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Staff, will embark at Kowloon in the Vie oris at 43 am
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la barrowed money from him
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After inspecting the Guard the Mem-and also from the Wing Hing climate. We view life through this bore of the Executive, and Legislative personal borrowings smound to 8500, and medium, and it is a medium which, Councils and the Member of the Comalara tine defendant made an arrand
mittester welcome Hu Excellency will ment and gaya two promissory notes for like a translucent screen, lets through { is presented to His Excellancy Se Henry 8250. The firm mada certain adradom to some rays, rejects some, and absorbed Lady May,”-
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MEMOS FOR TOMORROW..
3.30 p.m.-General Meeting of Hong,
"Kong General Chamber of Commeres. 9.15 p.m.-Organ Recital at St. John's
Cathedral.
General Memoranda.
THURSDAY, July
Declaration of Independence-U.S.A. H. E. the Governor, Sir Henry Mar Lacy May and family due to arrive. Reception to Sir Henry May is City
"Hall."
9.15 p.m.-Philharmonic Concert in City
SATURDAY, „July
Princess Victoria's birthday (1868). 3.30 p.m.--Gymkhana.
SUNDAY, July 7:-
am.-Excursion to Macao,
The China Mail
Hongkong, Trisnat, Joy 2, 1912.
MR BALFOUR ON
LITERATURE.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD. Tus-word-politics" Sir, cuid Mr
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Bugtong, April 18, 1907
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INEXPENSIVE
WASHING
A chait procession will then be formed - and will proceed, vis, Padder, 8- Stroof And queenwood lost City Eat where addresses of walcom will be presented.
At the termination of these proceedings
the procession will be continued to the
Connell Chamber where at II 'dock the Oaths will be administered bo Hr Excel. leney by His Honour the Chiel Justice und a further salue of 17 guns will be
red
The route from Blake Pier to City Hall and to Council Chamber will be lined
with troons.
The procession will then proceed toi Government House. Routs to be lined with police.
we live today is, according to Mr BALFOUR," full of undress, and difficulty. Na doubt it always has been to those who think, and still more to those who feel, but perhaps we are more conscious of it and more concerned with it than we used to be We are all perplexed with the many riddles of the painful earth, and our perplexity is reflected in our literature. Nevertheless, the media itself is largely of our own
At 3.30 pm. Hin. Excellency at Lady creation; and though it may not be ray with their family and sind and given to all of us to change its re-necompanied by the Colonial Secretary fractive character trom the pitch of proceed by special tram to the Peak,
and thence to Mountain Lodge, sudness and perplexity to that of cheerfulness and liope, yet it is, as Mr BALFOUR pointed out, the special function and privilege of literature and of other kindred forms of creative art so modify the literary and sthetic climate that, in due course, "the public is made by the force of
genius to accept some dew mode of as delivered in London on the lit July. "expression, some new ideal of art,
some living change in the perpetually
•art
`NEWS OF THE DAY.
Torpedo-boat (136 will leave for the West River to-morrow.
The German Mail of the 1st May
We have boen informed that Hong. kong has declared Hoihow to be infected with cholera.
After hicing avldeson from both sides, his Lor
SPORTING,
Gymkhana Notes.
water filzairin.
The City
in moving the resolutio 1881 there was a rather
Shero", was) sarding less
aald lose
The outside course, was again open this morning when several ponies were gat in that year
“and 'sent home, th foped. The going was on the heavy side, was wide but the turf is in good sondition
Scuretary of State and Deffard did good time, 2.16.2, last half promptly acted on this with thr 1.07 last quarter 33.2, but did not that Profesor Simpson was to move a freely as he used Biting gether with n wanit ham, Proudfoot and Black Diamond slays it was not known how went woll, bus Daisy performance was transmitted from rats to not good. Snow Glory was tratting very fessor Simpson very soon Tame.
wherever infected rats wer The following were the times taken occured within Proudfoot and Black Diamond, one Thers ware two mile 2:16.5, Tast three quarters 1.43.0 house rat and last quarter B
were caught Deford, one mile 2.18.2 Fast half 107, but the proportie
Pas very much Last quarter 92.2
Daisy, one mile 2:21, last quarter 38, House rate. Sovingtoti, one mile. 2.27. last quarter
Joy. It last mile, 2, 1.18.8, 1.57.2 2.30.9, last quarter 31.1.
Exta of Time, furlongs 30, last quet ter 30
Birlingham, oue malle, 38, 1.19, 1.47.2, 2:20.3, luá quarter 921
Merry Scot, one mile last three-quar ters, 38, 1.19, 1.15.8, last quarter 13.3.
Billiards.
The last game in connection with the third round of the Royal Engineers NOU Mass handicap resulted in a wis for Bond (awes 190) who defeated-Mis (ower 50) by 33 paints, The draw for the dagtes Carpenter (owen 90). Giddy (owes 00), Bond (owes 120) v. Stewart (coin 70).
