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DR. TO MING'S FUNERAL.
The funeral of the late Dr. Ta Ming took place from his residence No. 1 Seymore Terrace, yesterday.
the deceased's
almost every human endeavour. Ad|" disgraceful conditions iquid tenisti? If in order merely to Marama." The only disgraceful things. live a man must endure constant on the ship, it seems, were a few sorrow; why live? If every pleasure, pampered people who need a trip in every right, every liberty of the in- the steerage of emigrant ship for dividual is to be surrendered for the the good of their souls. If “hell ** Laggrandisement of the State, why was the word for the ruffled rose, the State? Team work, cricket," leaves that discomforted them. what'
A MISPLACED GRENADE. Already winners of the League The funeral procession which was is good because it is good for the was their word for the trenches.
the R.GA. played their last match essentially Chinese in character was State, but the State itself is not good what their word for the slums?
SINGAPORE, May S
on Saturday. As befitting champions led by the Revs. Pearce and Cheung « unless it is good for the individual. These "more wealthy passengers," An exciting incident occurred they won, but the RE. were a good Chok Ling followed by the cortege. The New Zealand Government for we hope, were what are called "selt aboard the American steamer. Santa-team and with only 10 bats, men
Behind it came its Efficiency Board) is willing to nade." We hope so, because that
cruz while coalies were unloading ran the champions close. spend $4,500,000 in compensation" would relieve the Creator of a serious cargo. A grenade exploded, wound- The RGA batted first and after eldest grandson, the son of his of the liquor sellers. With what responsibility. We have alwaysing several coolies. It appears that Middleton was bowled for a single, eldest son, Dr. Coxion To. Then does it propose to compensate the wondered why He made centipedes the grenade was one of a cargo Mann and Talfourd made a capital followed the deceased's four sons saber citizen who finds pleasure in a mosquitoes, typhoid germs, and so
which the vessel had carried to stand. After this pair, Sutherland glass of wine or pint of beer?
on. Some of these Marama passengers Vladivostock and which in some way and Turley added respectable contri- Drs. Coxion To. Y.K.To. (Govern leave us still wondering.
had slipped amongst the return cargo.butions, but the remaining batsmen ment Civil Hospital), Herbert To and
gave little trouble and when Baines T. C. To, accompanied by was caught the innings closed for children, the others of the deceased's 126. Colonel Taylor and Lieut..
many grandchildren. Other rela | Raworth gave'the R.E. a good: start,
Heath and Wahl were soon disposed tives and a large gathering of friends TW/NTY-NINTH LIST OF THE of but Conner, Pascall and Rhodes which included the following mem
rid bers of the medical profession-Drs. difficult 10 get
were out for Kwan, H. T. Ho, H.C. Wong and During last month War Loan was 100 and RS Lawrence failed several others brought up the rear purchased by the Hongkong and to put in an appearance the match of the long procession. Among the South China War Savings Associa was probably robbed of a more ex many Chinese gentlemen present we tion for its members, amounting to citing finish. A sporting game was note Sir Boskan Wel Yuk and Mr. $128,769:39 (Straits Currency). won by the R.G.A. by 26 runs and Kwok Shiu Lan.
they win the league by a margin of five points. Scores
"TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE," SAID
M. THE QUEEN,
The Queen of England paid a calt a few weeks ago on Mrs. Eliza Noon. of Neath Place. Brady Street, Bethnal Green, London, who has seven children and lives in a two-roomed house for which she pays five shillings a week. Her husband is a soldier in Egypt. The Queen could hardly believe that there were only two
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To-day's return of communicable disease shows five cases of plague.
Major L. R. J. W. Taylor, R.E. of the local garrison, has been pro- moted Acting Lieut.-Colonel.
Lieut. G. F.. D. Burrell, of the rooms in the house and that the Manchester Regt. has been gazetted steis, which curled up out of the to a Captaincy. Hittle living room-10ft. by 7t-led merely to another little room above. She was surprised to find on going through the back door, that there was nothing beyond but a sort of outhouse and a little yard a few feet in length. "Terrible! Terrible! she said. In would be easy to show Ltd the Queen, and the King, and the
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HONGKONG,MONDAY, MAY 12, 1019.
