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MEMO FOR MONDAY. 3p.m.-Auction of Crown Land at Public
Works Dupartment.
b. p.m.-Prize Olving by HE. the
Governor at the Italian Convent.
General Memoranda,
TORSDAY, December 19 :—.
3.46 p.m-Sanitary Board Meeting. Thursday, December 21 :—
2.30p.m.-Legislative Council Mesting,
ernor at St. Joseph's College.
HONDAY, December 26 :-
Public Holiday.
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THE
CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY!
Meras Moutrio and Co. izforins as
Ffa are informed that the next Variety Entertainment produced under the auspices of the Palace Theatre" B Austin, will be given st the Theatre Royal on Saturday, 13th January. Amongst those booked to appear az aparin and Ninkry in their Burlesque du ballet
by those who have charge of the army, It is said that the arsenals are very basy and that only good men who that the steamet by which Cowan's Comedy understand their work are employed. Ca are tmvelling has been delayout and These men are well paid and further the Company will not therefore he bars for Friday, the 29ad. The opening night receive three months wages in ad-will be announced later. vance. An immense amount of drilling is doing on, and young recruits are being trained ere their departure for the north. It is said that in the east of Canton many are being trained in the use of bombs, and also in the art of sapping and mining. They receive, moreover, not merely theoretical in-
Amended rules under the Stamp struction but are tested in practical disance relating to the stamping of bills exercises. The spirit of the time of exchange and renewals of policies of may be seen from the reply of ansurance have boon lasued by the Govor par-in-Council. These provide that billa regiment of recruits whom the people of exchange, and renewals of insurance waited to fete ere they departed for polices may be stamped with adhesive the north These men replied that revenue stamps over printed with the les the present time was not opportuners". E, except in the case of a conte stamps which shall be sold without over for eating and drinking. They were printing; receipts (except ships' receipts) to be off to the north to take and compradore orders may continue to centa receiph stamp: part in the capture of Peking. When he stamped with the
issued to the public; postage stamps shall this was accomplished, and they had not be ad for any revenue purpose after driven out the Manchus, then they Doc. Sist. 1911.
... would drink deeply, and they would moreover drink to the destruction of the "Yellow Dragon."
RÄMBIANG NOTES.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1911.
-zama akule as you went to, daunt cat THE BRITISH FLAGSHIP
Well, that's it, HON
We are Informed that H.3.8. Minotani
“But that Idn', all.. 8 o'clock comes the
When on Norimber 18th the Editor wrote me politely to the effort that owing Ziaging and Music in Quane's Hall. Var will be remissioned in the early spring to the printor's strike he was able to mar Spear from Tavistock it be ther an' for further service on the Chius Station, donl with my copy. I did not know that the performers in gwain to be proper and that H.1.8. Indomitable will not, as was in for three weeks' holiday from Wes' Country roka. So he sare ya sum; previously aanathcod relive her scribbling; neither did I realise how pushes if you don't yu'll be some rexed when Bagship on this station. Hongkong would muffer by the non-yu yers' bout th" appearance of my weekly lecubrations.
Walls on the subject of dialect, or the
MACAO DELIMITATION"
GEZANINGS.
(Continued.) Paper deserves wide publicity for its Specially Written for the "CHINA MALE", T extreme naïveta.,
Colombey
My assertion of the sovereignty of Fartugal oror the island of Lappa is
Ib-19-007
Your Most Obdient Syte.
Cook.
Gentleman
alone of the maid island, "which" was | first occupied by the Portuguese (Boise,
Now I am a modest isso, so you can transmogrification of the English tongue understand that, when I heard some of the to suit local exigencies, I think the follow- lamentations that went up I had to retire ing authentic letter pinted in a Ceylon to the more sequestered parts of Bowen road to hide my blushes.. Said une strong pillar of the Calony to my worthy and estoomed, Editor, whom he saw u gazing betractedly at the "Finest Site," "You
leave out the share-lists, roduce the Giving my best salama for Lady and had not on the historical evidences police intelligence to a minimum, boil The Honoured sir down the shipping, suppress the Legislative Council talkao-talkon, but spare, ob spazo.
