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(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT).
February Lith.
PROFITABLE PANT N.
According to home papers the American syndicats which some time ago presented a
· petition to the authorities here for a concesion for the establishment of a casino in Macao is in a fair way of being aụ accomplished fact. The syndicate propose to establish hotels and gambling saloons in grand style on Government grounds from the Guis Fort to the beach of Porta do Cerco, the agreement to be for a term of 30 years, the Syndicate paying the Government a yearly sum of $100,000, and at the expiration of the term the ground and the buildings thereon to be reverted to the Government. The syndicate will also propose the racing of a line of steamers to ports in the Far East and Australia.
THE CARNIVAL.
The carnival in this city is proving to be a quiet one this ́year. The Cinb gave a very enjoyable dance in their Club premises on Sa turday night, dancing being kept up with great enthusiasm until the morning of Sunday. The "authorities forbade all people wearing fancy rastumes or masks to go into the Chinese quart- erk This is a step in the right direction.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
Chinese are busy preparing to celebrate the New Year. The Culu Culu tables ar being laid out in the China town,
NEW SOLDIERS.
On Saturday the Sui An brought over fromur Colony 96 new soldiers under the command of Captain Mohra to relieve those that are time expired. On Tuesday next the Syi
Tai will take over 100 of them to Hongkong to be taken home by the Hamburg-Amerika
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRÈSS AND
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was a soiree at the smaller palace, at which all the foreign representatives and their foreign subordinates and General Hasegawa's conchmin attended. Neither the Emperor nor the Crown Prince was present.
CORRESPONDENCE.
DISCRETIO ‹ AND THE LACK OF IT.
TO THE EDITUR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
February 8th, 1907, SIR. Under the above heading in & cutre- spoudence published in one of your evening contemporaries, "Anti-Bamptiousness | bas rightly brought to the notice of the public the scant consideration, and in some cases actual insult, with which our Chinese citizens of the respectable class were treated at the eventful ceremonies.
In the case he complained of the individual in uniform who singled out two Chinese ladies
inferior uneducated sort and so, it may be said, for public recognition might be one of the
a little rating by his superior, when informed of his conduct, would probably bring him ronad to his proper senses,
But has his superior better senses than he? One of the few of our most prominent Chineso citizens who WAS on the General Reception Committee was stauding together with his colleagues at Blake Pier waiting for the Royal Party to laud. He had been standing there for some time when a smart young officer of the superior rank strutted up to him and demanded to know if our Chinese friend had a ticket. Of course he had 23 ticket. ought to have the senze enough to know that Young authority
without a ticket he could not have been stauding where he was, and if he was not one of the I have again to complain of irregularities in
Committee he would not have been with the the Post Office. The latest is the exhaustion
leading group. The whole way from the of stamps of one and three cents value, and
Clock Tower and around the enclosure at people are forced to use four cent stamps for letters to Hongkong and Canton and six cents
Blake Pier was lined with police who could for those to Portugal and Portuguese Colonies.euclosure without showing tickets. Was that not have allowed the Chinese to pass into the Why not "surehage" some stamps and supply to the public at proper rales ?
LiDie steamer Silesia,
THE PST OFFICE.
officer not one of those who made the arrange. ments? Anti-Bumptiousness" commended to the attention of "those dressed in
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THE KOREAN IMPERIAL WEDDING, ¡ authority the desirability of studying "Dis.
cretiou besides law and the drill book, his list should be added common sense.
INTERESTING SPECTACLE.
Describing the wedding procession in Seoul on the occasion of the marriage of the Korean
Crown Prince last month the Korea Daily News gives some interesting details. Our contemporary says:— A magnificent bişse of colour was the impression which we first received of the pro- cession of the bride-elect of the Crown Prince
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I may here point out that many of the Chinese Enterlatuiug Committee at the Ko Shing Theatre Were very roughly frente. they arrived near the Western Markst, Queen's About 2 o'clock p.m. ou the memorable day, when Road Central, ou their way to attend to the preparations, they were stopped and turned out of their ricshaws by both the European and Sikh constables, and evan those who weat од
to the Palace. We expected a larger procession foot were driven to the verandahs which wer than we saw, but our disappointment was more
then fully packed, and they had to take a than alleviated by the splendour of the proces-circuitous way down to Des Voeux Road, and sion and the populace. Greens, yellow, pinks and blues, all in striking contrast and likely to be bizarre, formed themselves into truly a delicate harmony.
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The procession passed up the big street at about four o'clock. The first to come were a number of female servants of the bride. They were mostly old women, and their march was something to be seen. Following them came a number of Pallace gisang,' each one olad gorgeously, and everyone carrying a pink parasol. Later came the state obairs of the bride'; there were two of them, and the bride was in the second one. Meanwhile squads of soldiers were marching up either side of the streets, and as the chair of the future Empress of Kores passed through, the crowd stood back to make room. Following the chair of the bride were : many officials, all on horseback.