EFFICIENCY.”
expenses of the War, and that these
men believe the revenue will be
politicians who think the miners. etc., a set of discontented rascals.. homes" much more terrible than Mrs. Noon's. They don't know. They don't realize. They are like the German qurnalists who, on see- ing devastated France, said they could now understand why the French were so bitter. These should have been ashamed so naively to confess their lack of imaginative capacity. Perhaps imagination is rarer than we had supposed, anyway.
OUR MEN IN POSSESSION.
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The amounts paid in, particulars of which are set out below, were invested in Straits Settlements War Loan at 5 per cent.
Corpi, Mann, b. Conner The membership of the Associa-Gr. Middletor, b Pascal tion, has reached 1,267.
CQMS. Talfourd, e Coles, Pascall 30 Sergt. Althorne. c Heath, b Coles Liest. Sutherland, Taylor, b
Pascall
All moness paid in will in fature de invested in British War Loan 5 per
Lieut. G. W. Samenn, R.G.A. has been promoted temporary captaincent. while employed on the staff at Mili- tary Headquarters here.
Our readers are reminded that the time of the Banvard Comedy and Company's matinee on Thursday has been changed to 4.30 p.m.
A large number of members of the Engineers Institute inspected H.M.S. Carlisle on Saturday. Eng-Comman- de: Cueningham took the party round and they saw the latest in engines and boilers.
The inclement weather caused the golf match between the K.C.C. and the U.S.R.C., which was to hate been played off yesterday, at.King's Park, Kowloon, to be abandoned. A few enthusiasts indulged in friendly
games.
There is a lesson for those who have admired Japan and despised China, in the present position of Germany, Those who were 50 cocksure that the last word of com-
The Hongkong and Whampoa monsense rested in the saying, "If Dock Company have built 48 houses you wish for peace, prepare for war, around Hunghom Bay for their may now compare the situations of
employees. These houses will soon China, the pacifist nation, and of be ready for occupation. The old Germany, the militarist, the con-houses, situated near the Docks, will spicuously prepared." The Boxer
be demolished to enable extension of and other indemnities put China's the dockyard. maritime customs under foreign lien and control. Germany's war in-
hands of the
In an effort to eliminate, or at
demnities put her country into the any rate lessen, the armed robberies
men in possession." Our "army of occupation" is the for which the Colony is getting an breker's man. It would seem, would unenviable reputation, the C. S. P. it not, that into this may come either has instituted a system of armed patrols at night. The patrols
bigger under Prohibition. This, if our guess be right, is their idea of a non-moral judgment. If, as their the people unprepared or the people consist of Indian and Chinese police own words elsewhere indicate, they hope by Prohibition to increase" the Prepared, the weak or they that under the charge of a European. productive value of the individial glory in their strength. What the and collectively of the people," it moral of this is, we are not pre- becomes clear that their conception pared to say, beyond the very ing who was the incumbent of St. of an efficient man is an efficient obvious fact that si vis pacem, para Andrew's for a short period, stayed belium isn't the sort of truth at Singapore on his way home and is tax payer. Judged morally, this is
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burial service was read at the grave At the Protestant Cemetery, the
side by the Rev. Pearce assisted by the Rev. Cheung Chok Ling who also, officiated at the house prior to the procession leaving for the deceased's fast resting place. Several of the deceased's. Eurpoean friends ware also noticed at the grave side.
Many were the foral tributes sent, an ample proof the esteem in which I' the late Dr. To Ming, one of the pioneers of the Chinese Westent
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The recent announcement in the | local press of Dr. To Ming's death in Whis son's house, at Hongkong, is an 2incident fraught sufficiently with suggestion to those who are in a
2 position to recall certain aspects of a O markedly useful and beneficent 3 career.
