WHY WORRY YOURSELF BY WONDERING IF THE BOY HAS REALLY BOILED YOUR DRINKING WATER, WHEN FOR A FEW CENTS YOU CAN BE SURE WITH
}
WATSON'S
DISTILLED TABLE WATER
IT IS CHEAP, IT IS À SURE PROTECTION AGAINST CHOLERA AND IT IS SUPPLIED IN
QUART BOTTLES
ONE GALLON BOTTLES
FOUR GALLON DEMIJOHNS
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS,
Grays
Est. 1841.
Vellow
Sanfem
Shops
Alexandra Bldg.
wad Hong Kong Hotel
FOR LINENS,
LINGERIE,
PEKING JEWELLERY AND RUGS.
NEW SHIPMENT OF VOILE AND
HONG KONG
SILK DRESSES.
SHANGHAI
DINE
WINE OR TEA
MANILA
At Hong Kong's Latest Rendezvous GLOUCESTER BUILDING 8th Floor.
120 feet above the City.
TIFFIN in the Spacious Dining Room Seating
Capacity for 250 Persons,
TEA On the Northern Terrace overlooking
the Harbour.
DINE On the Western Terrace, and see the
City's Myriad of Lights far below.
WINE in our Typhoon
Private Dining and Conference Rooms may be engaged. Special Catering, arranged. Weddings, Birthdays, etc.
COOL COMFORTABLE - SELECT - JUST STEP INTO THE LIFT AND YOU ARE THEBE P. I. NEWMAN, Manager.
PHOTO
PHOTOS
THE
THE CHINA
MAIL.
WHITEAWAYS
NEW STOCKS
OF
LADIES & CHILDREN'S WATERPROOFS.
CHILDREN'S
PARAMATTA WATERPROOFS. Nice Fawn Shade. Sizes: 24 to 36 inches.
$4.50 to $8.50.
CHILDREN'S CAPES with Hoods. Fawn and Red. All Sizes. $10.50 to $12.50.
CHILDREN'S SOU’WESTERS. $3.25 each.
LADIES'
LIGHT WEIGHT WATERPROOF. Popular Shades. $14.50 to $18.50. LADIES' OUTFITTING DEPT. WHITEAWAY, LADLAW & CO
FUNERAL.
MacDonald and Mr. however, indicates
LTD.
Correspondence.
History of the Hong Kong Chinese Club
[The, Editor, "Chias Mail"] Dear Sir,I hope you and your Chinese and foreign readers find the enclosed letter interesting.
THE TBAN TAI. Hong Kong, 9th July, 1902,-- The Secretary,
The Kongkong Chinese Club,
No. 6, Des Vaux Road Central, Hong Kong.
Dear Sir, I notice in the "Tsun Wan Yat Po and other local Chi-
nose newspapers of the 18th
MONDAY, JULY 11, 1932.
Emancipation Creeps
Into India
Restraint Of Purdah Vanishing
STRIKING CHANGES
NATIONALIST MOVEMENT PLAYS
A PART.
For hundreds of years Indian women have been held in the most complete subjection.
October, 1980 that my old friend Heavily bound by custom, largely religious, it has seemed that their thraldom had settled into heavy permanence, one of those mas
Sir Robert Ho Tung has made men tion of my name, in his speech. when referring to the founders of the Hongkong Chinese Club, at the meeting which was held on the 10th October, 1990 in celebration of the anniversary of the Chinese Re publio.
Being advanced in years, and since time waits for no man, I be. lieve it is now my duty, after 88 years silence, to publish the facts: connected with the history of the founding of the Hongkong Chinese! Club for the information of its members and the Chinese Com- munity of this Colony.
sively dreary, apparently inescapable facts about India. '.
"Suddenly change is coming. In our day, writes Frieda Haus- wirth (Mrs. Saranghadar Das), in a book published recently,"
"the very foundations of the ancient customs most de- leterious to Indian women's interests have received, the
is rudest shaking. The Unchanging was a metro tion old walls are crumbling rapidly towards final dissolution. The most promising sign of all is the wholesale disappear. ance of
aboli purdah and the sound beginrifng made towards the
of child-marriage, th
the two most far-reaching evils.”
In January 1898, Mr. Tse Tson So profound a change, striking) Tai issued a circular advocating the at the roots of the social system formation of a Chinese Library and of a country of 250,000,000, is a Rending Room to be used as a matter of world interest. Social Club. One of the objects
Change Apparent.
was: To encourage spesial inter- The impact of the National- course between Chinese and Euro-ist movement has played its part peaus." (See local newspapers in emancipation. Even the tran- (English).
aient visitor to India. will see
"
lornness, bewildered shyness, and agonised, self-conscious- ness. The child-wife never opened her mouth save to an- swer a direct question, and then twisted in discomfort if it had to be more than a mere. yes or no."
