MONDAY,
Amusements.
9 p.m.-The Arcadians by Bandmann Opera Co. at Theatre Royal, City Hall
General Memoranda,
TUESDAY, April 25:-
p.m. Our Miss Gibba at Theatre Royal.
WEDNESDAT. April 27-
Annaal Varsity Dinner a: Hongkong
THE CHINA MAIL.
became really Tracts for the Time, in ] · THE WORLD MISSIONARY
which he sternly pointed out the sine and errors of those who should have' been the lendars of the people in the patha of virtuo, honour and justice.
All Britain rejoiced when the staid old University of Oxford cenfarred upon MARK TWAIN her historic degree of D. C. L, and the pleasure which was felt in England at that event was equally shared in America. We for gave him all the fun ho poked at us in "A Yasked at the Court of King Arthur," and the harsh things ho wrote in that really very wrong headed phantasy Joan of Arc," for we remembered more gladly "The Jumping Frog." Innocents Abroad," "Puddenhead Wilson," and other of
This works which had brought nothing but unalloyed pleasure in their train For these we thanked him from the
bottom of our hearts.
Į
CONFERENCE, 1910.
(June 14th.-- S3rd)
NEWS OF THE DAY.
To-day in St. George's Day.
The Gazette contains a new scale of foes, and porcentages payable under the Bankruptcy Ordinanco.
In "Junt of this year there will be held in Edinburgh a Cenftrunce which is of vital interest, and concern to all who bare at heart the world wide extension of the Kingdom of Christ. The extraordinary its
Rabber haa ovidently not yet ranched
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1910.
[Caryzionг.]
MANCHURIAN TOURISTS
IN JAPAN.
"Independent News Agency's " Servier”)
-to the China Mail)
Toxro, April 23. Viceroy Shih, of Manchuringia report.
uit, for the latest quotation for fused to bare expressed pleasure on hearing how well the fanchurian tourist party
political and social changes which haveard Para was 19/10 por lb. taken place in the decades proceding the opening of the Twentieth Century, and which have even more recently taken place, make new demands upon the Church of
Christ."
The rapid unißcation of the world which has brought Christian and non-Christian people into immediate relatious with one another, is the most momentous fact of andern history and must necessarily pro foundly touch the life of the Christian Church in its relationship to non-Christian peoples,
The Conference is not to be a great missionary demonstration. Its sim is far more than this. It is to reach such a fresh understanding of the missionary task of the Church as the present occasion dumanda; and its work is being carried out on a scale never before attempted.
A loyal Southern gentleman, Mink Authorities and experts on various as TWAIN exemplified in his life's story ports of the missionary enterpries Inve bern associated for nearly two years in aome of the startling vicissitudes which investigation, study, and consultation, and have attended the careers of most it is the results of their work which will men who have played a man's part form the basis of a ben days thorough dis- ia the making of the United Statescussion in Edinbergh.
particular communion such as the mission
It may well be called a World Missionary A printer's devil at 13, a pilot on the Conference. Other former missionary cen- Mississippi before he was twenty-ferences, have been sectional or partial, (it was
during this interlude that be limited to a special country, such as the ote at Shanghai in 1907; er limited to a pieked up the riverine phrase which he afterwards used as bis per-nine)-ary section of the Pan-Anglican Congress. The Edinburgh Conference, however, will be cosmopolitan and will represent the aggressive forces of Christianity to a degree which has not characterized any previous Caristinn assembly.
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The Lords of the Admiralty are visiting has been treated in Japan Heys this points to the increasing amenities Gibralter, and the Mediterranean fest is to: be inspected. It is more than probable springing up between the two countries.
that the object is view is the strengthening - of the deféricos.
Scotland Fard has discovered renewed activity on the part of a notorious gang of blackmailers, numbering 200, who some years ago, victimised many persons of high social standing to the extent of, £200,000.
CONQUERING THE AIR.
SAILING FROM COLOGNE TO HAMBURG,
(guter's Service to the China Mail) LONDON, April 23.
KIANGSI RAILWAY.
» (Wak Taa TriPS's Service.)
PRO-April-2,
The Kiangai railway will be built by the Coveriment.
CHÂNG HA'S AFTER- MATH.
