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General Memoranda.
SATURDAY, December 23':-
12.30 1.n.Extraordinary General
Meeting of H.B. Jockey Club.
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MONDAY, December.25:-
Public Holiday.
years ago, and was, Immediately pirated all over Chiun In Hangchow alone no less than six pirated editions appeared. It was read by the whols body of China'a scholars, some of whom did not recognize ita dangerous tendency. Thus one of the Russian Ministers to Poking, visiting high Imperial Prince in Peking, found this book on his table, and asked if he had read it The Prince, replied that he had, and thought it was a very good pook The Russian Minister expres
xt his surprise, at this, and told the Prince that if the thought it was a good book he could surely not have divined its innor meaning. The Prince asked why, and the Minister said; Because, it is a history of the rise of the people, and once these ideas get ábroad, you must go. And so it has come to pass.
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY. H. M. ships Astres and Marlin arriv" ed in part to day.
Mr Bates the now chief constructor of the Royal Naval Dockyard, arrived to-day by the Devachi,
One of the daintiest wall caloudata to have seen is that sont out by Mears W.P. Loxley and Co., advertising Izal.
Dy Sun Yat-sen arrived by the English mail this morning. General Boner B. Lea, the well-known American writer on military subjects, also travelled in the same steamer.
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While a theatrical performance entitled "An Ideal Thief was being given in the Town Hall, High Wycombe, the residence of the authorses, Mira W. Parry, half a mile away, was burglariously entered, and money and.other goods stolen.
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all the charges.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911.
LEQİSLATIVE COUNCIL.
·HONGKONG'S NEW.FLAG.-
.
His Excelloney the Gatemor, Sir Fred» · erick Lugari, G.G.M.G., stc., presided at the musting of the Legislative Council hold the afternoon. There were also prenant :-
Hon. Mr C, Cavesti, Acting Colonial Becrutary.
Hon. Mr A Thomson, Colonial
Hon. Mr. ALABANTUR, Acting Attorney-Genartil.
Hon Mr W. CHATHAN, C.M. O., Direstor of Public Works,
Hon. Mr E R. HALLIYAX, Actin
Hon. Mr J. Baber Y Capt. Supt. of
Hon. Dr. Ho Kar, C.M.G Hon. He H. E. POLLOCK, K. C. Hon. Mr Wei Yox, 0.3,0. Hon. Mr E. A. HEVITT, Hon. Mr C. H. Rom. Hon. Mr E. OSBORAK, Mr Carros, (Clerk of Councils).
UNIVERSITY ORDINANCE. Council went into committee on the bi entitled au ordinance to further amend the
;
Hoo. Dr Eo Kai proposed an amendment sfeguarding the rights of present medical students at the Elougkong College of Medicine.
Hon. Mr Woi Yük seconded..
On resuming the Hon. Attorney General moved the third reading.
More Artistic Design. ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS.
Hongkong is to have a new flag, more *Enormous Sum 'Involved.
simple and artistic in design than the one which at prosent doch duty a the Colony's The hearing was begun the Magistracymblem. The resilation to change the this morning,- before. Mr E. A. Irving, ofting carue before the Legislative Couneli at the ease in which serious charges of forgery, the meeting this afternoon when the Hun,
C., were preferred against Abdool Rajack Colonial Secretary moved that is bo-Treasurer. Sany, young clerk formerly employed in Resolved, that the existing badge of the the International Bank. MrP.M. Hodgson, Colony is not only inartistic but it is From Desert F. D. Soon and Ch. Assistant Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, and unsuitable for reproduction especially on we have received a calendar issued by the Gohhing defonded. The charge age, etc., and risolved thereford that the were now amended by substitation and destin lid on the table, being both simpler Queen Tasarance Co, Ltd.
