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HONGKONG.
Mr. E. J. Chapman, who has for some time past been acting as organist and choirmaster at the Union Church, has accepted the appoint- ment.
The Taikoo dook at Quarry Bay has com. menced operations, the China Navigation Co's steamer "Sangkiang" being the first vessel to en'er fer repairs.
At the annual meeting of the Y.M.C.A.. Chess Club the following officers were elected :-Pre- sident. Ven. Arohdeacon Bannister; Secretary, Treasurer, Mr. T. G. Taraball; Committee, Mr. H. Sykes.
Another solicitor and proctor will be shortly enrolled as a member of the Hongkong bar. Mr. Leo d' Almada e Castro, artic'ed olerk to Mr. P. W. Goldring, has successfully passed his final examination, and will be admitted in due course.
Dengue fever broke out on the "Wakamys Maru "about a week after leaving Bombay, and when the steamer reached Hongkong the medical authorities ordered 29 men to be removed to the hospital, where two succumbed. Three deaths took place before the vessel came into port. Mr. G. Murray Bain and Mr. J. Dyer Ball have resigned, after long service, the office of trustee of the Union Church. The reconstituted Board of trustees consists of Messrs. W. G. Humphreys, J. W. C. Bonnar, Duncan Clark, A. 8. D Consland, D. Macdonald, D. Wood and Dr. J. C. Thomson.
We regret to learn of the death at Shanghai on October 3rd of Mr. C. G. R. Brodersen of the firm of Messrs Biemssen & Co. Mr. Brodersen was born in Hongkong in 1860.
He was educated in Germany and returned to the Colony to join the firm with which he had ever since been associated Since 1899 he had been in charge of the Shanghai branch. Mr. Bordersen at the time of his death was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Death was due to heart failurs following kidney troubles.
On Catober 7th an accident occurred st Morrison Hill. Workmen were engaged in carrying out certain repairs to a house and a huge stone was being raised when one of the ropes which held it slipped, causing the stone to smash through the scaffolding and injure three workmen, one of whom was removed to the hospital
The Rev. C and Mrs. Bone, on the cocasion of the twerty-fifth anniversary of their wedding have been the recipients of unexpected gifts from the Wesleyan missionaries in South Chins and from the congregation of the Wesleyan Naval and Military Church in Hoogkong, of which Mr. Bone is the pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Bons were married at the Union Church on October 5th, 1883, there being no Wesleyan Naval and Military oburch at that time.
An impudent theft was committed in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's office the oʻher day. silver watch, with 18 carat gold obsin and Icket with small pearl, was taken from the desk of Mr. W. L. Warreoer between nine and ten o'clock on Wednesday morning. His name was scratched on the inner case of the watch and as he was able to supoly the number of the watch it should be easily recipered if it be pawned. The total value of the articles is $92.
The Hon. Mr. B. A. Irving, on the 8th iast. distributed the certificates gained in
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auspices of Queen's College. In the course of his su'sequent address to the students he em- phasised the value of the present facilities for education placed at their disposal and pointed ont that the subjects studied to-day would, in a few years, be of great value in view of the great development of China.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
An armed robbery was attempted at Csusoway Bay оп the 5th instant. While the master and men of a cargo boat were salesp two men armed with iron bolts erept on board and proceeding to the cabin where the master was slumbering they bound his hands with a rope. One attempted to insert a piece of cloth in his mouth with the object of gagging him, bat, before this was accomplished the master yelled out "save life." This brought the fokis | to his assistance and the man who had tried to gag him was arrested but the other who had in the interval been collecting some of the orew's However, he was arrested later in the day. possessions dropped the articles and escaped Both men will make their appearance before the Magistrate to-day,
HONGKONG volunther CADET BUGLE CORPS,
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This corps is getting along well, in order to be able to play for the cadets when under canvas, The practices are, we learn, to take place at the Victoria Bobool, where Quartermaster Williama | is in residence, and commence from this after. noon at 4 p.m. when all are urgently requested to attend in mufti. Lance Corporals Witchell and Hoskins and Buglers Armstrong, Baker, Goldring, Blake, Croucher, Stanfield, Wilks and Gibson compose the Bugle corps, the farthest East from Home. Vacancies still exist. The formation by Colonel Chapman of this cadet bugle band was a wise step, and falls into line with Lord Roberts' wishes regarding schools at Home. The old country press has several encouraging remarks on Istest addition to Greater Britain's strength.
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THE CHINESE CHEUNG YEUNG HOLIDAY.
