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the taste of the present bour rejects; but their sincerity of purpose and honesty of outlook no one will over question.
But there was another side to the late Mr HOLMAN HUNT which endeared him, more to the heart of the English people: He was a great religious trochor. How many thousands of homes are not sheltering to-day copies of his religious or mystical pictures wherein, ho en- deavoured to realies for us some of the
bidden mysteries of the Christian faith. It was in 1850 that he began this kind of work, exhibiting that year a picture which bore the mther portentous title of "A converted British Family shelter- ing a Christian Missionary from the persecution of the Druids"; "this was Per Doz, followed in 1861 by the "Hirgling $20.80 Shepherd" in which he told the Bible 64.80 story in terms of modern life, the scene boing an. English harvest field. But it 100.00
was in 1856 that men first really begh
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MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW, Amusements.
9p.m.-Performance of Warwick Major's
"Comedy Co. at City Hall.
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Surely, says An Englishwoman, the question first to be decided is not "Shall women live votos!" but "Do women
want votes !".
The demand for horse-flesh for food in France is said to excard the supply, although more than 200,000 horses are slaughtered every guar
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Owing to the increased price of cigare and ofgarettes in France the pipe has invaded the fashionable world.
Mr. J. S. Dugdale, K.C., Recorder, of Birmingham, and chairman of the Warwick-
shire Quarter Sessions, who has just cale brated his with brithday, has tried 10,000 prisoners.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1910.
[Coryxona]
THE PAMPHLET
- SENSATION.
COURT MARTIAL OPENED.
!
(itere Service to the China Mail.j
LONDON, Sept. 0. The court martial on Ligut, Salor, R. G. A., who was recently arrested for Over £493 was realised last year from It bad bear has killed hundrede, bad publishing a pamphlet entitled The the sale of waste paper collected in the City too has killed thousands," the Bor. W. Army System, or why muddle through of London, and £181 from the sale of tins Morgno, chairman of the Bangor and three millions yearly during Fenco?" found among the 80,000 tons of refuse Beaumaria Guardians, declared, at the and who was subsequently released collected, asys the City engineer'a report. annual meeting of the Carnarvonshire from close custody, has been opened at
Tynemouth.
**
Paris is said to get a total proat each Sanitary Committee. year from the tourists of all natione of
Cape McGinty, of the 8.8. San Choung. 120,000,000. The Swiss hotel recolhas reported to the police that on Thure are nearly £10,000,000 a year; the Germans representing 30 per cont. of the patrons, and the English counting as 14 per cont
On Thursday Air G. P. Lammert offered by auction the leasehold property known as Gleathorno," Kimberley Road, Kowloon. No sale was effected, the property being withdrawn at $18,500-81,500 below the
pet price.
A resolution protesting against the objectionable methods sometimes resorted to for raising money for the services of the Church and the maintenance of the ministry was passed at the-arumai mesting of rural cans presided over by the Bishop of Ripon.
Norz- For Hongkong the abors Prices will be increased by the amount of duty to find his Dime familiar on their lips as household words. It was then .yablo-87.20 por Dovey.
that he produced his," Scapegoat," a picture which in Europe, America and Mr Frenborough, president of the Australia has drawn thousands wherever Wesleyan Reform Union, at a conference in Sheffield, referred to churches which he it has beeu exhibited. Who can over had visited in which there were billiard forget the weird and overpowering tables, card-rooms, and smoke-rooms. He had nothing to say against a game of effect created when the first view is billiards and social relaxations. They were caught of that helpless, foredoomed necessary, but the church was not the place animal wandering upon the salt encrust-for this. The Christian Church must have faith in its goods as the successful man of ed shallows of the Dead Sen--desolation entamerce had in his wares. Confidence piled on desolation, and with the untold was the great essential to succes),
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FRIDAY, September 18:-
2.15 p.m.-Mooting of the Licensing
Board.