If Mrs. Das is right in her es-;
A Working Committee of over fifty leading gentlemen of the things happening the result of timate of the strength of her this influence that a few years movement, then the next sixty Colony activaly canvassed for main
Owing ago would have been considered years, should see the beginnings Chamberlain, era and financial support.
some to lack of financial support, the absolutely impossible, the more of a New India, in which the old that
Library movement was shelved, suggestion of which would have tabus will have gone for ever. The funeral of the late Mr. Woo understanding on the question must and it was decided to push on with caused outraged horror among
News in Brief. Hay-tong will take place to- day. The cortege wili leave exist and pessimism at this stage the Social Club.. See List of pro-strict Hindus.
One sees delicately nurtured moters (Enc. No. 1). 15; Kennedy Road, at 2 p.m.may be unfounded.
The loss of a gold pocket watch, In August 1998, Mr. Tas Tean Hindu women of the highest and will proceed via Kennedy
There is, however, ground for Tai discussed with Messra. Loung estate and culture, who until re-valued at $25 has been reported to Road, Queen's Road East, Arsenal Street, Hennessey Road and will many misgivings. The political de- Lan Fan, Mok Man Cheung and cently never emerged from the the Police by Mr. Dick, living at 9: reach Mount Caroline at 8.80 p.m. claration stating that the signa- Ng Kwai Shang the importance of zenana, taking part in such acti-Cameron Road, Kowloon.
establishing a representative Club vities as picketing shops in rough tories firmly intended to contribute for the Chinese in the Colony to be districts, with a kind of insistent Ho Yau (26), a sampan, owner, boldness. Obstinate and defiant, was fined $100 in Marine Court this to a new order which will allow the call The Hongkong Chinesa Club.
On the 29th August, 1896, Mr. these women of good family, clad morning, for transforting women to establishment and development of
Tse Thau Tai discussed the mattor in gorgeous saris, will remain at the steamer Liang Chow, illicitly... confidence between the nations in ath Mr. Cheung Tsol, and a de- the doors of shops as pickets un-It was his second offence. mutual spirit of reconciliation, col-finite plan of campaign was decided til they are arrested.
Such a thing as recently as The return of notifiable diseases abgration and justice sounds noble upon. See Mr. Cheung Taci's let
gave seven - cases- of enough, but conflicts with actuall.ter of 20/8/23 to 3fr. Tao Tean Tai say, 1920 would have been utterly yesterday
Beg "A well- unthinkable. (Eno. No. 2). Onties, even if hopes are held of bet-wisher's letter in the Hongkong the astuteness to appeal to the from Old and New Kowloon and two Gandhi has had cholera (three from Victoria, two
ter things to come. Undoubtedly Daily Pres" of 8/11/98 (Eho ideal of service service to the from Shaukiwan) and one case of
Great Mother India. So it comes typhid fever. the chief accomplishment is the No. 8).
The first meeting of the Pro-about that women, suppressed, al- cancellation of reparations, but moters was held at No. 95, Praya moat, imprisoned for centuries Detective Sub-Inspector Elston after all that was inevitable, and it Central, the Office of the Kaiping are willing to emerge to auch obtained a remand of 48 hours in is disquieting to note that the can-Mining Co., on 10th September, deeds as public demonstrations, the case against Chau Sin-ying,
1899, at 0.45. p.m. cellation was not made without con-present: Messrs. Tes Tsan Tal, burlica with the police.
There were boycotts, picketing, and hurly who was charged at the Kowloon,
Magistracy, this morning with the theft of two rings.)
The China Mall. Hong Kong, Monday, July 11, 1932.
Lausanne's Effect
Britain.
44
Women vs. Priests. In essence the struggle for freedom has been between the Charged with the theft of a jacket women and the priests
from a farmer, Chau Ping, an ex- The women have definitely re- policeman from Canton, pleaded
As the beginning of a new Bye tem of international co-operation, the Lausanne Conference has paved the way for future negotiation which should lead to some definite
'ditions. It might better be termed Cheung Taoi, Leung Lan Fan, Luk and real accomplishment. The prin-
a reduction in reparations since Ming Po, Lo Tat and Li Hong Mi. (Bee Mr. Tee Tsan Tal's circular cipal success at Lausanne is that the
Germany has still to find the sum letter dated 17/9/98). diplomats reached an agreement
of three milliards of marks. The On the 25th October, 1898, per- and that reparations are abolished, even though Germany has still to state was not wiped clean and re-mission was obtained from make a payment of $,000,000,000 cognition of this fact--which has G. H. B. Wright, D.D. to hold a belled against the Brahmin caste guilty before Mr. Schofield leaded munal divisions, polygamy, pur and was fined $10. or 14 days' jail." of Queen's College.. marks towards a Reconstruction not been given much prominence meeting of the members in the Hall dictate distinctions, com- Central Police Court this mornite lessens the effect of the worldin On the 6th November, 1898 at 2 dah,, child-marriage, and sex- Fund. If this preliminary work is;
'spiring statements by the delegates. p.m. 58 members attended the discrimination, and are in favour A coolle employed by the E.A.S.C. meeting which was held in the Hall of compulsory free education for was sent to prison for six weeks by continued and if the same spirit is
both boys and girls, of equal in- Mr. Schofield in the Central Police shown at the forthcoming World The cables state that France has of Queen's College.