Canton the oldest centre of Western
impact among the cities of China,
15 was the earliest to become a power
....11 centre in Western medicine and
Lt. Col. Coles, e Turley, b Athorne Sergt. Heath, b Baines..
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this latter sphere it remained pre- eminent during an extended period of years.
Personal factors were prominent
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15 colleague. Dr. To Ming. The names of the two men became familiar in the ear of the multitude, as house- hold words. Among the forces 5 making for conciliation, mutual understanding and goodwill; the Canton Hospital, known among non-.. Chinese as Kerr's Hospital, was admittedly chief. To remote corners of the two Southern provinces its and fame penetrated and patients came from all quarters to be treated in its wards.
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It is within the personal experience of the writer, who as a benighted 100 This match was played on the traveller in a wild and apparently
90 University ground.
A low-scoring region of country, sought hospitality 80 match resulted.. Rumjahn's team from unsophisticated hamlet dwellers, 75 batted consistently, realising 110 and succeeded in his quest by claim- 70 which was well divided among the ing friendship with the men of heal.. 65 batsmen. Ponsonby Fane's side ing gifts and graces, far away in the 60 scored 83, only Marley, Fane and provincial city, that a Hospital in 55 Robinson reaching double figures. China can be a thing to conjure with 50 With time to spare Rumjahn's team among healed men whose sense of 40 had a second knock, only 48 being gratitude is neither dimmed nor over- 35 scored for six wickets. Scores:- laid by other less worthy considera- 20
tions.
$68,085 A. Player, c Fane, b Marley...... 16 is still one of the peculiar boons that
D. K. Samy, c Fane, e Cavanagh. 24 the West is to-day conferring on the A. H. Rumjahn, b Marley is 0 D. Rumjahn, c Hall, b Marley
Total ........ Bowling Analysis.
chearing to see, in the mind's eye, their services to humanity in the new nation.
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Times have changed and we have changed with them. Surgery, mar- vellously almost miraculously pro- gressive, during the last two decades,
Total
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East. Chinese surgeons, cool-in
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3rd List
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123,680
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5. A. Ismail, st. Fane, b Marley. 5 skilled in all delicacy of touch are D. Kharas, Lb.wb. Cavanaugh... E. Moosdeen, mot out
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... 10 nerve and brain, pliant of hand and
destined to take their place ere long.
among the expert exponents of an
art preeminent in its power to lessen-
the sum of human suffering. It is
8th List
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110
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10th List
140,345
11th List
49,715
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14th List
15th List
16th List
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18th List
19th List
3. D. Wright, b A. Player
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C. G. Robinson, c.Samy, b A. H.
Rumjabn
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ö. M. R. 49,525 Cavanaugh 10
0 31 80,875 Marley.....15... 4 40 43,680 Ponsonby Fans 6 0 25 84,355
MR. PONSONBY-FAN'S XI. G. E. Marley, b Earde... 64,965
H. Ching, b Farde ... 106,000 Lieut. Cavanaugh, b Earde.........
90,430 147,450
a low and unworthy aim, an instill have imprisonment for debt, and ovember. "We are in a great fix," sufficient sanction for the existence on occasion we find there a creditor says the. Cathedral paper of Singa- of a government.
paying more for the maintenance of An efficient government, an eficient the debtor in prison than he would pore, "with so many chaplaincies National Efficiency Board advising get if the debt were paid. So long vacant or becoming vacant through the government, should aim at the as the man is kept in prison, so long men going on leave, that we are most greatest good of the greatest num- the creditor must maintain him, and grateful to him for giving us this ber. The summum bonum is hap-so long he has no chance to pay at Durham University and also at temporary help. Mr. Dowding was piness, which depends upon the unless his friends contribute to his possession of health, freedom, leisure, release. It was this that prompted Oriel College, Oxford. He served as culture upon an interest in life and our remark the other day that we
C. F. in France 1915-1916," the graces of it. Possibly they seemed to be getting ready to spend might argue that the providing of more on collecting our bill from Ger- revenue and the establishment of a many than the amount of it. We Daily solvent government is sufficient have to modify that now, since it seems from Shanghai who may wish interest in life for the individual, as that the army of occupation is to Vancouver, should be informed that visit the United States from so many politicians at Home have stay in Germany at Germany's ex- lately been doing. But man' is more pense.