(Fah,Tr=}Tat Po'z (Services).
Prvo, April 29.
Though lain. Cbus Min, the Gover por of Changsha, has been suspended from duty be still remains in the city awaiting further orders. His fate is.
incertain."
Chu Hung Chee, a native of Chang sha and formerly Prime Minister, has been ordered to cooperate with the
The Pioneer's London correspondent A squadron of three dirigible tal-acting Governor in restoring penco and
good czder. wires that an Army Urder has been sueltos sailed to-day, from Cologne the Government has wired to the raising the pay of lieutenants of cavalry to Hamburg, where they manoeuvred in Acting Governor of Changsha to recre ten shillings per day. The present pay, of a combined fashion before the German all famine-stricked people to the bordera. ieutenant of line cayairy is 75. 8d. par dny.
י.
The Lambeth Borough Council has
Emparor.
-
undertaker, in connection with the forth-PATTEN THE DICTATOR. coming Faguant of the Empire, to depict Captain Cook's departure for Australia. Four hundred persons will take part in the reproduction.
In Wilhelmshaven harbour, a week or
so ago, a carpenter belonging to a Gernan torpedo boat. sank the vessel's treasury containing 23,000 marks (about £2,250 with a view to stealing the money. He was subsequendy arrested.
A large rubber estate in Johere, the property of H. H, the Sultan, bas been old to a home syndicate for £600,COC. The area of the estate is about 6,000 acres, of which some 2,000 acres are stated to be planted with rubber.
11 a.m.-Anction of Miscellaneous
Articles at Mosora Haghes & Hough'aa journalist" in California during the Sales Rocme.
days of the gold rushes, when BT HARTE was glad to have him as
Elazar, the accused in the Leadenhall In addition to leading students of Mis-Street shooting case, has been found strangl. collaborateur; an editor of a Buffalo newspaper later; finally a lecturer and ions and to the most experienced missioned in a cell at the Old Bailey. He wa ary administrators of Europe and Asia, awaiting his return to prison, after post- traveller. He touched life at many many distinguished Theologians and Edu popement of the trial to the next sessions
cationalists and men of high distinction in on the application of his counsel. public life are duroting their spacial gifts and experience to the work....
Club.
9 p.. A Dollar Princess' at Thestre
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THURSDAY, April 28-
taro, ate. at No. 23, Conduit Road.
9.30 p.m.--Auction of Household Furn Paints and when he had reached an age when the hand, growing weary, demanded rest, and the wiry frame.
9 pm. The Bello of New York' at
Theatre Rogul, FRIDAY, April 29:-
Forged tivo-dollar banknotes are new!
EUROPE AND AMERICA TO
PAY HIS PRICH
(Reuter's Service to the "China Mail)
LONDON, April 23.
Mir Patten, in the course of an in- terview at New York, stated that he bad bought cotton with a view to a possible short crop and he believed that the mills of Europe and America would come to a standstill in August and September unless they paid his
pricu.
6
"PARNELLISM AND CRIME."
4
'ANGRY SCENE IN THE COMMONS. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, April 22.
The admission of Sir Robert An- derson in a recent magazine article that
of the province where they can engage- in busbandry.
LYCTURE ON EXPECTORATION.
A
Cnder the auspicies of the lineso YMCA. Dr Francis Clark, Medical Offer of Health, ve lecture Teo Spitting" before a huge attendance on Thursday evening.
The lecturer said that no less than 70
frodescsumption;; being-about-ten `per- deaths occurred annually in Hongkong cout of the total death rate of the Colony, and that the principal cause of this discase was the indiscriminate spitting on floors, staircases, side-walks.ctc. Consumption was used by the growth of a germ in the lungs.