Lawn Bowls."
altogether cont used ou
thought, therefore, that vivet its attention more espec
drains. Mt. Chadwick in 1902 stated amongst other was strongly of opinion, that should be opened up. He thought that in order to do that engineering difficulty wield be.
and it would not be really, Miz Carter added that a chart cases of plague which he had, showed that cases had chiefs in parts of the city when the water drabas were usually dry. He thought the work of opening up the drains need not be an omens,cs one it allowed to continua over a number of any, cata years: $20,000 to £30,000 would prob-premises aoly go a tery long way towards, carrying
was convincent rtain symaker could
bald not have naked.
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A bricklayer was killed yesterday by living process of the human spirit" falling from seaffold in a building in which
This is pre-eminently the work of he was working. genius in the domain of literature and But according to M BALFOUE it is not always the men of greatest genius who begin to effect the trans formation. Their work is pioneer à coolie was found hanging yesterday work and is often overlooked and from a beam in new and occupied
building in Bridges Street Itu obrisemi-cal is neglected, overshadowed as it were by a case of suicide. - PICKWICK, comprises in itself a
out the work. It seemed a sad reflection the must number of rats deposited per difficult study of no inconsiderable by the greater work of greater inen
that if they had spent this sum during | win who come after them and travel with- A woman living at 18 Squre. Street magnitude." Mr BALTUUR, Bays a
the last ten years the work would now
Mr. Bowley, By the perm mior CE-the London contemporary, said the same which they have laboriously made, been indicted by four men. Four arrests. out let or hindrance along the roads found in an unconscious condition, | yesterday, auföring from stabs wid to have.
be complete
Bourd, asked whether any rade ware found thing recently of Literature in his
A match for spoons between s Scottish Mr. Bowley, in secanding the motion, the premises during the creasing "You will constantly find that the have been made by the police.
four from the Civil Service and a simile! said he thought all were agreed that Mrpentions and the removal of clings? interesting and suggestive speech at
Carter had made out a case for inquiry The Medical Officer, said he could not **beginners of a "great literary or
number from the Police took place yester So long as the present system of drainy He did not regard this as a material the Royal Literary Fund dinner; and, «artistic movement are far inferior to
We are asked to inentin that the day afternoon on the Police Green, andage continued the storm-water drains point, for cats did not wait, wher a ceil- sluce one of the topics selected by their successore." This rather on, las arranged a special menu for points Scores
management of the Station Hotel, Kow-resulted in win for the Police by six would form a happy hunting ground for
ing was being pulled down, to be caught. Mr BALFOUR for comment was the hard saying as it stands, especially if Saturday, July 6th, when the Band of value of the cheerful note in literature,.!
it be true, as Mr BALFOUR adds, that 2001 Punjabi will play in the gardens J Mackay- we need offer no apology for citing without the labour of these forgotten during and after dinner. Mr Pickwick in illustration. Per pioneers in breaking new and un- haps no writer in our language has added more to the innocent gaiety of his own and succeeding generations than DICKENS did. It is more for
CRETONNES his abundant pathos that we love
NEW AND EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS.
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CURTAINS.
BRISE BISE
&. VITRAGE
BLINDS.
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FURNISHING DEPARTMENT.
him. The latter scarcely rings so true as the former. It was rather of
Advices from Japan state that the
explored ground their greater suc- Nippon Yusen Kaisha is determined to tight "cessors would never have obtained to the last the competition started by the the deserved rame which has ex- British India Steamship Company and will shrined them in the love of add two steamers, which men recently posterity. The word "greater making a total of seven steamers, and will seems to be here used in rather an out down the freight on goods fmm. Eike, ambiguous sense. It may apply either
|bought in England, to the Indian line,
bis own age than aniversal as his to the gening which achieves the result
The Garrison Staff Meas held another humour was. We are not sure, in-or to the result which is achieved. of their popular whist drives on "Friday deed, that even the bumour of The achievement of the successor may 1st Mrs Jacobs; 2nd Mrs Giddy: 3rd. Mas evening. The prize winners wen-Ladies, DICKENS comes up to the high have been great because the greater Hammond; ith Mrs Mulhall, 6th Mrs standard which Mr BALFOUR sets up genius of the pioneer may have hewed Higgins. Hidden Number, Mr Spiers for the cheerful note in literature out the road which his successor only Bochy prize, Mrs Ackroyd; 'Gests Zabr "What I ask, from. literature
mainly" he said, "is that "ini has to follow. But whether the 4th Mr Rudd; 5th Mr Thomas: 6th Mr. world which is full of sadness and genius of the successor is greater or Giddy, Booty prize, Mr Beaumont.