addition, and comprised a formidable series and more artistic, be substituted therufor."Reglatrar-Conerl of indictments, numbering 'over a dozen
The wow Bag is the blue ensign bearing and having references to bugo sunis of
on the right half a white shield on which Police, appears, in red, ancient Chinese seal money. Dofondant pleaded not guilty to
The additional charges having been read charactors the ideograph signifying " Hong- over to the defendant, Mr Hodgeen kong," the whole being surmounted by a proceeded to open the case. He stated crown, the emblem of authority. It is a that the charges on which the Crown now striking design and a decided intprovement intended to proceed were that beterson on the old flag which bord's rather poor Hon. Colonial Secretary, in moving the : July Slet and November 11th. the defan and indistinct view of the island, dan: forged eight cheques to the extent of 86,000 in the name of Li Po Chun, that resolution, said he begged to lay upon the batween November 1st and November 10th table for the inspection of members the Dr Richard's translation WALK polished by his writer, us is usual in claim for record on behalf of the he forged four cheques to the extent of present badge of the Colony It University ordinance, 1911.
Australian bridegroom of 99, has not gens | 817,000 in the use of Law Cheong Wan, somewhat alaborate design and apparently all translation into Chinese, and that unchallenged. In the registers of Green-that between the dates mentioned he intended to represant Hougkong and to writer was a Mr Tsai, a man with a wich, says, a écrrespondent, there is a obtained monies intending to defraud signify the excellent relations existing bo national reputation as
a writer of record of the marrings of John Cowper, the International Banking Corporation tween the British and Chinese in the nged 108 years, to a woman of 80. Naturally to the extent of 823,000 upon the Colony. On the one side there was a sky chiste and indeed brilliant Chinese. the couple were not together long, and the forged cheques 2, ér that оп various the like of which he had never seen in
Considerabis discussion took placo. His Excellency suggested that the In some sense then, Mr Tsai put the following year the burial of "Ould Cowper" dates between July 31st and Novem- Hongkong, with greenish Eills, on one of mutch to the fire that is now such as recorded. The rame register, too, ober 11th he falsified the books of which there was a staff which was supposed modification of the agrommeat should be
tains the birth in 1789 of a man who was blaze in Chinu. See how great a married at Richmond in 1870.
the Bank in respect of the monies to represent the flagstaff. The three top left to the eart of the univerity and the received and other sums Those said of the hills were all on a level and had onenart of the Hongkong College of Medicine, flame aspires, kindled by a spark of
This was accepted and the mover and The man who bowled the first ball for Mr. Hodgson, wore very serious. charges, counterpart In Victoria, the houses wero | grace! By a curious coincidence he England against an Australian team-charges punishable, with imprisonment represented by three whitewashed blocks. seconder of the amendment withdrew it.
**I repudiata", he added, Then came the harbour which was is at the present time again in Dg William Cadyo-still lives at Reigate, for life. Richard's employ, and is sitting side Surrey, Bazout out with the first team any statement that is made or that more like a river than a barbour. There
Hon Colonial Secretary soconded and Match on.R.C.C. Ground, H.K.C.C. by side with another fine writer who is in 1881; and he remembers seeing Lilly may be made that the defendant was a ship dying the whise ensign of
the annals of the bill was read a third time and passed. · is the dupe of somebody else in this a typo unknown in white, the famous bowlar, playing in putting the finishing touches on a lannels and tall hat. "And he also romear Case. It may be there wors others whe H. M. Nary. On the right of
BANK BILLA. Hon Colonial Secretary maved, the firs translation of Mr Norman Angell's berg when players wore pads on their wore eventually to benefit by these crimina tha varsel was a Chinese jank on which
waru sight persons black and red in face-reading of a bill entitled an ordinance te "The Great Illusion." As out randers elbows to protect them from the effects of acte, but when I have unfolded the extra- are probably aware this is the most swift bowling on bumpy ground, Hur, diary scheme and the claver acts por Sams greanish red colouring on the other provide for the issue by the Mercantile he says, "pitches were then not what they petrated by the defundant in this case side apparently represented Teintestsul Bank of India Limited of bille and notes
.I am sare your Worship will agree Then in the front were some cases, presum payable to bearer on demand. brilliant presentation of the case
that he alone was responsible for ably oplum chests, the top of which were against war that has ever been written;
The Colonial Office has been informed these defoleations and for the forged red and the other siden visible wore black that more than one white person witnessed cheques in respect of which he is charged and blue. In front of the chests word a the recent deliberate and unprovoked mur Proceeding. Mr. Hodgson stated that Chinese and a European. The Chinese
of the Rov. A. Douglas by it would be necessary for him to refer to was dressed in yellow while the European the second reading of a bill entitied an der
Enat Africa. several accounts in the Bank's lodgers had yellow trousers with a black swallow ordinance to amend the ordinance relating Portugaise official "in
ism in the hands The arst was that of Ii Po Chun, the ixiled coas The European was shaking to public health and buildings.