SATURDAY September 17:
Noon-Meeting of Obing Light & Power
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An old beggar woman named Descamps died in Paris of starvation. She was buried by the Assistance Publique. After the funeral the miserable room occupied by the old woman in the Rue Vilin was entered, and when the bed was moved preparatory to disinfection for the room was in a disgusting state-a number of gold coins rolled to the floor. Then it was found that the old woman had a little fortune of about £500.
day afternoon while the steamer was lying alongside the wharf someone entered his cabin and atole soveral articles and $60 in money, the total valus hoing 871.:
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Cana da, has definitely promised that the pro- posod Hudson Bay railway shall, be built to open a now short route for the transporta. tion of western products to European markets, but the Premier will make no promise with regard to the demand that the railway shall be worked and owned by Government.
The charge preferred is breach of regulations in publishing the pamphlet without permission.
Lioutenant Butor pleaded not guilty. The Court has upheld the instruction of the Judge Advocate that the merits of the pamphlet could not be raised,
PRINCE TOKUGAWA
{Reuter'a Service to the China Mail)
Lospos, September 9. Prince Tokugawa has left London for Japan.
CRETANS AND THE
[Corrami ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION.
BRITAIN'S NOTABLE VICTORY..
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, September 9. Everywhere the Hague award in the Newfoundland fisheries despute is being Lailed as a actable British Victory
AMERICAN BUSINESS
TOURISTS.
(Independent. Newce Agency's Service
to the Chino Mail.)`·
Torro, September 9.
A party of American business men, who are to visit China, arrived at Yokohama to-day,
ILL-FATED BEDFORD
BREAKING-UP. (Independent News Agency's Service to the China Mail)
Toxxo, September 9.
It is reported that the ill-fated British cruiser Bedford has broken in half amidships. She still shows a part of her deck above water, but investigations
/ CREEK ASSEMBLY show that there is no hope of refcating"
SOCIAL AND 'PERSONAL,
The Field, Officer for the onsuing week | -- will be Capt H. L. Bell, Royal Engineers.
The Hon. Dr Ho Kai, C.M.G., loft for for Shanghai on Wednesday by the Germen Mail.
Major W. M. Pyne, Royal Engineers, will be the Officer visiting tho Detention Barracks during the gusaing week.
Congratulations are tended to Mr J. J. Leiria, Consul General for Portugal and Brazil, in Hongkong, the anniversary of whose birthday falls to-morrow,
THE ZOROASTRIAN CLUB,
P
A Generous Gift.!!
At an extraordinary general meeting of
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
Laspos, September 9.
In compliance with pressure from the Powers the Cretaus elected to the Greek Assembly have declined their election.
THE GERMAN “SPY”
مصممنا
· DENIAL OF ESPIONAGE
(Reuter's Service to the China D.)
LONDON, September 8.
her.
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY,
PRESSURE BY THE POWERS.
(Wah, Tez Yat Po's Service)
PEERO, September 8. The representatives of Britain, America, Germany and France bave insisted that the Canton-Hankow loan".
The name of the German subalterngreement shall be signed forthwith.
H.E. Sin Yun Pai, the President of arrested while sketching the fortifica-
the Board of Commurlications, bas asked ·· tions at Portsmouth is Helm.
He has been remanded to Winchester the Powers to wait peading "the Cool.'.
coming into office of H.E. Tang Shao- He denies being a spy,
formation.
and
says he
yi.
AMERICAN CUSTOMS
TROUBLE.
