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matter who achieves the good, so ed and calm as an old Buddha in that the good is indeed achieved. | his gown of cream-coloured silk. Génius, as a distinguished British with deep bows and escort you If you are his trlead, he will rise philosopher has said, knows no with a most perfect courtesy into frontiers, and humanity can take the guest halk There in a high a common pride in the great dis chair of carved teak you may sip his famous tea and marvel at the coveries which are a heritage for old paintings hung in silken all time. Therefore it is specially scrolls upon the walls, and gratifying that medical men wilt meditate upon the hand-wrought come from all parts of the world to beams of the ceiling, thirty feet
above. attend the Conference and that where, stately and reserved with
Beauty, beauty every among these will be many from | age." the vast field of China itself.
| Hongkong already ranks, from the education standpoint, as a light- house in the Far East. After the medical conference it will deserve the same name for health work.
Commendable Enterprise.
Rather, a clever thing EAT was perpetrated by an American paper which saIt cannot be denied that that the Irish are an English- piquing people. The subtlety of the mat lies in the fact that Sinn Fein furiously repudiates the use of the English language.
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ARRIVING TO-MORROW.
INDO-CHINA GOVERNOR'S
NO
VISIT.
WHY HE WENT TO. JAPAŃ.
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Hongkong is to receive a visit June 16-The Star Theatre Mary Pickford in "Suds"; also from M. Merlin, the Governor General of Indo-China. He is Buster Keaton in "Neighbours."
June 15, World" Theatre; returning from Japan with his Gladys Walton in The Nearest wife, Madame Merlin, M. Chatel, Lady."
his Chief of Staff, M. Jeanbren
This morning's Trun. Wan Yat June 16. - Queen's Theatre; Director of Political Affairs in his A.D.C.,
Po publishes Jetter from the Imperial Violets also Holt and Indo-China, and Sawyer in their Songs, Solo Capt. Bemard. They arrive here Hongkong Mouldors' Guild deny. by the "Hakone Maru" which is ing the report that its members Dance, Burlesque and Duets..
due at daybreak to morrow. At have demanded un increase of 60 2:45 M. Merlin and party will be per cont, in thoir wages and that and will be received at Blake Fier yesterday (June 15) to reply. Here brought ashore or the "Victoria,"local employers were given till by His Excellency the Governor our vernacular eputciuporary ex- (who will be attended by his plains that its article, was trans. Private Secretary), Commodore
JUBLJO AUCTION.
June 17 Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, gold and silver watches, 11 a.m.
June 19-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, Household furniture.
Grace, the Hon. Colonial Secretary lated from a Western' paper."' and Lady Severn and the Officer Further the letter states that for Commanding the troops. A salute months Le members have planned will be fired in M. Merlin's honour to ask for higher remuneration and and a Guard of Honour will he that their efforts are just beginning *. inspected. M. and Mare. Merlin to bear fruit. They are of the.. will then proceed to Government opinion that local rates are low and M. Merlin will in all living is high. But no stop has House probability remain in the colony
It is proposed until Thursday morning and will yet been taken. be conducted over the chief places that in a few days the Secretary for of interest.
Chinese Affairs he notified, after Accompanying M. Merlin in which applications will be ad- three principal Chambers of Con-alan emphasises the fact that the" Japan, were the Presidents of the dressed to muployers. The letter merce in Indo-China--those of projected move only concerns the Saigon, Haiphong and Hapoiand moulders and no other branch of they were afforded onportunities the engineering industry. of getting into touch with commer cial men of similar 'standing in
The Governor-General When a China Mail man called Japan himself, it was emphasised, had not the office of the Chinese Enf other official Mission than to gineers' Institute this morning, the present to the Prince Regent secretary courteously supplied full As far as he knew no and Crown Princess congratula- details. tions upon the occasion of their request to the masters had been wedding and also to bring to Japan made yet but he thought an appli- a new message of France's and cation would be sent to Chinese Indo-China's sympathy with the country for her losses in the recent than half of the 800 or 900 employers-who omployed less
institute and Guilds."