This means, with Allied curious feature of the U.S. laws than a bee or an ant. The Imperialist,merchants refusing to trade with renders it impossible for the local who expects every other man this Germans, as they have all virtuously US. Consul to grant a passport to day to do his duty, may be satisfied promised, that Germany will be in anyone arriving there from China. New Zealand, which in many ways with an insect's ideal, especially as it the position of the Jersey destor who is thus impossible to accept an has been setting up as an exemplar is for precept rather than practice. has no friends. The men in posses the line" to Seattle or any other Invitation for an excursion "over among governments, now has a Not so a Man.
sion are in possession for ever, and Board. New National Efficiency
The New Zealand Efficiency we shall have the pleasant job of point a few hours distant, not even Zealand has been a pioneer in prac Board says, that the increased leaving our children to pay for the if one stays in Canada for two or three months and has scores of tical socialism, which is as it should rational thrift which would follow war. Well, it was maybe worth it.
friends for reference. be, seeing that Samuel Butler chose the diversion to productive trade New Zealand as the location for channels of the money now spent or
News has been received in Tientsin "Erewhon."
liquor would, in the opinion of the New Zealand's Efficiency Board, Board, as evidenced by world-wide
of the death at Home of Mr. R. S. No one can read the letter of the Buck, who was formerly in partner- however, has been very busy with experience where the abolition or Captain of the steamer Marama ship with Mr. H. Percy Harrold; the Drink Question, which suggests reduction of the use of alcoholic without being convinced that the Deceased passed away on March 11 that it is nothing very new or up-to liquors has operated, more that stories of horrible conditions aboard in the Military Hospital at Milbank date after all, in spite of its striking counteract the loss of the public her were grossly exaggerated. He from cancer of the throat. The late revenue now received from this has our entire sympathy. We know Mr. Buck retired from, business at source.
what that exigent kind of passenger the beginning of 1914, and gave a What is the world-wide experiences like. In the orthodox heaven, splendid example to many much referred to? America's case has not
when they get there, they will younger men by joining up im. bad time to prove anything. Russian prehibition, has given. is anarchy:mble to the angels. One might mediately the war broke out. He But no matter. The real point is have known that a lady who could eventually secured a Commission in write. There is only one word for the Lancashire Fusiliers, and was The issue one way or the other is this..
it, and that is hell," must have been gazetted Major just before he had to less immediately important than the
If that argument stands, and if off her balance; and as evil com- go into hospital. He was about 46 Total amount received to attitude of mind of th's Board as "increased national thrift" is the one munications corrupt good manners, years of age, and leaves a widow indicated in its report. The ide1 of worthy aim, why stop at the Drink having an Efficiency Board is a good Bill? If "the money now spent asking "Who is to hang for this?"
we must not blame her husband for and two children. one, but only if efficient men can be on liquor would, if its sales were Now the Captain in a temperate way At Kuala Lumpur, F.M.Š., on found to act as members. A man stopped, be spent or invested in other who does not know what he is directions," surely the money spent discloses that the agitators were May 2, the Hon. Mr. Lemon, British aiming at cannot be counted efficient on other luxuries would yield revenue
chiefly composed of the more Resident, Negri Sembilan, who was That there was considerable mental too. Have they no pianos in New wealthy, passengers, and those who in Hongkong at the time of the races fog on this New Zealand Efficiency Zealand, no pictures, no fine raiment, are in good health." Precisely with Mrs Lemon as the guest of the Board we gather from the terms of the cost of which could be otherwise Jesurups all, who waxed fat and Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, was pre
kicked." If you don't know who seated with the insignia of the 3rd Total amount of Ster- the report.. "Regarding the moral invested so as to produce revenue for feshurun was, ask your vicar. When class of the Most Distinguished Order sspect, the Board reported that it the Government?