I beg to inform you daar Sir I left your 315 years ago, but in further weighted a little space to Rambler." Another, and Honour service Took my pay all and I give by the fact that during all this long term. this time a member of the fair Sex, button- my debt what I want two owe Completely of proprietorship and in all matters con- holed the Editor at a dance-yes, even in in colombo: and one of my friend owing nested with the island the Chinese Govern those anxious strike times ha condescended some money Sum of Rs. 14 in Kandyment has failed both to exert and so attest to frivol-and confided to him that the Therefore I take a ticket to Kandy to her rights, if any, over the island. On the only thing she over road from wsec and to found of that man. That time the man contrary, Cina has repeatedly acknoededged weak and was-wall, Rambling Notes gone for his country so I abode two days the dominion of Portugal, debarred and Poor thing, how horrid of the nasty in Kandy: is very difficulty to Manage for interdicted the agency of Chinese oficiale, printors to deprive her of hor weekly dose my meals: so I have Expence money; all fiscal and otherwise, as may easily be con of mental pabulum. And of course the what I got in my hands, and I was suffering frmed by a reference to official despatchine. Editor kindly passed on these remarks to forar the Justtime and I think to come to But sir, to preclude the s-tablishment of a me, coupled with his regrets.
Colombo back: so I have some money la Chinese Customs station on the territory. we need not go the length of Of course as a patriotic and loyal sd-my hands about 75 oth-from that I took a of Lappa
ticket for Folgawella and got dawn: there maintaining the claims of Portugal to the herent of the China Mail I volunteered mys a few coinutes to take my fool. The island. We have bas to consider ite *Mir A. J. Balfour attained his 69th birth-services both at caso" and in the ma con-
day on November 12.
chino coom, and I am assured that my moral support combined with my active service did much to make life bearable to the Elitar during those trying times. But, ph, did'at I get into a mess! Fhad to H. E. the Governor has appointed Mr Tides type was so black and grimy, or that of compromise may decide to do in w. Robertson to be a surveyor of boilers of printer's ink could be so dreadfully sticky
engren
1!
Taking these facts into sideration, there would appear to be little hope of any conciliatory spirit being generated in the south, and it looks a though whatever the leaders
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The annual danes of the Staff of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, takes place on Friday, December 29th.
Dorindo Fietri, of Marathon race fame,
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con after one dam thief came quarrelling situation!
On 8th November,« 1871, the Colonial with ma and gave two three Hammering pass me in tiver. Took my luggage for bis Secretary notified the Commandant of the own place run aonely so I Emploring the Naval Station. “I am charged by H.E god and wake of myself came by a walk to The Goverane to request of you kindly to enlighten him on the following pointa. Colombo. This true up on my word.
Thorefors I humble beg to your hometr What were the orders, verbal or otherwise
arrival here of certain Chinone" gumboats which you roceived in connection with the clothes man and I wants master and ladys favarat the time an endeavour was fosted siming
But it is all over now and I am glad to think that the good, old China Mai, which is rapidly approaching its 70th birthday, is anca micre going as strong as ever.
Your Most Obedient Srts.
Anthaney Cook
RAMBLER
CORRESPONDENCE.
the north, that the South is determinanlicensed steamships under 60 seus burden, while as for the smudges of oil that to grand me a good charactor. I am a poor
mysteriously appeared on my ed to free itself for over from every
after ons strenuous evening in the machine Ever if master do me this favour. I derer 5 p.m.Prize Giving by H.E. the. Gov. vestige of the flag under which it bas hasretired from the world of eport. Among room-well," my appearance would have forget master names till my life -' 9.15 p.m.-avarick's concert at the suffered so much humiliation, and his reasons are the heavy strain of keeping done credit to a boiler-maker's apprentice
Theatre Royal.,
from the supporters of which it re-in training and the neocenity of devoting who plays the gamu seriously." ceived very scant recognition. But more time to his business, but perhaps the chief causis that he does not wish to loss all this notwithstanding, the South his reputation as a champion runner, can not stand by itself. We cannot
The British steamer Bonverlich, on.ber have a divided China; that would be
way from Kobe to Yokohama, rescued two the indst egregious folly. What is to shipwrecked Japanese in the Ki Channel HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DEçuraza 16, 1911. be exit from the dilemma? The en the 9th June, last. The mon having South must the end fall into line licen brought to Yokohama, Governor Safa with the rest of the empire or crumblesported, the particulars to the Tokyo overnment. Captain David T. Cally, of to pieces.
the Benverlich, has now been decorated by the Imperial-Bureau of Decorations with the Medal of the Red Ribbon in recognition of chivalrous service rendered in spite of
The China Mail
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THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH.