the members of the above Club, held under was sketching only for his own in- the chairmanship of Mr F. P. Shroff, in the Club rooms on Thursday, the 8th inst. at 6 p.m., a letter from Mr 31. J. Patell, sole proprietor of Patell and Co., Hongkong, Canton, Bankow and Calcutta, expressing tis desire to present to the Club billiard table and other accessories worth in all $1,100, on certain conditions, was siderod. Resolutions were proposed and duly seconded for conveying the warm and appreciative thanks of the members to the find donor, also expressing their nanimous agreement with the proposals
9 am-Excursion to Macao by 5.5. misery of a whole nation implied in the
dreary eerue. We have not space to through the list of the many pictures of usinúlarly symbolical nature, all dealing with some aspect of 2.30 p.m.-Auction of Household Ferni- the religion which came out of Judea, which flowel from his busy and fluent brush. There is no doubt that HOLMAN HUNT, BURNE-JONES, and ROSETTI repre- sented the time spirit in their art. They realised in theirown especial degree a phase in the intellectual and spiritual development of England which redeemed their age from the accuration that it was
Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) wholly given up to the grossest of
The members further resolved to fix up-
LONDON, September 8. An official reply from Washington material things. They made mistakes
on the Inlliard table at their own expensó in their crusade being but human in
the plate with suitable inscription states that a new consular circular, It was further resolved that the sum of or rather a modification of the old one, struments in the hands of a Higher of the Book. It took him eighteen yest8380, contributed by the general body ofis in preparation in deference to the members and others towards the protests of the British textile exporters, billiard fund. be carried to the reserve who complain of the possibility of account, which now stands at $800,
American manufacurera appropriating trade secrete.
Do., Ed., at Co.'s Dess 3.30 p.m.-Gymkhana, st Happy Valley, 9.16 p.n.--Bongkong Cricket Club Con-
GOI
MONDAY, September 19:-
13.59 pm-Full Moon... THURSDAY, September 22:-
V.R.O.Annual Aquatic Sports, 1st Day.
The China Mail.
Power, but, in the words of GEORGE HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTENDER 9, 1910 MEDEDT each one of them truly realised
ART AND THE TIME SPIRIT.
that
Life is but a little holding Lent to do a mighty purposo. Tm: death of Mr. WILLIAM BOLSAS Such of their work ne is immortal will Husr at the patriarchal age of four score remain a legacy for all time; that which years and three removes one who in his represented, a lower ideal will perish, time played no inconsiderable a part on But that "life was the sweeter made" the stage of life. During the long span by the presence in our midst of such of years which he was allowed to spend creative artists as HOLMAN HUNT who on earth he saw the rise and fall of can fail to admit. May he rest in peace.
many movements in the world of art, ̈‚ while he was also permitied, to be! one of the originators of a school of
during time of
DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT- OF CHILL
GREAT CLEARANCE pointing which, dies that the mucts in Trongkong, to create enores, for this
OF
than any other to reawaken the slumber. ingl of England to a realization
Mr.J. Gonzales, Consul General for Chili
Afternoon from the Consul General of Chili in Yokohama, atating that His Excellency Fernandez Albano, President of Chili, has
It will be remembered that the deceased President was formerly Vice-president, hav. seon days ago on the death of M. Pedro Montt, who died suddenly at Bromen from
SUMMER GOODS that it is not the material pleasures and justitied
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accomplishments which count for every-
At the western end of Lake Superior stands the town of Duluth, Minnesota, and here lives the only man in the world who bas committed the whole of the Bible to memory. His name is, according to the ispod Post, William Frederick, a travol ing salesman of a large flour factory of that town. He did not undertake this task from any other object than a simple love
to do it, and ho can not only quote any passage of any length from either the Old Testament or the New but can specify the book and the chapter of the book in which it is to be found from Gonesis to Revelations.
A now cxhibit which should attract
*
19 set forth in Mr Patell's letter.
thereon.
THE ILL-FATED BEDFORD.
BRITAIN'S COMPLAINT
RESPECTED.
THE PASSING OF AN ARTIST.
il
MR HOLMAN-HUNT DIES.
1.
NATIVE PAPERS
WARNED.
(Wah Taz Yat Po's Service).
PERING, September 8,
The Wai-wa-pu has been approached by a foreign Minister, in Peking with a request that the Board probibit native papers from publishing reckless articles on the annexation of Korea.
A FIRM ATTITUDE.
(Wall Tag Yat Po's Service.)
PERIKO, September 8, The Cabinet, on receiving the tele gram from the gentry and merchants of Chekiang insisting on the reinstate- ment of Yang Son Chin as manager of the Chekiang Railway, instructed the Governor of that Province to disperso any public metings which may be called in connection therewith.
