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After a long life spent trafficking up and down the sex, full of adventures in out of the way tools and corners of the earth. here is lying quietly in Chatham-aronue, Hoxton, a grey-bearded man of nearly 80 named William Burke.
A BALLAD OF BLAKE PIER.
[DY "THE GRUMBLER."]
I strolled along the Harbour side,
The Prays of Hongkong, And gazed upon the Great Unwashed,
A weird and motley throng..
They sprawled across the pavement,
And they blocked the public way z They didn't seem to mind the dirt
In which they calmly lay?
To a "Star" man Mr Burke realledAnd who are these?" I asked a friend,
some of the memories of his earlier days.
I was reading, in The Stara day or two ngo," he said, something about the Into Nir Elward Sassoon, and the death duries on his property. That reminded ne of the time when I was in the employ
UNDER the Patronage of His Ex. of the Sassoon family, in the ephem trade.
CELLENCY THX GOVERNOR AND
Lady May.
**I was ye smart young fellow then, about 24 spil hat's 03 years ago. For two senta prepny 14 had bear third engineer A BAZAAR and FANCY FETE will
held (by kind permission of Conman on the James Hartley, a 400-ton ship Gal and livers Hongkong Volunteerbunging to the West Hartlepool Steam Corps) on the Volunteer Parade Ground. Navigation Company.
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HE PUBLIC is hereby notified that in THE & herche La prosim
HOT BREAKFASTS and other leal and Refreshments may be obtained by passin gera travelling by the Through Expres Trains leaving owlsen for Casten daily at 8.15 art, and 2.401, 5, and from Canton to Kowloon the 7.45 and 2.50 1.16. Imins.
By Order,
By Order.
H. P. WINSLOW, Manager,
British Section, Canton-Kowloon Railway.
THE ADMINISTRATION,
Chinese Section. Canton-Kowloon Railway. Kowloon, October 17, 1912.
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Wo traded between Calcutta and Hong- kong with opium, and I can tell you, it was no armchair business, with those wicked-looking Chinese junks hawking around us.
And do they own the place?"
He pitied much my ignorance,
I saw it in his face,—
You evidently do not know," My friend replied with scorn, *** That these are British Citizens,
And some of them free-barn.
"They toif not neither do they spin, yet I like them much, Because they give each landing-stage
The Oriental touch!
Some lio full-length upon the seats, Some squst upon their baunchos, Expectorating, as they watch
The sampras, junts, and launcher." "But, surely, tlist is not allowed,
In this, a British Port 7"* My friend, with ill-disguised contempt,
Said:
"Nothing of the sort!
"With rights of private citizens
You cannot interfere!"
Monopolize Blike Pier!
"Sometimes wo used to lie in Calcutta Barbour for weeks, waiting for the opium-And that is why the coolie-char tu come down by bullock cart from Patos and Bouare Then we would get ander way for Penang, Singapore, and Hongkong,
OUTPACING THE PIRATEN,
CANTON MISSION NOTES.
A dormitory with provision for a hur
*The bulk of our cargo was, as a rule for the latter place, and it was in the Straits of Malacca and off the Chinese constdred beds, but with funda provided by that we can most risk from the pirates,
Nasty-locking craft they were, painted with f any figures. But, as a rule, we were too fast for them, and they were scared of attacking us
ן
Chinese frictidy of the institution, is near. ing completion. at the Canton Christian College. This is the third building of its kind'arocted by Chinese subscriptions, and
a kum of 95,000 Max. is in hand for *
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A PAIR OF
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WILL BE PRESENTED IT
fourth. Another addition to the College THE HONGKONG You see, on the James Harticy w buildings to be made, Mrr McCormick, carried a big 20-pounder on the foc'ste top of Chicago, haring given funds för a rest. atwa 4-pounders as the poop, na well as a
an expert gander. Then our after-aloon as an armoury of rifles and ammunition, and they knew that.
"J
Their only weapons were a kind of
| boarding piks, a bamboo pole tipped with
a spear head, and they are not much good against powder and shot.