Whilst the two parties in the Clin- ese upheaval are resting and, we
NEWS OF THE DAY.
H. M. tog Atks left Hongkong for the heavy seas sweeping his vessel at the
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at the establishment of a customs station, at Ribeira Grande on the island of Lagpa, | ne woll as what precautions you did adopo in respect of the mme raders towards resisting any act of hostility on the part of the said gunboata
"By order of H. The Governor T NATA the bonour to inform you that His
THE GUN INCIDENT AT SHAMEEN. Excellency has just received a dospatal
from the Viceroy of Canton in which the latter notifies that owing to the reclamation" Wasn't it a strange coincidence that
(To the Editor of the "CHINA Man") work now being carried out on the island on the very day the King Emperor an
onneed the change of the capital of India. Sirin your issue of 14th inst you of Engio, for the construction of revenue from Calcatta to Delhi, that the F. and have a very garbled account concerning an buildings, the removal of the revere liner Delhi, so well known in theas waters, attempt to carry of Gun lent to the station cannot be undertaken before two or should run around near Caps Spartel on Shamcen Defence Corps stationed at the three months. The friendly relations which the Morocco coast, and what is more curious, British Consulate. The dabilx you publish link His Excellency with the Viceroy that the Princess Rogal of England, her are most inaccurate, and I would ask you prompt him not to insist on the removal husband and dightors should be on beard, to immediately contradict them. The before the required period, but you are It is not given to all royal Princesses to attempt utterly failed inasmuch as the Gun sdrised to keep the revente vessels as close“- be shipwrecked and then scramble ashore never left the Consular Compound.ns possible to the headland of Ribeira in their nighties. Such an experienca as remain, Sir, Your faithfully.
tho Princesses Alexandra and Wand have
gone through this week put the adventures
of the Princesses of Hip Christian And-
We understand that the Pacific Mailersen's Fairy Tales completely to the blush. If the Chinese papers circulating in E. the Governor has given bis Steamship Company has purchased from They saw life with a vengaance. Kwantang may be considered a mirror assent, in the name and on behalf of E. M. to R. 3, S. P. Co. the well-known Weet
or no hope of petice on any other con- dition than the absolute expulsion of the Mancinis, and the establishnient
Irdian liner Nile, which will take the
A. DURAND HOGG. Chairman, Shameon Municipal Council
KOVORACK.
Grande for only at this point will His Excellency issue icatructions to ensure their security from the guns of the Barre Fort. So wrote to Protector of th Chiness to the Superintendant of th revenue station at Kong Pak Tan on th Jandnry 1872. A later Zenpatch of 10th May 1872 runs ---I beg to inform you that the During my enforced idleness many good i
The programme of the concert to be three months grace for the femoral of the of popular feeling, then there is little the King, to the Ordinance to consolidate place of the lost Asia. The gross ton stories have reached me, among them-the
and amend the law relating to Companies.nage of the Nile is 5,888, hee length 420 following-second-class stoker was given by Koromack, the brilliant young revenue station from Rihairs Grinde to Theatre i-oyal ca Bugio, which was requested by the Viceroy, ft; breadth, 52 feet; depth 33.8, with a brought before the Commanding Oficer of violinist, at tho A fine of $60 was imposed, at the speed of 17 knots, and horse-power of the Devonport naval barracks on a charge Thursday next, is full of good things, has lapsed, besides which you assured me Magistrsey this morting, oss native for 10,000. The Nile has, a promenade dock of insubordination. His insubordination Two of the numbers will be especially that the removal would be effected on 1st of a thorough-going republic. The being in possession of opium. Another 217 ft in length. She is fitted with wire took the form of resistance to being the fino items-De Beriot's 8th Concerto, May. This date has gone by and, your other day we read an appeal to arms native was sentenced to six weeks' imprison-less telegraphy and carries 125 first class, 26 troduced to the swimming-bath. Asked to be played in the first part with promise is still unfulfilled. I shall be glad second and 308 steerage passengers. She what he had to say for himself, the youth full orchestral accompaniment; and Grieg's to learn the reason of this delay and trust which referred to the present situation.ment for stealing some clothing.
should prove a very popular boat.