Ab legible 11 a.m. handwriting In a short while there will be
June 20-Lammert Bros. at occasionally leads "Kellet Lodge.", 184, The Peak, running between Hongkong and
to complications. Canton, the river steamer "Tung We heard the other day of acertain household furniture, etc., 2.45 p.m. On," which was launched at the New York publisher who was
COMPANY MEETINGS. Talkoo Dockyard hat week. The known for his tendency to
June 21.Extraordinary gen- vessel is the first river boat to be and shout," and for his writing eral meeting of A. S. Watson Co., fitted with wireless and its owners which was absolute "scrawl." ALtd., at Hongkong Hotel, 11.30 are to be commended for their percentage of the weekly paya.m, "S|||||||||||||||||||O|OO|||||||||||||| foresight because the day cannot envelopes always contained slips July 7-Further extraordinary be far ahead when all river of paper scribbled by the great meeting of A, S. Watson & Co., steamers will carry wireless. Pre-man personally informing the Ltd., at Hongkong Hotel, Pedder
recipicat that his services were no Street, 11.30 am. sumably the main object of the longer required. A discharged September-16-Extraordinary wireless is to prevent piracy. If,"employee" once made capital general meeting of The China ns insisted upon by membera of from one of these pieces of paper Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.. at the the Mercantile Marine, wireless in in the following manner: He a defensible citadel can be relied presented it at the publisher's Registered Office of the Company,
Pedder Street, noon. upon to frustrate the efforts of tailors, saying it was an order
October Second meeting of pirate gangs who disguise them from his employer to make the selves as passengers, there should bearer a suit of clothes. Not a single the China Sugar Refining Co., be no difficulty in dispensing with person at the tailoring establish- td., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, the services of the ships' guardsment could read the weird-looking noon,
October 20.-Third meeting of to whom exception has been taken.lines; but knowing from past But even with wireless it appears experience the awful results of The China Sugar Refining Co., that the Naval patrol boats, which displeasing their customer, they Ltd., ato.'s Office, Pedder Street. have already rendered signal ser- When the usual quarterly bill was
decided to make the sait of clothes, noon. vice in the Canton River estuary, presented, the would still be required to accord tailors were fear-stricken to sto poor deceived that protection which must be the publisher come flying into their forthcoming when an S.Q.S. or shop touldly demanding an ex-
A North-China Daily News repre-moulders (including apprentices) piracy message is
sentative had an interesting chat all fold-in the course of the day.. broadcast.planation to a certain item on his Considerable satisfaction has been bill. He was told that anem- AMAH WAKES UP TO FIND with the distinguished gentleman Nothing had yet been decided in expressed at the non-recurrence, ployee" had presented a written
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at the French Consulate during regard to non-Chinese establish. which M. Merlin emphatically ments. within recent months, of the order. The document was, taken
denied that his visit to Japan was attacks on regular lines plying out off the file and handed for ex- Awakened by a noise at 4 am made from political motives. He secretary volunteered the informa- By way of explanation, the of Hongkong with passengers. amination. "Well," said the this morning, an amah employed From this it is to be inferred that publisher, after puzzling over the at 2B Queen's Road raised an stated that he went to Japan tion that there were
principally to investigate the the measures to cope with the paper for some minutes, "I suppose alarm. A Chinese youth whom possibilities of developing trade men's branches of the engineering evil are having distinctly good gave him this order, but I don't she saw in her room made an and commerce between Japan and trade, of which the moulders results and it is to be hoped that remember it."
formed one. Each branch had its with the advent of wireless the pirate pests will be entirely Eradicated.
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Social Reforms.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British ex-Premier and Conservative Leader in the House of Commons, is clearly bent on making social welfare work a prominent feature" of the Party programme. His
FORCE OF. HABIT.
A young stenogra pher named Cassidy was hit by a bulleti during a disturbance | in Ireland. He thought he was mortally wounded and motioned to a friend. "Give my love "Tell her my last thoughts were to Kathleen," he said, weakly,
Peggy, and Maureen." of her. Carbon coples to Norah,
speech at the City Carlton To-day's Poem. Club was in terms suggestive
of Disraelita Tory Democracy.
There would, he said, be neither
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trust, Our youth, our joys, and all we
have,
peace nor prosperity in Great Even such is time, that takes in Britain until the masses working and earning good wages and living under better conditions. As a matter of fact the Conserva- tive Party in England has been And pays us but in earth and dust: Who in the dark and silent responsible for more social re-
grave,
CITY ROBBERY,
attempt to escape.
The burglar was arrested three doors away with $50 worth of jewellery and valuables on him.
14
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One case of enteric fever, Japanese, was notified yesterday
A new buoying system to ensure more safety in typhoons will shortly he inaugurated. It is the outcome of the Marine Court Enquiry held on the sinking of the Loongsang." Seventeen special new moorings will replace the same number of buoys in the
3.S.
Harbour.
According to a Reuter cable received yesterday, the son of the Swarajist leader Das is the latest arrested in connection with the passive resistance campaign the Satyagraha reformers have been carrying on for a month past in connection with the disputed con- trol of the famous Hindu temple
this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. at Tarakes war. to
-Sir Walter Raleigh.
earthquake.