Name of the Victims. keep interest among archeologists has just
The s.a. Nubia, with the survivors of the been placed in the great Roman de partant at the British Museum. The ill-fated Bedford, leaves to-morrow at 10 o'clock for Home. It appears that exhibit is, says the Times, a grave-relict at the time of the disaster the Bed
INSUFFICIENT POLICE. which may be assigned to the fourth ford passed right over careral pointed century, B.C., representing three figures,
Recently throughout Kwanghang (Ad- apparently those of a husband, wife, and submerged rocks alright and struck (Reuters Service to the Ching Hail.) one a little distance farther on, the top of
LONDON," September 8.miral Li has discovered that recruits for daughter. The relief is remarkable for the which was somewhat higher than the others. The death is announed of Mr.the police aro altogether insuficient for composition of tse draperies, and the quiet out and made a great rent in the ship's the well-known painter, and one of the seed some time ago to enlist, a certain graceful dignity of the figures, the fiue The top of the rock was knocked completely William Holman-Haat, O.M., DCI, the needs of the districts. Orders were pathes depicted on the faces. The menu bottom and the impact was just like three founders of the Pre-Raphaelite the standard, The Viceroy himself has
ment-was-bought in Paris and was then to the sound of tremendous whistle. pieces, but it has been put together so The Bedford was undergoing speed adroitly that the fact that it has been trusla nt nineteen koots an hour | broken is difficult to delect.
aboon 4 o'clock in the morning when rock it was dark. After striking the the vessel immediately settled down and The fine old church of St Michael, is now lying with a list to port, there being Paternoster Row, which is crowded with forty-seven feet of water at the stern of memories and associations of the famous
tho ship.
Japanese divers have been strosk for Dick Whittington, is without a minister, some time but up to the present nano of and there seems to be a strong disinclin-the bodies of the victims, who were sil in
Movement:
BRITISH TRADE.
MORE INCREASES NOTIFIED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Alaiks) LONDON, September*3: The increase in imports in Angust
number,but-the-recruite have-been-below
taken up the matter and issued a proclama- tion. Therein he acknowledges the difficulty of getting money et present for the working of the local government, but adds that, notwithstanding this, he must have police, and the people.must be patriotic enough to find both the men and the money. This is for the general good and not for any privat gain. If, therefore, people are remiss now, there will be trouble in the futare; the
thing but that the spiritual must alse 1ing succeeded to the Presidency about eigh.ation to appoint one.. The previous in-No. 1 stokehold at the time of the disnetermounts to 23,619,413, and in exports calling out of more police means that in
be cultivated if we wish to develop a zational roul within a healthy body. The Pre-Raphaelites had W:U champion in Jons Ruszis. In a world
heart failure.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gambic and Wager were the names of MONDAY Next, mostly composed of Philistines ho
raised his powerful voice to explain themed at Clerkenwell Police Court
for street gambling, Sept. 12th.
motives and tas which these young,
It is stated in Dundee that the naval men had set before them in placing on base established there about a year ago is cpovase the visions conjured up by to be abandoned by the Admiralty. Wm. Powell, Ed,
long hours of patien: communing one
AUWKANDRA BUILDINGS
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Mísa Addie Leigh who was prevented with the other on the great subject of from reappearing at the Empire Cinemat ograph Theatre on Tuesday evening owing will appear without fail to-night
ན
Their names cumbent has left for a more acceptable have been recovered.
araMr Jones, Artificer Engineer: £6,524,183..