and large numbers of these germs were expelled with tha phlegm, and if this fell apon floors, staircases, etc., it-dried, and the germa Honted about in the air as dust. and spread the disease to other persons- Not everyone, fortunately, who breathed air containing the germs of consumption. contracted the disonso, but only, those, generally eperking, whose health had already been andermined by living and damp dwellings, by working for long hours in overcrowded and il-ventilated workshops, or by want of proper nourish- Fresh ment or by alcohol or other excess. air and sunlight ware the best preventives of the disense, and the best remedies if the disease bad already been contracted.. consumptive patients should use sepamte"
in dark
| beginning to resentthe physical demands Burleigh, and supported by such Vica sigun Opinion says that they are very good he partly wrote the "Parnellism and feeding and drinking utensils and should
The
Under the Presidency of Lord Balfour of largely circulated in Indo-China. The Presidents 38 Lord Reay; Sir Androw imitatious of the genuine article. ture, etc. at 'Derrington, 6, Peskade upon it showed signs of breaking Fraser, Sir John Kennaway, the defiber counterfeits however show diferences in 3 p.m.-H.E. the Governor's 'At Home down, he found himself reduced ations are likely to be wisely and impartiak colouring and in the inferior quality
to begrary, like so many other literary ally guided.
2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Fr. ni
Road!
At Government House,
SATERDAY, April 20:-
wonthe, leave.
Noon-Hongkong Electric Co's Menting
at Co.'s Oilco. $.15 p.m.-Annual Concert of Y.M.O.A.
at Chy Hall. 9.15 pm.-Velantone Smoking Contort.
The China Mail.
The most distinctive feature of the
of the paper.
The agent of the Chinese Engineering
Crime" articles which appeared in The Times in 1887, provoked a scene of
violence in the House of Commons.
On a motion by Mr O'Connor that Sir
the
family, but above all they should be not share their bad with other members of ceptacles, containing water or, better stil), careful to expectorate into proper et some small amount of disinfectant, and these receptacles should be frequently men before him bave bees in the long, sati | Conference in the work of the eight Com and Mining Compnay, Limited, inform us Robert Anderson's pension as retired washed out and their contents emptied down the drains. For the general public H.E. the Governor departs on six history of the world. But, with the noble missions which sinco 1108 have been that an interim dividend of 14. 6d. per Bead of the Criminal Investigation certain simple rules were essential but- studying, consulting and reporting on share, free of tax, payable on 2nd May, Department be withdrawn, the Right those rules must not require the
not to spit. It is more injurious, to matters of great importance to the mission-1010, on account of financial your ending For. J. H. M. Campbell (Dublin individual to swallow the phlegm than ary propaganda.
28th February, 1910, has been declared by University) provoked a scene by using to spit it out, and tho rules thorefore The eight, Commissions are as follows the directors of the company.
which the lecturer advocated were, for 1. On carrying the Gospel to all the world.
Ja phrase indicating doubt whother Mr the street," and for the house
into the gutter, not 3. On the native Church and ita workers, The Osaka Aki states that the sub Farnell was innocent of the Phoenix on the side-walk,'
"Spit into a spitoon, not on the floor." 3. Cneducation in relation to the Christiandy to be granted to horse-race clubs in Fark 'murders.
Occasionally such a person might be animation of national life.
all parts of Japan this year is catimated at
Immediately there were cries of travelling in a tram or a rickshaw, and 4. On the missionary message in relationT160,000. The Stud Bureau will carefully
"Shame," and "Withdraw," and Mrs such ucensions be east spit into his.".
handkerchief, while ̧to non-Christian religions.
for consumptives- iurestigate the amount of money spent by
The lecturer then went on to discuss the 6. On the home base of foreizu Missions, each club in laying out its race-course, and Redmond appealed to the Chairman, special pocket spittoons could be obtained. 7. On the relation of Missions to Gov. an amount equal to one-twentieth of the who, however, declized to rule the hon. remedies for this fatal disease which akimet such a heavy toll in deaths, and dealt cost of the mace-course will be granted this member out of order
seriatim with housing reform, which had After a great uproot the closure was already been efected in this Colony by 8. On Co-operation and promotion of
unity.
applied and Mr O'Connor's motion was the Public Health Ordinance of 1923, with insisted on the construction of dweil- Each Commission has associated with itself
ings which were adequately lit and venti [Note-Sir Robert Anderson, K.C.B.,lated; Labour legislation, which restricted corresponding members from 190 to 800
rejected by 164 votes to F.