Indo-China.
ton work-
East," he remarked with a twinkle moulders was concerned for the "My little tour throughout the own guild but only that of the
in his eye. has served to show present. However, he under- people that such a place as, Indo-stood that the other nine branches China does exist. There are many
the who do not seem to realize it, or
were in
sympathy with who know that we have such big moulders although they were not towns as Saigon, Haiphong and prepared to act simultaneously. Hanoi, and the possibilities Indo- Only four of the branches were China holds out for trade are not incorporated in the Chinese En- generally grasped. In Indo-gineers' Instituto which is con- China we have some 40,000,000 sidered the parent organisation, buf people and the trade that can be is not concerned with the present done between that Colony and agitation. other parts of China is immense."
TRADE ENVOYS. ·
From enquiries in the European establishments it was ascertained that no application for an increase had been made to them.
was
Brought back to his visit to Japan, M. Merlin again refuted the suggestion that his visit to that country had any political signific ance. He remarked that he had with him three gentlemen, respectively Palice. Captain Fiori, who is out the chairmen of the Chambers of of town at present. Hanoi, Haiphong and Saigon, who On his arrival from Peking oa were much interested in all they Tuesday night M. Merlin saw that appertained to industrial escorted to this house, which is in conditions in Japan, and they were the French Concession, by mount all optimistic regarding the posed Sikh Police, and this morning sibilities for trade that did exist he paid his respects to the Chinese between the French Colony and authorities at the Bureau of Foreign that country:
Affairs, and was received with M. Merlin went on to say that every courtesy and manifesta. other important reasons for his tion of friendship: In the Canton telegrams to the visit were to convey the congratula-afternoon he received the Chin Shanghai Chinese press (viations of Indo-China to the Prince nese authorities at his temporary? Peking), are to the effect that his Regent and the Crown Princess of house. Yesterday evening the associates have urged Dr. Sun Japan on their recent betrothal, and Governor-General of Indo China Yat-sen to take a complete rest to renew the sympathies expressed was the principal guest at a re and to retire from public life. by France and Indo-China to the ception given M. Wilden, the They propoSE
to establish an Japanese in the trials their country French Consul-General, at the Administrave Council, of which had undergone as a result of the Consulate, and which was attended Gen. Chen Chiungeming (who is Tokyo earthquake.
by the most distinguished members I am sitting by the fire; and still said to be Dr. Sun's bit. "But chiefly," repeated M. Meriin, of the Shanghai's French com
terest enemy), Tan Yen-kai we wanted to study labour condi-munity, including M. Le Bris, since I do not expect warm (former Governor of Hunan, who tions in Japan, and I myself had a President of the French Municipal weather in June, I am wish- Is chief secretary in Dr. Sun's sincere desire to form some person Council, M. Fano, a member ing for rain, or I shalot Generalissimo's yamen, and the al views and ideas on the future of of the French Council, have a mouthful of hay...or Commander of the Yunnanese her commercial prospects and M. Bordelongue, Manager of a noseful of roses.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
forms in the past than have the When we have wandered all our Liberals, whose leanings have, always been towards the laissez
ways, Shuts, up the story of our days; faire doctrine. There is nothing. But from this earth, this grav, therefore, surprising in the fact that the Conservative leader should commit his party reforms making for the better- ment of the восів condi- tions of the workers. The Coalition Government under Mr. Lloyd George's leadership,-a Government which was mainly composed of Conservatives, did more to solve the housing problem than any one of its predecessors, though yet a vast deal remains to 1793. be done. Up to the middle of will feel gratified at the honour March last year the total cost to bestowed upon the Colony. Indeed, sidies for new
the Treasury in the way of sub- houses Was everyone whose interests are not £20,200,000," Of this Sum confined to the sordid pursuit of £9,500,000 went in subsidies to the dollar will take pride in the private builders and £10,700,000 in annual subsidies to local fact that Hongkong is to enter-authorities, while £9,000,000 per
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troops in Kutangtung, Yang Hsi- min. will be chief, members. Geas. Hu Han-ming and Hsu Taung-chih (Dr. Sun's fleuten- ants) oppose peace with Gen. announced his willing to nego tinte peace with Dr. Sun's party provided that Gens. Hu and Ksu
possibilities."
WONDERFUL TRADE
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the
tain so many eminent men, unsel-1 annum is estimated to be the QUIXOTISM OR UTOPIANISM Chen, and the latter has also phatically in reply to our reporter's Chief of the Staff to the French
Banque Industrielle, M. Denay, Manager of the Banque d'Indo-chine, Commander do Maubeuge, of the French warship "Certainly," he repeated em-Jules Ferry, Commander D'Arvieu,
fish workers who have not only annual charge under the housing
soever of preparing a treaty be question, "I had no notion what Admiral, and many others.