“The colours were glorious, but the procession could not have been more than a quarter of a mile long, which is a disappointment when we remember the interminability of funeral procession. At six o'clock the foreing repre- sentatives were received in audience. The Belgian Consul-General, M. Vinoart, the Doyen of the Consular Corps, delivered a congratulatory speecki. General Hasegawa stood near the Emperor and looked fierce. Subsequently there
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get to their place of entertainment through the back lanes. Even when told that they were ou the Committee going to make the necessary preparations, the Police took no beed of it and said that it was their order. Were there Do back lanes leading to the Ko Shing Theatre, I, wonder who would be blamed for upsetting the arrangements by the absence of the members driven back!
RAILWAY
Your faithfully.
COMMON SENSE.
ADVANCES ANOTHER
STEP.
IMPORTANT EDICT.
We are informed by Mosara. Jardine, Mathe- son and Co., joint agents with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for the British and Chinese Corporation Ltd., that by
• telegram from Peking they learu that an Imperial Edict has been issued sanctioning the Agreement with the British and Chinees Corporation for the construction of the Chinese motion of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
[February 18, 1907.
FINEST CLUB IN ORIENT.
THE NEW CLUB CONCORDIA AT SHANGHAI.
Feb. 6th was red-letter day in the history of the German community in Shanghai, The gorgeous cinb house on the Band was opened. Approaching the building from the Bund one passes up a broad fight of stairs to the gor. geous entrance hall and grand staircase. This ball is a very fine specimen of decorative art, in Em- combination with solidity of structure. bayed in the supports of the staircase is a very fine fountain, the gift of the Russo- Chinese Bank. Oa the wall opposite this fountain is A fiae tile picture. reproduction of A famous Dutch
priat. ing, and the gift of the Datob Book. In the cellars are elaborate arrangements for the heating, lighting, and ventilation of the building. The heating is carried out by means of steam, and in the ventilation the most ap- proved modern methods, specially adapted for Shanghai, are in vogne. The efficient heating depends upon the use of best coke, thereby minimising the smoke nuisance. On this floor, too, are well-lighted, uniformly heated wine cel- lers, capable of storing wines for a long siege, if sneh an
impossibility should take place. We return to the first floor and entrano, hall by a staircase connected with the Jinkoa Roal entrance. This staircase communicates with every floor, but is chiefly intended as a private entrance for resident members and persoas haring business with the secretariat. From this entrance we pass along a corridor on one side of which is the s›cretarist whilst on other are the reading and billiard rooms. The secretariat offices are simply but substantially furnishel with every requisite. The reading room is a beautiful specimen of chaste workmanship is tesk. At the upper and are several cosy cordern where ous may read or write in practical privacy. In this room is housed an excellent libricy of, reference booka, and here ar: to be four I also
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the chief periodicals. The lighting of the library is worthy of special note us it is carried out on the indirect m-thod, that is to s 3. the light is produced ont of view of pɔrsons in the room and is equally diffusal by means of reflection. The billiard rooin is a comm› lious and cheerful apartment containing six tables, with suitable lighting arrangements.
Next to the billiard room, and occupying the whole front of the building, is the bar, which nousists of two sectious, one surmonated by a foe view of Bremen, the other by a view of Berlin. ` The fittings of the bar-room, wh'ch *re in the flaust style, are the gift of the Norddeutscher Lloyd 8.8. Co. In thɔ bar- room is also a choice grand father's olo k, the
gift of the Swiss members of the Club.
It inay be wall to mention here that, though the Cluo is preponderatingly Germso, it is{not exclusively so, and its cosmopolitan oher voter is illustrated by the appearance in the staiï+{ glass windows of the arms of various noɑ. Garmanic states. The grand stairosse, leading from the first to the second for, is the realisa
fine tion in Japanese marble of a conception, the balusters. pilasters, other adoraments being quite palatial. At the head of is ад entrance lob. this grand staircase by to
the msia dining room. Ia this lobby are a fine bast of the Kaiser and two mural decorations illustrating Shanghai, old sud new. The furnishing of this lobby` bring the gift of the German osptains in the China service, the lobby is to ba kaowɑ as the "Cip- tains' Corner.' From the Captains' Corn-e we pass to the main dining-room. This is a beautiful apartment the marsi decorations of which are not yet quite faishef, but the scheme is so far advanced that it is easy to grasp. The wall is divided by pilasters on each of which in to be a panel picture of some famɔus German city, surmounted by its coat of arms. The frions between saab pilaster is also ooonpied by similar decorations, the coat-of arms in this onse being below the picture. · At one end of the hall is a gallery for musicians, sad on › side opens on to the upper bilaoay.
Passing from the main dining room we pass through a smaller one to a suite of three rooms intended for private partion. Of these rooms one may be used as dining room, the next as a drawing room and the third as a card room or cosy corner. In the first of these rooms is