leading foreign and native missionary
who is a son of the late Mr Matthew the number of hours spent by workmes in Anderson, formerly Crown Solicitor at factories and required that such premises to give special help/ workers of various fields who are qualinepurt of-first instance by Attorney V. A. Dublin, was formerly at the Home Office should be well lit, well ventilated and the
example of Sir WALTER SOVIT SEining before as a beacon of encouragement and Lis own undaunted character to second him, he resolutely faced the situation. and took up the burden again. We are glad to think that success attended the venture and that the closing years of WHISKY XU, SATERDAY, APRIL 29, 1910. He saw him quce more on a sure fiuan- cial footing, with the list of friends, and admirers still growing with the flight of time. He has sunk to rest in the full glory of sunset and two nations Low their heads in grief beside his bier. Can we not, using the words of Tacx as applied to the Faxen Coxsorr under the thin veil of King Arthur," say of the dead writer in all sincerity:
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AND
aides of the Atlantic as that" which SAMTEL L. CLEMEN cccupied at the time of his death. There must he myriada
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feel his death as the cutting down of a personal friend. For great as was De intelectual appeal which Mats TWAIN made to men and women of mature growth
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and therefore no matter the position in life of the lad who was reading of bis adventures, be was at once anderstood and bis motives appreciated. It was this great hearted, universal bumanity. of MARK TWAIN'S, more even than the whimsical manner of presenting to his readers, sound commonsense in the guise of humcarous distortion, that established his fame and created for him admirers by the legion. His sharps
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We have lost him.: he is gone: We know him now all parrow
jealousies
3. Ou preparation of missionaries.
ernments.
Every effort is being made to gather evidence from original and expert sources: The causes of inefficiency, as well as of success, are to be studied and treated frankly and thoroughly.
Each Commission is printing ins report in time to have it placed in the bands of
Are silent; and we see him as he every delegate before the Conference opens These Reports will then form the basis for nored,
the discursion.
How modeat, kindly, all accomp
lish'd, wise,
With what sublime repression
himself,
of
And in what limits, and how
tenderly;
Not swaying to this faction or to ..that;
Not making his high place the
lawless perch
Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage
ground
The careful comparison of the work of the different missionary societies in different mission helds should be of inestimable servico in enabling the Church at home and abroad to think out a constructive
and statesmanlike missionary policy such
ng is needed at the present day.
Among men of different communions:
year.
A motion to dismiss the injunction proceedings against the Governor-General
of the Philipines in the case of the illegally deported Chinese has been flad in the
Kincaid. The motion sets forth that the court has no jurisdiction over the chief executive of the Philippine islanda. par- ticularly in unters of administration.
A correspondent writes asking whether the objecters to the sale of the corner plot on the Praya have ever crossed the bazboor and observed the roof of the new Law Cours from the dock of the Kowloon Terry? He says that in his opinion the erection, of tall building to hide. this blot upon the landscape is absolutely necessary in the interente of asthetics. We agreo. An
glier roof would have been difficult to
deviso.
.
:
are
Provision lunge advisor in matters relating to political atmosphere freed from duet; the crime, was Into Assistant Commissioner off of open spaces, or Police in the Metropolis, and from 1858 ften called, and expressed the opinion that until he resigned in 1001 was Hend of the the best open spaces that could be provided Criminal Investigation Department. He in Hongkong were wider streets; the has been a rather prolific writer, his works prevention of overcrowding is dwellings including "Homan Destiny," "Sidelights popular education on such lines as the on the Home Rule Moremont," "Criminals present before school teaching, so tant the and Crime," as well as numerous magazine younger generation wight start life with a the means of avoiding articles. He will be 60 years of age next better knowledge month.ED. .M.)".
such-disenacs as this than their parents had been privileged to acquire; and lastly the organization of Stroot Committees to help the consumptivesoftheir own small districts by aiding them to find more suitable work, to see that they are suitably housed, by providing them with the necessary utensils for pravoating the spread of discases and even by helping them in the matter of food, for consumptives being in ill-health A Censor in A memorial to the are often unable to earn an ndequate wage to provide the good food which is so Throne says that a great many deficiencies senential alement in the treatment
FAVOURITISM ON THE RAILWAY.
(Wah Tax Fat Po's Service.)
PERING, April 22. .