replied:"Sir I've only bin in the Navy Allegro Molto (Sonata in C Minor, you will enazely with the orders received The call was for a fight to the very
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three days. The first day the doctor dmaid for piano and violin, to be given in them the ooroy and shift to Bugio as
soon as posible. finish. It was pointed out that it
six of my treth. The second day I wa* second part by Koversck and Me Donman | On 25th August, 1870, th would be impossible for the present
vaccinated. And the third day the patty Füller. Mra A, B, Moulder will also Macao notified the Viceroy of the Twa Kwangs that a Chinammn named. Chiang ofeer he says, Come along, we're 's-goin'
contribute vocal numbers,"
A | Foo-was detained hers in the colonial generation to meet the Shades of the
to drown yeri" Poor youth no wonder
gaol for having shot at a squad of police departed in the land of the Hereafter
he was fed up.
who had been detailed to Lappa in sarch of a criminal. – Details of the entprit's trial if cow there was B compromise, for
were forwarded on to the Viceroy who was these heroes had willingly encrificed
During October 4590 rate were des troyed in ships and warehouses in the docks of the Port of London. This makes total of 688,467 exterminated since the work was first undertaken ten years ago.
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A rate of 2fd.. in the pound has been
of a republic. If, therefore, there were meet the claims, amounting to £5000,"for
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"JOBS" GODS BEHEADED
A Significant Canton Demonstration.
It is evident that the new spirit among
the Chinese will have far-reaching efecte,
The only excitement this week so far na Hongkong is concerned was the non-ap-
A recent Pross noties maid of Kovorack: He has a delicate feeling for tone and for melody, and the pieces choson were excellently adapted to display this to
informed that the prisoner would be de
of
their lives on behalf of the cause and 1-vied on the county of Carmarthand if a demonstration which took place at pearance of Dr. Sun Yat Sen on the Gexite greatest advantage. He is capable, livered upon application, ATONA
| teq; of those pyrotechnica, which the Following the typhoon of Bird Septem
bar 1874, it was the Macan Government
and great was the disappointment when frithese days, as the playing of the Mazurka pairing the resultant ravages, barying the
amigo to property and, loss of"roodia Canton yesterday morning can be taken as man Mail. Damo Rumour aid he was there public have come to expect from virtuosi alone ibat shouldered all the work of co-
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to be a compromise" now, and things during the recent railway strike riots st were patched up, what sort of treat- Llanelly. ment would this be considered by the men who had given their lives for the
made to the railway question; also to
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At the riboting of the Sanitary Board on Tuesday afternoon á "lotter from
is to be presented.
an index to what the future has in store, the day may not be very far distant when it turned out that she was lying as usual. (Musin) proved, and is altogether an artist dead, etc, d mach of the superstition evinced by the
Business continuos very bad in Hong- Chinese people will altogether dis out.
kong and throughout China. I am glad I We learn that at about 10 o'clock yester am not a banker these days. The load
SERIOUS SIDE OF A COLD.
nil. minor you know that of all the
who may, and probably will, o far. From the foregoing cullings it would appear that for the last 300 years and more Portugal wielded an uninterrupted and exclusive authority over the island of Lap pa, despite the periodic attempts of Chins to intrude. China will find it a very hard cause: Becondly, there was a re- Government relative to the appointment day morning a body of the "Ready to Die' which the banks Face" carrying just at
nut to crack if naked how," and on what Brigade, nambering about 40 men, who present must be truly enormous, for ference to the unreliability of the pro- of Colonel J. M. Irwin, Principal Medical Bad only countly serived from the Suralta, godorns are piling up with stuif that cat-D. monta colas are by far the most pisasihfs grounds, she proposes to uphold Touching the mises of the Manchus Allusion was Citicor, as a member of the Sanitary Board entered what is popularly known as the not ba dulivered, and all those goods have drugerous? It is not the cold itself that her claints of ownership.