But the smaller ships using those waters were out so fortunate, and the pirates reaped a rich harvest,
barn Chinese anstructor. Mr Chan
Tap Ng will occupy the building.
A. D. C.
The death occurred at Canton on October "I Know That Man;
3 of Mrs Sara Manalt Cadbury, wife of Dr.
He Comes From Sheffield." Williaux W. Cadbury of the University Stalls 3. Dress Circle $3. Pit 50 cta. Medical School Mrs Cadbury, who passed away after an illness extending over a faw
weeks, only come to China in February, Booking opens at The ROBINSON this year. The missionary News Letter PIANO CO., un Wednesday, October 18, speaks eulogistically of Mrs Cadbury's at 10 AM work at the Christian College.
The Christian community of Honglok is After I'd been on the James Hartles mourning the death of Dr. Samuel Macro- for two years she was sold to David lay Jackson, D.D., L.I.D. As president Sassoon and Co., and I went over with her. of the trustees of the Canton Christina Our captain, was named Book, and we Colle. he took a very keen interest in the carried & ebiof mate. two second mater institution but his work there as but. three engineers,
cers, of which I was oue, and small part of his activities. The College 18. firemen, as well as about 40 Malay benefits to be extent of $15,000 gold under sailors, and any amount of stewards.
| his will pay "Ia October, 1859, tinued Mr
Ecogkong, October15, 1912.
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WE have this day nothurized. Mn Burke, we left Nagasaki with a cargo of
NORMAN CALDRECK MAC-10 seaweed for Shanghai, and, of After nine hours fumigation of the GREGOR to ignor Firas by procuration.course. fe full of bullion from our Chins Navigation steamer Shengking and FANOY GOODS from London and
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO. Renukas. October 16, 1912.
TRAFALGAB · DAY. PUBLIC MEETING.
opiam salcis,
o the 10th of the month in the Avening we mn on in the Tonki rocks, 70 miles north of Hongkong, and were wrecked..
Uctober 8, three hundred and twelve dent rats were taken from the vessel's limbers and the forecastles of the crow..!!
A fire broke out in Kobe harbour en
Paris, equal to that of any of the principal honan is this Culony, are displayed in their Show Room.
Visitors cordially welcomed.
clothing is respectfully solicited
Vary soon the aft part of the boat was full of water, while the fore part was firmly October 8 on board the Nippon Yusen & personal visit to our Show Room in
aground.
Bonie of us managed to get on to the Kaisha steamer Totomi, Mara, 0,412 tone, sure to result to mutani advantage.” MEETING, open to all, will be held rocks and make the ship fast, and then by which was not extinguished before a good at the CITY HALL on MONDAY means of a “bo'suns' chair' paa ed along a deal of damage bad been danɑ to the next, the 21st October, at 5.15 r., under hawser, the ship's company got off safely cargo by are and water. The structural the auspices of the Hongkong Branch of with the exception of three
damage to the ship is believed to be the Navy League
TERELE. POLLOCK.. Rongkang, October 17, 1912.
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"CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE,
LIMITED, A
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
FRIGHTENED BY UNLOADED MÜYELIA
Of course, soon as they saw we were in trouble about 40 or. 50 Junks erowded about us, but we kept them off with a show. of our muskets, although we had no pow disku
At last a
trading
ling junk came and took n, but once on board ber captain made 1ign a contract to pay him 30,000 dollars when he was safely landed. I don't know whether he got it or not?” kid Mr Borke. THE THIRTY FIRST ORDINARY W gut to Hongkong safely, and
MEETING, of Shareholders, will be layed there for a tim held at the Qfices of the Undersigned, on ** While there, Captain Hook
Hook told me
WEDSESDAY, the 23rd instant; at N-on, what the gunboat Bastard had been infered The TRANSFEE BOOKS of the Com-him by the Adminil of the Port Bir any will be CLOSED from 9th to 236 Michael Moymour, to help us rain the October; both days inclusive
allian, which was under water, and
locate it JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., La Junteered to go down
and to get It was pinder the General Agentakt
куну. Тако Harkony, October 1, 1912.
"chaiq zuund.the
AQUILAN SZERE,
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Is the man who has blond-
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