congratulated her Premier on mak- The following were, elected mem-heritance rights, and divorce. Court this morning, for the theft Frieda Hauswirth married, a of a sack of flour and 59 empty Economic Conference progress to-
of the First Committee:- wards world recovery will indeed be ing the best of a bad bargain and berg of Iso Teas Tai, Lo U Sing, Hindu, and has herself lived the sacks, the property of the Army made, but in the meantime the out-that the reception of the news from Luk King Fo; Chow Kam Wing, life, which she describes with Supply Compound;
Lausanne was far from joyous, it Chan Wei Son and Cheung Lai Pan, dispassionate completeness. She standing fact is that there is now!
being claimed that France has given reason for greater hope while the
up much and received nothing." On success' are prospects of ultimate
the other hand Germany, is divided, now considerably brighter. The en
the Moderates being thankful for thusiastic reception of the Agree-
the relief given and the Nationalists ment in London would indicate that!
being furious with kierr von Papen
Writing of gizle of 131 to 15 pital. th Her more details are known in England
(for abandoning the political de 1999 than are apparent from the cables
wa mands. "As the Germans elections See Report of this meeting (Ena. received here, and that those details take place at the end of the month No. 4)
ded with See Mr. The Taan Tai's letter of must contain satisfactory fagfors this fury" many be for Britain, For, on the face of disastrous consequences and it will thanks to Dr. Wright (Eno. No. 5). the news cabled here, Britain has an anxious moment Faller the 2 letter of 14/11/93 from Mr.
world waits to ascertain whether Cheung Tsol (Enc. No. 6), sacrificed the £30,000,000 to £36,- 3 boutisdogs, with half Sea Mr Tea Tean Tai's letter to 000,000 which she received annually loan if not, Adolf Hitler will Hon. Mr. Ho Kai dated 24/12/98- in reparations while no arrangement realize his ambition and with the (Ene, No. 7),
Bee note from Mr. Claude Ley Nasis: fn power the wo of Lau has yet been made with the United nne will be and
Kum dated 26/12/98, intimating June, 1899, where numerous Chinese a single
Mr. Ho Tang's wish to see Mr. Tse and Foreign notabilities and visitors States for any cancellation or reduc-stroke. That Gargi Possessed
Taan Tai (no. No. 8) have been welcomed and enter- but now
Mr. Ho Tung dated 27/12/96 (Eno. is most gratify
formed that the Of See Mr. Ho Tung's letter of Building Fund amou 27/12/96 to Mr. Tse Tean Tal handsome, total of over
him of his support (Eno and the the membershi
breased from 88 to May, 1899, the first Plessa ede
first Gen
Hopi
has moreover, had detailed ac- Caught in the act of stealing a Mr. Li Hong Mi (Chairman). Mr. Ng Kwai Shang (Vice Chair.counts, of their experiences from plank of wood from the Wing Wo (man).
many Indian women, and can Building Contractors' premises atr Mr. Cheung Tsoi (Secretary). thus paint an unhappy picture of Cheung Sha-wan Road, a Chinese, at Mr. Wong Hof Pang (Treasurer), the zenans system, first adopted tempted to escape, and in so doing This Committee held office until by the Hindus as a protection fell down, cutting his right kuse
He was removed to hos the 14th January, 1899, when a new after the Moslem davasion badly. Committee was elected for the year
tion of the corresponding amount a grievance fau
years of age, where the difference In age between husband and wife
Missing his footing on the stone
is less than 10 years, she says: steps off Gloucester Road at the "generally the first weeks and Junction of Marah Street, a Chinese months had been passed by lad, Cheung Yun-tin (8) fell into
He was sent. these brides in the husband's the harbour, but was rescued by an bome in passionate homesick unknown boatman. ness, an intense feeling of for to the Government Civil Hospital
where his condition is reported. Paul fairi,
paid to America: Formerly, Britain that the oppression which shinda Sea Mr Tea Tean Tal's letter to balnéda SAAN.
neither gained or lost on repara-
the
tions and war debts, merely paying (partial
out what
possib
On the
to be ins
"NO"PENNY POST FOR SAR MELBOURNE.
Melbourne, June 1. Commenting upon the decision the of the New Zealand Government, to revert to penny postage, the #hascin- Director of Postal Services, Mr.
H. P. Brown, said that much - longer distances bad to be cove
ed in
Chitrall
more
orting mail in Aus Amaking the serv
The postal re ent year would 25.115,000%
introduced
9,000%