not is a question largely determined by what we call accident only because
Powney, fnd Mr Muir; Sed Mit Jackson;
At the Marios. Magistrate Court this
difficulty, in which you go through "a day's stress and come back from "your work weary, you should find we do not know the laws which go-morning two cargu, beminen, were each vern the appearance of genius in the fined on the evidence of Lance-Sergeant "in literature something which world. Firnday, for example, has Lantgun for anchoring their loss in
presenta life, which is true, in the t
perhaps had no successor greater than prohibited place sast of the Staley Buoy highest scase of truth, to what is ar himself, although the achievements of on the 30th at Two men who made last what is imagined to be true, but electrical engineering based on Iris
their cargo beats to the s.. Hongkong
which does chicorns."
while he was under way yesterday ad Now, initial researches are infinitely greater misted the offences and bach Mid fine DICKENS certainly does cheer us, but in volume than any accomplished by of 825 it may
be questioned whether the him. Shakespeare, again, could not cheerfulness he spires is really de have been what he was had he lived rived from life as we know it or as an
in the age of Piers Plowman, But
TEZ GARAGE CASE.
The third party wemont in, which UUA Mohideen is claiming agained the Cornation
CIVIL SERVICE..
M. McIvor R-Fenton
J. Irving (skip)
POLICE W. Gerrard J. Grest SJ. Stuart
D. McHardy
(skip)
*Tennis,
MA BOWLET'S RESOLUTIONS,
MF BL. Bowley moved
THE REMOVAL OF CEILINGS
correspondencewes the removal
A good dust (1) That in the opinion of this Board the withholding from the full before the Board relative Board of the letter of the 1st May, 1912. of ceilings at Nos. 88 and 00, addressed to the Secretary of the Board Street
Further correspon by a house owner, requesting reconsidera-
·HINE TO. EXTE
Correspondened; posted meros of ret circolar advised bolted leaving the males
themselv
tion by the full Board of the application relative for the removal of for exemption, from removal of the top Berlin Foundling House,
Streat A suggestion has come from a Singapory. Low ceilings of Nos. 88 and 20, Welling- Tennis Club, says the N. C. Daily News, tot Street, was irregular and improper that Shanghai should and a representative) That this Board considers that the destruction or removal of any lawful tom text spring to the Straits Nothing, ceiling a partition, which can be readily of course, has yet been decided, but if the and effectively cleansed and disinfected suggestion is favourably received here the cn both sides without destruction of cu Singapore people are prepared to negotistemoval is an unjustifiable interference singles and doubles. The matter is now and amnge a series of contests both for will private property and throws unneces the Board ' motico being discussed and a definite coures should shortly be agreed on
KWANGTUNG NEWS.
ter -out arou
-- It was stated
sary expenses on the Revenue of the Colony,
† Law.rats The Fresident said with regard to the first resolution it was felt the in future | The spplication for exemption should be sub- mitted to the Board M
Mr.Bowley said that after the Cit It ha well known that avery your floods
a statement it was unnecessary do su enormous amount of damage to the thing to proboud with the first resol Titik country in Chips, and at the me tice and he understood that in future if y
GRAPPLINOIS ETH THE-PROBLEN.
sweppaway a good many lives. Eitherto the similar correspondence combed, the authoritise have done little to counteract papore would be laid before the Board the evil, probably bonuse they have not the earliest possible meeting. Under the clearly man what could be done. Ita by law they stood before they pears tow that a sumber of fax-ageing, mondod, when a district was declare Chinese, who are mostly from Hongkong infected the officers of the Board were have onedived
ved the possibility that by required to remove the bailings. The machiny they may be able
able try, opusiberast
the floods on the one hand, and on the mo other, may be able to irrigate the land, when the sensors are dry. Anyway, thấg Zam! been
terested
regathering of those in-
proposal, and they baro decided thas the matter shall be carefully Sonaldared
any man ever has known it Flist was not the intellectual stir of the THE CHINA MAIL grotesque than cal, mther caricature speare and his works; it was the
characters are for the most part rutier Elizabethan age that produced Shake Garage and lay Na Po a declaration that i discover what they will do, for the words-
TYPHOON
MAP and
GUIDE
oubles one to locate the centre
than portraits The Pocksniffe, the
comparable genius that pati Podsnaps the Cliadbands, them. Be this as it may, howeve Micawber, and all the rest of the BALYOU is no doubt right i immortals are types rather than chers not to forget the forerunn
cers. They are bapa an ad-thups froar this point
abstract generalized sense, but not in cherish a kindly feeling over the sense of e rete Indi dual reality. Impressionists and Futurists
That is why they
his entitled to a contribution towards the ad doc'tscom bo amount of judgment obtained against homore, that taery will be availed
others for $2000, odd, and also canals, through which
hand motor
water can be driven, and water may be lod from the river,
dryland water is needisik
they will have the more
have the tena pern, and that they
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