second that of Au Ching Hing, the third hands with his lele hand and the Chinese
Hon. Attorney General seconded "and of Sir Edward Grey, Secretary State for Foreign Afhirs. The official that of the Communications Bank, and the with his right. (Laughter.) Nor, by stood the bill was read a second time.
fourth that of Man Cheung Tuen. He
another European who was apparently not
AGAIN STATUTE LAWS, version of the incident declaren that the would sise, of course, have to refer to the
lu the running, because he was looking
Han. Colonial Secretary moved ba account of Isa Cheung Wan in connection kance at the other two. He might add ond reading of the bill entitled an The per has ever been mightier missionaries bad previously provoked a than the sword in China, and we conflict, necessitating the Beimrs of their with the other forged cheques
the artist who had preferred Onlinance to amend the Statute Laws (New m. These were forcibly recaptured by Dealing with the forged cheques for Li to retai anonymous had broken think it will continue to be so for the missionaries and natives from Likoma, Po Chan's account, which covered "the all the camos of painting. He thought / Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1911. many a long year yet. Though the but at the instance of the postmaster at first eight counts of the first charge, Mir that hon. members would agree that the BONGKONG, THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 1811 old-fashioned literati have had their Kanjo, the weapons were returned. Later Hodgson said that in order to prove that badge did not resemble the Colony. He bor
day and been dismissed, there is a the missionaries again landed, and the post the uheques ware forged by the defendant it was high time & change should be unde master, fearing another attack, summoned it would be necessary to go rather lengthily in the direction of greater simplicity and new band of writers and controverse party, to stop. On their refuel ha into the vary ingeniour and carefully pre- they should rid themselves of bo
At a meeting of the Finance Committee sialists rising in China whose influence fired, killing a member of the lesion party.pated scheme of the defendant's to cook the which did not represent the Colony. The bsequently held, Hon. Colonial Secretary Inte Colonial Secretary thought that Chi-presiding, the following minutes wer ledger by falso entries and bogus additiona, nose charsetors above which wore a crown. will be immeasureably great in the Professor Silvanus Thompson, sponk. He would further deal later on with the would be suitable and working upon that considered and passed - have been struck when studying the years that are yet to be if they have ing at a meating of the Incorporated enormous sums which passed through the Mr Gale, of the Public Works Department, but the ability and good fortune to Society of Musicians at the Steinway Hall hands of the defendant between August 1st had drawn up the design which had been the table. It was both simple. story of Japan with the great influ-strike out a golden meau whereby on "Some Experimente in Acoustics and the time of ale arrest and to the monies and effective. Is this body were the celaneous services, ilumination of publis ence which certain philosophers and
aid young people could hear lower potos placed in the various banks of the Chinese characters "Hongkong" with a buildings in connection with the coronations writers had in preparing the ground peace and prosperity, deep content than old people, and the animals at the Cefony in the name of the defendant crown above which showed that it was celebrations.
and a more widely difused standard Zoo, particularly cats, heard all sorts of ocurrent account and on deposit a Colony in China under the British for the restoration of the Mikade to of comfort can be brought to this vast sounds that we could not hear. He sccount. The rht falsification made by
Excellency His
desired that the his full powers of sovereignty," Long and densely populated land.