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Ages ago, we are told in Mr. Dyer Ball's "Things Chinese," a Chinese received a ward- ing that a dreadful catastrophe would happen to him and his family. To avert it he escaped to the heights; and in commemoration of this event, on the ninth day of the ninth moon, many Chinese take a holiday or an excursion of tain. This half feast, half holiday, as Mr. a few hours to some neighbouring hill or moan- Ball remarks, brings itself more prominently into the notice of the foreign resident in dongkong than is the case with some of the other semi-religious observances of the Chinese. The ninth day of the ninth moon fell on Saturday last, and, being a fine day, many of Chine ascended to the the summit of Victoria Peak. 1agstaff on As usual on this holiday, the Peak Tram way Co.
ten-minute service until dark, the cara both ap
and down being crowded every time. Bat the Peak Tram way Co. in a single day could carried in its cars a fifth of the multitude who There was a constant stream made the ascent. of people moving up and down the Peak road. There was a little kite-flying, as the ninth day of the ninth moon appears in the Chinese calendar as
Whatever "Kite-1ying day." significance the festival had when it was introduced to the calendar-it probably had a religious significance-the day is now observed simply as a holiday. We doubt if one per cent of the people who went up to the top of the Peak know the reason for the festival, except
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BIG FIRE AT MANILA,
List Monday night a fire laid waste the factory of the Philippines Products Company and storehouse, involving losses estimated at
The current issue of (hurch Notes states: -It is with feelings of sincere thankfulness | 250,000 pesos. that we announce the appointment of the Rev. Arthur Buckingham Thornhill, M.A., Hertford College, Oxford, as Assistant (haplain of St. John's Cathedral. Mr. Thornhill was ordained
in 1906 for the curacy of St. Philip, Litherland, Liverpool, a parish of which Bishop Lander was Vicar from 1896 to 1905. The Bishop writes that Mr. Thornhill has applied to be released from his curacy in November and he hopes to arrive in Hongkong, via Canada, in time to begin work on January 1st, 1909,
154 YEARS OF AGE.
is stated to have been 15-1 years of age." Her A Filipino woman who has died at Dagupan recollections, according to a niece (64 years of age), went back to events which occurred during the English cocupation of Manila in 1782, at which time the deceased was about eight years
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[Octaber 12, 1908.
CANTON.
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TAN BOYCOTT,
October 1st.
Yesterday the Sen Delicacies Guilde bers received a letter from the Chamber of Com. merce in Shamshni stating that the Fook On Loong firm in Shamshui had imported 10 large packages of sen delicacies weighing about sixty plouls, and upon examining the goods it was discovered they were really not native produce, On Loong firm by certain Mr. Yuen of and that the goods were consigned to the Fook Hongkong. The gentry and merchants of the place immediately convened a meeting to discuss the matter and warned the public that they must not forget that at the present time certain bommercial regulations are enforced by which the merebants and the people are requested to encourage the native son délicacion industry.
It is reported that the above mentioned foreign goods have been confiscated by order of the Chamber of Commerce and that the goods are estimated to be worth about $8,000.
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VALUABLE BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, Viostoy Chang is sending numerous valuable articles as birthday presents to the Empress Dowager whose birthday occurs on the 10th day of th. 10.h moon (3rd November). Orders for the pressats were placed with different firms here several months ago. Before shipping the presents they were exhibited for one day at the Bannerman's Hall on the 29th ultimo. presents comprise the following articles :--- Due set blackwood furniture carved with anique dragon designs; twelve “longevity” silk embroidered sareens; one large dragon blackwood chair inlaid with precious stones; one "As you wish" Soeptre of, Han jude
one jade stone bowl; several pots of artificial plants with flowers and fruits, gold stems and branches, jado leaves, with pearls representing flowers and fruits and a large quantity of selected Cantonese estable stuff. The presents are said to be worth over 100,000 tuela.
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CANTON HA KOW BAILWAY,
The Prime Minister (Chang Chi Tung) has recently received so many petitions from the Cantonese shareholders complaining of the mismanagement of the Railway Company's affairs that he has decided to proceed to Canton forthwith to investigate the affairs of the Company.
PIRATES CAPTURED.
After two hours' brisk fighting in Ling Pai Village, Colonel Li and a body of soldiers succeeded in capturing the pirate chief Wong Cai Lla and five of his comrades. Many others were killed in the conflict. These were the pirates Who recently plundered the steam launch"Fook Chow trading between Canton and Wai Chow. A cagt in and sight soldiers were killed in the fight. The Military authorities have liberally compensated the families of the decesend soldiers from the rewards issued for the capture of the pirates.
October 3rd.
STANDARD LANGUAGE OF CHINA. The Viceroy has received a dispatch from the Central Government urging him to impremt upon the Cantonese gentry," merchants" and students the necessity of learning the Man- darin dialect. All other Provinces, with the exception of Kwangtung and Fukien, have a dialect akin to Mandarin. When the new Par- liament is established Mandarin will be the only hnguage used, and no matter how learned or cultured a man may be in his own dialsot he will not be eligible for aleation to Parliament unless he is thoroughly acquainted with man- darin
A DELINQUENT MORE. A monk in Fatshan WIL arrested for When smoking opium without a license. brought before the magistrate he pleaded guilt to the charge and was fined $100, The ine was paid and the Magistrate sent it to the Opium Charitable Institution.
EXPORT OF CA TLE BASTRICTED. It is reparted that the Viceroy kan went dispatch to the British Consul-Genel here re- questing him to inform the Hongkong Governs ment that in future the Kwangtung Provincial Government will only permit 4,200 head of