the future there will be less trouble and living, and having regard to the spares Ferguson, Chief Stoker; Taylor, Stoker
The latter is represented principally fewer robberies. Of course, saya a native congregation it is auggested the living shall P. O.; Hast, Stoker P., Wilson,
newspaper, all this will fall upon idle ears, be converted to a chaplaincy and the Lealing Stoker; Eastwood, 1st Class by ships, iron, steel and cotton wool. for it in wall known that whether there be Note The telegram does not mention police or not, the number of robberies are endowment used for some neody district in Stoker Goodall Till, Callaw, Andrews, greater London. The proposal is to suspend McGillygan, Cook, Forbague, Mackilbrick, the comparative period, but apparently the about the same, and the police do not MacDowell, Wright, A. B., and Cast, A. Binorenes represents the difference obtained appear to have any influence in the way of The Bedford was loading during the trials by a comparison with the figures for deterring thieves from carrying on their Sunday and work-day services entirely, and merely reserve out of the endowment with the Minotaur next and the Monmouth August luat year---ED. O.M, ]
regular and profitable work. sufficient to maintain the fabric as an inter. and Kont behind. There was not a very eating show place for strangers visiting great distance between them, only about a couple of cables' length, and immediately the Bodford struck the rock signals wore made to the other ships which immediately divortod their course and prevented farther disaster.
London.
"
It is not often that Emperor William allows himself to be aubbed, but, remarks
the inner meaning and esoteric teaching to indaposition, has now recovered and North Sea. The Imperial Yacht tota
** When
"BUSINESS.
M. A..P., he did on and occasion last summer.BRIGANDS INTERFERE WITH The Kaiser was on board the Hohenzollern, which way entering a German port on the of pictorial art. Their works, however,
pilot, and this authority posted himself at Kom Li-sha, in the Shun Tal district, is were even more eloquent than their
the wheel The Emperor, who regards famous for its silk. In this village a market Whos three Farnworth boys were himself as a perfect master of storing, is held every third, sixth and nineth of the spokesman's flow of rhetoric, while it being dealt with at Radcliffe, for robbing stationed himself in the vicinity of the pilot, Chinese month. Merchants repais thither must be admitted that they were also an orchard at Bingley, the magistrates and enggested giving him a hand at the on market days in order to buy silk, but wheel. The rough sen dog, not recognising wheroin thieves and rubbers abound. 'Con they have to pass through a certain district no mean bands at the pon themelerk, Colonel Hall, remarked:
the Emperor, turned round with a snarl sequently the merchants, are aelves. The movement in a certain lad man was allowed to give boys Are you pilot, or am I? he growled. robbed. During the last Chinese month frequently
sense has died with them, but it is his orchard, but we are now living in such his stateroom. But he thought botter of from the persons of those silk buyers!! a good toning when he caught them in Amazed, Wilhoim II. retired creatfallen to more than a thousand dollars were stolen. fan undoubted fact that their work & sentimental age that people dara nót do it, anil. In á few minutes returned to the Again on the twenty-sixth of the same there was a special CARD of 3.15 t. 11.30 ..enabled English art to break away from it."
bridge, and in great, humility laid a box and one man lost in silk the dreary traminels which had on- In questions replied to in the Paris. cigars beside the pilot, with the remark: and money early thousand dollara. This continued trouble hne led the awathed it after the pausing of the great Local Government Board, it is shown that
mentary Papers by the President of the "Thou art the pilot !"
bayers to hold a consultation and they have decided, as there is no protection, and school of painters whose lost represents the number of suicides in 1003 was 3,777,
HOW TO CURE A COLD. as they cannot got to the silk market by Grand Sacoeur of the celebrated Eenbrottes tive was the splendid colourist, J. W. M. or 107 por million of the estimated popals as careful as you cari, you will occsal other, and 20, produre have all of tion, as againat 3,121 in 1907, or 96 per
alonally take cold, and when you do, altogether, so Lava sille on TERER, and enabled it to reach the million. In 1908 the death rate from con- get a medicine of known roliability, delivery thereof. The people of the district their hands, for no customers appear to tako that has an established reputatiod and that freer, happie atmosphere which aur-sumption was 11.16 por 10,000 of the la esrtain, to siluet a quick cure. Buch's and village are in great distress and at estimated population, and 4.68 from other medicine is Oharaberisin's Cough Remedy, presont there appears to ho nothing but
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