To represented the effect of the difference of defendant in the passbook of Li Po Chun resolution should be left over until next Kowloon-Canton railway working expenses
-the-pitch of notes-by displaying on a was on September 11th. he was not Thursday so that honourable members and before the nation was prepared to them we have to look for the uplift screen waved lines which had been traced charged with that, but it would have to the public should have an opportunity of of open line
criticising it. throw off the Baküft regime and send
ing of the great mass of the Chinese by the vibration of scand through an be dealt with in the evidence. Although the Tokugawas back into the obscurity people, uplifting that is in the educa- Instrument knownan the phonotogmph. By all the Torged cheques on La's account, resolution was allowed to stand over. of private life, the printing press was
the invention of gramophones, he said, amounting to B5,000, passed through the tional, social, moral and political they had been able to find that these waved account and were placed in the ledger to turning out books, pamphlets and
sense. A great task lies to their lines represented musical sounds as well as the debit of Li Po Chan, not one of them essays which slowly undermined the
hands: will they prove worthy of variations of pitch. While he could hardly was mentioned in the passbook made up
For stealing a dozen tonnis balls, the wonderful polity laid down by the
regard the gramophone as a musical instra the opportunity?
ment, except in certain circumstances, be by the defendant later on. All the great IVEYASU, a polity which he
looked upon it as 's valuable scientific passbooks had to be initialled by a property of Mr H. P. Phelips, a native was instrument. had intended to list cho Japanese.
European officer of the Bank before to-day sentenced to three months' imprison- being sent out to the austomer, and these ment and four hours stock. nation until the crack of doom. Many
initials had also been forged. So it came
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Public Holiday.
11 Cricket Match, H.R.C...
United Service on Cab's Ground,
WRDNEDAY, December 27
3p.m.-Auction of Crown Land at Public is irrefutable. To-day MR. TSA,
Works Department.
THURSDAY, December 28 :-
who kindled the blaze, is working side
10a.m.-Extraordinary Meeting of China by side with the man who is going to
Commercial Co., Ld.
help China to be more peace-loving than over, for in this case again it is mind that will preponderate against
FRIDAY, December 29:→→ -9 p.m.-Dock Danco,
The Chinx Mail
THE MIGHT OF THE PEN
All students of Far Eastern politica
"matter."
NEWS OF THE DAY.
ATS NOW."
The matter
COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE
CANCELLED.
of
that
toped that the council would decide
crown.
that
Hon Attorney General seconded and the
· ITEMS AT THE COURTS..
cooking the account. Bo defendant at once strike the constable.
act to work to cover the tracks by making the engineer, Krok Kwan, was guilty of gross negligence when he proved himself menace to life and valuable property. His false entry by crediting Li Po Chua's certificate was cancelled and before be can account by 85,000 on the 11th September
REUMATISM. MUSCULAR
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Bon. Colonial Treasurer seconded and the bill was read a first time.
FURZIO WEALTH,
Hon. Director. of Public Works moved"
Hoa. Colonial Treasurer seconded and
bill was reada sveond time
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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KOWLOOS-CANTON "BAILWAY.
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* INCIDENTAL EXPERTES,
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MEDICAL DEPARTMKYTS, - A sum of 8810 in aid of the vote Medical. Departmente for the following items
A-Staff, Other Charges, Health Officer of Port:-
OF $130 Coal, etc., for launch, Incidental expenses.
B.Hospitals and Asylums, Other Charged
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Lanstic Asylums >
Incidental
Provisions forenses,
patients, Victoris Hospital:--- Provisions for patients,
Total
POST OFFICE.
of these daring books were proscribed, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company some We have received from the agent of
to this--Li Po Chun's account in the pasa. "A man haring in his possession two many of their writers were condemned celluloid pocket calendar for the year
book is returned to him correct according Revolutionary badges was fined 859 and The enquiry was continued before Bir to his paying-in book and choque book bat ordered to be given 12 strokes with the to death; others to life-long imprison-1912, which draw attention to the "Big Edward Jones, Assistant Harbour Master, incorrect according to the Bank, ledger, "cat" for inciting the crowd to attack a ment. Still the work of preparing Four "operated by that Company,
st, the Marine Court this morning regard. This deception would of course keep Li Po constable at Yaumati. The constable the soil continued and when the time Professe Lowell announces the dis.ing the circumstances attending the gross Chun at arm's length and leave the cofan made an arrest, a crowd gathered and de- Analytical apparatus, etc.,
overy of frost on Mars. He says that carelessness, on the part of the engineer of dent free to deal with the bank's ledger in fandant shouted out to the dulcekers to was ripe the Shogunate was swept lose observation in a fortnight has afforded the Ilha Kom Joso. Mr Jones found that away and the MIKADO came by his emplots proof, and the old theory of the own, and largely through the help of polar caps in Mars being due to carbon.
liuzido is disoradited. | the pen.