ling received since had not permitted its fedginent to be
893 13 9 last investment £ In using words like "efficiency." the Captain says "I am making of St. Michael and St George. inficenced by the moral view of the men must be taught to avoid the accusations against no one in parti HE. Sir, Arthur Young, in making Previously acknow
ledged-re 15,753 1754 question, but had arrived at its con- mere sibboleth. Efficiency for what?cular" we see at once that at the the presentation, said:-Arthur clusions apart therefrom. We can To say that a man is efficient is to that he could have done so, had he I first came out to Malaya, uatii "the back of his mind lay the thought Henry Lemon, from June, 1906, when nat make sense of that. The question say no more than that a man is able. is purely one of morality. Efficiency He may be able to jump ten feet or wished. One bunch of protestants time I left the F.M.S. in February;
ended up itself is only desirable morally.
by apologling for 1911, we worked together; more or five, to play the fiddle or to strike their letter and asking for it less in the same office, and it now Reading "between the lines," we a woman. What is the end back. We need no more proof happens that probably the last pre- gather that the government of New for which чуте justify
that they were ashamed of it than sentation I shall make, I am now Zealand "finds its finances in an means? awkward state, partly owing to the question in politics, in religion, in that. So let us-hear no more about about to make to my old friend."L
name. It submitted a report to the Government, in favour of the pro hibition of the importation, manufac-) ture, or sale of wines, beer, and spirituous liquors. The question was to be settled by a referendum on April 10.
the
That is the necessary
W.
At the same time it is fitting and just to recall the fact that workers of 6 the Dr. To Ming type were fore- 2 runners, to whom the attribute of greatress cannot be denied. Thirty 24 years ago it was estimated, by those who knew his work well that Dr. To had performed, successfully, within limited period. more operations of a particular class than could probably be placed to the credit of any other practitioner ot the time in East or West. The Canton Hospital was rightly proud of his achievements and these were, without doubt, a factor of valency in its steady advance and established usefulness.
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91,535 96,100 50,450
W. Hall, b A. H. Rumjahn....... 2 106,890
R. Ponsonby Fane, not out....... 14 124,035
A. J. Kew, b A. R. Rumjahn .... 30,055 W. Brown, run out 150,100 N, M. Bux, run out
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7 Western men and women in China. who achieve widely approved results, whether in medicine and surgery or
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2
date
$2,624,395
Total
Currency received since
Total
Total amount of Straits
last investment *********
$23,783.15
A. Player.....14 Previously acknowledged 742,466.31 G. C. Earde... 7. 0 29
0 A. H. Rumjahn. 6
16 $765,249,46
ME. RUMJAHN'S XI. 2nd Innings. D. K. Samý, c Robinson, b Hall.. G.C. Earde, c Hall, b. Marley... A. Player, Robinson, 5 Marley... S. A. Ismall, b Marley. A. H Rumjahn, st. Fane, b
Wright jikkaen.
Bowling Analysis.
0. M
R
4 - 31
2
3
Total 16,647 11 24
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY ·
OF CANTON, LTD."
Hon. Treasurers-and Secretaries. Hongkong, 12th May, 1919.
D. Rumjahn, not out .........erna E. Moosdeen, c and b Wright
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other forms of philanthropy, tending to ameliorate conditions and general- ly to bring in the new heaven and earth, best know how much they owe
to Chinese co-adjutors whose faithful, loyal and not unfrequently brilliant services, conduce, steadily, at many points, on all principal lines, to the great ends in view.
Of this type was Dr. To Ming, 25 Dr. Kerr has long since passed to his 2 rest. The colleague of his earlier 7 days has pow fallowed. Of the two 2 the American surgeon and the Chi- nese surgeon who served together in 10 entire devotion of soul and stead- fastness with a sustained energy that has too few parallela, the saving of 2 the ancient Hebrew writer takes on a certain fulness of significance 48"Their bodies are buried in peace;
but their name liveth.
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