The report of the London Assurance Co. ror last year shows that the amount ware hushed up in the Board of Com-this disease. Such Street Committees could, standing to the credit of profit and loss munications while Leung Seo Yei was in the way, by care and tact de a entead of
amount of good in preventing the spread
directors recommend a dividend of 20 per
who have deeply considered the fact of the present missionary opportunity there issue conviction that the time is at land for leaders of the missioner account on the 31st December, 1909, was at the head of the Railway Department disease and so aid in the good work of movement to arrivo at a concerted plan £139,675 8s. 11d., out of which the and that he introduced all his own preserving the health of the community.
favourites to lucrative positions.
The lecture was translated into Chiasse as to the wisest distribution and cent., being 22 10a. Od. per share. payable inperial Edict, to make an invent-prater, and was illustrated by a number of
The Board has been ordered, in an Dr. Ho Nai Hop, who kindly acting as inter dination of missionary agents and agencies
igation.
very good lantern lides. with reference to the actual occupation of as follows on the 1st April, and the entire world-field. They believe that 5 on the 1st October, free of income there are statesmanship and generalship in x The local agents are Mesars Arrhoki,
Karborg and Company, the Church sufficient to carry dab such a Wearing the white flower of plan for the actual occupation of the world- feld, and they are hopeful thub at Edin- burgh the nned and practicability of unity of action will become so evident that this
For pleasure, but thre all this tract
of years
blaueless life.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,
During the absence on leave of the Roy. Dallas Ennis: the Bishop of Victoria will
act as chaplain to the Forten.
power of statesmanlike leadership will manifest and ushtri itself.
Such a unique Conference-cosmopolitan in its membership, intellectual in its com- position, and scientific in ita methods should not fail to arrait the attention of thought ful net throughout the world.
PLAGUE AT AMOY,
We have reçoived the following letter
DRAUGHT ASAHI BEER
from Mr C. Berkeley Mitchell, Socrotary ESPECIALLY BREWED TO BE SERVED IN SYPHONS
of the Kujangga Municipal Council," dated Amoy, 21st April, 1910;--With relüferide to the allered outbreak of Plague at AmLY, published in the Hongkong papers, I Lin directed by the Kulangsu Municipal Council to inform you that every enquiry has been made concerning this car be statement, and only ono death can traced that of Dr. J. A. Otte, who con. tracted the discans from à native patient The Middlesex Regiment and the Buffe he was attending, There is no truth in the and we saw through his eva low Cathedral at Morning Prayer tomorrow territorial regiments On October 1 last, this disease either in Amoy or on Kularga. may fairly well claim lo-be-representative rumour that twelve Europeans have died from Flague, nor is there any outbreak of 9.15 to 11.30 P. matters really stood in relation to the and in the evening conductas Confirmation the number, of fiddlesex men serving.in
ultimate truth. His raillery sent Eum
Performances:-7.15 to 8 and
GRAND SICOESS The celebrated "Australian Artistos MISS ADDIE. LEIGH
and
MISS WINNIE RYAN and the Eminent Soulrasta MIRS MAGGIE FRASER AND LITTLE PERCY.
The Celebrated Hungarian Eccentriol
Violinist
F-E KETE.
B.B. the GackWar of Barca, the pungent sarcasmos 'tore through the Maharani and Princess Ildern. Rajah, veil of dissimulation and artifice which resumed their journey to Japan to-day. surrounds most things in this world?
bbg skulking round the corner and allowed Sincerity to stand out sharp and distinct in the pure glow of Gope sunlight. An honest man if ever there was one," MARK TWAIN could not sulle, fools. gludly or allow imposters to
Bishop Lander preaches at St. John's
at St. Andrew's, Kowloon.
**
Several Hongkong people will be present
I am to ask you to give this đɛnial as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th line battalione much, publicity as possible, as if such a statement, were allowed to go usta. of that regiment was 2,371, whilst the tradicted, serious injury might result to
the business interests of this port
at the Shanghini races, in addition to Birambar of Erst Kent can serving in the
Baa on the same date was 1,105. Paul Chater, who exiled to-day. Sir Paul intends taking a course of waters whilamari the European continent..
Prince Tokugaws, President of the Japanese House of Peers, who is travelling
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