EM.S. Royal Arthur, accompanying A precisely similar state of things has been going on in China, and torpedo boats destroyers Usk, Welland, aid Ribble, was expected at Colombo on to illustrate our point we cannot December 7 on her way to the China do better than quote the following Station, vin Singapore, whither the smaller LAWLESSNESS IN YAMCHOW. paragraphs from the National Review Vosole are bound. The three torpedo bost
destroyers are of the same build, and din An act of serious and destructive of Shanghai
Blaco 550 tons ench, with an indicated lawlerances has been reported from Yam Lá Po Chan's account and no correspond- "Amongst the great forces that have horse power of 700 and a speed of 21 chow prefecture. The old troops rossing money paid into the secount when he led to the present evolution in China koota an hour. They each carry four-12 against their general and execated him, re-credited the account, it being merely
pounders and two torpedo tubus, and were They then proceeded to elect another in a book entry. have been the booka translated from built at Yarrow the Ribble and Weiland foreign tongnea Wo might give a in 2004 and the Uak in 1903. long list of them, beginning with Mor-
rison's translation of the Bible a huud- red years ago. Then we might go on
fave to produce satisfactory testimonials for the examination.
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$610
go up again for a new examination havi in sums of 82,000 and $3,000, being IT is worse the slogs to take sty medicines internally for masinlar or
A sum of 2100 in aid of the vete Post" at least twelve months prior to the date of amounts he had drawn out by the chronic rheumatism. All that is needed is
forged cheques. Having credited one cau a free application of Chamberlain's Fain Office, A.-Hongkong Post Office, other
lunch. sum of $5,000, obviously he Balm. For sale by all Chemists and Booze.ebarges, coals, stores, sto, for steam must dobit somebody else if his ledger.pers Account was to be correct, because it must
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on the forged cheques was drawn out of
We are obliged to hold oor the bis stead. Meanwhile there were two routinder of this report until our next military loaders, neither of whom really issue. understood his, business, and neither of Holice has been given that application whom could control the troops under his to be made for ́s provisional order to charge. Things rapidly assumed dangerous orporate a new milway company to appearances, and about a week ago the old The Mutw. sonnect the East Lothian coalfeld with dope joined hands and rose. Strange to
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Western Civilization Compared," and are the colliery owners in Haddingtonshire, the usual course, but decided to set are Datch School. Mr E. G. Halton writes Joset Israels, the leader of the modern to the many works of Dr Young J, who are providing a guarantee fund of to the town, and then loot to their hearts with fine discrimination, posting out the
£10,000 to They 0,15 F.M. to 11.15 ... Allen, especially his "Wan Rwoh sad, this carry out the scheme, the content. This was done and thore want mastersidelecte as well as he great During the coming Festive Season, every house requires a good
achievements, particularly after hend Kung Pao, the very name and format alway tus been rendered fossary by the course no, ode to hinder- tia maid that ranched his middle period
The altern three banded houses were barnt to the illustrations chich, acompanhe wor which were pirated, honestly present undue delays in handling the ground before the fire was extinguished form an internating commentary, the pirated, by the reform party in Peking trafic. The sottime wit, probsbly be motoromo lonted to the extent of Wall in 1895. Amongst the many books opposed, by the North Britin and Cals between two and three hundred thousand James from the subject of chitical tady 20jlem" worth of property and money. - It by Mr. Malcolm G. Balanan, gir Jaines that have made, history in China
donian Railways, in China a
Is mid that they carried off two hundred of i loves the wide expanses of the norther theyoungest women and their they sattered moors and his reputation la securely satab | THLEPHONE X.. 185. front place must be given to Dr
us, it seemned good to the Richard's translation of Mackenzie's
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