that it citon leads to. Most of these are land to the Fathers of San Paulo. I may Templo of Horrors in Wai On Street (the to be financed some how or other. How is you need to four, but the serious diseases, the above-mentioned grunt of the wact of Chinese name of the temple is Shing Won will all end, goodness only knows: but the known as germ discasos. Pasumin and say that I have met with the sime puzzled tlie question of the opening of a Par- liament, and these were taken as The Turkey Hop" is the latest Mew) and knocked the heads off all the once some sort of stable government in consumption are among them. Why not quiety among almost all the forsiga his- care your cold while you car? For sale by it has even been cons goed in the chront- samples of what might be expected. trimph of Americnu elegaafe. “It is a "joss gods." Crowds of Chinese watched determined upon the botter. for Chinu and take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and trians of Macao, and if I remember aright
most hopeful feelings || when promises were made as to the dance sporially designed to celebrate the the men ut their work of destruction the foreign communities. Down bere in all Chemista and Storskespers
conclusion of dinner, and its charms are and soon the people were carrying the South I must pay future. Lastly, the good faiths of reported to have taken the fancy of fashion, the headiens Siguros through the wirecta, prevail that the outcome of the Revelation people that their will be nothing but good. I hope the YOAN BEI KAI was questioned in able. New York so completely that today shouting to the very severe language. His treachery everybody, there who is snybody turkey-gods were soles They also jeered Optimista will win out, though I can't holy in the past was recalled. "He sold hops. not to do so is in proclaim the jos-stick sell-za and the women who thinking their hopes run a little bit
yourself an outsider, This ornitholegial bad come to worship at the temple. The high.
the Emperor KWANG Hsu, though prancing is a phase of the most recent Reidy to Die" men took about a quarter
very kindly treated by the latter. Ho development of the art of dining of an hour to behand the josses, which We shall soon be in the thick of com- is now in a position-of trust, but if he in New York. One of the Vand cumbered about three or four hundred, memorative dinamis in Hongkong. The betrayed one who trusted him in the erbilts is the responsible mover. Instead Ou leaving they told the temple-koopers Uld Carthusians have already celebrated;
oles of China,
CLARETS.
Our Stock of Clarets is unequalled and our prices will be
VICTORIA THEATRE past, what guarantee is there that he has the dinner and the ball at the same
of having dinner and a bill after it, one that they intended fosh all the jussa bus i wonder if I am in time to bring the found most reasonable. Our Clarets are from the World famous in the city The Brigade were all atmad following to the notice of West Country house of Hanappier & Co. of Bordeaux. From Vin Ordinaire to will not betray others? In any case time. After each course one gets up and with automatie pistols, and not a word of folk. It is an invitation to a grand jam he is a traitor to the Chinese, of whore be a dance, and thun, with everything dimpprobation was uttered by the on-boree given in London during October, and the finest obtainable after Dinner Clarets at the
atisfactorily Bakon down to the amellest lookora, who, on the contrary, were not reads as follows:-
DES" VŒŒUX ROAD CENTRAL.
15 M to 8.45 7.M. AND
20-NIGET |
lowest
9.15 r.. to 11.15 r.. race he is, and therefore he is not to compar, one sits down again to what slow to express their approval at the Didn't'eo knaw.. then, us. Was Country prices possible. All these famous Clarets, are kept in Stock in
TO-NIGHT trasted, and his offer are to be re- The great film showing oventa in Tripoli jected."
cos Dext. So the dinner proooods Hill demolition of the idole.
voke in Lahoo w haven our fraway with dessert comes the climax the Tur- The Temple of Horrors brought in a good on. Zaturday, October 28th? Wall, ue hơ,
ky
Bottles, half Bottles and quarter Bottles
Hop.** 1 he guests take a few turns suaual revenise to the late authorities, then, sure. The toy le Regenter Fall Five Per Cent. Discount Allowed
during the Turko-Italian War. In view of such plain speaking it fe Investon of fripoli by the Italiane Troops quite hopeless, we should imagine, to
Landing, O
with a series of short," "whulling steps-aug people seem rapprove of the destruction cum tu, cus ev'rybuddy what ya kumwed Jalinan Marching to Attack the Turks, expect much, if anything, in the way gostive of the walk of a turkey, after a good of the idols, arguing that thousands of doun lang wat's up in Lunoon. Il be ther's
dullars were needlessly wasted every your fur ware by women on joss-sticka noul paper--
in the manne of the waltz, and then and some of its receipts also went to sid aan' ther 'I bo dran tays like. Fust wan proed in on los down the ball-room certain bospital. While this is so, all the at 4.4, next 5,40, third 0,30, as yu better
Camping in lid Donezt
Miss DAISY LUNDY "PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO
IN OLASSICAL SELECTIONE
HATINERS
SATURDAYS SUNDAYS,
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for it a prepared for and determined
to die rather than betray the trust that
WHOOPING COUGH.
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expectation any by giving Clumber lain. Cough Tunedy it has been used in many quidemics of this diargas with par foot success For sale by all Chemists and Storekeepers
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