As M. Merlin entered the Con done vast good for the race scheme now operating. Mr.
tween Japan and France. I grant sulate Grounds he was met and already, but who hope to accom- is not likely greatly to improve on is another of the Devil's pet words. with.
Ramsay MacDonald's Government Quixotism, or Utopianism; that are dismissed from office for you, if it is at all possible, Indo saluted by a
detachment of China will modify tariff rates in Annamite Police, and the band plish even greater triumphs yet. this programme.
regard to certain articles imported from the Jules Ferry struck up the
·HONOUR FOR HONGKONG. Perhaps it is only fitting, though,
I believe, the quiet admission
and exported from the Colony, but Marsellaise" as he entered the which we are all of us so ready
even that would have to be sub- Consulate itself." that the Colony should have been
to make, that, because things have
mitted to the French Government, Naturally Hongkong's medical selected as the venue of the Con-
long been wrong, it is impossible
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL'
M. Wilden made a short speech, for Indo-China possesses no fiscal welcoming M. Merlin to Shanghai men will be elated at the choice ference. Apart from the fact that
China's beauty is they should ever be right, is one
autonomy."
and congratulating him on the of the Colony as the venue of the it is remarkably healthy for its
CHINA'S not 28 clearly of the most fatal sources of misery Among the passengers who left) Questioned as to what were his success of his mission to Japan, LOVELINESS defined as Joint Conference on Medical latitude solely through the untir-
the and crime from which this world Shanghai for Home in the P. & O. opinions of the result of his efforts, which they all felt convinced was beauty of Japan. suffers. Whenever you hear a "Kashgar" were Miss L. E. Berry, the Governor-General replied with for the good of France generally Science by the Hongkong auding efforts of our medical men and It Is something vague and delicate man dissuading you from attempt. Sub-Lts. C. S. Booth and R. Sa repetition of his former state and Indo-China in particular. M. China Branch of the British health officers, Hongkong is Buck in the Forum, are those of perfection is "Utopian," beware of Leslie and child, Sub-Lt. E. K. Le what are the possibilities of com- General, one of France's most dig. Her beauties," writes Pearl ing to do well, on the ground that Brown, Mr. D. H. Fookes, Mrs N. ment: "I know, now, more clearly Merlin was, added the Consul- Medical Association and the China already a notable name in Medical old things, old places carefully that man. Cast the word out of mer, Mr. and Mrs. Revill, and Miss and the French colony of Indo had, in fact beep governor of Mesurior, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Pal-mercial relations between Japan tinguished colonial governors, and Medical Missionary Association Science, for it was here during the fashioned with the loftiest thought your dictionary altogether.
• artistic elated because the Conference great plague epidemic of 1894 that and
endeavour of }
A. G. Wilson
Chios for the future.” generations of aristocrats
| practically-every-colony-France- M. Merlin reiterated the hope had. They appreciated his services. will not only bring them into the Japanese medical man, Dr. Behind this high wall, which
According to a Daily Bulletin that his tour had done someitdog to their country and were proud to _close_contact with their fellow Kitasato, discovered the plague looms_so "gray and forbidding.
cable from Yokoinama, Mag toands letting people know that have him to their midst. workers out here, but will germ. This discovery ranks upon the street, one may step, if
Catherine Dalton, Matron of the such a place as Indo-China existed. M. Merlin, in reply, thanked M. put also
one has the proper key, into a
Yokohania Hospital at the time of He remarked that he had boon Wilden for the kindness of his them
direct among the greatest yet made, and gracious courtyard, paved with in
received remarks, and the French public personal touch with the world's although the honour fell to a great square old tiles word.
the earthquake, and Miss Norah most enthusiastically This is chammation, of the qquscles of Little, assistant nurse, were lovest wherever he had gone, and he was in Shanghaf for the kindness of leading authorities on surgery, worker from another nation, the away by the feet of a hundred the back comes on suddenly and led at the British Consulate on grateful for all the kindness that their reception of him. He tropical diseases, public health and Colony can still feel proud that centuries. There a quarled pine or Palatul Every movement as Saturday with the Order of the had been shown him,
gevates the dispass. Go to bed, keep
sincerely hoped that the relations M. MERLIN IN SHANGHAL other kindred matters. Others the actual discovery was made stone sant' whereon, "in seated, & Balm and a gufok recovery, may, be exv. éfforts; and: self-sacrificing - house of the French Chief of always be of the best.
tree, a pool of gold fish, a carven. gate and apply Chamberlain's Pain British Empire for their heroic
existing between French Indon M Merlin is residing at the | Chins and the rest of China would busides the medical men, however, here
white-haired grandfather Maui pealed." Bold Tverywhere.
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